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[Dead of Night] Salford's Lot
October 30, 2011, 03:02:53 AM »
I ran a new
Dead of Night
scenario at Furnace the other week, named Salford's Lot (and yes, the name did come first!). The premise of the scenario was a simple one � the victims were all teenage members of a coven, dabbling in things that they do not understand. Last night they summoned something they could not put down. Tonight two of the coven have not turned up and riots are sweeping the town. Go!
Partly because I hadn�t had time to prep characters, and partly because the last time I had the players make up a relationship map to tie their characters into the story � Grendel, Alaska, from Indiecon a few years back � it created an awesomely compelling game, I had the players create characters to fit the premise. As they created characters, I made them tie themselves to each other on a relationship map in the middle of the table, to the two members who had not turned up, as well as add additional NPCs to the map too.
You can see the relationship map
As I�d hoped for, we ended up with a great cast of characters:
Raven (real name Rachel) Harris, who was Julianne�s best friend and heavily into the magic.
Josh Fellowes, Raven�s boyfriend, who is the only one with a job and a reluctant participant.
Alan �Carver� Harris, Raven�s cousin and Josh�s best friend, who is jealous of all the time he spends with the coven.
Ollie Freeman, a troubled teenager who has problems distinguishing reality from fiction.
Ann-Marie de Pouvre, Raven�s exchange student, who is convinced it�s all scientific, but can use magic anyway.
As I discuss in my post about players and cool powers
, I gave them the option of taking a supernatural specialisation to represent their magical knowledge but, interestingly, only two of them took me up on it. The others were happy to be non-magic using members of the coven.
They also created quite a few NPCs:
Julianne, the founder of the coven, now missing with their magic grimoire.
Simon, Julianne�s boyfriend, whose basement flat they meet in, also missing.
Louise, Raven�s little sister, who she often has to babysit for.
Billy Hunt, a hooligan who Alan looks up to and is beaten up by.
And a few others, who never came into it. I do like creating NPCs for a scenario like this, as the players all know who you�re talking about when you introduce one of them � no blank looks and people struggling to remember names � and I end up with a ready-made stack of victims to kill off that the players actually care about. Call me heartless�
We kicked off with the coven assembling in Simon�s flat, the door slightly ajar and neither Simon, Julianne nor the grimoire anywhere to be seen. And I�ll tell you what happened next in part 2!
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October 31, 2011, 09:52:51 AM »
I set the scene before character creation � two nights ago your teenage coven summoned something it could not put down; last night Salford was swept by a wave of rioting and looting; tonight two of the coven haven�t shown up � so we kicked into the game straight away. The coven scrabbled around Simon�s flat, determining that yes, the grimoire was indeed gone, before breaking into his bedroom where they found it crawling with cockroaches and a strange, sentient blood-like ooze that Ann-Marie insisted on taking a sample of.
They then fled the flat, where they ran into a group of rioters including the now-infamous Billy Hunt, who tried to bully Alan into holding the big tv he�d just nicked. This scene was great, as it set up Billy as a hard case, as well as putting Alan�s own bluster and bullish manner into perspective (Billy bullies Alan, so Alan bullies Ollie). Cops arrive, coven flees, only to find Simon�s body crucified in an alley, his phone filled with frantic voice mail messages from Julianne telling Simon she�s hiding out in the derelict flats.It�s about this time they first notice the car with blacked out windows and an Italian number plate following them.
After tipping the cops off, the coven catch the bus to the flats but are accosted by an elderly blind man who shouts �Witch! Witch� at Raven. The group respond with bluster and are all chucked off the bus, whereupon the man rounds on them once more, this time with a demonic voice. Raven pushes him over, accidentally killing him� or was he already dead, as his body is cold? Despite the horror of the situation, the coven remain teenagers and Raven takes a certain amount of pride in her violent accomplishment.
At the flats, Alan goes in on his own, only to find a smashed widescreen TV on the floor, a dead guy crumpled in the stairwell and Billy Hunt cowering in a corner, scared of something he�s seen. Alan talks to him, Billy persuades him to give him his knife, and then he slits his own throat! Alan flees, but tries to make himself look hard and tells the others he had to knife him.
The group then notice the Italian car is back and head into the flats together. They find Julianne in one of the empty flats, a pentagram on the floor and the book floating in the middle. She persuades them to help her cast out the demon, getting each of them to cut their own hands and bleed on the pentagram. Raven then hands her Billy�s knife and Julianne then cuts her own throat! The players can�t believe they�ve just fallen for the same trick twice!
The disbelief is brief, however, as the blood starts to pool unnaturally and the demon � now cast out of its host � starts to pull itself free of Julianne�s throat. The coven start to flee, but Raven desperately flips through the grimoire to find the proper banishment spell, and a tense combat ensues as the coven try to distract the demon long enough for Raven to complete the ritual. She does and the demon vanishes.
The group retreat back to Raven�s house where they fail to take much notice of the Italian car parked further up the street. They get in, and after Ann-Marie decides to go upstairs to get showered (she�s covered in blood at this point) she finds a well-suited gentleman wearing a large crucifix holding a silver gun to Louise (Raven�s little sister)�s head. He demands the witch be brought forth, at which point (no pun intended) all hell breaks loose. The witch hunter starts chanting, people hurl themselves at him, several people get shot and Raven tries to cast a spell. On the inquisitor. I blow through much of the tension accrued during this scene (mainly accrued by Elaine, Raven�s player, spending survival points to cast spells), bouncing Raven�s spell back on herself and nearly killing her, not to mention a few of the others too.
They finally manage to kill the inquisitor, after he tells them the demon was not banished but was cast out into a blood relative of the coven. He hints that his cane has a splinter of the true cross in it too. Cue Louise�s entry, full-on possessed. Survival points get spent to grab cane and silver gun and the coven wade into action. The demon is slain, finally, but not before I get my hands on a player � poor Josh has his head neatly screwed off.
We finish with an epilogue, as each player wraps up their own story. Raven goes back to being Rachel, magic well behind her, Ollie goes properly mad and ends up being institutionalised for his ramblings about demons, Carver gets to stake his claim on being a real hard man and takes over Hunt�s gang, and as for Ann-Marie? Well, we last see her getting off a plane in Paris, a rather weighty tome in her hand luggage�
� to be continued, perhaps?
