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What are your favorite/most entertaining characters/stories?
Posted 04 October 2012 - 09:23 AM
One of my most memorable characters was a gnome illusionist. He was an odd gnome, though; being a touch shorter than average, and with a nose actually in proportion to his face, many people often confused him for a halfling. He had 12 names and insisted on using them every time he introduced himself, and I gave him a high-pitched, obnoxious voice. Most of the party and the DM wanted to kill him, but no one ever succeeded.
In 2nd edition, gnomes had a 20% chance for a magic item to not work for them. Well, I wanted my gnome to have been touched by his deity, a deity of magic, and so he had a surplus of magical energy stored within him. I talked to the DM, and actually convinced him to alter the 20% chance a bit - instead of not working, there was a 20% chance that his natural magic would seep into the item, causing it to explode! I gave him a very high constitution to make sure he could live through that, which was good because that 20% chance seemed to come up 50% of the time. It only happened the first time he touched an item, though; after the first time, he could use it normally.
My first adventure with him was a blast. I remember walking into a room, and after the party had cleared it of its inhabitants, we started searching. I noticed an interesting shield on the wall, and was curious about what was behind it. I started to reach out for it, started worrying about traps, but figured, eh, what the heck. I screwed my eyes shut, turned my head to the side, and grabbed an edge of the shield.
When nothing happened, I let out a breath I had been holding, reached up with my other hand, grabbed the shield and set it on the ground. That's when I realized that my hands were stuck! I tried pulling them away, but they were stuck tight. So, seeking additional leverage, I put my foot on the shield and gave it a good push, trying to get my hands free. No such luck, and now my foot was stuck as well.
The groups fighter sighed, picked me up by my shirt, and started carrying me around. I was basically the handle for his new shield. There was a random encounter in the dungeon, and when I said "Hi!" the local encounter was a bit freaked out by the talking shield.
Various minor events followed, and we ended up camping for the night. After the party had gone to sleep, I decided that I was bored with being a shield. I slipped off my gloves and my boot, dragged the shield out using the edge of my boot, then went back to my tent and fell asleep.
The party was quite irritated in the morning
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Posted 04 October 2012 - 11:14 AM
For a number of years, I was pretty heavily involved in RPGA events - playing them, DMing, writing, and organizing local game day events and conventions. It was also during that time period that I was regularly attending some of the bigger conventions, particularly GenCon and Origins. At some point, I got dragged into the Living City campaign - a BYO character game set in the Forgotten Realms. I had a number of characters that I'd play depending on what was needed, but my hands-down favorite was my paladin of Lathander, Sir Darius Cariscuro (known as Lyte to his close friends). He was the genesis of a group of characters played by friends that toyed with the contrast of light and dark (hence the word play on chiaroscuro - a term generally used in art regarding the juxtaposition of light and dark within a work - for the surname). He had a twin brother paladin of Kelemvor, Damien (known as Darke), and they had a pair of younger twin sisters, Dawn (a cleric of Lathander) and Duske (a cleric of Kelemvor). The four of us were all local here in Houston, so when we got the "family" at a table, it was a lot of fun, especially when it came to dealing with undead. Because of our deity and class choices, we were especially good at dealing with them, occasionally breaking scenarios because of how effective we were when together.
However, at the big cons, that didn't often happen. We'd usually end up playing other characters or getting marshaled off with with tables made up largely of people we didn't know. One particular Winter Fantasy (the RPGA's winter event in Fort Wayne), I was playing Lyte in a 2-round event that was part of a longer plot arc. Earlier in the plot arc, the goddess Sune had been wounded by the Dagger of Glaysa. The wound healed, but left a scar, one that would not go away, and had permanently marked the face of the goddess of perfect beauty. Her followers took to wearing a makeup scar upon their own faces because of it. In this particular event, called Scars that Never Heal, the Dagger is recovered, and the players go through a series of encounters with petitioners that want the Dagger for themselves. One group wants to use it to kill Lloth (and threatens the party with enmity if they do not choose them), another offers riches beyond their wildest dreams, a group from another world wants to use it to defeat a necromancer/lich that has risen to god-like status and is converting the world to his undead army, and finally, they meet the proxy of Sune herself, who tells them that she can use the Dagger to repair the scar on the goddess' face, returning her to perfect beauty. At the end, we must decide, by a majority vote, who will receive the Dagger.
So, of course, as a charismatic paladin, I listen to each group carefully. The offer of treasure has no meaning to me, and I also realize that the death of Lloth will just create a power vacuum in the chaotic drow society, with someone else rising to power in her place. As I listen to the tale of the people of Atheron and their plight at the hands of the necromancer lich-god Prax, I begin to get agitated and pace around by our table. I am moved by their plight against the very sort of thing that I've dedicated my life to fighting. But I know the meeting with Sune's proxy is coming, and in the back of my mind, I already fear that the others in the group will support her, for all she has done for the city in the past. This finally reaches a boiling point when me meet her, and she pleads her case. I argue back with her that the mark on her is of little consequence, when the fate of an entire world hangs in the balance. She counters that this other world has done nothing for us, and that the mark represents a loss of power as a mar against her portfolio of beauty. She also presses the point of how much she has done for the realm. I respond that the mark on her has not only not diminished her, but brought her followers closer, as evident by them taking up the mark on their own faces. I press further that none of her priests and paladins have suffered any loss of abilities during this time, so the if there is some loss of power on Sune's power, it is not measurable. She pleads again that Sune's beauty be made whole. My anger has been rising throughout the argument, and finally boils over at this point, when I spat back at her, "Vanity is not a virtue! I've heard enough from you." And I walked off from the table.
I returned a short time later as the group is discussing the options before them; convinced that the party is going to out-vote me to give the Dagger to Sune. As we discuss it, one of the other players questions me about Sune's loss of power, wanting to know if would I ask my own patron to suffer a loss of his power as it would be to not give the Dagger. I counter that not only would I do so, but I would lay down my life for those people that I do not know, if it would make any difference for them, because it is the right thing to do. The GM calls for the tables vote, and I watch, somewhat stunned, as one by one, each person at the table casts their vote for the people of Atheron over Sune (we were one of the very few tables at the convention to not vote for Sune).
