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New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie's ability to secure Democratic endorsements supported his overwhelming re-election last year and helped establish him as a 2016 presidential contender, but now a traffic scandal has put the spotlight on his campaign's tactics with local officials across the state.
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The crossover world is moving in a sporty direction. Porsche is set to drop the Macan upon the world, Mazda has the fun-to-drive CX-5 available for the working-class enthusiast, and Audi offers up the SQ5.
Is it simply a plea bargain for the crime of not offering the A4/S4 and A6/S6 Avant here in the States? No... it's actually kind of good.


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Sunday, March 4, 2012
Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Based on the book Oh, the Places You'll Go! After making the hot air balloons, have students do a writing response telling where they would like to go and why. You could make your focus related to where they want to go over the summer or to the next grade level.
This writing example came from a kindergarten teacher in my district.
So.... if you ran out of time during your celebration of Dr. Seuss, you can pick this one up in a couple of months! Enjoy!
7 comments:
- Erica said...
Precious idea! I am definitely doing this at the end of the year. :)
- March 4, 2012 at 2:26 PM
- Mrs. Cupcake said...
Very cute! :)
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- March 4, 2012 at 2:28 PM
- Wolfelicious said...
I love this idea for the end of the year! I love how Dr. Seuss stories can be used throughout the year to keep the students love for him growing and growing.
- March 4, 2012 at 3:08 PM
- Becky said...
I've seen the hot air balloons before but I LOVE the idea of waiting until the end of the year! They are so cute!!!
Becky- http://teachinglearningloving.blogspot.com/
- March 4, 2012 at 3:54 PM
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- March 5, 2012 at 9:00 AM
- Mrs. Wheeler said...
I love this! I agree...there is not enough time for Dr. Seuss! I'll be checking this out in the coming months!
- March 6, 2012 at 5:31 PM
- Tarra Mackelson said...
Love this idea April! Thanks for sharing. I love the idea as an end of year activity!
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"I t was a slap in the face." Steven Levine is remembering that day in 2006 when President George W. Bush took the stage in a small-town school gym in Indiana. It was October 28, right before the midterm elections, and Levine was a 22-year-old White House advance aide. He'd been camped out in Sellersburg all week, working to get the details just right for Bush's campaign rally. The flags hung just so, the big presidential seal on the podium. Then Bush started talking, his standard stump speech about taxes and supporting the troops. But a new applause line took Levine by surprise. "Just this week in New Jersey," the president said, "another activist court issued a ruling that raises doubt about the institution of marriage. We believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman, and should be defended. I will continue to appoint judges who strictly interpret the law and not legislate from the bench."
The crowd loved it. Levine was crushed.
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He was gay and working for a Republican and convinced it was possible to be both at the same time.
Like dozens of other gay colleagues in the Bush White House, many of them closeted, Levine had been sure that Bush himself was personally tolerant even if the GOP was not—and uncomfortable with gay-bashing as a way to win elections. But this was a rebuff, and it was hard not to take it personally: "To be working extraordinarily hard with all of your energy, working through many nights for somebody that you believe in, and to hear that person that you work so hard for come out against something that you are."
Levine knew, of course, that Bush had officially backed the Federal Marriage Amendment, a proposed amendment to the Constitution to define marriage as solely between a man and a woman. But this was also the president who had made combating AIDS in Africa a personal cause (later, at Levine's urging, he would even decorate the White House North Portico with a giant red ribbon to mark World AIDS Day), who had met with previously ostracized gay Republican leaders and whose hard-line conservative vice president had an openly gay daughter. And besides, opposing gay marriage just "wasn't a centerpiece of the campaign to date," Levine recalled when we talked recently. "So it wasn't something that I was expecting to have been sort of his rallying cry at that event."
Afterward, Levine made what small protest he could, telling his bosses he refused to work advance for future campaign events. Back in Washington, Levine says, "I told the folks in the [White House] advance office that I couldn't do that anymore. … I told them why. These are my friends."
"That was sort of my quiet way of objecting," Levine recalls.
Levine stayed with Bush right upuntil the president hopped into the armored presidential limo for the ride to Barack Obama's inauguration 27 months later. As the taillights disappeared down Pennsylvania Avenue, Levine left town. A few months later, one of his gay friends who had also worked in the White House sat down in front of Facebook and counted the Bush White House staffers he knew to be gay. He came up with at least 70 (only two of them women).
That number—and after speaking with two dozen sources I have no doubt it was an incomplete tally—has surprised almost everyone I've told. Alberto Gonzales, the former Bush White House counsel and attorney general, for example, says he never knew dozens of gays had served on the White House staff. "I don't think I could identify more than one or two," he told me. "It was just something that we didn't talk about."
Scott Evertz was Bush's openly gay AIDS czar. He told me he was entirely unaware he had company. "I, of course—just by the law of statistics—knew that there were other gay people in the White House," he says. "But not a single one of them was out to me, so I felt completely alone."
The broader political environment was, to say the least, hostile. When Evertz's appointment was announced in 2001, the religious right was furious. On the fringe, Evertz recalls the late Fred Phelps—later known for offending everyone by picketing the funerals of American soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq—calling for protesters to burn the flag of Wisconsin, where Evertz had been living, and publishing nasty posters on his church's website referring to Evertz as "Bush's butt buddy." Once Evertz was ensconced in the Office of National AIDS Policy, he remembers, "People would come to my office, and they'd make appointments. And their sole purpose was to pray for me in my office."
Evertz says Bush's political guru, Karl Rove, for a time would only give him clearance for public appearances if he promised not to be billed as the first openly gay appointee in a Republican administration. With the politics swirling, Israel Hernandez, a deputy assistant to the president, came into Evertz's office and gave him a hug. Evertz was sure Rove had sent him as a nice gesture. It was only much later that Evertz learned Hernandez, who had been with Bush since serving as his driver and personal aide in the early 1990s, was gay. The hug had been a quiet statement of support from a member of the White House's gay underground.
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GrubHub - Serving up Valentine's Day Dishes Right to Your Home
Right about now, your RSS feed should be nice and flooded with Valentine's Day articles. Let's just say I'm not got gonna stop the train and give you my own V-Day app ideas. This one comes from the folks at GrubHub and their iPhone & Android app that lets you order, pay, and get your favorite dishes delivered right to your door.
Running out of ideas for your Valentine or just simply running out of time? Why not set up the perfect night at home? Can't cook, or in my case, can only prepare a mean bowl of cereal? GrubHub has your back. With over 20,000 restaurants in 19 cities across the US, you are guaranteed to find a nice menu that you can order and have delivered right from the web or your smartphone.
