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Praise the Sun: The Contextual Language of Dark Souls
Guest Post by Paul King
The most recent time I loaded up the game Dark Souls, my character unsheathed a sword from her back and drew her shield. And then I noticed a message, written maybe two steps away: "Grief.â€
The world of Dark Souls is, as the title would suggest, dark. It's a classic, worn down fantasy world where everything is crumbling. Your character begins in a prison for the lost and undead; your default state is one of decay. Even as you continue to a city meant for gods, all is in dangerous, ruinous disrepair.
And most of the game is spent alone. Save a few neutral, stationary characters, any sort of dialogue is non-existent. Your hero never speaks, only grunts in the heat of battle, and these stationary merchants quickly run out of new phrases, things to sell you, or purposes to exist.
But at a certain point, your character may buy (or steal) a chunk of soapstone from one of these merchants. Once you obtain the soapstone, you may use it to write, coating the floor in incandescent orange scribbles that, upon interaction, reveal their text.
During the course of Dark Souls, no fix for the broken world emerges. At times, other characters hint that the universe has descended into darkness from a former glory, and your lone hero's quest might be the thing to restore it. But nothing you do on your journey really changes anything; felled enemies reappear upon your death and subsequent rebirth, and also upon the saving of your progress. But while your standard fantasy actions yield no change and are easily erased, the soapstone allows you to impact the game's world in a singular, everlasting way: through writing.
There's a multiplayer component of Dark Souls that allows players to enter the world of another. One can invade or be summoned, and these are adversarial or cooperative interactions, respectively. Both are temporary.
Messages penned with the soapstone, on the other hand, are permanent. Quit the game and return days later, they will still be there. And perhaps more importantly, while invasions and summons are constrained to a single instance of the game world—that of the invaded or summoning player—messages, instead, are universal. Write a message on the floor of a chapel within your game, and the same message appears in the same chapel of another person's game.
And there they sit, for any other player who happens by it. But much like the world of Dark Souls, the system in which messages are created is opaque and difficult.
The soapstone may be used to write a variety of messages, but only from a template. You choose a format—for instance, "Try _____†or "Be wary of ______.†Once you've chosen a format, you can then choose from a list of categories to fill that blank. Options here include orientation ("Try left,†"Be wary of rightâ€), objects ("Try sword,†"Be wary of chestâ€), and attributes ("Try fireâ€).
Because the messages are selected from a template, speech is limited, and as such, messages become muddied. As with the world, story, and mission of the game, the onus is on the player as a reader to determine the intent of a message. And as with the rest of the game, the system can be frustrating—authorial intent easily becomes unclear, especially in the wake of present danger due to the game's refusal to be paused. Pick the wrong moment to write a message, or linger too long on selecting the correct Mad-Libbian phrase and it might instead spell death.
And Dark Souls' closed language system isn't immune to classic video game juvenility. At a certain point, my character encountered the message "Amazing chest ahead,†but instead of referring to what would make the most sense—a treasure chest—it was instead placed in front of a female character as an unfortunate reference to her anatomy.
While this example is depressing, it's fortunately rare. It also serves to underscore what is an even more important facet of the closed language: context. Not only may players choose what combinations of message to write, they may also choose where to place it within the world—for it to be a static element in the world of others. The same message becomes manifold depending on its placement.
A canned, writable phrase in the game is "Praise the Sun!†This is one of the only phrases that does not contain a mutable component (alongside "Good Job!†and "I did it!â€). Its placement is intended in relation to one of the game's religions—meant to be written in a peaceful, brightly lit area upon which the sun shines. A prayer.
I found it once at the bottom of a sewer. Surrounded by the carcasses of massive, dead rats—think The Princess Bride—here it was: "Praise the Sun!†In this context it served as an entirely different message, rife with a sense of irony not possible if placed in a different area. Though the text said differently, the message was obviously one of despair.
Just before an encounter with a massive, angry beast, somebody had written "try jumping.†And after dying to the creature several times—an event that happens with most encounters of the difficult game—the message clicked. And indeed, it was jumping from a ledge and plunging a sword into the monster's waiting back that proved to be the best strategy.
Elsewhere, I found the same message written on a set of uneven stone stairs, a crumbling railing beside it. "Try jumping.†I angled my view downward, past the railing, and saw only an endless descent, one that would surely kill me.
It did. After I learned a lesson about trust, I discovered another message, not far away: "Beware liar.â€
And what begins to emerge from identical phrases is a changing language, one dependent entirely on a static world. While some messages are incredibly straightforward (my favorite is "Illusory wall aheadâ€), others are incredibly vague.
One of the more interesting categories to choose a "blank†from is "Concepts.†The category sits at the bottom of the list, beneath "Characters,†"Objects,†and more, almost as if it were an afterthought. It is from this list some nameless stranger chose to pen "grief.â€
What strikes me especially about the use of "grief†is that it is wholly unnecessary—the entire world embodies "grief.†Though "happiness†is present on the list of concepts, the use of the word makes little to no sense in the context of Dark Souls—there is, ultimately, nothing happy within the game.
But within the constraints of the language system, these awkward, single words can be used in new ways that don't necessarily pertain to the game. Before a particularly trying monster, instead of writing "Try lightningâ€â€"the monster's supposed weakness—one could instead place "Try hope,†stepping outside of intended use.
What's interesting about these concepts is that they were placed in an otherwise interesting and well-thought out system; one that plays to the same difficulties and themes of the game. It is only when we as players make a conscious decision to write a specific message does the system break down, distancing itself from in-game tips and evolving into something poetic. When the system breaks, it allows players to leave an effective mark on not only their game world, but the game worlds of others.
Because while all messages might be eternal, the ones that conform to a useful fantasy system—tips, locations, or secrets—ultimately interact with the world by blending into it, not changing it. The jumping tip about the monster led me to a strategic shortcut, while the deceitful note on the staircase created a new, interactive game experience. Those that reference nothing in the world but language concepts create new experiences entirely outside of the game.
