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Re: Event April 7: How to protect your customer's dataTori Mar 13, 2009 4:31 PM (in response to SBC Team)I think many people burn their information on a CD or make a copy of it on an external drive. What other data back up tools are available?
Re: Event April 7: How to protect your customer's dataCarboniteCEO Apr 7, 2009 2:00 PM (in response to Tori)Carbonite backs up your PC over the Internet to RAID6 servers. The advantages of online backup are 1) cost: $55/yr for unlimited space per PC, 2) simplicity: it just works constantly in the background any time you're connected to the Internet, 3) mobility: it works anywhere you're connected to the Internet whether office, home, Starbucks, etc., 4) safety: external hard drives and DVDs are not offsite. If you want to protect against fire, theft, etc., you need to get your backups away from your computer, 5) reliability and security: Everything is encrypted before it leaves your PC -- we can't and don't want to see user files. RAID6 servers, such as those we use to store your data, are about 30 million times more reliable than a typical hard drive.
Some Carbonite FactoidsCarboniteCEO Apr 7, 2009 2:21 PM (in response to CarboniteCEO)
Here's are some interesting stats on Carbonite:
We back up over 100 million new files every day.
We have restored over 2.5 billion files that our customers would have lost.
Re: Event April 7: How to protect your business-critical datGeneration4 Apr 3, 2009 7:57 AM (in response to SBC Team)I always back up my data on an external drive. I like having it "locally." What advantages are there with backing up data in the cloud or online?
Re: Event April 7: How to protect your business-critical datCarboniteCEO Apr 7, 2009 2:02 PM (in response to Generation4)I answered this question in the reply just above this one.
But one thing I forgot to mention that is a very important feature of online backup is the ability for you to access your backup from any PC. I used this feature myself a few weeks ago: i was on a business trip and discovered that I had left my powerpoint presentation on my office computer. I found a PC in my hotel's business center, accessed my backup using a web browser, printed it off, and was back in business.
Re: Event April 7: How to protect your business-critical dataCommunityTeam Apr 3, 2009 1:55 PM (in response to SBC Team)
Join us on Tuesday, April 7 @ 2PM. We are taking questions in advance, so if you have a question simply post it now, and during the event or after check back for your answer.
Re: Event April 7: How to protect your business-critical dataCarboniteCEO Apr 7, 2009 2:04 PM (in response to CommunityTeam)Good news for anyone in this BOA session: If you sign up for Carbonite, enter offer code "BOA" and you'll automatically get 10% off, expires May 7th. $54.95 a year is the regular price for one year of Carbonite, unlimited capacity. $129.95 for 3 years. that's less than $4 per month.
Re: Event April 7: How to protect your business-critical dataBernoulli Apr 3, 2009 3:47 PM (in response to SBC Team)Hi David,
One of my biggest fears when traveling on business for project work is that my harddrive will fail (or even worse, my notebook and back-ups will get stolen from the hotel room). Is it possible with Carbonite to access my stored data remotely in another country?
Re: Event April 7: How to protect your business-critical dataCarboniteCEO Apr 7, 2009 2:05 PM (in response to Bernoulli)Yes, I love being able to get to my backed up files using Carbonite. I used to use Logmein.com to do a remote access to my PC, but now our IT people have firewalls that prevent that. So with Carbonite, i can use any browser to access and download any backed up file. Since Carbonite is unlimited, I basically have everything on my office PC backed up.
Re: Event April 7: How to protect your business-critical dataCommunityTeam Apr 7, 2009 1:58 PM (in response to SBC Team)Community, please join me in welcoming David Friend from Carbonite. If you have any questions, login now and simply hit reply. The event is moderated so there will be a delay when you post your question. David may not be able to address all questions, but will try. So, post your question now. And don't forget to refresh your browser to see David's latest response.
Re: Event April 7: How to protect your business-critical datajackzee Apr 7, 2009 2:10 PM (in response to SBC Team)
What type of access controls should a good back up solution provide?
Re: Event April 7: How to protect your business-critical dataCarboniteCEO Apr 7, 2009 2:16 PM (in response to jackzee)JackZee: I think you're probably talking about security, i.e., how to keep unauthorized people from snooping on your files. We use a number of identifiers. First, you have to have an email address and a password to login and gain access to Carbonite. Some customers, like healthcare organizations, also like to keep their encryption key themselves. Also, Carbonite typically sends emails to the account owner whenever there are transactions, much as your bank would. So you know if someone has your access information.
Re: Event April 7: How to protect your business-critical dataBluesuit Apr 7, 2009 2:04 PM (in response to SBC Team)
Can you give a brief overview of the types of solutions Carbonite offers for consumers vs. businesses? Is the solution the same or different? I'm interested in doing backups for my personal files but do not need an over the top solution.
Re: Event April 7: How to protect your business-critical dataCarboniteCEO Apr 7, 2009 2:10 PM (in response to Bluesuit)About 40% of Carbonite's customers are businesses. It's essentially the same product for either consumers or business users. We've had many companies with over 100 PCs just buy a copy of Carbonite for each PC. I've heard that it's saved them over 70% on their backup costs. but the other benefits are that you get all your employee's PCs backed up, not just the servers. And it works on the road, anywhere you're connected to the Internet -- a nice feature for laptop road warriors.
In May we will be offering a business-oriented version of Carbonite. Basically the same product, but with administrative features so that an admin can control all the subscriptions. If you're interested in being a beta, please send me an email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Re: Event April 7: How to protect your business-critical dataTechie Apr 7, 2009 2:16 PM (in response to SBC Team)
I write software code. How often do you recommend I create a backup? I've been backing my code once a week Does your solution provide a "reminder" to back up? And is this programmable e.g. once a week, every hour, etc.?
You should really back up continuouslyCarboniteCEO Apr 7, 2009 2:20 PM (in response to Techie)Carbonite backs up continuously. Any time you write a new file to disk, or edit and save an existing file, Carbonite backs it up. We only back up the changes, so frequent updates aren't a problem. Carbonite does offer advanced scheduling options in case you don't want to back up continuously, but I don't see any reason why you would want to postpone a backup. i know that if I lost a whole day's work, i would be pretty annoyed. Carbonite automatically "goes to sleep" when you are using your PC, so that we don't impact your CPU or bandwidth while you're working. After a minute or so of inactivity, Carbonite goes to work catching up on the backups.
Re: Event April 7: How to protect your business-critical dataVince Apr 7, 2009 2:20 PM (in response to SBC Team)
What are some trends in how people are storing, sharing, and accessing data?
Online backup is certainly a booming business right nowCarboniteCEO Apr 7, 2009 2:24 PM (in response to Vince)People will still back up locally to hard drives, network drives, etc. But the big change in backup is the availability of cheap, simple, online backup. There's a difference between a service like Carbonite that is primarilly designed to PROTECT your data, and file sharing services like Yahoo Briefcase, or photo sharing services. We allow you to access your backup from a web browser, but we don't encourage you to use Carbonite to, say, share photos with mom. Most of the "sharing" kinds of products are not really automated backup systems, they don't encrypt your files, and they don't have intelligent client software to manage the automated backup and recovery processes.
Some gruesome statistics on PC vulnerabilitiesCarboniteCEO Apr 7, 2009 2:27 PM (in response to CarboniteCEO)
Statistics on Data Loss
- Every year 43% of computer users lose irreplaceable files. Due to theft, irreparable damage or data corruption, these files could be unrecoverable through conventional means.
- Laptops are increasingly more common than PCs in businesses. Because of this, the possibility of theft increases, but only 3 out of 100 stolen laptops are ever recovered.
- The average cost of recovering data on a 160GB hard drive would cost $1,500 from conventional data recovery companies. The costs escalate when considering the lost productivity. On average a single data loss incident will cost an organization $2,900, including both the cost of data recovery and the cost of lost productivity.
- 6% of all PCs will suffer an episode of data loss in any given year.
- 35% or more of all PCs sold to businesses are laptops, and 1 in 5 of these laptops will suffer hardware failure in the first 3 years.
Re: Some gruesome statistics on PC vulnerabilitiesHoward Apr 7, 2009 2:33 PM (in response to CarboniteCEO)
I read the stats on data loss and PC theft. What common sense advice can you give to us to minimize data corruption and data theft?
