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I don't understand the reason for this debate. Musical Professor showed by his words and actions that he needed dealing with using mor than just a warning and the audiogames.net staff dealt with him. End of story.
#51 2018-01-12 19:01:06
#52 2018-01-12 20:43:37
I must clear up some confusion it seems. First of all I am not debating the ban of musical professor, I think his manners were childish and appalling. My primary reaction was the term misogyny being thrown around, but I need more time to properly think over and address Nocturnus's last post.
Dark, I never asked for privilages nor said anyone should have them based on passed conduct, whether said conduct was good or bad. I simply believe that people can change, which you yourself has stated. I am of the attitude though that musical professor won't be coming back to the forum if he has to crawl and beg for it. Apology is not everyone's strong point. I simply wish we could put a temporary lid on the nusence, but that's my philosophy for most cases barring extremely rare exceptions. A forced lock to prevent an abusive person from getting in until he or she has calmed down to look at it rationally, or til people have forgotten it.
Anyway my alcohol has arrived, 12 frekin' bottles of poison on my shelf, so you won't be hearing from me for a while
#53 2018-01-12 21:14:37
This post will specifically be responding to Nocturnus, post 49.
According to Merriam-Webster: Misogyny refers specifically to a hatred of women. The word is formed from the Greek roots misein ("to hate") and gynē ("woman").
I'm with you on that term so far. Now let's have a little fun with the second definition.
According to wikipedia: Misogyny is the hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women or girls. Misogyny can be manifested in numerous ways, including social exclusion, sex discrimination, hostility, androcentrism, patriarchy, male privilege, belittling of women, violence against women, and sexual objectification.
This ... is quite disgusting in my opinion. It is exactly like using racism without any regard for what it actually means. Consider the following hypothetical cenario, which, according to your Wikipedia would be misogynistic.
A woman is in a bar.
A drunk man comes up to her and makes a joke:
What's my name? Do you want to know my name? It's hugh mungus. My name is Hugh Mungus.
The woman starts screaming and going out of control, acting like a little child. The previous case is well known and is up for debate, but it was the first that came to mind. But we're not yet done here. The women is acting like a little spoiled child, so the man (the internet in this case as the story went) decides to belittle her.
And according to you that's misogyny, a heavily loaded word in a negative light. We both agree that misogyny is hatred and prejudice against women, but how can belittling a person that acts like a child be misogyny. After all, the belittling came as a result of her actions, and not his prejudice or hatred for women. Had she not been a a woman, the lable wouldn't be slapped on the perp, just that he was belittling a brat.
I could give you a hundred more examples, some real, some fictional that could be real, that could be construed as misogyny only because the victim was a female.
If we use the last two definitions as a point of reference, I contend the following statement, straight from the email, falls under the umbrella of sexual discrimination and sexual objectification and does not make any attempt to hide the implication as such and, more importantly, is phrased rather hatefully.
"Seriously, get the fuck off my dick for crying out
loud and go fuck someone else who is actually causing some bullshit on the sight instead of making somehting out of nothing."
How is this hatred towards women? Or prejudice? Maybe I'm not seeing what the rest of progressive society is, so help me.
I've said it before and I'll say it again; if you don't intend for people to infer something by your writing style, consider editing and or don't write
I'll grant you the fact that you felt it was misogyny given the context on the forum post, but you specifically said that the emails were misogynistic in nature which I disagree with as explained already. You can not read this guy's mind so it'd be unfair to say stuff about him you don't know to be true.
A general comment follows:
For me, reading or hearing the word misogyny makes me flinch because I have very conservative opinions regarding those matters. That being said I do not have any hate or prejudice against women and judge everyone on an equal bases with the exception for actual, and factual differences between the two sexes. But I hear lables being flung at me and my political group so often that it's sad, and it's even more sad to see it on a forum where everyone is supposed to be just a screen name and their thoughts. Given other events that have happened on the forum in the passed which I shall not bring up unless I'm asked to. I feel that the crying about sexism is unjust as it bares nothing substancial, as I have pointed out with this response.
I'm sure I've missed something here, but I always have. Do correct me.
#54 2018-01-12 21:30:39
so, according to you, the man above should be allowed to make the joke at a woman because he's a man and she's a woman? I'm sorry, but that doesn't fly with me. had he made that joke at a man, he'd probably be getting his teeth fed to him! Wrecktally! the implication in this case is obvious; he's saying he has a huge penis and the woman should, by default, be interested.
#55 2018-01-12 22:21:17
There are many old tales, intended to warn against dealing with the devil, that demonstrate wishes or requests being granted but twisted in undesirable ways. A child in such a story could wish to be the fastest runner in his gym class, with any number of outcomes. He may be unaffected but all of his classmates become horribly crippled. He may still lose every race because he was granted the ability to just speak faster than any of them. Maybe he can run and win, but he is never able to stop running until he dies. The idea is sometimes referred to as the "Jackass Genie", and by fluctuating between taking every wish as perfectly literal or substituting in figurative meanings, it becomes nearly impossible to actually get what you truly wanted with your wish.
There are many people in this world who turn into a version of the "Jackass Genie" when minority groups are involved. I can think of plenty of people who have race on the brain. To them, the whole world is against their particular race, and they will go to great lengths to twist anything said into being about race. Choose white rice over fried rice at dinner? They'll be offended because in their mind you've just made some sort of jab at them. If you watch one TV show over another, they will believe it is because the show has a different number of actors from a particular ethnic background. If you try to explain that the ethnic background of the actors has nothing to do with what shows you watch, the "Jackass Genie" is still in effect, and will twist that to further pull you down the same path. "So you admit then that you don't care about people from race such-and-such!" You cannot win, ever.