Much of Dark Souls deals with the idea of immortality. Your character, like most video game characters, is seemingly tireless. Die, and be brought back again, and again, unceasingly until the game is done. The environments and enemies around you never change, and the latter is in seemingly endless supply. Even when your quest is over, the only option is to start over, either as a new character or the same one, this time in a harder difficulty.
Though the entirety of the game is caught up in this idea of perpetual fantasy, it promotes an unchanging stasis rather than an everlasting immortality. The player created messages—which ultimately exist outside of developer boundary or intent—are the only things that truly seem to point towards immortality. While standard, intentional messages quickly blend into the context of the game's world; those that break the mold escape the world and its shortfall. When a message references nothing external in the static game world—through the intentional or unintentional garbling of the closed system—it turns into a testament of itself. As a result, it transforms the writer from a player, into an author, leaving an indelible mark.
 Paul King is a poet, writer, and video game enthusiast currently living in Chicago, IL. He grew up in Austin, TX and graduated from Bard College with a BA in Liberal and Written Arts.
Film Review: "Shooter and Whitley" by Laura Stewart
"I willingly was a participant in the lifestyle of the motorcycle club, and it is a lot like any other social scene, with it's own codes and mores, only perhaps faster and at times more violent. But at the same time, it is upfront, so in that sense you know what you are dealing with and it is clear what is expected from you… I have never been uncomfortable around the club and have never felt threatened in any way, if they like you, and most importantly, if the leader of the club likes you, they will treat you with absolute respect.†   -Laura Stewart
The two main protagonists of Laura Stewart's latest film are the titular "Shooter,†motorcycle gang leader of Green Bay, Wisconsin's Black Pistons, and Whitley, a young woman who is both his partner in crime and charity project.
Shooter is an actual individual whom Stewart credits with sparking her interest in perusing the project in the first place; "I didn't even know what this film was going to be about when I started it, I had always liked Shooter and found him intriguing… he was the only subject that interested me enough to blow through all this film.†From seven hours of footage, the final cut comes in at fifty-three minutes.
Shot without a script, the film uses voice-over narration to reveal the thoughts, fears and desires of Shooter and Whitley, and we experience the filmic world Stewart creates through the lense of their impressions and experiences. Although Stewart confesses that a typical days shoot would involve "having a general idea what I'd want to film,†she cultivated a collaborative relationship with her actors and actresses wherein they would agree or decline to proceed given the premise she would establish. The goal was always to produce scenes that most realistically reflected their lives, so although the relationships and events of the film are all constructed, the characters had, "the freedom to expose the parts of their lives that they want(ed to).â€
For Whitley, this entailed sound bites about coming from a broken home, learning how to cook crack by age eight, and getting thrown out of the house by fifteen. Shooter took a longer view about his romantic relationships over the years, and the protection and security he could provide Whitley for the price of obedience.
By giving them the "freedom to be who they want(ed) to be,†Stewart felt she was able to better coax an authentic portrayal of their "lifestyle or soul†from them. Amidst the dancing, drugs, partying and prostitution that eventually entrap Whitley, and cloud her ultimate quest for comfort and security in the hands of Shooter, we find both characters blindly searching for home in a motel and bar, and referring to a biker gang family.
Without knowing the film is fiction, it is virtually impossible to perceive it as anything but documentary. This complex fusion of fiction and reality is what interests Stewarts, who feels that, "…all our lives are continually being made up every day in our heads anyway. There is no concrete documentary in my opinion.â€
The non-diegetic mood music is eclectic and often jarring— it ranges from a song by the Dirty Three, to The Rolling Stones, to Franz Schubert. One scene in particular, shot on location at the Bourbon Street bar, pairs "Nacht und Träume†with lingering close-ups on Whitley's tightly bound bust and Shooter's grizzled, filthy looking paw stroking her upper thigh. The camera cannibalizes the image of Whitley, lingering on her chest and leg, chiefly without inclusion of her head or face in the frame, placing the viewer in the position of objectifying misogynist right alongside Shooter.
There were a handful of reasons why Stewart opted for filming in 16mm (with some Super 8)— some were practical, others were creative license. After recent run-ins with the law that Shooter and members of motorcycle club had just prior to filming, the analogue technology of 16mm, "let them know this was not some sort of surveillance, so (they) would be comfortable with a camera around.†In addition, the film pays homage to seventies cult biker films which were also often shot quickly, using 16mm.
Stewart embraced the uncertainty that filming in 16mm comes with, stating, "That was part of what I liked best about (it), never having any idea how it would turn out until it came back from the lab in Seattle.†She notes that, "the bikes and the chrome, and the Sky Lit motel with it's 50's sign where the M goes out after a lot of rain, this was something I felt needed to be on 16mm.†While the quality of shooting with film goes a long way towards setting the stylized tone of the film, the rigid, traditional and conservative gender roles that both Shooter and Whitley personify also reinforce this feeling. The trance-like spell their gritty, sparse, and often desperate monologues invoke, incanted under the pulsing neon light of the Vegas-style motel sign transport the viewer to a bygone era, so much so that moments when a man in a recumbent bike pedals past the Bourbon Street bar, or a different man gets into his car in the parking lot of the Sky Lit while talking on his cell phone are unexpectedly shocking, standing out as wrinkles in the time warp.
Shooter and Whitley Trailer from Laura Stewart on Vimeo.
Stewart reports that the bikers like the film, and that, interestingly, "the guys all say it is more about relationships.†Through an interesting blend of narrative and documentary, and improvisation and confessional, Stewart employs classic Hollywood filmic troupes alongside contemporary motorcycle club culture and aesthetics to create a film that navigates its own interesting path somewhere between the realms of hyper-reality and fan fiction.
All images courtesy of Laura Stewart.
