text: Rehabbing the Bigfoot-movie micro-genre is nobody's idea of a cinematic priority, but that's pretty much what Christopher Munch (The Hours and Times, The Sleepy Time Gal) does for his first film in seven years. Letters from the Big Man stars Lily Rabe as Sarah, a prickly Forest Service contractor whose on-site research in a fire-damaged southern Oregon forest puts her in telepathic contact with the ethereal titular beast (Isaac C. Singleton, Jr., in beautifully expressive creature makeup by Lee Romaire). Meanwhile, an environmentalist (Jason Butler Harner) smitten with the newly single Sarah—and who in her terms had his "serenity disrupted" by a childhood Sasquatch encounter—discovers a government plot to exploit the animal and its kin. If this sounds like the setup for a dour New Age nag, rest assured that Big Man is open-ended and gently playful throughout, and in some ways recalls a more grounded Uncle Boonmee or a less cheesy Trollhunter. Its quiet plea for reconnection with the non-human world is persuasive, and the engaged, agile meditation on the limits of communication at its center aligns it with Munch's earlier work. Oregon's million-dollar scenery, a sweet cameo by Karen Black, and Rabe's tough/tender performance sweeten the pot. Even if Big Man draws only a tiny audience, its inspired alignment of personal and ecological loss will disrupt someone's serenity at least a little.


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Six New Influencers, Including Two Non-Bloggers, Join The Remarkables Team
Influencer connections agency The Remarkables Group has announced six new influencers to its group, moving the scope of its talent beyond the blogosphere with the announcement of partnerships with Sarah Wilson's I Quite Sugar, and Balance by Deborah Hutton, owned by its namesake.
I Quit Sugar was launched by media personality Sarah Wilson in 2013 and has gone on to create online programs, books, e-books and products to help its audience live healthier lives. Since its inception, over one million people have quit sugar using its books and programs.
Balance by Deborah Hutton is created and edited by Australian media personality and brand ambassador Deborah Hutton, a recognisable and well-known personality in Australia, who with her team has created an online presence that brings together a team of expert coaches to help women aged 45+ find a more successful and happier life.
Founder and managing director of The Remarkables Group Lorraine Murphy said, "This is an exciting time for our business. We have built our offer on the power of influencers, and welcoming two enormously influential online presences like I Quit Sugar and Balance by Deborah Hutton extends that scope further for us.
"Both have built powerful digital footprints and engaged, motivated audiences who look to them for trusted recommendations."
Zoe Eaton, CEO of I Quit Sugar said, "In just three years, I Quit Sugar has established itself as one of Australia's most trusted health and wellness brands, breaking down the latest nutritional trends with its community of 1.8m. We're looking forward to partnering with The Remarkables Group to create authentic partnerships."
Deborah Hutton said, "I've been incredibly impressed watching Lorraine and her team build The Remarkables Group into a digital agency powerhouse. We are thrilled to be working alongside the team and believe this partnership will deliver brands the opportunity to engage with insightful curated content that connects strongly with our 45+ audience."
The agency also announced four more signings – winners of its inaugural Rising Soci@l Star Talent Search this year. They are Mr Weekender (Travel category winner), Nikkia Joy (Beauty), Alice in Healthyland (Health) and Sophie Luxe (Fashion). The winning influencers are now working with category partners Priceline, Qantas and Bonds.
Lorraine Murphy added, "With these six new signings, we have added an audience of 2.5m to our existing group. Our influencers have a direct line to this audience, the majority of whom are females aged 25-55.
"That's a compelling offer to brands seeking to create authentic relationships with what is arguably the most powerful demographic when it comes to Australian consumers."

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ROM goes Portal on its Logo
Opened in 1914, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), an agency of the Government of Ontario, is Canada's largest museum, with a dual focus on natural history and world cultures, attracting over one million visitors each year to its 30 galleries and six million objects in its collection. The museum is also well-known (and easily spotted) for its Daniel Libeskind-designed addition in 2007 that was part of an initiative dubbed "Renaissance ROM" for which the previous logo was designed. This week ROM introduced a new logo designed by New York, NY-based LaPlaca Cohen. (For a Government-owned museum, you know how much grief they must be getting for hiring Yanks.)
The "O" in the ROM is conceptualized as a lens, a portal to the ROM's collections, and to understanding the natural and cultural worlds. The new brand is adaptable through the addition of a wide variety of images from the Museum's natural history and world culture collections, as well as images from contemporary life.
— Press Release
"The logo symbolizes access and connection, and it also suggests flexibility," said Arthur Cohen, CEO, LaPlaca Cohen. "This isn't a logo for an authoritarian museum that presents a rigid experience, but an institution that is changing with the times, that is influenced by the communities to which it responds, and is alive and surprising."
— Press Release
The old logo wasn't bad and it clearly communicated the insertion of a pointy building into a more square building, aptly placing the three letters in between the overlaying shapes. But, clearly, the logo was too much about the physical space of the museum than the museum itself. The new logo isn't bad either. But it isn't amazing and it surely isn't innovative. The basic structure is a nice execution of the acronym with a little bit of negative space play, although I'm not sure why the "M" has an internal slant that makes it look like the "M" from another logo altogether. By itself, the logo would have been a moderate success but then they had to go in and apply the logo-as-window maneuver — or in this case, logo-as-portal — and that's where the logo starts to cheapen because the executions are mostly awkward and inconsistent with obvious image clipping occurring. It's probably not as terrible as I am making it sound and I'm sure the leaders at ROM are head over heels for it but for a museum with a fractal crystal stuck on its side, this logo plays it far too safe.
Thanks to Derek Jensen for first tip.


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U.S. Air Force Drones Spend Weeks 'Man-Hunting'
Aerial commandos track terrorists for days to understand their everyday lives
Uncategorized January 5, 2015 Joseph Trevithick 1
Before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, American military intelligence focused heavily on locating tank formations, large bases and other major targets—things small militant groups rarely have in their possession.
Now, the Air Force Special Operations Command regularly hunts for smaller prey, including specific individuals. U.S. Air Force spy planes and drones are scooping up hundreds of hours of video footage every day and analysts are using that information to help kill enemy combatants around the globe.
In 2010, AFSOC specialists "frequently deployed in man-hunting [missions]," according to a heavily redacted copy of the command's official history for that year, which War Is Boring obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
Members of the 11th and 56th Intelligence Squadrons spent "hours, days and weeks providing an unblinking eye over compounds [and] following vehicles of suspected terrorists/insurgents," the narrative explains.
With this constant spying, commandos gained an "understanding of a specific target's pattern of life."
In fact, the Air Force specifically created the 56th to help handle the dramatic increase in imagery flowing across the Distributed Common Ground System intelligence network from all this new spying. The DCGS rapidly transmits information and analysis worldwide.
AFSOC's drones are a key part of the equation. For almost a decade, the aerial commandos have been building up the unmanned force specifically for these missions.
The flying branch's elite forces received their first Predators in 2005 and acquired the more advanced Reapers four years later. By 2010, AFSOC had plans for 10 "combat air patrols," or CAPs—six with MQ-1s and four with MQ-9s.
With these four-aircraft groupings, the drone forces can circle one aircraft above a single target for extended periods of time without any interruptions.
Before one pilotless spy runs out of fuel, another aircraft from the CAP arrives to take over the surveillance mission. The remaining two aircraft are effectively a backup team in case of breakdowns or crashes.
Today, the command's 3rd and 33rd Special Operations Squadrons fly MQ-1 and MQ-9 drones over Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen. The squadrons provide at least 10 CAPs to commanders across those regions.
Since these unmanned spies can also carry weapons, the pilots strike militants directly—or not—after intelligence personnel pour over the available details.
