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RELIGST 162X: Spirituality and Nonviolent Urban and Social Transformation (CSRE 162A, URBANST 126)
A life of engagement in social transformation is often built on a foundation of spiritual and religious commitments. Case studies of nonviolent social change agents including Rosa Parks in the civil rights movement, César Chávez in the labor movement, and WIlliam Sloane Coffin in the peace movement; the religious and spiritual underpinnings of their commitments. Theory and principles of nonviolence. Films and readings. Service learning component includes placements in organizations engaged in social transformation. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center).
Last offered: Spring 2016 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-ED, WAY-SI
RELIGST 180: Gender Relations in Islam
This course investigates the ways in which gender identities and relationships between men and women have been articulated, constructed, and refashioned throughout the Muslim world. Starting with problematizing the fixed notions of gender and sexuality, we map the attitudes toward these notions through visiting a diverse array of sources from the Qur¿an, Sunna, and legal documents to historical and anthropological case studies, literature, and film from South East Asia to Europe and North America. We examine the notions of femininity and masculinity in the Qur¿an, family laws, and attitudes toward homosexuality and transgendered populations. We read examples of ambiguous use of language with regards to gender and sexuality in Persian poetry and mystical traditions. We study the dynamic relationship between Islam and Feminism in the Muslim world. Finally, we witness the implications of these attitudes in our case studies and stories, from a divorce court in Iran to a wedding in Sudan.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
2016-2017 Spring
3 units |
UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-SI |
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RELIGST 209: Priests, Prophets, and Kings: Religion and Society in Late Antique Iran (CLASSICS 147, CLASSICS 247, RELIGST 309)
This course is designed as a broad introduction to the religious and social history of the Sasanian Empire, encompassing the period from 224-651 CE as well as the early years of Islamic rule in Iran. Among the topics we will discuss are: the lives and deeds of the powerful Iranian emperors such as Shapur I and II in relation to the the Roman emperors Diocletian and Constantine; the transformation of Zoroastrianism into a powerful official religion of the state and its subsequent orthodoxy; the emergence of the prophet Mani and the confrontation of Manicheism with the Zoroastrian priesthood; the conversion of Constantine to Christianity and its political and social ramifications in Iran; the establishment of an independent Iranian Christian church; the importance of Armenia in the Sasanian- Roman conflict; and a brief discussion of the history of the Jewish community under the Sasanians. We will end the quarter by examining the Arab¿Islamic¿conquests of Iran and the profound social changes experienced by the Zoroastrian communities in the early centuries of Islam in Iran.
Last offered: Autumn 2015 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
RELIGST 209E: Imperishable Heroes and Unblemished Goddesses: Myth, Ritual, and Epic in Ancient Iran (CLASSICS 148, CLASSICS 248, RELIGST 309E)
Designed as a broad introduction to the world of ancient Iran, students will be introduced to the Indo-European inheritance in ancient Iranian culture; the shared world of ritual, religion, and mythology between Zoroastrianism in Iran and Vedic Hinduism in India; and to the contours of early Zoroastrian religious thought. We will also survey mythoepic literature in translation from the archaic Avesta through the late antique Zoroastrian Middle Persian corpus to the early medieval national epic of Iran, the Book of Kings of Ferdowsi.
Last offered: Spring 2016 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-SI
RELIGST 212X: Knights, Monks, and Nobles: Masculinity in the Middle Ages (FEMGEN 212X, FEMGEN 312, HISTORY 212, HISTORY 312, RELIGST 312X)
This course considers masculinity as historically and culturally contingent, focusing on the experiences and representations of medieval men as heroes, eunuchs, fathers, priests, husbands, boys, and fighting men. Recognizing that the lives of men, like those of women, were governed by gendered rules and expectations, we will explore a wide range of medieval masculinities, paying close attention to the processes by which manhood could be achieved (e.g. martial, spiritual, sexual), and to competing versions of manliness, from the warrior hero of the early middle ages to the suffering Christ of late medieval religion.
Terms: Win | Units: 4-5 | UG Reqs: WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Instructors: Griffiths, F. (PI)
2016-2017 Winter
4-5 units |
UG Reqs: WAY-ED, WAY-SI |
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit |
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01/09/2017 - 03/17/2017 Tue 10:30 AM - 1:20 PM at 50-52E with Griffiths, F. (PI)
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RELIGST 215X: Saints and Sinners: Women and Religion in the Medieval World (FEMGEN 215, HISTORY 215, HISTORY 315A)
Although the Apostle Paul taught that "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Gal. 3:28), men and women experienced medieval Christianity in ways that were often vastly different. In this course we examine the religious experiences of women from the origins of Christianity through to the end of the medieval period, with particular attention paid to female prophets and religious authority, saints and martyrs, sexuality and virginity, literacy and education within the cloister, mysticism, relations between religious women and men, and the relevance of gender in the religious life -- especially as gender intersected with fears of heresy, sin, and embodiment.
Terms: Aut | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Instructors: Griffiths, F. (PI)
2016-2017 Autumn
5 units |
UG Reqs: WAY-ED, WAY-SI |
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Section 01 |
Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit |
| Students enrolled: 2
09/26/2016 - 12/09/2016 Tue, Thu 1:30 PM - 2:50 PM at 160-321 with Griffiths, F. (PI)
Instructors: Griffiths, F. (PI)
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RELIGST 231: European Reformations (HISTORY 231G, HISTORY 331G, RELIGST 331)
Readings in and discussion of theological and social aspects of sixteenth century reformations: Luther, Radical Reform, Calvin, and Council of Trent, missionary expansion, religious conflict, creative and artistic expressions. Texts include primary sources and secondary scholarly essays and monographs.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
Instructors: Pitkin, B. (PI) ; Stokes, L. (PI)
2016-2017 Autumn
4-5 units |
UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI |
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Section 01 |
Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit |
| Students enrolled: 1
09/26/2016 - 12/09/2016 Tue, Thu 3:00 PM - 4:20 PM at 160-322 with Pitkin, B. (PI); Stokes, L. (PI)
Instructors: Pitkin, B. (PI); Stokes, L. (PI)
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RELIGST 235: Religion in Modern Society: Secularization and the Sacred (RELIGST 335)
What is the status of religion in modern life? Is the modern world "secular" in some fundamental, irreversible way and what does this mean? This course will explore these questions through variety of readings from leading sociologists, philosophers, and anthropologists. Our goal will be to understand in what ways industrialization, political liberalization, the rise of technology, and the success of modern science have been used to support the "secularization" thesis that the modern West rendered religion a thing of the past. A central question to be asked will be: do assessments of the place of religion in modernity necessitate a philosophy of history i.e., a theory not only of historical change, but of the meaning of this change as well?n The course will begin by looking at the origins of the theory of secularization from its beginnings in Enlightenment attempts to understand the meaning of history. We will then turn to contemporary debates over the term "secular" against its counterpart, "religious", and the problems with their application to non-Western societies. We will read works by Talal Asad, Saba Mahmood, Max Weber, Charles Taylor, Jürgen Habermas, and Pope Benedict XVI.
