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As a gardener, Winter Solstice holds much more meaning for me than the conventional new year marker of January 1. Even here in Southern California's year-round growing season, we observe the slowing of plant growth into semi-dormancy as the Solstice approaches. We witness the acceleration into new growth once the Solstice is past. Animals know it too -- my chickens are resuming laying. The Winter Solstice is the crossover point, the planet's annual marker of change.
Some years I join friends at a Winter Solstice fire at a local community garden. As part of the evening we write down one thing we are releasing from the old year, and something we wish to bring alive in the new year. Then we slip the paper with our intention into the fire pit together with some white sage leaves or perhaps some rosemary. This beautiful ceremony always gets me thinking, at a rather early point in the season by conventional calendar terms, about my personal goals for the new year -- "Resolutions" if you will.
2011 has been a year of incredible upheaval. Many of the things that we in the alternative world have been forecasting and dreading and preparing for, became the headliners in the conventional newspapers. Major storms. Economic collapse. Widespread unemployment. Protests on the streets. Riots overseas. Governments toppling. Hunger on the rise.
In some circles, 2012 is a number burdened with great significance. Anticipations of doomsday. Deadlines on climate agreements. A popularly cited date for the peak of oil production. Yet there has been a great welling-up of grassroots change, for the good.
Ecophilosopher Joanna Macy refers to this time in which we are living as The Great Turning. She says we are currently going through the third great revolution in the history of mankind -- a revolution on the humanity-wide magnitude of the Agricultural Revolution or the Industrial Revolution.
The Great Turning is a time of massive change: Change in our outer world, for example changing to low-carbon lifestyle patterns, bringing our food supply more local to where we live, changing many of the patterns and practices Americans have called "normal" for the past 50 years. Change in our social world, with attempts to heal some of the chronic injustices. Change in our inner world, embracing a new view of relationships with each other, and a new definition of humanity in interconnected relationship with this one small planet we call home.
Once one acknowledges that what we are going through is as massive as the third great revolution in the history of mankind, it becomes quite obvious that the lifestyles we have known in the past are of the past. No "jobs bill" through Congress, no presidential candidate is going to be able to do anything to create "economic recovery" and get things "back to normal." No, things are going to get really different.
Here in our Southern California year-round growing season, in the month leading up to the time of the Solstice very little will grow. The lingering warm season crops have curled and died, with the composting processes taking over. Our cool season crops slow their growth. Leafy greens continue to look bright in the garden, but cut-and-come-again plants don't quite do the "come again" part -- few new leaves unfurl. A pea seed put into the earth in mid-December will sit there, unsprouted. If we get rains at this Solstice resting time, that unsprouted seed may even rot before the planet shifts to the sprouting time. The compost critters have slowed down. Nothing is really going anywhere. It feels like everything is stuck.
In society right now, the "warm season" good-economic-times businesses have curled, died, and are turning to compost. The more resilient businesses, the ones we would expect should thrive into this transition, might look bright and hopeful in the "garden" of society, but few new avenues are unfurling. Some new greener economic ventures may even rot before sprouting properly. With Christmas retail, some people (misguidedly) celebrate that the overall composting/unraveling process has slowed. But nothing is really going anywhere. It feels like everything is stuck.
Right now, one could say we are in the Solstice time of society, the quiet zone between the seasons.
Soon the sprouts will begin to stir. The patterns and techniques of the new era will begin to reveal themselves. As old lifestyle habits (like leveraging and borrowing and globalization and corporate jobs) are dying away to compost, new practices are emerging. Urban agriculture. Local crafting and manufacturing. Renewable energy. Consensus processes. Gift circles and local sharing solutions.
In the garden, as we emerge from the Solstice time, life processes resume. Compost critters awaken from their rest, and the decomposition process gets going again. Our cool season crops stretch their leaves and burst into glorious new growth. Seeds sprout again, bringing forth the next generation.
Soon we will notice the post-Solstice reawakening in society. The unraveling and composting forces will get back underway. (This can be unnerving, even for those who know we're going through the third great revolution in the history of mankind.) Existing "transition-oriented" practices, habits, and businesses will reawaken to spread their leaves into new growth.
Note: For want of a better term, I'm using "transition-oriented" to refer to lifestyle habits, practices, techniques, businesses, organizations which are oriented to cope with this time of transition, this time of massive change. Oriented to cope with a post-petroleum, localized, economically lean, post-peak-everything, low carbon, socially evolving time. Designed to address the new future.
Weeds will flourish as well. A weed is the wrong plant in the wrong place at the wrong time for the gardener's overall plan for the garden.
Energy-intense, high-consumption, socially repressive business directions are weeds – they aren't part of any overall plan for humanity's survival. Government plans which depend on globalization, existing financial networks, and the presumption of growth are weeds. Many "jobs" programs are being contemplated, and most of them are designed as weeds. Building more freeways and sports arenas, expanding airports, "improving" widespread sewer projects -- even if they "create jobs" -- are weed-based approaches. They are ill-fitted to the necessarily powerdown, localized, lower consumption future we face.
Bailout is a vain attempt to stop the composting process. It is usually based upon bonds and government debt. Any kind of debt (whether that is government, bond programs, personal debt, college loans) at this point in human history is most definitely a weed. Debt means borrowing from the future to consume today; thus at this point in time that means borrowing from a much leaner future to consume in today's relatively more-plentiful times. Don't go there.
Weeds can be quite durable in a garden. They will suck nutrients away from the desirable plants we are trying to nurture.
As we emerge from this Solstice time, what will be your personal role? It is the season for setting personal goals. "Resolutions" perhaps, but I urge you to think in terms of a course of positive action. What do you have the skills and passion for, to offer to this revolution? What part will you play?
In tough times it is tempting to curl up and go inside. It is tempting to contract our views, to get smaller -- to focus solely on intimate family, daily needs, job, and little fiddly things like housekeeping. Meanwhile, out in the garden, big weeds flourish unchecked, and the desirable plants struggle with inadequate support. Unattended, the weeds and composting processes will take over (see Jared Diamond's Collapse). But we could be growing a valuable crop (see Rob Hopkins' The Transition Companion). How might you help nurture it?
Joanna Macy identifies three ways we can further The Great Turning:
(1) Stopping action - halting further destruction. Preventing the errant conventional practices from wreaking any more damage in this interim period between our realizing how bad it is, and our setting up wiser practices. Traditional environmentalism is full of examples: Julia Butterfly Hill sitting in an old-growth tree; crowds protesting Keystone XL in front of the White House.
(2) Creating new structures - building the new ways of the future. This is where the international Transition movement and transition-oriented organizations blossom and shine. Examples might include: setting up time banks or sharing networks, securing land access and building community gardens, teaching people the new skills needed for powerdown lifestyles, retrofitting buildings with insulation and low-tech energy-free necessities.
(3) Change in Consciousness - helping people with the psychological and spiritual redefinition that is part of this journey. Examples include the work of Joanna Macy, the work of Pachamama, and many more.
What is your role? Which of your old habits will you allow to settle into compost? What part will you play in furthering The Great Turning?
Are you a "stopping action" type – do you like the thrill of political action? Then help "pull weeds"; clear the space for the new directions we need to take. Campaign to stop misguided projects which won't bring us a survivable future.
Are you a "change in consciousness" type of person? Many spiritual circles are coming on board transition-type ideas. Churches, synagogues, spirituality groups are looking for answers. Help others understand the ideas of The Great Turning and the realities of peak everything; help them to accept the inevitability of change. Then help people cope, emotionally and spiritually, with the redefinitions of self, community, humanity this drives.
Are you a builder, a creator, a networker, or an organizer? Where are the blank empty spots in the "garden" of your local community? What transition-oriented tools do you wish your neighborhood had? A time bank? A local food hub or free public food supply? A neighborhood study group such as the UK's Transition Streets? A business network, studying the types of business and the changed philosophy that will be necessary for this new future? What could you do to help set these up?
Success trainers from Stephen Covey on down encourage their students to write goals. In group work of my past, we used to encourage each other to "commit it to writing."
Something happens when you put pen to paper, something clicks inside. "I meant to do that" crystallizes. It moves out beyond fleeting notion, and becomes intention. You make a commitment to yourself, and perhaps to those around you as well.
Let me encourage you to commit your goal to writing. Write it in the comments section here, or write it in your private journal at home: What will be your part in furthering The Great Turning this year?
