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During Sunday's (pathfinder/realworld/flailsnails) game there was a encounter where skills came into play. Skill rolls for knowledge:religion and perception were called for. I remember failing, and interpreting the look on the DM's face as chagrin. I e-mailed him about my experience with the Observation skill in Hackmaster and why I gave up on perception type skills. I said:
"Realizing that I either wanted them to know something (because they should) or didn't want them to know it unless they asked/looked, made me question why I was calling for the roll at all. And then trying to figure out if they did look, but then missed the roll even with a bonus, what to do about rewarding their involvement. . ."and got a very interesting and well thought out e-mail in reply. The reason I'm so fond of it, is that it makes very rational well thought out arguments for having skill systems in a game, and allows me to explain to people who have given this a lot of thought why I'm not a big fan of extensive skill systems.
He Said: "The information was there and I had no greater desire to give it or not give it."Indeed. When you talk about a skill-less game, you are abstracting out a layer of reality. You reduce the granularity from a variety of options (from a 1-6 roll, or a set of DC's) to just four.
- No one can observe it
- Only those who could logically observe or know it can observe it or know it
- Only those who state that they examine the item or object get the information
- Anyone can see this information
"With the skill system in place the way I use it, and the fact that I take into account players taking 10 even when they don't explicitly say it (mostly because EVERYONE I have played with thinks you have to roll for every skill every time), I feel that it enhances the concept of player agency because the choices you make have meaning."And in this, he is correct. But here is why being correct isn't so good.
Putting the 'tactical combat' options in opposition to 'character knowledge/skill/personality' options creates an unresolvable conflict resulting in the destruction of agency.
By giving me agency (making choices matter) for those choices made while building my character, I am having my agency removed _during play_.
It turns what I like to call 'the play of the game' which is highly dependent on player skill into a tactical mini-game itself, that my personal skill as a human being can only influence mildly (+2/-2) by RAW.
If you respond you'd give them a larger bonus, then what is the point of skills in the first place? Aren't you just deciding if they find it or not? And if they roll and fail, even with the bonus, haven't you removed some of their agency of their build choices and/or their personal skill?
Now, someone might say, if you don't enforce this division - isn't this having your cake and eating it too? Well, in a game like pathfinder, where character builds put combat options opposite skill options, then yes! It is an explicitly unfair situation designed to equalize players at the table. This way Bob can charm the guard with his diplomacy even if he isn't a very good speaker.
Only this makes no sense. We are playing a game, and some people are better at that game then others. They don't make faster players in the NFL wear weights to slow them down, and they don't make chess players play with a handicap when they play a lower ranked player. Why do we think this is fair in D&D?
The argument that it keeps the DM fair is also spurious. He sets all the DC's. The rules have just given him another way to be unfair if he was unfair to begin with.
The thing is, the sitting around and thinking of what to do is one of the fun parts of the game. There is no conflict that is necessary to resolve in the vast majority of skills.
Acrobatics: If you're not dealing with a superhuman range of abilities here, then you can just assume they can jump or run it. The real use of conflict here is using it to move past an opponent safely. There is ground here for a subsystem regarding that, but there is no real need for it to be a check. Taking a hit from a monster seems like 'bad trap' territory. Avoiding that hit could just be a simple comparison (level vs. hit die)
Appraise: What is gained by *not* knowing how much something is worth. Is this worth the time to roll at the table? What is the cost of this conflict?
Bluff (& Sense Motive): Combat/feat build uses aside, there is certainly some room for a 'social conflict' system in D&D, but a simple D20 comparison check is a really really boring way to handle it!
Climb: You can climb it. Unless it's unclimbable, then only the thief has a shot. What's the drama here, you roll a d20 and maybe fall to your death? Does anyone think making five or ten checks just to see if something bad happens is fun? Or maybe during a climbing combat you want to have to check to see if you lose your turn or move real slow?
Craft, Perform, and Profession: Secondary skills? Player says what they want to make and they can? What is the advantage here of having this conflict resolution system.
Diplomacy: There needs to be a reaction system in place
Disguise: Again, what part of play is improved by the constant chance of failure. Is it just one die roll for success? Why not let them succeed if they use magic or are assassins, and have them fail when they as players make mistakes.
Escape Artist: This is as useful as use rope? Only useful to the extent that combat/grappling, etc. may require this. "Can I escape from my bonds" needs no skill roll for adventurers. The answer is 'as soon as no one is looking'.
Fly: Again, 1e handles this with maneuverability class. You can do what's listed. What advantage is the skill?
Handle Animal: Only as far as there needs to be a reaction system in place. Why a separate one for non-sentient animals
Heal: What drama is there inherent in "I bandage their wounds"
Intimidate: Only as far as there needs to be a reaction system in place.
Knowledge skills: Either they know it because of their race or class, or they can find it out somewhere.
Linguistics: The game assumes that these adventurers are already grown people. i.e. They know the languages they know. Learning a new language should be handled by 'we spend a month among the lizard people and learn ophidian, their nefarious reptile tounge.
Perception: Ah the overused skill. There does need to be a system for surprise. I have eliminated searching for secret doors in my game, because each is opened by some object in the environment that they can manipulate or discover in some way through play. I still give them the chance as a back up if they aren't looking.
Ride: How much time do your characters spend mounted? How often does this come up, unless it's a specific factor in the tactical combat game of modern editions?
Sleight of Hand: I can see the conflict value here. There is a reward for success, and a penalty for failure.
Spellcraft: Why can you not do everything this does with caster level?
Stealth: Again, I can see the conflict value here.
Survival: Characters are adventurers, how often do you make them roll this to survive. Do you need a general skill for those characters that can track?
Swim: How are we advantaged over A) you can swim or B) you can't swim
Use Magic Device: I can see some ground for this skill having conflict value (like combat, success versus the status quo)
I guess my core point here with this list is, rolling a die and adding a number is not in and of itself a pleasurable activity. To do it only to prevent something bad happening is worse (unlike combat where if you fail the status quo is maintained and if you succeed, you get the fun of adding up your damage)
*It is also interesting to note that the vast majority of skills which have conflict built in are the old thief skills (read scrolls/use magic device, pick pocket/slight of hand, stealth/hide in shadows move silently)

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{{#set:Summary=The Inanomancer wields Spell Words like a blunt instrument applied swiftly to the head, causing confusion, havoc, and very little to do with careful spell design. |Length=5 |Minimum Level=5 |Base Attack Bonus Progression=Poor |Fortitude Save Progression=Poor |Reflex Save Progression=Poor |Will Save Progression=Good |Class Ability=Alternate Magic |Class Ability Progression=Partial }} {{#set:Allowed Alignments=Chaotic Good}} {{#set:Allowed Alignments=Chaotic Neutral}} {{#set:Allowed Alignments=Chaotic Evil}}
|Aagh! Why can't I get these nonsense words out of my head?! I'd stab somebody to vent my frustration, but the recoil would kill me.
|—Dur Mulbis, Human Commoner, The Tome of Apt Statements
Inanomancers mold the energy of spell words into gibberish, causing confusion and havoc amongst their enemies and friends.