Last offered: Spring 2014 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
RELIGST 246: Constructing Race and Religion in America (CSRE 246, HISTORY 256G, HISTORY 356G, RELIGST 346)
This seminar focuses on the interrelationships between social constructions of race, and social interpretations of religion in America. How have assumptions about race shaped religious worldviews? How have religious beliefs shaped racial attitudes? How have ideas about religion and race contributed to notions of what it means to be "American"? We will look at primary and secondary sources, and at the historical development of ideas and practices over time.
Terms: Win | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-ED, WAY-SI
Instructors: Lum, K. (PI)
2016-2017 Winter
5 units |
UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-ED, WAY-SI |
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Section 01 |
Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) |
01/09/2017 - 03/17/2017 Wed 9:30 AM - 12:20 PM at 360-361A with Lum, K. (PI)
Instructors: Lum, K. (PI)
RELIGST 255: Religion and Power in the Making of Modern South Asia (HISTORY 297F, RELIGST 355)
This course examines the diverse ways that religious traditions have been involved in the brokering of power in South Asia from the late seventeenth century to the present day. We will examine the intersection of religion and power in different arenas, including historical memory, religious festivals, language politics, and violent actions. At the core of our inquiry is how religion is invoked in political contexts (and vice-versa), public displays of religiosity, and the complex dynamics of religion and the state. Among other issues, we will particularly engage with questions of religious identity, knowledge, and violence. Undergraduates must enroll in RELIGST 255 for 5 units. Graduate students must enroll RELIGST 355 for 3-5 units. HISTORY297F must be taken for 4-5 units.
Last offered: Spring 2016 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-ED, WAY-SI
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Harry C. Eck, a former Baltimore & Ohio Railroad locomotive engineer who rose to become superintendent of locomotive operations and later, as a docent at the B&O Museum, shared his enthusiasm for railroading with visitors, died Saturday of pneumonia at Northwest Hospital.
The Catonsville resident was 86.
"You can't go wrong saying something good about Harry. He was bright and energetic," said Archie McElvany, a B&O veteran who retired as general manager of operations from successor CSX in 1988.
"He was the absolute best person to have on the railroad because he could make things happen. He'd take ideas and make them happen," said Mr. McElvany who lives in Idlewylde.
The son of a lumber merchant and a homemaker, Harry Carl Eck was born in Baltimore and raised on Chapel Gate Lane.
Mr. Eck's romance with steam railroading began as a small child in the early 1930s, when his family took "Depression Sunday drives in the family's Studebaker."
"And when we did this, I would always ask my daddy, 'Can we go by a railroad crossing?' in hopes of seeing a train, and frequently we did," he told Paula Snell, who interviewed Mr. Eck in 2002 for the B&O Museum's oral history collection.
"So my entire ride was based on when we get to the railroad track, crossing over and hopefully seeing a train with one of those big beautiful steam locomotives," Mr. Eck said. "Without the steam locomotive, I'm not sure I would have chosen the railroad industry for a livelihood."
Mr. Eck began his career the summer of 1943, between his junior and senior year at Polytechnic Institute, when he went to work at the B&O's Mount Clare shops as a 52-cent-an-hour electrical apprentice.
After graduating from Poly in 1944, he got a job as an apprentice fireman, performing the backbreaking work of hand-firing Q-4 steam engines — what Mr. Eck called "shovel engines" — on runs between Baltimore, Brunswick and Cumberland, at a daily pay rate of $8.07.
"We were on duty for like 14 hours. So it was a long day," recalled Mr. Eck in the interview of his first day in engine service.
Mr. Eck was promoted to engineer, running both freight and passenger trains, and in 1956 was promoted to assistant road foreman of engines on the B&O's Philadelphia-Baltimore division.
In 1959, he was promoted to assistant road foreman of engines on the New Castle, Pa.-Akron, Ohio, division.
From 1961 to 1962, Mr. Eck was an air brake instructor before being named general supervisor of locomotive operations in 1963, a job he held until 1974 when he was named superintendent of locomotive operations.
Mr. Eck's career coincided with the end of steam on the B&O and the dawn of the diesel electric era.
"I hated diesels when they arrived. I wanted steam to flourish forever," said Mr. Eck in the interview. "So, if you can't beat them, join them."
After studying diesel locomotives at General Motors Electro-Motive Division in La Grange, Ill., he developed a reputation as an excellent diesel troubleshooter.
"And I learned the game and tried to be a good troubleshooter. Couldn't shovel coal anymore, had to do something," he said.
As much as he loved steam, Mr. Eck said it was the diesel that saved American railroading.
"If it hadn't been for the diesel locomotive, all the railroads would have been bankrupt in a couple of years because the steam locomotive required a tremendous maintenance force," he said.
"Harry wrote a book, 'The Modern Locomotive Handbook,' that was used not only by our railroad but railroads all over the country," said Mr. McElvany.
When the B&O was contemplating power for operation of its trains, they turned to Mr. Eck.
"He'd conduct all the tests that told us how we wanted to run a train. He did it, and did it very well," said Mr. McElvany. "We would look at something and then put it up to Harry, who made it happen. He was just tops."
Mr. Eck retired in 1985, but made the transition into working as a docent at the B&O Museum, where he operated a collection of historic engines and spoke to visitors.