Theft and corruptionCarboniteCEO Apr 7, 2009 2:38 PM (in response to Howard)About the only way to protect yourself is to be backed up. Before I had Carbonite, I used to back up to DVDs, but i didn't do it very often, I confess, because it was such a pain in the neck. If you install Carbonite, you can just put the whole issue out of your mind because Carbonite works continuously in the background. We put little green dots on every file and folder that is backed up. I wish I could show you a picture, but you can see examples on our web site www.carbonite.com. As far as corruption, Carbonite keeps multiple copies of your files going back 3 months. So if you try to open a file and find that it is corrupt, you should be able to open Carbonite and get a version from yesterday or whenever there was an uncorrupted version saved to disk. Versioning is a very handy feature of online backup.
More gruesome backup news...CarboniteCEO Apr 7, 2009 2:43 PM (in response to CarboniteCEO)
Some people wrongly assume that backing up files to CD offers a permanent solution. However, the nature of chemicals used to manufacture recordable CDs gives them a much shorter lifespan than store-bought albums. In fact, even recordable CDs that are stored in dark, temperature-controlled rooms usually won't last longer than a few years!
- Tape backups are a common business solution for offsite data backup. However, 34% of companies fail to test their tape backups, and of those that do, 77% have found tape backup failures.
And physical backups have other problems. How many times have you read about tapes disappearing from the delivery trucks. Or one recent incident where a whole truck load of backup tapes disappeared while the driver was in getting a coffee and doughnut.
Read more about our technologyCarboniteCEO Apr 7, 2009 2:47 PM (in response to CarboniteCEO)I have a blog on the Carbonite web site where I talk about our technology in more detail. www.carbonite.com/blog. Feel free to browse and leave me any other questions.
Losing data can mean losing your businessCarboniteCEO Apr 7, 2009 2:52 PM (in response to CarboniteCEO)
Results of Data Loss in Companies
- A company that experiences a computer outage lasting for more than 10 days will never fully recover financially and 50% of companies suffering such a predicament will be out of business within 5 years.
- Small firms are at an even greater risk when suffering major data loss. 70% of small companies that experience a major data loss go out of business within a year.
Re: Event April 7: How to protect your business-critical dataTori Apr 7, 2009 2:28 PM (in response to SBC Team)Can you tell us more about data recovery? So many times my computer has "crashed" or I've gotten a blue screen to find out that my work was wiped out. How can I use the solution to recover my files, some of them that may have even been corrupted?
The blue screen of deathCarboniteCEO Apr 7, 2009 2:31 PM (in response to Tori)
If your computer crashes, that's exactly when you need Carbonite. Carbonite would allow you to recover anything that had been saved to disk prior to the computer crash, assuming that there was enough time for it to be uploaded to Carbonite. About 3% of all hard drives crash each year, so almost everyone has a horrow story like yours. My wife's PC crashed a couple of weeks ago, and i got everything back that she was working on up to a few minutes prior to the crash.
Recovering data with CarboniteCarboniteCEO Apr 7, 2009 2:34 PM (in response to Tori)If your computer has crashed and you replace the hard drive or the entire computer, you reinstall Carbonite using the same email and password. Carbonite will automaticaly recognize that you are moving to a new drive or computer and ask you if you want to restore all your files. If you say "yes" Carbonite will bring everything back down and put them in the same folder structure that existed previously. If all you want to do is restore a couple of files, (for example, if you accidently delete or overwrite a file), then you can use the Remote Access feature with your web browser.
Top causes of data lossCarboniteCEO Apr 7, 2009 2:39 PM (in response to CarboniteCEO)
- Data can be lost through hard drive crashes, theft, power surges, natural disasters, or accidentally deleting your own files.
- Natural disasters can happen across the world without warning. Most people keep their external hard drives and DVDs in the same office or building as the computer they're backing up. So, should a disaster--hurricane, earthquake, fire--occur, both the computer and the data backup could be destroyed.
- Hard drive failure is the leading cause of data loss, accounting for 38% of data loss incidents. Although hard drive manufacturers claim less than a 1% failure rate, recent research by computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University found that a 2%-4% failure rate is more common and under some conditions the failure rate may reach as high as 13%.
- 32% of data loss events are caused by human error. This can be from accidentally deleting a file, incorrectly partitioning a hard drive, or poor airflow around a laptop or desktop resulting in overheating, among other reasons.
- 13% of data loss incidents are caused by software corruption, which might include damages caused by system software or other programs (e.g., a virus attack).
Re: Event April 7: How to protect your business-critical dataCommunityTeam Apr 7, 2009 2:45 PM (in response to SBC Team)Dave - thanks again for participating on SBOC! Your bio shows that you have been a successful "serial entrepreneur" so I was wondering, how did you decide to get involved in this industry and why did you decide to start the company?
Where did the idea for Carbonite come from?CarboniteCEO Apr 7, 2009 2:49 PM (in response to CommunityTeam)All the companies I've start have been based to some degree on person need. In the case of Carbonite, my partner's wife had her laptop stolen out of her car and she lost a couple of years of baby pictures. Then, the same week, one of my daughters had a hard drive crash and she lost the term paper she'd been working on for six weeks. We went looking for a good backup service that was inexpensive and simple. We couldn't find one. i like services that are simple and easy to understand. We just want to solve this one problem -- protecting your data -- better than anyone else.
Re: Event April 7: How to protect your business-critical dataCommunityTeam Apr 7, 2009 2:51 PM (in response to SBC Team)Dave can you tell us more about what new products/services Carbonite is offering?
What's new from Carbonite?CarboniteCEO Apr 7, 2009 2:58 PM (in response to CommunityTeam)We just released Carbonite for the Mac. It's been really well received by the Mac community. We also just released the Remote Access feature, which i mentioned above. And in the months to come, we'll be introducing a version of our product aimed specifically at small businesses. Lots more planned for later in the year, but I promised my marketing VP that I would not spill all the beans!
It's been fun answering questions, and thanks to everyone who posted.
Dave Friend, CEO
Carbonite, Inc.
Re: Event April 7: How to protect your business-critical dataCommunityTeam Apr 7, 2009 2:59 PM (in response to SBC Team)Dave, thanks so much for joining us today and sharing your expertise. Community, if you would like to learn more about Carbonite please visit http://www.carbonite.com/ and visit Dave's blog at www.carbonite.com/blog.
Also, don't forge that Carbonite is offering a special discount to SBOC members: If you sign up for Carbonite, enter offer code "BOA" and you'll automatically get 10% off, expires May 7th. $54.95 a year is the regular price for one year of Carbonite, unlimited capacity. $129.95 for 3 years. that's less than $4 per month.
Thanks for the discount Carbonite!
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Have you considered how much of your business is on your computer? Customer data, financial records, emails, marketing documents and so much more. How would you feel if you woke up tomorrow and everything was gone? Learn how you can protect your business critical data from David Friend, co-founder and CEO of Carbonite Online Backup.
Carbonite launched its Online Backup service in May 2006. Carbonite's industry-first offer of unlimited backup space for a flat low price revolutionized the market for consumer and small business backup services. Since 2006, the company has backed up more than 25 billion files, has restored more than 2 billion lost files for its customers and has a large data center where capacity is measured in petabytes. There are Carbonite users in more than 120 countries.
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Ask Dave your question today and then join us on April 7, 2:00-3:00PM EST for his response. You can even ask him a question during the event, although he may not get to all of them.
Carbonite launched its Online Backup service in May 2006. Carbonite's industry-first offer of unlimited backup space for a flat low price revolutionized the market for consumer and small business backup services. Since 2006, the company has backed up more than 25 billion files, has restored more than 2 billion lost files for its customers and has a large data center where capacity is measured in petabytes. There are Carbonite users in more than 120 countries.
David Friend, Chairman & CEO, Co-founder of Carbonite, has been a successful technology entrepreneur for over 25 years. He previously co-founded five companies: Sonexis, FaxNet, Pilot Software, Computer Pictures Corporation and ARP Instruments. He has been featured in USA Today, Tech Capital, The Boston Globe, Mass HiTech, Fortune, Forbes and Tom Peter's best-selling management book, The Pursuit of Wow!
David can respond to questions like:
- Should I have online backup or local backup?
- How do I prepare my files in the event of a natural disaster?
- Will the files I store be secure and kept private?
Ask Dave your question today and then join us on April 7, 2:00-3:00PM EST for his response. You can even ask him a question during the event, although he may not get to all of them.


