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Inferior microscopes and telescopes that are pink for girls!
The whole pink thing amazes me. Is it really just something that pervavise it's been ingrained into our subconscious? I see little movement and perhaps even more growing acceptance of it's gender divide. But I do wonder why it's a problem sometimes. I can definitely see the problem with the ad but wondered if anybody had some kind of reading I could look at on the big picture of these roles we create, ideally in relation to colours.
Thanks for posting this. Unfortunately, I'm not surprised.
I stumbled upon Toys "R" Us's website a few weeks ago while doing some online gift shopping. The front page had a huge banner advertising toys for girls and toys for boys. Of course, they were offensively stereotypical. Toys for Girls: Baby Dolls, Houses, and Castles. Toys for Boys - Electronics, Trains, and Action Figures.
I guess the Toys for Boys and Toys for Girls advertising is pretty standard for the company. I just checked back to the site now and basically if you have a young girl who doesn't like Barbies, the girl's section isn't for them: "Stewardess Barbie", "Nurse Barbie", "Teacher Barbie" and "Potty Training Pup Barbie" are just a few of the choices. Gender stereotyping at it's finest.
Yuck. I wish I were surprised. Like Timebandit, we can choose to just purchase the better microscope. But, when the gendered labelling is all there, children will internalize it. What would be wrong with just having Toys for children?
I am currently expecting my first child and will not know whether it is a boy or girl until the first day. I am sure no one here will be surprised by how this just perplexes and annoys some people. "Well, how will you know what colour to paint the room?", "How will we ever know what kind of clothes to get?", etc. ,etc. I actually live in a province that will not tell you the baby's sex (due to several lawsuits in the past which is probably evidence of this same attitude), so I would have to pony up $200 at the private ultrasound clinic to find out anyways. I just keep telling people that the room will be a nice calming blue either way, boy and girl babies have nearly identical needs and levels of awareness and I am hoping for health only.
I greatly respect your choice not to find out the gender of your child, Ghislaine. (And congratulations, by the way!)
While my partner and I aren't planning to have children any time soon, we've discussed in length the decision to not find out, or at least not tell others if we're having a boy or a girl, simply because of the sea of pink or sea of blue that will inevitably accompany such information.
I follow the Globe and Mail's Stephanie Nolen on Twitter, and she posted about this decision a few months back, saying that she and her partner were hunting for "works-for-either names" because they wanted a surprise. She tweeted "the kid has the rest of its life to have gender constructed for it, am trying to give it 40 wks of shelter fr that."
I didn't find out the sex of either of the wild girls until they came out. I wanted to get a sense of personality first anyway. My first was such a mover and shaker that we knew we'd need a strong name and I had a sense of someone who would be in constant motion and very reactive - didn't matter if she was a boy or girl. And we love surprises. Knowing beforehand would have been less exciting, may have led to some preconceived notions.
While gestating kid#2, I found it very annoying when people, knowing I had a daughter, would ask me if we were "trying for a boy". Growing up in a daughters-only household, my attitude has always been that, other than dad teaching you to piss your name in the snow, there's not anything that I can think of that you can't do with a girl anyway. I was pretty much the son my father never had, in addition to all the girl stuff.
My wild girls are well-rounded people - they do martial arts, play classical music, ride motocross bikes. One minute they're dressing girly and the next they're up a tree. My little one had to pick just the right earrings to go rock wall climbing yesterday (she made it up 30 feet, too better than any boy in the pack!), loves sparkly things and dresses and wants to take a cow's heart to school for show and tell. Let 'em be who they are! Help them explore! Enjoy the journey! And you don't need any stinkin' sub-par pink accessories to do it!
Marketing certained coloured (ex. pink) toys to girls is very common but we can fight against it not only through our pocketbooks. About a year ago Dell started marketing overpriced for the quality pink laptops to girls. Enough people complained that they removed the ad from their website. If we disagree with this practice then we should be contacting Toys 'R Us and complaining as well as not financially supporting these types of products.
Having had a boy, I haven't dealt much with the Sea Of Pink Crap at the toy store. But what really bothers me is that it puts a message into boys' heads too. THAT stuff is girl stuff. THAT stuff is stupid (because it IS stupid), therefore, stupid stuff is meant for girls.
It really ticks me off.
You're absolutely right, Rebekah.
Here is the contact info for Toys R Us.
Here is the contact info for Edu-Science.
"Growing up in a daughters-only household, my attitude has always been that, other than dad teaching you to piss your name in the snow, there's not anything that I can think of that you can't do with a girl anyway."
I've known a few girls who could still do this
Well my brand new mini Bacchus will not be buying into that crap. If she wants GI joe she will get it (tho not really, too militaristic and jingo-istic for me) and if she wants barbie she can. But its sexist totally though unfortunately it will take a lot for marketers not to do it because it pays dividends as keystone pointed out
I think pink is reinforced as a 'girl's colour' by the Barbie culture. I was watching "Dinner: Impossible" on the Food Network, and the challenge was to create a meal worthy of Barbie's 50th anniversary. The cars used by the corporation for Barbie promotions were all pink - and I mean a really gross pinkish hue.
Excuse me if I'm being ignorant here but I'm disappointed that close to half of this thread has been dedicated to complaining over the colour pink. Girls and boys are different, I don't think that it's necessarily harmful if society promotes different colour schemes for genders as long as the scheme isn't promoted to the point that children who don't follow it are punished.
What I do find objectionable is the fact that corporations are exploiting this cultured preference to over charge and foist inferior goods upon girls. I'm sure that explicit intention is simply to exploit a market preference but as stated above, the broader social message that such an act reinforces is pretty clear and very disturbing. Thanks for posting those contact links Michelle, I'll try to write to them when I have the time.
Having had a boy, I haven't dealt much with the Sea Of Pink Crap at the toy store. But what really bothers me is that it puts a message into boys' heads too. THAT stuff is girl stuff. THAT stuff is stupid (because it IS stupid), therefore, stupid stuff is meant for girls.
