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MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Republican front-runner Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama are trading jabs even before Republicans vote in their latest presidential primaries.
It's a sign that both sides believe the race to decide who will oppose Obama is coming to a close.
With GOP primaries Tuesday in Wisconsin, Maryland and the District of Columbia, Romney is set to hold one campaign event before an election night party in Milwaukee. He spent the weekend campaigning across Wisconsin, working to win yet another big industrial state that rival Rick Santorum has been counting on to keep his flagging candidacy alive.
Obama's re-election campaign is running a new TV ad in five swing states attacking Romney by name for the first time -- as a backer of Big Oil amid high gasoline prices.

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Series: BioLogos Basics (7 entries)
So what is BioLogos? Well it all began with a scientist and a book.
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So what is BioLogos? Well it all began with a scientist and a book.
In common English usage, "theory" means something like "guess" or "hunch". In science, however, a theory is an idea that has stood the test of time.
The word evolution can be used in many ways, but in biology, it means descent with modification. In other words, small modifications occur at the genetic level (i.e. in DNA) when a new generation descends from its parents. Over many generations these modifications can result in significant differences from the ancestral population.
Is evolution driven mainly by random genetic variation, or are there other factors at play? Michael Burdett reviews the scientific debate.
By getting rid of the miracle stories in the Bible, Bultmann and his followers hoped to make the Christian story more palatable to modern man. Although I recognize the emotional weight of this sentiment, I am not convinced that it is an intellectually coherent approach, mainly for reasons of self-consistency.
A common challenge to evolutionary theory is that while life does indeed change over time (what is known as microevolution), no one has ever seen one species evolve into another species (macroevolution).
From 2012: Many secular and many evangelical voices agree on one 'truism'—that if you are an orthodox Christian with a high view of the authority of the Bible, you cannot believe in evolution in any form at all. New Atheist authors such as Richard Dawkins and creationist writers such as Ken Ham seem to have arrived at consensus on this.
Wright reminds us that robust Christian faith takes evidence on board, but fuses reason with faith, hope and love.
Written by BioLogos Fellow of Biology Dennis Venema, this series of posts is intended as a basic introduction to the science of evolution for non-specialists.
Everyone is so worried about success and getting this or that honorable diploma—the people here are smart and understand many complex things perfectly—but it's a long distance from the head to the heart.
We now take for granted an understanding of the Christian story that was largely worked out by Paul and later theologians. Even though the Gospels were composed after Paul's letters, they were concerned to tell the story itself in all its strangeness as it had been preserved by the first generation of Christians. And what we find in the stories themselves is the shock and wonder and surprise that the resurrection caused.
All of you who do science, all of you who teach or research or you're involved in engineering or medicine or education, or biology or chemistry or physics—you are doing a noble thing. You are thinking God's thoughts after him. … You are obeying God's command given way back in Genesis to exercise dominion, to learn about, to be curious and discover and steward the earth.
The Psalmist is saying that when we walk outside and look up, the heavens are telling us two things about God: they tell us about his glory, and they tell us about what his hands can do.
We need to hear stories from others who have wrestled with evolution and Christian faith. What arguments made them change their views on science? How did they hold fast to their relationship with God? The essays in this series will eventually comprise a book, provisionally titled, "Evolving: Evangelicals Reflect on Evolution."
This entry was originally posted on February 17, 2010. In this video conversation, Jeff Schloss makes the observation that when we use the term "evolution", it is not always exactly clear what we are actually discussing unless we denote the intended usage.
So what then does Resurrection mean? For Benedict it represents a new dimension of reality breaking through into human experience. It is not a violation of the old; it is the manifestation of something new.
The evidence suggests that God has chosen to work through a random process, one which involves the routine creation and destruction of millions of cells that never get used. This is the ordinary means by which God maintains our health. The miracles of healing recorded in the Bible are miraculous precisely because they don't occur by this normal, natural process.
To understand more clearly where Polkinghorne lies on the larger landscape of science and religion, let's consider his approach to the Resurrection. Many contemporary thinkers, including some theologians and clergy, believe that "science" has somehow made it impossible to believe in the Resurrection, the deity of Jesus, and even belief in the transcendent God of the Bible.


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HYDERABAD: Four Soft has appointed Tim Sensenig as its new Executive Vice-President for global sales and business development. The appointment of Mr. Sensenig, who is the former co-founder and vice-chairman of G-Log, a global third-party logistics software company later acquired by Oracle, would strengthen Four Soft's position in the transportation and logistics industry further, said a company release. — Staff Reporter
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November 2, 2009
This is an awesome song that Sean Buban wrote for Emma Watson – She's Gotta Be Mine.
He's a fan and he made this music video for her.
