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Musicians from wherever gather in Potter every Wednesday for some old-fashioned entertaining.
In the sleepy town of Potter, a little restaurant lights up an otherwise unlit road.
There are no TVs on the walls, but there's a player piano in the corner and on Wednesday nights, plenty of old-fashioned entertainment.
"We just jam," said Jan Schneider, a guitar player from Rushville.
Wednesday night is open-mic night at The Outpost restaurant in Potter, and the event has drawn quite a crowd, from a ukulele player with a long white beard to an accordion player who picked up the instrument after he got out of the war. There's a couple who got married 60 years ago, one who married last month, and a woman who heads over every week from Watkins Glen to play the autoharp. One week, a 14-year-old sang with them, and then there's Butch the bass player — members say he "jams wherever there's music."
The open-mic night has been pretty mobile lately. It started last summer at a restaurant in Bloomfield, then moved to Honeoye and now has a semi-permanent home in Potter.
No one is excluded. Sit down and you can play, as long as you like and can blend in with the old-time string music.
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The tuning of strings and the humming of amps started right as the dinner rush began last week. The man with a long white beard sat toward the back of the room near a drink refrigerator tuning his ukulele, another leaned back in a metal folding chair, tickling the ivories.
They play the old standards like "You are my Sunshine," "This Land is My Land," and "Me and my Bobby McGee," and their instruments have stories that are older than they are. There's a 200-year-old upright bass was recently been refurbished, a Dobro — that's a resonator guitar — from the 1930s, and an accordion that a man picked up after he got out of the military in the 1960s.
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"I just wanted to play music somewhere," said Ryan. "It's just to have a good time."
Everyone is welcome to join in on Open Mic Night at The Outpost restaurant (formerly The Hitchin' Rail) on Route 364 in Potter. It starts at 5 p.m. and ends when the music stops.
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Oakland city officials are saying unofficially that the ruling will have no practical effect on the either the total number of police officers on Oakland streets or on the number of Measure Y Problem Solving Officers (PSO's) on staff, and that the money to be paid back to the Measure Y fund amounts to some $3.8 million.
The tentative ruling by Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch on a Petition for Writ of Mandate came in a lawsuit filed by Oakland attorney Marleen L. Sacks filed against the City of Oakland last April. A final ruling is expected sometime after the judge hears further arguments on the case.
The judge also tentatively ruled that the City of Oakland has never conducted yearly audits of Measure Y funds required by state law, and must immediately begin to do so once the tentative ruling is made final. Both the City of Oakland and Sacks will have an opportunity to contest portions of the tentative ruling before it is finalized.
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Sacks, who represented herself in the lawsuit, called the mayor's augmented recruitment program "a sham from the get-go." Saying that Oakland's Measure Y, passed by voters in November of 2004, did not authorize recruitment or initial training of rookie officers but only the salaries of 63 problem solving officers and specific training for their community policing role, Sacks said by telephone today that "no Measure Y officers were ever going to be directly hired under [the mayor's augmented recruitment] program. Only veteran officers were going to be put into the community policing positions. The rookies hired under the program were then put in to replace those veteran officers." While Sacks said she agreed with Oakland Police Chief Wayne Tucker's decision only to hire veteran officers for the Measure Y PSO positions, she said the money for the recruitment and training of their replacements should have come out of the general fund, and not the Measure Y funds. "You can't use special tax money as a piggybank," Sacks said.
Sacks said she believed the judge's ruling would not mean reductions in the ranks of the Measure Y community policing officers. "I don't see the city turning down the $20 million in Measure Y tax money each year" Sacks said, a situation that would happen if the city did not have the money to both reimburse the Measure Y fund as the judge ordered and keep the total police ranks above the minimum staffing needed to continue imposing the Measure Y tax.
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Better Representing Muslims: A Few Ideas
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Better Representing Muslims: A Few Ideas
Muslims don't always have to be antagonist of the war game.
I really hope I don't get warned for this post, but I just have to say after reading this, that most of the stereotypes have some grounding in reality. But it's the same for everyone, no matter where you're from. Also, the muslim religion specifically states that followers should convert all non-muslims with refusal meaning death. There's no misinterpretation there, look in the Koran and you can read it for yourself. Should we really, truthfully be tolerant of a religion that wants to kill anyone who isn't a part of it?
Do the Muslims you know want to kill you if you don't become a Muslim yourself?
Aaaand the Bible includes a line about stoning gays to death and several about slaves. Should we really, truthfully, be tolerant of a religion that encourages the death penalty for homosexuals and the ownership of slaves?
Most Muslims aren't exactly on board with the idea of murderizing anybody who isn't Muslim, no matter what their holy book says.
That's interesting, article about portraying Muslims and a picture of Russian ultra nationalists, that's profiling there son
I recall reading a passage from the Koran that specifically forbids forced conversion. The logic being that Islam is so perfect that its perfection will be obvious, so no one should be forced to convert. Of course, fundamentalists of any stripe will seize on any passage they can argue means they get to kill people.
OT: I realized something similar about Omid while playing. The Walking Dead was one of the best examples of a diverse cast without the characters being reduced to stereotypes. Lee is similarly a character that is black, as opposed to a "black character" (i.e. he's black, but not defined solely by his race), not just in gaming but in most fiction I've seen.
Or maybe we could you know, play as one?
And then you run into people like Sufyan al-Thawri, a medieval Muslim scholar who argues that the hadiths about execution should be used for those who politically betray the Muslim community, not refuse to join the religion (As Islam is both a religious and political system, with no clear divide between the two, this causes a lot of confusion).
Just like with the Bible, the Tripitaka of Buddhism and every other book assembled piecemeal by followers of a religion, context and a through reading are necessary to understand it. For instance, many parts of the Bible recommend shunning heretics, stoning them to death or excluding them from communities. But Jesus did not reject sinners, but protected them for their accusers and those who would punish them according to Biblical laws. Look to God for your morality, not books.
And I'm not even going to touch the stereotype accusation. Those sterotypes have the same grounding in reality that Honey Boo Boo does of portraying the average American; they exist, but they're not what you seem to expect.
OT: A really good article. I'm looking forward to seeing a military shooter where "brown skin" doesn't always equal "target". Too bad the new Medal of Honour game failed, because it actually sounds decent.