It really ticks me off.
Heh. My nearly-four-year-old boy loves pink. Much of the time, the only remaining piece of clothing (winter boots or leggings) or equipment (snowshoes!) is pink, which works out quite well for us. We certainly didn't plan on this (neither of us liking that colour in the first place), but it's been quite helpful.
Excuse me if I'm being ignorant here but I'm disappointed that close to half of this thread has been dedicated to complaining over the colour pink. Girls and boys are different, I don't think that it's necessarily harmful if society promotes different colour schemes for genders as long as the scheme isn't promoted to the point that children who don't follow it are punished.
What I do find objectionable is the fact that corporations are exploiting this cultured preference to over charge and foist inferior goods upon girls. I'm sure that explicit intention is simply to exploit a market preference but as stated above, the broader social message that such an act reinforces is pretty clear and very disturbing. Thanks for posting those contact links Michelle, I'll try to write to them when I have the time.
The issue I have with pink in general is that in our culture, pink has come to mean weakness and inferiority. The reason it sells so well to young girls is that we've programmed them to think that that's okay.
My daughters both wore pink. They both went through that phase where everything was pink and came out the other side. It was part of that identity-forming process, I suppose, part of being a girl in this culture. But you can't deny that the Barbie and Disney princess aspects of the pink thing grind into girls that femininity is passive, it's waiting to be rescued, that pretty is more important than competent or strong and "Math is hard!" We dress little girls in clothing that's less fit for active play, regardless the colour, than we do boys. Compare the active girl who can run circles around the other kids on the playground with the passive, shy one who likes frilly dresses and guess who gets the most approval? It's not about pink per se, but the expectations that pink has come to represent in our culture. And I guess we're skewing them toward the foo-foo microscope because it's not like they're going to do REAL science... Just dabble while they work on obtaining that MRS.
I've worked very hard at combatting the programming, and really wish that we could have spent less time on that particular aspect of raising our girls.
I think pink is reinforced as a 'girl's colour' by the Barbie culture. I was watching "Dinner: Impossible" on the Food Network, and the challenge was to create a meal worthy of Barbie's 50th anniversary. The cars used by the corporation for Barbie promotions were all pink - and I mean a really gross pinkish hue.
Was the food plastic and proportionately distorted? That would be fitting... ;)
Pink and Blue were not always girl/boy.
"Most people who study the matter attribute the pink and blue gender assignment to the 1950s, which featured a virtual color explosion, not only in clothing, but also in things like appliances and furniture. Dressing children in pink and blue to specifically denote gender suggested the rising middle class and above. In other words, people who could afford to make the gender assignment did so, since many infants appear somewhat asexual when first born.
So it all started with people being annoyed at answering the question "Is it a boy or is it a girl". Now colour has become the master helping the genders join the system and assume their roles.
Makes me think of the Iran thread where someone (can't remember) proposed that all colour titled revolutions were manufactured by the CIA. Perhaps they are behind this also. hmm...
I have 2 great nieces, and 3 great nephews. The girls are younger than the boys. The older niece prefers pink and purple right now (at 9), while the other at 5 now has always preferred turquoise and shades of blue. I do wonder, tho, how much of the older ones preference is linked not because pink is girly and she is a girly girl, but more that with 3 older boys around all the time, that pink is something she can "own" all to herself and no one else is going to want any of her stuff. Ever.
In addition to this, and more on topic of colours of toys in stores, I have been in wholesale giftware for a while. The products available to us for babies (baby items, frames, birth plaques, etc etc) ONLY come in pink or blue. There are no non-gender specific options, even just yellow or green. And so I have also dealt long enough in the retail side as well that woe to the parent (or grandparent or auntie) of a pre-teen girl who does not show up with a pink or purple item (preferably sparkly), but instead tries to go non-genderfied colours like red, yellow or green.
In the past, when I made or bought items for new babies, I chose bright primary colours rather than the stereotypical pink or blue.
In the mid-1960s in Ottawa, there were two distinct groups of teenagers at the high school I attended (Merivale): the Yohawks (inspired somehow by the Beach Boys...) and Greasers. Yohawks wore tight white jeans, and pink mohair sweaters were popular as well, and desert boots. Greasers were all blue jeans and black leather jackets and black boots.
Timely article on the topic:
PINK: A shockingly butch cultural history of the world's prissiest colour
It drives Abi Moore more than a little bit mad.
Moore, along with her twin sister, Emma, created Pinkstinks in 2008, a web-based social enterprise aimed at combating what they call the "culture of pink" by actively promoting healthy role models for girls. Last month, Pinkstinks targeted ELC by launching a Christmas toy-buying boycott of ELC stores. The "pinkification" of girls' toys, and the prettification of gender roles for girls (princess dresses etc.) had burrowed under the twin's skins. "We're not attacking pink as a colour," says Abi Moore from her home in southeast London. "We've been hideously misrepresented in the British press saying that we want to ban pink and all this kind of nonsense."
Instead Moore poses this question: "Why is it so powerful this pink? ... How has it become so ingrained within us that we think it's natural and that it personifies everything about us as women and girls?"
In Semiotics: The Basics (this book may not be on every nightstand), David Chandler cites an excerpt from a trade journal called The Infants' Department: A Monthly Magazine of Merchandising Helps for the Infants' Wear Buyer. In June, 1918, the journal pondered pink - and blue - as symbols of girlhood and boyhood. "Pink or blue? Which is intended for boys and which for girls? ... There has been a great diversity of opinion on this subject, but the generally accepted rule is pink for the boy and blue for the girl. The reason is that pink being a more decided and stronger color, is more suitable for the boy; while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl."
