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Her body is absolutely fking perfect in every way. Not to mention adorable as hell.
Ryan Conner has few scenes that rival that one, and Jack Napier has NO other scene that rivals it -- good to see him shut his yapper and fuck the trick for once instead of babbling nonsense
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Electronics have become the hot holiday gift, and tablets are a relatively affordable way to make an impression this season. But which one?
Electronics have become the hot holiday gift, and tablets are a relatively affordable way to make an impression this season. But which one? A look at popular options and their pros and cons:
iPad miniPro: Light, portable
Con: Less-than-premium display at a premium price
Best for: Bed-readers and email junkies
Retail price: $329 and up
At first pass, it might seem as if there�s not much to say about the iPad mini. It�s the iPad but smaller: 7.9 inches to the full-size 9.7 inches.
It�s much easier to say what the iPad mini isn�t. It�s not a computer replacement. It�s not an ideal reading device because of screen glare. It�s not a phone. But as you use the device, you find that it is ideal for in-between moments. Think of it this way: Most people might pull out the iPad when they don�t feel like lugging their laptop around. The mini is just right for those moments when the iPad seems like a bit too much. You might use it on the sofa for light email or Web browsing.
If you have a third-generation iPad with the high-quality �retina� display that Apple says is the best the human eye can see, you�ll be disappointed by the iPad mini�s fine-but-not-fantastic screen. It�s also one of the more-expensive tablets, starting at $329 for the WiFi models and $429 for tablets that run on cellular networks.
There are lots of people for whom the iPad mini probably isn�t the best fit. If you love e-reader screens, need to watch video on a bigger screen, or want to get serious work done on a tablet, then you should look elsewhere. Even the new, larger iPad, which starts at $499 and has a faster processor than its predecessor, might be a better fit for you. But if you find you want a tablet good for transitioning from the hectic workplace to your sanctuary at home, the iPad mini is worth a look.
Barnes & Noble Nook HD
Pro: Tablet with the best reading screen
Con: Limited apps
Best for: Readers
Retail price: $199 and up
It shouldn�t surprise anyone that Barnes & Noble�s latest tablet is great for reading. It�s clear from the way the tablet functions that it was built with the reader in mind, from the screen that reduces (but doesn�t eliminate) glare to the simple design that puts content front and center.
This strength is also a weakness, however, because the tablet covers the basics of nonreading apps but doesn�t have the rich ecosystem of apps that other tablets do. If reading isn�t the primary reason you want a tablet, then this probably isn�t the right choice for you.
As you might expect, books and magazines look fantastic on this 7-inch device, especially the large collection of children�s books that the company has made available for it.
Barnes & Noble has made a point of marketing this tablet to families, adding features such as parental controls and the ability to support multiple accounts at once � just to make sure that the kids don�t get an unintentional peek at your copy of 50 Shades of Grey.
Kindle Fire HD
Pro: Cheap; seamless access to Amazon.com.
Con: Can be a bit unpolished
Best for: Content consumers, not content creators
Retail price: $199 and up
When Amazon released its first Kindle Fire for $199 last year, the tablet shot to the top of many shoppers� holiday wish lists. Hoping to strike gold again this year, Amazon released several tablets that offer better features than the original Kindle Fire but with the same low-price pitch.
Amazon improved a lot about the device, which in its original form was little more than a souped-up e-reader. The screen is designed to have less glare and has a higher resolution, so video looks even sharper. The redesign also addressed many of the complaints that users had with the original Fire. For example, the power button was in a place that was too easy to hit by accident, so now Amazon has made it flush with the edge of the tablet and added volume buttons.
The new Kindle Fire HD also has more storage at 16 GB, and � of course � access to all the Amazon books, movies, music and other stuff that you could possibly want. That seamless shopping largely makes up for the occasional lags and rough edges that Amazon is still working out with its software.
The 7-inch and 8.9-inch versions of the Kindle Fire HD are out now.
(Google) Nexus 10
Pro: Great screen
Con: WiFi models only
Best for: Google fans
Retail price: $399 and up
Google has jumped wholeheartedly into the tablet market, introducing both 7-inch and 10-inch tablets that carry its well-known brand. The Nexus 10 is the company�s answer to the market-leading iPad. It has a big, sharp screen made by Apple�s main competitor in the tablet market, Samsung.
The Nexus 10, which has a plastic frame, isn�t as nice to look at as the iPad, but it is a bit easier to hold. As for performance, there�s little to complain about here. The tablet is snappy and smooth and even has micro HDMI and USB ports so you can easily connect to other devices when needed.
The tablet could have better battery life, and the fact that it can�t run on cellular networks makes it a bit impractical for folks who want to use it for work on the road.
Still, the tablet runs great on a WiFi network and is tapped into all of Google�s services � Gmail, Google Drive, etc. � seamlessly, making it a great device for the great indoors.
Microsoft Surface
Pro: Near laptop-replacement quality
Con: Is best with accessories
Best for: Those who are always working
Retail price: $499 and up
Most tablets are tweener devices, but the Microsoft Surface edges closer to the ultrabook category than the pure tablet. The company clearly put a lot of thought into this tablet�s design, adding intuitive touches such as a kickstand so pretty that it�ll make your bicycle jealous. Its USB and HD video ports are a welcome addition for those who want to connect the tablet to other devices.
The Surface has a 10.6-inch screen that�s bigger than the iPad�s but is a little more horizontal to accommodate its Windows operating system. It eschews other tablets� tapered curves for a more angled look of its own. Plus, its optional keyboard covers (with a touchpad!) can seriously up your productivity when it�s time to create Word documents or PowerPoint presentations.
The tablet has its limitations. For one, although the device starts at a price of $499 for a model with more memory than the iPad, the keyboard cover isn�t included with the base model, severely limiting your productivity. Also, the current version of the Surface has an operating system that works with your PC, but in a limited way. It can run only apps from the Windows Store; a tablet running a full version of Windows 8 is due out next year. If you just want a very work-capable tablet, the Surface is a good fit. But if you were seriously thinking about ditching your laptop for it, you might want to wait a bit.

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James Franklin will accept an offer from Penn State to be its head coach at some point today, CBS Sports reported this afternoon.
BREAKING #Vandy coach James Franklin is expected to be the next head coach at #PennState, per source
— Bruce Feldman (@BFeldmanCBS) January 9, 2014
This is building off the report in The Times-Tribune this morning that Franklin had been offered the job by university administrators during a meeting in Florida on Wednesday night.
I'm working to confirm the CBS report, which has been corroborated by ESPN. I'll keep you updated on this as the day progresses.
UPDATE: Still nothing from Penn State, but that could take a while. Remember, when Bill O'Brien accepted the job, it took a day or so for Penn State to iron everything out to the point where it was comfortable enough to announce it officially. That seems to be what's going on here.
In the meantime, Feldman posted this story for CBS Sports, which says the two sides are ironing out contract details. But the bottom line of what was reported last night by us and what CBS and ESPN reported this morning is that Penn State offered the job, and Franklin will accept.


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Ki Tae Young And Eugene Celebrate 5th Wedding Anniversary With A pretty Circle of relatives Photoshoot
Ki Tae Young And Eugene Celebrate 5th Wedding Anniversary With A lovelyCircle of relatives Photoshootboxclub July 29, 2016 0 The Go back of Superman has released gorgeous black and white shots of Ki Tae Young and Eugenes family that display the satisfied couple posing with their adorable young daughter Rohee.
On the approaching July 31 episode of the KBS kindprove The Return of Superman, Ki Tae Young makes a decision to have a family photoshoot to celebrate the couples 5th wedding anniversary. The couple pulls out their tuxedo and wedding get dressed from five years ago and seem likethey've stepped back in time with how perfectly it still fits them.
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Kochi: Jan 13, 2013
Tickets worth Rs 1.2 crore have already been sold ahead of the second ODI between India and England, to be held here on Tuesday, a top official Kerala Cricket Association official said at Kochi on Sunday.
"Tickets worth Rs 1.2 crore have been sold till today for the second ODI between India and England on January 15, which is a very encouraging response," KCA secretary TC Mathew said.
He said online ticket booking facility has been stopped as also in various districts and tickets worth Rs 25 lakh are still with them. These tickets would be sold in the 52,000 capacity stadium itself, he said.
Mathew said the gates would be opened for public from 9 am on match day. No one, except those permitted by BCCI, would be allowed to enter the ground, he said.
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Corned beef – you crave it once a year around St. Patrick's Day – you cook it, it tastes amazing – but what do you do with all of the leftovers?! Corned beef sandwiches are great (check out this post from last year for a delicious idea!), but if you are looking for something new, give this recipe for corned beef hash from Food Network a try:
- 2 to 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 small onion, chopped
- Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
- 2 cups diced leftover rutabaga, carrots, potatoes and leek
- 2 cups chopped leftover corned beef
- 2 tablespoons chopped parsley
- 1 to 1 1/2 cups leftover corned beef cooking liquid
Heat 2 tablespoons butter with the vegetable oil in a large cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat until almost smoking. Add the onion, season with salt and pepper and cook until translucent, about 4 minutes. Add half of the vegetables and cook, stirring occasionally, until golden, about 5 minutes. Add the corned beef and cook until slightly brown, about 2 minutes.
Meanwhile, mash the remaining vegetables in a bowl with the parsley and 3/4 cup cooking liquid. Add to the skillet and stir to make a large pancake, adding up to 1/2 cup more cooking liquid, if needed. Cook until the hash is dark on the bottom, about 2 minutes.
Flip and continue cooking, turning occasionally and adding more butter if needed, until the hash is crunchy on the outside but still moist in the middle, 5 to 7 minutes. Add 1/4 cup cooking liquid 1 minute before serving.


