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OK, I am new here and have no particular background in "Atheist Studies" if there is such a thing . . . but . . . a possible proof that there is no personal God came to me as I was driving to hockey practice.
It's 1:00 in the morning now, but I'll write this down before I forget. If I'm wrong, It's because it's 1:00 in the morning. DEAL?
So, to my way of thinking, there is likely a moral dimension to the universe. This moral dimension is analogous to mathematics. Somewhere written into the fabric of the universe is a set of rules that takes us toward moral progress. For instance, groups that cooperate are more successful. Something like that. Anyway . . . . The Buddhists have "Karma." I don't believe in Karma, but I want to clarify first that disproving the possibility of a personal god, would not rule out Karma or an impersonal mechanism that drives intelligent beings toward moral improvement.
So . . . The type of god that I don't think can exist is the type who is conscious and has evolving feelings of hate or love or sadness. If he is all knowing, he knows everything that has, is, and will happen--simultaneously. So he creates the world and watches it like a big TV program, feeling simultaneously happy and sad and sympathetic and disappointed about things happening simultaneously across the world, but also about things happening simultaneously in different time periods.There is no changing time or place or evolution for him. He sees it all at once. He is perfect, all-knowing, and omnipresent, so his feelings are constant. He doesn't learn or change his opinions over time or feel surprise. So how is he anything like a person? Isn't change an essential part of being a person? The conscious entity reacts to things in it's environment and "thinks" about them. How can this thinking happen for a never-changing entity outside of time. There can be no "thought process" because there is no change. And thought requires change? Otherwise, he is more like a mathematical equation.
Go ahead shoot me down. I'm not to tied to his idea.
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I don't think what you're saying is much different than what I said.
The fact that there most societies consider "fair" to be a good thing rather than a bad thing, and that we can recognize is a "more" and "less" fair implies that there is a very general ethics that is mutually understood. And is really IS something. You might as well say there are is no politics because everything is physics and chemistry. But there is a dimension to the universe that is "politics" just like there is a dimension to the universe that is "ethics", and ethics can't be anything. It is constrained in some ways.
What I said doesn't contradict what you said, but my emphasis is different. Ethics is a real thing and it can't be anything. A good ethical code is conducive to welfare and fairness. That is the moral dimension. I know that's pretty general, but it's something. The rule" Everyone break your promises whenever it suits you" is not a good ethical code because it is not conducive to group welfare and fairness. Thus morality is SOMETHING. It is not imaginary. It is not anything we want it to be.
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For 80% of the population of all of North America it certainly is. Christians are always spouting their morality/ethics of which I find disgusting in their entirety. From their leader (Jesus) telling possible followers they must HATE their entire familys and abandon them to follow him to the modern day POPE speaking to illerate and ignorant masses saying sex education and condom use is EVIL - well...I have a problem with such an EVIL gospel.
Ethics can be broken down to many sub-groups - such as 'gangs' that use their so-called 'ethics' to murder other rival gangs. It's expected and completely 'moral' within such a sub-group.
We all choose our morals - society places certain responsibilities we adhere to - but we all break those 'rules and regulations' don't we?
I get sick and tired of Christians spouting off how peaceful, loving and compassionate Jesus is (was) and it's an absolute evil lie. They are ignorant of whom that man was and what he wanted because they don't read their book they think is so holy. The only problem is that the Romans didn't know about him a lot sooner - perhaps all this evil would not have been carried so far into the future.
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"Robust, Rough and Tumble Societal Dialogue" is Healthy, Says Prof. Jeff McCall '76
March 7, 2013
A mock movie trailer aired on NBC's Saturday Night Live is drawing criticism from conservative Christians, who have successfully lobbied Sears to pull its advertisements from the show's website. "Such calls for ad boycotts pop up regularly to punish a media outlet for airing or distributing content deemed offensive -- and they come from both the left and the right of the political spectrum," writes the Christian Science Monitor's Gloria Goodale.
"Such campaigns seldom lead a media outlet to drop a show, nor is there evidence that they cause the content of such shows to become more tempered, say media analysts. What they often do achieve, however, is a spirited discussion about a particular issue or even about free speech rights -- at least in America," Goodale reports. "Such give and take shows that the First Amendment to be in a healthy state, says communication professor Jeffrey McCall of DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind."
In an article which quotes several media analysts, she adds that the SNL skit in question "portrays Jesus as a bloodthirsty killer bent on revenge against Roman soldiers."
Dr. McCall tells the Monitor, "Free speech was created and defended by the constitutional Founders to provide a robust, rough and tumble societal dialogue." The professor points out that targets of boycotts usually perservere. "Rush Limbaugh is still on the air making money even after many attempts over the years to shame his sponsors."
McCall adds, "Even if Sears or other advertisers pull out, another corporation will want to reach the viewership that SNL grabs each week."
You'll find the complete story at the publication's website.
Professor McCall is a 1976 graduate of DePauw and serves as faculty adviser of student radio station WGRE, where he worked during his days as an undergraduate. The author of Viewer Discretion Advised: Taking Control of Mass Media Influences, Jeff McCall is regularly called upon by news outlets to discuss media matters. He authored an op-ed on broadcast indecency for the Indianapolis Star, recently discussed coverage of the Grammy Awards with the Christian Science Monitor and appeared on the January 25 edition of Fox News Channel's O'Reilly Factor.
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Freshman point guard Catie Woods put back her own rebound with three seconds left to give Lipscomb University a 62-60 victory over visiting Kent State Tuesday night at Allen Arena.
"Catie is a tough little player," said Lipscomb coach Frank Bennett. "She's a winner."
Woods missed on a lay-up and then battled two defenders for the rebound in order to score the game-winning basket. Woods, a former standout for Lawrence County High School , finished with six points.
"She put the ball back up over a big, strong girl," Bennett said. "Lynn Roller made a great pass to Catie. Lynn saw Catie's defender move out to guard Katie Beth Pate and she put the ball in there. Lynn had great court vision."
The Lady Bisons led by as many as 10 points in the first half, holding a 27-17 advantage with 6:20 on the clock. The Lady Bisons led by seven at intermission, 36-29.
In the first three minutes of the second half the Lady Bisons led 43-31, but Kent State reeled off nine unanswered points to take a 44-43 advantage on a field goal by Lindsay Shearer with 13:20 left in the game.
Lipscomb battled back tying the game at 50-50 at 7:41 on a 3-point shot by Dana Carrigan. Kent State came back to open a four-point edge at 58-54 with 3:05 remaining.
Lipscomb refused to give up. Pate hit a pair of free throws to cut the lead to 60-59. Woods then hit the second of two free throws to tie the game at 60-60 with 40 seconds on the clock.