The whole arrangement helps commandos "gain understanding of the enemy, while maintaining the ability to find, fix and finish a target" if necessary, Lt. Gen. Donald Wurster writes in the January 2010 edition of Joint Forces Quarterly.
AFSOC historians republished these comments in the annual historical review.
The Pentagon announced it had launched an airstrike against a member of the Somali insurgent group Al Shabab on Dec. 29. Two days later, American officials declared that Tahlil Abdishakur, the head of the group's intelligence arm, died in the attack.
The aerial commandos likely used their Reaper drones in Djibouti to help find Abdishakur in the first place. MQ-9s toting missiles and bombs hit at "time-sensitive targets" in the Horn of Africa region, according to a 2013 audit of some of the 33rd's gear.
"Man-hunting" is also no doubt an element of controversial "signature strikes" in central and southwest Asia. In these instances, American forces try to figure out if individuals are enemy combatants by applying arbitrary criteria.
In theory, the various criteria offsets a lack of intelligence on the ground. But the practice has led to serious mistakes. In December 2013, a dozen innocent civilians died in Yemen when an American drone attacked a wedding caravan.
Still, the hunts don't always involve killing anyone. The Pentagon takes advantage of this "unblinking eye" to aid in the capture of wanted terrorists.
Two years ago, special operators descended on suspected Al Qaeda member Abu Anas Al Libi outside his home in the Libyan capital Tripoli and snatched him. Drones and other spy planes could easily have figured out Al Libi's "pattern of life" to help map out the operation.
Al Libi died in a New York hospital on Jan. 2 due to complications from liver surgery.
Washington could use this perpetual spying to help find hostages and captured soldiers, too. But while similar, a captive "fundamentally differs from targets of manhunting operations," George Crawford writes in Manhunting: Counter-Network Organization for Irregular Warfare.
The targets in the latter missions are trying to hide, while prisoners—or people trying to avoid capture—seek every opportunity to alert friendly forces, according to Crawford.
Of course, none of this is particularly new. "American manhunting operations have historically been ad-hoc affairs," Crawford notes in his monograph.
But American commanders need to have more confidence they're hunting the right people because of the constant snooping used in current man-hunting operations.
Intelligence has to "fill in an additional dimension: context and meaning," Wurster wrote. "Often, killing and destroying are not the right ways to do business."


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It's time to get real! Too often we make unrealistic New Year's Resolutions and then fail to stick to them. We start full of hope and good intentions, but before long we're back to our old ways.
Now it's time to take stock of what's good in your life – and what isn't – and make plans to make this your best year yet!
Let's dive straight in!
First things first, you'll need to set aside at least two hours of your time – ideally three. Maybe you can book a half day off work – or get some 'me time' to yourself at the weekend or in the evening. Then you'll need to sit down with your phone, notebook or laptop ready to plan your best year yet!
Next, you need to read and answer each of the questions below as truthfully as you can. Don't judge your responses or try to change them – just write down what comes naturally.
As you answer each of the questions, think back over the last year. We're going to be taking at look at your biggest successes, your biggest failures, your greatest motivations and what you really want to focus on and achieve this year. Let's do this!
What were your main accomplishments?
First write down any memories that made you happy – what circumstances were you faced with at the time? What situations or people made you feel good? Who made you feel like they cared – about your family, your career, your personal life?
Did you have a difficult heart-to-heart with someone that needed to happen? Did you gain new friends? Did you receive a pay rise or promotion at work? Did you change jobs, move house or end a disastrous relationship?
Maybe you learnt a new skill or attempted something that you'd never done before. These are all accomplishments – big and small!
What left you disappointed?
Sometimes it's easier to come up with things that we've felt let us down or disappointed us in some way, but try not to focus too much on the negative.
Just write down the main events, people and circumstances where you felt out of your control or disappointed by an event or a person.
And what about you? Did you ever feel you let yourself down? Upon reflection of a particular event, do you wish you could rewind time and react differently to it?
Allow yourself to briefly reflect on these – and then let them go. Forgive yourself and forgive others. There's no point in carrying that burden. It's time to get rid of the negative – and make room for the positive.
What did you learn?
You might have learned a new skill – or how to avoid certain situations arising. Have a look at the accomplishments that you've made a note of – what were the learning lessons that you've taken from them?
Why were certain circumstances successful – what role did you play and why did it work?
What motivated you to learn a new skill or how to deal with a person or a circumstance in a particular way? Did you gain control of your emotions and feel empowered?
Once you've made the list, re-read it and find at least two things from each point that would make the biggest difference if you reapplied them again the next time your were faced with a similar situation.
Then rewrite these are your own personal guidelines and focus. For example, these could be:
- I'll stick up for a friend when I think her husband is belittling her in front of me
- I'll ensure that I set aside 30 minutes to myself every day
- Next time I feel an argument arising, I'll be the first one to diffuse it by changing the subject
- I'll make positive steps to changing my career by allowing an hour a week to look for new jobs
You get the idea!
What's holding you back?
The first step in acknowledging where you go wrong and what you stumble over, time and time again is by writing down where things go wrong, why they go wrong and how you can prevent them from going wrong.
For example, you might want to quit smoking, but your partner doesn't. Things could go wrong because they might smoke in front of you for example, tempting you. Or they could offer you a cigarette when you've had a few drinks.
In this case, you have to ask yourself – how could you prevent the things from above from happening. You might choose to ban smoking indoors, ask your partner to hide the cigarettes, commit to having a dry January and asking for your partner's support in reducing the temptation.
The next step is to acknowledge the negative thoughts that you allow to control your behaviour – and then address them. You need to start changing your mentality.
What thoughts or feelings prevent you from achieving your goals? And in what ways are you going to tackle these? Stop telling yourself 'You Can't' and start believing you can!
What do you value in life?
Ask yourself what is really important to you and the way that you live your life. What we strongly believe in (e.g. honesty, integrity, kindness, personal appearance etc..) will provide us with the greatest motivation to change how we live our lives.
Make a list of the values that you feel are the most important to you – and stick these up on the fridge or in your office so that you are reminded of them on a daily basis.
Alternatively, find inspiring or motivational quotes that include these values, print them off and stick them in pretty frames to put on your wall – whatever works for you. Know what you believe in and lead by example.
Focus on the roles that matter to you
We all play different roles in life; some of us are mothers, wives, girlfriends, sisters, daughters etc… We are also friends, homeowners, managers and negotiators.
Write down roles that are the most important to you this year – and include the roles that you want to be doing but are not currently e.g. a Pilates fan, a regular exerciser, a bilinguist etc
For each of the roles you've written down, write down the one thing that you would change about the role. Then think about any factors that are standing in your way and preventing you from making this change happen.
Once you've done that, start coming up with possible solutions on overcoming the things that are preventing you from making key changes.
For example, you might want to learn a new language at an evening class. However, being a single mother prevents you from going to the class as you have no childcare – and can't afford it. Look at possible solutions: perhaps you could offer to have a friend's child over for the day at the weekend if they help with childcare on the day of your class?
Setting goals
Using the information you've written about the roles you play – and the roles you'd like to play, it's time to start focusing on your goals – one at a time.
Make your goals as detailed as possible and then stand back and read them out loud to yourself. Pick out the ones that you feel you must do this year – maybe one from each role, but no more than 8.
It's important not to be overwhelmed when you do this exercise, so by really focussing on the things that are crucial to your happiness, only focus on the things that are truly important to you – and how you live your life.
The final step
You can now summarise your Best Year Yet plan! Start off by writing down your guidelines (Look at your points from the What Did You Learn question), followed by your affirmations (How you are going to change situations from the What's Holding You Back question).
