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What are the best pen and paper RPGs available or of all time? I don't care if they are in or out of print. I don't care about the genre. If you mention D&D or AD&D, please specify which edition.
If you suggest a game, please say why with as much detail as possible. Also, you might talk about your experience with the game, for example, whether as a player or a GM.
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My personal favorite was Ars Magicka, originally by Lion Rampant then bought by White Wolf. I had played AD&D for years before and liked it, but when I saw the system in Ars I fell in love with it.
It has magic as the emphasis for combat, though I knew alot of friends who loved being a grog or a companion for the RP aspect, and its system was extrememly flexible.
Magic is divided into techniques and forms. Techniques were like verbs or actions you would use for the forms like Creo (I create), or Intelligo *I perceice). They were in latin as the 'setting' was set in Medieval times. Anyway, the forms were those elements that make up pretty much everything, animal, plant, body, fire, water, etc.
You could choose specific spells to cast, a la AD&D, but it also had a system to use them 'on the fly' so to speak. If you had points in Creo for example and fire, you could attempt anything you wished and depending on the strength of your two specializtions and the feat you were attempting it would succeed or fail. Like with creo/fire you could attempt to start a fire at a specific location, like someone's hat (for amusement) or even elaborate spells given your rating in other techniques like say body, and create a fire in someone's lungs. It could get really wierd.
The combat system is very engaging as well, using the obvious die rolls for attack/defense but it added a 'Soak' level (sorta like AC did) but instead of having HP's you have wound lvls and wound lvl recovery each turn. So it got a little complex rolling for each 'level' of an action.
You had stats like the weapon's speed + your Quickness stat + your skill in that weapon - Enc (how heavily loaded you were) to dictate who would have first strike, then another formula (wep atk bonus+skill+dex) for atk with the defender using his formula (Parry bonus + skill). All of which was to be added to die roll, obviously.
I could go on, but the freestyle and flexibility of the magic system got me hooked for many years on it. It is still, to this day, the one i remember most fondly of.
I will read up on Pathfinder over on Amazon and wikipedia.
What makes the D&D 3.5 rules special?
I don't know much about the different rule sets, so that's one of the things I want to learn more about.
Edit: Ars Magica sounds interesting. I will check it out. I've read good things about White Wolf.
that was my personal favorite when i was in my PnP playing prime.
GURPS is hands down the best pen and paper RPG for me and all of my friends. We use it to play everything from Star Wars to High Fantasy Lord of the Rings and Low Fantasy Conan games. It can quite literally be used to create any character you wish. The only limits are your imagination and the GM's rules for whichever campaign he's running.
Make any character, use it in any world. It's the "sandbox" of pen and paper RPG's.
Shadowrun is a good second choice. Although you can play Shadowrun using the GURPS rules too.
Originally posted by garrett
1st edition D&D, RIFT, Gamma World.
I would have to politely disagree with RIFT.
It has the most broken character creation system I've ever seen in any RPG except for Traveler (Your character could literally die DURING character creation in Traveler. lol). The difference in power levels between a Vagabond and a Chromeboy (Edit: My bad, I meant Glitter Boy) or Juicer are so far apart, that one is next to useless and the other is ridiculously overpowered.
I used to play in the RIFTS setting using the GURPS books. That evened out the ridiculous power curve for starting characters.
I will list my top 5 favorites
1. Shadowrun 4th edition. This system just makes so much sense, and the world is awesome you can really do just about anything with it. The last campaign I ran. My group ended up in Atlanta smuggling refurbished illegal cyberware, when they ran into a vigilante/comic book style super hero initiated Mage. That was wearing a reinforced exo-frame, complete with cape that was waging a war on a cyber gang, who they were smuggling the parts to. The game is just so much fun. Skill advancement vs level advancement is my favorite.
2. Deathwatch. I mean this game did Space Marines right. Just recently started Running a campaign, and to watch our assault marine jump from a 200ft cliff with his jump pack down into a canyon where 40 hormagaunt tyranids were bearing down on an imperial guard platoon of about 12 guys crawling out from their overturned transport was just epic. He cut down more of the horde than the platoon shot down. No other game does horde combat nearly as good. This game really allows for some epic battles and really does justice to Space Marines overall.
