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Debra Messing
Best known for her lead role as Grace Adler on the popular sitcom Will & Grace, Debra Messing followed up her Brandeis University education with a prestigious Masters in Fine Arts from NYU.
Fresh out of college, Messing landed a role on the TV drama NYPD Blue and after only four episodes was offered the lead role in Ned and Stacey.
Messing enjoyed moderate big screen success before landing the role that would make her a household name on Will & Grace. Since the show debuted in 1998, Messing has taken roles in romantic movies such as Along Came Polly and The Wedding Date.
Messing married writer/actor Daniel Zelman, whom she met her first day at NYU, in 2000. The couple welcomed son Roman in 2004. They announced their split in December 2011.
Messing starred in the USA miniseries The Starter Wife beginning in 2007, which was nominated for 10 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie.
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[Edit this profile]Red Hot Chili Peppers (often abbreviated RHCP) is an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1983. For most of the band's existence, the members have been vocalist Anthony Kiedis, guitarist John Frusciante, bassist Michael "Flea" Balzary, and drummer Chad Smith. The band's varied musical style has fused traditional rock with elements of other genres including funk, punk rock, and psychedelic rock.
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A Man Skilled In His Work
"Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve before kings; he will not serve before obscure men." Proverbs 22:19
This Bible verse has always motivated me to persevere and do things to the best of my ability. So often I squander my talents, not really caring all that much about what I'm doing, more eager to find a comfortable situation than to really strive toward excellence. But then I'll read a verse like this one, and I'll realize that it's better to be the kind of man who really cares about the work he does, even if the work seems mundane, just for the principle of the thing. Perseverance is often rewarded in the end. People who take the time to strive toward excellence will serve before kings and have their talent recognized. That's a comforting thing to know.
It's so easy to just settle for good enough, working just to live and make end's meet. But I don't want to live like that. Life is short, and I don't want to spend the whole of my life pouring my effort into things that I don't really care about. I want to strive toward excellence and perseverance in the hopes that the work of my hands will one be recognized and rewarded.
Do not Give Up
"But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded." 2 Chronicles 15:7
I like the combination of being strong and not giving up. Perseverance mixed with courage is a powerful pairing. It's difficult being strong and not giving up, unless one knows there's a light at the end of the tunnel. That's why I love the promise at the end of this verse. Be strong and don't give up, it won't all be in vain like you're worried it will be. So often people seem to work hard for awhile and then get discouraged. It's tough keeping up hope in the midst of difficult times. One of the hardest things in life is to keep working hard and staying strong, even when it seems like nothing is happening and God isn't moving.
That's why I take great comfort in verses like this about perseverance. Perseverance is a powerful character trait, and can bring about a breakthrough when nothing else does. In life, I often seem to take on projects that seem to big for me, and then after awhile, I get discouraged because nothing seems to be happening. It's sad to start a big endeavor only to give up just before the work is rewarded. I know about my own predisposition toward discouragement, and so I take great comfort in this Bible verse, because it encourages me toward perseverance and finishing what I've started.


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You can help fight the denier attacks on Michael Mann by buying his book, reading it, and then reviewing it at Amazon.com.
The most vindicated climate scientist in America, Michael Mann, has published an excellent new book, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars. How much do the climate science disinformers want to discourage you from reading it? I've reported that the deniers immediately launched an attack on the book and on the positive reviews on Amazon.com.
Now Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal has decided that rather than just ignoring the book, they would have it 'reviewed' by their leading anti-science and anti-scientist editorial page writer, Anne Jolis.
I say "anti-science" because, as recently as Septmber, Jolis wrote an entire 'opinion' piece on "The Other Climate Theory: Al Gore won't hear it, but heavenly bodies might be driving long-term weather trends." Yes, she was pushing the long-debunked "cosmic ray" theory of climate change based on a CERN paper — months after its lead author explained that the paper "actually says nothing about a possible cosmic-ray effect on clouds and climate, but it's a very important first step." Multiple peer-reviewed papers make clear that cosmic rays aren't driving significant climatic change.
I say "anti-scientist" because, as forest science expert Simon Lewis wrote here in a 2010 debunking of another one of Jolis's masterpieces of misinformation:
I asked Peter Cox what he thought about the WSJ article. He was surprised that he was featured in a climate science bashing editorial. While his quotes were correctly transcribed Prof. Cox was not told that the article was about attacking climate science. The same journalist tried the same sleight-of-hand with me over a potential Amazongate article. So memo to scientists. If Anne Jolis of the WSJ contacts you, watch out, or you could find yourself being tricked into starring in an article about scientists not being open and honest.
It's safe to say that if you ask Jolis to write review of a book on climate science, you know what you're going to get. And, indeed, the review reveals that Jolis remains a one-trick pony.
Here she is with what I suppose she considers a devastating example of hypocrisy but which is an unintentional revelation of her own biases:
Yet for all his caviling about "smear campaigns," "conspiracy theorists" and "character assassination," Mr. Mann is happy to employ similar tactics against his opponents. Patrick Michaels, former president of the American Association of State Climatologists and a past program chair of the American Meteorological Society's Committee on Applied Climatology, is introduced as "a prominent climate change contrarian at the University of Virginia primarily known for his advocacy for the fossil fuel industry." (Nowhere does Mr. Mann explain why a scientist might be more easily corrupted by a check from, say, a coal company than by one from a politically controlled institution.)
To be clear, there is no equation between Mann and Michaels. Michaels makes crap up on climate for a living and deserves to be called on it. As Skeptical Science has detailed, Patrick Michaels is a "Serial Deleter of Inconvenient Data."
As they show in 3 different instance, "Michaels has deleted the data which contradict his constant arguments that the planet will warm less than most climate scientists expect, and thus that global warming is nothing to worry about." NASA's James Hansen said Michaels' distortion of his work was "treading close to scientific fraud." You can find many more debunkings of Michaels online and here.
Jolis may think it needs explanation why fossil fuel funding would call into question a scientist's repeated attempts to spreads pro-pollution disinformation, but it's rather obvious to everyone else.
In contradistinction to the discredited and endlessly debunked Pat Michaels, Michael Mann is one the most vindicated climate scientist in America. The final independent vindication noted,that his work "from the beginning of his career, has been recognized as outstanding" and it "clearly places Dr. Mann among the most respected scientists in his field."
Mann's "Hockey Stick" work has also been utterly and repeatedly vindicated:
- The Hockey Stick was affirmed in a major review by the uber-prestigious National Academy of Scientists (in media-speak, the highest scientific "court" in the land) — seeNAS Report and here. The news story in the journal Nature (subs. req'd) on the NAS panel was headlined: "Academy affirms hockey-stick graph"!
- The Hockey Stick has been replicated and strengthened by numerous independent studies (see "Two more independent studies back the Hockey Stick: Recent global warming is unprecedented in magnitude and speed and cause"). My favorite is from Science — see Human-caused Arctic warming overtakes 2,000 years of natural cooling, "seminal" study finds (the source of the figure below).
