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giggle OMG they do look like drunk ducks
giggle OMG they do look like drunk ducks
To see the world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.
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Ok, way far from done, but want to start participating, hopefully tonight I can have something much better; the steep hills on the back will have castle walls and structures all over as well, I want the whole port to be a magnificent castle, an expensive idea but heck, they can triple the taxes.
drunk ducks ROFL
"Ryan, that's not a desaturated color."
Update; Need help, what should I add, make or consider to give balance to the composition, I still don't understand it very well.
chatted with you on msn about it. Like the sketch, but I think you need to define foreground, mid and back to establish your image here. And also define a focal point ... Told you more on msn ... cant remember all
Thanks for critts on my work people ... you are so hard ........ :o
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Again, Gund, thanks, you also told me there was no space to breathe on the left side and that it was too heavy on the right side, you also suggested adding a secondary focus in the front like a man looking at the main entrance.
Will work on it, will definitely add a drunk man in the foreground, thanks a lot.
yes that was it The scale factor. The man will add some scale to your picture! hehe
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hmm Form was very mean today ... hinted to my image not being too good, so i had to work hard
Here is an update on todays work. Have changed the mountains slightly to make the perspective look better, added more elements in the front to make the castle seem like it goes behind rocks instead of just stops on the canvas. have added the "Templar" force on the left side ... by force i mean the croses going from front to back. Sort of to contrast the evil side up against the wall...
Hope you like it.. AND give me constructive critts people! And not only negative
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IM onthe wrong monitor its all washed out.. notyour fault
BUT i wasn't mean
I was constructive
I toldyou the part that was bugging me
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here "it's stunning!"
Im lieing but it might make you feel better...
I hate the cross and the whole trite knight thing. cant you use something more interesting as a foreground figure?
the flag is blowing the other way now but his robes are still made of lead
and the ducks Are drunk ..so there
Show me some thing new! what haven't I seen?
To see the world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.
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gunn that perspective-less cross, and the guy are fighting for the focus with tee castle, and the topic is castle. something different happens at daaldbatars one, in wich the figure is dwarfed against that huge keep.
i get this feel you're tryng to polish something that doesnt need polish, but serious redoal. and this is not being negative, is just what i see . if you ask me what'd i do, id start from scratch, and get something fresh. sometimes we struggle with crappy paintings. well founded ideas develop very quiclky almost on their own.
i dont know dude... theres still that huge mass of white to the left. the castle is still too much to the right. what the right side trioes to establish as rythm with that perspective, the left side nullifies, with that 90° lines. (cross, ground line, flag, guy)....
hope you get something neat in time!
heres a crappy op i did with the mouse, trying to show you what i mean. (and failing to do so)
Which comp is better? I'm thinking the larger sized one, but I wanted to get your guys' thoughts.
Earendil - I'm liking that larger one too, the smaller one looks a little off balance to me.
Gundersen - i wish i could give you some constructive criticism, but I just dont know what to say about it. whats good about it.. the perspective on the castle seems good. The ariel perspective with the mountains seems good to. honestly, I dont think that the cross and the knight look good, it doesn't seem like they fit there. sorry man I wish I could help, but I'm a noob at this composition thing. the only thing that i could say is to take your current image, start a new document, and just scribble all kinds of stuff on the left side and see if anything looks interesting. spend about 5 min or so on one, then move on to another layer, try a few of those, thats what I do, i must of had like 10 different ones that I scrapped before I posted my thumbs, and went through a few more before i came up with this one
robmorfin - its starting to look good, thats going to be fun putting in all those details.
D.Labruyere - I like it so far, interesting way of going into the painting, cant wait to see more.
this is another speedy that I liked, let me know what you guys think about it, I'm really liking this one, small river on the right with a water fall in the back..
smiley rides horse through flame!
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You need to find something to balance the left side, there's a lot of dead space.
do you think that just cropping that part off would help?
Update, need ideas on what elements to use on the left side to create balance;
Thanks for the advice on MSN Chaos.
Ear, the first composition
Jod, looking good, just a bit too centered element
Gund, I really like it, avoid using pure whites, get rid of the cross, angle that flag, again, you are using the same colors on the foreground hills and the castle walls, change that, add some clouds to balance that empty area, I like the castle and the perspective is fine, add an element in the main center part of the bldg. (top wall) it's a very big empty space right now.
