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And the winner is…June 20, 2014 at 12:29 pm | Posted in Art post, Article | 1 Comment
Thanks to the noble souls who took up the challenge of naming all the cards in my playmat. Your average score was 16.12/17 – not too shabby! I hope you all had fun with this guessing game.
Here is the full list:
- Bad Moon
- Sorceress Queen
- Demonic Tutor
- Sengir Vampire
- Hypnotic Specter
- Lord of the Pit
- Royal Assassin
- Phyrexian Obliterator
- Phyrexian Plaguelord
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel
- Pack Rat
- Order of the Ebon Hand
- Bloodghast
- Nantuko Shade
- Nether Shadow
- (Background) Castle Sengir
- (Background) Erebos, God of the Dead
I'm impressed that people could get Sorceress Queen at all! In my early Magic years, she was right up there with Hippie as an iconic black card. Did you know she used to be worth 5 bucks back then?
Castle Sengir was another selection that seemed odd or unlikely to some. If you know that I love Homelands, though, it is not so strange. Sure, it's a terrible Magic card, but Castle Sengir is a land that I feel should be on par with Urborg for Vorthos gravitas. Baron Sengir lives there, yo!
So, without further ado, the winner of the contest – and a "March of the Evil Ones" playmat is…
James Smith!
Not only was James the first entrant with a perfect score, but he also went to great lengths to describe his choices. And, he wisely noted that I could have been a dick and considered Whip of Erebos an 18th card. But I didn't :) Congrats, James!
Thanks again to everyone who took the time to play. Your emails made my week! And fear not, whether you live in Toronto or elsewhere, these playmats will be available very soon.
P.S. Sorry Marcus! /Worldfire
March of the Evil Ones: Story Time & Playmat Giveaway!June 17, 2014 at 11:00 am | Posted in Art post, Article | Leave a comment
I'm a sucker for Magic nostalgia. When I was a littler Derf Jr. circa 1996, I'd daydream about the artwork of the cards I owned. There was a mystique about Magic artwork back then: where these creatures came from, what lands they lurked in, and what treasures (or horrors!) lay within the ruins of crumbling castles and dark forests. There was no world building back then, no style guides. My imagination would fill in the gaps and run wild.
Fast forward to today. I wanted to do something different for my latest playmat. I love the themes I used for the last two (Mystics and Squadron Hawks, Goblins vs. Elves), but to mix things up, the next one had to be more…cohesive. Like a united force of creatures, a mix of old and new. And I wanted to bring a different feel to the mat…darker and more mysterious perhaps. And last but not least, I wanted to revisit and reinterpret a little of that old-school nostalgia.
Behold: March of the Evil Ones!
The biggest challenge of this playmat was figuring out what to include. Ask yourself: what creatures do you associate with Mono Black? Tournament decks, casual decks, EDH and cube inclusions…there are so many creatures throughout Magic history that you could name.
A lesser but no less considerable challenge was putting them altogether in one scene. While it would be nice to include half a dozen of the Mono Black-themed lands we all know and love, putting them into one landscape was, I felt, a little unrealistic. And some creatures are just too big-boned to include all of them, and so in true Mono Black fashion, some sacrifices had to be made.
You might be wondering why I haven't mentioned any of the cards I put into this mat. That's because you have the chance to win one of these mats: by naming all of the cards!
There are [CENSORED] cards depicted in this playmat. Email mtgderfington at gmail dot com with the Subject Line: "Playmat Giveaway" and include a list of all [CENSORED], along with your name (and Facebook/Twitter info if you have it).
If you get all [CENSORED] right, you'll be entered into a draw. The winner will receive a signed and altered playmat!
I'll be choosing the winner on Friday morning (June 20), so get those emails in! And sharing this post on Facebook and Twitter will not hurt your chances ;)
Why You Should Support My Climb! (Get Derfed!)April 8, 2014 at 11:36 am | Posted in Article, Personal | Leave a comment
What's the Stair Climb?
You may have seen me tweet recently about taking part in something called the CN Tower Stair Climb. If you've got a minute, I just wanted to explain why it's important to me, how much your support would mean, and what's (potentially) in it for you!
About a year ago, I made a commitment to live a little healthier. Over the past 12 months, I changed my diet and got back into martial arts with Muay Thai and Eskrima. On May 1, I'm pushing myself further by taking the Stair Climb.
The CN Tower here in Toronto is one of the tallest freestanding buildings in the world. It's 550m/1,800 ft high, and while there's obviously an elevator to take visitors to the top, there's also a 1,776-step stairway.
1,776 steps. It takes 140 steps to get to the 7th floor of my office building.
Every year, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) holds a fundraising event where participants gather pledges to climb the stairs to the top of the tower. Funds raised go toward environmental protection and research, as well as preservation of the world's endangered species. This cause is also important to me, as I work in the environmental sector.
What I'm Asking
My goal is to raise $250 for the stair climb. I plan to crush this tower.
I'm asking for your support to help meet my goal. Every pledge, big or small, means the world to me. Every dollar helps. You work hard to make a buck, and I wouldn't ask this of you if it wasn't important to me.
You can check out my fundraising page HERE.
Remember that none of this money goes to me – it's for the animals!
What's In It For You
As a measure of gratitude, if I meet my fundraising goal, I'll DERF (draw a Twitter avatar for) two random donors. If you've been DERFED already, you have the choice between being DERFED AGAIN or having a comic drawn about you, expounding upon your physical and mental perfection. This is a promise!
Thanks in advance, guys.
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A really exciting project to be a part of. International Greetings is one of the world's biggest gift packaging, stationary and creative play manufacturers and wanted us to create a video that encapsulates the excitement of the products they make, with the scale of the business. More than anything else, they just didn't want a boring corporate video!
John Lewis were in need of some videos that diarised all the goings on in their pop up open house in Angel. We captured world renowned chef Omar Allibhoy and his tapas cusine, Sage's coffee demonstrations and a beginners course for Canon.
Young drivers make up a disproportionate number of those involved in accidents, we were asked to try to reach them in a way that they can relate to. We created two hard hitting films, all told through a social network and a time lapse. You can access the other film (Georgia's story) through the press release: http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/news_mod_home/news_mod_year/news_mod_month/news_mod_show?year1=2013&month1=10&NewsID=59101
We made a series of virals for Jeff Salmon (of Channel 4′s Four Rooms) and The Air Conditioning Company. These 'product demonstrations' included Kim Jong-il, an angry Scotsman with a penchant for breaking things, a sexually frustrated-innuendo-obsessed blonde lady, an interrupting baby and…..an ostrich. These will be released over the coming months, in the meantime, enjoy one with his highness!
Like nature, the Chinese language does not draw any
conclusions of its own, but lets itself be read.
Characters open onto several directions at once.