What's most laughable about this review is the final sentence:
Mr. Mann closes "The Hockey Stick" with a passionate call for more scientists to join him "on the front lines of the climate wars." "Scientific truth alone," Mr. Mann writes, "is not enough to carry the day in the court of public opinion." It would be "irresponsible," he says, "for us to silently stand by while industry-funded climate change deniers succeed in confusing and distracting the public and dissuading our policy makers from taking appropriate actions." These are unfortunate conclusions for a scientist-turned-climate-warrior whose greatest weakness has always been a low estimation of the public intellect.
Obviously she hasn't read most of the book. Mann's book, arguably his entire life's work, assumes a high public intellect, one that can understand science and objectively make wise decisions. Heck, he even explains, at length, principal component analysis (PCA) — better than I've seen elsewhere.
It is the anti-science and anti-scientist misinformers at Murdoch's empire, including the Wall Street Journal, who assume their readers are so dumb as to not even be able to use Google to figure out who is on the side of science and who is on the side of ignorance.
Jolis's review has the unintentionally ironic headline, "The Climate Kamikaze." Kamikazes, of course, were suicide bombers. But Mann is no kamikaze: In fact, he has devoted his life to its informing the public about how to avoid humanity's self-destruction, which requires action now to avert catastrophe.
It is Jolis and her employer who future generation will label kamikazes. As one Australian scientist put it, "The Murdoch Media Empire Has Cost Humanity Perhaps One or Two Decades in Battle Against Climate Change."
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Mann's publishers did him a dis-service with that cover.
Mann's book is excellent, and readable for a layman, too. There are all kinds of interesting technical and historical details.
Amazon was instantly besieged by readers from Watts' blog, talking about what a terrible book it was. Problem is, none of them had actually read it. Even if they got a Kindle copy, their reviews appeared the day after Watts' bugle calls. WUWT readers are not capable of reading any book in one day.
Some of us tried to alert Amazon about this, but it was tough getting through all of their barriers, so we were left with review comments. If anyone here knows an executive at Amazon, they need to communicate this problem to him.
While we're talking about newspapers misleading and confusing the public, put your head vise on. Over at the Washington Post, Glenn Kessler's Pinocchios are angry that Obama doesn't include "undiscovered" oil in his facts. Also, they're mad that the "tantalizing" quantities of U.S. tar are unaccounted (no mention of how that would affect worldwide comparison). Furthermore, they take umbrage at his comparing reserves to consumption, which doesn't sound terribly bad to me. Any thoughts?
Yes his explanation of PCA is simply the best I have seen. I almost understood it, I now have an idea of what it means.
Right now on Amazon there are 106 customer reviews. They break down as follows:
1-Star….25In addition there is a series of endorsements from Bill McKibben, Paul Ehrlich, Chris Mooney, James Lovelock, Sherwood Boehlert, Henry Waxman, and Bill Nye.
It's not a call for complacency, but right now I think visitors to this Amazon page will get the right idea.
That second paragraph from Jolis reminds me of a series of articles I'd love to see here about the fallacious reasoning that's often employed by denialists, confusionists and the ignorati.
We often show how their claims are wrong, their tactics shameful, and we often demonstrate how their sources are uncredible. But as another way to try to sway that slice of the population that might just still be convinced otherwise, it would sure be neat to show just how specious the reasoning can be from some characters. (CP does this routinely of course, but it would interesting to highlight/focus on it). That way, even if people are agnostic on sources and claims to facts, they might at least see how one side is the clear winner in the abuse of logic race.
I'm thinking of common fallacies one sees in introductory philosophy classes like:
> Ad hominem: Climate change isn't happening because Al Gore is stupid.
> Appeal to complexity: Because the author doesn't understand the climate, it is not understandable.
> Two wrongs make a right: It's okay to lie routinely, because the other side has lied in the past too.
> Etc.
But some of the more subtle forms or examples of fallacious reasoning would be good to untangle as well.
I like the 3 examples. Got some more?
I was able to hear Michael Mann today discussing his book on the Kojo Nnamdi show today on that most excellent PBS station, WAMU.
It's a show with call-in's and emails and he handled them all very well. He keeps his cool and presents clear, understandable answers.
Unfortunately it's not a PBS-wide show (to my knowledge). Kojo is a great host.
I put up a review at amazon.com shortly after I got my signed copy of Dr. Mann's book. In the review, I focused on the scientific incompetence of the deniers attacking Dr. Mann. Linky here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R144UZ0BPXWVDY/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=023115254X&nodeID=&tag=&linkCode=
The review is entitled "Attack of the C-Students". I'll admit that it is pretty long-winded, but with my focus on denier incompetence, I could easily have written my own entire book!
And as for the deniers who have posted and promoted negative reviews at amazon.com, here is a strong indication of how loony they are: The 1-star review currently rated as "Most Helpful" at amazon.com turns out to have been written by a 911-truther!
Linkies here:
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Dr. Mann was on Science Friday on March 2nd and it was a great interview. I think you can access the podcast through NPR's archives
I myself bought and read the book in total and found it most useful in the science and politics and smear campaign waged by the special interests. I can not believe that even today the deniers still cite the "Hockey Stick" and stolen emails as proof of fraud. It is as if their tunnel vision is on purpose and other than lies and misinformation the denial position has no place to stand on.
Time is so short, Dr. James Hansen claims if we wait for ten years to beign reduction of greenhouse gas emissions it will be practically too late to avert a crisis. -
My copy was at the Post Office today. I'll leave a review after I read it. Sorry Tony : Horse, Cart. Repeat again : Horse, Cart. Got it now?
I pity American reporters and others who must work in environments where science can always be slammed by resident deniers. At the Australian Broadcasting Commission there is no need to be looking over your shoulder all the time. The official policy is to cover the issue in direct proportion to the number of serious scientists who work on evidence. This "balance of truth" has given us a free hand to expose the lies where and when we find them. Speaking personally, I have free rein to fact-check Monckton ever time he opens his mouth. It is not hard – you take what he says, consult an authority and publish. If we have a denier on staff I don't know about them. That is the way it needs to be in all news organisations that want to be taken seriously.
When it comes to reporting the consensus, I am proud to say we are the gold standard.


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Boeing Co. (BA) said it's sticking to its schedule for developing an upgrade of the 777 wide-body plane, its most profitable jet, that will enter service by the end of the decade.
"Our timing on a decision to offer that airplane has not changed," Boeing Commercial Airplanes President Ray Conner wrote in a message to employees today. "We are absolutely committed to the 777X and continue to invest the necessary time and resources to ensure we produce a superior airplane for our customers."
The development of a stretch version of the Dreamliner, called the 787-10X, continues as well, Conner wrote. The Seattle Times reported today, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter, that Boeing had slowed down the development process.
