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20 When the priest Pashhur son of Immer, the official in charge of the temple of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things, 2 he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin at the Lord's temple. 3 The next day, when Pashhur released him from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, "The Lord's name for you is not Pashhur, but Terror on Every Side. 4 For this is what the Lord says: 'I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends; with your own eyes you will see them fall by the sword of their enemies. I will give all Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon, who will carry them away to Babylon or put them to the sword. 5 I will deliver all the wealth of this city into the hands of their enemies—all its products, all its valuables and all the treasures of the kings of Judah. They will take it away as plunder and carry it off to Babylon. 6 And you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house will go into exile to Babylon. There you will die and be buried, you and all your friends to whom you have prophesied lies.'"
7 You deceived[a] me, Lord, and I was deceived[b];
you overpowered me and prevailed.
I am ridiculed all day long;
everyone mocks me.
8 Whenever I speak, I cry out
proclaiming violence and destruction.
So the word of the Lord has brought me
insult and reproach all day long.
9 But if I say, "I will not mention his word
or speak anymore in his name,"
his word is in my heart like a fire,
a fire shut up in my bones.
I am weary of holding it in;
indeed, I cannot.
10 I hear many whispering,
"Terror on every side!
Denounce him! Let's denounce him!"
All my friends
are waiting for me to slip, saying,
"Perhaps he will be deceived;
then we will prevail over him
and take our revenge on him."
11 But the Lord is with me like a mighty warrior;
so my persecutors will stumble and not prevail.
They will fail and be thoroughly disgraced;
their dishonor will never be forgotten.
12 Lord Almighty, you who examine the righteous
and probe the heart and mind,
let me see your vengeance on them,
for to you I have committed my cause.
13 Sing to the Lord!
Give praise to the Lord!
He rescues the life of the needy
from the hands of the wicked.
14 Cursed be the day I was born!
May the day my mother bore me not be blessed!
15 Cursed be the man who brought my father the news,
who made him very glad, saying,
"A child is born to you—a son!"
16 May that man be like the towns
the Lord overthrew without pity.
May he hear wailing in the morning,
a battle cry at noon.
17 For he did not kill me in the womb,
with my mother as my grave,
her womb enlarged forever.
18 Why did I ever come out of the womb
to see trouble and sorrow
and to end my days in shame?
21 The word came to Jeremiah from the Lord when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur son of Malkijah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah. They said: 2 "Inquire now of the Lord for us because Nebuchadnezzar[c] king of Babylon is attacking us. Perhaps the Lord will perform wonders for us as in times past so that he will withdraw from us."
3 But Jeremiah answered them, "Tell Zedekiah, 4 'This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I am about to turn against you the weapons of war that are in your hands, which you are using to fight the king of Babylon and the Babylonians[d] who are outside the wall besieging you. And I will gather them inside this city. 5 I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm in furious anger and in great wrath. 6 I will strike down those who live in this city—both man and beast—and they will die of a terrible plague. 7 After that, declares the Lord, I will give Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials and the people in this city who survive the plague, sword and famine, into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who want to kill them. He will put them to the sword; he will show them no mercy or pity or compassion.'
8 "Furthermore, tell the people, 'This is what the Lord says: See, I am setting before you the way of life and the way of death. 9 Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, famine or plague. But whoever goes out and surrenders to the Babylonians who are besieging you will live; they will escape with their lives. 10 I have determined to do this city harm and not good, declares the Lord. It will be given into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will destroy it with fire.'
11 "Moreover, say to the royal house of Judah, 'Hear the word of the Lord. 12 This is what the Lord says to you, house of David:
"'Administer justice every morning;
rescue from the hand of the oppressor
the one who has been robbed,
or my wrath will break out and burn like fire
because of the evil you have done—
burn with no one to quench it.
13 I am against you, Jerusalem,
you who live above this valley
on the rocky plateau, declares the Lord—
you who say, "Who can come against us?
Who can enter our refuge?"
14 I will punish you as your deeds deserve,
declares the Lord.
I will kindle a fire in your forests
that will consume everything around you.'"
4 In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: 2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. 3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. 5 But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.
6 For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time for my departure is near. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.
9 Do your best to come to me quickly, 10 for Demas, because he loved this world, has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia. 11 Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, because he is helpful to me in my ministry. 12 I sent Tychicus to Ephesus. 13 When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, and my scrolls, especially the parchments.
14 Alexander the metalworker did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will repay him for what he has done. 15 You too should be on your guard against him, because he strongly opposed our message.
16 At my first defense, no one came to my support, but everyone deserted me. May it not be held against them. 17 But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was delivered from the lion's mouth. 18 The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and will bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
19 Greet Priscilla[a] and Aquila and the household of Onesiphorus. 20 Erastus stayed in Corinth, and I left Trophimus sick in Miletus. 21 Do your best to get here before winter. Eubulus greets you, and so do Pudens, Linus, Claudia and all the brothers and sisters.[b]
22 The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you all.
Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.


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Specializations. Interesting. Does that imply that ants can learn? One would think they were just a bundle of instinct. Maybe not.
You've obviously never watched Antz [imdb.co.uk]
Specializations. Interesting. Does that imply that ants can learn?
Specialization does not necessarily mean learning. They could just switch between different sets of instincts. Whether they learn seems like a straightforward hypothesis to test: if it is true, then more experienced foragers should gather more food.
I thought it was already well known that ants switch tasks as they age. I remember reading years ago that the oldest ants are the foragers because they were the most likely to die from predation or exposure, and that was at a lower cost to the colony since they were approaching the end of their expected lifetime anyway.
The article didn't address who does the security when I stomp on the mound......or when another mound invades.
Learning has been well documented in arthropods.
Habituation, conditioning, and trial+error learning are all to be expected.
What hasn't been documented to my knowledge is any insight learning.
Specializations. Interesting. Does that imply that ants can learn? One would think they were just a bundle of instinct. Maybe not.
It's like emergent behavior in a particles-and-fields system. Whether that qualifies as learning is a philosophical question I'm unable to answer.
Just the opposite. The ants often switch jobs when they age and do not specialize in a single job.
And if you think about it, it must be a pretty good strategy for the hive. Send the old ants on the dangerous jobs - even if they die you haven't lost a worker with a long and productive life in front of them.
They definitely can learn [wikipedia.org].
They are studying the wrong creatures. They should focus on Sandkings. They're infinitely more interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandkings_(novelette) [wikipedia.org]
Tired of your dead-end role in the colony? Frustrated that your boss doesn't respect your contribution to the brood? Dice for Ants has over 16 billion job openings for drones just like you. Make the jump today to get the skills to be your own queen. Network with other ambitious insects like yourself. Get advice from others who have made the leap from cleaner to forager.
Apparently (google tells me) ants live about 90 days. Let's say that humans live about 90 years. In that case, saying "The ants can probably be in any place within their enclosures in less than a minute..." equates to "The humans can probably be in any place within their enclosures in roughly 6 hours, but even in these simple spaces, they organize into these spatial groups."
Maybe they need stronger spacial memory to keep track of who has been feed and who needs feeding. Being a cleaner would seem to require less effort, just pick up trash wherever you see it and dump it in one of the trash dumps. A forager would seem to require even less effort; go out and look for stuff and don't come back until you find something worth taking back, it's a bonus if you come back alive.
The outside world may be basically a 2D space, but the colony itsself is not. Ant colonies are a maze of twisty passages.
You have moved an unknown distance within the colony. However, you are still an ant.
all alike?
Not to an ant.
>> workers move between jobs as they get older — nurses are generally younger than cleaners, which are younger than foragers.
So...the workers generally try to further and further away from the queen as they get older? I'll bet there's a Red-Green bit we could reference here.
Wake me up when ants start building Mutalisks...
The old ants know they either have to go to Carousel or leave the colony!
[spoiler]all except one ant, who ruins it for the rest of them....[/spoiler]
about applicants not having experience. This is the way it should be done: start at the bottom, learn what you need, then move up in the world using your gained experience.
Now compare that to human employers where you're supposed to magically know everything about how an employer works despite never having worked for them.
Further, unlike humans, the ants don't care about how old the ant is. All they care about is if you can do the job.
Basically, if you do find yourself a position in an ant colony, don't expect to enjoy it.
No matter which position you find, you can expect it to be somewhat painful, unless you're an anteater.
and from the Wiki bee article, seem to live rather similar lives:
"For the first 10 days of their lives, the female worker bees clean the hive and feed the larvae. After this, they begin building comb cells. On days 16 through 20, a worker receives nectar and pollen from older workers and stores it. After the 20th day, a worker leaves the hive and spends the remainder of its life as a forager."
Most of the other related general in the bee/ant world also lead similar lives. So I wonder what the researchers wer
I haven't read the actual paper yet, but we can draw a few tidbits from the news article and the abstract...