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Re: [Dead of Night] Salford's Lot
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November 22, 2011, 02:13:57 AM »
Hello Andrew
I've been following your
play reports (
[Dead of Night] Grendel, Alaska
[Dead of Night] Bad Signal at Concrete Cow
and the current one) and I can't help but realize that you always use a relationship map. You said before (in the Grendel, Alaska AP):
Quote from: andrew_kenrick on November 18, 2009, 09:49:22 AM
The game went swimmingly though, the addition of a relationship map knocking it from a run of the mill monster hunt to a tense, fraught family drama, complete with sexual tension (oh, and two nasty monsters). I've no intention of using it for every game, or even making it part of the rules, but it's certainly going into my grab bag of tools to use when appropriate.
or in this thread.
Quote from: andrew_kenrick
Partly because I hadn�t had time to prep characters, and partly because the last time I had the players make up a relationship map to tie their characters into the story � Grendel, Alaska, from Indiecon a few years back � it created an awesomely compelling game, I had the players create characters to fit the premise. As they created characters, I made them tie themselves to each other on a relationship map in the middle of the table, to the two members who had not turned up, as well as add additional NPCs to the map too.
When is it appropriate, in your opinion, to draw up a relationship map? Do you use the relationship map to play the monster and frame scenes? I suspect so, since for example the demon possesses Louise, Raven's little sister, and not just any NPC that could have existed. This ties in neatly with Ron's remark in
[Dead of Night] Better without the fangs
Quote from: Ron Edwards on November 02, 2009, 01:01:11 PM
(...) Andrew Kenrick and I had just talked transatlantically for a while, by phone, about all sorts of aspects of the game. And as it turned out, the single most important thing I'd taken from that conversation was exactly the thing I fumbled, almost 100%, in the game. (...)
(...) The big thing, the exact thing Andrew and I talked about, and which I totally didn't do in a game barely two days later, was to give a specific and immediate purpose to the monster. The way we did it, the characters were just more fodder for the vampire doctor. The monster took no specific or personal actions toward them; there was no content of that kind at all. The result? A nice little B flip-side kind of horror/terror story, with some fun twists and (if I say so myself) some good imagery born from my personal, semi-irrational hatred of hospitals. But a gasp-inducing, initiative-stealing, 100% memorable and to-be-repeated experience? Not enough so. The game can provide that, no problem, but not if the monster's actions and those particular player-characters' presence
merely happen
to intersect. It's when you finally know
the vampire wants
blood, and it's genuinely personal and not because you have some weird condition, that a scenario like this one would reach its real potential.
When I look back at, for instance,
[Dead of Night] Nice Mr. Fitzgerald
, that's what I see, that the monster had a genuine and personal goal for each player-character which originated from the first scenes of play (in that case). It was just screaming to be done again in this case, probably in a totally different way in terms of details and theme, but entirely the same in terms of the relevant content-based protagonism for the player-characters. I really liked this particular manifestation of the vampire and wish I'd used it better.
So I'm going to remember this game as an object lesson for me.
Then again, Ron doesn't seem to use the relationship maps (none of his APs seem to suggest one). Maybe the purpose of the map is completely different?
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Re: [Dead of Night] Salford's Lot
Reply #3 on:
November 22, 2011, 04:49:30 AM »
Ordinarily I wouldn't post for a gratuitous terms clarification, but in this case, it's relevant. Andrew's example isn't a relationship map, it's a story map (the term from Seth's Legends of Alyria). The story map technique has a long history in role-playing in practice, although textually it's mostly represented more crudely through character hooks. Legends of Alyria makes its creation more of a group effort, including a lot of characters, from which player-characters are chosen. The Dead of Night process is necessarily not as constrained, and can go quite far to either extreme: in some cases play benefits from a certain lack of matching characters to the situation; in others it benefits from setting up pre-existing relationships and priorities like Andrew did in this case. Which way to do it, or any point in between, has a lot to do with the genre (and ultimately Tension) issues that the game text goes so far to explain.
In my games, the first one used mostly pre-generated characters, the soldiers in the war zone. The Mr. Fitzgerald game began with a strictly defined setting and called for characters whose lives put them right there most of the time. The swamp-monster game was a little different, because that was a player-character-monster game, but the logic was similar: here's a swamp, make up monsters. The hospital game was similar: "here's an overnight sleep study center, who are you and why are you here." In all of the three latter games, the players did not consult with one another regarding character concepts, goals, or pre-existing relationships.
If I were to organize a Dead of Night game with a more deliberate thematic focus (family, obviously, but also perhaps problematic stuff like a back-story including rape), then I'd use a more story-map kind of approach. Oh wait! I did do that, for my GenCon demos a few years ago, with the high school party scenario. I provided halfway-made-up characters with established relationships, but the players completed the details including the names and personalities.
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Re: [Dead of Night] Salford's Lot
Reply #4 on:
November 27, 2011, 11:19:29 AM »
It hadn't occurred to me that I used a relationship/story map in my last three games until you posted about that, but I think the application was sufficiently different in each to warrant separate mentions:
1. In Grendel, Alaska, the characters were pre-genned, but the players then embellished them at the start of play by describing how each was related to the other, and introducing a host of NPC relationships. This complicated their interactions, and gave me a list of NPCs to start threatening/bumping off.
2. In Bad Signal, it was all pre-genned, so the map - such as it was, I think it was just a list of who knew who on each character sheet rather than a diagram - purely served to explain the interactions/relationships between them at the start of play and acted as hooks.
3. In Salford's Lot it was all created at the table, the map, the characters, the relationships, the hooks, the whole lot. I used it to explain relationships, provide me with hooks and, in the case of Billy Hunt, to underline the nature of the horror by turning this hard case into a quivering wreck. Interesting aside, when I ran the same scenario at Indiecon, this local hardcase was created afresh, spontaneously by the players. So I repeated the same trick again...