Boeing's former commercial president, Jim Albaugh, had talked earlier this year about taking a plan for selling the wide-body jets to the board for approval by the end of 2012. After Conner was appointed June 26, he said the plan will be presented once it's ready, comments that were repeated in today's message.
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A bucket is lowered by rope to the cave harvester. A ship on the ocean sends its net down, down, to where the mushrooms grow among the seaweed stalks of the Atlantean ruins... there, men with fishbowls upsidedown on their heads walk the wet forest floor, climb the aquatic cliffs, looking for treasure. When they find it, they drop it in the net and up up up it goes, to their patrons on the deck of the mothership above, who
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101 things to do in NYC in spring 2012
Your guide to New York's vernal pleasures.
Wed Feb 29 2012
21. See the work of an iconic New York artist
Keith Haring's energetic street art was a ubiquitous fixture in late-'70s--early-'80s New York, cropping up in subway stations and on buildings in Soho and the East Village. He went on to art-world fame and fortune before his untimely death from AIDS in 1990. "Keith Haring: 1978--1982," a new exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum (200 Eastern Pkwy at Washington Ave, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn; 718-638-5000, brooklynmuseum.org; Wed, Fri, Sat, Sun 11am--6pm; Thu 11am--10pm; suggested donation $12, seniors and students $8, members and children under 12 free; Mar 16--July *), recalls the artist's early career with works on paper, rare videos and archival objects. To see even more work by Haring, head to the LGBT Center: During most of March, the space will host Keith Haring Unveiled (208 W 13th St between Greenwich and Seventh Aves; 212-620-7310; times vary; free; through Mar 31), a series of programs dedicated to the artist's life and work. Don't miss a Haring homage at the Center's Dance:208 Garage Classics party on March 10. You can also see a mural titled Once Upon a Time inside one of the Center's former restrooms, which has since been turned into a meeting space (Mar 7--31).
22. Get high and watch a film
Now in its 16th year, the Rooftop Films alfresco series will bring more than 200 films to locations throughout the city. Besides curating smart indie docs, shorts and features, Rooftop's organizers have a talent for procuring unique venues—past screenings have taken place on the roofs of Brooklyn Grange and Brooklyn Technical High School. To top it off, performances by buzzworthy music acts (Hospitality and Janka Nabay appeared in 2011) precede the feature. Locations, times and prices vary; visit rooftopfilms.com for more information. Begins May 11.
23. Drink on the waterfront
You don't have to schlep to the shore to feel the sand beneath your toes: The Beekman Beer Garden Beach Club in South Street Seaport is slated to reopen on April 12, providing a convenient waterfront hang with 300 pounds of sand to make castles out of. Grab some friends and lounge on the white couches with an Ommegang Witte ($7), play a free game of pool, Ping-Pong or foosball (tables are first-come, first-served), or gather round the fire pit when the night turns chilly. Keep an eye on its website for announcements about weekend beach parties in spring and live music from nationally known acts on Wednesdays (beginning late May). North side of Pier 17, Beekman St at South St (212-896-4600, beekmanonthewater.com). Daily noon--3am. Opening April 12, check the website or follow @BeekmanBGBC for updates.
24. Pig out on Cinco de Mayo
If Mexican troops hadn't triumphed over their French invaders, we might all be eating onion soup on what would be called Le Cinquime de Mai, which doesn't really sound as fun as tacos. Take your pick from one (or more, we won't judge) of NYC's 26 best tacos, such as the carne asada variety at Dos Toros (137 Fourth Ave between 13th and 14th Sts; 212-677-7300; $4.50, with guacamole $5). Tender cubes of rich flap steak, seasoned with a secret spice blend and grilled to a gorgeously pink medium-rare, come cradled in corn tortillas lined with Jack cheese and topped with bright guac, fresh pico and a squirt of fiery habanero sauce.
25. Rummage in the sunshine at the Brooklyn Flea
The indie market leaves its winter digs at One Hanson Place on the first Saturday of April, returning to its familiar stomping grounds in Fort Greene and the Williamsburg waterfront with more than 30 new vendors in tow. Hunt out fresh faces Bender Bound for books to stash your hip flask in and Mia Kim for vintage garbs at the Williamsburg location. If you're led purely by your stomach, hit the 'Burg on Saturdays for Smorgasburg—a glutton's paradise that welcomes Takumi Taco (adding a Japanese twist to a Mexican favorite) and Baby Got Back Ribs to its ranks. 176 Lafayette Ave between Clermont and Vanderbilt Aves, Fort Green, Brooklyn (brooklynflea.com). Sat 10am--5pm. Opens Apr 7. * East River Waterfront between North 6th and 7th Sts, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Smorgasburg: Sat 10am--5pm. Opens Apr 7. Flea: Sun 10am--5pm. Opens Apr 8.
26. Treat yo self
Say goodbye to the winter doldrums and indulge yourself to a treatment or two during Spa Week: Spring 2012, during which hundreds of spas, salons and fitness centers around the city offer signature treatments or class packages for just $50 a pop. Among this edition's deals are facial peels with cell-stimulating botanicals and five-packs of core fusion classes at four of Exhale's Manhattan locations, as well as appointments with participants such as Fresh and Lia Schorr Day Spa. Locations vary, visit spaweek.com for more info. Apr 16--22. Booking services begins Mar 12.
27. Admire the blooms in Central Park
The skinfest in the Sheep Meadow isn't the only thing worth eyeballing in Central Park come spring. The Conservatory Garden (east side between 104th and 106th Sts; enter at Fifth Ave and 105th St; 212-310-6600, centralparknyc.org) is a flowering paradise, with some varietals like the Lenten rose blooming as early as mid-March. For a more extensive tour, download the Central Park Conservancy's Bloom Guide from its website (available in April) and rent a bike from Bike & Roll (Merchants Gate, W 59th Street at Columbus Circle * Tavern on the Green, Central Park West between 66th and 67th Sts * bikeandroll.com; times and prices vary; opens Mar 17) or the Loeb Boathouse (East 72nd St at Park Dr North; times and prices vary; opens April).
28. Dock at Fleet Week New York
Hello, sailors! Members of the Navy, Marines and Coast Guards will congregate in the city during this celebration of the sea services, giving plenty of New Yorkers the opportunity to gawk at ladies and gents in uniform. Locations vary; visit fleetweeknewyork.com for details. May 23--30.
29. Work on your wit
One of the 20th century's greatest polymaths—dramatist, actor, composer, singer, with a side gig in bons mots—who found great success in New York is saluted during the Nol Coward Festival 2012. The centerpiece of the proceedings is a New York Public Library exhibition, "Star Quality: The World of Nol Coward," (New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Donald and Mary Oenslager Gallery, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza at 66th St; 212-870-1630, nypl.org; Mar 12--Aug 18; Mon, Thu noon--8pm; Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat noon--6pm; free) displaying rarely seen ephemera (including a rather natty silk dressing gown Coward wore) from public and private collections. Institutions around the city, including the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Paley Center and the 92nd Street Y, are also honoring the English raconteur with screenings, musical revues, plays and talks (locations, times and prices vary; see noelcowardinnewyork.com for more information).