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- Enter your address or use your phone's GPS to find and order from delivery or
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- Search by cuisine, restaurant or menu item and filter restaurants to see which are currently accepting online orders.
- Search for delivery restaurants, carryout restaurants or both, and filter by the restaurant's proximity to wherever you are - perfect for grabbing some grub on the way.
- Save multiple addresses and order faster from the places you frequent.
- Past orders are saved for speedy reordering - seriously, just a couple of taps.
- Your payment information is stored so you only have to fiddle with all those
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Yeah sure, you could make reservations, get all dressed up, order a limo, pull up to your favorite restaurant V.I.P. style, get waited on by staff, and dine in style (not sure if I can top that with my next statement...), or you can recreate a cozy environment at home and order in using GrubHub for iPhone and Android. Check it out and let us know what you think in the comments section.


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I am not teaching as much as I used to these days, but there is a very good reason for this. This past summer I was appointed as the Director of UWGB's Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL). The goal of this Center is to provide opportunities, resources and supportive communities to faculty and instructional staff that foster the awesome teaching that is going on in (and out of) the classroom here at UWGB! The Center offers support to faculty and instructional staff who would like to enhance their teaching and student learning through research of classroom activities and instructional techniques. I also work on organizing a Faculty Development Conference in January where we focus on pressing teaching and learning issues and I organize book groups and workshops throughout the academic year that foster collaborations among faculty and staff from numerous departments on campus, all working together to discuss and reflect on a variety of learning, teaching, and educational issues. The Center offers numerous grants and awards throughout the academic year, most often known by students is the Student Nominated Teaching Award (SNTA) that is awarded each Spring to a well-deserved early career instructor and an experienced instructor. The Center also provides training for instructors who teach online, giving them an opportunity to experience online learning from a student's perspective and to collaborate with colleagues to improve online teaching techniques. In all, although I am not teaching as much as I used to, I am still very much involved in instruction that is taking place on campus! Don't hesitate to visit me in my CATL office, IS 1144 (right next to the GAC Lab)!


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How Copyright Infringement Turned Vampires Into Big Business
from the damn-helpful-thieving-'creatives' deptIf you've spent any time in the comment threads here at Techdirt, you've probably run into someone decrying derivative works as uncreative and useless, arguing that art should be created in a vacuum, preferably a vacuum composed of extensive copyright protection. The impression is given that anyone who builds off another's works is some sort of leech who could never create anything of value.
However, it has been shown over and over again that this simply isn't the truth. Jonathan Bailey of the Plagarism Today blog has written up a fascinating piece on the early copyright battle between Bram Stoker's estate and Albin Grau, the producer of the 1922 film "Nosferatu."
Film producer Albin Grau originally got the idea to shoot a vampire movie in 1916. Serving in Serbia during WWI, Grau was inspired to make a film about vampires after speaking with local farmers about the lore.As
Grau, however, hit a major snag. He had wanted to do a expressionistic retelling of the story of Dracula but the estate of Bram Stoker, spearheaded by his widow, Florence Stoker, would not sell him the rights. Though the book was already in the public domain in the U.S. due to an error in copyright notice (similar to the one that caused Night of the Living Dead to lapse 45 years later), in Grau's native Germany, which was already a signatory to the Berne Convention (The U.S. would not sign until 1988), the work would not lapse until 1962, fifty years after Bram Stoker's death.
Instead of giving up, Grau got (wait for it...) creative:
Undaunted, Grau pressed forward with the film and it started production in 1921. However, several changes were made in the movie in a bid to duck a copyright lawsuit. The name of the movie was changed to Nosferatu, the main character's name was changed to Count Orlok and the plot itself received many tweaks and modifications.Unfortunately, these changes weren't enough and Stoker's estate filed suit. Since early prints still contained the name "Dracula," the court ordered that all prints of the film be destroyed. Grau was forced to file for bankruptcy and his film studio was shuttered. "Nosferatu" would have been nothing more than a tiny footnote in film and copyright history, but one copy had already made its way to the U.S., where Stoker's work was public domain.
The film slowly began to gather an audience in the U.S. and, by the 1960s, had earned a place as a horror classic. By then, Dracula was in the public domain worldwide and Nosferatu could be shown freely (though the film itself was protected by copyright in many locations, once again though, not the U.S.).
More importantly though, Nosferatu is the first vampire film that is known to have survived into the modern age. As such, it set many of the templates and rules for the films that would follow, including changing some of vampire lore forever.
The biggest change was the ending of the movie. In Nosferatu, Count Orlok is burned up by the sunlight. However, in Bram Stoker's version, sunlight was harmless to vampires, it just weakened them slightly.And here we arrive at the crux of the continued argument against derivative works. Statements are made to the effect that "x should have licensed y" or "make original art only," but these detractors overlook the positive impact that derivative works can have. Like, say, increasing interest in a certain subject:
Another difference is that a bite from Orlok does not create a new vampire. Rather, Orlok merely kills his victims. This theme too would be adopted by later films, which focused less on the "curse" element of vampirism and often gave vampires a choice as to whether or not a victim would live as a vampire or perish (IE: Interview with a Vampire).
Vampire lore would have been very different without Nosferatu. However, the biggest change might be that there would have been almost no vampire movies at all... After all, without Nosferatu proving the interest and potential profit from vampire movies, it's debatable whether Universal and/or Hammer Films would have taken up the Dracula name.
In the end, though it's the later Draculas that would become better known, it's likely none of them would have ever done so if it hadn't been for this copyright infringing film that managed to stay alive with a stake through its heart.I can't argue with that, although I bet some of the commenters can. But before you broadbrush
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I created a backup script for my data & system and i'd like to share it.
I have a 320GB hdd (1) as my main hard drive, and a 160GB hdd (2) as a backup drive (i keep this one in a drawer nearby, disconnected from the computer).
What i wanted was to create a partial copy of 1 on 2, such that 2 would contain the entire system (bootable) + a part of my data.
1. You need to have the same filesystem on both (i have ext4). Maybe it works with a mix of ext3 and 4, but it's better to have just one. The partitioning scheme on hdd 1 doesn't matter, but for hdd 2 you need a single partition to which you backup.
2. The scripts:
# rsync backup script
sudo rsync -av --delete-excluded --exclude-from="excl" / "$1"
sudo touch "$1"/BACKUP
This one is very simple. You rsync in archive mode (which ensures that symbolic links, devices, attributes, permissions, ownerships, etc. are preserved) and exclude the files that match the patterns from excl.
The / is the source from where you backup (in our case the whole root) and "$1" is the destination to where you backup (this is passed as an argument to the script).