So then what happened? Smocked pink Polly Flinders baby dresses were popular for girls in the 1940s, as little boy blue sailor suits were for boys. So there's that. In the 1950s the pinkification of the female gender got a big boost from the post-war consumption boom and the birth of an aspirational middle class. I cite here the 1955 launch of the Dodge La Femme, a two-tone pink and white car for the ladies. ("By appointment to her majesty - the American woman.") On the other hand, Life magazine declared 1955 "The Peak Year for Pink," referring to a spread of male fashions. Barbie, introduced in 1959, initially had a discerning and sophisticated fashion sense and took her time becoming pinkified in her pink tricot peignoir.
Feminism? "It's weird," says Abi Moore. "My mother is 60 years old. She was a feminist fighting for women's rights. About five years ago she bought my niece an enormous pink princess castle."
Moore, the mother of two boys, decries the retailer's "pink alleys" of such toys and girl gear and the tens of billions of dollars poured into the marketing of pink stuff. "Why do we have to signpost and genderize everything for our children from the day they were born?" she asks. Why? Because it's easier for marketers, that's why.
It's all quite unfortunate, really, given both the colour's hale and hearty history and its modern-day appeal when worn by those men who appreciate how handsome they look when they sport a pink shirt.
Maybe that's the ticket. Maybe it's time to turn back the clock. Men, take back the pink.
And here's how LEGO has changed it's advertising to girls over the past few decades.
From this:
Fairies, and princesses, and castles -- oh my!
It's so obnoxious.
And Lego itself is obnoxious anyhow. It used to be that lego sets were tons of different sized building blocks that you'd use to create whatever you wanted.
Now, even the stuff aimed at boys comes in kits that only build one thing - the structure on the front cover, like a car, or an action figure or whatever.
Lego used to be so cool.


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It's good knowing the experiences of others so that I can base what I buy on the over all opinion and experience.
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My girlfriend uses Roc and loves it!
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I love Olay (but I only buy it on sale).
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by BellezzaBeauty Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 03:41PM Report as inappropriate
These products sound wonderful to try, but I have a skin condition during the winter and I wonder if the serums can be used while it is like that. Some of the prices are out of my range too. Guess it would also depend how much you have to apply. I would want it for around my eyes.
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Wonderful product - makes you look 20 years younger!
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Love this product and yes it is pricey but worth every penny. It will last several months. For many years I spent a lot of money on products that do nothing. These products are clinically proven and do change your skin. There is nothing better than seeing a difference.
by sarah_antos Monday, May 2, 2011 at 06:25PM Report as inappropriate
Good list. Wish I could sort it by price.
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I love Olay! I haven't tried this yet because of the expense, but I'd like to!
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Luis Suarez
Ah, calm yourselves down. Sure, it would've been lovely if Luis Suarez had done what Miroslav Klose did earlier this season and owned up to it being a handball, but the reason you've heard about Klose's action is because it's so rare. It's not particularly fair or realistic to criticise Suarez for not doing the extraordinary and unusual. In any case, it isn't absolutely sure that the handball was deliberate - Suarez jerked his arm back as the ball struck it, suggesting that he was actually trying to get the offending limb out of the way, rather than move towards the ball. Given the small amount of reaction time between his original shot rebounding towards him, one cannot say for certain that this was a deliberate act, and therefore cannot say for certain that (in this case) Suarez is a cheat. Anyway, do you really not already have enough reasons to dislike him?
And Brendan Rodgers might actually be grateful to Suarez for making sure that few will talk about Liverpool's second half performance. They should've been comfortable at 2-0, but decided defending from the six-yard line for the last 15 minutes was a sensible policy against a side currently ninth in the Blue Square Premier League. And were it not for some shonky finishing and some careless offsides, it would've backfired.
Pop pop, ya don't stop
Suarez's handball wasn't even the most unpleasant act at Field Mill on Sunday. Yes, Daniel Sturridge. We realise it was your first goal for a new team. We know you're excited about this. But you body-popped after scoring against a non-league team. There is no dignity in this. Most of the blame for this particular 'dance' should probably go to Jonjo Shelvey, who egged the new boy on, but as Daniel's mother no doubt would tell him, 'If Jonjo jumped off a cliff...'
Oh, Robin van Persie
A Manchester United-supporting friend recently declared he realised he didn't know love until Robin van Persie arrived. The glee with which United fans greet his every contribution is probably partly inspired by where he came from, but it is largely of course because he's bloody good. One of the most simple, pure pleasures in football is to witness a perfect first touch - a player bringing the ball down with an ease that sets them apart from the rest and makes the crowd gasp. Dimitar Berbatov does it three or four times a game. Dennis Bergkamp used to do it all the time. And Van Persie displayed the latest example of this piece of footballing art to save Manchester United on Saturday, and by gosh it was beautiful.
Van Persie's goal already has a strong claim to be goal of the season because it was a display of perfect skill. Each of his three touches had to be absolutely perfect, like Bergkamp's against Argentina in the 1998 World Cup, or Johan Elmander's spinning effort against Wolves a couple of years back. From the magnificent first to bring down Ryan Giggs's superb raking through ball, to the second which pushed the ball into the perfect position to shoot and one that probably 95% of ordinary footballers would have over hit and lost control of, to the third, the shot, rifled past Jussi Jaaskelainen. The difficulty of the first was exacerbated by the ball travelling at pace from over his shoulder, similar in some ways to the first-time volley he struck for Arsenal against Everton last season, indicating that this sort of thing is not an accident for Van Persie.
It was an absurd goal that only a handful of players around today are capable of. That's what you pay top dollar for. That's why Manchester United will probably win the league this season.
Manchester United still have problems in defence
United recorded back-to-back clean sheets for the first time in the Premier League this season over the new year, but looked fragile against a West Ham team intent on getting the ball into the box. Two simple crosses resulted in two headed goals for James Collins, with the United defence looking statuesque on both occasions. It wasn't their first-choice backline, but Jonny Evans and Nemanja Vidic are still two of the better central defenders in the Premier League. To be beaten so easily twice is fairly embarrassing.