30. Have a (beer) blast
Hibernation season is officially over! The bear crowd has pretty much become the middle of the road for the NYC gay-male scene, so it's no surprise that Robert Valin's annual celebration of fuzzy hunks at Urban Bear NYC draws massive crowds to its many dance parties, performances, beer blasts and more. Valin has yet to announce details for the fourth annual incarnation, but don't be surprised to find plenty of cuddly events at bear caves like the Eagle (554 W 28th St between Eleventh and Twelfth Aves; 646-473-1866, eaglenyc.com) and Nowhere (322 E 14th St between First and Second Aves, 212-477-4744). Locations, times and prices vary; visit urbanbearnyc.com for details. May 3--6.
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Market Publique gotta love leather sleeves!
either way, I need a tailor since the only one I know serves chilli dogs and is bankrupt.
this was a long time ago... the decisions have been made, but i'd like to feel validated.
Chiffonpuhlease In A that shirt looks like a trash bag haha. The boots are cute though! obvi B is better you look like a sexpot in it!
robinh Agree with Barrorg.
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Elizabeth Flick it looks like it doesn't fit her shoulders right? but Otherwise it looks really cute!
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They also have this in pink, but it comes with spiders.
Meghan Keane Yes. Keep up the good work.
Davidk Keep on doing what you're doing. I'll come by with some Sunkist shortly.
This is what spring looks like when California collides with the LES below Delancey.
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jrsorrell Dogs should never be considered an 'accessory'
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This is a lovely Surface 2 Air polo that I bought with an SNS hoodie.
malnatik9 Hate the hoodies on anyone over the age of 10, and don't really like the shirt, either. Looking like a homeless person is not attractive, even if you paid a fortune to look that way.
jrsorrell I like this a lot
ian ethan vloke-wurth Not into boots.... but I like it!
malnatik9 No. It does nothing for you. If you're big enough to need to hide in that top, then you shouldn't wear mini skirts. If you are thin enough to wear the skirt, then lose that tent of a top.
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lettucedome Unbelievably hot.
BiEbErDePpLvR7 those are crazy! but in a good way :)
m6020 leave off the socks and shorts, maybe w/ jeans. love the hair
NayBee no, no, noooooo what happened to the cool dude from the prior pic?!? this is something the 60 yr old virgin would wear
blondeinboots ha this is awesome. kudos.
Christina Scott this leather jacket is fantastic. I don't know how well sunglasses work indoors...
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peaceprincess411 It looks tight and unconftorable and maybe go for something more bright!
Ariella how are you going to dance and get wild? Too uptight... you need to be freeeeeeee woman!
JimiJane maybe if you had called it something else, I would like it.
alex I really love the French Electro Producer look. I give that a 5...or at least a Yes!
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caitlin2007 The ruffles look a little clownish to me in that spot on the dress
shopaholik Cute, but size up and have it tailored.
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Sara(h) I love the whole look! <3
bronteeileen absolutely. not with that jumper. but yesss on the jacket - it's fab.


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Based on these network technologies, manufacturers in Taiwan have developed their own respective products for 4G applications. By cooperating with ITRI, Nokia, and Intel, III participated in IEEE 802.16 International standardization activities way back since 2006. III also operates the IOT center to conduct inter-operability testing and verification of WiMAX BS and devices for the M-Taiwan projects, including the issuance of the "M-Taiwan Logo" to well-qualified WiMAX products.
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The core technology of this center includes four [4] MeeGo-based applications and one Chromium-based product. The service-oriented user interface, widget framework, connection manager intelligent agent, smart home S/W platform and local server technology will be adopted widely by the Taiwanese manufacturers for a broader range of devices.
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III integrates key technologies, such as the environment sensing, controlling, and human behavior recognition technologies to further develop the value-chain in the intelligent life industries. With that, III will help people to realize the various possibilities in the future living space by building a ready-to-use information and communication network. For instance, two [2] major application domains we currently focus on -- the green energy management and smart buildings. In addition, III also devotes ourself to catalyse the growth of the industry by offering innovative solution prototypes and demonstrations
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For the energy-saving and carbon emission reduction, III further developed an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and smart grid application services based on verified WSN technologies. III created a large-scale data collection and analysis platform to effectively reach energy conservation goals with the network management and data processing on integrated technologies of sensor networks, ,.In addition, III led aggressively industry alliances and established industrial consensus to form industry standards that would resolve inter-operability issues. The acceleration of advanced meter infrastructure will create value-added services to improve our national competitiveness. III, as the Cloud Technology Enabler, would actively partake in the operation of the Taiwan Cloud Computing Consortium supervised by the MOEA in order to seize the demand of the future product market by leading the development of the latest technology and service, and to promote the Taiwan IT industry in becoming a major exporting nation in the global cloud computing system and as a solutions provider. IDEAS and NMI of III are endeavoring in the development of the Cloud Computing key technology. The core technology includes:
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Focusing on fashion imagery published and withdrawn at the time of the attacks of 9/11, Killed examines the criteria governing propriety in contemporary fashion publishing. Featuring imagery by Richard Bush and Jane How, Hussein Chalayan, Nick Knight, Terry Richardson, David Sims, Raf Simons and Tim Walker alongside essays by John Taylor and Jo-Ann Furniss
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We were asked to do a quick rendition of Slingy's new boot/sandal Hybrid, the Joint. This is what resulted. We used our normal scribble and doodles whilst incorporating alot of elements from the 2012 board line and some personal items on our end. We also implemented some vibrant color with the Vanilla Ice color scheme to deviate from the typical Black and White found on the stock Joints. Hope everyone likes them. Be on the look out for a raffle to get your hands on them!
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It's been a pretty big couple of days over here at Filibuster. We just dropped a kicker video 3 days ago and I have been working closely with Slingy on our video from Panama. This is the first of two edits and we are pretty excited about the response so far. NitroCity is an amazing place and I urge everyone to do their best to get out there and see for yourselves. If this video does'nt urge you to get there, than I'm not sure what else will.
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Portola Valley holds its town picnic Saturday with some new features: a trail, a club and a shirt.
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Posted by road closures?, a resident of the Portola Valley: Ladera neighborhood, on Jun 7, 2012 at 6:42 pm
Will any roads be closed to cars during these events?
Posted by JW, a resident of the Portola Valley: other neighborhood, on Jun 8, 2012 at 2:09 pm
To answer 'road closures' above, yes! Because the Zots to Tots Race includes children and adults of all ages, running, cycling and walking, the roads from Rossotti's on Alpine Road to the Town Center on Portola Road, will be partially closed from 10 am to approximately 10.45 am to facilitate the safety of the participants.
