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Clarkson University Dedicates Bench in Memory of James R. Spencer '15
In fall 2012, the Clarkson University Class of 2015 lost a great friend, classmate James R. Spencer. This year, on October 14, a group of friends from the Class of 2015, James' mother Jackie and brother Jonathan, and Clarkson President Tony Collins celebrated that friendship as the James R. Spencer '15 Memorial Bench was dedicated at Clarkson.
"Today we dedicate a remarkable memorial project, made possible by the generosity and compassion of an even more remarkable class, the Class of 2015," said Dean of Students and Associate Vice President for Alumni Relations, Steve Newkofsky.
Collins spoke of the importance of having a place to remember a good friend. "We have immense pride in the Class of 2015 for ensuring this shining example of friendship -- this bench, which will be greeted by the sunrise each morning and be present at Clarkson forever."
Located at the top of Holcroft hill, the James R. Spencer Memorial Bench looks eastward and overlooks Hamlin-Powers residence halls and the Village of Potsdam.
During the dedication ceremony, Abbie Cummings '15 reflected on her friend, saying, "James was an amazing person. He always had the most contagious smile on his face. Even though he was only at Clarkson for a few months, his presence was unforgettable.
"Within those few months he made hundreds of friends; almost everyone in the Class of 2015 knew his face. When he passed away there was a sense of togetherness in the Class of 2015. We all mourned the loss of a fellow classmate and friend, but now we celebrate his life.
"He was one of the funniest kids I've ever met in my life; he could make you smile by just looking at you. He lived every day the best he possibly could. From what I could see, he had no regrets. He was incredibly smart and determined to do well at Clarkson.
"He would never go and hang out with friends unless all of his work was done. He was athletic and loved to play hockey and lacrosse and was always a team player. He was forgiving, selfless, courageous, respectful, and simply the best. "
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in five alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.
Photo caption: Clarkson University recently dedicated a bench in memory of James R. Spencer '15. Above, friends from the Class of 2015, James' mother Jackie and brother Jonathan, and Clarkson President Tony Collins celebrate James' friendship at the James R. Spencer '15 Memorial Bench dedication.
[A photograph for media use is available at http://www.clarkson.edu/news/photos/spencerbench.jpg.]


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Blossom Point, Maryland, 1956. Image: Naval Research Laboratory
Dad grew up in rural Vermont, where his father was the town doctor at the time of the Spanish Flu and the Depression. Dad was attracted to science, and was assigned to the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) after graduating from Middlebury College in 1943. A decade later, he became involved in the early US space program, including "Project Vanguard."
This phrase had a very fuzzy meaning for me until my second-grade year. The December 1957 issue of National Geographic magazine had a photo of Dad holding the "grapefruit" test satellite. Within a week, the story became even more interesting, when the Vanguard Test Vehicle 3 (TV-3) exploded in spectacular fashion, damaging America's hope of taking back some of the spotlight from the Soviets after their successful launches of Sputniks 1 and 2.


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At a time when the NFLPA is considering the imposition of sanctions on Kim Miale for signing Jets quarterback Geno Smith with the possible use of Jay-Z as a rummer, the NFLPA has taken action against four other agents.
As announced by the union and posted at its website, the punishments come via two separate investigations.
First, agents Ethan Lock, Eric Metz, and Vance Malinovic agreed to pay fines in the amount of $5,000 each arising from the partial ownership of a company that they each represented did not provide services to athlete clients. They previously divested their ownership in the company in question.
Second, agent J.R. Rickert agreed to serve a three-month suspension and to pay a $5,000 fine for failing to make promised payments to another contact advisor under an agreement regarding the sharing of client fees. Rickert had assured the NFLPA that the payments had been made when in fact the payments hadn't been made.


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Roosters crow at sunrise. That's simply a false statement. It's 5 a.m. and dark outside the Minnesota State Fair poultry barn, and there's already a racket.
Roosters, hens, ducks, geese, turkeys, and doves are all in their cages waiting to be judged. Eric Bengston tends to them all. He's part of a team of people who throw out chicken scratch and make sure the cages are clean.
Bengston has been working with the chickens for 20 years. His grandparents ran the rabbit show, starting in the 60's, so he's been coming to the fair since his whole life. Through 4H, he showed rabbits and chickens.
Being part of the crew that takes care of the chickens means sleeping in the poultry barn to make sure there's no "fowl" play. Sometimes birds will get out of their cages in the middle of the night, and Eric has to wrangle them back.
Birds are judged on very specific qualities, which can be found in the American Poultry Association book, "American Standard of Perfection."
In addition to plumage, size, and shape, there's also a crowing contest. Whichever chicken crows the most in a specified half hour wins the contest. Listen close and see if you can pick a winner.


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This is a very good article on the subject because, although it talks about all pets, it has a pretty comprehensive and long section about parrots, even down to explaining how to tell!
http://www.coastalview.com/opinion/fit- ... 97779.html
DanaandPod wrote:Its not easy to keep up with and entertain certain parrots. But, if parrot keepers are obese themselves, theyre probablly more than likely to extend their habits to their pets, sorry to say.
Ive even finally am beginning to look more closely at mines sugar intake. Since recently, im monitoring and cutting mine.
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Children's Health: Apnea
During sleep, everyone has brief pauses in their breathing pattern called apneas. Usually this is completely normal.
Sometimes, though, apneas may be prolonged and happen often, making the breathing pattern irregular and abnormal. Abnormal apnea might actually cause decreased oxygen levels in the body and disrupt sleep.
Types of Apnea
The word apnea comes from the Greek word meaning "without wind." Although it's perfectly normal for everyone to experience occasional pauses in breathing, apnea can be a problem when breathing stops frequently or for prolonged periods of time.
There are three types of apnea:
Obstructive Apnea
A common type of apnea in children, obstructive apnea is caused by an obstruction of the airway (such as enlarged tonsils and adenoids). This is most likely to happen during sleep because that's when the soft tissue at back of the throat is most relaxed. As many as 1% to 3% of otherwise healthy preschool-age kids have obstructive apnea.