Joanne Poyourow is active in Transition Los Angeles. Her most recent book is "Economic Resilience: What we can do in our local communities." You can now follow her on Twitter @TLAJoanne


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What is libdc1394?
libdc1394 is a library that provides a complete high level application programming interface (API) for developers who wish to control IEEE 1394 based cameras that conform to the 1394-based Digital Camera Specifications (also known as the IIDC or DCAM Specifications). The library is currently the only one to run on all three major platforms (Linux, Mac OSX and Windows). On Linux, both the legacy drivers (raw1394/video1394) and the new "juju" stack (firewire-ohci) are supported and auto-detected.
libdc1394 provides a complete API that includes camera detection (hotplug coming soon), broadcast commands, bus ressource management (basic), full feature controls (including absolute values), memory channels, external and software trigger, support for all video modes (including 16bit modes and 1394B modes at 800Mb/s), video capture using DMA and full Format_7 control. Moreover, libdc1394 also includes a number extras such as the support of vendor specific features for Allied Vision Technologies (AVT), Basler and PixelInk. The library also includes video conversion tools such as color space conversion (YUV, RGB, MONO, etc...) and the demosaicing of Bayer color pattern images (with 8 different algorithms and including 16bit modes). All these features in combination with the multi-platform compatibility makes libdc1394 the most versatile and performant SDK for IIDC cameras. Moreover, it's open source (license: LGPL) and it's free! Several examples are also provided to put you quickly on the right tracks.
libdc1394 works with every camera that follows the IIDC standard, which is about 500 models. Check the IEEE1394 Digital Camera List for more information.
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Source code:
For official releases of the source code of libdc1394 you can go to the Sourceforge website. The source code will allow to build the library on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows (the latter via the MinGW compiler). Source packages may be available for your Linux distribution, but these are not maintained by the libdc1394 team.
For bleeding edge code you can also access the project's GIT repository, also on Sourceforge. For example, to get the latest tree type:
git clone git://libdc1394.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/libdc1394/libdc1394/
You can also read the code, make diffs, check the history, etc... via the web-based GIT interface.
Binaries are currently not available on Sourceforge. However, most linux distributions have libdc1394 binaries in their package management system (APT, RPM, YUM, etc...) so you should be able to get them instantly. If you intent to develop code, don't forget to get the "-dev" or "-devel" package which contains the header files, among others.
No binaries are provided for Mac OSX or Windows at this time.
libdc1394 was programmed and debugged by the following individuals. Let me know if your name is missing, incomplete, misspelled or should not be mentionned here.
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A rundown of what's going on the week of 2/13-2/19.
MOVIES OPENING (Friday)
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
The Secret World of Arriety
A Separation
This Means War
BET Honors (special; 9 p.m.; BET)
Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opener (special; 9 p.m.; CNBC)
World's Toughest Truckers (series premiere; 10 p.m.; Discovery)
Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show closing night (special; 8 p.m.; USA)
Cougar Town (season premiere; 8:30 p.m.; ABC)
Top Shot (season premiere; 10 p.m.; History)
Teen Mom 2 (season finale; 10 p.m.; MTV)
What What Happens: Live Millionare Matchmaker Valentine's Day Special (11 p.m.; Bravo)
Survivor: One World (season premiere; 8 p.m.; CBS)
The Slap (series premiere; 10 p.m.; DIRECTV Audience Network)
Prophets of Science (returns; 10 p.m.; Science)
Heart of Stone (documentary premiere; 8:30 p.m.; Showtime)
Undercover Boss (new time slot; 8 p.m.; CBS)
BET Takes Hollywood (special; 8:30 p.m.; BET
A Gifted Man (new time slot; 9 p.m.; CBS)
Life & Times of Tim (season finale; 9 p.m.; HBO)
Baker Boys: Inside the Surge (documentary premiere; 4 p.m.; Military)
Second Honeymoon (movie premiere; 8 p.m.; Hallmark)
A Cross to Bear (movie premiere; 9 p.m.; GMC)
The Fades (season finale; 9 p.m.; BBC America)
The Simpsons 500th episode (8 p.m.; Fox)
The Amazing Race (season premiere; 8 p.m.; CBS)
Jerseylicious (season premiere; 8 p.m.; Style)
Street Heat: High-Speed Justice (special; 8 p.m.; Nat Geo)
Downton Abbey (season finale; 9 p.m.; PBS)
The Celebrity Apprentice (season premiere; 9 p.m.; NBC)
Big Rich Texas (season premiere; 9 p.m.; Style)
LA Street Racers (special; 9 p.m.; Nat Geo)
Eastbound & Down (season premiere; 10 p.m.; HBO)
Pan Am (finale; 10 p.m.; ABC)
Underworld, Inc.: Grand Theft Auto (special; 10 p.m.; Nat Geo)
Khloé & Lamar (season premiere; 10 p.m.; E!)
Ice Loves Coco (season premiere; 10:30 p.m.; E!)
Life's Too Short (series premiere; 10:30 p.m.; HBO)
Tight Bros (series premiere; midnight; Adult Swim)
NEW ON DVD/BLU-RAY (Tuesday)
All Things Fall Apart
American Teacher
Doctor Who: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
Human Centipede II
Paranormal Activity 3
The Rum Diary
Storage Wars, Volume 2
Take Shelter
Wainy Days
Woody Allen: A Documentary
NEW BOOKS (Tuesday unless otherwise noted)
"Private Games," James Patterson (Monday)
"Unorthodox," Deborah Feldman
"I've Got Your Number," Sophie Kinsella
"That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
"The Wolf Gift," Anne Rice
"Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars," Scotty Bowers
"Mob Daughter," Karen Gravano
NOTABLE NEW ALBUMS (Tuesday)
Amos Lee, "As the Crow Flies"
Audrey Assad, "Heart"
Band of Skulls, "Sweet Sour"
Barry Adamson, "I Will Set You Free"
Drew Nelson, "Tilt-A-Whirl"
Exdetectives, "Take My Forever"
Heartless Bastards, "Arrow"
Hillsong, "Live in Miami"
Howlin Rain, "The Russian Wilds"
Islands, "A Sleep & A Forgetting"
Lee DeWyze, "What Once Was"
Madonna/Abel Korzeniowski, "W.E. (Music from the Motion Picture)"
Mitch Ryder, "The Promise"
Punch Brothers, "Who's Feeling Young Now?"
Rosie Thomas, "With Love"
Shearwater, "Animal Joy"
Tennis, "Young and Old"
The Explorers Club, "Grand Hotel"
The Phenomenal Handclap Band, "Form & Control"
The Saddest Landscape, "After the Lights"
Tonight Alive, "What Are You So Scared Of?"