Becoming an InanomancerEdit
Wordmasters and Word Wizards pursue this class in order to confuse enemies, force concentration checks, and spout random spells like nobody's business.
|Must be chaotic.
|Forgery 6 ranks.
|Cast at least 35 words per day.
|Must write a 20 page essay entirely out of meaningless made up words.
| Base
Attack Bonus
|Saving Throws
|Words per Day/Words Known
|Convincing Garbage, Murmur of Calming
|+1 level of existing class
|Aura of Gibberish, Blast of Incoherence
|+1 level of existing class
|Improved Gibbermagic, Shield of Faulty Logic
|Aura of Confusion
|+1 level of existing class
Class Skills (Skill Points::4 + Int modifier per level.
Class FeaturesEdit
Words: At every level except 1st and 4th, you gain new words per day, words known, and an increase in caster level as if you had also gained a level in a wordcasting class to which you belonged before adding the prestige class level. You do not, however, gain any other benefit a character of that class would have gained. If you had more than one wordcasting class before becoming an Inanomancer, you must decide to which class to add each level for the purpose of determining words per day, caster level, and words known.
Gibbermagic (Su): At level 1, the Inanomancer gains the ability to cast a spell randomly by spending only one word. The DC and time to cast it are only as much as it would take him to cast a one-word spell, but the spell level and Save DCs are proportional to the total number of words in the spell. The spell contains a random spell shape word he knows and two random effect words he knows. At level 4, the spell contains a random modifier word he knows, a random spell shape word he knows, and 1d4+1 random effect words he knows. Randomize at the time of casting, but before you choose targets.
Convincing Garbage (Su): At level 2, when the Inanomancer rolls a Bluff or Diplomacy check and dislikes the result, but before the DM provides indication of success or failure, he may spend two spell words to reroll the check. He may only do this once per check.
Murmur of Calming (Su): At level 2, the Inanomancer may spend one spell word during his turn to get a +5 bonus to his move silently and disguise checks for that round. Anybody coming into contact (opposing his move silently or disguise check with a roll of their own) with this ability for the first time that day may make a Will save (DC 20 + his class level + his Charisma modifier). If they succeed, they become aware of a murmuring in the back of their mind, although this does not tell them the source, the cause, or the effect.
Aura of Gibberish (Su): At level 3, the Inanomancer may spend three spell words during his turn to project a 1000 foot aura around himself for that round. While this aura is active, anybody within the aura other than him who attempts to cast a spell (or manifest a power) must make a concentration check (DC 15 + his caster level + his class level + his Charisma modifier) or the spell automatically fails.
Blast of Incoherence (Su): At level 3, the Inanomancer may take a standard action to spend any number of spell words. If he does so, one target within Close range of him must make a Will save with a DC equal to twice the number of words spent or take 1d8 Intelligence and 1d8 Wisdom damage.
Shield of Faulty Logic (Su): At level 4, the Inanomancer gains the ability to automatically succeed on one save per day. He must decide whether to use this ability before rolling.
Aura of Confusion (Su): At level 5, the Inanomancer may spend any number of spell words during his turn to project a 120 foot aura around himself for that round. At the beginning of any creature's turn, if that creature is within the aura, it must make a Will save with a DC equal to the number of words spent or be confused for 1d4 rounds.
Inanomancers who stop being Chaotic cannot gain additional levels of Inanomancer.
Inanomancer who become Lawful lose the Gibbermagic and Shield of Faulty Logic class features.
Campaign InformationEdit
Playing an InanomancerEdit
Combat: Inanomancers tie down the casters and wreak havoc amongst nearby creatures, whether friend or foe.
Inanomancers in the WorldEdit
|Modus Ipson Factum, Soribus Gonthum Malitum, therefore you owe me 50 gold pieces.
Inanomancers tend to be adventurous characters, since people will eventually realize what's going on.
NPC Reactions: Inanomancers are popular with followers of trickster deities. Followers of trickster deities are not popular with honest merchants.
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Having that nearly-annual moment...
(Mind you, they were at home last year, and there were plenty of photos of RickRo in his Canada Day duds to prove it. But we settled on the image above because of the gratuitous presence of Ed Sprague. We thought it proved our point.)
Okay, this is probably where we turn into a big sooky-baby spoiled kid in the mall parking lot, wailing at not being spoiled enough and blowing angry snot bubbles out of our nose. But is it too much for MLB to just do the Jays a solid and maybe let them play at home every July 1? The team is stuck in the perpetual Group of Death year after year, so the least you can do is give us one day to attract some extra proud Canadians down to the ballyard to hear some Trooper blasted over the loudspeakers and have some fireworks set off in the Dome.
We complain to avoid the real problems...
If Ricky Romero were to throw a perfect game, it could end up being one of those 10-hour long deals, because the Jays bats seem to go somnombulent when he is on the mound. Watching Aaron Hill whiff at Jake Westbrook's slider last night like he was channeling the Retro Handsome Alex Gonzalez made us wonder if the boys don't just breeze past the scouting reports when the good pitchers are on the mound.
When is a 4.50 ERA impressive?
It's impressive when you think that the pitcher still has a number somewhere in the mid 6.00's, until you realize that Brandon Morrow, tonight's starter against the Cleveland Racially- Insensitives, has given up a grand total of five earned runs in his last 34 innings of work, dropping his ERA down to respectability.
There's a part of us that wants to think that Morrow can become a younger, cheaper version of A.J. Burnett, with less douchebaggery and fewer excuses attached. Over the past month, Morrow's certainly been the far better pitcher of the two.
17 comments:
- Darren Priest said...
Yeah, the schedule is pretty awful this year. G20 BS was one thing, but you'd think they could get the Jays home for Canada Day. They have Cleveland at home at the end of the month, so why not switch it? Flip mode!
I say this as someone whose scheduling experience is pretty much limited to, "I'll watch the Simpsons at 9:00, then play xbox for 30 minutes, and then watch True Blood at 10."
- June 29, 2010 at 1:07 PM
- Navin Vaswani (@eyebleaf) said...
"The perpetual Group of Death ..." No shit, eh? It's hard enough playing in this God forsaken division, and having one helluva fucking interleague schedule, including three stolen home games, and on top of it all, we can't play at fucking home on Canada Day.
I need a cigarette.