"Harry had great patience and the ability to judge how much technology a visitor wanted to know. He could go to any level and would tailor his remarks," said Courtney Wilson, executive director of the museum. "He was loved by visitors from all over the world."
"He knew working railroading and could communicate it beautifully," said Herbert H. Harwood Jr., a retired CSX executive and B&O historian and author. "He was a very impressive docent."
He had been a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, and RABO, a B&O retirement organization, and since 1997 wrote a column for its quarterly newsletter, "Harry Eck Lets Off Steam!"
Reflecting on his career, he told a Washington Post reporter in 1998, "It's tangible stuff."
"Sounds, mostly: whistles, steam sounds, engines picking up speed, the wind at night, the clack of the wheels over rails or seeing the light from the locomotive through the pitch dark."
He added: "I remember it clearly — the freight trains, meat on the hoof from Chicago, the beer coming from St. Louis. You get a sense of the countryside when you're in the locomotive; you understand completely the weather, the temperatures and the aches of honest work."
Mr. Eck was a member of Catonsville United Methodist Church, 6 Melvin Ave., where services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday.
Surviving are his wife of 53 years, the former Charlotte Exley; a son, Henry H. Eck of Catonsville; a daughter, Mary Elizabeth McFarland of Havre de Grace; and two grandsons.
Harry C. Eck, a former Baltimore & Ohio Railroad locomotive engineer who rose to become superintendent of locomotive operations and later, as a docent at the B&O Museum, shared his enthusiasm for railroading with visitors, died Saturday of pneumonia at Northwest Hospital.


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Castillo feels refreshed, but rests Thursday
PITTSBURGH -- Cubs backup catcher John Baker joked that Welington Castillo may have to play Thursday. That was OK with Castillo, even though he was behind the plate for 16 innings in a game that began Wednesday night and ended 5 hours 55 minutes later.
"After the game, I did eight minutes in the cold tub and I was fine," Castillo said. "That's why I'm very happy, because my body feels like that after 16 innings. It's not 16 easy innings -- it was tough. We had long innings, we had foul balls, I got hit. My body feels really, really good. I'm really happy about it."
Even though Castillo felt good, Baker got the start on Thursday. The longest game Castillo remembered playing in was 14 innings. He was even happier to pick up his first hit of the season. Extra inning games can be brutal on a player's batting average.
"Every time I had to go to the plate, I saw on the board [that I didn't have a hit] and I said, 'I need to get one,' and I was really happy to get mine," said Castillo, who singled in the 14th inning.
The total workload? The Cubs' nine pitchers Wednesday threw 256 pitches. The only ones who didn't pitch were Monday's starter Jeff Samardzija, Thursday starter Jason Hammel, and Friday starter Travis Wood. Wood did, however, pinch-hit.


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New SKF Tyre Pressure Monitoring System cuts haulage costs and increases safety
2015 April 13, 16:01 CEST
The innovative new SKF Tyre Pressure Monitoring System will help truck operators cut cost and improve safety
Gothenburg, 13 April 2015: SKF is launching an innovative tyre pressure monitoring device for use on heavy goods vehicles. The SKF Tyre Pressure Monitoring System will be shown for the first time at the Hannover Fair 2015 and has been introduced to help haulage companies and fleet operators reduce the cost of tyre repairs and replacement, fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, while improving road safety.
The SKF Tyre Pressure Monitoring System is designed for use in the OEM segment, for truck and trailer manufacturers. This latest innovation is part of the SKF BeyondZero portfolio, which includes solutions that deliver significant environmental benefits.
The system comprises robust modules that are mounted externally on each wheel. These monitor tyre pressure and temperature and are designed to eliminate the problems of air leakage that can often be found with other methods using external monitoring air-tubes. Data is captured and transmitted wirelessly using a high signal strength of 2.4 GHz to a central control unit. This uses advanced algorithms to calculate tyre pressure accurately, with the output being shown to the driver in real time on a dashboard display.
The entire system is efficient, reliable and simple to install and use.
Stephanie Petremont, SKF Project Manager, Automotive, says, "Research has shown that 32% of all truck downtime is related to problems with tyres. In particular, incorrectly pressurised tyres will increase fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, reduce tyre life and, in extreme conditions cause potentially dangerous blow-outs. As an example, over or under inflation of a tyre by 15% can reduce tyre life by as much as 10%, while 10% under inflation of all tyres on a vehicle leads to an increase in fuel consumption; in real terms, The SKF Tyre Pressure Monitoring System would help a three-axle semi-trailer truck driving 160000 km per year to cut CO2 emissions by 7.58 g/km and save 500 litres of diesel per year."
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A climate of uncertainty and tension surrounded the death of President Hugo Chávez after his tightly guarded struggle with cancer and the election of his handpicked successor, Nicolás Maduro. Coverage of both events resulted in widespread attacks on and harassment of journalists. The government's campaign against critical broadcaster Globovisión continued with the eighth sanction against the TV network in eight years, this time regarding a report that questioned the legality of postponing the inauguration of the then-ailing Chávez. After years of harassment, the broadcaster's owner sold the company to businessmen rumored to have close ties to the government, and the station subsequently changed its editorial tone. In a move that critics described as unconstitutional, Maduro signed a decree creating the Strategic Center for Security and Protection of the Fatherland, or CESPPA, which he said would protect the country from outside threats. But journalists and press freedom groups said it gave the state vast powers that would be used to intimidate and censor the media. His government also targeted journalists, websites and Internet service providers in an attempt to suppress the country's grim economic news. The government also made good on its long-term threat and officially withdrew from the American Convention on Human Rights, a cornerstone of the human rights system of the Organization of American States.
A judge ruled that El Nacional and Tal Cual had violated a Venezuelan law aimed at protecting children and adolescents when they published a photograph of bodies in a morgue on their covers in 2010. The appeal was continuing in late 2013.
August 13, 2010:
|Caracas-based daily El Nacional publishes an archival photograph of corpses piled up in a local morgue as part of a front-page news report on rising crime in the weeks leading up to legislative elections.