Interview with Laura Stewart conducted by the author via email in September 2013.
The author would like to thank Laura Stewart.
To contact Stewart, please write to: firstname.lastname@example.com
Episode 422: The Institute for Figuring
This week: Duncan and Brian drop in to LA's Chinatown and visit the Institute for Figuring!
The mission of the Institute For Figuring is to contribute to the public understanding of scientific and mathematical themes through innovative programming that includes exhibitions, lectures, workshops, and participatory, community based projects. The IFF is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Located in the Chinatown district of Los Angeles, the IFF's venue functions both as an exhibition space and as a "play tank†for developing new methods of creative engagement with topics ranging from geometry and topology, to physics, computation, and biological form.
Founded in 2003, the IFF has developed exhibits and programs for museums, galleries, colleges, and community groups around the world. We have worked with: the Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh), The Hayward (London), the Science Gallery (Dublin), the New Children's Museum (San Diego), Art Center College of Design (Pasadena), the Museum of Jurassic Technology (Los Angeles), and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
The Institute's Crochet Coral Reef is now one of the largest science + art projects in the world.
At the core of the IFF's work is the concept of material play. We believe that ideas usually presented in abstract terms can often be embodied in physical activities that engage audiences via kindergarten-like practices. Through activities such as cutting and folding paper, we affirm that the hands and eyes can serve as guides to developing the human mind. By inviting our audience to literally play with ideas, the IFF offers a new, hands-on approach to public science education that is at once intellectually rigorous, pedagogically rich, and aesthetically aware.
Week in Review: Tactile Representations
The podcast! This week: Duncan and Richard talk to Spencer Finch about his current exhibition "Study for Disappearance.â€
What is the color of the threshold – of that liminal space before day plunges into night? Spencer Finch attempts to answer this question through his most recent body of work created specifically for Study for Disappearance, his fourth solo exhibition at Rhona Hoffman Gallery.
An essay by John Preus about making a table:
Quilting, a designation generally reserved for things made of fabric, is the result of surplus parts. It is not quite an assemblage or collage, although that history certainly relates to what is interesting to me about the table. An assemblage has to incorporate disparate parts, disruptions, things that were not meant to be together, a forced marriage, so to speak. Being that all of the table parts are wood, it isn't suitable to describe it as an assemblage or a collage. And it is not marquetry, which is an image or pattern-making technique using veneers of different colors to develop a picture. Quilting takes parts of other things to make a new thing. I would venture to guess that it comes out of a utilitarian folk tradition in which materials were limited and people had to make do with what was around. That may have been true long ago, but I am sure that quilting happens now more among folks with time to kill, than among low income folks trying to save material, textiles being as inexpensive as they are.
I put together a list of articles written about the Expo art fair spree here.
Britton Bertrand thinks back on 2005:
The years 2005 and 2006 were ok years for Chicago Art. It seemed to be an upswing couple of years when apartment galleries and art interest were peaking. (These things come in waves – I'd put us in a upward motion now after reaching the bottom in 2011.) The MCA was showing interesting work (a Dan Flavin Retrospective, Deb Sokolow and William J. O'Brien had 12 x 12's), blogs were percolating with critical activity (anyone remember panel-house.com or iconoduel.org?) and this new fandangled thing called a podcast had people sitting with their bulky desktops and REALLY listening.
Amanda Browder says GOOD MORNING New York:
"Good Morning!â€Â is a fabric installation that will be draped on the facade of the building located at 72 East 4th Street, NYC. All the fabric is donated by people from the neighborhood, as well the generous support from Materials for the Arts.Â
read an interview with Browder about the piece here.
More on the subject of John Preus — Thea Liberty Nichols posted an incredible essay about Preus', who's work she recently curated at the Experimental Sound Studio:
John Preus is an artist, musician, carpenter, woodworker, and magpie. In the long-standing tradition of Chicago artists scavenging for "trash treasure,†he lets serendipity and the thrill of the hunt guide him in sourcing discarded materials. Each new piece is a design challenge, contingent on entropy and surplus, to revive what others have cast-off or given up on. His materials offer up an infinite number of solutions which he is constantly attempting to "extract and exploit.â€
Juliana Driever posted an artist profile about  Ernesto Pujol:
Pujol is a site-specific public performance artist and social choreographer. He has a long record of intellectual and interdisciplinary art practices which have dealt with concepts of collective and individual and collective identity, the sacred, social and political issues, and public/private space. Since the late 90′s, Pujol has also been working on public group performances, where the focus has rested with action, movement, the journey – and the central concept of the "artist-as-citizen.†Additionally, he is the founder of The Field School Project, where  young and emerging artists are individually mentored in site-specific practices.
Atlanta-based Meredith Kooi writes about a photo show curated around feminism, performativity, and photography organized by the Hagedorn Foundation Gallery:
The works in the show by the artists Jill Frank, Mónika Sziládi, and duo Double Zero (Hannah Ireland and Annie Vought) examine how to make a photograph of someone, a person, a woman (perhaps) and what that means. One of the organizing principles of the show – performativity, a buzz word indeed especially since the 1990s with Judith Butler's work on gender – finds itself in relation to photographs that draw attention to the process of their making. Alongside considerations of gender and femininity as performative gestures, the works in the show investigate the apparatus of photography and imagistic representation itself – Jill Frank's work in particular. Adding to this work by Frank is the Untitled (Projection) series by Steffani Jemison presented in her solo exhibition, When I Turn My Head, in the upstairs gallery at Hagedorn.
Stephanie Burke's TOP 5, baby.
Monica Westin posted an interview between Yolanda Cesta Cursach and Tolcachir about Tolcachir's upcoming performance at the MCA:
 Tercer Cuerpo is partly about labor and identity, particularly the disappearance of sustainable, meaningful jobs for people. What happens to these characters, and us, when we must find meaning in our lives apart from a career or calling? The always-already obsolescence of the form of theater makes the piece of interest to representing labor in contemporary performance and medium specificity in dealing with contemporary collapses of space and time. But the company Timbre 4 is also a landmark for contemporary Argentinan art practices; their home base in the working-class Boedo neighborhood of Buenos Aires has become a hotbed and model for independent, experimental theater and performance.