- June 29, 2010 at 2:15 PM
- Ty said...
We were away for the Victoria Day weekend as well, and then inexplicably playing in Toronto the week after on Memorial Day. It's somebody's JOB to make the schedule; I would think you'd actually have to go out of your way to mess it up that badly.
- June 29, 2010 at 3:00 PM
I think they had to be away because of the long set up for the U2 concert scheduled for July 3rd.
Of course, the concert's not even going ahead now.
- June 29, 2010 at 3:12 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
I always knew you could blame it on Bono.
Goddamn it man! Wasn't "Pop" bad enough?
(Says the man who secretly loves "Pop"...)
- June 29, 2010 at 3:38 PM
- Ty said...
If anybody's looking for something positive to think about, let's take a look at J.P Arencibia's line in Vegas so far this year:
306/.354/.616 (that's good for a .969 OPS) with 18 HR, 23 2B, and perhaps most impressively, 20 walks so far (his career high for walks is 26 entering this season).
- June 29, 2010 at 3:49 PM
- Darren Priest said...
I actually had planned to see that show until it was canceled.
I've never seen U2 live and I really want to before either Bono or I die. Doing my level best to beat him to the grave.
- June 29, 2010 at 4:04 PM
- Mattt said...
Morrow already is a cheaper AJ-if he can keep
this up that is.
Somnombulant, that there is one of them big words...
- June 29, 2010 at 4:38 PM
- mathesond said...
Pretty sure the Jays have requested to be on the road for Canadian holidays, as TV viewership is down, and people tend to go out of town
- June 29, 2010 at 4:53 PM
- The Ack said...
I haven't liked U2 since Rattle & Hum. Does that make me a bad person?
- June 29, 2010 at 4:56 PM
- LJ said...
FWIW, I'm pretty sure it's up to the clubs to make special scheduling requests. So it wouldn't surprise me if either the Jays didn't care, or they figured the CDN holidays wouldn't generate enough extra $$ to make it worth the effort.
- June 29, 2010 at 6:29 PM
Ah come on Ack, Achtung Baby was a great album! Now that Passengers "soundtrack" deserves to be mocked.
I've always thought, can you imagine the kind of crap that Bono would release if he went solo? Frank Black times ten I tell you (I'm aware that Mr. Black has done some great stuff, but does anyone need to put out this many records).
Ack, can you recommend a place to drink in the Peg on an upcoming Sunday and Monday night? Last time I think I went to the Toad.
Also, can I tempt anyone in the roto-league in a slightly damaged Tigers reliever?
- June 29, 2010 at 6:31 PM
- The Ack said...
Where you coming from & where are you staying?
If you've never been, you should probably consider the cliched Winnipeg Earls (on Main, preferably) experience. For the, uh, "atmosphere".
Haven't been in a while, but Kings Head Pub in the Exchange district used to be cool.
If Goldeyes in town, spend $10 on a ticket and drink beers at the ballpark. Highly recommended.
I don't even know what goes on at the Forks these days. Maybe patio at Muddy Waters or something.
There's a huge new sports bar opened up on Portage across from MTS Centre. Never been, though.
Really, I'm lame. My cool pass expired about four years ago. So apologies if none of the above work out for you....
- June 29, 2010 at 7:01 PM
U2 blows...
- June 29, 2010 at 7:57 PM
Ah, Earl's on Main. How I miss it. Actually, I miss the service industry at large in Winnipeg. The worst culture shock I had to deal with when moving to oil country was the fact that everyone takes in stride the terrible service provided at restaurants and bars.
And yeah, U2 sucks ass.
- June 30, 2010 at 12:18 PM
Thanks Ack, I'll drop you a line through the Tao. I'm moving from Edmonton to Ottawa and if I can make it out of Winnipeg without my car being stolen like last time, I'll be pleased. Staying in Armstrong Pt. area I think.
Service industry has improved slightly in Alberta, I knew a bartender who was fired for "being an asshole to customers". The couple trips to Fort Mac were awesome to witness customer service though.
- June 30, 2010 at 1:23 PM
- SP said...
Scrappy, I'll take your slightly damaged Tiger reliever for my seasoned Chase Utley. Ty, I feel for you in our DJF league, brother.
JPA had such a ridiculous month, that his 2/5 the other day LOWERED his numbers for the month. Time to boot Buck and bring the guy up. His eye isn't ever going to improve anyway.
- July 1, 2010 at 12:15 AM


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While thus far my music "career" has only involved DJing, I'm very serious about starting to produce. I really don't want my first tunes to sound amateurish so I want to do all the research I possibly can into getting the right equipment and software.
I really have no idea where to start, so I'll ask first: Logic, or Ableton (or something completely different)? Simple advantages / disadvantages to each? Does it matter much in terms of what style I want to produce?
I definitely want to produce drum & bass. I have some good samples for melodies at my disposal I collected over the years, but I have no idea how synth pads or sub-bass lines are created. I'm assuming stock instruments in software are rarely used, so what software, controllers, and plug-ins are needed to create good pads and sub-bass sounds from scratch (or are most of them created using stock instruments as a base)? Is there anywhere I can watch some quality, professional walkthroughs on step-by step drum & bass production?
29th June 2011, 17:57
Ph1l2007 Wrote:Logic, or Ableton (or something completely different)? Simple advantages / disadvantages to each? Does it matter much in terms of what style I want to produce?Big 5 names in the DAW world are: Cubase, Reason, Ableton, FL Studio, Logic (Mac only!). You may want to download demos of these programs first and check which programs suits you best. People will most likely always name you their favorite program which they're currently using and saying it has these and those advantages over those programs, but I say it's a personal thing, no one knows which workflow YOU are best with. And every program has its advantages and disadvantages. Bear it. (e.g. Cubase has no Sampler and Ableton no Audio Editor (as far as I'm aware), etc...). And no, it does not matter much in terms of what style you want to produce.
Ph1l2007 Wrote:I really don't want my first tunes to sound amateurish so I want to do all the research I possibly can into getting the right equipment and software.
Lol, "the right equipment" won't guarantee you no amateurish sound at all. Musical diversement comes from experience and from the heart, a good setup is just finetuning which one should take care of when he's feeling right about what he's producing IMO. You can do a lot with solely a program of your choice, a keyboard, a mouse and headphones. Ask Tim Reaper You'd be better waiting with hardware equipment (or other equipment with costs in general) to buy.
As for synth software: depends on what kind of sound you want to produce. Native Instruments has some nice synths, Absynth, FM8 and Massive, just to name a few. Omnisphere by Spectrasonics is also said to be nice. You can get free but good synth and effect VSTs over here http://kunz.corrupt.ch/products. However, you don't hear much synthesizers in leftfield dnb, so don't rely on them too much (if you aim for this sound of course).