So to answer your question, when is it appropriate to use a map, whenever you feel the story needs it. I've ran far more games without one than with one, although as Ron says I guess I've used a story map more often than not, just not explicitly. I think when you have a situation when the characters are tightly involved, the tension comes from putting relationships under strain and the horror comes from threatening personal connections, that's when you might want to crack out the map. If the horror and tension comes from another source, I'd leave it at home. I wouldn't bother with Scream, Friday 13th or the Omen, for example, but totally would for the Thing or Alien.
Hope that helps!
Andrew Kenrick
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Re: [Dead of Night] Salford's Lot
Reply #5 on:
January 19, 2012, 02:37:00 AM »
Hello there
Thanks for your input and sorry for the long delay before answering, I was hoping to at least read the game before answering, but that just hasn't been the case.
I'm okay with distinguishing the relationship map technique as described in
The Sorcerer's Soul
with Andrew's concept and calling it story map from now on, I was just reusing the terminology of the older
threads so as to get to my question as quickly as possible.
Ron, it's not clear to me if you've raised a new point, or if not, how it is related to mine.
You seem to be saying that
can benefit from all the possible degrees at which characters are tied to the starting situation (including degree zero).
I was wondering when it was interesting to have links between the player characters and NPCs (PC-PC, PC-NPC and NPC-NPC) and how that relates to playing the monster.
Having ties to the starting situation can be represented by ties to local NPCs (a very practical and effective form of tie), so that your notion of being tied to the starting situation and my notion of there being links between characters overlap somewhat. But it could be the case that even the NPCs in the map are not tied to the situation (a PCs little sister for example, both being strangers to the place where the action takes place).
I guess, Andrew, that I'm saying that I'm not sure I would feel when the story needs one way of prepping rather than another, but then again I haven't even played once yet. I think best thing would be for me to just try to run the game, I'm confident it'll turn out well whatever way I chose to use a story map!
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Hierarchy and centralization in Free and Open Source Software team communications. Knowledge, Technology & Policy, 18, 65–85.. (2006). HierarchyAndCentralization.pdf (566.38 KB)
Defining Open Source Software project success. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). Seattle, WA, December.. (2003). icis2003success (235.41 KB)
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A Liberian, a Liberian and a Yemen – Women – Walk into a Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony…..
(HN, December 10, 2011) - ...And take home the 2011 Nobel Prize for Peace. On Saturday December 10, the traditionally sanctioned date on which the Nobel Committee awards the world's highest peacemaking honor, three proud women – from Africa and the Middle Eastern – strode onto the stage at Stockholm's `Concert Hall' to take their place in history.
The women - Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni activist Tawakkol Karman - won the coveted prize for their efforts to peacefully bring change to their countries.
But President Sirleaf who called the prize a "wonderful recognition" said it really belongs to many more oppressed women around the world who have "suffered inequalities".
"This award belongs to the people whose aspirations and expectations for a better world we have the privilege to represent and whose rights we have the obligation to defend," said Sirleaf. She went on, "History will judge us not by what we say in this moment in time, but what we do next to lift the lives of our countrymen and women who face a lack of access to those basic things that allow the comfort of life".
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf became Liberia's first elected female president in 2006. Fellow Liberian Leymah Gbowee is an activist recognized for uniting women against the country's warlords.
Leymah Gbowee, who led a group of women in white t-shirts who stared down warlords to help turn the tide of her country's civil war, also spoke about the millions of others who were on stage Saturday.
"I believe that the prize this year recognizes not only our struggle in Liberia and Yemen, it is in recognition of the struggle of grass-roots women in Egypt, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cote D'Ivoire, Tunisia, Palestine and Israel and in every troubled corner of the world," said Gbowee. Adding, "victory is still afar...there is no time to rest."
Royal trumpeters heralded the beginning of the annual ceremony, as Norway's royal family and this year's Nobel laureates entered the hall.
Both Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee become the seventh and eighth African recipients of the Nobel prize – following successively Albert John Lutuli, South Africa, 1960; Desmond Tutu, South Africa, 1984; Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk, 1993; Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan of Ghana, along with the UN itself in 2001; sustainability advocate Wangari Maathai, Kenya, 2004 (deceased in September 2011 from a long battle with cancer).
Co-recipient of this year's Peace Prize Yemeni activist and journalist Tawakkol Karman becomes the first Arab woman and youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting for her country's freedoms earlier this year in Sana'a's Tahrir Square. On the Nobel stage she said, "The prize will lift the spirits and support the aspirations of Arabs who are struggling peacefully to improve their lives. This year's Arab revolutions confronted tyrants who went too far in depriving their people of freedom and justice. The international community must do more to fulfill its pledges and resolutions for peace, freedom and women's rights."
The three Nobel Peace Prize winners each received a medal and a diploma, and will share the $1.5 million US prize. The Nobel Prizes in medicine, chemistry, physics, literature - and the related prize in economics - were presented later Saturday in Stockholm as well.
These awards for 2011 were given in Physics, jointly to Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess of the US and Australia; the Prize for Chemistry to Dan Shechtman of Israel; the Prize for Medicine jointly to Bruce A. Beutler, Ralph M. Steinman and Jules A. Hoffmann respectively of the US and Luxembourg; the Prize for Literature to Tomas Tranströmer of Sweden; and the Prize for Economics to Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims of the US.
Since the Nobel Peace Prize was first annually awarded in 1901, a total of 15 women have received it. The first was Austrian writer and peace activist Bertha von Suttner in 1905. Later the late Mother Teresa, a Roman Catholic nun won in 1979 for her humanitarian work. 1991's recipient was Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi won in 2003. The most recent woman to receive the prize was Wangari Maathai in 2004.
Women have also won Nobel Prizes in the sciences and literature, with one woman, radiation researcher Marie Curie, honored twice, first in physics and years later in chemistry.
Norwegian Nobel panel chairman Thorbjoern Jagland says women are critical to peace. "We cannot achieve democracy and lasting peace in the world unless women obtain the same opportunities as men to influence developments at all levels of society," said Jagland.