The problem comes from fanaticism. The Bible is a horrible book with terrible life lessons and even worse characters, and thankfully not many people follow it. Judaism and Christianity have been around long enough to have...mellowed...out some. They did their Crusades and Inquisitions and whatnot. Islam is the youngest of the three and still going through its difficult teenage years. And embracing a troubled teen doesn't make them any LESS a troubled teen.
The thing is: Just like the Bible the Quran is a whole clusterfuck of conflicting sentiments. Mostly because the Prophet went from small time merchant in Medina to all powerful autocratic emperor with direct link to God in Mekka while writing it. So the older suras are the nice ones (no killing, religious tolerance) while the later ones are the fucked up stuff. Sadly, fundemantalists have a solid foundation in preaching the radical stuff because of sura two which gives younger suras priority when suras conflict because God can do everything, including changing his opinion.
But what's important is that the Quran just as the Bible was meant as a means of authority, the foundation of a state religion as the societal glue in a newly emerging (or re-emerging in the case of the Bible) empire. The ruler could today say this and justify it with the Quran and tomorrow he could say the opposite and justify it with the Quran as well.
My point is that just because something is in the Quran or the Bible or the Veda or whatever doesn't mean that everyone is actually doing it or that even anyone is actually doing it.
Captcha "take an umbrella"... Looking out the window I feel that THAT should actually be in the Bible and everyone should be doing it... -_-
For me, the best muslim stereotype is Antonio Bandeiras' character in The 13th Warrior.
Where in the fuck did you read that?
that sentence is repeated many, many times in different ways, even Islam is taken from Salam which means peace. the only case where you are allowed to kill is in war as far as my knowledje goes
What kind of documentary did you watch? get your fats straight
@RoonMian I'd really like to see examples of contradictions
Sadly there is fucked up stuff like that in the Quran. In the ninth sura is a verse that tells you to "slay the idolaters wherever you find them" and because of the stuff I wrote earlier that overrides everything else because it is one of the youngest suras.
I'm hardly tolerant of Christianity either, truth is, I see all religions as a negative influence on the world, though some more than others. But what has that got to do with anything?
I haven't asked.
Unfortunately we see this all too often these days. I really feel like a lot of people are running out of patience when their government tells them to be tolerant of a minority preaching bloodshed as God's will.
No thanks. I'll look to myself for morality as I knew the difference between right and wrong and I don't need a two-thousand year old book of fairy tales to do it for me.
Very true, but that also doesn't change the fact that a significant number of people are doing exactly - or as close to exact as possible- what these books say. Look to Christian 'gay reform' camps in America for example.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/quran/023-violence.htm - 'fats'
All right, you challenged my Google-Fu.
Quran 8:61: "And if they incline to peace, then incline to it [also] and rely upon Allah. Indeed, it is He who is the Hearing, the Knowing."
Quran 9:5: "Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful."
And as I said, sura 9 takes precedence.
Well, if they were really following their militant missionary erm... mission... You would have noticed without asking I think.
And are you condemning the whole Christian religion because of those camps? Because that's the vibe that others and I got from your first post.
Someone buy OP a beer!
Seeing as how games have a problem putting up a female protagonist, that might take some effort. Though, unless the character speaks and acts through pre-scripted events in ways that demonstrates they are a normal person with a cultural heritage, while not being stereotypical, he'd just become a darker toned main character.
I think it would be interesting in a Spec Ops: the Line sense if you played a squad in Afhanistan, and one of the squad mates was a first/second generation Afghan immigrant. It could allow a viewpoint on the different cultures, how they conflict and what it's like to be different/outcast in their cultures, facing both racism from allies and culture shock from the Afghans.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/05/28/uk-britain-killing-idUKBRE94O04Y20130528 Wouldn't it be nice if they had 'noticed.'
Condemning? Let's not be so dramatic. I disapprove of all religion because from what I can see with my own eyes it causes far more harm than good in the world, but I'm hardly on a one-man crusade against it. Not to mention my original post was in direct response to the article which talked about changing perceptions of a stereotype, if you re-read my first post in this thread you'll see that what I said is that the stereotype exists for a reason and I asked if we should really be so quick to overlook it based on a group of people who follow a religion which propagates violence. As to whether that last statement is true or not isn't in question, since the 'proof' is in it's own holy book, quotes from which are contained in the link I provided in my 2nd post.
I think its worth noting that these middle eastern countries don't harbor as many extremists as the media would have us believe. True some sects have put down roots in many Theocratic governments, but there is a reason books like Londonistan are written. Many of these radicalized preachers are actually kicked out of their middle eastern countries because they are too radical. They don't end up in places like the Netherlands, Britain, and France by choice. Remember, these are part of the "West" that they preach hate against. Many are exiles.
The Muslim world is not so violent as the fear mongers on Fox news would have you believe.
Apologies Robert, but I have to disagree with you in the strongest possible terms, though I imagine you'll do the same with me. The problem is that your trying to deal with the culture as individuals, figuring that "well I had muslim roomies, so I know what they are like" when those people were themselves the outsiders surrounded by a foreign culture that you talk about when dealing with soldiers. What's more a people cannot be judged by individuals within it, but by the people as a whole. A person (single) is fine, but a people, when they all get together and are taken as a whole, is something entirely different. This is the root of sociology, which is really the only way of dealing with or understanding things on a national or cultural level. Liberals, the peace at any price movement, and humanitarians like to try and focus on individuals and put a human face on problems, but that is ultimately counter productive in the large sense because what a person is like when approached in relative isolation as an individual, and what they are like when immersed with others of their own kind is entirely different. As much as people hate sociology in these arguments, it's the real deal and is exploited constantly by advertisers and similar sorts every day, and to great effect.
The point of these links, which is just a tiny sampling is to show Muslim culture and how children are conditioned from an early age. Hate anyone non-muslim, kill them, Jews and Americans being particular targets. The entire Western World being likened to the devil. This is to say nothing of videos you can find of thousands upon thousands of Muslims running into the streets to pray while their leaders talk about murdering Americans and the people cheer and chant approval.