Just my 2 cents
29th June 2011, 22:36
A widely massive question! Take what skygene said, add in a pinch of Reaper & Renoise for 2 more excellent and affordable daws.
Fully agree on the right equipment. Learn with what you get with the package and a few other bits and bobs in terms of plugins. Dont get too hung up on getting the right equipment at the start, it's all about familiarising yourself with the software, with how to create, how to arrange etc. There's so much to learn, but my advice is to read as many production articles as possible, look at production videos on YouTube. Then apply it in your own way.
There's so much more to say. Just get messing around.
30th June 2011, 10:00
If i was starting again now id prob go with ableton... ive used cubase for years and its awesome but steep learning curve. You can also DJ with ableton.
You can get the lite version for £100 ish for a start its more than powerful, get a few free VST synths etc for now (TAL, Synth1, come back for more info) and some free effects and some samples (tons all over the place, lots of known good ones on my site for a kickoff), and youre off.
Youll need an asio driver for your built in pc if youre using that, if youre not buying a decent soundcard, if you are, then budget will dictate the best one, the small USB focusrite ones are very good.
Also i cant recommend decent monitors enough, its so much harder and frustrating learning on crap speakers....
Such an open ended question tho Come back when youve had a look around.
But generally these days, all equipment/software is so ridiculously powerful and cheap compared to when i started (:grandad you cant really go wrong.
30th June 2011, 17:14
My advice is.. If you have an iPhone (or even better an iPad) then buy NanoStudio.
Upload shitload of breaks. Learn. Learn. Enjoy.
Your new found knowledge will inform your decision regarding other software, plus there are loads of incredible music/sound/instrument/manipulation/performance apps available for your iOS device for buttons... Like Horizon Synth, Looptastic, SampleWiz, Filtatron, ThumbJam, StudioTrack, Meteor..
You can do it all in the box tbh. Helps with the authentic early 90's sound
1st July 2011, 07:45
Download some demos of different sequencers then go from there. See what floats your boat. for me it's all about renoise and ableton. Renoise is super easy to get beats down and ableton is fun for time stretching and DJing..
beats are there to be broken http://musicindevon.org/
1st July 2011, 13:39
rondema Wrote:My advice is.. If you have an iPhone (or even better an iPad) then buy NanoStudio.
I'm still waiting for a native iPad nano studio. Then I'll buy it for definite.
Have all those apps above got audiocopy functionality now?
Get some of your tunes upped mate, want to hear your nanostudio creations.
1st July 2011, 17:38
Talking about iOS, I can highly recommend SunVox... it's for free!
It's also tracker based
1st July 2011, 22:15
I've switched from Cubase to MULAB since moving:
It's a free tracker and I can work the sequencer really easily.
Now it's all a matter of finding out how to chop breaks in it, since it's MIDI based so I can't cut up and loop bars.
2nd July 2011, 19:32
Muttley Wrote:I've switched from Cubase to MULAB since moving:
If you want to keep it on the free scene, seen. You could go with good old shortcircuit for your vst sampler. Its not exactly the most accurate or quickest way to chop up samples but its not too bad. Gets a bit tedious for long break samples with umpteen drum hits to chop but for shorter samples its not so bad.
Its also a good free sampler for the o/p to check out. I honestly dont use any other software sampler now and havent for ages, even gave up on kontakt and battery finally. I still have motu mach five installed but never use it.
5th July 2011, 22:46
Fada Wrote:If you want to keep it on the free scene, seen. You could go with good old shortcircuit for your vst sampler. Its not exactly the most accurate or quickest way to chop up samples but its not too bad. Gets a bit tedious for long break samples with umpteen drum hits to chop but for shorter samples its not so bad.
Cheers Fada, installed it and assigning breaks to the keyboard already. Shortcircuit 2 didn't work with MULAB when I tried it - strange - but this will be more than ample for my requirements.
To add to the discussion from this: MULAB has a walk-through tutorial online if you search YouTube. I've since upgraded and purchased four more tracks to produce on.
8th July 2011, 14:17
i dont think version 2 of shortcircuit was ever finished so thats maybe why
i just use the v 1.1.2
17th August 2011, 16:54
Right. That's the one I have. Upon playing around with it and a quick flick through the Knowledge Base, it seems I can't actually record the breaks into the MULAB sequencer even when I've sliced them to a keymap and play each.
I will figure it out, as well as how to re-pitch samples, but any help greatly appreciated. I used to work with NI Battery, but that was 2006.
New discovery I was happy to make: MULAB allows you to assign notes to keys on your laptop or wireless keyboard. There's a 'show virtual MIDI keyboard' function in the 'Edit' panel where you can also choose QWERTY or A/X variant.
4th December 2017, 22:44
Ph1l2007 - How did the recommendations turn out? Did you get your setup in place?
15th January 2019, 08:37
...just start cranking things out; doesn't matter how, really
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Johnny Manziel's day began late because of the NCAA and ended early because of his mouth.
In between he looked like Johnny Football at his best.
After serving his first-half suspension, the Heisman Trophy winner threw three TD passes, scrambled for 19 yards — and, well, acted up — while No. 7 Texas A&M rolled over Rice, 52-31 , on Saturday.
Manziel was sitting out because of what the school called an "inadvertent" violation of NCAA rules involving signing autographs.
His first touchdown came on a 23-yard pass to Mike Evans on A&M's second drive of the half. But just before that, Manziel got into it with a Rice defender, appearing to mimic signing an autograph while getting up from a tackle.
Coach Kevin Sumlin said he didn't see that exchange, but would have "done something about it" if he did.
Manziel ended his day by getting yanked following an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for pointing at the scoreboard after a TD pass in the fourth quarter.
"A foolish penalty at the end," Sumlin said. "No matter what the comments are or what. He's going to face that every week with the people chirping. That's not OK, and obviously I addressed that on the sideline right after the play. That's something he's going to have to deal with every week."
Manziel, who was replaced by starting Matt Joeckel on A&M's last drive, wasn't made available to the media after the game.
He did address his teammates on Friday night and discussed, according to Sumlin, the "mistakes he's made." The meeting was a condition for reinstatement.
"Maybe actions you think just hurt you end up hurting the whole football team," Sumlin said. "That was the real gist of his message to the team, that everybody's individual acts affect the team and when that happens it's not good."
Manziel had been investigated for allegedly accepting money for autographs from memorabilia brokers, a violation of NCAA rules that could have led to a much longer suspension.
Instead, Manziel only had to sit out the first two quarters to start a season that followed a very special one: He became the first freshman to win the Heisman, set numerous school and Southeastern Conference records and led the Aggies to an 11-2 mark and a victory over No. 1 Alabama.
