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When we talk about open government technology, it’s often in terms of open data, open source software, social media or crowd-sourced ideation and 311 tools. What’s rarely discussed is a truly open, transparent and comprehensive platform where citizens can comment or ask government questions and get direct assistance from public servants or even their own fellow citizens.

New Web 2.0 customer service tools such as Get Satisfaction offer government an opportunity to connect with citizens online and real time in the most transparent way possible. While adoption is slow, and the NYC Comptroller’s Office are formally leveraging these options to address citizen service issues, share ideas, report problems and even accept praise.

Compared to the private sector, government has been slow to adopt this cloud-based, out-of-the-box option, but as the push for open and need for fiscal creativity become inevitable, ‘citizen relationship management’ is the new CRM.

We asked Get Satisfaction CEO Wendy Lea to share her advice on how government can leverage Web 2.0 tools to better connect with citizens.

Given the social software available today, where do you see the lost opportunities around citizen service?

It’s funny – we live in a democracy, and we have lots of formal ways for people to express their opinions to their legislators: elections, ballot initiatives, public hearings and so on. There are tried-and-true processes to collect, synthesize and act on the results of all those formal expressions of people’s will. But then, you have millions of people voicing opinions in these huge, informal – yet radically democratic – settings in social media. And what is government doing to be receptive to that feedback, digest it in a systematic fashion and then act on it, all in an open and transparent fashion? Not nearly as much it could. The structure just isn’t there.

That’s a huge missed opportunity – to listen and engage with citizens in a manner that isn’t surveillance, but has an open posture.

What are the biggest challenges around government adopting services like Get Satisfaction and how can they overcome them?

I think the biggest challenges are cultural. There’s fear of the unknown, and there’s the need to have policies in place to govern interaction with the public. Governments revolve around structure and process, and it takes a lot of time, energy and effort to get those into place, especially if you’re the first to implement something like Get Satisfaction. It’s like, do we stick our neck out and try it? What if it blows up? Can we wait and see if someone else does it first?

The other part of it is that there are an awful lot of ways for government to listen, both through traditional, offline methods, and through the many “listening” and idea apps out there. But there aren’t many applications – like Get Satisfaction – that are designed for engagement and dialogue. So you bump up against that fear of the unknown, and not having a precedent or procedure for open dialogue that’s designed for results. In order to overcome that, you’d need to see a mental shift from fear to anticipation – anticipation that by providing people with an open arena to express themselves, ask questions and submit ideas, you’re not exposing yourself, but you’re empowering others.

What are your (citizen service) recommendations for government?

1. Be helpful and use plain language.

Keep it simple, keep it friendly, don’t overload it with government jargon. Rethink how you talk to people, and how you convey information to them. Do it in a way that’s natural and friendly to them. This doesn’t have as much to do with social software, technology, or any of that – it’s more a reminder that it all boils down to communication and your organizational culture.

2. Use tools that are common in the real world: Facebook, Twitter and YouTube and all the rest of it.

Part of being of the people and for the people is interacting with them and using the tools that they use; and going to them in their environment instead of expecting them to come to your environment.

3. Take service to people wherever they are – so that includes mobile, too.

Mobile-optimize all your services. Have a website that’s mobile-friendly, that offers services that people can actually complete on a mobile device. Right now, people have to drive all over town to go to the DMV, go to Social Security, go to the child services office. And a lot of that can be completed online, which, these days, means it can be completed on a phone.

Connect with Wendy on Twitter at @WendySLea or learn more about Get Satisfaction at

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Re the first question: We do not live in a democracy. We never have. The United States is a republic and has been since 1791 and/or 1776. The terms democracy and republic are not interchangeable. The two are distinctly different forms of government.

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Not only was the 1972 OR100 ‘Graphic Valve Amplifier’ the amplifier that defined the mid-range crunch that remains the core Orange sound to the present day, it was also revolutionary in terms of cosmetic styling.   The Orange psychedelic logo, picture-frame amp sleeves and loudspeaker cabinets had already established the company as a visually distinctive and unique guitar amps’ brand in the late 1960s. The hieroglyphic symbols on the front plate took this a big step further.*

Initially the ‘Graphics’ were also known as ‘Plexis’ because they had plastic reverse-printed Perspex front panels secured by four fixing bolts to an orange steel backplate, and then to the chassis. The panels on later Pics Only amps were not plastic, but silk-screen printed metal plates with no visible bolts.

The ‘Pics Only’ series featured 100 and 80 watt heads, and 100 and 80 watt 2×12″ combos (shown above) which were huge sellers worldwide.

“The circuit  of the Pics Only is markedly different from that of the first Orange amplifiers. Those early Orange amps like the OR200 had the volume in front of the EQ circuitry, whereas the Pics Only had the Baxandall EQ first, then the Gain, and then the phase inverter. What’s more, the DC coupled ‘concertina’ phase inverter used in the first Orange amps was changed to a capacitorcoupled version in the Pics Only. This capacitor-coupled type of phase inverter drives the output valves harder and this creates a more overdriven and crunchy sound. In this way, the Pics Only was the start of the new sound that everybody associates with Orange.”

– Adrian Emsley, Orange Amplification Technical Director

* In the The Book of Orange on p. 22-23 creator, Cliff Cooper, explains how he got the idea for the hieroglyphs and on p. 72-73 there is glossary showing all the main hieroglyphs and assigns them to appropriate amp models.

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Becoming Africanized on New Years Eve

What does it take to enjoy life in a foreign country?  What aspects of local culture and community need to exist for an expatriate to decide that life in this new country is more valuable to their quality of life than what they experience in their original home country?  I came to this realization on New Year Eve.

My New Years started off in the US Embassy at a party in the compound.  The place was lightly filled with Americans and casual discussions of the local culture, both good and bad, was a general consistent theme.  The interiour design of the apartment was extraordinarily American with tile floors,  wood furniture and 110V electrical plugs.  The quality of work was everything you can expect to see in any American home.  We all chatted in our flat, North American accents and before I could get another glass of South African wine, the clock struck midnight and all the old acquaintance be forgot.

My possy started with Elena, a well travelled American who has lived throughout most of Africa and her friend from Nimba, Morris, a shy and extremely nice Liberian who was her former driver.  We left with two US marines and headed to a top-end club called Déjà Vu.

Unlike the rest of Liberian architecture and design, Déjà Vu held a strikingly well done layout with couches, a VIP lounge, laser lights, obnoxious smoke machine, debilitating strobe light and an sunken dance floor. Elena and I were the only two white expatriates in the place.  The rest of the club was mostly populated with three type of people: Lebanese men, Indian men and Liberian females who, in reality, are “prostitutes”.  I double quote this term because they are not all just sex-for-money women.   Some are white-man-relationship=better-life-and-new-passport women.  I hesitate to call them commercial sex workers as this seems more like a hobby than a full time career.  And even though there were a large selection of women to choose from, the two marines decided to share one women.  I had offered them with the warning that this woman was a prostitute and they replied that “they were just having fun” but I suspect their short-term fun would be extended when phone numbers were exchanged and pseudo-sexualized dance moves were discoed out.  To add to the ambiance, the 5:1 men to women ratio allowed for a small audience of men to gather at the top of the stairs leading to the sunken dance floor.  Hip hop and house music filled the room and all was very badly mixed though nobody seemed to mind as, I assume, bad DJ mixing is considered standard here.   The dance floor became extra entertaining when House music from India came on and the Indian men started dancing with other Indian men – as they do.

As much as there were some very entertaining elements to the club, the harassment from these women and the dissociation from the locals left me uneasy.

So what does this all mean in terms of an expatriate finding longevity in a foreign country? I saw the embassy and how it is designed to be as familiar to their home country style as possible.  I saw the marines finding a comfort zone with these women and I saw myself being isolated from all of it.  This has brought me to the conclusion that you need two things to integrate properly into a uniquely different country: (1) an extremely comfortable home and (2) a connection to the local culture.  For some, like Elena, connecting to the local culture is easy.  She has a strong bond with Africa and African people.  Other people, like one of my former roommates, never could and never tried to acclimatize to the local culture for whatever reason.  Liberia is not a simple country to live and work in. As such, I see that many people here have what I call an “expiry date”.  Most expatriates barely survive a year and I have only seen a few that make it long term with the exception of some obligated US and UN military.

