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Biting into a chili pepper causes a burning spiciness that is irresistible to some, but intolerable to others. Scientists exploring the effect of chili-pepper are using their findings to develop a new drug candidate for many kinds of pain, which could be caused by inflammation or other problems.
Laykea Tafesse and colleagues explained that decades ago, scientists had pegged a compound called capsaicin as the active ingredient in chili peppers that causes fiery pain. In the 1990s, researchers were able to sequence the genetic sequence for the protein 'receptor' that capsaicin attaches to in the body.
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There are over 100 songs by 75 bands featured in Brutal Legend, Tim Schafer's love song to heavy metal songs which has gotten so much good press that it's not likely to be his swan song.
Oh my. I actually wrote that. It's staying. I have to punish myself or I'll never learn.
In addition to all those... tracks, there are quite a few uncredited excerpts from relatively unknown bands interspersed throughout the game. If you catch yourself thinking, "Wait, if that wasn't 'Soul Thrashing Black Sorcery' by Skeletonwitch, what was it?", please refer to this handy list of uncredited heavy metal songs in Brutal Legend.
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Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-N.J.), a vocal supporter of the FAA's NextGen air traffic management initiative, has been named chair of the U.S. House of Representatives panel charged with oversight of aviation policy.
LoBiondo will chair the aviation subcommittee of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Transportation Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) announced yesterday. Shuster, however, has said he will give priority to other modes of transportation, such as highways, railways and ports, over aviation.
Porter Airlines says its operations at Newark Liberty International Airport will not suffer if a court approves American Airlines' petition to revoke a contract leasing four slots to the Canadian turboprop operator.
"We fully anticipated that American could try to recover the slots through bankruptcy protection and have made arrangements for our current schedule to be maintained," a Porter spokesman tells Aviation Week. "We have a contingency in place that ensures there will be no change to our service level, including number of flights or flight times."
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said it could test public-private partnerships as a way to expand expedited screening initiatives.
The TSA first solicited suggestions from third parties about how to expand initiatives, such as its popular PreCheck program, in a recent General Services Administration notice. Now, a spokeswoman tells Aviation Week that the TSA may test those concepts for several months to help plan its next steps.
The Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) has filed a law suit against United Airlines and is planning similar action against American Airlines for allegedly operating "sham rural offices" to circumvent the higher tax obligations they would face in their Chicago offices.
This year could see substantial changes to the roster of North American airlines, from the potential merger of US Airways and American Airlines to significant industry expansion that is expected to unfold north of the border. Two prominent Canadian carriers seem unafraid of risk in 2013 as they plan to launch ventures that could have far-reaching impacts on fares, routes and ultimately competition. Rival carriers Air Canada and WestJet are set to create new airlines, each staking a claim over a different corner of the marketplace.
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is taking steps to increase traffic through its PreCheck program.
Passenger, airport and airline groups alike have consistently praised PreCheck, which exempts approved passengers from removing their shoes, laptops from bags and other security procedures at 35 domestic airports. But the groups share the same complaint: not enough flyers use the program.
Airport groups have laid out an ambitious agenda for 2013 despite fiscal constraints in Washington.
FedEx and UPS are opposing an effort on Capitol Hill to expand pilot rest rules to their crews, arguing that the exclusion of cargo pilots from the FAA's new rule recognizes operational differences between airfreight and passenger operations.
"As we have long maintained, the FAA's flight and duty time rules appropriately recognize the differences between cargo and passenger flying," a UPS spokesman tells Aviation Week.
Two U.S. congressmen have introduced bipartisan legislation to expand new pilot rest rules to cargo pilots before the FAA rule goes into effect in 2014.
The Safe Skies Act proposed by Reps. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.) and Tim Bishop (D-N.Y.) would subject cargo operators to the same flight time limits, minimum rest periods and other standards that passenger airline pilots must adhere to starting next year.
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There are two things you need to know about Nancy Oden. She always laughs. She never gives an inch.
I've known those things for more than a dozen years. So when the story broke last week that someone had been rousted out of Bangor International Airport for not being sufficiently compliant with the new airline security regime it was no surprise that this happy warrior for the environment and social justice was that someone.
