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Bobby Sneaks into Scienceman Twins Video Game!on July 15, 2013 at 12:00 am
If you follow me on twitter, you might have noticed a very handsome pixel sprite of Bobby as my avatar. The reason for that is this: Kyatt, the creator of the webcomic Beeserker, is developing a video game with Sugar Rockets that will feature Bobby as a playable character!
Scienceman Twins is the second video game based on Kyatt's Beeserker. The game will feature 1-2 player arcade-style platform action in an infinitely tall science tower filled with rascals, wrenches, and collectable bees. The main characters are the titular Scienceman Twins, Orange and Yellow, but players can also choose from an ever-increasing cast of other "twins," all of which happen to be real-life webcomic characters! Below is a screenshot of Bobby in action.
Bobby's in good company. He's currently joined by Peppermint, the green-haired science prodigy from Crazy Sunshine, and Dan, the short-tempered gamer from Blaster Nation. Who knows what other comic characters might visit the science tower?
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"HOPS" must be Egyptienne by Elsner+Flake
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So still no clue about the "Soon"?
According to Renee Fernandez himself (14th post from top), the "script is all custom".
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Pulled Pork Sandwich
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Cranberry-Pear Relish
The aroma of orange, cranberry, and cinnamon simmering together lets you know that the holidays are here.
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- Calories: 90
- Fat: 2g
- Saturated fat: 0.2g
- Protein: 0.4g
- Carbohydrate: 18.4g
- Cholesterol: 0mg
- Iron: 0.3mg
- Sodium: 44mg
- Calories from fat: 20%
- Fiber: 1.7g
- Calcium: 15mg
- 1 (12-ounce) package fresh cranberries
- 1 1/2 cups diced peeled pear (about 3)
- 2 teaspoons grated fresh orange rind
- 1 cup fresh orange juice
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon ground allspice
- 2 (3-inch) cinnamon sticks
- 1/3 cup chopped pecans, toasted
- Combine first 8 ingredients in a large saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring frequently. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, 10 minutes or until berries pop. Cool to room temperature (about 2 hours).
- Remove and discard cinnamon sticks. Stir in pecans. Cover and chill.
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I think the best part of any Convention is the time I get to spend with my fellow demonstrators. Our demonstrators are just about the nicest ladies around and I think our Utah Divas are just the best of the best. We brought in ladies from all over the country as well as the local crew and it was really neat to get to meet all these ladies we've been hanging out with in our on-line group.
I really think I am happiest when I am with a fun group of friends like this. There's just nothing like relaxing with your girlfriends whether you're stamping, eating, or just talking with them. I wish we'd gotten more pictures of the whole group, but I did get some shots here and there. Above is the one group shot we managed to get. As you can see, it's was a big group and believe it or not, this isn't even all of us. There were another half dozen or so who weren't around for the picture.
I think we had 35 of us, including our first ever "Diva Dude"! Here's Michael holding up our banner for us. He and his wife Kelly run a Stampin' Up! business in Colorado and he was just as gung-ho about it as she was. It was really heart-warming to see such a supportive husband - they are quite the rarity!
No, Michael doesn't have two wives, although that works sometimes in Utah! The lady in purple is my good friend Pat. Pat had a very rough convention. During the opening session, she had a phone call that her 92 year old Mother-in-law had passed away. It was doubly hard because she had just lost her elderly father about six weeks ago, but her family encouraged her to stay at the Convention and she managed to have a good time despite her losses.
This is our Queen Diva Max, getting her award for her recruitment promotions. Several of us got rewards in several different categories, but this was the only decent picture I got.
Here's the crew hanging around at the "Diva House" for our BBQ last night. We had over 20 women staying there, which was a little crazy, but a lot of fun. Some people actually managed to get a little sleep (and even a shower!) Let's see if I can get all the names right.
This is Sara, Carol M, Max and Ruthie.
Hmm. Looks like Jean, Terry, Ursula, Charmaine, Janine and I can't see who's on the far side of Janine. Might be her sister Jen.
Here's Sue, Christy, and Sara. This was a nice house. It had wi-fi, a hot tub, two living rooms, 3 bathrooms, and a whole lot of bedrooms. But with that many people in it, it was just a little bit cramped.
Kicking back with Jen, Linda, Christine (we also have a Kristine, but she wasn't there) and Pat.
We also had another dinner and 3D swap tonight at the Spaghetti Factory (yum!) and the other night we were at the Blue Iguana for Mexican food and our 1st 3D swap. Boy do we know how to eat or what??? When I get a minute, I'll post some of the 3D projects people made. They were all really cool!


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Sullivan County Police are continuing their investigation into the theft of hundreds of iPads from the North Central Junior / Senior High School.