This conclusion makes me realise that I am not becoming Africanized.  The more I am here, the more I begin to relate to who I am (as a Canadian) and who I am not (the rest of the world’s culture).  I am not integrating into the local culture which makes me think that I too have an expiry date here.  I always felt a strong draw to Africa but now that I am here, I am unsure of my place.  I know that once I find that connector, a switch will flip and I will find it hard to leave.

I should include a (3) in my list which is work life but I will save that for another posting.

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2 Responses to Becoming Africanized on New Years Eve

  1. morbidmiss says:

    Perhaps it’s not that you are not becoming Africanized… you’re just not becoming Liberianized? Africa is a big place, maybe you just need to see more?

    • orenjalon says:

      I have been told that Liberia is uniquely different from the rest of Africa and I shouldn’t use it to be representative so you’re right. Kenya, here I come…

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How Pharmaceutical Ads Distort Healthcare Markets

It probably doesn’t strike you as strange to see advertisements for prescription drugs. By now, everybody knows that you should “talk to your doctor about Levitra” while “doing more with Lipitor” and getting “Claritin clear.” But if you think about it, it’s odd for an actor being paid by a pharmaceutical company to tell you what medicine to take. The implication is that despite having no medical experience, you should be giving medical advice to your doctor. Granted, there are times when patients should have a strong voice in the specifics of their treatment, but those times are not when patient desires are strictly based on positive branding from a TV commercial.

Given that doctors are likely to frequently deny the ad-induced requests of patients, it’s worth asking how these ads impact the patient experience. For example, does the effect of a pharmaceutical ad persist beyond a patient’s initial request for a drug?

A new study by Benjamin Lewin of the University of Puget Sound suggests that it does. Lewin examined what factors influenced patient satisfaction among people who had gone to the doctor after seeing a form of “direct to consumer advertising” (DTCA). He found that the advertisements had a significant impact on a patient’s experience:

Results indicate that patients who do not receive a prescription when mentioning a DTCA drug are significantly less likely to be satisfied with their physician visit. In contrast, the receipt of a diagnosis has no significant impact on patient satisfaction. Other factors associated with patient satisfaction were whether or not the patient received the exact drug that he or she requested or a different drug, and the specific reason for denial of a prescription for the requested drug. Instead of accepting a doctor’s recommendations and complying without question, patients are now unhappy with their physicians’ decisions when these decisions do not adhere to the patient’s expectations, which are formed by DTCA.

If advertising is influencing patient satisfaction it’s bad news for the healthcare system. First and foremost, it means patient satisfaction is increasingly reliant on outcomes that have nothing to do with patient health. Somebody who ends up less healthy, but who got the drug they asked for, could end up more satisfied than a healthier person who didn’t get what they asked for. Even if it initially leads to more satisfaction, in the long run it’s not beneficial to accept a marginally inferior health outcome in return for the warm feeling you get from doing what the TV said.

When satisfaction becomes disconnected from health outcomes patients may also begin “doctor shopping” for a doctor who will give them what they want. In effect, you have people moving away from doctors who will provide the best medical treatment and toward doctors who will provide the most overall satisfaction. This incentivizes doctors to focus on patient satisfaction at the expense of better health outcomes. If a doctor wants to keep a patient, it might be better for the patient to be 99% cured and get the drug they want than to be 100% cured and not get the drug they want. Obviously doctors aren’t pushovers who do whatever they’re told, but doctors do want to please patients, and at the margin patient desires will influence treatment decisions. The end result is a distortion in the market for doctor services that leads to a decrease in the supply of superior treatment.

Is there anything that can be done about the detrimental effects of pharmaceutical ads? In the U.S. ads are already regulated by the FDA, and though many countries have banned them, you don’t have to be Rand Paul to think that preventing somebody from advertising a medicine is a serious violation of the first amendment. Banning pharmaceutical ads could also be unwise, as they surely allow some people to gain valuable information.

The best solution may actually be what’s already present in Levitra’s ubiquitous ads. The ads say to ask your doctor “about” Levitra, not “for” it. One thing Lewin found was that out of ten different reasons doctors gave for denying a requested drug, “it was’t the right drug for you” led to the most satisfaction. By creating ads that insinuate a drug isn’t for everybody pharmaceutical companies can increase the degree to which people are open to that explanation.

There is one final thing patients can do. Next time you see a TV commercial for a prescription drug, remind yourself that you know nothing about medical treatment and that everybody who made the commercial has a financial interest in your future behavior.
Lewin, B. (2013). Patient satisfaction with physician responses during interactions prompted by pharmaceutical advertisements The Social Science Journal DOI: 10.1016/j.soscij.2013.03.002

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    This article was very informative to not only patient consumers, but also the healthcare providers. Many patients wouldn’t even think of the aspect of advertisement affecting their medical treatment. Learning the truth about what pharmaceuticals and what purpose they serve is the most important aspect when examining patient satisfaction. The media has such a great affect on society these days, what we eat, wear, watch and even take to recover from illness.

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This four-time Grammy Award-winning sextet revels in the works of contemporary classical music composers – played with love, virtuosity and a sense of adventure. This dynamic program features contemporary gems by Muhly, Dessner, Hearne and Andres, and a world premiere by Australian composer Holly Harrison.

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Sound becomes visual, dimensional and sensuous in a premiere event created by multi-disciplined artist Jon Tarry in collaboration with co-creatives, including celebrated composer, trumpeter and sound artist Peter Knight, Artistic Director of the Australian Art Orchestra, distinguished Australian artist and musician Cameron Robbins and vocalist and songwriter, Esther Maria. These talented artists come together for a brand new work to create a blend of film, drawing, light and music. Get to know the artists that will be performing Dark Mirror White Noise individually before you experience this epic event.

Jon Tarry

Jon Tarry creates art as a way of testing ideas about the prosaic, political and poetic, in the form of sculpture, drawing, film and sound. The process of creating his works informs a new understanding of the medium and the subject he is examining. For Tarry, the act of generating his art is just as significant as the work itself.

Tarry has completed 42 public and numerous private art commissions in Australia, the USA, the Middle East and Europe. These works include Clouds, Perth City Link, Naturescape, Kings Park, Sky Shard, Canberra, Marginale, Venice, Balancer, Abu Dhabi, and solo shows in Australia, Los Angeles, London and Amman. Group exhibitions include; Markers, Artist and Poets the Venice Biennale of Art 2001. Venice Biennale of Architecture 2008–2010–2012.

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Australian trumpeter/composer/sound artist, Peter Knight, is a multidisciplinary musician who has gained wide acclaim for his distinctive approach, which integrates jazz, experimental, and world music traditions. Peter’s work as both performer and composer is regularly featured in a range of ensemble settings, he also composes for theatre, creates sound installations, and is the Artistic Director of one of Australia’s leading contemporary music ensembles, the Australian Art Orchestra.

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Cameron’s work is based on interaction with natural forces and the elements. He has devised many ways of producing a kind of collaboration between artist and nature. This is evident in the series of Wind Drawing Machines. These mechanical devices are set up in different locations to collect random wind energy and translate it into a strangely readable format of ink drawings on paper, which themselves take on the form of the storm. This work has led to an exploration of the forms of the vortex, the focus of natural energy.

Further research into the elemental, combined with his musical career on clarinet and saxophone, has lead to the production of the Steam Organ, a self-determining musical device which is built into a large furnace structure. The Organ is allowed to play freely in the fire, expressing the heat, wind and ambient acoustic. Other sound works include The Sea Wailing – a tide-powered organ on the cliffs of South Australia.