# Include
+ /dev/console
+ /dev/initctl
+ /dev/null
+ /dev/zero
+ /media/win
+ /var/run/mpd
+ /home/wooptoo/music/Amestecate
+ /home/wooptoo/music/script
+ /home/wooptoo/music/list.txt
+ /home/wooptoo/music/.hg*
# Exclude
- /home/wooptoo/dl/*
- /home/wooptoo/games/kits/*
- /home/wooptoo/mov/*
- /home/wooptoo/music/*
- /dev/*
- /media/*
- /media/win/*
- /mnt/*
- /proc/*
- /sys/*
- /tmp/*
- /var/run/*
- /var/run/mpd/*
This is a bit more tricky. It's an exclude (and include) file in rsync format.
Exclude: I excluded my games, movies and music from the backup, and also the system directories /dev, /media, /mnt, /proc, /sys, /tmp, /var/run. These are excluded because their content is created at runtime by the system. Note that the direcotries themselves are preserved (you need them!) but they are empty.
Include: even though i excluded /dev, i need to include 4 file from it (which are not dinamically created by udev), these are console, initctl, null, zero.
I also included the directories /media/win and /var/run/mpd. But these are empty, because their content was excluded (in the exclude section).
3. So we got these two files: backup and excl.
Mount the backup hdd, let's say at /media/backup/ and run the script:
./backup /media/backup/
rsync will backup the whole root to that destination. I excluded game kits, music and movies from my backup because they are just too large to fit on hdd 2, and it would also take a lot of time to backup and keep in sync afterwards.
4. After the sync is finished you need to install a boot loader on hdd2, so you can have a working copy of your system.
Open the grub console and type in:
root (hd1,0)
setup (hd1)
The root command tells grub where your system is installed (in this case hdd 2, first partition).
Setup tells grub where to install the boot loader. In my example it is installed in the MBR of hdd 2.
The problem here is that the boot loader installs correctly, but its menu entries are for the partitions of the main system, not the backup system. So if you'll try to boot the backup system, it won't work.
You can fix this by creating a custom menu.lst for the backup hdd. But i prefer not to do this, in order to have an accurate copy of my data. I just prefer to edit the entries from the boot menu on the fly if i need to boot the backup directly. But you can automatically add a custom menu.lst to the backup hdd from the backup script:
# rsync backup script
sudo rsync -av --delete-excluded --exclude-from="excl" / "$1"
sudo cp ~/custom.menu.lst "$1"/boot/grub/menu.lst
sudo touch "$1"/BACKUP
5. Reboot and try out your new system.
I think this approach (system + data backup) is better than just data backup because if something goes wrong with the main hdd, you can always swap in the backup one and continue working. Besides this, you now have another working system, from which you can recover the main one without the need of live CDs.
In my setup both hdds are SATA with AHCI, so they are hot-pluggable. You can plugin the backup drive, run the backup script, and disconnect it. This is very advantageous because you don't have to reboot.
But you can use an USB stick/hdd as backup drive if you only have IDE.
I would like to know what do you think of my backup strategy. Is it good or am i doing it wrong? Are there better methods? What backup strategy do you use? etc.
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What backup strategy do you use? etc.
I apologize if my response was not your intent, but that's a bit of a loaded question.
you're system if very nice indeed, the ability to swap a drive and keep right on working is great. personally i have a backup script that's cronned to run daily to /mnt/data/backup_daily and monthy to /mnt/data/backup_monthly. it does the following:
makes archive copies of /home, /etc, /usr, /var, and /boot. makes a list of installed pacman packages and a list of installed aur packages.
i then have a restore script which is meant to be run immediately following a catastrophe and subsequent reinstall that does the following:
restores /boot, /home, and /var, reinstall pacman packages from /var via pacman list, restore /etc and /usr, resinstall aur packages from ~/Packages via the aur list. it also takes care to use the proper fstab and menu.lst files.
a side beneifit of this that i didn't realize until recently is that i have a day old copy and a month old copy of virtually all the interesting files on my system. thankfully, i've never had to use ~/.bin/restore, but on a daily basis i do get to use ~/.bin/retrieve:
//blue/0/~ retrieve .xmonad/xmonad.hs
/home/patrick/.xmonad/xmonad.hs exists, overwrite? [Y/n] y
`/mnt/data/backup_daily/patrick/.xmonad/xmonad.hs' -> `/home/patrick/.xmonad/xmonad.hs'
//blue/0/~ retrieve -m Documents/wifi.txt
/home/patrick/Documents/wifi.txt exists, overwrite? [Y/n] y
`/mnt/data/backup_monthly/patrick/Documents/wifi.txt' -> `/home/patrick/Documents/wifi.txt'
it's so useful to say, shit i just effed up my bash prompt... i'll just restore bashrc from yesterday and start over...
What hardware do you guys use? Just curious.
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@ brisbin, you forgot to share your scripts (your httpd isn't working atm).
wooptoo, this is good. I've been thinking about using rsync for a full system backup. Glad someone figured out /proc, /sys... A question. Why do you use --delete-excluded? Hmm. I've always used --delete to remove files that are on the source but not the backup.
--delete delete extraneous files from dest dirs
--delete-excluded also delete excluded files from dest dirs
Could you, explain the difference? I also use '--force' to complete '--delete' (force deletion of dirs even if not empty).
Edit: Ok, I think I get it. '--delete-excluded', removes files that are on backup that are in the exclude list. Right?
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@Gen2ly: yep, '--delete' wasn't enough because it would leave extraneous files in the excluded dirs.
@fsckd: no special hardware, you can basically do this with any computer.
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@ brisbin, you forgot to share your scripts (your httpd isn't working atm).
*EDIT* thank you for pointing this out! i had moved all my pages to a /pages/ subdir of my site. hopefully this sig was the only thing i forgot to update . all should work now. scripts are backup, restore, and retrieve.
Last edited by brisbin33 (2009-10-24 23:18:36)
Just to say............ (i hope that this isn't against forum rules):
I ran the script "./backup.sh /media/Podaci" cause i'm backing up to my external HDD. When i ran it, it started deleting the files on the drive, without warning or anything. Fortunately those deleted files weren't important, but you should set the script to ask the user if he wants to do such thing
^ made my day
Maybe read the script first? ^^
no place like /home
How should i write it then............ there's a warning on the wiki "Warning: don't forget to also exclude the mounted directory where you'll put the backup to avoid an infinite loop (in this example /media/backup/)." I excluded it and it started deleting the files...