There's still life in Joe Cole
The midfielder marked his second debut at West Ham with two assists in an energetic display. Perhaps there's something about the Boleyn Ground that gets the best out of Cole - his best performance for Liverpool this season came in a 3-2 victory there in December. If injuries don't prevail as they have so many times in his career, Cole may finally be able to enjoy himself again.
Stop this madness, Arsene
Aaron Ramsey is not a winger. He is not anything close to a winger. He is not a wide midfielder, or a midfielder who can beat a man with a nice jinking run, or a midfielder who can whip in a threatening cross, or a midfielder who can do much of anything at the moment really. So while many Arsenal fans will tell you that Arsene Wenger has a number of faults, near the top of that list at the moment has to be his insistence on playing Ramsey on the flank. He shouldn't need any more proof that it doesn't work, but the game against Swansea should really have provided it. It looks as if Ramsey's legs are moving in slow motion most of the time, typified by one of the few chances Arsenal had in the first half - the Welshman picked up the ball after a terrific slick passing move that felt like it came straight from 2004, had a chance to shoot in the area but was so slow that Chico Flores nipped in to clear. And then he fell over.
It's emblematic of one of Wenger's blind spots, in fact. For a manager who persists with a formation featuring two wingers, he rarely signs a natural wide man. Theo Walcott, Lukas Podolski, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Gervinho are all more comfortable in the middle, but are all stationed on the flanks. For why...it's unclear. What is clear is that all of them are a better bet than Ramsey.
Newcastle need more strength in depth
Although Newcastle's reserves have performed admirably in the Europa League this season, they looked worryingly out of their depth in the 2-0 defeat to Brighton. "We know we need to get some bigger players who can handle the situation of carrying a Newcastle jersey, whether that's a signing or getting a player back from injury," said Alan Pardew. It was perhaps a hint that several of Saturday's team won't appear again for the Magpies.
Roberto Martinez's reputation is on the line
After being interviewed for the Liverpool job in the summer, Roberto Martinez decided to stay at Wigan owing to his friendship with Dave Whelan and desire to take the Latics forward this season. However, the team are predictably struggling in the Premier League again and, after losing to Bradford on penalties in the League Cup, suffered an embarrassing 1-1 draw with Bournemouth in the FA Cup on Saturday. For how much longer will the illusion last that Martinez is some sort of miracle worker?
Blackburn are not the only Championship team in a mess
Rovers clearly have serious problems under Venky's and bizarre global advisor Shebby Singh but, despite their managerless predicament, the club have won three matches in a row for the first time this season after a comfortable 2-0 victory over Bristol City. Fans of Nottingham Forest, who lost 3-2 at home to League One strugglers Oldham, and Wolves, humbled by Luton, must almost be envious. The appointment of Alex McLeish has been met with, at best, a mixed reception at the City Ground and the new manager will need to improve the team's performances quickly to avoid the discontent that surrounded his reign at Aston Villa. Wolves' reaction to the 1-0 loss at Luton was to sack manager Stale Solbakken - who was only appointed in the summer - but Dean Saunders, who was relegated with Doncaster last season, is hardly an ideal replacement.
Chelsea fans must move on
Perhaps it's no surprise to learn that Chelsea have a better away record than they do at home in the Premier League this season after the reception afforded to interim manager Rafa Benitez. It's difficult to understand why the manager's previous criticism of plastic flags at Stamford Bridge has caused such widespread and on-going anger and Blues fans were quick to slate Benitez with unsavoury chants after Southampton's opening goal on Saturday. But, the shock defeat to QPR aside, Chelsea have been performing remarkably well of late, and the acquisition of Demba Ba should help them maintain their form. There is a chance for Chelsea to re-join the title race this season, but the fans' rejection of the manager is a barrier to that aim.
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Maybe we should have a Sticky thread "Tell us about new game X". That way legit forum goers could post links to things they find, and shameless devs would have a thread to post in (start a new one instead = delete + ban). The RPS guys could even use it to see if there's anything interesting that they haven't found by other means.
It's not necessarily a bad thing that we get these sorts of threads semi-regularly from people with little-to-no post history, but it is annoying when a) they try and pretend that they aren't devs (see CrazyEthan's thread), and b) they obviously have no interest in fostering any sort of dialogue about their game but simply want to get people clicking links.
Already we've seen in this thread that some members of the community are over it, so a catch-all Sticky thread could be a good option.
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That's the important part, IMO. I'm definitely interested in talking to people about the stuff they're making, like that guy with the Minecraft-y game. There's a pretty clear line between drive-by spam and someone who takes the time to engage with the community in a meaningful way.
I'm sorry I seem to have caused such confusion. If I was the developer I simply would have said so. but I'm honestly just a guy who liked the concept, and decided to put his money where his post is, and would like to see it succeed.
Hi, I'm the developer for this game. This thread is freaking hilarious!
Disill, thanks for the shout-out. Either these guys are trolling you hard or are seriously cynical. Then again you aren't convincing anyone by being defensive. Hell, I didn't believe you for a second there. ;)
@Nalano: Kickstarter too hipster for you? What do you call someone who hates something just because other people like it?
@outoffeelinsobad: Oh man, the game didn't freeze, the pause button for the game is "Tab". Didn't think about people ctrl-tabbing or alt-tabbing. Serious oversight, will need to fix it.
@sabrage: Yup. Funny thing, logic.
@DigitalSignalX: Something that you said reminded me of the Milkman level in Psychonauts. (Dream+selling cookies+cliffs).
@TailSwallower and @TillEulenspiegel: Ask away if you have any questions. I'm all for talking to you guys and starting a dialog.
It's too hipster in the sense that it allows people to gain loans without collateral, not unlike how hipsters tend to want to earn money without effort.
I admit I'm pretty retarded when it comes to new games, but I don't get what the hell is going on when trying this one. :(
I start, alone in the platform, and I see some weird blue-caped man. I walk to him and he suddenly disappears. Then I read the on-screen tip that I should left click the blocks but... I don't see facing and clicking a block has any effect. Or standing up close to it. All different types and sizes of block.