Chaos, your colors are looking better on last asignment, the pillows and wine glass need to be smaller to haveright proportion with structures; in your castle, watch your perpective, every line has to come from the same vanishing point.
Thanks for comments and critts guys. I know the painting needs alot of work
Here is an update ... gonna work more tonight (this was a quick 30 min update)
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I can see now the white stuff on the left side ... Its these damn old CRT screens, on my macbook its a nice cool blue colour ... gonna try to change it later today........
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Rob> Make sure your lines are aligned. Right now some of the verticals are tipping over to the left and right, and a few lines aren't going to the vanishing point.
Gund> Looking better!
Jodali> It might, or it might be an opportunity to put something there.
Here is my latest WIP. Hope to have all the structures and value relationships setup up soon. Then color and refine.
And there will be two more bridges on the right, stacked on the right vanishing point, I just haven't drawn them yet. It took forever to get the one on the left working perspectively. O.o
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and, this is for thursday, right? - i think we're all in a hurry. weve got put a lot of detail and rednering today and tomorrow
"Ryan, that's not a desaturated color."
ear i think the tree on the right is too strong. i'd also add more canvas to the left of the áinting.
"Ryan, that's not a desaturated color."
Maybe just bring that tree forward? Yeah, it's saying it's ok to look to the left, and that isn't where I want people to look. Thanks Agustin.
gundy, isnt that too many crosses?.just a thought. lol. try not go insane
"Ryan, that's not a desaturated color."
Rob> On second look, I really like what you've done to separate your values into chunks. Brightest/lowcontrast in the distance, and coming back darker towards us. It's a good way to start I think.
well i haven't posted any and its Wednesday night here so whatever input i get i will make sure to do well with it. so its still wip but i need to fix it up.
initial thumbnail wanted a really different angle than just forward. also i know its a bit unbalanced cause most of the bulk is on the left but i was hoping the structure itself creates a sort of path to where ur eyes go,, you see the castle first then the deep valley.
even more refining and worked out the horizon points.
damn i NEED to learn textures it would make working go a lot faster...i keep repainting an area over and over cause it doesn't look like what its supposed to be. hopefully the shapes read well. and i pass to make it to the next..i'm learning lots with u guys.
D labruyere its very nice i like your textures and ur coloring and how it defines your form...does it take you very long to get it consistent like that? i waste a lot of time working and reworking cause the textures aren't right.
Earendil i like the style of your castle and u got the right thumbnail to use. the tree is very strong a but then thats probably only because its full black just to give the distance im sure when its painted it won't be as bold and it'll mesh well into the picture. the bridge and water is a nice touch.
Jodali ur castle is very far so making it stand out from the rest of the other environment will be good, as is it stands out well because of your values , its very shiny. on the left the most obvious thing to add would be more mountains but then maybe u dont want to have it TOO symmetrical. tho the shape of the castle itself could offset and compliment it. i dunno just thinkin.
Robmorfin wow i like how you lay down ur basic colors and already u get the impression of depth and distance. the castle takes up more than half the screen unbalancing a bit, i dunno what u could put on the left that would balance the right a bit, boats as i see there are practical but they still dont seem to counterweight the enormous structures on the right. maybe extending the canvas more to the left and adding like a whole fleet of ships hehehe im kidding, but still wow nice work.
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Very nice castle design, simple and clean, nice angle as well, it reads very well, I think you need to play with atmospheric perpective and bring the values higher for the middleground, maybe even create some hills or some kind of element that overlaps the background to create more 3Dmensionality, also, make a gradient in the roundness of your roofs, they look kind of flat.
Thanks, I need to start adding different elements and see what works best, I didn't think about the structure being more than half the image, good point, will play with the canvas size as well, I can try ships, airplanse, islands, rock, tornados, clouds, birds, zeppelin, will play with it at lunch time. Thanks a lot.


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Gove wakes up to importance of computer science
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Gove wakes up to importance of computer science
While welcoming the Education Secretary's speech on computer science today (11 January 2012), Voice: the union for education professionals has expressed concerns about the practicalities of implementing the new computing curriculum.
General Secretary Philip Parkin commented:
"Voice welcomes the Education Secretary's recognition of the importance of computing, his announcement of increased training and collaboration, and his new-found enthusiasm for giving teachers greater freedom on how to teach a subject area that, however, remains excluded from the much-vaunted English Baccalaureate (EBacc) measure of supposedly 'vital' core subjects.