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John F. Alderete, Ph.D.
John F. Alderete is Professor in the School of Molecular Biosciences at the Washington State University in Pullman,WA. He earned B.S. degrees in Biology and Mathematics at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and his Ph.D. in Microbiology at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. Alderete's research interests include the elucidation of mechanisms of pathogenesis for the sexually transmitted infection caused by T. vaginalis. He also has multiple patents and an exclusive license agreement with the Board of Regents of the University of Texas for the first-ever point-of-care diagnostic.
Alderete has received several honors, including the Premio Encuentro Award for Science and Technology, the single highest honor given to a Hispanic individual in America. He was elected into the American Academy of Microbiology and Hispanic Magazine selected him as one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics in America. Alderete was president of SACNAS, and he received the 2003 Distinguished Scientist Award presented at the SACNAS annual conference. ASM honored Alderete in 2004 with the William A. Hinton Award for bringing minorities into the sciences. Alderete was inducted into the Mexican Academy of Science in October 2006. Finally, he received the 2007 Outstanding Latino Faculty in Higher Education Research/Teaching in Higher Education award from the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education, Inc.

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Valve put together a comprehensive and deep alternate-reality game to get the word out about the launch of Portal 2, as if this was a title that needed an extra level of publicity. The ARG lead to a lot of speculation, people playing games in order to speed up the release of Portal 2, and a network of players coming together to try to figure out what it all meant. Now Portal 2 has been released and the game is over—we think—and there are a large number of people oddly bitter about the whole thing.
That's silly: the entire point of any alternative-reality game is to publicize something, and there was no downside for anyone. For the gamers that played along, there was much to be gained. This is why the complainers have it all wrong.
A massive sale on independent games
Let's look at one of the largest parts of this whole mess, the Potato Sack. This is a bundle of independent games released on Steam, sold at a substantial discount. The bundle included 13 games, which would have been over $150 if sold individually. During the sale, which is still going on as of publication, the price for the entire bundle is $38.72.
This wasn't a bundle of no-name titles either; the games include Super Meat Boy, a game that was on many outlets' best-of lists last year. It included Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a game with almost universal praise. It included BIT.TRIP.BEAT. The games were almost all must-have titles, and they were being sold for much less than face value. This is a huge win, even if you don't care a bit about Portal 2.
If this wasn't wrapped up in a larger marketing campaign it still would have been one of the best deals in PC gaming this year. So why are people upset? Let's dig deeper.
The games received new content
As the "main" game progressed, the titles in the Potato Sack were updated with new levels and content. If you were able to finish that content you earned Potatoes that were used to move the whole thing along. The thing is, the new content was all Portal-themed, and gave new life to the games people may have already finished. In a world where people are used to paying real money for new content for their games, these developers were giving away new content for free.
The organizational effort to get all these developers together, offer their games for so much less than the standard price, and then add new things to play in each title had to have been intense. Simply creating this mess at all would have been a huge undertaking, but everything went off without a hitch and players had fun trying to find all the secrets. While some claim that if another company had tried this, the backlash would have been more severe, what other company is in a position to try something this ambitious, and has the goodwill to get so many outside developers to play along?
Is this why people are mad, because gamers were given more content for free? Let's keep going.
The countdown
Valve then posted a countdown online, and the gaming press breathlessly reported that the game might unlock when it reached zero. We even hinted that you should take Friday off work to play Portal 2. We were overzealous, but then again so was every other outlet on the planet that covers games. When the countdown ended and it turned out we had to play the games in the Potato Sack to unlock the game, the reaction was less than pleasant. Despite the large amount of people who played the games to unlock Portal 2 early, the game was only released 10 hours before the expected time.
The timing seemed predetermined, with no real way change when the game would be released. This is a genuine point of contention: in the end it really didn't seem like we were able to change anything. Still, for those days we all played great independent games, shared secrets, and earned Potatoes—and it felt like we were doing something. It was fun, and gave us an excuse to play these games.
At the end, all the players that unlocked all the Potatoes were given the Valve Complete Pack for their troubles, a bundle that sells for $100 on Steam. There was some grumbling from players who already had the package—and since gamers were promised a reward for completing the task, that's a legitimate beef—but in general the entire thing played out smoothly.
Besides, you didn't have to pay attention
This is the most important bit. With people complaining that it was all just a stunt and people were silly to pay attention to it, the point remains that it was easily ignored. If you chose to not play along, nothing changed. The game unlocked a tiny bit early, a few games were sold for less money, and a few people won a prize for playing indie games. If you didn't click on the stories about a topic that made you hostile, you didn't have to be aware of any of this. Nothing was taken away from the community, and there was never a negative outcome at stake.
Speculating about what was going on was fun, a bunch of developers who have created interesting games received a lot of publicity, prices were dropped on good games, and gamers had a fun challenge over the weekend. This makes people bitter? We knew from the start that this was going to drum up publicity for Portal 2's release, but at least it did so in a creative and interesting way. Valve seems like a silly target for complaints this time around. If you find yourself upset that someone else is publicizing a game by offering a sale on other games, our best advice is easy to follow: just ignore the stories about it.


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Costume Institute's 'Punk: Chaos to Couture' at Metropolitan Museum of Art
You're greeted by a mannequin giving an arm gesture usually reserved for drivers on the LIE. The final mannequin flips you the bird. In between, you've got garbage-bag gowns, graffiti'd urinals, flashing lights, raucous music. Wait, are we really at the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
Yes, thanks to the Costume Institute's latest exhibit, "Punk: Chaos to Couture," which runs through Aug. 14, and which the Met no doubt hopes will be as popular as the 2011 Alexander McQueen record-breaker.
The exhibit traces punk rock's influence on fashion, from its birth at CBGBs (the rowdy downtown club with the notoriously grimy restroom) and London's Seditionaries (a shop selling clothing by punk pioneers Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood). Both that shop (which looks remarkably kempt) and the loo (which does not) are lovingly re-created based on photos, down to CBGB's disgusting urinals and intriguing graffiti.
Listen. Hear it? Strains of The Ramones singing "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue" and "Judy Is a Punk" waft from speakers. Ahh, good times.
"I wanted to avoid all the usual cliches," says curator Andrew Bolton. So you won't see any Mohawks (a hairstyle that actually came late to the party). The mannequins wear all-over spiky hairstyles akin to early punks.
Nor will you see many actual clothes worn by legends like Patti Smith, Debbie Harry, Johnny Rotten or the late Sid Vicious. Their torn tees and checkerboard minis would "lose their potency" in a museum, says Bolton.
There's video, instead -- gritty, grainy footage of Sid Vicious & Co. rocking out, with loudspeakers blasting the Sex Pistols, Smiths, Ramones.
"Fashion is the first to acknowledge the outsider," says Bolton, so it makes sense that many designers started to incorporate punk elements in their work. The exhibit offers great examples.
Must-sees include Moschino's dot tulle gown with safety pins arrayed in a surprisingly graceful pattern, like flowers or snowflakes. Gareth Pugh's garbage bag gowns, coats and stoles. A Maison Martin Margiela vest of porcelain plate shards held together with wire. Alexander McQueen's spray-painted dresses and Dior's crisp white button-down shirts for men, with bullet holes and bleeding red beads.
Not your standard office attire, obviously.
But punk feels very relevant, says Bolton, especially given today's Internet, "where everyone can create one-of-a-kind content," he says. He suspects today's entrepreneurial DIY spirit, so often credited to the likes of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, may owe more to Rotten and Vicious.
Bolton, as preppy and boyish as they come, is too young (and conservative) to have had a punk moment of his own. But he respects the style, he says.
"They broke all the rules, and let anything be possible."


text: This Teacher Guide is designed to help you bring coding into the primary classroom, no matter what your level of experience with coding is. You'll use visual-based apps like Tynker to teach students ages eight to eleven to think like a coder. The guide includes activities, reflection questions, journal prompts, and more to to help you teach coding concepts and apply them in everyday contexts.