Cameron has devised, co-curated, and produced many performance events of large-scale works involving composers, complex instruments, installations, fire and sound. The Current was a Double Venturi event at Melbourne Town Hall, co-curated with Peter Knight, involving eight artists and composers creating site-specific works throughout the building. Other events include Construction in Process VI The Bridge opening night and Queenscliff New Year’s Eve 2000.

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Maria has now released her debut album titled The Abyss a compilation of heart-on-sleeve songs working deeply with her sense of imagery and motion, creating a cinematic album that lets the listener travel with and connect to the artist and her music.

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Luther Seminary

2481 Como Ave, Saint Paul, MN 55108-1496, United States | (651)-641-3456

Luther Seminary

Luther Seminary is the largest seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Located in the Saint Anthony Park neighborhood of St. Paul, Minnesota, its mission is to prepare students for service in rostered ministry and leadership positions within the ELCA and its ecumenical partners.

As of the 2010-2011 academic year, Luther serves 796 total students (54% male, 46% female), employing 45 full-time faculty along with 20 adjunct faculty. Luther Seminary offers a Master of Divinity degree (M.Div.), for students seeking ordination, as well as Master of Arts, Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) and Doctor of Philosophy degrees for other students. In the fall of 2013, Luther Seminary suspended new admissions to the Ph.D program for three years as part of budget cuts.

As in most seminaries, M.Div. students complete three years of theological education, divided into a junior year (first), middler year (second) and senior year (final). A full year of internship, usually in a parish, is an integral part of pastoral training, and a degree requirement for ELCA M.Div. students. While individual situations may vary, internship typically begins after two-thirds of coursework has been completed. Thus, most students complete internship between their middler and senior year. The internship requirement is unique to the ELCA among the other Mainline denominations in the U.S.

Luther Seminary history

Luther Seminary, through a series of mergers, consolidated into one seminary what at one time were six separate institutions.

Luther Theological Seminary

Luther Theological Seminary (ALC) was initially formed through the merger of three institutions in 1917 in conjunction with the merger of three Norwegian Lutheran Churches to create what was later named the Evangelical Lutheran Church. The ELC became part of the ALC in 1960.

Each of the three churches operated a seminary: the Norwegian Synod operated Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota; the Hauge Synod operated the in Red Wing, Minnesota; and the United Norwegian Lutheran Church operated the United Church Seminary in Saint Paul. The merged seminaries occupied the site of the United Church Seminary, and retained the name of the oldest of the three schools, namely, Luther Theological Seminary, which had been founded in 1876.

Presidents of LTS

  • Marcus Olaus Bøckmann 1892–1917 (United Church)
  • Marcus Olaus Bøckmann 1917–1930
  • T. F. Gullixson 1930–1954
  • Alvin Rogness 1954–1974
  • Lloyd Svendsbye 1974–1982

Augsburg Theological Seminary, founded in 1869 at Marshall, Wisconsin, later moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and ultimately the seminary of the Lutheran Free Church. It remained a separate seminary until 1963 when the Lutheran Free Church merged with the American Lutheran Church and Augsburg Seminary was united with Luther Seminary in Saint Paul. When Luther Theological Seminary was united with Augsburg Seminary in 1963, Luther, through the process of merger, assumed the earlier founding date of 1869.

Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary

Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary (LCA) traces its origin to the Chicago Lutheran Divinity School, begun in Chicago, Illinois in 1920 following action taken by the English Evangelical Lutheran Synod of the Northwest, a synod of the United Lutheran Church in America. In 1921, the seminary was moved to Fargo, North Dakota, and the following year to Minneapolis. From 1921 to 1982, its name was Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary. Located in north Minneapolis from 1922 to 1940 and in south Minneapolis from 1940 to 1967, it moved near the campus of Luther Theological Seminary in Saint Paul in 1967. At the time of the formation of the Lutheran Church in America in 1962, Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary was placed under the jurisdiction of two supporting synods: the Minnesota Synod and the Red River Valley Synod.

Presidents of NLTS

  • Joseph Stump 1920–1935
  • Paul Roth 1935–1950
  • Jonas Dressler 1950–1957
  • Clemens Zeidler 1957–1976
  • Lloyd Svendsbye 1976–1982

Luther Theological Seminary and Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary

Desiring to make witness to a shared mission in theological education, Luther and Northwestern Seminaries functionally unified in 1976, beginning with a single administration. After a period of six years, the two seminaries established a single seminary on July 1, 1982, known as Luther Northwestern Theological Seminary.

As of January 1, 1988, Luther Northwestern Theological Seminary became affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) formed by a merger of three national bodies, The American Lutheran Church, the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, and the Lutheran Church in America. The name Luther Northwestern Theological Seminary was changed to Luther Seminary on July 1, 1994.

Frederick Buechner

Luther Seminary teaches works by novelist and Reverend Frederick Buechner. In 2014, Luther Seminary created the Lutheran Buechner Prize for Preaching.

Notable faculty

  • Marcus Olaus Bøckmann
  • Carl Braaten
  • Gerhard Forde
  • Richard A. Jensen
  • John N. Kildahl
  • John O. Evjen
  • Hans Gerhard Stub
  • Jacob Tanner
  • Steven D. Paulson
  • Terence E. Fretheim

Notable alumni

  • Johan Arnd Aasgaard
  • Lowell G. Almen
  • Stuart E. Barstad
  • Paul Egertson
  • Mark Hanson
  • Robert Jenson
  • John N. Kildahl
  • M. Victor Paul
  • Fredrik A. Schiotz
  • V. Trygve Jordahl

Presidents of Luther Seminary

  • Lloyd Svendsbye 1982–1987
  • Gib Fjellman (interim) 1987
  • David L. Tiede 1987–2005
  • Richard Bliese 2005–2012
  • Richard Foss (interim) 2012-2014
  • Robin Steinke 2014-
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Mozilla Foundation http://www.mozilla.org/about/manifesto.hu.html "a Firefox eszköz és nem cél" Kálmán Kéménczy ReMo Mozilla Manifesto Firefox Home Collusion and Do-Not-Track Developers Thank you!
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GenArts announces Next Generation of Sapphire

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[] Cambridge, Mass. - GenArts Inc., the premier provider of specialized visual effects software for the film, television and video industries, announced today GenArts Sapphire(TM) 5. The latest software upgrade is fully GPU-enabled to provide artists a completely interactive user experience at HD resolutions, while accelerating render speeds up to 700 percent. In addition, support for full floating point workflows will deliver true photorealistic image quality with the highest possible dynamic range. Sapphire 5 is scheduled to ship in the first quarter of 2010 for Autodesk users.

Sapphire 5 promises to markedly change the visual effects pipeline by stripping away the barriers to artists' creativity, while significantly reducing infrastructure costs. Featuring a completely interactive user experience at HD resolutions, Sapphire 5 will enable artists - even in client-attended sessions - to push the bounds of their imagination without intrusive pauses for screen refresh. In addition, full floating point support offers photorealistic image quality with the highest possible dynamic range, so artists can faithfully recreate looks that exist only in nature - or even beyond nature - with no loss in color information.

Sapphire 5 render times have been slashed dramatically so that batch jobs once requiring overnight processing are now merely "over lunch." Such performance gains can considerably extend the life of the nodes in a render farm or even reduce the number of nodes required to process a project.

"GenArts Sapphire has long established itself as the must-have element in the compositor's or editor's toolbox," said Steve Bannerman, CMO of GenArts. "More and more customers are telling us that the opportunity cost of porting and optimizing in-house effects to new technologies like GPU is just too high. Sapphire 5 represents another huge step in supporting the rapidly growing trend away from this expensive development toward standardization on tools from their trusted vendor."

Since the company's founding in 1996, GenArts software has been utilized in hundreds of films, television broadcasts and commercials, including more than 20 Oscar-nominated pieces such as Titanic; I, Robot; Armageddon; Star Wars Episode I, II and III; The Matrix trilogy; The Lord of the Rings trilogy; Pearl Harbor; Spider Man; Pirates of the Caribbean; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; Transformers; The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; and many more.