Next write down your major focus for this year (from The Roles That Matter To You) and finally write down your goals (from Setting Goals).
Now comes the schedule: Set you goals for this month – and what you want to achieve by the end of this month. At the end of this month, write down the goals for the following month and so on.
Keep a record of your goals – what you did to try and succeed, as well as what worked (and what didn't), as this will help you in future planning.
Finally, remember not to beat yourself up if things go wrong; sometimes situations are out of our hands and accepting that you can't control everything plays a large role in living a happy life.
But congratulations! You've taken the first step in looking at what you want to change – and how you plan on making that happen, which if anything, will make everything much clearer moving forward.
I'm also working through my own goals in a bid to have my Best Year Yet, so if you need some morale support or guidance, then feel free to send me an email – I'd love to hear what your goals are and how you'll be focused on getting the results you want.
Above all – have fun. It's what life's about, right?
You might also like…
- 25 Signs You Need A Break
- The Top 50 Things To Make You Smile
- What We Really Mean When We Say 'I'm Fine'


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Microsoft has a Surface Book problem, Amazon is making it easier for companies to use their data centres, and a neo-Nazi website is having trouble finding a new home. On Monday Reddit users
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It's still not known exactly when Amazon Web Services will be launching its Canadian availability this year, but when it does arrive, it will come along with a new cloud-based contact centre solution
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Britney Spears continues to show the unpredictable behavior that has actually made numerous of her fans begin to turn on her. The previous pop princess has who decided to shave her head earlier today has actually currently had a look at of rehabilitation. Spears might not last more than one day in the facility as well as took a look at prior to her very first day was over when she was initially in rehab this past weekend. This marks the 2nd time in less than a week that Spears could not last the week in a rehab center.
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After years of alcohol and substance abuse, the house environment frequently has actually ended up being violent and incredibly tainted. As tough as it is to leave your children and loved ones behind, for some females coming out of a dependency, residing in a domestic center is their only wish for survival.
That's nearly 50 million individuals on this one type of drug alone. Do they all truly need those drugs? Were all other alternatives tired and all possible effects – like prescription drug dependency and the requirement for drug addiction treatment – weighed against the benefits?
Private Inpatient Faith Based Drug Rehab
You can be anything you want to remain in life so why do you select to be a druggie. Your life ought to not focus on drugs, violence and sex. You are far better than that. All you need to do is to realize your full potential and start working towards it. There are no 2nd chances in life. Then tomorrow you will be simply another statistic, if you toss away this life today. Individuals will weep over you and after that proceed with their lives. However, how marvelous would it be if you let go of your addiction. If you now became an inspiration to those around you, how gorgeous it would be. It is time to expand your horizon. Your primary step is to join a drug inpatient rehabilitation centers.
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By May 2007 she lost control of her automobile and it added on a curb. The Beverly Hills police found drug which she was driving under the impact of alcohol. Lindsay Lohan then entered the Promises Treatment Center for 45 days, her second attempt at rehab. She used a SCRAM bracelet while she remained in outpatient care.
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I have to say yes! Initially, do your homework. There is efficient drug complimentary treatment readily available for your enjoyed one without developing substitute dependencies like methadone. Organize a spot. For me, it was the program that used my member of the family the best possibility of healing for life. Such private drug treatment programs are readily available in the UK and in other places. Educate yourself and take heart. You can do it. I understand, I did.


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About Menopause & Heart Palpitations
ClickArt by Broderbund
If you are an active woman, you may worry if you start to have heart palpitations or a feeling that your heart is not beating regularly. Perhaps you are exercising when this occurs, or you awake from a sound sleep. It's a disturbing feeling, but in most cases, there is no need for worry.
Exercise, stress, medications, alcohol, nicotine, and menopause can trigger heart palpitations. Let your doctor know when you experience a change in your heartbeat.
Menopause is the cessation of the menstrual cycle. The actual menopause occurs 12 months after the last period. Signs of menopause actually begin as early as a woman's 30s, though the average age of menopause is 51. You may experience vaginal dryness, hot flushes, sleep disturbances and irregular periods. Some women experience heart palpitations, especially during a hot flush.
Heart Palpitations
Heart palpitations are skipped beats, a fluttering sensation, heartbeats that are faster than normal and heartbeats that are pumping harder than usual. You can feel the sensation in your throat, neck or chest. They can occur when you are exercising, resting or going about your normal activities.
When menopause occurs, the ovaries stop making the hormones oestrogen and progesterone. The process starts in a woman's late 30s, called perimenopause or the stage before menopause. The decrease in hormones continues through a woman's 40s. Women may experience the symptoms of menopause during their 30s and 40s as the hormones fluctuate. Heart palpitations are one of many symptoms such as hot flushes, disrupted sleep, urinary incontinence, mood swings, and of course, irregular periods.
Heart palpitations can increase the heart rate 8 to 16 beats per minute and even increase heart rates up to 200 beats per minute, according to epigee.org. They usually occur sporadically and may increase with the use of caffeine, alcohol or when hormone replacement therapy first begins. Decongestants, diet pills or any other stimulants may cause the palpitations, too. For the menopausal woman, heart palpitations usually accompany hot flushes.
If you are menopausal and are having heart palpitations, tell your doctor. Avoid stimulants such as caffeine, nicotine and diet pills. If you are exercising or being active when heart palpitations occur, rest. If you become dizzy, faint or your heart rate does not settle down after rest, go to a hospital. Heart palpitations are normal for menopausal women, but there may be an underlying problem such as cardiovascular disease.
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The remastered version is kinda better.
Hunter's Moon Remastered
A downloadable Commodore 64 game for Windows
Memlog Hunter.10/thmw1: 'Lost in space. Surrounded. Strange structures that build themselves – hive-like. And at their core, alien starcells... Must get home. Back to Hunter's Moon. Must... survive! Am attacking now – full thrust – cannons locked in – FIRE!' Little do you know what you face: over 180 levels of galactic mayhem. Hope you are a CLEVER psychoblaster – or else...'
Originally released in 1987, Hunter's Moon is a strategic shoot 'em up set in deep space. Beautifully presented and thoughtfully designed, the game became an instant classic thanks to its measured balance of strategic planning and psychotic blasting. Boasting one of the earliest uses of procedurally-generated content in a computer game, Hunter's Moon pushed the boundaries of the genre and helped redefine what a shoot 'em up could be.
Hunter's Moon Remastered is a fully remastered, overhauled, and updated version of the seminal C64 shoot 'em up. The game has been remastered for C64 cartridge and boasts a host of amazing new features including over 50 new levels, 5 new star systems, new level types, new music, new playing modes, stunning intro and outro sequences, built-in level editor, and enhanced presentation including foreign language support.
After flying your trusty ship Hunter too close to a black hole, you find yourself lost in space on the wrong side of the galaxy, surrounded by sprawling, hive-like cities. At the core of each city lie mysterious alien Starcells – these contain valuable navigational data and must be collected to plot a course back home.
The aim of each level is to blast through the hive and grab the Starcells, a task made more challenging by the invincible Worker cells which patrol the cities repairing any damage inflicted. These Workers also bring the hive's defenses to life, causing them to spew deadly spores that can only be resisted by using your ship's trusty Perma-Shields.
The game features over 180 levels spread across 21 star systems. When all the Starcells on a level have been collected you'll enter the Bonus Game where you can earn a Perma-Shield and an extra life. You must complete every level within each star system to advance to the next; however, should you manage to collect four flashing Starcells you'll automatically jump to the next system.
As you progress through the different star systems you'll encounter an array of diverse and challenging hive types, including Attackers that throw out deadly spores, Darkcells which are only visible on radar, Switchers that change direction without warning, Jumpgates which jump to random locations, and Blackouts which plunge the hives into darkness.
