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Make the most of large drives with GPT and Linux
Preparing for future disk storage with the GUID Partition Table
Before embarking on a quest to replace your hard disk's partitioning scheme, it's helpful to review the limitations that are forcing this change. Understanding these limits—and the proposed tools for overcoming them—will enable you to judge how quickly you should jump ship from the master boot record (MBR) to the GUID Partition Table (GPT), particularly if you're considering adopting GPT before new disk purchases force your hand. GPT offers advantages over MBR even on smaller disks, but you must balance those advantages against the difficulties of a switch.
Understanding the MBR's limits
The MBR partitioning system is a hodge-podge of data structure patches applied to overcome earlier limits. The MBR itself resides entirely on the first sector (512 bytes) of a hard disk. The first 440 bytes of the MBR are devoted to code: the boot loader. The basic input/output system (BIOS) reads this code and executes it when the computer boots.
Following the code area, the MBR stores data about four partitions, known as primary partitions. Each partition is described in two ways: using cylinder/head/sector (CHS) notation and using logical block addressing (LBA) notation. The CHS notation is almost a historical footnote today, because it's a 24-bit number. This means that it's limited to describing areas of about 8GB in size. The 32-bit LBA values permit 2TiB sizes, assuming a sector size of 512 bytes. This 2TiB ceiling is not easily overcome; there simply aren't any unallocated fields left in the MBR that could be used to add more bits to the LBA addresses.
In addition to the looming 2TiB problem, the MBR presents other difficulties. Chief among these is the limitation of four primary partitions. To work around this limitation, it's possible to set aside one primary partition as a placeholder (known as an extended partition) to hold an arbitrary number of additional partitions, known as logical partitions. This is, however, an ugly workaround that creates its own problems, such as difficulties installing multiple operating systems when too many of them want too many primary partitions to themselves.
The MBR has data-integrity problems, as well. It is a single data structure that's vulnerable to damage by carelessness or hardware failure. In addition, because logical partitions are defined in a linked-list structure, damage to one of them can block access to the remaining logical partitions. None of these data structures includes any form of error-detection capability, so damage can be difficult to spot.
GPT's solution
Intel® created the GPT definition as part of its Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) specification for a BIOS replacement (see Related topics for links to more information). Despite the fact that GPT is part of a standard that's meant to replace the legacy BIOS, it's possible to use GPT even on BIOS-based systems. If your computer uses EFI, this fact is another plus to GPT adoption. Whether your computer uses a legacy BIOS or an EFI, GPT fixes many of the MBR's limitations:
- GPT uses LBA exclusively, so CHS headaches are gone.
- Disk pointers are 64 bits in size, meaning that GPT can handle disks of up to 512 x 264 bytes (8 zebibytes, or 8.6 billion TiB), assuming 512-byte sectors.
- GPT data structures are stored twice on the disk: once at the start and again at the end. This duplication improves the odds of successful recovery in case of damage from an accident or a bad sector.
- Cyclic redundancy check values are computed for critical data structures, improving the odds of detection of data corruption.
- GPT stores all partitions in a single partition table (with backup), so there's no need for extended or logical partitions. By default, 128 partitions are supported, although you can change the partition table size if the partitioning software supports such changes.
- Whereas MBR provides a 1-byte partition type code, GPT uses a 16-byte globally unique identifier (GUID) value to identify partition types. This makes partition-type collisions less likely.
- GPT enables storing a human-readable partition name. You can use this field to name your Linux® /home, /usr, /var, and other partitions for easier identification within partitioning software.
The first sector of the disk is reserved for a protective MBR,
which is a legal MBR data structure that defines a single partition of
0xEE (EFI GPT). On sub-2TiB disks, this partition should
span the entire disk; on larger disks, it should be 2TiB in size. The idea
is to protect the GPT disk from damage by GPT-unaware disk utilities. If
such tools look at the disk, they'll see an MBR disk with no free space.
(Some disk utilities can create a hybrid MBR, which defines up to
three MBR partitions in addition to the EFI GPT partition. The idea is to
enable a GPT-unaware operating system, such as most pre-Windows
Vista® versions of Windows®, to coexist on a disk along with GPT
partitions. This configuration is decidedly non-standard and kludgy,
Because GPT incorporates a protective MBR, a BIOS-based computer can boot from a GPT disk using a boot loader stored in the protective MBR's code area, but the boot loader and operating system must both be GPT aware. (Some buggy BIOSes have problems booting from GPT disks, though.) EFI provides its own boot methods, so you can boot from a GPT disk on an EFI-based system.
The main problem with GPT is one of compatibility: Low-level disk utilities and operating systems must all support GPT. Such support is fairly common for Linux, although you may need to attend to some of these details and change some of the tools you use for low-level disk maintenance. If you multi-boot a computer, you'll have to look into GPT support for all of your operating systems.
If you administer many Linux systems, or if you anticipate adding an over-2TiB disk in the not-too-distant future, you may want to consider doing a test installation with GPT. Doing so before you're forced to do it will give you first-hand experience with GPT's features as well as with the quirks of some of the GPT-aware Linux utilities.
It's possible to run a system with a mixture of MBR and GPT disks. For instance, you can boot from an MBR disk but still use GPT for a data disk. Such a configuration is most useful for Windows on BIOS-based systems, because Windows can't boot from GPT using BIOS, but Windows Vista and later Microsoft operating systems can use a GPT data disk.
Using GPT
Three main classes of software all require GPT support: the kernel, the boot loader, and low-level disk utilities. If you're using GPT because you're setting up a large redundant array of independent disks (RAID) array, you may also need to look into file system support for extra-large disks.
Note: If you're installing Linux from scratch and want to use GPT, your installer must provide GPT support in all three of these categories. In 2012, this support is present in all the major Linux distributions.
Kernel support
The Linux kernel must provide GPT support to provide access to data on the disk's partitions. Fortunately, this support has long been present in Linux. If you compile your own kernel, be sure to select EFI GUID Partition Support in the Partition Types area of the Enable the Block Layer configuration area, as shown in Figure 1. (This item used to be located under File Systems, so look there if you've got an older kernel.)
Figure 1. The Linux kernel provides GPT support, but it must be enabled when you compile a new kernel
If you don't compile your own kernel, you're at the mercy of your distribution provider to enable this support. Fortunately, most do so. If you're in doubt, you can use a GPT-aware partitioning tool to set up GPT partitions on a test disk. If Linux recognizes the partitions, then your kernel is properly configured.
Boot loader support
Boot loader support for GPT is variable and depends on your computer's firmware type. Under BIOS, only the Grand Unified Bootloader (GRUB) 2 officially supports GPT. Most Linux distributions today use GRUB 2 as the default boot loader, but some continue to use the older GRUB Legacy. GRUB Legacy doesn't officially support GPT, but patched versions with GPT support are readily available. The still-older Linux Loader (LILO) doesn't explicitly support GPT, but its disk-addressing methods are based on sector locations, so it often does work (in practice).
If you use GRUB 2 on a BIOS-based computer, be sure to create a BIOS
Boot Partition, which holds GRUB's second-stage code. (This
partition is identified as having its
bios_grub flag set
under GNU Parted or as being of type
gdisk.) The BIOS Boot Partition can be as small as
32KiB in some configurations, although it must sometimes be a bit larger.
Given modern partition alignment policies, a size of 1MiB is common.
If your computer uses EFI, any EFI-capable boot loader will work with GPT; but EFI boot loader selection for Linux is tricky. As of mid-2012, some boot loaders remain unreliable or have system-specific quirks. In my experience, the Linux kernel's EFI stub loader (introduced with the 3.3.0 kernel) is the most reliable, followed by the EFI LILO (ELILO), a heavily patched version of GRUB Legacy used by Fedora, and finally GRUB 2. In addition to the boot loader, you might need a separate boot manager to enable operating system selection, particularly if you dual-boot and use the kernel's EFI stub loader or ELILO to boot Linux. Two common choices for this task are rEFIt and rEFInd, the latter being a more up-to-date fork of the former. (Note that I maintain rEFInd.) See Related topics for links to all of these programs.