He's got a pretty good voice too.
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Saturday Jun 21, 2008
Thursday Jun 12, 2008
Three Cheers to OpenSolaris
By jimgris on Jun 12, 2008
Friday Apr 25, 2008
OpenSolaris Review
By jimgris on Apr 25, 2008
OpenSolaris 2008.05 RC2 Test Image
By jimgris on Apr 25, 2008
Friday Apr 18, 2008
OpenSolaris Photos from Sun Business .Next
By jimgris on Apr 18, 2008
Tuesday Apr 15, 2008
Learning from Each Other
By jimgris on Apr 15, 2008
Thursday Mar 20, 2008
OpenSolaris Developer Summit: Part II
By jimgris on Mar 20, 2008
Wednesday Feb 13, 2008
OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2
By jimgris on Feb 13, 2008
Just installed OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2. Very easy and fast download and install. Give it a try. Thanks, guys. Very nice.
Indy 2
By jimgris on Feb 13, 2008
Sunday Feb 03, 2008
Indy 2
By jimgris on Feb 03, 2008
Thursday Jan 17, 2008
Second OpenSolaris Summit: Book Now
By jimgris on Jan 17, 2008
Wednesday Jan 16, 2008
Japanese OpenSolaris Articles
By jimgris on Jan 16, 2008
Building an Enterprise Class Server System Based on OpenSolaris (2008 Series)
- Page 1, Page 2, Page 3: Akira Ohsone. An introduction to OpenSolaris and the Apache Roller server, including a discussion on Project Indiana, ZFS, and Zones, and issues around installing OpenSolaris on servers (such as mirroring your disk and preparing for live upgrade, etc).
- To come.
- To come.
- Etc ...
- Introduction to OpenSolaris: Akira Ohsone
- Installing OpenSolaris: Akira Ohsone
- Effective use of open source software: Daisuke Tsukada
- Getting started enterprise middle ware: Katsuya Tanaka
Wednesday Oct 31, 2007
The Name
By jimgris on Oct 31, 2007
Seems the naming conversation for the new Indiana distribution is coming to fruition --
Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name. It will be called "OpenSolaris Developer Preview" and it's coming soon. Cool. Even more importantly, though, is Ian's suggestion that everyone "continue working together as a community to develop a set of branding guidelines so that other distributions may also use the OpenSolaris brand...."
Thursday Oct 18, 2007
IPS in the Press
By jimgris on Oct 18, 2007
Sounds very cool. All about IPS here and here.
Tuesday Oct 16, 2007
Indiana Press
By jimgris on Oct 16, 2007
- eWeek: Project Indiana Release Brings New Package Manager
- internetnews: Sun Updates Open Source Roadmap
- InfoWorld: Sun's Project Indiana to bear fruit
- InfoWorld: Sun offers potpourri of open-source plans
For me, open source offers the opportunity for individuals to benefit as well as the entire community. Simon Phipps sums that thought in a quote in the InfoWorld article: "Contributions are given back to the community to enrich everyone, like the craft guilds of the Middle Ages, he said. 'This has been called communism by some speakers. It's been called a cancer on society by others. I would suggest to you that this is more like capitalism, it is more like a connected capitalism where people synchronize their self interests so that they are collaborating together.'"
Monday Oct 15, 2007
Indiana in Tokyo
By jimgris on Oct 15, 2007
Sunday Oct 14, 2007
OpenSolaris Developer Summit: Links
By jimgris on Oct 14, 2007
- OpenSolaris: Developer Summit
- Glynn Foster: [opensolaris-summit] Summit writeups
- Alvaro Lopez Ortega: OpenSolaris Developer Summit: Mugshots
- Ben Rockwood: Update from the OpenSolaris Dev Summit: Day 1
- Stephen Hahn: pkg(5): Talking in the redwoods, talking on the beach, ...
- John Sonnenschein: Dev Summit. Day 1
- Glynn Foster: OpenSolaris Summit Starts!
- Glynn Foster: Hanging out in Santa Cruz
- James C. Liu: pre-OpenSolaris-Summit Santa Cruz Wharf Fishing
- Glynn Foster: [opensolaris-summit] Summit recordings from first day
- Glynn Foster: [opensolaris-summit] Summit IRC channel
- Glynn Foster: [opensolaris-summit] Flickr Group
- David Stewart: Greetings from Santa Cruz
- David Stewart: Developing for OpenSolaris
- Marc Hamilton: Top Things To Do This Weekend in Northern...
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Tuesday Oct 09, 2007
Nexenta & Indiana
By jimgris on Oct 09, 2007
The Solaris Revival
By jimgris on Oct 09, 2007
That's just one quote. Check out the whole Q&A. Good stuff.