China's Alternative Nobel Prize Honours Russia's Vladimir Putin as Thousands Take to Streets to Protest Recent Elections
In Beijing on Friday, two exchange students accepted a Chinese peace prize on behalf of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The Confucius Peace Prize was hastily launched last year as an alternative to the Nobel Peace Prize which in 2010 honored imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. A group of five Nobel Peace Prize winners including Desmond Tutu, Shirin Ebadi, Jody Williams, Mairead Maguire and Betty Williams as well as former Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel, Reporters Without Borders and others have urged China to release Liu Xiaobo, who is now serving an 11-year prison sentence for subverting state power in China by co-authoring an appeal for political reform. The International Committee of Support to Liu Xiaobo said in an email that Liu is the only Nobel laureate currently in prison, following the release of Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi's release in November 2010.
The Confucius Prize sponsors are professors and academics who say they are independent of China's government. Organisers of the Confucius Peace Prize went ahead with this year's awards against the wishes of the Ministry of Culture who ordered the group to shut down saying they did not have official permission to run the awards. Undeterred, the original masterminds of the award set up a new organisation called China International Peace Research Centre before quickly announcing this year's winner.
Lien Chan, former chairman of the Kuomintang, ruling party of Taiwan, was the winner of the first Confucius Peace Prize in 2010. He did not attend the award ceremony, so a little girl was selected by organisers to accept the award in his place. Similarly, Putin, was honored for `enhancing Russia's status and crushing anti-government forces in Chechnya' organizers said because during his 2000-2008 term as president Putin "brought remarkable enhancement to the military might and political status of Russia". The 2011 prize ceremony took place one day before this year's annual Nobel Prize ceremony in Oslo, and two Russian female exchange students were selected to stand in for Putin where they accepted a statue of the Zhou Dynasty sage on his behalf.
The Prize came as thousands of people have taken to Russian streets for a week protesting authoritarian trends in Putin's policies, his reputation for jailing political rivals and cracking down on government critics. Demonstrations in Moscow over last week's parliamentary elections which were believed to be tainted by fraud have raised the biggest ever challenge to Putin who is seeking to return to the presidency next year; currently serving as the country's Prime Minister, having spent two terms as the country's former President.
Putin, who recently led the United Russia party to its worst ever showing at the polls, beat seven other nominees -- Gyaltsen Norbu (the "Chinese Panchen Lama"), Bill Gates, South African President Jacob Zuma, former UN chief Kofi Annan, Yuan Longping a Chinese agricultural scientist known as the "father of hybrid rice", German chancellor Angela Merkel, and Taiwanese politician James Soong -- to clinch the highly-uncoveted title of Confucious Prize winner.
In the largest public display of mass discontent in post-Soviet Russia, an anti-government demonstration brought tens of thousands of Moscow citizens out to the packed streets near the Kremlin to protest alleged electoral fraud by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his party `United Russia' on Saturday. Protestors gathered in other cities across this huge country with clashes reported in St. Petersburg, the Pacific city of Vladivostok, the Siberian city of Perm and the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk among others.
(Video, Al Jazeera) City officials in Moscow had given unusual permission for a rally of up to 30,000 people, and by the time the rally started, with periodic wind-blown snow, police said there were at least 25,000 while protest organizers claimed 40,000.
In smaller gatherings earlier in the week hundreds of people were arrested or hospitalized after violence broke out, including prominent opposition leaders Alexei Navalny, and Sergei Udaltsov.
On Saturday people chanted, "Putin Out"; saying things such as "Everyone is sick of living under this regime which forbids freedom of expression" and holding signs with "Putin's a louse" and banners such with the United Russia party emblem, reading "The rats must go". The protests come three months before Putin, who was president in 2000-2008 and who has been Prime Minister under current President Dmitry Medvedev's government, will seek a third term as President in nationwide elections on March 4, 2012.
Putin's power however was undercut by last Sunday's parliamentary elections, during which his United Party narrowly retained a majority of seats, but lost the two-thirds majority it held in the previous parliament. Protestors allege that even that showing was inflated by massive vote fraud, citing reports by local and international monitors of widespread violations. Earlier in the week Russian President Medvedev conceded that election law may have been breached and Putin suggested "dialogue with the opposition-minded". It is known that on Election Day, the websites of a main independent radio station and the country's only independent election-monitoring group fell victim to denial-of-service hacker attacks.
The Kremlin has come under strong international pressure which called the vote unfair, urging an investigation into fraud; Putin has specifically said that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the US are intentionally fomenting protests and trying to undermine Russia. Recently, U.S. Sen. John McCain tweeted to Putin that "the Arab Spring is coming to a neighborhood near you".
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This volume contains a selection of papers presented at a workshop, "Resource Use of Frontiers and Pioneer Settlements in the Humid Tropics," held in Kuala Lumpur in September of 1985. The workshop was a contribution to a more general United Nations University programme on resource policy and management in the humid tropics, comprising projects on agro-forestry systems, coastal resource management, highlandlowland interactive systems, and climatic, biotic, and human interactions. Stressing the interaction between population, resources, the environment, and development, this UNU programme and its projects were created with the aim of identifying and fostering appropriate and sustainable resource systems and, more generally. of maintaining at an international level continuing research, training, and dissemination.
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Dawson's Creek (11 a.m.): Were there better teen dramas? Absolutely. Were there better shows on The WB? Oh, definitely (and we've covered two of them). But was there another show with more instances of James Van Der Beek over-emoting? No, there was not. Go back to when it all began, to when Katie Holmes was America's sweetheart, and nobody ever would have pegged Michelle Williams to be the Oscar nominee, and Joshua Jackson was still the cool one, and James Van Der Beek would never feel the need to make fun of himself. Brandon Nowalk doesn't wanna wait, guys. For your lives to be over. (Okay, if you don't read these articles, we won't ever cover anything you actually like. So there.)
MasterChef (Fox, 8 p.m.): Fox's summer strategy of overloading on Gordon Ramsay continues apace, as the British loudmouth makes his way through another hour of Hell's Kitchen at 8, then dips in for the second episode of this TV Club-approved series at 9. Phil Dyess-Nugent can't take any more yelling!
Workaholics (Comedy Central, 10:30 p.m.): You made quite clear to us that you would be more than happy to read weekly Workaholics coverage, so here you go. Here's a place to talk about everything you did and didn't like about the episode with Kyle Ryan. See what happens when you ask for things nicely?