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In our cover article for this Sixth Anniversary Issue, Don't look back, Terry Ross examines and cautions against a futile emotion: regret. In our page two feature, Three feet under, Leslie Russell recalls vividly and fondly a family feast. Ed Goldberg wishes Black Lamb and his editor well on the magazine's birthday in L'chaim.
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One of the strongest rallying cries in recent years of groups on the far right, like the English Defence League (EDL) and British National party (BNP), has been over what is now being called "Street Grooming." Last Friday a series of prosecutions relating to child sex abuse in Telford, all a result of an investigation under the name Operation Chalice by West Mercia Police and involving seven men and possibly as many as 100 girls came to conclusion. On Thursday the jury retired to consider the verdicts in the trial of nine men from Oxford in a case at the Old Bailey listing 66 offences and involving six girls. Thames Valley Police's Operation Bullfinch is still active and on Saturday an eleventh man was arrested; the list of girls involved is huge, and the stories heart rending. Other cases around the nation are under active investigation or proceeding to trial.
The cases mentioned here, and a wider group of similar investigations of "street grooming", involve men of Asian and Muslim background. The cry of the Far Right has been to say this is Muslim crime, sanctioned by Islam as a part of jihad, holy war against the white English Christian community, especially young girls The popular narrative at that point dives back into the origins of Islam; the Prophet Muhammed's last wife Aisha was by some accounts six when she was betrothed and nine when the marriage was consumated. The line has developed that since Muslims are called to emulate the Prophet, they are all therefore paedophiles. It is repeated at demos on placards and in chants, on social media sites and in graffitti, and is a closed and proven case in the narrative of the far right.
The tie up emerged in 2004 during campaigning for local and European elections around the UK when a documentary based in Bradford and Keighley named "Edge of the City" looked at claims that British Asian men were grooming under-age white schoolgirls for sex. The BNP made gains on the back of the claims and the link has been continually made since. And sadly no effective counter-narrative has emerged until now.
The spate of cases now coming to court, and the inevitability that they will again be exploited by the far right, has finally led to a coalition emerging to challenge the lies being perpetuated around street grooming and importantly to work againist it. Community Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation(CAASE) represents a broad range of Muslim groups, national and local, and is led by Islamic Society of Britian with Shayke Ibrahim Mogra, deputy president of Muslim Council of Britain playing an active role. Joining them are Hope not Hate who have campaigned against the far right for many years, and whose intelligent community organising approach has been very effective in combatting both the electoral ambitions of the BNP and other far right parties, and the street based EDL. Recognising that the EDL feed off the extremist Islamic agenda frequently paraded by al-Muhajiroun's spins off groups like Muslims against Crusades, they have in recent years begun to challenge these groups and address issues that the far right build their suport around. Hence their leading role in this campaign.
CAASE was launched at an event in Bradford on Friday. Among those speaking was the mother of a victim of street grooming from Keighley, Angela Sinfield. Hope not Hate's director Nick Lowles wrote afterwards that:
Angela Sinfield's description of the abuse her daughter suffered and the impact that had on her and the rest of the family was one of the most emotional and haunting speeches I have ever heard. It really put the day into context and reminded us so vividly about why we were so keen to launch CASSE in the first place.
The intelligent and strategic approach to this campaign was well voiced by Julie Siddiqi, executive director of ISB, in a BBC article last week. She said:
".... it was time for some very straight talking about a crime in which men from Muslim backgrounds are being implicated.
"I am willing to go as far as to say there does seem to be a pattern emerging of people from the same background and we need to be open about that and do something about it," she said."It's certainly not Islam telling them to do this but I think Muslim groups need to be at the forefront of looking at this issue.
"The facts and figures need to be much better on this. At the moment it's very easy for someone to say to me - which they do - that actually most of the perpetrators of child abuse in this country are white males.
"But this particular behaviour and way of going about it does seem to be related to people of a certain background."
A significant contribution to the launch was made by Church of England Bishop of Bradford, Rt Rev Nick Baines. The Bradford Telgraph and Argus reported him as saying:
"I applaud this unprecedented meeting and commend the courage of the Muslim community in addressing this issue."They are taking a proactive stance and are willing to engage with such a difficult and sensitive subject rather than brushing it under the carpet.
"This is not a religious issue, but religious leaders have a responsibility and religious traditions have the resources to help tackle such issues, so I'm glad to offer a supportive role, along with that of the churches and the relevant specialist agencies."
He wrote later on his blog:
"... This is a human problem and a male problem (principally). Yet, there is always a particular cultural context to every instance of such abuse. In West Yorkshire the pattern is broadly that online grooming is a white phenomenon, whilst street grooming is almost entirely the domain of Asian men.
My contribution was simply to commend the Asians and Muslims who have had the courage to grasp this difficult nettle. Demonstrating maturity and courage, bodies such as the Bradford Council for Mosques, the Bradford Muslim Women's Council and the Bradford Imams Forum have refused – against pressure from some who find it too hard to face the reality of such shameful criminality in their midst – to hide from their responsibility. When it comes to the particular forms of exploitation carried out by Asian men, then it is the Asian and Muslim communities that need to take the lead in addressing it.
This is not my line; rather, it is the line given to me by Asian Muslims. I will stand by them and support them, but they have to take the lead here. And they have recognised that if they don't shape how they handle this phenomenon, they will always be reacting defensively to the lead taken by those who wish to make political points out of the situation.
Yes, sexual grooming is not an 'Asian' issue; but, there is an Asian issue with grooming here in West Yorkshire and elsewhere. The particular must be addressed and not hidden behind the general. (Something the church knows a good deal about…)
Facing this challenge here in West Yorkshire requires mature and confident leadership – and we are seeing this emerge. ..."
Gracious and important words from a church leader supporting the Muslim community as they look at this issue. We need to see a lot more instances like this.
Against the background of the regularly haunting news of fresh dimensions of the Saville-reated sexual abuse, and this weekend's news of the emergence of a historical abuse case involving a senior church of England cleric, it is patently foolish to exagerate the scale of abuse in the Asian or Muslim community. As Bishop Nick said, abuse is a human (and commonly male) issue, but it takes on various cultural patterns, and we each have a responsibility to tackle that part related to our own part of the community, and the patterns observed. And that is what is now happening, and that is what is so encouraging.
We can only hope that message is the one which ALL the media carry when the Oxford case reports this coming week. And after the Channel 4 documentary "The Hunt For Britain's Sex Gangs" involving the Telford case shows (23rd May, 9pm I understand). Whether the message that senior Muslim leaders are roundly condemning street grooming within their community gets through to the EDL or their allies is always going to be questionable.