Uriah Heep, "Logical Revelations"
Vintage Blue, "Strike the Mics"
Young Magic, "Melt"
Yuksek, "Living on the Edge of Time"
RAMS HEAD LIVE: Blind Pilot (Thursday); They Might Be Giants (Friday); Pirate Rob's Birthday Bash w/ Pasadena, the Grilled Lincolns, more (Saturday)
BALTIMORE SOUNDSTAGE: MartyParty (Wednesday); the Social w/ DJ Sal Flip (Thursday); Dieselboy, Numbernin6, Big Chocolate (Saturday); Casadee Pope (Sunday)
SONAR: Lock Up (Wednesday); Elxr: Remix (Thursday); B-More Renegade Hip-Hop (Friday); Aces High (Saturday; Illuminations (Sunday)
GOLDEN WEST: Natural Child (Sunday)
METRO GALLERY: War On Women, the Woolly Moon (Wednesday); No Divide, Border Slate (Saturday)
THE WINDUP SPACE: Jumpcuts, Ichicuts (Thursday); Bellflur, Yellow Raincoat (Saturday); Gods & Queens (Sunday)
OTTOBAR: Man Overboard, Handguns (Wednesday); Terminal Love w/ DJs Adam Savage, Tony Pence (Thursday); Girls Rule! Female vocalist dance party (Friday); Forever Shining hip-hop tribute and fundraiser (Saturday); Isaac.Shane Fest 5 (Sunday); Lettis, Gary B (Sunday)
8x10: Benny Marchant, Tim Nodar (early show Wednesday); the Doom Trio (late show Wednesday); Bonerama, Dawgone (Friday); Psycho Killers, the 14th Circuit (Saturday)
RECHER: Hunter Hayes (Wednesday; sold out); Biohazard (Thursday); Emilie Autumn (Friday); Less Than Jake (Saturday); Next to Nothing/My Favorite Colour (Sunday)
RAMS HEAD ON STAGE: Tab Benoit (Monday and Tuesday); Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer/Victoria Vox & Katie Chambers (Wednesday); Gary Puckett and the Union Gap (Thursday-Friday); America (Saturday-Sunday)
FILLMORE SILVER SPRING: Allstar Weekend (Tuesday); The HariKaraoke Band Gong Show (Thursday)
9:30 CLUB: RED, Thousand Foot Krutch (Wednesday); Big Gigantic (Friday; sold out); Tea Leaf Green (Saturday); "Next Big Thing" show (Sunday)
DAR: Diggy (Sunday)
BLACK CAT: Mothertongue Anti-Valentine's Day Slam (Monday); Valentine's Day Rock & Roll Dance Party (Tuesday); Coup Savage and the Snips (Wednesday); Flock of Dimes (Thursday); Stereosleep (Friday); Matthew Santos (Saturday); Scud Mountain Boys (Sunday)
Comedian Alonzo Bodden (Monday and Tuesday; Baltimore Comedy Factory)
Date Night (Tuesday; National Aquarium)
She'Baltimore performance (Tuesday; Friday through Feb. 26)
Anti-Valentine's Day Celebration (Tuesday; Mad River)
Love is a Battlefield: the Anti Valentine's Video Party (Tuesday; Creative Alliance)
Trixie & Monkey Present: Tainted Love (Tuesday; Ottobar)
"Very Funny Valentine's Day Show" (Tuesday; Magooby's Joke House)
"In the Mood" 40s music revue (Tuesday; Modell Performing Arts Center at the Lyric)
The Baltimore Sun's Newsmakers Forum (Wednesday; The Baltimore Sun)
Comedian Jeff Dye (Wednesday-Saturday)
"Giulio Cesare" (Thursday-Sunday; Theatre Project)
Improvised Music Night (Thursday; Towson University)
Comedian Tommy Davidson (Thursday-Sunday; Baltimore Comedy Factory)
"The Genius of Mozart" (Friday; Meyerhoff)
Comedian Brian Kerns (Friday-Saturday; Sully's Comedy Cellar)
"Coastal Disturbances" palay (Friday-Feb. 26; Fells Point Corner Theatre)
Bridges to the World International Film Festival — "House of Sand" (Friday; Van Bokkelen Hall Auditorium, Towson University)
Royal Comedy Tour featuring Sommore, Bruce Bruce (Friday; 1st Mariner Arena)
Steve Harvey (Friday-Saturday; DAR)
Jim Paulsen Alumni Sculpture Exhibition (Friday-March 31; Center for the Arts, Towson University)
Do or Die Murder Mystery (Friday and Saturday; Spotlighters Theatre)
Dunbar Baldwin Hughes Theatre Company Cabaret w/ Karina Pasian, dance crew S.L.A.M. (Friday; Homewood Campus)
Dare and Demo Night (Friday; the Glass Grill)
High Priestess of Soul tribute to Nina Simone (Friday; Creative Alliance)
Fiction: 510 Readings (Saturday; Minas Gallery)
Baltimore Blast vs. Milwaukee Wave (Saturday; 1st Mariner Arena)
Viva Brasil! Samba dance party (Saturday; Creative Alliance)
"The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu" screeing (Saturday and Feb. 20, 23; Charles Theatre)
Baltimore's Biggest Mardi Gras Festival (Saturday; Power Plant Live)
Charm City Classic dance competition (Sunday; 1st Mariner Arena)
"Strange Fruit" screening (Sunday; Reginald F. Lewis museum)


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JetBlue, ever the customer-friendly airline, is making waves once again, after it booted an 18-month-old toddler whose name allegedly appeared on a no-fly list. The family believes they were profiled because of their Middle Eastern heritage and the Transportation Security Administration claims that the girl's name was never flagged. JetBlue offered the generic explanation/non-apology:
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has discovered a discrepancy in section 35-45 of the Coverage Issues Manual (CIM). The policy states that cardiac catheterization may be covered in a freestanding clinic when the carrier, in consultation with the appropriate Peer Review Organization, determines that the procedure can be performed safely in all respects in the particular facility. The Peer Review Organizations (recently renamed Quality Improvement Organizations) ceased doing reviews of core freestanding, cardiac catheterization facilities in the early 1990s. Since the implementation of CIM 35-45, we are unaware of any emerging evidence that there is a greater risk of adverse events at these freestanding clinics. Therefore, CMS is opening this policy to review the evidence and correct the discrepancy.
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I personally know a girl who does just that. Is actually a dear friend of mine nowadays. Had some honest talks with her.
Also a reason why she only keeps female friends which are not as pretty as her. Totally shallow and superficial.
I know anecdotal evidence isn't prove of anything, but "attention whores" are nothing special and are not only apparent in the gamer community. But they still piss me off - doesnt matter if they're male or female.
It's kinda the gamer-type counterpart to girls who call men to go out to party, cocktease them so they pay their drinks and then go home alone. It's dishonest and manipulating and i can understand anyone who's upset by such behavior.
This is the kind of thing that's brought up when I brag that my mother has a level 85 on World of Warcraft.
Fuck those people. They're missing the point. My mother plays World of Warcraft, and that's awesome in itself. Who cares how she plays it?
It's a Japanese game aimed at woman that homosexuality relationships with beef guys, believe me there are lot more of them out there including 2d rail shooters.
I don't personally find anything wrong with it at all I mean hell japan is willing to please both sexes with fantasy smut instead of catering to one.
People don't like it when what they viewed as a counterculture is appropriated by the mainstream.
Everything else is personal idiocy.
This wasn't even a thing until articles started being written about it over a silly comic.
I swear that was the example I was about to give when I started reading your comment. DX
If there's two of us standing behind the counter, me closest to the door and another guy minding his own business, and a guy walks into the store, they automatically skip me and go over to the guy. It doesn't happen all the time because I usually go all "CAN I HELP YOU?" as soon as they walk in and not everyone is a douche. But it happens very often and most of my male co-workers don't believe me at all or refuse to see it.
There's also the guy who starts questioning about every single game. "Do you know how many players this is? Do you know the year it came out? Do you know what this random indie game is about? Have you played Halo Reach? Did you ever play MAG? Do you remember Battletoads?"
On the other hand, I also get a lot of guys hitting on me simply because 1. BOOBS and 2. I like games. And I also hate that. I'm not saying I'm beautiful or ugly; that's not even an issue at that point. And it also sucks when I find a guy that's willing to listen to me rant about how I didn't like RE: ORC or tell them to try Fez or something without the words "So can I have your number?" following my monologue.
I don't know if that makes sense to everyone. But it's annoying.
Well, manipulative behavior riles most people when you get down to it. The whole "fake nerd girl" thing is simply a kind of manipulative behavior, which is why it gets such strong, negative responses. My problem is that it needs to be understood as a manipulative behavior in order to understand the reaction.
As far as I go, my direct experience has been seeing some pretty solid guilds ripped apart by this kind of thing, and otherwise viewing the damage in various internet communities. For the most part I don't deal with it myself since my internet persona is pretty bloody unapproachable and not especially well liked (even if not hated). You might of course also realize at this point there are reasons why I carry myself the way I do.
In the first post I wrote I went into more detail, but let's just say there was an issue with this kind of thing before it wound up on the radar of sites like The Escapist and commentators like Jim. The whole chan-inspired "Tits or GTFO" is pretty much in response to the "faux nerd girl", rather than just being a matter of general sexism. It basically coming down to the stereotype of some cute girl coming into fringe culture, flirting, and then showing her boobs for gifts (even if worked into subtly). The basic schtick basically being "you might as well just show me your tits now, and get the pretensions over with", or a sort of "I'm onto you". This is why when you see a cute-seeming girl being unusually friendly or acting geeky someone will toss one of the many versions of that copypasta her way.
I dunno... I think I'm gonna have to disagree with Jim's core point here, which doesn't happen too often. Setting aside the question of whether these girls actually exist and in what numbers (for the record, he was spot-on about how females come under unfair scrutiny for expressing traditionally-male interests), I do in fact find the concept of them annoying. As someone mentioned earlier in the thread, the whole controversy is basically an extension of the ongoing debate over booth babes (a subject Jim addressed, oddly, a lot more evenly less than a month ago); the reason some people want to abandon the booth babe practice is because they feel irritated and uncomfortable in response to being pandered to. The chief difference here is that these alleged fake nerd girls aren't posing as nerds because they're employed by a publisher cynically attempting to sell their game, but instead do it purely of their own volition because they're looking for some easy attention.