Now, running down a goddess' proxy and verbally pimp-slapping isn't a bad story, but the best part is yet to come.
For our reward, we get "The Favor of Atheron" - because the Dagger helps them defeat Prax and save their world, each of us receives the thanks of an entire world, in the form of a one-time, "get out of jail" free card that lets you turn any one failed saving throw into a successful one. However, since it takes some time to defeat Prax, the reward can't be used until at least 6 months later.
Fast forward to Origins that year, and I have been lucky enough to finally receive a paladin's holy sword (2nd edition). In the very next event I play, I roll a Nat 1 on my save vs. a Disintegration attack. I open my binder, and pull out the Favor of Atheron, dated exactly six months ago, to the day.
I saved them, and they returned the favor exactly when it was needed most.
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"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein
Posted 04 October 2012 - 12:03 PM
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Posted 04 October 2012 - 01:11 PM
My friends and I played a bit of 2nd ed DnD back in high school. We were short on muscle in a new party we were rolling up so the DM let me take a Minotaur as a player character. He was strong, mean, and dumb... it was good fun.
Early in our adventures we are in a temple and attacked by a stone golem that shot lava from it's fingers (I don't know if this is common amongst them, but this one did). The Minotuar was hurt pretty bad by the lava and became a little suspicious of anything huminoid shaped and made of stone.
Next adventrue sees us making our way up through the lower levels and up to the top of this mysteriously abandoned castle filled with statues. At one point we captured a goblin which we coercered into telling us where some loot was. It said the treasure was in the neck of a statue that is located in the middle of a pool of black liquid. Well, it was late and we were getting tired. So when we started seeing statues of people throughout the adventure we'd forgotten the bit about the location. So, the minotaur is breaking the heads off ALL the statues to see if they have a hallow neck full of loot. This goes on for some time until we come to a room with a statue on a throne in a pool of dark liquid. Doh! So we grab the loot, but the minotaur keeps beheading statues anway as he has a grudge against them due to the burns from the golem. This continues untill we are high up in the castle, at which time the minotaur starts using his considerable strength and throwing the statues out of windows and watching them shatter on the ground below. He really likes that.
Anyway, we should have seen this coming. We get to the top, defeat the evil wizard and all the inhabitants of the castle return to flesh... from stone. Many returned to flesh in lots of tiny pieces below the castle walls... many returned to flesh without their heads attached. Luckily, the minotaur didn't have a chance to twist the head off the queen seated upon the throne before the final showdown with the wizard. Boy, she sure did look like something that might have a lot of treasure stuck down her neck when she was a statue though!
So that's how my character helped to save and simultaneously destroy the population of a peaceful kingdom.
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If a chicken an a half can lay an egg an a half in a day an a half,
how long will it take a monkey with one wooden leg to kick all the seeds out of a dill pickle?
Posted 04 October 2012 - 01:41 PM
Until in the middle of our first gun fight one of my fellow players blows away an enemy Vampire with an elephant gun. My character fails her sanity check.
"My god! It's a metaphor for the creation of the universe!" My character sits down in the middle of this gun fight in an abandoned warehouse and starts drawing.
Ten bad guys start shooting at me. Every one of them fails their rolls. I roll five success on my artistic skill check. Zero on my willpower check. I keep drawing.
The bad guys divide between shooting at me and my friends. The abandoned warehouse catches fire.
Every time a bad guy rolls to hit me they miss. Three times I make the willpower check to not panic due to the fire. Three times I FAIL the willpower check to stop drawing. The whole time I'm improvising this babble about light and darkness, death and creation, etc... The other PCs are panicking but the players are laughing so hard they can barely roll.
Eventually one of my friends picks my character up and carried her, STILL DRAWING, out of the burning, collapsing building. Muttering, I finally make the roll to stop once they've put me in the van and close my sketchbook.
PC1: Wasn't that a little ... Odd of Lydia?
PC2: Seems normal to me.
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"They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never." - Pablo Picasso
Come to the Dark Side, we have cookies.
Posted 04 October 2012 - 04:13 PM
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Posted 04 October 2012 - 04:15 PM
I tip my hat to you, sir. That is some fine, epic roleplaying.
Thanks! The story really doesn't do it justice; I like to think I'm a pretty decent role-player (I've placed in some of the old "best of the best" tournaments at GenCon, in both D&D and Shadowrun), but Lyte was something special for me as a character.There were times when it was easy to really get in to character with him - he was both me and not me at the same time - and immerse myself in the role. That was one of those times, and I was at my finest.
The really funny part is, if I'd been running with my friends, particularly those that played his brother and sisters, this never would have happened. I would have felt more assured that they would vote the same way as I was going to (while Lyte was perhaps the most extremely dedicated of the lot to destroying undead, they all had similar views), and thus there would have been no conflict to drive me. I'd even gone so far as to offer my services to the Atheron representatives if the group did not vote to give them the Dagger. I knew it was a one-way ticket at best, and most likely a suicide mission, but I was bound and determined to do right by them.
Edited by Shakandara, 04 October 2012 - 04:15 PM.
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"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein
Posted 05 October 2012 - 12:16 AM
Gruthl wasn't my character, but characters like Gruthl can certainly be everybody's problem. He was played by a particularly disruptive player, who, while a very funny and smart guy, has ended more than his fair share of games over the years with his outlandish behavior and stubborn attitude.
Anyway, Gruthl was a 2nd Edition D&D character, a CN half-orc thief, with an insanely low Wisdom, the lowest possible Charisma you can have without being a plant, and only a moderate Intelligence score.
He went about stealing anything and everything, made the worst decisions possible, turned every friendly encounter into a brawl, and regularly grabbed the butts of the female characters (both NPCs and PCs). I enjoyed sketching pictures of him. Usually, I drew an extra mouth on the side of his neck, or a few extra eyes on his head. Somehow, I just couldn't draw him as ugly as we all pictured him in our heads, but we had a lot of fun trying to describe him to each other.
The funny part of the story, is how Gruthl came to an end. We were all fighting these cockatrices in the courtyard of a ruined castle, when he and another character were turned to stone. We didn't have horses, and we weren't prepared to carry them both for leagues and leagues, so we buried them, intending to return with scrolls to restore them.
