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Sharp shouldered jacket
Added Apr 25, 2011
by lauriana
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Jacket with pointy shoulders.
Although I always make my own patterns and sew a lot, I decided to do a seriously involved project this time. I decided to re-think the fit of my earlier jackets and started with making a new jacket sloper. After many muslins, I got the fit right and then, I tried out a strange design element. The pointy shoulder. I liked it and decided to go for it.
The jacket itself is made from nice, densely woven wool fabric with horsehair interfacing, which I padstitched at the lapels and collar.
More 'fun' pictures of the jacket are here and here you can find pictures of some of its details.
Material Notes
wool fabric, Venezia lining fabric, horsehair canvas, kit for fabric covered buttons, piping
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Dec 15, 2012, 04.11 PMby anabella68
May 20, 2011, 11.33 AMby urbandon
Very cool. Loving the pointy shoulder. Glad to see you are Featured Project of the Week!
May 19, 2011, 03.49 PMby nidhi
Gorgeous! love it!
May 18, 2011, 05.44 PMby FabricUiPhoneApp
I think you just a 1940s sweater with shoulder pads underneath. Doesn't anyone want to wear anything with shoulder pads these days? It's not just for the runway, friends!
May 18, 2011, 03.30 PMby carottesauvage
Uhhh roselerrrrrr, Those sleeves are stunning!
May 3, 2011, 06.26 AMby olystyrene
I love it! This jacket has a wonderful 1930's feel to it!
Apr 29, 2011, 08.43 AMby pixelink
there's a lot of work in this, loving it!
Apr 26, 2011, 07.40 PMby zaarissima
very stylish – great work!
Apr 26, 2011, 06.59 PMby bekaem
The shape of those sleeves is amazing. And all the rest of it is too. You'll turn a lot of heads in this jacket, I'm sure.
Apr 26, 2011, 06.27 PMby marcy harriell | oonaballoona
your blog post is as fab as your jacket!!!
Apr 26, 2011, 06.07 PMby paranoire
THIS is lovely! I'm a sucker for unusual sleeves :)
Apr 26, 2011, 10.41 AMby Irina Schwab
Well done, this is a class above!
Apr 26, 2011, 04.26 AMby irmchen
I am always impressed by your work! Your jacket is absolutely gorgeous! To my delight you are presenting some high level bespoke work! The shape of the jacket is also just beautiful! Thank you for sharing.
Apr 25, 2011, 11.41 PMby Olivia Anne
love it, so nicely tailored yet still interesting!
Apr 25, 2011, 10.40 PMby dadaist
I am impressed with your smart jacket. It looks so stylish and elegant. Well done! :-)
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After a 2 year hiatus, we're going to try and bring together Founders & Funders in Toronto again.
The Founders and Funders dinners are a series of invitation-only dinners that are held across Canada several times a year. They are a sort of summit on the state of each community and we do our best to make sure that the best startups possible have a chance to meet the most respected and active investors who are doing deals in those cities. There is always a mix of locals and people who come in for the event as a way to get connected.
We believe that if you cannot sit down and have dinner with someone, then you probably shouldn't invest in or take investment from them. This is a great chance to apply a social filter to the dealflow in any one place.
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We are now accepting requests for invitations and the first round of invitations will go out this week.
We have also decided to include a brief fireside chat with Daniel Debow at this dinner. We rarely do this sort of thing at a Founders and Funders but 2011 was such a great year we thought it would be fun to look back on the ups and downs of Rypple through the years and how they got to their eventual exit, some of which was written about in Forbes this week.
Daniel and Rypple have also been a big part of the Canadian startup community and he has also been an active angel investor recently.
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Best of the Web Today columnist James Taranto offers some science-based details on what qualities women and men find attractive. Photo: Getty Images
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... back to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel it's Valentine's day today ... so our thoughts naturally turn salon and the received wisdom ... about the sexes ... in here to comment who better to comment the best of the Web columnist ... James Taranto to chains ... talk about some received wisdom here ... our men and women attracted the same things ... no it's actually quite different of course my thoughts on on state run a social science ... ahh and the studies on what men find attractive in women are pretty uninteresting rep issued this which is expected he he you will his youthful looks hired to help the scan a seventy percent waist to hip ratio ... it's it's pretty obvious manner supplements for and about women ... women are fascinated ... by there was a study by which I'd bought by an anthropologist and had the remarks she interviewed on sixty six women and ... I came up with profiles of some two hundred and fifteen and with whom these women at Central Asian chips ... edged over the list of quality is that women find attractive in at ... the top one on the list was good looks ... that good looks mean something very different for women that it means for men and it's very individual artist so she had quotes from this one on one them said oh I fell in love with this man because he was so good looking look like a burly truck driver ... another one said ... I really go in for the balding professorial type ... it turns out that the role that sums this up is as follows according to the remarks here ... every woman responds to a man whose looks correspondent for particular stereotype of power ... so that the balding professor has pulled out there yet what about behavior ... of our what's your you find that perfect person and ... sound and say Let's appear with that person easy is it true that ... meant for missed us and women are selected ... well here's a fascinating study that answers the question in the affirmative ... Elizabeth McLin taka sociologists and again just did this study ... in which I'd she looked into a very broad sample the National longitudinal survey of youth which for the gold standard for social science research ... and by she did that the ... people who participate in the Serbian this survey are actually read it for that on their looks by the service ... so she looked at the correlation between the ... five physical attractiveness is written by the surveyors and the number of Central Park's ... ok it turns out that there is a correlation correlation is in different directions for ... both sexes ... so the more attractive man is ... the more sexual partners he ... is the more attractive woman is the short cycle partners he ... she has rather what does that tell you what all the supposition here I think it's a reasonable assumption ... is that the most attractive people in the one who's going to have the most options so their behavior their actual behavior ... will come closest to what their preferences are ... so this suggests that in fact we men have a natural preference for sex on Friday when the tabernacle preference for commitment to more attractive women are more likely to see either in committed relationships isn't about a minute left what about the effect of feminism the fact that a lot of women ... I now have professional careers it is that ... the effective in any way when it comes to dating my Whelan has because women are I don't read the study shows this important ways women tend to be hyper and states seek to make up work I believe that's just a natural instinct ... so what happens when you make a social project of elevating the status of women relative to men twelve hire women get the harder it becomes trendy woman to find a man who she is going to find attractive ... and so I guess feminism has caused a lot of unhappiness for both sexes especially here in York City the land of single ... women so many fewer out there about ten standalone or maybe it'll place you wanna come ... back to the right tone as James Taranto thank you so much being with this happy Valentine's day thank you to ...


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The Verge: "ModernMix aims to change this. The app provides options to simple run Windows 8-style apps in separate individual windows in desktop mode. Windows 8 still has the usual Aero Snap functionality to align traditional apps side-by-side, and ModernMix takes full advantage of this. ModernMix remembers app window sizes so that they launch in the same place every time. A little widget in the top right-hand corner of Windows 8-style apps lets you bring them into desktop mode, and if you re-launch them from the Start Screen it will remember where you left off." Stardock - making awesome stuff since OS/2.
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When I joined this forum I sent an e-mail inquiring and address to mail a small donation, and got no reply. Perhaps I should have sent a pm. I don't do pay-pal and saw no credit card options. Have I missed something? PM me if so, as I treat most of my posts like a RW interception.
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Various initiatives have been started in recent years to combat childhood obesity, but the number of overweight and obese children is still staggering. The CDC recently reported that more than one third of children and adolescents were overweight or obese in 2012. The high number of overweight and obese children indicates that more needs to be done at home and in the classroom to help children learn to eat healthier and be more active.
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Children can get creative as they use paint and chalk to make works of art on sidewalks and driveways. This is a great activity for kids of all ages and can help them stay active as they mix colors and draw and paint various designs. Work with your kids to see how big of an art piece you can create, and be sure to snap pictures of your kids' designs before the rain washes them away.
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Spring and summer are great times of the year to learn new skills. Kids will enjoy learning how to ride a bike or scooter, and teaching them how provides wonderful bonding moments for parents and children. Learning to juggle, speed stack, and balance on stilts are also fun new skills your kids will enjoy learning. All of these activities will help your kids stay active as they learn about balance and motion.
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Kids love digging in sand and playing in water, and the spring and summer months provide great opportunities for fun, motion-filled sand and water activities. Sand molds, buckets, sprinklers, and other sand and water tools all facilitate active play as children explore sand and water. For more ideas on how kids can stay active with sand and water activities, check out Sand and Water Play: Simple, Creative Activities for Young Children.