Symptoms include:
snoring (the most common) followed by pauses or gasping
labored breathing while sleeping
very restless sleep and sleeping in unusual positions
daytime sleepiness or behavioral problems
Because obstructive sleep apnea may disturb sleep patterns, these children may also show continued sleepiness after waking in the morning and tiredness and attention problems throughout the day. Sometimes apnea can affect school performance. One recent study suggests that some kids diagnosed with ADHD actually have attention problems in school because of disrupted sleep patterns caused by obstructive sleep apnea.
Treatment for obstructive apnea involves keeping the throat open to aid air flow, such as with adenotonsillectomy (surgical removal of the tonsils and adenoids) or continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), which is delivered by having the child wear a nose mask while sleeping.
Central Apnea
Central apnea occurs when the part of the brain that controls breathing doesn't properly maintain the breathing process. In very premature infants, it's seen fairly commonly because the respiratory center in the brain is immature.
Mixed Apnea
Mixed apnea is a combination of central and obstructive apnea and is seen particularly in infants or young children who have abnormal control of breathing. Mixed apnea may occur when a child is awake or asleep.
Conditions Associated With Apnea
Apnea can be seen in connection with:
Apparent Life-Threatening Events (ALTEs)
An ALTE itself is not a sleep disorder — it's a serious event with a combination of apnea and change in color, change in muscle tone, choking, or gagging. Call 911 immediately if your child shows the signs of an ALTE.
ALTEs, especially in young infants, are often associated with medical conditions that require treatment Examples of these medical conditions include gastroesophogeal reflux disease (GERD), infections, or neurological problems or cardiac disorders. ALTEs are frightening to observe, but can be uncomplicated and may not happen again. However, any child who has an ALTE should be seen and evaluated immediately.
Apnea of Prematurity (AOP)
AOP can occur in infants who are born prematurely (before 34 weeks of pregnancy). Because the brain or respiratory system may be immature or underdeveloped, the baby may not be able to regulate his or her own breathing normally. AOP can be obstructive, central, or mixed.
Treatment for AOP can involve the following:
keeping the infant's head and neck straight (premature babies should always be placed on their backs to sleep to help keep the airways clear)
medications to stimulate the respiratory system
continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) — to keep the airway open with the help of forced air through a nose mask
Premature infants with AOP are followed closely in the hospital. If AOP doesn't resolve before discharge from the hospital, an infant may be sent home on an apnea monitor and parents and other caregivers will be taught CPR. The family will work closely with the child's doctor to have a treatment plan in place.
Apnea of Infancy (AOI)
Apnea of infancy occurs in children who are younger than 1 year old and who were born after a full-term pregnancy. Following a complete medical evaluation, if a cause of apnea isn't found, it's often called apnea of infancy. AOI usually goes away on its own, but if it doesn't cause any significant problems (such as low blood oxygen), it may be considered part of the child's normal breathing pattern.
Infants with AOI can be observed at home with the help of a special monitor prescribed by a sleep specialist. This monitor records chest movements and heart rate and can relay the readings to a hospital apnea program or save them for future examination by a doctor. Parents and caregivers will be taught CPR before the child is sent home.
If You Think Your Child Has Apnea
If you suspect that your child has apnea, call your doctor. If you suspect that your child is experiencing an ALTE, call 911 immediately.
Although prolonged pauses in breathing can be serious, after a doctor does a complete evaluation and makes a diagnosis, most cases of apnea can be treated or managed with surgery, medications, monitoring devices, or sleep centers. Many cases of apnea go away on their own.
Reviewed by: Matthew Lundien, MD
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Five University of South Carolina Beaufort baseball players saw action for the North squad in the annual Sun Conference All-Star Game on Saturday at Sliwa Stadium.
Infielders Erik Armstrong and Terry McClinton and outfielder Ryan Doeppel were in the starting lineup and pitchers Kyle McCullough and Miles Galvin each threw an inning in relief for the North, which lost 7-4 to its South counterparts in the 11-inning game.
McClinton, who started at second base and batted second, went 0 for 1 with two walks and an RBI groundout. He also stole a base and had three assists and two putouts.
Armstrong, batting fifth and playing first base, and Doeppel, batting eighth and playing left field, went 0 for 2.
McCullough struck out two in a scoreless ninth inning. He allowed one hit but picked off the baserunner. Galvin worked around a walk in a hitless 10th inning.
The Sand Sharks open the season Feb. 2 with a home doubleheader against Shawnee State (Ohio) beginning at noon at Richard Gray Baseball Complex in Hardeeville.


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Yeah, the ability to hijack a passenger jet and crash it into building is really too much like the very real horror of the September 11th terrorist attacks, yet this we allows the same engineered carnage because no one is actually getting hurt, it's all just a game. And considering Just Cause 2 wasn't treated any different from Call of Duty as was enjoyed by the same people in the same way, it suggests even the soldier hero worship in video games is not so noble, but a means to an end of wanton death and destruction.
I really don't like to hear this as it totally contradicts Jim's "justified violence" argument to distinguish existing video game violence from those Japanese rape-games. That I argued FOR for the past 5 pages.
The guys at penny arcade seem to be much more in tune with how "wrong" the violence is in video games:
They aren't trivialising rape saying it is equivalent to the violence in video games, they are emphasising how awful these violent video games really are and it's only due to the player being of the perspective of the protagonist doing the killing that the awfulness of this isn't immediately apparent. The perspective shift to a reasoning self-aware soldier changes that.
The question then is... if we can deal with doing this very wrong thing of all the unjustified killing in video games, could we not also deal with rape being an element in games?
Maybe two wrongs don't make a right. Maybe yes, it is bad that video games allow and even endorse such unjustified violence and murder but that is no reason for the industry to start allowing rape as well. But the point is we established that as bad as the violence is in video games it is not directly a problem, bar other personal problems (Norway killer is responsible, not video games), should not the same apply to rape in games?