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While its Surface Pro Windows 8 tablets have gotten the Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant on the scoreboard, so to speak, the company appears to have blundered by manufacturing too many of its Surface RT devices, which run Windows RT, an operating system that appears similar to Windows 8 but will not run any legacy Windows software.
Regrets, They Have a Few
According to leaked reports that emerged this past week from an internal company meeting, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confirmed the goof and also said the company was worried about the pace of sales for devices running Windows 8.
"We built a few more devices than we could sell," Ballmer reportedly told employees, according to sources who reportedly spoke anonymously with the The Verge Web site.
Second-quarter tablet market figures aren't complete yet. It will be interesting to see how the reported slip in iPad sales affected Apple's dominance in the market given the aggressive output of Samsung and others making Android-based tablets, and whether Windows tablets have gained.
Increasing Importance
With tablets having a huge impact on the PC market, getting a solid footing in that market is crucial. Microsoft saw profit of $19.9 billion in the most recent fiscal quarter, up 10 percent from the same quarter last year, but it is believed to have taken a $900 million hit after reducing the price of the Windows RT Surface tablets from $499 to $349.
"Microsoft is one of the oldest and most respected firms in the tech space, however they simply have not changed as the marketplace has changed," technology analyst Jeff Kagan told us on Friday. "That means they are not staying current with the needs of customers going forward."


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Dem Leaders Say Health Care Bill Will Pass Next Week, Give No Details On What's In It
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When Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) took the microphone, he expressed the same optimism about passing a bill. But he suggested the reforms he says will pass next week won't be the ones many health care reform advocates were hoping for.
"It's always easier to envision the bill you want than it is to pass the bill you want," Dodd said.
Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) highlighted what could be the new talking point about the Democratic reform bill. "This is the biggest tax cut since 2001," he said, referring to the tax credits and subsidies included in the legislation. He too was confident that something related to health care reform will pass soon.
"I know we're going to pass health care insurance reform for all Americans," Baucus said.


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NEW YORK — Tesla Motors said Wednesday that it planned to invest about $2 billion in a large-scale factory to produce cheaper batteries for a mass-market electric car within three years.
The company, which makes all-electric luxury sedans, indicated that it would build the factory in the American Southwest, without specifying where. Nor would it name its partners, whom it said would invest as much as another $3 billion in the factory through 2020.
Tesla said the factory would allow it to develop and cut the costs of its batteries for its vehicles more quickly, in part by producing finished batteries from metal ore instead of from components.
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"Defiance" is getting a second season. Syfy sent out a press release announcing that the next 13 episodes of the series will start shooting in August in Toronto.
Only five episodes of the new science fiction series have premiered thus far, and it's already accumulated a strong audience. Zap2it felt that fans of "Battlestar Galactica" and "Firefly" would be drawn to this show, and it seems enough people have found the project since its April 15 premiere to warrant a renewal.
"Bringing the rich world of Defiance to life has been in incredible team effort. We couldn't ask for better partners than Kevin Murphy, his amazing cast and crew, and Trion Worlds," Syfy's President of Original Content, Kevin Murphy, says in a press release.
Kevin Murphy will return as showrunner. "Defiance" stars Grant Bowler and Julie Benz. Season 2 is set for a 2014 premiere.


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Solitaire Kingdom is a fresh new way to play your favorite Solitaire game! Play the Solitaire you know and love, but with the added chance to win special "Kindgom Cards" that give you fantastic, game-changing powers. Just select which Kingdom Cards to add to your deck and become the Solitaire master you know you are. Other neat features include: a quick play option, an awards system, and infinite daily challenges that keep the fun going. Finally, as a reward for playing well, you will unlock the ultimate solitaire challenge: The Dragon Double Deck game!
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S6020 Digital Hi-Torque Surface Metal Gear Servo by Spektrum RC
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The heavy-duty, metal-gear S6020 puts out an impressive 146 oz in of torque making it ideal for 1/10-scale monster trucks as well as 1/8 buggies and truggies. And it delivers this torque with silky smooth precision thanks to its dual ball-bearing output shaft.
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- 146 oz/in torque at 6V affords impressive performance in the toughest applications
- Precise digital control
- Dual ball bearings provide less resistance for higher performance and longer life
- Heavy-duty metal gear train
- Size Category: Standard
- Type: Digital
- Application: 1/10th and 8th scale vehicles
- Torque: 146 oz-in @ 6v
- Speed: 0.19 sec/60° @ 6v
- Dimensions (WxLxH): .8 x 1.6 x 1.5 inch (41 x 20 x 39mm)
- Weight: 1.7 ounce (49.0g)
- Bushing Or Bearing: Bearing
- Bearing: Dual
- Motor Type: Brushed
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- Gear Material: Metal with one plastic
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Groceries are expensive and getting more expensive all the time! These days there are lots and lots of articles about ways to save money on groceries using coupons. In fact, there are entire websites devoted to updating you on sales and providing coupons for you to use.
But what if coupons aren't your style? If you still want to save money, here are ten ways you can:
- Shop the sales. Most grocery stores provide a weekly flyer that lists all the sales. If you design your menu around the sales, you can save money on your weekly bill.
- Stockpile. You can also take advantage of the really good sales to buy extras of the sale items you know you'll use.
- Have a couple of meals each week that are really economical, like Lentil Casserole.
- Buy your non-food items at a place like Dollar General and only buy food at the grocery store.
- Buy fruits and vegetables that are in-season. Strawberries in the winter cost a fortune, but in the summer, they're not too bad.
- Use off brands whenever possible. Sometimes the off brands taste just as good as the store brands and sometimes they don't. Through trial and error you can figure out when off brands can save you money.
- Cook from scratch. Processed foods often (but not always) cost more than if you cook the same items yourself. Do some cost comparison and see when homemade can save you money.
- Skip a week. Obviously you'll have to get milk, eggs, bread, fruits and vegetables, but skip all the rest and use up what's in your freezer, pantry or stockpile.
- Shop from a list. Make a detailed grocery list, complete with prices. Add up the prices and make sure you're on budget. When you go to the store, don't buy anything that isn't on the list. If you forget something and have to have it, remove something of equal value that you can do without.
- Shop with cash. If you really need to stick to your budget, the best way is to use cash. When you're using cash, you can't spend it if you don't have it.
If you want to try your hand at saving money with coupons, guest blogger Elizabeth Scholes wrote a series of articles that will walk you through the process. You can find the Couponing Series in the sidebar.
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The delusions of wireless Net Neutrality
[Updated to include Washington Post columnist's name. That column somehow left out the author's name] This Washington Post column by Rob Pegoraro says that wireless networks are just like wired networks and that most users don't "obsess over ping times". It's really a shame that Pegoraro didn't ask what the engineers thought or what users really thought when faced with the actual consequences of extreme Net Neutrality rules. Let me apply some jitter to Rob Pegoraro's cell phone call or Skype call and we'll see if he "obsesses" or not.
Let's apply some high ping jitter to any gamer or Vonage VoIP user and see if they "obsess" or not. Anyone who lives with a gamer or VoIP user knows never to mess with a man or woman's ping. We gamers or VoIP users will kick everyone in the house off YouTube or Netflix or BitTorrent whenever we need to use our Lingo VoIP service or do online gaming. I personally will go as far as disabling the Wi-Fi if I need to. It's quite common to hear your VoIP or gamer peer on the other end say: hold on a minute as I kick the BitTorrent and Netflix users off the network because they cause so much jitter. Is that obsessive? You better believe it but that's what happens when engineers are told by religious zealot non-engineers that they can't do their jobs even though the only way to manage downstream jitter is on the network provider's equipment.
The bigger problem with Pegoraro's column is its insistence that wireless networks are the same as wired networks when they aren't. Pegoraro claims that the larger capacities of 4G eliminates the congestion issues, but that isn't even remotely close to reality. No matter how much capacity there is in a 4G cell, that cell has to support hundreds and possibly thousands of users on a network that has less total capacity than the guaranteed capacity of a single piece of fiber or short-haul copper on a Verizon FiOS or AT&T U-verse broadband connection. No matter how much Rob Pegoraro or anyone else wishes it to be true, we will never turn mobile networks covering more than a few rooms into a high quality Video on Demand network because it's technically impossible.
The other major technical difference is that wired broadband connections offer a level of immunity between the users in the sense that jitter generated by a single user doesn't affect any of the other users in the same broadband network. On a wireless network, a single BitTorrent user poisons the entire cell with massive jitter and makes the network unbearable for all the users on the same cell and even the entire cell tower because the backhaul is jammed up with jitter. A wired broadband subscriber can only cause jitter for his or her own broadband connection which makes it painful for the people living in the same house but not the entire neighborhood.
The other differences are economic. When was the last time you've seen wired broadband service sold on a per device basis rather than a per-home basis? You can buy single-device wireless service for very specific devices like the Apple iPhone 4 or iPad at half the monthly cost of a any five device service plan like the MiFi portable hotspot service plans. Would Pegoraro insist that these existing single-device service plans be outlawed? That's what Net Neutrality would do as it doesn't allow a network provider to place contractual limits on the device. When was the last time a content provider like Amazon paid for your wired broadband service but dictated what webpage, application, or device you could use? It never happened on wired networks but it is happening on wireless networks and the Kindle.
When was the last time someone sold a device that came with very cheap but very limited wired broadband service? It hasn't happened, but it is happening in the wireless space with devices like the Peek Simply Email which only supports email but at a very low monthly cost. Furthermore, would this specialized type of device and connectivity be a bad thing for the people who don't own a computer or broadband today? What if they could get an affordable and simple iPad-like device that had a very cheap but limited service offering such as email and non-video web? Wouldn't that allow computers and the Internet to reach populations that have never been reached before? Should the market get to accept or reject these business models or should we have Soviet-style central planning for the future of the Internet?