"However, there does seem to be confusion here between the functions of ICT and computer science. Whilst all pupils need to be ICT literate, they don't all need to be computer programmers.
"We look forward to reading and participating in the consultation, but we are concerned about how more specialist teachers will be recruited or trained and the curriculum prepared by September.
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Voice has always maintained that the EBacc is 'narrow and pointless" for reducing a broad and balanced curriculum to five subject areas, and ignoring ICT and many other important academic, technical and vocational subjects.
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Who's Who in Internet and Computer Technology
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The people listed in this section have made major contributions to the field of computer and Internet technology. Some are computer scientists whose developments have paved the way for the Internet of today; some are founders of companies that have influenced the direction of new developments and e-commerce trends. The one thing they all have in common is that the Internet would not be what it is today without the work they have done. As the technology leaps forward at a rapid pace, the list will continue to grow as new innovators make their mark on the industry. We realize that there are hundreds of people who have shaped the industry, and we strongly encourage our readers to submit the name of any person that deserves to be included in our list.
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Why is Scott Disick in trouble this time? Keri Russell's home is robbed, and American Hustle is already showing itself as a strong Oscar contender.
Joe Manganiello's Evolution: 10 Totally Wrong Ways To Rationalize Buying It
True story: I went to Barnes & Noble yesterday to get a sneak peek at Joe Manganiello's new book, Evolution, and when I finally got over my embarrassment enough to sheepishly ask the clerk where it was, he said it was already sold out. But I have a sneaking suspicion that it was NOT solely in the hands of men who are looking for, as the whole title puts it, The Cutting Edge Guide to Breaking Down Mental Walls and Building the Body You've Always Wanted. C'mon, ladies/gay men, fess up. You are wasting the True Blood star's hard-earned wisdom by buying up these books just to stuff under your mattresses, aren't you? I know, I have 10 guesses as to the totally wrong, non-fitness-related reasons you bought it.
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Jennifer Aniston Is Having A Laugh At John Mayer
Jennifer Aniston may be having the last laugh when it comes to her ex, John Mayer. The singer is getting a taste of his own medicine after releasing the cover art for his duet single with Katy Perry. Sources close to Aniston tell The Gossip Table is having a hoot over the portraits. Mayer tends to parade his girlfriends to the public. Not that he didn't do it with Aniston but she totally gets what's going on.
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Kris Jenner may be the mastermind behind the Kardashian family but she's also the one with the most to lose. Kris recently put Bruce in a glass cage of emotion but everyone knows you don't put Bruce in the corner. Once Bruce breaks free of the Kardashian family, he may be telling all in a new book. He's reportedly upset with Kris pushing their two daughters, Kylie and Kendall, front and center – claiming they are too young for the spotlight.
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How long has social media been around now? To be honest, it's sad to see how many celebrities have caught on that spewing their every thought instantly is a bit unwise. But for all those buttoned-up, publicist-heeding spoilsports, we still have the likes of Kanye West, Amanda Bynes and Lindsay Lohan. As we wrap up the best of 2013 this month, we had a good ole time reminiscing about their awesomely unfiltered moments this year. And they weren't alone. Read more…
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This morning we had one of my favorite Musers show ever- The Musers Salute to Fathers. I want to repost this about the importance of fathers.
This morning we talked about the importance of being "dad." I shared the following stats on the air and several people requested I post the info so that they too could share it. So here you go, men. Happy Father's Day. You're very important to someone.
63% of teen suicides come from fatherless homes. That's 5 times the national average.
SOURCE: U.S. Dept of Health
90% of all runaways and homeless children are from fatherless homes. That's 32 times the national average.
80% of rapists with anger problems come from fatherless homes. 14 times the national average.
SOURCE: Justice and Behavior
85% of children with behavioral problems come from fatherless homes. 20 times the national average.
SOURCE: Center for Disease Control
71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes. 9 times the national average.
SOURCE: National Principals Association Report
75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers come from fatherless homes. 10 times the national average.
SOURCE: Rainbow's for all God's Children
85% of all youths in prison come from fatherless homes. 20 times the national average.