The electronic devices were to replace many text books this school year and were worth over $200,000
Police say that a window was broken out and that probably someone inside passed the iPads out the window to another person.
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Four Hawkeyes scored 12 points to lead the University of Iowa men's basketball team to a 93-74 triumph over St. Quentin Saturday night to remain unbeaten after four games of its European trip.
Josh Oglesby, Aaron White, Anthony Clemmons and Roy Devyn Marble all led the Hawkeyes in the scoring column with 12 points each. In fact, nine Hawkeyes netted seven points or more. Melsahn Basabe had nine points, while Jarrod Uthoff, Peter Jok, Adam Woodbury and Gabriel Olaseni all contributed seven points.
The first quarter was back-and-forth and finished in a 20-20 tie. The Hawkeyes began to distance themselves from St. Quentin in the second period, due in large part to the play of Iowa's second unit. With Iowa leading 29-28 with 6:58 left in the half, Iowa scored 15 straight points to go up double digits. Iowa took a 48-33 advantage into halftime.
"I thought our defense translated into our offense tonight," said Oglesby, who was named game MVP. "We played really good defense, especially in the second quarter."
A 3-pointer with 9:39 left in the fourth period pulled St. Quentin to within eight points, but a 10-0 scoring surge put the game out of reach.
The Hawkeyes owned the glass for the second consecutive contest, this time out-rebounding its opponent by 18 (53-35). Basabe cleared a game-high 11 boards, while White snagged eight. Iowa was aggressive on defense, yet again, tonight blocking nine shots, forcing 19 turnovers and collecting 12 steals. Olaseni rejected a game-high four shots, while White had a game-high three steals.
"When you look at the scoring, rebounding and assists numbers, we were unbelievably balanced and unselfish," said head coach Fran McCaffery. "We got offense, size and versatility coming off the bench and it's great to see it come together."
Tonight was the Hawkeyes' last day in Paris. The team will depart Sunday morning for Marseilles, southern France, by train before continuing its exhibition tour on the court Monday night against Hyeres-Toulon at 6 p.m. local time (11 a.m. CT).
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Earth could use a biography. Tim Flannery has delivered a provocative one in time for Earth Day.
Despite the rising level of greenhouse gases warming the Blue Planet and the failure to unite governments behind efforts to arrest the trend, Flannery is optimistic for Earth's future and that of its most destructive inhabitants: you and me.
"We have trod the face of the Moon, touched the nethermost pit of the sea, and can link minds instantaneously across vast distances. But for all that, it's not so much our technology, but what we believe that will determine our fate," Flannery proclaims in his "dual biography" of the planet and mankind. "Today, many think that our civilization is doomed to collapse," he writes. "Such fatalism is misplaced. It derives in large part from a misreading of Darwin, and a misunderstanding of our evolved selves. Either such ideas will survive or we will."
"Survival of the fittest" is perhaps the most regrettable and misunderstood phrase in all of science. Absent from Darwin's work until the fifth edition of "On the Origin of Species," the phrase nonetheless has plagued Darwinism for more than a century and has been misused to justify social and economic hierarchy, unequal distribution of resources, imperialist conquest and now the suicide of our species.
The best adherent to fatalistic Darwinism is Peter Ward, whose "Medea" thesis (named for the Greek goddess who exacted revenge on her unfaithful husband by killing their children) holds that "species will, if left unchecked, destroy themselves by exploiting their resources to the point of ecosystem collapse," Flannery writes.
But the ultimate trajectory of human evolution, notwithstanding the central catalyst of competition and selection, tends toward a cooperative "super organism" capable of governing its actions to preserve its ecosystem (in this case, an entire planet) and thus its survival, Flannery argues. "If competition is evolution's motive force, then the cooperative world is its legacy," he writes.
It's a long intellectual distance to travel from fatalism to guarded optimism, but Flannery pulls it off, guiding readers away from the social Darwinism of 19th century philosopher Herbert Spencer toward the subtler insights of Alfred Russel Wallace, "the first modern scientist to comprehend how essential cooperation is to our survival."
To do so, Flannery rests on the theory of James Lovelock and the notion of "Gaia" — Earth as "a self-regulating system made up from the totality of organisms, the surface rocks, the ocean and the atmosphere tightly coupled as an evolving system" that ultimately regulates its surface conditions to be favorable to life.
The trick, for humans, will lie in our ability to evolve through the climate change we've started, and to do so, Flannery argues, we will have to rely on ideas and beliefs transmitted as "memes" in a fashion similar to the replication of the "selfish gene" of Richard Dawkins. Flannery offers examples of cultures whose "memes," including their taboos and self-sacrificial behaviors, cooperation, sharing and co-evolution, appear to contradict ruthless competition, mitigating it toward the cooperation and moderation that better ensure survival of the whole.