The thing to understand is that while actual fighters are a minority, the culture itself supports this behavior, and producers more fighters, keeping the ideas and rhetoric alive. Like people anywhere they are cunning enough to use what opportunities they are given, so they play to the media, liberal sentiment, and similar things. After all it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that it's easier to beat the US military by going to the media and appealing to the naïve American left, than it is to actually fight us. If we give an opening due to morality it's going to be exploited. What's more on an individual level these guys are smart enough to conceal themselves when in a foreign culture, they are going to play the game, maybe even getting married and having children unaware of their true colors while waiting for the right opportunity. We've had cases with seemingly upright professors with a liberal seeming idealogy actually running information hubs for terrorist networks out of universities in the past. Not to mention the Muslim quasi-infiltration of the Latino/Hispanic population. The quickest way for a Muslim to get into the US undetected is to get into Mexico (relatively easy) and then sneak across the border that way, and then hide within the illegal fringe communities. Real Latinos might realize something is up (but they can play kindred spirit) but to an outsider if they primarily speak Spanish or pretend to, they can easily pass as being Latino and justify why they don't have any paperwork and exist off the radar. Believe it or not this is one of the major "under the table" reasons for concerns over border security as evidence of this going on was detected shortly after 9/11 and that's where a lot of concern over Muslim sleeper agents came from. This is one of the avenues of approach terrorist organizations teach their operatives.
Now, where you are correct is that within "The Muslim World" there are a lot of ethnic, religious, and cultural sub-divides. The thing is though that hatred of, and a desire to destroy Jews and The Western World is a unifying influence which factions that normally hate and prey on each other can agree on. This is why during Desert Storm, Saddam was able to hide military assets over the Iranian border to protect them despite the history of antagonism with Iran. It's also why you hear constant cries for "Jihad" as the idea is for ALL Muslims to put aside tribal and cultural differences to rally for a single purpose, and why Bin Ladin and Saddam both tried to style themselves as modern versions of Saladin, and invoke images of Crusaders. Yes there ARE minorities of people down there who are not Muslim, but they are not the controlling force, so it's very much "The Muslim World" as that is the overwhelming controlling force of the region.
The problem as I see it, is that the US is not morally equipped to fight a war against a culture, as it's contrary to everything we've been taught about how things should work. We can fight nations and infrastructures, but the idea of a culture like this where the "bad guys" are not a radical fringe, but rather the progressives are, is pretty much alien to everything we're taught to believe. This is why you don't see many videos like the ones I posted in the mainstream because people generally tend to find it too disturbing to see how things work, and exactly how deep this rabbit hole goes. The Muslim version of "Seseme Street" pretty much tells them to kill Americans and Jews and conditions the populance from a very early age to be a specific way. A very small minority might actually go and train, infiltrate the US, and prepare to set off bombs or whatever, but the culture itself supports them, much like we tend to support our military. Of course when questioned by foreigners with a gun to their head (we have enough military in the region to pretty much wipe the place out right now) the average non-fighter is going to play to the media, especially seeing as his words can paralyze the military more than all of the fighters working in concert could do. It's sort of like how if a foreign invader occupied the US, and some soldiers came up with machine guns and cameras and asked if you supported them, you'd say "yes, yes I do" and make it sound good because your no soldier. At the same time when your together with other Americans and they aren't around you'd be supporting what you see as the resistance.
As I said, I don't expect you or others to agree with me, but while I usually don't do so I put up a few links. You can find more if your REALLY curious you could fill up pages with that stuff.... people wonder sometimes why I think what I do... well there you go. On top of that I also had "anti-terrorist training" when I worked for the casinos, and should even have a certificate from Homeland Security around somewhere. At the end of the day I simply think that on this subject messages of tolerance are naïve, and miss the point that while we're teaching tolerance, those cultures are bombarding their kids with messages of hatred and intolerance from pretty much the beginning of their ability to think. If you consider how much your childhood heroes in cartoons and such influenced you, as did what you learned in school and so on, imagine what it's like down there when they have an analogy to Mickey Mouse beaten to death by a Jew. Think about how that kind of thing doubtlessly affected an entire generation of Muslims, and then consider that it's constantly reinforced.
In closing though I'm going to say something a little contrary to the rest of my post. Islam itself is not the problem, the cultures built around it are the problem. People who bring up all the violence and intolerance in the Qua'ran miss the point that most religions are the same exact way, with rare exceptions. The first thing a religion does is present itself as the absolute truth and a path to salvation, and then pretty much mandates that everyone follows it or should be made to follow it. The Bible is full of tons of stuff both encouraging peace and tolerance, but then telling you "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" and similar things, with the broad definition being that anyone who follows another religion is a witch because there is only ONE true religion and all others are the teachings of the devil in disguise. Christians shed tons of blood, as have Hindus, and even Buddhists, Taoists, and others have effectively been in their own little wars, even if mostly defensive ones.
I believe Islam can be practiced peacefully and alongside other religions, cultures, and societies. If you look at how Christianity adapted to the point where unless someone tells you your unlikely to even know what religion they follow, it's easy to see how Islam could adapt the same way without the sacred mosques, violent laws about drawing pictures of mohammad, need to kneel and face the holy land, special prayer rooms, etc. The problem is less the religion than the cultures that have been built up around it, which is a big part of why I believe if we effectively break the cultures in The Middle East, Islam will then be able to reform and assimilate better into global society. Islam is simply at a point where it pretty much demands everything be on it's terms, rather than on the terms of the rest of progressive global society. You can see the problems and how deep the rabbit hole goes when religion is used as an excuse to oppress 50% of the population (women) and outside women when meeting with officials are expected to adopt a submissive demeanor towards men no matter what kind of rank or authority she might otherwise have. When you look at that on a cultural level, and the degree of intolerance for people who disagree, you begin to see the problem. Can Islam be practiced while ignoring those bits? Of course it can. People practice christinity without running around killing anyone that's believed to be a "witch", although at one time that did happen.
I write this to end with a message of hope, and to show where I'm coming from in an overall sense.... and no, I do not believe most people from those cultures want progress. If that was the case when we liberated nations like Iraq and Afghanistan they wouldn't have immediately defined themselves as Islamic states, and we would have achieved originally stated goals like the liberation of women. Some people practicing Islam who were born abroad and entirely separated from those cultures DO managed to assimilate into society, showing that it is possible. Of course there is also the side issue of Muslim offshoots born away from The Middle East, like the "Black Muslim" faith which calls for race war as much as religious war, revolving about a guy called Yakub (look him up, Wikipedia has a fairly accurate version) who created white men to oppress black men in a tyranny which is soon destinied to fall apart. This doctrine is largely what inspired Manson's "Helter Skelter" the race war which whites would lose, but through preparation and the leadership of guys like him would one day recover.... but as I said that's just another face of the problem, and has nothing to do with the central issue this focuses on.