There was this long moment of silence, when everybody kind of looked at each other funny. And then Gruthl's player asked, "Are we really gonna come back and dig him up?"
And all at once, everybody answered, "Naw!!"
It was an appropriate end to an annoying character.
Posted 05 October 2012 - 07:21 AM
Anyway, we were on a run in waters off Vancouver (iirc, the details of the run are a little fuzzy), and needed to board a yacht. Now, my troll samurai is pretty stealthy, but having him climb on board the boat seems like a bad decision, so we send the B&E guy on board. However, the guards spot him, and a gun battle ensues. The rest of the team is in a smaller craft pulled up alongside the yacht, and Mr. Wolverine isn't tall enough/strong enough/skilled at climbing to get up on to the deck to help, and he's a close-in melee guy. So he turns to me, and asks me to throw him up on the deck so he can get in to the fight faster. Now, there are guys up on the deck with guns, firing at pretty much anything that moves. Since it's not my funeral, I agree, and give him a big heave. At the moment I make the die rolls to do so, one of the other guys at the table simply says:
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein
Posted 05 October 2012 - 08:14 AM
... I'm the player with the notebook.
Going back to Lydia, my insane artist vampire. The GM was running a module that depended on the Prince of the city not believing what we told him about an encounter with so bad guys then forcing us to drink his blood.
*check my notes as to what the Prince had done two sessions ago* "Why don't you just use your powers to make us tell you the truth like you did to that reporter?"
GM looks at me, looks at the module, checks the next few pages.... And throw the book across the room.
Prince: "Fine. Tell me everything you did that night."
Lydia: "I woke up, rolled over onto my left hand side and pushed back the cover and bedspread. I sat up, swinging my feet over the edge I the bed. I stood up. I walked to the bathroom and opened the door. I turned on the light switch. I realized I needed towels and turned around. I walked back I to the bedroom, to the bedroom door. I opened the door...."
After ten or so minutes of this, Lydia had gotten around to describing feeding her cat. The other players were having giggle fits and the GM decided to call it a night.
"They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never." - Pablo Picasso
Come to the Dark Side, we have cookies.
Posted 05 October 2012 - 08:29 AM
It's the perfect time to put on your yellow boots and go meandering around the woods looking for...well stuff. In my experience looking for stuff is the best way to find it. -Loim
Posted 05 October 2012 - 03:05 PM
Me:" How dare you meddle in the affairs of DOOM? You are no match for the might of DOOM?"
PC:"And you are...?"
But Dr.Doom did kick their behinds for not even knowing who he was. And now they shall never forget the name of Victor van Doom!
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Posted 06 October 2012 - 07:40 AM
Anyway, we were on a run in waters off Vancouver (iirc, the details of the run are a little fuzzy), and needed to board a yacht. Now, my troll samurai is pretty stealthy, but having him climb on board the boat seems like a bad decision, so we send the B&E guy on board. However, the guards spot him, and a gun battle ensues. The rest of the team is in a smaller craft pulled up alongside the yacht, and Mr. Wolverine isn't tall enough/strong enough/skilled at climbing to get up on to the deck to help, and he's a close-in melee guy. So he turns to me, and asks me to throw him up on the deck so he can get in to the fight faster. Now, there are guys up on the deck with guns, firing at pretty much anything that moves. Since it's not my funeral, I agree, and give him a big heave. At the moment I make the die rolls to do so, one of the other guys at the table simply says:
What he should have said was "Fastball Special!"
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Posted 06 October 2012 - 07:39 PM
, the group that I learned to play RPGs with eventually found our way to 2Ed, we used our own world at the time, and I still design worlds and cities etc when playing to this day. There were three main players: Brakus a Minotaur Fighter, Andarri a Mage of no small talents, and me, a mouthy little halfling thief who had an insatiable curiousity. We were sometimes joined by a paladin, who's name escapes my addled brains right now. On is particular adventure we happened to be in a boat traversing a rather nasty swamp. Lo and behold we come across a hut on rather tall stilts. Even for Brakus they were tall. The side we came up on showed one doorway open to the elements and a window some three feet to the side. The appeared to be unoccupied. At the time, the easiest way to gain entry seemed to be for Brakus to toss me (Gryfter) up through the doorway where I would check to see if there was a rope ladder or some other means of getting my companions into the hut for a nice quiet nights sleep. Bei rather nimble, it should have been a piece of cake........Brakus grabs me by the seat of my pants and by the back of my shirt. (Rolls the die....oops. A 1) As I somersault through the air and expect to find a doorway.....oh look.....the wall. Instictively I plant my hands on the wall (Rolls the die....20) stopping me from smashing my pretty little face into the wall. I tuck and roll as gravity takes me back down to Brakus and a chuckling Andarri. Brakus catches me (Rolls the die.....20) and reverses momentum to toss me back up and through the doorway, you would think a 7foot plus Minotaur with a Strength of 20 should be able to toss a 3 1/2 foot 60 lb halfling where he wanted right? (Rolls the die.......another 1) WTH!!!!! We did this three times before Brakus finally rolled something other than a 1 to get me through the doorway. By the time I got through, I didn't really care if there was anything in there or not. All I could do was lay there and laugh at the situation. Luckily it turned out to be just a dry place for us to spend the evening. Needless to say, I wasn't too keen on the idea of Brakus tossing me around anymore..... As a group we laughed for a good thirty minutes at the absurdity of it all. There were die rolls made for tipping the boat over....20's, the only 1's rolled were for getting me to the silly doorway.......absolutely ridiculous, but so much fun!!!!!!
Posted 08 October 2012 - 10:05 AM
Well now. A mate of mine ran a few sessions for me and another friend... incidentally his wife. We managed to murder every campaign. One was through unplanned pregnancy. Yeah. Incidentally those were some of the very few campaigns I had a character survive; back in the day we played Rolemaster, and my characters generally died in horribly detailed but somewhat bizarre ways, on a per-session basis.
We used to play some Merps which uses the Rolemaster system. My friend had a Rider of Rohan character (expert hosemen). Our first adventrue at level 1 he takes off to skewer and enemy with his lance (first attack made with character ever). Rolls open-ended down. According to the charts he stuck the end of his lance in the ground and pole-vaulted from his saddle breaking his neck in the fall. I'm not even sure the fall killed him, but if not he was paralyzed and his horse riding days were over. And that's why I love Rolemaster.