As for the opener, Joeckel threw for 190 yards and a touchdown to help the Aggies to a 28-21 lead at halftime.
Manziel came in on Texas A&M's first offensive series of the second half. He scrambled for 12 and 7 yards, threw an incompletion and then was sacked and the Aggies capped his first drive with a 44-yard field goal.
Manziel extended A&M's lead to 38-21 with the touchdown pass to Evans.
Ben Malena grabbed an 18-yard pass from Manziel early in the fourth quarter to extend the lead to 45-28.
Rice failed to convert on fourth down on its next drive and Manziel took advantage of the short field two plays later when he hit a wide-open Evans in the end zone for a 9-yard touchdown. Then he got a flag.
Asked afterward if he was ready to pull Manziel before the penalty, Sumlin said: "Nope."
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"That's how he is. He's a fiery guy and that's what we love about him," he said. "He's not quiet. He's not shy. He's going to be loud and aggressive and that's what makes him Johnny Football. So we love it."
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Ross got Rice within 10 points with a 1-yard run seconds into the fourth quarter.
"I thought we played well," Rice coach David Bailiff said. "We are going to be a good Conference USA team. Our goals are still intact."
The Aggies struggled early in the first half, possibly due to the suspensions of five defensive starters: cornerbacks Deshazor Everett and De'Vante Harris, tackle Kirby Ennis, end Gavin Stansbury and linebacker Steven Jenkins. Backup safety Floyd Raven also was suspended.
The two-game penalties for Harris, Stansbury, Jenkins and receiver Edward Pope were announced just minutes before kickoff, meaning their first game action will be against top-ranked Alabama on Sept. 14.
Everett's suspension was for a half. He started on defense after the break but was ejected in the fourth quarter for targeting.
The Aggies wore helmet stickers to remember defensive lineman Polo Manukainiu, who was killed in a New Mexico car crash along with two others late last month. The sticker is black and white and features his No. 90 with designs in the number that were inspired by his Tongan heritage.
The Aggies relied on the running game in the second quarter to complete a touchdown drive with a 1-yard run by Carson to even the score. Malena had 82 yards rushing with a touchdown and a touchdown catch. Tra Carson added 76 yards rushing and two touchdowns for the Aggies.
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Rice led 7-0 after a 1-yard run by Ross. With Manziel watching from the sidelines sporting a visor, A&M evened it up when Ben Malena scored on a 4-yard run, but the Owls took a 14-7 lead when McHargue found Charles Ross on a 19-yard touchdown pass with seven minutes left in the first quarter.
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$12,000 left at restaurant: Gift or drug money?
A Minnesota waitress who says a customer told her she could keep a box containing $12,000 has sued after police impounded the cash as suspected drug money.
Stacy Knutson of Moorhead, Minn., filed a lawsuit asking that the cash be returned to her. She said she believes the money was meant as an anonymous gift from someone who knew that she, her husband and five children were struggling with severe financial difficulties.
"I do know that the person gave me what was in that to-go bag," Knutson wrote in the lawsuit filed in March. "Thus as I understand it, it is mine."
A message left at Knutson's home Wednesday was returned by her attorney, Craig Richie, who said his client is "overwhelmed" and didn't want to speak to a reporter.
The lawsuit says Knutson was working at the Fry'n Pan restaurant when a customer left behind a takeout box from another restaurant. She followed the diner to her car and tried to return the box but the lady said, "No, I am good, you keep it," the lawsuit said.
When Knutson went back into the kitchen and opened the box, she found three wads of bills -- $100s, $50s, $20s and $10s -- wrapped in rubber bands, Richie said.
Even though she really needed the money, she decided to call police, her attorney said.
Officers told her to wait 90 days in case someone claimed the money. No one did but police still refused to return the cash, saying it was being held in a drug investigation because it smelled of marijuana, Richie said.
But if Knutson believed the diner was the rightful owner of the cash, and that the diner gave her explicit permission to keep the money, why would Knutson even bother going to police?
"She's saying, hey, this is a lot of money," Richie said. "She doesn't want to be in a position where she's doing something wrong."
After no one claimed the money, that confirmed for her that the money was truly a gift, Richie said.
Moorhead police Lt. Tory Jacobson said when money is usually found and turned over to police, the finder can keep it if no one claims it in 90 days. But in a narcotics case, the money goes to the county attorney's office unless the finder persuades a judge to award the cash to them, he said.
"That doesn't mean she can't raise the issue with the judge," Jacobson said of Knutson. "It's just not the police department's decision to make."
Richie said police told him they smelled marijuana on the bills and that a police dog confirmed their suspicions. Jacobson acknowledged that a police dog detected an unspecified drug.
But Richie said at least one of Knutson's co-workers took a deep whiff of the bills to jokingly see what that much money smells like, and the man didn't detect any scent of marijuana.
And even if the bills did smell of drugs, Richie said that doesn't give police the right to keep them. Jacobson declined to comment, citing the ongoing investigation.
The lawsuit says Knutson is not being accused of having anything to do with drugs herself.
Knutson said she was convinced about what really happened: that the windfall was God's way of answering her family's prayers.
"It is a complete miracle to see our prayers answered," she wrote, "but then difficult to face the reality of the struggle it is to obtain it (the money) from the Moorhead Police Department."


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Wabash President Patrick White has named Greg Redding the College's new Faculty Athletic Representative. Dr. Redding, associate professor of German, assumes the position held for more than a decade by Professor Tobey Herzog.
The Faculty Athletic Representative is a member of the faculty at an NCAA member institution designated to ensure that the College establishes and maintains the appropriate balance between academics and intercollegiate athletics
"Greg Redding has demonstrated leadership in all aspects of his life, and as a former student-athlete at Wabash, he knows the demands and the rewards of participating in intercollegiate athletics," said President White. "I'm pleased that he will continue Tobey's work to expand on the relationships between faculty and coaches necessary to achieve a perfect balance for the men of Wabash."
Redding, a German major and 1988 Wabash College graduate, was a member of Wabash's cross country team as a student. He later earned his master's degree and Ph.D. in German literature from the University of Cincinnati.
Prior to returning to teach at his alma mater in 2002, Dr. Redding taught in the German Department at Washington and Jefferson College, where he served as the school's men's and women's cross country coach for five seasons.
"We are fortunate at Wabash that the faculty and the athletic department have a shared sense of purpose, and on one level all I need do is maintain the strong faculty-coach relationship that Tobey and his predecessors have cultivated over the years," said Redding.