SOURCE: U.S. Dept. of Justice
Daughters of single parents without a Father involved are 53% more likely to marry as teenagers, 711% more likely to have children as teenagers, 164% more likely to have a pre-marital birth and 92% more likely to get divorced themselves.
Researchers of Columbia University found that children living in two-parent households with a poor relationship with their father are 68% more likely to smoke, drink or use drugs compared to all teens in two-parent households. Moreover, teens in single-mother households fared much worse. They had a 30% higher risk than those in all two-parent households.
"Without two parents, working together as a team, the child has more difficulty learning the combination of empathy, reciprocity, fairness and self-command that people ordinarily take for granted. If the child does not learn this at home, society will have to manage his behavior in some other way. He may have to be rehabilitated, incarcerated, or otherwise restrained. In this case, prisons will substitute for parents."
SOURCE: Morse, Jennifer Roback. "Parents or Prisons." Policy Review, 2003
Children with Fathers who are involved are 40% less likely to repeat a grade in school.
SOURCE: National Household Education Survey
Children with Fathers who are involved are 70% less likely to drop out of school.
Children with Fathers who are involved are more likely to get A's in school.
Children with Fathers who are involved are more likely to enjoy school and engage in extracurricular activities.
Even in high crime neighborhoods, 90% of children from stable 2 parent homes where the Father is involved do not become delinquents.
SOURCE: Development and Psychopathology 1993
Adolescent girls raised in a 2 parent home with involved Fathers are significantly less likely to be sexually active than girls raised without involved Fathers.


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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - The Vermont Senate is getting ready for a vote on legislation that supporters call "end-of-life choices" and critics call "physician-assisted suicide."
The Senate is set to vote Tuesday whether to follow a recommendation of the Senate Judiciary Committee to reject the measure.
The Judiciary Committee on Friday came out against the legislation a week after the Health and Welfare Committee voted unanimously to support it.
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Help build a house. Programs like Habitat for Humanity host programs that allow people to work together to build affordable homes for low-income families. Talk to your company's human resources department to corral a group of coworkers to participate. Often, the company will pay for a day off work to volunteer.
Play waterboy (or girl). Do those runs to raise money and awareness for noble causes seem like a great idea—if only you were capable of huffing along for 10 kilometers? Ask the race organizer if you can help in other ways, perhaps by handing out water or checking in runners, Jones suggests. "They're not glamorous jobs, but it makes things happen seamlessly, and they're always in need of volunteers."
Volunteer. Remember when you took an hour or two to read at a school or visit folks at a nursing home? Imagine doing that, say, every week or two for months and years at a time. "I know a lot of [nursing homes] get a lot of a-day-here, a-day-there-volunteers, but to be able to rely on somebody for a year is huge," Jones says.
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Share your skills. Depending on your profession, there may be a need for free or discounted services in underprivileged communities. Dentists, for example, could pick one day each month to offer free cleanings to children in the town over. If a nearby community has just suffered through a terrible storm, plumbers could inspect affected homes' pipes. To find the best way to regularly volunteer your skills, look into your profession's national association, Jones suggests. (Dentists would check with the American Dental Association.)
Make it a family thing. Teach your children that kindness matters by leading by example. Volunteer together. Bake cookies together and give them to a neighbor. When you go to a park or playground, make a habit of picking up a bagful of litter while you're there. If good deeds become as normal an activity as carpooling to soccer practice and watching Glee together, your kids will be more likely to spread kindness for a lifetime.
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You Can Now Buy Paper Made Out Of Elephant Feces At The Penn Bookstore
And it's called POOPOOPAPER. All caps. "BELIEVE in yourself," "LOVE blooms," "be the CHANGE," they insist. It's kind of a twisted take on recycling, a turd blossom for the modern diarist. On our minds: does this paper go in the recycling bin or do you flush it?
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Southwest Florida reporter parrots canard that women do not lie about rape
This news report epitomizes the reason we started this website.
The sexual assault counseling industry's assertions that only two percent of all rape claims are false and that this figure mirrors reports of other crimes are, to put it charitably, devious canards. Yet, we still have reporters like Christina Hernandez who, unfortunately, repeat their assertions without refutation or balance.