Do you have the dexterity, precision timing and psychopathic blasting skills to find your way home to Hunter's Moon...?
- Over 180 levels spread across 21 Star Systems
- New level types including Jumpgates and Blackouts
- Trainer Version designed for novice players
- All-new Random Mode to test seasoned veterans
- Automatically save your game progress as you play
- Stunning new intro and outro sequences
- New in-game music and enhanced parallax starfield
- Built-in Level Editor to craft your own cunning creations
- Multi-language support for French, German, Italian, and Spanish
- Bonus: Original 1987 version also included in the game
- Full PAL & NTSC compatibility (Remastered Version only)
- Bonus: Now includes a C64 Mini version of the game!
"One of the most original and imaginative
shoot 'em ups ever released for the 64."
Commodore Format
"I'm always a sucker for shoot 'em ups, especially when they're
as good-looking, innovative and as challenging as this."
"It's a blaster without equal: a beautifully-crafted
combination of puzzle game and pulsating action."
Gordon Houghton, Lemon64
"Head and shoulders above the masses
of shoot-'em-ups currently on the market."
The Games Machine
Design, code, graphics, and SFX
Game soundtrack
Remastering and additional code
Cinematic sequences
Additional graphics
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The downloadable C64 digital version is designed for use with a C64 emulator – it cannot be used with an EasyFlash cartridge, 1541 Ultimate, or Turbo Chameleon. We recommend playing the game using VICE 3.1+, a popular emulator compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Therefore, there are two downloadable versions, one containing the game files, the other containing the game files plus a version of the VICE emulator. Both versions include a simple .BAT file to make running the game much simpler. Please be sure to consult the README file for more information.
Bonus: The downloads section now includes a special version of the game created especially for the C64 Mini, along with a "CJM" configuration file. Note that game saving is disabled in the C64 Mini version, both during the game and within the level editor - it is therefore necessary to use the C64 Mini's built-in save functionality to save your game and your level designs. Again, please consult the README file for more information.
The cartridge version of Hunter's Moon Remastered is now available exclusively from Protovision. The basic includes a cartridge, game manual, cover art postcard, and Thalamus sticker.
|Thalamus Digital Publishing Ltd.
|8-Bit, Commodore 64, hunters-moon, martin-walker, Shoot 'Em Up, thalamus
|Average session
|A few minutes
|German, English, Spanish; Castilian, French, Italian
|Keyboard, Gamepad (any), Joystick
In order to download this Commodore 64 game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $4.99 USD. You will get access to the following files:
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Hi, i got this in the bundle around Christmas time in a bundle. When i go to re-install Hunter's Moon i only get the option to have C64 Binaries and Vice. Don't see the C64 Mini Version. Please tell me how i can get the mini version without buying this again. Thanks
You need to log in and download the Mini version - that contains the files you need.
Thanks for that. I have now got it via the itch website. I thought i could get it via the itch app.
I already bought the physical cartridge version off you last year via your Indigogo campaign but would love to be able to play it on my mini too. Is there a means for people like myself to get this without having to buy it again please?
The physical versions unfortunately do not include digital versions; you'd need to purchase the digital version to play on the C64 Mini.
I recorded some game play. I did buy it. https://youtu.be/390TSxXGGNE
How do I load the game on a 1541 Ultimate 2+ ?
As stated in the page above:
"The downloadable C64 digital version is designed for use with a C64 emulator – it cannot be used with an EasyFlash cartridge, 1541 Ultimate, or Turbo Chameleon."
Why is there no .crt file for download?
The game was developed for the GMod2 cartridge format and as such there's currently no way to run these files on the Ultimate. You would need to contact the makers of the Ultimate and ask for GMod support.
Will buy if I can play it on either my U64 / Ultimate 1541 / TC64 / or Easyflash !
In fact I will buy it anyway, provided these formats come as soon as possible !
As stated in the page above:
"The downloadable C64 digital version is designed for use with a C64 emulator – it cannot be used with an EasyFlash cartridge, 1541 Ultimate, or Turbo Chameleon."
Due to the fact that the game was made specifically to take advantage of the cartridge hardware, it won't be released in any other formats.
Will there be d64 version once you have a cart? I wanted to check it out on a fpga c64. I bought it but Im hoping I can get a d64 version down the road.
Unfortunately not - all our releases are GMod2 cartridge images, playable via the Vice emulator.
hi how long will it be before protovision will have the cartridge to sell please?
The cartridge version is available now from Protovision.
Can this game be played on the c64 mini?
Unfortunately not - this version is intended for emulators only.
You're in luck - a C64 Mini version will be added to the download package this week!
Hey , just confirming the cart version will play on a normal breadbin C64?
Hi. Is there a way to convert the .bin and .eep files into something more common like .crt? I purchased the game yesterday, but would like to be able to play it on Virtual C64 on my Mac and VICE on my Raspberry Pi (RetroPie).
The included files should work with VICE no problem (see the README file contained in the package). We're putting together a step-by-step guide for Mac users.
is there anyway we can get this running on a emulator to play on the c64?
Our products are designed and developed for C64 cartridge - this is the recommended format for playing the game on a real C64.
Thanks for the reply i will buy the cartridge when it gets released as i really want to play on the level designer as its only the basic game on the pc one i have downloaded from yourselves.


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December 27, 2013
Piranha attacked 70 people in Argentina on Wednesday, even biting off one girls' fingers. They can smell blood up to 2 miles away, and piranha attacks are taking place all over America – a slow death by small bites here and there – depending on how you define piranha attacks.
For example, if you want to eat fish, the price has doubled since 1990. Wheat prices just jumped by 4.9% and the price of chocolate rose 28% for the first 10 months of 2013 and climbing.
And it's not just food. That other staple, energy, is skyrocketing in cost.
Smart meters will charge you more based on time of day use, and people are paying just for the "privilege" of getting connected to the surveillance grid.
In Chicago, the average household electric bill will increase by $5.50 per month just for smart grid infrastructure creation.
But because of Obama's war on coal, by summer, energy rates are expected to soar by 23% and not just in Chicago. Remember when Obama said companies could build a new coal plant, but it would bankrupt them? Well shutting down coal plants and keeping new ones from being built is going to bankrupt YOU.
But hey, energy prices will drop because of new natural gas – right? Nope, expect a 36% increase there.
Then there's the ObamaCare taxes – if all these other surcharges are eating you alive like a school of piranha taking hundreds of small bites, the ObamaCare taxes are the great white shark headed your way.
• 2% on your insurance policy
• 3.5% on the insurer
• 2.3% on medical devices
and $479 billion in new taxes – and besides the new taxes on insurance policies, insurers and medical devices, there's new taxes on investment income, medicare, bio-fuels, drugs, retirement benefits, tanning salons, hospitals – even capping deductions on special needs kids.
That's right – a tax on special needs kids!
Maybe $479 billion doesn't mean much to you. After all, we talk about billions and trillions all the time. Let's put it in perspective:
Out of all 187 nations worldwide, 162 nations don't even HAVE a Gross National Product (GNP) as high as the ObamaCare tax increases.
Countries like Denmark, Austria, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Israel and Taiwan don't even have a GNP of $479 billion – the amount of money Obama is going to steal from Americans for his so-called "affordable" health care program.
Which brings us back to Argentina, where the 70 people were attacked by piranha. Argentina only has a GNP of $474 billion – still less than the new ObamaCare taxes.
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Unlike individuals, when nations commit suicide, they do not pass away immediately. However, like individuals the last moments before death is the time when nations are able to see the truth but are hardly able to reverse the trend and undo consequences of their living in denial for so long.