WTH am I supposed to do?
@DarioSamo: Okay, that's a bug. Some people's machines don't seem to like Unity engine physics. I've heard of that exact same thing happening to other people, but have been completely unable to replicate it. Would like to get a video of this happening sometime.
What OS and browser are you using? Are you using the stand-alone? Any details that you can give would be a big help, because this bug seems to be pretty unreasonable.
Oh so it's a bug then? Here I was thinking I was just retarded. :P
I will get a video later today(gotta go to an exam atm), I'm on Windows XP SP3, using the stand-alone exe. Other unity games have worked on the past for me(Sonic Fan Remix). AMD Athlon x2 3.0 ghz BE OC, ATI Radeon HD 6870, 2GB DDR2 RAM.
Double posting for notifying Acheron, I just tried the game today and it worked. So I can't record the bug. D:<
What's interesting tho, is that I bought a new Xbox 360 pad today, and I just plugged it in replacing the old generic controller... I don't know if it's related? I play with mouse+keyboard anyway.
The Princes Trust isn't for "underprivileged youths". Its for people without the funds to, lets say 'kickstart' their business. Some of which happen to be underprivileged.
I am particularly opposed to your views on this because it enabled my partner to start her business. It was a loan without collateral, which you oppose.
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Hey guys!
New site's up. Hope you like it! There's still a few bugs we're going to be smoothing out in the next week, so hang in there.
Make sure you sign up for an official Freaks4Live account so that you can post on the forums, reply to the boy's updates directly and comment on your favorite songs!
Hey, thanks for just getting us this far.....this has made two amazing Mondays in a row: last Monday in York, PA for the show and now Freaks4live.com is up an running as the official home for us Freaks.
The site has launched! This really made my day! Thanks guys and thanks Adam Taylor ;)
We've been waiting for this for YEARS! Thank you Adam and good luck to the band! Can not wait for what the future holds for us!
The Website looks awesome guys, great job Adam, I am going to have loads of fun with this site.
Before sight was up I signed up and was given the unique code and got a lot of people to sign up. I had to register a new account when sight came up using same email. Was wondering if we still get credit for all of the people we got to sign up?
Lots of success with the website. I am sure this is what the fans want and need.
Thanks so much for the site and your hard work on it! Do you mind if I ask a few basic questions, like who you are, where you live, age, etc? Just curious who's running our little Freak Farm. :o)
The only lead singer I can honestly say could replace any current band's lead singer and get it right. Personally and professionally a gem of a talent. I hope to see you all on tour. I have seen Live twice back in the day and Chris Shinn 3 times, the blend together would be a nice treat.
How are you guys right now? Already working on an album? And tours? Please visit Indonesia this time..
How are you guys right now? Already working on an album? And tours? Please visit Indonesia this time..
Hey guys!
When can we expect a new album, and will "Hold me up" be on that album?
I'm sure there are reasons why this song has never been released, but a little info would be nice.
I've been fortunate enough to meet most of you at a Gracious Few show in Richmond. I have to say that even though you are these major Rock stars, you are a really cool and down to earth group of guys. Thanks for bringing the music to the masses. Hopefully, we can give a little something back to you for everything you've done for us.
Hey Guys, Been a fan for a long time would like to know when you guys are returning to Australia?
Don't worry bout any state except for Victoria ;) Also I think you guys are an AWESOME band to do A day on the green;) Seriously I could see myself and alot of aussies kicking back on a picnic blanket with great food and wine listening LIVE all night;) xxoo Hope to see yas downunder very soon :)
Happy Birthday to the Greatest Drummer ever! May each and every passing year bring you wisdom, peace and cheer. May this day bring to you all things that make you smile.
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You guys are using several of my copyright protected images in your gallery. I would really like photo credit since you have not even obtained permission to use them. Ideally you would let me send you my watermarked hi-res images. These photos are trackable and they have been downloaded and used from your website on several occasions. It is not much different that using Kazzaa to download free live music – not different in that it is not cool.
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Local paralympic athlete headed for London
Canada Day 2012 was a special one for Earle Connor.
The 35-year-old Airdrie resident and sprinter was named to the Canadian paralympic team, July 1, after competing in the Canadian Track and Field Trials at Foothills Athletic Park June 27 to 30. It will be Connor�s third appearance at the Paralympic Games, which will take place in London from Aug. 29 to Sept. 9.
�It couldn�t have gone any better,� he said. �It was a pretty good moment.�
While most elite athletes spend the four years in between the Olympic Games training, Connor only had months. After taking three years off after the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, he decided in September 2011 to make a run at another gold medal and began training to compete in London this summer. At the Canadian Trials, he won the amputee 100-metre dash with a time of 12.463, which secured his ticket to England.
�Every race I ran (leading into the trials), I was getting a little bit faster, so I�m hoping that trend continues.�
Connor was born in Castlegar, B.C. and grew up in Dalmeny, Sask. He was born without a fibula, and doctors amputated his left leg when he was three months old. From an early age, he held a passion for sports. There wasn�t a sport he wouldn�t try or he didn�t succeed at. He played tennis, baseball and basketball, but his first love was hockey, and as a goaltender, he was the first amputee drafted into the WHL when he was chosen by the Lethbridge Hurricanes.
Connor took an interest in the Paralympics after watching the 1996 competition in Atlanta on television. He began training shortly after and won his first 100-metre T42 gold medal at the 2000 Paralympics in Sydney, Aus.
�I knew they existed, but I thought that they were more about participation,� he said. �Once I saw that the athletes were in shape and there were 45,000 people watching in the stands, I knew it was something I wanted to pursue.
�(Sydney) was a surreal experience and it was an eye-opening awakening for me. The most enjoyable part was that I was able to compete against my peers. I could compete against people like me and test myself.�
Along with his gold medal in the T42 100-metre dash, Connor also brought home a silver medal from Sydney in the 200-metre dash. He missed the 2004 Paralympics in Athens and was banned from competition for two years after testing positive for testosterone and nandrolone just prior to the Games. The testosterone is believed to be from a doctor-prescribed patch Connor wore after having one of his testes surgically removed after a cancer scare in 2001.