Bottom line: Females get a lot more flak and suspicion for it, and that's screwed up, but the fact remains that whether you're a guy or a girl, no one likes a lying attention whore.
Jim is being a bit overzealous. There's a difference between disliking something and being "outraged" by it. I'd just like people to be genuine, you know? When a person's enthusiasm is artificial it shows in many subtle ways, and suddenly I feel like I'm being pandered to by cold calculating marketers instead of people who actually understand games and other things I like.
Do I care if the girl really likes games? No.
But if she doesn't I'd rather she just be honest about it and act that way. I'd trust her and respect her more for her strait forward about her interests at the risk of not being quite as appealing to us male gamers who apparently their desperate to please(?)
Though ideally I'd rather they just get someone who genuinely likes games, whether that be an attractive girl or a scary bearded hobo.
Jim's idea of the situation is wrong. It is not about conventions. I always go to conventions assuming everyone mutually enjoys the thing and anyone who doesn't is free to leave. No, the real fake gamer girl problem lies with the girls that will wear Mario, Sonic, and Kingdom Hearts paraphernalia that DEFINITELY have not played the games. They most likely bought it at Hot Topic, as that has always been the case in the past. But if I go up to a good looking girl and say, "hey, I like your Kingdom Hearts shirt," I'm suddenly met with stares like I was rubbing my hands and licking my lips while staring at her tits. I genuinely thought a girl shared my common interest of the Disney/Squaresoft JRPG.
Well fuck her. I didn't do anything wrong and now she thinks I'm going to rape her because I SOMEHOW know the origin of her shirt? Shy should I have to be rejected in such a bad way. And it wasn't one time, no. I've been as polite as possible, but trying to find common ground with these girls is, to them, following them down a back alley way. You wonder why I'm awkward around girls? This is why.
It's like that Dave Chappelle act, where he likens dressing in whore's clothing to dressing in a police officer's uniform. You can't just say it's my fault when you're wearing the uniform.
I have honestly never see this, not in person or even on the internet. Not that my experience shows anything but I only ever see women get massive amounts of positive attention and if they infact don't know something the people talking them them try to discuss it and inform just like they do with guys.
Two reasons for the hate. General dislike of posers but more importantly the fact that it's manipulative. I'd compare it to going out to a bar and watching one of your friends hit it off with a girl there, only to realize she's just using him for free food and drinks. Or if you want a more direct cross-gender comparison, a smooth-talking guy specifically hanging around girls he thinks are desperate while pretending to share their interests. It's scummy behavior as far as I'm concerned. Grilling girls and women over their credentials is taking things too far though. Noone jumps into a hobby knowing excessive details, and I figure if you encourage more women to take up the hobby they'll root out most of the fakes on their own.
I might be reading this wrong... so I might be thinking about an entirely different kind of person, here... a kind I'm sure you'll be familiar with anyway... but are you talking about the guys who just start asking:
Him: "Have you played Mario Galaxy?"
The guy who's not quizzing you... but just doesn't know how to have conversations, only plays video games, and may or may not have something wrong with him upstairs. The guys who just stand at the counter all day long talking to the staff about every game, yet don't have any opinions of their own... or if they do, they don't make any sense.
If that's who you're talking about, don't take that personally. They're just trying to hold a conversation because they feel that's what normal people do. They're not judging you.
Then again, if that's not who you're talking about, yeah... they're douchebags and you should throw them out of the store.
Oh, no, no. We have plenty of people who are really awkward at conversations or have ADD or something like that. Heck, I'm pretty awkward when it comes to conversations that do not relate to videogames (though I can manage to look casual/normal...I think). Those guys I don't mind.
It's the guys that give me that look of "Aw, how cute. You think you know games" when they talk to me. It's those guys who continuously quiz me until I give them a wrong answer so they're satisfied. It's the guys who think they know more than I do (Again, whether it's true or not is irrelevant) and patronize me. It's the guys that probably think I got the job because I slept with the manager and they should be the ones working there because clearly, they know more about games than I could ever know.
It's sad to think here are still douchebags like that around. :l
I agree with this. Not only that it is insulting, but it also gives the impression that that's all us guys want or that that's the only reason we watch anime or play video games.
by Fake Nerd Girls Phenomenon i think people mean attention whores and posers because every group has those. and the way i see it there is no point in even paying any mind to said posers.
if posers are bothering you i suggest ignore them. they will go away eventually. also unfairly assuming most females who play games are posers and or attention whores because there female; it just makes you an idiot.
Far too shout-outs to the great Count Duckula in this thread in my opinion.
This thing needs to go away, right now. A woman has to answer a trivia contest to enter the club!?! Grow up, get a life, and stop being a dick.
That being said, if you feel that you are been exploited by any company for any reasons, then stop supporting these companies. At the same time, write them a hand-written letter explaining that you cannot continue to support their company financially given their current business practices. Stop whining about your perceived grievances and take some action. Don't get mad at the cute girl in the Princess Leia outfit who isn't quite sure if 2-1B is the assassin droid or the medical droid.
My only view on the whole issue is that it's a goddam nuisance, and yet I sadly get part of it. I get called out on being a nerd infrequently, and while I'm loathe to dignify it, I also see the flip side, groups using any form of pop culture as a vessel to exploit for money. But that should be the dividing line, if I walk around in my Dr Mundo shirt, assume I'm wearing it because I like League of Legends, unless I suddenly try and sell you RP or something, leave it be.
I think it boils down to the term 'poser,' and it does go to both genders, it's just not flagrantly obvious between males. I've still gone into game stores and watched guys call each other out for claiming to have played X, and then get caught lying about it. Guys just won't complain about it when it happens because gender had no say in it, they got caught lying. But when a woman is involved, the stupid assumption is that we're lying.
The problem with 'Fake Nerd Girls' isn't the fact that they're girls. The problem is that they're fake. It's not like there aren't 'Fake Nerd Boys' out there. They happen to be smaller in number, and much more subtle, but they exist.
The problem is that at some point in the last few years, smart suddenly became cool. Once Facebook took our social lives and we started carrying supercomputers in our pockets, being seen as technologically literate was a good thing. While this is certainly a good thing, the sad fact is that once being a nerd became cool, you there was a sudden influx of people who wanting in, even if they didn't belong.
"Nerds are cool, and I want to be cool, so I have to do things that nerds do! What do nerds do? Uh... they watch Sci-Fi TV shows! I can do that! And they play video games! I'll do some of that too!"
OH! You played a video game? That sure took some effort. You watched an episode of Star Trek? That must have been HARD!
Here's how you tell if someone is a fake nerd:
Do they brag about doing something 'nerdy' that isn't really worth bragging about?
If they constantly feel the need to 'prove' that they're nerds, and the best proof they can offer up is 'I occasionally play video games' or 'I once watched a TV show that had a spaceship or time-machine in it', well, then they get an E for effort!
No really! If you go to Twitter (NOT RECOMMENDED) and look at the tweets under #suchanerd, you would be amazed at how many people think 'reading a book' or 'playing Call of Duty' earns them nerd cred.
Jim says it's wrong for us to demand that a girl provide us with her nerd credentials when we never ask the boys for the same thing. The sad truth is that we don't need to ask for their nerd credentials. Why would we have to, especially when they're always shoving them in our faces? Of course, we're suddenly labeled territorial assholes when we say how lacking we find their 'nerdy accomplishments' to be.
I guess it comes down to pandering and being fake. It's hardly a problem only video games face. And I highly doubt video games "suffer" the most from this. I'm a little bit more concerned about people trying to act tough and cool, when in actuality they are just desperately trying to get some attention.
Bottom line is, if a girl likes video games, that's pretty cool. I'd like to get to know her maybe. But if I find out a woman is just kind of pretending to be a "gamer girl" to get some easy attention from desperate guys, it doesn't exactly make me like her any more.
Normal gender issues can't be ignored. Western culture is such since the day we go into kindergarten, friend groups, and as such interests, are divided along gender lines. When puberty hits, most guys see other guys as their "friends", but it's harder to see a girl as simply a "friend". I've had some guy friends that haven't been incredibly knowledgeable on interests we share, but I thought little of it, even if they were 'pretending' to be huge fans of a certain band but only owned one album and a tee-shirt, it wasn't a big deal to me. The same thing goes for people of the other sex.