While I have known a few Muslims that were great people, and I know there are many more out there, I think the onus is on them, meaning muslims as a whole, to improve their overall standing in the world. I am all about personal responsibility and it is unfair to pass of the responsibility to represent these people on our media etc. the greater population of Islamists (there are billions) need to do some in-house self policing and improve their own face that is being shown to the world. At this point, rather than just say "I'm not like that", get off your collective asses and prove it to the world.
Now, I feel the need to state that if this were an ethnic group, I would not take this stance. But in this case this is a religion that has violent extreme elements (very large numbers of them) who do what they do IN THE NAME OF the religion traditionally spread at sword point that you are trying to sell me as being benevolent and nonviolent.
I am reminded of an MCSE course I took in early 2002 that was taught by an instructor who is Egyptian. He was traveling for work on 9/11/01 and flew back home with a group of co-workers. As he put it "You better believe they had me up against the wall frisking me and to tell you the truth, I didn't mind. In all honesty, not all of Arab Muslims are terrorists, but all of those terrorists were Arab Muslims".
After the last decade of global events carried out in the name of one Muslim sect or another or just in the name of Allah in general (because he, like pretty much every other all powerful god appears to be completely incapable of intervening and solving his own problems) combined with the general petty and bigoted intolerances that the religion is filled with (it is, it is as simple as that) I do not feel inclined to be open minded any longer, not like I used to be.
In my opinion, I don't hate muslims, I just feel that globally it is time for them to prove the stereotypes wrong themselves since the most actively vocal among them keep showing the world otherwise. Seems like we have reached that point.
Once again, I hate myself for reading the comments on an interesting article. The Escapist really needs a paywall.
Oh well, at least I got a new book to read. Perhaps some of you on this thread should read it too.
Fine, here is the deal Muslims stop bombing/shooting/killing us and each other then we can talk.
Aaaand you nailed the entire topic down to the T with just a few simple words.
Oh, please. When has demonizing a group of ethnically and religiously semitic people ever backfired on a large western nation going through a severe economic depression?
Pass the bratwurst.
Ooh! Can we get white people to stop shooting up schools while we're at it? /Sandyhook
God that just pisses me off. Nevermind that she's y'know LIVING IN AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT country, instead of "oh, that's pretty cool" it's "DUR HUR, Beirut is for casuals." I hate it when people burn olive branches.
I wonder if Mr. Rath will take a look at the vast majority of whatever entertainment that comes out of the Middle East (with the sole exception of our good friends in Israel) and see how wonderfully diverse and three-dimension characters that are Westerners, Europeans, Jews, Christians, Americans, or anyone that aren't Middle Eastern and/or Muslim are. Oh wait...we're all shown to be completely and irredeemably evil, up to Jewish people eating the eyes of Muslim babies and cackling like monsters. But then again, I suppose it's best Mr. Rath doesn't point that out, because even though I disagree with him often, I don't want him to get beheaded by a follower of the "religion of peace."
My thoughts exactly. For such an "open-minded" forum, the religiphobia gets really bad sometimes.
I think you should clarify your point otherwise you'll come off a bit of a bigot.
It's not good how things are on either side, and admittedly the press does focus on how our media might be offensive. Though it doesn't make it any less true.
Things should be done like Southpark, make fun of both sides (but please omit the crude humor).
Fantastic article.
I've been to North Africa/Arabian Peninsula/Middle-East a few times. I'm about to go again for three months to learn Arabic. While I'm there I'll be reading the Qu'ran because it seems appropriate to understand the place I'm living in.
That alone has been enough for some to brand me a "Muslim-lover!" and a "Muslim in disguise!"
They seem to ignore the fact I'm an atheist and I'm also reading the preliminary readings for my Philosophy+Politics degree. I just think more critically than they do, which is especially astounding to those who already think they know it all.
Should we really, truthfully be tolerant of ignorance masquerading as informed and unbiased opinion?
Have you even been to those parts of the world in any significant sense?
If I recall correctly, those great by-the-book Muslim empires known as the Caliphates expressly did not try to convert anyone, or stop them practising their religion.
Read the Qu'ran yourself rather than trusting the famously paradigmed religionofpeace.com. That site is a mish-mash of half-truths and uncontextualised talking-points. Not unlike Fox News. The very section you link only mentions the parts advocating it, out of context. It's an epic poem, so pulling verses out is even worse than pulling verses out of the bible.
I mean come on:
You can't possibly trust people who say shit like that.
I don't know a lot about Muslims or the Middle East/North Africa/Arabian Peninsula, but I know a damn site more about them and it than, I'd wager, anyone else who has commented on this article so far.
It's a critically thinking echo chambre.
I'll leave you to enjoy the irony. It makes me angry more than anything.
Time to add some old school social criticisms from the past about religions of ALL stripes (though, admittedly, they bash Christianity the most):
Moral of the story: Religion is bullshit. Especially the fundamentalist versions.
It's fine if you want to believe in it, go right ahead. But I'll tell y'all something here and now: don't think your beliefs will shield you from my criticism or that it's a catch all against any criticisms, and about the time you infringe on someone else's life and freedoms simply because you don't agree with them and their beliefs, your own beliefs become null and fuckin' void.
Totally agree with most of this article
But If I can be allowed one nitpick....the Redguard one isn't a good example, in the Elder Scrolls, Redguard culture has been explained like crazy in the lore, its nothing like the stereotypical "Arab" portrayal
Dont know why it quoted you and posted this >-<
my bad
I had made a mental note not to further comment on this thread in order to prevent escalation of emotions resulting in warnings being handed out. But your post actually ticked me off. What you're saying here is that you know more than anyone else on this subject why? Because you've been to a certain part of the world a few times? How about you tell us about your experiences there and provide actual reasoning behind your statement? As to the site I linked, it's the result of a google search, I knew that those passages existed, I simply needed to find a website quoting those passages to provide proof to my statement, something which you haven't done.
My point is, don't simply wade into a discussion to belittle somebody based on a rhetoric which you can't back up with facts and information. If you can, then by all means, post again and tell us all about why I and others here are wrong in feeling uneasy about holding out the peace laurels to a religion which is closely associated with international terrorism.