No matter how far removed the new character
is from the old, the scholar can still bring fresh life
to the object by means of the word.
In this perspective, any written page, any surface
covered with characters turns into something
crammed and seething… full of lives and objects,
of everything to be found in the world, in the world of China.
Hal Ritson of The Young Punx writes… "This isn't a video that came about in any planned commercial way. A couple of month's back I was in China playing Young Punx gigs in Beijing and Shanghai, and while walking down Nanjing Road in Shanghai I stumbled upon this surreal and bewitching spectacle of literally hundreds of middle-aged Chinese women, studiously and diligently dancing a bizarre mixture of disco, chinese traditional and line-dancing moves. I don't know the back story. I guess it's just their idea of a good night out. The incongruity of it was like discovering some weird unexplained congregation of hundreds of wild animals in nature.
I filmed it there and then on my iPhone, and when back in the UK played it to Adam Baroukh from Superplex Films, who had worked with us on the Afterburn video for Bobby Tank. As he commented then, you couldn't really ask for more for a song called "Girls Like Disco" than some candid found footage of women dancing very intensely in a strange location. We loved all the characters lurking in the dance – the white-dressed leading lady oozing with haughty elegance, being following intently, and with only varying success by her comedic dumpier friend next to her. Searching the ensemble for different people's characters is the gift that keeps giving. Adam edited the footage together, locking it to the beat. But we weren't finished yet.
We then passed the fully edited video over to esteemed Dutch multi-media artist Han Hoogerbrugge who has overseen nearly all Young Punx artwork and visuals since 2005. You never know what will emerge from Han's dark and mysterious mind, and we were as surprised as ever when Han passed the video back warped into a seizure inducing Kaleidoscopic trip, abstracting the formerly lofi camera-phone footage into a bewildering psychedelic fantasy and adding the occasional pole dancer and dancing skeleton to the crowd.
God knows what kind of video this makes, but I love how organic and unplanned it is. A team effort that would never have emerged from a corporate A&R meeting in a million years…"
We've all been there. This is a 'How-To' helping you solve that age-old conundrum…
Written and Directed by Eddie Sternberg
Starring Mark Elias and Dave Beech
Cinematography by Adam Baroukh
Sound Mix by Calhoun Owen
Graded by Andrew Cloke
Production Managed by Danni Godsi
Edited by Superplex Pictures
Bobby Tank is one of 2013′s most exciting new acts. Our video for his blinding track "Afterburn" has received acclaim from music and style bibles such as The Fader and Vice, whilst also being featured and used as a case study on Radar. The basis of this video was to create "F*ck Yeah moments from Scfi Fi scenes that don't exist" however we would rather not write anything else about this project. We want you to click play and let the images speak for themselves.
Superplex were asked to create a short mash-up of a headlining event from 2012 for Channel 4's televised programme 2012: Mashed. We asked 'What did Felix Baumgardtner witness as he re-entered the earth's atmosphere at supersonic speeds? Red Bull granted us permission to use footage of the descent for our idea. The result is a psychedelic rotoscoped cosmic rendering of what might have be on Felix's mind in his incredible stunt – set to an instrumental Bobby Tank's recently released 'Glass Moon'.
Using the 'time-slice' photography technique made famous in Philips' 'Carousel' advert, we made a commercial video for lawfirm Sternberg Reed. We were asked to show prospective customers the lawfirm's different areas of specialization in the memorable and original way. The whole film was shot in one take and had to be immaculately choreographed so all the actors and actresses were frozen on their marks as the steadicam moved past. It made us appreciate the opening shot to Boogie Nights all the more…
Documentary filmmaker Adam Baroukh goes to Jerusalem and stays with a friend in the ultra-orthodox Jewish neighbourhood of Mea Sharim. He explores the streets of this private and observant world, meeting a host of unusual characters.
We enter a community of religious expats living out in Jerusalem, most of whom have not been born religious but rather, come to religion over the course of their lives. Meet Haim from Missouri: his grandfather is a preacher at his family's local church – at the age of fourteen, he decided to convert to Judaism and was kicked out of the house by his parents. Gil Locks – 'The Central Park Guru' sat in silence half-naked on a Central Park bench for three years, gathering a huge following of devotees in 70's New York. Now he's living out his later years in the Old City of Jerusalem.
This film is a glimpse at a world at once spiritually free and at the same time intensely bound to tradition.
A documentary that was shown at the NEW YORK SHORTS Film Festival centered around Parkour Legend Johnny "Sticky " Budden. Sticky ran 1000 miles from John's O Groats, Scotland to Paris, France to raise money and awareness for Motor Neurone Disease. We captured the highs, the lows and the unbelievable stunts along this epic journey.
Inspired by visual artist Marco Brambilla's 'Flashback' videos, we stacked up the screens to create a mosaic of images functioning as a visual representation of the elements that make each track. Each window, or row of windows represents a certain instrumental layer being heard in the song drawing the viewer's mind to the attention to production and the function of each element. For the post production, we collaborated with video artist James Alec Hardy who brought a mixture of technological virtuosity and swirling feedback trails to the video.
'Swinging Addis' – a film about the rise and fall and redemption of a group of spectacular Ethiopian Jazz musicians who in the swinging 60′s ignited an explosive cultural revolution in Addis Ababa. Their music was sublime but this golden era was brought to an end by the military regime that took over the country and forced the musicians into exile and jail. Now, after many years, they are back
on a world stage, making up for lost time and still swinging. Swinging Addis is the Ethiopian 'Buena Vista Social Club'…but with a dose of sex, tedj and rock and roll.
The project is to be directed by veteran filmmaker Henrique Goldman and co-produced by Superplex Pictures and Mango Films. We are working with Francis Falceto, producer of the Ethiopiques series as a consultant, as well as Ethiopian stars Mulatu Astatke, Alemayahu Eshete, Mahmoud Ahmed, Getatchew Mekurya, Tsegue Maryam Guebro, The Ethiopian Television Archives, Ethiopian Film Initiative, Gem TV, The Yared Music School Addis and top cinematographer Luca Bigazzi. We are in the advanced stages of development and are currently seeking finance for the film. Please get in touch for more details.
This visual poem was directed by Eddie Sternberg and Danny Wood for the Manchester-based band Patterns. Themes of dream imagery and fantasy that run through a number of the directors' promos find themselves realized in this graceful and delicate story about a little girl's dream…..or is it a memory? Decide for yourself

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Childminder in Shipley
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Iam ofsted registered and a member on ncma, also quality assured and able to deliver nef (free 15 hrs per wk ) for nursery aged children .
I provide care from birth upwards,
1offer a warm,loving,friendly enviroment and can cater for most parents wishes.
I have a wide range of toys&equipment for all ages ,stages& ablities.
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i have been childminding for 7 yrs now.