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There are plenty of opportunities in spring and summer for children to help you do outdoor chores. Let them help you plant or water the garden, pick up sticks from the yard, or practice mowing with their pretend mower. You can even turn these activities into competitions to see whose plant grows best or who picks up the most sticks. Activities like these will help children stay active while they learn important life skills. Read The Budding Gardener for other ideas on fun-filled gardening activities you can do with your children.
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Hello Lovelies! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all! This will be my last post of 2012 since I've decided to take a short and much needed break from blogging over the holidays. I'll be out of town most of this week visiting family (planning on leaving today) and figured when I get back it will be nice to have a few days to myself in RL and in SL. I do plan to have my first post on January 1st! Warmest of wishes to you all and see you in 2013!
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How to Draw Facial Expressions (Part 1)
Changing the expression of anime and manga characters isn't particularly difficult, but it helps to know which features need to be adjusted for each type of emotion. In this tutorial, I will show you how the various parts of the face work together to convey different emotions. Once you learn what features to change to achieve the look you want, you should be able to draw any emotion you like. Please read through my other facial tutorials, though, since it helps to have a working knowledge of how the features should be aligned before you begin.
First, we'll start off going over sadness, a fairly common emotion. This is a typical anime and manga face, but notice the changes that have been made. The most obvious indicator of the character's emotion, in this case, are the eyebrows. Notice how the inner tips of the eyebrows curve upwards. Also, her lower eyelids curve upward slightly, while her upper eyelids have a more large, round curve. Curving the lower eyelid can indicate stress, sorrow, or anger; in this case, the shape of the eyebrows shows us that it is sorrow. ^_^ Also, notice the shape of the mouth; it is small, and curves downward. Overall, the character looks like she's about to burst into tears.
This form of sadness is more subdued. The character seems depressed, but not as sad as the previous example. The eyes are smaller here (partly because this is a guy ^_^), and the mouth is larger and does not curve down so far. The angle of the eyebrows and the arch of the lower eyelid still let you know that this character is upset about something.
This picture is sort of a transition between sadness and anger. The eyebrows curve down sharply and his mouth is drawn so it looks like he is shouting, both of which indicates that he is mad, yet his irises are still very large. This sort of makes him look like he is angry, yet hurt or upset at someone or something.
This guy is clearly very ticked off, even though he isn't shouting. ^_~ You can draw angry people without them screaming their heads off. In this picture, the eyebrows are close to the eyes and angle down sharply (I also drew the folds in the skin caused by drawing one's eyebrows together like that), and the mouth angles downwards sharply. The eyes have been narrowed, and irises are very small, which helps to make a character look even more angry. ^_^
I'm not sure about this one; he looks both confused and ticked off. Alternating the angles of the eyebrows like this indicates confusion or incredulity. To add to the expression, draw the mouth slightly off-center, as well.
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I was a little bit bemused to take a look at my WibStats and find out in that in the last 24 hours the number of unique visitors to my blog had increased by 166%. Now, by anyone's standards this is quite impressive. However, I then was meandering through a few groups on Facebook and discovered that someone has posted a link through to my blog from a group called "If Cameron cares an ounce about LGBT people, he'll sack Philippa Stroud". They link my blog to the group by stating that "her [Philippa Stroud's] church, New Frontiers, doesn't just have an issue with lgbt people, but also women".
I have to admit that I am quite bemused by this link and thought that the subject deserved a mention.
This subject has come up due to an article in The Guardian newspaper entitled "Rising Tory star Philippa Stroud ran prayer sessions to 'cure' gay people". The article stated that the leaders of the church that Philipppa was involved in were praying for people to be 'released' from their homosexuality and there is a quote from a transexual girl who said that
"She [Philippa] wanted me to know all my thinking was wrong, I was wrong and the so-called demons inside me were wrong. The session ended with her and others praying over me, calling out the demons. She really believed things like homosexuality, transsexualism and addiction could be fixed just by prayer, all in the name of Jesus."
The interesting thing for me is that I was certainly aware that things like this were going on in the Newfrontiers churches that I was part of about 10-15 years ago. At the time I was wrestling with my own perspective on sexuality and faith and was trying very hard to support friends who were coming out to church leaders who believed that they could be cured of their homosexuality. I am not surprised these issues are coming back to haunt Philippa, and I am equally not surprised that they happened. It would seem that the Newfrontiers view of gender is extremely black and white and if you do not fit into the cultural and social norms and expectations set before you then you are extremely isolated. This is not only for gay people, but also for women with opinions, as I have discussed on this blog many times.
(In an interesting aside, the Ekklesia website has made the point that Newfrontiers believes that women should submit to their husbands, and as a result would the electorate actually be electing Philippa or her husband. If she has to submit to him and this clashes with the Conservative viewpoint what would be the consequences of this? For more info see the link here. Just an interesting aside I thought!!!!)
I loathe the perspective that homosexuality can be cured, and I fully believe that churches, church leaders and the ex-gay movement should be held to account for the pscyhological damage they have done to countless men and women. Thank goodness for organisations such as Beyond Ex Gay and Courage who seek to support people with finding out how they can balance their faith and their sexuality.
However, I would like to make one disclaimer here. I have known of Philippa and her husband David for many, many years, and I do not believe that they are bad people. I believe that they are extremely devoted, committed Christians who do things according to their beliefs. I believe that their strongly held beliefs are in some cases extremely misguided, but in essence they are good people.
David and Philippa Stroud have made a huge difference to many different homeless and addicted people through the work they have done over the years. I hope and pray that this story does not undo this good work. Equally, I hope and pray, that being held to account for previous (and possibly current) beliefs will cause them to reconsider why they hold these beliefs.
To sum up, I believe that this is a difficult issue and the fact that it has hit national newspapers is a good thing. For a start, we need to see what our politicians are made of – both morally and ethically. We also need to have the issues around faith and sexuality continually raised. This homophobia, sometimes expressed and sometimes hidden, needs to be brought out into the light and challenged. Only then will the church be able to move on, and only then will gay men and women be accepted for the wonderful people they are and will be able to contribute to their local church in a meaningful way.


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Deputies said the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office 911 dispatchers have received more than 1,200 calls from an unregistered cell phone.
That averages to about 27 calls a day.
Despite not having a working phone number or being associated with a cellular phone company, the phone was still able to connect with 911, as required by law, according to a news release from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.
At times the caller rambled on and other times he wouldn't speak at all. Authorities had a general idea where the caller was located in Tampa with the help of GPS, but were unable to locate the caller, deputies said.
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Deputies found arrested Jason Michael Honaker, 38, and recovered the cell phone used to make the calls. Honaker also reportedly 'fessed up to making many of the calls, the release stated.


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So today was the day, my Patima Smart 2 casing has arrived.
For those unaware, this is a new housing on the market for Sony 500V and 520V cameras.
The price point is incredible at $1299US compared to 2k plus from Amphibico and L&M this case has the potential to be a serious contender.
So lets begin.
These cased are CNC cut from a solid block of aluminum, so needless to say construction is VERY solid, I honestly think I could drive over it with my SUV and it would be completely fine.
The website is a little inaccurate about the weight of this housing, they specified it was 12lbs, sadly it weights in at a whopping 17lbs!!!
And that is before the camera, additional lenses or any lights. Yikes. I am dreading lugging this thing through the airports, ugh!
I will be taking it out back into the hot tub later tonight to make sure their are no leaks and to see just how negative buoyant it is, web site specified a little on the negative side, but they also claimed it was 5 lbs lighter so.....
I do admit I will feel very safe with my camera in this housing. The locking system is fantastic, there are 2 rotation clips that spin 360 degrees and pull the back lcd panel in tighter gradually until sealed.
There are dual handle controls that are mirrored in case there is a malfunction. You will however have to open the case to connect the other handle, it is not a live mirror, but still, it is not a vacation show stopper by any means if one handle stops working. It is a mini din connection that goes into a secondary cable attaching to the camera.
This weekend I will go to see if I can find a Y cable adapter that may allow for in case signal splitting, it may or may not work.
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As an added bonus there are hard buttons on the front that allow for a switch from auto focus to manual, and a dial to turn the manual focus wheel.
In addition there is 2 moisture sensors in the housing to ensure your camera is safe and dry.
Lastly for additional lens options the front port is 67mm threaded to allow for ANY 67mm UW lens attachment, and is designed to allow a underwater wet mount if desired.
Both handles have additional threading on the base to allow for handle extensions as the 2 handles do seem a little short.