I use the following to rotate four backups and backup my root and home separately and hard-link common files between all the backups. I run this weekly to have backups of the last four weeks while using barely more space then one full backup would. It is not super customisable as it is my personal script and I've been wanting to add in a check to see whether the backup location is actually mounted, but I've not gotten to it just yet
# Script to rotate three backups of / and /home and make a new incremental
# backup. No arguments required. Make sure the correct disk is mounted at
# $PAR, though!
# Original command ran to create the first backup of /home :
# /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/rsync --progress --stats -avz \
# --exclude-from=/home/ramses/home_backup_excludes --delete-exludes \
# /home/ /media/seadisc/home_backup.0
# Variables and paths
# Home backups
echo "Moving previous /home backups ..."
$SUDO $RM -rf $PAR/home_backup.3
$SUDO $MV $PAR/home_backup.2 $PAR/home_backup.3
$SUDO $MV $PAR/home_backup2_date $PAR/home_backup3_date
$SUDO $MV $PAR/home_backup.1 $PAR/home_backup.2
$SUDO $MV $PAR/home_backup1_date $PAR/home_backup2_date
$SUDO $MV $PAR/home_backup.0 $PAR/home_backup.1
$SUDO $MV $PAR/home_backup0_date $PAR/home_backup1_date
echo "Doing incremental backup of /home ..."
$SUDO $RSYNC --progress --stats -av \
--exclude-from=${HOME_EXCLUDES} \
--delete --delete-excluded \
--link-dest=$PAR/home_backup.1 \
/home/ $PAR/home_backup.0
$SUDO $DATE | $TEE $PAR/home_backup0_date > /dev/null
# Root backups
echo "Moving previous / backups ..."
$SUDO $RM -rf $PAR/root_backup.3
$SUDO $MV $PAR/root_backup.2 $PAR/root_backup.3
$SUDO $MV $PAR/root_backup2_date $PAR/root_backup3_date
$SUDO $MV $PAR/root_backup.1 $PAR/root_backup.2
$SUDO $MV $PAR/root_backup1_date $PAR/root_backup2_date
$SUDO $MV $PAR/root_backup.0 $PAR/root_backup.1
$SUDO $MV $PAR/root_backup0_date $PAR/root_backup1_date
echo "Doing incremental backup of / ..."
$SUDO $RSYNC --progress --stats -av \
--exclude-from=${ROOT_EXCLUDES} \
--delete --delete-excluded \
--link-dest=$PAR/root_backup.1 \
/ $PAR/root_backup.0
$SUDO $DATE | $TEE $PAR/root_backup0_date > /dev/null
What backup strategy do you use? etc.
rdiff-backup to push backups to remote server/location.
rsnapshot to pull backups to a central location.
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I've put a lot of thought into my whole storage solution, heres how it works:
My desktop has 4 drives in RAID10, RAID1 would be just as suitable. So I can (and have done) tolerate failure of a drive without downtime. I don't backup system files, just data, config, and downloaded packages, in case I need to reinstall.
My old desktop has 2 drives in RAID1 and sits in a corner out of the way.
My backup runs from cron, and uses WOL to start the old desktop up, iscsi to connect to the storage on that machine, then backup up to it, and finally shut it back down. I get an email of the results.
The actual backup itself uses rsync and hardlinks and works in a similar way to Time Machine, recent back ups are more often, older ones are more spread out. Using hard links means each backup represents a snapshot of what the filesystem looked like at the time the backup was done, rather than having a base and incrementals or deltas.
...and finally shut it back down.
How do you do that out of curiosity? Just keyless SSH?
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How do you do that out of curiosity? Just keyless SSH?
I think you mean unencrypted private key, in which case yes.
Though the backup machine I've restricted what that key is allowed to be used for, and that's just to run /sbin/shutdown -h now
I think you mean unencrypted private key, in which case yes.
Uhhh, yes. lol. Sunday mornings I'm allowed to be stupid
Thx for the info.
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I should have read more carefully. Nevermind.
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Big Rapids, Mich. - A strong start enabled the Ferris State University women's basketball team jump in front early, but the Bulldogs couldn't hold on as Saginaw Valley State came from behind to beat the Bulldogs 71-66 in FSU's regular-season home finale on Saturday (Feb. 23) afternoon inside Jim Wink Arena.
The Bulldogs bolted out to a 12-point lead only six minutes into the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) game and took a five-point lead into the break, but SVSU rallied in the second half to pull out the win.
Ferris State honored four student-athletes prior to warmpus as part of the school's annual "Senior Day" contest and their inspired play helped the Bulldogs off on the right foot. Senior guard Kylie Muntz finished with 12 points and a game-high seven assists in her final home tilt while Felicia Standley also scored 12 points and grabbed five rebounds for FSU. Caitlin Carmody also started her last game inside Wink Arena and played five minutes with senior Katy Fox, who has missed the year with an injury, also honored during the pregame ceremony.
Muntz and Standley played a key role in the first half along with junior guard Sarah DeShone, who finished with a game-high 18 points. She hit four-of-six three's, but tallied 16 of her points in the opening frame as the Cardinals limited her to only two points in the final 20 minutes. Junior forward Ashley Rando also reached double-digits with 10 points in the outing.
The game featured only a single lead change as the Cardinals grabbed their first lead of the day on a three-pointer from Katelyn Carriere with 8:44 remaining. She led SVSU with 14 points on the afternoon and the Cardinals also received 13 points off the bench by Kayla Womack along with 10 points from both Emily Wendling and Samantha Zirzow.
The Cardinals shot 50% for the day and hit eight-of-19 (42.1%) three's along with 13-of-19 (68.4%) free throws. SVSU built its largest lead of the day at six points with 2:28 remaining and was able to sink six free throws in the final minute after Muntz had hit a three-pointer and a pair of free throws to bring the Bulldogs back within two points with 47 seconds left.
On the Bulldog side, FSU shot 42.4% for the afternoon, but only 28.6% in the second half. Ferris State was eight-of-18 (44.4%) behind the three-point line and made all eight of its free throws in the game.
The Bulldogs were outrebounded by the Cardinals 35-26 for the day as SVSU pulled down eight offensive boards to six for the Bulldogs. Despite the discrepancy, Ferris State did manage to outscore the Cardinals 9-2 in second chance production.
Ferris State also posted a slim 17-16 margin in points off turnovers after forcing 17 SVSU miscues to only 14 of their own. That also helped the Bulldogs register eight steals to five for the Cardinals, including two each from Muntz and redshirt freshman guard Katie Mavis. She added six assists to go with the seven from Muntz as part of the Bulldogs' 18 total helpers.
Saginaw Valley State's big advantage came in the paint where they outscored FSU 24-10 for the day. Wendling added a game-high 12 boards in a double-double effort while DeShone paced FSU with six caroms.
The Bulldogs dropped to 13-11 overall and 12-9 in the conference with the setback while SVSU improved to 13-12 overall and moved within a game of FSU in the GLIAC North with an 11-10 record. It was the second narrow Saginaw Valley State win over FSU this season following an earlier 73-70 overtime triumph in University Center on Jan. 26. FSU had won 21 of the previous 28 matchups in the series entering the game.