It's not that the results were unexpected or overturn long held theories about ant behavior. But the work produced a couple of interesting and valuable outcomes. First, they demonstrated that they could effectively tag and track ants in an experimental setting. That by itself is notable--it opens up a lot of interesting research opportunities. Second, they analyzed the tracking data to quantify the spatial and temporal interactions of the ants, and in particular, between functional groups of ants. They were able to determine that there were significant cleaner-nurse and cleaner-forager interactions but limited nurse-forager interactions. Not just in a general kind of way, but with real measurements.
Around here, the ants regularly engage in career moves that confuse onlookers. Some fight and claw their way up to the front of the log, only to find that not only is it merely a twig, but alas, they aren't really driving any of it at all.
Then they set their sights on driving the bigger log.
Rinse and repeat, until squashed, poisoned, or lost in the Diaspora.
Younger ants don't. It's the opposite of humans.
%DCL-MEM-BAD, bad memory VMS-F-PDGERS, pudding between the ears

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The league announced today that 17 international prospects and one collegiate prospect are no longer taking part in the 2014 NBA Draft. There are now 44 collegiate and 13 international prospects that remain as early entry candidates. Players had until yesterday, June 16, before 5 pm ET to withdraw as early entry candidates. Below is the complete list of players who've taken their names out of consideration. Mychal Emmons – South Alabama; Eleftherios Bochoridis – Aris (Greece); Matías Bortolin – Regatas Corrientes (Argentina); Nedim Buza – Spars Sarajevo (Bosnia); Berkay Candan – TED Kolejliler (Turkey); Joonas Cavén – Joventut (Spain); Moussa Diagne – Fuenlabrada (Spain); Tomas Dimša – Zalgiris (Lithuania); Marcus Eriksson – Manresa (Spain); Ilja Gromovs – Ventspils (Latvia); Rasmus Larsen – Manresa (Spain); Mateusz Ponitka – Oostende (Belgium); Kristaps Porzingis – Cajasol (Spain); Marko Ramljak – Zadar (Croatia); Alejandro Suarez – Joventut (Spain); Devon Van Oostrum – Vitoria (Spain); Guillem Vives – Joventut (Spain); Adin Vrabac – Spars Sarajevo (Bosnia)
Matias Bortolin Rumors
Emiliano Carchia: Argentinean big man Matias Bortolin pulls his name out of the NBA draft, his agent told Sportando


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Asteroid Will Make Close Pass To Earth 119
The Bad Astronomer writes "News is starting to spread about a small 45-meter-wide asteroid called 2012 DA14 that will make a close pass to Earth on February 15, 2013. However, some of these articles are claiming it has 'a good chance' of impacting the Earth. This is simply incorrect; the odds of an impact next year are essentially zero. Farther in the future the odds are unclear; another near pass may occur in 2020, but right now the uncertainties in the asteroid's orbit are too large to know much about that. More observations of DA14 are being made, and we should have better information about future encounters soon."


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Florida Governor Rick Scott says manufacturing jobs make up 4.3 percent of jobs in Florida. He says it's not enough.
Scott joined manufactorers from across the state Tuesday to celebrate Manufacture Days at the Capitol.
Scott says he's committed to eliminating the tax on manufacturing equipment.
He says it will level the playing field to compete with other states.
He als says it will save Florida manufacturing companies $140 million annually.
Scott says, "What do companies do when they have more money in their pocket? They hire more people. They do more research. They do more marketing. All those things end up in more jobs. So, if you go back and look at my budget, it's all about growth."
Scott and members of the Manufacturers Association signed a placard. It will sit in front of the Governor's office to serve as a reminder of the tax elimination committment.


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Anthony Gonzalez (IND) - Strained knee ligament
Donovan McNabb (PHI) - Broken rib
James Davis (CLE) - Shoulder sprain
Danny Ware (NYG) - Dislocated elbow
Hakeem Nicks (NYG) - Foot injury
The Cowboys enter into their Post-Terrell era and Tony Romo's draft stock took a hit without his start receiver there anymore. All Romo could manage this week was to throw for a career high 353 passing yards with three touchdowns. Now that Dallas has no decent wideouts anymore, they'll somehow have to make get by Roy Williams (3-86, 1 TD), Patrick Crayton (4-135, 1 TD) and Miles Austin (1-42, 1 TD).
Yeah, they're going to miss that what s-his-name guy.
Before you freak out that your newly drafted players suck, consider some week one performances last year:
Aaron Rodgers - 178 yards, 1 TD
Kurt Warner - 197 yards, 1 TD
Santonio Holmes 1-19
Antonio Bryant 3-43
Roddy White 2-54
Wes Welker 6-51
Bernard Berrian 3-38
Marques Colston 3-26
Steve Slaton - 49 total yards
Maurice Jones-Drew - 50 total yards
Far better things were to come for each player.
Before you get a "GENIUS" tattoo after some of your players went off this week, consider some of the big scorers in week one of last year:
Jon Kitna - 262 yards, 2 TD
Chad Pennington - 251 yards, 2 TD
JaMarcus Russell - 180 yards, 2 TD
Willie Parker - 138 yards, 3 TD
Ernest Graham - 118 yards
Reggie Bush - 163 yards, 1 TD
Lee Evans - 4-102
Jerricho Cotchery - 3-80, 1 TD
Yeah, how did they work out for ya?
The Rams got slapped around by the Seahawks about every way that can be done. Marc Bulger only managed 191 pass yards and no scores in a game that was over all too quickly for the Rams. Josh Brown missed a 37 yard field goal. About all the team did right was when they blocked a 49-yard field goal attempt by Olindo Mare and Quincy Butler scooped it up and returned it for a touchdown. All except they had 12 men on the field. That gave the Seahawks a first down and three plays later was the touchdown by Nate Burleson. Sort of hard to get the players to buy into yet another scheme when the Rams open with a shutout.
Leagues that use a point per reception find that it makes wide receivers and even tight ends much more comparable to running backs in value. And of course, it makes certain running backs even more valuable because they add receptions to their rushing totals. Let's check on how well those pass catching running backs did this week:
Matt Forte - 2008 NFL leader with 63 receptions last year, had zero catches this week.
Brian Westbrook - Had three catches for eight yards but did score on one of them
Steven Jackson - Zero catches
Maurice Jones-Drew - Five catches for 26 yards
Marion Barber - Zero catches
Steve Slaton - three catches for 35 yards but only 17 rushing yards
Seems like the top receiving backs from last year are all starting out slowly other than Jones-Drew. Oh well, they cannot all be Tim Hightower.
1. The Lions are still on an 18 game losing streak and all. And their defense defies any and all attempts to improve it. But Matt Stafford showed me something when he passed for 205 yards. Sure, he had three interceptions and he got 64 yards out of one connection with Calvin Johnson. But he already looks like an upgrade over the recent cast of characters under center the last couple of seasons. It'll take a while to be sure but Stafford did not really disappoint. Heck, he even rushed in his first NFL touchdown.
2. Mark Sanchez also looked like a great pickup by the Jets. Only whereas Stafford looked like a rookie with a promising future, Sanchez looked more like a veteran already comfortable in the NFL. He threw for 272 yards and one score in Houston in his first ever start. And let's remember - he hardly has an all-star cast of receivers. He certainly has no Calvin Johnson equivalent. I started liking Sanchez a few weeks ago even though I tried to convince myself I'd only get hurt later in the season. I recently picked up Chansi Stuckey (4-64, 1 TD) and Dustin Keller (4-94) in recent drafts and auctions on a hunch. It won't always be this easy of course and he really is a rookie. But a very impressive one so far and Keller and Stuckey should be on no league's waiver wire anymore.
3. What the hell? The Ravens beat the Chiefs and do it because of their passing game? The Chiefs on the road scored 24 points in Baltimore? Joe Flacco threw for 307 yards and three scores. Are we to buy into Mark Clayton (5-77, 1 TD) and Todd Heap (5-74, 1 TD) as being viable fantasy options now? That just smacks of future disappointment. I'll buy into this when it is not the Chiefs lining up on the other side. Still, the Ravens defense allowed 24 points? It really was never close but it sure looked like it.
4. Why is it that going to the Super Bowl so often produces teams that start the next year out flat? The Cardinals looked like circa 1999 when Kurt Warner struggled to hit the same guys he made superstars for the last two seasons. Granted Boldin was gimpy and Breaston was out but he looked completely lost by halftime and only came to life some in the second half. Beanie Wells ran for 29 yards on seven carries but ran the wrong way on his first play and Warner had to eat the ball. The hunger that the Cards had last year wasn't absent from the game, it just belonged to the 49ers defense.
5. For those of you who expected Ronnie Brown to take over a heavier load, he had ten carries to seven for Ricky Williams. He caught three passes for 10 yards but it all looked a lot like 2008 all over again.