A lay-up by Kent State 's Malika Willoughby was blocked by Pate, setting the stage for the game-winning basket.
Carrigan was the only Lady Bisons player to finish in double figures with 15 points, hitting five-of-eight 3-point shots. Courtney Boynton had a game-high six steals for Lipscomb. Pate blocked six shots.
"Courtney has had tremendous stat lines for us," Bennett said. "She had six steals, five assists and three rebounds. She has quick hands and great anticipation.
"It was good to see Katie Beth play more like herself on defense. She made some big plays."
The Lady Bisons, 2-2, continued their streak of outrebounding their opponents, holding a 38-28 edge on the boards.
Shearer finished with 20 points for Kent State . Willoughby added 17 and Melissa Degrate scored 13. Kent State is also 2-2.
"This was a real quality win for us," Bennett said. " Kent State is a very good program. In our last two games we have played against tough defensive pressure, and both games have been close. We have to start cutting our turnovers to 20 instead of 30 if we are going to make things easier for us."
Both games have also been victories. After losing the first two games of the season, the Lady Bisons rebounded Sunday to beat Birmingham-Southern 65-60 on the road.
The Lady Bisons play their first Atlantic Sun Conference games of the season this week with a trip to Florida to face Florida Atlantic on Thursday followed by UCF, the team they beat for the conference tournament championship last season, on Saturday.
"This is always a tough trip," Bennett said. "Both teams have most of their players back from last season which will make it even tougher."


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Chris Wilder is looking for a hero on Saturday to keep Oxford United's promotion hopes alive with a win against Southend United.
A run of five games without a victory has seen the U's drop out of the play-off places in npower League Two, meaning they are no longer in control of their own fate with just two games of the season remaining.
Back-to-back wins are needed to stand a realistic chance of making up the two-point gap to Crewe Alexandra in seventh, starting with the final home game of the season this weekend, followed by a trip to Port Vale.
Wilder feels there has been little wrong with recent performances, but with an entire season on the line, admitted it may need something special from an individual to beat high-flying Southend.
He said: "It's the 45th game and we've still got a chance of promotion. It's not the way we would've liked, because I truly believe we should have been settled in the play-offs.
"But it's not (the case) and we have to take that on the chin and affect the next two games.
"I'm desperate for us to finish on a high at home. Hopefully we'll have a big crowd and the players can put in a performance, maybe somebody will come out of the pack and be a hero."
Jon-Paul Pittman and Damian Batt will both be available for selection after missing the 1-1 draw at Plymouth with minor injuries.
James Constable remains a doubt after picking up a thigh problem at Home Park, but it is not believed to be as serious as first feared and the top scorer could be available this weekend.
With United having to rely on a favour from elsewhere to reach the play-offs, Wilder knows even some of the club's own supporters think it is a long shot, but the United boss is fired up to prove the doubters wrong.
He said: "Other people may have written us off, a certain few of our own supporters might do the same and think that's us done and dusted.
"Out of a little bit of adversity you have to show your true colours and your true character.
"We're all together and whether people have their views about where we're going to end up, we have to do it for ourselves and ram certain comments down people's throats.
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The number one way to prevent infidelity or cheating in a marriage is to maintain a strong friendship in which both people's needs are met. People need to have one version of the marriage they both want. Key areas couples need agreement on are around money/finances, children/parenting, time together/apart, what is fun and how to do it together and apart and an agreement on the ultimate goals and directions for the couple. When people don't agree in one or several areas, it contributes to a person not valuing the marriage. If couples do not know how to effectively negotiate a win-win in each of these areas, it puts a relationship at risk.
All people are genetically encoded for survival, love and belonging, power and control, freedom and fun. All human beings have these needs to varying intensities and the way we would like to have them met are as unique as the person they belong to. To protect a marriage a couple needs to actively and continually work to keep their relationship mutually rewarding and keep blending both people's want into one version of a marriage they both want.
People's behavior are not Cause and Effect. People are cause- choice, choice, choice. Nothing can CAUSE a person to cheat or have an affair. A bad marriage, lack of sex, website etc, do not CAUSE a person to cheat. Affairs don't just happen, people MAKE CHOICES to go outside of the relationship and get their needs met. People always have alternatives to cheating, they may not like those alternatives, but cheating is just 1 choice a person has. Sometimes people lack the skills, tools or perspective to see other choices.
People justify cheating on their spouse when they perceive that their needs will not be met and they do not know how to get them met with their partner. One key reason a person may make the decision to cheat on their spouse is that they loose hope and perceive that the problem is not fixable. They make the decision to have an affair as the best solution to their current needs problem. Often a person who cheats loves 80% or 90% of the relationship. It is that small percentage that they cannot get met or perceive they cannot get met that allows them to justify going outside the relationship and cheating on their spouse or cheating of their partner.
So a way to prevent infidelity is that either person, needs to risk healthy conflict and confront a change in the relationship. Talking about changes such as less time at home, less interest in each other's activities or just less effort is better to be addressed up front. Couples become at risk when they do not confront the sustained negative changes in their relationship and instead just hope it goes away. If you do not know how to do this effectively, counselling can help you individual or as a couple.
The reality is there are many other choices to cheating when your relationship is not needs satisfying. Unfortunately, because people lack the effective tools and skills to have, sometimes very uncomfortable and difficult discussion, they instead chose to avoid them. Too many people pathologize help seeking behaviors. Other people get stubborn and insist on trying to do the same in effective thing over and over and yet others just hope it'll go away. But it is very hard to do better if you do not know better. Marriage counselling teaches people the relationship skills they need to manage these difficult discussion and negotiations to build a win-win.
Happily satisfied individuals are not actively looking outside their marriage to get their needs met and do not cheating in their relationship. Relationship require constant attention to keep them happy. There are many things that can change our priorities and often couples, after kids, career, personal interests, may put the relationship at a lower priority. The reason for people to cheat are vast and complicated. When people are happy and all their needs are being met, they have no interest to look outside the relationship. So a couple needs to make a choice to keep their relationship happy. This is a continual process, so what makes you happy 10 years ago, may not work today. A healthy marriage keeps on top of these changes.
While it is important that you and your partner are compatible, no person will want exactly what you want in all areas of the relationship. So healthy conflict is an important part of building meaningful intimacy and creating a satisfying relationship for both people. Some people actively choose to avoid any conflict and end up feeling unhappy and resentful that their needs are not being met. Learning how to have effective difficult conversations are so important to a successful marriage. Marriage counseling can help people become more effective at discussing high conflicts topics such as sex, money and parenting.