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With the continued success of the NBA Playoffs, TNT once again swept the competition last week, rating as basic cable's #1 network in primetime among total viewers, adult 18-34, adults 18-49 and adults 25-54. TNT also scored first-place rankings in total day delivery of adults 25-54.
The 2014 NBA Playoffs on TNT are delivering an average of 4.2 million total viewers through 33 game telecasts, a +14% increase compared to an average of 3.7 million total viewers through the same period last year. The corresponding 2.7 U.S. HH rating for the NBA Playoffs to date this year has climbed +8% over an average 2.5 HH rating in 2013. Additionally, the NBA Playoffs on TNT have won the night 15 times amongst the coveted men 18-34 and men 18-49 demos and 11 times in total viewers so far this year. TNT has also televised eight of the Top 10 most-viewed NBA Playoff games on cable in 2014, including the all of the Top 4.
For the week of May 5, the NBA Playoffs on TNT delivered seven of cable's Top 10 most-watched programs. The playoffs propelled TNT to win the night in primetime among total viewers, men 18-34 and men 18-49 all four nights the network televised live game coverage last week.
Adult Swim
Across the second week of May 2014, Adult Swim's Total Day performance ranked #1 on basic cable among adults 18-24, 18-34, & 18-49 and men 18-24. The network also ranked #2 for delivery of men 18-34 & 18-49, behind ESPN.
Among Adult Swim original programming, a new episode of Robot Chicken (Sunday, 11:30 p.m.) ranked #1 in its time period among targeted adults 18-24, 18-34 & 18-49. On Monday night, a new episode of The Boondocks (Monday, 10:30 p.m.) posted year-over-year gains among all targeted adults and male demos, ranging between 7% and 58%.
On Saturday night's TOONAMI block, One Piece (1:30 a.m.) ranked #1 in its time period among all young adults and men. Similarly, Blue Exorcist (2 a.m.) ranked #1 in its time period among adults & men 18-24. Black Lagoon (2:30 a.m.) ranked #1 in its time period among all targeted men, while Beware the Batman (3 a.m.) ranked #1 in its timeslot among men 18-24 & 18-34. Moreover, Bleach (12 a.m.) and Naruto: Shippuden (1 a.m.) grew average delivery of targeted adults and men by double-digits vs. the same time period last year, ranging between 14% and 61%. Attack on Titan (11:30 p.m.) and Blue Exorcist (2 a.m.) also increased delivery among adults 18-34 & 18-49 and all targeted men.
Adult Swim programming - including Family Guy, The Boondocks, American Dad and Robot Chicken - accounted for 15 of the top 50 telecasts on basic cable for the week with adults 18-34, more than any other network.
Cartoon Network
Across the second week of May 2014, Cartoon Network ranked as television's #1 network for Early Prime (6-8 p.m.) delivery of boys 6-11 & 9-14, earning average delivery gains among kids 2-11 by 4%, and kids 6-11 by 2%. Average Total Day delivery also grew across all targeted kids and boy demos vs. the same time period last year - highlights include kids 2-11 increasing by 15%, kids 6-11 by 14% and kids 9-14 by 6%.
On Monday night, Cartoon Network's original animated programming fueled the network to land as the #1 television destination among kids 9-14 and boys 6-11 & 9-14 in Early Prime (6-8 p.m.). Average delivery grew across targeted kids/boys 2-11 & 6-11 vs. the same time period last year, ranging between 4% and 13%. A new episode of Adventure Time (6 p.m.) scored as the #1 telecast of the week among boys 6-11 & 9-14, #1 for the day among kids 9-14, and #1 in its time period among kids 6-11 and boys 2-11. Similarly, a new episode of Regular Show (6:30 p.m.) ranked #1 in its time period among kids 6-11 & 9-14 and all targeted boys. Both new episode premieres increased average delivery by double digits across all targeted kids/boys demos vs. the same time period last year, between 11% and 102%. Wrapping up the evening, a new episode premiere of Clarence (7 p.m.) ranked #1 in its time period among kids 6-11 & 9-14 and all targeted boys.
Wrapping up the week, Cartoon Network scored as the #1 television network on all TV among kids 6-11 & 9-14 and all targeted boys on Saturday Night, #1 among kids 6-11 and all targeted boys on Friday Night, #1 among all targeted boys on Sunday Night, and #1 among boys 9-14 on Thursday Night. Thursday night (6-8 p.m.) also increased average delivery of all key kids and boy demos vs. last year - between 3% and 23% - while Friday Night grew average delivery among kids/boys 2-11 & 6-11, between 3% and 20%.
Saturday Morning posted year-over-year delivery gains among kids/boys 2-11 & 6-11, between 50% and 61%. A new episode premiere of Pokémon The Series XY (8 a.m.) ranked #1 in its time period among boys 9-14, while the premiere of Tenkai Knights (7 a.m.) grew average delivery by double-digits - between 43% and 70% - among kids 2-11 & 6-11 and boys 2-11 & 6-11 vs. last year.
The Big Bang Theory on TBS continued to trounce the competition last week, accounting for 19 of basic cable's Top 20 sitcom telecasts among adults 18-49. The show also landed 17 of Top 20 sitcom telecasts for the week among total viewers.
TBS's hidden-camera competition series Deal With It averaged more than 1.3 million viewers in Live + 3 delivery for last Wednesday's episode, a +10% increase over the prior week. In key demos, Deal With It averaged 769,000 adults 18-49 in Live + 3 delivery (+2% vs. the prior week) and 398,000 among adults 18-34 (+4% vs. the prior week).


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Department of Health ProfessionsGuidance Document Change: Consistent with the established position of the NASW, the Board considers "conversion therapy" or "sexual orientation change efforts" to be services that have the potential to be a danger to clients, especially minors. Thus, under regulations governing practitioners licensed or registered by the Board, practicing conversion therapy/sexual orientation change efforts with minors could result in a finding of misconduct and disciplinary action against the licensee or registrant.
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Opposition to current guidance documents on counseling
I oppose the suggested changes to the social workers regulations as these changes would:
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3. deny patients with unwanted same-sex attraction or gender confusion to get the desired counseling to overcome these feelings
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Most of us can agree that Tom Hardy — what with his handsome face, athletic build and British accent — is a very attractive man, but has that always been the case? If Hardy's screen test for Star Trek: Nemesis is any indication, that face, body and accent have all been serving him well since at least 2002 (he eventually won the role, as you can see from the second part of the video).
Now, as a special treat, here is Tom Hardy rapping with a baby. Don't you dare say that I've never gotten you anything.
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A Sandwich a Day: Chicken Pesto at LooseLeaf Lounge
Reviews of Chicago sandwiches.
I never would have known that LooseLeaf Lounge and eatery was on the beginning of a busy strip of Broadway if my coworker hadn't recommended it to me. Maybe I fly by it with fried-chicken focus because it is so close to Crisp, or maybe I'm not a tea drinker and blocked it out. Either way, I'm glad I now know these sandwiches exist.
You can tell LooseLeaf crafts sandwiches with care. Nothing looks like it was haphazardly slapped on, and there was nothing I didn't like about the chicken pesto ($6.75). The pesto on here is basil-heavy, just how I like it. This is one thick sandwich, due to a generous chicken slice and the rosemary bread that might be the highlight. The crunch on the outside makes it clear it's fresh, while it's incredibly soft on the inside. The additions of sun dried tomato, red onion, and provolone kept it from being too simple and rounded it out nicely.
Bonus: they have breakfast sandwiches, and you better believe I'll be back to try those.
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I wasn't 100% happy with the finishing stitch on the sensory snuggly... I missed how the decorative stitch from the tag blankets gave the blanket a really polished/finished look, but I didn't think I could incorporate a top stitch on the snuggly because of the variety of texture, naps, and color of the quilted pieces. But I was talking it over with my friend and partner in crafting crime, Anne (who makes all the delicious Elle Belle quilts) and after discussing about 3 other possible solutions we had an "A Ha!" moment... invisible thread!
I've used invisible thread in the past on the one, and very likely only, quilt I made. It was an I Spy quilt, so there wasn't one color that would've worked throughout the variety of fabrics on the top and I didn't want to take away from the novelty prints, so I just used the "stitch in the ditch" method to quilt it with invisible thread on the top. Side Note: I have pictures of that quilt in process and had every intention of posting about it on my blog, but just making it was such a process (I have a problem with instant gratification!), I have felt justified in not "working" on it in any way, shape, or form since. It's been a year though, so the frustration level is finally waining and maybe I'll actually post about it sometime this week.
So, here are the pictures of the new design. I was already aware that this first test snuggly wasn't perfectly square (all snugglies since have been... again in part due to the quilting genius of Anne), the camera angle didn't help, but the top stitch draws even more attention to it, so consider yourself forewarned. Other than that, I really love how it looks. I like that it's a simple clean line that adds another dimension to the geometric/linear design of it. Since the top is invisible thread, it almost makes it look embossed. The bottom thread is pink or blue depending on the snuggly. I'm off to make a boy version (fittingly, for Anne's new son) so I can add pics of the new way to the listing. What do you think?
I broke out the invisible thread again tonight when I finished the count and spell color recognition beanbags. Yes, they're FINALLY done (again with the lesson in patience)! After my patience and instant gratification comments tonight, I bet you can guess that I avoid hand sewing at all costs. I leave a 1 1/2 inch opening at the bottom center of each beanbag and top stitch them closed after I fill them. I would've gone completely mad trying to exactly match the color of all 12 fabrics with thread that I would've used to top stitch a 1 inch hole closed with... never mind the expense. Invisible thread to the rescue! I used invisible thread on the color side and black on the print side, they look perfect! I literally just finished them and will post the pictures tomorrow after I've had a chance to take them in natural light.