The reason I think there is white-hot fury on the behalf of men over gamer "posers" who happened to be female is the same reason someone might get pissed off the first time they get scammed or see an advertisement about a free iPad and find out it's not really free, because they see women more as potential mates than potential friends. Every nerd, deep down, wants an attractive and outgoing girl who likes all the same things they like with the same knowledge they have. When it is then revealed that they do not have an encyclopedic knowledge of the Fallout universe like they do, it's not just a difference in perspective as to what makes a "nerd", it's an immoral deception, like lying on a resume. Except the resume isn't for a friend, it's for a girlfriend. They see a girl cosplaying and don't see someone who is just having fun, they see an attractive girl who might just be their dream girl, and when it turns out she isn't, they just don't get disappointed due to unrealistic expectations, they get pissed and go on semi-sexist rants on the Internet.
I never personally had this problem as I grew up surrounded by females, some of which shared some of my interests as I shared some of their interests, able to see them as human beings and form platonic friendships with them, but others have trouble seeing women as anything other than potential mates.
Really i have no problem with 'fake nerd girls', same with anyone who's a poser like mentioned above in Jennacide's post, if its that obvious you can just ignore, i just have to wonder what it would be like for actual 'nerd' girls, who genuinely like 'nerdy' things and have taken crap for it (maybe even called out as 'fake' too), and see some actual poser come in, who years ago would have been one of the ppl giving the crap about being nerdy, suddenly claiming to be a 'nerd girl' or 'gamer gurl' or whatever, and trying to exploit the sudden popularity in it (and would jump right back to giving crap about it if it became unpopular).
While I do get the "ERR MEGEERD that girl doesn't know shit about that game character she's cosplaying as" I hate when I'm aproached by girls that call themself girls just to "try" and get attention, and when you ask they say "like yeah... I'm so totally a gamer, I play facebook games, can I have yours?" At least here that's a thing, dunno why though, but I fucking hate when that happens, I just can't see how is it that important to get attention.
Sorry for interrupting,
Oh boy. Hey, guess what guy. Anyone, and I mean anyone, is free to wear whatever the fuck they want. And unless you're a member of some secret "nerd fashion police" you really have no right to look down on someone for wearing an article of clothing with a character that they maybe don't know the entire fucking history of.
Apparently, it's not okay to shop at a store and decide, hey this shirt looks cute/cool, I think I want to buy this. Obviously they need to factor in the feelings of every obsessive fan of that particular character/game/brand before they make their purchasing decision. I mean how DARE they go out wearing a Mario shirt and confusing all of us poor gamer types, who can't handle people liking something a little more casually than us, or maybe just liking how something looks.
From the way I'm reading things, there is definitely something else going on other than women being mean to somebody that just wants to talk about their hobby. You sound like you have a major act to grind, otherwise you wouldn't be so defensive or writing things like "I didn't do anything wrong and now she thinks I'm going to rape her because I SOMEHOW know the origin of her shirt? Shy should I have to be rejected in such a bad way."
Just from reading this post I'm getting "creepy, pissed off at women, entitled" type vibes. So maybe work on that rather than complaining about all the mean "fake gamer girls."
I see two other reasons this comes up (in addition to what you've cited):
1. You've got guys whose identity centers around their own geekyness. They've likely had some bad luck during high school years with pretty girls who didn't find it attractive, and so now they bear a grudge against pretty girls -- I wasn't able to break into your world, so your world is a stupid place for dumb jerks. Fast-forward a few years, and they see pretty girls "breaking into" their world, and now they have the chance to exclude and ridicule in the way that they (rightly or wrongly) believe they were. It has nothing to do with the girl in question, but rather a series of past girls that the present girl unjustly is force to represent.
2. You've got guys whose identity is based around serious geekyness. Nerd culture is a serious, real thing to be protected and cherished, and these are the people who want "games taken seriously." The fake gamer girls make them mad... but not because of the girls themselves. They're mad because these girls get attention. They're mad because it works. They feel some sense of personal injustice over the fact that so many gamer guys fall for the charade (whether it is or isn't a charade), and they stress over what they feel that says about nerd guys (and, by extension, themselves).
In either case, the unfortunate fact is that the girls in question aren't the source of the complaint. They're simply the object upon which unrelated grievances are piled. Whether or not a girl is "faking it" or not is immaterial. Those of us concerned about it should be asking [b]why we are concerned about it.[/i] It tells us not one damn thing about her, but it can tell us loads about ourselves.
Jebus... really?
Ok... accepting the concept that there ARE fake nerd girls... the simple fact is that it would be logical to be opposed to it because we generally do not tolerate people portraying themselves as things they arent. We as a species have always valued truthfulness, and even at one time would cut out a mans tongue for lying. So portraying yourself as something you are not is being dishonest and essentially a full body character lie.
Confusion concluded. /eyeroll.
Very odd place for a wedding thingy...and I bet watching the video, Megan Hayes (or what her name was) probably was like...WTF?!
OT though, I honestly only have a problem when it would cost money to be tricked, cause at that point, it's like scammers. But I could imagine that the idea that women pretending to be nerds or like stuff we like could come across as insulting, and maybe even make people jealous. "I had to spend my entire life hiding the fact that I played games, read comic books, and was a nerd. I was beaten up, taunted, teased, harassed, and this good looking woman gets to not only enjoy these same things, but also would NEVER get abused because of it? That's not fair!" [edit]So the only logical conclusion would be that there MUST be women who fake being nerds, and while I'm sure there are, there aren't' as many as they'd like to think.[/edit]
That's my take on why people would be upset. Honestly, I just enjoy talking nerd with anyone who can keep up, and especially with people who put me to shame, what appendages are swollen larger, or are innie rather than outtie doesn't matter really, if you bleed nerd, you're a bit of alright in my save file, [edit2]if they're faking it, thanks but I'm gunna go converse with people who actually know what the fuck they're talking about[/edit2] cheerio y'all!
I can't speak for everyone and I'm sure there's a segment of male geeks who really are misogynists out for any excuse to hate women. But for the sane of us who dislike fake nerd girls, or at least me, it's pretty simple.
They're annoying.
They're annoying in the same way ANYONE is annoying when they clearly have no clue what they're talking about. If someone claims to love Star Wars and says their favorite character is Han Skywalker, or worse yet Captain Picard, it doesn't matter if they're male or female; they didn't even bother to do the research.
If you're really a fan of something, you can talk about it on at least a basic level, and it frustrates real fans when someone can't but say they can. I don't call myself a retro game fan because my experience is rather limited. I am a fan of individual games, like Hocus Pocus and Commander Keen, but I know next to nothing about any early console library, the CGA and EGA eras of DOS (most of my childhood was VGA), or old arcade games.
The problem with fake nerd girls isn't that they're girls; it's that they're fake. It's unfair that girls suffer more scrutiny, even as more and more are picking up controllers, but like it or not, the gender ratio still isn't even and until it is there's going to be a statistical bias against women reinforcing the social one in geek culture. I know girls who are nerds. My cousin pretty much destroys in Guitar Hero, has played more RPGs to completion than I have, and has played a variety of games on everything from the N64 forward. She can talk about games. My mom is an old Trekkie and can go on at length about the original Star Trek, TNG, and a bit about DS9 and Voyager. Watching those shows was family time growing up and she knew which episode was running within the first minute. Her favorite character was not Yoda. She's a fan of the original Star Wars trilogy separately, which also constituted family time. For me, hearing a girl talk about the merits of "Princess Leah" would be akin to hearing nails on a chalkboard. The same goes for a guy. In fact, this is one of the many problems I have with Big Bang Theory, because their treatment of geek culture is often cringeworthy.
You might say "what's the harm" when girls fake nerdiness for attention. And you'd be right in saying there's none to me. But it's certainly not doing my opinion of them any favors, because nerdiness is not easy to fake, and if they're not going to delve into it at least a little to know what they're talking about, I'm not going to respect them any more than I'd respect some YouTube commenter claiming to be a physicist.
so what you're saying is nerds are the problem because they want something more than sex ?
Sorry but as argument points go that's pretty poor as sex can only do so much to hold incompatible people together if they have nothing in common at all
If I wanted to see hot girls I'd take up the offer of going to see a catwalk show. Chances are at a gaming convention I'm there for gaming
Can I just say I love the simple fact that so many female gamers are defending this and not realising that without the fakes it would be so much less of a problem for them.
Really its the guys fault for trying to make sure something is not a lie, so is it your fault if a guy says he had a condom on when he didn't ?