There is plenty of room to argue that the human "super organism" lacks a command-and-control system that will enable it to coordinate actions in time to save itself. But if ants have accomplished the same feat, as recent science suggests, why not humans?
The spirited argument on behalf of man and planet contained in "Here on Earth" constitutes what should be called the Tim Flannery meme: informed optimism about our ability to save ourselves. All it needs for survival is the "Darwinian" resolve to replicate itself in our progeny.
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N.T. Wright recently had a Q and A session on his Facebook page, and he responded to this question:
What would Paul say to a Christian serving in the military?
Wright's response can best be summarized by these two statements:
This is again straight Romans 13: God wants there to be human authorities, but they are answerable to him.
It is therefore appropriate in principle for a Christian to serve in such a force [the state], basically an extension of police work.
(You can read the full response here.)
In reaction to this, Kurt Willems wrote a response showing where he disagrees. Kurt, in classical Anabaptist fashion, believes that Christians should be nonviolent, but that the state still serves a purpose. There is a separation of church and state, and the state is a necessary evil.
What we have here are the two traditional positions of the church clashing. Wright represents the majority view, which traditional Protestants, Catholics, and Orthodox hold to, while Willems follows the traditional free church approach. Obviously, I favor the free church approach between the two, since I do not believe in Christian involvement in state violence. However, I still find that I disagree. Where I completely disagree with Wright's approach, I also disagree with Willems—and also mainstream Anabaptism.
The two approaches shown here are different, but I think they both rely upon the same inaccurate reading of one particular passage of Scripture—Romans 13. For hundreds of years—ever since Christians were given responsibility for the Roman Empire—people have read Romans 13 with the assumption that Paul is talking about the state when he uses the vague term "archontes" (authorities; rulers).
It is interesting to me how everyone just assumes that Paul is referring to the state in this passage. No one ever considers the possibility that Romans 13 has nothing to do with the state. There are even many translations that add the term "governing" to the Greek's "authorities" so that the impression that the state is what is being talked about is even more reinforced.
I disagree. I think that when we consider the context of Romans, as well as the original Greek terms, that it is clear that Romans is not talking about the state to begin with. Rather, I believe that the "authorities" referred to in Romans 13 are religious leaders rather than political ones.
1. Romans was written with a religious context in mind. Paul's Epistle to the Romans was written with the purpose of reconciling Jewish and Gentile Christians in Rome. These two camps were at odds in the early church, as we can see by the disputes between Peter and Paul. Brian McLaren describes this context in A New Kind of Christianity:
So, the more I read and reread Romans and tried to make sense of its message, the more I became convinced that Paul never intended his letter to be an exposition on the gospel. The gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John would soon fulfill that exposition role quite well. Instead, Romans aimed to address a more immediate , practical question in the early Christian movement less than twenty-five years after Jesus's death and resurrection: How could Jews and Gentiles in all their untamed diversity come and remain together as peers in the kingdom of God without having first- and second-class Christians, on the one hand, and, on the other, without being homogenized like a McDonald's franchise with the same menu, same pricing, same bathroom soap? (pg. 143-144)
It was the Protestant Reformation especially that caused us to read Romans (and Paul in general) as a systematic theologian interpreting the gospel. In Paul's day, however, he was a pastor and missionary, and his letters were written to specific churches in order to deal with their crises. The epistles of Paul were not spiritual instruction for individual Christians today; rather, they were part of a dialogue with communities in the first century.
2. Archontes was a Greek Jewish term for religious leaders. When we take into account the religious context of Paul's letter, we can then better understand the language Paul uses. Something that people overlook is that terms like "rulers" or "authorities" are actually pretty vague. There are many institutions in society, and one can be seen as an authority in any number of them. According to The Jewish Annotated New Testament (which goes into great detail concerning Romans 13), archontes was a Greek Jewish term for religious leaders. While it was also a term for politicians, when we consider the religious context of Romans, the former makes more sense. Simply put, archontes was like the modern English term "minister." In many contexts, this term refers to political leaders (e.g. prime minister), but it also often refers to religious leaders.
Many point to the references of taxation and "the sword" in Romans 13 to show that Paul was actually referring to political archons rather than religious archons, but I think we would be jumping to conclusions to think that. Just like with the term "archontes" or "minister," taxation also exists in multiple contexts, and in ancient Judaism, there was a temple tax. It is likely that Paul was talking about religious taxation rather than political.