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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declared a U.S. cybersecurity bill, opposed by business and privacy groups, dead on Wednesday after it failed a test vote for the second time.
The bill would have increased information-sharing between intelligence agencies and private companies. It also would have set voluntary standards for businesses that control electric grids or water treatment plants.
Business groups opposed the bill as overregulation and privacy groups worried it might open the door to Internet eavesdropping.
"Everyone should understand cybersecurity is dead for this Congress," said Reid, a Democrat, adding, "Whatever we do on this bill, it's not enough for the Chamber of Commerce."
Reid invited President Barack Obama to issue an executive order "to fully protect our nation from the cybersecurity threat."
The measure fell nine votes short of the 60 needed to limit debate on the bill and open the way to a final vote.
A trade group, the Software Alliance, said Congress should give top priority next year to bolstering security.
Backers had hoped to move the bill during the post-election session. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said recently that attacks on U.S. financial institutions and stock exchanges showed the need for more cyber safeguards.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said last month that unnamed foreign elements had been targeting computer control systems that operate chemical, electricity and water plants and those that guide transportation.
Senator Susan Collins, the senior Republican on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, said the risk from a cyber attack was huge.
"In all my years on the Homeland Security Committee, I cannot think of another issue where the vulnerability is greater and we've done less," Collins said.
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Gilbert Varga made a memorable debut as Baltimore Symphony Orchestra guest conductor four years ago and impressed again in a return engagement last season. He's three for three now.
The Hungarian conductor is back this weekend to lead a hearty program that includes Tchaikovsky's searing "Pathetique" Symphony and a gem of a concerto by Saint-Saens, along with the "Roman Carnival" Overture by Berlioz.
On Friday at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, it was clear from the first notes of the overture that it was going to be a night of tightly focused, all-out music-making.
Varga had the players tearing into the rip-roaring portions of the piece, but he was even more attentive to the sweet spots, ensuring transparency and finesse all the while. Jane Marvine sculpted the tender English horn solo with her usual eloquence.
Saint-Saens' Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor is quite a balancing act. The music shifts effortlessly between sweeping drama and subtle poetry. The soloist gets plenty of look-at-my-technique opportunities, but just as many introspective ones. The score treats the orchestra as a full, often quite assertive partner, but still lets the violin show everyone who's boss.
The BSO's concertmaster, Jonathan Carney, seemed in his element with this concerto. He produced a steady, gleaming tone; tackled the trickiest technical challenges confidently; and, above all, phrased the score's most lyrical passages with an elegant touch.
The second movement, with its gentle call-and-response effects and ethereal coda, was the high point. With Varga ensuring smooth, subtle support, Carney and his colleagues played that movement with such sensitivity that the hall seemed to be bathed in a shimmering glow.
Varga proved a masterful interpreter of Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique." He pushed the symphony's emotional buttons hard, but didn't exaggerate; everything felt organic, inevitable. The conductor's flair for shaping a long crescendo proved especially admirable, making each gradation all the more gripping, each crest all the more shattering.
Other than a few unsettled notes in the brass and some not-quite-centered playing by the cellos and basses at the very end, the orchestra sounded terrific. The intensity onstage recalled the best of the good old days when former music director Yuri Temirkanov led the BSO in soul-shaking Russian repertoire.
The program will be repeated Saturday night at Strathmore, Sunday afternoon at Meyerhoff.


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Ellenberger hopes the fifth time is the charm, as he will again attempt to make his UFC debut on June 28...
With Johnny Case being the latest opponent to fall out of a bout against Joe Ellenberger, 25-year-old southpaw Bryan Barberena has gotten the call to step up and make his UFC debut against his fellow lightweight newcomer at UFC Fight Night in San Antonio on June 28.
9-2 as a pro, Barberena trains with John Crouch and the renowned MMA Lab team in Arizona, and he will enter the Octagon with a six-fight winning streak.
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Recently, I was able to reconnect with one of my most favorite persons in the whole world. She was talking about her blog and she reminded me how I haven't updated mine in a long time. She was talking about the therapeutic aspects of blogging and I remembered how much better and lighter it felt when I would blog. I don't think this awesome friend realized how much our visit yesterday meant to me. I have sort of been like a bear in hibernation. I've kept to my family and my cave. I've accidentally pushed most of my other friends away. Thank God for my bff who keeps tabs on me and calls me at least once a month despite our busy schedules and our children. I wish we could see each other more as well but my goal this year is to see my friends at least once a month. So, thank you awesome friend for visiting with me and my child and making the best banana bread ever! I think my dad running into you at the mall was truly divine intervention.
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Samsung's Galaxy Tab dabbles with augmented reality
Seems Samsung is moving further into augmented reality, shown briefly in the video embedded below along with some other typical iPaddish features. Looks pretty good from where I'm standing—looking forward to seeing the price when it hits the shelves.
The Galaxy Tab was unveiled this Thursday and the fellas over at PC World already have a nice comparison chart for iPad vs. GT. The tablet runs Google's Android operating system, version 2.2.
Here's to hoping that the AR features will make Apple push extra hard to unveil the augmented reality software that I'm sure they've been working on for at least 3 years.


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You know how every year, leading up to New Year's Eve, we're treated to the same barrage of ads about Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve and an even greater bombardment of jokes about how he's been hosting these shows since the Stone Age? Well hold on to your pelican garbage dispenser, because we just struck the mother lode.
The 82-year old TV icon has apparently been living in a custom house in Malibu, California on 23-acres of incredibly gorgeous land, and the house looks exactly like how I'd imagine the crib Fred Flintstone to look if he were a baller. That's right, Clark had a home built to look exactly like a suburban Bedrock palace, and now you can take it off his hands for the modest price of $3.5 million.
Great Gazoo, that's some serious coin!
While plenty of acreage comes with the purchase the actual home features just one-bedroom and two-bathrooms alongside vaulted ceilings in the living and dining room areas and two fireplaces.
The buyer will also receive access to a built-in wine cellar and unobstructed views of the Pacific Ocean and other natural surroundings on the massive estate.
The homes listing states that the home has a beautiful 360 degree view of the Pacific ocean, Channel Islands, Boney Mountains and Serrano Valley.
The cave inspired property also features a bar, breakfast area, dining room, living room, patio and powder room among other amenities. (Via the Inquisitr.)
Only in California, and only from an 82-year old TV host who hasn't aged for 45 years, could you buy a 1br/2ba house for $3.5 million simply because it looks a lot like the house from a famous cartoon. Whatever, if I had the cash, I'd buy it. And I'd marry Emma Stone and make her wear a white dress and rock necklace everyday. Hey, criticize me all you want, it's my dream.
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Attempting to scroll with two fingers on a Windows laptop trackpad after using a MacBook makes you feel like a right fool, I know. It's not the end of the story though, with Lifehacker revealing two hacks for Windows users.
While it won't give you full Mac-like functionality, being able to scroll with two fingers or make gestures with three will certainly improve efficiency. Lifehacker's done a comprehensive run-through for people who want just the two-finger scrolling (which is much easier, as you don't have to hack the drivers, just change a couple of settings).
The full shebang however is much more complex, as you'll have to uninstall the Synaptics drivers your laptop hopefully uses, and then try some new ones on for size. There follows a convoluted tinkering of system settings, but Lifehacker reports that they're "already feeling both more productive and less jealous of MacBook owners." Let us know how you get on if you try either of the hacks. [Lifehacker]