Ferris State will close out the regular-season by visiting West Michigan rival Grand Valley State next Saturday (March 2)
evening in Allendale. Tipoff is set for 8 p.m. (ET) inside the GVSU Fieldhouse Arena for the second meeting between the two rivals this year.
Following Saturday's action, the Bulldogs remain fourth in the GLIAC North Division and have officially clinched a GLIAC Tournament berth. FSU is presently a game in front of Saginaw Valley State for the number six seed overall heading into the regular-season finale at GVSU.


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After a busy stretch that included three games in eight days, the Crew enjoys a week off from training as Major League Soccer begins its mid-season break in anticipation of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
The Crew traveled for a pair of road matches during last week's action, as it first journeyed to San Jose on Wednesday (June 2) to face the Earthquakes at Buck Shaw Stadium and came away with a 2-2 draw. The Black & Gold pushed from the opening kick, and it paid off almost immediately. In the fourth minute, right back Jed Zayner's cross fell to the feet of Guillermo Barros Schelotto, who held off two defenders and put a shot on goal. Joe Cannon pushed the rebound aside, but the ball trickled to Jason Garey in the goalmouth, who centered the ball to his right to an unmarked Eddie Gaven for the easy tap-in.
However, the 'Quakes would equalize less than a minute later, when Arturo Alvarez powered a shot past Crew goalkeeper William Hesmer at the near post. The Crew regained the lead 70th minute when a Schelotto corner kick found the head of Chad Marshall, who rose above a crowd to nod home his first goal of the season. In the 79th minute, San Jose would again respond with an equalizer when Bobby Convey's corner kick found Scott Sealy, who then headed the ball across goal to Chris Wondolowski for the game-tying header.
The Crew then proceeded on to Colorado, where it fell to the Rapids, 1-0, at Dick's Sporting Goods Park. In what was a battle between the second and third stingiest defenses in MLS, both sides struggled to create openings throughout the first half and well into the second. The first clear-cut chance of the night came in the 73rd minute, as the Crew poured forward in a counter-attack opportunity. Gaven collected a loose ball and pushed forward with a pass to Steven Lenhart, who then laid the pass off to an open Schelotto. However, the Argentine rushed his shot, pushing the scoring chance over the crossbar. With five minutes remaining on the game, the Rapids would finally break the deadlock when Jamie Smith's corner kick found the head of a diving Drew Moor for the late game-winner.
With the Crew not returning to the field until June 26 when it hosts D.C. United at Crew Stadium, attention now turns to the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Crew Stadium will once again serve as "Cup Headquarters" by hosting viewing parties for all 64 games of the World Cup that will be televised live on ABC, ESPN and ESPN2, just as it did in 2002 and 2006.
The games will be shown in high definition on Panasonic HD televisions provided by Best Buy in the Stadium Club tent, located just west of the stadium. Parking and admission to Cup Headquarters will be free, and complementary snacks and Pepsi products will be available to fans in attendance, as will a cash bar and $1 Sugardale hot dogs throughout the tournament. State Farm Insurance, Time Warner Cable, Claddagh Irish Pub, Montgomery Inn and Budweiser are also supporting the events and will be on-site at each of the 64 games.
The 2010 FIFA World Cup begins this Friday, June 11, when host South Africa takes on Mexico at 10 a.m. (ET), and runs through the July 11 final. South Africa is six hours ahead of the Eastern Time Zone and games will kick off at 7:30 a.m., 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. ET. The complete tournament schedule, along with other World Cup news and information, can be found at TheCrew.com/WorldCup.
The World Cup is the most anticipated and watched sporting event in the world. Thirty-two nations qualify for the World Cup Finals, which are held every four years, and they are drawn into eight groups of four. The top two teams in each group, after a three-game round-robin, advance to the Round of 16, which begins the knockout phase of the competition.
Crew Stadium hosted the largest viewing parties in the United States during the 2002 FIFA World Cup, which was co-hosted by Korea and Japan. More than 25,000 people attended the 64 televised matches at Crew Stadium, despite the games being televised in the middle of the night and early morning. Over 7,500 were in attendance for the U.S.-Germany quarterfinal match.
Each of the remaining nine Crew home games being televised by ONN-TV this season will be available in high definition on Time Warner Cable in Columbus. Six of those games will air on HD channel 1310, with three moving to Ch. 1311, which is an add-in HD channel that is used as a sports alternate and only appears on game days as needed. It will become active on the days listed below and the on-screen guide should be updated with the game.
Saturday, June 26 vs. D.C. United, 7:30 p.m. (Ch. 1310)
Wednesday, July 14 vs. Kansas City, 7:30 p.m. (Ch. 1310)
Saturday, July 17 vs. New York, 7:30 p.m. (Ch. 1311)
Saturday, July 24 vs. Houston, 7:30 p.m. (Ch. 1310)
Saturday, Aug. 21 vs. Colorado, 7:30 p.m. (Ch. 1311)
Saturday, Aug. 28 vs. FC Dallas, 4 p.m. (Ch. 1310)
Saturday, Sept. 18 vs. Seattle, 7:30 p.m. (Ch. 1311)
Saturday, Oct. 2 vs. San Jose, 7:30 p.m. (Ch. 1310)
Sunday, Oct. 24 vs. Philadelphia, 4 p.m. (Ch. 1310)
The Columbus Crew, Studio 35 and the Crew Soccer Foundation will kick off the 2010 World Cup with a special showing of the 2005 film The Game of Their Lives this Thursday, June 10. The film chronicles the historic win by the United States over England in the 1950 World Cup and should be the perfect way to get fired up for the United States' first game of the 2010 World Cup against England this Saturday, June 12. A portion of each ticket sold for the showing will be donated by Studio 35 to the Crew Soccer Foundation. There will be two showings and the event will include great Crew raffle prizes as well as information on the Crew's World Cup headquarters and the 2010 Crew schedule and special events. Tickets are on sale now to Crew Soccer Nation members for the 7:30pm and 9:30pm showings. Adults: $7.50 - Students: $5.50. Click here for directions to Studio 35 Theaters. Come support the Crew, the USA and the Crew Soccer Foundation next week - it will be the perfect start to the 2010 World Cup in Columbus! Questions on the event can be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com or by calling (614) 447-4143.