The story goes something like this. Jonesboro's leading organic farmer/peace activist is on her way to Chicago Thursday before last to attend a meeting of Green Party USA, of which she is an officer. She's flagged for an enhanced search by security personnel – she suspects it's because of her political views, they won't say precisely what causes one person to be scrutinized more closely than someone else.
There's a tussle over a carry-on bag – she says she was trying to help with a stuck zipper, they say she was being difficult. Attempts to scan her with the metal-detection wand do not go well. The passive resistor is surrounded by armed National Guard troops, she is turned away from the gate and ends the day not in Chicago but back in Jonesboro.
The story, by BDN reporter Jeff Tuttle, was published last Saturday. It was picked up by The Associated Press and ran throughout the country the next day. By Monday, word of this story had spread beyond the newspaper-reading world and it registered more than 2,800 Web site hits, pretty much a single-day record, according to our Web site guy. E-mail requests for reprints have been nonstop. My conversation with Oden the other day – a hilarious account of soldiers locking and loading in the face of a "woman of a certain age" – was interrupted when she had to take a call from CNN. The episode was the subject of a Seattle Post-Intelligencer political cartoon Wednesday, with a trampled Bill of Rights as the punch line.
With that much coverage, there's going to be a lot of comment. For starters, I went to As Maine Goes, a Web site where Maine's right-wingers meet to chat (I visit weekly so I know how I'll be thinking when I'm 92 if I don't get myself a good hobby) and the result was enlightening. Sure, there was a fair amount of "it couldn't have happened to a more deserving Leftie," but the overall consensus was that this civil liberties thing is pretty darned important.
The shocking comment – a bareknuckle pounding of Oden – comes from the Left. In particular, from the Greens.
This isn't all that much of a shock to those who know the Left – they are notoriously tough on like-minded individuals who aren't quite like-minded enough. But this goes deeper. There are, you see, two Green parties in this country and the two shades clash like checked pants with a striped shirt.
There's Oden's Green Party USA (which we'll call GPUSA because of space constraints) and there's the Green Party of the United States (which we'll call GPUS because it's the really awful acronym they chose for their Web address). The two used to be one, but at an ugly convention last summer GPUS broke away from GPUSA.
The GPUS press release on the Oden incident is a marvel. They want their piece of the civil liberties outrage. Mostly, though, they want to slam GPUSA as a mere splinter group (does the group that split, even if bigger, get to call the other a splinter?), a disgruntled faction of malcontents. They also want to correct "erroneous press reports" that misidentified Oden as a member of GPUS. Nancy Allen, GPUS' media coordinator here in Maine, asks us directly for a correction and thoughtfully sends along a charming little essay by a GPUS member with "Leader of Green Splinter Group Fibs" as the title.
Since those press reports originated in this building, and especially since they were not in the least bit erroneous (Oden is precisely identified as a GPUSA member in both the story and the photo caption, GPUS is nowhere even mentioned), I ask Allen and Scott McLarty, GPUS' media coordinator in D.C., why they would play the "that darn press" card. Allen replied she didn't care if we corrected the (already correct) story or not. McLarty conceded "in hindsight that the wording is sloppy."
Apparently not so sloppy that it needs tidying up, though. The "erroneous press reports" business is still on their Web site. (Incidentally, here's a tip for you kids who want to be media coordinators when you grow up – don't say nasty things about people and then come back later to say it was off the record. That's backward.)
And from GPUS members across the land, we've received many helpful little notes advising us that Nancy Oden is pushy and rude. Of course, if Nancy Oden was a GPUS member, she'd be resolute and straightforward.
Knowing her, I have no doubt that Nancy Oden could be an enormous pain to work with. The laughing alone can be unnerving. But it's a shame that GPUS, if it is the true Green Party, doesn't have room for her. Here's why.