3. The new Iron kingdoms. Privateer Press finally made an RPG based off of the warmachine table top rules. I play warmachine and love the rules. So this is just awesome all around. The world is one of my favorites. Steam powered Mangled metal fantasy is awesome. Notice I did not say steampunk.
4. Mekton 2 (not zeta) fast system does anime mecha combat better than robotech ever did. The system makes sense. Complete with construction rules. Didnt ever really use their world. Played in a friends campaign for years was great fun, and created my own world that I ran for awhile as well. Haven't played though since the 90s sadly.
5. DnD 4th edition. I have played since 1st and 4th was my favorite. People will bash it and say it took the RP out of the RPG. Which is just BS. Love 4th. If I had one complaint about it. It was the healing over time rules. Which is fine because I just made a few house rules for my game which made it a bit more gritty. Had a lot of fun with 4th.
Played a few different ones long ago. I think I always preferred Rolemaster mostly. the 2 D10 system were great for that lucky dice part of it. Good customisation too, same idea as the Titan Quest game I think. I always loved to make a warrior in leather armor who could cast firebolts and use a longsword. Basicaaly a battlemage type thats often popular in games today.
It was a slow game though, and you could spend an evening too find out if you would survive a troll chasing you. If it hit you it might kill you. Any crit had a hundred different outcomes all described in a chart. So you could lose a head or an arm that way.
But better than AD&D I found, were you would just behead the troll and then spend the evening beheading a hundred more. That was always the problem, with Dungeons and Dragons I found, and it has carried over into videogames. The D20 system doesn't scale well. Like at some point forget about improving your armorclass, as you can clearly tell that Dragon is going to hit every single time nomatter if you have -4 or -10 AC.
AD&D or D&D now only really works between level 1-10. And I find the whole system tedious and non transparant these days. D&D online is the endless reroll because a warrior is the best dualwielder at level 11, but then you find out a ranger is actually better at level 12. Then someone realises a level 10 warrior with 1 level monk and 1 level thief is best. And it's like chosing the skills, they are boring and hardly do anything, yet you have to spend so much time sorting them out. The feats are abit better, but are a parrallel system and a replica, just better skills.
Here are my personal favorites:
D&D / AD&D (2nd edition was my favorite)
Runequest (like D&D but more in depth. Was my favorite for a long while until new editions ruined it)
Vampire the Masquerade
Rift (is okay but got silly after Ninjas & Superspies came out)
I played many of them since I was in the military at the time and internet was not invented lol. The ones I listed were my personal recommendation
As a GM:
1. Warhammer (Death on the reik, is the best Campaign i ever played)
2. Call of Chtuhlu
3. TORG (i modded it and used Earthdawn dice systems)
AS a player:
1. AD&D Greyhawk setting. Mostly because of an exelent GM i guess but he made real and cool world.
2. Rolemaster
3. Warhammer.
rpg/mmorg history: Dun Darach>Bloodwych>Bards Tale 1-3>Eye of the beholder > Might and Magic 2,3,5 > FFVII> Baldur's Gate 1, 2 > Planescape Torment >Morrowind > WOW > oblivion > LOTR > Guild Wars (1900hrs elementalist) Vanguard. > GW2(1000 elementalist), Wildstar
Now playing GW2, AOW 3, ESO, LOTR, Elite D
1. Traveller - i still even have all the first edition minibooks.. it wasnt my first PnP RPG though it ended up being my favourite, probably all those worlds had to do with a lot of it, though mostly my adventuring career was based in the spinward marches, with a few odd 'forays' into the zhodani consulate
2. Runequest, never truly mastered it but had a lot of fun with it
3. AD&D, started with basic level D&D and 'evolved' though i never progressed beyond 2nd edition, still have dm's, players guide, monster manuals etc stored away in the loft somewhere .
Its a shame but no longer play these games, they used to be very social events, usually with a fair amount of beer and crisps involved
from official ones i would say i like most Mage from WoD
otherwise the best system is CpH (Time for Heroes), which is quite simple, but in-depth tested out and many times changed system for storytelling rpg.