Isn't it that by admitting that you can't have rape in games, you're admitting that what you do in games changes you as a person... so too all unjustified or immoral things in games should not be allowed. We might be giving ammunition to the censors.
She might've been 12, not absolutely positive, but yea, little girl.
Yes but that's not forced, the "forced" part of your statement already excludes statutory rape, making the part where you're saying "adult" question as that distinction is unnecessary. You are already removing the grey area by saying
so the choice of words that
is very weird
You sorta brought it upon yourself with that remarkably poor wording choice. Like I still can't get why you wrote it like that.
Cut the condescending crap. They can cut away when they show rape, so it'll probably still get an m.
If they cut away properly the "rape" only occurs in your mind because you never see it happen, and for all you know it didn't.
As for Condescension, how about you go and watch the 1966 Hawaii. It was originally marketed as X for sexual content. Currently it's not rated. Put simply, everyone who went to see it for the sex was greatly disappointed.
Also the idea of "just" killing is pretty damn naive. It requires some incredible hyperbole.
"What if he ate 12 children alive." Well yes I could see how you'd want to stop them.
Otherwise the vast majority of all killings in the world at any period of time are unjust and not even close to anything otherwise.
If I had to choose between being murdered or being raped, I'd choose to be raped.
It would be terrible but I'd still be alive and frankly my life is more important than just about anything sexual or emotional. Because nothingness is the most horrifying thing and it alone has spawned religions across the entire planet.
I'm not entirely sure how something that has been essential in creating something as prolific as faith is held to a lower tier than anything else.
But either way this is not an option anyone should ever be forced to make.
How about folks just stop raping and killing and also stop mixing up pixels with actual living organisms.
If you fuck your toaster or shoot your sofa you aren't a rapist nor a killer. We need to stop equating toasters and sofa's with people.
I don't care if that Sofa looks a whole lot like a person and even has an AI, its still a damn sofa.
You can't be serious, there are many ways to indicate something is occurring without seeing it. You can have screams, a woman shouting no or the characters talking about it. Or the game can flat out say a rape has occurred.
It's obvious what I meant, but if you quote mine me to take spurious interpretations regardless of context then of course it is going to appear like I'm saying something "weird". There is no way, no way AT ALL you can reasonably and honestly infer I mean the horrific crime of rape can only committed against adults, how monumentally disingenuous and convoluted of BOTH of you. Only by deliberately discarding all inference and using the most narrow semantic interpretation of a sentence could you do that.
Neither Jim nor I was not defining "rape" but specifying the point of discussion. You know that. Don't pretend you don't.
Aardvaarkman repeatedly ignored the "forced" part and went of on a tangent of equivalence with statutory rape for no reason other than pedantic exploitation of semantics. THAT is weird.
I didn't want to talk about children as there are so few children in video games anyway, virtually none as protagonists for any significant portion of games time, and I didn't want to get into the issue of depiction of violence against children in video games. The issue of whether you should be able to kill children in video games is still not sorted with most going for indestructible children or other such contrivances as implausibly an entire country without any trace of children anywhere (Just Cause 2).
Plus rape or sex involving children wanders into the area of child pornography laws, there is just no reason to go there. Jim and I are talking about video games depicting rape involving adults as it is actually LEGAL to depict that. Bring children and sex together in and suddenly you've got the FBI, Interpol and all that bullshit. For the love of Jebus, I'm not saying the horrific crime of rape couldn't be perpetrated against a child, I'm just saying the depiction of it in video games in just plain NOT up for discussion here! I have made that clear from the very start.
Get that. Is that clear? Child Pornography laws are EXTREMELY strict and unforgiving, even with depiction very crude CGI sex or a simple drawing. It's just NOT part of the discussion.
CATEGORICALLY you CANNOT have graphic pedophilic rape in a video game as it would be banned as child pornography and the producers face some sort of prosecution. So there is no point in going there and that law is not changing any time soon and I don't see the point in arguing it.
Case closed. This has gone way WAY off topic to spite me repeatedly telling both of you to get back on topic and not go to this area.
I'm sure your imagination treats you and people like Brian Banks very well, and all the money Gibson got because of it.
Cause it's fictional characters doing fictional things, right? So fictional rape happening to fictional characters?
Rape should be avoided because it's a bad narrative device. Do it to much one way, and it's porn (like Rapelay) do it the other way and it's like one of those bad lifetime movies from the 90s.
Wtf are you talking about?
I'm sorry... but it's completely hypocritical to demonize rape over death. I will never view rape as being more evil than death. In death, there IS nothing else, it's the ultimate end, the cardinal sin. I figured the point that would be made with this video is that they're both evil, shut your mouths, they're just fantasy. What I ended up with was an 8 minute rant of why it's better to kill someone than to rape.
I'll tell you this, I'd be more frightened of someone that fantasizes of murder over rape. It's not because I'm a guy, it's because you're sitting there dreaming about mutilating someone, causing them pain, taking their right to life from them. At least in rape they're still alive. Emotionally and psychologically traumatized, but they're still alive. They still have friends, they can still pursue goals, they can still LIVE. I will not defend rape as being acceptable though, but I do believe they're both just as evil.
Yes, there ARE victims in murder and death. It's the dead corpse laying in front of you. That father will never see his children again. That woman will have to be laid to rest by her parents, something no parent should ever have to do. You're forgetting that death also effects EVERYONE around the person that was killed. Rape? It leaves one person traumatized too, but killing rips through family, friends, co-workers, everyone this person knew, and the fact you try to make death far more acceptable than rape is terrifying.
It's exactly why us, as a people, suddenly believe that sex is far more evil than showing someone getting their brains blown out on TV. God help you if a nipple shows, but if someone snaps their leg, hey hey! It's so damn funny! A game about crime and murder like Grand Theft Auto is ok... but add "Hot Coffee", and suddenly it's Adults Only? No. No. I find it so hard to put into words just how wrong that is, yet it's the exact same thing I always see. If you murder in real life, then you'll get a lesser sentence than if you raped. You don't have to join a list of known murderers, and tell your neighborhood that you killed someone.