Saturday Oct 06, 2007
OpenSolaris at Tokyo OSC
By jimgris on Oct 06, 2007
Monday Oct 01, 2007
OpenSolaris and Project Indiana in Tokyo
By jimgris on Oct 01, 2007
Friday Sep 28, 2007
An Excellent Candidate
By jimgris on Sep 28, 2007
Very nice review of SXDE with a dozen or screen shots. I think this release of Solaris Express is a real turning point for Solaris. There seems to have been a lot of really interesting engineering in this release from the community, and the marketing has been kicked up a bit too. "On the brink" may be accurate ....
A Simpe Code Repository
By jimgris on Sep 28, 2007
That's the last paragraph of Gavin's story, and he touches on some of the confusion around OpenSolaris for the past few years. There have been many community conversations on various OpenSolaris lists with "what is OpenSolaris" in the subject line, and there have been many press articles and blogs about OpenSolaris positioning it as an operating system. It is ... but it isn't. As a practical matter, the code from OpenSolaris is used to build a few distros as well as Sun's developer distro, which is called Solaris Express. (You can get all the distros here) So, in that sense, OpenSolaris is an operating system. But ... not quite. Some closed bits are used in the building process, and the resulting system built from the OpenSolaris source is not called OpenSolaris but it's called something else. So, it can get confusing if you don't deal with this every day. So, what actually is OpenSolaris then? It's source code. And a community. And a website. At the highest level, that's pretty much it.
Now, there have been some random acts of corporate messaging in the past few years around OpenSolaris, but that's normal and should be expected. The project has been opening in stages over a long period of time, and it's taken some time for everyone to understand how to explain everything. No harm, really. Every new project I've ever worked on in every industry has experienced early messaging challenges. After all, we're talking about human communication, aren't we? But what I think is really cool here is that the message that OpenSolaris is an operating system has resonated even when we have not really been pushing that within project itself. What does that mean? It means that the market has looked at our stuff, it has listened to our confusing messaging, and it's made up its mind in a generally positive way. You simply could not ask for anything more given the limitations we've been working under.
But I think things are going to get much easier. Project Indiana, for instance, will help clarify this issue as it grows into a complete system that can be customized from various source repositories and serve as a platform from which other distributions can be built. Critical engineering projects to support Indiana are install and packaging among others, and the final binary distribution should be easy to downland, install, and use. And easy to explain, too! From an engineering perspective, OpenSolaris will always be many things, but from a market positioning perspective OpenSolaris needs to be one thing so that one thing can be communicated around the world to a variety of different audiences. Once you engage the conversation on that one thing, you can drill down into the many things under the hood.
There were many reasons why some of us on the project wanted OpenSolaris to fly under the radar from a publicity perspective during our early years. This is one of them. A lot of engineering and community building work had to be done first before we could really bring the conversation and the technology to large numbers of users and developers globally. That's what's happening now. One step at a time. And you will see the site start to evolve to reflect this as well. The number of people hitting the site is really escalating and diversifying lately. We are, quite simply, maturing as a project. Hopefully, in this next phase we can learn to explain ourselves better as well. I think we will.
Thursday Sep 27, 2007
The Indiana Brand
By jimgris on Sep 27, 2007
Wednesday Sep 05, 2007
Headlines! Headlines! Headlines!
By jimgris on Sep 05, 2007
This "battle" tone is all over the web now. I'm not sure where it started, but it seemed to flame up last night around midnight. What I find interesting is that Matt uses the phrase "we're getting Solaris versus Linux" to point to an article titled "OpenSolaris will challenge Linux says Sun" which is actually an abridged article from the more aptly titled "Sun: Coders key to Solaris' rise" published last week.
I blogged about that original article because I loved the quote in there about the OpenSolaris Community. But the version that has people all worked up today is missing eight paragraphs of text from the original. Why? Read both of them and you'll see the clear difference in tone. And why all the wild headline changes, too? Even if you read the version Matt points to you'd be hard pressed to find anything in the article to substantiate the headline. I mean, really, this is silly. Sun's Ian Murdock and Marc Hamilton were talking about how the OpenSolaris community is growing, how the technology is improving, and some of the plans we are kicking around to improve things. That's pretty much it. So, where's the war here?
Oh, and also, the OpenSolaris community isn't taking the bait, which is very cool. This is now the second or third time recently where the community has utterly ignored media and/or blog flame fests. Heck, we've had enough of our own flames in the past, so perhaps we're moving on and just focusing on the job at hand -- building the OpenSolaris community organically and improving this technology openly.