Saturday closed out, as per always, with some Endless Opportunities —
1 Professor/Associate Professor in Art and the Public Sphere, Oslo National Academy of the Arts Closing date: Review of applications will begin October 15, 2013
2. A Blade of Grass announces ABOG Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art Deadline: Monday, December 2, 2013
A Blade of Grass, a new funding organization that nurtures socially engaged art, is pleased to announce the launch of the ABOG Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art. Seven Fellows will be selected to receive an unrestricted stipend of 20,000 USD to realize an innovative community-based project. The program will also offer tailored professional support to socially engaged artists including documentation and assessment of each project, and workshops that teach skills that are particularly relevant to artists working directly with communities to enact social change…Letters of inquiry will be due Monday, December 2, 2013. Finalists will be invited to submit full applications in January 2014 and selections will be made and announced in April 2014. A Blade of Grass will hold two informational Fellowship Workshops prior to each annual application deadline. This year, they will be held on September 17 and November 6. To view the complete application and selection guidelines visit the A Blade of Grass website: www.abladeofgrass.org/
3. Heads up on the rapidly approaching deadline for entries to Curate NYC:
This citywide cultural initiative provides New York City artists a rare and powerful opportunity to expose their work to top curators around the world. See our current entries here: http://www.curatenyc.org/2013/. There are numerous opportunities for exhibition, and no cost to participating. Curate NYC is a civic venture produced by arts philanthropist Danny Simmons and marketing strategist Brian Tate, in partnership with the NYC Economic Development Corporation, to heighten visibility for local artists and to promote the City's positive image.
4. Kress Foundation Grants DIGITAL RESOURCES GRANTS PROGRAM Deadline: 01 October 2013
Supports efforts to integrate new technologies into the practice of art history and the creation of important online resources in art history, including both textual and visual resources… The Digital Resources program is intended to create incentives for historians of art and architecture, as well as archivists and librarians who support their work, to convert important existing information resources to digital form. These resources will reach a vastly larger audience of specialists, teachers, and students online than they could ever reach previously, while also fostering new forms of research and collaboration and new approaches to teaching and learning. Support will also be offered for the digitization of important visual resources (especially art history photographic archives) in the area of pre-modern European art history; of primary textual sources (especially the literary and documentary sources of European art history); for promising initiatives in online publishing; and for innovative experiments in the field of digital art history. Please note that this grant program does not typically support the digitization of museum object collections. More on that here.
5.GET CA$H FOR QUEER ART! The Critical Fierceness Grant & Mark Aguhar Memorial Fund
Since its founding in 2005, Chances Dances has sought to create a safe space for all gender expressions by bringing together the varied LGBTIQ communities of Chicago. The creation of the Critical Fierceness grant expands upon this goal by offering a unique opportunity for queer artistic expression. Individuals or groups who wish to utilize the Critical Fierceness Grant for artistic purposes and who identify themselves or their work as queer are encouraged to apply. The Critical Fierceness Grant supports queer artists with financial assistance of up to $500.
In 2012,Chances Dances expanded the Critical Fierceness Grant to include the Mark Aguhar Memorial Grant, which seeks to fund projects by queer woman-identified and trans-feminine artists of color. The Mark Aguhar Memorial Grant supports feminine-spectrum queer artists of color with financial assistance of up to $1000. Chances Dances is proud to provide both these opportunities for personal exploration, community development and radical change through art. Read more.
6. ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM FOR PRINTMAKERS | Kala Art Institute, CA Residencies starting in November, December, January, February, or March Deadline: 15 October 2013
Artists working in various printmaking techniques, photo-processes, book arts and digital media including video production can apply to become an Artist-in-Residence at Kala Art Institute… Resident artists receive 24-hour access to the printmaking workshop and/or electronic media center, individual storage space, possible exposure on Kala's website and in other exhibitions at Kala or outside exhibition spaces, and participation in a vital, international artistic community. Artists also receive a 20% discount on classes and private tutoring offered by Kala. You will find out if you have been accepted approximately two weeks after the application deadline. Kala's Studio Managers sometimes require the artist to complete certain classes or technical tutorials before beginning the residency. If this is the case, the artist is given a list of the classes/tutorials required. At this point the artist may accept or reject the offer of a residency. More info here: http://www.kala.org/air/air.html


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What's more stressful than taking the bar exam? Test-takers across multiple states found out this week, thanks to a software snafu that prevented them from uploading their answers to a server. ExamSoft Worldwide, which oversees the database, said the flub took the company "approximately six hours longer than usual to process all of the exam takers' answers onto our servers" but maintained that the glitch had no effect on the takers' answer content. Yes, but what about their health? That kind of thing can take years off a young lawyer's life — or at least necessitate a multi-week extension of one's "bar trip."
The Delaware Supreme Court just swore in its second female justice — ever. Congratulations to Karen Knox Valihura!
$2 Billion
A California judge has tentatively approved the $2 billion sale of the Los Angeles Clippers in a ruling against the team's owner, Donald Sterling. Sterling claims the sale, which is being negotiated by his wife, Shelly Sterling, is all part of a conspiracy to give him the boot. Judge Michael Levanas said he has found "no credible or compelling evidence" to support the allegations.
An assistant professor at South Texas College of Law says he's found a way to predict decisions of the Supreme Court's individual justices with a pretty impressive 70.9% accuracy rate. Josh Blackman writes on his blog that the computer model he developed with two colleagues has also correctly identified 69.7% of the high court's affirm and reverse decisions since 1953, using only data that was available before the court's ruling. Blackmun writes that the model "has proven consistently accurate at predicting six decades of behavior of thirty Justices appointed by thirteen Presidents."