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Hi, this is my first review ever, and ironically the first for this title. When Dave Mustaine finished production on the album RISK, He would find that many of his original guitar parts had been replaced by producer Bud Prager from Bad Company. This upset Dave and many of the fans(including me). It was also lead guitarist Marty Friedman who wanted to take an alternative approach with the band.
Most of the Techno/Disco effects from the tracks were taken out. This is evident when you hear the first track, Insomnia.
Imsomnia- I never liked this song until I heard the remaster. I used to hate the techno effects. But some of its still there.
Prince of Darkness- Another track i never particulary cared for. But much better now for some reason. I still cant put my finger on it.
Enter The Arena- Nothing to review here. Just fans chanting "Crush, Crush!" An Intro to the next song.
Crush Em- I always liked this better than that stupid Gary Glitter song. A great song for when your home team scores!
Breadline- The catchy chorus, the catchy solo by Dave. Plus a new cool intro. My Favorite On the Album!
The Doctor Is Calling- Probaly the heaviest track on the cd. Very Dark Riff just brings you in to this Metal Masterpeice.
Ill be There- Decent song. I never cared for the chorus. But cool nonetheless
Wanderlust- I like the mid eastern + wierd feel the album has. The Chorus is especially Catchy. I love it, always have.
Ecstacy-Very cool acoustic guitar during the verses. Nothing like any of their other songs.
Seven- A pretty wierd riff in a very wierd song. I never listened to it much but its not bad.
Time: The beginning- An honest song here. Time catches up to all of us. Dave can't be a 28 year old playing RIP Songs forever.
Time:The End- Very different to the beginning but its about the same thing, accept here the Reaper confronts him.
Overall the bonus tracks are pretty cool to. This is definatly different from the original. A must have!


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After Kyle Bradley sustained an undisclosed injury while training, Phillipe Nover (5-2-1) has agreed to step in and replace him against Sam Stout (14-5-1) at UFC Fight Night 19: "Diaz vs. Guillard" from the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City, Okla., on Wednesday, Sept. 16., according to MMA Fanhouse.
Nover has been anxious to prove he still belongs on the UFC roster after a questionable stoppage led to a first round technical knockout loss to Bradley at UFC 98: "Evans vs. Machida" back in May.
The 155-pound bout was mired in controversy when it appeared that Nover — The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 8 lightweight finalist — was in trouble after a big slam and subsequent flurry from Bradley. However, replays showed that Nover appeared to be maneuvering for a submission when the referee in charge of the action, Yves Lavigne, stepped in to stop the action.
It was the second straight loss for "The Next Anderson Silva," who came up short against a determined Efrain Escudero in the TUF 8 Finale last December.
It's not getting any easier with an opponent like "Hands of Stone."
Stout recently broke out of a rare 0-2 slump by outpointing Matt Wiman at UFC 97: "Redemption" back on April 18. The heavy-handed lightweight is probably best known for his two action-packed battles against Spencer "The King" Fisher.
UFC Fight Night 19: "Diaz vs. Guillard" will feature a main event between hungry lightweight up-and-comers and former TUF grads Nate Diaz and Melvin "The Young Assassin" Guillard.
In addition, Roger "El Matador" Huerta will throwdown for perhaps the last time inside the Octagon as he tries to leave on a high note against the stifling super-wrestler Gray "The Bully" Maynard.
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Remember what happened in Detroit with Matt Millen? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Millen#.22Fire_Millen.22_movement
Will fans ever boycott Dallas games and merchandise, or just keep feeding the beast - Jerry's ego. Heck, will they ever just protest and bring "Jerry, fire yourself!" signs to the stadium?
Jerry Jones will never, ever see himself for what he is - a subpar GM. He can NOT be fired. He has anointed himself GM For Life No Matter What. He thinks the team's struggles are never his fault.
Will the fans ever do anything, or will they passively sit back and watch their team continue to be mediocre at best and at worst a laughing stock?
I for one will NOT buy any Cowboys tickets, not that I can afford anything but nose bleed, or Cowboys merchandise as long as JJ is GM.
I find it hard to believe any die hard fan will put up with JJ much longer.


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Since the Sin City: A Dame to Kill For movie came out today, we felt inspired by all things noir, vintage and black-and-white. Keep scrolling for ideas on how to give your wedding a hint of old-school, glamorous charm (Joseph Gordon-Levitt not included): A Black and White Wedding Dress (With Black Gloves!) Wedding dress by Vera... read more


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I'm glad that someone has finally stepped in to stop this completely ludicrous practice and I hope that other firms are stopped from offering these ripoffs. Even though stopping RALs is an unambiguously good thing, H&R Block will still be offering RACs backed by their own bank. Here's the company's description of how that works:NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of H&R Block Inc. customers who relied on short-term loans backed by their expected tax refunds will not have that option this year, since Block's banking partner was forced by federal regulators to stop offering the loans.It's a blow to Block, the nation's largest tax preparation company, which could lose tax customers to competitors still offering the loans and has virtually no time to find a new funding partner before tax season starts in January.That means Block could lose millions of dollars in revenue, since nearly 45 percent of its customers use a refund anticipation loan or refund anticipation checks. The company made about $146 million on the two products in 2010.RALs, often referred to as "rapid refunds," are short-term loans backed by an expected federal income tax refund. A refund anticipation "check" is actually an account where a refund is deposited. This enables taxpayers to have their tax return preparation fees deducted from their refund, rather than paying up front. Both products are typically used by low-income customers who file their taxes early in the season.
For a lot of poorer taxpayers, filing a return is a bonanza due to the Earned Income Tax Credit and Additional Child Tax credit, which are basically social welfare disbursements. The only way to get the sometimes multi-thousand dollar payments is by filing a return and this is where preparers get to skim a little off the top. But the skimming doesn't just stop with return preparation. Let's say you don't have direct deposit (or a bank account). Then you can get your RAC on the Emerald Card. Sounds swanky, right? Swanky and way beneficial to banks! Here's a neat feature:You could get money quickly and conveniently with an H&R Block Bank Refund Anticipation Check.You could get up to $9999 FAST† with a Federal RAC and pay nothing out of pocket at the time of your tax preparation. A Federal RAC offers you a convenient way to receive money faster than a mailed federal refund check from the IRS when H&R Block prepares and electronically files your taxes. Receive the balance of your refund, minus fees, on an H&R Block Emerald Prepaid MasterCard®2, Direct Deposit or check in approximately 8 to 15 days from IRS acceptance of your efiled tax returnBenefits of a Federal RAC:
- Receive up to $9999 FAST†! (Equivalent to your federal tax refund, minus fees)
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Stories like this convince me of a few things. 1) The government, if it's going to keep an income tax, needs not only a simpler tax system, but needs to stop distributing social welfare payments through the IRS. It's just allows too much predation. Maybe it can just collect the information on the return and sporadically mail out payments- I don't know. 2) Poor people need better access to banks and credit. Same-day check cashing outfits, prepaid debit cards and all of that kind of nonsense is a massive transfer of wealth from those who need it most. It's disgusting and the government ought to do something about it. I think maybe a smaller, more progressive state should try to get into the banking business (at least from transactional credit and small-time checking/savings operations) and we'll see if a pilot program could lead to larger adoption. I don't know enough about law or finance to know if this is legal or feasible, but I think it's a worthwhile aim to reduce transaction costs as a way of promoting overall social welfare.Cash Access
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Make a bubble, take a free lunch, break a bank
AbstractStandard economics is known to be incapable of integrating the real and the monetary sphere. The ultimate reason is that the whole theoretical edifice is built upon a set of behavioral axioms. Therefore, the formal starting point is moved to structural axioms. This makes it possible to formally track the complete process of value creation and destruction in the asset market and its consequences for the household and business sector. From the set of structural axioms emerge the well-known phenomena of a bubble from free lunches through appreciation to defaults due to a lack of potential next buyers.