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If you haven't seen this week's cover of TIME, then you probably haven't walked past a newsstand, because it's one of their more provocative covers in recent history. It depicts 26-year-old mother Jamie Lynn Grumet breastfeeding her nearly four-year-old son Aram. Grumet still breastfeeds her five-year-old son, and was herself breastfed until she was six. When I was six, I got into my first real fistfight. I cannot imagine going home after that and nursing.
Grumet appears on TIME's cover – and additional photos appear within the book showing other mothers breastfeeding beyond-infant children – to illustrate a story about the extremes of attachment parenting. This is a set of precepts put forth by pediatrician William Sears. It advocates a number of practices to enhance closeness between young children and their parents, with some of the more talked-about practices including breastfeeding, co-sleeping and baby-carrying.
All three practices are the kinds of things that easily become the social equivalent of that sound a needle makes when it drags across a record. (It occurs to me that that reference is probably lost on somebody as young as Jamie Lynn Grumet. Alas.) I know this because my wife and I, at varying times, practiced all three of these things, and were criticized for all of them. I carried our daughter in a sling for months when she was first born because I was working from home and she absolutely, positively refused to be put down. So I wore her, she slept happily and I worked standing up at a kitchen counter. It wasn't 24/7, it wasn't ideal, and it wreaked havoc on my knees and back, but it worked out. Some friends looked at me like I was an idiot for it, until I hit them with the golden rule of first-time parenting: if it's a dumb idea that works, it's not such a dumb idea.
Co-sleeping was an even more controversial practice, since there are some who feel that it endangers the baby. You could roll over on the little one and smother them, so the theory goes. I'd have to be pretty drunk to do that, quite honestly, and if I was that blotto it's a sure bet my wife wouldn't even let me into bed. The bottom line with co-sleeping was that for us, anyway, it worked out nicely. My wife slept better, our kids slept better and everybody felt better at the start of the day. It only lasted as long as my wife was nursing, which takes us to the third and most controversial practice, and the one at the heart of the TIME story: breastfeeding.
My wife breastfed both of our children for a little more than a year each. The bottom line on this one was pretty easy for us: there is no shortage of science that shows that breastmilk is the best thing for babies. Formula might be the best alternative, but there is nothing in this world that beats the nutritional value of breastmilk for little ones. And there is also plenty of evidence that breastfeeding is good for mothers, too. This really shouldn't come as such a surprise, I suppose…if it was bad for us, we probably wouldn't have evolved to do it. When you consider how huge the healthcare costs of a newborn's medical problems can be, I'd think that any practice that might hedge things there would be seen as a positive.
Of course, we no longer live in the Stone Age, and modern sensibilities, at least in this country, often recoil at the very notion of breastfeeding. (Case in point: those of you who disapprove of this blog's photograph.) My wife and I were aware of this, and although we didn't see the big deal about breastfeeding, we did see that it skeeved some people out, so best to be polite about it. If nursing had to be done in public, then do it discreetly. It's not hard, really. A light shawl or other such cover always did the trick, and not once were we ever scolded while my wife nursed; I don't think we even got a sideways look for it. The criticism we got for breastfeeding was always at some other time, when folks found out that my wife was breastfeeding at all. Strangely, the static always came from folks who seemed to think that breastfeeding was gross or unnatural. (So is a C-Section. What's your point?)
The strongest criticism seemed to come people who had not even had kids, so I could never quite figure out what their problem was. I had one colleague chide me that breastfeeding must have been a handy way to keep my wife stuck at home. When I tried to explain that breastfeeding was my wife's idea, it was deflected away. What can you do? Some folks just aren't down with breastfeeding. And that's fine. What's not fine, however, is when a practice that really has nothing to do somehow becomes your business. TIME seems to encourage that, I think.
The point of the TIME article isn't so much to drive awareness of child-rearing practices that lead to healthier kids, but to sensationalize the reactions the rest of us have to child-rearing practices carried out to the extreme. For as much as I think breastfeeding is a good thing, I still had to crack wise about it at the beginning of this blog. And more than a few articles about the TIME story coin phrases such as "whipped out a tit" to describe breastfeeding with more than a little scorn. Honestly, I just don't know where it comes from. A friend once suggested to me that it's a holdover from women's liberation: that things like breastfeeding made it tough for women to both have kids and maintain a career. If that's so, then I can see the resentment, although a lot of workplaces have made it a lot easier for nursing moms to pump milk on site during the day. It's even something protected by PPACA.
I cannot imagine the collective eyebrow-raising over this will last beyond a week, when TIME runs a cover of something else to pique the interest of an easily distracted public. I do wish that TIME could have refrained from what appears to be a cynical exercise in audience shock in order to sell copies and elicit reader comments. Because this kind of thing typically ends by adding – however slightly –to a baseline skepticism toward parenting practices that may strike some as weird, but have not been proven to actually hurt anybody. And while I am not about to bet that breastfeeding your kid when he is five is going to do much for him except set him up for some cruel mockery at school, you really can't argue against the
And as much as we'd like to think that there is a simple, universal way to raise kids – it would sure take pressure off of us if there were, right? – the truth is that raising a child is perhaps the single most subjective undertaking you'll ever see. What works between parent and child in one example works differently in another. All that should matter is that we each try to find that way to best raise our little ones so they can be as healthy and as happy as can be. What others think of it shouldn't matter. If only that were so.


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Nothing But The Truth: a new film that is all about the Absolute Truth from the producers of "They Came From Beyond….Modernism" and Nothing But The Truth Films. Nothing But The Truth stars Truthslayer, Don Jobson and all your other favorite ODMs as they seek to expose all to the Truth and nothing but the Truth by our own standards of Absolute Truth. Nothing But The Truth is a film that is sure to thrill and delight Discernmentalists for ages to come.
Ken Silva raves: "Nothing But The Truth contains more Truth than Emergents or my other enemies care to comprehend."
The Wretched Ways Of The Master Religion Discernmentalism crew exclaims: " Nothing But The Truth contains every major Truth that we care about from both John MacArthur's Study Bible and Worldviewpedia, the free Christian Worldview encyclopedia—our inerrant and infallible insider sources for all Absolute Truth."
Sharin' Whiplash says excitedly: "Finally a film that proclaims 'nothing but the Truth' about why the rank apostasy of the Roman Arminian Free-Will loving Pelagian based Religion of Modern Evangelicalism is the most "insidious and dangerous" threat facing the world of the Church today. How dare Arminians proclaim that God loves everyone even those whom He created for the sole purpose of sending to Hell for God has no obligation to love anyone–none whatsoever period."
James White agrees and notes that 'Nothing But The Truth captures John MacArthur's Truth Wars™ brilliantly and is a definitive statement on the Pure Doctrines of our Absolute Truth of God's Absolute Sovereign Wrath towards all but a few as John MacArthur Truthfully and solemnly proclaims:'
"Liberal thinking about God's love also permeates much of evangelicalism today. We have lost the reality of God's wrath. We have disregarded His hatred for sin. The God most evangelicals now describe is all-loving and not at all angry. We have forgotten that "It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God" (Hebrews 10:31). We do not believe in that kind of God anymore.
We must recapture some of the holy terror that comes with a right understanding of God's righteous anger. We need to remember that God's wrath does burn against impenitent sinners (Psalm 38:1-3). That reality is the very thing that makes His love so amazing. Only those who see themselves as sinners in the hands of an angry God can fully appreciate the magnitude and wonder of His love.
In that regard, our generation is surely at a greater disadvantage than any previous age. We have been force-fed the doctrines of self-esteem for so long that most people don't really view themselves as sinners worthy of divine wrath. On top of that, religious liberalism, humanism, evangelical compromise, and ignorance of the Scriptures have all worked against a right understanding of who God is. Ironically, in an age that conceives of God as wholly loving, altogether devoid of wrath, few people really understand what God's love is all about."
Rhoblogy proclaims: "Finally a Truly Christian film that understands 'nothing but the Truth' about the Absolute Sovereignty of our Pure Doctrines which are the Absolute Truth. I recomend this film to all (and by all I mean only the Truly Regenerated Elect) True Bible-Believing Republican Christians!"