GenArts, Inc. is the premier provider of specialized digital visual effects for the film, broadcast and video industries. The GenArts Sapphire, Monsters and Raptors portfolio equips digital artists with a collection of state-of-the-art image processing and synthesis effects such as glows, light rays, lens flares, lightning, film damage, fire and fluid effects. The effects seamlessly integrate as software plug-ins into leading editing and compositing systems from Adobe, Apple, Avid, Autodesk, Assimilate, Eyeon, FilmLight, The Foundry, Quantel and SGO. The company was founded in 1996 in Cambridge, Mass.

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PHA Launches New Awareness Campaign, Site, and App

PHAware_HistoryThe Pulmonary Hypertension Association (PHA) has launched a new campaign to raise attention about pulmonary hypertension (PH), called PHAware. The main purpose of the campaign is to reach the general public, news media, and potential donors in order to expand their exposure, both nationally and internationally. One of the most important initiatives of the new campaign is the launch of, which is both a website and social media hotspot, came online October 15th and is expected to gather and promote all of the PHA’s outward facing messaging. But the association is also launching the PHAware app for Android, iPhone, iPad and Kindle, which puts “PHA in your pocket,” as the association says. The announcement comes days before the start of Pulmonary Hypertension Awareness Month in November, which will be full of activities with the same purpose.

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The new app enables users to connect all of the association’s social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest Feeds, as well as take, tag, and share photos from anywhere in the world. Informational material is also available through the PHAware’s PSAs, YouTube channel videos, and PHAware’s Podcasts. In addition, it is also possible to search and find local PHA fundraising events, donate funds to help support PH research, or look for events for PH Awareness Month and World PH Day by using the hashtag #PHAware.

The PHA remains dedicated to finding new ways of informing and educating people on PH. Therefore, the association plans to use messages in pharmacies, supermarket checkouts, gas station TVs, ATMs, hospital and pediatrician TVs, sport arena jumbotrons, billboards, and other advertising formats to tell the story of PH patients. They believe that this new initiative is an opportunity draw more attention to the disease.

One of the prominent figures of the campaign is Steve Van Wormer, a PHA Board member whose child, Lucas, was diagnosed with PH when was only four years old. Ever since, Van Wormer has been engaged in raising global awareness and finding a cure for it. The board member is responsible for having created the PHA’s public service announcements (PSAs), which are transmitted via more than 11,500 TV and radio stations across the country, thanks to the Tom Lantos Innovation in Community Service Award.

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“I wanted to do something so that more people know about this disease,” said Van Wormer, who is working in collaboration with Marie Mascia-Rand, Director of Community Engagement for PHA’s Greater New York and Philadelphia Chapter, who was responsible for managing Van Wormer’s PSAs that aired on television in New York City taxicabs. “The PSAs have really taken off and now we can do even more.”

But it doesn’t end there. Marie Mascia-Rand, Director of Community Engagement for PHA’s Greater New York and Philadelphia Chapter, has leveraged her connections and relationships in the New York City area to create some amazing exposure for PHA. Because of her efforts, PHA’s PSAs have aired on the TVs in New York City taxicabs – yielding nearly one million impressions during a spring two-week run. In August, the newly branded PHAware PSA Campaign appeared in Philadelphia taxicabs.

“My daughter was a warrior in the early stages of this disease and in her honor I am committed to finding a cure,” reports Marie Mascia-Rand. “When Steve said his goal was to capture every screen, we took it very seriously. January will also bring a new print campaign on New York City taxicab topper billboards… and there is more to come!”

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python-forecastio 1.1

A thin Python Wrapper for the weather API

Latest Version: 1.3.5

This is a wrapper for the API. It allows you to get the weather for any location, now, in the past, or future.

I was originally looking for a good python weather API to use in another project. When I struggled to find anything I liked, I decided to write this one.

The Basic Use section covers enough to get you going. I suggest also reading the source if you want to know more about how to use the wrapper or what its doing (it’s very simple).

Recent Changes

  • python-forecastio is now available on PyPI.
  • Requests is now used for HTTP/S requests. The main advantages are HTTPS support and GZip compression
  • Updates to the way load_forecast is used. This should make it easier to keep track of the state of your Forecast objects.

You can now use pip to install python-forecastio. To install pip install python-forecastio to remove pip uninstall python-forecastio

If you choose to install python-forecastio manually, it depends on the requests library (

Basic Use

Although you don’t need to know anything about the API to use this module, their docs are available at

To use the wrapper:

import forecastio

api_key = "YOUR API KEY"
lat = -31.967819
lng = 115.87718

forecast = forecastio.load_forecast(api_key, lat, lng)

The load_forecast() method has a few optional parameters. Providing your API key, a latitude and longitude are the only required parameters.

Use the forecast.DataBlockType() eg. currently(), daily(), hourly(), minutely() methods to load the data you are after.

These methods return a DataBlock. Except currently() which returns a DataPoint.

byHour = forecast.hourly()
print byHour.summary
print byHour.icon

The .data attributes for each DataBlock is a list of DataPoint objects. This is where all the good data is :)

for hourlyData in
        print hourlyData.temperature

forecastio.load_forecast(key, latitude, longitude)

This makes an API request and returns a Forecast object (see below).

  • key - Your API key from
  • latitude - The latitude of the location for the forecast
  • longitude - The longitude of the location for the forecast
  • time - (optional) A datetime object for the forecast either in the past or future
  • units - (optional) A string of the preferred units of measurement, “auto” is the default. “us”,”ca”,”uk”,”si” are also available. See the API Docs for exactly what each unit means.
  • lazy - (optional) Defaults to false. If true the function will request the json data as it is needed. Results in more requests, but maybe a faster response time.
  • callback - (optional) Pass a function to be used as a callback. If used, load_forecast() will use an asynchronous HTTP call and will not return the forecast object directly, instead it will be passed to the callback function. Make sure it can accept it.

class forecastio.models.Forecast

The Forecast object, it contains both weather data and the HTTP response from

  • response
  • http_headers
    • A dictionary of response headers. ‘X-Forecast-API-Calls’ might be of interest, it contains the number of API calls made by the given API key for today.
  • json
    • A dictionary containing the json data returned from the API call.
  • currently()
    • Returns a ForecastioDataPoint object
  • minutely()
    • Returns a ForecastioDataBlock object
  • hourly()
    • Returns a ForecastioDataBlock object
  • daily()
    • Returns a ForecastioDataBlock object
  • update()
    • Refreshes the forecast data by making a new request.

class forecastio.models.ForecastioDataBlock

Contains data about a forecast over time.

Attributes (descriptions taken from the website)
  • summary
    • A human-readable text summary of this data block.
  • icon
    • A machine-readable text summary of this data block.
  • data
    • An array of ForecastioDataPoint objects (see below), ordered by time, which together describe the weather conditions at the requested location over time.

class forecastio.models.ForecastioDataPoint

Contains data about a forecast at a particular time.

Data points have many attributes, but not all of them are always available. Some commonly used ones are:

Attributes (descriptions taken from the website)
  • summary - A human-readable text summary of this data block.
  • icon - A machine-readable text summary of this data block.
  • time - The time at which this data point occurs.
  • temperature - (not defined on daily data points): A numerical value representing the temperature at the given time.
  • precipProbability - A numerical value between 0 and 1 (inclusive) representing the probability of precipitation occurring at the given time.