If a chicken an a half can lay an egg an a half in a day an a half,
how long will it take a monkey with one wooden leg to kick all the seeds out of a dill pickle?
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If CIOs are going to be successful in the new world of social, mobile, analytics, and cloud (SMAC) trends, they need to think differently. Legacy ways do not scale well to the possibilities of digital ecosystems. To increase the speed of development and co-create their futures with internal and external third parties, CIOs need to adopt a new mantra: go open. This co-creation mandates a new open platform enabled through application programming interfaces (APIs), especially representational state transfer (RESTful) APIs. More than a technology purchase, "go open" is an architectural transformation necessary to create and participate in digital ecosystems and to enable permeable enterprises. (See the article, "Exploiting the growing value from information," on page 06.)
As business ecosystems become more digital, the value drivers increasingly come from the information (bits) augmenting the physical product or service (atoms) it represents. By engaging with emerging digital ecosystems, CIOs are tapping into these value drivers, seeding a digital operating model and creating new strategic options for their organizations.
RESTful APIs are the catalytic enablers for the open digital ecosystem. They are the self-describing interfaces and data packages organized in business-relevant and logical hierarchies, accessible via HTTP.1 They define the idea of open, accessible, self-service interfaces, which are also important for engaging with the consumerization of IT trends. By making an organization more permeable, RESTful APIs establish a universal shared architecture and collaboration model for linking software and systems as networks, bringing the benefits of Metcalfe's Law2 to software components.
IT can take a quantum step to deliver on the promised value of information for both internal and external users. The key to delivering this value is RESTful APIs, which provide the technical underpinnings for loose coupling as detailed in the article, "Consumerization of APIs," on page 34. Without this loose coupling, the complex interdependencies of traditional systems integration generally lead to steep learning curves for programmers, less reliable software components, the possibility of very long development times, and user frustration over what is delivered. RESTful APIs are the major ingredients that have made the new digital ecosystem possible over the past five years. "It's a confluence of many things," says John Donovan, senior executive vice president of technology and network operations at AT&T. "It's the quality of the APIs; it's the skill set of the API developers; it's the evolution of the JavaScript; it's the evolution of how code is developed."
The time is right to take advantage of this confluence.
Open IT delivers information services that internal and external audiences build on rather than passively accept as the endpoint in an information supply chain. It requires a change from delivering and maintaining full, end-to-end applications to delivering a platform with modular capabilities expressed as reliable interfaces. (See Figure 1.) This change is now possible due to the sharply lower cost and complexity of integration during the development of new capabilities. "Statistics we have collected suggest that using [RESTful] APIs reduces development time by 50 to 75 percent. What used to take six to eight months to integrate now requires hours or days," says Devon Biondi, vice president of strategy services at Mashery, an API management vendor.
Figure 1:
Open IT builds on prior or ongoing SOA efforts and reorganizes IT capabilities in modular chunks to allow co-creation with internal and external partners
The combination of self-describing interfaces (RESTful APIs), identifiers (Uniform Resource Identifiers [URIs]),3 and standard access methods (HTTP) helps mitigate the long lead times for development and high costs created by tightly coupled, proprietary integration methods. AT&T, for instance, now exposes a growing catalog of RESTful APIs—such as billing, subscriber profiles, device characteristics, and messaging—that cut the time developers require to deploy their applications on AT&T's network from months to days.
IT organizations typically have long lists of projects proposed by internal customers—lists that seem to grow longer over time. SMAC trends are likely to exacerbate this issue, leaving business units even more frustrated. "When they take a request to IT, the answer is often 'no'," says Brian Katz, head of mobility industrialization and engineering at Sanofi, a global diversified healthcare leader. Such dynamics prevail where the IT function continues to operate as the sole provider of end-to-end application functionality. However, the world outside IT has changed. "A lot of employees today are savvier with IT, as they have grown up with the Internet and associated technologies and services. They want to be able to get their work done and have the capability to build or procure IT services," Katz says.
The central IT function is clearly responsible for delivering core systems and services. The distribution of responsibilities is shifting, however. "We in IT don't have to do all the coding anymore," says David Zanca, senior vice president of IT, customer access, and revenue systems at FedEx Services. "The key role for my group is to be the owner, producer, and platform of the services." With a RESTful-inspired architecture, IT can deliver robust and reliable interfaces against the core systems. Business unit leaders and their business-unit IT staff can take advantage of these interfaces by combining them with self-generated or sourced functionality to create new capabilities. Through this co-creation process, marketing, sales, and other internal groups can become full partners with the IT organization.
CIOs must make these investments. "If the CIO's team doesn't understand this market and is waiting for technologies to mature or standards to emerge, competitors are going to eat your lunch by being more nimble," warns John Musser, founder of ProgrammableWeb.
The good news is that the broad outlines of how to open IT are amply demonstrated on the consumer web, and enterprise-class tools and supportive infrastructure are becoming available. "CIOs historically haven't had the toolkit to provide open services," says Sam Ramji, vice president of strategy at Apigee, provider of an API management platform. API management solutions allow enterprises to take their existing IT assets and turn them into platforms that bring the enterprise into the digital ecosystem.
At many enterprises, a typical IT stack for applications might look like the example in Figure 2, composed of three layers. The core, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and other large enterprise-wide applications and associated data warehouses remain the foundation, and they are the source and repository for data for transactions. These data are the most precious enterprise assets. The middle layer contains the functional applications that use these data assets and support functions, such as pricing, inventory, finance, web retail store, and others. The third layer is at the edge, closer to engagement with employees and customers, and builds on the other two layers to provide role-specific solutions such as collaboration, reporting, and so on.
Figure 2
The IT application stack in traditional IT and open IT and highlights of some of the changes necessary
In traditional end-to-end ownership of IT, the information flows from the core systems to the edge applications accessed by employees and customers. The flow could be mediated by middleware, proprietary or internal APIs, service-oriented architecture (SOA) efforts, or other mechanisms. But central IT maintains full control and responsibility for the full stack from the core to the edge. In contrast, in open IT, the information flows between the core systems and the RESTful APIs and open APIs. These APIs, which represent a new edge or boundary, expose the capabilities across the IT stack of the enterprise and the related information assets as services, becoming the building block for new services. Central IT does not have responsibility for the end-user application at the edge, but has the responsibility to support the level of traffic and the service level agreement that API usage might entail. Figure 2 also highlights other key changes in each of the layers when transitioning from a traditional stack to an open IT stack.