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2-year-old dies following high-speed crash
Police looking for driver of white van
A 2-year-old died Friday after being involved in a high-speed crash earlier in the week.
Louisiana State Police said Sylvester Coleman, of Houma, died at the Interim LSU Public Hospital Level 1 Trauma Center as a result of injuries suffered in a crash Wednesday on U.S. Highway 90 near Louisiana 632 in Des Allemands.
Police said that a 2004 Saturn Ion, driven by Creshondria Jackson, 23, of Houma, was going east on U.S. 90 at a high rate of speed. A white van passed the car in the right lane, and then pulled in front and applied the brakes, police said.
The Saturn went off the road to the right, struck a roadside ditch and rolled multiple times, police said.
Jackson and her front seat passenger, Dearron Tucker, 23 of Raceland, and Jackson's 4-year-old son suffered minor injuries and were taken to St. Charles Hospital. Coleman was seated behind the passenger in a booster seat secured with a lap/shoulder belt.
Police said improper use of the lap/shoulder belt and booster seat resulted in Coleman being ejected, and he suffered head trauma. Louisiana law requires children less than 4 years old or less than 40 pounds to be restrained in a full five-point harness system.
Police said toxicology reports are pending, but they do not believe impairment is not believed to be a cause of the crash. Authorities said high speed was the likely cause.
Anyone with information regarding the identity of the white van should contact Troop B at 504-471-2775. Criminal charges are pending and the crash remains under investigation.


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Is marijuana medicine or menace? In New Jersey, it's both. (Column)
When it comes to New Jersey's marijuana laws, Gov. Chris Christie is trying to have his cake and eat it too, and he's not even stoned.
But Ed "NJWEEDMAN" Forchion? Well, yeah, he's stoned, obviously, but it's not stopping him from pointing out the state's pot laws seem to be written by a "Catch-22" devotee.
In a nutshell: Marijuana is a Schedule I drug in New Jersey. Under state law, a drug is Schedule I if, among other things, it "has no accepted medical use in treatment in the United States."
Well, last I checked, California was part of the United States. Same with Colorado, Arizona, Maine and another 14 states where medical marijuana laws exist. Or course, since January 18, New Jersey is also one of those states that recognizes marijuana as medicine.
So the cake metaphor? It fits. New Jersey has criminal marijuana laws stating pot is the worst of the worst when it comes to drugs because it has no accepted medical value, and yet also has another law stating marijuana has oodles of accepted medical value.
Forchion has noticed this ridiculousness, and filed a legal brief in Evesham, N.J., on Friday to challenge it. Why Evesham? It's the same town where he was arrested last week for holding a pair of joints. He was a passenger in car that had a headlight out. Somehow, he got searched. This is how things go when you're the Weedman.
So not only is he seeking to upturn the state's laws on marijuana (again) he's also making it easy for other marijuana offenders to do their bit to clog up the state's judicial system. Set up at njweedman.com/challenge.pdf is a simple, printable legal brief for people who have been arrested on marijuana charges since the state's medical marijuana law went into effect. Basically, print it, fill it out, file it, and have your lawyer tell the judge and prosecutor that possession of marijuana cannot be a Schedule I offense because according to state law it's not a Schedule 1 offense. Cheech and Chong couldn't have argued it better.
"I'm not even getting mad at this," Forchion told me. "I just want people all over the state filing these arguments. I'm also preparing another brief for people who were arrested on marijuana charges in the last five years, even if they were convicted. It's so simple, so I'm putting it out there for others to fill out their names and argue the same thing."
Forchion noted this legal gambit of his is really no different than the ones he's been running forever.
"These are the same arguments I've had for years, but public opinion and laws have caught up to me," he noted.
Forchion would be happy with one of two events happening here: Either the state gets it together and takes marijuana off the Schedule I list, or the state recognizes medical marijuana card holders from other states.
As for the first one, there's language in the state's laws allowing the director of Human Services to simply make the change. Unfortunately, the director works at the pleasure of the governor, and there is no way Christie is going to let the change be made willingly. Christie doesn't exactly seem to be too keen on the whole medical marijuana thing anyway, as he's seen fit to make acquiring the "drug" costly, time-consuming and almost impossible.
As for the second option, well, common sense should apply here.
"If I get a prescription for Levitra in California, do I need a prescription for Levitra in New Jersey?" Forchion said.
Obviously, the answer is "no," as men with erectile dysfunction do not fear jail time for transporting their medicine across state lines. But medical marijuana users currently have that fear in New Jersey.
There is a third option, one that Forchion kind of hopes doesn't happen: Outright dismissal of his charges. Sure, he'd get off without even a slap on the wrist, but the laws would stay the same and other marijuana users -- both medicinal and recreational -- would continue to get jacked up by the current statutes, which, again, MAKE NO SENSE.
Sorry for hollering there, but come on: Marijuana, under the current language of the law, should be, at worst, a Schedule V drug with the less severe penalties for use.
"All other states either have a medical exemption or have rewritten the laws," said Forchion. "Except New Jersey. New Jersey is trying to have it both ways."


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Here's a story: Teachers and spouses are milling around after a statewide Educator Recognition banquet. It's been a wonderful evening, celebrating dozens of teachers and administrators who have been named Teacher/Principal/Superintendent of the Year, Milken Award winners, National Board Certified Teachers, etc. A former TOY's husband comments: Why did all the teachers cross the stage tonight with their heads down? Why were they so anxious to get back to their seats? If this were a real estate sales banquet, they'd be raising those plaques over their heads and grinning. If they were athletes, they'd be pumping their trophies in the air.
A long-time school superintendent asks me: If teachers are so outraged about an excess of testing--if testing mandates have destroyed their curriculum and forced changes to what they know to be effective practice--why aren't they marching in the streets? Why are they so compliant with the destruction of their professional judgment and responsibilities?
Compiling the results of a teacher leadership survey, more than a quarter of the 100 teachers surveyed, in answer to the question "What does a teacher leader do?" reply with some variation of: A teacher leader leads his colleagues by quiet example. A teacher leader doesn't promote herself.
What is it about teachers?
Is this an example of the infamous crab pot theory-- anyone trying to escape from the daily grind of classroom teaching is pulled back into the quagmire of a flat, non-prestigious profession? Is it the egalitarian ethos in education, that elevation of fairness over highlighting exceptional practice?
Or are teachers by nature democratic, even self-effacing? Does spending 180 days a year trying to civilize children and build functional learning communities suck the self-promotion impulse out of veteran teachers?
My friend Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach--a compelling speaker and insightful author--wrote this in a wonderful piece on "unselfish self-promotion:" We are taught that arrogance is associated with pride and that we should err on the side of humility. But is marketing our own ideas and work prideful if we really believe what we have to offer is useful, transformational, or helpful?
In general, cooperation and respect for others' viewpoints are good things. If a working group or initiative is dominated by a handful of speakers--and we've all been there--you don't get collaboration, or even leadership. We also live in a bully culture, one that rewards the loudest voice.
But--distinction is how we make sense of our world. We need educators who will step up and say "My 20 years' experience in the classroom--and the quality of my ideas and practice--make me an expert. Listen to me. I have confidence. I am a valuable resource."
Confidence, by the way, does not equate to "oversized ego." Nussbaum-Beach points out that women are especially prone to fretting over this: For women there's also the concern about potentially hurting other people's feelings. Women are hesitant to self-promote or talk about their achievements because they don't want to dismiss or alienate less successful people.
When the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards began issuing certificates for teachers who achieved National Board Certification, lots of teachers put those certificates in a drawer. The intention was to give NBCTs a beautiful, tangible marker of their accomplishment, but teachers were reluctant to hang them in their classrooms--or display them in the school trophy case--saying "I don't need a piece of paper to tell me I'm an excellent teacher."
Pointing out that architects, accountants and attorneys proudly display board certifications on their office walls didn't change these teachers' minds. Odd, since the certificate was earned at great personal expense, effort and intellectual challenge.
Good teachers are not self-effacing. A timid, self-effacing person meeting 35 8th graders at 7:20 every morning is in trouble. So why aren't accomplished teachers at the forefront of the discourse on their own issues?