The United States is an example before our eyes. Its enemies within cut its juggler vein on September 11, 2001 without any intention of a collective suicide. Unfortunately, when a majority refused to look at the bleeding vein and listen to the voice of their conscience -" the people who pointed to the enemies within -" September 11 gradually became a collective suicide for the American nation.
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This will take a while. Until America joins other empires of the past in their grave, the passing painful time is a moment of truth for this nation to face.
Unfortunately, unlike individuals when nations die, they do not die alone. Many would suffer like Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq. However, it is enough for consolation that at last, America is all set to reap fruits of injustice, hate and crimes it has been committing against humanity around the world.
Finally, finally, finally the stage is set for America to taste what it has been doing to others all along.[1]
Unlike Germans, a majority of Americans have not done it to themselves. The hands that cut this nation's jugular vein on September 11; the hands that terrorized the world for so long have started applying the same tactics at home. The forces, which used foreign policy as an instrument to perpetuate mini-tyrants abroad, have finally found a mega-tyrant at home.
As a result, they had no option but to do the same to Americans what they have been doing to others. The American people in general committed two major mistakes: a). they kept silent at Washington's installing puppets, butchering innocents and not shying away even from carrying out genocide's for its malicious objectives, and b). they ignored the truth tellers and conscience-keepers at home.
There was no power around the world to do to the United States what it has been doing to others. It has been helping authoritarian monsters to overthrow their elected governments. No one could do the same to the US. By the laws of nature, it was, thus, supposed to do it to itself. And it has done so, very successfully because of the same laws of nature against which it has been contesting all along.
American advisors were there to guide predators like Musharraf on how to prolong their rule through mock referendums and rigged elections. No one from outside could do that to the US except the same advisors and planners who had perfected their skills. When it came to the home front, these advisors applied their skills to ensure keeping the last Pharaoh of human history in power.
Myopic onlookers blame Americans for electing a dictator, endorsing war, war crimes and war criminals. But that is not so. If there were ever a time to sympathize with Americans, it is now. They have been enslaved and cheated as no other people in human history before them. They are in a deep mess and a horrible, horrible future awaits them.
Americans are as much the victim of an unprecedented tyrannical empire as the Iraqis, or Afghans or Palestinians. The only difference is the time. Iraqi blood is flowing today. Chaos reigns in Iraq and other places under the US direct and indirect occupations today. Much worse of the same awaits to happen in the US tomorrow.
Again, there would be no outside power able to terrorize, subjugate, torture and kill millions of Americans. It will be the same tyrants among them, giving them the same treatment that they are giving to Afghans in Bagram, Iraqis in Abu Ghraib and others at Guantanamo and elsewhere around the world.
The Patriot Act and Homeland Security, etc., are not there to protect Americans from outside terrorists. These draconian measures are there to effectively silence the Americans who will soon start feeling desperation just like any other nation under American occupation.
When this desperation grows, they will react just the way other nations are reacting. This reaction is inevitable. And then, they will get the same labels "home-grown terrorists," "nihilists," "enemies of freedom," those who "love death and despise life." and "insurgents" against "decent government" in America.
It might sound too hypothetical, but the process is already underway. Can any American now challenge results of the just concluded elections? No way. Don't they look as helpless as the Egyptians and Pakistanis when their respective dictators secure more than 96 per cent of votes?
Is there any difference in Afghanistan and the United State of America? Apparently there was the difference of ballot boxes moved around on donkeys in Afghanistan and computerized voting machines in the US. However, there is hardly any difference in the level of rigging and results. In both cases, the mainstream media has accepted occurrence of rigging but only "of a few thousands votes" and "to some extent." In both places, majority, however, believes to the contrary: that the problem is widespread and more serious.
This is just the first taste of helplessness before tyrants. That is what the US has been doing to others and that is exactly of what Americans remained oblivious for decades. Americans hardly care if millions upon millions were suffering under the draconian laws and oppressive state agencies in the puppet regimes, fully supported and sponsored by Washington.
The American public had adopted a "we don't care" or "foreign policy is not our business" attitude. They would not afford to sit silent when the tyranny comes home to roost. Like everyone around the Muslim world in particular, Americans are left with very few choices. They either have to go neck deep into the innocent blood of fellow Americans and others or stand up to the tyranny.
The moment they exercise the later option, they would hardly be treated any different than those who oppose the US backed tyrannies abroad.
The people who gathered in Afghanistan under the Taliban were none but the victims of oppressive regimes fully recognized and assisted by Washington: Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait, Jordan, Azerbaijan, and keep counting. They become the supreme terrorists because they wanted to undo repressive regimes in their respective lands.
Those among Americans, who would dare to challenge the regime in Washington, will taste what Muslims living under the US sponsored tyrannies have been tasting for far too long. That will be the time when they will realize the reality or terror, terrorism and terrorists as defined by the tyrants in Washington and their allies elsewhere.
The war of idea within America was needed during the first presidential term of George Bush. Now its time has passed away. At the beginning of second term, Americans are already sensing an inevitable civil war and anarchy. There is very slim chance to see the US in today's shape and form in four years from now. However, if by any chance civil war and anarchy get delayed, Bush's third term in office under some unprecedented, martial law type, circumstances will definitely bring it about.
We must not forget that by the time the soul leaves this monster, that America has become, it would have trampled many countries and many millions would be living a wretched life -" a life worse than death. The problem is that with each passing day, this seemingly horrible hypothesis is turning into reality for the simple reason that there is no undo button in the history books as will as the doctrine of totalitarian ideologues in Washington.
[1]. See a 2002 article which shows how the US has petted itself against the laws of nature: http://www.icssa.org/USvsNature.htm


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What relativity can tell us about the post-truth era
By now, fake news is so embedded in our minds it's hard to remember when the term wasn't around. It's multifacetic, adaptable to nearly any type of discussion. People can use it to call out falsehoods, advance their political views, denounce bias and (when necessary) discredit their opponent's claims prima facie.
Even before the rise of Donald Trump, our creeping (viral) obsession with falsehood and innuendo spurred the Oxford Dictionaries to elect 'post-truth' as the 2016 Word of the Year. Oxford defines 'post-truth' as "circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief".
But hasn't this idea been around for a while? Since the first tribes co-habited the earth, human opinion has been shaped by appeals to belief and emotion.
For how can anyone make sense of anything in the world — even if it occurs right before our eyes — without first injecting our emotions and beliefs? Isn't appearance (based on what we think) part of truth? Nietzsche once wrote, "if we were to abolish the 'apparent' world altogether… then nothing would be left of 'truth' either".
The quantum impact on truth
If everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts, why are there so many competing sets of 'facts' on social media?
Eventually, shouldn't we ask ourselves: "what is a fact"? What makes things 'true'?
There are, of course, many answers to this question. One intriguing answer – a potential 'upgrade' of our pre-digital notion of truth – is provided by quantum physics, which claims that the more we know about certain facts of any given system, the less we can possibly know about other related facts. In other words, our knowledge of any particular system is limited by nature.
Quantum science also claims that nature's basic building blocks aren't particles or even substance but clouds of probabilities, diffuse patterns of light and dark that shift so quickly and imperceptibly that they could be both true and not true at the same time. These degrees of apparent-ness (the counter-intuitive notion that what you think something is it suddenly isn't) means that the world, at its most elemental level, is not categorical.
Back in the mid 20th century, this strange new perspective resonated intellectually with people in many fields. It hinted that we all somehow knew, if we paid enough attention, that life couldn't be fully captured by our standard forms of measurement. It was an admission that every notion we held about 'reality' may not be completely true.