Sunday Sep 02, 2007
The Community is the Key
By jimgris on Sep 02, 2007
It's great reading comments recognizing the OpenSolaris community. Not the technology. Not the company. But the people who make up this nascent community around the world and who have been working to build the community all along. Community building takes time. It takes time to reach critical mass. It takes time whether it happens organically or via organizational resources from companies and/or foundations. And we've been at it for a while with OpenSolaris. Four years, in fact. That's how far back the planning started. Very few people realize that and very few know the full history. But I'm excited to see the community start to move to the center of the conversation around OpenSolaris. That's really what we had planned all along.
Another interesting bit from this article is way at the end. Solaris Marketing VP, Marc Hamilton, hinted at discussions with OEMs to further expand the market for OpenSolaris technology. That, too, will help the community grow significantly -- especially when you are talking about mega deals with Intel and IBM. That's an entirely new area for OpenSolaris, and it's very cool to see coming to fruition.
So, we have a community growing not only in size with individuals contributing code and companies contributing code but also with users running the code. Growth is now occurring in all areas, and that will only increase as work progresses on the university programs, the conference programs, and the core engineering projects around SCM, DTS, install, packaging, Indiana, and many others.
Thursday Aug 30, 2007
OpenSolaris to Surf Santa Cruz
By jimgris on Aug 30, 2007
Monday Aug 06, 2007
Perspective and History
By jimgris on Aug 06, 2007
Ha. I'll bet. The article then goes on to talk about how many commentators are seeing all this from the perspective of Linux. Well, of course they are, my goodness. That's been the case for several years now. In fact, this is probably the most significant messaging issue around OpenSolaris -- and Solaris, for that matter -- since we started the project. I can remember arguing for a year before we opened that we should not fuel this issue by criticizing or comparing ourselves to Linux in any way whatsoever. Just get people focusing on OpenSolaris, growing our community organically, and praising the Linux community for the outstanding job they've done (which they clearly have). Not that anyone listened, but that was basically my pitch. In other words, we should just shut up and build our community, which we knew would take years so just get started. I figured that we needed to lead with humility as the single most important element in order to have any shot at earning our own credibility so we wouldn't always be seen from the perspective of Linux.
Well, two years later I can see that my efforts in this area were basically meaningless -- for both good and bad reasons. The Good: The engineers participating all along didn't need the lecture since they got the concept of community building because they were already a community. That's been cool to see (but we have a lot more to do). The Bad: Market perception had already moved well beyond seeing OpenSolaris from the perspective of OpenSolaris. Instead, it would be compared to Linux in almost every way possible, and changing this would take years. Plus, our own flamers (the distinct minority who clearly lack credibility) did their very best to continue picking fights with Linux and distracting the OpenSolaris community on our very own lists. Oh, well. What saved us? A few things. OpenSolaris was credible early on because of the advanced nature of the code and the distinct lack of hype from Sun. Plus, everyone thought we'd fail. Also we didn't have a king or anything, so everyone who participated shared pretty equally in the conversations. That's what defines the leadership model on OpenSolaris, by the way. It's distributed widely and not focused on any one individual. Anyway, OpenSolaris was just an engineering project focusing on the phased opening of code and infrastructure to build a little community around the concept of open development. That's it. In that respect, we've been successful, and we've been slowly earning our credibility as we build our community. Cool.
Yet as Sun hired a big Linux name in Ian Murdock a few months ago, we've clearly started generating a lot more press coverage as a result, and along with that comes the inevitable comparisons to Linux. Yet again. Sigh. The increased attention is good, of course, and it will be interesting to see how much longer the media market sees OpenSolaris through a Linux lens. Clearly, a lot more coverage is coming, so I hope we can finally overcome this Linux perspective because the project has been standing on its own feet for two years now and deserves to be seen from the perspective of it's own successes and failures. So, if Indy's ideas can successfully build on the good work that has gone before, that would be a welcome contribution.
Ok, back to the article and this quote right here: "'We came into this with an understanding of what we needed to do, which was in a world where so many more people know Linux than Solaris, how do we figure out how to make the wonderful technology in Solaris more accessible?' Murdock explained. To break the Project down, Indiana is meant to create a binary distribution of OpenSolaris within the OpenSolaris community, not inside Sun proper. This is not to say Sun employees aren't involved in the process. Teams within Sun are working on various aspects of the project, such as installation, packaging, and GNU userland. In fact, Murdock said, some of these efforts have been going on for some time."
The "distro" part of that paragraph is somewhat confusing since Sun already has a binary distro (all distros here), and we've been working toward open development for two years, so none of that is new. But I think people get the point that the distro model will be changing, and that's explained pretty well elsewhere. And there are parts of that change that are very appealing and will help grow the OpenSolaris community significantly. Regardless, the most important, part here is the recognition that much of this work has been underway for some time now. And the fact that it's being highlighted now is cool.