In more recent years gender issues seem to have risen up to the same intensity as racial ones. I've tried to have conversations with women who turn literally everything into attacks on feminism. No matter how careful you are, everything said is going to be twisted using leaps that are so convoluted and extreme that no sane person is going to follow. People eventually get shoved into so deep a hole that they simply give up and walk away from the conversation, feeling frustrated and ashamed at the state of society, while the "Jackass Genie" leaves feeling further justified in their cause... since they just exposed another anti-feminist.
Lundin, you are in a situation where you just aren't going to be able to win. I think you can see that anything you're saying keeps being put through the same filter, and will continue to push you down the same path. You have to fight the urge to fix the situation/misunderstanding because this is a trap, and you're already in it. Like the example above, the only answer is to walk away and feel frustrated.
From the very start of this I've been trying to keep myself out of the trap, but I felt compelled to jump in long enough to help you get out. No one ever, EVER, realizes that they are playing the role of a "Jackass Genie", and being accused of it tends to upset people. In real life conversations it results in the Genie then trying to Show me how they are being perfectly reasonable with how they've interpreted everything said, because they are not capable of seeing how insane their leaps are. "But Jeremy, my co-worker said said he'd see me tomorrow! That means he is watching me at work which means he doesn't believe I can do my job properly because I am a woman, and it also means he expects me to be there because obviously I can't afford to take a day off, which is because women get paid less than men! How could anyone disagree that he made a blatantly sexist statement against me as a woman?!" So I walk away and get thrown into the anti-feminist camp along with the poor sap I was stepping in to save. Clearly if I walk away or try to stay out of it, then I've sided against the Genie and therefore are also against their cause.
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#56 2018-01-12 22:27:55
Actually, if that comment cited is taken purely on its own, it is nothing more or less than an explicit reference to genitalia. It could just as easily have been levelled at a man. It's inappropriate no matter who it was aimed at, but it does not constitute misogyny in my book.
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#57 2018-01-12 22:33:10
it comes down to the same thing though, a matter of subjectivity where you have to find some central reference point by which you can be objective. You're going to end up stepping on someone's toes by doing anything that is anything in this crazy world!
#58 2018-01-12 22:48:01
Thanks Aprone for that wonderful post. Came right after Nocturnus's out right ... yeah he should justify that or at least try to address my actual point, but that'd be inconvenient I assume. As a matter of fact I believe the biggest racists and sexists there is, yet again barring exceptions of extreme cases, are the people who fight for it with their entire soul, because they only see race or gender (/ sex). I, and other normal people don't really do that, so how can we be racist if we don't think in terms of race?
Anyway as you said this is a battle that can not be won, experiences in other places should've made me aware of this, but I guess I fall for it each time. I should've known the outcome given the things I reacted to. I'll be stepping away from here until something substancial has come about.
@Nocturnus mate, we disagree about a lot of things, but I have always respected you and thought you an intelligent and well-spoken guy. After post 54 I am sorry to say I've lost that respect entirely. Go back, review my post again and if you feel the need to, please respond with something that's actually intelligent and addresses what I said. If you need clarification of some things in my post, please ask and I shall do my best.
#59 2018-01-12 22:49:31
Basically, my point is that people probably wouldn't be trying to call it misandry if it was aimed at a man. You'd call it a crude reference to genitalia and an attack that shouldn't be made. To me, that's more than enough.
The issue here - which admittedly has been blown a bit out of shape by the back-and-forth - is that while this comment -was spoken to a woman, it could just as easily have been spoken to a man. It is offensive no matter its target. What if MusicalProfessor is gay? What if he's ignorant of Nightshade's gender or of the definition of misogyny in the first place? These things might change his intent, which then means one has to consider whether or not the comment actually represents misogyny as it is defined. I maintain that it probably doesn't, but that, as has been stated before, he's definitely crossed a line, and not just by a little either. An indefinite ban - one contingent upon change on MusicalProfessor's end - sounds much better than a permanent ban, which by its definition is not up for change.
Sorry for shaking everything up by sticking my nose into this. This has gotten bigger than I think it needed to be.
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#60 2018-01-12 23:22:13
If it is so then it is so, but I didn't intend on making a name for myself out here that aimed to be respected by everyone. Idealy that would be wonderful, but I'm aware of the world I live in, a world that will address me as anything less than normal, sane and inteligent if I'm not seen as normal, sane or inteligent by someone else.
#61 2018-01-13 01:32:37
With Aprone on this one to the letter, hence me staying out of this. He articulated my feelings about these types of issues better than i ever could, thanks man, well said.
#62 2018-01-13 01:36:46
Aprone, well said, my sentiments exactly. Thumbs up to you.
#63 2018-02-09 17:50:33 (edited by defender 2018-02-09 18:03:56)
Read this entire topic, kinda surprised my self.
All I know is that guys say get off my dick in certain places (particularly those where it seems like musical professor might be from based on all his yalls) to other guys all the time, it's just a phrase, I don't blame you for assuming in the moment though.
If I were Nocternus, I'd be upset on my girlfriend's behalf, even if I was trying to disconnect my self from the situation, and Dark lives in the UK, a pretty liberal place for the most part, particularly considering the type of people he probably encounters in his chosen career path all the time.
I'm glad you mods talked it out first though, a solid idea considering the personal nature, but I don't know who all was involved in that.
If he had said, "get off my dick you stupid bitch and go suck your boyfriend Nocternus's instead" than yeah, fuck that guy, that's cut and dry misogyny, and no one needs that shit poisoning their community.
I don't really think he'll change, but I agree with the one year ban suggestion as well, because of the continued emails.