6. There were 21 changes at defensive coordinators between last year and this year. You would expect that to cause a few more sloppy defenses during opening week and some better rushing yardage because of it. Not so really. Consider the effectiveness of some of those studs running backs that we drafted: Michael Turner (22-65, 2.9 YPC), Matt Forte (25-55, 2.2 YPC), Frank Gore (22-30, 1.4 YPC), Brandon Jacobs (16-46, 2.9 YPC), DeAngelo Williams (14-37, 2.6 YPC), Steve Slaton (9-17, 1.9 YPC), and Kevin Smith (15-20, 1.3 YPC). Is it that only the defensive linemen were actually practicing this summer? Or did almost every running back in the league do something to piss off his offensive linemen? It was a very weak showing by most rushers.
7. I swore off Denver and Tampa Bay running backs this year because committee backfields are a headache I want to avoid. Denver went against the Bengals and true to form used four different running backs. Correll Buckhalter (8-46), Knowshon Moreno (8-19)m Lamont Jordan (2-5) and even Peyton Hillis (1-2) ensured none of them had any fantasy value. The Buccaneers did get a touchdown from two of their running backs but they too used four in the game. Carnell Williams (13-97), Derrick Ward (12-62), Clifton Smith (1-4) and Ernest Graham (1-1) all showed up. Williams ran rather well as did Ward but they share it so they had only decent showings which will no bought become below average when they hit the road and opponents are less forgiving against the run. Man - four backs for each team. A true split for the top two runners on each team. You have to hate that.
8. Ex-Defensive Coordinator JIm Johnson has passed but his legacy is still very alive with the Philadelphia Eagles who completely dismantled the Panthers in Carolina. If that defensive showing is a sign of things to come, the rest of the NFC East better start worrying. Make that the entire NFC. He was probably watching and smiling.
9. For many years, I used the game center at NFL.com and liked it. Granted, it made you go a page back to see who actually scored the touchdowns after games were over, but it was good during the games and easy to navigate. I have no idea what they are trying to do with their redesign other than run off every fantasy football fan there is. You know, the guys most likely to be camping out on their game center. It looks like a developers solution if he never actually spoke to anyone who used it and took direction from senior executives who also never actually used them. They are horrible - it's worth checking out the one time to see how badly they have screwed up a good thing. Fox Sports and CBS Sportsline were wise enough to leave well enough alone.
10. I have to admit that I am 49 years old, have been following football all my life and have been dedicated to fantasy football since 1991. This is all I do. And yet, on opening Sunday I still cannot help yelling and laughing and making a host of sounds I do when I watch football. When Adrian Peterson broke his long TV, the dog bolted from my office and ran away when I went to primal screams (I have him in one league). When my favorite team scored three times, I make a noise that is like a cross between a gunshot and a lazer sound. You have to love football. It's a beautiful thing. Non-football people cannot be around me. I gotta be me.
Drew Brees - How sad is this? Is it not predictable? This was a toss-up between Brees and Adrian Peterson who humbled the Cleveland Browns more than they already were since they were the Cleveland Browns. I imagine Peterson will be back in contention soon enough. But Brees was simply a fantasy delight. In the first six minutes of playing time against the Lions, Brees went 5 of 5 for 99 yards and two touchdowns. He ended with 358 yards and six touchdowns. That's twice as many scores as any other quarterback so far. They won't all be the visiting Lions, but will it matter anyway?
Huddle Fantasy Points = 90
Huddle Fantasy Points = 26
What a great opening weekend!
We had some monster games from Reggie Wayne, Drew Brees and Adrian Peterson. A lot of other players who maybe did not pay you back for where they were drafted. A ton of running backs had problems gaining ground nd really not all that many players had big games. No wideouts with two scores, only a handful of players with over 100 yards. It was a "spread the ball around" kind of day for many quarterbacks. We have to remember that 1 out of every 16 players probably just had their best game of the year and considering injuries and last season slides, even more players coming off their top game. There was plenty of change in the air with all the new coaching staffs in the league but one game in particular was indicative of the weekend.
You had to like the Detroit-New Orleans game for the fantasy perspective. Dallas at Tampa Bay had some nice fireworks and the Vikings in Cleveland was also a fantasy gold mine but the Game of the Week just has to be:
Denver 12, Cincinnati 7
Granted - not a lot of fantasy points here. Not a lot of NFL points either. But what a wonderfully stupid game.
Carson Palmer is back and he passed for 247 yards but could not connect on a score. And he had two interceptions. Chad Ochocinco was productive (5-89) but Laveranues Coles had just one catch after dropping three passes. Apparently at three, even the Bengals stop throwing to you. Chris Henry - that favorite super sleeper for some people had a big one catch for 18 yards. The Broncos have two very good cornerbacks so a #3 or #4 wideout would seem more attractive. But Henry's first game as the reborn wideout who has seen the light was just one catch. Whoopee.
Cedric Benson had a decent game with 21 carries for 76 yards and a score but when Denver visited other teams last year they'd usually have twice as many rushing yards.
The Broncos were busy not rushing or passing well in the game. Brandon Marshall had four catches but only gained 27 yards. Eddie Royal had just two receptions for 18 yards. It was like, oh, I don't know. Like Kyle Orton was playing the same short game he never got past in Chicago. His two most productive receivers until the end were the two tight ends. It just all really, really smacked of what happens when you import a wildly productive offense from New England and then hand it over to a game manager quarterback who shies away from throwing anything actually down the field.
This was a pretty hard game to watch and I tried to tune in for as long as I could take it. The Broncos kicked a field goal right before the half to break the 0-0 tie. By that point,. it seemed maybe enough to win the game. Prater kicked another one at the end of the third quarter and a seemingly insurmountable six point lead with only a quarter left to play.
But the Bengals took over on their own nine yard line with six minutes left to play and suddenly it all came together. Between completely ineffective runs by Benson, Palmer started moving the team down the field and was at the Denver 32-yard line at the two minute warning. with 50 seconds to play, the Bengals had reached the Denver 7-yard line. On the next play Andre Caldwell reached the one-yard line. Then Benson bulled over with only 41 seconds to play.
The Bengals had their first lead (heck - first points for that matter) in the game and all they had to do was to keep the Broncos out of the endzone for 41 seconds. We all know that Orton has no deep ball - how hard could this be?
To top it off, Eddie Royal took the kick off and instead of downing it and saving time, he ran it out, slipped in his cut and was tackled on the 17-yard line while wasting seven seconds. On first down, Orton badly threw a deep pass to Brandon Marshall since half the secondary was surrounding him. On second down, he tried to hit Eddie Royal but it was batted away. Only not away so much as batted up and back to where Brandon Stokley was running. He collected it in stride and raced 87 yards untouched into the endzone for his only catch in the game. Orton's only decent completion should have been an interception or an incompletion but a carom shot that had nothing to do with him almost doubled his passing yards.
It must suck to be a Bengals fan. They had it and then had every fan's heart stomped when Stokley scored. Suddenly Orton in Denver is a good thing (as the announcer said - teams win with him).
The Broncos cannot count on that happening every week.
But can the Bengals?
Football is a joy, A very cruel joy.
Now get back to work...


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The question of whether Kyle Schwarber will wind up as a regular an everyday catcher in the major leagues is one the Cubs don't have to answer for a while.
But it's one everyone keeps asking, especially after Schwarber proved what he can do offensively in his first half-season in the minors.
In the long run, it's more important to get Schwarber's bat in the Cubs' lineup than trying to force-feed him into a position he may never play. As for now, however, the Cubs insist he will get a realistic shot at catching.
"With his make-up, aptitude and work habits, we are going to give him every chance to stay behind the plate," President Theo Epstein said. "I...


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[Albert Peyton George holding the lead rope of a horse]
Description: Photograph of Albert Peyton George holding the lead rope of a horse. Mr. George is wearing a three piece dark suit and a light colored felt hat. Wooden barns with stock pens in background. Dog in front of the wooden partition of the stock pen in background just to the right of George. Engraved in bottom left corner: "H. H. Morris, Galveston, Tex."
Date: 1910
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Nice out this afternoon. Took it out and drove it like i stold it. The tires work good in my yard half full of leaves anyway. Speed seems about the same with the smaller tires and 22t-65t on 4s. handles awsome, yery stable. Was doing some good power slides around corners. Wheelies on comand. A couple more pretty good crashes, no damage other than a couple more scratchs. temps still a bit higher on motor. motor 136 esc 103 might try 24t - 65t next.
Ive been doing a little more modifying on the body. Made a 3-hole plate for the blower extension with blue screen to give it a cool nostalgic look. and a custom grill with the MMM logo. First I left the grills grey plastic color and painted the lights and behind holes blue. and It looked like Thomas the Train. LOL After a few different color combos I decided black looked best. Talk about luck, Searching through a bunch of industrial model building plastic stuff my dad had down in the basement I found three strips of reusable alphabet letters just the right size.