RESTful APIs enhance the commercial value of enterprise data and information assets in a digital ecosystem. These interfaces even make it easier to organize IT in a manner synergistic with business, a challenge IT has faced all along. Streetline, for example, defines business requirements and API logic together as the company builds out its digital ecosystem for parking operations. "There are APIs for each use case: a parking status API, a meter payment API, a payment status API, and so on," says Peter Leiser, vice president of engineering, platforms, and applications at Streetline, a global provider of smart parking solutions.
Reorganizing and energizing the IT function for open IT is a key to the digital future. To realize the full potential of a digital operating model, there are four leadership opportunities for the CIO:
A good layered IT architecture—distributed, client/server, object-oriented—has been important for more than 30 years, but not until today, with the emergence of web-based services and consumerization of IT, have enterprises had such a compelling reason to revisit their IT architecture.
Open IT, based on RESTful APIs, will require changes inspired by platform thinking and loosely coupled, self-describing, modular capabilities. "At the highest level, this is an architectural change. You need to architect your platform and environment for co-creation and treat APIs as products that you publish and maintain for long periods of time," advises Zanca of FedEx. The goal is an architecture designed for compatibility with emerging digital ecosystems. One characteristic of RESTful APIs consistent with this architecture is their readiness for a pull-centric world, where users invoke existing services and create new services, versus the traditional notion of IT pushing services.
Traditional architectures are optimized for batch calls against the core, usually high-volume electronic data interchange (EDI) or Extensible Markup Language (XML) format interchanges. This requirement is unlikely to change in the digital ecosystem. What will change is access calls through APIs that will put additional stress on the core. The new architecture should harden the core while providing more permeable binding for API requests.
Also influencing this architectural change is a higher pace of new application adoption in the enterprise caused by SMAC technologies. This adoption cycle lies in stark contrast to how fast core systems can or should be changed. An architecture that takes the core capabilities and makes them into platforms with modular interfaces allows a faster pace of application evolution at the edge. AT&T organized its API program to match this pace. "It is an architectural choice one makes for speed," says Donovan, explaining why AT&T created an API program.
In addition to publishing services for others to consume, most enterprises will also consume external services to enable their business. Also, all major enterprises do operate a large pool of vendor-bought solutions. The CIO organization therefore will become an orchestrator of services—across vendor capabilities, published services, and consumed services—a role that the new architecture will need to acknowledge and enable.
The growing number of devices used by employees and customers to access enterprise IT is also a consideration in the new architecture. "We also have a continuously connected strategy where we create a thin layer of services, which are independent of end-user devices and use cases," describes Zanca. FedEx created this thin layer of customer experience services on top of its enterprise services to expose them as RESTful web services.
An API-friendly architecture shift also has implications for IT security at two general levels. Security for the core is intrusion prevention oriented, and it may also be optimized around batch movement of data. Security in support of an API strategy is both intrusion prevention oriented and rights managed—a certificate issued to a specific user for a specific data element for a specific period of time.
Open IT positions enterprise IT assets to engage with the digital ecosystem internally and externally. For many IT groups, this engagement will require a new competency—to work with a developer community outside the IT organization. With published APIs, third parties are encouraged to, and will, develop capabilities that will benefit the enterprise and the third parties. "The real opportunity for CIOs is to develop the strategy for how the enterprise participates in the digital indirect channel," says Ramji. For Ramji, the digital indirect channel is what APIs make possible by giving access to a large and growing pool of internal and external developers. "[CIOs] need to get the channel leader, marketing leaders, and technology leaders in one room and say, 'We have a new channel,'" Ramji adds.
To expedite the adoption of open platforms, some IT organizations establish a developers' resource center or an API program by productizing the chosen capabilities and features as modular services with stable interfaces. Although AT&T has had a developer program for years, the company has accelerated its use of RESTful interfaces and related open architecture during the past two years. This transition allows AT&T and the developers to surface new opportunities to monetize AT&T's network assets. The intent is to make all of the network capabilities addressable by enterprise or commercial developers. "Where do you put APIs? You literally put them everywhere. That's how you do internal development; that's how the IT shop works; that's how your outsourcer does development for you; that's how you build services," suggests Donovan.
Such an undertaking is akin to shifting the role of the CIO to be more like the CEO of a software product company, one that provides the APIs and software as part of a proprietary package for customers and developers. "When I talk about the priorities in my digital access group, one of them is to think and act the way a best-in-class software company would," says Thomas Wicinski, vice president of digital access marketing for FedEx Services. In addition to procuring and implementing vendor solutions, CIOs also need to design and architect a platform and interfaces that remain reliable over generations of use.
As an IT organization works to empower external developers, it may follow a maturity path as illustrated in Figure 3. The journey starts with exposing some basic capabilities and associated documentation. As a company matures, it will attract more developers and make more comprehensive capabilities available, creating a partnership-oriented business model. "We're getting faster, and one result is that the architecture is shifting to allow more partnerships," says AT&T's Donovan. AT&T today exposes APIs for location, messaging, speech, device capabilities, and billing, and many other APIs are in the future road map.
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Stages of maturity in developing an internal- or external-facing developer program
Successful developer programs include numerous elements that complement each other to achieve market objectives. (See Figure 4.) As they develop their programs, organizations will analyze and consider many features, such as program fees, API access fees, and developer or app certification in their go-to-market strategies. They will gauge success by analyzing measures such as the number of engaged developers (internal or external), the quality and quantity of third-party applications, the volume of API calls, end-customer engagement, and monetization of the service. Measures also extend to internal activities. "Another measure [for the API program] that we're using is how many new APIs we are releasing as a cadence around our progress in opening up more of the network," shares Jacob Feinstein, executive director of new technology at AT&T.
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A successful developer program has many elements to achieve market objectives
While the RESTful API programming model and integration architecture are fairly well established and scalable to accommodate large enterprise services, most enterprise IT organizations have little experience with them. Moreover, APIs span a wide range of past and present technologies, as detailed in the article, "Consumerization of APIs," on page 34. Going forward, enterprises need to evolve approaches for consuming and offering RESTful APIs that address several challenges.