(it has rules online, but only in czech, so if you want to look at them, try some translator, but i am not sure how well it will be translated http://cph.d20.cz/clanky/4618.html)
edit: but maybe at least partially why i like CpH is that all times i did played it and witnessed the play it was directly with the game creator as GM, who is great GM with huge imagination and huge knowledge of details about WW2 Europe where he did situated his campaign
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What are the best pen and paper RPGs available or of all time? I don't care if they are in or out of print. I don't care about the genre. If you mention D&D or AD&D, please specify which edition. If you suggest a game, please say why with as much detail as possible. Also, you might talk about your experience with the game, for example, whether as a player or a GM.
if you are looking for rulesets, try rolemaster.
if you are lookingfor background story and so on, try MERP
the best PnP RPGs are always those you specify for your needs.
also traveler is quite fun, if you are looking for a decent space RPG
"I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!"
+1 GURPS with the right GM ....could do anything build any charature
my cyberpunk 2013 had this great backstory system was really cool to role up a toon
For realistic playing, GURPS or BRP (the system behind Cthulhu and Runequest).
For cinematic playing, FATE.
For your basic fantasy adventuring campaign, Pathfinder.
Originally posted by ignore_me
I think Pathfinder is pretty hard to beat. The best of the 3.5 D&D rules.
I agree, the direction D&D went turned a lot of pen and paper fans away. Pathfinder kind of took over from there. Another I really like is White Wolfs World of Darkness and more specifically Vampire the Masquerade 3rd edition, I even loved the book series :P.
Champions by Hero games as a big comic book fan growing up I really liked making my own super hero and putting the hurt on super villians. The system allowed you to take disadvantages that really helped flesh out your character as well as helping the game master to tailor game sessions for your group. Also there were no preplaned classes only archtypes which really allowed you to make a more personalized character.
Iron Corwn Enterprises with their Rolemaster system and later MERPS. They had a critical hit system that was really in depth and could lead to some really disfigured and mangaled characters or blown to little pieces. I also liked that the system had power points instead of memorized spells allowing you to cast any spell as long as you had the points and ability to do so.
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Originally posted by PWN_FACE
What are the best pen and paper RPGs available or of all time? I don't care if they are in or out of print. I don't care about the genre. If you mention D&D or AD&D, please specify which edition. If you suggest a game, please say why with as much detail as possible. Also, you might talk about your experience with the game, for example, whether as a player or a GM.
if you are looking for rulesets, try rolemaster.
if you are lookingfor background story and so on, try MERP
the best PnP RPGs are always those you specify for your needs.
also traveler is quite fun, if you are looking for a decent space RPG
Good point, Thane.
What I'm most interested in is world and cosmos creation, shifting realities, extra-dimensional/transdimensional possibilities. I am interested in Shadowrun ( I got the 20th anniversary pdf for $15 because the book is out of print and like $200+ on amazon, ebay, etc.). I'm also looking into Alternity (for SF). How about older editions of Rifts? So much great stuff.
Any genre is fine, though. I'm just learning a lot now and I find gaming and game extremely interesting these days. I was kind of at the point a lot of people get to when we start criticizing games and saying they're boring or whatever; and I started asking myself, what is fun? What is game? What makes games fun for me? Even if I don't have the financial resources to make my own mmorpg, I can make my own pnp game with the amazing resources that are available to us. Even if it's just for me and a couple of friends.
By the way, I just ordered Traveller today. I will be studying all these games and looking at rulesets like OSRIC (free pdf) and GURPS and whatever else people are mentioning (Rolemaster). And Pathfinder, because I want to be up to date on how fantasy rpg has changed since I first started with it in the late 70s.
Thanks everyone for your input. I've got some great ideas from your answers and I'm still finding out new stuff to look into.


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One of the most widely accepted tools that be used for this is GnuPG. (Gnu Privacy Guard) It is an opensource implementation of PGP.
Another more user friendly tool is Mailvelope for Gmail. It allows you to encrypt and sign messages right from Gmail. You can simply copy and paste the encrypted text to another medium such as a Mangashare Private Message.
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February 10 2013 01:18PM
A slumpbuster is defined as "something way below your normal standards that you know you can win at." You take what you can get to get back in the game. That's todays game vs Columbus in a nutshell. And its a matinee too. *yawns*
To the casual fan a game like this could be described as "skippable" and "probably boring." But not here among the OilersNation hardcore who live and die with every match - even a puzzling pair of afternoon matches in a single weekend must be watched from start to finish.