EFI requires the presence of an EFI System Partition (ESP) to boot. (Macs are a partial exception to this rule, although they ship with ESPs defined.) The ESP should contain a FAT32 file system. The EFI standard doesn't specify a size, but something between 100MiB and 500MiB usually works well. If you use the Linux kernel's EFI stub loader or ELILO, you may need to store your kernel on the ESP, so creating an ESP on the large end of the scale is advisable.
Utilities support
The third area of GPT support is system utilities. Linux provides three main families of partitioning tools, with varying support for GPT:
- The
fdiskfamily. These programs (
cfdisk, and
sfdisk) are text-mode tools that can handle MBR and some more exotic partition tables, but they can't handle GPT.
- GNU Parted (
libparted). The GNU Parted project provides a library (
libparted) and a text-mode utility (
parted) for partitioning. Several graphical user interface (GUI) utilities are built atop
libparted, as well. The
libpartedlibrary can handle MBR, GPT, and several other partition table types.
fdisk. This family (
cgdisk, and
sgdisk) is modelled after the
fdiskfamily but works on GPT disks. (Note that I'm the author of GPT
As a general rule, tools based on GNU Parted—and particularly GUI
tools such as GParted or the Palimpsest Disk Utility—are the
easiest to use; however, GPT
fdisk (and particularly
gdisk) provides access to more GPT features. Thus, you might
want to use GParted or other GUI tools to set up your disks but use GPT
fdisk to fine-tune your configuration or repair damage to a
GPT disk.
If you want to create fresh GPT partitions on a disk using GNU Parted, you
should launch the program, then use its
mklabel command, as
in Listing 1.
Listing 1. Using GNU Parted to create GPT disk partitions
# parted /dev/sdd GNU Parted 3.1 Using /dev/sdd Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) mklabel New disk label type? gpt (parted)
At this point, you can begin creating partitions using GNU Parted's
mkpart command or otherwise manipulate partitions. The
process is similar to that of managing MBR partitions with
parted, with a few twists. For instance, there's no need to
specify a partition type as primary or logical; but you can enter a name
for the partition.
gdisk is similar to using
fdisk. Launching
the program on a blank disk creates a new GPT, as in Listing 2.
Listing 2. Using gdisk to create GPT disk partitions
# gdisk /dev/sdd GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.4 Partition table scan: MBR: not present BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: not present Creating new GPT entries. Command (? for help):
gdisk commands for creating and manipulating partitions
are similar to those used in
fdisk, such as
n to
create a partition. As with
parted on GPT disks, there's no
need to specify a partition as primary, extended, or logical. Type codes
gdisk are based on MBR type codes but multiplied by
0x100—for instance, a Linux swap partition is of type
0x82 in MBR and
0x8200 in
You can set a partition's name with the
c command or perform
more advanced operations as described in
gdisk's man page and
online documentation.
Whether you use
parted or
gdisk, when you're
done, you can use the normal Linux file system management tools, such as
mkfs, to create file systems on your disk. You can also
create logical volume management and RAID configurations much as you would
on MBR disks.
If you prefer a GUI tool, the Gnome Partition Editor (GParted) will do the job. Click Device > Create Partition Table to create a new GPT data structure. Click Advanced, then select gpt from the Select new partition table type list, as in Figure 2. Click Apply to create your new GPT data structures. You can then create new partitions in the same way you would if you were manipulating an MBR disk.
Figure 2. You must explicitly set the GPT partition table type to create GPT partitions in the Gnome Partition Editor
The GPT creation tools of both GNU Parted and GParted are inherently
destructive: If you've got an MBR disk, the only way to turn it into a GPT
disk with these tools is to destroy your existing MBR partitions. If you
want to convert an MBR disk in place, GPT
fdisk does so
automatically when you launch it. Be aware, though, that this conversion
renders a BIOS boot disk unbootable until the boot loader is re-installed.
Linux employs a handful of MBR partition type codes, such as
0x82 and
0x83, to identify its MBR partitions.
Similar GUID codes exist to identify Linux GPT partitions. One important
caveat is that Linux has traditionally used the same GUID code as Windows
for its data partitions. Thus, it's impossible to differentiate Linux
partitions and NTFS file system or FAT partitions from their partition
table GUIDs alone. This is unimportant on a Linux-only system, but if you
dual-boot Windows and Linux on an EFI-based computer or if you create
Linux partitions on a removable disk and use it in Windows, the result is
that your Linux partitions appear to be uninitialized partitions in
Windows, and Windows may ask whether you want to format the partitions if
you try to access them. You can correct this problem in
by giving your Linux partitions a
gdisk type code of
8300. This new type code should be supported by
libparted in the future, but it hadn't been implemented as of
libparted version 3.1.
Large file systems support
If you're switching to GPT because you're using a large RAID configuration, you may need to investigate support for large file system sizes in the file systems you deploy. Table 1 summarizes these limits. (Note that some values vary with partitioning options.) Some of these values are quite large and use suffixes that may be unfamiliar—for example, 1TiB is 1024GiB, 1 pebibyte (PiB) is 1024TiB, 1 exbibyte (EiB) is 1024 petabytes, and 1 zebibyte is 1024PiB.
Table 1. File system volume and size limits
|File system
|Maximum volume size
|Maximum file size
|Second extended file system (ext2) and third extended file system (ext3)
|Fourth extended file system (ext4)
|Journaled file system (JFS)
|B-tree file system (Btrfs—under development)
Beyond the file- and volume-size limits, there are file system performance differences. This topic is extremely complex, so you may need to consult with others who run setups similar to the one you're planning.
GPT partitioning advice
Some special concerns crop up for GPT partitioning, particularly if your computer uses EFI or you run in a multi-boot environment:
- EFI requires an ESP, as noted earlier, on any boot disk.
- Also as noted earlier, you should create a BIOS Boot Partition if you plan to boot from GPT on a BIOS-based computer.
- Many GPT partitioning tools create gaps of about 128MiB after each partition (the ESP is an exception to this rule). The intention is that disk utilities can use this space to help with their jobs.
- On Mac OS X systems, partitions are created in sizes that are multiples of 4KiB (typically, eight sectors). This feature relates to limitations of the HFS Plus file system that most modern Macs use.
You can follow these partitioning rules or ignore them as you see fit. Linux is flexible enough that it won't be bothered by a disregard for these rules, unless your computer requires an ESP or BIOS Boot Partition to boot.
One other rule isn't GPT specific but is important on most large disks produced since early 2010: These disks use 4KiB physical sectors but 512-byte logical sectors. This discrepancy creates potentially severe performance issues if partitions aren't aligned on physical sector boundaries. Partitioning tools released since late 2010 generally handle this well, but if you're using older tools, be sure to create properly aligned partitions.
GPT is becoming the standard for hard disk partitioning because of the
size limitations of the older MBR. Fortunately, Linux is well prepared for
this transition. Although Linux users may have to give up certain tools
(such as
fdisk), other tools are available to take their
place (
libparted and GPT
fdisk, for instance).
Understanding the requirements will help you make the transition easily
when the time comes to do so. You'll need to attend to your kernel
configuration, your boot loader configuration, and the utilities you use
to create and manage partitions.
Downloadable resources
Related topics
- The Wikipedia article on IEEE1541 describes this system's nomenclature and usage details.
- The Wikipedia article on GPT provides details about GPT's layout and features.
- Apple's Technical Note TN2166: Secrets of the GPT provides information on Apple's recommended partitioning rules.
- Linux on 4KB-sector disks: Practical advice (Roderick W. Smith, developerWorks, April 2010) describes partition alignment requirements of Advanced Format disks and the consequences of not meeting those requirements.
- Inside the Linux boot process (M. Tim Jones, developerWorks, May 2006) describes how the BIOS, the boot loader, and the Linux kernel work together to start your computer.
- See all Linux tips and Linux tutorials on developerWorks.