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So far so good...
I've been very impressed so far in my first 24 hours of owning this phone. The screen is huge and Netflix streaming looks spectacular and plays without a glitch on the LTE network.
I will say that the battery life is questionable. After my first full charge it only lasted about 7 hours, granted this was following heavy use. The facial rcognition feature is great and cool to show off to other people, but im not sure how practical it is...Takes a few seconds to read your face and dim lighting gives you no chance.
I might sound negative but I'm overall very happy with this phone and would recommend it to others - yes over the iPhone.
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Great phone, horrible battery
Carrier: Verizon
I had my Verizon GNex for 2 month.
I had the standard battery and I had an extended battery
(Hyperion 3800mAh) and with the extended it just about lasted all day.
I like everything else about the phone, pure android was awesome, the screen was sharp.
But I cannot get over the horrible battery life.
Someone in quality control had their eyes closed when testing this phone.
I wanted to like the phone but due to the battery life I want to punch someone at Samsung in the face.
With the standard battery, it lasts about 4 hours. maybe 6 hours if you dont touch the phone.
PRO - pure android
- Sharp screen detail
- nice shape and design , feels great in hand
- just the right size.
- snappy OS response
CON - Unacceptable battery life
- Phone gets VERY hot,
battery must be pulled to
stop it from heating up
- you can see the vertical lines in
the OLED screen
Nexus!!! Great!
This phone is amazing. I love it. I was deciding on the galaxy s3...f dat haha. Props to the developers, Samsung and Google dev phone!! Ready for jellybean!
Overall a good phone for a "big screen" fanatic but Im not impressed
The large screen is nice and bright, resolution is good. I see a lot of people complain about the 5MP camera, which in all reality doesnt really shoot worse images than an 8MP. Only if you blow them up larger than an 8x10 will you see a difference. Im sure thats part of the reason why Samsung didnt put an 8MP camera on here. The Verizon LTE internet is amazingly fast, considering I ported to an employee Verizon line from an Employee Sprint line! The difference is impeccable!! Although the network and data itself if very fast, I have had several issues with apps "forcing close" such as Pandora and even the camera. I switched from the Galaxy S II from Sprint and although the internet and network wasnt as good, the phone was a little better I.M.H.O
Pros: large screen
form fitting design
good sound
ICS woo woo woo all the rage (not really lol)
battery life
apps forcing close
not the best texting intergration
was expecting a 16MP camera lol but 5 is ok
camera editing in-phone features a little tricky to use
Had for a month, here is my review
I am giving this phone a rating of 4 because it is still a 4g LTE phone with some issues.
Huge beautiful screen with high resolution. It ranks up there with the retina display.
The standard battery has impressed me. I use the phone often, but Im not a junkie that has to have it in my hand all the time. I get plenty of power out of it with time to spare. I usually upgrade to an extended battery. Dont feel the need to with this one.
ICS is sweet. I occasionally have a glitch from weatherbug, but its not a major concern. Ulike other phones, I love being able to uninstall the garbage verizon feels we need on the phone.
The ability to shut down running programs easily without and added task killer program.
RECEPTION: This will fall under both categories. Locally, I do not have 4G, so I have found it works great when I keep the phone in 3G mode. Just yesterday, I drove down a road that I have never been able to keep a call connected all the way through, and this phone did not skip a beat. Yes, the signal does not show to be as strong in bars or DB's, but real world it works just as good as anything I have ever used. ( I buy 3-4 phones a year FYI)
ICS did away with the ability to select all and delete all emails easily. I have to select them individually like the iphone.
4G to 3G hand-off this is still a problem, but I think all the 4G phones have issues. I guess it is the growing pains of the next level. It will still drop connection once in awhile, but no where near the frequency of the Bionic it replaced.
First I give it a 4 because there is always room for improvement.
- 4.65" screen makes watching videos nicer and to boot the resolution is always been samsungs strong point.
- responsive and smooth
- googles starting to get the reason why people choose the iphone because the UI is pretty.. ics does that functional and pretty
- design just feels good in the hands.
- unlock-able boot-loader (for you rooters out there you know what i mean)
- Camera is solid and was hoping for a higher resolution but, not a deal killer yet on the Pro side it has zero lag when snapping multiple pictures in a row.
- Speaker could be a bit louder... i have a hard time hearing some video's audio and i had to make my ring-tones a couple decibels louder to actually hear it from my pocket
but overall this is a solid phone and I must say that I'm Not a huge fan of Samsung to the fact I shy away but since it was a nexus and googles finger is on this i went for it and haven't looked back!
A review from someone who's had the phone more then 24 hrs.
I got this phone on release date, dec 15, and have been pretty happy with the overall expirence. I've read a lot of reviews about this phone from people who have only played with it in the store or kept it less then 24 hrs. You shouldn't write a review until you've had it at least a week, that way you can get use to the OS, the battery has time to charge properly and you use all the features the phone has to offer. Here's my breakdown:
*screen is responsive and crisp
*UI is a nice improvment and very intuitive
*phone calls are loud and clear
*processor works fast, multi tasking is a breeze
*camera (while not perfect) has nice features and offers lots of options
*extended battery makes it easy to get 18 hrs without making your phone a brick.
*power and volume controls are easy to access
*FINALLY they got it right!! A charging port on the bottom of the phone, where they all should be.
*no sd card. while not a deal breaker, its much easy to plug one in and have all your pics, music, videos etc right away.
*no HDMI out port
*battery door is a joke
*signal seems weaker but I have yet to not connect to data or phone based only on bars.
*4g is difficult indoors, but I've expirenced that with the razr, rezound, bionic and charge.
*speaker phone is just ok
Overall I'm enjoying this phone and find it to me nearly perfect inspite of some small cons. VZW's 4g has been up and down lately, forcing me to use 3g a lot. Those who rate this phone low have obviously either not given it a chance or have never owned it.
Nice phone
*First Nexus device on Verizon
*First device with Android 4.0 ICS
*Dual Core
*Zero Shutter Lag
*Screen Size (4.65)
*No SD card slot (Google has explained that how 4.0 manages memory is why they excluded the SD card)
*Camera quality isn't the best even with the zero shutter lag
*Random phone restart (Happened to me once and others that I know of. It is not necessarily the phone, but might be a minor software glitch)
*Weight of phone (I am a person that prefers a little bit heavier phone in my pocket so that I know it is still there. This one is a little too light for my taste, but nothing a case didn't fix)
*Signal strength is fine, despite some people claiming there is an issue (might effect certain phones)
*Not all my favorite apps work on 4.0 yet, but that is not the phones fault and I know the developers will eventually update their app.
*100% touch screen. This is neither a pro or a con, but I figured I would add it.
Overall I think this is a really good phone. I really wish there was an SD card slot, since I like the ability to expand my memory. The phone is fast and I only live in a 3G area. I have not had the chance to experience 4G just yet.
If you are a person that likes to be on the cutting edge of technology, then this might be a phone for you.
Want to love this phone, but
I would rate this phone a 5 but I can't. I love the software. ICS and pure google updates are a huge awesome bonus. The screen, and the LTE (when available) make this phone awesome.
My problem is with the phone's signal strength. Yes I know that VZW is going to pump out an update, but I truly can say that I think that this device has a hardware problem, and don't see a software fix doing much.
I can deal with the fact that the LTE network is still being built in my community (Albuquerque) so the spotty coverage with that is understandable. I cannot deal with the fact that this phone has a problem with the audio during calls. My problem is that while I'm in a call, all of a sudden the person on the other end stops receiving clear audio from me. Sometimes they just get silence (like if I muted my phone) and others they hear a bunch of scrambled sounds.
The calls are made in the same places of my previous VZW phones (home/work/driving). I have never had these problems prior to this phone. I have had 3 VZW phones prior to this and have been a loyal customer since 2004.
I will say that VZW customer service has been very accommodating during the time I had this phone. I have complained a bunch of times and the actually have replaced my device 2 times since December 16th making this new one my 3rd. If this one experiences the same problem, they will replace it (I'm sure for a fee but I hope not).
I'd list all pros and cons for this device, but you can find that on the other reviews for this device on this forum so I won't . I agree with all the pros. This phone is truly Awesome, but if I can't make a call that is clear, then I can't keep going down this route. We must remember that as smart as a phone is, it must be a phone first. So far this one has not been one.