However even then, a permaban seems a bit over the top, lacking any (credible) or highly graphic, personal threats, since this kind of thing is extremely common in the wider internet, and I'm not even talking the big names like Reddit and 4Chann, so if this is shocking to you than I am both amused, and (honestly) happy for you guys.
Also about this cheating thing, I can't imagine why anyone could give two shits what someone did to their own game or how, as long as they didn't effect anyone else E.G. multiplayer or score board.
In that case it did, and that's not cool, so since the mods have decided to step in on piracy, talking about bans from games, code stealing, hacking and the like, than it follows that they would disallow talking about this as well, but it's pretty hard to police, just like the code stealing.
And yeah, I've seen several topics over the years that basically turned into one of those oil well fires that goes on, and on, and on, right on the front page of which ever room it's in so it's not hard to keep up with, and nothing was done for a very long time about it.
Sometimes the retribution was godly in it's application, though often incomplete, but most other times it was just kind of, capped off after the fact.
With this many mods, I can't find any excuse accept not wanting to deal with the nonsense, which I get, but it's also what you guys signed up for, and if certain members aren't able to do their job and look at recent high traffic in threads or read reports each day 80% of the time do to other obligations, than they should be replaced, no hard feelings from the kind of people who were accepted in the first place anyway I'd hope...
Allot of places have to cycle through admins like this, it's just the nature of the beast.
That or just have a different tag for those members who are only responsible for news and database stuff, and disconnect them from anything moderation wise.
I don't see everyone being away at once being a likely reason either, considering how many times it's happened, though admittedly it was worse when their were less of you guys.
The response is still often lackluster however, but I get that this is a comparatively pretty forgiving place, and I still post here knowing that.
Maybe we as users just need to report posts more? I usually don't for the really obvious ones as to not flood you guys, but like half of those were never addressed (not common) or only resulted in a warning weeks after the fact (much more common) so...
I would also really like to see negative karma come back, it's probably like three times a week that I wish for it, and it will likely reduce unnecessary reporting anyway.
The reason it was removed in the first place always seemed kind of ridiculously PC and artificial (if well meaning) to me anyway, and upvote and downvote, like and dislike has become a standard all over the web for a good reason.
If you have even a slightly thicker skin than the average hormonal teen, which you really should if you intend to use the internet anyway, than this is actually a useful tool to know weather you need to STFU or not, in order to avoid turning people against you, rather than getting them to listen to your argument.
Hence you can modify your delivery, and everyone wins.
I'm not saying it's always a good thing or doesn't cause conflict, but I think we should at least try it out again.
Well Ted, it sure looks like there's been uh, quite a bit of violence around here
"aaoh, that violence was terrible'!"
Yeah it was, pretty bad.
#64 2018-02-09 23:52:40
I'll admit there are times when I wish negative karma or thumbs down existed, but I also understand the reason it was removed.
The problem with negative karma or thumbs down is that some people won't be able to resist the temptation to abuse it and give someone an undeserved thumbs down simply because they posted an opinion or view that they didn't like.
I think that's why eBay got rid of being able to give a buyer a negative feedback if they paid for their bid for the very same abuse reason.
#65 2018-02-10 00:59:08
the other thing I think we need to consider about negative karma is the fact that some people simply don't care about their karma, and will carry on being the person that they are, regardless of how little karma they have accumulated. I'm not saying the karma system is bad, but I often wonder how many people on this forum actually pay atention to what their karma is, or could care less about it.
#66 2018-02-10 01:15:21
Ebay is a bad example because allot of dislikes their can effect your sales, where as here it only effects your standing in the community.
Also, that's exactly the point of like dislike, to show that you disagree with their opinion or how they presented it, without escalating it to a report.
I understand that you don't think it will help the forum as much as I may believe it will, and I admit that I'm not sure either, but if the problem is people ignoring it than at least it won't make those people worse either... So why not give it a shot right?
I mean, immature people are going to be immature no matter what, on both sides, so if they want to play stupid games than they'll find a way with any medium you give them as it is, but for those that can construct a decent argument, it's a useful tool, and frankly their posts ten to get allot more attention anyway.
Well Ted, it sure looks like there's been uh, quite a bit of violence around here
"aaoh, that violence was terrible'!"
Yeah it was, pretty bad.
#67 2018-02-10 11:49:16 (edited by Orko 2018-02-10 11:54:05)
Yeah, but someone's opinion or view doesn't warrant a report, if I posted that I thought NVDA was a piece of crap, would you report me to the mods? I wouldn't, it's just an opinion and not breaking any rules.
Personally, regardless of what I think of NVDA, I would never post such a remark because it would more than likely be a source of trouble or start a flame war.
Nor should it give or take away karma. In my opinion, you award karma to someone for being helpful, not because they agree or disagree with you. At least that's the way I use it.
And finally, as for my own karma? Every once in a great while, maybe once a month or so, I will look at it, but it's not something I worry about or obsess over, it's just a curiosity to look at from time to time.
#68 2018-02-10 18:47:37
Some people may think that reporting you would be okay because your inciting a flame war with such an obviously inflammatory comment, I wouldn't, but I know a few that probably would.
That's the power of Karma, you get to use it in which ever way you wish.
It does reduce it's meaningfulness, but it's up to you weather or not to pay attention to it or not anyway.
And if the argument is weather or not people who don't look at their karma in the first place will care about the change, than I don't understand why it should matter to those people anyway.
This suggestion is for the people that do care.
Well Ted, it sure looks like there's been uh, quite a bit of violence around here
"aaoh, that violence was terrible'!"
Yeah it was, pretty bad.
#69 2018-02-11 06:35:01
You know @LordLundin, I don't know if you even gave the actual background info on the Hugh Mungus case. I shall post it here for the good of the order.
https://www.quora.com/Did-the-person-in … -that-girl
Wow, I can't believe some of these people haven't been banned from NeoGaf yet. Oh well, I'm pretty sure that forum is not as active any more anyways. Well, here's that link.