He returned to competition in time for the 2008 Paralympics in China, where he won gold in the 100-metre and set a new Paralympic world record with a time of 12.32 seconds. Connor counts Beijing as his favourite competition.
�Not only was it an opportunity to run in China, but also to show people with a disability in that part of the world that there are no limitations on you besides the ones you place on yourself. You get to show what a human being can do whether they�re missing a limb or not.�
Besides training five days a week on the track and three days a week in the gym, Connor also has to balance running the business he owns in Cochrane.
He and his wife settled in Airdrie two years ago, and he�s hoping to return home in the fall with another gold medal around his neck.
The feeling of winning and the excitement leading up to the Games is something he never tires of, he said.
�Absolutely, 100 per cent the excitement is still there,� he said. �It doesn�t get old, it gets new. I do feel like a kid every time I go to practise. I definitely want to win another gold medal and represent Canada and Alberta and, now, Airdrie.�
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The fall issue of T Design & Living offers a glimpse into the homes of two families who don't do anything half way. For the artist and art director Mike Meire, that means filling an ever-expanding apartment in Cologne, Germany with an idiosyncratic melange of design objects, contemporary art and the happy clutter of a modern family. An entirely different kind of commitment prompted a New York couple to turn their Upper East Side town house into an ode to the late-19th century Aesthetic Movement, complete with carved woodwork, richly patterned wallpapers and fabrics, and museum-quality furnishings and ceramics of the period. T also visits a collection of conifers at the New York Botanical Garden, looks at a collection of structures designed for dogs, checks out a new design museum in Moscow and climbs up into a California tree house. See more from the issue >>
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Octagon hat 2 new amateur world champion in kickboxing
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Kickboxing in Vienna ? So geht´s im Octagon pro Gym !
At the World Championship in Varazdin, Croatia by 16.-21. July we again 2 new world title for Austria won.
Harald Seidel has won the individual for veterans, and our coach in the team fight semi contact veterans.
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Letter to Congressman Reichert: If you want LE information sharing, please aim your pen at a different target
If you want law enforcement agencies to share information, go to the source and help the Chiefs and Sheriffs to push their data in the FBI's National Data Exchange N-DEx. Trying to impose information sharing with unfunded standards mandates will not work.
As someone who has been in the standards business since 1995, history has proven to me that:
- The business need must drive standards, standards can NEVER drive the business; and
- Trying to SELL the business on standards is a losing strategy.
Hi Congressman Reichert,
You won't remember me, but a long time ago we were in meetings together in Seattle with the likes of John McKay, Dave Brandt, Scott Jacobs, Dale Watson, and others working on building the Law Enforcement Information Exchange (LInX); I was the technical guy on the project, working with Chief Pat Lee and our very dear lost friend Julie Fisher (may she rest-in-peace, I sure miss her).
A hell of a lot of water has gone under the bridge since then–it's been nearly TWELVE YEARS. If we look back over this time, we have had so many bills, laws, strategies, policies, papers, speeches, conferences, proclamations, and other assorted attempts to prod law enforcement data loose from the nearly 18,000 agencies across our country. While we are far better off than we were back then, I think we can agree that we still have a long way to go.
Where we differ, I'm afraid, is in the approach to get there – a few days ago, you proposed legislation, the Department of Justice Global Advisory Committee Authorization Act of 2013, as a means to improve information sharing among law enforcement agencies - do we really believe another "stick" will work to get agencies to share information? Do we really believe it's a technology or data standards problem that's preventing law enforcement data from being shared? As a technologist for 34 years, and someone who has been involved in law enforcement information sharing since the Gateway Project in St. Louis, MO in 1999, I can tell you it is neither.
While I applaud the work of the GAC, and I have many colleagues who participate in its work, I'm afraid having more meetings about information sharing, developing more standards, approving more legislation, and printing more paper will NOT help to reach the level of information sharing we all want.
Instead, I want to propose to you a solution aimed at capturing the commitment of the men and women who can actually make law enforcement information sharing happen, and virtually overnight (metaphorically speaking) – namely, the great men and women who lead our police and sheriffs departments across America.
Now to be fair, many of these agencies are already contributing their records to a system I am sure you are familiar with called the National Data Exchange (N-DEx). Built by the FBI CJIS Division, this system has matured into a pretty respectable platform for not only sharing law enforcement information, but also for helping cops and analysts to do their respective investigative and analytic work.
Now, in case you are wondering, I do not own stock in any of the companies that built N-DEx, nor has the FBI signed me up as a paid informant to market N-DEx. I write to you on my own volition as a result of my nearly six years of volunteer work as a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) Committee.
About two years ago I volunteered to lead a small sub-group of the committee who have either built, led, or managed municipal, state, federal, or regional information sharing systems. Our charge was (and still is) to help CJIS take a look under the hood of N-DEx to see what's in there (data wise) and to help figure out what needs to be done to make it a more effective tool to help cops across America catch more criminals, and maybe, just maybe, even prevent criminals from acting in the first place.
While our work is far from done, I can tell you that one thing we need is more data – as you well know, be it N-DEx, LInX, RAIN, or any other information sharing system, it is only as good as the data that's put into it.
Believe it or not we already have the data standards in-place to get the data into N-DEx. CJIS has developed two Information Exchange Packet Descriptions (IEPDs) that tells agencies exactly what to do and how to format and package up their data so it can get to N-DEx. Additionally, CJIS has an extensive team ready to assist and my colleagues over at the IJIS Institute hold training sessions sponsored by BJA, to help agencies along the process (NIEM training).