In the news report below, the two percent statistic is tossed off with no authority beyond the serene ipse dixit of the sexual assault counselor who is cited. In fact, as we have repeatedly demonstrated, this figure that has been thoroughly discredited. See e.g., this law review article that traced that stat to its disingenuous origins, for example, or this piece (". . . no study has ever been published which sets forth an evidentiary basis for the 'two percent false rape complaint' thesis . . . .") Nevertheless, the canard is repeated so often, it has taken on a truth of its own, like the Nazi "Big Lie."
In addition, FBI statistics show that false reporting of sexual assault is fourfold greater than the average for all crimes. The Politics of Sexuality, Barry M. Dank, Editor in Chief, Vol. 3 at 36, n. 8.
The most authoritative study ever conducted on the subject of false rape reports, the Kanin report, showed 41% of all rape claims in the area sampled were not just false but recanted in the face of overwhelming evidence that the allegation was false.
And we need to repeat this point: in the sexual assault field, claims classified as "false" are only those that can be categorically declared lies, but it is well to remember that the number of actual false claims is certainly higher. Rape is not a claim that can always readily be declared "false," given that it often comes down to "he said/she said" evidence. So if, on the one end, there is a certain percentage of claims that are considered "false," and on the other end, a small percentage of claims that end in conviction of rape, how do we classify the claims in the middle? In between the obviously false and the claims that lead to conviction, the vast majority of rape claims are dismissed somewhere along the way because of insufficient evidence (which means there was not enough evidence to make out one or more elements of the crime, even if a trier of fact believed the evidence -- hardly a technicality) or because the accuser decides not to pursue the claim or the jury just doesn't buy it. To suggest that all of these rape claims that fall between the obviously "false" (due primarily to recantation) and those that end in conviction, are, by necessity, "rapes," is dishonest in the extreme. See here. Yet that is the implication of the paid sexual assault counseling industry.
Unfortunately, no amount of objectively verifiable scholarship debunking the erroneous statistic continuously trotted out will ever cause its advocates to back away from it. The financially interested sexual assault counseling industry often (and I don't know for certain about this particular case -- but often) is not seeking to advance facts, but rather its ideological view of the world -- and it is seeking to justify its existence by fomenting rape hysteria.
In addition, the story below would have us believe that the the true victims false rape claims are the future, unknown, hypothetical, phantom, possible, could-be, even unborn rape victims who might be, possibly will be, may be dissuaded by such lies from coming forward of actual crimes. Most assuredly, these hypothetical women are victims of false rape claims. But the primary victims of false rape claims are men and boys falsely accused of rape.
Ms. Hernandez would do well to spend several days reading the true life horror stories of men and boys falsely accused of rape, recounted on this website.
The fact that apparently the false claims did not name specific males is not pertinent to the issue. Innumerable young men have been arrested and subject to the terror of possibly years behind bars based on rape lies that didn't name a specific male. One only needs to spend some time reviewing this website to understand this. Even when they are not named, every rape lie puts innocent men and boys at risk -- usually men and boys who are black or Hispanic. False rape accusers often concoct a "scary" minority as their pretend attackers to lend plausibility to their prevarications. So, you see, this is not only a gender issue, it is also often a race issue.
In the news story below, the primary victims of false rape claims are completely ignored, and their victimization dismissed by insisting that false claims are a myth. Although false reporting of rape is a crime whose victims are almost exclusively male, the entire discussion in this area has become so embroiled in the politicized, radical feminist sexual assault milieu that even mentioning it as a potentially significant problem for men is verboten because such view does not conform to the rape culture metanarrative that insists women are sexually tyrannized, oppressed and subjugated by the patriarchy (and let's be honest, that's a code word for "men"). When the crime of false rape reporting is discussed at all, it is almost always discussed through a gynocentric filter, a gender feminist lens that blinks at the harm it causes innocent men. Misinformation is the engine that drives this culture of female victimization, and rape hysteria and the minimization of false rape claims are its noxious emissions.
Reporter Hernandez would do well to contact me the next time she is tempted to write a story like this. She has done a disservice to the countless men and boys falsely accused of this vile crime by suggesting their victimization is rare. Here is the news story:
Two fake sexual assaults in two days, but false reporting is rare
By Christina Hernandez, WINK News
Things are starting to get back to normal for students at Edison State College in Charlotte County.
Thursday, a woman reported being attacked and raped at knife point in a bathroom on campus.
Because of the alleged crime, the school was shut down Friday, but later that night, deputies said the alleged victim made the entire thing up.