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/lady-yel … s.1274073/
And here's the link to the video from the above NeoGaf link.
Now here's to hoping this posts with all the links. If anyone wants more details on this case, please ask. I can try to hunt down more. As for this matter in dealing with the user in question, it seems to be more of a case of insulting and extremely unprofessional behavior. I am not sure if it warranted a ban as long as the one that has been handed down, but the case does not seem to be misogyny.
#70 2018-02-11 12:43:47
And that is the root of the problem, with no rules to go by, everyone uses karma based on their own interpretation of what it is supposed to be for, and with everyone doing their own thing, how much karma you have devolves down to how many people approved of messages you posted, with such an unknown mix of reasons why messages were given a thumbs up, the karma reading is essentially meaningless.
So why even bother with it?
Just as I rarely even look at my karma because to me it's just a curiosity rather than something to be concerned about, I also very rarely award karma for the same reasons.
The mods could disable the entire karma system and I, for one, wouldn't miss it a bit.
#71 2018-02-20 03:03:56
Hmmm, missed this discussion and I'm not exactly sure what karma has to do with anything here, but since I have been involved with the Karma system I'll put a word in.
The karma system was first introduced by Sander in I believe 2010, to see how it worked, and basically it turned into a slapping contest, with people getting smacked with thumbs down over and over again, indeed there were more thumbs downs than thumbs ups, and what thumbs ups there were didn't matter (some poor person even got reduced to minus 139 Karma in the course of about a week).
We discussed a solution to this problem but none was forthcoming at the time so the system was removed.
When I took over Administrating the forum in 2012, I saw that there was an option to enable karma but remove the thumbs down setting.
On the core exiles forum is a system called "give a gift" which is just as it sounds. Under each post appears the names of people who "gifted" that post (if any), it's just a way to say "here I like what you just said!" and is fairly nice.
I thought Karma could be a similar thing here, not anything major just a way to literally stick a thumbs up at someone's post and say "hay that's cool!"
What reasons you might choose to give someone Karma, and whether indeed you care about the system is up to you, but hay it's there so use it if you wish or not if you don't, and now that the negative karma connotation is removed there is no risk or possible bad consequence to using or not using it.
of course the Karma system has bugger all to do with moderation, so I'm not really sure what it has to do with this topic in question, since as Orko pointed out whether you use or take note of the Karma system is entirely up to you, and moderator action needs to be a less easy to ignore than that, but that's the history of Karma anyway.
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#72 2018-02-20 09:15:46
Yeah, imagine if the reason we began handing out moderation warnings or hell even bands were based on what we see in your Karma? We could easily do that with the current system in place! Everyone who doesn't have karma above a certain number? Don't even think twice about the subject matter! MODERATION! I hate being seen as a tyrant, but I've learned over and over again that ya can't please everyone...
#73 2018-02-20 13:40:02
You said it! I've given up on trying to please everyone a long time ago. Now the only person I try to make happy is myself.
#74 2018-02-20 16:06:08
If myself could be entirely satisfied, I'd work on that, but oh, am I ever human, flawed, egocentric, narcicistic, and ready and willing at a moment's notice to believe I'm all that and a bag of chips, deserving of it all!
#75 2018-02-20 18:43:33
I'm gonna chime in.
Is it possible at all to hide a user's karma on the post display but only display it to that user's profile? Also on another forum I used to be on they had a thanks system, you could thank a post, it got removed fairly fast for people abusing it and spamming the hell out of it. I'd argue against a list of people who hit thumbs up on a post fofr the same reason honestly....the entire karma system just sounds like a big dick waving popularity contest to me. I'd rather see it gone honestly if only to prevent a popularity contest


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Methanol and ethanol are two types of alcohols. Methanol is produced by gasification of biomass, whereas most ethanol is produced by fermentation of sugar and other crops. They can be blended into gasoline and are available today.
The downside of ethanol is that it has a low energy efficiency well-to-wheel compared to biomass conversion routes. It also has a low boiling point and about 55% energy content compared to diesel.
Methanol has high energy efficiency well-to-wheel, low GWP (global warming potential) and cost. It can be produced from many sources and be used for a variety of purposes. But it is also toxic and corrosive and has about 45 % energy efficiency compared to diesel.
Biogas is a gaseous fuel that mostly consists of hydrocarbon methane. It has high energy efficiency well-to-wheel and low CO2. It can be produced locally and the emissions are low, with no soot. The energy efficiency compared to diesel is only 20% and currently only small volumes are produced.
Biogas + biodiesel
Biogas and biodiesel are combined with separate tanks and injection. A smaller amount of biodiesel or synthetic diesel is used to keep the compression combustion in a diesel engine.
Hydrogen is a gas that is compressed to 350-700 bar in vehicles. It is produced by reforming hydrocarbons using heat and steam, gasification of heavy hydrocarbons or biomass and electrolysis of water. The combustion or electrochemical reaction (fuel cell) is "emission free" and it can be used for a variety of purposes. But the well-to-wheel energy efficiency is low and delivery and storage is expensive. At 700 bar the energy content is about 22% compared to diesel. The current production is limited.


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Representatives speak to students about working in missions
Liberty University has welcomed more than 100 representatives from over 50 missionary sending organizations for Missions Emphasis Week (MEW), Feb. 16-20. Missions booths have been set up around campus with representatives ready to speak to students about how they can play a more active role in missions.
Kimberly Love, an inquiry coordinator from Serving in Mission, said her organization has been coming to Liberty during MEW for the past seven years. This week she met with students ranging from nursing and education majors to ministry and youth pastors.