As providers and consumers gain experience with RESTful APIs, some best practices for addressing these challenges are emerging. Table 1 organizes some of these methods.
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Mitigation approach to the key challenges in consuming and providing RESTful APIs
Moving into the new digital ecosystem is an organizational challenge for the CIO. First, if the enterprise IT group (and outside service providers) historically has been optimized around the design, deployment, and operation of core systems, it is unlikely the organization has many of the new skills needed.
Second, the traditional structure of formal, separate organizations for development, infrastructure, security, and so forth are unlikely to enable the flexible invention that is the pulse of the digital ecosystem.
Third, the methodologies employed by most IT organizations, including capability maturity models, the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), and the methodologies that come with large systems, such as ERP, are inconsistent with the fast development cycles needed to pioneer the new capabilities.
Recognizing such impediments, CIOs can use the digital ecosystem opportunity to perform a current state assessment of their organization's capabilities. This exercise will allow them to establish the future state organization design, skill sets, and methodologies for development and deployment. If IT wants to perform the role of a software company, much more emphasis must be placed on platform architecture, on technical openness, and on marketing, sales, packaging, and support than is normally the case.
The IT organization must assess its skills and tools in light of the new context. Many IT organizations have not updated their skills, especially in the economic downturn. One major constraint can be the lack of understanding about RESTful API capabilities. The CIO's team needs RESTful API literacy. "RESTful API ignorance is a risk that no CIO wants to be accused of a couple of years from now," says Musser.
Many job descriptions still feature experience with decades-old technology. Many IT organizations have outsourced custom development—perhaps all development—and have no insight into the details of the job skills contracted for. A move to open IT would be an opportunity to offer attractive career growth to staff who have the skills the organization needs to participate in a digital ecosystem.
The CIO needs to focus on building a web-, mobile-, and cloud-competent IT organization. To achieve such an organization, CIOs are separating web development and deployment teams from those that develop and deploy the core, placing them under leadership separate from the applications development organization. Some digital ecosystem CIOs are establishing incubator groups, centers of excellence for SMAC and/or RESTful development that sometimes are located off the main campus. These groups focus on building up a competency in a given area and acting as evangelists for the methods, tools, and so forth that will be used in the future. In addition, the members of these centers might begin to plan, execute, and gain experience building the future state architecture that has been laid out by the CIO. The great news is that many in the IT organization today are anxious to upgrade their skills, and they would welcome the opportunity to learn new skills and technologies. Additionally, the digital ecosystem job opportunities are what attract the people who have the skills needed for the evolving IT group.
Many CIOs are concerned about the chaos that could be caused by the accelerating disruptions associated with SMAC trends. For some, however, it's a blessing in disguise. These CIOs are learning to proactively engage with SMAC by adopting a digital operating model, powered by RESTful APIs and supported by API management platforms. In the process, they also open up new business opportunities for their enterprises in permeable digital ecosystems.
As SMAC trends accelerate, PwC expects that most enterprises will increasingly incorporate features of information (bits), even if they are still in a physical business (atoms) such as retail, distribution, manufacturing, and healthcare. To successfully navigate this transition, enterprise IT organizations must adopt many core competencies of software companies; in particular, they must create platforms the way that software companies do. Just as software companies build successful platforms, enterprise IT will build and manage APIs in a manner that opens up IT for the co-creation of new services internally and externally.
An open platform does not call for a frontier mind-set, where fragmented API generation replaces a carefully managed applications portfolio that CIOs strive to maintain. CIO leadership must keep a balance in this evolution and manage IT assets in new ways. The advice to CIOs is to approach the evolution in four dimensions: business need or purpose, an enterprise architecture for a digital operating model, developer community management, and gaps in organizational capabilities.
First, recognize the hidden potential created by unlocking the enterprise's information assets, and identify specifically which data would be exposed for what business purpose.
Second, devise the new architecture inspired by RESTful APIs and platform thinking. RESTful APIs are pull-centric, not the traditional push model. The new architecture hardens the core while thoughtfully exposing the valuable assets captured by the core—information—via RESTful API connections.
Third, approach the digital ecosystem opportunities by targeting an audience of developers who can create new business value based, in part, by extending your capabilities. You can start with existing mobile projects that can benefit most from APIs, and let the momentum build from there toward a platform and API program.
Fourth, use the digital ecosystem opportunity to upgrade your organizational structure and skills in the context of the inexorable shift toward a new operating model. Apply new leadership approaches to recruit and manage these new skills. Let the organization learn and develop around early trials. Partnering with outside experts is a valuable way to prime these internal capabilities.
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PRICE-Frances Mezek Mallard, age 94, passed away March 28, 2011 at her home in Price.
She was born in Sunnyside, Utah on March 12, 1917 to Frank and Francis Lotrich Mezek.
Frances was baptized in their community Catholic Church. The family later moved to Price, Utah. On April 4, 1959 she married the late Robert S. Mallard. They enjoyed 50 wonderful and very full years of life together. She was a longtime resident of Price. Frances graduated from Beauty College before working many years for Kelly Drug Store's Cosmetics Department. Frances was a proud and active 60 year member of the SNPJ lodge #113. She and her husband enjoyed their cabin in Scofield, snowmobiling, boating and fishing. Camping with the Good Sam's club was a favorite memory. Frances enjoyed travel, good food, socializing with her many friends, always with laughter and a gleam in her eye. She cherished spending time with her family. Frances was a beloved homemaker and hostess. Everyone received a warm welcome at her home. Her family has fond memories of Thanksgiving dinners and the Slovenian Potica and struedel she made with loving hands. Frances was a very active member of the Notre Dame de Lourdes Catholic Church. For many years she volunteered for the Altar Society. Her gracious service and loving kindness to all will surely be missed by those who knew and loved her. Although she was not blessed with having children, she treated nieces and nephews as if they were her own. Annual visits to Lagoon and the Shriner's Circus became a tradition. Nieces enjoyed buying trips to Salt Lake City. Each child felt unique and special in her presence.