Well, screw that. Me? I've been playing violent games since I could pick up a controller, all the way back into the NES days. I stopped the Alien Bomb at Mt. Demonhead for crying out loud. But so help me, I will never try to say death and murder are not lesser crimes, much less more acceptable than rape, and the fact that you find a villain that slaughters and brutalizes to be stomachable, but add rape and suddenly you're all "oh that's too far!"? I do believe there's something much more wrong with you than the people playing Rapelay.
I have never played Rapelay, I am not a rapist. I am a gamer, however, sick of seeing our bodies and sexuality demonized, yet violence and death embraced and beloved. Take that as you will, and tell me about how wrong I am, just as much as you want. It's just you grasping at the moral highground, trying to preach how evil someone else is, when you partake in something just as twisted. Me? I can live with being called twisted. I know who and what I am, and accept it. It's a shame you can't, though.
No , I know what you meant. I'm saying the wording was awful and that's why aardvaarkman went on this tangent.
indeed it is
Yet no one I know of has been put in any legal trouble for rapelay. I hear that authorities only really crack down on fictional child porn (in America) is when you also have a ton of real child porn and they wanna increase the charges. Although maybe there'd be more of an issue with a western publisher doing it.
Well your perception of poor enforcement of the law for an obscure game doesn't mean the law isn't there. And the risk of ot being enforced on a more high profile release.
The thing is most people have not played rapelay and it is not common knowledge that there is a pre-pubescent rape victim. That was never brought up and in all the reference images the older teenage girl was depicted that could be an adult. Throughout american media it is well established that a high schooler can be over the age of consent, i.e. the American Pie, Buffy, most high school dramas. Rapelay was used as mainly a visual example of a rape "game" simply for lack of a better example, I don't think anyone has any intention of tackling paedophilia as there is NO DISCUSSION there. That is totally not a non-discussion and it is so illegal or at least legally tenuous to depict.
The aspect of pedophilia in Rapelay is NOT the topic of discussion as that is an open ans shut case and likely the reason it is explicitly banned in the UK.
I can't and won't watch movies or anything that has rape in it, and I will not play a video game that has rape in it. However, I believe any medium has the right to tackle the issue, but when doing so, they must stress it is an act of violence, not a sexual act, and portray it from the victims perspective so the audience can understand their horror. I truelly believe it is immoral otherwise. Any piece of art, whether it be a video game or movie, that handles the subject as I described has my respect, even though I won't go near them. That's just me personally though. You can. It's cool.
I get the part about the genders not being equal in terms of rape statistics, but I got really rustled when Jim said that women aren't physically capable of raping.
That assumes that there is no female-on-female rape (our statistics can be underrated because it's possible that the majority of cases are not reported due to shame) and that all men are 250 pound beasts with full control on their erections.
Death makes you die. There is a lot of "murder" in videogames, not not every kill means murder. Many times there is no malice involved, just fighting back.
Spoiler alert, I won't get into too many details but based on that description don't watch/read The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo if you haven't yet. I belched the contents of my stomach into my mouth reading a book, which was a new experience to me. I love the Millenium series but I wish someone had at least warned me.
it is fairly common knowledge. Like, look at the cover
no, there is no discussion there and there is no reason to chop it off and make a distinction at all in this context. It's as if the topic of inter-racial rape came up somehow, let's say as a scare tactic and an example on something that could be put in as hate speech in a game that should be illegal, and you said that jim was obviously talking about white on white rape (Although what you said was MUCH, MUCH more understandable , and it's much less understandable to think that you meant something malicious by it), he was talking about actual rape in general and cutting it any more than to exclude consensual statuatory rape just seems unnecessary.
I didn't see that cover in any media relating to Jim's video, nor anywhere was the paedophilia aspect covered. It remains irrelevant. Stop trying to steer this off topic.
There is no discussion in any hypothetical inter-racial aspect because only racists make the distinction of different races having sex. It's utterly trivial to me. Interracial sex is not illegal to depict. Child sex is. Your comparison is utterly irrelevant. Rapelay is not the entire crux of Jim's argument with was NOT specific to Rapelay, even if stills were used in promotion of this video. You are inferring tenuous and meaningless links.
Why are you trying to make this a discussion about pedophilia? Just drop it. You are inferring something which was NOT in the OP's video, you had to go OUTSIDE his video to get some tangential link to underage sex.
The cover was in jim's video. 1:26-1:28.
I'm not trying to make the discussion about pedophillia, I'm trying to explain why your mis-statement caused it.There should be no specific mentions of pedophillia either, it's a distinction that serves no purpose in this context from any other rape. It's not about adults raping adults, it's about people raping people. I'm saying the distinction is as meaningless as the hypothetical inter-racial aspect.
Been watching these for a while, first time actually making a post on one. No real comment on any of the hot back-and-forth going on right now: Thoughtful speculation on some, differing opinion on others. Just wanted to say, while it may not have covered ALL the moral intricacies, ALL the specific scenarios, etc, etc., I felt this video to be an exemplary eight minutes on such broad and tricky subject matter.
I came to this site for Zero Punctuation and all the shenanigans and critiques Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw has to offer on video games. But it's stuff like this in Jimquisition (along with the lighter topics and other material such a Movie Bob) that compels me to stay and keep watching. This video has verbalized and changed my outlook on this topic. Thank you very much for creating it, and I look forward to your future videos! Forgive my intrusion in the discussion.
The self-defense angle, I must admit, while glaringly obvious, was something I never thought about as opposed to the "murder victims literally don't have to live with being killed ex post facto" dichotomy that usually gets brought up. It always irks me when I hear gamers use "rape" when they mean "got beaten" yet when I call them out on it, I freeze when they ask why "I got killed out there." or somesuch is any better, because it sounds like a trap to me, like I can't answer it without glorifying or trivializing murder. Officially, neither one should be analogized to just losing at a video game, but what was wrong with leaving it at "killing?" Why the upgrade?