"I think it's been great for awareness and just counseling people down the mission's road," she said.
John'ae Davis, a junior government major at Liberty, said the representatives who come during MEW aid students who have an interest in missions but do not know how to take the first step.
"Every year we get new students who may not have heard about how to become involved in missions. This helps raise awareness about going out into different parts of the country," she said.
Peter Copeland, a resort missionary with North American Mission Board, said this is his second year of recruiting at Liberty's MEW.
"It's a good opportunity to be available to hear [students'] passions and their call to ministry," he said. "We want to place people in ministry opportunities that they want to be in and that they feel equipped for."
Copeland also said he enjoys traveling and speaking with college students because they have flexible summer schedules to serve in church planting, ministering or working in the inner city.
"This is a good opportunity to educate students and get them interested," he said.
The missions booths are currently set up on the first floor of DeMoss Hall and at the main entrance of Campus North and representatives will be available until 4 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 20.


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One of the bright spots in the Canadian and global venture capital landscape is the rapidly growing and evolving impact investment movement.
The movement is referred to by many names — triple bottom line, investing for impact, social impact investing, or the blended value approach. Phillips Hager and North Investment Management, in their Overview of Impact Investing, describe it as a "proactive approach to investing that seeks to solve social and environmental challenges through direct investment in private companies, projects and funds, while also earning a relatively attractive financial return."
More importantly, impact investing represents innovation and an evolution of the purely philanthropic distribution models that have historically fallen short on either capital, impact or both. At scale, an impact investing industry could allow for a renewable and sustainable form of financing for an endless array of initiatives, from poverty alleviation and affordable housing, to natural resource conservation, and even clean infrastructure projects.
Investments can take many forms and are generally structured in a similar fashion to typical venture capital equity or debentures. Other forms include social impact bonds and, in a recent development, crowd-sourced investment and debt financings.
Bill Clinton's A Case for Optimism describes how the post-2008 global political and socio-economic instability and the rise of social media have highlighted our global interconnectedness and placed a spotlight on individual, class and environmental crises. The spotlight has spurred an avant-gardism among the next generation, old and new money, and even the average investor, many of whom simply want to align their investments of time and capital with initiatives that reflect their values.
The shortfall between what is needed for social and environmental impact around the world and what is available is staggering and underscores the need to unlock private capital. Judith Rodin is the president of the Rockefeller Foundation, a leading and early explorer of the impact investing industry. She states, "If you put a price tag on all the social and environmental needs around the world, it is in the trillions. All the philanthropy in the world is only $590 billion. So, the needs far exceed the resources."
The demand for increased capital for social enterprises across Canada is estimated to be between $450 million and $1.4 billion, according to the Canadian Task Force on Social Finance. On the bright side, international experience suggests that a relatively modest infusion of public capital at the national level into "fund-of-funds" programs can kick-start the mobilization of private capital into this asset class in a meaningful way. The U.K. government's £20-million investment in Bridges Ventures (a U.K.-based social investment fund) in 2002 attracted over £120 million of private impact investment over six years and likely contributed to the development of over £325 million in other social venture capital funds.
While we're still in the "early days" in terms of building a sustainable Impact Investing industry in Canada, there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic that we can emerge as a leading player in the global impact investing movement.
Exciting initiatives from early innovators and new participants are being launched across the country. From east to west, we have examples of early innovators with a decade or more of experience in nurturing and growing this industry, including Vancity, Renewal Partners, Social Capital Partners, and Le Chantier de l'économie sociale de Quebec, among others. I highlight two of them below.
Social Capital Partners: Founded by Bill Young in 2001, Social Capital Partners (SCP) is a non-profit organization that has established and scaled two successful impact investing initiatives.
First, SCP helped establish and scale a portfolio of profitable social enterprises across Canada that consisted primarily of startup businesses expressly designed to generate a profit but also required to generate a significant number of entry-level jobs with good career paths for people outside the economic mainstream. SCP's social enterprise portfolio includes:
In 2006, the SCP model evolved with the creation of SCP's Franchise Community Hiring Program. Through the program, SCP provides low-interest subordinate debt financing to franchisees that commit to hiring entry-level employees through community employment agencies such as the YMCA. The interest rates tied to the loans are socially-adjusted, meaning that for every additional person hired through a community service agency, the franchisee's interest rate on their loan is lowered. With this program, SCP now has facilitated investments with several franchise partners, most notably with 24 Active Green + Ross locations across Ontario and all corporately-owned stores.
Le Chantier de l'économie sociale de Québec: A multi-stakeholder association led by two main financial institutions — Le Réseau d'investissement social du Québec (RISQ) and La Fiducie du Chantier de l'économie sociale — and other supporting organizations to develop common tools, maintain dialogue and improve collaboration. Programs include patient capital loans from as little as $5,000 to $1.5 million, with up to a 15-year moratorium on repayment in the terms. A detailed overview of Quebec-based impact investing models can be found in the September 26 blog by Erica Barbosa on the socialfinance.ca website.
Building on the momentum of the early innovators, new industry organizations and funding vehicles have recently launched and are further supporting the growth of this industry.
The MaRS Centre for Impact Investing: Opened in late 2011, the Centre for Impact Investing is a national hub designed to increase the awareness and effectiveness of social finance, which directs new capital, talent and initiatives toward tackling Canada's most pressing social and environmental problems. Acting as a neutral collaboration space, the Centre is designed for co-creation between government, community and the private sector. The Centre builds on the foundational work of MaRS and Social Innovation Generation (SiG), including the landmark report by the Canadian Task Force on Social Finance.