Its well known that the Oilers have a 0-1,235 record in matinee games in franchise history.* They are usually emotionless affairs that are forgotten quickly afterwards. That will probably be the case today too - Columbus is still probably seething from losing to the Mighty Oil in the Draft Lottery last year but are too toothless to do anything about it.
Coming in stone cold the Oil have to lay a beatdown on the hapless Blue Jackets today. Oilers fans have watched the last 10 days or so frozen in horror. Will this be another year where we have to make up slogans to give some sizzle to the annual tank campaign?
Or will the Oil catch fire and climb back into playoff contention? A serious beatdown of the Blue Jackets getting things back on track is exactly what the doctor ordered. Then another pantsing back in Edmonton next game too.
Losing this match is not an option.
We have no idea what the lines are today. You want lines? Ask Jason Gregor. We shoot from the hip son - not from the brain. Here are the lines from last game, lets just pretend they will be the same for the sake of argument. It's not like lines last very long when you are trying to play your way out of a losing streak anyways.
Eager-Vande Velde-Petrell
This too is the domain of an expert like Jason Gregor but he INSISTS they are included in all GDBs even ones he can't write as he is in Calgary calling the Rush game. How the heck are we supposed to predict what's going to happen. HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO KNOW DAMMIT?
Here goes.
GAME DAY PREDICTION: Oilers dust Columbus 6-2. The Nuge breaks out with a pair of goals and celebrates with ice cream on the way home from the rink.
OBVIOUS GAME DAY PREDICTION: Within 5 minutes of the telecast starting some announcer will say "Imagine Yakupov was a Blue Jacket?" picking the lowest hanging fruit on the proverbial branch early.
NOT-SO-OBVIOUS GAME DAY PREDICTION: Steve Tambellini runs into Scott Howson in the press box prior to the game. Tambellini flashes his trademark smug grin recalling besting Howson at the Draft Lottery last summer. Howson - knowing his days as a GM are numbered - dissolves into tears and curses Tambo at the top of his lungs. History will remember neither man.
*Or worse even, where would you even look something like this up?
Well we didn't deserve that one. Dubnyk was awesome. Really matur play by RNH. He could have tried the long shot to get on the board but instead he made a nice pass to Gags for the sure win. Good things happen to players who play a team-first style like that and I am sure that he will be rewarded with a goal soon. Also nice to see Paajarvi get on the board because he has been working really hard. Smyth's penalties are moronic and need to stop right now. A win is a win. GO OILERS GO!!
February 10 2013, 06:08PM
Out of the Ralph Krueger-coached teams I've seen play, the Oilers are threatening to overtake Switzerland as the most entertaining to watch.
Oh look, 94 goes back to the box. *facepalm*
MPS with the shorty!!! Nice breakaway by Gags there!
February 10 2013, 01:27PM
I expect full value or this might be the last game I watch start to finish for a week or so.
"But we're missing so many centers! That's why!"
"We keep getting BS penalties called against us! It's not our fault."
Bad calls and injuries happen to EVERY professional sports team. Good teams still find a way to win.
Find a way or fold/move to Seattle. No more excuses.
February 10 2013, 03:29PM
I pray to the hockey gods that the Oilers pull it together...losing to teams like Columbus is NOT an option. With all this offensive firepower, they have got to start scoring some goals. 2 per game just ain't gonna cut it. The game plan today is simple... -Shoot the puck, quit trying to make it pretty -Play a FULL 60 minutes -Stay out of the box -When in doubt, give the puck to Eberle ;)
Hes getting better...now its slashing...atleast it hurts
Gagner with the empty netter! Nice of Nuge to give that one up, he could have had his first goal there probably.
Great job Devan, it's Doobie time!
Got to get Yak on the other wing. Every good play he has made this year has come from the right side. The two mid-air goals, stopped and teed up Fistric, rang a couple cross bars, burnt a guy or two cutting middle. All of that came from the right side. give the kid a chance to play good instead of demotion in ice time.
February 10 2013, 03:56PM
Wanye wrote:
A slumpbuster is defined as "something way below your normal standards that you know you can win at." You take what you can get to get back in the game.
We are talking about hockey... right?