For a full list of ForecastioDataPoint attributes and attribute descriptions, take a look at the data point documentation (

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Fall 2010 Course Offerings in the Men’s Studies Department

25 Apr

Reader Elizabeth tipped me off last week to a podcast of some DaHarb named Lionel Tiger (no, seriously) who has had the blisteringly original idea that universities, if they’re going to offer Women’s Studies courses, ought to be required – in the name of equality – to offer Men’s Studies courses. As someone who has spent the last eight years on college campuses futzing around various humanities and social sciences departments, I would like to reassure Mr. Tiger that he needn’t worry about men’s curricular under-representation. Men’s Studies actually already exists. I don’t know what they call it at Rutgers where he teaches, but at the two universities I’ve attended, they call it Literature, History, Art History, Political Science, Economics, and Area Studies. Really, nearly every course taught in every humanities or social science department on Earth could be considered Men’s Studies were it not for the token textbook chapter here and there on “women’s history” or “women’s literature.” Or maybe Tiger is concerned when he looks at the course catalog and sees a section for African American Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies, Women’s Studies, etc. but doesn’t see a White Men’s Studies, an omission that would imply that white men aren’t oppressed enough to warrant a department dedicated to the study of their suffering. I mean, just imagine.*

Let’s pretend for a minute that the majority of Women’s Studies departments haven’t already been rebranded and ideologically reworked as Gender Studies departments and think about what kinds of courses might fall under the rubric of Men’s Studies. Davetavius and I have designed for your perusal a hypothetical grouping of course offerings for the Fall 2010 semester for the Men’s Studies department at Alternate Universe State (I’m guessing that it might be possible that in some alternate universe there exists a shortage of college courses about men and their concerns, though I still doubt it).

Undergraduate Course Offerings

MNST 101 Introduction to Chicks – Required for all Men’s Studies majors. Introduces basic concepts in the study of chicks, how to get them to get naked, and what’s wrong with them. Concepts that will be covered include basic sexual coercion techniques, creative avoidance of privilege examination, and basic victim-blaming.

MNST 110 Strip Club Etiquette  — This course will give students a thorough grounding in the behavior expected at strip clubs. Topics will include avoiding contact with bouncers, how to discreetly inquire about the availability of intercourse or fellatio, how to maximize the amount of attention one can get per tip dollar, how to avoid ingesting pubic hairs at free strip club lunch buffets, the parameters of lap dances, advanced glitter removal laundry techniques, and basic alibi formation.

MNST 123 Intermediate Automobile Appreciation – Building on the fundamentals taught in MNST 122, this course will take students beyond a basic understanding and appreciation of horsepower and will prepare them to classify American vehicles by year and to detect and precisely identify common vehicle modifications. Prerequisite: MNST 122 Basic Automobile Appreciation or proof of ownership of a classic vehicle as defined by department guidelines. May be taken concurrently with MNST 124 Introduction to Drifting.

MNST 209 Intermediate NFL Theory – This course will build upon the basic knowledge of the NFL taught in MNST 109 to prepare students to call sports talk radio shows and discuss coaching strategies and to assemble a viable fantasy football team. Intended to prepare students for MNST 210 Applied NFL Theory: Fantasy Football. Prerequisite: MNST 109 Basic NFL Theory To Prevent Sounding Like A Faggot or permission of the coach.

MNST 212 Applied Fart Science – This course will allow students to put what they have learned in the course of our two-semester fart theory sequence into practice. Topics to be covered include public flatulence strategies, mind control techniques that will allow one to maintain a straight face while others attempt to detect the source of a fart, complex “pull my finger” sequences, the scientific principles of rectal methane combustion, and rhetorical strategies for smelt it/dealt it disputes. Prerequisite: MNST 211 Intermediate Fart Theory or department placement exam.

MNST 323 Directed Research in Mammarian Theory – Senior seminar intended for MNST majors. This course will allow students to move beyond basic breast appreciation and to formulate an individualized mammarian taxonomy in preparation for the senior thesis (required for all MNST majors, a 25,000-word essay on who has/had the world’s greatest tits). Students work with an advisor to identify three individual areas of interest (e.g., 80s boob comedies, silicon implants versus saline implants, tactile versus visual breast appreciation, etc.) and to examine relevant research data. Intended as preparation for MNST 324 Senior Thesis Seminar in Advanced Mammarian Studies. Prerequisite: at least four courses in the MNST 310-319 range of upper-division Mammarian Theory courses.

Graduate Course Offerings

MNST 412 Computer Science for Men: Advanced Pornography Perusal Techniques – This course will prepare students to develop complex Boolean search sequences for the efficient and precise acquisition of highly specific pornographic content. Final exam to consist of a timed search for a minimum of five free video clips matching at least 7 of 10 of the criteria outlined in a randomly chosen description of a 4Chan member’s preferred masturbatory fantasy. Intended for MA students as preparation for the MA thesis in the Erotic Arts sub-field. Prerequisite: MNST 380 Intermediate Pornography Perusal Techniques: Moving Beyond Basic Anal.

MNST 465 Directed Research in Microbrews – This course builds on the MNST 460-464 series of courses in microbrew appreciation to prepare MA students to write the MA thesis in the Fermented Beverages sub-field. Students work with an advisor to identify three breweries (either domestic, European, or a combination of the two) and to sample and analyze the products of each before writing a comparative thesis in the field. Students seeking entry into the PhD program with a focus in Fermented Beverages are encouraged to complete MNST 466 Applied Microbrew Theory: Home Brewing and/or MNST 467 Applied Microbrew Theory: Advanced Punning for Beer Naming in preparation for their doctoral research. Prerequisite: MNST 464 Advanced Microbrew Appreciation: Boulder vs. Belgium.

MNST 501 Advanced Men’s Rhetoric for PhD Students – This multidisciplinary course is intended to help doctoral students to prepare for their oral qualifying examinations by introducing them to advanced rhetorical strategies for the defense of male privilege and the male-supremacist status quo. Topics to be covered include creative interpretation and misrepresentation of rape and domestic violence statistics, the utilization of historical precedent as a rationalization for the continued subjugation of women and/or people of color, the deployment of basic evolutionary psychology/biology to excuse sociopathic behavior on the part of men, advanced applied false analogy theory for use in situations in which it is advantageous to compare the white male heterosexual experience to that of groups of people who have actually been oppressed, and advanced men’s ultramicro-economic theory, which will prepare students to appear to refute the claims of Marxist and anarchist feminists about men’s systemic misappropriation of women’s labor by producing anecdotal evidence that a woman once took advantage of a man for monetary gain. Having completed this course, students will have the opportunity to earn extra credit for participation in a debate with students from the university’s Women’s Studies department at which everyone will be required to give both sides’ arguments equal weight regardless of the quantity and quality of thought and knowledge that underlies each, as to do otherwise would unfairly disadvantage the Men’s Studies students. This event, like our department, will be funded with monies taken from the Women’s Studies budget.

Should you have a class title or description to suggest, please do so in comments. The department will surely expand.

* Since I know everyone really wants to know my opinion on the organization of university curricula: in short, ____ Studies departments only serve to create the illusion of commonalities that are at best crude and misleading and to further ghettoize the study of women, non-heterosexuals, and people of color. A wiser tack to take would be to quit judging all people against a white male heterosexual yardstick and require that the professors of regular ol’ history/literature/etc. courses quit pretending dead white men were the only people who ever did anything noteworthy.

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Fuck politics, women need to be making sitcoms.

19 Apr

I’m serious.

Justin sent me a link to a recent (OK, not that recent) article about Kathryn Bigelow, the first female recipient of the Academy Award for Best Director for The Hurt Locker (who also directed one of the greatest movies ever made — provided that you watch movies for the same reasons I do — Point Break). The article, written by Barbara Kellerman of the Harvard Kennedy School, while it did make me snort a few times, made me come to an important realization: it’s more important for women to concentrate on gaining control of the entertainment industry than politics.

But first, let’s get back to what made me snort. Kellerman, apparently a sex discrimination and objectification apologist, claims that it’s:

… not that Hollywood dislikes women. It does not: films and females have gone together since the inception of the movie business. It’s just that even now, a decade into the 21st century, Hollywood wants women in front of the camera rather than behind it.