Anyway, it's a pretty good article on some of the evolutionary changes coming to OpenSolaris. A lot of us are looking forward to the Indy project coming to fruition along with many other projects in the OpenSolaris community that have been underway for a couple of years. The SCM migration is probably the most important, actually, and the most challenging, too. But as we grow and evolve and look forward, we need to keep looking back from time to time to understand the perspective of our history. It's difficult to keep these things straight in a world of so many changing messages.
More on Indy here and more on some of the related projects here as well. Many additional links at both locations.
Thursday Aug 02, 2007
What's Wrong?
By jimgris on Aug 02, 2007
Well ... we're not. We're just making a better Solaris, that's all. It's that simple. This is just the natural evolution of the OpenSolaris project. We opened the code to build a community, improve the system, and expand the market. And, well, we're doing just that. What is different lately, though, is that a lot more people are noticing us.
Monday Jul 30, 2007
An Evening of Heavy Drinking
By jimgris on Jul 30, 2007
So, it takes getting really drunk before you'd think if putting Solaris Express (Sun's distro of OpenSolaris) or any of the other four OpenSolaris-based distros on a laptop? Oh, it's not that bad, my goodness. :) If I can install Solaris Express than that means we've made gigantic headway because I know next to nothing about Unix technology. And things are improving (here, here, here) all the time. I have Ubuntu on one of my laptops, and it's quite nice, no question about it. But being open for just 25 months, I'd say we're doing quite nicely, too. Have people forgotten that?
Great quote, though ....
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January 19th, 2009 #1
P.O.W.! Challenge 19--50 Feet Down
P.O.W.! Challenge 19
Deadline: Sunday, February 1, 2009, 11:59 pm anywhere in the world.
Topic: 50 Feet Down
This one definitely has a LOT of room for interpretation. There are possibilities of caves, underwater, falling, wells, ancient alien kitchens buried for centuries, even a race where you drag yourself along by your fingernails, etc. You can interpret the art any way you wish, and the more creatively, the better. Any media. B&W or Color.
You can present your solution as a minimum of TWO to a tentative maximum of SIX pages which adhere to standard comic specs as below...and, yes, you can have the first or last (or both) as a splash page if you want. You can go to additional pages without asking if you have a decent idea that requires it--just don't get too extreme on page counts
Standard Comic Book Size:
--Trim size: 6 5/8" x 10 1/4"
--Live art area: 6" x 9"
--Bleed size before trimming: 6 7/8" x 10 1/2" (1/8" in all directions)
This thread will be the place you ask questions on this challenge, trash talk, post WIPs and post your final art. See the READ THIS FIRST thread for all specs.
Good luck.
P.O.W.! Challenge 20 will be posted before Sunday Midnight, February 1, 2009.
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A little note here for all of you who have supported the P.O.W.! Challenges...thankyewthankyewthankyew...
Just a reminder--those of you who didn't get a chance to finish exactly the way you wanted to, or ran into deadline problems, remember there is a sticky section where you can post your stuff when you do get it up to speed.
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Hide this ad by registering as a memberJanuary 19th, 2009 #2
Okay, okay, I know I've been MIA for the past couple of challenges, so I promise you now that I will... <cough> try <cough> to get something done for this challenge. What can I say? Things have been busy at my end... sorry.
See y'all in a couple of weeks.
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January 20th, 2009 #3
Sounds interesting...i have so many ideas i gotta narrow down! I hope i've got enough time to join in for this.
January 21st, 2009 #4
Hooray for WIPs!
Here is my first page.... uber, UBER rough first thoughts. I don't even think I'd call it a WIP... its more of a brain "blip". And don't you worry, I'll get her down to 50 ft. Hopefully in 3 pages or less... LOL!
EDIT: Added Page 2 rough idea.... I hope I can pull these off!! I'm thinking I won't get as far as coloring... thats for sure!
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January 21st, 2009 #5
Great start shannanigan...awesome to see someone besides arttorney have the dedication to start and post before crunch time.
FYI...I have started mine too, but am waiting on some Kitten Wisdom to address my question in the "Read This First" thread to see if I need to start over.
Love you kids...see you down below!
January 21st, 2009 #6
You ladies are all coming in here and showing me results. (I saw your WIP for #18 JazzW. I know you can do it.) Shamandalie, Shannanigan ... Press on. It doesn't get done unless you do it (See e.g. Sundance's entries. (Friendly dig), I still think you have good ability Sundance and I wish you could show off for us a little bit.)
I'm not sure if I can do this because I am working myself to exhaustion on legal stuff right now. I'm very happy some of the rest of you are here.