Six Feet Under (1 p.m.): Our own John Teti is at E3 this week, but he was nice enough to file a Six Feet Under review early, so we could keep the ol' Summer TV Club Classic machine rolling on productively. We hope he brings back news that someone is developing a Six Feet Under RPG. We'd like that a lot.
Police Squad! (3 p.m.): Erik Adams didn't know that Police Squad! was "in color," even though the announcer said so, because the prior time he watched it was when he was waiting out the long Antarctic winter aboard a steamship that ran aground on the seventh continent. And the TV was black-and-white!
Pretty Little Liars/Jane By Design (ABC Family, 8 p.m.): It's a big night for the cable networks, as a huge number of series are debuting their summer seasons tonight. If you're so inclined, you can check out the start of a new mystery on Pretty Little Liars, then that weird show about a teen girl working in fashion.
Rizzoli & Isles/Franklin & Bash (TNT, 9 p.m.): You can also escape TNT's incessant promotion of these two series during its NBA playoffs broadcasts as they launch tonight. First, the titular Ms. Rizzoli and Ms. Isles solve crimes, then Kevin McFarland watches Mssrs. Franklin and Bash save the day in court.
The Glee Project (Oxygen, 10 p.m.): Some people—among them Myles McNutt—told us that this show was a fun summer diversion last summer. While we have our doubts, given how much everybody cast from the show sucked on the actual series, we're sending Myles back in to see what's up this year.
Storage Wars (A&E, 10 p.m.): This show is also back. We got a real jones for this one back when A&E seemed to be running marathons of it thrice-weekly, but at some point, we realized it was all just the same thing over and over and broke the program's deadly thrall. Will you be so lucky? Tune in; find out!
Sophie's Choice (Showtime 2, 8 p.m.): Alan J. Pakula directed Meryl Streep to her first Best Actress Oscar—the one nobody gets upset about her winning—in this tale of a woman trying to move on with her life after the horrors of the Holocaust. Everybody remembers that scene, but did you know Kevin Kline also stars?
Mr. Popper's Penguins (HBO, 8 p.m.): Before Game Of Thrones, HBO ran a, "Don't unsubscribe! Look at all this other stuff we air!" montages that showed off all of its exclusive content, and one film featured was this one, which only exists as footage of Jim Carrey teaching penguins to dance, we're pretty sure.
NBA Eastern Conference Finals: Game 5: Celtics at Heat (ESPN, 7:30 p.m.): The Thunder have gone up over the Spurs, so now it's the Celtics and Heat's turn to see who will get an edge heading into the final games of the conference finals. If you haven't been watching, tune in. You're missing exciting basketball.
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For those of you dying to get a peek at how Disney is handling their remake of the popular musical 'Into the Woods,' today is finally your day. The media conglomerate released the first teaser trailer of the dark retelling of the Grimm brothers' fairy tales, and while there's a noted lack of singing for a musical preview, there's plenty of visual goodies to feast on.
The trailer features its A-list cast members portraying their magical characters in a series of short clips of the various stories. There's Anna Kendrick as Cinderella, Chris Pine (looking awfully dashing in blue) as her prince, Johnny Depp as the wolf, James Corden and Emily Blunt as the baker and his wife and Meryl Streep as the creepy, withered witch, who offers the advice, "Go to the wood!" before disappearing in a cloud of swirling smoke.
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Mar 15, 2011 at 19:27akid you should try it. Every time I go there I order my favorite plate "mexitallian pizza" with some rocca salad, it's delicious and every every every time I order the same plate :D
Feb 20, 2012 at 14:32My favorite branch is the one of Habtoor, which has a very good food and service.I always order the same burger : QUEEN'S (swiss and mushroom), it is delicious! I also like their desserts: fondant au chocolat, brownies with ice cream, etc.
Oct 19, 2013 at 17:15I ordered a steak sandwich, it was very dry and burned. For the prices they have, I expect to have better quality and tastier meals.
Jun 19, 2011 at 18:12amazing place to visit and dine
Oct 27, 2012 at 20:32Too bad to read all these "reviews" I had a totally sharp experience. Crepaway has been brought by 4 gorgeous guys in 85-6-7 and now that I am dislocated from my own home, only Crepaway did the beautiful package of diner/soda/browny free deliveries for all of us who have been forcely "evicted" from our own homes in Achrafieh!!! So, thanks Crepaway. Dory, Claude, Donald... Thanks.
Feb 14, 2016 at 08:37We love the light burgers there.
Jul 16, 2016 at 13:51We went on monday or tuesday my friend and me to crepaway citycenter hazmieh we ordered 2 crepe. My magali crepe was too cold like it was reheat when I told the manager he took the crepe and reheated more than he gave it to me her color was black. That was unacceptable. He could change it and present another one.
Jan 17, 2012 at 09:39i was very surprised last time i visited crepaway that i found a black hair in my platter. It was such a disaster for me. I wrote a complain but i was so surprised that until now nobody care and i was a best and cummon client for crepaway. It was on 17 dec in city mall branch
ABC Ashrafieh
Ashrafieh, ABC Mall, L3
Phone Number: 01 321 099
Ashrafieh, Sioufi
Phone Number: 01 331 919
This branch makes delivery.
Batroun, main road
Phone Number: 06 642 777
Broumana, main road
Phone Number: 04 964 965
This branch makes delivery.
Hamra, in the middle of the main street, on your left if you are driving
Phone Number: 01 745 845
This branch makes delivery.
Furn el Shebbak
Furn el Shebbak, Damascus road, before Abraj if you are going from Mathaf
Phone Number: 01 283 000
This branch makes delivery.
On the highway, direction Beirut
Phone Number: 04 711 711
This branch makes delivery.
Sahel Alma, on the highway, direction Byblos
Phone Number: 09 637 638
This branch makes delivery.
Kaslik roundabout
Phone Number: 09 211 021
This branch makes delivery.
Phone Number: 09 340 336 or 03 296 133
Le Mall Dbayeh
Phone Number: 04 523 754
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Priya Mathur, the vice president of the governing board of CalPERS, has once again become an embarrassment to the nation's largest public employee pension system.
Mathur, a BART financial analyst, was elected by government workers across the state to serve on the 13-member CalPERS board overseeing the $290 billion retirement fund. She has an MBA from UC Berkeley. So she should be able to handle money matters.