February 10 2013, 03:57PM
I pray to the hockey gods that the Oilers pull it together...losing to teams like Columbus is NOT an option. With all this offensive firepower, they have got to start scoring some goals. 2 per game just ain't gonna cut it. The game plan today is simple... -Shoot the puck, quit trying to make it pretty -Play a FULL 60 minutes -Stay out of the box -When in doubt, give the puck to Eberle ;)
I know it sounds so simple. Too much fancy play so far this year.
February 10 2013, 04:11PM
Jesus, can Smitty possibly take any MORE hooking penalties this year? Sadly, the answer is mostlikely yes. Ugh
Oh look, Sam just blocked a shot. Wasn't someone ragging on him a couple days ago that he doesn't do that? We need to get rolling, one SOG during the PP isn't going to help.
Smitty looks pretty awful so far this season
Smitty is just too slow now to keep up. Instead of giving it the gas, he resorts to the lazy penalty and gives a hook or a slash. Krueger is sitting Whitney for his crap play, he might as well sit Smitty too.
Time for Smyth to take a seat in the pressbox for a couple of games. Too many penalties, too many giveaways, and not contributing enough offensively. If Yakupov was making the same errors, we all know he would sit out a game or two,
I am in favor - wtf has happened to this guy besides age ? Its like he is peed off cause he is on the 3rd or 4th Line. Smytty -if there was a fifth line - you would be on it. Actually there is.... as mentioned , the press box.
Wake up or pack it in.
February 10 2013, 05:12PM
Eeeeeeasy boys... eaaaaaasy there.
I am in favor - wtf has happened to this guy besides age ? Its like he is peed off cause he is on the 3rd or 4th Line. Smytty -if there was a fifth line - you would be on it. Actually there is.... as mentioned , the press box.
Wake up or pack it in.
Remember when Quinn started 89 on the 4th line, and his response was to score goals and get into a duster? 94 is taking another kind of approach and it isn't a good one.
No SOG in the PP. Good grief! We really need to start finding ways to get pucks to the net. The SN panel was right, you can't always expect to carry the puck across the blue line every single time, sometimes you have to dump and chase.
J.Schultz is a BEAST!!
Doobie saving our ass - we are being outplayed by the fn Blue Jackets ...
Unreal -
Slump busters ? who exactly are we talking about.
Doobie you have proved you are a # 1.
J.Shultz, Solid man, what a player.
Outplayed by the Jackets- what a joke, i dont care if we win or not, this effort is not acceptable.
Playoffs ? we talkin Playoffs ? riiiiight.
This is proof i feel that we have rushed our picks to come in and make a difference. This is not juniors.
this snoozefest started at 6PM CBJ time
not a matinee
Why are you watching the game and reading Oilersnation ?
Staple Smytty to the bench ....
regardless of outcome great shot PRV and nice pass gags
12 shots? against the pathetic CBJ? with overhyped guys like Hall, Eberle, RNH Yak and Schultz?
looks to me like Tambo wants Jones or MacKinnon
moar #1's!!!!111!!
Winning ....
Winning ....
Won ass wipe ...
Robbery - GTF out of town Oilers.
Just a horrid effort i dont care, win or not.
CBJ Dominates you.
Wake the H-LL Up.
starting to not regret picking old gags as my star for the year.. who would have thunk he would be leading the team in points :)
February 11 2013, 12:17AM
Sometimes an ugly win helps jump start a streak.
I hope the Oilers can turn this around now, would like to start seeing some chemistry through the line up, some winning and confidence.
It would have been an even uglier loss, I guess. But they have yet to play a really sound game - the power play is an embarrassment, and how they killed 7 penalties is a miracle and a testament to Dubnyk's hot streak and Columbus's monumental incompetence.
February 11 2013, 01:14AM
A good example of Gagner being on the ice for every goal, for and against. He is the sole reason either team scores on any given night.
His beauty pass to PRV was as good as his chasing around Umberger was bad.
Smyth is starting to look like a mole for other teams out there with all his blatantly dumb penalties.
February 11 2013, 02:34AM
kruger better get ahold of his bench fast...two sets of rules...one for the young and inexperienced and one for the vets..smyth has clearly lost a step and is using his stick in an effort to keep up..either out of frustration or lack of discipline he is hurting the team ..anyone else would have been benched..