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Aggie and Lady Aggie Sports
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Lady Aggies' opponents
take notice when Jennifer Costeldia comes to
the plate. Costeldia has been named the Heartland
Conference Player of the Week, in large part for her offensive
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State catcher Jennifer Costeldia was red hot last week in
the six Lady Aggie games (four of them wins). For the week,
Costeldia went 12 for 18 at the plate (.667), including three
home runs, two triples and a double. She also had 16 RBIs.
For her outstanding performance, the senior from Grand Junction,
Colo. has been named the Heartland Conference Softball Player
of the Week.
An excellent student majoring in Psychology, Costeldia has
given fits to opposing pitchers all season. She leads the Lady
Aggies in batting average (.370), hits (34), doubles (6), home
runs (6), runs batted in (25) and total bases (63). In addition,
she is tied with Jackie Cornish for the team lead in triples
with four.
A popular student athlete around the
OPSU campus, known as "C.J." to
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Perhaps the most wonderful thing about the English language is how malleable, how adaptive it is. It's a rare form of linguistic expression that's not utterly dependant on inflexible rules and cases and all that mumbo jumbo. English breathes, it lives. It's in that spirit of growth that Merriam-Webster continuously updates its glossary in order to capture English at its most current and its most vital. Lately, though, I must admit, both Merriam and Webster have kind of been scraping the bottom of the barrel.
On Monday, Merriam-Webster released 150 new definitions for a slew of words both completely new and simply repurposed. This marks the first time in two years that Merriam-Webster has updated it's word offering. New words included Internet trends like "selfie," "hashtag" and "tweep" as well as culinary entries like pho (which I didn't know was ours to take) and Thanksgiving monstrosities like "turducken" - which is an unholy combination of turkey, duck and chicken.
Not content to confine themselves purely to the kitchen or social media, however, the folks at Merriam-Webster also added industry terms like "fracking" and the word every office employee has come to fear: "gamification."
Meanwhile, Merriam-Webster also re-appropriated some classics to reflect the words' changing meanings. "Brilliant," for example, now means "sweet" or "cool," rather than just "smart" (thanks Brits!). "Yooper" - a slang term for someone from Michigan's Upper Peninsula - is also finally getting a little recognition with its own entry; take it from someone who went to school in the Midwest, though, and don't go dropping "Yooper" freely. That word gets used pejoratively a lot, so they're a bit sensitive about it. Finally, a word to retired old men: "catfishing" no longer means what you think it means.
Not every inclusion seems totally justified, though. "Big data," for example, appears to merit its own definition, which reads thusly: "An accumulation of data that is too large and complex for processing by traditional database management tools." To this under-informed writer it would seem that "too much data" would cover that entire term without needing to cram another word into an already deliciously overstuffed book. That, however, is just one man's opinion.
Peter Sokolowski, a lexicographer and editor at large for Merriam-Webster, defended the choices to the Huffington Post, saying "One of the most important things we have to watch is the trendiness of language, so we don't want to put a word in that will then have to come out," Sokolowski said. "We want to make sure a word is here to stay."
Considering Webster's previous offerings in 2012 legitimized some unfortunate (but admittedly stalwart) options like "sexting," "gastropub" and "f-bomb," it seems these guys know what they're talking about.


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If you're age 17 to 35, in relatively good physical condition, have a high school degree or GED and haven't been convicted of a felony, you may be a good fit for serving in a branch of the U.S. military or National Guard.
When 27-year-old Justan Crews lost his job for the second time in two years, he enlisted in the U.S. Army. The Hillsboro, Ohio resident had been an Equipment Maintenance Mechanic, first at DHL in Wilmington, Ohio then at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. Crews had been unemployed for eight months before he went to Basic Training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina in March 2011.
Five months later, Crews' wife and two small children joined him in Fort Riley, Kansas where they live in military housing. Within two months, his wife Farrah found a job as a Teller at Bank of America.
Crews, a Wheeled Vehicle Mechanic (91B), enlisted for three years, 26 months. He says he recommends the Army, citing a steady job and paycheck, good benefits, expanded experience, a family-friendly atmosphere and the ability to travel. Crews also likes that his needs are met, Army housing is provided, utilities are paid for and his family will be taken care of when he is deployed.


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CAREER: Co-starred behind the plate as a junior, splitting starts with another junior catcher, Cody Freeman • Lone Bulldog from Louisiana and one of three State players that advanced their baseball careers at Meridian Community College.
2010: Appeared in 40 games, making 30 starts behind the dish • Hit .225 with a double, four home runs and 17 runs batted in • Shared starting duty with Cody Freeman • Made his Mississippi State debut as the opening day starter against Rhode Island (Feb. 19) • Collected a pair of singles, drew a walk and scored three runs in a 3-for-4 showing • Registered five multiple-hit games, including season-best three-hit plate performances at Alabama (Apr. 25) and at LSU (May 20) • Delivered his fourth two-RBI game on the final weekend in a series-opening game against defending NCAA champion LSU (May 20) • Strung together season-best five-game hitting and RBI streaks (March 17-28) • Launched four home runs, all against SEC competition and two during a 3-for-7 series at Florida • Charged with one error and compiled a .996 fielding percentage to rank among the SEC's top fielding receivers • Threw out 10 opponent baserunners attempting stolen bases • Team's third-best batting average (.455) in 10 games as a non-starter • Hit .263 and played error-free defense in 17 SEC starts (20 SEC games played).