See? It’s all good, y’all. Hollywood may not value women’s abilities, intelligence, or artistic talent, but it likes looking at conventionally “hot” ones. Why complain that there aren’t enough female Best Boys when women dominate the Interchangeable Sex Object market? Come on, now. How can Kellerman make the claim that Hollywood doesn’t dislike women when “it” only allows them to play the limited roles it assigns them, when it requires that they perpetuate its own warped ideas about womanity (I love coining new words) if they want to participate at all, when it bars them from occupying any positions within the industry hierarchy from which they might gain the power to create entertainment that depicts women as human beings rather than formulaic rehashes of the temptress, girl next door, damsel in distress, or shrew archetypes? Sounds to me like Hollywood dislikes women and wants to make sure the rest of us do, too.

And then there’s this humdinger:

[I]t would be disingenuous not to point out [Bigelow’s] decades-long relationship to James Cameron, the guru behind The Hurt Locker’s most obvious competitor, Avatar, and one of Hollywood’s all time heavyweights.

The fact that they were married for a couple of years a couple of decades ago has no apparent bearing on Bigelow’s emergence as a star director in her own right. But the fact that for years Cameron has been her mentor, as well as her apparently unwavering collaborator and champion, does. It’s anyone guess whether Bigelow could have made it so far on her own, notwithstanding her talent and drive.

Oh, SNAP! So, even when a woman finally does wrest a begrudging nod from the 90028 phallocracy, we have to give a dude credit for it, “notwithstanding her talent and drive” (whatever that means)? I wonder whether anyone, when discussing the garbage James Cameron has strewn across the cultural landscape, has ever bothered to pontificate on the various personal relationships that might have propelled Cameron to his current position atop the entertainment shit heap. Probably not, since when men make use of personal connections to get ahead, they’re just savvy, resourceful go-getters. But when a woman (or anyone who isn’t a white dude) does anything other than take some kind of melodramatic Russel Crowe-esque stand against accepting help from anyone in their struggle to measure up to standards set and enforced by these nepotistic networkers (I’m practicing my alliterations in the hopes that TruTV will hire me to narrate some “shit gone awry” clip show), everyone assumes that she — because naturally, being female, she lacks any true talent or skill — must have hosed her way up the ol’ ladder of success.

Not only does Hollywood dislike women, but I suspect that Kellerman, though possibly unbeknownst to herself, might not be that big of a fan either.

Which brings me to the actual point: women need to get control of the entertainment industry (and its controlling boyfriend, the advertising industry) or else, and it ought to be our foremost goal, possibly even taking precedence over political representation. Whether we are pumped about it or not, the entertainment and advertising industries make up the bulk of our culture, and culture, though it is an excuse for nothing, does appear to underlie everything. The entertainment industry, news media included, shapes and directs public opinion on nearly everything, including and especially gender roles. We’re surrounded by the entertainment industry’s influence nearly every second we’re awake, and it probably plays a larger accumulative role in forming our ideas of self, other, and society than any other influence. If women were to gain control over at least half of that industry and its output, and if that control were to result in kinder, more sympathetic, more realistic, or just plain less hateful representations of women, the effect on our culture would be striking.

Equal representation in politics would be great, but the only way that will happen without a massive reduction in societal misogyny would be through the use of a quota system. Whatever your views on affirmative action or our purportedly individualistic and meritocratic political system, that isn’t likely and would probably lead to the kind of social backlash I’m not interested in learning the details of. It may very well be that the only way to ensure women’s interests are represented in politics is to create the kind of culture in which women’s views and political participation are seen as desirable and necessary to the functioning of society, and the only force in the world with the power and reach to propel us toward that reality is the popular media. Blogs ain’t doing the job. The corporate entertainment industry shut down any potential that the independent media efflorescence of the early to mid 90s offered. No one cares what the local booger punk band thinks. A popular entertainment media takeover by women is the only solution.

But then we’d have to rely on the kinds of women who give a shit about getting ahead in Hollywood to represent our interests to the public, you say? Yes, it’s a lesser of two evils situation, to be sure, but at least women can identify with women as human beings like themselves and would be less likely to make yet another horror movie in which young attractive women are tortured to death for the titillation of teenage misogynists or yet another boob comedy. Without looking it up, I can guarantee you a woman didn’t write or direct American Pie. Sure, I’d like to see something a little more radical than a gradual, piecemeal amelioration of women’s systemic oppression, but until I write my treatise on how to create an anarcho-communist utopia in which beer is blue and tastes like flowers and Cadbury Creme Eggs are sold year-round by peaceable means, I’ll have to stick to offering my thoughts on how to change things from within the cruel system in which beer tastes like beer and I ate my last Creme Egg last night. For now, I’ll take what I can get, and this seems possible. Just think, with a popular media that portrayed women as human beings rather than either syrupy, kissy-faced angels or conniving whores, maybe Barbara Kellerman would be able to measure women and men by the same standard and either give women credit for their achievements without disclaimers about the personal advantages they enjoyed, or call attention to the far more numerous social, economic, political, and personal advantages most men enjoy.

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Facebook update causes Nine Deuce to delete contact, hate Nietzsche even more.

6 Apr

Well, I’ve been shirking long enough and it’s time to write. I suppose the many, many MRA-penned death threats I’ve been getting this week have had something to do with my reluctance to get back on the old bloggeroony, but fuck those assholes.

For some reason, I have as one o’ my Facebook bros a dude I tertiarily knew when I was 20, and this particular dude has been a source of laughter for me on many occasions. He’s about 40 years old, has been a rave DJ for the last 16 years, and, like rave DJs the world over, has a hankering for women half his age because they’re too young to realize how fucking ridiculous it is for a 40-year-old man to be hanging around in dodgy industrial lofts playing tired, rehashed 1999 house music for teenagers on ketamine by night while spending his days writing and re-writing online bios about what a serious musical artist he is. I know I’m supposed to disassociate myself from all sexists, misogynists, users of women, and general dickfers, but I just can’t seem to do so sometimes. As revolting as these types can be, they’re also good for a laugh. I mean really, what in the world is funnier than a person who has striven for so long to avoid analyzing himself or the world around him that he has successfully convinced himself that playing records in public matters and that the absurd thoughts that MDMA causes in the minds of people who dress like kindergarteners gone wild might have the potential to radically improve human society? I can’t give up a source of entertainment that rich just because the guy happens to objectify women. Call me a sell-out if you must; I still don’t listen to Ludacris or go see Seth Rogen movies.

Anyway, this particular individual has recently been having problems with his girlfriend, aged 22. I know this because he stopped posting her borderline pornographic head shots with captions like “My little super model” and began writing cryptic updates about the value of honesty and how wack it is when “people” attempt to deceive others. It was REAL subtle, I assure you. I admit it, I snickered at this fellow’s misfortune, but only because I think it’s very funny when adults air their relationship difficulties in a public forum. I especially like it when they include song lyrics they think are pertinent to the situation. Well, this dude dealt very poorly with having been cheated on and dumped and, in between posting updates such as, “I don’t have to put up with this shit. I’m ____ _______!”, got a little introspective and started checking out quotes from European philosophers on the internet, the choicest of which he elected to share with his many Facebook pals. Most of them were the kind of silly, obvious, sophomoric nonsense that seems to appeal so much to Fight Club fans (sorry, Geoff) and MMA enthusiasts, but one of them really got me to snickering. The other night, this sage posted a quote from our boy Friedrich Nietzsche that nearly made me drop my taco:

“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”

I started sputtering and cussing in a manner reminiscent of Dennis Leary discussing Steven Seagal’s ponytail as I recounted the quote and its context to Davetavius. In between giggles and exclamations of surprise at just how ridiculous people are capable of being, we came to a very important conclusion: it’s probably best to avoid anyone who likes to talk about Nietzsche.