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After I blew the rear stock diff in my other maxx this weekend, I took this one out for another 4s run. I like it! Ran it hard, couple crashes, nothing broke I think I might try it on 6s with the road rage tires next. Big parking lot next door. should be fun. Finaly got rpm sensor so all i need for telemetry now is a cheap ipod.
Finally got a little time to play with my maxx project. I put the proline cheyenne wheels and road rage tires on. Rotated the motor 90 deg to get the wires out of the way for batt install. Changed gears from 22-65 to 24-65. Made some little batt strap extensions to fit three cells. Lowered the truck down about 3/4" for better handling. Took it out for a run on the paved parking lot next door. running mmm on 6s, 50% punch. 100% forward. This thing is a rocket on the pavment. Lots of fun. I thought it would tip over easy but it doesnt. maybe because it was a little cold outside. Spun it around several times at high speed and stayed on all 4 tires. This made it lots of fun. I was amazed how it would spin the tires on the pavment. and Wheelieing at speed. I ran it hard, a few burnouts coming off the sand. several full throttle runs for as long as the parking lot would alow. Could only hold full throttle for about 3 seconds or so. drivetrain held up nice. Nothing broke
Then I stopped it to remove a couple leaves and then it took off on its own. OMG see my post (my maxx run away)
Heres a couple more pics.
Luckily when it took off on its own and crashed it only broke the plastic bed supports i made and a screw holding one of the rpm rear body posts. and the little ice amps blower belts dont seem to hold up to 6s. Blew the one off my other maxx on 6s too. Ive run it on 4s 5 or 6 times and the belt is holding up. Since its a pain in the butt to replace with the cage I might just put the castle fan on it and mount my little blower extensionn to the cage.
Last edited by EMAXXBRUSHLESS; 11-19-2012 at 08:32 AM.
Seriously nice looking truck man. Good job.
Always get a 2nd Opinion!
Thanks Mugs, I'm Going to try to keep it that way. and bash my other one. Keep this one nice for road racing. winter is here and Wish there was an indoor track around here close by. Now i have to figure out what to do so it never takes off on its own again?
A few small changes after my runaway and crash. I decided to do a little rewiring. I moved the antenna to the other side of the chassis. Just had to drill and tap the existing hole in the flm chassis. since i dont run it wet conditions i drilled a small hole in the bottom of the rx box just under rubber seal and ran antenna wire out the same side totally isolating it from all the other wires. Also added a capacitor,cut a little slot in the rx box top and ran it out and into the little plastic container where the castle link plug was.drilled a hole in the cap to let it breath. added another little plastic container for the castle link. and then pulled the exess servo wire out of the rx box and tucked it into my little fuse box with the castle link and batt tap. Makes for a nice clean look with all telemetry installed and up and working. (except expander and gps module) witch for another 100.00 im really not interested in. more interested in temps and a lot of the features are pretty cool too. Heres a few pics. What do you guys think?
Found an ipod in good condition on ebay and got all telemetry working.
Made a little custom home made wing and some bed supports to mount it to.. Probably break on first crash but was fun to build and look cool untill then.
Question, Is it possible and Do you need the expander to hook up another temp sensor for thr esc and get display on ipod??
Last edited by EMAXXBRUSHLESS; 11-26-2012 at 08:52 AM.
Nice truck ! For those of us who like blue +1
Never messed with the telemetry I run eagle tree e logger with GPS and brushless rpm sensor .
After the run plug into the computer and will play a dashboard of your run! that would go good with your truck!
Last edited by 50togo; 11-26-2012 at 10:41 AM.
Thanks 50togo, The eagle tree looks cool. Lots of info.
How tall are those road rage? I just pulled one off my 1/8 buggy and they will work but they don't look as wide or tall as yours. Mine are 4.5"
Last edited by 50togo; 11-26-2012 at 07:45 PM.
you know EMAXXB.... your rear wheels on are the wrong way reverse the side of the wheels? not sure if you knew that. looking real nice. I like that Blower you made there very nice. does it work good? HOTROD MT hahaha
how much HP+TQ you pulling out there?
Living life.
Good looking truck! I was going to ask about how you mounted your antenna, but realized you answered that in your post. Oops!
How does the antenna normally mount on the chassis?
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50togo, The road rage 40 series beadlock tires are 5.47 tall and 3.53 wide.
Mike-s good eye, I didnt even realize (yet) that they are on backwards LOL The blower (according to artical in car action magazine test) was 155deg. w/out and 125 deg with. so i guess they do work. but on 6s the belts dont seem to hold up. (Then its just ram air) LOL Ive run my other maxx on 4s 4 -5 times and the belt is still there. Not shore on HP + TQ. I guess you can figure it on the speed caculator,but im not shore what to put in for currant draw. 100 amps =3 HP, 150 amps =4.5 HP ?
How many amps does the monster mamba draw??
manamal, The antenna usally mounts the same way but on the other side. I had my buddy machine a little slot in the flm antenna mount so i didnt have to run the wire out the bottom.
The mmm puts out 140-170amps I hear around. Yeah I didn't get think you wanted to go running and wonder why you didn't have any grip. Very nice blower and for cooling that much 30* is good. I would stick with 4s if using that then or stock up on belts.
Living life.
The motor draws and the esc puts out!
Any idea how much power the blower uses to turn at top rpm?
Last edited by 50togo; 11-27-2012 at 01:01 PM.
I dont know how much power the blower uses at top rpm. But something tells me its really not a factor. The little plastic fan inside weighs nothing and spins with no resistence and the belt rides on motor shaft witch is the same size as the pulley on the blower giving it like a 1 to 1 ratio. I havent noticed any difference after the belt broke.
Looking good mate...its come together nicely.
Rock n Rolla !
Thanks mate, Hope to get it out one more time before it snows. Then will have to find somthing else to do to it over the winter.
After closer inspection i found the outer sidewalls of the road rages are pretty beat up. Half a dozen spots torn through the sides. These were new,had one run on 6s on pavement. I dont know what did more of the damage. Sliding it around on the pavment or when it took off on its own and crashed and sat upside down in the field at full throttle for a few minutes untill i finnaly managed to get the body off and turn it off. Im putting a new set of road rage together, this time with the wider proline comando wheels. 3-1/4 wide vs the cheyenne 2-3/4" wide) and some better firmer foams. I think the comando's will fit the road rage tires better than the cheyenes. and some firm foams will help keep the sidewalls off the pavement. Did a couple other small mods that i will post pics of soon.
Swapped out the spectrum voltage protector for a novac racing glitchbuster. dont ask me why i guess it just looked more impresive. switched my little plastic containers back around and put the castle link back in the castle container where it should be and the novac in the other where it fits since its bigger. LOL Done!
Then since you cant get a telemetry temp reading for both motor and esc I mounted one of these and stuffed the sensor in the side of the esc. Just had to bend one of the little heat sink fins a bit to get it in. Fits nicely. Dont know how acurate it will be but be interesting to see vs my infrared temp gun.
Then after it ran away on me and after running 3/4 of a football field only to find it wide open on its roof and the body clip bent around the post so i couldnt get it off with my fingers, "keys" nope in the truck. "'plyers in back pocket" wishful thinking at the time. finaly got front clips off and got to the switch without loosing a finger. so i did this.
Some different bumpers. jnr racing. they fit better and a little lighter too. plus wanted to see if some orings would stay on the road rages. these are 1/16 x 4-3/4 maybe a bit tight. squishing tires a littlte bit. anybody try orings on road rages??? making a new set and wondering if i should tape them again or try orings. The 3" tape i used seems to warp them. I think 2" will fit better and not bunch up around the edges.
And last for now in my attempt for a softer touchdown for the wheelie bar and maybe not want to send it into a cartwheel. I mounted a pair of small revo shocks to it. put some 60w oil in them and a little hr alum upgrade kit. I think this is a cool idea but wont take much of a crash to destroy. lol
Next im going to make some kind of little ductwork to channel some air into the esc. and a different grill. i dont like it.lol
Its killing me not to be able to take it and try it. Raining and cold winter is here.
Last edited by EMAXXBRUSHLESS; 12-08-2012 at 09:53 AM.
Looks clean!
I did a speed run in my merv and hit it too hard at around 60 came up so hard and hit the wheelie bar and just flipped the truck up in the air! Nice crash that would of helped !
Looking good mate....
Rock n Rolla !
Man this really is the sickest looking MAxx truck out there... incredible work man... just keeps getting better and better and better.... seriously ****** set up man, congrats on your level of detail and dedication!
Nice work. Great looking truck you have there!