The "sword" that Paul mentions in Romans 13:4 can also mean multiple things. Traditionally, it has been taken literally—to mean that the state uses swords (i.e. weapons) to administer its law and order. There is certainly a possibility that Paul was referring to Roman law enforcement, but he could easily have been referring to Jewish and Christian community leaders, and using the term "sword" in a symbolic tone. Unless of course, Ephesians 6:17 means that the Holy Spirit can literally cut me.
3. Paul was a Jewish Christian in the Roman Empire. Finally, I think the larger context of the author is perhaps the most important. Paul was both Jewish and Christian, and both of those things meant that he was troublesome to the Roman Empire. On the one hand, he was Jewish. While technically given religious freedom, Jews were still uneasy in their relationship with Rome. They existed on fringe of Rome's territory and many resistance movements popped up during the first century that attempted to proclaim a new Israel. Some have even concluded that the early followers of Jesus were among such apocalyptic groups. First century Jews and the Roman Empire were not on good terms, to say the least.
Secondly, Paul was a Christian, and Christianity was considered an illegal cult by the Roman authorities. Roman pagan life encompassed all of society. Religion, politics, and public festivities were all deeply interconnected, and Christians rejected them. In fact, in the same Q and A that I am writing about, N. T. Wright brings this up:
It's hard for us to imagine, but in the ancient pagan world 'religion' (festivals, sacrifices, inspecting auspices, etc.) was so ubiquitous, and so stitched in to the very fabric of every city and state, and even every street and home with their 'local gods', that anyone who suddenly stopped taking part in all these things, and instead met with a disparate group of people behind closed doors on the first day of the week, and could sometimes be heard talking about eating someone's body and drinking blood, and about being born again, and about someone who was to be called 'Lord' . . . anyone like this would be looked at with great suspicion. Such behaviour would already be perceived, massively, as 'civil disobedience'.
The Christian religion, for the first few centuries, was essentially criminal, and it was this reason that various pockets of persecution occurred. Even Paul was reportedly arrested and imprisoned numerous times for his missionary work. For a first century Jew or Christian (and especially a Jewish Christian) to advocate for allegiance to the Roman Empire would be ridiculous, in my honest opinion.
Based upon Paul's writing in Romans 12-13, I think we can make the case that Paul was for nonviolence, and then of course, you have texts like the Sermon on the Mount, which are even more reinforcing of nonviolence. I definitely think Wright was wrong when he stated that Christians could take part in violent institutions. Of course, we must remember Wright's Anglican (state church) heritage, which certainly shaped his understanding. In addition to that, I think the traditional Anabaptist view of Romans 13 is also wrong, since it starts with the assumption that the "authorities" in question are state leaders.
Cross-posted from Koinonia Revolution.
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This site would do well to have more of this type of exposition.
I'm not sure I agree with the Kevin but I appreciate the thoughts. I re-read Romans 13 (and 12 and 14) without verse numbers or headers to see if verses 1-7 blended into the surrounding verses in a way I had not noticed before. Alas, I remain at a loss.
Two thoughts come to mind:
1) As far as I am aware Paul almost always speaks about the church, not those outside it. Paul wrote 13 letters (maybe 14 if you include Hebrews) and as far as I can remember he spends very little time talking about anything other than inter-church interaction. I think, Kevin, this is a key point that you missed that could be used to further strengthen your interpretation. Paul is very single minded and it would make sense that Paul is writing about church unity, not the State. Speaking of which…
2) Paul almost exclusively writes about keeping a peaceful balance within the church. A lot of Christians (especially liberal Christians) think of Paul as some sort of authoritarian. In actuality, Paul was Tony Campolo of his day. Most of his letters are about keeping the peace between the Jews and Gentiles in the early church (Galations). All of them, universally, are single minded attempts to spread the Gospel. In fact, I'd argue that Paul never wrote anything in the New Testament that was not with the intent of making the Gospel more palatable.
So your thoughts here are both unique and reasonable. Is it reasonable that Paul would be talking about church authorities? Absolutely. Is it likely? Very much so.
I still remain in the camp that Romans 13 is all about trying not to tick off the state in order to preach the Gospel. I believe that Paul realized that a church that was seen a trouble makers could not spread the Gospel.
In either case, Romans 13 does not suggest that a Christian can serve in the military. It merely makes mention that we should obey them (for the sole purpose of spreading the Gospel).
I believe it was Oswald Chambers who once said something like: "I'm always happy to find a Soldier a Christian and saddened when I find a Christian a Soldier."
Rom. 12-13 follow Paul's extended treatment in 9-11 about a mostly unbelieving Israel. Paul still loves his fellow Jews, and affirms their special "election," but also knows their strong resistance to the gospel ("as regards the gospel they are enemies of God" in 11:38). Indeed, "Judaizers" have been Paul's worst persecutors. His common mission practice was going to the synagogues, receiving a hearing, and then being persecuted and driven out. Thus in 12:14 when he echoes Jesus about blessing those who persecute you, the literary context and mission context both point in the direction of Jewish authorities, who ruled in the synagogues.