Think about the famous people who claim him as an influence. Marilyn Manson? Jim Morrison? (Scott Stapp claims to be the inheritor of Jim Morrison’s legacy, so we can indirectly blame Nietzsche for the existence of Creed. OK, maybe that’s a slight stretch, but whatever.) Yes, I’m aware that Nietzsche did present some interesting ideas about the possibilities of intellectual inquiry, and that all those French dudes I’m forced to read every semester would have been nowhere without the foundation Nietzsche laid (I’ll give him credit for some of that, but he also gets credit for helping some of those French dudes drop us into the toilet of relativism we now swim in), but very few people know anything about that. Most people who go around quoting Nietzsche do so because they heard he questioned the basis of morality, and that kind of shit really appeals to people who are looking to intellectualize their juvenile, narcissistic interest in smoking pot and participating in faux-Wiccan orgies or whatever.

But as hilarious as Jim Morrison was (The Doors is the greatest comedy ever made) and as embarrassing as Marilyn Manson is, they still at least deserve credit for attempting to understand something Nietzsche wrote beyond whatever one-liners one can find on a website of quotations that also includes “I’m the type of nigga that’s built to last. If you fuck with me, I’ll put my foot in ya ass” (NWA, “Gangsta Gangsta”). Jim Morrison was most definitely a self-absorbed asshole whose “art” amounted to getting ripped, fucking whoever was around, abusing his girlfriend, and overusing the word “death,” but at least he was smart enough to justify his behavior in terms that were not quite yet trite in the 1960s (now, on the other hand…). And though I cannot help but snort, snicker, and pretend to fall over with mirth when someone tries to tell me what a genius Marilyn Manson is, I suppose I can admit that he seems reasonably intelligent and that he possesses the mental faculties required to manipulate quasi-rebellious adolescents en masse. But this DJ dude, and the vast majority of dudes I come across who love to repeat banal quotes from philosophers in some impuissant attempt at projecting sophistication, cannot boast of such, and hence deserve even more derision than Morrison and Manson (fuck, what a rad super group that would have been).

And it’s the selection of quotes like the one above that tip you off to who these guys are. Let’s think about that quote for a minute. Real men want danger and play, and hence they’re into women because women are “the most dangerous plaything”? SNORT.

Now, I know better than to spend any time stomping around in a rage over the misogyny present in nearly every philosophical text from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (whoops, I mean ever). I do, after all, have to sift through them once in awhile to get at ideas that I need to write or think about. But it’s 2010. Even DJs should know that the ideas these guys held about women and gender roles are fucking silly. Nearly every one of these continental thinkers seemed not to realize the contradiction between making the assertion that women are mentally inferior children who need male guidance even if “guidance” requires physical violence, and then claiming that women are evil geniuses who will make use of their wily-ass feminine wiles to dupe even the most astute among men of letters into doing their bidding, bidding that almost always results in the destruction of the man of letters in question. It’s fairly obvious that these guys had some serious problems relating to women (maybe because they were continental intellectuals, the totality of which group has never produced one dude any woman should have deigned to have sex with), and that their ideas about what it means to be a man resemble most closely the masculine ideal of The Lord of the Rings or some other such regressive dorkery, so why the admiration?

Oh, right, because quotes like that from figures one has heard mentioned by people who wear glasses do a sahweet job of grounding one’s own stupid worldview and behavioral tendencies in pseudo-intellectual authoritativeness. After all, in this day and age the kind of dude who, at 40, dates someone who was born when he reached the age of majority needs to stand on the shoulders of giants if he’s to reconcile his penchant for preying on younger women who have yet to develop the maturity and self-confidence to recognize what a creepy DaHarb he is with his insistence on crediting them with the kind of depraved brilliance that would allow them to victimize him. I mean, really, how else are we to interpret the “dangerous plaything” concept?

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Mariners Bring Jon Garland To Camp

The Mariners have reportedly come to terms with former major league starting pitcher Jon Garland. The deal is supposed to be a minor league contract, so we can add Garland to the list of potential Rainiers starting pitchers.

Garland has not pitched since the summer of 2011, when he suffered a shoulder injury that required surgery. He’s 33 years old and has a career major league record of 132-119, with a 4.32 ERA. His best year was 2005, when he went 18-10, 3.50 and won a World Series championship with the White Sox.

Check out the link below from Ken Rosenthal, who talked to Garland and produced a glowing report. That’s a pretty positive story.

One thing we don’t know right now is if Garland is willing to put in some Triple-A time with the Rainiers as he tries to come back from the injury. Yes, he is supposedly signing a minor league deal – but often these types of deals include a clause in which the player can become a free agent if he doesn’t make the big league roster out of spring training. Garland is exactly the type of player who has earned the right to have that clause in his contract.

Unfortunately, it usually is not reported if a player has that contract option – so we probably won’t ever find out, unless one of the beat writers in spring training tracks down the info. Regardless, it will be interesting to track Garland’s progress during the Cactus League.

Speaking of spring training, it starts tomorrow. Woo!

Coming up Wednesday, we look at the Tacoma catching situation. I haven’t started writing it yet, but I can already tell the word “if” is going to be used a lot.

3 Responses to Mariners Bring Jon Garland To Camp

  1. mike says:

    hey mike
    could always ask Matt eddy of baseball america as good chance, he might know..

    • Mark says:

      Never know Garland might go to Tacoma and wait for that call up that’s going to happen either injury or ineffectiveness.

      • Mike Curto says:

        I agree, Mark. Say he doesn’t make the M’s starting five, and comes to Tacoma in April. If they have an injury in the majors you would think that Wedge would call up a guy like Garland instead of one of the kids if the Mariners are playing well early in the season.

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Reno Takes Ugly Slugfest, 15-11.

There are fun slugfests, and there are ugly slugfests.

I’m going to classify Thursday night’s 15-11 Tacoma loss in Reno as an ugly one.

Reno did a little slugging, hitting three homers and a double along with 14 singles. But Tacoma managed to score 11 runs with just 12 hits – and no homers. The Rainiers had nine singles and three doubles.

How did all of the runs score?

Walks, hit-by-pitches, errors, and even a rare catcher’s interference.

This was a game that featured 14 walks and six sacrifice flies. That’s not a fun slugfest.

The game was played at a crawling pace. We hit the two-hour mark during the bottom of the fourth inning. Things sped up later, and it finished at 3 hours, 58 minutes.

It will probably go down as the worst-pitched Rainiers game of 2014. Reno scored in each of the first seven innings. Reno’s leadoff man reached base in all eight innings that the Aces batted in – and three of them were leadoff walks.

Xavier Avery may remember it as a fun night. Batting leadoff for Tacoma, Avery went 5-for-6 for his second five-hit game as a member of the Rainiers (he did it on September 1 last year, too).

Avery had hits in each of his first five at-bats. He came to the plate to lead off the ninth, looking to become the fifth Tacoma player this century to record six hits in a game. Alas, he grounded out to the first baseman.

Friday’s game starts at 6:35 – the Alaska Airlines Pregame Show begins at 6:20 on South Sound Sports 850 AM and streaming online right here. Tacoma starts LHP James Gillheeney (1-2, 7.59) against Reno LHP Randy Wolf (4-1, 4.18).

This will be just the fourth time Tacoma has faced a left-handed starting pitcher this season. There haven’t been many left-handed relievers, either – most of the Rainiers hitters have fewer than ten at-bats against left-handers this season.