- GNU Parted is a mature text-mode MBR and GPT partitioning tool.
- The Gnome Partition
Editor (GParted) is a GUI MBR and GPT partitioning tool that's
based on
fdiskis a GPT-only partitioning program modeled after Linux
- The GRUB web page provides information and resources for both GRUB 0.97 (GRUB Legacy) and GRUB 2.
- Download and learn more about LILO.
- Find information and resources for the rEFIt boot manager.
- Find information and resources for the rEFInd boot manager.
- The Linux SystemRescueCd is a useful utility for emergency maintenance. It includes a GPT-aware version of GRUB that you can install from the CD boot.


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Again with the Catholics.... Roll EyesWho cares what you believe? (which, by the way, is that the sin would be outweighed by the "Treasury of the Church" which according to your mob includes "the truly immense, unfathomable and ever pristine value before God of the prayers and good works of the Blessed Virgin Mary and all the saints, who following in the footsteps of Christ the Lord and by His grace have sanctified their lives and fulfilled the mission entrusted to them by the Father. Thus while attaining their own salvation, they have also cooperated in the salvation of their brothers in the unity of the Mystical Body." (Indulgentarium Doctrina 1967) So you see, we are different. You guys think the "merits" of the Saints "co-operate" to save and form part of the "Treasury of the Church" which can be applied in the form of "Indulgences" for the remission of temporal punishment.- we don't. The only thing we place in the other side of the scale is God's mercy in Christ. Smiley So now, why not be a good little poster and do as the moderators have asked you to and post in the Orthodox-Catholic Discussion Forum rather than turn every thread into a theological argument about doctrinal differences between RC's and Orthodox, or your inane claims that they don't exist? And if you can't do that, then I really have to wonder what you are doing here apart from trolling.
I suggest you move the part of the thread dealing with Catholic vs. Orthodox confession here (from about page five on).
But some simply cannot discuss purely EO topics without dragging Catholics into it, as if the EO self-definition and identity includes as a chief component "not RC." It's a very ugly streak in EO culture. This is personally offensive to me (similar to attacks on my own mother), and less tolerable with the level of frequency I've seen here---it is tempting me to develop corresponding anti-EO feelings, feelings which did not exist before here. Blessedly I was spared most of this uncharitable stuff in my dealings with EO offline. I came here with such a warm orientation toward the EO Church, despite our differences, but through this experience, I can feel the temptation of growing hostility. These feelings trouble me. It's safe to say that I've grown to be glad I'm not EO---it had some appeal to me before. But I'm not sure I want to stick around and develop an anti-EO streak after seeing my faith mischaracterized and disrespected so much here. I fear that may happen if I stay on a regular basis. I don't want to harbor this kind of hostility toward a Church I've always admired, despite the uncharity of some of its members.
"This treasury also includes the truly immense, unfathomable and ever pristine value before God of the prayers and good works of the Blessed Virgin Mary and all the saints, who following in the footsteps of Christ the Lord and by His grace have sanctified their lives and fulfilled the mission entrusted to them by the Father. Thus while attaining their own salvation, they have also cooperated in the salvation of their brothers in the unity of the Mystical Body." Source
Here's what I think is balderdash:And why I think this is balderdash is best described by C.S. Lewis: If a child asks his father for sixpence to buy his father a birthday present and the father gives him sixpence and receives the gift from his son, anyone can see that the father is "Sixpence None the Richer" for it.
"sixpence" was truly a creative & non pretentious Christian rock band.
Therefore Holy Mother Church, supported by these truths, while again recommending to the faithful the practice of indulgences as something very dear to the Christian people during the course of many centuries and in our days as well--this is proven by experience--does not in any way intend to diminish the value of other means of sanctification and purification, first and foremost among which are the Sacrifice of the Mass and the Sacraments, particularly the Sacrament of Penance. Nor does it diminish the importance of those abundant aids which are called sacramentals or of the works of piety, penitence and charity. All these aids have this in common that they bring about sanctification and purification all the more efficaciously, the more closely the faithful are united with Christ the Head and the Body of the Church by charity.
This is a red herring you introduced after your attempt to create an artificial distinction between the RC and Orthodox views of Confession failed.
Apparently you are unaware of Australian colloquialisms. You over-reacted to the 'mob'.
the quote lubeltri quoted from the other thread was in response to his false claims about the Orthodox teaching regarding sin, namely that it is no different to the Roman Catholic concept of merit, as epitomised in the Roman Catholic dogma of "The Treasury of the Church".
"Our receiving of Holy Communion, while it is with the blessing of our spiritual father to be frequent, should never be mechanical or automatic. We are to prepare. And how should we do it? We are to prepare above all through the use of the sacrament of Confession." Kallistos Ware http://www.orthodoxresearchinstitute.org/resources/saints/kallistos_john_kronstadt.htm
never did I say that EO use "mortal" and "venial" to describe the treatment of sins.
In EO terms, a venial sin is like catching a cold. A mortal sin is like catching pneumonia.
Um. Yes you did:And my correcting you is what has caused you to go off like you have. This whole dispute is because you will not take correction that the above is not the Orthodox view.
I did not. Sigh. . .didn't the use of the words and phrases "like" and "in EO terms" clue you in on that?
You still don't get it. What you call a "venial" sin and what you call a "mortal sin" are both terminal illnesses in the Orthodox Church. One is not "like" catching a cold at all.
I can imagine a man facing the judgment of God at his death. God has barred the door to paradise and is writing him a one-way ticket to hell. "Why, why?" asks the man. "I was faithful!" God answers, "Yes, but on October 28, 1996 you felt tired after a night on the town and pretended to be sick so that you could miss work. You forgot to confess it." God shrugs his shoulders. "Sorry. Neeeeext. . ."
The Orthodox Confession of Faith by Peter Mohyla (part III, questions 1-50):
You mean the guy who introduced the Roman Catholic formula of absolution into the Russian Church which they heretically use to this day?
Would you be so kind as to refresh my memory as to which pan-Orthodox synod condemned Mohyla and which other Patriarchates have suspended communion with the Russian Church over this issue?
It was revised and adopted by a Provincial Synod at Kieff for Russia, then again corrected and purged by a Synod of the Greek and Russian clergy at Jassy, in 1643, where it received its present shape by MELETIUS SYRIGA, or STRIGA, the Metropolitan of Nicæa, and exarch of the Patriarch of Constantinople. As thus improved, it was sent to, and signed by, the four Eastern Patriarchs. The Synod of Jerusalem gave it a new sanction in 1672 (declaring it a ὁμολογία, ἣν ἐδέξατο καὶ δέχεται ἁπαξαπλῶς πᾶσα ἡ ἀνατολικὴ ἐκκλησία). In this way it became the Creed of the entire Greek and Russian Church. It has been the basis of several later Catechisms prepared by Russian divines.59 The Orthodox Confession was a defensive measure against Romanism and Protestantism. It is directed, first, against the Jesuits who, under the protection of the French embassadors in Constantinople, labored to reconcile the Greek Church with the Pope; and, secondly, against the Calvinistic movement, headed by Cyril Lucar, and continued after his death. It is preceded by a historical account of its composition and publication, a pastoral letter of Nectarius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, dated Nov. 20, 1662; and by a letter of indorsement of the Greek text from Parthenius, Patriarch of Constantinople, dated March 11, 1643, followed by the signatures of twenty-six Patriarchs and prelates of the Eastern Church.
I will, if you will be so kind as to refresh my memory as to which PanOrthodox Synod was convened to correct the other Russian heresy of the Name Worshippers. Russia has always been the Church's little brother, always getting itself into trouble, and having to be bailed out of it by it's more compassionate elder brother.
Err...nice dodge. The confession, however, was accepted by local council at Jassy, and was adopted more widely within the Orthodox world.
What council has condemned the "Confession" of Mohyla?
Don't you mean "the Slavic Orthodox world"?Again, I will tell you if you tell me what Council condemned the heresy of the Name Worshippers.
Again, I will tell you if you tell me what Council condemned the heresy of the Name Worshippers.