So yes, archontes is used to describe these Jewish authorities elsewhere, but at this point (in Romans), they are the enemies/persecutors (not part of the solution found in Rom. 13). The main problem Paul addresses in 12:14-13:10 is how to respond to that persecution. Paul says not to repay evil for evil; if possible, live peaceably with "everyone" (even persecutors). Don't seek revenge; leave that to the wrath of God; as for you, if your enemy is hungry, feed him; overcome evil with good.
Then 13:1-4 says nothing about giving allegiance to the Roman authorities but does say to let "everyone" (who does evil, especially persecutors, as in 12:18) be subject to the punishment of the authorities, who might be instruments of the wrath of God "for your good" (when they stop the persecutors, while the Christians still overcome evil with good). If however Christians get revenge (and use evil against evil), they too then need to fear punishment from the authorities. While Paul was unjustly punished by Roman authorities sometimes, he was mostly persecuted by Jewish authorities, after which sometimes Roman authorities stopped the persecution. Paul thus summarizes this section by saying "owe no one anything" (any revenge) except to love one another; love does no wrong (evil) to a neighbor (13:8-10).
In Rom. 14 Paul does begin to deal with peace among Jewish and Gentile Christians, but this is about minor issues like food and drink, and not really a major focus of his letter as a whole. In 15:14 he says he himself is satisfied about them, that they are full of goodness, all knowledge, and able to instruct one another. While Romans is indeed not about a systematic (abstract) theology for individuals, it often deals with how Christians should understand and interact with non-Christian Gentiles and especially non-Christian Jews (and their law). Whether using "Reformed" theology or Paul's mission praxis (the latter of course being better), both approaches to interpreting Romans are "religious," just as Jewish authorities were political as well as religious, and Roman authorities were religious as well as political, and less of a problem at this stage.
This is Mark Nanos' interpretation in "The Mystery of Romans". I am surprised Anabaptists have yet to fully engage his understanding.
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A quick comparison between McCall's 5145 and Butterick 4627 revealed the necessary shoulder /neckline and armscye adjustments necessary,
The darts are pinned out in the bust area of both patterns.
I am not sure what has possessed me to sew another coat so soon. They are so big and bulky and generally annoying to handle. The last one took more than 50 hours. McCall's 5145 probably took a hundred hours, but I wear it almost every day. None of my older coats are good enough for me now!
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Vibram FiveFingers Settlement
- Monday, August 18 2014 @ 08:21 PM EDT
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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It seems that a number of Vibram FiveFinger shoe fans have such strong opinions on class action lawsuits and the American legal system in general that they want nothing to do with this case. I am not a lawyer (don't construe anything I say for real legal advice) but I did read the court documents and I think that people are missing an opportunity here.
And as stated elsewhere in the documents:
"Unless you exclude yourself from the Class, if the settlement is approved all of the Court's orders will apply to you and you will not be able to start a lawsuit, continue with a lawsuit, or be part of any other lawsuit against Vibram about the claims in this lawsuit, ever again, regardless of whether you submit a Claim Form."
If you wish your donation could go to a different charity, or if you believe that Vibram FiveFingers are good products and do encourage stronger feet, you still have an opportunity to file a claim. It is very easy to file an online claim and no proof of purchase is necessary for 1 or 2 pairs of shoes. You have until Sept. 24, 2014 to file a claim (see the link near the top of this blog post).
There are articles flying around the web with titles such as "FiveFingers Maker Will Pay Millions To Suckers Who Bought Its Shoes".
There are also articles that provide other opinions such as "Vibram Suit: Poor Judgement" and "Was Footwear Justice Served When Vibram Recently Settled Its $3.75 Million Class Action Lawsuit?" and "The Vibram lawsuit, barefoot running and science perspectives".
One of the specific claims in the suit says:
"Vibram will not make or assist others in making any claims that the FiveFingers footwear or products similar to the FiveFingers footwear are effective in strengthening muscles or preventing injury unless that representation is true, non-misleading and is supported by competent and reliable scientific evidence;"
In fact just last year a study demonstrated that "barefoot shoes" such as VFF do strengthen foot muscles.
That study, The effect of minimal shoes on arch structure and intrinsic foot muscle strength, makes that very conclusion:
"These results suggest that endurance running in minimal support footwear with 4 mm offset or less makes greater use of the spring-like function of the longitudinal arch, thus leading to greater demands on the intrinsic muscles that support the arch, thereby strengthening the foot."