Survived by her siblings, Rudy Mezek and Mary Mezek Smith; nephew and nieces, Robert, Larry and Jerry Smith; Debra (Don) Borba; Jay (Chris) Mezek; Beckie Sanchez. Her family brought great joy to her.
Preceded in death by her beloved husband, Robert S. Mallard on Oct. 19, 2008; brother, Frank S. Mezek; sisters-in-law, Shanna Rae Mezek and Irene Mezek; brother-in-law, Vurge Jacob Smith.
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With the beginning of the region season this Friday night, the Emery High Spartans are at a crossroads as the preseason 3A favorite comes to town on Friday night. The Morgan Trojans will do battle with our Spartans to start the 3A North region season. Emery ended their preseason schedule last Friday night in Richfield with a 42-12 loss. Emery is now 1-3 this football season.
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This is an open letter to Emery County Senior Citizens; and to those who are so active that no one would guess they are seniors; there are many who do not want to be placed in that category...yet. I look forward to reading about my friends and neighbors in the paper in the Senior of the Week section, and great human interest stories, as well as the profiles of the Students of the Week. But alas, there have been none lately except the student section.
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EAST CARBON/PRICE-Bessie Anderson Jumper Christman, age 90, passed away Sept. 28, 2012 at the Heirloom Inn in Price.
She was born Dec. 23, 1921 in Emery, Utah to Arthur M.. and Virtue A. Duzett Anderson.
Bessie married Gailard C. Jumper, July 23, 1942 in Las Vegas, Nev. and their marriage was later solemnized in the Manti Temple; he preceded her in death on Oct. 19, 1992. On Sept. 17, 1994, she married Wally Christman in East Carbon and they shared six years together before his passing on Oct. 24, 2000.
Bessie was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. For over 20 years she was a dedicated and faithful member of the Castleview Hospital Auxiliary (Pink Ladies). She was a member of the Good Sam's Club and she made sure that she visited every state in the nation and her collection of spoons proves it. Her love of traveling enabled her to spend some winters in Quartzsite and many weekends enjoying the family in Joe's Valley. Gram was an extreme JAZZ fan.
"Gramma Jump" was a friend to all and her outgoing and youthful personality gave everyone a run for their money. Bessie never met a stranger and even if she did her contagious smile could win them over. She loved family outings, gardening, dancing and her cheerful ways delighted the hearts of all.
She is survived by two daughters and one son, Gaylene (Bill) Adams, Price, Russell (Daina) Jumper, Park City, Cathy (Donnie) Leonard, East Carbon; brother, Dwaine (Luella) Anderson, Emery; sister-in-law, Olene Anderson, Emery; special friend, Ken Cooper, Price; grandchildren, Teri (Ronnie) Cripps, Toni (Stan) Rife, Mindi (Travis) Madden, Scott (Margy) Jumper, Stacy(Kelly) Christiansen, Tisa (Chad) Pendergrass, Tori (Kyle) Abeyta and Kyle Leonard; great-grandchildren, Chivas, Nick, Alisha, Ashley, Tyler, Skyler, Chelsi, Hailie, Kaper, Kellan, Makenna, Chanse, Taylon, Triton, Allee and Adri; and her twin great-great-grandsons, Townes and Waylon.
Preceded in death by her parents, husbands, Gailard and Wally; four brothers and two sisters, Elmo, Melburn, Robert, Lyle, Bonnie and Bertha.
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Honda is also responsible for creating the VTEC engine. In fact, their engine designs helped alter the way other company's designed their engines. Several notable auto manufacturers (ranging from Mitsubishi to BMW) piggy-backed these designs and spawned their own engine designs, but Honda was the forerunner in this technology.
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Might make my annual beach visit this weekend
. It takes me about a year to finally get all the sand out of me before I am ready to go again.
I cant relate to this OT.ReplyCancel
I'm so not a beach bunny, but hoping to get out to Nags Head this weekend. 🙂ReplyCancel
No decent beaches round here, just dirty rivers.ReplyCancel
meanie! Thats only a few hours away from me!ReplyCancel
I've spent so much time at the beach, live and play, I kind of got over it. Is there such a thing? I now mostly only for the ride on my Betty Bike.
If there's a lake or river run, I'm there.ReplyCancel
Are you in NC, too???? I know Reno is, and Sherry is from here but lives in Cali.ReplyCancel
I'm about a half hour away from a beach, myself unless I want to be by the Sound, thats just 5 minutes…ReplyCancel
Get out!! Albemarle or??ReplyCancel
I'm 20 minutes from the N.Carolina border, in Virginia.ReplyCancel
I too live about 5 miles from the Sound. Wow, this is wild!ReplyCancel
Different Sound : D
Norfolk , the deep water …
Steamy you're in NC? What?ReplyCancel
Sounds like you three should have a huge beach party@ Reno rhysie and steamyReplyCancel
Coolness. I go to Atlantic Beach. Us 3 should meet in the middle some day @ meanie @steamyReplyCancel
They call the water Hampton roads and thats boring so I call it the sound , eh. I'm in virginia but I'm 20 minutes from N. Carolina.
Nags Head is about 3 or so hours away.
Kill Devil Hills 2.
Last time I was on a beach it was in Nags Head about 15 years ago. Well, aside from hopping over a dune and smoking a doobie in Ocean City, MD one night.ReplyCancel
hope to make it to the beach this summer…ReplyCancel
just over the border Reno. nothing but a spit away…; DReplyCancel
Sounds like a plan Reno. Have book will travel!ReplyCancel
Going.to the Strand next week and one week at South Mission San Diego the following week. I can't wait.ReplyCancel
just looked up Atlantic beach, only 4 hours away! DOABLE!ReplyCancel
AJ! I actually enjoy puzzling out what autoscrew does to words. Keeps my mind flexible,lol.ReplyCancel
I wanna have sex on the beach
Come on move your body
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Sex on the beach
Come on there's a party tonight
Anyone remember that classic? lolllReplyCancel
sorry Sass, i no follow Sportsball…: DReplyCancel
Live 5 minutes from Beaches here in Maine. Beachy life is the only life.ReplyCancel
Yay @Steamy!ReplyCancel
My nearest "beach" is an indoor monstrosity that I've never actually been in. I've heard too many sewer back up stories about it.
We have a few lakes within a couple hours drive, but the thought of bringing me youngest there terrifies me.