No, it had influence within the wider Orthodox world (not just the Slavs). Didn't you read the quote concerning the history of the "Confession"?
As far as the heresy of the name worshippers, despite initial cautious endorsement of the work of the monk Ilarion (one of the original proponents of the idea), it was later condemned by the Synod of the Russian Church (incl. Patriarch Tikhon) as well as Metropolitan Antony Khrapovitski, although the matter was still a controversial one when the revolution occurred. But what does this have to do with the original topic?
"Even though the movement of the "Name-worshippers" was crushed at the beginning of the century on the orders of the Holy Synod, discussion of the matter regained impetus in the years preceding the Moscow Council (1917-18), which was supposed to come to a decision about this but did not succeed in doing so. Thus the Church's final assessment of Name-worshipping remains an open question to this day." Source http://orthodoxeurope.org/page/11/1/1.aspx
You seem quite keen on drawing attention away from the fact that you haven't answered the challenges to your original position with any, er, EVIDENCE.
What "challenges" to what "position"?What exactly have I said which you disagree with?
The "position" that consists of a sort of willful denial that some commonality exists between the Orthodox and Catholic views of sin;
In Orthodoxy, sins are spiritual illness requiring treatment. Untreated, all and any of these spiritual illnesses will lead to spiritual death. The only sense in which Orthodoxy understands sins to be "less serious" is in the sense that they are illnesses which are easier to treat. But left untreated, they will lead to spiritual death as certainly as the "most serious" sin will.
I think the problem with the Western concept of sin isn't so much that yeah, I agree some sins will not impact our souls in the same way necessarily as much as other sins, at the same time, I think the problem with Catholicism is that there is an official distinction between venial and mortal sins that has led the Catholic Church to where it is now. This type of mindset of that oh this sin is only a venial sin has led Catholics to go as far as they can in venial sin before they hit mortal, but then eventually because they are playing that game they end up landing into mortal sin. It seems to lead to the idea of testing how far you can go before you really start having problems, but this attitude towards sin tends to lead that person into mortal sin because they don't feel its necessary as much to repent for venial sins, and this lack of repentance fails to keep the devil away and thus you fall to the more serious sins. We must repent for every sin as if they were all mortal sins.
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It's none of anybody's business about my relationship with Salman: SRK
The much-talked about hug shared by Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan at an iftaar party a few days back may have set tongues wagging about the superstars' relationship, but the former says it's none of anybody's business.
"I will be very honest. Whether it's my relationships, friendships, personal aspects… I have never dignified it by talking about it in the public and I would like to keep it like this," the 47-year-old said at the launch of a mobile game based on his film "Chennai Express".
On July 21, SRK and Salman faced each other at the Congress leader Baba Siddique's annual iftaar party and they shook hands and hugged each other.
But SRK closed the chapter by saying that the media should not expect any kind of explanation from him on the issue ever.
"So much is said, so much is heard, and too much is written. But as far as I am concerned… I have never spoken about it and I am not going to begin now. It's for everyone to take it forth, there is nothing coming in terms of explanation," he said.
Shah Rukh and Salman were not on talking terms post the incident at Katrina Kaif's birthday bash in 2008.
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Posted on November 22, 2013
It is fifty years today since the last successful attempt to kill a President of the United States. John F. Kennedy made a short life (he was 46 when he died) memorable and that makes him really visible every year in the Book Fair selection. Chicago has, oh, a certain number of Irish families, who regarded JFK as a son of the Ould Sod. Then, too, there's a reasonably sized Catholic community, and whether they were Italian, Polish, Irish, Spanish, they treated books about the first Catholic President like family treasures. As time goes by, these troves come to us for use at the Fair.
We have the Kennedy Biographies, from the days of PT-109 and Profiles in Courage to the campaign biographies (pro and con, of course: from Hope of the Nation to Tool of the Pope), the martyred president instant books, to thicker and thicker books on his place in history.
That should be distinguished from the Camelot Books. These are the books that want to remember the good times, the glittering presidency. Ike and Mamie, in their eight years in the White House, had been called many things, but "glamorous" was not much used. Especially as the Sixties come back into style, we see more and more coffee table books on White House Royalty from 1961 to 1963. I don't see anyone calling JFK a king, but everyone could identify the queen, as well as the small princess and prince.
These are completely separate, in their turn, from the Kennedy Family Biographies. There's brother Bobby, and brother Teddy (I think we get more anti-Teddy books than even anti-Jack. But he was around longer.) Mother Rose wrote an autobiography, of course, to sit alongside the books about her, and Father Joe gets his share of coverage. There are the Kennedy Sisters and Wives, and many of the children became bookworthy in their turn.
Of course, First Lady Jackie could fill a section on her own: not just biographies, but analyses of her clothes, and her jewels, and her basic style. (There's that What Would Jackie Do, volume, for starters.) She inspired as much dislike as her husband, but not as many people wanted to put that into books. It's hard to go on record knocking the Queen.
We have the Individual Moments in History books: Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs, Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy and the Berlin Wall, Kennedy and the Vietnam War, Kennedy and the Apollo Project, and so on.
There are the Kennedy audiovisual items: the book and tapes from the Oval office tape recordings, the Emmy-winning tour of the White House by Jackie, the taped speeches, an LP of news bulletins on Dallas radio the day of the assassination….
Ah, yes, and there is the Assassination Literature. November 22, 1963 has pulled a lot of ink. We have the Warren Commission Report. We have all sorts of books sneering at the Warren Commission Report, proving that the Real Killer was a rogue CIA agent, sixty rogue CIA agents, two former CIA agents who hired Oswald to just miss the President and prove they were needed, a secret commission developing AIDS as a weapon, the Miami Mob (to get rid of Bobby as Attorney General), E. Howard Hunt, Lyndon B. Johnson, the chauffeur, a secret service man who was firing back at Oswald but hit the President instead, Aristotle Onassis, a KGB agent who was shooting at the CIA agent aiming at the President, and John F. Kennedy himself (he knew his health was declining and arranged the hit so as to go out on a high note.) And you should see the FICTIONAL versions.
Wherever he went from here, I expect a lot of these books sit on his bedside table. He liked a laugh.


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Friday, June 03, 2011
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We are renting the last available minivan in Cincinnati and driving 16 hours with four children strapped into their carseats. We are driving with 40 hours of audiobooks, a cooler of snacks, four sippy cups and four special blankets. We do not think this equipment will make the trip pleasant, but we comfort ourselves that at least we are not taking the train. Thank you, invasive nanny state, for child carseat laws. Not because they save lives, but because they keep the whining an extra foot or two removed from our ears.
We are leaving tomorrow and my home is a mess. Every trip I tell myself that this time I will leave a clean house. This time I will make sure I have an ordered home to come home to. And every trip, as the departure time draws nearer, I abandon more and more planned cleaning in a desperate effort to get us ready to go on the planned date. One year we blew out a tire two miles down the road and we could not leave town until the next day. That was the only time my house ended up clean before we left. Mostly clean, anyway.
And every trip, as the departure looms and I begin cutting extraneous chores from my to-do list, I approach the tipping point between feeling like a failure for the state of my house and ditching self-criticism as one more unnecessary chore. Self-flagellation is a distraction. We mothers, we warriors of the family vacation, we ain't got time to bleed.
There is a load of laundry in the machine, the children are watching their second movie of the day, the youngest is napping, our stomachs are full of Chinese leftovers and doughnuts, and I, patiently awaiting the next load to fold or pack, am blogging. Take that, guilt. I defy you. I will leave you here at home as we drive blithely into the day, sojourners to welcoming arms and grandma joy. You have no power over us.
At least not until I get home.
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- Faun6/03/2011
Glad to know I'm not the only one that feels this way about cleaning the house before vacation! {grins} Great post! Have a safe and relaxing vacation....ReplyDelete
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I hope your trip goes as well as it can. That does not sound fun. I almost cracked doing CInci-Chicago with a two-year-old and 6-month-old.
