Melbourne Futsal League Round Nine Review (VIC)

Round nine of the Melbourne Futsal League kicked off last night after Inner City & St Albans Strikers returned from F-League commitments in Sydney. It was the latter that took to the courtyard first, against the youthful Cobras Futsal Club. In their fiery red kits, St Albans peppered the Cobras goal early with shots from Avdic & Grgic going just full of the Cobras goal.

Blaming Video Games for Ferocity is Racist and Ignorant

In brightness of the tragical events in Oslo and Utya, information was observed that Anders Behring Breivik, the man responsible for the shootings in Utya,used both Creation of Warcraft and Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 as a "breeding base" of sorts. Whether this did lead to Breivik`s violent tendencies is nevertheless under review, but according to clinical psychologist Christopher Ferguson, a specialist on videogame violence at Texas A&M University, it`s not the media that`s the cause. "I know it`s a little controversial to say, but there`s a certain character of racism in set with these killings," he said in an audience with Forbes.

"When shootings happen in an interior city in minority-populated schools, video games are never brought up. But when these things pass in white majority schools and in the suburbs, people start to freak out and video games are inevitably blamed.I mean that theres a certain factor of racism or ignorance here."

We can`t look to recall when was the final time Grand Theft Auto was blamed for a car-robbery-gone-wrong in the poorer districts of cities. It was only just another crime in the poor neighborhood. Ferguson continued on that killings of Oslo`s scale are passing to keep occuring, and there`s nothing anyone can do to keep them. They strike randomly, they strike powerfully, but they don`t move very often. When they do happen though, the price is high. "People actually need to live what sort of boogeyman can we hang this on and video games are nevertheless the top choice when it comes to any case of tragedy," said Ferguson.

It`s all a count of reality: when do we get the argument between reality, and virtual reality? The model of your character killing somebody in a game can well be misinterpreted (or correctly interpreted?) as an interior need for dispatch and violence. However, even the U.S. Supreme Court has found that there is no scientific ground for such an argument. Surely this means the harassment will stop, right?

Wrong, says Ferguson. There`s always passing to be somebody willing to pin-the-tail-on-the-videogame. "There are groups out there who are leaving to blame video games on everything," he said. "Theyre like ambulance chasers, really. I believe its irresponsible and thoughtless to try to produce political gain off of somebody elses tragedy, but theyre leaving to do it. Thats what they do. But even those groups have been much quieter with the Oslo tragedy."

Another big shooting that has oft been affiliated with video games is the Columbine tragedy of 1999. On April 20th, two high school students killed 12 students and one faculty member in their school in Colorado state before committing suicide. Later reports declared that both students were fans of Doom and Wolfenstein 3D, which were popular FPS games back in the day.

While people were ready to condemn both games at the time, Ferguson states that this was simply because people wanted something to blame. "What was so scary about Columbine was that it could happen anywhere, even in a seemingly safe suburban high school," he explained. "People wanted something to pick and video games became the target. And they wanted to just regulate games away."

It`s almost like to people`s "You can`t see me, I can`t see you" or "Out of view out of mind" mentality. Making games go away makes the origin of many of these problems go away. Therefore, they won`t happen anymore. The Virginia Tech tragedy of 2007 proved all of this wrong. On April 16th, one lone gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, killed 32 people and wounded 25 others before turning the gun on himself.

Strangely enough, Cho was no fan of video games. Where does that allow all the thumb pointing? Ferguson said that this was a suit to shew that these shootings happen randomly and that games are not the culprit. "One thing weve learned from research is that around 95 percent of young boys have played a violent tv game," said Ferguson. "That becomes a crafty thing when these mass homicides occur and the shot is a new male. The odds are hes played violent video games.

"Linking the acting of violent video games to a mass homicide when the culprit is a new male is like blaming the kill on the fact that he was wearing sneakers. The basal value of that behavior is so green that it has no predictive value whatsoever."

The argument will yet remain. Do video games cause violence, or do they not? Do we need to secretly pull the spark on a gun, or do we only go out our fantasies in a virtual environment? One thing is certain: we all accept the power to get a choice, and we all must have for the consequences of that choice.

Read the entire interview at Forbes.

Via Destructoid.

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Inner City: Rise (!011 Dub Remix) - 5 Magazine House Music Reviews

Goddamnit, Kevin Saunderson.