January 21st, 2009 #7
Hey I found this website called "Written Sound"... for people like myself who are always looking for just the right onomatopoeia to add!
I didn't see a Resources thread for POW so I didn't know where to post it... but I wanted to share!
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January 21st, 2009 #8
Well...DAMN! I'm just gonna have to start one, ain't I...
Done as sticky... Thanks for the suggestion.
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January 21st, 2009 #9
January 23rd, 2009 #10
You know for a forum on sequential art there isn't a whole lot 'a action! Guess I'll break the silence...
Here are my cleaned up roughs... if there is such a thing. I think it flows pretty well. I do have a 3rd page but I'm still trying to work it out. I may just do these 2 for the challenge since the 3rd page is really just a "punchline" (and you see the top hat guy again). I got my 50' down already in the big bridge panel on Page 2.
January 24th, 2009 #11
Ok...so I never finish shit. I get that. However...I must say that I have always had trouble with scripting the pannels. We had a script one challenge...but it 'twernt my cup o' tea. I have always tried to create a story that incorporates Marvel Characters...because, well...I want to pencil for Marvel and that just made sense to me.
So now...Ilaekae...you have removed the self-imposed "restriction" I placed on myself. Which is really nice, since apparently if I had ever completed a set of panels I would have been disquallified regardless.
At this point I am starting over. The really good thing...I have my story. It is basic, but solid for a comic. I have my characters...unique to me...and I feel that it could be a "universe" of my own mind that I can extend through multiple POW topics.
I will complete this one. Gaurenteed...no doubts. Thanks Ilaekae and Cookiedough for your responses in the Read This thread. Workshops coming up...need to make some current work for a portfolio review...
Motivaion = Achieved
January 24th, 2009 #12
I am currently mourning the death of my laptop.
After several hours of surgery...it has apparently passed on.
Good thing pencils work for this fucking challenge.
January 25th, 2009 #13
I have re-named my laptop Lazarus.
Today it is alive and well... whatever... I'll take it!
Maybe you will see color from me. Probably not, but maybe. I was really hoping to do my 3CH in Illustrator to honor my subject matter " "...so we will see!
How 'bout this...
Triple posting
Maybe I'll go for four!
January 27th, 2009 #14
i better step in since arttorney is out of action.
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January 27th, 2009 #15
Yeah, where I'm at, I have time to make a piece of crap but not time to do a good job. People have rightfully complained to me elsewhere that if I am capable of doing a halfway decent job then why on Earth am I drawing pieces of crap? I am currently trying never to start anything around here I can't finish properly.
It looks like there will be some solid entrants, this time. Cool!
For writing purposes, I suppose one could always punch the 3CH generator a few times until it gives out a scenario that sings to you.
January 27th, 2009 #16
Grief throws the Gauntlet
DAYMN, SON! That's a great set of panels! Hopefully, I'll make the time on Friday to take the Analog sketches and make 'em digital.
BTW, Arttorney: You don't do pieces of crap. You just have great design concepts. I hit up your sketchbook months ago and I find that your designs are probably the sickest part of your work. Hell... even the figs have great lines. I think your weakest part is composing in the panels (But... this is a comment I made to myself about the motorcycle panels).
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January 27th, 2009 #17
Do you mean the inside of each panel or how the panels themselves are arranged? I should probably crack a book about how to make comics, but I'm so busy right now all I can afford is some kibbutzing while I'm taking five or fifteen from work.
And Grief rocks. You should go see his sketchbook.
January 27th, 2009 #18
It's within each frame. You have a VERY classic style. For example, the way you choose to present each subject within a frame. My favorites for book recommendations are anything by Chris Hart, "How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way" and just pick up a few comics in general.
(Sufficed to say, this weeks submission will be heavily influenced by my reading of 'The Watchmen')
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January 27th, 2009 #19
oh yea... that's why.
look at me rip off tugelbend's silly comic into my own version.... which he says is just an edit of someone else's.
Ilaekae better not put this lil' scribble into the final poll... or else, OR ELSE THIS WILL HAPPEN. had to dig through my 2005 photobucket account for that.
[edit] hmph i just realized my text changes size in that last page. i wonder how that happened. i'll probably fix that before the deadline.
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January 27th, 2009 #21
GRIEF- lol
i got something for this, its still acookin ehehee
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January 27th, 2009 #22
I gots sumphin', too. It's from so far out of left field it's in the next county...
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January 29th, 2009 #23
Darn, i think i took too much than i can handle. Gonna inch myself outta this one. @_@
shannanigan and Grief, good stuff!
Looking forward for the rest!