Success couples spend periodic time updating and modifying their relationship when it stops be as need satisfying. People in a romantic relationship who are at risk for infidelity don't spend enough time effectively discussing, reviewing and revamping what they originally set up. Many people do not know how to do these conversations effectively. Relationships are dynamic and things that were negotiated at one point in the relationship will need to be renegotiated as situations change. If you keep having the same conversation or argument over and over and nothing changes, this is a sign you may not being the conversation effectively.
Healthy marriages discuss their expectations and get them on the table and do the hard conversations to merge them into 1 expectation they both want. Marriages at risk occur when people enter marriage with a lot of expectations that are not openly discussed. Having expectations, that are not openly discussed will guarantee disappointment. Expectations are beliefs that sit in your head and unfortunately, no one is a mind reader. If you do not discuss and negotiate your expectations with that of your partner's expectations, later it will lead to relationship conflict and disappointment because if someone doesn't know what you expect, how can they do it? Also just telling someone what you expect is not negotiation and doesn't mean they will do it.
In a good friendship just as a good marriage, based mutual understanding and respect, we can discuss and negotiate these expectations into 1 version for the marriage so that it's a win-win for both people. However, most people do not learn effective relationship communications skills. A good marriage counsellor can teach people how to do this.
Healthy marriages accept the differences of their partner and work with their partner to compromise, not give in. At risk couples cannot accept, see or understand that our needs for love, survival, freedom, fun and control may be different from our partner. These couples risk forcing the other person to adopt their beliefs about relationships. Having differences is a not a deal-breaker. In fact, the differences are what adds to the interest and enjoyment in life. Learning how to merge these differences is what makes an okay marriage into a great marriage.
In marriage, even if we marry someone of our own race, country of origin or even from our same neighborhood, there will be differences. When we force our belief system onto our partner or try to control a person's wants through blaming, complaining, criticizing, guilty and punishing behaviours these will disconnect our partner from us. There are better ways to merge 2 people's needs. A counsellor can help you learn how to become a good communicator in your relationship. Left uncorrected, the long-term risk is that no one's needs will be met in the relationship. Once people's needs are consistently not met, we are more likely to choose to look outside the relationship to get these needs met.
Quid Pro Quois a sign that the friendship in the marriage is damaged. In other words, each partner is only willing to do something for the other, if the other does something first. A series of tit for tat is taking place. Another sign your marital friendship is at risk is when you or your partner makes small bids for chit chat and either ignores or harshly rebuked these bids for attention. Lastly, when the friendship is really broken, partners start to find more faults than positives and start to interpret their partner's behaviour negatively. All these things make managing conflict difficult, if not impossible.
To protect your relationship from infidelity, it needs to be a priority, it needs to be flexible to the changes each individual goes through and the couples needs strong skills to negotiate a win-win on many different subjects. When the friendship is broken, needs are not met, then the chance of infidelity rises. All people need: love and belonging, freedom and fun, when that is missing or lacking, especially for a long time, infidelity becomes a real possibility.
Marriage Counselling, couple counselling or relationship counselling can help give couples the effective communication skills and relationship tools to repair friendship and strengthen the relationship. No where do we learn effective communication skills to manage a marriage. Counselling for couples is a way to develop and improve upon skills that will help you become a relationship master and avoid relationship disaster. It's important not to wait too long as it's harder to fix these issues. Contact our exeperience expat counsellor to learn more on how we can help you improve your relationship skills.


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Memory loss (amnesia) is unusual forgetfulness. You may not be able to remember new events, recall one or more memories of the past, or both.
The memory loss may be for a short time and then resolve (transient). Or it may not go away, and, depending on the cause, it can get worse over time.
Alternative Names
Forgetfulness; Amnesia; Impaired memory; Loss of memory; Amnestic syndrome; Dementia - memory loss
Normal aging can cause some forgetfulness. It is normal to have some trouble learning new material or needing more time to remember it. But normal aging does not lead to dramatic memory loss. Such memory loss is due to other diseases.
Memory loss can be caused by many things. To determine a cause, your doctor or nurse will ask if the problem came on suddenly or slowly.
Many areas of the brain help you create and retrieve memories. A problem in any of these areas can lead to memory loss.
Memory loss may result from a new injury to the brain, which iscaused by or is present after:
Brain tumor
- Cancer treatment, such as
brain radiation, bone marrow transplant, or chemotherapy Concussion or head trauma Migraine headache
- Not enough oxygen getting to the brain when your heart or breathing is stopped for too long
- Severe
brain infectionor infection around brain
- Major surgery or severe illness, including brain surgery
- Transient global amnesia (sudden, temporary loss of memory) of unclear cause
Transient ischemic attack (TIA)or stroke
Sometimes, memory loss occurs with mental health problems, such as:
- After a major, traumatic or stressful event
Bipolar disorder Depressionor other mental health disorders, such as schizophrenia
Memory loss may be a sign of
Other causes of memory loss include:
- Alcohol or use of illegal drugs
- Brain infections such as
Lyme disease, syphilis, or HIV/AIDS
- Overuse of medicines, such as barbiturates or (
- ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) (most often short-term memory loss)
Epilepsythat is not well controlled
- Illness that results in the loss of, or damage to brain tissue or nerve cells, such as
Parkinson disease, Huntington disease, or multiple sclerosis
- Low levels of important nutrients or vitamins, such as low
vitamin B12
Home Care
A person with memory loss needs a lot of support.
- It helps to show the person familiar objects, music, or and photos or play familiar music.
- Write down when the person should take any medicine or do other important tasks. It is important to write it down.
- If a person needs help with everyday tasks, or if safety or nutrition is a concern, you may want to consider extended-care facilities, such as a nursing home.
What to Expect at Your Office Visit
The doctor or nurse will perform a physical exam and ask about the persons medical history and symptoms. This will usually include asking questions of family members and friends. For this reason, they should come to the appointment.
Medical history questions may include:
- Type of memory loss, such as short-term or long-term
- Time pattern, such as how long the memory loss has lasted or whether it comes and goes
- Things that triggered memory loss, such as head injury or surgery
Tests that may be done include:
- Blood tests for specific diseases that are suspected (such as low vitamin B12 or thyroid disease)
Cerebral angiography Cognitive tests(psychometric tests) CT scan or MRI of the head EEG Lumbar puncture
Treatment depends on the cause of memory loss.
Kirshner HS. Approaches to intellectual and memory impairments. In: Daroff RB, Fenichel GM, Jankovic J, Mazziotta JC, eds. Bradleys Neurology in Clinical Practice. 6th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Saunders; 2012:chap 6.