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The free Linux operating system set off one of the biggest revolutions in the history of computing when it leapt from the fingertips of a Finnish college kid named Linus Torvalds 15 years ago. Linux now drives $15 billion in annual sales of hardware, software and services, and this wondrous bit of code has been tweaked by thousands of independent programmers to run the world's most powerful supercomputers, the latest cell phones and
But while Torvalds has been enshrined as the Linux movement's creator, a lesser-known programmer–infamously more obstinate and far more eccentric than Torvalds–wields a startling amount of control as this revolution's resident enforcer. Richard M. Stallman is a 53-year-old anticorporate crusader who has argued for 20 years that most software should be free of charge. He and a band of anarchist acolytes long have waged war on the commercial software industry, dubbing tech giants "evil" and "enemies of freedom" because they rake in sales and enforce patents and copyrights–when he argues they should be giving it all away.
Despite that utopian anticapitalist bent, Linux and the "open-source" software movement have lured billions of dollars of investment from IBM,
Now Stallman is waging a new crusade that could end up toppling the revolution he helped create. He aims to impose new restrictions on IBM and any other tech firm that distributes software using even a single line of Linux code. They would be forbidden from using Linux software to block users from infringing on copyright and intellectual-property rights ("digital rights management"); and they would be barred from suing over alleged patent infringements related to Linux.
Stallman's hold on the Linux movement stems from the radical group he formed in 1985: the Free Software Foundation. The Boston outfit, which he still runs, is guided by a "manifesto" he published that year, urging programmers (hackers) to join his socialist crusade. The group made Stallman a cult hero among hackers–and ended up holding licensing rights to crucial software components that make up the Linux system.
Stallman hopes to use that licensing power to slap the new restraints on the big tech vendors he so reviles. At worst it could split the Linux movement in two–one set of suppliers and customers deploying an older Linux version under the easier rules and a second world using a newer version governed by the new restrictions. That would threaten billions of dollars in Linux investment by customers and vendors alike.
A cantankerous and finger-wagging freewheeler, Stallman won't comment on any of this because he was upset by a previous story written by this writer. But his brazen gambit already is roiling the hacker world. His putsch "has the potential to inflict massive collateral damage upon our entire ecosystem and jeopardize the very utility and survival of open source," says a paper published in September by key Linux developers, who "implore" Stallman to back down. "This is not an exaggeration," says James Bottomley, the paper's chief author. "There is significant danger to going down this path." (Stallman's camp claims Bottomley's paper contains "inaccurate information.")
Simon Lok, chief of Lok Technology in San Jose, Calif., a maker of cheap wireless-networking gear, dumped Linux a few years ago in fear of the Stallman bunch. "I said, 'One day these jackasses will do something extreme, and it's going to kill us.' Now it's coming to fruition," Lok says. "Some of this stuff is just madness. These guys are fanatics." He adds: "Who do these people think they are?"
Even the Linux program's progenitor and namesake, Linus Torvalds, rejects Stallman's new push to force tech companies to design their software his way and to abandon patent rights. Torvalds vows to stick with the old license terms, thereby threatening the split that tech vendors so fear. The new license terms Stallman proposes "are trying to move back into a more 'radical' and 'activist' direction," Torvalds says via e-mail. "I think it's great when people have ideals–but ideals (like religion) are a hell of a lot better when they are private. I'm more pragmatic."
But then, Richard Stallman rarely is pragmatic–and in some ways he is downright bizarre. He is corpulent and slovenly, with long, scraggly hair, strands of which he has been known to pluck out and toss into a bowl of soup he is eating. His own Web site (www.stallman.org) says Stallman engages in what he calls "rhinophytophilia"–"nasal sex" (also his term) with flowers; he brags of offending a bunch of techies from
His site also boasts a recording of him singing–a capella and badly–his own anthem to free software. ("Hoarders can get piles of money / that is true, hackers, that is true. / But they cannot help their neighbors, that's not good, hackers, that's not gooood," he warbles, which culminates in polite applause from his followers.) He hasn't hacked much new code in a decade or more. Instead he travels the world to give speeches and pull publicity stunts, donning robes and a halo to appear as a character he calls "St. IGNUcius" and offer blessings to his followers. (GNU, coined in his first manifesto, is pronounced "Ga-NEW" and stands for "Gnu's Not Unix"; the central Linux license is known as the GNU license.)
And though he styles himself as a crusader for tech "freedom," Stallman labors mightily to control how others think, speak and act, arguing, in Orwellian doublespeak, that his rules are necessary for people to be "free." He won't speak to reporters unless they agree to call the operating system "GNU/Linux," not Linux. He urges his adherents to avoid such terms as "intellectual property" and touts "four freedoms" he has sworn to defend, numbering them 0, 1, 2 and 3. In June Stallman attempted to barge into the residence of the French prime minister to protest a copyright bill, then unrolled a petition in a Paris street while his adoring fans snapped photos.
Long ago Stallman was a gifted programmer. A 1974 graduate of Harvard with a degree in physics, he began graduate school at Massachusetts Institute of Technology but dropped out and took a job in an MIT lab. There he grew furious that companies wouldn't let him tinker with the code in their products. A
Stallman and his allies hacked away for nearly a decade but couldn't get GNU to work. In 1991 Torvalds, then an unknown college kid in Finland, produced in six months what Stallman's team had failed to build in years–a working "kernel" for an operating system. Torvalds posted this tiny 230-kilobyte file containing 10,000 lines of code to a public server, dubbing it "Linux" and inviting anyone to use it.
Soon people were combining Torvalds' Linux kernel with Stallman's GNU components to make a complete operating system. The program was a hit. But to Stallman's dismay people referred to it as Linux, not GNU. Torvalds became famous. Stallman got pushed aside. The ultimate insult came in 1999 when his Free Software Foundation was given a "Linus Torvalds Award." Stallman accepted but said it was "like giving the Han Solo award to the Rebel Alliance."
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As programmers wrote hundreds of building blocks to add to Linux, Stallman's Free Software Foundation persuaded them to hand over their copyrights to the group and let it handle licensing of their code. Stallman wrote the central license for Linux: the GNU General Public License or GPL. For his part, Linux creator Torvalds never signed his creation over to the group–but he did adopt the GNU license, granting Stallman further sway.
In recent years Stallman and the FSF have been cracking down on big Linux users, enforcing terms of the existing license (GPLv2, for version 2) and demanding that the big tech outfits crack open their proprietary code whenever they inserted lines from Linux.
Now the Stallman stalwarts are pushing a new version of the Linux license–GPLv3, with its tougher restrictions and a ban on anything that would protect or enforce copyright and other digital rights. Thus Stallman is living an anarchist's dream: The tech giants he has spent his career attacking send lawyers to sit at his feet and beg. Stallman has invited companies to comment on his drafts but insists he alone decides what goes into the final version, due in early 2007.
Often he won't listen. HP suggested changes in patent language in the new license. In a sign of how much fear Stallman inspires even at the largest tech company in the world, HP's lawyers emphasize they didn't "ask for changes"–they merely "suggested modifications." Whatever. Stallman rejected them.
In September a committee of leading Linux companies spent two days in Chicago discussing the GPLv3 with Stallman's representatives–and left worried. Stallman's camp refused to answer even simple questions about whether v2 and v3 code will be able to coexist. "They've been at this for nine months, and it's time to clarify. Everyone wants to make sure that Linux keeps accelerating," says Stuart Cohen, chief executive of Open Source Development Labs, a vendor-funded consortium in Beaverton, Ore. that employs Linus Torvalds and supports Linux development.
Most major tech vendors declined comment rather than risk tangling with Stallman's enforcers, such as his sidekick and attorney, Columbia Law School professor Eben Moglen. A spokesman for
One big potential victim of the Stallman stunt is Red Hat, the leading Linux distributor, with 61% market share. Red Hat bundles together hundreds of programs contributed by thousands of outside coders. If Linus Torvalds sticks with his old kernel under the older and less restrictive version-2 license, and Stallmanites ship version-3 code, what is Red Hat to do? The two licenses appear to be incompatible. There's also the problem of forfeiting patent enforcement rights if Red Hat ships v3 code. Red Hat could stay with an entirely "v2″ Linux system, taking on the burden of developing its own versions of whatever programs move to v3. But it's not clear that Red Hat has the staffing to do that.
"Red Hat gets a lot of code from people who don't work for Red Hat. They would have to replace all that and do the work in-house," says Larry W. McVoy, chief executive of software developer Bitmover and a longtime Torvalds collaborator. Even then, however, Stallman and his loyalists may carry on developing their own v3 versions. This "forking" of multiple incompatible versions could lead to "Balkanization" and derail Linux, the Torvalds camp warns.
Red Hat and other Linux promoters also may find themselves in an awkward spot with customers. "IT managers want to buy stuff that puts them at as little risk as possible. If there was a risk that Stallman could become such a loose cannon, that's something most IT managers would have wanted to know before they bet their companies on Linux," McVoy says.
Some customers are wary. ActiveGrid, an open-source software maker in San Francisco, originally planned to distribute its program under a gpl license but changed plans after a big European bank declared it wouldn't use products covered by the gpl, says Peter Yared, chief executive of ActiveGrid.
The biggest beneficiaries of Stallman's suicide-bomber move could be other companies Stallman detests: the proprietary old guard–Microsoft, which pitches its Windows operating system as "safer" than Linux, and Sun, which lost customers to Linux but now hopes to lure them back to an open-source version of its Solaris system, which doesn't use the GPL.
And a big loser, eventually, could be Stallman himself. If he relents now, he likely would be branded a sellout by his hard-core followers, who might abandon him. If he stands his ground, customers and tech firms may suffer for a few years but ultimately could find a way to work around him. Either way, Stallman risks becoming irrelevant, a strange footnote in the history of computing: a radical hacker who went on a kamikaze mission against his own program and went down in flames, albeit after causing great turmoil for the people around him.
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By Nancy Allen
Getting ready for alum
Officials hope earlier treatment will stifle toxic algae blooms
GRAND LAKE - Everything is blooming early this year, but officials hope an early attack on the lake's blue-green algae will halt its growth.
The $5 million whole lake alum application starts Monday. Local officials hope the treatment will stifle toxic algae blooms and visitors will return to Ohio's largest inland lake.
Aluminum sulfate (alum) deactivates phosphorous, the main nutrient feeding the lake's blue-green algae that has resulted in state water advisories and millions in lost tourism dollars the last three summers.
"We're most definitely excited," said Brian Miller, manager at Grand Lake St. Marys State Park. "We're getting out a lot earlier this year, hopefully we get the alum in soon enough to curtail advisories this year."
Miller noted, however, water temperatures have risen earlier this year, and algae grows better in warmer temperatures.
The alum ap-plication will start two months earlier than in 2011, when treatment was pared from treating the entire lake to just the 4,900-acre center over concerns that already high algae concentrations and low oxygen levels could cause a massive fish kill. Officials have said phosphorous levels in the lake's center were reduced 56 percent and 20-30 percent in untreated areas.
The alum ap-plication will start two months earlier than in 2011, when treatment was pared from treating the entire lake to just the 4,900-acre center over concerns that already high algae concentrations and low oxygen levels could cause a massive fish kill. Officials have said phosphorous levels in the lake's center were reduced 56 percent and 20-30 percent in untreated areas.
Alum barges and equipment are at the West Bank boat launch area.
HAB Aquatic Solutions, Lincoln, Neb., is again applying the alum, said Bethany McCorkle, a spokeswoman with the Ohio Department of Natural Resource.
Abut 3.5 million gallons of liquid aluminum sulfate and sodium aluminate at a two-to-one ratio will sprayed into the lake. Sodium aluminate is a buffering agent that keeps pH levels from fluctuating so fish aren't stressed. It also helps reduce possible damage to boat hulls.
Two alum application barges will work 16-hour days on two shifts.
"The target finish date is 30 days, but that will be dependent on weather conditions," McCorkle said, adding that excessive wind and storms could slow the process.
Oxygen and pH levels will be monitored throughout the application, she said.
Milt Miller, manager of the local Lake Restoration Commission, said he hopes this year's larger, more concentrated alum dose has a bigger impact. One of the LRC's goals this year is to have no water advisories for the lake.
"That (goal) came from when they analyzed the treatment last year and one of the scientists who is an authority on alum said, 'given how well it worked, if you do another treatment next year you could have an advisory-free lake,' " Miler said. "We took that to heart."
Miller said he hopes people come back and enjoy the lake like they did before the first advisory was issued in 2009 due to algae toxins.
Good fishing already has been reported on the lake this year, Brian Miller said.
"Bluegill fishing, catfish fishing and crappie fishing are all good," he said. "It's the best we've seen in a while."
Milt Miller said the LRC has not approached state officials about funding for an alum treatment next year. Various experts have said the lake will need consecutive alum treatments to make an impact on curtailing algae blooms.
"We have all said it is a short-term fix and we are certainly well aware of that," Milt Miller said. "What we are praying and hoping for is that the alum buys us time to put other initiatives in place including more dredging and gives our farmer friends time to install best management practices in the watershed and other things we are looking at."
Most of the phosphorous that runs off into the 13,500-acre lake comes from agriculture land, the largest land use in the 58,000-acre watershed.
Funding for this year's treatment is coming from about $1.6 million in Ohio EPA Water Pollution Control Loan funds leftover from last year's treatment. The additional funds will come from the Ohio Water Development Authority's Distressed Watershed Loan Program.
Brian Miller said the public can watch the activity at the West Bank staging area, but should keep their distance. The same goes for people in watercrafts on the lake when the application starts.
"These are very large barges and they cannot change direction very fast," he said. "You can stay and watch from a distance, but give them some room."
The state plans to treat half the lake and then move the staging area to behind the state park office on the lake's northeast side to treat the other half, unless logistics cannot be worked out, he said.
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Call for papers: A Cultural Sustainability Symposium
In collaboration with the Vermont Folklife Center and Sterling College, Goucher College's Masters of Arts in Cultural Sustainability program is sponsoring the upcoming symposium, "Sequestering Tradition?: A Cultural Sustainability Symposium." The gathering will take place August 15-18, 2013 at Sterling College, Vermont.
According to the event organizers, the goal of the symposium is to bring together scholars, students, and practitioners to:
– Examine the idea of cultural sustainability, outline key concepts and terms, and define a scope of professional practice.
– Develop models for the practical application of cultural sustainability methods and theories.
– Encourage networking among scholars and practitioners engaged with the work of cultural sustainability.
The symposium is inviting proposals for presentations and workshops that explore the role of culture in sustainability from two related perspectives:
– The introduction of the idea of culture into larger discussions of sustainability.
– The application of notions of sustainability to cultural practices and concerns.
Proposals should be submitted as a PDF or Microsoft Word attachment to the Cultural Sustainability Symposium Planning Committee at firstname.lastname@example.com by May 3, 2013.
For more information, please visit http://www.vermontfolklifecenter.org/education/cultural-sustainability/symposium.php.