Sent from Oser world
Thanks guys, It started out as a monster truck and spent so much time any money on it i decided not to bash it so it has kinda morphed into a Road Maxx hot rod MT. For now anyway. I Have another 3908 to beat on in my yard and take jumps.. I could never afford a real nice one as a kid, so about eight months ago i decided to take up a new hobby. and now that im almost an old guy LOL i can. Wife thinks im crazy. But i love it. I told her when i was 15 i had a rc that went 15 mph. now im almost 50 and have rc that goes 50 mph and if i live to 100 LOL ill get an XO-1
Heres a couple pics of new road rages mounted on wider commando wheels painted black with much better foam set up and and polished rings. I used 3 foams on each. one of these. racers edge #rce5372 and two of these bigger ones under them hpi#103335 I also did not tape them this time. I found the tape kinda warps them and leaves flat spot where you overlap. So im going to try orings instead. These are much better, Firm, sidewalls are straight and tire doesnt slide back and forth on the rim. They run true and almost feel like they have air pressure in them.
how much does your truck weigh with battery? Mine is really starting to put on weight during the holiday season, almost seems too heavy
It weighs right around 15 pounds with two 2cell 5800 batts. A heavy beast. The commando beadlock wheel + road rage tire combo weigh 393 grams ea. and still need to be balanced.
Last edited by EMAXXBRUSHLESS; 12-16-2012 at 12:21 PM.
Nice job on the wheels mate...well done , they look good.
Rock n Rolla !
some more mods on the maxx. Since its winter here and it will be a shelf queen for a while untill spring. I figured it can at least look good. I made some new traxxas decals for the sides. "ROAD MAXX" Polished the beadlock rings and bumpers. Made a new grill with a couple more holes. LOL Waiting for some new headlight decals from jc concepts. Swapped my home made wing lol for a little revo exo carbon one. Painted the chassis brace black out plates blue and put them back on. Cut a couple holes in the back for air vents. and since my wife got me some flaming skull decals for xmas i put a couple of them on the wing to make her feel good. LOL
And in my attempt to direct some air into the esc to help keep it cool I made a sort of ram air duct out of a shop vac attachment and fit it into the body with a plumbing fitting and a pc of plastic pipe as an extra little air deflector to blow the air down onto the esc. I dont know how well it will work, if at all. But it should take the air that goes up in the cab and funnel it through the back of the cab and down into the esc. I will have to test it in the spring with another body.
Now ive been looking for some better cooler looking shocks. It never ends. LOL
Look at the Gmade piggy back shocks
Have you tried them? They look pretty good. But for the same or less you can get UE supershocks.
Supershocks ftw!
X-Maxx Max6 | EB48.3 | ET48.3 | Axial Grave Digger
You'lle have to forgive me but what is ftw?
You already have the towers, some UE supershocks would be the ticket!
Look out for the tree/crunch!
LiPo? Naw NITRO!!
I have to agree, Ill be getting some super shocks when money permits. LOL And theres no rush as we just got a nor easter snow storm. I have a rc snowmobile but its lame ,more of a kids toy. Are there any bigger electric rc snowmobiles out there?? Ill have to do a search.
15lbs that should be considered a lethal weapon when it is doing 60mph lol
With great brushless comes great responsibility.
Not much to report lately. LOL Made some one of a kind headlight decals and a sort of bottom grill for a new front look.
Getting ready to tear it apart and redo my diffs with an 8mm full length pinion shaft.


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Our good friend, Representative Jeff Thompson, who was extremely instrumental in helping us with the Hunters for the Hungry debacle and our "In God We Trust" efforts with Bossier Sheriff Julian Whittington, has once again found himself in an extremely positive limelight.
The Louisiana State Troopers Association recently announced three members of the Louisiana Legislature have been selected as its Legislators of the Year for 2013. The three selected are Representative Jeff Thompson of Benton, Senator Neil Riser of Columbia, and Representative Chris Broadwater of Hammond.
In making the announcement, Lt. Frank Besson, President of the LSTA, stated, "These three gentlemen were selected for the roles they played in assisting us to procure the funding for five cadet classes over the next five years, beginning in the 2013-2014 fiscal year. Without their efforts, it is likely that we would have gone at least another year before any new troopers could have been deployed to our troops throughout the state. We are truly grateful for all that they have done for Louisiana State Police and the citizens of Louisiana."
There had not been a new class cadets for four years. Due to retirements and departures from the department, staffing had fallen to levels not seen since 1981. Authorization for these five classes will result in fifty new cadets being trained annually for the next five years in an effort to stem those losses and retirements.
"This is a great honor for me and I am humbled to be selected as Legislator of the Year by the Louisiana State Troopers Association. These Troopers put their lives on the line every day to help keep our families safe and to be recognized by those devoted to such a high calling is something I will always treasure" Thompson said.
The Louisiana State Troopers Association is a non-profit organization whose mission includes protecting and promoting the welfare and interests of active and retired troopers as well as seeking constant improvement in the quality of service rendered to the citizens of Louisiana. The LSTA annually recognizes legislators who have assisted in furthering that mission.


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Future Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Lewis didn't seem to mind that the Baltimore Ravens failed to get into the end zone in last week's win at Kansas City.
All Lewis cares about is keeping the opposition off the scoreboard.
"Regardless of what they did the first half, look at the scoreboard," Lewis said after an ugly 9-6 win. "If they're not on the scoreboard, I don't care what people do against us."
The Dallas Cowboys had trouble reaching the scoreboard in their last game and had almost two weeks to think about it during their bye. Dallas will try to take advantage of a suddenly-dormant Baltimore offense when the two teams collide Sunday afternoon at M&T Bank Stadium.
The first-half stat that Lewis most likely was referring to centered around Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles, who racked up 125 yards rushing before halftime and was limited to just 15 yards over the last two quarters. But Kansas City couldn't get over the hump that was the Ravens' defense. Kansas City ran for 179 yards in the first half and was held to 35 yards in the final two quarters.
The Ravens are riding a three-game winning streak and sit alone atop the AFC North standings. Each of the victories during the streak have been by seven points or less, but Baltimore head coach John Harbaugh could care less about style points.
"There are a lot of things that we're not pleased with," Harbaugh said. "We're chasing our 'A' game every week. We want to have our 'A' stuff. It's like a pitcher. We want to have our best stuff every single week. We did not have our best stuff yesterday."
Harbaugh went on to add that he was glad the team can work on the mistakes with a win. And what coach wouldn't this day and age in the NFL? The great Bill Parcells said you are what your record indicates, and right now the Ravens are 4-1 and the class of the AFC. The Ravens have won 14 in a row at home, including the playoffs, last losing there on Dec. 5, 2010 versus Pittsburgh.
Baltimore could be in trouble of having that streak come to an end if it doesn't correct its problems on third down. It has converted 19 of its 57 chances on third down -- good enough for 24th in the NFL -- and finished a paltry 3-for-11 in Sunday's win that was marred by just field goals.
"Third down is the one that kind of keeps you on the field and keeps you going, but I think first and second down are just as important," Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco said. "Third down is obviously make or break if you get to that point, but first and second down have a lot to do with how successful you are."
The Cowboys are 2-2 this season and couldn't erase the memory of a Monday night debacle versus Chicago fast enough. Perhaps the bye week to get away and regroup will cure what's ailing Dallas.
Dallas' biggest issue in a 34-18 loss to the Bears was quarterback Tony Romo. Romo, who is playing for a contract extensions and quite possibly his job, was intercepted twice, with two of the picks resulting in defensive scores. The Cowboys managed 430 yards of offense, mostly through the air (389).
"This has got to be a wake-up call for us," Dallas tight end Jason Witten said. "I don't say that nonchalantly. You can't bounce back and forth like this and try to compete come December. You can't do it. We've been in that situation before. ... We thought long and hard about getting to 3-1 going into this bye. We have to take it one at a time, we have to regroup, get healthy, evaluate it, stick together.
"Ultimately it comes down to results. We know that."
Witten had a breakout game with a season-high 112 yards and a touchdown on 13 receptions. He had been bothered by a spleen issue the first few weeks.
Dallas will play two straight and four of the next five games on the road against Baltimore, Carolina, Atlanta and Philadelphia, and will enter a hostile environment Sunday. It will be tough sledding facing another formidable defense and game film doesn't lie.
If the Cowboys had trouble moving the chains against the Bears at home, imagine what it will be like in Baltimore.
Romo has to play better and protect the football. And the defense must tighten up its mistakes. Blown coverage, failure to apply pressure up front and coming up small in big situations killed the Cowboys last time out. Bears wide receiver Brandon Marshall had 138 yards and a score on seven receptions, and Cowboys cornerback Brandon Carr shouldered all the blame.
"I am frustrated, I'm sorry," Carr said. "It's just tough. I have to find a way to get those balls out, especially that deep ball. He made a good play on the ball."
The Ravens are eighth in passing (281.2 ypg) and Dallas is the top defender against the pass, holding opponents to just 169.5 yards per game. On the flip side, the Cowboys are fourth in passing (296.2 ypg) and will face Baltimore's 22nd-rated secondary, which is yielding 261.4 ypg.
Baltimore, which is 4-1 for a third straight year, has won all three of its meetings with the Cowboys, including a 33-24 road triumph in the previous matchup on Dec. 20, 2008. A win over the Cowboys would give the Ravens their best start since 2000, when they began 5-1 and went on to win the Super Bowl.