Thank you, Jim. Honestly.
You still haven't explained how my "mis-statement" caused anything. Before I even said that Aardvarkman had jumped in with the derailing "there is a grey area between statutory rape and rape", bringing in the issue of child-sex. Which is NOT what this discussion needs AT ALL and an entirely semantic ambiguity anyway!
You are the one endlessly trying to bring up that rapelay had a possibly underage victim when that is not actually pointed out in the show. That cover shown for 2 seconds, no wonder I don't remember it, and no way enough time to tell that one of them was underage with the highly stylised faces and how her body proportions were not visible. OP's video remains to NOT cover the issue of under-age sex.
"I'm saying the distinction is as meaningless"
The distinction is one that YOU HAVE REPEATEDLY BROUGHT UP of the child aspect. Now its "people raping people" is another contrived attempt at getting child rape included (people is both adults and children) in the discussion. No. Stop it. Just please stop this. Drop this derailing tangent of trying to include the depiction of child rape in games, You have been TOLD it is a non-issue as it is totally illegal so you can't even go there.
This thread is tricky enough and you are going there, THERE of all places. Have you NO TACT AT ALL!!?!?
I brought this up in the FB comments, but since this seems to be where the action is, cross-posting it is.
The answer to the reason for the double standard simple: outside of prison populations, rape victims are primarily female and murder victims are primarily male. As proof of this being the source of the double standard, consider that it is acceptable in our society's entertainment to "play rape for laughs" when the victim is male, and becomes unacceptable to "play murder for laughs" (or even sufficiently brutal violence) when the victims are female.
Think the Vince Vaughn rape scene in Wedding Crashers, or even the statutory rape of a pre-teen child in the latest Adam Sandler "movie". Could you possibly reverse the genders and play the scenes for laughs?
Likewise, think of the extreme hand-wringing over the "uneasiness" many reviewers had with Hit Girl eating a few punches in Kick-Ass, not seeming to notice that the male lead (himself still a child) was absolutely brutalized in that movie (graphically stabbed, hit by a car, tied in a chair and beaten senseless, pummeled in a 4-on-1 beating, etc.)
Incidentally, Jim, your belief that boys are not (or were not) told "not to rape" might be a cultural difference, but as a child of the 80s in North America, I most certainly WAS told "not to rape". "No means no" was a very common trend and certainly visible in culture aimed at youths.
Wow very good video, I think you're right on pretty much all accounts and feel like you've managed to go through a lot of the reasons why rape is not and should never be accepted.
Actually, the "engage in" bit is key to my argument. The point being that rape is a non-consensual activity, one that the victim has no choice in. They don't "engage in" sexual activity, it is forced upon them.
This brings up a higher-order problem - what is "sexual" and why is "sexual violence" different than other forms of violence? Does sex mean it involves genitals? What about breasts? People are sexually aroused by all manner of things. Some people have fetishes about shoes. Does that mean that shoes belong in a special category so they should be protected from shoe rapists?
The whole foundation of this discussion/argument lies on shaky ground when sexuality is mentioned. There are no clear definitions of sex. Our laws and our language surrounding sex are completely inadequate. One needs only to look at pornography to see that almost anything can be considered as a sexual object or subject.
Therefore, rape is very complicated. Many legal definitions of rape include acts that are considered consensual sex by the participants. Similarly, there are legal definitions of rape that exclude forced sexual violation.
In my opinion, "rape" is a type of physical assault. The fact that it's linked to "sex" is a historical artefact, because it's almost impossible to define sex. In previous historical eras, sex was much more narrowly defined. But today, sexual activity is much more widely acknowledged to encompass a huge variety of activities. For examples, in 2012, most people think that it's possible for two women to have sexual intercourse. In earlier times, that would not be considered sex because it didn't involve a penis.
Why do you refer to it as "child-sex" rather than child rape?
Semantics are rather important here, especially given that Jim offers no definition of "rape" in the video. The concept of rape is legally and culturally varied. It's pretty important to specify those terms. You seem to consider rape as only a violent act, and you earlier mentioned that in this discussion it was only considered to be the rape of adults.
My question is why you only consider rape in such narrow terms, when the reality is that it's a lot more complex. Rape isn't just people being held at knife-point and being brutalised.
Why would the definition of rape exclude the rape of children? You say it's a non-issue because it's illegal - but the rape of adults is also illegal. You're really not making any sense here.
I'm kinda surprised Jim didn't really address how rape is usually portrayed as enjoyable to the perpetrator. He kinda touched on it or maybe implied it, but to me its one of the most notable reasons why killing in a video game is more palatable than rape. Of course someone could enjoy murder too, and that person seems sleazier than someone who does it out of necessity or apathy, but when I think about it I usually think of someone who is trying to satisfy an urge, in other words, doing it for enjoyment. Also take a look at this for some comic relief: http://www.cracked.com/video_18193_white-people-rapping-about-rape-what-could-go-wrong-5Bdnc5D.html
You were being needlessly pedantic, and since the source was Judaism and not Christianity in that instance, you weren't even being properly pedantic.
The point still remains that when people say "thou shalt not kill," it is almost certainly a reference to the Hebrew/Christian faith.
Please, practice pedantry properly.
"child sex" because a 17 year old girl is technically a child yet is she has sex with her 18 year old boyfriend it's a bit much to call it rape though under law it is defined as "statutory rape". Also, don't EVER think that the term "sex" automatically means consent, or that rape isn't a type of sex.
It is a FALLACY to argue from semantics. Your link between "rape" and "statutory rape" is entirely based on the semantics of the word "rape" not how 17 year old and 18 year old having sex is equivalent to - for example - a kind of rape as depicted in the rape scene in Deliverance.