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TOWN OF HANOVER, N.Y. - A Hamburg man was kayaking on Lake Erie Saturday morning when his kayak overturned and sent him into the water, according to police.
Chautauqua County Sheriff's Deputies say 46-year-old Raymond Adamczyk was duck hunting in Hanford Bay shortly after 9:30 a.m. Saturday when the kayak overturned about 500 yards offshore.
Police say a jet ski from the Sunset Bay Fire Department was able to bring Adamczyk back to shore. Adamczyk was then taken to Lakeshore Hospital by ambulance.
Deputies say Adamczyk was wearing a Coast Guard approved life vest at the time of the incident.
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Cat fight! Cat fight! Kate Upton is outraged at Victoria's Secret over the lingerie giants using one of her older photos in their catalog. The image you see below is the one in question, in which a then 18-year-old Kate was sporting the black bra.
Kate Upton's Nude Body Paint Photos for SI's 2013 Swimsuit Issue, OMG HOT
Just a word of caution, these photos are NSFW. They're so good though that you should probably just take the rest of the day off so you can enjoy them.
Click here to read moreSo what's the big deal over a rather dull photo of the blonde bombshell sporting a simple black bra? Victoria's Secret has a reputation for being picky about the models they hire, opting to only go with the skinniest of the skinny. A spokesman for VS dubbed Kate "too obvious" (meaning to fat) for the brand and swearing they would never use her.
So far Victoria's Secret hasn't opened up about the catalog blunder.
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The 20 Hottest Photos of Kate Upton
Kate Upton was named SI Swimsuit Issue's "Rookie of the Year" and that's really all you need to know about her.
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4 comments:
- Stephanie said...
Love the color. Very cute except I think I'd need a double wide!!!
- April 12, 2011 at 7:21 AM
- Allie said...
I love it but mine would only look that good once - then it would forever be a cluttered mess, lol!
- April 12, 2011 at 10:27 PM
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Oh! This is so cute! I love it too. It looks very homey and peaceful, but I can tell it is very organized as well.
- April 25, 2011 at 8:15 AM
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This little closet office is just a heads up! A home office doesn't have to be dull and boring. It can be glamorous and efficient at the same time. Were you able to make your office look almost exactly like this?
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Self Biography
Last updated: 05/05/2004 04:16:34 AM
Self is an American alternative pop/rock band from Murfreesboro, Tennessee and largely the brainchild of writer, singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Matt Mahaffey.
The band currently consists of Chris James (keyboards, piano, samplers, guitar, backing vocals), Mac Burrus (bass guitar, keyboards, horns, backing vocals), and Jason Rawlings (Drums). Past members include Matt's brother, Mike Mahaffey (lead guitar, keyboards, vocals) and Timm Nobles (bass guitar).
Matt Mahaffey is proficient in almost all of the instruments that Self uses and plays most of the instruments on the albums; the other members contribute occasional parts on albums and participate in live performances.
Due to the difficulty getting music released and disinterest from labels and the public, the future of Self is uncertain. Lead guitarist Mike died in May 2005, and his role in the band has yet to be filled, though the remaining members played a show in his honor on October 09, 2005. They have performed since as a full band and Matt has appeared in solo performances.
Members of the band have been working on other projects. Jason has been drumming for the band Suburban tragedy, and Matt has formed a new band, Wired All Wrong, with God Lives Underwater member Jeff Turzo. Wired All Wrong released their first album, Break Out The Battle Tapes on September 12, 2006.
On January 13, 2007 Matt announced on his MySpace blog that a new Self album was in the works. In late 2008, several new tracks appeared on Matt's MySpace.