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Related researchKeywords: new framework of concepts; structure-centric; axiom set; profit; rate of interest; liquidity preference; rentier; primary market; secondary market; parrot economics; theory of value; valuation price; appreciation; depreciation; net worth; debt/income ratio;
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- E43 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
- E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
- E10 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - General
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Does evil exist? Yes, but only in the eye of the beholder.
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Evil is not a universal truth. It is a socially constructed concept and it only exists in a particular time and place. This perspective on evil, known as social constructionism, is rooted in the philosophical writings of Immanuel Kant. According to Kant, matter does not exist in its own right. Instead, all matter is a product of the mind. Because all objects are constructed of matter, all objects are thus mental creations.
Social constructionism emerged over the past forty years as a sociological theory of knowledge that considers how social phenomena develop in particular social contexts. According to this perspective, all knowledge, including the most basic, taken-for-granted common sense knowledge of everyday life, is actually constructed and reinforced through social interaction. Social constructionists see reality as a dynamic and constantly contested process—that is, reality is reproduced by people acting on their knowledge and their socially constructed interpretations of it.
As a logical extension, social constructionism contends that social problems do not exist objectively like a mountain or a river. Rather, they are constructed by the human mind, socially created or constituted by the definitional process. Therefore, the objective existence of a harmful condition such as a disease does not, in and of itself, constitute a social problem. From the social constructionist perspective, an objective condition does not constitute a social problem unless it is defined as such by the members of a society in a particular context. Moreover, an objective condition does not even have to exist to be defined as a problem. That is, if something is thought to exist and it elicits fear, then it is real despite the fact that it does not exist objectively. The witch hunts in colonial New England are an example of a non-objective, socially constructed crisis. From a constructionist perspective, what makes a condition a social problem is the degree of felt concern by a society about that condition, regardless of whether it actually exists or whether it is objectively harmful.
Significantly, an analysis of the social construction of evil provides an understanding of the processes and mechanisms by which those in power and authority in society can demonize a particular group and establish an evil identity for it in the public consciousness. The word evil itself has a long linguistic history. The Oxford English Dictionary attributes the original derivation of the word evil to the Goths of the 4th century A.D. who defined it as "exceeding due measure" or "overstepping proper limits." Webster's College Dictionary defines evil as "morally wrong or bad; immoral; wicked; harmful or injurious; due to actual or imputed bad conduct or character; evil quality, intention or conduct." I contend that the definitions of evil are all socially constructed and socially defined in particular contexts. In other words, behaving evilly, producing evil and being evil are radically social processes which are defined in a given social context or time and place.
The definitions of evil are also tautological—that is, the definitions involve circular reasoning. One may be labeled as evil because one does evil things, and if one does evil things, then one is evil. This tautology is problematic because a circular argument cannot be tested or falsified. As a result, the tautological definition of evil can be exploited by those who apply the label of evil to an individual or group. How? If the labelers' arguments cannot be falsified, then their claims are not subject to meaningful debate or critique by skeptics. Once a disvalued individual or group is socially defined as evil, those in power have the moral authority and even obligation to eliminate the evildoer(s) regardless of whether or not there is an objective threat to society. Therein lies the danger of the social construction of evil, because it certainly didn't matter to those who were convicted of witchcraft in colonial New England that they were not actually witches. They were sentenced to death and executed, nonetheless. It is important that we remember this fact the next time we are told by authorities that a person or group is evil and must be eliminated. When we act without proper inquiry, the consequences can be dire.
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As an interesting side note, some elements of social constructionism can be traced farther back in history than just Kant. For example, in the 'Meditations' of Marcus Aurelius he states:
Remove the judgement, and you have removed the thought 'I am hurt': remove the thought 'I am hurt', and the hurt itself is removed.
He was a Roman Stoic philosopher, though one of the last ones. So it is reasonable to assume that some elements of social constructionism may well go as far back as Ancient Greece.
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A car remained in the front of Cass Street Cafe Sunday night. Three teenagers and two adults were injured when a driver, later arrested for drunk driving, ran up onto the sidewalk and then crashed in to Cass Street Cafe on La Jolla Boulevard around 7 p.m. Sunday, a police spokesman said.
One of the adult patrons was treated at a hospital and released, the other suffered minor injuries and did not go to the hospital, according to an Diego police Officer Dino Delimitros. He said one victim was pinned under the car.
The three teen-aged pedestrians struck were taken to Rady Children's Hospital, with "serious injuries," Delimitros said, adding that they were between the ages of 14 and 17.
The motorist was southbound on La Jolla Boulevard when he hit the three teens on the sidewalk before crashing into the restaurant, Delimitros said. The 67-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of felony drunk driving.
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"Trim the dish!" was an order bellowed by the coxswain of a ship's tender in the days of sail, a command indicating bodies needed shifting in order to restore the craft to proper trim. Fortunately, today's captain isn't limited to delicately asking big-boned Aunt June or Uncle August to reposition their considerable bulk in efforts to provide a smoother ride. Here's a look at some of the latest options in trim tab development.


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BagSac is another collaborative project born from the encounter between Virieu Godefroy, Louis Fleurieu Desurmont and Virgil. Together, they sought an alternative solution to the constraints of constructing a roof terrace in their town: the difficulty of transport, excess weight, etc... Creating a lighter more mobile planter at a lower cost.
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An op-ed column last month carried the headline, "School boards are an obstacle to education refom." The author of the screed, Chester Finn Jr., has been a persistent critic of public education as undersecretary of education in the Reagan administration and as head of conservative think tanks. He believes that school boards are resistant to educational reform and that they are declining in influence. The "reform" to which he refers is the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) program of the federal government.