These two IEPDs can help law enforcement agencies today to share the following law enforcement records:
- Service Call
- Incident
- Arrest
- Missing Person
- Warrant Investigation
- Booking
- Holding
- Incarceration
- Pre-Trial Investigation
- Pre-Sent Investigation
- Supervised Release
So what's the hold up? Speaking only for myself, and I will be very straight with you, I believe the root cause for not getting more law enforcement data into N-DEx is the current piecemeal, politically charged, hit and miss grant funding process that the Act you propose, if passed, will burden even further – see page 3, lines 17-25 and page 4, lines 1-6.
Instead, I ask that you please answer the following question…
If law enforcement information sharing is important enough to push though a Public Act, where is the nationwide project, with funding, to get all shareable law enforcement data loaded into the one system that would give ALL law enforcement officers and analysts access to collective knowledge of the nearly 18,000 law enforcement agencies?
The immediate answer might be "we already have one; N-DEx;" however, N-DEx is only a piece of the answer…it's as they say, "one hand clapping." And in all fairness to my friends and colleagues at the FBI CJIS Division, that program was only charged and funded to build the N-DEx bucket, they were never funded to actually go get the data to fill the bucket.
The strategy, for whatever reason back then, was relegated to a "build it and they will come" approach, that IMHO has not worked very well so far and may take another 5-10 years to work. I should also note that the bucket isn't totally empty…there are quite a number of agencies and regional projects, like LInX, that have stepped up and are helping to fill the bucket – however, if we want to expedite filling up the bucket, focusing on mandating more standards is not the answer
What I submit is the "other hand clapping" is the need for a shift focus, away from policy, standards, and technology, and establish a funded nationwide project that will offer a menu of choices and support packages to the Chiefs and Sheriffs that will enable them to start sending as many of their shareable records as possible to N-DEx.
Some of the options/support packages could include:
- Provide direct funding to agencies and regional information sharing systems to develop N-DEx conformant data feeds to N-DEx;
- Grant direct funding to RMS and CAD system providers to develop N-DEx conformant data feeds from their software, with the stipulation they must offer the capability at no additional cost to agencies that use their products;
- Establish a law enforcement data mapping assistance center, either bolted on to IJIS NIEM Help Desk, as an extension of NLETS menu of services, or through funding support at an existing information sharing project like the Law Enforcement Technology, Training, & Research Center who works in partnership with the University of Central Florida.
At the end of the day, we all know that the safety and effectiveness of law enforcement is greatly affected by the information he or she has at their fingertips when responding to that call.
Do you really want to leave it to chance that that officer's life is taken, or a criminal or terrorist is let go because his or her agency wasn't "lucky enough" to win the grant lottery that year?
So, let's empower the single most powerful force that can make sure the information is available - the Sheriff or Chief leading that agency. Let's stop with the unfunded mandates, laws, standards, studies, point papers, etc., and let's finally put a project in-place with the funding necessary to make it happen.
Chuck Georgo,
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i heard it was good. what are u doing tonight.. we need to go out somewhere...
SO........the Man and I went out to that new restaurant called J's Smokehouse(the old Fox Club).....let me tell you it was great !!! The Menu is small, but this place is just starting out....I don't think that many people know about it, but let me tell you I had a ceasar salad tonite that was out of this world and my guy had this awesome looking burger with the best fries I've had in a long time, he puts this cajun mixture on them and they rock!!! Everyone should go there.....it's got a pretty cool bar downstairs also and they have $1 beers (which is nice for us young people with not a lot of moolah) I hope this guy does well, he really knows how to cook! I hope that this business stays in town for a long time and that everyone that reads this will patronize this place! I will definitly be going back!
So j y offer baked beans as a side with the ribs yet.Was in there the week-end u opened and it was not a offer.
the menu is being changed slightly right now. i removed a couple of things that were not selling and added some stuff. and yes baked beans was added. the new menu's are being printed and go into effect probably next weekend.
thats' good dundee is a ways for great rib's.Can walk over there.
i got wireless internet, so anybody could bring a laptop and not miss out on anything.
MTers will be posting live from J's Smokehouse now.
LOL.........can you just see it. All of us there with our tasty baked beans and lap tops just typing away.... I'm gonna have to check out j's.....
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Semi-specific plot.
A 'forbidden' romance between two seasons; Winter (Me) and Summer. A polar opposite sort of theme.
Characters are negotiable.
Others I'd consider (Me/you):
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Life...and Dreams.
-My drive
Without philosophy humans would not question anything....if humans never question anything....they would never progress....
Silence is (acceptance).
Yersinia Pestis eh? Such a dark name for a little girl.
It's my favourite disease. And that's the image for the character from my other RP.
I'd show you, but as it turns out, Roleplayer's Guild doesn't support div tags. So that completely screws my code over.
If you have a MangaFox account, I can show you.
I've never heard of someone having a favorite disease, especially one that caused the death of millions of people. They say that over 7,000 people a week died in London at the height of the plague's reign.
I'll gladly do the Winter/Summer one. PM me?
Oh, and I think it's wonderful that 7000 people a week died in London during the height of the Plague. Those British douche bags deserve to die.


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Helen Burke has been writing poetry for the last twenty-five years. She has just completed a one woman show at the Edinburgh Festival. Over the last two years she has been a regular reader at Literature Festivals and events in the U.K. – and her work has appeared in numerous poetry magazines and anthologies.
She has also had short stories published, written for and performed on radio as well as working as a visual artist. Winner of the Manchester, Devon and Dorset, Norwich, Suffolk and Leslie Richardson (Yorkshire) Prizes, amongst other awards. Ian McMillan has said of her work – "This is a poet with verve, wit and humanity."