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I like the idea of exploring the rise and fall of a messiah and how his life and teachings become twisted by his followers. I'm sure this sort of tale has been told before but Dune is the first time I encountered it.
The oldest version of this story that I know of is in a book called the "New Testament." The tale is STILL being twisted by its adherents, 2000 years after its 1st edition. FWIW, I still prefer the Dune stories, though I can't say I am much of a follower there either.
Can any of us imagine a Holy book being delivered two thousand years ago that babbled about relativity, the Higg"s Boson or multi dimensional universes?
I can. True, no one would have a clue as to what it meant at the time, but if the bible stated (as YouTube user FA quipped:)
"Verily, I say unto thee, that thine energy is as thine mass times the speed of light multiplied unto itself."
I'd much rather that Moses (or Aaron, whatever,) gave us the "Book of Circles" which contained 3.14159....... out to one million places. Or e. Or Newtonian physics. ANYTHING of that sort, that had nothing prior like it yet could be later shown to be (close enough to) correct and pragmatically useful would instill some faith in me.
A biblical reference to the "four corners of the earth" doesn't mean that the earth literally has four corners (i.e. it's flat). A biblical reference to God making man in his own image doesn't mean that the god they worship literally looks like we do.
Generally, yes it does - see the previous issues with Gaileo, Darwin, etc. Literal interpretation is THE biggest issue for religious thought. When you start to question "holy" scripture (7 days, four corners, Adam/Eve in god's image, flood, etc.,) you open the possibility that the OTHER stuff might also not be literal.
Well, what stuff is that and who gets to decide? Perhaps "son of god" and "saviour of all mankind" isn't literal anymore. Nor is "god's kindom" or "hell" or
(which I'm fine with. I think it all to be spiritual snake-oil.)
There must be more to life than having everything. -- Maurice Sendak


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Formed: 1878
Nickname: The Red Devils
UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets)
• European Champion Clubs' Cup: 1968, 1999, 2008, (2009, 2011)
• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1991
• UEFA Super Cup: 1991, (1999), (2008)
Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets)
• League title: 19 (2011)
• FA Cup: 11 (2004)
• League Cup: 4 (2010)
• United were formed in 1878 as Newton Heath L&YR FC, a railway works side which joined the English Football League in 1892. The club claimed a place in the First Division in 1906, and in 1907/08 they brought home their first championship before an inaugural FA Cup win in 1909. The next year United moved to Old Trafford and reclaimed the league trophy in their first season at the ground.
• A period of relative mediocrity followed, but the club were transformed forever by the appointment of Matt Busby as manager in 1945. The Scot developed a team of youngsters who went on to become English champions three times in the 1950s, yet the Busby Babes era ended prematurely with the Munich air disaster of 6 February 1958 which claimed the lives of 21 people, including eight players.
• Busby himself had to recover from serious injuries before rebuilding the squad. The FA Cup was recaptured in 1963 after a 15-year gap, then the league in 1964/65 and 1966/67. Busby's crowning glory came when a team featuring Bobby Charlton, George Best and Denis Law became the first English side to lift the European Champion Clubs' Cup, although the injured Law missed the victory against SL Benfica in the 1968 Wembley final.
• Busby finally stood down in 1971 and proved a hard act to follow until the arrival of Alex Ferguson in 1986, the latter's first trophy arriving with the 1990 FA Cup. United followed up with the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup the next season.
• After bringing in Eric Cantona, Sir Alex's team ended a 26-year wait by claiming an eighth league title in the inaugural Premier League season of 1992/93. The new competition suited United, who went on to become a hugely dominant force in the domestic game while returning to the European summit in their treble-winning 1998/99 campaign and again in 2007/08. By winning the league for the 19th time in 2010/11, the Red Devils surpassed Liverpool FC as the most successful club in English football.
Club records
Most appearances: Ryan Giggs (876)*
Most goals: Bobby Charlton (249)
Record victory: United 10-0 RSC Anderlecht (European Champion Clubs' Cup, 26 September 1956)
Record defeat: 7-0 on three occasions, most recently at Wolverhampton Wanderers FC (League, 26 December 1931)
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Electro-indie duo Uh Huh Her headline the first ever "Keep A Breast Tour" beginning on the East Coast in October.
Presented by the Keep A Breast Foundation and House Of Blues Entertainment, the tour's aim is to raise awareness about breast cancer through live shows, interviews, videos and social media. A portion of all ticket sales will go to the Keep A Breast Foundation.
Coinciding with National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Uh Huh Her's Camila Grey and Leisha Hailey begin the journey at Philadelphia's Theatre Of Living Arts Oct. 8. Other stops include New York City's Irving Plaza Oct. 10; Boston's Paradise Rock Club Oct. 11; Toronto at Phoenix Concert Theatre Oct. 15; Detroit at the Shelter Oct. 18; Atlanta's Vinyl Oct. 21; Denver's Larimer Lounge Oct. 28; San Francisco at Slim's Nov. 2; Seattle at The Crocodile Nov. 4; and Portland, Ore., at the Wonder Ballroom Nov. 6.
Camila Grey and Leisha Hailey.
There are also plenty of shows at HOB venues throughout the tour with Uh Huh Her playing Cleveland at the Cambridge Room at House Of Blues Oct. 16; Chicago's HOB Oct. 19; New Orleans at The Parish at House Of Blues Oct. 23; Dallas at the Cambridge Room at House Of Blues Oct. 26; and West Hollywood's HOB Nov. 1.
Along with promoting breast cancer awareness, Uh Huh Her will have new material to share with fans. The duo's upcoming album, Nocturnes, arrives in stores Oct. 11.
"I've chosen to become part of Keep A Breast because like many others I have been directly affected by breast cancer in my family," Grey said in a statement. "Luckily both my grandmothers are breast cancer survivors. I think awareness and education are so important in treating this disease because if detected early enough, chances of survival are greatly increased. I'm so happy to be a part of something that will reach young and old alike, and what better way than through music."
Tickets go on sale Aug. 26. For more information, visit HouseOfBlues.com and Uh Huh Her's home on Facebook.
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I agree: diagnosis is only one (arguably less important) area where mobile technologies are going to benefit us. I think the real opportunity lies in transforming the way patients live with their illnesses after diagnosis. More generally, mobile technologies have the potential to dramatically improve the quality of our health by empowering patients to be more engaged in their care. I think the current focus on just collecting data for the purpose of diagnosis is misguided. What we really need to be focusing on is how to engage patients. Patients need to own and control their data, they need to have their data presented in timely, convenient, and actionable formats, and they need to be empowered to work with their doctors (and other care providers) through ongoing collaboration (not patriarchal episodic care). This is the primary focus of the group I work with at the MIT Media Lab. We are working to build an open-source platform for patient-centered care research, and recently completed an event where we invited students, health professionals, and innovators from industry to build prototypes of patient-empowering solutions. You can see a brief video summarizing the event and projects here: http://newmed.media.mit.edu/blog/jom/2012/02/23/health-and-wellness-innovation-2012-intro-video. Smartphones are indeed going to help start a boom in DIY medicine, but not just by becoming pocket-diagnosis machines. Rather, our phones are going to help us take control of our health.