Ya, he gives vets so much leash. I mean, Whitney in pressbox for first time in career? Why not publicly whip him in Churchhill square? Let him off easy
@Quicksilver ballet
Are you trying to suggest that the only penalties that hurt a hockey club are those that result in goals against? Not only is it time where your most offensive players are typically not on the ice, but the defensive specialists are more likely going to need to block shots (get hurt), and certainly will be tiring out a lot quicker. Smyth should be damn grateful there isn't a suitable replacement allowing him to be benched for a game. He's turning into Ethan Moreau, but slower.
PS: Has Belanger actually changed his game for the better or are we just appreciating him more for those specialized things he has always done well? I've been liking his game a lot, despite his lack of scoring touch.
This has to be the quickest article turnaround EVER! #GoodJob
Congrats Wanye!! Now you can get back into your alcohol coma!! The Nation salutes your dedication to the GDB!
Yeah baby! SLUMP BUSTER!
Now you can go back to arguing over who goes for the Tim's run.
VV Was sent back to OKC. Yak is suppose to play with Nuge and Eberle. Whitney is OUT !
Fistric and Petry are paired togeather today Smid gets Potter and the Schultz.
See the news tab for apparent lineups.
February 10 2013, 01:50PM
Tambo might have moved into the history books with the TV Incident yesterday, which is basically the most entertaining thing to happen during an Oilers game since 2006.
February 10 2013, 01:54PM
Since I am not a hockey player myself and do not profess to be an expert, I would trade either Hemsky or Gagner for a large center of some skill. I question whether Kreuger has the players to run his system so perhaps he should adopt his system to match his players.
VV Was sent back to OKC. Yak is suppose to play with Nuge and Eberle. Whitney is OUT !
Think Yak playing with Nuge and Eberle is going to be a good line. In my opinion Hall looks out of sorts on the 1st line right now.
Having Hall and Hemsky play on the same line has worked well in the past, and I think most teams would find that combo pretty hard to defend against.
February 10 2013, 01:54PM
Although I love Yak .........I suspect in the long run Columbus will be happy they got Murray.
Defenseman are hard to find at the best of time and ones with puck patience are almost impossible to find......Murray has this in spades.
February 10 2013, 01:56PM
...i think thingies is spelled thingys no?
February 10 2013, 01:58PM
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Rangers Frightfully Good in 2-0 Halloween-Night Win Over Sabres
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There was no trick to be had Halloween night at Madison Square Garden as instead the Rangers delivered quite the treat, a thoroughly convincing 2-0 victory over the Buffalo Sabres. The win was New York's second in a row, and third in its last four games, and marked the first time this young season that the Blueshirts have won back-to-back contests. It also marked the Rangers first win on home ice---in two tries---this season.
Henrik Lundqvist earned his second shutout this year by stopping all 29 shots he faced. It was the 47th regular season shutout of Lundqvist's outstanding career and the 55th---including playoffs---he has backstopped while wearing a Rangers jersey.
Lundqvist was helped greatly by the fact that the puck was in Buffalo's end most of the night. The Rangers consistently pressured the Sabres into submission over 60 minutes, firing a season-high 46 shots on beleagured Buffalo goaltender Ryan Miller, who singlehandedly kept his team in the game Thursday night. At one point in the first period the Rangers had registered 15 consecutive shots on goal.
Derick Brassard---in the opening period---and Chris Kreider---in the second---were the only Blueshirts able to find a way to get the puck past Miller. Every Ranger skater recorded at least one shot on goal except for Brandon Mashinter.
The Rangers followed up a 19-shot first period with another 19 shots in the middle stanza, and after 40 minutes of play the Rangers top line of Kreider-Derek-Stepan-Mats Zuccarello had totaled 17 shots on goal, one fewer than the entire Sabres lineup had managed against a sharp Lundqvist.
Brassard opened the scoring at 8:23 of the first period, blasting a power play slap shot past Miller off a feed from Michael Del Zotto. The Rangers now have three power play goals in their past two games, and four in their last four. Even when their power play failed to score later in the first period and early in the second, there still was a crispness to it and several scoring chances.