August 16, 2010:
|A judge temporarily bars El Nacional from publishing graphic images that could "alter the psychological and moral well-being of children and adolescents."
August 16, 2010:
|In a show of solidarity after the ruling, Tal Cual reprints El Nacional's morgue image.
August 17, 2010:
|A court bars all Venezuelan print media from publishing violent images for one month.
August 19, 2010:
|After an international outcry, the general ban is lifted, but temporary photo prohibitions remain in place against El Nacional and Tal Cual.
August 8, 2013:
|A judge upholds the ban prohibiting El Nacional and Tal Cual from publishing "images of violent content, guns, physical aggression, bloody scenes, and naked cadavers" and imposes a fine of 1 percent of the dailies' 2009 earnings. The dailies appeal.
In the tense aftermath of the election to replace Chávez, U.S. filmmaker Timothy Hallet Tracy was jailed for more than a month on trumped-up charges of espionage, according to news reports. Tracy, who had been filming events in the country since 2012, was freed after 42 days in jail and deported due to a lack of sufficient evidence, according to the filmmaker's attorney.
|Previous short-term detentions of Tracy by intelligence officials.
|Videos confiscated by authorities that they said proved Tracy was plotting to destabilize the country on behalf of an unidentified U.S. intelligence agency. The videos they presented showed young people making jokes in a room.
Faced with increasing hostilities and the near-certainty that Globovisión would not be allowed to renew its transmission license, the broadcaster's owner sold the network to businessmen rumored to have close ties to the Venezuelan government. The editorial line of the previously combative station quickly shifted, leaving the country with no reliably independent and critical broadcaster.
|Anti-government programs canceled within a week of the sale.
|People who stopped following the station's Twitter account in the 48 hours after the cancellations, according to news reports.
|Days after the sale, the station's new leader spoke with President Maduro in a meeting that would have been inconceivable under previous ownership.
|Globovisión journalists resigned en masse two months after the sale, citing the "unacceptable condition for the free exercise of our profession."
Local press freedom group IPYS Venezuela documented at least 57 press freedom violations in April 2013, the month in which elections were held to replace Chávez. Nicolás Maduro, Chávez's handpicked successor, narrowly defeated Henrique Capriles Radonski, who had run against Chávez in his re-election bid the year before. The abuses included physical aggression, intimidation, obstruction of coverage, censorship, attacks on media outlets, and short-term detentions.


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6-7 medium sized boiled & peeled Potatoes (roughly broken using hand)
2-3 Green Chillies (broken into pieces)
3-4 medium tomatoes (chopped)
3/4tsp turmeric powder
1-1/2" piece ginger (grated)
2tsp red chili powder (or as per taste)
2tbsp coriander powder
Freshly chopped coriander to garnish
salt to taste
oil for cooking
2tsp mustard seeds
- Heat oil and add mustard seeds followed by green chilli pieces & ginger.
- Reduce the flame and add turmeric powder, do not let it burn.
- Add tomatoes , salt and sauté.
- Cook tomatoes till the oil separate, add red chilli and coriander powder.
- Add the potatoes and mix properly but gently, taking care that potatoes are not mashed further.
- Add water to make a gravy and bring it to a boil .
- Boil on low gas for a few minutes.
- Adjust the salt if required, garnish with coriander and serve hot.
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1 1/2 lb boneless pork ribs
3 mangos, cubed (I used Ataulfo)
1/4 cup olive oil
1/4 cup white wine vinegar
1 tablespoon ginger juice
1 tablespoon pepper sherry
freshly ground black pepper
Place all ingredients in a resealable bag or marinating container. Kind of squish it a bit so the mango break down. Refrigerate for up to 6 hours. Prep grill. Grease or spray with grilling nonstick spray the grill rack. Place the pork on the rack and cook over low heat until fully cooked. If desired, place the mango in a grill wok and grill that as well.


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Would it make sense to use a logic similar to what already picks Most Popular, but not include fav's from watchers in determining score?
Would it make sense to use a logic similar to what already picks Most Popular, but not include fav's from watchers in determining score?
I feel like this is kind of a long-standing problem with the arts in general, isn't it? That there are loads of extremely talented people getting overlooked. I suppose having a committee or a single person out there browsing and picking their favorites might work, assuming said committee or person had what the community would consider respectable taste. I'm sure you'd always have to try to hit that balance of "I think the community will really like this one" and "I think the community should see this one". You'd also have to look at EVERYTHING: not just art, but music, photography, writing (stories and poems!), sculpture, etc. It sounds kind of hellish if you ask me.
Well like I said, a small start won't hurt and I'm not pressing for immediacy or first time perfection. Basically any system where it's not the same artists or same content being boosted would be lightyear ahead of where we are now.
I like where Taw is going, personally.
The problem I have with automated systems is that it then can't discern quality or any other problems (unless it were queued and then a person manually approved it). I feel like it would just end up becoming random lower-quality art in an automated system where many people will then end up learning to ignore that section. For me, the point of this idea is less 'show any art from people with less watchers' and more 'show quality art from people who just aren't being noticed'. I understand 'quality' is subjective to a degree, but I don't think this is an impossible problem.
I understand the worry of bias, but I do feel there needs to be some sort of human involvement to make it a worthwhile feature. After all, it's -people- who are going to be looking at the art in that section. I think my favourite idea is a team of different people with different tastes, and maybe a SFW version and a NSFW version? A community vote/call for suggestions for the best way to go about it might help get more attention than just this thread.
Instead of a staff picked DD, maybe add a feature that allows people to promote an artist under a certain watcher number and have them voted on by users? Then those could be sorted by popularity and eventually if that artist gets popular enough, they can't be nominated again.
EDIT: Strange, I don't know why my post cut off like that. I thought I finished my thoughts...
Can't remember what I was going to say.
Last edited by XoPachi; 06-07-2016 at 09:06 AM.
I'm thinking too of something like a rotating system based on keeping new users appearing on the front page. Like each time a particular user's submission makes it to the 'currently popular' section, an integer flag gets bumped up by 1, and when it reaches a certain number that user's account is barred from the 'currently popular' section for a reasonable period of time. So that way, users who are already popular will keep getting exposure, but it will also allow for other faces to start gaining some more views as well.