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The term "low church" refers to churches which give relatively little emphasis to ritual, sacraments and the authority of clergy. The term is most often used in a liturgical context.
The term was initially designed to be pejorative. During the series of doctrinal and ecclesiastic challenges to the established church in the 17th century, commentators and others — who favoured the theology, worship, and hierarchical structure of Anglicanism (such as the episcopate) as the true form of Christianity — began referring to that outlook (and the related practices) as "high church". In contrast, by the early 18th century, those theologians and politicians who sought more reform in the English church and a greater liberalisation of church structure, were called "low church".
"Low church", in an Anglican context, denotes the church's simplicity or Protestant emphasis, and "high church" denotes an emphasis on ritual or, later, Anglo-Catholicism.
Historical useEdit
The term low church was used in the early part of the 18th century as the equivalent of the term Latitudinarian in that it was used to refer to values that provided much latitude in matters of discipline and faith. The term was in contradistinction to the term high church, or high churchmen, which applied to those who valued the exclusive authority of the Established Church, the episcopacy and the sacramental system. Low churchmen wanted to tolerate Puritan opinions within the Church of England, though they might not be in agreement with Puritan liturgical practices. The movement to bring Separatists, and in particular Presbyterians, back into the Church of England ended with the Act of Toleration 1689 for the most part. Though Low church continued to be used for those clergy holding a more liberal view of Dissenters, the term eventually fell into disuse.
Both terms were revived in the 19th century when the Tractarian movement brought the term "high churchman" into vogue. The terms were again used in a modified sense, now used to refer to those who exalted the idea of the Church as a catholic entity as the body of Christ, and the sacramental system as the divinely given means of grace. A low churchman now became the equivalent of an Evangelical, the designation of the movement associated with the name of Charles Simeon, which held the necessity of personal conversion to be of primary importance. At the same time, Latitudinarian changed to broad church, or broad churchmen, designating those who most valued the ethical teachings of the Church and minimised the value of orthodoxy. The revival of pre-Reformation ritual by many of the high church clergy led to the designation ritualist being applied to them in a somewhat contemptuous sense. However, the terms high churchman and ritualist have often been wrongly treated as interchangeable. The high churchman of the Catholic type is further differentiated from the earlier use of what is sometimes described as the "high and dry type" of the period before the Oxford Movement.
Modern useEdit
In contemporary usage, "low churches" place more emphasis on the Protestant nature of Anglicanism than broad or high churches and are usually Evangelical in their belief and practice. They may tend to favour the Book of Common Prayer services of Morning and Evening Prayer over the Eucharist, though the Diocese of Sydney has largely abandoned the Prayer Book and uses free-form evangelical services. Some contemporary low churches also incorporate elements of charismatic Christianity.
More traditional low church Anglicans, under the influence of Calvinist or Reformed thought inherited from the Reformation era, reject the doctrine that the sacraments confer grace ex opere operato (e.g., baptismal regeneration) and lay stress on the Bible as the ultimate source of authority in matters of faith necessary for salvation. They are, in general, prepared to cooperate with other Protestants on nearly equal terms.[citation needed] Some low church Anglicans of the Reformed party consider themselves the only faithful adherents of historic Anglicanism and emphasise the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England as an official doctrinal statement of the Anglican tradition.[citation needed]
Ecumenical relationshipsEdit
United churches with Protestants in AsiaEdit
Several provinces of the Anglican Communion in Asia have merged with Protestant churches. The Church of South India arose out of a merger of the southern province of the Church of India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon (Anglican), the Methodist Church of South India and the South India United Church (a Congregationalist, Reformed and Presbyterian united church) in 1947. In the 1990s a small number of Baptist and Pentecostal churches joined also the union. In 1970 the Church of India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon, the United Church of North India, the Baptist Churches of Northern India, the Church of the Brethren in India, the Methodist Church (British and Australia Conferences) and the Disciples of Christ denominations merged to form the Church of North India. In 1970 too the Anglicans, Presbyterians (Church of Scotland), United Methodists and Lutherans of Churches in Pakistan merged into the Church of Pakistan. The Church of Bangladesh is the result of a merge of Anglican and Presbyterian churches.
Britain and IrelandEdit
In the 1960s the Methodist Church of Great Britain made ecumenical overtures to the Church of England, aimed at church unity. These formally failed when they were rejected by the Church of England's General Synod in 1972. In 1981, a covenant project was proposed between the Church of England, the Methodist Church in Great Britain, the United Reformed Church and the Moravian Church. In 1982 the United Reformed Church voted in favour of the covenant, which would have meant remodelling its elders and moderators as bishops and incorporating its ministry into the apostolic succession. However, the Church of England rejected the covenant. Conversations and co-operation continued leading in 2003 to the signing of a covenant between the Church of England and the Methodist Church of Great Britain.[1] From the 1970s onward, the Methodist Church was involved in several "Local Ecumenical Projects" (LEPs) with neighbouring denominations usually with the Church of England, the Baptists or with the United Reformed Church, which involved sharing churches, schools and in some cases ministers.
In the Church of England, Anglo-Catholics are often opposed to unity with Protestants, which can reduce hope of unity with the Roman Catholic Church. Accepting women Protestant ministers would also make unity with the See of Rome more difficult.
In the 1990s and early 2000s the Scottish Episcopal Church (Anglican), the Church of Scotland (Presbyterian), the Methodist Church of Great Britain and the United Reformed Church were part of the "Scottish Churches Initiative for Union" (SCIFU) for seeking greater unity. The attempt stalled following the withdrawal of the Church of Scotland in 2003.
In 2002 the Church of Ireland, which is generally on the Low Church end of the spectrum of world Anglicanism, signed a covenant for greater cooperation and potential ultimate unity with the Methodist Church in Ireland.[2]
Church of EnglandEdit
Notable parishesEdit
- All Saints Church, Peckham
- All Souls Church, Langham Place
- Busbridge Church, Surrey
- Hambledon Church, Surrey
- Holy Trinity Brompton
- Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge
- Jesmond Parish Church
- St Ebbe's Church, Oxford
- St Helen's Bishopsgate
- St Matthew's Church, Millbrook
- St Mark's Church, Kennington
- St Mary's Church, Islington
- St Nicholas' Church, Durham
- St Nicolas Church, Newbury
Notable organisationsEdit
- Alpha course
- Anglican Mainstream
- Christianity Explored
- Church Army
- Church Society
- Crosslinks
- Reform (Anglican)
Notable Bible colleges and theological collegesEdit
Notable churches and diocesesEdit
- Anglican Episcopal Church
- Anglican Orthodox Church and the formerly Traditional Protestant Episcopal Church
- Anglican Diocese of Sydney
- Free Church of England
- Evangelical Connexion of the Free Church of England
- Church of Ireland
- Church of England (Continuing)
- Igreja Anglicana Reformada do Brasil
- Extra-provincial Anglican churches
- Church of England in South Africa
- Church of South India
- Church of North India
- Diocese of the Great Lakes
- Diocese of the Carolinas
- Reformed Episcopal Church
- Reformed Anglican Church (USA)
- United Episcopal Church of North America
See alsoEdit
Further readingEdit
- Cross, F. L. (ed.) (1957) The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. London: Oxford U. P.; Low Churchmen, p. 824
External linksEdit
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Low Church
- High Church vs. Low Church: Documentary Narrative of an Ecclesiastical Joke compiled by Richard Mammana and Cynthia McFarland
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "article name needed". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.