They hammered Dallas, 27-0, that season on Nov. 19.
They say the run sets up the pass, and vice-versa. Romo needs the backfield to hit the ground running on Sunday and hopes to erase the memories of the debacle at home versus the Bears. Romo had arguably his worst game as a pro, but Dallas' run game has been struggling, too. The Cowboys are just 29th in the NFL with only 67.8 rushing yards per game and totaled 41 yards in the loss to the Bears, as DeMarco Murray and Felix Jones combined for 37 yards. It won't get any easier on the road against a stout Baltimore defense.
Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett isn't concerned with Murray's recent dropoff.
"His patience, his persistence, his toughness have all been good," Garrett said. "He just needs to understand we're going to keep trying to give him opportunities. He needs to keep doing what he's supposed to do and trust the other guys that they're going to do what they're supposed to do, and we'll get this running game going."
Romo hopes so as well. He needs to have bounce-back performance and limit the turnovers. And any NFL expert knows the Ravens feed off turnovers. But Romo is not alone in the passing game and needs to be on the same page with wide receiver Dez Bryant. A few miscues from the Dallas connection led to a few Chicago points a few weeks back. Harbaugh is not taking Dallas lightly.
"You talk about the Cowboys ... obviously they have a tremendously-talented quarterback who's capable of doing amazing things," Harbaugh said. "They maybe have the most balanced receiving corps in the NFL. They've got two home run- hitting running backs, so they've got lots of weapons and everybody knows that."
Baltimore running back Ray Rice had 102 yards on 17 carries, but it wasn't good enough to put his team into any touchdown scenarios. Rice will face a Cowboys defense rated 15th against the run (108.0 ypg). Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco had a big run on third-and-long against the Chiefs, but passed for only 187 yards with an interception. The Ravens are eighth in passing yards (398.8), while Dallas is first in pass defense, allowing 169.5 ypg.
It will be interesting to see Baltimore receivers Torrey Smith and Anquan Boldin go against Carr and the rookie Morris Claiborne. Bears quarterback Jay Cutler threw for 275 yards and found Marshall all day in Dallas. Perhaps Flacco can do the same with his weapons on his home turf.
Dallas hopes to have to have two defenders back in the fold in nose tackle Jay Ratliff and outside linebacker Anthony Spencer. Ratliff has been sidelined the entire season with an ankle injury and Spencer did not play versus Chicago with an injured pectoral muscle. The possibility of having those two back only makes it more difficult to contain defensive stalwart DeMarcus Ware, who has three sacks and three forced fumbles in his last two games.
"Getting Jay back is like getting three guys back in the nickel packages and the base packages, and teams actually gameplan for Jay Ratliff," Dallas defensive end Marcus Spears said. "So it will give other guys an opportunity to make more plays and have more success because he is in the game."
The Ravens can't afford to get caught in a trend of not scoring touchdowns; they have a reputation in the AFC to keep up. Whether it was just a fluke or Kansas City was just that good on a particular afternoon, Baltimore needs to revive its passing game and play four quarters of solid defense. The Ravens will not get away with playing 30 minutes versus a Cowboys team desperately trying to save face. The Ravens have the advantage here as the host and have won 21 of their last 22 contests at M&T Bank Stadium. They have won 11 in a row at home against the NFC, going 8-0 under Harbaugh. Dallas, meanwhile, has been impressive after a bye since 1990 (16-7), but will join Washington in the basement of the NFC East when it is all said and done.
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Skip to comments.Catholics who support abortion should not receive Communion, says Archbishop Burke (again :-)
Posted on 08/19/2008 9:45:53 AM PDT by NYer
.- The prefect of the Apostolic Signature, Archbishop Raymond Burke, said this week that Catholics, especially politicians who publically defend abortion, should not receive Communion, and that ministers of Communion should be responsibly charitable in denying it to them if they ask for it, until they have reformed their lives.
In an interview with the magazine, Radici Christiane, Archbishop Burke pointed out that there is often a lack of reverence at Mass when receiving Communion. Receiving the Body and Blood of Christ unworthily is a sacrilege, he warned. If it is done deliberately in mortal sin it is a sacrilege.
To illustrate his point, he referred to public officials who, with knowledge and consent, uphold actions that are against the Divine and Eternal moral law. For example, if they support abortion, which entails the taking of innocent and defenseless human lives. A person who commits sin in this way should be publicly admonished in such a way as to not receive Communion until he or she has reformed his life, the archbishop said.
If a person who has been admonished persists in public mortal sin and attempts to receive Communion, the minister of the Eucharist has the obligation to deny it to him. Why? Above all, for the salvation of that person, preventing him from committing a sacrilege, he added.
We must avoid giving people the impression that one can be in a state of mortal sin and receive the Eucharist, the archbishop continued. Secondly, there could be another form of scandal, consisting of leading people to think that the public act that this person is doing, which until now everyone believed was a serious sin, is really not that serious - if the Church allows him or her to receive Communion.
If we have a public figure who is openly and deliberately upholding abortion rights and receiving the Eucharist, what will the average person think? He or she could come to believe that it up to a certain point it is okay to do away with an innocent life in the mothers womb, he warned.
Archbishop Burke also noted that when a bishop or a Church leader prevents an abortion supporter from receiving Communion, it is not with the intention of interfering in public life but rather in the spiritual state of the politician or public official who, if Catholic, should follow the divine law in the public sphere as well.
Therefore, it is simply ridiculous and wrong to try to silence a pastor, accusing him of interfering in politics so that he cannot do good to the soul of a member of his flock, he stated.
It is simply wrong to think that the faith must be reduced to the private sphere and eliminated from public life, Archbishop Burke said, encouraging Catholics to bear witness to our faith not only in private in our homes but also in our public lives with others in order to bear strong witness to Christ.
My pastor delivered his homily on this last Sunday.
Confront and deny the big time politicians first. You cannot have one set of rules for the flock and another set for the others. Have this decree issued directly from the Pope, do not rely on the Cardinals or Archbishops here, because they are afraid to confront them./Just Asking - seoul62.......
Abortion is murder.
These abortion loving Catholics need to be confessing their pro abortion sin in the Confessional. I remember confessing my lustful desires in the Confessional. The priest would warm my ears real good and sometimes ask if I was in last week with the same sins (he recognized my voice because I was one of his altar boys). I would rack up the Rosary beads for each incident. The nuns in the church would definitely take notice as I spent penance time before the Virgin Mary.
I wonder how much Confession time these abortion loving Catholics do spend as a practice of their faith? Are they serious about the practice of their faith or is it a just a social event to make themselves look good?
Maybe when Archbishop Burke grows up he too will be more generous and more of the mind of Christ.
Those who disregard these words are also forgetting the power to bind and loose has been given to the Bishops and their pronouncements and judgments are eternal in the spiritual realm.
BTW, it is the current Pope who before becoming Pope wrote a letter to Cardinal McCarrick that said essentially the same thing that Archbishop Burke is saying in this article.
"... more severe in terms of administering baptism and confirmation to ill-prepared or lukewarm candidates, but today hes inclined to be generous wherever there is even a flicker of desire for communion in the faith.
Maybe when Archbishop Burke grows up he too will be more generous and more of the mind of Christ."
Being ill-informed, ill-catechized, or just lazy spiritually is a far, far cry from the sin of abortion. Abortion is one of the great offenses against the Holy Spirit.
The juxtaposition of a lukewarm Catholic who is lazy about his faith and those who support the murder of the infant-in-utero is not comparable.
The difference between now and the first time he said it, is he is now the Chief Magistrate for the entire global communion of the Catholic Church, the head of the apostolic signature.
That's been done. Politicians simply ignore their bishops. Take for example the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to NYC. Cardinal Eagan had an understanding with Rudy Giuliani that he was NOT to receive communion at the papal mass. Did it stop him?
NY Cardinal slams Giulani over communion with pope
Ultimately, it is necessary to appeal to a person's conscience and help them understand the shame in their own actions.
Abortion is the taking of a human life. Catholic politicians have the faith based obligation to protect life; not support its destruction. As Archbishop Burke points out:
If a person who has been admonished persists in public mortal sin and attempts to receive Communion, the minister of the Eucharist has the obligation to deny it to him. Why? Above all, for the salvation of that person, preventing him from committing a sacrilege, he added.
This is based on Scripture - 1 Cor. 11:27-30.
Talk is cheap.
You're dating yourself. Many of those teaching orders got silly after VCII and certain bishops altered their seminary recruitment practices to be more 'inclusive'. Worse yet, western society has shifted into secularism. In his pre-conclave homily, then Cardinal Ratzinger warned the Cardinals: A dictatorship of relativism is being formed, one that recognizes nothing as definitive and that has as its measure only the self and its desires.. He continues to assail moral relativism today.
Just a side light: Gay marriage is an effort towards the egalitarian treatment of human relationships. When the gay relationship is equal to the heterosexual relationship, the egalitarian objective is accomplished.