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Trend Alert: Copper & Marble
My love for both cool marble and warm copper runs deep, but when they team up to make decor magic, I do a little happy dance. Check out all the material matchmaking going on lately, and see a few items that help you get the look.
1. Nina Holst's accessories make for a great vignette in her office.
2. Copper accessories dot this commercial-looking kitchen in a small apartment, listed for sale by Erik Olsson.
3. Algedi Table by Iacoli & McAllister from The Cools
4. VT Wonen featured exposed copper piping, which doubles as storage.
5. A close up of an all-white kitchen with copper accents, from Style at Home.
6. A copper pendant light is a focal point in this kitchen designed by Doherty Lynch.
7. Bisazza's Haydon Collection is a cool, airy choice for a modern bathroom.
8. Tom Dixon lamp paired with marble tulip table and kitchen, in this apartment designed by Emma Persson Lagerberg
9. Classic marble and industrial fixtures make for a vintage look in this kitchen from Traditional Home
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Elisa Rishwain
Luxury shoe designer
, 65, who designed luxury shoes under the Elisa Ferare nameplate, died April 25 at her home in Los Angeles after a three-year battle with cancer, her son Brian said.
Born in Stockton on Oct. 28, 1944, to Italian immigrants Stefano and Jennie Ferrari, she operated the Giovanna Ferrari women's clothing boutique in Stockton.
In 1988, after divorcing, she and her three children moved to Los Angeles, where she engaged in a range of activities that included interior design, opening an antique furniture store, opening a clothing and jewelry boutique, and acting.
Rishwain often took her store-bought shoes to a Los Angeles cobbler to have the silhouettes, fabrics and hardware tweaked to fit her personal taste, frequently using the sort of luxe fabrics and trims more commonly found in the world of interior design.
In 2003, she parlayed this penchant for customized footwear into the
line of handmade in America footwear that would routinely juxtapose fabrics such as crushed velvet, python, suede and vintage animal prints.
The shoes were carried by a number of high-end retail shops including Maxfield, Madison and Fred Segal Santa Monica locally, Jeffrey in New York and Neiman Marcus.
Rhonda Copelon
Human rights attorney
Rhonda Copelon, 65, a human rights attorney who helped open U.S. courts to victims of international abuses, especially involving violence against women, died of ovarian cancer May 6, City University of New York announced. She was a professor at the university's law school from 1983 until retiring in 2009.
Copelon co-founded the International Women's Rights Clinic at the law school and was a vice president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a nonprofit organization founded by attorneys representing the civil rights movement.
Copelon played a key role in Filartiga vs. Pena-Irala, a Supreme Court case that established that human rights abuses committed abroad could be addressed by U.S. courts. She also argued unsuccessfully in Harris vs. McRae, in which the Supreme Court narrowly upheld prohibiting Medicaid reimbursement for most abortions. Both decisions were announced on the same day in 1980.
In the Filartiga case, the high court ruled that a physician from Paraguay and his daughter could sue a police official in U.S. federal court for the torture and murder of the physician's son.
Copelon was born Sept. 15, 1944, in New Haven, Conn. She earned a bachelor's degree at Bryn Mawr College in 1966 and a law degree at Yale University in 1970.
Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert
Anti-apartheid activist
Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert, 70, who helped South Africa chart a peaceful way out of apartheid by leading fellow whites into talks with exiled black leaders, died Friday, the Institute for Democracy in Africa announced. No cause of death was given.
Van Zyl Slabbert, who was born March 2, 1940, in Pretoria, was the rugby-playing son of conservative Afrikaners, the descendants of early Dutch settlers known for their commitment to apartheid.
In 1987, Van Zyl Slabbert led a delegation of white South Africans to Senegal to meet the African National Congress, which was banned in South Africa at the time but is now the governing party.
The white government labeled Van Zyl Slabbert's group traitors. In a statement Friday, President Jacob Zuma said Van Zyl Slabbert showed "courage and foresight" by going to Senegal.
Van Zyl Slabbert represented the liberal Progressive Federal Party, a predecessor to the Democratic Alliance, in parliament during the apartheid years. He resigned as party leader and left parliament in 1985, during a crackdown on black activists, saying the whites-only legislature was no longer relevant.
Rollin 'Molly' Sanders
Automotive graphic designer
Rollin "Molly" Sanders, 66, who turned a hobby of painting cars and motorcycles into a business that created logos, graphics and color schemes for a variety of vehicles, died of cancer April 19 at his home in Costa Mesa, said his wife, Terry.
Sanders' graphic and industrial design firm, Molly Designs, worked with such companies as General Motors, Kawasaki, Toyota and Yamaha. He developed
such color schemes as "Kawasaki green" and "Yamaha yellow" and was involved in the development of the logo for the Lexus.
His wife said one of his first high-profile clients was race car driver and owner Dan Gurney.
Sanders was born July 15, 1943, in La Habra. He started painting cars as a teenager and opened Paint by Molly in 1965. He painted motorcycles for dealers in Southern California, then was hired by Kawasaki and later Yamaha to provide graphic designs.
Norman Hand,
a former defensive tackle for several NFL teams, died Friday after collapsing at his South Carolina home. He was 37. Hand suffered from heart disease, Colleton County Coroner Richard Harvey said Saturday. The athlete played for the Miami Dolphins, New Orleans Saints, New York Giants, San Diego Chargers and Seattle Seahawks.
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The Spanish Colonial Arts Society announces the receipt of a grant from the Harry Chapin Foundation to support the educational programs of the society, according to Donna Pedace, executive director of the society.
The grant from the Harry Chapin Foundation will be used to support the Arts Outreach Program, which is a school-based program where the society sends Spanish Market artists into the local public schools to teach hands-on art workshops to either fourth or seventh grade students.
These workshops are scheduled at the request of individual schools and teachers and, for many, these are the only art classes the students receive.
Often, the Spanish Market artists donate a portion of their time to this program, as they believe it is important for the children to learn about the traditional art forms of New Mexico — and the history and heritage behind them.
Each artist shares information about the heritage behind the art with the student, as they teach the art techniques. The teacher evaluations indicate that the heritage information helps make the programs such a success.
The Harry Chapin Memorial Fund was created in 1981 with help from Chapin's former manager Ken Kragen and Kenny Rogers, who donated $150,000 from a benefit concert. Chapin's widow Sandy Chapin, has led the organization from the beginning. While the name was changed to the Harry Chapin Foundation, its mission has stayed the same — to help make a positive difference in communities around the country.