I do have a gripe about the back panel LCD though, it is fit flush to the case, not angled at all, and has a protective skirting that is about 2 inches long coming out from the case, this means you will pretty much have to be right behind the camera to see the screen.
Thus far I am impressed overall, and for the price, I think it is well worth it.
I will post some detailed pics this weekend of the housing so you can all see for yourselves.
If you have any questions please let me know.
(edited to fix topic.)
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The 85 Canons of the Holy and Altogether August Apostles, plus the Canons of the First through Fourth Ecumenical Councils (see links further down this page) constitute what is known as "The Rudder."
The 85 Canons of the Holy and Altogether August Apostles, plus the Canons of the First through Fourth Ecumenical Councils (see links further down this page) constitute what is known as "The Rudder."
==The Ecumenical Councils==
==The Ecumenical Councils==
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Canon law touches on every area of Orthodox Church life, including Ecclesiology, Liturgy, and Ethics.
- 1 The Didache
- 2 The Rudder
- 3 The Ecumenical Councils
- 3.1 The First Ecumenical Council
- 3.2 The Second Ecumenical Council
- 3.3 The Third Ecumenical Council
- 3.4 The Fourth Ecumenical Council
- 3.5 The Fifth Ecumenical Council
- 3.6 The Sixth Ecumenical Council
- 3.7 The Seventh Ecumenical Council
- 3.8 The So-Called "Eighth General Council" and Subsequent Councils
- 3.9 Canons and Rulings Not Having Conciliar Origin
- 4 People
- 5 Articles and Books on Orthodox Canon Law
- 6 Online Source Texts
- 7 Related Articles on OrthodoxWiki
- 8 Parallels in other religious groups
The Didache
The Didache, or Teaching of the Twelve Apostles.
The Rudder
The 85 Canons of the Holy and Altogether August Apostles, plus the Canons of the First through Fourth Ecumenical Councils (see links further down this page) constitute what is known as "The Rudder."
The Ecumenical Councils
The First Ecumenical Council
The First Council of Nice A.D. 325, called by Emperor Constantine, Pope Silvester. The council met to deal with the schism created by Arianism. The Arians wished to avoid the heresy of Sabellius who believed in a divine monad which, by expansion, projected itself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit—a form of Modalism. The Arians separated the Son from God entirely so that they believed he was a creature having a beginning. "There was when he was not." The Son was but God's first creation, yet out of nothing and hence has preeminence over the rest of creation. The symbol answers the question, "Who is Jesus Christ"? Its answer: God.
The Canons of the Councils of Ancyra, Gangra Neocaesarea
The Canons of Antioch and Laodicea
These Canons were accepted and received by the Ecumenical Synods - The Provincial Synods
Council of Sardica
343 A.D. Canon V. Sardica was the first synod which asserted, in some sense, Roman primacy in the Church.
The Second Ecumenical Council
The First Council of Constantinople A.D. 381, Emperor Theodosius, Pope Damasus.
The Third Ecumenical Council
The Council of Ephesus A.D. 431, Emperors Theodosius II And Valentinian III, Pope Celestine I
The Fourth Ecumenical Council
The Council of Chalcedon A.D. 451, Emperors Marcian and Pulcheria (in the East) and Valentinian III. (in the West), Pope Leo I.
The Fifth Ecumenical Council
The Second Council of Constantinople A.D. 553, Emperor Justinian I, Pope Vigilius
The Anathemas of the Second Council of Constantinople
553 A.D. Also known as the The Capitula of the Council.
The Sixth Ecumenical Council
The Third Council of Constantinople A.D. 680-681, Emperor Constantine Pogonatus, Pope Agatho I
The Canons of the Council in Trullo
Often Called the Quinisext Council, A.D. 692.
The Canons of the Synods of Sardica, Carthage, Constantinople, and Carthage
These canons were received by the council in Trullo and ratified by the Seventh Ecumenical Council.
The Seventh Ecumenical Council
The Second Council of Nice A.D. 787, Emperors Constantine VI And Irene, Pope Hadrian
The So-Called "Eighth General Council" and Subsequent Councils
Canons and Rulings Not Having Conciliar Origin
But approved by name in Canon II of the Synod in Trullo.
Articles and Books on Orthodox Canon Law
- N. Athanasiev. "The Canons of the Church: Changeable or Unchangeable?" St. Vladimir's Theological Quarterly, 11 (1967), pp. 54-68.
- John H. Erickson, The Challenge of Our Past: Studies in Orthodox Canon Law and Church History.Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1991. ISBN 978-0881410860.
- Archbishop Peter L'Huillier, The Church of the Ancient Councils: The Disciplinary Work of the First Four Ecumenical Councils. Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0881410075.
- Lewis J. Patsavos. The Canon Law of the Orthodox Catholic Church (Mimeographed Notes). Brookline, MA.: Holy Cross Bookstore, 1975.
- Lewis J. Patsavos, Spiritual Dimensions of the Holy Canons. Brookline, MA: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1885652683.
- Henry R. Percival, Ed. The Seven Ecumenical Councils of the Undivided Church: Their Canons and Dogmatic Decrees, Together with the Canons of All the Local Synods Which Have Received Ecumenical Acceptance. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1956.
- Panteleimon Rodopoulos and George Dion Dragas, Ed. An Overview of Orthodox Canon Law. Orthodox Research Institute, 2007. ISBN 978-1933275154.
- Patrick Viscuso, Orthodox Canon Law: A Casebook for Study. InterOrthodox Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1932401103.
- The Stand of the Orthodox Church on Controversial Issues by Stanley Harakas
- B. Archondonis. "A Common Code for the Orthodox Churches," Kanon I (1973), pp. 45-53.
- The Theology of Oikonomia and Its Implications for Sacramental and Ecumenical Perspectives by Sabu John
- The Canonical Tradition of the Orthodox Church by Lewis Patsavos
- The Russian Canonical Territory - some comments from an Orthodox historico-canonical perspective
- Studies in Roman and Byzantine Law - an index of articles in this journal is available online
Online Source Texts
- Byzantine Legal Documents - An index by Paul Halsall
- Post-Byzantine Law on the Web - This site is devoted to the promotion of the study of law in Venetian and Ottoman Greece to the 19th century
- The Rudder
- Canons and Definitions of the Ecumenical Councils
- Canons of the Orthodox Church
Related Articles on OrthodoxWiki
Parallels in other religious groups
- Byzantine Catholic canon law - Code of Canons for the Oriental Churches
- Roman Catholic - Catholic Encyclopedia article on Canon Law (outdated, but informative)
- In Judaism, see w:Halakha
- In Islam, see w:Sharia, w:Fatwa, and w:Fiqh
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The digital distribution wars just got personal for EA: they've pulled Crysis 2 from the Steam store. It's now available on the company's Origin service, labeled as an exclusive offering.
Good going EA >.>
Wait... DA2 and Crysis 2 are listed as $60 games. I know I bought DA2 on PC for only $50 on Steam, the usual price for PC games. Why are they $60 from EA? Shouldn't it be no more than $50 considering they're completely removing the middle man?
I don't mind EA sticking all their games on their own service to promote it, I can still play them with Steam enabled. But, if they're removing the middleman _and_ raising prices, that's over the line.
Isn't that $10 usually for console versions because of some publishing fees or something?
Most PC games still launch at $50 (check out the 'Coming Soon' section on Steam).
A few publishers such as Activision and EA have decided to go for the $60 price. People end up buying the game anyways so they figure they might as well make more profit.
Looks like I won't ever be playing Crysis 2.
@FatOldMan: Exactly. Licensing fees and a little extra to go with it (~$5 for licensing fees and ~$5 extra profit). I'm fairly certain most PC games will still release at $50 (*looks at CoD releasing at $60, though*). Heck, you can get the PC download of DA2 on Amazon.com for $50 still, but EA's Origin site lists it at $60.
Ubisoft, EA, Activision ... there's others too. They all list their new titles for $60. It's the times, I guess. They see the extra money coming it and they're like "more please!"
if you do this to BF3 EA I will... well I don't know but I'll be super pissed and won't be playing BF3 the way I was going to
Although EA has every right to pull their games from others service, it is incredibly stupid to do so. Way to go minimizing exposure of your game!
EA doesn't have enough clout to do this.... The only game I'm buying from EA anyhow is Mass Effect 3 and maybe Dead Space 2 (if it goes low enough and is the LE). Otherwise, EA can go fekk themselves.
Well regular console users pay $60 all the time since this gen started. and PC are supposed to have the superior version of the games so why should they get special treatment and pay less than consoles?? Think EA finally realized this and jumped on board.