The Crew will be on hand at the Park Street Festival this Friday, June 11, from 6-8 p.m. The Crew's station will feature a prize wheel with prizes being awarded throughout the evening, as well as a flat screen television where fans can play EA Sports' 2010 FIFA World Cup video game on Xbox 360, and defender Eric Brunner and midfielder Kevin Burns will sign autographs from 7-8 p.m., along with members of the Crewzers dance team. The annual Park Street Festival, which runs from Thursday, June 10, through Saturday, June 12, features entertainment, live music, face painting, games, great food and fun for the entire family.
The Columbus Crew will play an exhibition match against recently-founded Dayton Dutch Lions FC of the USL Premier Development League on Saturday, June 19, at 6:30 p.m. at Baujan Sports Field on the campus of the University of Dayton. Ticket information can be found at dutchlionsfc.com. The Dutch Lions, who are affiliated with reigning Dutch champion FC Twente, currently sit in second place in the Great Lakes Division of the PDL's Central Conference with a 3-0-3 record (12 pts.). They officially qualified for the 2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup on May 29 with a 4-1 victory over the Kalamazoo Outrage, and will thus face off against the Rochester Rhinos in their First Round USOC match-up on June 15 at Marina Auto Stadium in Rochester, N.Y.
The recently-formed Crew Juniors Super-20 squad kicked off its inaugural season last week (June 2-3) with a pair of victories over Toronto Lynx Juniors at Ultimate Soccer Arena in Detroit. On Wednesday (June 2), the Super-20s defeated the Lynx, 2-1, thanks to goals by Kofi Agyapong and Ben Speas and followed that up with another victory on Thursday (June 3), this time by a score of 1-0, thanks to a strike from Brian Rogers. The Crew Juniors Super-20s are in their first season of competition in the USL Super-20 League, which features over 60 teams in nine divisions. The CJ Super-20s, who are coached by Crew technical director Brian Bliss and compete in the Midwest division, will next take to the field this Sunday (June 13), when they travel to Michigan to take on TKO Premier SC at 6 p.m. at Kalamazoo Soccer Complex.
This week on CrewXtra, the Crew's weekly show on ONN-TV, host Beau Bishop will be joined by TheCrew.com video host Ashleigh Ignelzi, Crew TV analyst Dante Washington and Columbus Dispatch reporter Tom Reed at 8 and 11 p.m. CrewXtra is broadcast every Wednesday and provides viewers with in-depth coverage and access to the team every week, including game recaps, breakdowns and previews of the upcoming matches, while interspersing other news, interviews, discussion and features.
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After a busy stretch that included three games in eight days, the Crew enjoys a week off from training as Major League Soccer begins its mid-season break in anticipation of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.


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Forensic police will return to an apartment on Hay Street to continue inquiries after establishing the identity of a man whose head was found on Rottnest Island.
Police confirmed on Saturday they would be returning to the East Perth property, believed to be the dead man's apartment, which they searched on Friday.
The identity of the man, a Perth resident, was discovered by police on Friday, but not publicly released as police were waiting to notify family members.
Police said on Saturday they would not yet be releasing the name of the man.
The man's head was discovered by a family while beach combing on the south of the island at Porpoise Bay, 18km off the Perth coast on Sunday.
The head was found inside a plastic bag by an 11-year-old girl and the situation was almost immediately branded a murder investigation.
Following a post mortem earlier in the week the man was believed to be aged 30 to 60 year old, with a full beard and moustache, which hung below his chin.


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In a world where all the statistics on simultaneous tablet/mobile and TV are indicating a massive increase in the behaviour, why are TV broadcasters and 3rd party providers creating 2nd screen services making very poor experiences for audiences? Can content owners and TV broadcasters make the most of this opportunity or have they lost the battle already? Will Twitter, Facebook, GetGlue or other dedicated 3rd party services run the show and begin own the TV communities that spring up at each episode? What are the best approaches to creating 2nd screen but hasn't all of this been done before? I try to answer a few of these questions and more raised plus highlight some recent and very old interesting examples.
Disclaimer: any views expressed here are mine and do not represent those of any of my employers, past or present
This article is aimed at producers, experience designers, broadcasters and tech companies making or considering jumping into re-emerged interactive TV now known as 2nd screen. It takes the learnings of broader interactive TV from decades old user behaviour in this space combined with the relatively new additional layer of the social alongside TV behaviour. (it also features some late 2010 introduction extracts also from my upcoming social 2nd screen ebook). There is a lot of information below which hopefully some of it made sense even if you are a user only of 2nd screen services, as it does go behind the scenes. 10 key points covering the back-story, how to improve, process and a bit of where next.
95% of viewing is still via broadcast TV (Oztam multiscreen report) – but where is audiences attention?
1. This is not new folks.
iTV, 'eventized programming' and 2nd screen are as old as the hills, with a heritage going back over 60 years. In fact the oft mentioned Winky Dink and You from 1953 to 1957 actually had kids using a 2nd screen! A piece of plastic they placed over the TV, to draw on, to interact with various 'impasses' the characters threw at the kids. Think of the simple equivalent today -an iPad with a cliff hanger still frame from the animation that required kids to draw a solution – "come on there is only 20 seconds left before the wind comes – we need you to draw the windmill! You will be rewarded!". Then there is this new social thing. Today we have rock solid social 'network' applications where audiences talk, shout, pout and scream about the program as it plays out. It is now a global extension of traditional water cooler 'behaviour', not a new phenomenon but now real time and worldwide, shared outside our immediate physical community. For franchised TV this is a blessing and curse – plot spoilers and reveals long before it moves into new territories – but I go off track.
Without doing a full history lesson there are many predecessors to 2nd screen. Good interactive TV has never been about the tech but about the 'behavioural need' – bad interactive TV is created by non-creatives and limited by vanilla templates or rely on 3rd party interactions shared across a range of broadcasters. But the audiences desire to interact and play-along with TV – whether it is single screen red button style (15 years old), synchronised laptop against TV (12 years old) or mobile devices against TV (6 years old at least) have many lessons that have already been learned. So it is odd that many of today's broadcasters and technology companies are nervously dipping their toes into the waters again, using ground zero methodologies, "it requires a new way of thinking and it is 'delusional' to think we know what will work and what won't" attitude. Wikipedia has a simple para inside its Interactive TV article which refers to the US 2nd screen model from the late 90s.
Notable Two-Screen Solutions have been offered for specific popular programs by many US broadcast TV networks. Today, two-screen interactive TV is called either 2-screen (for short) or "Synchronized TV" and is widely deployed around the US by national broadcasters with the help of technology offerings from certain companies.