Maybe Vibram will get to re-use those marketing materials after all.
There are folks who disagree, but my own feeling is that the best way to show support of Vibram and their products is to file a claim, get the settlement payment, and then go buy another pair of FiveFinger shoes. Wouldn't it be interesting if Vibram's sales numbers showed a marked increase immediately following the conclusion of the suit?
As much as I believe that Vibram would have actually won the suit had it gone to trial, I can see how they would jump at the opportunity to make this lawsuit (and all lawsuits like it) go away forever.
While reading through the court documents I found myself impressed by the amazing legal verbiage used to describe the "you cannot sue them ever" condition. Vibram seems to have coverered their butts rather well. Below is the full legal blurb in all its glory:
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thatlinuxbox.com now supports OAuth
- Saturday, August 02 2014 @ 10:53 AM EDT
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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I have upgraded to the latest Geeklog version 2.1.0, available from:
This prompted me to make some changes to the theme. I have my site logo working again and now looks good even on mobile devices. I should probably test the site on a Windows computer but I don't have any available these days. Update: Seems to work ok on modern Windows computers with IE, also.
I made some other plugin updates and additions. These are the plugins I have installed and are compatible with Geeklog 2.1.0:
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A Real Thumb Drive
- Friday, July 25 2014 @ 08:49 PM EDT
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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Get one at Amazon for yourself, as a gag gift, or even a stocking stuffer...
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Planet Explorers Game on Linux
- Wednesday, July 23 2014 @ 06:47 PM EDT
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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This week, save 40% off Planet Explorers on Steam. http://store.steampowered.com/app/237870/
The graphics are beautiful:
I had no stutter or performance issues at all on my Ubuntu 14.04 system. From Additional Drivers, I am using the NVIDIA binary driver - version 331.38 from package nvidia-331.
For reference, my hardware includes...
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2400 CPU @ 3.10GHz
NVIDIA Corporation GK106 [GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost]
Gameplay seems to have some features of Minecraft... within a few minutes I was able to dig for stone and metals, harvest plant life, hunt animals for meat, and get attacked by some kind of predator. The online videos I have seen show people building defenses and other structures.
Here are additional screenshots from my Linux system:
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Trail Running the Cataloochee in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
- Wednesday, July 09 2014 @ 02:41 PM EDT
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One word of warning... there isn't much parking at the trailhead at Cove Creek Gap on Cove Creek Road. I have read other hiking reports on the web that suggest parking at the Appalachian Highlands Science Learning Center at Purchase Gap or at The Swag Country Inn (SWAG), but I recommend reading those reports for all of the caveats.
Parking and restroom facilities are available in the Cataloochee Valley itself and there are many connecting and loop trails that lead back up to the ridge trails.
I ran from the trailhead at Cove Creek Gap to the McKee Branch Trail and back again, which according to the trail signs was 4.6 miles each way.
Although tree growth obstructs much of the view of the surrounding mountains, there are a few places that offer spectacular views:
The trail was very runnable and much of it looked like this:
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Melon Run 2014
- Friday, July 04 2014 @ 05:47 PM EDT
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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My finish time for this 3 miler (not a 5k!) was 17:46 and I was able to win my age group and bring home a nice watermelon as an award.
The Superman shirt is from the Under Armour Alter Ego collection. I raced in my blue Inov-8 Bare-X Lite 150 shoes.
Race results are posted here:
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Directed by one-hit wonder Marcel Camus, this French-Brazilian co-production was the winner of the Palme d'Or and a smash international hit… This is Black Orpheus or Orfeu Negro. Breno Mello stars as Orfeu and Marpessa Dawn is Eurydice in this retelling of the Ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Instead of Ancient Greece, our setting is Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. And, as to be expected, the sights are breathtaking, the costumes are extraordinary, and the music is infectious. It is a love story set against an awesome, colorful canvas. The film begins with music. And its ending - perhaps among the most poignant and affecting ever seen in film - also ends with music.
In my opinion, both actors were born to play their parts. And to add to the mythology of the film, both Mello and Dawn died within two months of each other in 2008. Many would say that isn't a coincidence. Coincidence or not, it seems fitting. In other trivia, the film was the favorite of the mother of Barack Obama. The film is also seen as progressive in Brazilian cinema as it was a rare film that cast almost all black actors and extras.
The Academy found the film infectious themselves, awarding Black Orpheus the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film - making this unlikely film stand among giants.