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It was June of 2006 when Doris Rivera-Black became the victim of a violent crime at the hands of her own estranged husband. Rivera-Black said Jaime Duran forced her into his SUV, made her take off her clothes, and drove nearly 50 miles. Parked next to the train tracks he sexually assaulted her.
"It was like watching a nightmare or watching a horror movie," said Rivera-Black.
In shock and sick to her stomach, she said she begged Duran to stop at a convenience store for water.
"He took the phones and he left the keys in the ignition and it was like a sign from God this is your chance to get away," she said.
As soon as Duran stepped into the store Rivera-Black jumped into the driver's seat and took off.
"The look that he gave I can only describe it as he was so angry and
that if he had the opportunity to kill me right there he would have done so," said Rivera-Black.
She didn't know where she was but said she knew if she could to I-25 she could get home. And she did. When she turned down her street she saw the flashing blue lights of police and deputies surrounding her home.
"I put my hands up and I heard someone in the background say, 'It's Doris, it's Doris'," she said.
Duran was caught and is now in prison for the rest of his life. Rivera-Black now teaches women self-defense techniques. She pulls from her experience as a domestic violence survivor and her experience as a former El Paso County Sheriff's deputy.
Rivera-Black now looks back on what she calls warning signs early in her marriage. She said Duran started to get controlling once she took her job as a deputy.
"He would just show up out of the blue," said Rivera-Black.
Or call her non-stop throughout the day.
"I could be in a cell handling an inmate and my work pager would be going off the hook," she said.
Rivera-Black said Duran even threatened suicide when she told him she didn't want to stay in the marriage.
She said she knew she had to get out once one of her daughters spoke up.
"My oldest daughter, she was 12 at the time, she told me she sits outside the bedroom door with a phone getting ready to call 911," said Rivera-Black. "That's what did it for me. I said I cannot do this anymore. I'm hurting my kids."
She kicked him out and got a restraining order. About a week later he kidnapped her.
It's a story she tells hoping other women in abusive relationships get help.
"Talk to someone, tell someone what is going on," said Rivera-Black. "There are so many support groups, there are so many programs and organizations that will help you get through this."
If you or someone you know needs help call TESSA's crisis line at 719-633-3819. It's an agency that helps people who are victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
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Glen Urquhart School will host an evening with Dave Provost and fellow artists, Ted DeMille and Susie West to benefit GAIN@GUS.
The mission of the Glen Urquhart School GAIN@GUS program is to provide free academic and recreational summer enrichment to talented students in the city of Beverly and surrounding areas. GAIN@GUS program extends academic skills in math and language arts, offers outdoor experiences, and provides field trips in the greater Boston area.
The event is the brain-child of Dave Provost, Head of School and accomplished musician, who has been playing professionally across the country since a young age. Provost is the winner of the New England Songwriting Award in 2009.
Four other artists will be collaborating with Provost for the event, including Ted DeMille, who plays rhythm guitar and sings lead for the Maine bluegrass band, Cribstone Bridge. A talented singer-songwriter, DeMille has been a contributing member of some of the best bluegrass bands in Maine including The Oakhurst Boys, North Star, Erica Brown and the Bluegrass Connection, Bits and Pieces, and most recently Cribstone Bridge. National and local bluegrass artists have covered DeMille's songs and he conducts songwriting workshops for the North Atlantic Arts Alliance.
Susie West a Santa Monica based singersongwriter will also be performing at the event. She has worked with Herb Pedersen (of the famed Desert Rose band) and members of Lyle Lovett's band. West is currently writing for TV and film as well as performing.
Also joining the line-up is Chris Westerlund, a Nantucket based mandolin player and Dave's former bandmate in the Shingles, and Erik Wendelken, a Nantucket based standup bass player, teacher and widely utilized session player.
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Peter Neville brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 54 Designs von 17 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
INSECTS - INvertebrate Surveys and Ecological Consultations Towards Sustainability.
INSECTS is a consultancy business aimed at exploring the natural world, providing guidance and assessment to land management practices aiming to promote and protect biodiversity. Our clientele include land managers, policy makers and the general public. We aim to explore the inter-connectedness of various aspects of the environment, including the plants and animals as a whole, to provide the best strategy for maintaining biodiversity within ecosystems.
Our company conducts:
1) Biodiversity assessments - we measure plant and animal diversity within ecosystems and provide comprehensive reports to land managers, policy makers and other interested parties. Through assessment of land management practices we aim to protect and preserve our declining biodiversity to ensure a sustainable future.
2) Agricultural and pest assessments - we conduct assessments of agricultural systems to explore the use of natural vegetation, windbreaks and other remnant vegetation to reduce chemical and herbicidal sprays in the agricultural sector. We also test new chemicals against insects pests with the aim of reducing the number of chemical products on the market, ensuring only the safest and most environmentally friendly products are sold.
Our focus is to understand the environment and its connectedness to ensure we preserve and protect biodiversity.
The target audience is:
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5) Chemical companies wishing to test their new chemicals against insect pests with the overall aim of reducing chemical use in the pest industry)
6) General public (who wish to protect and preserve biodiversity).
While targeting specific sectors (mainly the environmental sector) there are other links to chemical and agricultural sectors. Our advantage is that we explore the inter-connectedness of environments, including aspects of the flora and fauna and how they interact. We take a holistic approach to resolving issues in environmental planning and land management for the ultimate goal of preserving biodiversity.
Our ultimate goal is to protect and preserve biodiversity to ensure a sustainable future.
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Logo: Insect and plant (leaf/flower/bud etc) required in logo.
If an actual insect/plant is to be used, it needs to be scientifically correct to give the company credibility. If the logo is a representation of an insect/plant then it does not need to be scientifically correct. Both must represent Australian species as the company is Australian. Having a European insect will not be acceptable for an Australian Company.
I would like the logo to consider the overall aim of the company which is to protect and preserve biodiversity for a sustainable future.
I am not concerned about colors etc, but ensure the logo works in black and white print as well as color and does not limit use for those with red/green color blindness.
I want something creative, fun and represents biodiversity.
Size: The image will need to be used as the logo for the company from medium to small sizes. I would like a logo for report covers as well as use on letterhead.
Some basic ideas attached. Feel free to be creative and have your own ideas incorporated into the project.