Humanism and truth
Quantum mechanics disrupted not only the physical sciences but also the humanities and social sciences, which began to deconstruct language and truth in new ways. Starting with principles espoused by Kant, Foucault and Derrida (but really going back to Aristotle) late 20th century writers recognized that we humans filter the 'world-in-itself' – what the Romans called the world qua – through extremely limited categories of understanding. Just like quantum physicists, these modern thinkers concluded that all knowledge is relative, and that humans can never fully 'know' the world.
Although this viewpoint wore many labels (e.g., relativism, postmodernism, deconstruction, constructivism), it eventually took center stage, not only in academia but in nearly every corner of Western society. In books, media, boardrooms and cabinet meetings, the new standard of relativism — in all its guises — prevailed.
As Adam Kirsch of the New Yorker recently wrote: "Few intellectuals today speak of 'the truth' without a certain embarrassment. Isn't the truth merely an ideological construction, always determined by the power relations prevailing in a given time and place?"
"When truth is invoked, we always have to ask, 'Whose truth?'"
Intuition and truth
What I'm saying is that 'emotional resonance' and personal beliefs don't just affect our political views or moral choices; they govern how we live and interpret the world.
In his 2005 book Blink, Malcolm Gladwell analyzes the role of intuition; i.e., understanding things instinctively, emotionally, without the need for conscious reasoning. He calls it the "most direct and powerful" form of human cognition, claiming that "there can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis."
Another expert on intuition is Nobel prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who calls it "the secret author of many of our choices and judgments".
But despite its power and constancy, intuition has serious flaws, including gross simplification and a host of irrational effects and biases. Even memory, say behavioral scientists, tends to obfuscate the truth, for people are less obsessed with the veracity of facts than with the malleable shapes and forms that facts can take.
By relying on instinct, we tend to see things as being much more coherent than they actually are. Our reflexive discomfort with ambiguity is so deeply ingrained that we tend to favor familiar interpretations, even when they are only half-true… or false.
Faith and truth
Over a century ago, Nietzsche said that 'the truth' contained a divine element that he considered to be the foundation of Western thought. He called it a "metaphysical faith" on which even the scientific method rested.
By 'faith' what he meant wasn't divinity or God but an existential belief in how we chose to measure (and judge) the world. For Nietzsche, man-made measurements (so-called 'facts') were second-order expressions of reality. They weren't reality itself.
As Michel Foucault once said, the human race is like a boat lost at sea "among the mirages of knowledge, amid the unreason of the world — a craft at the mercy of the sea's great madness."
For 'out at sea', in the torrents of existence, people need more than 'facts' and science to guide their lives.
After all, we know much less about the world than we pretend to know. We are shaped, from cradle to grave, less by 'facts' than by our emotions, beliefs and judgments.
How else can you explain why every single religion and political ideology in history started off as an intuitive vision in defiance of the facts?


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I have successfully de-nippled the hatboob.
But, of course, OF COURSE, there's a new problem.
Exhibit A: a completed hatboob, pre-blocking.
Exhibit B: a completed hatboob, post-blocking.
Yep. It ate my head.
So the de-nippled head-eating hatboob is going to be frogged, again, and the pattern tweaked, again, and I am really glad that this thing only takes a day to knit. And I know how to fix it. And this'll be okay. So. That's the hatboob status. I really like saying "hatboob". Hatboob hatboob hatboob.
Facing less rosy times is the Secret Nerd Scarf.
See, I was browsing Ravelry today and spotted the Binary Cable Hat, the hat people have been making for Hat Attack, and guess what – it's pretty much the same thing, conceptually, as what I was going to do. Well, it's not exactly the same, but it's similar enough that I've lost my zest for the scarf, and furthermore I don't feel like having a bunch of knitters assume that I copied the idea and start accusing me. (There's been a lot of that going around lately.)
I guess the good news is that now I have a couple of balls (heh heh) of Tweedy Silk to play with. And if I'd really wanted to make the scarf, surely I would have started by now. I hadn't even bothered swatching.
I don't have any plans for those two balls (heh heh) yet, but I have some other plans for new stuff. First, I have a lovely 250 yd skein of Colourmart heavy dk cashmere/silk which will become some sort of armwarmer type things that I will design myself.
Second – well, there was a sale at Lettuce Knit a few weeks ago, and I went despite not being able to spend very much money. See, I knew that if I didn't go, it would taunt me. It wasn't that I wanted something in particular, it was that I'd be bothered by what I might have missed. What if there was some gorgeous yarn for dirt cheap and I didn't get it because I didn't go? What then?
Well, there wasn't. There was plenty of gorgeous yarn that I totally couldn't afford even at 30% off (Handmaiden Swiss Mountain Cashmere Silk, I'm looking at you). There was plenty of yarn that, surprisingly, I didn't want. There was plenty of yarn that I would have wanted, had it been there.
Lettuce Knit is a strange little shop, in that I both love it and hate it. It carries a whole bunch of beautiful yarn lines that I covet, except that most of the time, either it's stuff I can't afford or it's not in stock. I thought I'd be able to snag some Dream in Color worsted at the sale, but all the colours I wanted were out of stock. Maybe some Fleece Artist Peter Rabbit? Nope, unless I wanted it in fuchsia or electric blue or radioactive-vomit-green. Handmaiden Mini Maiden? Nope, out of stock completely. Aaaaah! Carrots dangled just out of my reach!
There's another thing, too. When I was browsing the sale, not once did anyone in the store greet me or ask if I needed help. That doesn't actually bother me, because I like being left alone to browse, but – what I noticed, is that some of the people shopping were clearly regulars there. And were clearly being treated very differently. Which, I realize, is what happens in small shops. You get to know your regular customers, they become your friends, and thus you treat them that way. I can't fault anybody for that.
I mean, nobody was rude to me. If I asked for help, I got it. And I certainly won't stop shopping there. It's just – you know, I will never visit the shop often enough to become a regular, because it's not local for me. And so I will always feel a little bit out of place there, as soon as a regular comes in and is greeted heartily while I lurk invisibly in the corner. This may be why I feel more comfortable shopping at Romni – it's so big that it's never obvious whether the other customers are regulars, and furthermore it feels like it's perfectly okay not to be one.
Anyway. I was determined to buy something, anything, just because I dragged my ass all the way down there, and I was also determined that it not be another "WTF do I do with this?" single skein. And that's when I saw this:
Aha! I thought. That's what I'll buy! A sweater's worth of that! Berroco Peruvia in Aquamarina. I could afford it, it was delicious and shiny and soft and fairly practical and TEAL, not red or black or coral – it was perfect.
Aaaaand there were only three skeins of it left. Needed at least five for a sweater, preferably six. So I optimistically bought the three skeins. No problem, I thought, I'll just walk over to Romni and get a couple more, they carry Berroco stuff, maybe I'll even luck out and get the same dyelot. Well. Not so much. I ended up pawing through their basket of Peruvia and then having this conversation:
Me: I'm looking for a colour of Berroco Peruvia that I don't think you have.
Romni Guy: Uh-oh…
So I turned to the intarwebs. Guess what – there are very few shops with reasonable shipping to Canada that carry Peruvia. Who knew? The only ones I could dig up were Webs and Jimmy Beans Wool, so I fired off emails to them asking if they had my dyelot. Which they didn't. Of course. (But props to both shops for good customer service – they both checked and got back to me the same day.) So I'd have to hold my nose and order, and hope to get a dyelot that wasn't too far off. But I thought, what with shipping and all, I'd better wait until I wanted something else from one of those shops. While a little voice in my head whined, I want a sweater. I want a sweater now. Where's my yarn? Buy more yarn! Buy it now! Now! Now!
(It occurs to me that I have mentioned voices in my head very often on this blog, and I should probably reassure readers that I am not clinically insane. As far as I know.)