Unfortunately, she has repeatedly failed to file basic financial statements required of candidates for public office. Consequently, the Fair Political Practices Commission on Thursday will fine her for the fourth time in eight years for violating the state's campaign and ethics laws.
For CalPERS, it couldn't come at a worse time. Last month, the pension system's former CEO pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit corruption and fraud and admitted in federal court that he accepted $200,000 in cash plus other bribes. The payoffs allegedly came from a former board member, now facing corruption charges, who acted as an intermediary steering CalPERS business to investment firms.
Against that backdrop, one would think current members of the California Public Employees' Retirement System would be extra careful to follow the letter of the law. Not Mathur.
While her transgressions are tiny in comparison to bribery and corruption, they weaken the board's attempt to demonstrate that everyone will now play by the rules.
When Mathur first ran for the CalPERS board in 2002, she failed to complete required forms disclosing campaign contributors and conflict-of-interest statements listing her personal financial holdings. In 2007 and 2008, she again failed to file conflict-of-interest statements. For all that, she was fined $13,000.
The penalty for the 2008 violation, $4,000, was at the time the largest for a delinquent Statement of Economic Interest that the then-director of the FPPC could recall.
It wasn't just the failure to file. It was the failure to cooperate with the commission, at which Mathur thumbed her nose. She ignored two written requests from the FPPC to file the required documents from 2002, complying only after the commission's Enforcement Division contacted her.
As for the 2007 and 2008 omissions, the FPPC had to send repeated warning letters. She refused to return phone calls or emails from the Enforcement Division. When the agency tried to send documents to her San Francisco home by certified mail, she refused to sign for them. And she avoided a process server the commission sent to her home.
As a result, the agency had to use its investigators to serve her with documents at CalPERS meetings in Sacramento. It was only after news stories appeared that she finally sent the FPPC the required documents. She then took months to pay the fines.
When the CalPERS board censured her in 2008, she expressed "profound regret … for embarrassing this board" and promised "this will not happen again."
But it has. Mathur, who faces a re-election challenge next month, failed to file any of the four semiannual campaign contribution statements for 2012 and 2013. In an email to me last week, she said it was an inadvertent mistake.
"When, in a conversation with the Fair Political Practices Commission, I discovered that the paperwork had not been correctly filed, I immediately filed all the necessary forms and brought my committee filings up to date," she wrote. "I cooperated completely with the FPPC's inquiries."
That's not how the FPPC portrays it. It took "numerous requests from the Enforcement Division" before she filed the forms, which, ironically, showed she hadn't collected contributions during that period.
Candidates must file the forms for each period even if they have not collected contributions. But the lack of contributions is, according to the FPPC staff report, one reason it recommends the commission impose a $1,000 fine rather than the maximum $5,000.
That would be a reasonable warning penalty if this were Mathur's first failure, and if she had been cooperative from the start. But it's an ineffectual slap on the wrist for a repeat offender who acts like the rules don't apply to her.
History shows it probably won't deter her from doing it again.
Daniel Borenstein is a staff columnist and editorial writer. Reach him at 925-943-8248 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him at Twitter.com/borensteindan.


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Jewellery or jewelry is a form of personal adornment - such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, and bracelets.
With some exception such as medical alert bracelets or military dog tags, jewellery normally differs from other items of personal adornment in that it has no other purpose than to look appealing, but humans have been producing and wearing it for a long time - with 100,000-year-old beads made from Nassarius shells thought to be the oldest known jewellery.
Jewellery may be made from a wide range of materials, but gemstones, precious metals, beads and shells have been widely used. Depending on the culture and times jewellery may be appreciated as a status symbol, for its material properties, its patterns, or for meaningful symbols. Jewellery has been made to adorn nearly every body part, from hairpins to toe rings.
The word jewellery itself is derived from the word jewel, which was anglicized from the Old French "jouel",[3] and beyond that, to the Latin word "jocale", meaning plaything.
Most cultures have at some point had a practice of keeping large amounts of wealth stored in the form of jewellery. Numerous cultures move wedding dowries in the form of jewellery or create jewellery as a means to store or display coins. Alternatively, jewellery has been used as a currency or trade good; an example being the use of slave beads.[citation needed]
, such as brooches and buckles, originated as purely functional items, but evolved into decorative items as their functional requirement diminished.[5]
Jewellery can also be symbolic of group membership, as in the case of the Christian crucifix or Jewish Star of David, or of status, as in the case of chains of office, or the Western practice of married people wearing a wedding ring.
Wearing of amulets and devotional medals to provide protection or ward off evil is common in some cultures; these may take the form of symbols (such as the ankh), stones, plants, animals, body parts (such as the Khamsa), or glyphs (such as stylised versions of the Throne Verse in Islamic art).[6]
or other precious items are often used, and they are typically set into precious metals. Alloys of nearly every metal known have been encountered in jewellery. Bronze, for example, was common in Roman times. Modern fine jewellery usually includes gold, white gold, platinum, palladium, titanium, or silver. Most American and European gold jewellery is made of an alloy of gold, the purity of which is stated in karats, indicated by a number followed by the letter K. American gold jewellery must be of at least 10K purity (41.7% pure gold), (though in the UK the number is 9K (37.5% pure gold) and is typically found up to 18K (75% pure gold). Higher purity levels are less common with alloys at 22 K (91.6% pure gold), and 24 K (99.9% pure gold) being considered too soft for jewellery use in America and Europe. These high purity alloys, however, are widely used across Asia, the Middle East and Africa.[citation needed] Platinum alloys range from 900 (90% pure) to 950 (95.0% pure). The silver used in jewellery is usually sterling silver, or 92.5% fine silver. In costume jewellery, stainless steel findings are sometimes used.
Main article: Diamond
Diamonds were first mined in India.[8] Pliny may have mentioned them, although there is some debate as to the exact nature of the stone he referred to as Adamas;[9] In 2005, Australia, Botswana, Russia and Canada ranked among the primary sources of gemstone diamond production.[10][11]
The British crown jewels contain the Cullinan Diamond, part of the largest gem-quality rough diamond ever found (1905), at 3,106.75 carats(621.35 g).