But this makes it clear that Steam is better than Origins.
When EA releases a game on either of the consoles they have to pay license fees to Microsoft and Sony to do so, which is why you see the price difference. If EA now decide to increase their PC game prices to match those of consoles then they're essentially raking in another $10-20 in profit, which isn't fair to PC gamers.
I doubt regular console users would appreciate a $20 price hike knowing all that extra dough is going straight into EA's pockets either.
that's pretty ballzy of EA.
but this is how it works EA. If it's not on steam. I as a customer do not buy it. that's just way too much software I need on my pc.
and now Origin???
I want all my games on one central platform. When it comes to BF3 I hope someone at EA has a head on their shoulders. I'd rather buy it retail than go through another client.
^ You *might* have to go through their client if they get ballsy enough.
You know how a steamworks game works right? What if EA copied that and made it so that all BF3 purchases have to be activated on Origin?
For digital delivery... a US $60 game, taking into account the exchanged rate and adding GST it should be around $62 - 65 Aussie dollars.
DeadSpace/Crysis2/Mass Effect 3 and more .... $80..
I Still cant beleive it !!!! OMG
$80 on the Oz store ??????? GO F yourself EA !!!
So did Dead Space 2, Crysis 2, and most other EA Games.
I've bought plenty of their titles on Steam. I don't own Mass Effect 2's DLC simply because they don't have it on Steam. They force you to buy "BioWare points" on their site.
I think I'll go with Demonoid instead of Origin for all future EA titles.
I always bought my EA games from EA Store, i don't see it as a problem.
I personally don't like the idea of using more than one download client. I want all my stuff running in steam.
It's reliable, and simple.
^ pretty much this, its only steam for pc games or nothing
Ironic this news comes out and Darkspore is on sale on steam :/
Most of my EA titles are either from the EA store or actual retail stores. It might not be the popular opinion, but I also like their store (not really the store, but the EA download manager). Say what you want about EA, but they did make a good client in the EA download manager (or Origin, if they're calling it that now). One activation, unlimited installs, DOESN'T NEED TO BE RUNNING = happy me.
"I always bought my EA games from EA Store, i don't see it as a problem."
It increased in price from the previous location.
wtf are you doing, EA?
It is worthy of noting that if you check the BF3 page on Origin, it states that the Back2Karakand free expansion is only valid on Origin.
This might explain why D2D's pre-order doesn't list the expansion and why steam has yet to make BF3 available.
I suppose EA realizes that they have a killer line-up coming up and want to take the opportunity to pull PC players to their platform. Wouldn't be surprised if they keep their future games exclusive to origin.
I just hope Origin behaves like the old EADM in that I don't have to leave it running at all time just to play a game.
Surprised about the Crysis2 thing. You'd think with all the publishing partnerships Valve and EA have had, the two would play nice together.
Orgin beta doens't require you logging in to play.
On topic, This seems really strange, Orgin or Ea only sell EA games on their store, so how is this going to take consumers from steam, steam has multiple publishers, and it's a great. I just don't see why they think having a service for just their set of game is beneficial to them.
^ Having their own store means the sale revenue goes directly to them (instead of a retailer/distributor getting a cut of the pie)
I think Activision does this with a few digital games such as Starcraft2.
I'm not sure what they plan to do with Origin. Whatever it is, I hope they keep running the client optional. I tried Origin and it seems to eat more memory than steam. Though I did like it's visual look.
Guess I'll have to buy BF3 retail :(
I've bought a couple of games from the old EA Store, as Theo above you said, it doesn't currently work like Steam or GFWL.
The game essentially behaves like a retail game (except that, you can download it from EA's Download Manager whenever you want). So if anything, it's better than steam since you don't need any other clients running to launch the game.
I was going to buy BF3 from origin anyways (along with BF2142), assuming they don't make it obligatory to have the origin client running.
Though if the physical warfare pack ends up being retail-exclusive, you might as well go for retail for the extra items. Though I'd expect EA to make the pack available on Origin too.
I already ordered battlefield 3 from retail, I paid £23 which is a pretty good deal.
How can it be cheaper on disc than dd?
who cares? Crysis 2 was a pile of failure.
on the other hand... it leaves me worried whether EA will take out more games...
I smell anti-competitive practices....
How is it anti-competitive to pull your game off of the largest internet store and try selling it yourself?
Im all ears, please do tell.
I gotta admit, I know badjournalism meant well with his statement, but I did get a pretty big chuckle at it because it didn't make any sense to me either.
Taking a popular products and isolating it to one vendor is anti-competitive. The other vendors cant compete because they don't have the product, hense the prefix "anti". Trying to sell it yourself is not anti competitive but only selling it yourself is. I could understand if they were a small dav and selling it themselves was the only way to do it but they're EA. Instead of getting the great deals you'd get from Steam or other DD providers your stuck with EA's 59.99 pricetag because there is no competition to lower the price.
***Taking a popular products and isolating it to one vendor is anti-competitive. ***
Only if doing so would result in an imbalance in said market. For example, it isn't anti-competitive when only one broadband carrier offers a specific phone, such as the iPhone for its first few years out on the market.
Steam already controls the majority of digital PC game sales in North America. Removing EA games won't change this.
But the concept is sound. Having the iPhone only with AT&T was anti competitive because no one could compete with product pricing. Now, Verizon has the iPhone AT&T dropped the price to 49.99. Those whole point is competition. If a business practice removes competition than it's anti-competitive by nature. Whether it's right or wrong in an other issue but it is what it is.
You seem to be looking at it from the perspective of the seller not the consumer. The consumer doesn't care if Steam is the biggest DD provider, the consumer cares if they're getting a good deal. Keeping products exclusivity to one seller doesn't allow good deals to happen.
Taking away pricing competition is anti-competitive.
*** Now, Verizon has the iPhone AT&T dropped the price to 49.99.***
That happened because it's the 3GS phone and practically no one is buying it anymore since the iPhone 4 is out. That did not happen because Verizon was added.
For example, the iPhone 4 is still the same price it was when it was originally released on AT&T, just now the same price with both service providers.
*** If a business practice removes competition than it's anti-competitive by nature.***
But it doesn't remove competition. You can still buy this for the PC at other retailers. They only limit the digital distribution of it, which is far from enough to make a claim of anti-competitive practices.
***Taking away pricing competition is anti-competitive.***
Crysis 2 @ Origin EA: $59.99
Crysis 2 @ Amazon.com: $51.96 on disc or $47.99 as download
Removing it from Steam doesn't remove your options for buying the PC game.
What in the world is Valve competing about the FIRST I've heard of origina was at EA's confrence and I can't tell if it's new or old.
EA, realize a great deal of profit can be made by selling their stuff at 100%
HOWEVER They fail to see that there's a great deal of cost involved, update, dlc, anti-cheat... you get the picture. IT COSTS A LOT OF MONEY. Something Valve has overcome BY HAVING A LOT OF PEOPLE SENDING THEIR GAMES IN.
Ok, ok... battlefield 3 will still sell, but really EA do you even for one second think ANYONE will turn on your store daily? People will log-in to buy BF3 and only use it to play BF3. They won't use it to buy other stuff.... like your indie games, the ones that don't have a 200 million ad budget. So after this do you think Valve will just let you release the smaller games on their store while you keep the big ones for yourself?
Activision are the only ones who can create a store, they chose not to... they aren't big enough. YOU AREN'T BIG ENOUGH. Suck it up, your losing 30% to Sony and Microsoft and more to retailers, lose however much Valve charges you. YOU CAN'T CONTROL PC NOT NOW.
EDIT: Did not know about Activision and that's the point, not many people will know.
Also, updating system can be VERY costly indeed, as can a lot of thing Valve provides, the back-end to steam is beyond belief... It's not just some dude on a computer type titles, it's many people on servers etc, you need a support line. While some may not see it as valuable but for users having a hub is brilliant.
"They fail to see that there's a great deal of cost involved, update, dlc, anti-cheat."
To be fair, the costs involved are just server maintenance. Updates and DLC aren't all that different from general game downloads (although I don't think Origin has auto-updates/patching yet)
Anti-cheat isn't provided by the digital distributor.
Activision does have it's own digital store. So do a lot of other publishers.
EDIT: Yea, steam's function is bigger, but it also handles a lot more games from various publishers.
EA has been running their Store for quite a while now, and they feel they're ready to take the next step with Origin. They'll only be handling EA games by the looks of things, so they should have an easier workload than steam.