A lot of Greens talk about being activists. Nancy Oden's the only one I know who went beyond talking and actually did something that truly helped real people. Remember Township 30 – the big plan back in the late '80s to build a gigantic dump in Washington County for incinerated garbage from all over the Northeast? Remember how the entire county – back-to-the-land hippies, crusty old busters, hard-nosed businessmen and sweet little garden club ladies – rose up in amazing unity and told the state and the developers that Washington County was poor, but not that poor? A lot of people helped make that happen, but no one deserves more credit than Nancy Oden. Not that the proven ability to organize and inspire would be of any interest to a political party.
This is not to suggest that the current Green leadership doesn't have its own record of accomplishment. I covered as a reporter the state Green Party convention after the 1994 gubernatorial election when they first gained ballot status in Maine, and I heard the leaders, now the GPUS crowd, swear that the very next step was to get Greens in the Legislature. Seven years later, they've yet to crack that elite 186-member body. They did, however, just this Tuesday get two Greens elected to a local school committee and a board of selectmen, so the juggernaut's rolling.
And if you worried that something had gone wrong in the 1998 election when the Greens had to go out and hire a Democrat to run for governor, worry no more. There may be two candidates in 2002, which means a contested primary.
John Rensenbrink, the Bowdoin professor known as the father of Maine Greens and a devoted GPUSer, said the other day this is a sign the party is maturing and that he doesn't think the Greens will succumb to the bitterness and divisiveness that often afflicts Democrats and Republicans when they have contested primaries.
Don't laugh.
Bruce Kyle is the assistant editorial page editor for the Bangor Daily News.


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DescriptionLife is bleak but uncomplicated for sixteen-year-old Tess, living in a not-too-distant future where the government, faced with humanity's extinction, created the Chosen Ones, artificial beings who are extraordinarily beautiful, unbelievably strong, and unabashedly deadly. When Tess begins work at Templeton, a Chosen Ones training facility, she meets James, and the attraction is immediate in its intensity, overwhelming in its danger. But there is more to Templeton than Tess ever knew. Can she stand against her oppressors, even if it means giving up the only happiness in her life?
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You NEED to experience this book for yourself
THIS BOOK WRECKED MY HEART. I was torn between wanting to pet it lovingly, and throwing it against my bedroom wall. The angst, the pain, the forbidden pleasures, the longing for simple joys..Chosen Ones expressed each of those to a heart, my heart, that wouldn't stop breaking for the world and characters within it. The ideas were somewhat far-fetched, but by no means impossible. It's one of those books you really need to experience for yourself.
Tess is serving her punishment. A punishment for a sister that Tess saw as weak, and selfish, even in her dying moments. She reports for duty at Templeton, a training and creation facility of the Chosen Ones-artificial males created to compensate for what "naturals" are lacking in large amounts: the strength, courage, and ruthless attitude needed to fight a war that no one feels the need to fight in anymore. The Chosen Ones are physically flawless, and possess talents that surpass belief. They have been created for one single purpose: to destroy. Tess is indifferent to it all, at least on the surface-she takes to her work cleaning up after the Chosen Ones with a stoicity that she's spent years building. But there are limits, and Tess is realizing exactly what hers are. To make matters completely worse, she finds herself frustratingly curious about a particular Chosen One, James, who seems to have broken every belief she had about what these artificial beings were about.
I want to tell you that this is a romance story at it's core, but it's not, and I couldn't thank the author more for that. I'll admit, I took one look at the cover, read the synopsis, and completely set myself up to read something corny and underdeveloped. I love being wrong when it comes to books. Chosen Ones was darker, and more complex, than I had expected. From the very first scene, after my heart broke, I realized that this book probably had a lot more ways in which to destroy it further. It felt like one ragged, and raw, pain after the other. To be honest, I felt, and reacted, the way I typically do when I read Holocaust accounts/storylines. Chosen Ones is in no way related, but the way in which Tiffany Truitt crafted her moments of torment, I completely forgot I was reading a YA book. She truly has a gift for words.
Tess was exactly the character I wanted her to be, and progressed in a way that made sense. She grew up as someone strong, and impenetrable, but her position at Templeton allowed us to travel the diverse range of her character, and the fact that her heart only held so much pain, until it all spilled out into a world that destroyed everything she ever cared about. It was beautiful, in an anguished way, to be able to see her make discoveries about things that her government, her leaders, made her believe to be truth. To see her come into her own, and bring her inner feelings to the surface.