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- Students use alternative art materials for one-night-only exhibition June 18
- Digital Media wins national prize for TEDxBirmingham video
- Trip to New York brings national attention to Birmingham renaissance
- Clothes that work for new grads hitting the market
- Hagel emphasizes leadership to Naval Academy graduates
- Birmingham Chosen To Host 2015 C-USA Basketball Championships
- On The Money: How new graduates can take on the job market
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- Tornadoes Leave Trail of Devastation (Photos)
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Triumph's fire lacked proper response from Carnival
Last month, the Carnival cruise ship Triumph made waves when a fire was ignited in one of its engine rooms, resulting in a lack of power and propulsion for several days. The fire resulted in mostly mild to moderate discomfort for the passengers and crew, and other vessels helped to transfer supplies and tug the Triumph into harbor, finally, on February 14th, four days after the fire occurred.
However, the Triumph fire was nowhere near the top of the list of Carnival's issues; it simply brought the real issues to light.
The problem that I find most horrifying in this situation is Carnival's lack of a cohesive response strategy to incidents like this. As Stewart Chiron wrote in the Huffington Post blog, "Keep in mind, cruise ships are machines, and machines do break down," and that's all well and good. Perhaps these things happen and are to be expected occasionally, and Carnival compensated the Triumph's passengers. But this is not the type of response strategy to which I am referring.
One of the most vital assets a company must possess in order to maintain its identity and reputation is a solid, unified strategy for corporate communication. This includes not only obvious components like press releases and interviews, but also things like internal memos, brochures, e-mail or postal correspondence with consumers, and company websites, just to name a few.
One form of corporate communication that has recently become popular is corporate blogging, of which Paul Dwyer, a researcher at Texas A&M University, says, "Consumers respond well to these overtures, showing evidence of increased subject-matter involvement, liking and trust." Blogs written by higher-ups of large corporations humanize the organizations, making them more relatable to consumers.
John Heald, Senior Cruise Director and Brand Ambassador for Carnival Corporation & PLC, publishes a blog on Carnival's website. Without the exigent circumstances currently surrounding Carnival (including two more incidents just last week), I would hail John Heald's blog as a highly effective corporate communication tool as it reaches consumers directly and personally in a visually appealing format.
However, while Carnival is situated in the middle of one of the most widely reported corporate incidents currently in the news, unless you read carefully, you wouldn't know that based on Heald's blog entries since the fire. (Carnival's main website and email correspondence also lack acknowledgment of these incidents.)
As a prominent voice for Carnival, Heald has blatantly ignored a timely opportunity to publicly explain exactly what happened on the Triumph, take an appropriate degree of responsibility on behalf of the corporation, and ensure readers (which, in Heald's case, are mostly consumers) that they can cruise safely with Carnival.
On the contrary, Heald's only mention of the incident was a cutting criticism of the news media: "I just wish they would lose the smug, condescending attitude and stop writing the headlines before the facts are in place" and then turned to a discussion of the news media in general (Heald, "Half Moon Cay and the News").
This sparse commentary comes across as petty and immature, which is not the kind of image a large corporation needs to project for any constituency, especially not consumers. Customers have expectations and concerns when they visit such a personal form of correspondence from a corporate "big wig," and John Heald has certainly not assuaged their newly ignited fears.
Upon hearing of the more recent minor catastrophes on the Legend and the Dream, I will certainly be watching and waiting to see if Carnival's response strategy has improved—or, really, begun to exist at all—since the Triumph.
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The gingerbread house returns to The Langham!
The Langham's festive gingerbread house is well known and was last year crowned the biggest one in London. This year it also looks huge; standing at 4.3ft high the gingerbread house will be on display at the entrance to the beautiful Palm Court restaurant – no nibbling though as the house will be on display throughout December so needs to stay on one piece!
The house was created by the hotel's Executive Pastry Chef, Cherish Finden, who recently featured in the Junior Bake Off series and starred as a judge on 'MasterChef'. It took a whooping 200 man hours to complete and was inspired by the story of Hansel and Gretel.
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The arrival of the gingerbread house also marks the start of the festive afternoon tea menu featuring roast Norfolk turkey breast with violet mustard sandwiches, festive eggnog cream, homemade mince pies, chocolate log cake and a mini gingerbread house to allow guests the chance to sample the gingerbread used in the showcase house.
The tea is priced at £42 per person however, you can also win a free afternoon tea for two by heading over to The Langham's facebook page and guessing the weight of gingerbread (to the nearest kg) that was used to construct the house.
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The winner will be selected on Friday 23rd December 2011 but if you can't wait that long then do head along to see the gingerbread house and enjoy this quirky 5 star hotel's Christmas afternoon tea menu.
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The Talented Mr. Ripley Reviews
Matt Damon is simply not convincing in this role. Not only is his performance flat, but he is unable to generate any sense of menace.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4
Ripley morphs into a well-meaning kid who yearns to be somebody. He's deprived, not depraved.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
Chicago Reader
Familiarity is the watchword of this overblown opus, which neglects holes in the plot to play up its postmodern theme of identity as pastiche -- a clear case of the pot calling the kettle black.