Here's how I see it: I say let them do whatever they want. It's not affecting me, since I've bought things from the EA store before and I really like their download manager (better than the steam client in some ways, worse in others).
BUT ... if they want to keep getting my business, especially if they're selling their games exclusively from here on in, then they need to be competitive with their prices. If not, I'll just go to amazon or retail stores. If I can get a game cheaper on amazon than I can on the Origin or EA store thing, then I'll go to amazon every time.
Valve games if I remember correct, digitally are only sold on Steam
They just cut a huge chunk of their market out right there...
That was pretty idiotic, not to mention greedy.
Petty EA that is just petty. Although i plan to buy two of your games this year i will be giving you my money with a pinch of salt
They don't care how much salt you give them. THEY HAVE YOUR MONEY. XD
really! just buy it when its cheaper or better yet used!
LOL i know xD but i can't resist buying SWTOR and Battlefield 3 :D
I am all for competition but IF EA continues this trend and ultimately uses Origin to keep all EA games exclusively, I will not support it and I hope it dies a horrible death.....segregating the community is bad, mkay?
Sucks that BF3 is EA because i MUST buy that game....I can probably live without most other EA games...ok maybe not ME3..or Kingdoms of Amular...or Dead Space(s)...NOOO!!!!
edit: I say this in regards to my love for Steam as a one-stop shop...EA should use Origins for exclusive "sales" and let people who love Steam buy it full price if they want it on Steam....I think that makes more sence...keeps mostly everybody happy...ok, maybe not all but at least me lol
Segregating? Do you mean splitting up Steam into Steam and Origin? What about D2D, Impulse, GoG, Gamersgate, etc.? I think the PC download market is segregated enough.
If you actually use it and hate it, fine. I've used it and I like it a bit better than the steam client ONLY because it doesn't need to be running in the background when you play single player games (unlike steam, using up lots of memory).
All those other digital download services are not fully interactive like Steam and how Origin claims to be. (ie. chat and such) By making all EA games exclusive to Origin, if EA goes that route, I feel it might segregate the community. Steam is a great online service, very competitive to PSN and M$Live (actually better in my eyes), which lumps PC gamers into one big community. Do we really need another service like this? Wouldn't you like to play any game and interact with any friend through one client? My fear is that this might lead to making too many pools of gamers, thus segregating the PC population. If EA sees some success you can then bet that next Activision makes another service like battle.net exclusive to all their games.....then THQ...then Ubisoft...hopefully this is just an over-exaggerated thought.
As for the Origin client, I will admit that I have not used it so I have nothing negative to say about the quality. But for your last comment, my Steam client is currently using 61megs of 6gigs of RAM....I don't see that as "lots"
I am an average gamer so if I am wrong and proven wrong I will gladly thank those for correcting me. This is just how I see it with my limited knowledge and view. I truly do hope Origin is a good thing because competition is good for the consumer....I just have a bad feeling about it, tho. :|
Wow, any chance I had of picking up this game is now gone. What pisses me off even more is the fact this this no doubt means Battlefield 3 will only be on Origin.
I only buy off of Steam for digital copies. Period. Another stupid move on EA's part imo.
Steam + GoG.com for me so far. I have no issue buying from EA's store option if it's a game I want since I can play any game with Steam, even if I didn't buy it from them.
Wait... so BF3 for PC won't even be sold in physical retail stores?
Pretty sure there will be retail versions but as for digital downloads it'll prolly be Origin only
I have it reserved through my local gamestop
For me its actually a very good thing. I live in india and over here games usually sell for 20-22$. On Steam it will only be available for 50$. But on the origin page for india its listed as 999rs which is equal to 22$. So am a happy chap
Well that is actually pretty cool....I have no oversight on those types of issues concerning services like Steam (being from the US) but I guess I can see how this could be a good thing for some.
well i guess i wont be buying crysis 2 now. I was waiting for it go on a steam sale but now that its been pulled I highly doubt i will buy it and if i do it shall be retail when its like 10 bucks cause I really like having all my games bound to steam. Oh well power to you ea for trying something sorta new but if it fails you better put it back. I personally think they should offer it on both just do better deals on there origin program if they wanna win some people
Its Steam,GOG,and D2D on my end.I don't plan on using Origin now or ever.
People seem to forget EA are just as bad as activision, they are all corparate wankers, id honestly like to see DICE get enough money to go out on their own or perhaps find a publisher who will give them the freedom to market their game and sell their game where they want.
The pre - order exlusives are just one lame idea and Origin is just another.
Hopefully Steam will have some kind of a "#@#$ you EA" sale over this. :)
Maybe because Steam policies are stupid and they offer zero support to their customers?
Lets see now...
1. Steam games can only be activated at 9 AM instead of on the stroke of midnight like other digital downloads. Want to stay up late to play that hot new release? Sorry, we can't activate your game now because we're all at home watching Glee.
2. Want the latest patch that fixes broken stuff and new content? Sorry, the patch came out on Friday and at Steam, gaming is a Monday to Friday business hence the guy who pushes the button these patches has gone home. Don't worry, he'll be back on Monday and you'll get patch at 5:00 PM. Oh what? You need same patch as the game's server so you can play online? Cry more noob, and wait until Monday.
3. So the patch is finally here. See that didn't take long...but oh, we have our own ways of doing things here at Steam. So instead of downloading a small 250mb file like everyone else, you get to download the entire game again. All 7 to 9 gigs of it!! It'll only take an hour or two, not too bad, and you'll have to redownload the entire game again each time there's a new patch. But look on the bright side, you brought your game on Steam and it comes with achievements!
Being an owner of "The Witcher 2" on Steam, I sadly agree this post. Downloading 9gb for a 50meg patch sucks...
Besides the three facts pointed out by Fanboi, I still love Steam and Valve! Here's to hoping they, someday, change their release day policies and fix their boinked (for lack of more fitting but vulgar word) patching system....
edit: yah yah I know I know...I should of bought TW2 on GoG....hindsight is a b :(
I have to pay tax with Origin. Not with steam.... GTFO EA
Do you live in California?
New York. And Im not 100% sure about the tax with origin BUT before when I used EA download manager and the EA store, I had to pay tax
Wow you have to pay tax with Origin? Thats an extra $5 I can save. Looks like ill be sticking with steam.
Hm EA vs Steam, that fight isn't going to end well. If EA were dismayed about software sales on the PC before then they haven't seen anything yet if they cut steam out of the equation.
The only thing I don't understand is why does Valve still use this cretinous publisher to publish it's games ? Surely when you have a publishing partner that takes every opportunity to metaphorically "knife you in the back" you would want to break ties with that partner.
I think its a good move hate it or not though, steam was a monopoly for digital anywayz, i think every company wanted to see if it works that's why they gave their stuff to steam, just like how hulu there used to be almost every tv show but now you have to go to their site if you want to watch the full episodes like hbo.com and nbc.com.
But like everyone say they need to price their games right or it gonna fail.
yeah, I think what people don't realize is Activision, Ubisoft, Valve, etc. all of these guys and more already do this. Stardock only sells on impulse, Valve only sells on Steam ...
EA mentioned during E3 they would do this. They just have to be competitive and they will get fans. They need to price their games like everyone else is, have sales (like their Facebook sales which kick ass) and they'll be fine.


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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Free Books, The Time To Read Them In (& a mini rant)
Not Ruttin' rhymes with nothin', but said the country twang way like nuttin'.
"Whatcha doin' Billy Bob?"
The name is French. What the hell were they thinking in the 13 Colonies when they changed Rutant to Ruttan? That I'd open of a furniture shop called Ruttan's Rattan? Not bloody likely.
I've moaned on here before about how long it takes me to read the average book. It seems to be double to triple the time of typical readers. The latest Rankin took me about 16 hours (at least Ian knows what he spent months working on wasn't brushed off in an afternoon here) and that's about standard for me.
The more review copies come in, the more books I choose to spend my money on that remain unread, the more I wonder how to get time back for reading.
And I've figured it out. Stop reading blogs.
Okay, now, seriously. I stick around the blogs because I love keeping in touch with my network of friends. Yes, it means sometimes people talk about me elsewhere and maybe it helps with my profile. I don't know. I mean, all of you ended up here somehow, right? And there are a lot of you I've never met in person.
But for what seems like a prolonged time now I'm having trouble making it around to the blogs. Even more trouble commenting occasionally on some.
This morning, I got up, and had a topic in mind to blog about, but it was similar to something I'd blogged about before. You find yourself wondering, short of sharing all the intimate details of your life, how you can really hit new terrain year in and year out on the blogs.