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC): In January of this year, RBC announced a $20-million commitment to a new social and environmental initiative aimed at facilitating solutions to social and environmental problems. The initiative includes a $10-million capital pool that will be invested in for-profit social enterprises delivering environmental and/or social impact. The fund is expected to initiate direct and third-party fund investments in the fall of 2012.
RBC has a long history of investing in profitable companies with a social and environmental return. In 2007, RBC launched the RBC Jantzi Funds suite of products, and in 2008 the PH&N Community Values Fund became part of the RBC Global Asset Management Suite of Funds. Then in 2009 RBC, through its venture capital fund RBC Venture Partners, provided seed capital to Boston-based JANA Inc., a mobile platform designed to direct money from big brands directly into the pockets of consumers in remote areas of emerging markets in exchange for completing surveys or purchasing products and, in the process, legitimately providing economic empowerment to the rural poor.
An ongoing challenge considering the nascent stage of the Impact Investing industry is determining the "all in" ROI (financial and social) and arriving at industry standard and accepted measures. I'll save that discussion for subsequent article.
The elements required to build any industry are leadership, coordination and capitalization. Canada seems to have shining examples of the leadership and coordination required to build an impact investing industry. The challenge, not dissimilar to our struggling venture capital industry, will be capitalizing and ultimately generating the returns to gain widespread acceptance among institutional investors.
International experience suggests that initial infusions of public capital can create a lot of leverage in attracting private capital, but the pension funds, private enterprise and endowments largely remain trapped in a traditional and arguably less effective paradigm of charitable giving.
Ultimately, the promise of Impact Investing is progress — progress in evolving the philanthropic/charitable economic model and sustainable progress toward alleviating individual, class and environmental crises resulting in a virtuous circle.
David Unsworth is a partner at RBC Venture Partners.
For more information, the Canadian Task Force on Social Finance published Mobilizing Private Capital for Public Good, which provides seven recommendations for supporting and evolving the Impact Investing industry. It can be found at www.socialfinance.ca/taskforce .


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In another post I suggested it might be helpful to connect a few dots...
Technologies for a Social Innovation Nation
The key challenge faced by governments trying to grow the economy and jobs can be seen when they take the top-down approach of trying to 'create jobs', ie they fund infrastructure work that creates employment while it is underway.
This can only last as long as their funds do, meaning of course it's not sustainable.A sustainable strategy would instead be to invest those funds, into platforms that enable the nation to become more inherently innovative and prosperous, improving their ICT productivity so that they can more easily start new businesses based on new ideas and opportunities.
Second point, from that list of three, for your consideration - to advance use this Arts Based approach to develop sustainability strategies supporting end user innovations that benefit all partners and stakeholders.
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Upon crossing the threshold into this multidimensional portal, you get access to a playful context for unearthing opportunities in problems and order in chaos.
When launched this lobby will be re-designed
Using interactive public art to deliver a flexible system that unlocks the social, eco & economic value produced in specific p2p collaboration networks.The latest website sandbox is part of the technical planning for beta launch. That sandbox was created to better represent and explore spatial navigation and contextual relationships of data or content. This has opened a new way of approaching information security and distance work collaborations.
One level of this is development and delivery of CRM Strategy solutions that support meaningful CSR programs as an innovation in social impact bonds. The Cultural Fusion Touring Event Series is an example of how this project is an engine supporting other programs and matching needs to opportunities. Another aspect of this work is the marketing, testing or development of new or existing technology, services, or systems.
The IT Infrastructure for Cultural Fusion has been conceptualized to explore a new understanding of things like community or customer.This is a philosophical line of inquiry that could not be more relevant to businesses who need to figure out how to unleash other kinds of capital, such as the social capital inherent in your brand evangelist.
As a virtual location this platform is conceived to explore paradoxes. While it seeks to overcome obstacles to engaging the bandwidth poor, as an inclusive concept it will also occupy both virtual space and spaces that are geographically site specific during the course of various installation exhibitions, such as augmented reality interactive sites relevant to pubic art for community learning and research...that also works as an enhancement to historical tours, linking urban and rural tourism as a marketing and CRM Strategy components for both international and regional campaigns.


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Surviving Tuskegee Airman to Speak Thursday• February 11, 2013 Share:
One of the few surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen will speak on campus Thursday. Arthur L. Carter, Sr., Indianapolis, will speak at 7 p.m., Feb. 14, in the Fine Arts Center's Korb Classroom.
The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American pilots for U.S. armed forces. The group broke down racial barriers in World War II, serving with distinction and honor. More than 300 surviving members were honored by President Bush in 2007. Carter is the only member of that group living in Indianapolis.
Carter joined the U.S. Army Air Corps Oct. 22, 1942 as a 19-year old. He was trained as a multi-engine mechanic and served until 1949.
Since his service, Carter started the first African-American travel agency in Indiana, earned a Bachelor of Science IUPUI, been a licensed public accountant, and worked with Indianapolis African American newspaper, The Recorder.
His life has been one of community service, as well. He has been awarded Indiana's "Sagamore of the Wabash" and Kappa Alphi Psi Fraternity's "Elder Watson Diggs" Award. Indianapolis's 100 Black Men organization has honored Carter for his service as well as the Boy Scouts of America.
Carter was a graduate of Crispus Attucks High School. He, along with all other original Tuskegee Airmen, was honored in 2007 with Congressional Gold Medal.
His talk is sponsored by Xi Rho Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi and co-Sponsored by the Malcolm X Institute of Black Studies.


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In a state championship basketball game, there are always interesting matchups and intense duels between talented players on opposing teams. The Class D boys final between the Lenawee Christian Cougars and the now three-time defending champion Southfield Christian Eagles on Saturday was certainly no exception.