Companies like TwoWayTV and Goldpocket had been developing editorial propositions as 2nd screen for years. So I use the word re-booting 2nd screen because there is nothing new about 'TV that is interactive'. But many content owners think that references to older single screen iTV or laptop against TV shows are some irrelevant relic from the past, 'that was then this is now' attitude, when in fact those earlier services had (and still have) engaged audiences often a factor of thousands bigger than the current, mobile + TV model. Some stats from BBC single screen RedButton iTV shows for example here show how pervasive it had been and still is in the UK – even now Red button numbers are at 12 million users a week:
So why are traditional TV producers and service providers who have never done interactive TV before making so many mistakes? Why are broadcasters foolishly developing cul de sac, land grab strategies? What is the better route? Is there any difference between social and 2nd screen TV propositions?


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Pure social interaction, hack & slash is not Role Playing
Intrigue, plotting and socializing only, no combat
The best Role Playing happens best under character stress in combat
All character interaction, including combat
Gimme my dice, I just want to kill something...
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I think that the best Role Playing happens under character stress like combat, political intrigue and being on either end of a nefarious plot.
Forced social interaction without anything driving it is like being in a chat room.
"The best Role Playing happens best under character stress in combat"
I've heard that sentence before, and, even after eliminating a redundant "best", I still have trouble parsing it.
Do you mean roleplaying within a combat situation beats other types of roleplaying? Because, tactical decisions aside, every RPG combat I've been in has been all about die rolling, totalling modifiers, and so forth, which in my book isn't roleplaying. If you think I put tactical decisions to one side cavalierly (badabing!), that's probably because I've never been that excited about the role of tactician.
Or do you mean roleplaying has to have the threat of combat in order to be effective? That's still a bit limiting. What about a detective story in which the goal is to catch the culprit, and combats are either incidental or an indication that you've done something wrong? (Robin Laws' Esoterrorists explicitly designates characters as investigators and not combatants, and in Call of Cthulhu going mano-a-tentaculo with a Mythos creature is legally considered suicide.) One can image roleplayers with other goals, such as exploring a territory, navigating some messy political intrigue (""Affair of the Necklace", anyone?), or stealing some priceless artifact without even getting seen, let alone attacked.
"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
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Last edited by Ed Zachary; 06-03-2007 at 04:35 AM.
Okay, now. Let's tone it done a bit. No need to make it personal. Everyone's tastes differ. There isn't a right and wrong way to roleplay. What matters is that you and the people you are playing with have fun. If you enjoy the tactical side of roleplaying and you only need or want a smattering of story as a backdrop, more power to you. RPGs were born, after all, from strategic games. And if you're a die hard Amber fan or a staunch in-character roleplayer, that's fine too! Most of us fall somewhere in the middle of these two extremes, I'd imagine, and with varying inclinations and predilections towards one or the other.
Roleplaying has come to collectively refer to more than just improvisational acting. I think it is disingenuous, therefore, to say that there is one "best" way to roleplay. There may be one way that you enjoy more than any other, but I don't think that gives anyone license to snub their nose at people that play their game differently. It's simply a matter of personal taste.
That's in my never-to-be-humble opinion, anyway.
Friends + BBQ + Beer^3 + <INSERT GAME OF CHOICE> + Laughter = Role Playing.
Damn the torpedoes and worrying too much about things! If everyone goes home smiling because they had a good time, and talking about what they did in context of the game, and what they want to do next session, I declare Victory, grab another beer, and chase my wife around the bedroom.
Caveat: As Farcaster said, if you prefer RPG adventures to be a series of combats strung together with a plot, that's fine. It just doesn't float my boat.
Even in a court intrigue, the stakes could be loss of position, exile, or even execution for one's patron; maybe the new court favorite would bring corruption, oppression or war to the kingdom. (I mentioned "the affair of the diamond necklace", which seems silly now but in those times made Marie Antoinette even more of a villain in many eyes. It was yet one more reason for the French Revolution. And Dumas made it seem exciting.)
PCs have more to lose than their lives or their blood: they can have jobs, social positions, relationships, reputations, their freedom, their way of life, their principles, their own self-respect. An adventure can come from threatening one or all of those things.
"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
- Charles Babbage (1791 - 1871)
For me the key aspects of good role playing are:
* Create an interesting character and breathe life into it.
* Find a reason to work with the group, not against it.
* Do creative things and play off other characters and NPCs.
The "create an interesting character" part is obvious, and most of us don't have an issue with that.
Finding a reason to be part of a group and working towards its success can be a problem for some. When different individuals create a handful of interesting an unique characters, their interests and goals will vary greatly. It is the responsibility of the players to find reasons for them to work together. This isn't real life, it's a role playing game. If you can't find a reason to work with your friends, then why bother?
That leads to to role playing interaction between the characters. What I dislike about some games is that you get some individuals who always want to run off and do their own thing by themselves. That requires one on one DM and player, while the others watch TV or play video games. Yeah that can be important at times, but not when a group has gathered together.
Looking back on some of the evil groups that I had been part of, we were very successful in being a group. If I had to guess why, I'd probably say that it was survival (hard-ass DM), and that we determined that we'd each be more successful if we worked together when we gathered for an adventure. Sure we plotted against each other during down time, occasionally sacking a citadel, killing a minion, or getting an NPC to do similar. But our rule was that you do not kill another player's character, and if you don't pull your weight in the group you're gone. In that, we found a reason to be a group, and had a great time.
I've also come across players who are stubborn and inflexible, and see the role playing of their character without concession to be their goal. That means not taking steps to become part of the group. If fact you get the distinct feeling that they are actively working toward being disruptive. I've had occasions to meet with such players in person, and they were usually voted out of the group after or during the first session by the players. Some times it takes a bit longer to identify them.
Last edited by Ed Zachary; 06-04-2007 at 08:34 AM.
What if I've come up with treasure hunts that tend to be plot and character driven? Can't I have a game where the plot serves the character, not the other way around?That depends what the combat is about. It can be plot driven, or a mindless hunt for treasure.
I joined one play by post game, and over the nearly two months I participated we did nothing but role play uneventful travel, uneventful meals, and uneventful night watches. That to me would be chat room role playing with fantasy characters, rather than an adventure. While we did get to develop personalities, we did nothing but chat. Sometimes the DM would disappear for periods of time and player questions went unanswered, not that those questions were important because nothing ever happened and the checks were for naught.
In the play by post game I'm putting together I've already designed the first five encounters. Four of five should be resolved by role play negotiation, but they do have the potential to degrade into combat should the players chose to or completely botch the negotiation. The one combat encounter should be easily resolved, but has the potential to get deadly should the players make some wrong choices.
I'm still hoping to get three more players to fill out the group, so I hope that some others may join.
The freedom to not be lead around by the nose in modules is roleplay to me. The situation you run into in so many adventures/modules is that the DM reads through the module like a script, and there is no room for interaction in the world outside of that script.