Why should Jim have to give a definition of "rape"? IF you don't know what rape is then you should not be watching a video about rape. There is no ambiguity WITHOUT the "statutory-" prefix.
"you earlier mentioned that in this discussion it was only considered to be the rape of adults."
Lying will get you NOWHERE. I never said that. I explained that. I have REPEATEDLY AND EXPLICITLY stated that I never held that consideration.
"Rape isn't just people being held at knife-point and being brutalised."
I did make clear the threats may not be direct or immediate, but still the threat of force, anything that defies their ability to consent. Such as an interrogator demanding sex or else be sent out to a firing squad or be tortured later. And of course being unconscious or paralysed. Either way, I made clear that is follows the unambiguous definition of sex without or against their consent.
"Why would the definition of rape exclude the rape of children? You say it's a non-issue because it's illegal - but the rape of adults is also illegal."
Please, stop fucking me around, you know full well I meant rape involving children SHOULD NOT BE DISCUSSED here, not that the 'definition' of rape cannot include children as victims. You also know IT is the THE DEPICTION of child sex/rape is illegal, the depictions of adult having sex IS NOT ILLEGAL so the latter is even a possibility.
Jim's point was not just that rape is inherently "worse" than murder (which, yes, is potentially debatable, though we aren't going to get into that). The thing about portraying murder is a murder victim is not going to play a game and be given violent flashbacks. But a rape victim will. The only people who might be emotionally affected by the murders in games are people who have witnessed brutal murders, but as far as I know that is a significantly lower number than the number of rape victims out there.
As explained in that article I linked there, it isn't just about a horrible thing being shown. It's about the people who have suffered that trauma being reminded of that horrible event, and most often in video games that reminder was totally unnecessary. The problem with rape and murder isn't which is more awful. The problem is taking thousands of people's very personal traumas and trivializing and weaponizing them for the sake of shock and awe, and for asinine expressions. It's no less insensitive than setting off firecrackers under the seat of a soldier who's just come back from the front lines. And the biggest problem with it is that so many think that because you can't know when a victim is around, that makes it okay. The way I see it, that's even more of a reason to be very careful how games use rape, and how we talk about it in games.
Until that article, I was convinced there was a right way the new Tomb Raider game could approach the attempted rape of Lara Croft. But now, after reading that person's account and re-reading the producer's apparent reason for it, I'm not so sure anymore. Of course we'll have to wait for the game to be sure, but at this point things are not looking good.
I wasn't talking about statutory rape, I was talking about the depiction of very young girls being raped, as is the case with these "rape games".
I never said that sex automatically meant consent. I also never said that rape couldn't involve sex.
No it isn't. Semantics are integral to intelligent discussions. What's the problem with your caps-lock key?
There's plenty of ambiguity abut rape, even without statutory codes. That's why these discussions are so difficult.
Actually, you did. You said that Jim was only talking about rape between adults. Yet Jim never actually says that in the video. So I'm not sure where you're getting that from.
No, I do not know "full well" that is what you meant. Why is it that rape involving children should not be discussed here? You explicitly claimed that Jim was only talking about adult rape. Are you Jim's spokesperson?
I also did not know that the depiction of child rape is illegal - would you care to cite the law that states that this is so?
Your argument is wrong from the very first line. The "engage" came from this:
"talking about adults forcing other adults to engage in sexual intercourse."
So right from the VERY START there is absolutely no ambiguity of consent with the "force" term, with absolutely no choice at all. This is what I am talking about, you ignore EVERYTHING and focus on one word out of context and without any meaning. So transparently disingenuous.
Rape is different from other forms of violence due to the different and severe emotions from rape one that are different from other forms of assault. You have been told now.
Don't play the dunce on sexuality, it's quite clear that groping breasts and buttocks is sexual from the sexual arousal of the groper and from how the abused individual reacts to this. And no, you can't rape someone's shoe, it doesn't have ANY will or feelings of its own. The issue is not that some guy finds a shoe sexy and tries to fuck it, it is if he finds a woman arousing and forces himself on HER - a person - against her will. The issue is the victim's will.
"Therefore, rape is very complicated."
No. It is not. It's very simple: if they don't consent to sex then it is rape. Read case law on consent which is not that complicated.
"it's almost impossible to define sex."
Maximum possible physical contact seeking to elicit (but not necessarily achieving) sexual pleasure including orgasm in one or both parties. There.
That's a very poor assumption. Given the number of people living today who have survived wars, I would not be surprised if they outnumbered living rape victims.
Millions of people remain traumatised by World Wars 1 and 2. Plenty of people among my family and friends lost loved ones in those wars. Does that mean games depicting those wars are "asinine expressions" that take advantage of people's personal traumas?
Read any legal document you'll see the use of block capitals where they REALLY WANT YOU TO PAY ATTENTION. You clearly do not pay attention when you read what I have written.
Semantics are trivial. It's playing word games and doesn't get to the actual meaningful substance. Like the semantic link between "statutory rape" and "rape".
There is no ambiguity about rape. This is getting totally off topic.
"Actually, you did."
Where. You have made this allegation before and I have shot it down, and here you are making it again.
"You said that Jim was only talking about rape between adults."
And he WAS. He never mentioned any paedophilia nor the aspect of under-age victims. He only talks about scenarios with adults. I am not his spokesman... I merely watch the same video you did.
"Why is it that rape involving children should not be discussed here?"
You have got to be shitting me. When the very body of what you quote me from says "You also know IT is the THE DEPICTION of child sex/rape is illegal, the depictions of adult having sex IS NOT ILLEGAL so the latter is even a possibility." And we are talking about the DEPICTION of rape in video games. If you can't depict it, then I'm not going to discuss it. My opinion on this is final: no child porn.
You ask me to provide a source that child porn being illegal?
Hmm... no. Find it yourself.