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text: Predictive coding: a better way to deal with electronically stored information Share this Fall 2016 American Bar Association, Litigation By: Aaron T. Goodman Litigators bemoan the fact that the volume of documents and data produced and requested during discovery continues to increase year on year – as does the volume of electronically stored information (ESI) that clients must preserve. There is a glut of ESI arising as a consequence of the exponential growth in the creation and exchange of electronic files and email traffic. Between two paths, each of which is imperfect, which has the least impact on staff hours and the most prospect for finding the needles in the haystack? – Aaron Goodman The result is that even in cases with a relatively low monetary value, there are often still hundreds of thousands or even millions of files relevant to the case, and a significant portion of the cost of litigation is driven by the obligation to preserve, search, review, and produce this ESI. However, the same computing power that has provided this overabundance of data may also provide the solution for reviewing, coding, and producing it in litigation with minimal human review. Read the full article here. Reproduced with permission from the American Bar Association.


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For the white male power structure that sabotaged the Susan B.Anthony dollar, kept Chief Jay Strongbow out of the highest echelons of professional wrestlingand posited a "White Christmas" as the last word in holiday cheer,it must have seemed like a great coup to shovel Black History Month into theshortest month in the calendar year. But the gods laugh at theschemes of evil men: This year's BHM managed to cram a recordamount of history into a mere 28-day cycle.
You might not know that from the official channels, where Februaryhas mostly been an even lower-key-than-usual opportunity for yourlocal public library to put up displays of Beloved, The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Sister Souljah's The Coldest Winter Ever. But from the perspective of historic (ifincreasingly dubious) milestones, the results have been impressive.In sports, the Indianapolis Colts' Tony Dungy became the first African-American coach to take home aSuper Bowl ring. In politics, Barack Obama's moving, Lincoln-inflected announcement of his presidential candidacy came too late to bea first. (Frederick Douglass, Shirley Chisholmand/or Clifton DeBerry, thou shouldst be living at this hour!) But Obama iscertainly the first fully viable African-American presidentialhopeful. Black performers took home half this year's acting Academy Awards, an event that has now become commonplace enough that evenBlack-Oscar diehards barely notice it. In the world of business, the monthpassed without any major achievements, but don't let that stop youfrom giving it up for Ephren W. Taylor II, 24-year-old CEO of City Capital Corporations.
As for harder news, the commonwealth of Virginia has announced"profound regret" for its role in American slavery; an official OldDominion apology for allowing George Allen anywhere near the U.S. Senate is surely in the offing.Louis Farrakhan's long career ended with a whimper. And Rev. Al Sharpton discovered his shocking slavery-era connection to the late Sen. Strom Thurmond, a news-of-the-weirdstory with a frisson of A-section tragedy.
What's remarkable in most of these events is their trail ofcomplicating factors. The vagaries of NFL scheduling narrowlyrelegated Dungy to footnote-of-the-footnote status as thesecond black coach to take a team to the SuperBowlthat this was a battle between two leaders of color wasdescribed most succinctly by The Onion's headline"Lovie Smith Becomes First African-American Coach To Lose SuperBowl." And Whitaker's Oscar win achieved something than justfoiling another best-actor bid from Peter O'Toole (the purestpossible exemplar of Jane Elliot's blue-eyed devil). He won the little gold man whileplaying one of the foulest human beings of the twentiethcenturya striking graduation from the positive-role-modelkindergarten respectable black actors tended to inhabit in yearspast. That this achievement went unnoted just adds to itssignificance.
Obama's candidacy, for its part, may end up doing less racialhealing than originally advertised. The immediate result has beento open a national controversy on just how black, or how American,or how authentic, or how something, the mixed-race,first-generation-American candidate really is. That Obama appearsfar from cornering the black vote is cause for concern among his supporters, butthere's something encouraging in that demonstrated lack ofconsensus, and the rejection of the fiction that skin tone is somekind of absolute category.
As Sen. Joe Biden is quick to point out, Obama is both clean andarticulate, but his resistance to pure and simple categoriesunderscores the lingering debateabout whether Black History Month should exist at all. In aFebruary that was chock full of the kind of uplift and progressthat once typified this sort of celebration, it was the Al Sharptonstory that really sharpened the point. Even at his worstwhichis plenty badSharpton has always been a likable and engagingfigure. But he's tended to lack a certain moral seriousness that we(unrealistically) expect from public figures. Ironically, therevelation that his ancestor and Thurmond's had been slave andmaster conferred on the reverend a gravity that he never managed toachieve while liberating Harlem from Jewish interlopers or pursuingthe attackers of Tawana Brawley. His ever-present cloud ofcharlatanism briefly lifted, and Al Sharpton stood revealed assomebody intimately connected to the ghastly reality of Americanhistory.
That certainly wasn't a surprise, but the reminder was jarring, andmay hint at why Black History Month, and the vaguelygoody-two-shoes progressivism it represents, may never fully goaway. The event's originator Carter G. Woodson is said to have hoped that someday the need for a blackhistory set-aside would be obviated, that black history would befully integrated into American history. Sharpton's tale of theunexpected reminds us that that hope was both valid and impossible:Black history has been American history all along, but it has alsobeen, and will remain, a special categorya field of problemsthat are improving but intractable, stories that are encouragingand heartbreaking, and divisions that are inconceivably complex andas simple as black and white.
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I first read Soren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling at about the same age as Kierkegaard was when he wrote it -- thirty. The young philosopher was wrestling with his dark demons, including the death of his father, a sternly religious man who demanded absolute obedience from his son. He was torn between the opposing demands of faith and reason, certainity and doubt. In the opening pages of the book, he takes us with Abraham and Isaac on that terrible journey to Mount Moriah where God puts Abraham to a terrifying test of his faith.
What gives meaning to a life? Kierkegaard opted for belief. He wrote:
If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the foundation of all there lay only a wildly seething power which writhing with obscure passions produced everything that is great and everything that is insignificant, if a bottomless void never satiated lay hidden beneath all -- what then would life be but despair?This is the fear that caused Abraham to raise the knife over his beloved son. This is the valley of shadow that drove Kierkegaard to choose heaven over earth, the unseen over the seen. This is the dread of a mindless oblivion that causes so many to choose faith over reason, certainity over doubt.
In Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard says that "faith begins where thinking leaves off." At the same age, Kierkegaard's almost exact contemporary, another solitary philosopher with a fierce moral sensitivity, Henry David Thoreau, wrote in his journal:
I have just heard the flicker among the oaks on the hillside ushering in a new dynasty...Eternity could not begin with more security and momentousness than the spring. The summer's eternity is reestablished by this note. All sights and sounds are seen and heard both in time and eternity. And when the eternity of any sight or sound strikes the eye or ear, they are intoxicated with delight.Some of us live our lives with our attention fixed on the hereafter. Others listen for the flicker's note in the distant oaks. No less than traditional theists, religious naturalists need to believe that we are not poised above a bottomless void. If we are lucky, we understand that love and loyalty are blessings that well up out of the dark night in mysterious ways. We feel no need to make the terrible journey to Mount Moriah when every element of creation, great and small, here and now, is filled with redeeming grace.


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Alice (US - BD RA)
Gabe preps for not seeing Burton's movie by watching this Syfy Wonderland
Alice Hamilton (Caterina Scorsone) is a twenty-something Judo instructor living with her mother, and constantly in search of her father, who disappeared when she was a child. One night Alice has a date with Jack Chase (Philip Winchester), who oversteps first date protocol by offering her a ring. After the rejection Jack is attacked, and he and Alice are captured, and taken to the legendary Wonderland. Apparently Wonderland has gone to pot over the last century and a half. The Queen of Hearts (Kathy Bates) and her minions have been kidnapping humans from our world, and taking them to the other side of the looking glass. Nicknamed 'oysters', humans are then sedated and forced to play games in a casino while their emotions are drained for consumption by the people of Wonderland. Alice escapes her bonds, and meets up with the Wonderland resistance, including The Hatter (Andrew-Lee Potts), The Dodo (Tim Curry), and Charlie, the White Knight (Matt Frewer).
Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' might be the most adapted non-religious stories in film history. Besides a massive pile of 'official' adaptations ( seventeen including the Disney animated version, the Czech mixed stop motion version, and the latest Tim Burton version) there is a cinematic cornucopia of films inspired by the stories, ranging from the obvious ( Labyrinth, Spirited Away, Mirror Mask) to the more abstract and conceptual (Roman Polanski's What?, Running Scared, Hellraiser). Writer/director Nick Willing has apparently defined his career by making miniseries versions of classic tales. He even made a different TV version of Alice in Wonderland in the late '90s, which was more in-keeping with the traditional story. In 2007 he struck semi-gold with Tin Man, an offbeat rendition of The Wizard of Oz made for the Sci-Fi channel. Spurned by this relative success he wrote and directed Alice, a less traditional and somewhat more adult take on the material that arguably inspired The Wizard of Oz in the first place.
Willing sort of recalls bits of The Matrix in his version of the story, which is interesting in that the Wachowski Brothers' film trilogy recalls the original Carroll story regularly. The big similarity is the use of humanity as a commodity. The machines of The Matrix base their society on our energy, while the dregs of Willing's Wonderland run their society on an addiction to human emotions. The drinking of emotions concept does not belong to Willing, but isn't something the Wonderland mythology has dealt with (to my knowledge), and Willing explores it satisfactorily. It's certainly more satisfying than the film's major plot element, that of Alice returning to Wonderland with no knowledge of her previous visit. From what I understand the new Burton film takes a similar path, as did Spielberg's Hook, and both Return to Oz and Prince Caspian (both based on pre-existing material) already used the dystopian second visit approach. Willing's story takes a more overtly adult route to a world changed by time and the hero's absence, but is actually pretty shallow in terms of subtext. The adaptation of familiar characters is certainly fun, and Willing finds entertaining new guises throughout the film, but the stew is messy and derivative overall.
The brass tacks of failure come down to time, and Alice carries on about an hour longer than it should. As a longer mini-series with more subplots the pacing would've worked, but Willing's script is a relatively straight forward march through Alice's story. The film (or series, I really can't decide what to call it) succeeds mostly in visual terms, which stand out in both design and bang for buck (meaning the special effects are generally better looking than expected). The thing should really carry the full title Alice: An Exercise in Production Design, Plus a Story. The visuals are a little ham-fisted, but there certainly is a vision at work here, from the vastly contrasting sets, to the intricate and colourful costumes. Again, originality isn't Willing's strong point, but in purely visual terms he usually borrows the right stuff. Terry Gilliam and Ridley Scott are big influences, but the most regularly comparable elements are found in the cityscapes, which look a lot like the Pang Brothers' Re-Cycle, which is, ironically enough, another adaptation of Carroll's original story.
Alice looks like the middle budgeted BBC series and movies, like Doctor Who, though their cameras are a little more consistent, and the final effect is a little more film-like. The look is colourful, soft, and cartoony, so ultra-sharpness doesn't play into the mix too often, though there really aren't any shortcomings in the field either. Details are more impressive in terms of number of elements, specifically little decorative bits of production design. The whole look is pretty darn baroque, and in high definition we can appreciate all the goofy intricacies. The disc's clarity depends very much on lighting. The 'outdoor' scenes are crisp and deep set, while the darkest indoor scenes are grainy, and occasionally feature muddied colours and blued blacks. The colours are well-separated for the most part, though again, the darker scenes feature some general bleeding, and minor blocking in the brightest reds.
Alice comes fitted with a reasonably full-bodied DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 mix. The world of Wonderland isn't quite as immersive as I'm guessing a big budget film version would be, but for a made for television mix there's not a lot to complain about. The majority of the mix is frontal, with the effects and dialogue finding themselves appropriately and clearly centered, while the somewhat repetitive musical score works its relative magic in the stereo channels. The rear channels mostly feature basic ambience, but there are some outstanding moments. The sequences that take place in the Walrus and Carpenter's lair, or the casino floor are constant sources of rear channel support in the form of bubbling vats, and clattering gambling, while the Jabberwocky attack and final act 'battle' feature the most effective directional work. The LFE isn't particularly stand out, but deep enough, and with a handful of pumpy moments.
There's nothing here to consider a 'special feature'.
I wasn't expecting much from Alice, based on my opinion of Writer/director Nick Willing's other stuff, but this miniseries/overlong movie looks gorgeous, features a very talented cast, and just enough intriguing plot elements to almost fill its bloated three hour runtime. Willing doesn't have too many original ideas in his hat, but the source material is so over-adapted that we can hardly blame him. At least he puts some original twists on his more derivative elements. The Blu-ray release features nothing in terms of extras, but does look nearly perfect, and sounds very good for a modest television production. A minor surprise overall.
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i tried watching this when it aired once and i gave up after about an hour of the first part. at first i sat attentively and watched on the couch but i started getting bored and played online as i watched and eventually i wasn't even paying attention anymore. i guess it bored me.
but alice looks yummy in that blue dress, it wasn't a total waste of 50-60mins.
but alice looks yummy in that blue dress, it wasn't a total waste of 50-60mins.