And no, I haven't thought deeply about that idea to discover all its potential flaws.
Maybe consider [(% of watchers who faved art) + (% of online users at time of upload who faved art)] instead of a direct number? That way a person with 50 watchers who gets 5 faves in five minutes probably won't get a higher 'recently popular' score than a person who has 5 watchers but 2 faves in 5 minutes?
Edit: Or instead change the whole thing.
Instead of counting faves, count watchers within a certain time frame of a submission. If X artist gains Y amount of watchers within Z amount of time of an upload, that upload is featured in 'recently popular'.
Last edited by Bornes; 06-07-2016 at 01:48 AM.
Determine the average number of views/favourites for each rating, and weight accordingly
We can already determine information including the average number of views/favourites for each rating, as well as percentage of views/comments/favourites per rating. If NSFW material is say, 2x more likely to be faved than General, that's fairly easy to neutralise.
Add a weighting based on ratio of watchers to views/favourites
This one is fairly simple. If you notify 3000 people instead of 30, you'll probably get more activity. Including a weighing based on ratio of watchers:views/favs would help neutralise that effect. 50 favs from 3000 watchers wouldn't be significant at all, but 50 favs with 30 watchers is very significant.
Ultimately it comes down to whether people want "Recently Popular" to be in absolute terms or relative - and the latter does increase discoverability of artists.
Whatever you do, someone isn't going to be happy (no big surprise there), but here's my two cents:
Weighting by rating:
It's no surprise that certain subjects get more attention than others, and I've been there where a piece gets ignored because it's not one of those subjects. On the other hand, there is a sfw filter, and plenty of tools for removing anything else that people don't want to look at. What would be useful, I think is ensure that Recently Popular still returns a page full of results, even if it does have to search a little deeper.
Weighting by watchers:
This is a good idea. I'm all for discovering new talent, and if they're already a hugely popular artist, and there's really not much point in having an artist come up if they're already on your watch list. For that matter is if feasible to have a filter that checks your watch list, and filter them out of Recently Popular?


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Future MacBook Pro-bound Intel chips due next spring [u]
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The next time Apple will have the opportunity to boost the processor specifications of its MacBook Pro line will be next spring, when Intel pushes out a final update to its Montevina platform consisting of two high-performance mobile chips, according to reports.
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Apple notebook lines to see major design changes, sources say
04/07/2008, 12:04 pm
Apple Inc.'s existing MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks will be the last of their breed, as both product families are destined for major design changes upon their next refresh, AppleInsider has learned.
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The SFC will welcome folklorist and musician Mick Moloney this Thursday, October 8, in Wilson Library's Pleasants Family Assembly Room, for a multimedia musical presentation on the connections between Jewish and Irish musicians and lyricists in Tin Pan Alley.
Mick Moloney has recorded and produced over forty albums of traditional music, and is the author of Far From the Shamrock Shore: The Story of Irish American Immigration Through Song. He currently teaches in the Irish Studies Program at New York University.
His most recent album, If It Wasn't for the Irish and the Jews, was released September 15 on Compass Records.
The event is free and open to the public. Please join us!
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Reception at 5:00 pm, program at 6:00 pm
Pleasants Family Assembly Room (2nd Floor, Wilson Library, UNC Chapel Hill)
We are co-sponsoring this event with UNC-Chapel Hill's Center for the Study of the American South, American Studies Dept., Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, and the Friends of the Library.


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Guitar Hero instruments can take quite the pounding if you're a regular player, and the plastic peripherals have a bad habit of dying a few days outside of warranty. What's a dedicated rhythm game player to do?
One such man, Josh Straub, took it upon himself to write a disturbingly thorough repair guide for all things Guitar Hero World Tour, and he has shared it with the world. If you ever wanted to know what model screwdriver you need to open your instruments, along with a direct link to buy the tool, are you ever in the right place.
"This all started when I anxiously got the Wii Guitar Hero World Tour Band Kit on the October 2008 midnight release, got home and found my drum kit was faulty out of the box, like many other customers reported," Straub told Ars. "I noticed I couldn't even reach a 4x multiplier but since I was new to drums, I thought maybe it was just me. I read forums around the Web pretty heavily, so it didn't take long for me to realize this was an epidemic problem with the drum kits—the "red pad" being most notoriously faulty and the "yellow cymbal" a close second, both for having poor sensitivity."
After a few months he also ran into problems with the guitar. After fixing both himself, Straub got work on his repair guide.
The guide is exhaustively researched and detailed, so we asked Straub if he felt there was an overall problem with Guitar Hero instrument quality. "Yes, I think they are prone to failures," he said. "I know from reading Ars that you're a rhythm game fan yourself, and you must be familiar with songs having 1,000 to 2,000 notes each sometimes. I believe the intensity and addictive nature of these games combines to create a stressful environment for the instruments to survive in, but the quality is obviously not that good in the first place, with so many people having bad instruments out of the box."
Think about the stress these instruments are under: if a song has 500 notes, and you play 10 songs a session, three sessions a week, that's 780,000 clicks a year. Any hardcore fan will tell you that's also on the "light" side of the usage spectrum.
Straub stresses that equipment failure is almost the rule, not the exception. "Anyone who gets into these games to the point of playing Expert is almost certain to experience controller failure by about the 6-12 month point," he told Ars. "I think it sucks that the warranty is only 90 days."
Right now his guide only covers World Tour guitars and drums, but more is coming, and some mods can even make the guitar more responsive for demanding players.
The ideas here are only the beginning of all the ways that the game's instruments can be improved and modded, and we look forward to seeing what the guide will bring in the future. As rhythm game controllers become more common and more complicated, expect interest in repairs to increase. A DIY fix will get you back into the game much quicker—not to mention at a solid savings—than returning or re-buying the instrument.
We'd like to thank Straub for his time, and ask him to get to work on a Rock Band guide.


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Microsoft MCSE Private Cloud recertification – exam 70-981
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As you may know, the current iteration of MCSE certifications require recertification every 3 years. For the Private Cloud stream, this requires an exam – 70-981. I sat and passed this today.