January 30th, 2009 #24
January 31st, 2009 #25
almost done with mine, just about 1 or 2 more pages and i be done before the deadline
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February 1st, 2009 #26
Hmm.. i guess i forgot about the whole name border thing. I hope it's not much of a problem. Anyways... no too happy with my final result and storywise it sucks, but still. I finished. Partyyyyy!
Btw, i did check on google: 50 feet usually gets intensive care for adults and death for kids. Kinda shady floor, not always successful.
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February 1st, 2009 #27
EDIT: OK these are my final pics... I've run out of time. There be dishes to do and clothing to wash before days end!! Wish I could have done better... but hell I tried!
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February 1st, 2009 #28
I'm sorry, but the ice storms from the last few days are wreaking havoc with my power and phone lines here. Nothing serious, but we're losing power or phone every 10-15 minutes. Not sure if this is going to get better or worse, but if it goes down the toilet, you'll know by my not posting a note by midnight. Just use the extra time to do something constructive with your pieces. Let's figure we have at least another 24 hours until deadline (Monday rather than Sunday)
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While the majority of viewers of Total Divas are female, there are still plenty of men who watch the reality television show. The proof of that is the fact that search engine queries increase tremendously whenever Nikki Bella is on the screen. A lot of these are people looking to find nude pictures of the WWE star. Unfortunately for them, none are in existence to the public. The only person that might have some of those would be her boyfriend John Cena.
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How much input do you have in the cover art Dave? Does Doug get an advanced read to help him decide what look to devlop? Who has the final say, you or an editor?
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"Five Little Pumpkins"
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The second one said;
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The third one said;
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The fourth one said,
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The fifth one said,
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The wind is blowing!
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The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has, in its latest report, brought to light glaring irregularities in land deals involving SEZ properties in Chengalpattu and Cheyyur in Kancheepuram district.
In both SEZ properties, the CAG audit found that vacant land or land with constructed residential units were "sold" to private individuals under the guise of "lease" thereby helping the developers pocket an undue gain in the form of exemption of stamp duty and registration fees to the tune of Rs. 8.68 crores apart from other benefits such as exemption of VAT, CENVAT, Service Tax, Customs Duty and Income tax.
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In all cases, the deeds entitled the lessees to mortgage the properties with financial institutions for availing loans, and in 324 cases the properties were under mortgage. This implied that in the event of default by lessees, the financial institutions could auction the property to any person or entity not authorised for operation within the SEZ. If the residential units were intended to be used as support infrastructure for the processing zone, the leases would have been in the name of companies rather than individuals. "The terms of the registered documents clearly indicate that the housing units have been sold to individuals in the guise of lease," the report stated.
In the Chengalpattu SEZ operated by M/s Mahindra World City Developers Ltd; the CAG audit noticed that the developer had transferred on lease an extent of 21.15 acres of land to one of the co-developers - M/s Mahindra Lifespace Developers Ltd.
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Lions clash with Stags as NCAA wars resume
SAN BEDA hopes the two-week break didn't take away all the momentum it has built over the past month.
The defending champion Lions seek to continue their winning ways when they clash with dangerous San Sebastian at 6 p.m. today at the resumption of the 89th NCAA basketball at Filoil Flying V Arena in San Juan.
On a five-game roll, the Lions are looking to stay in sharp form despite not playing for 16 days as the league took a break for the Fiba Asia Championship.
"We tried our best to manage the break and keep the players focused," said San Beda coach Boyet Fernandez, whose charges split their first two games, before finally finding their groove.
The Stags have established themselves as a contender this season with a 4-3 record behind a string of fine performances that came after an early two-game slide to a 4-3 record.
St. Benilde guns for a second straight victory against struggling Arellano in the first game at 4 p.m.
The Blazers finally broke into the win column at the expense of Lyceum three weeks ago and coach Gabby Velasco hopes the triumph will spark a turnaround for St. Benilde.
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Check your fridge and see if you still have leftover biscuits, cookies, food for the gods, brownies, etc. What to do with them? Transform them into a delicious no-bake dessert called Serradura.
Serradura, also known as Macau Sawdust Pudding, is a Portuguese dessert consisting of sweet cream and crushed biscuits or cookies. It's usually presented in a glass layered with the cream and biscuits and topped with fruits.
Chef KC Jardin of San Miguel Food Inc. demonstrates how this easy-to-do dessert is prepared with only few ingredients needed.
"Serradura is like our local refrigerator cake," says Jardin. "You can use any biscuits or cookies like chocolate chip cookies, Oreo, Marie, otap, galletas de patatas, etc. For the bars like brownies and food for the gods, you need to dry them up first or toast them in the oven for easy crushing."
To whip the cream, either use an electric mixer (5-10 minutes) or a hand mixer (15-20 minutes). You can top the desserts with any fruits, such as leftover fruit cocktail (drained), apples, kiat-kiat and strawberry.