Thats the kind of response happening here. No-one is denying that girl gamers exist here, everyone knows they do however the issue is those telling lies to take advantage.
There would no doubt be an outcry if loads of jock type guys pretended to be nerds and lied to the female nerds, heck I'm pretty sure there is a lot of outcry about it because of being lied too.
But oohhh no its the guys fault because they are not psychic ?
Allow me to give you two real life scenarios that happened to me.
in January this year
The true nerdy girl who works in my local videogame store
The girl she replaced
In December last year
suffice to say the girl in the latter one only lasted 2 weeks, I only ran into her twice and she was just as bad the first time when I asked where something was in the store.
We better be getting an update on that proposal next week Jim. (Or one of those videos on youtube like the girl being proposed to with the help of claptrap and we get to see it ourselves.)
OT: I've been annoyed in the past when I would see people go "I'm wearing a Wario shirt. Such a nerd LOL" or other shit like that. But then I grew up and realized that they go away if you don't pay attention to them.
And I just explained to you that the second type doesn't actually exist expect in the heads of paranoid men.
There is no reason for a person to behave that way - my point was that there are easier ways to get the same result. The only reason for a woman to be a gamer is because she likes games - end of story.
*Note: I don't dispute Booth Babes, but they never claimed to like games.
Sounds to me like the latter girl was just really crap at her job and presumably couldn't get a job anywhere else, and not really a "Fake Nerd Girl." Esp. since it sounds like she wasn't particularly good at faking it if she was.
The only time to get angry at fake sexy gamer girls existing is when a company uses them to sell games.
Even then, its a problem of condescending marketing and not the actors themselves. The actors are paid to do what they are told.
Just because you shove tits in my face does NOT mean I am likely to buy your game. I am not some brain dead retard who follows tits because "men only think with their dick."
Frankly, marketing like that is INSULTING to BOTH genders and it should stop unless its a porno game aimed at men. If you are not selling out right porn, then stop advertising every single game like it is.
*watches video confused*
ok im still confused.. this is such a big issue and creates so much controversy and outrage a whole video was needed to discuss it?
i think ive missed the memo
you wacky internet kids and your exclusive boys only clubs KEEP OUT GIRLS !
Thank you. Thank you so much for saying this. You mean to tell me I can't wear a Chrono Trigger shirt because I've never played the game before?! Get out of here with that!
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MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Christian Ponder hooked up with Kyle Rudolph on a pair of touchdown passes Sunday, sparking the Minnesota Vikings to a 24-13 win over San Francisco.
Ponder, who went 21-of-35 through the air for 198 yards, also ran for a score as the Vikings (2-1) rebounded from a last-second loss to the Indianapolis Colts in their previous game.
Rudolph grabbed five passes in all, finishing with 36 yards, while Percy Harvin hauled down nine Ponder tosses for 89 yards.
Adrian Peterson paced Minnesota's ground game with 86 yards on 25 carries.
The 49ers (2-1) were led by Alex Smith, who completed 24-of-35 passes for 204 yards with a touchdown and an interception.
Frank Gore gained 63 yards on 12 carries but also fumbled in the loss.


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The Reda Computer center in Thawra Street is launching a revolution of its own to raise computer-literate Syrian children and adults ... with the help of the country's heir apparent Bashar al-Assad.
And director Hani al-Khoury cannot get over it yet.
Last month Khoury met Bashar, an information technology buff who heads Syria's computer society, at a trade fair and spoke to him about printing a local computer magazine.
"Yesterday I got a call from Hassan Nuri, the minister of administrative development, who told me that the day President Hafez al-Assad died, Doctor Bashar sent him a report I had submitted to him on the project," he said.
Now Khoury has an appointment with Nuri to discuss the magazine.
This shows the "high level" of concern Bashar has for steering Syria into the third millennium and the age of the Internet, which he has solemnly promised to introduce to every Syrian household, Khoury said.
"Doctor Bashar has gone on the record saying that we need change and that we need it now and that he believes in the principle that every individual should be allowed to see everything," Khoury said.
"The more we see, the more we develop," Khoury said picking one of his favourite Bashar quotes.
Around 5,000 students graduate each year from the four computer centers that Khoury runs along with administrative director Raef Falluh and an army of young computer teachers in Damascus -- home to around 70 other such schools.
Students include children as young as eight, and civil servants employed in several government ministries, including industry, economy and power, oil firms and banks.
Bashar's passion for computers has been the engine behind a series of steps taken over the past six years to put Syria on the technology map and narrow the gap with other Arab countries.
Industry sources credit Bashar for pushing laws to introduce the computer to school curricula and to make it a compulsory course in universities since 1997.
They even think he was instrumental in paving the way for computer magazines to be sold in newspaper kiosks rather than get them only through mail-order memberships.
Unofficial estimates put the number of computers nation-wide at a mere 300,000 and say there are around 10,000 Internet users in Syria compared to 400,000 in the United Arab Emirates, 250,000 in Lebanon and 300,000 in Saudi Arabia.
Amal Buqari, 29, recently spent 8,000 Syrian pounds (160 dollars) to get a Pentium 450 computer -- three times the minimum monthly salary of 60 dollars. A new one would have cost her 500 dollars, with an extra 100 dollars for a printer.
But Buqari, who teaches small children to use the computer, is not connected to the Internet because she cannot afford it.
Despite Bashar's goodwill, there is very limited Internet service in Syria and those who are connected subscribe through a Lebanese-based provider for about 100 dollars subscription and four cents a minute.
The state runs only one Internet cafe and students can have access to it at the Hafez al-Assad library on Ommayyad Square or in some universities, although not all the sites are available yet, another user said.
Samer, a merchant in his mid-50s, said he learned to manipulate the computer and surf the web through trial and error.
Private and public sectors are connected and the government has plans to expand the network of around 3,000 "legal" subscribers to 50,000 within a year.
"We should have the Internet in every home, like the telephone," said Buqari.
Nine-year-old Odette Darwish is taking her second computer course at the Reda -- 16 sessions costing 1,500 Syrian pounds (33 dollars) -- where she learns about Windows but at home she plays a Barbie CD for fun.
Unlike kids her age in the West or even those across the border in Lebanon and Jordan, she does not know what the Internet is but Hamza, 14, knows it is a "necessary learning tool that will help bring us to the level of Europeans."
Sanaa, another Reda teacher, is not surprised that kids are ignorant about the Internet. "How can you blame them when even the adults are still coming to terms with it," she said.
Maha Kumari, a mother of four and self-employed chemist, describes herself as one of the "ignorant" adults.
"Last year a law was issued forcing pharmacists to install air conditioning units. Now Doctor Bashar should issue a decree to put a computer in every clinic and every drug store and in all the elementary schools," she said -- DAMASCUS (AFP)
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At a time when other companies are reconsidering their membership, fast-growing video game publisher SouthPeak Interactive becomes the first new member of the Entertainment Software Association for 2009.
The ESA may have increased their fees to ridiculous levels over the past few years, but that hasn't stopped SouthPeak Interactive from signing on with the industry trade organisation.
"Our industry needs a strong and active trade organisation and we are pleased to support that effort," said Richard Iggo, Vice President of Marketing for SouthPeak Interactive. "We look forward to participating in the many programs and opportunities provided by the ESA."
Ironically, SouthPeak is the company that purchased Gamecock last year, the company that heralded the death of the ESA's E3 trade show in 2007 with a massive parade of sweaty journalists.


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Two Pronounced Dead in Dekalb County After Car Accident
DEKALB COUNTY — Deputies from the Dekalb County Sheriff's Department responded to a traffic accident five miles north of Clarksdale early Monday morning. The accident killed both the driver and the passenger.
Troop H's traffic crash report stated that Nicole Browden, 30, and her husband Michael Browden, 27 and both of Maysville, were traveling northbound. Going at a high rate of speed, the vehicle entered a right-handed curve, crossed the center lane and went off the west side of the roadway.
The vehicle slid and then vaulted an embankment, causing the airborne vehicle to overturn.
The car then hit another embankment before coming to a rest.
The county coroner pronounced both occupants dead at the scene. The coroner transported Nicole and Michael Browden to the Bram-Turner Funeral Home in Maysville.
Authorities notified next of kin.


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Jean-François Ménard necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 87 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
Virtuarise is a new virtualization consulting firm based in Montreal (Canada), offering consulting services in server virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructure, virtual storage, network storage, virtual office infrastructure and application delivery and deployment solutions.