That's all this survey was leaving to be, because Kevin and Kweku Saunderson's remix of the Inner City classic "Rise" ripped the top of my mind off. This is a dub that I can get down with: a looping vocal eruption, pounding percussion and so everything else reverbed to hell like a hurricane ripping through a chrome machine shop.

LIVING WATERS - By LeAnn: Inner City Mission Journal Moments .

Due to ankle surgery and recovery; I wasn't abletowork onour Inner City Commission for acouple of weeks.However, this past week has made up for the days missed. This pastweek has been somewhat of a fight for me. I only like at times that I could make out and deliver these families and post them in different circumstances. Many of their lives are so complicated. There are usually multiple concerns.

Royals William and Kate visit Skid Row

The big word in Los Angeles celebrity gossip this weekend was, of course, the see of Prince William and Princess Catherine. The Imperial Couple were spotted in Hancock Park. They kissed on a polo field in Santa Barbara. They hobnobbed with Tom Hanks and Jennifer Lopez at a Hollywood party. And on Sunday, they visited Inner-City Arts, a train that teaches art to kids living on L.A.'s Skid Row.

Hollywood witch and sun for British royal couple (AFP .

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Britain`s Prince William and his new bride Catherine arrived in Los Angeles for a weekend of Hollywood witch and Californian sun, after a nine-day tour of Canada.

The 29-year-old is likewise due to play polo up the Pacific coast in Santa Barbara, and see an inner-city Skid Row project in downtown Los Angeles during the three-day stay, Catherine`s first ever travel to the United States.

DWD's Reviews: Crunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture .

Neat idea but bad follow through

I grabbed Crunchy Cons: The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots on impulse as I was going the local purveyor ofbooks. You see, I am a "Crunchy Con" of sorts, being an avid recycler.But, this book really failed to make me. In fact, I felt like I wasbeing preached at with certain topics being outright hammered into myskull due to their repetitive re-occurrence.

British royal couple head to Hollywood (AFP)

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Prince William and his new bride Catherine were due in Los Angeles on Friday for a weekend of Hollywood glamor and Californian sun, after a nine-day tour of Canada.

The successor to the British crown is likewise due to play polo up the Pacific coast in Santa Barbara, and see an inner-city plan in downtown LA during the three-day stay here, Catherine`s first ever travel to the United States.

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That winter night, your brother-in-law calls me consume the stairs.

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I was pulling down the steps by their curiosity, by their own vanity guidelines for an appointment. I aim to be in the city, a city dweller is well prepared to me.

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The bright hot autumn sun burned down into Compton, Californiaright onto the shoulders of a busy nine year-old boy. The boy was respectful, working on speeding up his chores for his mother so he could play ball with friends. The boy eyed the last sight of leaves and thought last one, then Im done. He heaved the blood over the pot and pulled backand stiffened in impact as the rake revealed two automatic hand guns, still warm, hidden in the leaves.

Growing Up in an Inner City Slum a Great Way to Abide in Shape .

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Stereotypes would make you believe rural kids are tough. They do all those farm chores, right?

Maybe, but they too get to get in the car (or truck, as tenacious as we're still dealing in stereotypes) to go anywhere. City kids get to pass everywhere - especially if they're too short to afford bus fare.

So, there you own it.

In Ban's UN, Press Barred from Photo Op with . - Tamil News Network

That UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon runs scared, as one of his staffers puts it, more on Sri Lanka than other countries was again on display, but not to be photographed, on July 5. Ban was to meet with Ranil Wickremesinghe, described in Ban`s schedule as Leader of the Opposition.

But when Inner City Press asked to see the photo opportunity at the first of Ban`s meeting with Ranil, the double standards began.

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Joburg inner city tenants turn into buyers

As reported in the Financial Mail recently, younger executives, academics and creatives are once again flocking into Joburg's CBD to operate and play.

The fall in crime levels and the impending opening of the Gautrain Park Station widened the setting for masses to go and go in the area.

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As a kid, growing up in Western Springs, I was afforded every opportunity imaginable. New yoke of shoes? No Problem. You need some more mashed potatoes? Here, we take a 1/2 a pound of leftovers. You don't have supplies for school? Well, we better buy you some then. Don't make a site to use because the drive is being repaved? You could go to Springdale, Ridgewood, Wiola, Sedwick, or Pleasantdale Park if you need or you could likely get in the gym at LT.