Redding is an avid runner who specializes in ultra-marathons ranging in distance from 50 to 100 miles. In fall 2011, he taught a Freshman Tutorial that studied distance running through the lens of the liberal arts. In that course, his students had the opportunity to run with — and learn from — famed German-born distance runner and author, Bernd Heinrich, who wrote Why We Run: A Natural History. Redding also ran with his students on their final exam project — the Tecumseh Trail Marathon on December 3.
"Teaching and coaching are similar endeavors, and the lessons learned in athletic contests complement those learned in the classroom," said Redding. "In my freshman tutorial on the Theory and Lore of Running, we looked at running as a liberal art. As the Faculty Athletic Representative, I would be interested in leading an inquiry into how the intellectual and the physical intersect at Wabash."
Redding begins his responsibilities immediately.


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The Eyebrow People left on Friday and went back to Frozen River Land, so that's good, but I have a feeling they'll be back soon enough, pregnant Jasmine and all.
In other news, the Amy Winehouse of our family escaped from rehab last week and we've all been pretty upset and disappointed. Another patient there called up her dealer to come pick them up and within minutes, she was out of there and headed back home and once she got there her family pretty much had a giant enabling party.
Addicts are manipulators. They are masters at it. I don't get how they manage to put so many people under their spell - people who know very clearly that these individuals are addicts and people who have seen the addicts at their worst. Yet still, they manage to believe their lies. I do not get it and it's painful and frustrating to watch. Our little addict decided to call everyone in the family and trash talk our family and say that we put her in a hell hole and that it's a cult. They abused her there. They were mean to her. They told her she is a bad mother and a bad wife. SHE IS. The ridiculous thing is that the whole family knows she is a train wreck, has seen her at her worst, has been victimized by her theft and abuse, has seen her literally endanger the life of a severely disabled child in the family and STILL they believe and side with her and say "How could they put her in a place like that?" So now, everyone else on my mom's side of the family is mad at us, including my grandmother who refuses to believe the addict is an addict. The addict's own husband, who begged us to come help her, is now saying that he doesn't think she ever really had a problem and it was wrong to put her in a place with crackheads and junkies and it was cruel and that now she has post traumatic stress disorder from it (which is a great excuse to get some more pills by the way). So great. And you know what's the saddest part? This is a pretty common story.
My aunt and uncle (Bella's parents) were here Saturday. They got in from a cruise and had several hours before their plane back to Millpond left, so I picked them up and took them to lunch, where we discussed Chastity's wedding. They think she's pregnant and that she's doing this whole thing because her younger sister Charity got married last July and was pregnant by September.
Chastity called me last night. I think she reads this blog. I really do. I don't know how she would have found it, but I have sensed on many occasions that she's reading and knows its me. I've seen her town on my site meter a few times, but it's a big place and I can't be sure. The reason I think she's reading is because she's called me before after certain posts and sort of vaguely referenced them. For instance, last night she called me to ask me to read at her wedding. I told her I'd think about it. Then we got into a conversation about how much easier the wedding is without her mother. She brought it up. She said her mother would have controlled and complained about everything and insisted on too many complicated conditions. But then she started talking about how her mom wasn't as bad as I think and that, yes, her mother was obsessive and controlling and had a very all or nothing attitude about everything, that she was still a good person.
"She really was a good person. You have to understand that. She meant well."
I don't know if I believe that, but I'm glad that Chastity is able to have some good memories of her.
Then Chastity and I had a very enlightening conversation about why her mother was a religious fanatic and Chastity, who is extremely articulate and still possesses that weird self awareness, was able to explain it to me in a way that I could finally understand.
"She had no identity without it."
The church gave her a sense of belonging and a set of hard and fast rules to live by so she didn't have to think. It was who she was. It also gave her a community because she had never been the kind of girl who made friends easily. It helped her to not be lonely. That's what being a mother did for her too. Motherhood also gave her an identity and I never realized that Louise, I guess, didn't really have a sense of who she was and needed all this other stuff, all of these other fringe beliefs and fads and ideologies to believe in because she was unable to come up with her own ideas and her own beliefs and because she was utterly incapable of understanding nuance and grey areas. She was attracted to extremes because they shut out other possibilities and her mind couldn't handle other possibilities.
I think this is really key to understanding a lot of people. I had no idea, until I wrote about my experiences, that so many of us had lived with or known or had relatives who were religious fanatics. This fanaticism can really hurt people and so many of you have been wounded by it in some way too. It's really sad, but I think a way to overcoming the hurt is to understand what was going on behind it all. Understanding Louise a little more has helped me to be able to feel compassion for her and to not see her as the two dimensional evil stepmother, so I was really grateful for the conversation Chastity and I had last night. And I don't care if she's secretly reading this or not.
Besides that, my husband has been sick for going on three weeks now and he will not get his stubborn ass to the doctor. The problem is that his best friend is a gyno and he just asks him to check him out and write him prescriptions because he doesn't want to go to the doctor and pay our $35 co-pay. I know that's what it is, although he denies it. So my husband's gyno gave him some cough medicine and a Z-pack, but it didn't work and then he said that he thought husband had pneumonia, which he shrugged off and has totally ignored. And by the way, my husband's best friend is NOT my ob/gyn because eww, how weird would that be? In case you were wondering and I kind of hope you weren't. I do have him look at my blood work results on occasion and I've been known to call him up when I've sworn I had pancreatic cancer, ALS, brain tumors, Hodgkins Disease and multiple myeloma. He's good at talking me down from the ledge. At Christmas I became convinced I was having a lupus flare and was going to have kidney failure and die before New Years and he was able to assure me, correctly, that I had a virus. But anyway, my husband has been sick for three weeks and is ignoring his friend's advice. I don't know what to do. He's sleeping all the time which is very out of the ordinary for him. He's normally a hummingbird of constant motion. He's also coughing up blood. Not good.
"But if I die," he said, "Then you can sell all our stuff, take our savings and go live in Paris."
Which means that if my parents and friend die on the bus on an icy road and my husband dies of pneumonia, that I'll be living in Paris AND wearing Gucci.
But I'd rather have my family and continue to wear Merona.
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Hon, if he's coughing up blood, you pack your husband into the car whether he wants to go or not, and haul his sick butt to the doctor's office, because that is not something he's going to just "get better" from.
- Unknown said...
Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is one those times that what he wants to do is not an option anymore. And whatever you have to do to get him to the doctor (manipulation, force, guilt, etc) is fair game.
- MtnMama said...
The first winter my ex-husband and I were together, he got pneumonia (that's what I suspect your husband has) and refused to go see a doctor. When I was finally able to haul his butt in, because he was so sick he could no longer resist, the doctor CHASTISED me severely for waiting so long.
Hope it goes better for you.
- JoeinVegas said...
Sorry the folks are gone - they seem like such fun people.