Use a nice shot glass or martini glass for this sweet delight.
Makes 8-12 servings.
0.5 l all-purpose cream
¼ c Magnolia Pure Fresh Milk
1 can condensed milk
1 c leftover biscuits or cookies
Mint leaves for garnish or leftover fruits
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Worked in the weekend rotation all season ... started all but one "Saturday" game, finishing with a team-high 17 starts on the year ... compiled a 6-5 record with a 4.50 ERA in 88 innings ... walked only 29 while striking out 89 batters ... held opposing hitters to a .279 average ... picked up the victory in his first career start, coming against Seton Hall (Feb. 20) ... went five-plus innings and allowed seven hits, three runs, one walk and three strikeouts in a 13-6 win ... earned the win at Baylor (Feb. 27) by allowing one earned run over five innings ... punched out career-high nine batters in strong win over Winthrop (March 6) ... gave up six hits, one earned run and no walks over 6.2 innings against the Eagles ... did not factor in decision in first career Big 12 start vs. Texas Tech (March 20), lasting 2.2 innings ... back-to-back solid starts vs. Missouri (March 27 - 4.2 IP, 6 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 6 K) and at Kansas (April 2 - 4.1 IP, 4 H, 2 R) ... suffered the loss to No. 3 Texas (April 18) ... went seven innings and punched out 10 in the game, allowing four earned runs and six hits ... pitched well but got no decision vs No. 17 OU (April 24) ... gave up seven hits, three runs and three walks over 6.1 innings while striking out a career-high 11 hitters ... back-to-back victories over Nebraska (May 1) and Dallas Baptist (May 7) ... during the final weekend of the regular season, earned the win over No. 23 K-State (May 22) ... held the league's best hitting team to one run over seven innings, punching out eight ... tossed a career-high 7.1 innings but got a no-decision at Oklahoma State (May 15), allowing eight hits and three runs ... started the Big 12 Championship game in Oklahoma City (May 30), holding Baylor to two runs and six hits over six innings while fanning eight ... earned first team Academic All-Big 12 recognition.
Emerged as a solid bullpen presence for the Aggies as a true freshman ... appeared in 13 games, all in relief, posting a 1-0 record and 2.51 ERA ... 13 relief outings ranked sixth on the staff .. tossed two shutout innings at No. 13 Oklahoma (May 16) ... allowed first earned run in his seventh appearance (March 18 vs. New Mexico) ... struck out the first six batters he faced ... punched out 18 in just over 14 innings of work while walking just four ... earned first career win in relief against Utah (March 8) ... played summer ball with the San Luis Obispo (Calif.) Blues of the wood-bat Sierra Baseball League ... went 2-2 with a 1.96 ERA in 36.2 innings of work ... fanned 56 batters and walked just 12.
Played for coach Larry Hughes at Carroll High School (Southlake, Texas) ... earned first-team all-state honors as a senior (2008) in leading the Dragons to a state runner-up finish ... played just one season of varsity baseball and did not pitch until his senior year, after a broken leg prior to the season rendered him unable to play in the infield ... went 14-0 on the hill with a sparkling 1.60 ERA ... in 107 innings of work struck out 156 batters to lead the Dallas/Fort Worth area ... compiled a 6-0 record and a 1.20 ERA in the playoffs ... a member of the North Texas all-star team ... also earned a letter in basketball as a forward and in football as a wide receiver, where the Dragons won the Texas 5A state title and the national championship ... played summer baseball for the Arlington A's ... a success in the classroom as well, graduated 11th in his class of over 600 with summa cum laude distinction, and earned a prestigious President's Endowed Scholarship to A&M.
Thomas Ross Stripling is the son of Hayes and Tammy Stripling of Southlake ... born Nov. 23, 1989, in Blue Bell, Penn. ... majoring in business finance ... has an older brother, Hayes (A&M Class of '09) ... father and uncle attended A&M, as did his grandfather, who was an Aggie yell leader ... enjoys movies, traveling, playing any sport, and hanging out at his family's lakehouse in his spare time ... career goal is to earn a master's degree from Texas A&M.


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Boat sold today, on EBAY?!?
I had my boat (Ericson 29) for sale for a little while now craigslist, sailingtexas, and sailboatlistings. I had gotten a lot of calls but no real bites, so I decided to put her up on EBAY. Today she sold at my buy-it-now price. Although I have not received the cash, I did get the down payment put in my paypal account immediately at the end of the auction. Ebay isn't for everyone, but it worked great for me. I have sold three other, smaller boats on there before with out a hick up. I hope this one goes as smoothly.
Who else here has sold boats or other big ticket items on ebay?
Time to start looking for my new baby!!
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