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INDIANAPOLIS – The NCAA Division II Women's Volleyball Committee has released the initial women's volleyball regional rankings for the 2012 season. The rankings list the Top 10 teams in each of the NCAA's eight Division II regions.
Florida Southern, who is 17-9 overall and 15-5 in the South Region, is ranked sixth in this year's initial regional rankings. The Moccasins are one of seven teams from the Sunshine State Conference ranked in the initial South Region poll.
At the end of the season, the top eight teams from each region will receive bids to the 64-team NCAA D-II Volleyball Tournament. Each conference represented in a region has an automatic bid, which goes to their conference champion. The regional rankings will be released every week until mid-November. Only matches played against NCAA D-II institutions are considered by the committee.
FSC is in the South Region and the region is comprised of schools from the SSC, Gulf South (GSC) and the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC), along with several Division II independents.
The Mocs have posted a 6-4 record this season against teams ranked in the initial South Region poll as they are 6-2 against the six SSC schools ranked and are 0-2 against the two GSC schools ranked.
Tampa headlines the first South Region poll as the Spartans are 21-3 in D-II and 16-1 in-region. UT, who is ranked sixth in the latest AVCA D-II Coaches' Poll, is followed by West Florida (20-7 D-II, 16-3 in-region), who is from the GSC, at No. 2, while D-II independent Palm Beach Atlantic (27-3 D-II, 18-1 in-region) is at No. 3.
Eckerd (17-7 D-II, 14-5 in-region), who hosts the Mocs on Friday in St. Petersburg, is ranked fourth and the Tritons are followed by Christian Brothers (15-8 D-II, 14-6 in-region), who defeated the Mocs in three sets at the Red Elephant Café South Region Crossover on Oct. 20, is ranked fifth.
Rollins (14-12 D-II, 13-8 in-region), who is 0-1 against the Mocs, is ranked seventh and the Tars are followed by Florida Tech (15-8 D-II, 12-8 in-region), who earned a five-set win over the Mocs in Melbourne on Oct. 6, at No. 8, Barry (5-3 D-II, 3-3 in-region), who the Mocs own two wins against this season, is at No. 9 and Lynn (13-9 D-II, 9-8 in-region), who is 0-2 this season against the Mocs, rounds out the rankings at No. 10.
The Mocs will return to action this weekend as they travel to St. Petersburg on Friday for a 7 p.m. match against Eckerd, before returning home to host sixth-ranked Tampa in a 4 p.m. match at Jenkins Field House. The Mocs picked up a four-set home win over Eckerd and suffered a hard-fought three-set loss at Tampa earlier this season.


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Club Penguin
Club Penguin | |
Developer(s) | New Horizon Interactive RocketSnail Games |
Publisher(s) | Disney Interactive Studios |
Engine | Adobe Flash |
Platform(s) | Online |
Release date(s) | October 24, 2005 |
Genre(s) | MMORPG |
Mode(s) | Multiplayer |
Media/distribution | Web interface |
Club Penguin is a massively multiplayer online game (MMO) involving a virtual world containing a range of online games and activities, created by New Horizon Interactive. Players use cartoon penguin-avatars and play in a winter-set virtual world. After beta-testing, Club Penguin was made available to the general public on October 24, 2005[1] and has since expanded into a large online community —growing to the extent that by late 2007, it was claimed that Club Penguin had over 30 million user accounts.[2] While free memberships are available, revenue is predominantly raised through paid memberships which allow players to access a range of additional features, such as the ability to purchase virtual clothing, furniture, and in-game pets called "puffles" for their penguins through the use of in-game currency.[citation needed] The success of Club Penguin led to New Horizon being purchased by The Walt Disney Company in August 2007 for the sum of 350 million dollars, with an additional 350 million dollars in bonuses should specific targets be met by 2009.[3]
The game is specifically designed for ages 6–14, however, anyone of any age is allowed to play Club Penguin.[4] Thus a major focus of the developers has been on child safety,[5] with a number of features introduced to the game to facilitate this — including offering an "Ultimate Safe Chat" mode, whereby users select their comments from a menu; filtering that prevents swearing and the revelation of personal information;[5] and moderators (along with veteran players) who patrol the game.[6] The game has been criticized for teaching consumerism[7] and allowing players to "cheat".[8]
Contents |
History and development
As Merrifield later described the situation, they decided to build Club Penguin when they were unsuccessful in finding "something that had some social components but was safe, and not just marketed as safe" for their own children.[9] Merrifield and Priebe approached their employer, David Krysko, with the idea of creating a spinoff company to develop the new product.[10]
Prior to starting work on Club Penguin, Lance Priebe had been developing Flash web-based games in his spare time.[11] As part of Rocketsnail Games, Priebe released Experimental Penguins in 2000, which featured gameplay similar to that which was incorporated into Club Penguin. Although Experimental Penguins went offline in 2001, it was used as the inspiration for Penguin Chat, which was released shortly after Experimental Penguin's removal. Thus, when Priebe, Merrifield and Krysko decided to go ahead with Club Penguin in 2003, they had Penguin Chat on which to base part of the design process. Penguin Chat's third version was released in April 2005, and was used to test the client and servers of Club Penguin.[12] Users from Penguin Chat were invited to beta test Club Penguin. The original plan was to release in 2010, but since the team had decided to fast-track the project, the first version of Club Penguin went live on October 24, 2005.[12]
Club Penguin started with 15,000 users, and by March that number had reached 1.4 million—a figure which almost doubled by September, when it hit 2.6 million.[10] By the time Club Penguin was two years old, it had reached 3.9 million users.[13] At the point when they were purchased by Disney, Club Penguin had 12 million accounts, of which 700,000 were paid subscribers, and were generating $40 million in annual revenue.[2]
Although the owners had turned down lucrative advertising offers and venture capital investments in the past,[10] in August 2007 they agreed to sell the company (both Club Penguin and the parent company) for the sum of $350.93 million.[2] In addition, the owners were promised bonuses of up to $350 million if they were able to meet growth targets by 2009.[14] In making the sale, Merrifield has stated that their main focus during negotiations was philosophical,[9] and that the intent was to provide themselves with the needed infrastructure in order to continue to grow.[citation needed]
On March 11, 2008 Club Penguin released the Club Penguin Improvement Project.[15] This project allowed players to be part of the testing of new servers put into use in Club Penguin on April 14, 2008.[16] Players had a "clone" of their penguin made, to test these new servers for bugs and glitches.[17] The testing was ended on April 4, 2008.[18]
Business model