And yes, kick hubby's butt and drive him down there
- Unknown said...
I agree with rabrab. It's not just the regular cold or flu if he's coughing up blood. Take him to a doctor (not gyno) ASAP! Use force if necessary.
- Living said...
def get him to a doc... even if you have to knock him upside his head and drag him there...
I agree, get him to the doc, pronto. No doc, no nookie. That might work.
Good luck, I hope he feels better soon.
Remind hubby how lucky he is to have health insurance and that $35 copay still beats what many Americans without insurance have to pay.
Nah, I couldn't give crap to my honey if he was sick. Just dress him and tell him you are in the mood to go out. I know it is not good to lie to hubby but if you were coughing up blood he'd taken you to the doctor long time ago.
On the evil stepmother you wrote: "She had no identity without it." I've seen in many cases how procreation and religious fanaticism go hand-in-hand. How pathetic.
Yeah, coughing up blood isn't "nothing" and husband needs to get in to a doc. I don't like them either, but sometimes you just need 'em.
Interesting insight about Louise. I know fanatics are generally people who don't feel competant to make their own decisions, and can't handle nuance, but I hadn't thought about the identity bit.
I also think this identity crisis stuff is one reason some women have babies. They don't have to think about it for 20 years. Then they hit 40, kid moves out, and they have that empty nest thing. Then if you're my aunt, you have another baby to put it off again.
Good wishes to your parents driving in the nasty stuff! I hope they have a good trip.
- Heather said...
I'm sorry to hear about your escapee Amy Winehouse, and I'm hoping she will decide to return on her own soon. In the meantime, try not to drive anywhere with her. And for sure take your husband to the doctor even if you have to lie and tell him you are taking him for donuts.
- Rich said...
I have seen my share of drug addicts, and religious nuts, and addicts who find god and become religious nuts. (Effectively replacing one addiction with another). We took my neighbor in because her boyfriend was a piece of shit and she had no other place, and she was a good person till she got around the wrong people and ended up on drugs. She left one day and didn't return. I took care of her children for almost a year with no assistance from any agency, until I just couldn't do it any more (Financially), and their grandmother had to take them. I seriously should blog about it.
You know, this religious discussion and story sharing has been a real *blessing* for me (pardon the pun).
I lived in Fort Lauderdale with my then husband (now ex). One day he came home looking like he had one up on me (what I have since started referring to as the 'born again' look). Being as I wasn't about to compete with Jesus I did what any sinner would do - hauled ass.
His mom wasn't quite so lucky. After refusing to walk into the water at the beach to be baptized, his mom, good catholic that she was, got treated to an impromptu swim as he drove off the intercoastal bridge to baptize her. He got Baker Acted for that one. Mom rolled the window down during the dive and got out safely.
He would say "God talked to me. He wants us to stay together." I would say, "next time don't be such an asshole and score the lottery numbers."
Funny now but the whole ordeal traumatized me badly.
Hi, been a lurker for a while and decided I had to comment today. Right now my mom is dying of lung cancer and alcoholism. We have been told to prepare ourselves and that she has less than a month. On the first day at the hospital, I asked her to please, please, please stop the manipulations and just be honest with not only her care team but her family as well. She hasn't stopped and like you said, despite everyone knowing her history and that she is a manipulator, they are believing her and I have been turned into the horrible, mean daughter who "forced" her to say she wanted hospice care instead of any treatment and she is "scared" of me. The manipulative fun just doesn't stop, even when she is dying.
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Researchers looking at cognitive science have long studied chess. But a story on Scientific American shows that chess' days could soon be numbered, because a superior model is emerging: Blizzard's StarCraft II.
Scientists are hailing the game for its ability to help them study "attention, multitasking, and learning", the game's quick speed and reliance on strategy blowing chess out of the water in terms of challenging us mentally.
What's more, cognitive scientist Mark Blair is now running a project called SkillCraft, in which the skills players develop and use for the purposes of StarCraft (in particular the awesome multitasking that's required) are being examined to see if they can help in other aspects of life.
And if they can? Then that knowledge can be used to help everyone in the world who doesn't play StarCraft. Just in case they ever need to...construct additional pylons...in their yard...or something.
How a Computer Game is Reinventing the Science of Expertise [Scientific American, via PC Gamer]


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Curiosity hunkered down after the sun unleashed a blast that raced toward Mars.
While the hardy rover was designed to withstand punishing space weather, its handlers decided to power it down as a precaution since it suffered a recent computer problem.
"We're being more careful," project manager Richard Cook of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory said Wednesday.
While Curiosity slept, the Opportunity rover and two NASA spacecraft circling overhead carried on with normal activities.
On Tuesday, scientists noticed a huge flare erupting from the sun that hurled a stream of radiation in Mars' direction. The solar burst also spawned a cloud of superheated gas that barreled toward the red planet at 2 million mph.
The eruption did not appear severe or extreme, but "middle of the road, all things considered" said space weather chief Bob Rutledge at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The solar tempest was not expected to have an impact on Earth. In the past, such outbursts have triggered solar storms with the ability to disrupt utility grids, airline flights, satellite networks and GPS services. They're also known to produce shimmering auroras in places farther from the poles.
Since Mars lacks a planet-wide magnetic field, it does not experience geomagnetic storms. Rather, the planet sees a spike in radiation, Rutledge said.
Powerful solar blasts can cause trouble to Mars spacecraft. In 2003, an intense solar flare knocked out the radiation detector on the Odyssey orbiter.
NASA does not expect similar drama from the latest solar activity.
In the worst-case scenario, one or more of the working Mars spacecraft may enter "safe mode" in which science activities are halted but they remain in contact with Earth.
"We'll be watching and seeing what happens," said Roger Gibbs, JPL deputy manager for the Mars exploration program.
The unsettled space weather comes as Curiosity is recovering from a memory hiccup that put its science experiments on hold. It was the first major problem to hit the car-size rover since it landed last year in an ancient crater near the Martian equator to hunt for the chemical building blocks of life.
Engineers were in the middle of troubleshooting when they decided to wait for the weather to pass. The delay means it'll take longer for Curiosity to return to analyzing the pinch of rock powder it collected from a recent drilling.
Since its instruments are turned off, it can't use its radiation sensor to track the solar particles.
"It's just bad timing," Cook said.
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Tommy Tuberville acknowledged in an ESPN interview Thursday that the Texas Tech coaching job "wasn't a great fit at times" and endorsed the university's hiring of Kliff Kingsbury as his replacement.
Tuberville discussed the unexpected chain of events during ESPN's telecast of the Belk Bowl in which Cincinnati beat Duke. He's taking over as head coach at Cincinnati after three years at Texas Tech.