Something that seems not to be published widely is that you can recertify some MSCE streams without sitting an exam – from https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/learning/certification-exam-policies.aspx
Q. Is it possible to fulfil the requirement without taking a recertification exam
A. Yes. Candidates can now get recertified by taking a series of courses with Microsoft Virtual Academy. Read the list of available certifications, required courses and additional details to get recertified through Microsoft Virtual Academy.
Preparation for the exam is difficult – there are no study guides or reference material – you are just 'expected to know'.
My observation is that it is basically a mix of the 70-246 and 70-247 exams, not really any new material – pretty disappointing, some of the questions seemed familiar so I wouldn't be surprised if the exam content has just been reused. The main areas covered are:
- System Center Operations Manager
- System Center Service Manager
- System Center Virtual Machine Manager
- System Center Orchestrator
- System Center Data Protection Manager
- System Center App Controller
- System Center Configuration Manager
- Azure portal
Would I sit this again? Probably not. While I'm sure the intention for recertification is well placed, it just seems like a money-grab – $206AU for the exam fee. There are no benefits to me as an IT professional apart from keeping the certification active – I haven't learnt any new skills or gained any additional knowledge – I've basically sat the same exam that I sat 3 years ago and in that time there has been significant change to the System Center and Azure offerings but this wasn't reflected in the exam.
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- Raw: Gallery of Architecture & Design
- 290 McDermot Ave.
- Until July 12
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Raw: Gallery often plays host to artists concerned with "architecture" in the broadest sense, as an umbrella term for all the ways we occupy, manipulate, understand and organize the space around us. Their work can be deceptively simple and sometimes tricky to talk about because of that. Exhibitions last year saw Crys Cole scraping contact microphones across the walls, transforming invisible variations in surface texture into audible sound, while Patrick Harrop created the illusion of weirdly undulating, luminous columns using only lights and twirling lengths of fishing line.
Like those earlier projects, Caustic, up for just a week and closing July 12, functions as a subtle, surprising demonstration of spatial phenomena. The installation by Kyle Janzen and Chris Burke, who work together as Jnznbrk, is also essentially a room-sized, walk-in lava lamp functioning as a wholly engaging, purely sensory experience that neither relies on nor demands critical analysis. It's "trippy." Even "bitchin'."
On first approach, Raw's basement space is almost completely dark except for the light emanating from the work itself, an uncanny, three-dimensional projection that seems to hang in empty air like a hologram or drifting curls of smoke. There's no imagery to contend with, no colour even, and the soundtrack consists of little more than the occasional muffled thump and some throbbing, fuzzy speaker tone.
In some ways, the piece is best in the first few moments you spend with it, before your eyes adjust to the dim lighting and you start to piece together what it is you're looking at. Fumbling around in the dark, depth and scale are hard to gauge, and the patterns of greyish light are constantly in flux, appearing first as a patch of mist, then like rippling, semi-solid membranes, then overlapping clusters of concentric rings. It's hypnotic and pleasantly disorienting in equal measure.
In fact, the piece consists of four sheer, free-hanging screens, each held taut with cables attached to the floor and ceiling, that fan out toward a ceiling-mounted projector. Additional cables pinch and pull at the fabric, creating a symmetrical pattern of curvilinear, spiked protuberances resembling the skin of a horned melon or some kind of venomous caterpillar.
Jnznbrk uses "Caustic" in the optical/mathematical sense (I had to look it up), referring to these types of curved surfaces and the particular ways they reflect and refract light. Visible most clearly where it spills out onto the floor and rear wall, the projection itself consists entirely of straight lines, black-and-white stripe and grid motifs that only form the meandering whorls and bulls-eyes we see when they slice through the screens' warped, translucent surfaces. The installation has the effect of bringing to life those mind-bending diagrams you may have seen that show how massive objects like stars and black holes are thought to literally warp and pucker the fabric of space -- or, alternately, the "Mystify Your Mind" screen saver that came standard on Windows PCs in the early '90s.
Whether or not you know anything about optics, astrophysics, or whatever (I clearly don't if I'm comparing things to melons and screen savers), Jnznbrk lead their audience through a scenario that, while "mystifying" at first, gradually deepens our understanding and experience of the "empty" space around us.
Steven Leyden Cochrane is a Winnipeg-based artist, writer, and educator who stopped taking math and science in Grade 10.
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A bottled water tasting and food pairing event was recently sponsored by Sweetwater LLC at Joe's Restaurant in Venice, CA on Aug. 12. The event featured a three-course dinner menu paired with six different bottles of water.
According to an article in The Earth Times, "Water is not just water." Like wine, water has different characteristics that it picks up from the land it travels through. Premium bottled water is not the same as purified water. Purified water is nothing more than municipal tap water processed through reverse osmosis, while premium bottled waters are meant to "enhance a fine dining experience," an experience labeled by Sweetwater's Jim McMahon as "epicurean."
McMahon also claims that they are not promoting the daily consumption of bottled water. Filtered tap water is for hydration and daily consumption. This type of event, however, teaches patrons to pair premium fine botttled waters with various foods on rarer occasions.
This practice of enjoying bottled water is nothing new, but dates all the way back to the Roman Empire. But do you buy the claim that premium bottled water pairs with food in a manner similar to wine?.


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Kanye West Wants Mary J. Blige To Sing To Kim Kardashian At Wedding
Kanye doesn't want to be the only one singing Kim's praises on their wedding day! The rapper is planning to ask the one and only Mary J. Blige to perform on Kimye's special day, a source tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY.
Kanye West is a huge Mary J. Blige fan and he wants the legendary singer to perform her emotional hit song "Everything" at his reported May 24 wedding to fiancee Kim Kardashian, HollywoodLife.com is EXCLUSIVELY reporting. How romantic!
Mary J. Blige At Kanye West Wedding: Yeezus Asking Singer To Perform At Nuptial
The Yeezus artist wants his and Kim's wedding to be "perfect" and he knows Mary J. can help make that happen. We're told both Kanye, 36, and Kim, 33, are so in love with Mary and that it would be an honor to have her on hand for the "star-studded" ceremony.