I think to a degree, yes it is monopolizing on other people's traumas. And in many cases trivializing. But, there are reasons to have wars and violence as far as narrative. It isn't just about people killing people, it's about the larger stories and dramas at play. There are lots of stories to tell and emotions and moral situations to explore. With rape, there aren't really any other emotions you can draw on. There's the insane level of evil and disregard for humanity of the rapist, and there's the utter torment of the victim. There isn't anything dramatic or subversive there. It isn't a story, it's a travesty.
It is possible to pay honor to those who participated in war with movies and games that have war. You can't really pay honor to those who were raped by making movies and games that include rape. They are similar in the areas of trauma to be sure, but war is so much more complicated. Rape is horribly simple.
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Pinkee's had the Pro's Picks trophies on display at the kickoff party so everyone could see the hardware that potentially could be theirs. On Saturday, the crew from Pinkee's picked the 10 Pro's Picks cars, which included a good sampling of cars at the show and ranged from a traditional '32 five-window coupe to a high-tech '67 pickup. Rodney James and the Blue Flames played live rockabilly music all evening while everyone enjoyed the great weather, food, and touring the shop to check out the cool projects.


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This has been going on for years: a star player charges headlong toward the basket and then either flails his arms or drops to the floor like a lead brick. Tweet! Foul. The San Antonio Spurs -- specifically Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, and especially Manu Ginobili -- have become the undisputed ninja masters of this tactic, and they used it last night to con the referees into an endless litany of freethrows en route to a 41-20 advantage from the line and a 91-79 victory.
By games end, the Spurs had more freethrows (30) than field goals (28), which was a staple of basketball in the 1940s but is generally looked down upon these days. Jerry Sloan and Derek Fisher became so riled up after a late-game Ginobili flop that they got themselves ejected, which led to even more Spurs freethrows and effectively ended the game. The Energy Solutions Arena crowd, which usually doesn't do anything more controversial than boo really loudly, threw lip balm at the retreating Spurs after the game.
It's just another example of lousy NBA officiating. I have two requests for David Stern:
1. Please, for the sake of all that's holy, do something about flopping. It's a throbbing hemorrhoid on the tender butt cheeks of professional basketball. Every player hates flopping, yet every player does it...even Shaq, the loudest anti-flop complainer of them all. And the fans hate it too. It's not fun to watch. There isn't a single redeeming quality to the flop. It's a cheap and cowardly play. The players obviously aren't going to police themselves on this, because it provides an obvious competitive advantage. The league has to step in because it's getting worse by the year.
2. Adopt a "challenge" policy similar to the NFL. Allow NBA coaches to challege two (or more?) calls a game. Make the referees review some of their crummy decisions on the spot. If it is indeed a bad call, it should be overturned; maybe that would embarrass the officials into making the right call next time. If it was the right call, then the challenging team should lose a timeout, or maybe the opposing team should be awarded a technical freethrow. Whatever. But at least it would provide some measure of justice and relief against the obvious and egregious bad officiating.
Is this post a bunch of sour grapes? Maybe. But that doesn't mean that flopping and flailing isn't ridiculous. Imagine if guys started flopping in your pickup league. How well do you suppose that would go over? Take a look at this hilarious YouTube clip and then you be the judge:
Labels: Derek Fisher, flopping, Jerry Sloan, Manu Ginobili, NBA playoffs, officiating, San Antonio Spurs, Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Utah Jazz


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This week's giveaway:
Lent at Ephesus (CD)
By Benedictines of Mary Queen of Apostles (Decca, 2014)
About the album:
The critically acclaimed Benedictines of Mary, who have received accolades from USA Today, NPR, ABCs Good Morning America and beyond, now return with their latest release, Lent at Ephesus.
This compilation of poignant chants, intricate harmonies and rousing hymns of glory and redemption includes: O Sacred Head Surrounded, made famous by Bachs oratorios, All Glory Laud and Honor, the well known Adoramus Te Christe and the entrancing Improperia from the liturgy of Good Friday.
Three original pieces are also featured among the generous 23 tracks. Let the vibrant purity of their monastic sound peacefully escort you through the penitential season of Lent.
The Truth about the Sky
By Katharine Grubb (CreateSpace, 2014)
About the book:
As a Pastor's kid, Kim has been told her whole life that God can see every mistake she makes. Now that she's a college dropout, unemployed and in a questionable relationship with a party guy, her mistakes are all the more obvious. (Especially to her demanding mother, who, apparently, thinks wearing jeans on a commercial flight is a sin.)
If only she could move away! Then she could hide from gossip and no one would see her mess up! Kim can't move to Dallas unless she saves her money, so she swallows her pride and heads back to her childhood church to reluctantly serve as her father's congregation's secretary.
Her mother makes it clear, Kim better get her act together. Not only is the church watching her, but Kim is also bothered by her theme obsessed mother; a creepy mortician who wants to court her; a sad, but good-looking music minister (whom she may or may not have been kissing) and her childhood friend, Eddie, who, as a lawyer, has an inexplicable interest in lawn care.
Even if God was in her childhood church, Kim would be too busy and discouraged to find him. Then her father is caught in a scandal — one that challenges her already shaky faith and her dysfunctional family. She has to choose: will she run away from critical eyes to Dallas as quickly as her car can take her? Will she be as critical and condemning as her own family has been to her? Or will she take her brother's advice and believe, for the first time in her life, that God's grace is as big as the Oklahoma sky?
The Faithful Traveler in the Holy Land (DVD)
By Diana von Glahn (EWTN, 2014)
About the DVD:
Diana von Glahn takes an inspirational look at the land of the Bible. From atop Mount Carmel to the Dead Sea, from Bethlehem to Jerusalem, join Diana as she brings to life the history, art, architecture, and theology behind these hallowed sites. Other sites visited include: Nazareth, Ein Kerem, the Jordan River, Jericho, Capernaum, Cana, the Sea of Galilee, Tabgha, Mount Tabor, the Mount of Olives, the Garden of Gethsemane, the Via Dolorosa, Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Dormition Abbey among others! Includes six 30-minute episodes.