James, on the other hand, was a little harder to digest. I loved the idea of his character, and my heart was definitely beating faster when he and Tess were in the same room, but I just felt like there wasn't enough development for him. I almost wanted a complete side story entitled: "How James Spent His Days: From Creation to Meeting Tess." I wanted to be inside of his brain, and I wanted Tess to be able to bring even more out of him every time they spoke. I wanted to know the exact moment he realized he was different from his peers-the other boys that held their violent life purpose with pride. Aside from that, I pretty much lived for dialogue between the two. I completely fell for what they built slowly, together.
Chosen Ones was a story of struggle. It had me questioning the fate of my own world, and the many ways that could lead us to an extreme that mirrors the world in this book. It spoke loudly about issues, and situations, that are alive, and abundant, all over the world: the oppression of women, the lust for power and control, the desire to be physically perfect..
I was in awe of the writing and thought process behind this book, and though it may be hard for some readers to get through, the gruesome subject matter is worth the insight you gain from it.
Recommended for: Fans of dystopians, romance and controversial subject matters. by Reeka
Review from Esther's Ever After
Chosen Ones is a rather ambitious book as it seeks to tackle a number of questions and ideas, while introducing readers to an unfamiliar, disturbing future world. This is an ugly, bitter place to live in, particularly for women. And in this setting, Tiffany sets out to explore some fascinating concepts.
But I found the book to be perhaps TOO ambitious, so that it fell short for me as the first book in a series. I had really hoped for a stronger presentation in regards to themes and dangerous adventure, and found it lacking in a few too many areas and its strengths didn't make that up for me.
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1.An incredibly twisted, unique post-apocalyptic world:
The setting of Chosen Ones truly horrified me, as it was supposed to. It's in the midst of complete transformation, as "real" humans are gradually dying off with no means to reproduce, and have become inferior to the "new and improved" humans (a.k.a. chosen ones) who are essentially manufactured people, created by scientists and extremely advanced technology. Books like these are everywhere, but this is a world that I found to stand out among the rest as a very unique (and scary) idea. And because women are unable to reproduce, intimacy of any form between males and females is looked down upon and almost shunned to an extent. So the girls (like Tessa) seem to be fairly naive, which leads to some really creepy and disturbing moments.
2.Challening ideas and thoughts:
There are so many struggles within this world, and I was pleased to find that many of them are ideological struggles. It's a battle of IDEAS primarily, and I can tell that Tiffany is very intelligently trying to present some thoughtful questions and to challenge her readers. Humanity versus science. Creator versus the created. Freedom versus choice. What does faith mean? How do you challenge the norms and those in power? How far are you willing to go to fight for what you believe in? These are just as applicable to us even now, and there are no easy answers.
But this is what I mean by the book really being too ambitious; there was so much potential with where this book could have gone, and I didn't feel that it got there. It seemed like we were trying to have this strong, opinionated and thoughtful book with questioning ideas, and adventure and drama, and some good, tragic romance. And while trying to cover all these bases, I ended up feel like each area was lacking.
I had a very hard time following most of what was happening in Chosen Ones. The world was so far off and so detailed (yet riddled with secrets) that it was hard to follow what was happening and why it was happening. And nobody really seemed to question any of this; it's glossed over that, in Tessa's lifetime, women were suddenly unable to reproduce anymore. They just stopped. And I'm not clear on this, but it doesn't appear to be a generational thing either and yet no one really questions it. No one seems to find it suspicious or beyond odd- they just accept it and realize that life sucks, and so during Tessa's lifetime women are suddenly blamed for everything. There are a lot of IDEAS but they come across so forcefully instead of being subtlely woven within the story itself. And it seemed like the setting and character were being used as tools to promote an idea, rather than show the implications and results of an idea.