Prior to being purchased by Disney, Club Penguin was almost entirely dependent on membership fees to produce a revenue stream.[5] Nevertheless, the vast majority of users (90% according to The Washington Post) chose not to pay, instead taking advantage of the free play on offer.[19] Those who choose to pay do so because full (paid) membership is required to access all of the services, such as the ability to purchase virtual clothes for the penguins and buy decorations for igloos;[7] and because peer pressure has created a "caste system" separating paid from unpaid members.[20] Advertising, both in-game and on-site, has not been incorporated into the system, although some competitors have chosen to employ it: for example Whyville, which uses corporate sponsorship,[21] and Neopets, which incorporates product placements.[22]
An alternative revenue stream has come through the development of an online merchandise shop, which opened on the Club Penguin website in August 2006,[23] selling stuffed Puffles and T-shirts. Key chains, gift cards, and more shirts were added on November 7, 2006.[24] October 2008 saw the release of a line of plush toys based on characters from Club Penguin, which were made available online (both through the Club Penguin store and Disney's online store), and in retail outlets.[25]
As with one of its major rivals, Webkinz, Club Penguin has traditionally relied almost entirely on word-of-mouth advertising to increase the membership.[26]
Club Penguin is divided into various rooms and distinct areas. Illustrator Peter Welleman designed many of the first environments.[citation needed] Each player is provided with an igloo for a home. Members have the option of opening their igloo so other penguins can access it via the map, under "Member Igloos".[27] Members may also purchase larger igloos and decorate their igloos with items bought with virtual coins earned by playing mini-games.[19] At least one party per month is held on Club Penguin. In most cases, a free clothing item is available, both for paid members and free users. The parties also provide member only rooms in which only members can access. Some major Club Penguin parties are its annual Halloween and Holiday parties. Other large parties include the Music Jam, Adventure Party, the Puffle Party, and the Medieval Party.[citation needed]
Game features
Players can play a number of minigames on Club Penguin. They earn coins based on the score they get, which can be spent on items. Some of the games are Bean Counters and Hydro Hopper. There are also some multiplayer games like Sled Racing and Find Four. Ever since the release of stamps, some of the game levels have been limited to members only.[citation needed]
Players can express their feelings with emoticons. There are numerous emoticons, such as a happy face, a sad face, angry face, and winking. The emoticons appear above the avatar's head in a speech bubble. On December 5, 2007, the heart and skull emoticons were removed because players found these offensive, and were replaced with the flower emoticon.[citation needed] On January 9, 2008 the heart emoticon was brought back as a result of popular demand by players, suggesting that it could be used in a positive and caring way. Some emoticons are hidden when a player presses certain letters and symbols on their keyboard.[28]
Members may use the virtual coins that they collect from playing mini games to purchase various items from a wide variety of shops.[29] Shop types include clothing, wigs, stage costumes, igloos, furniture, and sports. Members and non-members alike may also purchase new colors for their penguins, pins from different countries, and backgrounds for their player card.
Each player has their own penguin card, which is used to manage the player's inventory.[30] Players may decorate their card by purchasing new backgrounds, clothing and other items.[30] Penguin cards can also be to display "pins" - new examples of which appear within Club Penguin every two weeks. Pins are free, but are hidden throughout the game. Flags are similar to pins; they also appear in the top left-hand corner of a player's penguin card. In 2010, Club Penguin introduced stamps, and their respective stamp book.[31] Stamps are earned from accomplishing goals in mini-games and on the island.[31] The stamp book displays all stamps that have been earned and yet to be earned. Pins are also displayed in the stamp book. Players can see other penguins' stamp books by clicking on their player cards.[31]
Clothes are worn by penguins, which can either be bought or given out during parties. Only members can buy clothes, but most clothing items given out at parties can be worn by all players, regardless of their membership level.[citation needed]
Members' igloos can be upgraded into many different styles, such as a Fish Bowl. Some igloo styles are themed for parties, such as the Bamboo Hut or Log Cabin. Furniture may be bought for the igloos of subscribed members and can be used to design and decorate an igloo. More recently they have given Non-Members and Members some free furniture that they may use to decorate their igloo. Non-Members still may not play music, buy furniture or upgrade an igloo but they can open their igloo and decorate it. Members may also buy different locations for their igloo, such as mountain, beach or forest. Members may now also keep their flooring when they change igloos, instead of it disappearing.[citation needed]
Puffles are small, fluffy creatures that players can have as pets. They are available from the Pet Shop in blue, green, pink, black, purple, red, yellow, white, orange, brown, and the new rainbow puffle (not available from the Pet Shop). Non-members have access to the blue and red puffles only, and may have no more than two, unless the restriction is unlocked by a game code; members may adopt up to twenty puffles.[32] Non-members may enter a code for an additional puffle after purchasing a toy via the Treasure Book.[33] Members whose membership has expired are permitted to keep their puffles, but they cannot replace them once they have run away.[citation needed] Puffles used to have health, rest, and energy bar charts to indicate their status, before Club Penguin changed it to a more Flash intensive view. Puffles which are not "looked after" will run away from the player, and will need to be replaced.[citation needed]
Club Penguin Times
The Club Penguin Times is accessed from within the game and contains news about Club Penguin and features games and comics. It also has an advice column where a player can write to Aunt Arctic and ask questions about Club Penguin.[34] Any user can submit questions, jokes, riddles, poems, comics, fan art, and tips or secrets to The Club Penguin Times, which may be chosen and displayed in the next issue. In 2010, the newspaper was upgraded into a newer, more sophisticated view. Within the game, the Boiler Room under the Night Club contains an archive of newspapers from the last six weeks.[35]
Famous penguins
Players in Club Penguin can find special penguins waddling around referred to as Mascots or Famous Penguins during special parties and events. These characters include Rockhopper, Aunt Arctic, Gary, Cadence, the Penguin Band, Sensei, Rookie, PH, Herbert P. Bear, and CeCe and Rocky from the Disney Channel show, Shake It Up. These penguins are controlled by Club Penguin and when a player is in a room with one of these penguins, they get a special stamp and can click on them to see their player card. In their player card they can friend the mascot or get an autographed background from them. They cannot, however, view their stamp book or any of the other things a penguin could normally do from the player card.