The opposition by the gay community and their anti abortionist cohorts to the Catholic Church is an effort to transform society by retooling the Church. When you put everything they are doing into one description, they are reducing the importance of life that is produced by the relationship between a man and a woman. Life does not have any more protection or significance than that which is determined by the state. Life produced by a man and a woman no longer have that level of significance that our culture has given it through the ages.
As the love relationship of heterosexual marriage and the beginning of human life are being attacked by the Marxist effort to transform our society, one can only wonder what's next?
If the liberal politicians and other liberal Catholics in the Church don't like it they can go worship with the Anglicans.
Interesting article...if I recall, the Catholic Church is opposed to the death penalty as well...should pro-death penalty Catholics also be denied??...magritte
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[UPDATED 06/07/2011] Methyldopate HCL Injection, USP 5ml Single Dose Vial recalled.
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As iOS gaming has gotten more and more popular over the years, we've seen a deluge of incredibly addictive quick-fix games mostly catered towards the casual market. While such games have definitely served their purpose, it's no secret that hardcore gamers have been left in the dark with very few titles that satisfy their need for something more. As a result, iOS gaming has mostly been looked at as ground-zero for noob-friendly throwaway titles by the gaming elite.
With Heroes of Order & Chaos (which I will refer to as HOC going forward), Gameloft is taking another step in an attempt to once again win over portable gaming nay-sayers with their own MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) as a spinoff to last year's release of Order & Chaos Online MMO. Could HOC be the title that serious mobile gamers have been waiting for? Read on for more. (more…)


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Discussion in 'General MMA discussion' started by smfowns4, Dec 6, 2012.
Oh Hendricks please knock Shields the F**K OUT.
I for one, would love to see Big Rig put Jake to sleep.
Hendricks has one of the strongest campaigns for a WW title shot ever. Beating Pierce,Fitch,Kos, and Kampmann..two of which got KTFO. Hendricks needs to think outside the box and fail a drug test. That will surely get him a title shot.
Bloody Elbow is such a garbage site. I love it.
If you look past their last 2 fights, then Diaz has been sitting at the top of his division for far longer than Hendricks, and has a far better resume. Hendricks no doubt looks better in the last year than Diaz, but Diaz also has a ton more hype and reputation. I think Shields vs Hendricks pretty much guarantees Hendricks the next shot (unless GSP accepts Silva).
seriously jake shields? why is this guy still around? I hate the term "real fighter" but my god he is the closest thing from it. Shield's only weapon is transitioning.........that is it. I mean he is damn good at it but he is no threat from ANYWHERE.
Dude, have you ever seen this guy grapple? His BJJ is terrific.
How does a guy coming off a loss get a title shot anyway? First Jones fights these middleweights not named Anderson, now this s---? the UFC is becoming quite silly, I tell you!
i said he is great at transitioning........but he is NO THREAT from ANYWHERE. He can't finish anyone with a mediocre ground game.
If Shields can handle "Hendo", he can take Hendricks down and win this.
Wasn't Jake going off after his fight with Ed Herman that he needs to add muscle to his body to properly compete at Middleweight? Now he's challenging Welterweights?
No reason for Hendricks to take this fight. He is considered by most to be the number one contender, why is he going to fight a suspended fighter who only has one win in his last four fights? What does that do for him? If he doesn't get the GSP fight he should be fighting someone relevent in the division, Jake Ellenberger, Josh Koshcheck, Carlos Condit, Rory MacDonald.
Easy to handle somebody who is gassed not showing any resistance.
He actually has beaten Kampmann and won two rounds against GSP.
Absolutely, he has beaten Carlos Condit, Yushin Okami, hell the guy had a 15 fight win streak before GSP. However MMA is a sport of what have you done for me lately and lately he really hasn't done much. He is a great fighter, don't get me wrong, but he doesn't deserve a fight with Hendricks anymore than Diaz deserves a fight with GSP.
Smart move by Jake.
His "old punching bags at AKA"? Has he beaten anyone from AKA?
Seems to be the trendy thing, trash talk your way into a fight you don't deserve.
that is a funny line...........i mean i can see some of Jakes training partners being actual punching bags. It's not like they are going to get hurt or anything
Just thought I'd add...Among the wrestling community I've heard that Hendricks is considered a whiny little b----.
Plus, Hendricks never answered any of my Tweets. What a snob!
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I can see it now, all software vendors are going to introduce security flaws or wait until one is discovered to release the next paid upgrade release.
I think a class action suit is in order for all the holders of the older version. It their software causes a security hole and if one person gets hammered by it then like the car companies having to recall and fix cars, software vendors will have to do likewise.
Are you listening Adobe.
Sure, except to use the software you agreed to the EULA where Adobe disclaimed themselves against any such defects. Good luck with that.
I would love to see it.
Adobe made a defective product. A recall should happen.
"Sure, except to use the software you agreed to the EULA where Adobe disclaimed themselves against any such defects. Good luck with that."
They might in fact have good luck with that. The fact that something in the EULA doesn't make it law. Or even valid.
For example, some states have laws saying that if you sell a product intended for a particular purpose, there is an implied warranty that the product is fit for that purpose... no matter what kind of disclaimer the seller puts on it.
Don't mistake EULAs and Limited Warranties for law. Corporate lawyers don't necessarily put valid stuff in there. On the contrary: what they include are things they'd like you to believe, and that they HOPE they can convince a judge of, if it ever goes to court. And in some cases they even include stuff that they KNOW won't stand up in court.
No one's going to get killed if their PC gets pwned by malware in an image file. It's not like elevator control systems (see nearby Slashdot article) are running Photoshop. I don't see how they have any responsibility at all to even bother making their software secure. If you don't like it, don't buy their products.
Why not? Sony got in trouble for damaging people's PCs (making them unbootable or breaking installed software). Let's put Adobe in a courtroom too.
Of course Adobe could argue other companies do it. Apple and Microsoft do it when they stop filling holes in their old OSes, and tell you to upgrade to OS 10.7 or Win7. Mozilla does it when they abandon Firefox 4 or seaMonkey 2.0 and say, "You're on your own."
I just go with a policy of buying new copies of software every several versions. If I need a feature or bug fix from a version in between buying cycles, I have no moral issues obtaining an upgrade through alternate channels.
Pretty much the way I look at it is, if I buy a product with a manufacturer defect, there should be no limitations on my ability to obtain a refund for the product. In the case of software, I don't find it unreasonable to skip past the unreasonable methods I would need to pursue to obtain a refund and purchase a fixed version.
Lemon laws don't exist to protect consumers from the idea that an automobile is a failure, but rather to prevent consumers from being burdened by unreasonable processes for obtaining a working automobile pursuant to the arrangements they made at purchase.
Also, no one should ever feel respect or bound to an EULA. The practice itself is inherently outside of common and established legal practices. If I were presented the license at the time of purchase, prior to paying, I might be able to respect it. Based on the concept of the EULA, I could have my PC pass a counter EULA to the installer or e-mailed to the vendor which outlined my requirements of their software in order to occupy space on my hard drive. If the installer continues, can I not consider their consent to be implied.
It's the same reason, no one thinks twice about installing an ad-block on their browser. They have a right to control what content runs and executes on their computing device. I've voiced the opinion for quite some time that advertisements which attempt to get around ad-blocking actually constitute violations of most computer hacking laws (use of processing time on a computing system without authorization).
If this was a years-old version, I'd understand, but CS5 was the latest version until literally days ago!
No, CS 5.5 was the latest version before 6. And considering CS5 came out April of 2010 it technically is a 'years-old version'. Still a scam, though.
"If this was a years-old version, I'd understand"
Well, I don't.
If it's a years old version and *yet* after years of pushing security and bugfixes there're still more, it can only mean that the product they sold was basically cow shit and they deserve what it takes to protect it.
You don't want to push security updates forever? Damn easy: just don't push away shitty software.
This is akin to buying a 2010 Chevy (under warranty), then finding out that the brakes catch on fire under certain circumstances, and the company's suggestion: buy a 2012.
This is a terrible analogy. First of all, software doesn't come with a warranty. In fact don't most (or all) EULA's specifically say there is NO warranty, explicit or implied, that makes them liable for damages of any sort?
Also, if the "certain circumstances" for your brakes catching fire are "you don't know how to drive properly", that changes things, right?
oh, well a EULA. stop the presses.
"In fact don't most (or all) EULA's specifically say there is NO warranty, explicit or implied, that makes them liable for damages of any sort?"
Yes, so they say.
And for the same price they could say you owe them your firstborn.
They saying what they want doesn't make it automatically legally bonding, didn't you know it?
First of all, software doesn't come with a warranty. In fact don't most (or all) EULA's specifically say there is NO warranty, explicit or implied, that makes them liable for damages of any sort?