Now popular in engagement rings, this usage dates back to the marriage of Maximilian I to Mary of Burgundy in 1477.[12]
Main article: Gemstone
Many precious and semiprecious stones are used for jewellery. Among them are:
Amber, an ancient organic gemstone, is composed of tree resin that has hardened over time. The stone must be at least one million years old to be classified as amber, and some amber can be up to 120 million years old.
Amethyst has historically been the most prized gemstone in the quartz family. It is treasured for its purple hue, which can range in tone from light to dark.
Emeralds are one of the three main precious gemstones (along with rubies and sapphires) and are known for their fine green to bluish green colour. They have been treasured throughout history, and some historians report that the Egyptians mined emerald as early as 3500 BC.
Jade is most commonly associated with the colour green but can come in a number of other colours, as well. Jade is closely linked to Asian culture, history, and tradition, and is sometimes referred to as the stone of heaven.
Jasper is a gemstone of the chalcedony family that comes in a variety of colours. Often, jasper will feature unique and interesting patterns within the coloured stone. Picture jasper is a type of jasper known for the colours (often beiges and browns) and swirls in the stone's pattern.
Quartz refers to a family of crystalline gemstones of various colours and sizes. Among the well-known types of quartz are rose quartz (which has a delicate pink colour), and smoky quartz (which comes in a variety of shades of translucent brown). A number of other gemstones, such asAmethyst and Citrine, are also part of the quartz family. Rutilated quartz is a popular type of quartz containing needle-like inclusions.
Rubies are known for their intense red colour and are among the most highly valued precious gemstones. Rubies have been treasured for millennia. In Sanskrit, the word for ruby is ratnaraj, meaning king of precious stones.
The most popular form of sapphire is blue sapphire, which is known for its medium to deep blue colour and strong saturation. Fancy sapphires of various colours are also available. In the United States, blue sapphire tends to be the most popular and most affordable of the three major precious gemstones (emerald, ruby, and sapphire).
Turquoise is found in only a few places on earth, and the world's largest turquoise producing region is the southwest United States. Turquoise is prized for its attractive colour, most often an intense medium blue or a greenish blue, and its ancient heritage. Turquoise is used in a great variety of jewellery styles. It is perhaps most closely associated with southwest and Native American jewellery, but it is also used in many sleek, modern styles. Some turquoise contains a matrix of dark brown markings, which provides an interesting contrast to the gemstone's bright blue colour.
Some gemstones (like pearls, coral, and amber) are classified as organic, meaning that they are produced by living organisms. Others are inorganic, meaning that they are generally composed of and arise from minerals.[13]
Some gems, for example, amethyst, have become less valued as methods of extracting and importing them have progressed. Some man-made gems can serve in place of natural gems, such as cubic zirconia, which can be used in place of diamond.[14]
Metal finishes
For platinum, gold, and silver jewellery, there are many techniques to create finishes. The most common are high-polish, satin/matte, brushed, and hammered. High-polished jewellery is by far the most common and gives the metal a highly reflective, shiny look. Satin, or matte finish reduces the shine and reflection of the jewellery and is commonly used to accentuate gemstones such as diamonds. Brushed finishes give the jewellery a textured look and are created by brushing a material (similar to sandpaper) against the metal, leaving "brush strokes." Hammered finishes are typically created by using a soft, rounded hammer and hammering the jewellery to give it a wavy texture.
Impact on society
Jewellery has been used to denote status. In ancient Rome, for instance, only certain ranks could wear rings;[16] Later, sumptuary laws dictated who could wear what type of jewellery, again based on rank. Cultural dictates have also played a significant role. For example, the wearing of earrings by Western men was considered effeminate in the 19th century and early 20th century. More recently, the display of body jewellery, such as piercings, has become a mark of acceptance or seen as a badge of courage within some groups but is completely rejected in others. Likewise, hip hop culture has popularised the slang term bling-bling, which refers to ostentatious display of jewellery by men or women.


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When it comes to creating the skills section of a resume and identifying good skills to put on a resume, most job seekers have little trouble determining the technical (or hard) skills they want to highlight. These areas of expertise are often closely tied to a person's day-to-day responsibilities. But what about the less tangible abilities and characteristics? These soft skills – for resume writing purposes – can be just as important to the success of your job search.
Some hiring agents define soft skills as people or social skills while others think of them as more general competencies like dependability, punctuality, and attention to detail. Either way, soft skills are more subjective and tougher to quantify than hard skills such as quality assurance/control, product development, or data analysis. However, they are still good skills to put on a resume and can help you earn interview invitations.
But how do you know the best soft skills for resume writing? Are you supposed to guess which resume skills employers want to see? And how do you make something subjective and unquantifiable into a persuasive argument that will get you hired?
Don't worry: it's not as difficult as it sounds.
Whether at work or at home, you spend every day utilizing a range of capabilities. However, not all of these are good skills to put on a resume. Few employers will be interested in your grocery-shopping proficiency or deep understanding of late-night TV programming. The skills on your resume need to be relevant to the position you're applying for, which means you're going to need to filter out some areas of expertise.
If you already know the position you're applying for…
go through the job ad and highlight all the hard skills in one color, and the soft ones in another color. Make sure you don't overlook soft skills disguised as personality traits (like self-motivated and persistent). Once you've compiled the list of skills pulled from the job ad, think about a time you used each of these abilities. For instance, refer to volunteer work you've done, quantifiable achievements, etc. Write down everything you remember about each example.
If you want to search for jobs based on your skills…
consider your recent experiences – projects you've contributed to, positions you've held, challenges you've overcome, etc. What are some of your major accomplishments? What did you do that made you succeed? Don't worry about separating hard and soft skills at first; just brainstorm a list to start and then go back and categorize.
Now it's time for some investigation. First, search for the top competencies employers are looking for, both for the overall job market and your specific industry. Note any that describe you and add them to your set. To get you started, here's a look at the top soft skills employers were looking for based on an analysis of more than 35 million jobs posted on iHire in 2018.
Second, research each employer before you apply to figure out what they value. Do you have any other capabilities that might matter to a particular company? If so, make sure you incorporate those skills on your resume.