"One of his favorite songs by her is 'Everything,'" a source close to Kimye EXCLUSIVELY reveals to HollywoodLife.com. "That song sums up, in every verse, his love for Kim. He wants that song to be sang at his wedding so he's talking to Mary."
Our source says Kim would positively melt if Mary sang "Everything" to her because of the song's significant meaning to the couple.
"Kim would drop dead if that happens," the source says. "She too loves Mary and Kanye played that song for her when they first met over and over and over and over. Only fitting that he would have Mary officially sing it at the wedding."
Kris Jenner In Charge Of Guest List; Keeping Names Under Wraps
It's certainly going to be a who's who in attendance at the couple's lavish wedding in Paris. But if you want to know who's coming, you'd have to ask Kris Jenner and our source says she's not spilling any tea.
"It will be star-studded but nobody's giving out specifics," the source reveals. "Kris is in charge of the seating arrangements
and the guest list so you know ain't sh** getting out."
So HollywoodLifers, do YOU think Mary J. Blige should sing at Kimye's wedding? Let us know!
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31) Daniel Parson, 35
Clinton, S.C.
Daniel Parson is in his 12th season of organic growing. He started in 1998 at Wildflower Organics in Dawsonville, Ga., where he worked for four years. Next, he managed the Clemson University student organic farm for two years, and operated Gaia Gardens in Decatur, Ga., for five years.
This year marks the start of a new venture — Parson Produce — featuring a CSA program and market garden near Clinton, S.C. Parson has two degrees from Clemson, a B.S. in biological sciences and an M.S. in plant and environmental science, focusing on cover crops and organic systems. He has presented on various organic topics to many state and regional groups, including Southern SAWG and Georgia Organics. Recently, he won the 2009 Georgia Organics Land Steward of the Year Award, which was presented at its conference in Decatur.
32) Pete Rasmussen, 26
Eden, Utah
Pete Rasmussen is a garlic farmer at Sandhill Farms in the mountains of northern Utah, where he expresses his infatuation with garlic by growing more than 25 different varietals of the unique, colorful and pungent herb.
Sandhill Farms is supported by the local community through a CSA program. Garlactica, the Sandhill Farms annual garlic festival, celebrates ecological farming practices, community, food and great garlic. During the summer, Rasmussen manages the bulbs and beets in Eden, Utah, and come winter, when the garlic sleeps, he teaches organic gardening and nutritional cooking at Maxwell Park International Academy in Oakland, Calif.
33) Amy Rice-Jones, 27
Petaluma, Calif.
Amy Rice-Jones grew up in Colorado Springs, Colo., where she learned from her mother about the cultivation of many things wild and domesticated. She left Colorado to attend college in Walla Walla, Wash., where her main nonacademic activity was managing the school's organic garden. After graduating, she worked for an environmental consulting firm doing watershed restoration work. During that time, Rice-Jones gardened on her own and eventually was offered a piece of land to farm with a friend. They started a half-acre market garden together and sold produce at the farmers market and to local restaurants. This experience led Rice-Jones to UCSC's agroecology apprenticeship program, where she apprenticed for six months. She enjoyed the apprenticeship so much that she applied to be the assistant farm manager for the following season.
In November 2007, Rice-Jones started the development of an educational farm for Petaluma Bounty, a nonprofit in Petaluma, Calif., that strives to make healthy, fresh food available to everyone. She spent the first season at the Bounty Farm, clearing the land of wooden shacks full of trash and building the infrastructure to grow vegetables, herbs, flowers and fruit for the Petaluma community. Growing on just half an acre, the farm supplied produce to the low-income CSA business for 40 families, five restaurants in Petaluma, a farmers market and flowers to nine local businesses. Rice-Jones also taught classes to local high schools in sustainable agriculture and hosted several workshops for the general public. In 2009, with the help of a volunteer crew, she's planted more than 100 fruit trees, put in a beneficial hedgerow, and has begun to expand production of vegetables, herbs and flowers onto another acre.
34) Robert Servine, 36
35) Sonya Servine, 32
Roy, Wash.
Good Karma Farm is a small family farm in Roy, Wash., started by Seattle native Robert Servine and his wife, Sonya, who's originally from Australia. The farm seeks to be as ecologically and socially sustainable as possible, and was founded on the basis of the Buddhist principle of "Right Livelihood," with the aim of providing healthy and delicious food for people while also making a positive impact on the planet. Robert and Sonya, both India-trained yoga teachers, don't use chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides or slaughterhouse byproducts. Instead, they make their own fertilizer and compost using naturally available ingredients. They provide a wide variety of high-quality fresh vegetables and vegetable starts, with many heirloom varieties and specialty crops.
36) Anna Stevenson, 27
Falls Village, Conn.
Anna Stevenson is the farm manager at ADAMAH, a Jewish farming program in Falls Village, Conn. After graduating from Barnard College and the Jewish Theological Seminary, she lived in New York City for three years, and got involved with CSAs and farmers markets, but still felt that the farming should be left to the farmers.
She then spent a summer on a farm and realized not only that she loved it, but that she (city girl) too could be a farmer, and that farming met all her criteria for the perfect job and lifestyle: being healthy and strong, being outside and connected to the cycles of seasons and growing things, and making the world a better place by helping to change the face of the American food system. She plans to start a CSA farm with her soon-to-be husband, Naftali Hanau, in Rochester, N.Y., next year.
37) Wes Swancy, 37
38) Charlotte Swancy, 37
Ranger, Ga.
Riverview Farms is a certified organic family farm on 200 acres in the beautiful Appalachian foothills of northwest Georgia. In the fertile bottomlands of the Coosawattee River west of Carter's Lake, two generations of the Swancy family (Carter and Beverly Swancy purchased the farm in 1975; their three grown sons — including Wes and his wife, Charlotte — now work the farm as well) gently cultivate certified organic vegetables, Berkshire pork and grass-fed beef.
One of the oldest, and largest, certified organic farms in the state, Riverview Farms' goal is to work with the environment to enliven its land through the mutually supported functions of soil, grasses and animals as it produces organic vegetables and meats. With detailed attention to soil quality, animal husbandry, grass production and crop diversity, these methods surpass organic certification requirements.
39) Rebecca Terk, 35
Vermillion, S.D.