I do this every Friday as we head to my MIl's house for dinner and the occasional sleep over. I always find 500 last minute things that need doing before the weekend and rarely, if ever, have the house tidy enough to feel good coming home to it.ReplyDelete
Also, there are cookies that need baking. :)
Let me know if you come through Austin! Not that you'll probably feel like stopping to socialize with random bloggers, but you can just slow down by my house and I'll run a bottle of vodka out to your car.ReplyDelete
Jennifer, I would love to meet "random bloggers" - in fact I am likely to meet three this time! But I won't be in Austin this trip. We are going to the Dallas area.ReplyDelete
Aw, man! Well, I'm sad to have missed you, but if you ever make it further south, do let me know!ReplyDelete
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The trial of eight would-be airplane bombers continues in London. Today, jurors viewed a "martyrdom" video made by one of the accused plotters, Umar Islam (actually a Jamaican immigrant to Britain named Brian Young). Here is a portion of the video:
Among Islam's threats and observations are these:
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A plain-looking bus full of ticketed passengers pulled up to an ordinary Chicago street corner on Tuesday night and a couple of Nigerian women jumped on board. One was wary of the people on the bus and sat quietly, watching. The other, younger woman bounded around like a starry-eyed kid at Christmas. "I'm going to my home in Chicago," she told anyone and everyone. "I'm going to be an American. Where Obama lives."
Her fellow passengers responded to this gregarious enthusiasm. How could they not? They told the girl what they did — academic deans, funders, administrators, that kind of thing. They insisted they were not rich, even though they knew they were. To this girl. They told her she would like Chicago, where there are many restaurants. "I'm not going to restaurants because I can cook," she said. "I don't need to eat outside." Then the girl saw a man on the street — by now, the bus was traversing through sun-kissed Bucktown — pushing a child in a stroller. The girl seemed surprised. "A man taking care of a child," she mused, brow furrowed, as the young father stared back at the bus. "Where is his woman?"
If you're one of the very few people planning on taking this bus from the Chicago Shakespeare Theater at Navy Pier — tickets to "Roadkill" are sold out — stop reading now and come back afterward. If you'd rather believe the world took care of such African girls full of shine and promise, you might care to do the same.
For the rest of you: The bus stopped. The girl and her minder — that was what she now seemed to be — headed up some stairs to an ordinary apartment not far from Western Avenue. A few minutes later, the girl's 17 or 18 companions from the bus were crammed like uncomfortable voyeurs into the living room of her new "home," the same living room where the girl danced briefly to Beyonce before being ushered out. They were listening to the ear-splitting sounds of her being raped in another room.
This was a breaking-in, an initiation into sex slavery. A few minutes later, the blooded girl returned. "This it how it works here," she was told, as she screamed in agony, inches away from the people on the bus who, convention dictated (or did it?), could do nothing. The girl's childhood was suddenly gone for good. "You're part of our family now," she was told. The girl opened up her suitcase between sobs. She pulled out her family photos, her Mickey Mouse sweatshirt, her African value system where family is everything and hope is a gift. And that was the point were a few of us lost it and never quite regained it, whatever our "it" may be, until much later in the night, over a stiff drink.
It was one thing — a very difficult thing — to arrive in a new country all alone. Most of us who did that when young had resources and support systems. What if the support is tyranny? What if you don't know where to go? What if you cannot leave?
So there was that feeling — more than enough for such a night. And then, also gnawing away at you for the next 90 minutes or so, was the self-evident truth that you can be a nice city neighborhood of apartments and houses and never know precisely what is going on behind doors just a few feet away from that nice guy with the stroller. Consider Cleveland. Who knew there?
The girl, of course, was an actor from the United Kingdom, the remarkable Mercy Ojelade. So was her minder, Adura Onashile. Together only with the Scottish actor John Kazek, who subsumed himself into a veritable plethora of male scumbags, these women essentially re-created the visceral experience of what happens to a girl who is the victim of human trafficking. "Roadkill," which is being presented by Chicago Shakespeare, is an absurd economic-artistic enterprise (it plays to 18 people at once, and they have to bused). And is not an easy show to watch.
Certainly, this topic naturally engenders intense feelings and, certainly, the aims here are to raise consciousness about an issue that people may ignore, but that no one would openly say is benign.
But the work of Cora Bissett, who conceived and directed this piece with text by Stef Smith, is also remarkable in aesthetic ways. The key is that time on the bus — thanks in no small part to Ojelade's openness, you develop an intense and crucially informal connection with this character, and the best way to rile people up on something like is for them to connect viscerally with its consequences. You love her before, and thus you know what is being destroyed.
The other thing about "Roadkill," which is being seen Stateside for the first time and is traveling the world a few steps behind the real human traffickers, is the careful way the piece uses explicitly theatrical tools to probe the subconscious (the set and costumes are by Jessica Brettle) and yet is grounded in a real place, in your town, on a street that could be your own. Without entering that apartment, this would be just another piece of political art. It's different when you're there.
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Friday, September 30, 2011
Jeans and Gelato.
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The juxtaposition of our idealization of summer and the harsh realities of humidity and heat is spot on.ReplyDelete
Love this sweater and the jeans. J Crew is looking mighty nice to me these days.
Gorgeous sweater. :)ReplyDelete
I love your little fox pin! He looks like he scurried about and somehow poked his face through the fabric of your sweater, like if we turned you around and looked at your shoulder blades we'd see a little tail and hind legs there supporting him.ReplyDelete
i love how you incorporate vintage details into your outfits! that fox pin is the best.ReplyDelete
I love mustard color!ReplyDelete
That mustard yellow looks great on you. I'm secretly jealous of all the brunettes out there that can actually wear that colour & look good. It looks awful on me with my red hair.ReplyDelete
Oh my, oh my, oh my. I love your sweater. I've been on the hunt for a stripe-y autumn-y sweater and yours fits the bill perfectly.ReplyDelete
I feel self conscious in high-waist jeans, too. It's the worst. I found a pair of high-waist vintage Levi's, but I'm apprehensive about wearing them. Must get over it because they are awesome.
What a sweet little fox pin!ReplyDelete
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I know what you mean about feeling like your legs are more on show in jeans than skirts. I am just the same which is weird cos I used to live in jeans!ReplyDelete
Yes, I have the same problem, I have a lot of things but I have othe problem also, my amchair is so small. Beautiful jersey :-)ReplyDelete
I love the mustard stripes too! But I love that pin the most, so so cute.ReplyDelete
High waisted jeans feel oddly naked sometimes I think... Love them though and the mustard sweater is real nice...ReplyDelete
Super simple and lovely - I can just imagine the innocent thoughts of summer knitwear, when it's spring and you honestly believe it's still possible to be chilly...ReplyDelete
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Children interact with technology in a different way than we do. Their brains are like sponges, which means they are able to intuitively use any new technology without reference to older ones.
Give a child an iPad and watch what happens — within minutes he'll be more proficient than you. When it comes to eBooks, the demographic difference between young and old readers is just as stark: according to a new study on digitalbookworld.com, more than half of U.S. kids are reading eBooks, which is more than double the proportion of adults who are e-reading.
Consider what this means as these young readers mature to become the dominant consumer block. These readers will be mostly digital-natives, their cherished childhood reading memories formed in the glow of an iPad and not the heft of a book.
While sales for eBooks have slowed their pace recently, all signs point to them becoming the dominant form of book within the next few years. Young readers will take the surge of eBook reading from the Children's genre to Young Adult, and eventually to Contemporary Fiction. The study also found that young e-readers are reading a lot: 85% of young e-readers are reading at least one book a week, which, if you've worked with children, is a pretty outstanding figure.
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Rosenberg Named Collett Chairby Jim Amidon • March 22, 2013 Share:
Wabash College English Professor Warren Rosenberg has been named the John P. Collett Chair in Rhetoric. Dean of the College Gary A. Phillips announced the honor at a faculty meeting this week.