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You probably know that EFL is reaching version 1.0, consequently more people will be interested on them, and we'll need a nice documentation. Documenting the libraries and softwares that we maintain is one of our priorities now. As I was writing about Editje on enlightenment wiki I decided to blog a bit about it.
Editje is a tool for designing and building graphical user interfaces quickly and easily. It's an WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor for Edje files, making possible to create very rich GUI using Edje parts, including external objects, like Elementary widgets and Emotion. But it's much more than a tool to simple set parts positions and their properties, you can create animations and define the interaction via signals.
It provides three edition modes:
- part mode: where you can compose your interface: adding, removing and changing parts and their states;
- animations mode: enable you to set frames in a timeline and to define frame and part state details;
- signals mode: make it possible to manage signals, that in Editje is the way of interact easier with the UI using messages exchange.
And when you may want to test what you have done so far, you can just click the Run button and interact with your interface 😉
If you are interested, you can look at Editje user's manual made from some developers at Profusion: glima, Sachiel, masaki and tiago – nice work, guys. It's provided as pdf or html and it's source is kept on project's repository.
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"OK, first thought: during the it too me to walk up here, I 'm venturing there were about 200 text messages to my fellow nominees saying, 'You were robbed." And I cannot argue with that. I am so humbled and amazed to be in your company, you're only as good as the company you keep, and I'm honored to be there with you guys."
Jon Hamm has got be fast approaching a mental breakdown -- what does a guy have to do to win an Emmy?
After talking his fellow nominees off the ledge, he turned his attention to his "women's support group," his wife and daughter, to whom offered easily the most touching, romantic and heartfelt words of the evening.
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Developers have spent years trying to develop sensible touchscreen controls for first and third-person shooters that aren't just virtual sticks. A tribute to the great light gun games of old, Lawless just does away with movement altogether, and it looks fantastic.
Much more than a shooting gallery, Lawless is a grand criminal venture, set in the gun-lovers paradise of a 1990s action film. The player is a novice criminal, making his or her way up through the underworld ranks by shooting their way through a series of furious gun battles. Instead of worrying about running from place to place, each battle takes placed in fixed cover. When the battle is over, players are given a choice of new areas to hunker down in.
Lawless is being overseen by Ben Cousins, former DICE Sweden creative director, now head of DeNA's European studio operations and general manager of the Scattered Entertainment studio (of The Drowning fame). If that's not enough pedigree for you, the game is being developed by EightPixelsSquare, a studio made up of key members of Eurocom, the developer behind one of the best rail-shooters ever made — Dead Space: Extraction. If anyone can pull off a good non-traditional shooter, it's those guys.
As with many a DeNA release, Lawless will be free-to-play, with the option to purchase and upgrade special weapons in the game using real funds. Currently in development for iOS, players can pre-register with the game at its official website, unlocking dual-wielded Glock 17s for their trouble.


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Over the last couple of weeks, I've spent considerable time with the leading candidates for mayor, asking them about their approach to governance, watching them campaign and trying to get a feel for what distinguishes each from the others.
Specifically, I was interested in their visions for the city, their approaches to campaign funding, their leadership and management abilities, and their strategies for winning the election. Over the next few days, my columns on those subjects will appear. Today's looks at vision.
Here's the initial question I put to the four leading candidates — Eric Garcetti, Wendy Greuel, Kevin James and Jan Perry: "Imagine it's 2021. You've been mayor for eight years. How does Los Angeles look different as a result of your work?"
JIM NEWTON: The L.A. mayor's race
All four were smart enough to add nuance to the question: Los Angeles, with its many diverse neighborhoods, defies a single vision. They all agree, then, on the bottom line: Los Angeles is and will continue to be defined by the distinctiveness of its neighborhoods.
Beyond that, though, there were many differences in their approaches, and those differences reflect deeper distinctions among these candidates.
James campaigns on specifics, and this area was no exception. His future Los Angeles, he said, would feature more people on foot and on bikes, more underground parking with green space on top, less graffiti, smoother sidewalks, a train to the airport, protection for historic buildings and manhole covers that are level with the street. He imagines downtown continuing to rise, attracting more residents and businesses, but he resists embracing "transit-oriented development," a darling of Garcetti and others, as a panacea.
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Most important, though, James, the one Republican of the four, imagines a future shaped by solving budget problems, in part by eliminating impediments to business growth. His ultimate goal? "There will be far fewer 'Space Available' signs," he said.
Garcetti's vision is more philosophical than physical. The former council president, whose district includes dense areas such as Hollywood but also leafy Atwater Village and Silver Lake, believes strongly in communities deciding issues for themselves.
"I don't think you can ever force something down a neighborhood's throat," he said. Intense arguments over zoning or planning, he added, are usually "the result of laziness," of not taking the time to hear out residents and others.
That goes a long way toward explaining Garcetti. Government, in his view, can't be separate from the people governed, and serves in part by helping neighbors work through arguments. The Los Angeles of Garcetti's vision eight years from now would almost certainly have greater density around transit, for instance, but only because communities had debated and embraced it.
Greuel's 2021 Los Angeles sounds something like James', if slightly less detailed. There would be better public transit; downtown would continue to grow; there would be more places to walk and bike; the city would be greener. All of which is manifestly Greuel: practical, methodical, a little vague, neither too threatening nor too ambitious.
She views government's role as starting the planning conversation and then serving as an honest broker among disparate interests.
If Perry were to have eight years as mayor of Los Angeles, she says, the city would be cleaner and more creative at the end of it. Graffiti would be less prevalent, pocket parks more common, streetscapes better organized and parking more conveniently located for housing. The elements of that vision speak in part to Perry's immersion in the fine points of development, which undergirds much of her rhetoric.
Her deputy Marie Rumsey says Perry will consider any idea that promises neighborhood improvement. "She never starts with no."
Some see her, though, as favoring developers. In the case of a controversial Fresh & Easy market, for instance, Perry opposed a proposal that would have required the market to pay its workers a living wage in exchange for government subsidies. Madeline Janis, Perry's principal foe in that debate, accused the councilwoman of favoring the developer over her constituents. Rumsey describes the difference as one of "idealism versus practicality."