Both students and staff are trying to get back into their usual routine, but at the same time, the false report could keep real victims from reporting a crime.
"I was a little scared at first," Nicole Soules said. "It was shocking that something like that had happened."
Nicole Soules has been going to school at Charlotte County's Edison State College for two and a half years. She said she's never heard anything even close to a crime happening there.
"We did have a number of people who were traumatized by the thought that this could happen in this environment," Campus President Dr. Pat Land said.
Campus President Dr. Pat Land said that thought quickly turned into something else almost two days later.
"The first thing we were trying to do was reassure people that the charges - the story - was entirely false, and that our campus is indeed a safe learning environment," Dr. Land said.
On Friday, a woman living in Cape Coral said a man broke into her home and sexual assaulted her. Police said she made it up.
The Center for Abuse and Rape Emergencies, Inc. said even though there were two false reports in two days, it's rare for people to make up these kinds of stories.
Mary Baer, Director of Sexual Assault Services said, "Only two percent of rape reports are false, and that is about the same number of false reports of any other crime."
Mary Baer also said false reporting not only wastes time and money, but it could also keep real victims from coming forward - fearing no one will believe them.
"False reports just feed into the myth that women lie about rape, and it's not true," Baer said.
In this case, it has some college students wondering why anyone would make something up, and at the same time, scare hundreds of people.
"I think that is was a really crazy idea on her part," Soules said.
Right now Charlotte County has not pressed any charges against the student, but the school is looking into their Code of Conduct to figure out what to do next.
Cape Coral police have not yet charged the woman who also filed a false report.
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Who is to say the reporter got the information wrong? There are different stats for everything from a variety of trusted sources. I think posting this article has nothing to do with the purpose of the Web site.
- Jul 28, 2009, 11:05:00 AM
- Pierce Harlan said...
And who's to say fire is hot, ice is cold and water is wet, right? Everything is just a matter of opinion, right? There is no objectively verifiable fact? Sorry, your comment adds nothing to this discussion. I have furnished scholarly authorities that the reporter has not bothered to refute despite my bringing them to her attention. I suspect that you are not a long-time reader of this blog or you would know that what you have posited is unsupportable.
You wouldn't by any chance be writing from Southwest Florida, would you? - Jul 28, 2009, 11:21:00 AM
"Who is to say the reporter got the information wrong?"
Pretty much anyone, since there is not a single verifiable source to document the 2% false rape hoax.
It has been quoted in circular fashion for years (a favorite strategy of feminist liars) and force-fed to the media, without an ounce of research, fact or science behind it.
The reporter is incompetent at best or a liar at worst. The least she could do is correct the article. If she doesn't, we know she's a man-hating chauvinistic b*tch.. - Jul 28, 2009, 11:30:00 AM
As I understand it, the purpose of the Web site is to give voice to false rape claims. An article that says false rape claims don't occur is contrary to the purpose of the Web site.
- Jul 28, 2009, 11:32:00 AM
- Archivist said...
I see that the first anonymous is using the New York Times style for writing the words "Web site." Hmm. Now let's see . . . who writes like that?
- Jul 28, 2009, 11:33:00 AM
This is priceless! Let's look at this again:
"False reports just feed into the myth that women lie about rape, and it's not true," Baer said.
Think about how fucked in the head you have to be to literally say, "It's bad when women lie about rape -- because that feeds the myth that women lie about rape!"
I think that maybe "Director of Sexual Assault Services" is an unnecessary job that is being funded so that a womyn's studies graduate will have a place to park her lying ass. - Jul 28, 2009, 11:39:00 AM
Imagine reporting on a robbery by taking the approach that "robberies are rare."
- Jul 28, 2009, 11:44:00 AM
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Axel "As I understand it, the purpose of the Web site is to give voice to false rape claims. An article that says false rape claims don't occur is contrary to the purpose of the Web site."
While this site seeks to give a voice to those who have been falsely, that is hardly ALL it seeks to do. The broader issue is to ADDRESS the issue of false rape reports with an eye towards minimizing their occurrence.
One of the core reasons that false rape allegations are made with the alarming regularity that they are is because the mistaken belief (fostered through article such as the one in question here) that they are rare, leading to the mistaken conclusion that women do not lie about rape along with the corollary mistaken belief that when a woman does make a claim, she can certainly be believed.