Rebecca Terk's Flying Tomato Farm is a small (non-certified, but using organic and sustainable practices) diversified vegetable growing operation. Her customers are all local — she grows for market, for her CSA and for herself. She also practices food preservation — canning, freezing, pickling and fermenting — and teaches other people to grow and preserve as well. She's been president of the Vermillion Area Farmers Market Board for six years, and is co-creator and co-coordinator of the Vermillion Community Garden Project.
Terk grew up in Middlebury, Vt., and moved to South Dakota in 1993 to finish her B.A. in English. Later, she went on to earn an M.A. in English and M.A. in history, all from the University of South Dakota. She's worked on organic farms in Vermont and South Dakota, and spent a couple years working at Vermont Valley Community Farm/CSA (also certified organic) outside Madison, Wisc., picking beans as sandhill cranes flew overhead, farm-sitting and sometimes simply wandering out into the fields to gather a basket of the freshest veggies for dinner.
For Terk, it's about good food — and she says fresh, local and sustainable food is the best there is. It's also about a balance between working with her brain and working with her hands, and about fostering a sense of community at the community garden and farmers market.
40) Severine von Tscharner Fleming, 28
Smithereen Farm + Special Produce
Tivoli, N.Y.
Severine von Tscharner Fleming is an organizer, filmmaker and farmer. She's the director of the Greenhorns, a small nonprofit based in New York's Hudson Valley. The Greenhorns is a nonprofit network of collaborators working to promote, recruit and support young farmers in America. They run events, a radio show, a wiki-based guidebook, a wildly popular blog and more.
Apart from the Greenhorns, Fleming runs Smithereen Farm + Special Produce, where she raises rabbits, pigs, chickens, ducks, heirloom fruits and 2.6 acres of veggies. Major cash crops include meat, marjoram, pea shoots and rare lettuces.
Did we miss one? Enter a comment below on a farmer you think should have been nominated and we'll consider him or her as part of a future feature.
Photo credits
- Molly Rockaman: Thomas Lampe
- Padraic MacLeish: Erica Harvey
- Wes and Charlotte Swancy (with Graham): T.C. Brodnax


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insertionnoun addendum, additament, addition, appendix, entry, extension, inclusion, inset, intercalation, interjection, interpolation, interpositio, introduction, penetration, plant, postscript, supplement, transplantation
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Grand Theft Auto 5 PC petition attracts 200,000 signatures
A petition asking Rockstar to release a PC version of Grand Theft Auto 5 is gaining momentum.
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Nintendo region-free petition secures over 12,000 names
Nintendo is being asked by protesters to remove region restrictions on Wii U and 3Ds, as part of a campaign that has secured over 12,000 petition signatures.
EVE Online Oculus Rift shooter sparks petition for full release
In response to a comment from a CCP staffer, PCGamesN has put together a petition calling for the release of EVR, the Oculus Rift-enabled dogfighting sim demonstrated at EVE FanFest this year. All signs indicate EVR is nearly as sweet as the throes of first love, so get on that. Check out a trailer for […]
SimCity petition demands removal of DRM
Over 58,000 signatures have been added to a Change.org petition calling for the removal of DRM from SimCity. "Remove 'Always Online' DRM from SimCity and future games," is the movement's simple request, along with a comment about how "millions" of players expect single-player games to work when they want them to work. I'm not sure […]
Lack of females in Colonial Marines leads to petition
Apparently there will be no females in the multiplayer portion of Aliens: Colonial Marines. Ripley and Vasquez are not amused.
Retake Mass Effect petition backers raise $38,000 for charity
Fans demanding BioWare change the ending of Mass Effect 3 have decided to prove their seriousness with a charity fundraiser.
Dark Souls PC port petition nears 40,000 signatures
Namco Bandai's call for a show of support for a PC port of masochistic RPG Dark Souls had drawn massive interest.
StarCraft II LAN petition breaks 213,000 signatures
Um. Wow. The StarCraft II petition launched at the end of June to get LAN funationality implemented in the game now stands at 213,016 signatures.Blizzards announced in June that LAN play was to be left out of the RTS, as it wanted instead to push all multiplay through the soon-to-be-relaunched Battle.net.In other petition news, the […]
Japanese 360 owners furious at PS3 Tales of Vesperia release, petition made
Oh no…Japanese Xbox 360 owners have started a petition over arguments that they were test subjects in a 360 "beta release" of Tales of Vesperia: once a 360 exclusive, but now is coming to the PlayStation 3 in Japan very soon.Some of the the demands of the petition, already signed by 550 out of a […]
Report - Violent game petition forces German government hearing
According to this Gamezine report, a petition opposed to the ban of violent games in Germany has forced a government hearing on the matter, having crossed a 50,000 signature threshold.The number of users adding their names to the document now totals more than 64,000.The petition asks that the German government "should decide against the decision […]
Over 57,000 sign StarCraft II LAN petition
More than 57,000 people have now signed a petition to get LAN functionality put into StarCraft II, as notice by IGN.The effort went live immediately after Blizzard confirmed the feature wouldn't make the game.StarCraft II will only be playable competitively through the next version of Battle.Net.The game has no release date as yet.
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Deborah Ann "Fish" Fischbeck died of cancer, yesterday morning, 2 April 2007, at her mother's home near Baltimore Maryland. Though she worked on both the DQ and MQ, the flame-haired beauty was best remembered on the MISSISSIPPI QUEEN as a hard-working maid who kept two linen boys running on turnover days, and could make forty beds an hour on regular days.
It was on the MQ that I first saw her on a departure day when, as the Mate, I first spied her and fell in love with her. Our first date was a row up the Yazoo where we found a sandy shore, built a fire, and as she watched amused, I swam in the river. Though we parted after nearly two years and went separate ways, we continued caring for each other. After 19 years I found her again through the internet and we have continued to correspond since.
Deborah's mother, Sara English, found her daughter had passed away when she went to awaken her for breakfast on Monday morning. It was Mrs. English's 89th birthday. The family has requested donations to the American Cancer Society in lieu of flowers. A graveside ceremony will be held in St. Joseph's Cemetery near her home on Tuesday.