Southfield Christian is a team loaded in depth, yet one particular Eagle senior, Lindsey Hunter IV, carries a name to go with his game that is familiar to those who have followed professional basketball the past few decades.
Hunter is the youngest son of former National Basketball Association point guard Lindsey Hunter Sr., who played most of his professional career with the Detroit Pistons (1993-2000) and was a key contributor in the Pistons' NBA championship in 2004. Hunter Sr., an assistant coach with the Golden State Warriors, has four sons and one daughter, all of whom share the first name Lindsey.
LCS was fully aware of Hunter IV and what he brings to the table for Southfield Christian. Hunter IV averaged 14.8 points per game during the regular season along with maintaining a sensational free-throw shooting percentage of 86 percent.
LCS senior guards Grant Hohlbein and Brad Harrah were not about to let the Hunter family prestige influence their tough assignment.
Hohlbein played defense on Hunter IV like a glove and forced him to make a couple of quick turnovers in the first few Eagle possessions. Harrah, guarded by Hunter IV on the opposite end of the court, gave Hunter IV issues quickly, as well. Hunter IV found himself in foul trouble early on, picking up two fouls in the first quarter alone after Harrah was able to get his feet planted and draw a charge in the paint.
Even with foul trouble creeping up on Hunter IV along with the rest of the Eagles, Hunter IV seemed composed and drilled some long-distance bombs to give Southfield Christian an early lead. Hunter IV has a lightning-quick release and his shots are extremely difficult to get a hand on, as the Cougars found out in the opening quarter. On the defensive end, Hunter IV managed to get one nice block from behind on a Harrah jump shot, but had difficulty maintaining a presence against the Cougars' tough triangle offense.
Hunter IV led all scorers going into the half with 13 points even though his team was trailing by one point at the break.
In the third quarter, Hunter IV once again picked up a charging foul when Hohlbein this time positioned himself perfectly as Hunter IV barreled over him and picked up his fourth foul. The LCS fans erupted as Hohlbein was helped off the floor by his teammates and threw a fist into the air.
With four individual fouls, Southfield Christian coach Clennie Brundidge was forced to place Hunter IV on the bench, where he remained throughout the remainder of third and most of the fourth quarter. Hunter IV was brought in again with just over five minutes to go in the game and LCS up 49-48. But in less than one minute of play, Hunter IV fouled out of the game when he sent Harrah to the line.
The Cougar guards played hard and smart, as they kept a talented Eagle from soaring in the title game.
Lenawee Christian limits Southfield Christian star Hunter
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Welcome to my blog and the place where I will post my photos and musings from my life as an ultrarunner. My nickname "Shining" was given to me by a group of very special students after I finished my first 100-miler, the Massanutten Mountain Trails 100. They were the inspiration that enabled me to finish this awesome race, and I try to live each day with a "shining" attitude!
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Ode to training partners...and dear friends
Yesterday at 5:00 am it was dark, cold, and pouring rain. There was thunder and lightning in the area and I had only three hours of sleep. I wanted desperately to sleep in and blow off my easy 8-mile recovery run, but I didn't dare.
The reason?
My longtime training partner, Bill Potts, would have given me the silent treatment for the next six months. So I dragged myself out of bed, into the car and out into the rain. One cold, wet, lightning-adrenaline-surged hour later, we were safely back at the car and thankful to be done. Thank goodness for loyal training partners!
What I enjoy most about being an ultrarunner---more than the trails, the race experiences, and the adventures-- are the people. Ultrarunners, it seems, are refugees from other parts of the endurance world, folks who have battle scars from Ironman and road marathons...and inner scars from real life. They are a fascinating, quirky bunch. All are drawn to the sport by the welcoming, "all-comers" vibe and the warm embrace that old timers give newbies. I look forward to every race because I know I will come home not only with a wonderful race memory, but also with a deepened connection to someone I will have encountered along the trail that day.
Lately I have been thinking about how important these connections, and these people, have become in my life. When I need company on the trail, one is usually able to join me. When I need someone to listen to me, they listen and support. When I need to escape the stress of the work day, they meet me at O'dark thirty on an AT trail head. When I need a friend with no questions asked, I have one...or many. When I melt down, they comfort me. And when I need a kick in the pants, they oblige. Here are a just a few training pals who have made a difference in my ultra life...
Bill Potts: West Virginia Mountain Trail Runner and UVA Hospital Social Worker, he kicks my butt each week on our famous "Bread and Butter" tempo run. Bill and I have been running together since 2004, and we have been training for Masochist during this training cycle. He loves hanging out at Greenberry's after a run almost as much as I do, and when he is not running or helping others deal with crises, he is usually in West Virginia at Dan Lehmann's house.
Bill recovers after Highland Sky 40, 2007
Bill Gentry: Another West Virginia Good Ole Boy, Gentry is a legend in the ultra world. We met at Masochist in 2003, which was my first 50 miler. I was struck by his friendly, low-key attitude and by race's end, we were tight. Gentry works at JMU and is a phenomenal writer.
Gentry celebrates his 100th ultra at Catherine's Fat Ass 50K, 2010
Eliza O'Connell: Because she is a mom of three young girls and a world-class duathlete, our schedules rarely mesh...but when they do, I know I will get my money's worth of a run. In fact, I have to taper before I run with Eliza. She runs UP everything (she almost beat the field at the Terrapin Half-M last March) and I can always count on needing a huge nap after we run together. She wrote the cute note (at the top of post) and left it on my car after she left me in the dust last weekend. One day she'll run an ultra and chick all the men. Count on it.