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Taking a break after participating a live Jan. 5 broadcast of "GameDay Morning" at his current home, NFL Network, at its studios in Culver City, Calif., sports journalist Rich Eisen repeats the oft-heard assertion that pro football is "the greatest reality show on television."
"It is, with the drama, sometimes the family feuds, that go on, the storylines that constantly change and surprise us," Eisen says. "It's a narrative-generating machine."
But as "Duck Dynasty" fans recently learned, there is such a thing as too much reality in a reality-TV show. When duck-call manufacturer and evangelical Christian Phil Robertson had a frank and occasionally crude discussion with a GQ reporter about his unsurprising views on sin and the mechanics of gay sex, it set off a firestorm that saw A&E (temporarily) suspending Robertson from the show (which it never stopped airing), and anger erupting across the press and social media.
In the end, reality TV is not news, it's entertainment, and lots of industry types don't like it when hot-button issues get in the way of keeping an audience happy.
In a lot of ways, the NFL is no different. With astronomic ratings, massive followings across all kinds of social media, and a global marketing machine pushing merchandise in every category, the NFL wants to keep the focus on the field.
Discussions that don't involve passes, catches, touchdowns and trades exist in a world that the NFL would rather keep outside the stadium doors.
Recently, former Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe claimed he was released from the team last May because he was an outspoken supporter of same-sex marriage.
That issue remains under investigation, but during an appearance on ESPN's "Olbermann" on Jan. 9, Kluwe compared himself to quarterback Tim Tebow (who was just signed as a college-football analyst for ESPN's new SEC Network), saying that while he doesn't align with the openly Christian Tebow on a lot of issues, both are not in the NFL because they are public about their beliefs.
Said Kluwe, "As much as we are opposites on the things we stand for, Tebow is the exact same way. There are backup quarterbacks in the NFL right now that Tebow is certainly better than — he could fill a role with a team. But because he brings this other stuff with him, just like I bring my other stuff with me, teams look at it like, 'We don't want it. We don't want players speaking out. We don't want players doing anything other than football.'"
In the case of Tebow, Eisen doesn't think the NFL passed him over for the reasons Kluwe cites.
"His style of play does not fit a professional, sustainable model," Eisen tells Zap2it. "The way he plays football vs. the way everyone else plays football — he comes into the game, you have to change your personnel and your style. That's not the way it normally works in the NFL.
"If your quarterback goes down, you're going to need somebody who can come in and operate the offense as you're doing it. He's unique — he can be successful if it's just him and a team commits to him. I don't think people are afraid he's a bad guy or something. I think it's professional.
"Plus, I don't think that a backup quarterback for a team wants to have that much attention. It's not like he calls attention to himself, he just garners it."
Asked about Kluwe's situation, Eisen says, "Listen, I think Chris Kluwe has every right to speak his mind. If he was, in fact, cut because he was speaking his mind, that's horrible. I'm sure everyone's going to be looking into that."
But Eisen does see Kluwe's point about the NFL shying away from people who air their views on controversial subjects.
"A lot of people think the sports world is a place to escape from the real world on politics or topics," Eisen says. "I don't believe that's a political issue, but that's my own personal belief. That said, if it worked against him in that regard, it's horrible.
"Some people find it intrusive, because they watch this stuff to escape from discussions of the real world, real-life issues."


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We talk with David Coddon, the editor for Night and Day magazine, and Anna Maria Stephens, entertainment editor for Sign On San Diego, about some great events to follow up the holidays with. We talk about some upcoming concerts, a new open mic poetry event, as well as a beautiful new bar that has recently come to San Diego. We'll also visit a couple local galleries to see the art of Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills, and Nash as well as from the Devo front man Mark Mothersbaugh.
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In addition to working and visiting the LFOAB I had some other fun
Twinkies lose a close one to the A's at the Metrodome
Man is the metrodome terrible. Even half full it is deafening and the astroturf has mange. But it was still fun to go to a game and spend $6.50 on a watery beer.
Got to see A's wunderkid Brad Zeigler pitch. I had no idea he was a submariner, almost as fun as a knuckler:
I also visited Hurl at CarsRCoffins a few times. Hurl and I go way back to the old days of racing sting rays over top of fallen drunkards at bike events. His bike/coffee shop is really nice and filled with old bikes and good coffees and cookies.
Schwinn and Bianchi Goodness
and yes, I bought a carsrcoffins onesie.
Me and Hurl
Good stuff Hurl. Next time maybe we ride.
Also, lost in the last post was that I met Bob Brown finally. I think I have been in Email contact with him for about 10 years. It was great to meet him and ride with him. Too keep with the pointy photo theme:
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In addition to having geeky engineering discussions with Bob, I got a chance to check out his excellent handiwork on Scott and Amy's bikes as well as one of his sns coupled bike at One-on-one. He also told me the secret to the copper coated bike that he made for Amy. Its people! Its coated with People!
Copper and People coated BB frame:
It is hard to tell from the photo above, but Bob looks like freakily like my buddy Mark Bishop. I think they are related. Which one of you is the orphink?
Finally, I got a chance to swing by the One On One bike studio coffee bar on my way out of town. It is excellent. The bike shop/coffee shop is a hard trick to pull off, but they seem to have two gooduns in minneapolis.
One-on-one shop front with custom racks
Next to Sex World a block from the Mississippi.
Big Dummy-Bison-Elk
I think I saw at least 6 big dummys in MN. They are everywhere. You cannot escape them. One on one had perhaps the best taxidermied head collection I have ever seen in a bike shop. The studio was clean and displayed bikes with plenty of room to browse and drool. But then. There was the basement.
The basement starts organized
Used bikes galore stacked up and well labeled.
Then descends into bicycle madness
The further you go in the basement the more chaos reigns. I think I saw a CHUD lurking in a corner behind a rusted out Shelby Flyer. There was so much good stuff down there that I was unable to process, cooler heads would have grabbed the huge box of internally geared hubs and ran for the Canadian border, but my circuits fried pretty quick when I got in the basement.
All in all, Good show minneapolis, I hope I will be back.
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- cyclotourist said...
No Sex World pics? Sheesh...
Looks like a pretty good time had by all, particularly you! Good deal, T! - 8/26/2008 9:10 PM
- Cody G. said...
Three cheers for bicycle-culture-infected Midwestern cities!!
- gpickle said...
Thank you Tarik, for doing what you do, and glad you liked the twin cities. - 8/27/2008 9:10 PM
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Rumor Roundup: Motorola Droid Razr HD, Super Mario 4 and More!
Where's Noah?! Jon Rettinger takes over this week to cover the latest rumors on the highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S III. Not to mention rumors surrounding the next edition to the Super Mario franchise from Nintendo, as well as news regarding a Motorola Droid Razr HD! All this and more in this episode of Rumor Round Up!
Rumor Roundup is a show taking a look at the latest trends, rumors, and leaks buzzing around the technology industry, hosted by Noah Kravitz - a well-known and respected tech editor who's been involved in the industry for years. Not only does Noah deliver the news in full force, but he also provides his analytical thoughts and insight leaving one wondering of what lies ahead in the world of tech.