Her collections include: Poetry – Helen Burke (1997), Island of Dreams (1997), Gift (2001), and Zuzu's Petals (2009). Her newest collection, The Ruby Slippers, is available from amazon.co.uk
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Visiting the Parrot
Through the window I could see the small cage,
And his shape clutching at the edges of it. She made us tea – the woman. I have saved him, she said, from definite destruction. If it weren't for me, she said – where would he be? She let him out and he climbed sideways down to have a good look at me - Leaning a little breathless (that being the two of us) I sensed a fellow clown, an acrobat – squawking – Only let them see what we want them to see. Chintz wallpaper. Earl Grey in perfect white porcelain. And the sky outside – beckoning. And our two hearts like defused weapons. He went a little dizzy with the sweetness of the air (much as I do myself on good days) Tell me how goes it? we asked each other. His head leaned on my shoulder before he climbed back in. And the teacups rattled and through the window, I swear I saw and heard the sky itself – I could feel the two of us – clutching at the edge of it. • Helen Burke © 2013 |
Two DreamsTwo dreams I had, and not sure which to believe. In the first I am in a dungeon. No way out ever, and can't get home. There is the sound of my own blood being drawn And metal in the air, a smell of sulphur. The feeling I came there on a horse – and he too Has not escaped. I am in white and wield great power and all of this Has been my downfall. In the second dream – I am a dancer again, waiting For my turn in the wings. A blue billowing curtain stands before my face And while I wait I write my name Over and over in the sand with my ballet shoes. The music is sublime – and two old friends arrive And argue as to who will dance with me. They both say they will come back later, But I know this will not happen. This dance I wait to do is mine alone, a thing apart. A lonely eagle calling out to air from the mountain I have called my heart. (There are promises we keep & cannot keep – even In our dreams.) Two dreams I had, and not sure which to believe. • Helen Burke © 2012 |
Chocolate CredoI believe in chocolate. I believe that chocolate is a gift from the Gods and should be used accordingly. I believe in hundreds and thousands being sprinkled on it And bars of it being eaten all of a piece. No messing. I believe that chocolate is the giver of life and a happy soul. I believe that chocolate is what they made Christmas for and that Chocolate bunnies had it coming to them. I believe in chocolate. And that it preceded human beings is obvious. There has always been chocolate since cave man times. Chocolate was brought here by another race called the Deliciosa's. They were small and friendly and had chocolate buttons on their coats And saw how Earth was struggling and so. They gave us chocolate. They left a large cocoa pod for early man to find outside the cave One Christmas morning and we have never looked back. I believe in the Deliciosa's and all they stood for. They knew we just might make it through if we had chocolate to fall back on. Whole mountains of it; whole babbling brooks of it; whole fountains of it. I believe in the truth of the crispy caramel bar and the hope hereafter Of always having a tube of Smarties or a Dime bar somewhere in easy reach. I believe that there is a good tomorrow for you and me , as long as We clap our hands – all together – and continue to believe in chocolate. The Holy Grail of it – the Swinging my legs on a Gate of It – The Deliciosa legacy of CHOCOLATE! • Helen Burke © 2012 |
The Moon is CryingIt seems a strange sort of night to any other. A night when friends can call to each other and remember, Hold each other close. We notice the moon is crying, tear by tear. The tears fall over the castle and down the hill. My eyes cannot see all of the picture, though the moon hangs low obligingly. Someone brings out the wine, we stir it with jasmine stems. The picture almost complete. Only my heart hangs back. Only my heart says wait. There are two moons tonight (the one watches the other). We bring nothing but ourselves to this silent space, why, the moon herself Has brought no more. She is a silver guardian, a panther that walks before and behind us. Which moon are we to believe ? Which moon is real?? - for, the moon never lies. We follow the braids of her long black hair. We ascend star by star, following her panther stride. We take each separate moon as we find her – in the root of a tree, In the hoot of an owl, in the thumbprint of dawn. This crying moon is the moon in truth – and tonight as ever – The moon never lies. • Helen Burke © 2011 |
Drawing DogsI have taken to drawing dogs. They have begun to seem more like people Than people. I feel more certain that they will Inherit the earth. I feel safer when a dog snarls Than when a person smiles. I can see them deciding not to think of all the answers Before they've eaten their dinner. I can see they're not bothered if the post is late Or if they miss the bus to Fulham Broadway. Their faces do not pose when you look at them. (And then try and pretend that They've just seen you.) If they're happy, they're happy – and sad if they're sad. If they got begging letters – They would answer all of them. In their heads, all of them are riding motorbikes Across France Without a cur in the world. And most brilliantly of all – they do not write poetry. I like dogs. • Helen Burke © 2011 |
The Russian Doll that was My MotherLike the Russian Doll we kept on the sideboard – That was you, mam. Foreign, exotic, that mysterious smile, unfathomable. Your exterior of certainty, so hard won, over years. (How many dolls since I saw you ?) For everyday, you used the first doll – she is tough and gruff. Sometimes on birthdays and at Christmas A second doll appears – kinder-eyed and softer. Then once — walking home – myself falling on the ice – A further doll still – one who held me tight and said – "My Lass. My Own Lass – You they Must Not Break." And so we walked together on – through the dark-eyed storm. (How many dolls since I saw you?) That last doll, mam – her I never met nor even knew. But what strange mystery she had – I know I learned the trick from you. Dangerous the doll that gives too much away. How many dolls since we walked through the storm?? How many? How many dolls? … • Helen Burke © 2010 |
OwlsTonight, the moon is a river. A silver shadow whose face we admire. The moon turns the rivers pages like a book. Softly, the page turn, one by one. In the river ourselves, our faces, turning. Here, where the edges of trees frisk our shadows and trace the night shapes of houses – we are watching for owls. I am convinced they are near. It is only that the dark trees are hiding them It is only that the old boats are hiding them. The owls fly inside my own eyes – in and in, flying lower and lower. My thoughts become feathers. My dreams have no edges. Flight swallows me. I am owl and moon and river and night. The stars watch over me – the pulse of the water greets me, keens for me that I must watch here, so late. It is the hour for owls. I hear the slow beating of their coming. A train passes, holds the moon in each of its windows. Myself, I am held by the promise of owls. My throat holds a shadow, it grows and grows and from it flies the first of them. • Helen Burke © 2010 |


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