JUNIOR COLLEGE: Two-year catching standout at Meridian (Miss.) Community College • Coached by Chris Rose • Hit .371 with 66 hits, including 15 doubles, two triples and 11 home runs • Drove in 50 runs en route to All-Region 23 honors as a sophomore • Started 54 of 58 games for the Eagles in 2009 • Served as team captain for 2008-09 • Helped the MCC Eagles claim the 2009 Region 23 championship • Caught all 55 games as a freshman in 2008 • Hit .370 with 17 extra-base hits, including six home runs • Earned All-MACJC honors as a freshman on Meridian's state championship team • MCC teammate of current Bulldog infielder Jarrod Parks • Phi Theta Kappa honor society member at MCC.
HIGH SCHOOL: Three-year starter as a catcher and first baseman at Hahnville High School in Boutte, La. • Hit .417 and drove in 47 runs with 23 extra-base hits as a senior in 2007 • Also pilfered eight bases in nine attempts • Earned all-district, all-parish and coaches all-state honors as a senior • Hit .380 with 38 RBI en route to earning all-state, all-district and all-parish honors as a junior in 2006 • Member of the National Honor Society and the Beta Club • Played summer league baseball in 2007 and 2008 with Bill Hood Baseball, coached by Chris Wescott.
PERSONAL: Born Wesley Joseph Thigpen on June 20, 1989 in Kenner, La. • Son of Sarah and Billy Thigpen of Luling, La. • Majoring in kinesiology.


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Northern Ireland striker Kyle Lafferty is preparing for pastures new this summer having accepted his time at Norwich is seemingly over.
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Gardai shot a man in the face during an overnight operation, the force's official watchdog has said.
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Japanese car giant Toyota is recalling 1.43 million vehicles worldwide for defective air bags.
Scotty Moore, the pioneering rock guitarist whose sharp, graceful style helped Elvis Presley shape his revolutionary sound and inspired a generation of musicians that included Keith Richards, Jimmy Page and Bruce Springsteen, has died Tuesday at 84.
Two dozen Syrian civilian organisations and humanitarian aid groups are threatening to pull out of peace talks unless the international community takes major steps to protect civilians and enforce a cessation of hostilities.
At least 36 people have been killed and almost 150 injured in a suicide attack on Istanbul's Ataturk Airport which has been blamed on Islamic State.
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Twenty-eight people have been killed and 60 injured in an attack at Istanbul's Ataturk airport, the city's governor said.
Hillary Clinton has proposed allowing entrepreneurs to defer making student loan payments in order to create jobs and stimulate growth.
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A federal judge has ruled a group of 21 Cuban migrants who reached a lighthouse off the Florida Keys last month are not on US soil and must return to Cuba.
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Michael D Higgins told graduating students "education has the power to change the world" as he received an honorary degree on an official visit to Scotland.
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At the heart of the instability inside Iraq is the multi-million dollar backed ISIS terrorist group that has already toppled some of Iraq's largest cities: Mosul, Fallujah, Ramadi, and Tikrit. For the last three days the militants have stalled their advance some 40 miles outside of Baghdad.
Although a United States intervention in Iraq is not popular with all Iraqis, there is an added layer of security for civilians knowing that the U.S. Navy now has well-position warships in the nearby Persian Gulf.
In the last several days, the massive aircraft carrier U.S.S George H.W. Bush arrived with a complement of fighter jets and crew. U.S.S Truxton and U.S.S Philippine Sea, both carrying guided missiles, flank the carrier while the amphibious transport dock ship, U.S.S Mesa Verde, idles in the waters between Kuwait and Iran. In addition to highly skilled Sailors and Marines, Mesa Verde carries a full complement of MV-22 Ospreys.
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For a fifth consecutive quarter, a survey by Technology Business Research (TBR) has ranked Dell Services number one for customer satisfaction among corporate IT users. In TBR's Corporate IT Service & Support Customers Satisfaction Study for the first quarter of 2010, Dell Services topped the rankings for the 31st time in the past 39 reporting periods over almost 10 years.
The noted industry survey measures corporate IT departments with a minimum number of desktops, laptops and servers. The latest TBR report said, "In 1Q10, Dell Services establishes industry standards for on-site expertise, on-site response time and phone support."
Dell Services team members offer support services in 108 countries and territories worldwide, delivering support in 27 languages and manage more than 26 million customer contacts end-to-end annually. Dell Services operates seven Global Command Centers and offers tech support, services parts, field service, technical account managers, and engineering and warranty services. The company directly supports more than 14.2 million clients, servers and storage systems.
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Kenya Ambassadors and High Commissioners are representatives and guardians of the Kenyan people abroad. When an Ambassador confronts people from his home country with the statement, "I DO NOT ENTERTAIN TRIBAL GROUPINGS" after they pay him a visit, Just because they talk one common language, when an ambassador refuses to reply to an invitation letter by people from his home country, just because the invitation letter does not have multiple signatures of people from different tribes, who is tribal, that Ambassador or the individual people from his home country who live together in one area?
This was exactly what happened when his Excellency Ambassador Elkanah Odembo arrived in USA as the new Kenya Ambassador to USA to replace the former Kenya Ambassador to USA, His Excellency Peter Ogego . The first group to go to the Kenyan Embassy in Washington DC to welcome the new Ambassador, was a group of Kenyans from Baltimore, Maryland. It was the first group to be greeted with the harsh words "I do not entertain tribal groupings". The second group of Kenyans to taste the wrath of Ambassador Odembo's motto of "I do not entertain tribal groupings" was one from Massachusetts. In September 2010, the Kenyan Ambassador to the USA, was sent an invitation letter by the New England Pastors Fellowship Association, a group of 45 Reverends, Pastors and Bishops representing Kenya congregations from 4 States in USA, namely Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine and Rode Island. As representatives of thousands of Kenyans living in the United States of America, they wanted to meet their new Ambassador.
Most people in Massachusetts come from the Kikuyu community in Kenya, and therefore, the Ambassador considered it a tribal group, prompting his refusal to reply to the invitation letter from the New England Pastors Fellowship Association. Although the Ambassador has been advocating Anti-Tribal groupings, he has been a frequent visitor of Tallahassee in Florida. Who he has been visiting and why he has always chosen Tallahassee as his favorite city of visit, is every Kenyans guess.