If your list gets too long or difficult to manage, focus on the abilities you bring to the table that have helped your previous employers. Think of times that you have gone above and beyond your job duties or instances where your contributions have significantly impacted your employer's bottom line. Such accomplishments are what convince hiring managers to schedule interviews to learn more.
While certain areas of expertise must be included in the skills section of your resume to prove you meet an employer's necessary qualifications, soft skills are a bit trickier. Because they are more subjective, these additional skills for your resume require further context to prove that you have these talents.
Soft skills work best in two parts of your resume: the summary paragraph and your achievements section(s). In the summary, you want to include as many of the skills from the job ad as possible as well as those you will reference throughout the rest of the document.
The professional experience section is your chance to prove how good you are at using the skills necessary for the open position. The applicants you will be measured against will also have most (if not all) of the same skills on their resumes – otherwise they wouldn't have passed the initial screening by the applicant tracking system (ATS). The key is to show that you are better at using these skills than your competition.
It isn't just about having the skill; it's about how well you use it.
That's why you need to talk about your past experiences and accomplishments in which you used each soft skill and reached a specific goal. Integrating your soft skills within more quantifiable achievements will provide the further context needed for the hiring manager to gauge your application and potential fit.
Resume Example: Built trusting relationships with patients as well as family members, educating them on treatment plans, actively listening to concerns, and ensuring fellow medical personnel were up to date on individual care needs.
Resume Example: Following company merger, led teambuilding activities, clearly communicated performance objectives, and achieved cohesion among newly formed departments.
Resume Example: Ran customer survey to gain valuable insights into product and service preferences, identify key areas of improvement, and implement changes to increase sales and satisfaction.
Resume Example: Readily took on additional responsibilities following major reduction in force, continuing to meet deadlines for core duties while learning new skills on own initiative.
Resume Example: Expertly coordinated community outreach event, setting activity schedules, negotiating vendor contracts, and launching marketing campaign within tight deadline.
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After FDR became president in 1933, he announced a "New Deal" for America. Eleanor Roosevelt toured the country extensively and gathered information used to formulate plans to combat the Great Depression. She conveyed her accounts of the conditions she witnessed and urged immediate action for relief. Before that work was completed, however, World War II began. The First Lady supported the war effort vigorously, spending much of her time visiting the wounded in hospitals at home and overseas.
After her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt was appointed as United States delegate to the United Nations, where she became an outspoken advocate for its Declaration of Human Rights. She continued her widely-syndicated newspaper column "My Day" that she had begun writing in 1936, and which served as a diary open to the American public. She campaigned for Democratic presidential candidates Adlai Stevenson and John F. Kennedy and continued her travels abroad. She visited many world leaders and entertained many at Val-Kill, her home in Hyde Park, New York. In her lifelong pursuit of humanitarian ideals, Eleanor Roosevelt would earn the title "First Lady of the World," a label bestowed on her by President Harry S. Truman.


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i recently got a zoom MRT-3b to augment my ER-1 live because it's super-small. i seem to have all the MIDI settings on both machines correct (ooo on the ER-1) and yet the slave will not start/stop with the ER-1. it *does* sync the tempo, but i still have to hit start/stop on the slave, and at the right time. i thought it was the new (used) unit until i went back and hooked up my korg nano keys and remembered that the same thing happens with the sequencer on that.
does anyone have any ideas of what i can do on the ER-1 to fix this? it's probably something really simple i'm missing.


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Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24, 1964) is an American former Major League Baseball outfielder. Bonds played from 1986 to 2007, for the Pittsburgh Pirates and San Francisco Giants. He is the son of former major league All-Star Bobby Bonds. He debuted in the Major Leagues with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1986 and joined the San Francisco Giants in 1993, where he stayed through 2007.
Bonds' accomplishments during his baseball career place him among the greatest baseball players of all-time. He has a record-setting seven Most Valuable Player awards, including a record-setting four consecutive MVPs. He is a 14-time All-Star and 8-time Gold Glove-winner. He holds numerous Major League Baseball records, including the all-time Major League Baseball home run record with 762 and the single-season Major League record for home runs with 73 (set in 2001), and is also the all-time career leader in both walks (2,558) and intentional walks (688).


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NAIA Women?s Swimmer & Diver of the Month ? No. 2
By: Sam Knehans, Communications & Sports Information Intern
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Laura Galarza of Oklahoma Baptist has been named the NAIA National Women's Swimmer & Diver of the Month, the national office announced Friday. Galarza was selected based on her performances in the month of January. She was chosen out of a pool of candidates nominated by NAIA women's swimming & diving programs.
Galarza, a junior from Cali, Colombia, earned first-place finishes in seven-of-eight events in dual meets against NCAA Division I Louisiana State University (LSU) and NCAA Division II Colorado School of Mines. Her lone loss came in the 200-Freestyle relay against LSU. Ironically, Galarza and her Oklahoma Baptist teammates own the NAIA national championship record in that event (1:32.88), as well as in the 400-Freestyle relay (3:25.63). Both records were set at the 2013 Women's Swimming & Diving National Championships.
Galarza is the reigning national champion in the 50-Freestyle, 100-Freestyle and 200-Freestyle. She was also part of Oklahoma Baptist's 2013 national championship relay teams in the 200-Freestyle, 400-Freestyle, 800-Freestyle, 200-Medley and 400-Medley. This season, she owns the NAIA top time in the 100-Freestyle and the 200-Freestyle relay.
The third edition of the Women's Swimmer & Diver of the Month will be announced on Feb. 28.
For more information on NAIA Swimming & Diving, click here.
Nominees: Karoline Schaufler, Soka (Calif.); MacKenzie Anderson, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Carly Colin, Concordia (Calif.); Melissa Peplinski, Cumberlands (Ky.); Hannah Spaulding, St. Catharine (Ky.); Colleen Bernal, College of Saint Mary (Neb.); Courtney Hayward, Brenau (Ga.); Diana Tabo, Emmanuel (Ga.); Caroline Lepesant, SCAD Savannah (Ga.).
2013-14 Women's Swimmers & Divers of the Month
Dec. 13: Christine Tixier, Biola (Calif.)
Jan. 24: Laura Galarza, Oklahoma Baptist