Not tied to any particular industry. Any small-to-medium sized organisation that have an IT infrastructure.
A brand identity, imagery, logo & style guidelines for a new professional consulting business.
Key deliverables:
• brand identity look, feel & visual representation (brand mark, or logo)
• style guide, including
o a colour palette set – must suit/work well in PowerPoint
o primary and secondary type faces
o brand guidelines
• Business card
• Letterhead
• Envelope
The brand mark will be used across all communications – in the main, these are electronic (website, PowerPoint presentation documents, word documents, email, blog etc), but also for a business card and to be used for other printed materials as required - it must
o Work in various sizes – from business card (small), to PowerPoint screen show (large)
o Print well in black & white (many documents with the image are printed, often in small size)
o Be reversible (or alternate version) to enable use on different coloured backgrounds – black, white, colour etc (eg powerpoint)
o Work well online with different resolutions - for website, blog, email etc.


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Good Life
Alaska borough voters reject controversial mine
Voters in two Alaska boroughs have approved by fewer than 40 votes a ballot initiative meant to sidetrack the massive Pebble mine prospect.
Borough officials announced late Monday night that the initiative passed on a vote of 280 to 246. The initiative changes borough law to forbid the granting of permits for any big mine that would have a "significant adverse impact" on salmon streams in the area of Bristol Bay.
Now it's headed to court.
Read the full story at adn.com.


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World 2: The Jungle
The Jungle is the second zone in Spelunky.
The Jungle introduces the fearsome Tiki Trap, as well as a host of unfriendly denizens.
- Arrow Trap
- Spikes
- Tiki Trap
Avoid the Killer Bee's nests. Entering into the hive will almost certainly yield death, unless you have a weapon like the shotgun or boomerang. If you can kill the Queen Bee in the hive she will drop Royal Jelly, which rewards you with four hearts.
Watch out for Tiki Men on a two square platform. They move quickly and throw their boomerang quicker.
You can bomb through lakes if you can't find a better route. If the road ahead looks to dangerous try bombing your way out.
If you collected the Udjat Eye in World 1: The Mines you can find The Black Market in one of the first three levels.
The Jungle also contains a few other hidden levels, the Haunted Castle and The Worm.
By reaching the end of world one you can unlock a shortcut to world two. In order to unlock the shortcut you will have to complete world one three times. The first time you complete World 1: The Mines you will have to give the Tunnel Man one bomb, the second, one rope, and the third 10,000 gold. Once you have completed these tasks a shortcut will open off to the left of the mines entrance.
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Translation Preview: August 2010
Following up on last week's post about the various summer/fall 2010 previews that came out from The Millions and elsewhere, I thought that over the next few days, we'd highlight some forthcoming titles that sound pretty interesting to me. Sure I'm missing things and whatnot, so feel free to overload the comments section with recommendations. And click here to see all translation preview posts.
"I Curse the River of Time": by Per Petterson, translated from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund (Norway, Graywolf Press)
Along with all the Bolano and Larsson books, this is probably one of the most anticipated works in translation coming out this year. Petterson's Out Stealing Horses was an incredible success for Graywolf, and hopefully I Curse the River of Time will be as well. This is already available in the UK, and the reviews seem to be pretty positive, including this one in the Guardian, in which Rachel Cusk calls the book "a work of blackest tragicomedy, a novel as cold and scintillating and desolate as the northern winter landscapes that are its setting." It centers around late-30-something Arvid Jansen, whose life appears to be tottering, so he goes to visit his mother in Denmark. This paragraph makes the book sound really interesting to me:
On the ferry he is paranoid and unstable; he punches a man he believes to be menacing him, only to discover later that this man is a childhood friend who was trying to greet him. He falls off a jetty and soaks the only clothes he has brought with him. He takes it into his head to chop down a tree his mother has always complained of in front of the cottage, thinking it will please her. He hangs around her, needy and clinging, when it is apparent that she wants to be left alone; and worse still, apparent that she is disappointed in him, in the failure of his marriage and in his underachievement generally.
Stella by Siegfried Lenz, translated from the Germany by Anthea Bell (Germany, Other Press)
This is just the first of several interesting translations that Other Press will be bringing out over the next few months. Stella is a student-teacher love story, although according to the jacket copy, "there is nothing salacious about their relationship, nor is it just a case of a crush between teacher and student." The novel starts at the end, at Stella's funeral, and the praise for Lenz's "Heminway-esque" style is intriguing.
The Insufferable Gaucho by Roberto Bolano, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews (Chile, New Directions)
Another Bolano! Another collection of short stories! I can't find the ND page for this book, but here's a link to what I assume is the title story that appeared in the New Yorker a few years back. Opening sentence is so Bolano: "In the opinion of those who knew him well, Héctor Pereda had two outstanding virtues: he was a caring and affectionate father and an irreproachable lawyer with a record of honesty, in a time and place that were hardly conducive to such rectitude."
"A Novel Bookstore": by Laurence Cosse, translated from the French by Alison Anderson (France, Europa Editions)
I'll just let Europa describe this book-related mystery:
Ivan, a one-time world traveler, and Francesca, a ravishing Italian heiress, are the owners of a bookstore that is anything but ordinary. Rebelling against the business of bestsellers and in search of an ideal place where their literary dreams can come true, Ivan and Francesca open a store where the passion for literature is given free reign. Tucked away in a corner of Paris, the store offers its clientele a selection of literary masterpieces chosen by a top-secret committee of likeminded literary connoisseurs. To their amazement, after only a few months, the little dream store proves a success. And that is precisely when their troubles begin. At first, both owners shrug off the anonymous threats that come their way and the venomous comments concerning their store circulating on the Internet, but when three members of the supposedly secret committee are attacked, they decide to call the police. One by one, the pieces of this puzzle fall ominously into place, as it becomes increasingly evident that Ivan and Francesca's dreams will be answered with pettiness, envy and violence.
Am I a Redundant Human Being? by Mela Hartwig, translated from the German by Kerri Pierce (Austria, Dalkey Archive)
And from the possible wacky to the quite probably depressing . . . I remember hearing about this book on an editorial trip to Vienna I took back when I was working at Dalkey Archive. Sounded like a pretty intense novel, and if I remember right (I probably don't) the Austrian publisher compared Hartwig to Virginia Woolf. The novel centers around Aloisia Schmidt, a secretary whose life is utterly boring and mundane. From Dalkey: "In one final, guilt-ridden, masturbatory, self-obsessed confession, Aloisia indulges her masochistic tendencies to the fullest, putting her entire life on trial, and trying, through telling her story (a story, she assures us, that's 'so laughably mundane' it's really no story at all), to transform an ordinary life into something extraordinary."
Aurorarama by Jean-Christophe Valtat (France, Melville House)
OK, I'm sort of cheating here—Valtat wrote this book in English—but whatever. Valtat sounds really interesting to me, so I'm breaking my own rule. This is Valtat's second book to come out this year. Just a few weeks ago, FSG published 03, a novel about a man's memories of a retarded girl he used to see every day and started obsessing over. What's particularly cool about this book is the way it came into English (from Conversational Reading):
Former FSG editor Lorin Stein discovered this writer when he was browsing in a bookshop in Paris. The author of three previous books, Valtat had never before been translated into English. 03 was first published by Gallimard in 2005 and was not on submission to anyone in the U.S. or the U.K., so it took a chance encounter in a bookshop to bring this novel to an American readership.
That's the kind of coincidental story that makes publishing awesome.
Aurorarama is set in 1908 in the Arctic city of "New Venice":
But as the city prepares for spring, it feels more like qaartsiluni—"the time when something is about to explode in the dark." Local "poletics" are wracked by tensions with the Eskimos circling the city, with suffragette riots led by an underground music star, with drug round-ups by the secret police force known as the Gentlemen of the Night. An ominous black airship hovers over the city, and the Gentlemen are hunting for the author of a radical pamphlet calling for revolt.
All sounds very wild, and very cool.
Klausen by Andreas Maier, translated from the German by Kenneth Northcott (Germany, Open Letter)
And now for the obligatory Open Letter title . . . Maier's a very interesting writer, somewhere between Saramago and Bernhard. Klausen is a very well-constructed novel bringing together a collection of muddled, often contradictory voices to explain what happened (or didn't happen) in a small German town. Reading this is quite an experience: the narrative flows from character to character, from event to discussion what really happened at that event, all building in a masterful way to a gripping conclusion involving a bomb. Or a shooting. Or something involving Italians. This may sound daunting or confusing, but it's really not. It's a great ride that hysterically portrays the sometimes insane workings of a close-knit community where everyone has an opinion (the right one!) about everything.