This is the basic approach:
We provide no warranty:
We try and get out of any warranty that you might get from consumer protection laws by explicitly decaring its sold "as-is" and that we don't represent that its "merchantable" or
This is akin to buying a 2010 Chevy (under warranty), then finding out that the brakes catch on fire under certain circumstances, and the company's suggestion: buy a 2012.
Your Adobe CS suite is under warranty and they are denying you a fix?
Be a shame if something bad happened to it...
Wow... Actually sounds like our medical system. And just about every other "system" we have. Cars, houses, etc...
Wow, now that I think about it, that sucks.
Since I can't mod Adobe "-1 flamebait" I'll just say it again. Fuck you, Adobe! I'd like to go on record as stating that you should all be ashamed of yourselves.
I think it's great, and I hope more proprietary software vendors choose this method of dealing with security problems. If you don't like it, you're free to not buy their products.
I don't have this problem with GIMP or various other open-source products I use.
You also can't accomplish the same things on-budget and on-timeline with GIMP that you can with the full CS suite.
While I'm mightily annoyed with Adobe for how they handle bugfixes, the sheer size of their product means that a proper QA cycle would last them almost as long as their point release cycle. I don't really think there's any good solution -- the open source suites are too disjointed and just don't cut it still for most professional work (this is true... GIMP is really good at what it does, but it's a lossy image editing program, not part of a DTP workflow), and spending the time to create bugfixes and then QA them properly for previous versions of CS would just cost Adobe too much money, more than they'd be able to pass on to the consumer.
CS6 just launched and I mean JUST. It shipped on May 7th. So this isn't a case of an old version where Adobe is saying "Look guys, we are discontinuing support, have to buy the new one if you want it." The "old" version is only "old" by 3 days now.
That's because their Lifecycle policy is approximately: "Fuck you." They'll support a version up until around the time a new version is getting ready to go, then they stop and only deal with the new version.
"Just released, and coming in at 370 MB in size, the Mac OS X 10.7.4 update includes general OS fixes, and addresses more than 30 security vulnerabilities. But aside from typical security fixes, Apple has made an interesting move in an effort to protect users. Through this latest software update, Safari 5.1.7 will now automatically disable older â" and typically more vulnerable â" versions of the Adobe Flash player. While many software vendors would prefer OS makers to keep their hands off their software, the move appears to be welcomed by Adobe, which has constantly battled vulnerabilities in its widely installed Flash Player."
Maybe Apple should disable Photoshop CS5 as well?
If Apple automatically disabled the latest versions of Flash Player as well, I'd actually buy one.
There is an old story I will retell that should serve as a warning for all customers.
Once upon a time, there was a transport company employee charged with replacing a large segment of the companies trucks made by Volvo. The employee, being a bright individual called up a sales clerk from Ford that had been trying to get a foot in the door and asked him to send three Ford trucks for testing. The day the Volvo sales clerk came to make discuss the purchase of new Volvo trucks, these three Ford trucks happened to be parked on the lot. When the trucking company employee saw the Volvo sales clerk glance at them, he said "Yeah, the boss has been looking them, he seems to think they are an alternative worth looking into. But that is for later, lets discuss the deal you were going to offer us".
In another company far far away, an CTO who loved IBM hardware knew it was time to discuss the purchase of new hardware, so he ordered an underling to set up a trial project with HP servers, just to see what the competition was doing. When the IBM man came by he of course showed him the workfloor including the corner where the junior was working on those shiny new HP servers, "Got to give the kids their toys to play with " the CTO told the IBM sales clerk. "Btw, what was the price you were going to ask for again".
But in the dark and damp lands of Mordor, a very different tale was playing out. There the CTO invited the MS and Abobe sales clerk and proudly showed them how his entire business depended completely on their software product and how not only did they need the software to work flawlessly or they would be bankrupt in seconds, all the staff could only use the latest software and their customers demanded that they use the latest software. "BTW", The CTO asked, "what was that deal you wanted me to sign in my own blood again while bending over"? And there was much rejoicing among the Tribes of MS and Abobe, for they knew exactly who was calling the shots. One lockin to rule them all and in Eula bind them. For the users of MS and Abobe where greedy and feeble minded and could not break free of the spell.
Really, this is nothing new. In the land of NAS and control systems, this is par de course. You let a supplier control you, control you they will. Want to break free? Good luck, your company needs the new version, license or risk being unable to produce so you hand them the cash and lock yourself in just a little bit more.
Not a SINGLE Photoshop user will invest in his own freedom by making sure there are alternative methods to do his production. They will grind their teeth buy the latest version and invest yet more to make sure their production is entirely locked into Adobe clutches.
Cue countless protests about how there are no alternatives... no, there are none because any who dares to try is ridiculed for not instantly producting a 100% compatible product for free because freedom should be free of effort and cost.
You gave Adobe the control, enjoy it.
It is not as if you are alone. Governments often dictate that procurement must be regulated, meaning that once a procurement contract has been done, all interest in customer satisfaction goes out the window because the contract is fixed, can't be ended and renewal depends solely on the price offered (not charged) so fuck you peon.
I seen it to often in other industries, entire production line depended on one type of machine, fired your own maintenance team and anyone who could switch them out with other hardware. Goes, the "extra" charges sure went up a lot didn't they? Suddenly maintenance must be done by their certified team, at weekend charges.
Lockin, avoid it or pay the price.
" can't be ended and renewal depends solely on the price offered (not charged) so fuck you peon."
not true. A government agency can put out a request for a bid on something else.
Did it ever occur to you that people may value things differently?
Maybe Photoshop users enjoy the freedom being able to hire any artist without special training. Maybe they enjoy the freedom to be able to go to any art school, photography school, community college, or vo-tec program and get quality training on the product. Maybe they enjoy the freedom to get a job at any professional shop that does graphics work. Maybe they enjoy the freedom of being able to send files to and from their clients. Maybe t
I made the switch to the Gimp years ago. I got tired of pirating Photoshop. Then, when I switched to Linux, Photoshop doesn't run on Linux. Lo and behold, Gimp is an easy install, and I learned that. Now that I've switched to Mac (for the desktop), I still use Gimp. Ooh, and there's a new version out, and the development version handles high-bit images!
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or maybe it was the last week of February. That's a mighty short support cycle for an expensive product. Perhaps a class action would be nice.
(note: I did not pay retail, but having essentially a 3 month supported period on a major software suite is pretty crappy)
Adobe's fix? You need to pay to upgrade [from CS5] to Photoshop CS6.
Ah yes, I would be delighted to buy more software from you, since it worked out so well last time around.
That's news.
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astroengine writes "Giant plumes of water vapor and ice particles blast from geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus — but scientists have often wondered why the relatively diminutive moon, which measures only 310 miles across, wasn't frozen solid. They also began creating computer models to try to unravel the physics behind the stunning geological phenomenon. Now, after analyzing 252 images of Enceladus' plumes, scientists have part of the answer: Gravitational variations during the moon's slightly eccentric, 1.37-day orbit around Saturn create tidal forces that directly impact how much material is shot into space from four fissures around the moon's south pole. 'It's not a subtle variation. You can look at some of the images and you can actually see it with your eyes. It's very dramatic,' said planetary scientist Matthew Hedman."


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C.J. Fair had 16 points and a career-high 13 rebounds, Michael Carter-Williams added 15 points and 10 assists, and No. 4 Syracuse beat Long Beach State 84-53 on Thursday night in Syracuse, N.Y.
Syracuse (7-0) upped its home winning streak to 27 games, tops in the nation, and has won 49 consecutive regular-season nonconference games. Long Beach State (3-5) had a two-game winning streak snapped.
Long Beach State dropped to 0-3 against ranked teams having lost to North Carolina (78-63) and Arizona (94-72).
No. 11 Cincinnatti 87, Arkansas-Little Rock 53: Sean Kilpatrick scored 10 of his 18 points in the second half, and Cincinnati set a school record with 23 steals at home.
The Bearcats (8-0) started with eight straight wins for the 15th time in school history and the second time in three seasons.
Cheikh Mbodj had 12 points and seven rebounds for Cincinnati, which finished with four players in double figures.
No. 16 Creighton 64, Nebraska 42: Doug McDermott scored 27 points and Gregory Echenique had 12 points and 12 rebounds, for Creighton in Lincoln, Neb.
The Bluejays (8-1) won in Lincoln for the first time since 2004.
Dylan Talley scored 14 points and Brandon Ubel had eight points and 10 rebounds to lead the Cornhuskers (6-2).
No. 17 San Diego St.. 84, UC Santa Barbara 70: Chase Tapley scored 23 points, going 6 of 8 from behind the 3-point line, to lead five San Diego State players in double figures in the Aztecs' seventh straight win in San Diego.
Jamaal Franklin added 14 points, JJ O'Brien 12, Xavier Thames 11 and James Rahon 10 for the Aztecs (7-1), who join the Big West next season. It was their eighth straight victory over the Gauchos (3-5).