Eliza and me at Blackrock on the AT, 2010
Hallie Hegemeier: Hallie is also a mom of three and has a fierce passion for ultras. She finished her first "official" ultra at Terrapin Mountain 50K last March, and has been coming back from a foot injury all summer...but she is low-key, tough, and willing to try any trail. Once she is healthy we will be exploring some nifty trails and I am willing to bet that she will be at Highland Sky next June...
Hallie rocking down the Heartstone Ridge trail at MMB, 2009
Quatro Hubbard: What more can I say about Q-Dog? He is a loyal member of the VHTRC and has been a steady training partner to many, including me, for the past 8 years. Q will gladly offer to crew, pace, or run with you if you ask, to the detriment of his own training schedule. He loves being in the mountains and he loves helping other runners have fun adventures. Q convinced me to run MMT as my first 100, and while I rarely take him seriously, I am glad I did back then.
Q celebrating his second MMT 100 finish, 2009
Marlin Yoder: Marlin has been a steady training buddy this summer and fall, and since he is faster than me, I always get an excellent workout in. If I PR at Masochist this year, I will have Marlin to thank! I had a blast pacing him at MMT in 2009, and he returned the favor by being my most excellent crew chief at Grindstone 100 in 2009.
Marlin and me at the MMT 100 finish line, 2009
Mike Broderick: Mike and I met on the Wild Oak Trail in 2004 when he was training for Wasatch. We clicked immediately after realizing we shared a love for great music and The University of Virginia. Mike agreed to coach and pace me for my first 100 at MMT in 2005, where he endured one of the greatest Sophie meltdowns in history with grace and humor. Right now Mike is enduring his greatest challenge in his fight against cancer, one that he assured me "will not result in a DNF". I have no doubt that this strong, optimistic, and courageous man will come out on top.
(Dave Quivey, me, Mike, and Jill Quivey: 'Team Sophie" at MMT 100, 2005)
Thank you, dear friends, for your loyal support and unwavering cheerleading throughout the miles...and I pray our trails and paths cross many times in the years ahead.
9 comments:
- jenn said...
I love this post, sophie!! It's so true!! how the people you train and run trails with become such an important facet of your life! very akin to family. and you become a little tribe:o) I really feel the inclusiveness of ultrarunning is definitely one thing that draws me to this crazy sport!! :o)
(((HUG)) have a great time running priest today! beth and I will be thinking about you guys while we run our 24 miler over this way on the AT.
miss yall! and can't wait to see you guys in a couple weeks!
- October 16, 2010 at 4:43 AM
- Rick Gray said...
Life would be so empty without friends. Thanks for sharing your attachment with a few of your special friends!
- October 16, 2010 at 9:23 AM
- And Miles 2 Go said...
Backatcha, Soph. And THEN some! Glad so glad to be a part of your tribe.
- October 17, 2010 at 3:23 PM
- flame said...
This post really resonated with me. Somehow, I have been so fortunate to know you and run together with you and most all of these wonderful, amazing folks. I know my life is immeasurably better because of it and I am so thankful!
- October 18, 2010 at 12:47 PM
- eminnick said...
we are so lucky! glad the VHTRC has become part of our extended family too! we had so much fun on the memorial day weekend run and look forward to planning another adventure soon!
- October 18, 2010 at 4:48 PM
- Mike Bailey said...
Some nice reflection Sophie. I flew solo the first several years of running because I didn't know anyone. I would have probably stopped ultras completely had I not starting getting pluggged in during 2008. The folks, and friends, I've met have made the journey fulfilling and worth while.
- October 20, 2010 at 10:30 AM
Cool, Sophie. I'm sure your friends appreciate you as much as you appreciate them.
- October 22, 2010 at 8:30 AM
- AJW said...
Great post!
- October 25, 2010 at 4:59 PM
- chris mcpeake said...
great post. having friends to run and race with is half the fun
- October 26, 2010 at 8:58 AM


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We wrap up the week with two interesting stories about funds that intend to outperform by investing in women leaders.
The newest is a hedge fund being launched July 1 by Suvi Sharma and Rachel Sheinbein, former private equity managers who are partnering under the name Makeda Capital. Their California-based operation -- Makeda is Ethiopian for the Queen of Sheba -- will be focused on 50 U.S. companies with women CEOs and revenue of at least $500 million. Next week, they are bringing their pitch, geared to high-net-worth individuals, family offices and institutional investors, to New York.
Sharma, a man, tells Barrons.com that years of interviewing prospective employees gave him the hunch that women in leadership inspired excellence. Then, when Mary Barra became CEO of General Motors (GM), he back-tested the last three years of data. He found the pool of companies with a woman CEO and at least $500 million in revenue outperformed all major U.S. market indices. And the number of companies that fit his parameters has roughly doubled over the past three years.
It wouldn't be too tough to duplicate the list, but Makeda promises a proprietary weighting of 50 companies, balancing profitless growth companies with larger enterprises that pay dividends.
For the retail investor: investing in women got buzz this week when former Goldman Sachs and Bank of America executive Sallie Krawcheck announced a partnership that rebrands the Pax World Global Women's Equality Fund (PXWEX) as the Pax Ellevate Global Women's Index Fund. The fund, with $49 million in assets, invests in companies with corporate gender diversity and environmental, social and governance standards -- a broader mandate than women CEOs. (Press release here and more on socially-responsible funds from Morningstar.com here.)
Top holdings in the fund include the Royal Bank of Canada (RY), whose chief financial officer is Janice R. Fukakusa, and Statoil (STO), the Norwegian energy company with a woman vice president of technology, projects and drilling among its senior managers.
The New York Times Dealbook reports that Krawcheck, who last year bought the Wall Street women's network 85 Broads, is rebranding the group "Ellevate" as part of the fund partnership with Pax. Ellevate will invest in the indexed fund, and members get group discounts when investing in the fund.
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