And just when I had resigned myself to disappointing the little voice, up pops a blog update from The Yarn and Fiber Company saying they've decided to start carrying some Berroco yarns, including Peruvia. Did I mention that they ship free to Canada? SCORE!
So I ordered. Asked them to send my dyelot if they had it, but I wasn't getting my hopes up. Opened up my package to see this:
But the rest of 'em were properly dyelot-labeled. Same dyelot? Nope. Visibly identical to my dyelot? Yup. Sweet.
So that'll be a sweater. I have a sketch, but it's a seeecret. (I don't know why. I'm not submitting it for publication or anything. I guess I need a new seeecret now that the Nerd Scarf is dead.) In keeping with the current theme of my knitting, it will have a giant collar that may or may not eat my head. OM NOM NOM NOM.
(No, it will not have nipples. Pervert.)
soknitpicky says:
That yarn looks so lovely! Can't wait to see what your plans are (heh heh)11 Feb 2008 at 10:50 pm
Alex says:
That is some seriously gorgeous yarn. I would have bought it too. About the hat – what if you felt it a little. Would that make it fit better? Or have you frogged it already?12 Feb 2008 at 1:16 am
chris says:
LOL – you are so funny! I hear you on the yarn shop – nothing makes you feel more uncomfortable – and takes your concentration away from the YARN!12 Feb 2008 at 6:26 am
jamie says:
Nipples on sweaters… hmmm… interesting thought.12 Feb 2008 at 8:04 am
Sheri says:
That's the way I feel about my local yarn shops too!
Did you think about browsing Ravelry to see if anyone had the dyelot they were willing to trade/sell?12 Feb 2008 at 9:09 am
Sarah R says:
You could keep your head-eating hat and knit up you head-eating sweater and just disappear completely.
I love, love, love the color of the Peruvia.12 Feb 2008 at 9:18 am
amanda says:
Yay for dyelots that look like they will match! Cant wait to see what you cook up for this lovely teal yarn.12 Feb 2008 at 10:27 am
marianne says:
Yay on that Peruvia scoring!!!12 Feb 2008 at 11:17 am
…..sigh… I wonder..re:lys… if they even realize what they're doing….. there's a lys (one of 3, mind you) and although I love it, it took them a loooong time to get used to me… there's one woman, Lucy, who is wonderful to everyone coming through the door, but she only works friday mornings…
The main fave lys in town is just too perky and bubbly for my tastes…. and they may be friendly but they're also great at handing out the weird expressions…..
Floderten says:
Ooh that's purty! I love teal. LOVE TEAL!! And I've been dying to try out that yarn for ages… Originally for the Tilted Duster, but now that's just kind of blah to me.
Let us know how it knits up – I'm particularly interested in bounce! After knitting the boy's scarf in 100% hairy, shedding, inelastic alpaca and I swore to never, ever do it again. And now I want the Peruvia soooo bad…
Shame, you enabler.12 Feb 2008 at 12:22 pm
becca says:
And that's why I don't block anything that fits pre-blocking. Which reminds me, I need to block my hottie skirt.12 Feb 2008 at 3:54 pm
That yarn is yum.
Oh! and I have three skiens of alpaca/merino left over from said hottie skirt! Because I always have so much lefotvers despite the fact that I calculate yardage! I was thinking I was only gonna have one left, so I planned for this cute tam-hat I found on ravelry, but now I have three… what can I do that is fun with 330y of worsted alpaca/merino?
MonkeyGurrl says:
Hmmm. I think the difference between Exh. A and Exh. B is your hairstyle. Seriously. Being of the naturally curly hair variety, whether it is up or down can make all the difference.
And re: yarn stores, we have one nearby that is just as you described. The owner was more interested in pursuing her contacts in The Industry (I live in LA) than customers. The shop has since changed ownership, and I am told the new owner is *WONDERFUL*, but I still have such a sour taste from previous experiences that I am still reluctant to give them my $$.12 Feb 2008 at 4:32 pm
knittyvritti says:
so relieved to find your site. the knitting gods have been frowning on me (never knit anything that no one on ravelry has knit!!!!!), and i appreciate your sense of humor about your own knitting nipple nadir.let's hope the new yarn signals a new era of knitting that does what it's supposed to.13 Feb 2008 at 5:32 pm
Jamie says:
Can I read your novels? Please Please Please? Your blog is the only cuss-infested site I read happily with my ten year old daughter because the message is so valuable. I mean, funny, when I say valuable. I want your aquamarina, too.13 Feb 2008 at 5:55 pm
thegirl says:
you *are* funny! de-nippling the hatboob and the following pictures had me laughing enough to garner some unwanted attention from others in the staff room. i found you via springplum's page.28 Mar 2008 at 12:01 am


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We've been saying it over and over – simple is better. Larry Dittmann, owner of Showcar Kustoms in Hurricane, Utah, proves that with his restored 1990 Jeep Wrangler YJ.
Because he spends a few months in Baja California every year, Larry wanted a vehicle that could explore the beaches and backcountry of the Baja Peninsula without strain. He needed a simple Jeep that was easy to repair with resources found south of the border.
The 1990 YJ he found had no rust, but had bad paint and numerous other things wrong with it. Larry went to work. The first thing he did was replace the venerable 258 inline I-6 with a fresh 302 Ford V-8. An Edelbrock Performer four-bbl carburetor works well and is easy to adjust or repair if necessary. Advance Adapters supplied motor mounts and their excellent aluminum radiator to keep the 302 cool in the hot Baja sun. An Advance Adapters adapter mates an AX-15 five-speed manual to the Ford F-150 bellhousing.
The Wrangler came with 31×10.50R15LT Cooper Discoverer Radial LT tires mounted on 15×7 Jeep five-spoke alloy wheels. Larry saw no need to change these, but the front springs had sagged, causing the tires to rub. He made a few calls and found some derelict YJ leaf packs, disassembled his old packs and, with trial and error, built front leaf packs that raised the Jeep 1 inch in the front. The rear YJ leaf springs were fine, so they were retained.
The Dana 30 frontend's vacuum disconnect had failed. While easily repaired, Larry chose to replace it with a 4×4 Posi-Lok cable disconnect. After engaging the transfer case, a 1-inch pull of the 4×4 Posi-Lok cable connects the right front axle to the intermediate shaft using the shift collar and fork. These work very well and are simple and reliable. The OE Dana 35 rearend is the YJ's only remaining weak point.
For the past 20 years, Larry has been painting projects for us. His work is flawless and probably too good for us, as rock rash and backcountry pinstriping aren't the best for show-quality finishes. Since he owns Showcar Kustoms, he wanted his Jeep to sport a great paint job. It does. The white pearl paint with black accents looks very nice. As they came on the YJ when it was purchased, we don't know the brand, but the tubular bumpers and rocker guards were painted metallic blue.
The YJ's interior was in good shape, except it was missing a passenger seat and the driver's seat was ripped. Bestop's new TrailMax II Pro seats are built for the rigors of Jeeping and are very comfortable. The light gray seats are vinyl fabric for easy maintenance and match the interior well.