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Grab a cup of coffee, or another refreshing beverage, with your District 2 Councilmember.
In the New Year, I wanted to make myself available to District 2 residents to discuss various issues of interest or concern. With such an intelligent and educated population in Berkeley, many of you undoubtedly have some fantastic ideas to improve our city. I plan to make this a regular affair, so if you can't make this one, there will be one coming your way soon. My inaugural "Coffee with Constituents" will be Saturday, February 11th at 2pm at Nina's Cafe, 2703 7th St, Ste 159 - 160 (between Pardee St & Carleton St) in the ActivSpace building.
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The East Bay Green Job Corps (EBGJC) is recruiting participants for its Spring 2012 cohort. EBGJC is a training and education program designed to help young adults get the skills to further their education and enter green careers. EBGJC is a collaboration between Rising Sun Energy Center, Solar Richmond, and Berkeley City College.
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why themes in primefaces show cases is work very good on IE, chrome and Fire Fox; but when i download this themes and run my web apps locally, components on IE doesn't show like chrome and Fire Fox?!!!
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American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang

American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang

A Northern Light, Jennifer Donnelly

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If there was only one shelf of space available for YA materials, what titles should go on it? YALSA is looking for a micro-core collection of YA titles to share with folks who only have a small space to work with, like book mobiles, classroom libraries, home libraries, recreation centers, doctor's offices, school buses, etc. The goal of this project is NOT to compile a "best of all-time" list. The goal is to create a list of materials for 12 - 18 year olds that is balanced and represents some great YA authors across the popular teen genres. Ideally, the list would incorporate contemporary titles as well as timeless ones. Please add your suggestions below:
Monster, Walter Dean Myers
First Part Last, Angela Johnson
Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block
Forever, Judy Blume
Annie on My Mind, Nancy Garden
The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton
Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
Go Ask Alice, Anonymous
Rules of the Road, Joan Bauer
Don't Call Me Ishmael, Michael Gerard Bauer
Dangerous Angels, Francesca Lia Block
A Great and Terrible Beauty, Libba Bray
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
Chocolate War, Robert Cormier
Whale Talk, Chris Crutcher
The House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer
Breaking Point, Alex Flinn
Looking for Alaska, John Green
The Guinness Book of World Records (current year)
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie, David Lubar
Jellicoe Road, Melina Marchetta
A Child Called It, David Pelzer
Alanna: The First Adventure, Tamora Pierce
Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
Always Running, Luis J. Rodriguez
Holes, Louis Sachar
The Coldest Winter Ever, Sister Souljah
Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli
Rats Saw God, Rob Thomas
Stuck in Neutral (and Cruise Control), Terry Trueman
The Book Thief, Mark Zusak
The House of Night Series, PC Cast and Kirsten Cast
Chandra's War, Allan Stratton
Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan
American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang
A Northern Light, Jennifer Donnelly
Harry Potter (series), J.K. Rowling


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Bouma out indefinitely with MCL and ACL injury
Ryan Pike
October 25 2012 12:57PM
In news that should make even the most optimistic Flames fan go "Oh, that's not good," the Abbotsford Heat quietly let it slip recently that forward Lance Bouma has injured both his MCL and ACL and will be out for an indefinite period of time. Dan Kinvig of the Abbotsford News broke the bad news yesterday.
Bouma left Friday night's game against Chicago and didn't dress for Saturday's game as his condition was evaluated and the team awaited the results of an MRI. \
Well, the results came back, and they obviously weren't good. Bouma joins fellow Flame prospects Greg Nemisz (lower body) and Paul Byron (upper body) on the sidelines, however it's probably safe to expect to see both of those fellows back before Bouma.
Obviously the length of time for a return depends on the severity of the injury. Bouma's said to have sprained both his MCL and ACL. An MCL sprain generally takes 5 to 7weeks to rehabilitate (although it depends on the severity), while an ACL sprain can take between 6 to 12 weeks. In short: Bouma could be out 6 weeks, minimum, and as much as 12 weeks, depending on various factors. Having sprained both ligaments at the same time probably won't help things much.
However, despite Bouma's bad news about his injury, given how badly the NHL CBA talks are going, he'll be back in plenty of time to fight for a roster spot in Calgary...
October 25 2012, 01:00PM
Gonna be a long one. Three months is a good bet.
October 25 2012, 01:02PM
Yeah, that sucks. Not a doc, but I'd say he's likely in for a longer recovery given that both ligaments are sprained. Hard enough for your body to learn to compensate for one, let alone both of them.
A mild silver lining is that this presumably allows a greater chance for Ferland to play, and I really don't want him to get screwed by the dearth of forwards that the team has. I know it's a meritocracy and whatnot, but at least let him see some ice time before you scratch him.
unfortunately, both Eddy and Aliu seem to be ahead of Ferland (not to mention Carter Bancks, who is awesome).
by the way, the word is "plethora". A "dearth" is a lack of something. Confused me for a second.
Because I can't remember from the prospect rankings done during the summer, where does Bouma fit on the Flames prospect list?
Hockey's Future seems to feel he'll be a fourth-liner while Pronman doesn't even mention him in his last two prospect rankings. The left wing is, thankfully, a position wherein the team appears to have some depth.
At this point I might argue, and I apologize if this seems callous, that an injury to Bouma might open a door for another potential player. Perhaps the Heat could sign an AHL free agent, or try to find an NHLer looking for an AHL contract.
I do hope Bouma recovers and has a healthy career, I'm just not certain that at this point that will be in the NHL.
October 26 2012, 11:33AM
Bouma's upside is Brandon Prust I'd say: checker who can survive in less than ideal circumstances (although probably not against top level competition). He could very well settle into a replacement level tweener though.
October 26 2012, 05:57PM
Bouma needs to scrap a little more. I read he was focusing on skill development which is good but that won't keep him in the league. He has to be a guy that can protect his line mates. In that regard, I don't see the Prust comparison. Prust fights. Consistently. Bouma, so far, in my opinion has not shown anything that suggests NHL player. I mean he hustles but I don't recall him being a hitter or pest or scorer, all things energy guys seem to bring to table. All that's left for him is fisticuffs.
If he fought even a little, he could be Steve Begin.


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