My friend Christa @ Hooked on Books wrote a very thoughtful blog post discussing why it seems that in future worlds, most books seem to feature a society that looks down on and even hates women. I'm sure for most it's a plot device to feature strong, brave heroines but I had a hard time buying into this idea that within the span of 12 years, women went from having children, and families were there, to suddenly being unable to reproduce and so they're taught that they're weak and emotional and will all seduce men if they're not careful and die because they'll end up pregnant. And birth control is black market, apparently. I just couldn't follow this without more background information, and I'm fairly certain we're being set up for a big reveal later on in the series. But it doesn't make sense for this book.
The other problem I had wtih this book were the characters. It seemed like there were so many, and they weren't very well fleshed out so I kept forgetting who a person was when a name was mentioned. The story itself is really about Tessa, and it seemed like the secondary characters were there as decoration more than anything. And the dynamics between them reminded me far too much of The Hunger Games in a number of ways. The story itself is drastically different, but the relationships in it? Definitely more than a few similarities. You have a cold and jaded heroine, who distances herself from just about everyone (who is also very important for the political struggle, for some reason). A younger sister she, at times, feels the need to protect from this ugly world (now, that one's usually a given in any sibling relationship). Two boys the heroine is close to - one a childhood friend with a strong desire to fight back agains the establishment, at just about any cost, and a new one who wants to protect her. Plus, a dead father and a useless mother. And I likely wouldn't have picked up on this at all, except that there's a scene where Tessa is watching another character be punished for a crime and she ends up screaming out that she volunteers to take on some of said punishment. That part really reminded me of the Reaping. But the character dynamics just weren't strong enough to make me really care. Without understanding Tessa's motivation, she's just a very aloof character that I couldn't connect with or understand why she acted in certain ways.
The book is also pretty heavy on the romance, which I didn't entirely buy into. It's far too on and off, and Tessa is such reacts so immaturely and just doesn't learn from the past at all. It felt a little too rushed and chaotic for someone as cynical and cautious as Tessa. And the story really does revolve around the love story. But I do have to say there are a couple of really sweet, totally moving scenes between the two characters. VERY touching moments at times, that I couldn't help but love a little bit. So much swoon!
There are some pretty great twists by the end too, although the action was completely ignored unfortunately. But I predict more great twists and reveals in the later books.
But ultimately, I found myself far too frustrated with the majority of the story. I was hoping for there to be something to shine through, but ended up left with very little to show for itself.
E-galley received from publisher for review. by Brenna Staats
Chosen Ones by Tiffany Truitt
World war 4 has decimated the United States. Tess lives in a compound in the West with a group of naturals. The Easterners and Westerners are constantly at war due to disagreements in the way to re-establish the country. Women can no longer have children and men are being killed at war. The government begin a Council of Creators to build a new race who will live on when the human race has died out. They are physically stronger and faster than humans (naturals), and they are trained to fight against the Easterners. They are only creating men, no women.
When the oldest girl in each family reaches the age of 16, she must go to work at Templeton, the training centre of the Chosen Ones, as a slave for three years. When Tess' older sister Emma dies in childbirth, Tess must take her place.
Tess has had a hard, sad life. She watched her father be taken away by Chosen Ones and he never returned. Her mother was an alcoholic who killed herself. Her childhood friend Henry, stopped talking to her one day and she doesn't know why. Now she only has her younger sister Louisa, who she was never really close to, and Robert, Emma's husband, who she can barely stand to look at.
Tess has always stuck to the rules of the Council and plans to never fall in love. She buries her emotions deep and doesn't show her feelings on the outside. But everything changes when she goes to Templeton. She discovers that the Chosen Ones have everything. They are treated like Gods compared to the naturals, who have lost almost everything; books, music and education. The naturals food is rationed. Tess can't remember the last time she had butter and at Templeton she is serving foods she has never even heard of, along with champagne.
She has always been taught that the Chosen Ones are there to protect the naturals but she realises that this is not the case. The Chosen Ones are taught to hate the naturals and they see them as being beneath them. Life is dangerous for the girls at Templeton. Tess meets James and discovers he is different to the others. They share a love of music and books and spend a lot of time together. But they must be careful not to show their feelings in front of anyone else.