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text: Iraqi security personnel are often targeted in attacks The five soldiers were shot dead in an ambush in the town of Siniyah, near Baiji, about 200km north of Baghdad, Army Captain Ali Yussef told AFP on Sunday. A police officer was killed and two wounded when a car bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint leading into Iskandariyah, 60km south of the capital, police Lieutenant Saad al-Handani said. Meanwhile, US and Iraqi forces have closed off the gates to the city of Tal Afar, for the second consecutive day, medical sources at Tal Afar hospital said. The city is northwest of Baghdad. No further details on the closure are available. On Saturday, fighting raged in the city. US and Iraqi officials urged civilians to leave affected areas, a sign that the Americans were preparing a major assault. Civilians warnedUS forces crushed rebels in Tal Afar last fall, leaving only about 500 American soldiers behind and handing over control to the Iraqis. US and Iraqi forces raided homes in Tal Afar But Iraqi authorities lost control of the city, and rebel ranks swelled. That forced the US command to shift the 3rd Armoured Cavalry Regiment from the Baghdad area to Tal Afar to restore order. On Saturday, US and Iraqi forces were firing at rebels on the western side of the city, Iraqi officials said. Elsewhere in the city, American and Iraqi forces were moving house to house, searching for weapons and arresting men capable of firing them, Iraqi authorities said. Hospital officials said they were unsure of casualties because it was too dangerous for ambulances to reach the area. Officials said they hoped to get ambulances into the area on Sunday. SOURCE: Aljazeera + Agencies


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OK, OK, I admit it – I'm full-blown obsessed with prints. Mostly of the Etsy variety. I lose hours just to browsing through sweet thought-provoking quotes and neon pineapples and arty ways of saying NEW YORK, NEW YORK.
I also think Chris is getting a bit, ahem, overwhelmed by all the white Wilkinson's (soz, I mean WILKO, as they're currently trying to brand themselves…) frames cropping up all over the house. Like for real, I need to go on a vintage frame hunt pretty bad.
I love a print because it instantly injects a bit of a Pinterest feel into any room without, y'know, making you get in credit card trouble.
Some of the cutsie prints in my edit are the ones you print at home yourself (and I'll be honest, I'm yet to do this because, well, girl ain't got no access to a printer) and some of them cost a little tiny smidge more and come already printed – and framed if you so please.
The joyous thing is that some of them cost as little as £3, so even on pay days where all your money is already allocated to a Mykonos holiday fund or, ahem, veterinary bill, you can still afford to treat yourself without lying awake at night with spending guilt.
Cute, right?
Hang up on your wall or lean on a shelf and accessorize with a cute mini cactus. I hear Instagram basically pleading with you to buy one. Uh huh.
Which one's your fave?
9. Watercolour print quote, £6.58
15. Floral initial print, £3.29
17. Do what you love print, £10
19. Polka dot quote print, £10.85
22. Strong quote print, £16.58
23. Colourful quote print, £11.85
24. Mountain quote print, £11.85
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Aging tyrannophile* Harry Belafonte recently excoriated either the NRA or White People, I forget which --prolly both-- for obsessing about their 2nd Amendment "rights" when Black people were the "most hunted" people in the country.
Of course he forgot to mention that it is Other Blacks who are doing the hunting that results in this "carnage."
Over 90% of Blacks who are murdered are murdered by Other Blacks.
But in the Standard Narrative, they are always The Victim and Someone Else (Guess who?) is always to blame.
*A fan of Hugo Chavez, he also suggested the Barry Hussein O simply jail his political opponents in a "Third world dictator" kinda way. Ah, the Rainbow Revolution of Dr King. What a gift to America.


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Hi all,
there is a message from the Qnap-forum, to run the dvbserver in a container. Probably this assumes TS431+ / TS231+.
Master of Tragedy wrote:Yep, I just tried it in a docker-container and it works.
But now there's a problem with the license of course. Or can I transfer the QNAP-license to the docker until there is a DVBLink 64 Bit release for QTS 4.3?
Master of Tragedy wrote:Yeah, I know. Your license policy is quite unflexible.
I already had to buy a full second license after switching from synology to qnap.
If I might consider switching to WD in the future, I have to buy a third full licence.
DVBLink is the only product I know that handles it like that. I can use Plex, Emby, whatever just fine after I paid for it (Plex Pass, Emby Premiere) no matter on which platform I want to use it.
Maybe you should consider some kind of system-switch or general license. I mean, you can just say "only one system is allowed at one time" and I would be perfectly fine with that.
But thinking about hardware changes and investments the only other thing I always have to think about is this DVBLink license and that is quite annoying.
TonyHoward wrote:Fantastic news. Will this version include softcam functionality or will that come later?
TonyHoward wrote:Oooh you tease!!
Now all I need is to work out how to easily install Oscam and find a card reader that works on a Qnap and I will be as happy as a pig in muck.
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Last week, Matt Knopp returned his Palm Pre after trying it out for nearly a month. Knopp, a software developer, was unhappy with the Google Maps feature on the Pre and the phone's inability to sync with his work e-mail.
"It wasn't just one big thing about the Pre that I didn't like," says Knopp. "There were a lot of short-term deal breakers."
Knopp's not the only one. More than a month after its much-hyped June 7 debut, the Pre's return rate could be as high as 40 percent, claims Kevin Dede, an analyst at Jessup and Lamont.
Palm launched the much-anticipated Pre smartphone on June 7 exclusively on Sprint's wireless network. The Pre received largely favorable reviews but many users and reviewers have complained about the device's poor battery life. In addition, some report problems with the hardware, such as easily cracked screens.
For Knopp, the phone just couldn't hold up to his constant comparisons with the iPhone 3GS. "The iPhone 3GS is the same price and has better features," he says.
However, Dede's claim of a 40 percent return rate may be highly exaggerated, say four analysts polled by Wired.com.
"I would suspect that the Pre return rates would be in line or a little lower than the average smartphone," says Michael Gartenberg, vice president of strategy for research firm Interpret. "Most consumers who bought the Pre were early adopters who were waiting for the phone and knew what they are buying into at this point." Palm did not respond to a request for comment.
For his analysis, Dede used data from a poll on the Pre Central website forum asking readers how many times they have exchanged their Pres. He also did some "impromptu questioning" of managers at some Sprint, Best Buy and Radio Shack stores.
The results that stem from that kind of unscientific data source could be rather flawed, says Carlo Longino, an independent mobile analyst. "The methodology here is a little suspect," he says. "It's hard to put too much stock into data that comes from running an anonymous poll in an online message board."
Charles Golvin, a mobile analyst at Forrester agrees. "It strikes me as highly speculative and not based on a reliable data source," he says. "I personally have not heard anything to indicate such a high return rate."
That's not to say the Pre isn't without its problems. The Pre's weak battery life has been a sore point among users. Wired.com's Pre review showed that the charge on the phone lasted less than 12 hours because of the device's multi-tasking capabilities and fast processor. Twitter and Palm's own message boards sport complaints from users who say they have seen the battery on their Pre die with just few hours of use.
Palm has been trying to fix some of the bugs that have led to power drain through over-the-air software updates for the Pre.
Meanwhile, some users have also complained about dead pixels on their screen and cracked screens. Still the poor battery life or display related issues are unlikely to account for high return rates, says Gartenberg.
"These are a few anecdotal problems similar to what we saw happen with the iPhone," says Gartenberg. "One iPhone user saw some discoloration with their device and that turned into a story about many iPhones heating and melting. Palm is seeing stories go that way now with the Pre."
For now, there is no way to accurately forecast the the Pre return rates. Analysts and consumers will have a clear picture of the Pre's performance when Palm opens its books as part of its quarterly earnings report in about two months.
As for Knopp? Despite his disappointment, he hasn't given up on the Pre forever. "I liked the phone and the way it sat in my hand," says Knopp. "Maybe in a year when the Pre gets better I would be willing to give it a shot again."
So what do you think, Pre users? If you bought a Pre, take our poll and let us know if you are keeping your Pre or giving up on it.
See Also:
- Palm Pre App Catalog Makes a Slow Start
- 6 Reasons Why the Palm Pre Is Special
- Palm Unveils Its Long-Awaited Smartphone, the Pre
- Sync Your Palm Pre with iTunes. Again
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