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Last year, I hired a bright recent college graduate who was working as a part-time bartender while job hunting. He had relocated to New York from California after graduation and, like thousands of well-educated liberal arts majors, he found himself lost in the tough job hunting maze.
He was willing to volunteer for a short time, then accept minimum wage, and then ultimately became a full-fledged employee with decent weekly paycheque, a cool apartment in the East Village, a company-paid iPhone, travel perks, flexible work hours, and a sweet little office space in Soho, where he "co-works" with 20-something entrepreneurs.
Working in your PJs? Not likely in your first job...but put in the time, and you can get there!
Says Jacob a year later, "Serving clients creative marketing ideas is way better than serving tequila shots. Plus, I have my Saturday nights free!" Jacob and I both took a chance, and it paid off. What can you learn from his story?
• The value of your first job is more than just a paycheque. Learning a new skill with long-term benefits, work-life flexibility, and extras like travel and electronic toys are all benefits.
• Calculated risk-taking can pay-off. You may not get your dream job or asking price from day one, but if you prove yourself in that first job, the money can come later. Jacob got his first raise after a mere six months. He continued to bartend and do some acting work until his income stabilized.
• Immediate gratification applies to Google searches, not to job-hunting. Small steps can ultimately build big careers and patience can be a virtue in the working world.
• Your dream job search can turn into an unemployment nightmare if you hold out for the perfect position. Especially in today's economy, employers choose candidates with experience and drive -- not prima donnas.
My business has grown significantly thanks to Jacob's positive attitude, long-range perspective, and skill set. Now we're getting ready to hire another recent grad; one who possesses gratitude, not just attitude.
(What's especially gratifying is that Jacob was actually responsible for finding our next hire.)


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Announced on the Facebook Newsroom recently, the social network is going to start automatically assigning users a Facebook email address based off the vanity URL username chosen for a user's Timeline profile page. For instance, if a person's Timeline address is facebook.com/johndoe, then the new Facebook email address will be firstname.lastname@example.com. While this initiative won't alter any email addresses that have been chosen, Facebook officials want to assign addresses to the entire user base. Facebook email addresses launched approximately eighteen months ago in order to promote the social messaging system, but recent studies indicate that email is still the dominant form of communication over social networks.
Facebook has started to roll out notifications to users that haven't upgraded to a vanity URL and users can visit facebook.com/username if they would like to create a URL immediately. However, the URL must be available and it cannot be changed after choosing a unique name. The vanity URL launched on Facebook during 2009 and offer users more freedom with naming their profile page.
Users that have already chosen a vanity URL, but haven't picked out an email address can simply wait until Facebook automatically creates the address. It's likely that these users will receive a notification when the email address is active.
Similar to sending a private message through Facebook, messages sent through email will show up in the same communication stream as regular messages and conversations in Facebook chat. However, email messages from other users must be tied to a Facebook account, otherwise the messages are separated out into the "Other" folder. This folder can be found in the left hand navigation after clicking the Messages link and contains messages from people that aren't direct friends, messages from brands, invitations to events and direct messages from Facebook regarding changes in the terms of service.
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(CNN) — Two people were killed and four more wounded early Tuesday in a shooting in Miami, a fire department spokesman told CNN.
Earlier, police had put the total number of those shot at nine.
The shooting happened outside an apartment complex in the Liberty City neighborhood about 6 miles north of downtown Miami, at Northwest 12th Avenue and 65th Street, CNN affiliate WFOR reported.
Miami police said they were trying to determine what led to the shooting, which was reported to authorities about 2:15 a.m., CNN affiliate WSVN reported.
Authorities placed more than 35 markers on a street and a staircase to indicate ammunition casings, according to WFOR.AlertMe


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Keystone Automotive Operations Inc., parent to NTP Distribution Inc., announced that Weather Guard and Federal Mogul will serve as title sponsors at the company's annual trade shows during the coming year.
According to a press release, for the third year Weather Guard is sponsoring the Midwest BIG Show, which will be held Feb. 9 at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center.
Federal Mogul is the title sponsor for Keystone's Northeast BIG Show, set to run Feb. 23 at New Jersey's Atlantic City Convention Center. This is the third year for the Federal Mogul sponsorship and the second year that the Northeast BIG Show will be held in Atlantic City.
"Federal Mogul and Weather Guard have been exceptional partners to Keystone, and we are thrilled to have them as the title sponsors of our BIG Shows for the third year in a row" said Ed Orzetti, CEO of Keystone Automotive.
Weather Guard will showcasing its van storage solutions this year, which are designed specifically to maximize on-the-job productivity. Visitors to the Weather Guard booth will also be able to participate in many special deals, including a merchandising makeover promotion.
Federal Mogul will be displaying several new products this year, highlighted by the addition of the Wagner Brake, the next generation in ceramic brake technology. Other brands include Anco, Carter, Champion, Fel-Pro, MOOG, National, Precision, Sealed Power, Speed-Pro Wagner Brake Product and Wagner Lighting.
The Keystone Northeast and Midwest BIG Shows are premier events in the automotive aftermarket offering attendees the opportunity to interact with both Keystone associates and manufacturers, see new products and in-store merchandising displays and participate in exclusive buying and promotional opportunities.


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– Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have enhanced our understanding of the mechanism by which cells achieve energy conversion, the process in which food is converted into the energy required by cells. This groundbreaking research helps scientists gain atomic-level insight into how organisms synthesize their major form of chemical energy. The researchers' findings were published in the August issue of PLoS Biology.
Cells use the enzyme ATP synthase to generate a chemical called ATP, the form of energy cells use to function. Structurally, ATP synthase is a nano-machine, a cellular "motor" that consists of proton turbines, or rotor rings, with the output being ATP. The investigators wanted to find out more about how these ATP synthase rotors work.
David Hicks, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology & Systems Therapeutics and Terry Krulwich, PhD, Sharon & Frederick A. Klingenstein-Nathan G. Kase, MD Professor of Pharmacology & Systems Therapeutics, led the Mount Sinai-based part of the effort. They and their co-investigators, Thomas Meier, PhD, and two members of his research team at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Germany, grew three-dimensional protein crystals of an unusually stable rotor found in bacteria called Bacillus pseudofirmus and evaluated them using X-ray technology.
The researchers were surprised to find that these ATP synthase rotor rings use a water molecule as part of the rotary mechanism of ATP synthesis, providing a clearer understanding of how these nano-machines function. Previous studies of a rotor from a blue-green alga, the only other proton-moving rotor observed at this atomic level, showed that it did not use a water molecule.
With this new insight, they were able to infer how ATP synthase captures the protons that drive the rotation of the "motor" and visualize how those protons remain bound to the rotor. This discovery has added interest because the rotor structure of these bacteria is similar in some ways to the motors driving ATP synthesis in human cells and pathogens like the tuberculosis bacteria.
"We are excited about the broad implications of these data in helping us move toward a more detailed model of the mechanisms of action behind cellular energy conversion," said Dr. Krulwich. "These findings provide a launching pad for better understanding a basic life process in organisms ranging from bacteria to humans. We look forward to studying this development further."
Drs. Hicks and Krulwich and the Meier team will continue studying this finding and plan to further evaluate these cellular nano-machines. Working with this discovery, they will next evaluate mutations or malfunctions in the ATP synthase rotor.
This research is supported by the National Institute of General Medical Studies of the National Institutes of Health.
About The Mount Sinai Medical Center
The Mount Sinai Medical Center encompasses both The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Established in 1968, Mount Sinai School of Medicine is one of few medical schools embedded in a hospital in the United States. It has more than 3,400 faculty in 32 departments and 15 institutes, and ranks among the top 20 medical schools both in National Institute of Health funding and by U.S. News & World Report. The school received the 2009 Spencer Foreman Award for Outstanding Community Service from the Association of American Medical Colleges.
The Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is a 1,171-bed tertiary- and quaternary-care teaching facility and one of the nation's oldest, largest and most-respected voluntary hospitals. In 2009, U.S. News & World Report ranked The Mount Sinai Hospital among the nation's top 20 hospitals based on reputation, patient safety, and other patient-care factors. Nearly 60,000 people were treated at Mount Sinai as inpatients last year, and approximately 530,000 outpatient visits took place.