A native New Yorker, Rosenberg joined the faculty at Wabash in 1980. He specializes in American literature, film, gender, and men's studies, though he also has been a stalwart teacher of composition. He has received the College's McLean-McTurnan-Arnold Excellence in Teaching Award and its companion Research Scholar award.
"I am extremely honored and pleased to be appointed the John P. Collett Chair in Rhetoric," Dr. Rosenberg said. "It is a particular pleasure because the only previous holder of the chair, former Dean of the College Don Herring, is my mentor and friend, and was most responsible for my being at Wabash. He saw the seed of a good teacher in me, and this is what he values most. Good teaching is what Wabash honors in awarding me this chair, and what I have aspired to in my career."
The John P. Collett Chair in Rhetoric was established in 1987 by the Board of Trustees to honor Collett, a 1924 Wabash graduate, for his service as a Trustee, benefactor, and unrelenting voice for academic excellence and intellectual independence. The Chair recognizes the importance of effective expression and standards of ethical persuasion.
"From the start of his career, Warren Rosenberg became a deliberate voice interpreting the College's mission to be one that fundamentally embraces difference — difference in racial, gender, ethnic, economic and other terms," said Dean Phillips. "Committed to the careful fashioning of spoken and written word, he has served as an articulate and impassioned moral voice for the Malcolm X Institute and our students, staff, and faculty of color. He teaches what the College and our wider society should become, holding a mirror up to the community to invite us to be true to our mission and values and to remind us that as teachers and scholars we have a responsibility never to muscle difference into sameness, but instead to lift up silent voices and stories."
Dr. Rosenberg earned his bachelor's degree with honors from Brooklyn College, his master's degree from the University of Michigan, and his Ph.D. from the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author of dozens of essays and articles, and the book Legacy of Rage: Jewish Masculinity, Violence, and Culture.
He received tenure at Wabash in 1986, became a full professor in 1996, and has served as Chair of the English Department on three different occasions over the arc of his career. As chair of the Multicultural Concerns Committee from 1989 through 1993, he led the effort to develop a College-wide statement for the Academic Bulletin concerning the boundaries of acceptable discourse within the Wabash community.
"This was a challenging endeavor," Rosenberg said, "as we in no way wished to curtail free speech, the lifeblood of a college. But we were also acutely aware that the ability of all of us to function at our best could be affected by hurtful comments, verbal and in writing, that demeaned individuals because of their gender, race, religion, country of origin, physical disability, or sexual orientation. The 'Faculty Statement of Principle Concerning Diversity' received unanimous faculty approval and has been printed in the Bulletin ever since. This, I believe, is an example of 'ethical persuasion' that I hope made John Collett, a Trustee at the time, proud."
Dean Phillips also cited Dr. Rosenberg's long-time teaching of a course titled Men and Masculinity as critical in the College's identity. "His gentle but far from gentile approach to the reading of controversial texts in that course has for more than a quarter century invited students into a protracted discourse about gender and race important for us as a college for men," said Dean Phillips.
In recent years, Dr. Rosenberg has spearheaded Wabash's faculty development initiatives. The Collett Chair carries with it discretionary funds, which Rosenberg will use to advance this work.
"I am perhaps most pleased that these funds can be used to help me and my colleagues become the best teacher-scholars we can be," added Dr. Rosenberg. "As the College's Coordinator of Faculty Development I have been working with the Teaching and Learning Committee, and with other groups and individuals (students, faculty, and staff) on campus, to make the often isolating job of teaching a more visible, collective enterprise. In awarding me this Chair, President White and Dean Phillips are also honoring this important work."
"Warren is committed to the spoken and written word as the means to humanely challenge and change both students and faculty," Dean Phillips said. "He spends much of his time developing his faculty colleagues by reviewing their grant proposals, offering critique and encouragement, and affirming their aspirations to discover their new voices as teachers and scholars. The effective development of faculty is as important as that of students, for one implies the other."


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>As you know HulloMail is a global organisation however at times some things really do get lost in translation!
This was an email received by one of operations team earlier this week.
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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:30:58 +0000
To: Dan Makin <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: RE: Update
Hello Dan:
Sorry for the delay in my response.
The outcome for the second visit was 2 bottoms that we have to press, to resolve the issue or the error.
We our engineer press these 2 bottoms the error was corrected.
With this the issue was resolved.
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Valentine's Day is such a special day of the year. It's as much fun for kids as it is for many adults. I still recall picking out valentine cards for my friends, when I was little, and deciding who to give them to, signing them and putting them into the envelopes.
You can buy many kinds of Valentine cards for kids at the store, but why not print some of these cute little pages of cards and let the kids cut out their own? Save a little money and give the kids a fun activity. All you need for making these cute cards is some heavyweight printer paper and some scissors. They can even use the envelope template to make their own envelopes.
Printable Princess Valentine cards
Puppy Valentine cards as shown above.
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Admin9670 needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 78 designs submitted by 26 freelance designers.
We deliver services close to the web
- web development
- e-commerce
- Social network
- Google analytics/AdWords
- training
The home page at least should contain a space for
- a logo
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- a Slide show containing texts and images
- three position between main content and footer
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reference pages, we mean that we would like to get a mockup where you'll find the job we have done, with the possibility to present print screens and descriptions for each work.
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No Croutons Required - The Winner for February and the Theme for March
I will be hosting the March edition of No Croutons Required. The theme for this month is chickpeas because chickpeas are probably my favorite legume and I can never get enough recipes ideas for the treasured garbanzo bean. Create a vegetarian soup or salad featuring chickpeas and send me your entry by the 20th of March.
Serve it up in No Croutons Required
11 comments:
- Curry Leaf said...
CONGRATS to Johanna.Hearty theme this time Lisa.My entry will surely be there.
- March 1, 2010 at 1:11 PM
- Ivy said...
Congrats to the winner. I look forward to the next roundup which I shall try and participate this time.
- March 1, 2010 at 2:14 PM
- Priya said...
Congrats to the winner, prefect choice for this month's NCR..
- March 1, 2010 at 3:26 PM
- ruchikacooks said...
Congrats to Joanna. Nice theme for this month.
- March 1, 2010 at 5:35 PM
- Johanna GGG said...
Thanks Lisa for inspiration and to everyone who voted for my soup - now need to think about next month's challenge - so many great chickpea soups and salads out there - as we are heading into autumn I quite fancy some chickpea soup
- March 1, 2010 at 9:35 PM
- Jacqueline said...
Great theme Lisa, I will put my thinking hat on. I do love chickpeas. The trouble is getting them in the dish and not eating them like sweeties!
- March 2, 2010 at 10:05 AM
- Lucy said...
Shall see what I can do. Finally cooled down enough to enjoy cooking again, in these parts. Hope you're well, my dear.
- March 2, 2010 at 8:03 PM
- Lisa said...
Thanks for your comment Lucy. I do hope you can send in an entry this month. You are so talented in the kitchen! I thought of you actually when I chose chickpeas as the theme for this month.
- March 3, 2010 at 10:59 AM
- Rachel said...
Chickpeas were the clear favorites in last month's My Legume Love Affair, which I guest hosted, so I will definitely have something to bring to the No Croutons Required table this time round.
Congrats to my favorite Green Giraffe buddy!
- March 5, 2010 at 6:07 PM
- Bellini Valli said...
Congratulations to the winner. Chickpeas are my newly discovered friend.
- March 13, 2010 at 8:31 AM
- Kitchen Flavours said...
Dropped in my entry.....
- March 20, 2010 at 4:01 AM


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SPARTANBURG, S.C. (Jan. 4, 2010) - Despite giving up a 15-point lead over the final 10 minutes and facing a tie score with 58 seconds left, an unlikely scenario involving an injury to sophomore forward Isiah Brown (Miami) and a made foul shot by a freshman forward Lukas Poderis (Tampa) lifted the ETSU men's basketball team to a 63-62 win over USC Upstate in Atlantic Sun Conference basketball action Monday afternoon inside the E.B. Hodge Center.