These mistaken beliefs actually serve to encourage women that they will be able to effectively utilize a false rape claim to what ever advantage they are seeking. Thus, it is hardly a surprise that it happens so often.
Once a false rape allegation is made, the damage is done. Why would this site NOT have as it goal to prevent that damage?
The suggestion that this site only ever give voice to false rape charge victims is tantamount to the notion that all society should do about the issue of rape is give a voice to the victims of that crime.
Unless you managed to remain entirely cut-off from the modern world, you are no doubt aware of the extent of the measures made in a effort to prevent rapes from happening. Why shouldn't a similar effort be made towards preventing false rape claims as well?
Axel? - Jul 28, 2009, 12:08:00 PM
I agree with slwerner on this. We need to examine the societal machinary that enables false rape accusers. We need to challenge dishonest, anti-male reporting wherever we see it.
The real myth isn't that women DO lie about rape -- it's that they DON'T. It's a myth which is sustained by dishonest reporting and bogus stats, like the 2% canard. This is why so many innocent men get screwed by the system. - Jul 28, 2009, 12:12:00 PM
- Pierce Harlan said...
Beautifully stated, slwerner.
- Jul 28, 2009, 12:12:00 PM
slwerner, I agree. This blog gives voice to the falsely accused and I agree it has a larger purpose as stated by slwerner.
- Jul 28, 2009, 12:15:00 PM
- The Archivist said...
"False reports just feed into the myth that women lie about rape, and it's not true," Baer said.
Funny, this article is about 2 women who lied about being raped. So your assertion that it's a myth that women lie about rape, is a lie. By your own admission.
This is the sad state that mainstream media is in. They are unable to see the contradictions within thier own published articles. - Jul 28, 2009, 3:55:00 PM
"False reports just feed into the myth that women lie about rape, and it's not true," Baer said.
That JUMPED-OUT @ me too. How crazy is that notion? - Jul 28, 2009, 5:38:00 PM
So crazy it crossed the border into extreme insanity
- Jul 29, 2009, 2:21:00 AM
"Ms. Hernandez would do well to spend several days reading the true life horror stories of men and boys falsely accused of rape, recounted on this website."
Ms. Hernandez would do well to read To Kill A Mockingbird. The twichet is in NC, for God's sake - she has an obligation understand how lying rape accusations have been used in that society.
"We need to examine the societal machinary that enables false rape accusers. "
Amen. - Jul 29, 2009, 4:30:00 PM
"Ms. Hernandez would do well to read To Kill A Mockingbird."
And I love "Mockingbird," but the lesson there is more about race than gender. The modern face of false rape claims has more to do with gender than race (although race is still an important factor). - Jul 29, 2009, 5:20:00 PM
"We need to examine the societal machinary that enables false rape accusers. "
A lot of it has to do with the fascist police. And no, they're not just following orders. They don't have orders to be overly-agressive fascists, or to incite violence. - Jul 29, 2009, 7:46:00 PM
But it seems as if they have silent orders to beilieve any woman who claims to be a victim.
- Jul 30, 2009, 2:17:00 AM
I see where you're coming from, but I know something about how the police think and act, and it's wrong to attribute all this to their being some sort of innocent automatons or something.
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Todd Flower, foodservice director at the Bloomfield (N.Y.) Central School District didn't grow up wanting to be a pastor. But he says a divine intervention in 1994 led him to pursue a career in biblical teaching.
Todd Flower, Bloomfield (N.Y.)
Central School District "You don't grow up saying, 'I'm going to be a pastor.' Of all the pastors I know, I don't know one who said, 'some day when I grow up I'm going to be a pastor.' It is more of a calling and something else out of our control that leads us in that direction. That happened to me in the early nineties. I was radically converted for Christ in 1994. I had [this realization] of coming to an end of yourself in this world and this path isn't working so there has to be another one.
I am an assisting pastor at the Dansville Foursquare Church. I have an international license in the Foursquare Church. That means I am licensed by the Foursquare Church to preach the gospel anywhere in the world. Licensing was a process, starting with a staff ministerial license, then district license and then the international one. The process involved certain criteria and pastoral references, with the recommendation of those over you and practical proven ministry experience. I preach locally. We have a pretty good-sized mission field right here in the country. My wife has traveled on a few mission trips internationally, but I've worked here in our country. That license allows me to marry people in New York. For people who come along and want you to marry them, the obvious thing is you didn't go to the justice of the peace, so you're looking for something more. It opens the door to speak to that [spiritual] part of their life. My wife and I also do funerals.