Tess feels that she can't just stand by and watch what the Council are doing. There must be someone or something who can help them. When Tess' life is in danger, she discovers the Resistance.
The ending of this book shattered my heart and I am really anxious for the next instalment.
I really, really liked this. It has to be my favourite dystopian. It is so well written and easy to read even though there is a lot of information involved. Tiffany did a great job at the world building, I could totally envision it. Tess is given letters that her dad had written to her when she was a little girl. Through these, her dad gives us an insight into what was going on with the Council and that he was against it.
This is a fantastic story of discord, courage and love in the face of adversity. I strongly recommend it.
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Obama defines US as "Muslim Country"Jerusalem online ^ | Oct 13, 2014, 11:00AM | Yoni Ariel | Oct 13, 2014, 11:00AM | Yoni ArielPosted on 10/15/2014, 1:25:10 PM by RaceBannonA few days ago President Obama, in an interview he gave France's Canal+ TV Channel, said that the American people need to be better educated about Islam, since US could and should be regarded as a Muslim country.
He said that the number of Muslims residing in the US makes it "one of the biggest Muslim nations".In reality the US has one of the smallest percentages of Muslims of any Western country. The number of Muslims in the US is approximately 4.5 million, 1.5% of the population, one of the smallest minorities in the US. Since there are approximately 1.5 billion Muslims in the world, the number of Muslims in the US is approximately 0.3% of the world Muslim population.
By comparison there are between approximately 6 million Jews in the US, who account for approximately a third of the world's Jewish population. Whereas many Americans regard it as a society based on "Judeo-Christian values", it is doubtful if there is one sane American who would define it as a Jewish country.
via Obama defines US as "Muslim Country".
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Plans afoot to make the Moon Obama's biggest poster… "It was in 2010 when Obama forced NASA to try to make Muslims 'feel good'.Charles Bolden, a retired United States Marines Corps major-general and former astronaut told al-Jazeera that Barack Obama told him to make "reaching out to the Muslim world" one of the space agency's "top priorities"."
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Can a President Who Has Promised to Stand with the Muslims Protect Americans ?
Can a President Who Has Promised to Stand with the Muslims Protect Americans ?
americanthinker.com ^ | April 23,2013 | Lauri B. Regan
Posted on Tuesday, April 23, 2013 5:45:52 PM by NoLibZone
In Obama's Audacity of Hope, he insinuated that he would stand with Muslim Americans should the political winds shift in any ugly direction."
He also asserted in Bob Woodward's Obama's Wars, "We can absorb [another] terrorist attack."
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Allen West to UN: The Angel of Death in the form of an American Bald Eagle will visit you
Allen West to UN: The Angel of Death in the form of an American Bald Eagle will visit you
Fox Nation ^ | 25 Sep 2012
Posted on Tuesday, September 25, 2012 2:14:20 PM by mandaladon
In a Facebook post made today, Rep. Allen West weighed in on what his speech to the United Nations would've been like…
In his speech today to the United Nations, President Obama stated six times that the attacks across the Islamic world are attributed to a silly video. Furthermore, he refused to use the words terrorist attack in referring to what occurred in Benghazi Libya at our US Consulate on the 11th anniversary of 9-11. He continues to offer up apologies instead of defending our hard earned First Amendment right to freedom of speech and expression. There is no message to this silly video trailer, and it is beneath the dignity and esteem of the Office of the President of the United States to mention it at all.
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What would free speech icon Voltaire say about the political and social marginalization of the 9/11 truth movement?
"Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee." – Immanuel Kant.
"A public can only arrive at enlightenment slowly. Through revolution, the abandonment of personal despotism may be engendered and the end of profit-seeking and domineering oppression may occur, but never a true reform of the state of mind. Instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones, will serve as the guiding reins of the great, unthinking mass.
All that is required for this enlightenment is freedom; and particularly the least harmful of all that may be called freedom, namely, the freedom for man to make public use of his reason in all matters. But I hear people clamor on all sides: Don't argue! The officer says: Don't argue, drill! The tax collector: Don't argue, pay! The pastor: Don't argue, believe!" – Immanuel Kant.