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Well it can't be worse than that Burton train wreck. I can't remember the last time I genuinely loathed a movie so much. I'm usually very forgiving.
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Release Date: 2nd March 2010
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English
Subtitles: English SDH and Spanish
Extras: Trailers
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Director: Nick Willing
Cast: Caterina Scorsone, Andrew Lee Potts, Matt Frewer, Philip Winchester, Tim Curry
Genre: Adventure and Fantasy
Length: 184 minutes
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One of the fun things with Libertarians is that they are very fond of dispersed tacit knowledge. I happen to think this is an excellent idea. What we know is limited, but what we all know should be used to the furthest extent. It is why markets are useful, they amass knowledge.
This fine idea, that knowledge is finite and that wisdom is dispersed among many people, often runs up against the ideals of Libertarianism. For example, a great many people feel themselves poor, but compared to most who have ever lived nobody is poor. David Henderson expands:
106 billion humans have been born since Homo sapiens appeared about 50,000 years ago. That means that the richest one percent in history includes 1.06 billion people. There are currently 6.2 billion humans alive, leaving approximately 100 billion who have died. Who among the dead was rich by today's standards? Not many. Royalty, popes, presidents, dictators, large landholders, and the occasional wealthy industrialist, such as Andrew Carnegie and Leland Stanford, were certainly rich. All told, it is difficult to imagine more than 20 million of these people since ancient Egyptian times. This leaves 1.04 billion wealthy alive today, or 17% of the world's population.
When discussing something as palpable as poverty this relativism vanishes. Tacit knowledge is useless, wisdom is concentrated. You, me, all of us, are very lucky. We are all very rich people because someone we were once related to once suffered terribly.
Nevermind if one another's specialist knowledge of suffering says otherwise. Nevermind if some of us feel like we are in poverty compared to all we can observe, a nice academic assures we aren't in suc ha bad state.
I find this terribly funny. Because it just goes to show that people align their ideology with their prejudices, not vice versa.
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Why on God's green Earth would anyone mess with Jared Allen?
The guy 6'6, 270 pounds of insane behemoth with the strength of a right tackle and more speed than most fullbacks. And I did mention he's probably insane?
Well, thanks to @thebiglead, always a good source of morning Twitter tips, we now have confirmation that some idiot at a bar decided it would be a good idea to mess with Jaren Allen's girl.
All I have to say to this clearly clueless moron (and to Vikings fans): you're lucky…very lucky…because this could have ended badly.
Video: Jared Allen Verbally Attacks (Probably) Deserving Moron
You have to love how the video starts out:
I'll break your f–king neck homeboy!
I have a feeling that many a left tackle has heard the same thing on a Sunday afternoon?
Keep in mind that the stakes are pretty high here, as they are any time Jared Allen walks into a bar.
Allen, who has already been in trouble with the NFL on numerous occasions for alcohol-related offenses, is clearly at some type of watering hole where we can safely assume there are adult beverages served and consumed. From the video, it is impossible to tell if Allen had been drinking. And don't think that a little bit of rage means he's drunk…unless you think he's drunk every Sunday.
Clearly Allen is agitated about something that was said to his girlfriend, and assuming there wasn't some type of misunderstanding, can you really blame him for taking the (probably) drunk and (probably) idiotic guy to task?
He's Jared F–king Allen. If you're dumb enough to mess with him or his girlfriend, the best you should hope for is a little verbal assault.
Or maybe someone said something bad about Brett Favre. Jared Allen might be wearing the Wranglers Favre got him. I'm sure he'd defend the old man's honor too.
Unfortunately, we do not get to see how this episode ended, which I'm sure resulted in a more mellow and mature Allen than in years past walking away steamed but at least not putting his 2010 season in jeopardy.
Vikings fans – and the douche bag who said something about his girl – can now exhale.


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It also helps to read installation notes and technical requirements when installing SKSE-enabled mods, along with user comments, and make adjustments accordingly.
At last count, with the navmesh issue fixed once and for all, the Lakeview pool mod has gained 113 endorsements. Been thinking of adding perimeter guards, but I feel it would be best made as a separate mod.
|2013-01-27, 21:28
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Master of Coin
Join Date: Mar 2008
Me and my roomate tried to get through Hexen I, it was a nightmare of a game.
Heretic I was terrible, Heretic II was good, but the game crashed at a certain point so I stopped playing (Right after u need to find a glass container so you can store the cure)
|2013-01-30, 16:09
|Link #3666
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2012
Back at 1997 my brother and I found a CD full of demos (it was called the "Ultimate Game Pack". That CD helped restart my interest back into PC Gaming!), and in it were the demos for Heretic and Hexen (as well as Doom, but I didn't play it as much since there were sound problems with it). I played the hell out of both of those demos but trying to find them was a bit on the difficult side. We both live near a small town and they were both old games. So yeah, it took us awhile to find both versions of those games. By luck my brother found Heretic (Shadows of the Serpent Riders edition, which had the 2 extra episodes and the Hellmace weapon) at our local Hastings, but it wasn't until 1999 until I found (by luck) a copy of Hexen.
IMHO Heretic, Hexen, and Hexen 2 are classic gems (I'll be blunt here, I never cared for Heretic 2) that are often overlooked since many seem to have forgotten them anymore. Ironically, back at 2000, I E-Mailed Raven Games and asked if they were planning on doing anymore Hexen sequels, which they replied they had planned on visiting the franchise in the future. Well it's 2013.......and Activision is tasking them with giving a helping hand with the Call of Duty series and the franchise's DLCs.
But back on topic, I'd like to see a Hexen mod for Skyrim, but I have a feeling such a project would take forever. I mean, look at how long the mod "Hexen: Edge of Chaos" has been in development.
|2013-01-30, 16:35
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Master of Coin
Join Date: Mar 2008
It is the same problem I have with resident evil. With some many interlocking security, it make me wonder how the FORCE OF EVIL go through their daily route if the villain has to climb a giant clocktower or fight his PET DRAGON just so he can get the key to the executive bathroom
|2013-01-31, 17:27
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: who knows?
|2013-02-04, 15:28
|Link #3670
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
The 5th or the 6th? Don't have Steam up at the moment to see.
Well, I went ahead and installed SKSE and put in the SkyUI and Frostfell. I just wiped the slate clean on characters as well. I'm using the Alternate Life start mod (which I like a lot. I always thought rolling right into the "dragonborn" plot seemed odd).