The Bucs - who scored a season-low 16 points in the second half - held a 58-43 lead with 10:12 left and only managed five points the rest of the way. In fact, the Bucs (7-7 overall, 3-0 A-Sun) overcame six missed foul shots and two turnovers in the final minute to still manage a victory thanks to an unusual finish.
When Upstate's Carter Cook missed a potential game winner with 15 seconds left, Brown came down with the rebound and was fouled to the floor. The foul left Brown holding his right ankle and heading to the ETSU bench. By rule, USC Upstate coach Eddie Payne was then allowed to pick who would replace Brown at the line.
Poderis hit the first shot of the one-and-one bonus, giving the Bucs the lead at 63-62. His second shot missed, but the Bucs managed to stop Upstate from scoring. ETSU's Micah Williams (Manchester) was then fouled and missed the front end of the one-and-one with six seconds left, but again the Spartans were unable to make a miraculous shot at the end.
"I thought Lukas' shot was obviously huge," said ETSU head coach Murry Bartow. "The first half was just phenomenal offensively with 44 points, but we just didn't bring that same type of play in the second half. We're happy to survive and get the win. It was an unusual game and we were fortunate to survive."
The Bucs were led by a game-high 21 points from junior forward Tommy Hubbard (Boston), while Poderis added a career best 14 and Williams pitched in 12. Upstate had three players in double figures, with both Pat Posey and Cedric Koffi netting 12 points each.
The Bucs got off to a slow start and trailed by as many as 11 at 23-12 with 10:18 left in the first half. However, a 16-0 offensive run was just what ETSU needed as the Bucs built a 28-23 lead and ultimately grew their advantage to as many as 14 at 47-33 with 33 seconds left in the half. The Spartans hit a three as time wound down, and the half ended with ETSU leading 47-36.
The Bucs shot 56 percent from the floor, and despite just shooting 63 percent from the line on the season, ETSU hit on 17-of-19 from the charity stripe for a clip of 90 percent before the intermission. Hubbard led the Bucs with 15 points and six rebounds in the first 20 minutes.
In the second half, ETSU pushed the lead to 15 at 58-43, but from there Upstate outscored the Bucs 19-5. For the game, ETSU hit on 41 percent of its shots from the floor, and despite the solid free throw shooting numbers in the first half, ultimately finished at 68 percent for the game after going 2-of-9 from the charity stripe in the second half.
The Bucs will return to action Thursday night on the road at Kennesaw State. Game time is set for 5 p.m. ETSU will then finish out its three-game league road swing with a Saturday matchup with Mercer in Macon, Ga. That game is set for 3:30.
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We'll be in New York and Chicago over the next few weeks and will report back on all the fun beauty finds and news we can find from this side of the pond. First things first: Sephora and Ricky's in NYC.
Sephora is always fun and, as usual, I tried everything I could within reason (I can only be asked if I need help so many times before I freak out and want to beat all the staffers with their headsets and ever-ready shopping baskets to a pulp).
The favourites so far:
Nars Velvet Matte Lip Pencil in Dragon Lady
Smashbox Photo Finish Foundation Primer (but the ingredients scare me)
Sue Devitt Eyebrow Pencil in Congo
Makeup Forever Fake Eyelashes (you are spoilt for choice)
Nars Blush in Exhibit A
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Ricky's is infinitely cooler than Sephora, which is the Starbucks of cosmetics (although they do carry some good stuff... there's just too much of it and the most annoying staff in the world. No, make that the universe). The two folks in Ricky's let you shop without watching you like a hawk and the music selection is infinitely better. Plus the piled-high shelves and pot luck of beauty brands (from Hubba Bubba chewing gum to Murad) are way more appealing that the overly slick dispalys at Sephora.
The favourites so far:
That Elnet hairspray costs a whopping $24.99 in NYC (it's 4 quid in the UK)
Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap in Almond and in Lavender
Mattesse New York brushes and tools
Kiss My Face Peach Moisture Shave
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Burger King is to begin selling a $1 "French Fry Burger" next week, as in French fries piled on top of a hamburger patty.
For all of you out there -- and you know who you are -- who already pile French fries on top of your burger, sorry. You cannot claim credit for the Burger King French Fry Burger, and it's doubtful you will get any kind of inventor discount at the Burger King drive-through window.
Burger King's French Fry Burger is the latest food mash-up we've seen -- but certainly not the last.
PHOTOS: Food mash-ups: 10 crazy hybrids
This year alone has seen the Cronut and the Crö-dough, the Taco Bell Waffle Taco, Pepsi-flavored Cheetos, Pepsi chicken chips, Flamin' Hot Cheetos bacon pancakes, the Krispy Kreme Sloppy Joe, a Ramen Burger, the Carl's Jr. Pop-Tart Ice Cream Sandwich, the Taco Bell Doritos Locos Tacos, the Dunkin' Donuts bacon sammie ...
The Burger King French Fry Burger seems downright tame compared to that list!
What is is about food mash-ups that we love so? Is it the novelty? The "ah-that-hits-the-spot" mixing and matching of salty and sweet, and hot and tangy?
All that aside, business experts say the Burger King French Fry Burger is priced to give McDonald's Dollar Menu some competition. Do you think the gambit will work?
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For Oscar the best exercise he can get, other then a hike or a walk, is swimming.
When he swims the combination of the actual act plus the toys (which are not indestructible, and this sends his intensity through the roof ) sends him into really really intense drive.
We have even gone so far as to have two toys for swimming because he refuses to let go of one and then destroys it, so we "trade" after each retrieve.
When he is in this "state of mind", he is at his MOST frustrating for me - he doesn't listen well, he doesn't remember his manners, and he is extremely impulsive - once he had set his toy down and I reached under him to "sneak" it away and when he saw this he went for it, except he grabbed my hand
So anyway... I like to take him swimming because I know he likes it but it can be really frustrating and I have lost my temper(this is the bane of my existence in training, my temper) many times.
I took him for the first time all winter, just the other day; I thought before about staying relaxed all around. I kept my voice low except for praise (he seems to most like praise that sounds rediculous), and conciously kept my actions slower.
The improvement was immediate!
I was able to bend down next to him while holding the "trade" (because we always come to the point of me needing both toys when we leave!) and ask him to out, he did! Even as much as to take a step back instead of standing over it. I did have to repeat, but....
I think I've also come to the conclusion that repeating a command in a high excitement/high drive situation isn't at all the same as having to do it under normal circumstances. I don't see it as a negative at this point.
We went again yesterday and had the same
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In addition to the leader's responsibility to the boys in Cub Scouting generally, the den leader has certain other leadership responsibilities which may be summarized as follows:
If you are starting your program in June, invite the boys and their adult partners to participate in your pack's summertime activities, such as marching in parades, going to a ball game, having a campfire and marshmallow roast, and participating in Cub Scout day camp. Boys may be able to earn the National Summertime Pack Award pin by participating in events.
Along with the Cub Scout's family, the den meeting is critical to the Cub Scout's success and enjoyment of Cub Scouting. It is in and through the den that the boy makes social connections, has fun, completes his advancement, and bonds with the pack. Den meetings that are fun, organized, and interesting make a great environment for the boys. Planning and delivering such meetings is the goal of this section of the Den & Pack Meeting Resource Guide.
There are two types of den meeting plans.
Den Meeting Plans: These plans, modeled to support a school-year program, will, if followed, result in all boys in the den advancing in rank. The plans are developed around the following:
Supplemental Den Meeting Plans: Plans are provided for dens that meet more than twice per month during the school year or for dens that meet year-round. These may also be used after rank advancement is achieved to continue working toward electives, Academics and Sports belt loops/pins, and other individual and group awards.
At the beginning of each rank section and throughout the den meeting plans, you will find the terms "do," "home assignment," and "verify." These will guide you, your boys, and their parents.


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We don't want to go so far as to say that there's been a backlash against nail art, but we have noticed an increasing number of women—from beauty editors to Hollywood actresses—choosing to go bare. Last month, Alexa Chung told us that she prefers to have her nails buffed instead of painted and Sarah Gibson Tuttle, the owner of LA's favourite new salon, Olive & June, says that in the four months since she's opened, more and more women are leaving the salon polish-less. The only problem? Buffing your nails actually causes damage.