His Dec. 8 resignation took nearly everyone at Tech by surprise.
"It's the business we're in," Tuberville told the ESPN broadcast team. "I just love coaching. I love being around kids. We had great football kids at Texas Tech.
"That was a tough situation, taking over for Mike Leach, the things that he had done. I was a totally different type of coach. It wasn't a great fit at times, but I felt like we got the program back where they're very competitive. Kliff Kingsbury's one of their own and I think he'll do a great job there, so it's probably good for all."
Tuberville went 20-17 coaching Tech. The Red Raiders were 7-5 in the 2012 regular season, but had lost four of their last five games going into Friday night's Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas.
Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt told the Avalanche-Journal he was frustrated by how the team finished. He said he told Tuberville after the season that improvements and changes had to be made.
Though Cincinnati wrapped up its fifth 10-win season in six years with the 48-34 victory over Duke, Tuberville's move is viewed by many as a step down. The Bearcats have one of the oldest stadiums in Division I and play in the Big East Conference, whose football future is cloudy.
ESPN play-by-play announcer Mike Patrick asked Tuberville if he made the move based more on personal than professional reasons.
"That's probably fair," Tuberville said. "I go in and take over for a guy that throws for five, six hundred (yards) a game and I'm a defensive guy. And I was accepted by a lot of people there. Again, our program was going in the right direction. The administration was great to me.
"But sometimes you think in your heart you have to make a decision of what's best for you and your family - and also for Texas Tech. I think they're going to take a step forward with Kliff Kingsbury, and hopefully I did the right thing coming to Cincinnati. I know I made the right move. I'm just hopeful of getting in the right conference to have the opportunity to play for championships."
Tuberville resigned at Tech and was introduced as head coach at Cincinnati on the same day.
"There's no easy way to leave," he said. "I left in a matter of eight or nine hours. I had no thoughts of leaving Texas Tech. It's a great place, great people. But this just seemed the right fit for some reason. My wife's from this (Cincinnati) area, so we're looking forward to it."
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Are you enrolled in one of our many health career programs? Are you a recent graduate of a program? If so, we've just launched a great new website that can help you find a job.
The website is
healthjobs.dcccd.edu and it's growing every day. More and more health providers are listing jobs on the website. More graduates are using it to find jobs. Eventually, HELIX may be the best health career jobs site in Dallas County.
Haven't heard of HELIX? If you want a career in a health field, you need to know about it.
How HELIX Works
HELIX connects employers to graduates (and soon-to-be grads) of our colleges' health care programs. Employers post job openings on HELIX. Students of the colleges of DCCCD post resumes, reference letters and other documents. You can search for jobs by city or by job title, among other filters. High-demand jobs and overlooked jobs are highlighted in a "Featured Jobs" section. Both big institutions and small businesses post jobs.
HELIX goes further than general jobs websites. Shannon Ydoyaga is executive director of DCCCD's
Health Careers Resource Center, which runs HELIX. She notes that HELIX allows for more detail than general jobs sites.
"HELIX is unique in that it lets students load in the details of licensure and organizations they work with," Ydoyaga said. "It gets very specific."
Not Just Nursing Jobs
"Lots of times students have only heard about nursing," notes Ydoyaga. "They don't realize there are more than 200 career options."
Besides nursing, popular jobs include
medical assisting, pharmacy technician and
medical laboratory technician.
"Even on the administrative side, there are lots of opportunities in jobs such as medical coding and billing," Ydoyaga says. Such programs include
Medical Front Office and Medical Staff Services.
What the Health Careers Resource Center Does
The Health Careers Resource Center is the hub at DCCCD for helping students with health-related careers.
"We talk with graduates about the next step," Ydoyaga says. "For example, after completing an RN [registered nurse] program, what's the next step?" It could be a job. Or it could be transfer to a university. The center provides intensive career and program information related to health care fields.
"What we know is if a student is a good fit for a program, they tend to be more successful," says Ydoyaga.
Check out healthjobs.dcccd.edu today! And be sure to contact the
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Kevin Henrikson of Zimbra gave a presentation on Ajax Unplugged at ETech. The presentation discusses the various options for offline that are out there, the approach Zimbra has taken, and the challenges for the developer: Selecting *what* to take offline Security risks Does the user need it? Can they use it offline? Sync is hard Read the rest…
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WATAIN: Los Angeles In-Store Announced
Swedish black metallers WATAIN will make an in-store appearance on April 25 at Dark Realm Records in Downey, California between 3:00 p.m. and 4:45 p.m.
WATAIN will release a new DVD, "Opus Diaboli", in North America on June 5. The production commemorates the band's 13 years of chaos by providing a visual and audio documentation of their ceremonial anniversary concert performance in Stockholm and the long years of physical, intellectual and spiritual work leading up to it. "Opus Diaboli" is an epic 90-minute journey into the forbidden realms of wild-hearted Satanic metal and the manifestation of a unique band that has truly chosen a path few have ever dared to tread upon.
Comments the band in a collective statement: "This movie was first meant to be the recording of our 13-year anniversary concert, but as everything with WATAIN, it took on a life of its own and become one of our most ambitious projects to date. It is a very personal and emotional piece of work and is certainly not for the faint of heart. But for those who wish to explore the glimmering abyss of WATAIN further, this will be a rewarding release for sure. The box version of 'Opus Diaboli' [available exclusively through the band's own Wolfwear.net] contains an exclusive photobook. It was an overwhelming experience going through the massive archives in search of photos that best sum up the storm of passionate turmoil that has marked the WATAIN journey, especially since we wanted to stay away from live photos and focus more on moments off stage. The results were however very satisfying and offer a rare and spicy mixture of photos of which most have never been published previously. We are also proud to announce that this will be the first release on our own label His Master's Noise, a name originating from BATHORY who had it in mind for their own label back in the early 1980s. Just like with our merch store Wolfwear.net, from which the limited box set will be available, this time we have chosen to stand by our own and do things our way."
"Opus Diaboli" DVD: A four-panel digipack including the DVD, two audio CDs featuring the full concert plus a 16-page booklet with historical photos and flyers.
"Opus Diaboli" box: Limited 12-inch box including the DVD, two audio CDs and two LPs featuring the full concert plus an exclusive 64-page booklet with historical photos and flyers.
As previously announced, WATAIN will take part in the inaugural Decibel Magazine Tour alongside BEHEMOTH, THE DEVIL'S BLOOD and IN SOLITUDE. The live ceremonies will commence next week on April 11 in Ohio and bloody 26 stages, including a stop in Oklahoma City, where the trek will merge with the U.S. Torture Tour featuring CANNIBAL CORPSE, EXHUMED, ABYSMAL DAWN, and ARKAIK for an evening of audio devastation.
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