And here's an example of where laying it all on the blogs went bad:
10. Litigation log: Man sues sexual partner who publishes all on her blog
Robert Steinbuch is suing his girlfriend who discussed intimate details of their sex life in her online diary. A Capitol Hill staffer when the publication occurred, Steinbuch responded with a lawsuit.
Steinbuch has since accepted a teaching job in Arkansas, leaving Washington and girlfriend Jessica Cutler's "Washingtonienne" Web log behind.
But now, Steinbuch's case over the embarrassing, sexually charged blog appears headed for an embarrassing, sexually charged trial.
Lurid testimony about spanking, handcuffs and prostitution aside, the Washingtonienne case could help establish whether people who keep online diaries are obligated to protect the privacy of the people they interact with offline.
Cutler, a former aide to Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, says she created the blog in 2004 to keep a few friends up to date on her social life. On her blog, she described juggling sexual relationships with six men. One of the men was Steinbuch, a counsel to DeWine on the Judiciary Committee. Cutler called him the "current favorite" and said he resembled George Clooney, liked spanking and disliked condoms. "He's very upfront about sex," she wrote. "He likes talking dirty and stuff, and he told me that he likes submissive women."
When Ana Marie Cox, then the editor of the popular gossip Web site Wonkette.com, discovered and linked to Cutler's blog, the story picked up more audience than does a typical best-seller. Cutler was fired and Steinbuch says he was publicly humiliated. He wants more than $20 million in damages.
The trial is now in the discovery stage. Steinbuch wants to know how much money Cutler received from the man she called her "sugar daddy." Cutler wants Steinbuch's student evaluations from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law School, where he teaches.
Steinbuch recently added Wonkette's Cox as a defendant in the case.
Attorney Jonathan Rosen says what Steinbuch wants is the restoration of his good name. He's embarrassed that students in his legal ethics class search the Internet and learn about the blog, Rosen said.
To win, Steinbuch will have to prove that the details of their sexual relationship were private and publishing them was highly offensive. Billips argues that Cutler never intended to make the blog public but, in the information age, data is easily copied and distributed beyond its intended audience.
Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said he may teach the Washingtonienne case this spring during his class at Georgetown Law School. "Anybody who wants to reveal their own private life has a right to do that. It's a different question when you reveal someone else's private life," he said, adding that simply calling something a diary doesn't make it one. "It's not sitting in a nice, leather-bound book under a pillow. It's online where a million people can find it."
Since being fired, Cutler moved back to New York, wrote a novel based on the scandal, posed nude for Playboy and started a new Web site, where she solicits donations "for slutty clothes and drugs."
U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman told attorneys for both sides, "I don't know why we're here in federal court to begin with. I don't know why this guy thought it was smart to file a lawsuit and lay out all of his private, intimate details." (Source: Associated Press and various newspaper accounts)
I would have sent you there, except there's no direct link to this story.
A lot of us talk about it from time to time. Anne's pondering her blog again.
Let's face it. People only have so many hours in the day. And part of me got thinking about it because Mark Billingham sent out his first newsletter in nine months. And look how he takes himself off the hook.
It's been nine months since the last newsletter, which would be pretty slack, even for someone to whom relatively little ever happened. While it is tempting to fall back on the lame old excuses of schooldays and try to convince you that I had actually written several very good newsletters which were destroyed by pets, I can only trot out the usual stuff about the pressures of work, the demands of a family…and an early draft being eaten by the dog.
I'm consoling myself with the thought that your own lives cannot have been affected in any profound sense by the absence of this newsletter. If anybody has been sobbing over their keyboard every day, forlornly scanning their inbox and toying with ending it all, I can only apologise, and beg you to get: (A) help, (B) laid, (C) out of the house a bit more.
Sheesh! And I feel guilty for not blogging for a day?!
But I can't quit now, because the 'hey there's a dead guy' blog is too funny, too tell it like it is…
Too good to pass up. Damn. Some day, I want to be part of a cool group blog like that. Sigh.
So, do you guys ever find it hard to keep up? Meanwhile, there are places to win free books, in case you decide to take that quit reading blogs suggestion seriously.
Lesa's giving books away. So are the folk over at Reviewing The Evidence.
20 comments:
- anne frasier said...
sandra, as you mentioned i'm going through the same thing. guilt. that's the big one. and also the fear of losing contact with people. i don't mean people who might buy my books, but people i've come to think of as friends.
- 1:17 p.m.
- JamesO said...
Sixteen hours? Damn, it takes me sixteen days to read a novel.
- 1:32 p.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
I hope I didn't misrepresent it, Anne. I also stay on here for the friends more than anything. If it wasn't for the camraderie, I'd be gone, no matter how many were buying my book.
James, spread those 16 hours over the amount of time per day I have for reading and we're comparable...
And you have to bear in mind. I can't put Rebus books down. Not like it's a rule or anything. It's a physical thing. Kevin has to pry them out of my hands at night. I have this really addictive personality...
- 1:39 p.m.
Thanks for the link to my post, Sandra.
Too many books & the time to read them. I have a fulltime job. I love books, and reviewing them. My husband told me just yesterday there's going to come a day when I don't have time to read all the books I promise people I'll read.
I want to know why.
- 2:46 p.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
I think you're an amazing reader Lesa. Really, you just seem to move from book to book with such zest. I think it boils down to, as long as we keep trying, well, we're on the right path... Right? I try not to make promises anymore so I don't disappoint anyone, but genuinely, I want to read so many more books than I'm getting to.
It's hard for me to read when I'm writing, though. I'm getting better at it. It used to be when I was doing a ms I couldn't read a book in my "off hours" at all.
- 2:52 p.m.
- Christa M. Miller said...
I'm a faithful reader of many blogs, but I rarely have a chance to formulate an intelligent comment unless it's something I feel qualified to discuss. I guess I should get with it, though, if I start blogging professionally!
- 5:50 p.m.
- S. W. Vaughn said...
Too right, Sandra (and Anne). I've been finding less and less time to blog and visit, and I feel so awful about it, because I've made so many friends. And I feel I'm neglecting them. *sniffle*
Maybe we should all cut down... blog once a week and go around visiting on that day to catch up with everyone. I claim Tuesdays, because there are never any deadlines on Tuesday. :-)
- 9:04 p.m.
- angie said...
Blogging is fun. It can also be time consuming. Sometimes I think I'll never find the balance. I would HATE not keeping up with blogs - I learn tons & have met a lot of cool people.
I can't post on my blog every day. Frankly, my life isn't that damn interesting. Still, I can't see giving it up any time soon. Even if I don't post (or check in on everyone else's blogs) every day, I really like cruising by when I have the time.
One of these days I'll figure out how to do that balance thing. In the meantime I guess I'll wobble along and hope the blogs I really enjoy don't get too overwhelmed & call it quits.
As for the reading issue...I'm a fast reader, but honestly I'm easily bored. If the writing & the story aren't really kick ass, the book ends up in the "picking at it" pile. Y'know, the one where I'll read a page or two at a time before I put it down again. Unless it's just a crap book & then it goes to Salvo or the used book store, 'cause there's only so much bookshelf space in my damn house.
- 9:10 p.m.
- Eileen said...
I do find it harder and harder to find the time for everything. I'm hoping there are points for effort.
- 9:23 p.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
Christa, money is always an incentive!
SW, I seriously wish I was doing a group blog thing, but one that eliminated the personal blog. Not in addition to the personal blog.
Angie, boy oh boy, do I know what you mean about crummy books. I've abandoned more books in the last year than ever before. But I've also read more great books than ever before. I think being willing to shelve a read that's not working for me helps with that.
Ah Eileen, here's hoping!
- 9:40 p.m.
- John Gooley said...
Ruttan says her name rhymes with Sue fan
And shoe man and blue tan and toucan
It don't go with nuttin
Or cuttin or struttin
It's French, that's what gives you the clue man.
- 12:54 a.m.
- anne frasier said...
s.w., i like your idea of picking a day, and it led me to another idea -- what if we all picked the same day? that would probaby be too hard to pull off with all the different schedules. i find the idea interesting though. kind of a blog crawl. blog crawl fridays or something like that.
too massive, because there would be too many subjects going on at one time. hmm. should i delete this? nah.
- 1:07 a.m.
- John Gooley said...
Having shoved that limerick into the middle of a discussion, I thought I should say something on topic.
I've been reading blogs for a year now, and in that time I've read about half as many books as I generally would. Hmmm! I have to go away and think about this.