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I've just ordered one of these. It's a simple little bit of kit, just a USB stereo in/stereo out audio interface. But I feel quite tickled and can't wait for it to arrive kind of thing.
A couple of days ago I realised I hadn't played my electric guitar since I moved into this flat (over a year ago). It's pretty much all that remains of the gear from my younger days when, like so many, I had rather over-enthusiastic visions of being some kind of rock musician. The rest of it- some lovely synthesizers, effects units, stuff like that, all got stolen and it still hurts to think about it. But the Westone Thunder 1A I bought with my first student grant cheque (lawks, those were the days) remains. 25 years old, a little scratched here and there, but still plays great. Even if I don't. And never have.
So I fired up Native Instruments guitar rig, plugged the Westone into the mixer (I've got this nice little Behringer that for a long time now has been used as nothing but a headphone amp from the PC) and then realised how crap the old Soundblaster Live! card in the computer is. Well, it's fine for everyday stuff, but if you stick a signal from it into guitar rig's various amplifier simulators which boost the gain, you just hear all the noise it's picking up from inside the PC. So, I could still play, but accompanied by various very loud noises not dissimilar to a person with a severe bowel condition in an echoey public lav.
I woke up early this morning and had a generally low level gruntled feeling, and Charlotte Gore's latest blog post didn't help much. It echoes something I've felt a lot, this sense of the hopelessness of us lot banging our heads against the brick wall of statism. I should have spent the morning drawing porn (I am as always severely behind schedule) but couldn't pull it together through the mental fug. So I started thinking about how it would be nice to buy something, but being generally skint couldn't afford to buy anything very expensive. I'd thought about the soundcard thing, but to get anything good they're all rather costly. But I started punting around websites, realising how hopelessly behind I am in what's on the market, and found this little Behringer box that seemed to be just what I'm looking for- it's USB, external, shouldn't pick up the masses of noise the Soundblaster does, and it's an absolute snip at just 29 quid. Being impecunious, even that seemed a significant cost, but then I thought of the seventy quid the council extorts out of me every month to pay for bin inspectors, and whipped out my debit card and bought the thing.
Now I'm just sitting here trying to figure out what I'll have to plug into what and route through the mixer, and making my head spin, since it's years since I really did anything musical. The last significant thing in fact was CD of music for mp3.com, back in the heyday of Internets 1.0 and JESUS CHRIST THAT WAS TEN YEARS AGO. Yes, I feel old. I had less bald then. It's not the greatest music ever produced, but I feel it was something of an achievement with such limited gear- a guitar, a mic, a midi controller keyboard and the soundblaster doing all the synths and drums. I recorded it in Cubase, and typing that I've just realised that my only copy of Cubase 3.7x must be on a hard drive I took out of the PC and will now have to install again somehow, but I don't think there's a spare IDE port because I disabled them when I put the SATA RAID card in… oh bollocks. I've still got the original Cubase CD, but the bugfixes and updates were downloads I stored on that disk. Sigh.
Will I get the urge to record again? I've got a nasty feeling I'm just going to sit here playing along with a drum loop like a sad middle aged man trying to recapture a youth which has fled.
What the hey, that's fine too.
I've just dug out my CD of Cubase VST 3.65 (vintage 1998) and discovered it won't run under XP anyway. At all. I suspect everything available these days will rather overhwelm the PC (vintage 2002).
I could do some kind of dual boot thing with Win98 but no, I'm too old for that shit, I can't be arsed, it's not worth the effort. Kind of annoying, because when this machine was running Win98, I have distinct memories that VST 3.x (which was at the limit of capabilities of my 300MHz PII in 1999 when I did all that recording) ran like grit through a goose.
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HOUSTON – TCU's men's tennis team used a rally in singles to drop Rice, 4-3, on Sunday at the Owls' Jake Hess Tennis Stadium.The 68th-ranked Horned Frogs improved to 7-3 on the year and 4-1 against schools from the state of Texas. The No. 56-ranked Owls slipped to 2-6 as TCU won for the first time in the last nine tries against Rice."I'm proud of the guys for finding a way to win after getting swept in doubles and under windy conditions," TCU coach David Roditi said. "We showed maturity and poise and we have 10 days to improve our doubles play to be ready for fifth-ranked Pepperdine. To get back in the win column against those guys, things are looking good for us. Big things are on the horizon."Rice jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the match with wins at Nos. 1 and 3 doubles. The Owls won 8-3 at No. 1 doubles and followed with an 8-5 win at No. 3 doubles. The match on the second doubles court was an 8-5 win for Rice.As singles began, though, the Frogs strung together a rally that saw them win four matches in straight sets to clinch the match before Rice could muster its second point. Senior Orlando Superlano was the first to win, claiming a 6-0, 6-2 triumph over Peter Frank at No. 4 singles.Soon after Superlano's match was finished, Rodolfo Bustamante put TCU ahead for the first time with his 6-1, 6-1 dismissal of Tommy Bennett on the fifth singles court. Sophomore Arnau Dachs brought TCU within one of winning with his 6-4, 6-2 triumph over Phillip Seifert.Facundo Lugones capped the TCU rally with his 6-2, 6-1 win at the expense of Adam Gustafsson at No. 3 singles. Rice scored its final two points after TCU had clinched the match, including one in a third-set supertiebreaker.Superlano improved to 8-1 on the year in singles with his win, while Bustamante upped his mark to 6-3. Dachs went to 7-2 this spring and Lugones ran his ledger to 7-2.The Frogs return to action Feb. 26 when Pepperdine visits the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center to start a string of TCU playing nine of its next 10 matches at home.MATCH RESULTS – No. 68 TCU 4, No. 56 Rice 3SINGLESNo. 1 – Jonathan Chang (Rice) def. Nick Chappell (TCU), 6-4, 6-3No. 2 – Arnau Dachs (TCU) def. Philipp Seifert (Rice), 6-4, 6-2No. 3 – Facundo Lugones (TCU) def. Adam Gustafsson (Rice), 6-2, 6-1No. 4 – Orlando Superlano (TCU) def. Peter Frank (Rice), 6-0, 6-2No. 5 – Rodolfo Bustamante (TCU) def. Tommy Bennett (Rice), 6-1, 6-1No. 6 – Gustavo Gonzalez (Rice) def. JT Sundling (TCU), 6-4, 4-6, 1-0 (8)DOUBLESNo. 1 – Tommy Bennett/Adam Gustafsson (Rice) def. Nick Chappell/Will Stein (TCU), 8-3No. 2 – Peter Frank/Phillipp Seifert (Rice) def. Max Stevens/JT Sundling (TCU), 8-5No. 3 – Jonathan Chang/Leif Berger (Rice) def. Arnau Dachs/Orlando Superlano (TCU), 8-5MATCH NOTESRice 2-6; National ranking #56TCU 7-3; National ranking #68Order of finish: Singles (4,5,2,3,1,6); Doubles (1,3,2)


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Figured I'd get it out of the way now. What more can you say about the Mavs stealing one? I'm out of words. If the guys can play with the same intensity for 4 quarters straight tonight, they have just as good a chance of winning as they did on Monday. If they let off the gas just a little, they might regret it. Needless to say, it'll be nice coming back to Dallas on Friday with a split, but a 2-0 lead would be enormous. This thread will be the home for pregame, thoughts on Chicago/Atlanta while they're playing before the Mavs and Lakers, and will continue until it bogs down 'round the 1,000 comment mark. Go Mavs! Beat LA!