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This week's games
• Washington at Cal., 6 p.m. (ESPN2)
• No. 15 Stanford at Colorado, 11 a.m. (FX)
• Washington State at Utah, noon (Pac-12 Arizona)
• No. 2 Oregon at No. 18 USC, 4 p.m. (Ch 11)
• No. 24 Arizona at No. 25 UCLA, 7:30 p.m. (Pac-12 Arizona)
• Arizona State at No. 13 Oregon State, 7:30 p.m. (ESPN2)
Last week's scores
• UCLA 45, Arizona State 43
• Oregon 70, Colorado 14
• Arizona 39, USC 36
• Stanford 24, Washington 17
• Utah 49, Cal 27
• Washington 20, Oregon State 17
Pac-12 Power Rankings
1. USC (6-2, 4-2) - Matt Barkley will pass Nick Foles' Pac-12 career completions record of 930 with five more.
2. UCLA (6-2, 3-2) - Coach Jim Mora has "never seen anyone in my entire football career" who places the ball inside the 10-yard line like punter Jeff Locke.
3. Arizona (5-3, 2-3)
4. Arizona State (5-3, 3-2) - Taylor Kelly has completed 67.7 percent of his passes, light years ahead of the school season record of 61.8.
5. Utah (3-5, 1-4) - Kick returner Reggie Dunn tied an NCAA record with two kickoff returns for scores against Cal.
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1. Oregon (8-0, 5-0)
2. Oregon State (6-1, 4-1) - Cody Vaz will start for Sean Mannion, who was removed in the second half against Washington after the quarterback returned last week from injury. "I think both quarterbacks here have a lot of respect amongst the team," OSU coach Mike Riley said. "We have to pick one, and I think they're good with it."
3. Stanford (6-2, 4-1)
4. Washington (4-4, 2-3)
5. Cal (3-6, 2-4) - Keenan Allen became the Golden Bears' all-time receptions leader, with 205, on Saturday.
6. Washington State (2-6, 0-5) - The Pac-12 has approved Jeff Tuel's medical redshirt application, passing it along to the NCAA, coach Mike Leach said. Tuel completed 43 passes, a school record, Saturday against Stanford.
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Five facts, takeaways, opinions and hunches from Tuesday's conference call:
1. Every day is flag day. Seven Pac-12 teams rank in th bottom 20 of the nation in penalties committed: Utah (101st), Oregon (106st), Cal (108st), Oregon State (112st), UCLA (114st) and USC (120st ). UA ranks 86th with 56 penalties. The Trojans are the most penalized team in America. "We've just made some really poor decisions," coach Lane Kiffin said.
2. One of the league's best wideouts was knocked out - was it dirty? In the second quarter Saturday, OSU receiver Markus Wheaton suffered a concussion after being hit helmet-to-helmet by Washington's Justin Glenn. The ball popped out and was intercepted. Beavers coach Mike Riley said, "That play was what the rule was put in place for." He said it was "a missed call." The Beavers did not contact the league office, he said.
3. Utah's found a quarterback. Freshman Travis Wilson won his first game Saturday, completing 16 of 24 passes for 156 yards in a 49-27 beatdown of Cal. Utah coach Kyle Whittingham said that, while his numbers certainly haven't gotten more gaudy in each of his three starts, Wilson has "gotten better each week." "He has the field general mentality you look for in a quarterback," Whittingham said. "There's no question who's in charge."
4. Bad times over at Cal. After losing to Utah by 22, the Golden Bears are one loss away from missing a bowl game. Coach Jeff Tedford said his players were "pretty resilient and always ready to work." This week, Cal plays Washington, which during the offseason lured Golden Bears assistants Tosh Lupoi and Eric Kiesau to Seattle. "Obviously they know more about us than we know about them," Tedford said.
5. Will Sutton might be back soon. ASU coach Todd Graham said there was "a good chance" his star defensive tackle - who might have been the league's best defensive player in the first half - will return from a knee injury Saturday.
The big number
Times in the history of The Associated Press poll that six Pac-12 teams appeared in the Top 25, as they do this week. The league has never had more than six.
Dear Pundit
Track down the Pac-12 Pundit on Twitter at @patrickfinley or at azstarnet.com/pac12pundit, and he'll answer your questions all week long. A sampling:
Some chatter in Philly about Chip (Kelly). No point talking specific jobs now, but think he'd take an NFL gig for next year? - Justin
A: The Ducks coach was close to taking the Buccaneers job last year, so it's certainly possible. The odds get MUCH greater if the NCAA's ongoing investigation into possible recruiting violations produces penalties that make the Ducks job less appealing. (See Carroll, Pete.)
OK, Mr. Pundit. Whatever happened to Karl Dorrell? - Paul
A: The former UCLA boss is now the quarterbacks coach for the 6-1 Houston Texans.


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Long after the movie's left theaters, and the DVD release hype has passed,
how do you feel about Episode 2?
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Long after the movie's left theaters, and the DVD release hype has passed,
how do you feel about Episode 2?
It's still my favorite, thanks for asking. :)
It was allright! to many special effects!
I still don't personally own it on DVD but I still love watching it when I can on cable. I'm still up in the air whether or not I would call this movie my favorite but it's definately a contender.
I guess this movie was alright, if not compared to the original trilogy. The only thing that really turned me off about this movie was Anakin's behavior. For 90% of the movie, he acts like a brat, then suddenly Amidala is in love with him, and by the end of the movie, they're married! And they limited that to a 30 second scene!They should've built upon their relationship more, made it more gradual, as it really is the basis for the whole storyline.
I liked it better than Episode one, but it's not greater than the the originals. I still feel the same way I did about it then as I do now, but with less enthusiasm for the film. That is, I like watching it, but I don't get that same thrill when I watch it now.
I liked it, and I think it built nicely on the groundwork laid in Episode 1.
As for Anakin's whiney behaviour, nice to see like father, like son
I'm not as fond of it as I once was, and to be honest I now feel that I prefer The Phantom Menace. Unlike all the other Star Wars movies I don't feel like I can watch AOTC again, and again, and again as much as I can with TPM and the other movies. It's still an enjoyable movie, but not as enjoyable now that it has settled down into the Star Wars universe.
I have to agree with Pendo. After watching the DVD once or twice I'm just not into it like the other flicks. I can't watch the whole thing anymore, just the action sequences. After finally watching the commentary a month ago I got really turned off. Boy did it blow big time. Too much Ricky-dick, Pablo and the gang and not enough GLu and Burtt: the only two interesting ones in the whole bunch.
I feel the same as JBF. I like it better the Episode 1, but it doesn't come close to the OT. I love the OT, and had EP I & II came out when I was a kid, I can't say that I'd like Star Wars as much as I do now. I think George Lucas got a little to old before he made TPM and AOTC. Whhen he made the OT everything was fresh and exciting, or maybe I've just become old and my visions of what I thought the first two movies would be like don't match what we got.


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Sinclair's dinosaur mascot first walked the earth in 1932
Ken Harrison 10:30 a.m., March 25
Vibrant two-toned houses covered in corrugated aluminum siding dot the cobblestone streets of Reykjavik, brightening the ancient Viking town even during the longest of dark days. Like a cross between a 1940s Monterey and a 21st century Paris, Reykivik's small town fashionista charm is unfortunately clouded by the downright ridiculous cost of food and drink.
Beer at the bar will run you $7-10 a pint, on average, while a 4-pack of Icelandic pounders costs $14 or more. Do you like Jack Daniels? Well, expect to pay $50 for a fifth. And dining out is equally expensive; most plates at restaurants – yes, even the cafes and dive-looking establishments – begin at $10. Burgers, pizza and hot dogs – a national staple in the country – are the cheap eats, ranging from $3 for the dog to $12 for a 12-inch mediocre pizza.
While Reyjkavik (and Iceland for that matter) have limited budget options, one of the best ways to ease the strain on your pocketbook is to pitch a tent at the city's only campground.
Camping at the Reyjkavik City Campground is the best way to see the capital city while saving a little money to see the country's beautiful glaciers, waterfalls and black sand Atlantic beaches. Located 15 minutes – walking time – from the downtown area, the campground has clean showers, bathrooms and an abundance of hot water for under $9 a person if you bring your own tent, or you can rent one from them for an additional $9.
The campground, which is in run in conjunction with the Reykjavik City Hostel, offers free WiFi at the reception area (the hostel does as well). One additional perk: it's located next to one of the city's finest geothermal pools. For about $2.50, you get all-day access to Laugardalslaug, the city's largest pool. The complex contains a 50-meter outdoor pool, two water slides, an outdoor children's pool, numerous "hot pots," steam bath, gym and a mini golf course.
All in all, the Reykjavik City Campground is a great budget option for couples, groups or the independent traveler who may want the social atmosphere of a hostel at a fraction of the cost.


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Confessions of a Belly Dancer, a theatrical perspective of stories from belly dancers from around the world. Touching, alive, and open.
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