It may be tempting to dismiss the importance of a mayor's physical vision for Los Angeles. But imagination matters, as L.A.'s history well attests. Rear Adm. John Walker recommended placing a port in San Pedro, and L.A. officials tethered it to the city by annexation; the port is still the region's most important economic force. William Mulholland eyeballed an aqueduct from the Owens Valley, and it still supplies our water. Tom Bradley imagined a center of commerce on Bunker Hill, and there it is. Richard Riordan could not bear the unfinished parking lot on Grand Avenue and, together with Eli Broad and others, raised the money that paid for architect Frank Gehry's building of genius.
Where would we be without those?
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President Barack Obama has invoked executive privilege and the attorney general has refused to turn over documents that might explain what led the Justice Department to reverse course after initially denying that federal agents had used a controversial tactic called gun-walking in the failed law enforcement operation.
In a court filing Monday night, the department said that the Constitution does not permit the courts to resolve the political dispute between the executive branch and the House committee that is seeking the records.


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NMCA/NMRA West Coast Shootout Photo Gallery
This past weekend saw the first-ever JE Pistons NMCA/NMRA West Coast Shootout, presented by Lucas Oil, at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, CA. Media and Manufacturers ran in their own classes against the general public in the Racers Against Street Racing True Street Challenge. That event saw everything from early model Novas to a brand new Audi SUV. They started with 15 laps around the California Speedway and then three back-to-back runs on the quarter-mile, with no opening of the hoods or any help. It quickly separated the streetable cars from the pure racecars. A speed/stop challenge, Hotchkis suspension autocross, and two separate car shows rounded out the weekend.
Steven Rupp from Camaro Performers magazine was the quickest among the media and won the fastest overall media and manufacturer awards in his "Bad Penny" '68 Camaro. Centerforce Clutch's Will Baty won the Manufacturers Challenge and fastest 12-second manufacturer award. Hopefully Will can help Steve out as he roasted his clutch on all three passes, making more clutch smoke than most people made on their burnouts that day.
Will's best e.t. was a 12.02 at 116.46 mph. Steven took the media win with a best 11.478 e.t. at 124.82 mph.
Representing Hot Rod, Rob Kinnan brought out the Race Rod Factory Five '33 Ford (Nov/Dec '09 and Jan. '10) and David Freiburger was there in the E-Rod Z28 Camaro (Jan.-April '11). Both cars ran the True Street Media class on Saturday, and Kinnan ran the Hotchkis autocross on Saturday, winning the Street Rod class.


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Reflections on a year gone by
Now that 2013 in nearing its end
(it's 9:37 pm as I write this), I'd like to take a moment to reflect back on the past 12 months.
Quite honestly, this year has been far from the best for me and my family. There have been a lot of struggles, pain and heartache. And while I am always looking forward to the fresh start a new year brings, that is especially so this year.
Despite the negatives, there have been some bright spots among the darkness. And many of those came in the form of arts.
So, without further ado, I would like to thank, acknowledge and recognize the following, all of which have had a great, positive impact on the year that was.
The models
To all the amazing models with whom I had the pleasure of working and creating some amazing art, thank you so much and I hope to work with you more in 2014.
Web design and Social Media clients
To all those in need of social media management or content creation and the development or revision of websites, I thank you for allowing me the opportunity as well as the challenge.
Fiverr buyers
To everyone on Fiverr who ordered one or more of my "gigs" allowing me to delve into a variety of artistic projects ranging from photo editing to custom limericks. It's been great and I look forward to working with you guys even more this year.
The muses
To anyone or anything that inspired me over the course of the year to seek out that perfect photo, write that ideal line of poetry or otherwise create the best pieces of art that I could, you have been so amazing and I am truly grateful.


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A student armed with a 12-gauge shotgun entered his classroom at a Southern California high school Thursday morning and shot a classmate, who is in critical but stable condition, and attempted to shoot another one, authorities said at an afternoon press conference.
The gunman was taken into custody after a teacher and campus supervisor intervened and convinced the student to lay down his weapon.
"If it weren't for this teacher and a quick response, we don't know," Kern County Sheriff Don Youngblood said at an afternoon press conference. About 30 students were in the classroom when the gunman entered about halfway through the session.
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The teacher who intervened suffered minor injuries—possibly a pellet wound to the head—Youngblood added, while two other students also suffered minor injuries "during the melee of people trying to get out."
Emergency crews responded to the scene—about 120 miles north of Los Angeles (map)—at about 9 a.m. Students were evacuated to a football field, according KGET, and SWAT team members searched the school, room by room.
The shooter—described as a 16-year-old male student who lives near the school—had "a dialogue" with the victim before Thursday morning, Youngblood said. After shooting the first student, the gunman shot at, but missed, a second student as the teacher attempted to "get students out of the classroom."
The teacher and campus supervisor who confronted the gunman have not been identified, but were widely praised by law enforcement officials.
"The heroics go without saying. To stand there and face someone who has a shotgun and has already shot a student—we're very proud of the job they did," Youngblood said.
It was not immediately clear how the student gained access to the weapon, sheriff's officials said. Youngblood said the gunman had "numerous" shotgun shells in his pocket as the teacher and supervisor spoke with him.
"We cannot thank them enough for what they did today," said Taft Police Chief Ed Whiting. "They are really awesome people."
A school security officer is usually assigned to the school, but weather conditions might have prevented the officer from arriving at the campus Thursday, Youngblood added.
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a vocal gun control advocate who has pushed for an assault weapon ban in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting in Connecticut last month, said in a statement that her thoughts and prayers were with the victim of this latest shooting.
"I have visited this school over the years—in fact, my own father attended Taft Union," Feinstein said.
"How many more shootings must there be in America before we come to the realization that guns and grievances do not belong together?" she added.
House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, a Republican whose district includes the town Taft, issued a statement too, on behalf of himself and his wife.
"I am deeply saddened and troubled by news of the shooting," he said. "Judy and I offer our prayers to the victims, their families and the entire Taft community,"
The shooting occurred on the second floor of a science building on the campus, according to Kern County Sheriff's Department.
The high school is located in Taft, a city of about 9,500 residents near a massive oil field at the southwestern edge of the Central Valley.


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STOCKTON - An armed guard from a private security company shot a man during an altercation at an apartment complex Saturday afternoon, authorities said.
STOCKTON - An armed guard from a private security company shot a man during an altercation at an apartment complex Saturday afternoon, authorities said.