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The End of Social Media Marketing's Wild West
May 1, 2013 5:00 AM PT
The Federal Trade Commission recently updated its guidelines for online advertising to address the growth in mobile and social media marketing. Now a paid tweet has to begin with the word "ad," as obvious disclosure now must be included with all commercial speech. Is the link you're tweeting from an employer? A client? You have to mention that. The new rule: If money is changing hands, disclose it.
If the screen can't handle the extra wording required for disclosures, "then that device or platform should not be used," the FTC said.
The language sounds prescriptive, the threat of enforcement imminent and intense. Yet there's no call for alarm, according to the commission.
"These are not regulations," Richard Cleland, assistant director for the Division of Advertising Practices at the FTC, told the E-Commerce Times. "These new guidelines are pure guidance -- more of a self-help how-to."
It would be a mistake to regard those guidelines as a toothless FTC wish list, though.
"The guidelines help you understand what we are thinking about -- where we're coming from in evaluating whether your disclosure is enough," added Cleland. "You now know what we're weighing in the decision."
This current guideline issuance continues the FTC trend to clamp down on unethical practices in new media. Three years ago, the rules came down on bloggers; if you've been paid to review or endorse a product by a brand, you have to disclose that.
If the FTC has already clamped down on shady bloggers, why does it need to release these new guidelines now?
Where's the Beef?
The opportunity for unscrupulous marketing behavior online is growing. There has been a rise in native advertising, advertorials and content marketing, the 2013 Pew study on the media shows. Much of that content is distributed via Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, and it will continue to spread to the mobile environment as well.
What makes this growth all the more worrisome is the extension of marketing messaging into places where readers expect none.
One prime example of this is The Atlantic's recent misstep with a Church of Scientology native ad. A native ad is essentially what the print news industry calls an "advertorial" -- i.e., an advertiser-produced article.
The piece did have a small box identifying it as "sponsored content," but that easily could have been overlooked by readers, and it is doubtful that most would have understood what it meant if they had seen it. Fewer still would have moused over the "What's this?" question near the box to see the explanation that the article was indeed an ad.
Making matters worse, the comments on the article were entirely positive at first, despite an uproar over the piece elsewhere on the Internet. It turns out that The Atlantic's marketing team was keeping negative comments and cries of alarm off the comment page, at least in the beginning, which further confused readers over the value and credibility of the content.
"In the case of the Scientology post, our marketing team was monitoring some of the comments," said Natalie Raabe, a spokesperson for The Atlantic, in the publication's official explanation of the debacle to The Washington Post.
The incident, "has brought to light policies on how we monitor sponsored content," she added.
"The Atlantic found itself rapidly taking down from its website a vaguely identified advertorial from the Church of Scientology, explaining afterward: 'We now realize that as we explored new forms of digital advertising, we failed to update the policies that must govern the decisions we make along the way. It's safe to say that we are thinking a lot more about these policies after running this ad than we did beforehand,'" notes the Pew report.
One has to wonder how monitoring comments so that only positive mentions show under any given article was an acceptable practice under any policy.
Resource-strapped news orgs are using native ads as supplemental content to feed the gaping 24/7 news maw and to raise revenue. At first glance, it appears to be an understandable move. After all, news has always been funded by advertising, and advertorials are nothing new.
The difference is that there used to be an impenetrable wall between journalists and advertisers, and between news content and advertising content -- but now that wall has been torn down. Native ads rarely bear sufficient distinction from news content across all of new media, including mobile, and they are not limited to heretofore respected news publications like The Atlantic.
Will the New FTC Guidelines Work?
"I feel these rules are a step in the right direction, but by no means are they making any unethical marketers run for the hills," Jameson Brandon, CEO of Digital Centrix, told the E-Commerce Times. "Overall, most ethical marketers feel that those who are unethical ruin things for them."
There is definitely some discomfort with these new guidelines among the online advertising community.
"The issue of enforcement is open air at the moment," Sarah Hudgins, director of public policy at the Interactive Advertising Bureau, told the E-Commerce Times.
"We do have precedents from the existing disclosures enforcement," she said, "but enforcement will probably be handled case by case still -- and there is a lot of fear, as no one wants to be the first test case on something new."
The FTC is aware of the fear and confusion but is unsure how to go about relieving it.
"I would like to provide definitive answers to every circumstance, but these are complex issues," said Cleland, "so the best that can be done is to make our decision process transparent."
A review of the enforcement actions taken under the earlier blogger rule sheds some light on how aggressively the new FTC guidelines are likely to be enforced. To date, there has been what amounts to a smack on the hand for four offenders: Ann Taylor; HP; Nordstrom; and Hyundai. There has been actual enforcement action against two: Legacy Learning and Reverb. A total of six actions is hardly overkill.
"We tried to take an educational rather than a regulatory stance," said FTC's Cleland. "We are trying to get everyone to understand that they need to make full disclosure to tweets and blogs, etc."
However, the FTC does move aggressively when it believes an advertiser is being deliberately deceptive. The agency's goal appears to be to take down the worst offenders and educate the rest by notifying them of the error of their ways.
"We are doing everything we can to get the word out," said FTC's Cleland.
It is virtually impossible to check for every possible offender on the Internet and on mobile, however.
"There's no way we can look at all the downstream influencers, so we focus on the advertisers," said Cleland.
Burden or Blessing?
So how do marketers view these new guidelines? Are they perceived as a burden or blessing to the online advertising industry?
"What the FTC has pushed out really should not come as a surprise to, nor be a burden for, companies who do things 'right,'" said digital marketing consultant Ted Sindzinski.
"In social media, where the name of the game has always been transparency, the more a company does to set the stage, the better the response tends to be," he told the E-Commerce Times.
"Even if the new regs are only marginally successful, the change will be positive," said James Delaney, COO of DMi Partners.
"There will be a better match between prospective customers and advertisers," he told the E-Commerce Times.
The IAB also acknowledged the efforts the FTC has made and the difficulties in carrying out the task, albeit with a caveat or two.
"The FTC had a monumental task in front of them in terms of extending the guidelines," said Hudgins.
"That said, some of the guidelines make sense -- but others are short-sighted. But we see that often from many agencies and Congress when they try to regulate technologies that are still evolving," she observed.
"The guidelines are inflexible on development in the space," Hudgins said. "They are a little dismissive of what the space is capable of. Some of it is ambiguous and confusing, especially in the mobile space."
Even so, the guidelines are "almost there but not quite," in Hudgins' view.
So what can marketers do to steer clear of a run-in with the FTC?
"We are advising everyone to read the guidelines carefully and weigh your campaigns carefully and ask yourself if you are being upfront in the campaign or if you are trying to hide what you are doing," said Hudgins. "Don't limit your creativity, but work with your lawyers to ensure your campaign is completely upfront with the fact that it is a marketing campaign."
Curb the lawyer lingo, though, because it won't help your case and may even hurt it.
"Sometimes there is almost an overdisclosure," said Cleland. "It needs to be -- in fact it's better if it is in plain English."
Be vigilant in your efforts to be transparent, because it isn't only the FTC that polices marketing behavior.
"Bloggers and social media folks often report violators," said the FTC's Cleland, "or we read media reports and newspaper stories about someone not following the rules."
Journalists are otherwise of no interest to the FTC, at least when it comes to their posts and tweets. I asked Cleland to make a call on the Muck Rack social media disclaimer, linked on my own Twitter profile and on those of many journalists I know.
"Because we don't see journalists' tweets and posts as commercial speech, those are not of interest to us," he said, "but to answer your question as to whether that disclaimer link in a Twitter profile is sufficient, I would say it is a very questionable way of communicating that information to your followers."
While journalism is not commercial speech, the increased drive toward transparency across the Web and especially in social media will likely cause journalists, editors and their publications to rethink how they handle disclosures too.