Combustible Celluloid
The Master of Suspense would never have turned in a movie this sloppy.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4
Big Picture Big Sound
The Talented Mr. Ripley is lovely wrapping without much to say.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4
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Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4
Washington Post
In terms of psychological profundity, it isn't one millimeter deep.
San Diego Metropolitan
It's a good ride. If you like a cat-and-mouse game, you'll like this.
Instead of reaching to Hitchcockian heights of suspense and wonder, we are instead bogged down with a Tom Ripley that is more Alex Forrest than Norman Bates.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
The film was neither dark enough to horrify, nor emotionally engaging enough to really touch us, and Matt Damon's acting left us both non-plussed.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4
Film Written Magazine
A sub-Hitchcockian runaround.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4
Greg's Previews at Yahoo! Movies
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4
It is a suspense film released by Miramax over the holiday season for maximum financial and Oscar-related benefits.
Village Voice
It's a sign of how watered-down the movie is that only the supporting actors have any bite.
Hollywood Report Card
But like Ripley and his mission, this gorgeous film sabotages the bizarre journey it originally offered.
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4
Minghella isn't going back to the modest style and the organic emotion of Truly, Madly, Deeply, his first and still his best film.
Los Angeles Times
Lacking in emotional impact.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
Houston Chronicle
Perhaps at 90 or so minutes, it would have been the Hitchcockian thriller that it isn't at the beginning but turns into. At two hours and 20 minutes, there's too much of the film that feels like reiteration.
San Diego Union-Tribune
About as facile and sidewinding as its main character.
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Simply put, we miss Dickie. Minghella too successfully sucked us into the young playboy's world; talented or no, Mr. Ripley makes a dull substitute.
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ADHD and Maturity
It seems it has become a trend to be on some sort of prescription drug nowadays:
Anti-depressants; anti-anxiety; weight loss drugs; medicine for ailments such as restless leg syndrome…and last but not least, ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyer-activity Disorder).
ADHD diagnoses have been on the rise since the syndrome was identified in the 1970s. It has caused controversy regarding plentiful diagnoses many consider questionable.
Could maturity simply be the answer to unfocused children?
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Oh my gosh it's almost Easter
Time to get off my fat keister.
To buy a dozen eggs, or more
Coz now there's five kids over four.
And one of them always cries
Painting eggs with stupid dyes.
I almost forgot the candy bars;
Who needs new brakes for the cars?
I don't have time to talk to you
Where are the peeps or poops or pooh?
And then I'll stay up way to late
Hiding eggs for Pete Rabbit's sake.
I got to get all this stuff done
To make the holiday more fun.
But someday I'll be all done with
This crazy Easter Bunny myth.
Wait! I'll save a pile of money
By killing off the Easter Bunny.
And lay him down in a casket
On plastic grass from a basket.
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In time we will also provide summaries and analyses (from various sources) of these laws in relation to their compliance with CEDAW principles and standards.
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Via: HotHardware | News Archive | Tags: core i7, X58, evga, Motherboard, 3-Way SLI, 3X SLI, socket 1336
nice review guys. Sounds like you really enjoyed working with that board. How did it fare compared to the Rampage 2 Extreme you guys fiddled with a few months back.
No ECC on core i7. no ECC means the memory could very well not be working at all and if the OS HAPPENS to crash you might find out. It is criminal in 2009 to not have universal ECC.
Who knows, maybe Air France 447 was brought down by-non-ECC memory on a computer. No ECC is a deadly game ultimatly.
^^^probably due to the price of it^^^
I really like the Evga mobos. Is there enough cooling of the NB/SB to run a water cooling system w/o extra cooling?
I would say so Der. For sure.
What consumer level PC platform are you aware of today that uses ECC? And if it did, would it be worth the cost premium? No, the vast majority of desktop PCs do not currently need ECC. You example of Air France is about a mission critical application. This is where ECC memory and error correction detection architectures need to be robust and make sense from a cost standpoint. The Enterprise level is even an application where it makes sense but for the end user, at least with current manufacturing processes, it just doesn't make sense nor is it feasible from a cost standpoint.
You seem to be on an ECC kick though. I see your comments on our Dell XPS desktop review were very much the same? You wouldn't have an axe to grind, would you?
These motherboards are very much on the same playing field, Nelson. I'd say look at features and see how they line up with your needs. It's a very close call but the Asus board is slightly less expensive but POSSIBLY less overclockable... possibly.
This mobo looks so beastly hahaha. 8 sata ports? Mass raid 0? I think so ;D
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