Mostly my wife and I are pastors to the pastorless. We minister outside the walls of the church. That seems to be the way we have been used in people's lives. It's relational work. I don't want to say it's by the seat of our pants, but by the Holy Spirit leading us from one person to the next we seem to run into people who have the need. We're intentional about paying attention to people who need help, but people have a funny way of showing up on our doorstep or at our office.
I've worked in foodservice for most of my life. Foodservice seemed to be the thing I always fell back on and now it's a major part of my life. My passion really is Christ and my other passion is foodservice. People use the title of bivocational pastor a lot, meaning a pastor who works. I go back and it's actually biblical of not being a burden to the church. The Bible used to talk about [the apostle] Paul and his tent-making business. He worked to support himself so as not to be a burden to the local church.
One of my favorite Bible verses talks about how I operate. It says something like, "We have this treasure in earthen vessels so that the power may be seen to be from God and not from man." It's in 2 Corinthians. I like it because it means I'm not in control and in charge. There is something greater out there. That's where people find peace, in realizing that this is out of our hands and that there is somebody out there who cares about them.
There is a lot of counseling or talking involved [in my work]. It's really applying the word of God. It's guiding more than counseling. We do a lot with meeting people's needs. There are a lot of broken and hurting people out there. Sometimes a meal or educating them in the realm of finances or overcoming addiction is what we do. It does sound kind of like a counselor. It's counseling with the word of God."


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The Turner Prize - Bastion of Maleness
The Turner Prize is given out annually to a British visual artist under the age of 50. It is a Very Big Deal in that country and raises a fair amount of controversy. One of the issues is whether the prize is dominated by men.
I am by no means a "feminist." Nor do I subscribe to the automatic assumption that men do terrible things to women while women are blameless and never injure men. At the same time, I'd prefer to examine a charge before I react. So I went to look at the list of Turner winners over the years.
That list is, to my eye, overwhelmingly male. I'm not suggesting at all that there must be awards ruled by gender parity. But you have to wonder the state of the judges and the decision process. Since the award started in 1984, with no prize given in 1990, there have been three women who won, versus 21 men. I would be suspicious of a perfect 50-50 split, but seven to one? Are male artists really that much better than female? Not from what I've seen in photography, painting, sculpture, video, and other art forms.
There have also been only three years in which the majority of judges were women (though not the same three years as when womeen won). I know that critics, curators, and academics are supposed to be above gender bias, but I think it becomes something that is culturally and even biologically hard-wired. For example, I'm a writer, and I enjoy the work of many writers. But I probably have a closer affinity in general to the work of male writers because they have a tone and approach closer to my own inclinations. I suspect the same might be true in any craft. (Consider your own social circle and how men and women often divide on gender lines over some types of popular entertainment.) If the committee stays generally dominated by male sensibilities, then I wouldn't be surprised if the prize continued to be awarded more often to men. That is wrong and also foolish.
To be fair, I understand that putting together a panel of experts can be difficult. I once moderated a panel on narrative non-fiction at a writing conference and was accused of gender bias because all of the panelists were men. As it happened, I asked a number of leading publications if they could send a representative, and those happened to be the people available. But when that happens 70 percent of the time, you must wonder whether it continues to be accident.
Labels: art, awards, bias, Britain, gender, Turner, visual arts


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Sony Europe hacked by Lebanese grey hat hacker
A grey hat hacker known as idahc, has managed to compromise Sony Europe's Database of Application Store.
From: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/rss
My take on THIS:
Sony keeps getting hit. On this occasion it was the Euro branch getting the slap in the face. It was nothing less than the App Store of Sony that got compromised! An invaluable opportunity for [...]


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State veterinarian manages effort, including disposal of mass equine casualties.
Veterinary response engages amidst chaos of destruction.
State of Pet Health Report indicates sterilization plays key role in pet longevity.
Debra Clopton pays to retain dogs at county shelter; remaining "Edgewood 48" will be prepared for adoption
Price tag now tops $1.2 billion.
Larry Wheelon charged with aggravated animal cruelty related to soring.
Veterinarian, investigators seize 19 horses found to be sore in Larry Wheelon's barn.
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