- 1:56 a.m.
I think a lot of people get blog fatigue. I go in spurts, hoping people will understand that I can't read everyone all the time; and I can't post on my own blog all the time. Sure, there is guilt involved, but like everyone in the real world, people understand that you can't be in contact every day.
- 5:04 a.m.
BTW - I think you should rename one of your groups on the side to the RUE-TAN CLAN.
- 5:10 a.m.
I've only been doing the weekly blog thing for a couple of months now, mainly to chart my progress as an artist and record the problems that arise as you move into a more professional arena - or just the day-to-day problems. I like to document the journey I am taking and because it might be useful to other artists, see no reason why it shouldn't be accessible through my artist's website. I have had to write negatives as well as positives but am aware all the time that if I am writing about other people, I have to think about what they would or would not want 'out there'.
Inevitably, it has not remained purely about art and I have found myself writing about the novel too - but it's all about creativity and that is the main thing!
And despite only doing this for two months, I have been late twice...
But it doesn't matter because I have no readers!
Maybe you should set aside one blog evening a week where you read all your friend's blogs, catch up and then write your own.
Sarah H
- 8:27 a.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
I just want to say for the record, I think a day to do a blog crawl would be fantastic.
Sarah, I wish I could catch up in a night. I can't. Too many blogs. I have the blogs divvied out into days of the week I visit them, some come up more than once, some are daily. See, I know SW blogs on Tuesdays normally, so I normally check out her blog on Tuesdays. But if I spent one night a week catching up, it would actually be an entire day, most likely.
Steve, do you want to be in my RUE-TAN Clan?
- 11:30 a.m.
- anne frasier said...
haha! love the rue-tan clan.
John G: a friend of mine got a computer 6 months ago and is now blogging, myspacing, everything. she used to be a huge reader -- hasn't picked up a book since she got the computer. and i don't see that changing.
- 12:33 p.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
Maybe this is really something to think about. I'm surprised there isn't more discussion about it elsewhere.
- 1:02 p.m.
- anne frasier said...
yeah, i've been meaning to post about my friend's internet experience. just need to light a fire under my own ass.
about the name... i'm thinking i'll pronounce it with a rolled R. and tan with an ahhh sound rather than fan. ;)
RRRoo - taun
- 7:14 p.m.


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LA CROSSE, Wis. - The University of Dubuque football team engineered a hard fought victory on the road Saturday night by a 35-24 score over the UW-La Crosse Eagles. The Spartans scored on their first two possessions and never looked back in the squad's opening victory of the 2013 season.
UD led after the opening quarter 14-0 after compiling 211 yards of offense. New starting quarterback for the Spartans Bryan Bradshaw (Sr., QB, Crystal Lake, Ill.) opened the game by completing 10-16 passes for 185 yards and two touchdowns in the first quarter of action. He would end the night completing 21-34 pass attempts for 326 yards and three touchdowns with his longest being a 64 yard strike to wide receiver Tyler Rutenbeck (Jr., WR, Maquoketa, Iowa). Rutenbeck was a favorite target collecting five passes for 170 yards and two TD's. Six Spartans caught passes on Saturday night, Rutenbeck along with Sean Anderson (Sr., WR, Yorkville, Ill.) grabbed five catches for 54 yards.
Kyle Acker (Sr., RB, Waunakee, Wis.) led the ground pounding attack with 25 carries for 104 yards and a touchdown. He lossed just two yards in the victory over the Eagles. In special teams Doug Lillibridge (Sr., P, Byron, Ill.) punted five times for 199 yards with his longest punt of the year stopping at 48 yards. On kick-offs, Curtis Prull (So., K, Monticello, Iowa) kicked five times for an average of 58.6 yards a kick-off. Shaun Grewal returned two kick-offs for 45 yards.
The total yardage among the two teams ended just about equal, UD finished with 455 yards of offense while the Eagles ended with 472 yards of offense. Defensively it was all Spartans where they forced the host Eagles into committing four interceptions and a fumble. A trio of Spartans led the tackling effort with five solos each: Oscar White (So., DB, River Falls, Wis.), Austin Hughes (Sr., LB, Preston, Iowa), and Dustin Sorrentino (Sr., LB, Walworth, Wis.). UD sacked the Eagles quarterback five times with Andrew Mariotti (So., DL, Geneva, Ill.) collecting two for 12 yards lost. The Spartans capped off a night with eight tackles for losses of 32 yards.
UD also owned possession time 32:20 to the Eagles 27:40.
The Spartans will host the UW-Platteville Pioneers next Saturday night in the "Battle of the Bridge" game sponsored by Kwik Stop and Dairy Queen on Chalmers Field in Dubuque. Kick-off is slated for 6:00 p.m.


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Peg + Cat "The Three Bears Problem/The Giant Problem" The Three Bears Problem - Fairytale Land. Peg and Cat bring the Three Bears, the Three Little Pigs, and the Three Billy Goats Gruff together to form a super group: "The Electric Eleven." Primary Content: Adding 1; Secondary Content: Counting to 11. D
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Wild Kratts "Mystery of the Weird Looking Walrus" Chris and Martin are on a mission to discover why walrus look so weird, but discover that Zach Varmitech has kidnapped a herd to mine precious pearls for Donita Donata's fashion line. The Wild Kratts team must use the walrus features against Zach to save the creatures and return them to their Arctic domain. Science Concepts: Suction. D
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Super Why! "The Three Little Pigs: The Return of the Wolf" Pig and his brothers are trying to make a picnic table for their yard, but it all goes terribly wrong! So Super Why and his friends visit the tale of The Three Little Pigs, hoping to find out a little bit about building from the young Poppa Pig. Will they learn how to construct something sturdy, or will the Big Bad Wolf huff, puff and ruin their plans? Educational Objectives: To learn the importance of following instructions. Kids will sing the alphabet, rhyme with ICKS words, and use the power to read to change the story. D
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WordGirl "Who Wants To Get Rid Of Wordgirl?/The Talented Mr. Birg" WHO WANTS TO GET RID OF WORDGIRL? - Seymour Smooth has brought some of WordGirl's biggest villain enemies together to play a game of, Who Wants to Get Rid of WordGirl? Will his strategy of using them to ultimately defeat WordGirl work? Or will he find himself outsmarted by our hero? Vocabulary Words: Strategy, Giddy. THE TALENTED Mr. BIRG - When Scoops writes an article about all the times WordGirl has been tricked and captured by villains, she goes off to prove him wrong. And when someone who looks just like Mr. Big claims to be a Mr. Birg, WordGirl is convinced he's lying, and refuses to be tricked again. D
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Outdoor Idaho "Home on the Range" The real heyday of the American cowboy has come and gone; but in Idaho, the hard-scrabble hero of so many of our nation's legends can still be found, riding the range on the West's public lands. It seems there will always be a place for cowboys, wherever there are cattle to be rounded up and wild horses to be tamed, and wherever there are people who love the cowboy lifestyle. As cowboy poet Rudy Gonzales reminds us, "People want to be cowboys!"G
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Chef's Life "Pimp My Grits" The restaurant gears up for a practice service when the new equipment and new menu will be tested in real time - but nothing is going as planned. One of the big changes to the restaurant's menus is the addition of a section called "Pimp My Grits," where Vivian exalts the lowly, quintessentially Southern ingredient in four distinct ways. D
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Katie Brown Workshop "A Weekend Agenda" Katie makes the most of those two treasured days - in the garden, around the house and in the kitchen. Recipes: poached eggs with pesto and coconut cookies. Projects: a personalized weeding bucket and an album to organize photo CDs. D
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Paint This With Jerry Yarnell "Trademark of Spring, Part 3" At this point Jerry shows how to begin shaping the distant bushes/trees, then how to begin applying highlights on distant grasses; also applying first distant layers of Blue Bonnets as well as blocking in trunk of large Oak tree. Then mixing the proper color for the Oak tree leaves and under-painting them with #10 bristle brush using a "scumbling" technique for proper form. D
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Essential Pepin "Ocean Options" Brandade De Morue Au Gratin; Sea Bass In Shredded Potato Skin; Nage Courte Of Striped Bass; Codfish In Olive Oil And Horseradish Sauce. D
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Dialogue "Historian Nathaniel Philbrick" Host Marcia Franklin talks with the author about his book Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution. They also discuss his earlier book In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, which tells the true story behind Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.G
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Music City Roots: Live from the Loveless Cafe Virginia folk and roots are in the spotlight in this live lineup from the Loveless Cafe, as legendary Robin & Linda Williams and Scott Miller take the stage. Also, honky tonk rock from The Whiskey Gentry, Japanese country queen Tomi Fujiyama and Canadian newgrass trio Tiller's Folly. D
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Austin City Limits "The Lumineers/Shovels & Rope" The groups bring the best in Americana to the stage. Denver's Lumineers perform their hits "Ho Hey" and "Stubborn Love," while South Carolina's Shovels & Rope rocks from the recording O' Be Joyful.G
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Music City Roots: Live from the Loveless Cafe Virginia folk and roots are in the spotlight in this live lineup from the Loveless Cafe, as legendary Robin & Linda Williams and Scott Miller take the stage. Also, honky tonk rock from The Whiskey Gentry, Japanese country queen Tomi Fujiyama and Canadian newgrass trio Tiller's Folly. D
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"We're already back in Saratoga and everything's great," said Ritvo, who trains the colt for Dean and Patti Reeves. "He came out of it very good."