Officers responded to the Grouse Run Apartments on Grouse Run Drive shortly before 4:30 p.m. where they found a man with a gunshot wound to the abdomen, officers and witnesses said.
According to police, the security guard and the man got into a physical confrontation, during which the man took the guard's baton. Fearing for his life, the security guard fired one shot, striking the man and breaking the back window of a white station wagon.
The man was taken to a hospital in critical condition. The security guard was questioned and released.
A woman at the scene told police she was sitting in the station wagon with the man who was shot when the altercation began. She said the security guard used pepper spray before firing his gun.
"We were just sitting there," she said. "Why would you mace somebody just for sitting there?"
"I just heard a gunshot and walked out and saw the guy lying on the ground," said resident Muteb Binnafisah, 24. "The woman was yelling that the guard had no right to do that, but the guard was calm about it."
No one was arrested Saturday, but the investigation is ongoing. The case will be referred to the San Joaquin County District Attorney's Office for review, police said.
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Scenedaily.com's Writers Now Video Stars
We have been watching with interest as the "convergence" of the NASCAR media continues.
TV shows like NASCAR Now want you to go to the ESPN.com website, while Internet sites like Rowdy.com now want you to stop by for fresh NASCAR video every day.
After switching-over to the Internet from magazine and newspaper formats, the big NASCAR media publishers are also dipping their toes in the water when it comes to video. As many NASCAR fans who watch Tradin' Paint on SPEED already know, print reporters on TV are always fun to watch. It turns out, the same is true for in-house produced videos.
Simply by clicking this link readers will be taken directly to the video page of the popular scenedaily.com website. Parked right there are over 60 free videos available to broadband users that discuss everything under the sun where NASCAR is concerned.
Sports fans may know that ESPN just scoured the nation and hired a slew of former newspaper reporters as NFL Football bloggers. The company that began with one TV network back in 1979 is now in a full sprint to develop and grow as much Internet content as possible in all different forms, including video.
While our friends over at NASCAR.com have a website that is just loaded with tons of NASCAR videos, it also has a very fundamental problem. It is tough to get around. With hundreds of links just on the front page, NASCAR.com is so "front-loaded" that it is overwhelming to many fans and casual users.
Meanwhile, sites like scenedaily.com are just growing slowly into the combination of news, blogs and video that we see from other sites covering professional sports. As usual, NASCAR is a bit behind the technology curve.
The pure joy of watching the scenedaily.com videos is seeing people who are clearly not used to being on-camera squirm and wiggle just like any of us would in that circumstance. When four writers are huddled around the company's conference table with their hands tightly clasped and nodding in agreement like Dave Despain bobble-heads, its just fun to watch.
Recently, the company has invested in a program that inserts a new picture behind the folks on-camera. Now, instead of checking-out the Charlotte weather through the conference room windows, viewers are treated to random pictures of tracks, cars and fans. This video is mandatory viewing for any fan who loves Bob Pockrass.
Eventually, the guys at Street & Smith's in Charlotte will wise-up and create a permanent set in the office that is well-lit and ultimately interactive. Just like any liveshot location at newspapers around the country, they will realize that the scenedaily.com logo needs to be in the background and that inserting a commercial before the video might even pay the bills.
But for the moment, NASCAR fans can get a glimpse of their favorite writers as they learn a new skill in a very public way.
The Daly Planet welcomes comments from readers. Simply click on the COMMENTS button below and follow the easy instructions. The rules for posting are located on the right side of the main page. Thanks for taking the time to stop by.
5 comments:
- Anonymous said...
I really like scenedaily.com and think it's one of the best NASCAR news resources online, though it's not as well known as some of the other sites.
But I never click on those scenedaily web videos and have no plan to do so. The screen caps advertising new content look amateurish (though I did read and was greatly amused by Bob Pockrass's column about his embarrassment at having to go to the mall to buy makeup for TV cameras, which he had no clue how to do.)
My time online is limited during a work day and though I can access online video and streaming video from work and at home on evenings/weekends, I only do that if it's something professional which adds to my NASCAR knowledge. My initial impression of the scenedaily videos and the nascar.com videos (other than postrace press conferences) is they are not worth my time. If they improve later, maybe I'll make time.
I'd rather see the actual midweek and Friday driver press conferences on video than watch the writers on video (Written transcripts are provided for those on some sites, but it usually takes a day before they are posted.) Those Friday press conferences transcripts are pretty extensive and seem especially interesting (to me).
- August 13, 2008 at 8:49 PM
- Anonymous said...
I'm an avid Nascar fan, but almost never look at Nascar.com. Their home page is a complete mess!
- August 14, 2008 at 6:26 AM
- Anonymous said...
As a professional web producer, I can tell you that text stories always get more clicks than videos, unless the video is specifically of an unusual event or incident.
The stuff Scene Daily is doing is fun and a novelty, but it'll wear off, especially after someone looks at how few people are actually viewing the clips.
- August 14, 2008 at 6:54 AM
- Anonymous said...
i agree w/the comments from all three anon posters. i rarely watch video clips of anything, even if i'm at a site already. to date, most clips seem irrelevant if the title of the clip is any indication of the content. i have a low threshold of tolerance for that.
nascar.com site is a disaster and i rarely click on anymore. a couple of years ago, it was my "go to" place for information but it is now just one endless ad. finding content has become needlessly difficult and, with access to other sources which are better designed and executed, i do not have to try and navigate such a cluttered site.
scenedaily.com is one that i check daily for content. i find the columns to be well-written (even if i don't agree w/the positions taken) and the site itself is easy to navigate. but, as i say: i ignore the video.
in general, for me it comes down to how do i want to receive information: written or viewed? i have always been a written word person and that is my default position. i watch the race, using various tools at my disposal, but only one of those tools has ever been visually based and that is racebuddy. otherwise, it's all written.
there may be synergy occuring between video and print but not for me. it may be a function of age (our 16 year old is far more visually oriented than i and is always viewing video online!), it may be a function of not enjoying watching a video on a computer screen, it may be a function of uninteresting content. regardless, it is not part of the nascar world that i visit.
- August 14, 2008 at 10:11 AM
- Anonymous said...
Scenedaily may have cool content. But that crappy greenscreen effect is difficult to look at. You don't need to trick us into thinking you are at a track, just pull together some nondescript garage type set like Nascar Now uses.
- August 14, 2008 at 6:13 PM