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A Sip of Soda: Learn the Details
Diet is like religion, it is not one-size-fits-all. And as controversies swirl over how to handle the obesity epidemic, as individuals, we are quickly learning that there are a lot of little things that we can do that will make a big change in the health of families. And that as we take these baby steps, these changes add up.
And with recent reports suggesting that even a 64 calorie reduction a day could go a long way to reducing the escalating rates of obesity, maybe it's as easy to do as ditching a can of soda. If you need some inspiration, try the infographic below.
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The UK government says it hopes to "make the internet 100 times faster" by kicking off a £7.2m research project dubbed "Photonics HyperHighway". David Willetts, minister for universities and science, announced the scheme during a speech at Southampton uni earlier today. "The internet is fundamental to our lives and we use it …
Dear Mr Willetts,
Could you please turn your attention next to getting gas to this area? It has been available for over a century in some places, they tell me. It might get you no publicity but is sure to be a vote winner. Desparate times and desparate coaltions call for desparate measures, old chap.
Yours in hope.
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You plug the string in their ears , cups any size D or whatever total waste of money in the wrong place. Or with WiFi you only need a 6" piece ( Ho Ho ) at each end to make it work. Although you cannot rub the string piece to hard or the receiver person looses controlhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/graphics/icons/comment/pint_32.png
I'm assuming that since our core routers run at 40Gb, and the upgrades are already planned to take that to 100Gb that this extra is to take us to 10Tb
However since there must already be work in progress that increases the 100Gb, then this new research must go even higher :)
After all just giving everyone 100x 100Mb won't help because the 100Gb tubes will already be full.
Forgive me if I am being cynical but I've heard it all before - all leading to absolutely nothing (99% of the time), a squandering of of tax-payers' money (the £13billion NHS CRS debacle) or if we really do something that is actually innovative (computer technology), it will simply get nicked by the Americans.
Politicians would be far more credible if they actually delivered. Just fulfilling the promise to roll-out super fast broadband to every home in the UK would be a start. Never mind a "hyperhighway", we haven't got to the "superhighway" yet. Not even a plain "highway" in certain parts.
The principal investigator on the grant (David Payne) has a world-leading track record in photonics, having been behind the development of the erbium-doped fibre amplifier (look at the references at the bottom of that Wikipedia article). Without optical amplifiers, undersea cables would be more expensive and less reliable, so his contribution to the basic technology that underpins the global telecommunications network (including the Internet) is substantial.
Call this a squandering of taxpayers' money if you want, but this is the sort of investment in basic R&D that's essential to the future economic wellbeing of the UK.
(declaration: I'm a lecturer in the same department as Payne, but not one of his direct colleagues)
...better than 2Mbps ADSL that doesn't drop the connection at random times of day and night.
And how is all this airy-fairy photonics stuff going to help me reach the vast majority of the sites I use, which are outside the UK?
And how do I go about getting a government that knows its arse from its elbow?
For only 7million quid they are planning to reinvent the optical, fibre, the nature of light, develop photonics routers and develop new materials with 100x the throughput - at least thats what their grant application claims.
Most likely given the pedigree of the team they have industry funding to an University internal grant an there own pot of money to, which could double or triple the pot of money they have available of the length of the research project.
An us Brits always get stuff done cheaply anyway an usually still better than anyone else, so I would not be entirely surprise if they achieve all there goals.
Commercialisation of new technologies is often the expensive bit an the part which the UK is terrible at an has been for a long time.
Not there job, the protocol has be written, coded up , agreed upon by everyone but no likes spending money so industry never brother implementing it, which is why there will be a mad rush over the next couple of years as the current addresses run out.
If it any fault it Government they should of force companies upgrade there equipement years ago.
Hardware vendors have only just launch IPV6, But I am sure they will jack up there prices once the crisis hit an we ran out of addresses. I am pretty sure some Hardware CEOs will be laughing all the way to the bank.
"Photonics Hyper Highway". Said real fast by my dog is amusing. Emphasis on Hyper as imaginary things flying through the air courtesy of boffins , 100 x the speed of a tortoise does not make it a Ferrari no mater how many labels they put on it. These Bozos don't even know the difference between a bit and a byte ( 8 x bits ) and their literature shows it. How fast do you want it madam ? - get outa here. We are using ESP in Yankee land courtesy of our Pres so therehttp://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/graphics/icons/comment/boffin_32.png
... that was installed at the height of the .com boom and subsequently went dark as prospective ISPs went bust? I thought that at least in the speculative economies of the west there was a good chance we have more fibre capacity than we're likely to need for some considerable time - if only someone can remember where the ends are...
The problem surely is not the backbone, in the 1990s phone companies all over the world laid fiber optic to every telephone exchange. I doubt they put less than 100 fibers per connection there.
Now 10 gigabits per second per Wavelength is nothing new any more. You can have about 100 wavelengths per fibre, giving you a terabit per second per Fibre, or 100 terabits per second per connection. Considering the exchange serves roughly 10000 people, each one of those still gets a _minimum_ of 10 gigabits per second, usually much more.
The big problem is the connection to the user. Telephone wires or cable television cables just don't have the bandwidth required for that. One would most likely have to upgrade the last mile to fibre. Perhaps another solution would be something similar like nano-BTSes on UMTS, only supplying a few people with fibre, and using MIMO technologies to service the rest. Of course nobody in their right mind would want to pay for something like that.
Reading it form several other sources, including the official site and the name itself suggest that all they're proposing is to bring optical technology into the hardware like the router and switches.
Which I'm pretty sure private companies have already started this area of research as the close to market LightPeak already shows.
Basically it still relies on Fibre Optics cable unless they're saying they can solve FTL travel, so in the end, bandwidth is still limited by the cables, they're just making sure it's more effectively utilised.
7.2 mil grant won't really make any difference except the people who's getting this grant, if they can successfully beat the Americans in patenting the technology, would make them billionaires using tax payers money, if not, they got a few years worth of living expense.