Despite the efforts of the Association to prepare for the arrival of the Ambassador, he never replied nor did he ever call the Association to officially acknowledge receipt of the invitation letter, although it was confirmed that the letter reached the office of the Ambassador. More efforts to consult with the Ambassador over the invitation were unsuccessful. Similarly, the Kenyan people in New Jersey, who live very close to Washington DC. have tried to invite the Ambassador in vain. They are considered to be a tribal group because most of them come from the Kisii community in Kenya. Living together as a community in one state in America while the other Kenyan community lives together in another state should never be considered to be tribal. Recently the Ambassador failed to receive the Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs Hon. Richard Onyonka or send a representative. Whether Dr. Onyonka and his team were considered a tribal group by the Ambassador, it remains a puzzle.
What exactly would happen if His Excellency Ambassador became the President of Kenya, where different groups of people live in different locations, talk one language and a culture of their own?. Would he ever visit any such a community or be visited by one such a community at State House?
May the Ambassador be advised that there are three categories of Kenyans arriving abroad. There are those who win Green Card, those who arrive as visitors and those who are prospective students. In either case there is always a host in place to receive the new comer. Everyone who travels abroad under the categories above, is either received by a friend or a relative, and often settles in that same area he is received. That is the reason why different communities are found living together in different locations in USA and elsewhere in the World.
Kenya Ambassadors and High Commissioners all over the World should learn to listen to every Kenyan in need and to accept to meet any group of Kenyans. They are representatives and guardians of Kenyans living with them abroad. They should always strive to unite them instead of dividing them, as is happening in the USA. There is a culture in Kenyans' leadership circles where no one accepts a mistake even when a mistake is obvious. Failure to accept mistakes blocks all avenues for corrections and creates room for repetitions of same mistakes. And unless the Ambassador explains why he failed to receive the Assistant Minister and the Vice Chairperson of the IEBC or send his representative, the Kenya Government should prove that change is already in process by taking a disciplinary action against the Ambassador. Otherwise Kenyans will remain convinced that the current Government may never succeed in eradicating impunity. The fear created by the impunity in Kenya is far more threatening than the fear expressed by the Kenyan Ambassador to the USA in Boston recently.
According to the Standard Newspaper, Kenyans in the Diaspora are so tribal to an extent of brewing trouble in Kenya, a statement which is misguiding and false. Kenyans in the Diaspora, especially in the US, have not been tribally divided as depicted in the Standard newspaper. What featured recently in the Standard Newspaper was an exaggeration of tribalism in the Diaspora which does not warrant any alarm. Kenyans in Diaspora have not been killing one another as portrayed in the newspaper and neither have they been the cause of the common attacks and killings witnessed in Kenya from time to time since 1992. Unless a new project to loot public funds in the name of collecting signatures to keep peace in America is in the offing, it would be unimaginable to buy buses in order to go round in USA to collect signatures from Kenyans in the Diaspora for the Purposes of keeping peace. One thing, this is an insult to the competent security system in the USA and an abuse to all the Kenyans living in USA.
All the Ambassador is required to do, if he is really convinced that Kenyans in USA are about to start killing one another, is to report what he knows about the insecurity among the Kenya communities living in USA, to the US authorities, and I can assure him that everything will be taken care of, and all his worries will be gone. Instead of wasting money to buy buses, buy gas to run the buses, hire drivers and personnel to run such an unnecessary expensive exercise, all that money should be channeled to other important projects in Kenya, such as helping the Internally Displaced people or transfer the same exercise to Kenya, where attacks and killings have been common during elections.
Kenyans in the USA have never attacked and/or killed one another as a group, and when that time comes, the US security system will be in charge and will take care of it, and not the Kenyan Ambassador or the Kenya Government.
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Thank you Mr. Kinity. You are absolutely correct. The article on Standard was false and misleading.
Well said, Mr. Kinity. It appears to me that this behavior is a replica of Jakayo Midiwo and Itobu Imanyara dirty game in Kenya. The Ambassador needs to know that we have no room for such games here in the United States.
How come I have not seen that bus in NY? I cant just see tribal sentiments here no better than the accused person, And who are you representing in US definitely not me, so don't be the mouthpiece for those who did not select you or even know you. If you have a problem with the Ambassador because he does not speak your language go to him and stop dragging those who don't want politics along. Peace.
Mr. Kinity's article is very impressive. He has laid down point after point and unless the ambassador challenges the issues raised in that article, all what Kinity has said will be viewed as the real truth. Nevertheless, My concern in the article is the revelation of the campaign to travel to nearly all states in America and in Canada in a peace crusade as if Kenyans abroad are at war. If the ambassador and his friends impart their vision and efforts of the immaginary chaos within the Kenyans in the Diaspora, into Kenya, all the IDPs will be ressettled and there would be no more attacks and killings in future. Please Mr. Ambassador, heed the advice given to you by Mr. Kinity by releasing all the information you have about the threats posed by the Kenyans in the Diaspora, to the US intelligence.
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That the classroom holds an erotic charge is indisputable. My first serious crush after the Gary, the first boy I ever had a crush on way back in First Grade, was my Sixth Grade science teacher Mr. Something (I do not slight Mr. Something by not remembering his name; he's merely a member of the nameless madding horde of men—and women—whose names I can't recall). I had an intense burning completely erotic-free crush on Mr. Something. I did everything I could do to please him with my scientific aptitude.
He, of course, let me down. It was not that Mr. Something didn't return my crush, for this concept lay so far outside of my ken that I couldn't even conceive of it; my twelve year-old self finds conceptualizing a returned crush kind of like a Zen koan, like imagining my face before I was born or the sound of one eraser clapping. Rather than by not requiting my love, Mr. Something let me down by not having my back in an argument, a situation that ended with my uncharacteristically landing in the principal's office.