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Huron Acquires American Auto Auction Group, LLC
DETROIT, May 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Huron Capital Partners ("Huron") today announced the formation of an auto remarketing services platform and the simultaneous acquisition of American Auto Auction Group, LLC ("AAAG"). AAAG is a leading provider of dealer-to-dealer auction services with sites in South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Texas, California and Wisconsin.
In launching this buy-and-build initiative, Huron partnered with industry veteran Cam Hitchcock, who will join AAAG as CEO. Hitchcock is an experienced industry veteran having recently served as the Executive Chairman of Primeritus Financial Services and Partner at Elysian Advisors. Hitchcock has also served on the boards of two private equity-backed auction remarketing companies. Earlier, he was President and CEO-Dealer Services Group and Corporate CFO of ADESA, Inc.
Hitchcock said "I am honored and excited to partner with Huron and the AAAG senior management team. We have closely watched the dealer sale market segment over the last 24 months and believe that there are significant opportunities to better serve dealer consignors in many U.S. markets. Our objective is to provide AAAG's customers with highly responsive, tailored service offerings across multiple geographies. Huron has committed significant capital to enhance and scale this platform, and we look forward to deploying it."
Peter Mogk, Senior Partner at Huron, added: "Huron is very excited to partner with the AAAG family of auctions, their employees, and customers to continue building what we believe is the preeminent national auction group focused primarily on dealer to dealer sales. In the years to come, we intend to make a difference in the lives of people by investing in our team and the communities we serve. We know from experience that value-added customer service begins with equipping our people with the best facilities, training and career opportunities. We believe we have ample resources dedicated to build, grow and acquire auctions that embrace technology and ever-changing customer needs."
About Huron Capital Partners LLC
Huron Capital is an operationally-focused private equity firm that seeks to grow lower middle-market companies through customized buy-and-build investments. Huron pursues opportunities where it can help companies reach their full potential by combining its operational approach, substantial capital base and transaction experience with proven operating executives. Founded in 1999, Huron has raised over $1.1 billion in capital through four committed private equity funds and its portfolio companies have employed over 7,500 people throughout North America. With offices in Detroit and Toronto, Huron sponsors recapitalizations, family succession transactions, market-entry strategies, corporate carve-outs and management buyouts of companies having revenues up to $200 million. Huron has broad investment discretion and has invested in a variety of geographies and industry sectors. For more information, please visit www.huroncapital.com.
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A Message from Loreen M. Chant '89, president, North Miami Campus Appropriately referred to as the "Gateway to the Americas," South Florida's mix of cultures, international influences and urban setting makes the North Miami Campus an ideal place to launch your career — and at Johnson & Wales University, your career begins from the moment you step foot on our campus. Our focus on both academic rigor and industry experience gives our students the tools they need to compete in today's challenging economic environment. Whether they choose to pursue a degree through our College of Business, Hospitality College or College of Culinary Arts, students benefit from the depth of knowledge of our faculty members and the industry experience they gain, combined with course work designed to prepare students for the marketplace. Our emphasis on developing future leaders extends beyond the classroom. Our students are encouraged to gain a broader understanding of the civic and business needs facing the community through volunteer service projects like Join Work Unite and various events throughout the South Florida community. Their exemplary service contributions have resulted in our campus regularly being named to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.
As a graduate from the Providence Campus, I know firsthand how JWU's focus on career education and experiential learning benefits students. I am proud to serve as the president of the North Miami Campus and am confident that your investment in your professional studies here with us is the first step toward a successful career.About the Campus PresidentLoreen Chant has been with the North Miami Campus since its inception in 1992. She was named president in 2008, following the retirement of founding president Donald G. McGregor, JD. Originally hired for the position of campus registrar, she has been integral to the campus' success.Prior to being named campus vice president in 2000 she held a variety of key positions including special assistant to the president, and executive administrator, working closely with then-Campus Vice President Richard Kosh, PhD.As president, Chant's goals include enhancing the campus' student service culture, developing strategic partnerships within South Florida to support the campus' community leadership and fundraising initiatives, and continuing to enhance the student experience through facilities improvements, academic programs and co-curricular projects.She is currently a member of the Strategic Enrollment Team, the University Capital Team, and the Information Technology Advisory Committee. She also recently served as a member of the NEASC Steering Committee prior to the agency's visit in Oct 2008.Deeply dedicated to her profession and her community, Chant was honored with the 2009 South Florida Business Journal Influential Business Women award. She also accepted a trustee position with the United Way of Miami-Dade and was recently named to United Way's Campaign Cabinet. She recently completed the Senior Executive Leadership Program with the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce and was named a finalist for the Building a Community Award by the March of Dimes of South Florida.Chant is also a champion for the Academy of Hospitality & Tourism, a member of Les Dames d'Escoffier International's Miami Chapter, a board member of the Caribbean Hotel Association's Education Foundation and the Health Foundation of South Florida.
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$27-m printer boosts efficiency, security
PRINTING company Digital Prepress said it will improve turnaround time and enhance security with its new printer.
The company said it paid more than US$300,000 ($26.8 million) for the Xerox CP1000, which it claimed is the first of its kind in the Caribbean. Nicola Barbar, managing director of Digital Prepress, said on Friday that the machine will allow the company to print flyers, business cards, brochures etc within 24 hours compared to the typical three to five working day period.
"It will move the industry forward because that is where print is now going, print on demand, client's want faster turnaround times," she said.
Barbar added that, with Clear Dry Ink technology, the Xerox CP1000 allows the company to add many creative effects to print jobs.
What's more is that the images produced by the machine, using Clear Dry Ink technology, ensures that the images cannot be duplicated or reproduced, and adds considerable anti-counterfeit and security to tickets and armbands, she said.
"We are going to be changing the way people think about security and also we are going to be able to enhance their product a lot better and for less money," said Barbar.
Digital Prepress hopes to acquire another Xerox CP1000 soon, its managing director noted.
Andrew Holness, Leader of the Opposition, at a launch ceremony last week hailed the investment by Digital Prepress as a significant advancement of Jamaica's print industry with considerable regional export potential.