The very best game I have EVER played in was in the forgotten realms setting. The DM had us take back a castle, and while there was a plot to the overall adventure, and clear goals, and a dramatic landscape to the adventure, the characters where free to do what they wanted to do, the DM would ask for time in events where we went completely off the map, but otherwise, he had everything very well planned and laid out. To the point where you could close your eyes and vividly imagine the finery of the castle while you sat in the company of the baron and his concubine, or to the seedy underside of the city and the thieve's guild. He helped the players to very quickly create their own individualized personalities for the characters and he had ideas at character creation for a forward going story for each character. If a character wanted to do something, and had the resources to get it done, it was just put into the game. Of course there could be reprecussions for this, but that was the back and forth of the interaction with the characters and the true roleplay. If I hadn't moved out of Houston, I imagine I would still be playing at that guys table.
The question that many DM's and GM's fail to ask is.... "What do you want to do now? " rather than, "Do this and then do that", and forcing the game.
Last edited by Traxxus; 06-19-2007 at 06:05 PM.
These two statements highlighted something for me about the way I feel about gaming. I tend to look at roleplaying as part collaborative story telling and part strategic gaming. Running a game is, to me, is like writing a story. By that token, there'd be nothing interesting about a book at was all character development and no story. At the same time, two-dimensional characters can make even the best storyline flop. In my games, there are plenty of encounters, but never truly random ones. If it doesn't advance the plot or enrich the characters, then it doesn't belong. (In my never-to-be-humble opinion, anyway)
As to modules, I think the problem is that it often has that feeling of a story that has already been written. It's not very much in that spirit of collaborative story telling if someone, the DM or some module writer, has already etched the story in stone ahead of time. To be certain, having a framework is important, but I think the game looses something if the end is already set and written. The story must live and breathe. It must give the players the freedom to participate and not just be spectators, otherwise, it is little more than a glorified choose-your-own-adventure book of days gone by.


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yugirival Veteran The Cunning Gambit Monday 21/06/2010, 15:21
I was thinking about putting Ambre in my nightmare deck, realizing that Oshitsune is banned. i cannot use him. im also wondering if i should replace Nerfiniti with Chiara (A Skeelz, not a Nightmare) since a lot of people like her abilities.
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art633 Veteran Monday 21/06/2010, 15:51
Maybe post Your full deck? Nightmare lacks good 3* (beside Pan), so many people use 3* splashes like Chiara or Uranus, I'd chose Uranus, dr is always useful... Ambre is a good choice usually, but in this week Ghumbo is unbanned and I dont recommend using both in one deck... there won't be much room for other cards... Ambre works amazing with Oshitsune and Glorg, but now that Oshi is banned I'd put Ghumbo and Glorg in...
yugirival Veteran The Cunning Gambit Tuesday 22/06/2010, 19:48
Awesome, thank you.
Hmm, uranus does sound good. but her price is unbelievable. D:
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CLEVELAND (AP) The New York Yankees got a major boost from their young pitchers Monday night.
Shane Greene allowed two runs in six innings for his first major league win, All-Star Dellin Betances earned his first career save and the Yankees beat the Cleveland Indians 5-3.
Greene (1-0) didn't allow a hit until Nick Swisher's two-out homer in the fifth. The 25-year-old right-hander was called up from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre after scheduled starter Vidal Nuno was traded to Arizona for right-hander Brandon McCarthy on Sunday.
''It's a dream come true,'' Greene said. ''There's no question about that.''
Betances pitched the final two innings, giving closer David Robertson a rest day.
''It's pretty cool,'' Betances said. ''I was just trying to go out there and keep it the same and make pitches.''
''Some really good stuff out of some young pitchers,'' Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. ''We've gotten a lot of help from our guys in the minor leagues.''
Brett Gardner, Brian McCann and Ichiro Suzuki had three hits apiece for New York, which has won four of five on its 11-game road trip.
Justin Masterson (4-6) continued to pitch poorly and was pulled without retiring a batter in the third. Cleveland's opening-day starter allowed five runs and six hits in two-plus innings. He walked three, hit a batter and rarely topped 90 mph in his 54 pitches, throwing only 24 strikes.
A 15th-round selection by New York in 2009, Greene allowed four hits, struck out two and didn't walk a batter. His only big league appearance prior to Monday came in relief against Boston on April 24 when he pitched one-third of an inning and allowed three unearned runs. Greene walked three of four hitters, all of whom scored, and threw eight of 23 pitches for strikes.
''We've said all along this kid has a lot of talent,'' Girardi said. ''He did a lot of good things.''
It's unclear if Greene will get another start.
''That's obviously going to be a topic of discussion,'' Girardi said. ''We haven't made any decisions moving forward. We'll figure it out here pretty quick.''
Asked if he thinks he deserves to in the rotation, Greene smiled and said, ''That's not up to me.''
Derek Jeter, playing in his final regular-season series in Cleveland, was 1 for 4 and drew a bases-loaded walk in the second.
Yan Gomes hit a leadoff homer in the eighth.
New York scored three times in the second when Masterson allowed four hits, walked two and hit a batter. Brian Roberts had an RBI double, Brett Gardner drove in a run with a single and Jeter was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.
Ichiro Suzuki's infield hit and Francisco Cervelli's fielder's choice added two runs in the third.
Masterson's struggles have become a growing concern for the Indians. Over his last five starts, the right-hander has allowed 19 runs, 27 hits and 17 walks in 18 innings. Masterson has pitched more than four innings once in that stretch.
Masterson was given extra time off because of a sore knee after lasting four innings against Arizona on June 24, but that didn't help. He didn't retire a batter in the fourth inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday and a stint on the disabled list is a possibility.
Asked about Masterson's knee Francona said, ''It's hard to ask somebody when they're pitching. I think we need to sit and visit with Masty. The middle of a game's not the time to do that.''
''We'll talk about it, I guess,'' Masterson said. ''If that were brought up I guess that would be something to talk about to work through.''
Masterson is a free agent after the season. The two sides talked about a contract extension in spring training, but didn't reach an agreement.
NOTES: Yankees OF Carlos Beltran didn't play because of swelling behind his right knee. He said following the game that he might return to the lineup Tuesday. ... Indians OF Michael Bourn will miss three to four weeks with a strained left hamstring. .... McCarthy will make his first start for the Yankees on Wednesday. ... Cleveland acquired OF Chris Dickesron from Pittsburgh for cash or a player to be named. He started in left field and had a sixth-inning single. ... The Indians honored their former television/radio announcer Mike Hegan, who died in December, in a pregame ceremony. Hegan, a native of Cleveland, began his major league career with the Yankees in 1964. ... All-Star RHP Masahiro Tanaka (12-3) faces Indians RHP Trevor Bauer (2-4) on Tuesday.


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