I avoided having crushes on my professors in college. One of my best friends, an ethereally pretty girl with the eyelashes of a baby seal, burned with an inexplicable passion for our History professor, a man who was also her choir director. She was racked by her passion, she felt guilt for every moment of pleasure she derived from their platonic company. In the dead of night, she would masturbate furtively and frantically to the image of this paunchy, scrofulous, toad-belly-colored, balding man.
I didn't get it. But then, I really never got hott for older men. Maybe the burn of Mr. Something was too scorching, but it's more likely that nature and/or nurture made me the kind of woman who likes younger dudes.
So it wasn't until I returned to college as an adult that I really got a mad phat jones for any of my professors. His name was Dr. Something, a slight, blonde wisp of a man, around my age, who played basketball with Stanley Fish, had lunch with Edward Said in his bullet-proof windowed apartment, hung out with Jacques Derrida. I was, frankly, smitten. I was willing to overlook Dr. Something's paucity of physical hottness—his flyaway balding blond hair, his pipecleaner biceps, his weight class dwarfed by my own—because he was so freaking smart. And while he'd be in front of the class giving a deconstructionist Marxist environmental reading of Heart of Darkness, I'd imagine myself slow grinding to a yowling crescendo on his undoubtedly well-educated and effete dick.
These days I am the one giving the readings to the college students who are imagining whatever it is they are imagining. Given my predilection for younger men, I too have performed some fantasy feats in my own fecund head, though usually while I'm teaching I'm so focused on whatever is going on in the classroom that sex is banished to some quiet dark closet in the back. Later, though, when I'm walking to the train station, the cosseted fantasy will spring to life, and I'm shocked by some image of myself on my knees, mouth gaping, applying my body of knowledge to the student's endowed cock.
Not to put too fine a point on it.
I have friends who have fucked in classrooms—some have fucked other students, quick rushed copulations on the tops of seminar tables; others have fucked their lovers in their classrooms; one friend had a boyfriend who was a former student and they fucked in her classroom. Donny spent a year or so teaching after he finished college and before he was sure he wanted to make money for a living. His girlfriend visited him one afternoon, and he had her spread-legged and nose-down on his desk, facing the empty grade-school desks, as if he was giving a bawdy bodied lesson to a room of underage ghosts.
He said it was "hott."
I have a hard time imagining having sex in a classroom without immediately summoning to mind the scene in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life when John Cleese provides a lesson in sex education by having sex with his wife in an elaborate Murphy bed in front of the class.
"We'll take foreplay as given, shall we?" He says before introducing his "John Thomas" into his "good lady wife" to his students' apparent horror and discomfiting pleasure.
I feel like as long as I'm teaching I'm missing out on the perks of not fucking in my classroom, if not fucking a former student. Like there is this fantasy that I am obligated to fulfill because I have the means at my disposal, and by refusing to take advantage of all that is offered to me—the ready classroom, its erotic potential, the willing adult youth of a college student—I welsh on the cultural pornotopic contract.
My mom, way back when she was still joyfully raunchy, used to tell a joke that involved a whorehouse staffed with women of different professions on each floor. I forget what these professions were or how the joke goes exactly, but it culminated with the floor of the teachers most popular because, as my mom explained, a big naughty-chastising smile on her face, the teachers would say, "Now, young man, you're going to do it again and again until you get it right!"
The classroom fantasy positively brims to excess with fantastic components—the public display, the imagined knowledge, the overturned power dynamic. You'd think I'd be drawn to it.
And yet, not so much. But then I really like beds. Maybe I just need John Cleese's classroom to change my mind.


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Dude man why would you seriously hate being Filipino?
The Philippines was named after King Philip. the guy who discovered it in the 1500…
The philippines is the 5th most english speaking country in the world.
besides india, thats more than any other asian country.
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In addition to them we also have Quest Crew, Philippine All stars, kaba crew… which are filipino too.
Pretty much all governments in the south eastern asia are corrupt.. so what?
You probably dont know enoough about the philippines to be proud of it. I suggest you go to the philippines more often…
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I know we see these posts quite frequently, but really, is my kid the ONLY one? He has about 10-12 words we really know and understand(hi, bye, mama, daddy, see, whats that, see ya later, uh oh, dog, lexie, stephy) but i feel like he should be attempting to repeat more and say more by now. He turned 2 on the 20th. I know its not good to compare kids, since all are different, but our neice won't be 2 until April and she is talking(clearly) and has a very wide vocab. My cousin's little boy is 3 months older than Blake and repeats everything, and talks in sentences.
He has his 2 year checkup tomorrow, and I plan to ask the ped about it, but should I really be worrying at this point? Is it still "too early"??
I will add, he is advanced with all gross and fine motor skills...coloring, puzzles, anything active. He undertands commands or when we tell him things (Go get the book, close your door, etc). He knows who people are and what things are, just will not verbally say the names.
Still not really talking??
Blake sounds exactly like Jason. Jason is above average in all of the fine motor skills, but he only says a few words. The only words he says on his own are hi, bye, uh oh, house, and sometimes baby. He can say other words too, but we have to ask him by saying "Jason, can you say _____?", and he will say or attempt to say it. Some words he says really well, but he just will not say them on his own. He also understands everything we say, and if we ask him to do something, he does it. I think they will just start saying more when they are ready.
At one of his well visits the beginning of 2009, the doctor suggested early interventions as well, and we had him evaluated at 16 months, which I thought was too early. They said he was behind in speech, but I was not real into the program because everything they were doing with him, I already do with him myself. I am hoping not to have to go back to that.
I know several people that never talked much until they were between 3 and 4, and they speak fine now. I think all kids just wait until they are ready. Jason does not really have a need to be saying more right now, so I think that may be why he does not talk much. He babbles a lot, but nothing that can be understood.
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