It's before midnight somewhere...

So now... The mother has the girl named valentine in the way of her son gaining her vast fortune from the paralysed father Noirtier, who in turn does not appreciate what the family has been up to in terms of planned marriages and has withfrawn his bill. Meanwhile the count of Monte Cristo has appeared and written a perscription for the mother, whom he reminds that the medcine can also be a poison. Also, during a ball he met mercedes again, who is dropping ints that she knows who he is. During this same ball, the grandmother and grandfather of Valentine both fall ill and quickly die. The local doctor suggests murder as a possibility. Drama, death, love and revenge: the best things from France.

These are some notes for when I get back home.

http://www.boston.com/bostonworks/galleries/30fast_declining_occupations?pg=2

So my reserach project is going to be on the ethics of laying off hundreds of workers and replacing with our soon-to-be robot overlords.

ReasonTV. "Mexicans and Machines: Drew Carey on Nafta". June 25, 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9csCerjfdE

In this video, Drew Carey explains how we blame job loss on Mexicans, even though the greatest job stealers are actually robots. He notes that all of the media is focused on exported jobs, while the real cause is at home. According to Carey, people wrongly blame NAFTA for allowing tis to continue. He claims that many more jobs were created by NAFTA than lost. He claims that the real threat lies with a worker that requires no sleep or pay. Factory and agricultural jobs are lost while their outputs increased. He also mentions a ninteenth century revolt against machines.

Anonymous. "Industrial robot". Wikipedia. December 7, 2008. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_robot

The Wikipedia article accurately details the history of a robot's use in industry, from patents of the 1950's to definitions and graphs of today's modern working man. The article also gives a sample of programming used in today's machines, and a small abridged article (with a link to the main article) on the future of robotics.

Werre you expecting something witty?

I'm still a little fuzzy on the details, but it appears that the count has freed several criminals, so that they in turn would capture Albert. Instead, they captured his friend, Franz, but still the count is now Albert's friend. Using this as a motive, he has renovated an old manor on Champs Elysies to his particular tastes. Now back in French Society, he has met all his old friends and enemies. He saved his old boss from commiting suicide when his company was sinking, and now his son (Maximillian) has fallen in love with the daugher of his enemy Villefort (Valentine, though the count does not know of it yet). Already, It appears that the count has done some digging into the count of Morcerf's past life in the Ottoman Empire, and he now keeps a slave girl of particular importance (though he refuses to admit she is a slave). Also, Danglers has lost several hundred thousand pounds in a failed business venture, one of many I'm sure...