Digital Prepress is an affiliate of Phoenix Printery, for which Barbar is deputy managing director. Barbar's father, Stafford deMercado, is the executive chairman of Phoenix and has over 46 years' experience in the Jamaican printing industry, said the company website.


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KALAMAZOO, MI (WTVB) - Early Thanksgiving Day shopping, then Black Friday, then Small Business Saturday. It all made for a busy weekend of holiday shopping and now this is cyber Monday for shoppers and more people than ever are expected to use the internet this year. Some may do it because it's easier, some do it because it can be less expensive.
Marsha Leroy, an instructor in the Western Michigan University Department of Family and Consumer Sciences says consumers are being more cost conscious but still like to see and touch what they are buying first. And while they may purchase from the same retailer they visited, more than likely they will be looking for the same model at the cheapest price.
Every year Cyber Monday seems to grow. Matthew Shay at the National Retail Federation says sales are expected to jump to $2 billion today, up from $1.5 billion last year. It's a quaint holdover from the days when folks would return to work on Monday and use their company's higher speed computers to round out their shopping after black Friday. Now many have high speed internet at home, but retailers still offer their deals today.


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MADISON (WKOW) -- It was a day dedicated to women Saturday at the Alliant Energy Center.
The center hosted the 15th Annual Madison Women's Expo. The event featured about 150 different booths ranging from spa treatments to cooking and home goods. There was also live music, a fashion show and a variety of different speakers.
Yet despite the many activities and shopping booths at the event, organizers say very few attendants forget what the day is really about.
"We're celebrating Madison and area women. We want community women to be celebrated, and we want to share with everyone who comes here today how wonderful and how deep our resources go...the level of talent that these women bring here locally," says organizer Stephanie Sabo.
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Crossposted from my blog at Zakelro.com.
If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you saw a new hashtag on most of my posts yesterday and I'm probably going to be using it a lot from here on out. So I thought I'd take a moment to talk about why I came up with it and what it means.
My morning began with a series of tweets by Courtney (@q0rt), a videogame industry professional that I respect and admire. The tweets weren't happy ones and I read quite a bit of distress, anger, and betrayal in them. This led to an attitude of empathy and concern as I continued to parse my feeds.
Next I saw a news article about Borderlands 2's lead developer referring to a skill tree as, "for lack of a better term, girlfriend mode." I knew then what Courtney's tweets had been referring to.
Shortly thereafter, I saw that EA is partnering with gun trafficers by not only including realistic weapondary in their games, but providing links to the manufacturers' storefronts on the game's website.
Then I saw Randy Pitchford being dismissive of "sensationalists" who were "misinterpreting" the 'girfriend mode' comments. And I hit my limit.
But because I was in 'concerned friend' mode, I didn't get angry - not really. I wasn't "done with the internet" or "done with the industry," - although I am done with EA - I was just done with the attitudes, done with the posturing, done with the head-in-the-sand mindset, done with the victim blaming, done with the insensitivity, done with the comments of "it's just a game," done with people who claim videogames have the capacity to be good for you but lack the capacity to be bad for our communities.
And because I believe in the power of symbols, I wanted something to symbolize a new approach to engaging over the issues that exist within our geek communities. It needed to be a call to action, a reminder to myself, and focused on a positive outcome. It needed to celebrate what people get right and provide non-judgemetal guidance when we err. It needed to recognize that what we say - what we all say - has power.
When people ask me why I won't attend PAX anymore, I tell them it's because Mike and Jerry have proven themselves to be poor stewards of their community. What I mean by that is they have done things that show they place greater value on their position within the community than in the overall health and well being of the community itself. They may not have personally launched harassing attack on the women in their community, but their actions have inspired hundreds of their more vocal followers to threaten friends of mine with rape and murder.
By shrugging off the "girlfriend mode" comment and blaming the upset on "sensationalists," Pitchford is refuting that words have power, that developers are seen as leaders of the community, and that as highly visible members of the community, we have a responsibility to recognize that our actions and comments are the seed of the more extreme actions and comments around issues of race, gender, sex, class, etc. We may not be directly responsible for those actions and comments, but we are responsible for not behaving in a way that makes it clear we do not condone them on any level.
In other words, we need to be better stewards.
I have very specifically not linked to the articles I reference concerning EA and Gearbox. They're easy enough to find with a little Google-fu, or you can follow the hashtag links and find them in my tweets from yesterday. I haven't provided links because I want to highlight two positive news items concerning excellent stewardship that I read yesterday as well. After all, better stewardship means celebrating the community's successes as well as calling out its failures.
The first news item concerns Firaxis and XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Greg Foertsch, the game's art director, paid specific attention to diversity when designing the human squaddies. I'll pull this quote here:
"They still look badass! But we didn't have to put them in a thong and high heels. That was something that we really... I have two daughters now. Jake has a daughter. And I don't think either one of us really wanted to go down that road. That's just not who we are. We just didn't want to play with that lowest common denominator. I'm very proud of the fact that we actually got women into the game that look like women."
...and leave you to read the rest of the article here. Thank you Greg, Jake, and Firaxis for being better stewards.
The second item deals with Gaslamp Games and their handling of an issue when someone made a "sammich" joke to greet a woman who had just joined their community forums. Here's a quote from David Baumgart, art director.
"I won't stand for this bloody stupid sandwich 'joke' that marginalizes female players' involvement in this community (and, like, life in general). It's precisely the opposite of the kind of environment we hear at Gaslamp Games want to create."
Be sure to read about the entire sequence of events and their resolution here. Thank you David and Gaslamp Games for being better stewards.
Please join me in being better stewards of our communities. Take a stand when someone makes a sexist comment, calling out the comment as problematic without falling into the trap of discussing whether the person themself is sexist. Celebrate and reward people like Greg Foertsch and David Baumgart who make concerted efforts to be inclusive, rather than exclusive in their attitudes and design.
And if you say something that the community takes offense to, well I'm going to leave you with a quote by sociologist Allan G. Johnson that Feminist Frequency shared yesterday.
Learn to listen. This is especially difficult for members of dominant groups. If someone confronts you with your own behavior that supports privilege, step off the path of least resistance that encourages you to defend and deny. Don't tell them they're too sensitive or need a better sense of humor, and don't try to explain away what you did as something else than what they're telling you it was. Don't say you didn't mean it or that you were only kidding. Don't tell them what a champion of justice you are or how hurt you feel because of what they're telling you. Don't make jokes or try to be cute or charming, since only privilege can lead someone to believe these are acceptable responses to something as serious as privilege and oppression. Listen to what's being said. Take it seriously. Assume for the time being that it's true, because given the power of paths of least resistance, it probably is. And then take responsibility to do something about it.
|Christer Kaitila
You, sir, are awesome.