Only complaint about Frostfell is that I had to tune it down. There's just something not quite right about me freezing to death while chatting with a bunch of villagers dressed in shorts and shirtless. OTOH, it made getting off the shipwreck, across the frigid water and to shore quite exciting (Mario ice hopping and then slaughtering a bandit so I could use his firepit).
|2013-02-04, 16:45
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Master of Coin
Join Date: Mar 2008
I turned off Frostfall for the exact reason. near freezing to death while fighting bandits is no fun.
|2013-02-04, 18:26
|Link #3673
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
And yes, the exposure is paused while you're engaged with NPCs.
Cranking the exposure rate down a few notches minimized the "why am I covered in ice while Momo the street wench parades around in rags?" issue. Using W.E.A.R. seems to provide more mitigation as well. There are plenty of knobs to turn if something doesn't seem quite right in the immersion.
|2013-02-04, 20:09
|Link #3675
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Philippines
Age: 42
Some 12 to 24 hours from now.
With Frostfall, yes, it really does add an extra challenge, so I had to be careful when crossing bodies of water and get dry immediately (but somehow using a horse nicely serves as a rudimentary boat to minimize immersion damage).
Sometimes later I'll have to go back and work on the mods.
|2013-02-05, 14:45
|Link #3676
Goat Herder
Join Date: Jun 2008
Age: 31
Well, Dragonborn's released for PC now. Now I gotta redownload the whole damn game for the new backup. ._.
And even then I don't get to play until the mod compatibility is finished up. Argh. At least I'll have Dead Space 3 starting... tomorrow. (because I can't play that tonight EITHER. ARGH.)
|2013-02-05, 17:35
|Link #3677
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
|2013-02-05, 17:55
|Link #3678
Goat Herder
Join Date: Jun 2008
Age: 31
Yeah, a number of popular mods will need to be updated. SkyRe, for one. Deadly Dragons, for another, since Dragonborn introduces the Serpentine Dragons... never mind the Tame Dragon mechanic. Then there's, of course, the Unofficial Dragonborn Patch, which likely won't get created for another week at the latest, since as Arthmoor said, he and the others would like to at least play the DLC before attempting to fix it.
So yeah, it's gonna be a few weeks at most before it settles down. Luckily I'll have Dead Space 3 and a crapton of school work to deal with in the meantime, but I dunno about the rest of you guys. :V
|2013-02-05, 18:03
|Link #3679
Senior Member
Oh, considering the fact Dragonborn modifies the "Kill Dragon" script which USKP also modifies for fixing, thus causing dragons to not give you dragon souls (and thus also breaking the vanilla main quest) as long as you have both installed, I think a preliminary "Unofficial Dragonborn Patch" to fix just this one thing is going to happen sooner rather than later.
Edit: Turns out this was an issue with a dirty edit that was in the beta version of 1.2.7 of the USKP, and it was since removed on the release version. Don't know why a lot of people would still be using a beta of all things.
Last edited by Tokkan; 2013-02-05 at 19:40.
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Elton John Wants The Internet Shut Down For Five Years... For The Sake Of The Music
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PHOENIX, July 7 (UPI) -- Wade Miley fired eight innings of one-run ball and stroked a bases-clearing double Saturday in the Arizona Diamondbacks' 11-1 rout of Colorado.
Miley (5-7) logged his first victory in more than a month, taming the Rockies on five hits. He issued just one walk and struck out five, tossing 64-of-101 pitches for strikes.
His three-run double in second inning broke a scoreless tie and sent the National League West-leading D-backs on their way to a fourth straight victory.
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Port Arthur man shot, refuses to press charges
A Port Arthur man was shot early Saturday morning, Sept. 21 in what Port Arthur Police are calling an aggravated assault.
Around 2:07 a.m., officers were dispatched to 1049 West Seventh Street in reference to a shooting, according to a Port Arthur Police Department Offense Report obtained by The Examiner. Upon arrival, police spoke to the complainant, James Rodgers, 43, of Port Arthur, who advised police that while he was driving his 2005 Silver Cadillac Deville in the 700 block of Seventh Street, he was shot once in the leg by an unknown suspect. Rodgers told police he did not want to file charges, the report states.
The gunshot wound did not appear to be life-threatening, and Rodgers was transported to St. Elizabeth Hospital for treatment of his injury, PAPD said in a press release.
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Edward Tutunjian in the Kilmarnock Street garage office.
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Tutunjian (left) walked past drivers waiting at the window where keys are distributed.
Drivers waited to get keys to taxis.
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On 20 May 2015 at 12:29 AM, my second granddaughter, Juna Josephone, was born. Lovely little girl! So now I have two granddaughters and they delight me tremendously.
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How would like it if you were stuck to Eli's bottom for years? Well, this diaper gets tired of the daily grind and decides to find a new and better bottom! The diaper takes Eli along for an exciting adventure, with lots of lessons learned along the way. Wonderful illustrations by Robert Melegari.
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Loey is now (December 2013) two years old, getting more beautiful and hilarious and capable with each passing day.
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On Friday, Nov. 4, two passers-by spotted an ominous cloud of gray smoke as it billowed from under the metal eaves of a large farm structure at 3045 Gilhouley Road.
The first to sight the danger was phoning in through the 9-1-1 system while the second, Odell volunteer fire Capt. Joey Sheirbon, called emergency dispatch directly.
Firefighters from four departments were on scene within minutes at the two-story combined shop and foreman residence, owned by James Sims and located within a commercial cherry orchard.
"The building is a 90-percent loss and the contents of the shop are a 100-percent loss," said Odell Fire Chief Greg Borton. "The residential area is severely damaged and most of the contents are a loss, as well."
The fire, which may have started in the northeast corner of the shop where a heat lamp was being used to warm a water pipe, consumed ladders, tools, picking bags, buckets and four-wheelers. The cause is still under investigation and no injuries were reported.
In the living quarters, furniture and personal belongings of the orchard foreman, Sam Loza, and his wife were also damaged or lost, with fire crews able to salvage only a few pieces of furniture.
Engines from Odell, Parkdale, Pine Grove and West Side arrived on scene and 22 firefighters assisted in the initial containment, which ended around 6:30 p.m.
However, personnel and equipment were called back around 7 p.m. when a flare-up occurred in the upper story of the metal-sided building.
"The metal siding and roof held heat inside very effectively before it vented out," said Borton, who was out of town at the time of the fire. "It could have been burning for quite some time before it was sighted." Loza was in the orchard at the time of the fire and did not see it start.
Sheirbon served as incident commander and Hood River Fire Chief Devon Wells assisted on the investigation and fire reports.
Several cherry trees near the 3,200-square-foot wood frame structure were scorched during the fire but an equipment shed housing multiple tractors, sprayers and hay storage was protected successfully by the fire crews.
Final mop-up following the second flare-up lasted until about 9:30 p.m.
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