No plans have been made for Mucho Macho Man's next start. He earned a preliminary Beyer Speed Figure of 108 for his 2 ½-length triumph in the Suburban under Hall of Famer Mike Smith.
* * *
Hall of Fame trainer H. Allen Jerkens reported Sunday morning that both he and Emma's Encore exited her 38-1 win in the Grade 3 Victory Ride in fine fettle.
"They always seem to be proud in the morning after they've won," said Jerkens. "It's your own reading into it, probably. Most likely they do the same thing when they lose. Every once in a while they jump around in the pen even when they finish dead last."
Jerkens said Emma's Encore, 3-1-1 in six starts since joining Jerkens' barn in Florida over the winter, will likely make her next start at Saratoga Race Course. The trainer said he would consider the Grade 1, $300,000 Prioress at six furlongs on August 4 and the Grade 1, $500,000 Test at seven furlongs on August 25 for the 3-year-old Florida-bred daughter of Congrats.
"If she's doing well," he added.
Jerkens has had success in both races, having won the Test with Swap Fliparoo (2006), Society Selection (2004) and November Snow (1992) and the Prioress with House Party (2003) and Classy Mirage (1993).
* * *
Phipps Stable's Point of Entry tuned up for next Saturday's Grade 1 Man o'War with a bullet half-mile breeze (48.93) over Belmont Park's inner turf course Sunday morning. The $600,000 Man o'War will be the 4-year-old's first start since taking the Grade 2 Elkhorn at Keeneland on April 27.
"Being a Dynaformer, it took him awhile to come around," said the colt's Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey. "He won an allowance race down there [at Gulfstream Park] in December, which was a good race When he came back [in an optional claimer on February 26], Johnny [Velazquez] said they were all going a little bit earlier and he waited and got himself in trouble and finished fourth. His two races at Keeneland were good races, and I just thought after I ran him back in 13 days [between an allowance victory on April 12 and the Elkhorn on April 27] that I'd give him a bit of a blow here and hopefully have a fresh horse for the rest of the year. I think he's a true mile and three-eighths to a mile and a half kind of horse."
McGaughey also reported that Donn Handicap winner Hymn Book, second in yesterday's Suburban after stumbling badly at the start, seemed to come back well and likely would be pointed for the Grade 1 Whitney Invitational Handicap at Saratoga Race Course on August 4.
"I thought he ran a winning race yesterday and if he comes out of it fine, I'm going to try to run him in the Whitney," McGaughey said. "He kind of stumbled, and [Endorsement] sort of came out or in, I'm not sure which one it was. By the time Garcia got [Hymn Book] back together, he was out the back door somewhere. To make that kind of a long run at a horse who had kind of a perfect trip, you have to come around them all and it's difficult to catch up."
Overall though, McGaughey said he was pleased with Hymn Book's effort behind Mucho Macho Man.
"I thought he ran awfully good, obviously you'd like to know if he'd been in the right decision, but we weren't and the winner was," McGaughey said. "It's disappointing to lose, but you can't be disappointed in the effort he put in. I think the winner is a nice horse. [Trainer Kathy Ritvo] has done a great job with him and I'm glad for her.
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Alpha, who was declared from the Belmont Stakes after developing a fever the week before the race, continues to train forwardly for a return to competition. Saturday at Saratoga Race Course, the Bernardini colt breezed four furlongs in a bullet 47.33, fastest of 16 moves at the distance.
Last week, Alpha went three furlongs in 36.67 in his first work since May 27, two days before spiking a temperature of 103 degrees.
"He had been treated with antibiotics [for a cut he suffered in the Wood] and went to the Kentucky Derby and ran well [to finish 12th] but coming out of that it seemed like everything caught up to him," said Art Magnuson, assistant to trainer Kiaran McLaughlin. "He's training very well."
Magnuson said no spot had been picked out for Alpha's return.
"We have so many options, including the 3-year-old stakes at Saratoga," he said.
In addition to winning the Grade 3 Withers and Count Fleet, Alpha was second to Gemologist in the Grade 1 Resorts World Casino New York City Wood Memorial, and last year was second to eventual Belmont Stakes winner Union Rags in the Grade 1 Champagne for Godolphin Racing. He was a six-length winner of his debut at the Spa last September.
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Grade 1 United Nations winner Turbo Compressor and Grade 2 Monmouth Cup victor Rule will head to Saratoga Race Course this week and could make their next starts at the Spa, said trainer Todd Pletcher this morning.
"They came out of their races well," he said. "The [Grade 1] Sword Dancer [Invitational, 1 ½ miles on August 18] is a possibility for Turbo Compressor and the [Grade 1] Whitney [Handicap on August 4] is a possibility for Rule."
Turbo Compressor is now 3-for-4 on the turf, having led all the way in yesterday's 1 3/8-mile United Nations, while Rule earned his first graded stakes since taking the Grade 3 Sam F. Davis at Tampa Bay downs in February, 2010.
Pletcher said that Repole Stable's Stay Thirsty, who was fifth behind Mucho Macho Man in the Grade 2 Suburban Handicap, came out of that effort in good shape and was also under consideration for the Whitney.


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Previously on Mono
Most of you are probably aware of the situation around Mono, but for those of you that haven't been following this soap opera, let me just repeat what I wrote about this late last month, which sums up the situation pretty well:
The issue now is that Microsoft has so far failed to produce the license with "reasonable and non-discriminatory terms", meaning that while Novell is free from patent concerns due to their deal with Microsoft, other distributions might be at risk. Microsoft may not have made any patent threats with regards to .Net, but they have made patent threats in other areas, such as the infamous claim that the Linux kernel infringed on a number of patents.
Because of this, several players in the Linux/Free software industry have made their positions known when it comes to Mono. Debian recently decided to include Mono in the GNOME installation (which uses a meta-package, so you are free to not install Mono) via TomBoy, but quickly after the Debian project leader back-pedalled, stating that this decision was still under discussion.
Fedora, on the other hand, was pretty clear in that it will not include Mono in its default installation, even going as far as to say it may be excluded from the repositories altogether. Richard Stallman was a bit vague (or so I thought) but the OSNews community cleared that situation up pretty well: RMS advocates against writing applications for Mono and thinks it's dangerous, but he is happy it's there in case people really need to use it.
Ubuntu on Mono
So, now we have Ubuntu making a very clear statement about what their position is in this entire Mono discussion. With Ubuntu being the most popular desktop Linux distribution, its attitude towards Mono is pretty important. In short, Ubuntu sees no reason to remove Mono or Mono applications from the default installation or its repositories.
The basic argument is that while Ubuntu takes patent claims seriously, the simple fact of the matter is that they have received no patent claim from the rights holder (Microsoft). They add that no other project has received such claims either, and that Ubuntu will only act upon claims from the rights holder, and not from 3rd parties.
"Given the above, the Ubuntu Technical Board sees no reason to exclude Mono or applications based upon it from the archive, or from the default installation set," Scott James Remnant writes on behalf of the Ubuntu Technical Board, "Since the Mono stack is already a dependency of the default installation set for many remixes of Ubuntu, including the Desktop Edition, there is no reason to consider a dependency on Mono as an issue when suggesting applications for the default set."
A clear position, and a very pragmatic one. Some of you might wonder why we hammer on about Mono, but the reason for that is simple: a lot of our readers find this a very important issue. They think Mono is a threat to Free software, and seeing Microsoft's track record when it comes to Linux and open source, they have a very compelling reason to be wary of Mono. As such, I think it is important to keep our reader up to date on this, so that they can make an informed decision as to what distribution they want to use.