Video games
Nintendo DS
Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force was released by Disney for the Nintendo DS on November 25, 2008. As members of the "Elite Penguin Force", players solve mysteries around Club Penguin. The game features mini-games from Club Penguin; coins earned by the mini-games can be transferred to the player's Club Penguin account.[36] A sequel, Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force: Herbert's Revenge, was announced on February 13, 2010 with a release of May 2010. A "mysterious penguin" resembling previously established character Dot the Disguise Gal is a major character in the game.[37]
Nintendo Wii
In 2010, Disney Interactive Studios announced plans for Club Penguin: Game Day!, a game for the Wii. It was reported that the game was released on September 21, 2010 in the U.S.[38] It was reported that the game will involve players working as a team trying to earn sections of land on an island, with the objective being to conquer the island. The game is based around several interactive games, some of which are 3D versions of games currently played and games which appear only at the Fall Fair (such as Puffle Paddle) on the internet game. Players are be able to customize their penguins, choose their team (blue, red, yellow, or green) and any points earned in the Wii game can be synchronized with the internet game.[39]
Coins for Change
Coins for Change is an in-game charity fund-raising event which first appeared in 2007. The fund-raising lasts for approximately two weeks each December during its annual "Holiday Party", during which time players can donate their virtual coins to three charitable issues: Kids who are sick, the environment, and kids in developing countries.[40] Players donate in increments of 100, 250, 500, 1,000, 5,000, or 10,000 virtual coins. At the end of the first campaign, the New Horizon Foundation donated a total of $1 million to the World Wide Fund for Nature, the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and Free The Children.[40][41] Over one million dollars were donated by two-and-a-half million people.[40] In 2008 one million dollars was donated by two-and-a-half million people.[42]
In 2009, Club Penguin donated $1,000,000 Canadian dollars to charitable projects around the world. Over 2.9 million players participated globally, using over 4 billion of their virtual coins to vote for their favorite cause.[citation needed] In 2010, Club Penguin donated $300,000 towards building safe places, $360,000 towards protecting the Earth, and $340,000 towards providing medical help. Players on Club Penguin donated over 12 billion virtual coins and filled Club Penguin's Lighthouse.[citation needed] Lane Merrifield said "Our players are always looking for ways to make a difference and help others, and over the past five years they've embraced the opportunity to give through Coins For Change, it was exciting to see kids from 191 countries participate together.[43]
In honor of Club Penguin's third anniversary in 2008, Club Penguin released books that are published under the Snowball Press name.[44] Outside of the virtual world, such books are published by Grosset & Dunlap and include guidebooks for the game as well as "choose-your-own-adventure" style books.[44] The series includes The Ultimate Official Guide to Club Penguin Volume 1 by Ladybird Books, Stowaway! Adventures at Sea by Tracey West, Stuck on Puffles by Ladybird Books, and Waddle Lot of Laughs by Rebecca McCarthy.[44]
Child safety
Club Penguin was designed for the ages of 6–14.[4] Thus, one of the major concerns when designing Club Penguin was how to improve both the safety of participants and the suitability of the game to children. As Lane Merrifield stated, "the decision to build Club Penguin grew out of a desire to create a fun, virtual world that I and the site's other two founders would feel safe letting our own children visit."[45] As a result, Club Penguin has maintained a strong focus on child safety,[46] to the point whereby the security features have been described as almost "fastidious" and "reminiscent of an Orwellian dystopia",[47] although it has also been argued that this focus may "reassure more parents than it alienates."[47]
The system employs a number of different approaches in an attempt to improve child safety. The key approaches include preventing the use of inappropriate usernames,[48] providing an "Ultimate Safe Chat" mode, which limits players to selecting phrases from a list,[46] using an automatic filter during "Standard Safe Chat" (which allows users to generate their own messages)[49] and blocks profanity even when users employ "creative" methods to insert it into sentences,[48] filtering seemingly innocuous terms, such as "mom", and blocking both telephone numbers and email addresses.[46] It also includes employing paid moderators; out of 100 staff employed in the company in May 2007, Merrifield estimated that approximately 70 staff were dedicated to policing the game.[26] It also includes promoting users to "EPF (Elite Penguin Force) Agent" status, and encouraging them to report inappropriate behavior.[46]
Each game server offers a particular type of chat—the majority allowing either chat mode, but some servers allow only the "Ultimate Safe Chat" mode. When using "Standard Safe Chat", all comments made by users are filtered. When a comment is blocked, the user who made the comment sees it, but other users are unaware that it was made—suggesting to the "speaker" that they are being ignored, rather than encouraging them to try and find a way around the restriction.[46]
Beyond these primary measures, systems are in place to limit the amount of time spent online, and the site does not feature any advertisements, for, as described by Merrifield, "within two or three clicks, a kid could be on a gambling site or an adult dating site".[26] Nevertheless, after Club Penguin was purchased by Disney, concerns were raised that this state of affairs may change, especially in regard to potential spin-off products[50] — although Disney has continued to insist that it believes advertising to be "inappropriate" for a young audience.[22]
Players who use profanity are often punished by an automatic 24-hour ban, although not all vulgar language results in an immediate ban. Players found by moderators to have broken Club Penguin rules are punished by a ban lasting "from 24 hours to forever depending on the offence."[51]
Reception and criticism
Club Penguin has received positive reviews and criticism: the site has been used as a positive model when training police in Canada,[clarification needed] and it was awarded a "kids' privacy seal of approval" from the Better Business Bureau.[52] Similarly, Brian Ward, a Detective Inspector at the Child Abuse Investigation Command in the United Kingdom, stated that he would far rather children experience a system such as Club Penguin before moving into social networking sites, which provide less protection.[53] In terms of simple popularity, the rapid growth of Club Penguin suggests considerable success, although there are signs that this is leveling out. Nielsen figures released in April, 2008 indicated that in the previous 12 months Club Penguin traffic had shrunk by 7%.[54]
A criticism expressed by commentators is that the game encourages consumerism[7] and allows players to cheat.[8] While Club Penguin does not require members to purchase in-game products with real-life money (instead relying on a set monthly fee), players are encouraged to earn coins within the game with which to buy virtual products. In addition, the "competitive culture" that this can create has led to concerns about cheating, as children look for "shortcuts" to improve their standing, and, it is suggested, this may influence their real-world behavior.[8] In the game's defense, Club Penguin has added guidelines to prevent cheating, and bans players who are caught cheating or who are encouraging cheating.[8] The use of in-game money has been commented on as possibly helping teach children how to save money, select what to spend it on, improve their abilities at math,[7][19] and encourage them to "practice safe money-management skills".[55]
In spite of the attempts to create a safe space for children in Club Penguin, concerns about safety and behavior still arise within the media. While the language in-game is filtered, discussions outside of Club Penguin are beyond the owner's control, and thus it has been stated that third-party Club Penguin forums can become "as bawdy as any other chat".[20] But even within the game, some commentators have noted that "cyberbullying" can still occur,[56] with flame wars potentially occurring within the game;[6] and the "Caste system" between those who have membership and exclusive items and those who lack full membership, (and therefore are unable to own the "coolest" items), can lead to players having a difficult time attracting friends.[20]
One criticism came from Caitlin Flanagan in The Atlantic Monthly: in relation to the safety procedures, she noted that Club Penguin is "certainly the safest way for unsupervised children to talk to potentially malevolent strangers—but why would you want them to do that in the first place?"[6] While views of the strength of this criticism may vary, the concern was mirrored by Lynsey Kiely in the Sunday Independent, who quoted Karen Mason, Communications Director for Club Penguin, as saying "we cannot guarantee that every person who visits the site is a child."[5]
Many experienced players have protested in-game about Disney "ruining" Club Penguin. Although the staff say that Disney had helped make Club Penguin better, many of the "rare" users disagree.[57] In some protests, users have been removed from the server or banned for starting a protest against Disney.
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