  • My Rainiers game story for The News Tribune is right here – the game ended too late to get any quotes.
  • The Mariners beat the Royals last night, 1-0, and have now won 11 of the last 14 games. Hisashi Iwakuma showed his 2013 form, delivering eight shutout innings.
  • The lack of a dominant team in the American League plays right into the Mariners hands, John McGrath writes.
  • Injured pitchers are making progress, Bob Dutton writes in his Mariners notebook.
  • No Mariners appear on this week’s edition of the Baseball America Prospect Hot Sheet.
  • In the PCL, Las Vegas hit back-to-back-to-back-to-back home runs in Salt Lake City last night. Allen Dykstra, Zach Lutz, Taylor Teagarden, and Brandon Allen connected consecutively against Jose Alvarez. That tied the PCL record, and the 51s won 16-4.
  • Alex Guerrero went 4-for-5 with six RBI as Albuquerque beat Sacramento, 12-7. Guerrero status check: still stuck behind a red-hot Dee Gordon.
  • Fresno topped El Paso, 7-4, as Chris Dominguez launched a pair of two-run homers.
  • PCL home run leader Jon Singleton of Oklahoma City ripped No. 11 in the RedHawks 8-3 win over Memphis last night. He ranks second in all of the minors – a huge kid down in A-ball named Joey Gallo has 12.
  • Elih Villanueva delivered seven shutout innings of two-hit ball and New Orleans worked the Iowa Cubs, 9-1.
  • Omaha and Round Rock got suspended due to rain in the third inning of a 1-1 tie. The Austin newspaper has a story on Express infielder Adam Rosales and his hot bat.
  • Something fishy is going on in Colorado Springs. Just days after the first 1-0 home Sky Sox win in nearly two decades, the Sky Sox played their first-ever home game that was 0-0 after nine innings. They’ve been in the league for 27 years! Kyle Parker drove in the only run as Colorado Springs defeated Nashville in 13 innings, 1-0. The story has a great quote from Sky Sox pitching coach Dave Schuler, who said his pitcher “elevated his game into another dimension.” Obviously, that is a dimension where they play 1-0 games in Colorado Springs.
  • The Denver Post has a timely story on the baseball humidor in Colorado Springs. They had it last year, too – I think this season somebody turned it up to eleven.
  • We’ll finish up with Baseball America’s daily minor league round-up.

This is it tonight: the Rainiers chance to win a series in Reno for the first time ever. Gotta get the win and end the biggest little jinx in the world.

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Locking gear for off-spec roles

Topics: Rawr.Base, Rawr.Base.ItemFilters, Rawr.Base.Items, Rawr.Base.Optimizer, Rawr.ShadowPriest
Oct 31, 2011 at 6:41 PM

I'm a healing priest but play shadow as an offspec. Whilst gearing for shadow is easy in that I can share the same gear as my main spec, the difficulty is in locking certain items.

If I'm wearing an item that is normally used for healing, I can lock that item on the item list on the right of the app; because I am wearing the item I'm locking the exact same reforging and gemming.

I love the feature of being able to select more than one piece of gear to optimize with (e.g. I may have a 378 ilvl piece of healing gear which I don't want to reforge or change and I wish to compare it to another piece of gear that I'm free to alter in any way I like).

However, the issue I'm having is that sometimes I wish to include an item I have in my bags (one that I normally use for healing) but I wish to lock it in it's current state - sometimes the exact reforging and gemming I'm using on that item isn't included in the item list on the right.

E.g. I have the healing tier shoulders in my bag which are higher ilvl than the shadow shoulders I'm currently using. When using the shoulders for healing I keep them un-reforged with a particular gemming choice. I wish to lock the item and make it available for optimizing but the particular reforging I'm already using (i.e. none at all) is not available as a choice to be locked.

Any thoughts on how to get around this?

Oct 31, 2011 at 9:07 PM

I would suggest you use the Rawr paperdoll to "equip" the item that you have in your bag temporarily. Since equipped items always show in the chart that will let you lock it then.

Nov 1, 2011 at 2:20 AM

Logout in your in your shadowspec but wearing your holy gear.   Then load up your shadow profile in Rawr and refresh the character from battle net.   Then you can lock all the gear you are wearing to the correct gems/enchants/reforges.

Your other option is to download the WPF and use the batch tools, but I generally find it quicker to do it as I mentioned above.


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Help with recording metal guitars

Discussion in 'Guitars' started by Maligna, Jan 21, 2007.

  1. Maligna

    Maligna Guest

    Hey guys!

    great forum!!

    This is my recording chain:

    Gibson Explorer (stock pups) ----> Behringer Virtualizer Pro (for comp and noise gate) ------> Boss Metal Zone ----> Motu 828 ----> Cubase

    Can anyone tell me how to get the best distorted metal sound out of this chain cos whenever I record it sounds really crappy and more fuzzy than metal distortion.

    P.S. I can't afford to buy anything at the moment so please don't suggest buying a Dual Rectifier and sticking an SM57 in front of it!! Hehe cheers
  2. EricIndecisive

    EricIndecisive Active Member

    Jan 4, 2007
    Oh, well, if you can't afford an amp... I really don't know how to help. Cus what you said in your PS is exactly what my best buddy does, and his electric guitar comes in pretty damn good!
  3. hueseph

    hueseph Well-Known Member

    Oct 31, 2005
    Vancouver, BC, Canada

    link removed

    Sorry bout the long links. Look for a free amp emulator plugin.
  4. hafsteinn

    hafsteinn Guest

    you could try making a aux input channel from the virtualizer and sending it to the guitar track. And also get a decent DI guitar fx, like pod xt or pod xt pro. Also making a gate channel from the kick drum for the bass (or pitch shifted guitar) to get a tigth sound.
  5. Davedog

    Davedog Distinguished Member

    Dec 10, 2001
    Pacific NW
    Dial back the distortion setting in the metalzone pedal....and dont use as much compression. This will clean things up a bit. An emulator will help also.
  6. jonnyc

    jonnyc Member

    Apr 21, 2005
    IMHO throw out the compressor altogether. It's a crappy one and compressing an already heavily compressed sound is just kind of overkill. Like dave said, dial down your distortion knob. I record a kid who'll only use a metalzone and I'm ok with it as long as he lets me adjust it and I usually pull his distortion knob from 3/4's up to 1/4. However this is while going thru a tube amp with a 57 on a speaker. Also, if you aren't doing it, double track your parts and pan them to taste. You can certainly get a decent sound direct in but seriously, save your pennies and invest in a decent tube amp, even the cheap ones sound worlds better than a metalzone plugged straight in.

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You also have the option to use the ‘Quicknote’ function, which not only allows you to add a note with a click but has the added bonus of enabling you to add a Task so you don’t miss that all important follow up, or send that Email/SMS for confirmation of your conversation. The Quicknote also forms part of the reporting functionality that captures consultant activity.

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You can Reply/Forward from the record and all outgoing Emails are also stored against the record where they are date/time stamped and show the sender details.

A Recruiters work time is often at a premium so it is vital to be able to remember all follow up actions, calls, Emails…the list goes on. This is often an impossible task.

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You can even add your colleagues to the ‘Appointment’ to if required and an entry will also appear in their individual Diaries.

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You can add the most common types of documents (Word, Excel, PDF, JPEG) and some not so common. From 1Click you can access them directly simply by clicking on the link to the document and in the case of CVs you can Parse them directly into the record if you have received an updated version of the document. All information at your fingertips.

1Click will also allow you to create a Corporate version of a Candidate CV to send to your client, this can be amended by you to exclude any personal information and can be created using your Company branded Header and Footer.

LinkedIn is a mainstay of Recruitment in the modern age so we have made it easy to add your LinkedIn connections (although you do not actually have to be connected to the individual to add their profile into the 1Click database) to your Candidate database.

Simply open the individuals LinkedIn profile, hover over the black arrow icon and select ‘save to PDF’ and as long as the profile has been set to public the 1Click system will automatically create a Candidate record, using the information in that LinkedIn profile.

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We can run Excel imports in to 1Click from the very basic to the very complex with our 1Click import tool.
We have a bulk CV Parse tool that allows us to import a few hundred to many thousands of CVs.
Yes, all users can add notes but only Managers can update or delete notes.

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Take some time to think about your goals…what kind of difference do you want your life to make? Just remember, this is not a trial run…this is the real deal and we need to make our life count. I heard Joyce Meyers say “You do not want to get to the end of your life and find out that you had your ladder propped up against the wrong building.” What ladder are you climbing?

If you’re not sure what your purpose is…first I would suggest reading “The Purpose Driven Life: What On Earth Am I Here For?” by Rick Warren and secondly, I would write down what your passionate about. Your purpose is often connected to your passion. It only makes sense that if God has called you to work with children….then you will most likely be passionate about working with children. It doesn’t make any sense that God would put a call on your life and then at the same time have it be something you hate to do.

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