We could amend this article to include the booth babe fiasco from the huge embarassment that was E3 this year, or the vitriol people got a month ago after a similar controvercy. I think the vocal minority of gamers (who hate) is currently drowning out the quiet minority of gamers (who love). To me, the problem is less with gamedevs (who are generally not sexist, racist or violently hateful) than it is with gamers (who often are), but as leaders we can ralley the troops. Devs have the power to positively influence player opinions.
Time for a shout out to love in our industry.
|Ali Afshari
This is something I can stand for! Thank you for taking the to write it up. That Allan G. Johnson quote sums up perfectly how I feel when I see a bunch of back-and-forth comments where the topic has been derailed.
I've refrained from posting on some of those more heated threads, but I see that I'm also responsible when I don't say anything.
|Matej Jan
I agree wholeheartedly. And I think those devs and publishers that put thongs as the only armor of female warriors (and similar that-sells moves) have full responsibility in driving the mainstream into overly sexualized waters. They are the ones that plan/design their games and have full choice how to do it.
|Andrew Israelson
Please be careful of you language? You've falsely accused EA of a terrible crime to make your point.
|Andreas Ojerfors
Thank you for this.
|Ernest Adams
I'll be using that hashtag too, Corvus. Bravo.


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Riverside Speedway has always been in my
heart! Been going since I was 3 years old, until I moved off.
what makes riverside is, my one and only hero!! HOOKER HOOD!!!!!!!!!! (sorry Ray you know the deal, lol) (and the man I hoped one day I would grow up and marry!)
He along with so many others made that place and made racing!, and the amazing thing is it is still there and racing! it is history! people from all around the U.S.A. have heard something about Riverside, either the track, racing, or a driver!
Look at who ALL has raced there in its time!!!!!!!! (even people who have never seen Hooker have been nicknamed after him in there younger days lol) that should speak for its self!! as for my memories ........ I just remember the man! HOOKER HOOD !!!!!! my hero, my idol, all my best years of my life memories all wrapped up in one! also the peanuts. Most of all the shaking stands and when the national anthem was playing... the whole time I was praying my man 99 would win! and let me tell you he did!!!!!! and in my heart he wins every day!!!!!!
And even as a little girl when we went to get our arms signed, and walk the track I would pick up a face mask off the corner of the track and say that was hookers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would try not to wash my arm until the next Saturday night!!!!!!
OH! me I could go on and on and on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOOKER, Ray, Alvin, Whimp, Sam, Sammy, ( I was there the first time Sammy ever raced) and when he gave his wife to be a ring in popcorn and when Alvin got killed ...... and when so many cars came up in to the stands!!! Then there was Buford and OH!! so fast Eddie (Eddie Ray f-80) great driver!!!!!!!! Ricky, Chuck-Amity, just on and on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Authorities are investigating after an armed man robbed an Overland Park business.
Police were called about 5:30 p.m. Saturday to the report of an armed robbery at a business located in the 10200 block of West 75th Street.
The store employee told officers an armed man came into the store, demanded money and told him to get on the ground.
The suspect grabbed the money from the cash register along with some phones. The suspect then left the scene on foot.
The employee was not injured during the crime.
The suspect is described as a white male in his late 20s, weighing 200 pounds, 5' 9" tall, wearing a black hoodie with a short sleeved, red-striped polo shirt over the hoodie. He was also wearing black sunglasses and had no facial hair.
Anyone with information about the robbery is asked to call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS.
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A Decatur woman is recovering following a near-fatal hit-and-run accident the night of her roommate's bachelorette party. 25-year-old Angela Riley was out with the bride, Amelia King, and her bridesmaids in Nashville when the accident happened around 1:30 the morning of May 11.
The impact of Angela Riley's head with the windshield cracked the glass, but less than six weeks later, Riley is physically much the same as she was before the accident. She did not suffer any broken bones nor serious scratches.
The damage was to her brain, and despite the impact of her skull on the windshield, Angela Riley escaped with few lasting effects.
"It's pretty crazy to think about where I was and how far I've come. It kind of boggles my mind," she said. "I feel like I'm getting better every day and stronger every day."
Angela Riley is recovering with the help of rehabilitation through the Shepherd Center, where she was taken in the days immediately following the accident. The rehab takes her through exercises to help her regain balance and direction, something she partially lost after taking the blow to the back of her head.
"I don't remember the accident, and they say I never will," she said. "It's part of the retrograde amnesia that comes from having brain injuries."
"I think that's a blessing," said her mother, Susan Riley. "I wish I wouldn't remember (the accident)."
Susan Riley said she knew, after rushing to see her daughter in Nashville following the accident, that she would pull through. There were a few tense hours, however, when doctors considered removing part of Angela Riley's skull to reduce the swelling.
It never came to that.
"She's getting there day by day. She's doing remarkably well," Susan Riley said.
"I'm very glad I don't remember it. I'm sure I would have nightmares and be a lot more angry about it," said Angela Riley. "I don't feel very much anger about it, currently, I just want it to all be over."
Angela Riley's recovery was so rapid that she was able to attend, and be a bridesmaid in, the wedding of Wilson York and Amelia King at First Presbyterian Church in Atlanta on June 15. It had been just 35 days since the accident.
"I think it's pretty awesome, pretty amazing," she said. "I certainly wouldn't be where I am if it weren't for the amazing group of people who've been supporting me."
According to Nashville police, the driver of the car on the night of the accident was 23 year-old Ryan Moy. Investigators said he tried to drive off after hitting Angela Riley, but he was caught and arrested within a few moments.
Police ran a blood-alcohol test on Moy after officers suspected he was driving under the influence. He was charged with felony vehicular assault, leaving the scene of an accident involving personal injury and failure to render aid.
Angela Riley's friends were able to raise more than $27,000 to help with her medical and living expenses. If you're interested in contributing to her recovery fund, the family has set up the Angela Faith Riley fund at the Private Bank of Decatur.
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Braintree: Community boxing club thriving
9:00am Monday 11th February 2013 in News
A community boxing club is thriving, with members from as young as seven.
Rayne Boxing Club is run by volunteers and most of the members are there for fun and fitness.
The club was formed just over two years ago by Braintree friends Rob Best, Perry Coburn, Harry Davies and Jack Deer.
They had become tired of driving to Chelmsford or Maldon to train and set up a gym in the unit at Lakes Farm in Queenborough Lane, Rayne.
The club is now affiliated to the Amateur Boxing Association of England.
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Connecticut's Charter Oak Health Plan
The goal of the Charter Oak Health Plan is to provide universal access to affordable health care coverage to Connecticut adults of all incomes. The Department of Social Services, designated by Governor M. Jodi Rell as administering agency for Charter Oak, has issued a request for proposals to the insurance industry for the joint procurement of Charter Oak and the HUSKY A and B programs.
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