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Gifs of Morphs thread.
The previous thread is autosaging from too much awesome so here is a new one.
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This is amazing and wonderful. Who's the girl?
pls ;_;
Started morphing again and went right to latex images in my collection. Any other latex BE shots lurking out there? As an inflation fan, it's an obvious approach but a satisfying one.
I got about 5 gifs. I'd like more if you guys have them.
Seems most of them are too big for this board (I know right?)
Miscellanious Poser/Blender/DAZ stuff.
Then it's obvious you aren't a 3D modeler.
I think he was making a joke.
Fucking Poe's law, I swear, mang.
I think you should be able to figure that one out.
People never ask for an easy step by step tutorial to become an awesome pencil artist.
If 3D modeling was such a doddle, why isn't there an abundance of fantastic material out there? Why doesn't HBO have at least a couple of CGI shows on their roster?
i found how easy it is to make custom flex morph for sourcefilm maker, and i made tutorial for you
with this now you can inflate any model now
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Actually they are.
Theres a list with the key numbers up top, and each individual key below in the incoherent mass of numbers.
Seriously, i've had compile errors because of it.
Anyone have some more asian pics?
Does anyone have any other pics of her?
Remember the site House of Swell?
It's no longer among us.
However, the poser images are.
Let us post them here.
Is that preggoplanet thing still floating around? It was super incomplete, missing all of the inflatababe stuff
I was bored today... So, Draenei'd a picture XD
I don't get how "Morphers" can do this so easily :/
Pretty good, mate.
After the first hundred morphs it gets easier and you start picking up speed.
I didn't see one anywhere in the board so I figured I'd start one up.
Post contact info, pictures, meeting areas, etc.
SL Needs more good ol' inflation.
Asked my friend about her body, she said a friend made it and it isn't something that's being sold currently. My mesh body was made using avastar which is a blender addon for making avatar meshes. I fed it an xml dump of my shape, carefully carved out the face portions and the ears, and uploaded the resulting mesh. I fed it a skin that was partially transparent and used a the blank texture as the spec map under the new materials system. This allowed me to put shininess on a transparent object, but only to those with advanced lighting enabled.
If you snag avatar workbench you can get similar results to my work, but it takes a lot more hand tuning and finagling to get the mesh upload close enough to your avatar. Avastar really simplifies the task and adds some handy tools.
Fortunately both are an addon to Blender, which is quite free.
Also, sorry for the delay in response, I kept forgetting about the question whenever I was talking with the friend in question.
So ends the great experiment. I won't go into the messy details, but the short of it is one of the three managers left, the other two (including myself) didn't have enough time or energy to run the whole thing by ourself. So the club's going off-the-grid.
You may wish to check out Mountain tops (just search mountain tops in SL search). It's big boob themed, lot of growth stuff going to be set up in their newly opened enchanted forest. They are handing out freebies at this moment too you may have time to find my breast expansion snowball dispenser(hint: They make wishes come true). This rabbit'll likely end up throwing scripts at them.
Hey theres a new place in second life that is about inflation its called inflatables and the link to it is here
its cool to see that we all have a new place to hang out at :)
@blueberry solo... I love the magazine morphs you do like you said it's a mix of a story and the photos. I think it really adds a new lelvel of depth to the morphs
I'm loving the tumblr and all the new content you've been adding recently and am really glad you're part of the community.
Now for some constructive criticism and personal opinion. Please don't take offense.
The magazine format is good though and I wold like to see more, though personally the celebs are either hit or miss for me as some of the women I don't care about. Maybe try some playboy models or something of the ilk?
Also, some stomach expansion would be nice as just breast and ass gets a little ho-hum.
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LAS VEGAS—Some 500 attendees at the annual AmericInn Convention being held here at Bally's/Paris Las Vegas couldn't help but feel lucky in this casino-centric town after getting the news from President/CEO Paul Kirwin that 2012 marked a "tremendous year" for the midscale chain, particularly in terms of systemwide revenue.
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