Kreider doubled the Rangers advantage 11:21 into the second when he chased down a rebound and banked the puck from a bad left-wing angle off the backside of Miller and over the goal line for his second goal of the season, and second in as many games. Playing once again like a man posessed, Kreider hunted down pucks all night long, generated a slew of scoring chances with Stepan and Zuccarello, and led the Rangers onslaught against Miller and his Sabre teammates.
In five games since being recalled from Hartford, Kreider has scored a pair of goals and toaled three points---equaling his output in both categories over 23 games from a year ago.
The Rangers beat Miller again later in the second period, but Marc Staal---playing in his 400th career National Hockey League game---saw his shot ring off the left post. Staal was not the only Blueshirt to celebrate a career milestone, however, Thursday night. Fellow defensemen Dan Girardi appeared in his 500th NHL game. Like Staal, he, too, came oh-so-close to scoring, but Girardi's point-blank first-period shot---off a terrific Zuccarello pass---was snuffed out by Miller.
At the other end of the ice Lundqvist faced only six shots in the first period, though was busier making 12 saves in the second. He closed out that middle stanza with a one-two punch by stoning both Drew Stafford and Jamie McBain in-tight with 40 seconds to play following a Rangers turnover.
That turnover was a rarity for the Blueshirts on Thursday night. And when the team did have a couple other breakdowns leading to odd-man rushes the other way, John Moore---in the second period---and Del Zotto---in the third--- hustled back to make big-time plays breaking up passes before Lundqvist was forced to face a quality shot.
The Rangers played without Dominic Moore, who will be sidelined a week to ten days due to a strained oblique muscle, as well as Rick Nash and Ryan Callahan. Mashinter took Moore's spot in the lineup and made his presence felt with a center-ice fight with Buffalo's Cody McCormick 5:33 into the game.
Thursday's contest was the start of a four-game homestand. Next up the Rangers will host the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday night.


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BRETHREN, I would have you know that the gospel which was preached by me is not man's gospel. For I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through a revelation of Jesus Christ. For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it; and I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers. But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and had called me through his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not confer with flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia; and again I returned to Damascus. Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas, and remained with him fifteen days. But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord's brother.
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The 6 Most Bizarre Global Warming Side Effects: Part 1
All right, it appears the world has moved past the "is global warming happening" stage and has now moved onto, "how screwed are we?"
But what is interesting is just how wide-ranging the effects will be, far beyond the normal "it will get really hot" and "the hippies will be really smug" we all have been expecting. Here are some of the effects you probably never saw coming…
#6. The Boozeacalypse
For most of us, the best part of our day is spending time with loved ones. For the rest, it's drowning reality in a pool of sweet, brain-clouding liquors. Unfortunately, reality doesn't want to be drowned and global warming is looking to make it harder to accomplish that goal in the future, as it's predicted higher temperatures are going to lead to either outright shortages, or at least pricier, lower quality booze.
Once again, Billy Carter proves to be ahead of his time.
The problem for beer is malting barley. As climates become drier in areas where barley is grown, it could cause a disruption in beer production as crops either have to be moved to more hospitable grounds or brewers have to adapt to different varieties of barley which could lead to dreaded ass-flavored beer (as in, there's a reason those other varieties aren't used now).
For those who like to get a fancier drunk on, the wine industry also faces some changes thanks to global warming, as many wines are region specific and as the climate changes, so too do the way grapes grow and ripen. Some climatologists predict that by 2050 it will be almost impossible to grow grapes throughout large portions of Italy, Australia, California and France. Those last two would be known as "the places where most of the good wine comes from."
A desperate world will have to turn to the Red Sox for quality wine.
The effect on wine tastings and assorted douchebaggery could be devastating, forcing countless people who wear berets and eat room temperature cheese to wander aimlessly from art gallery to art gallery completely sober. Instead, they may be driven to…
#5. More Potent heroin
If you were hoping there was an upside to global warming then you're in for a treat. Unless you don't want to develop a crippling addiction to heroin, in which case this may be another downside.
According to the USDA, who spend their days ankle-deep in opium dens, rising CO2 levels are making opium poppies more potent. Apparently back in the day grandpa was just coasting on the weak shit. Poppies grown today produce twice as many narcotic compounds as those from 1950.
The prediction is for levels to triple by 2050 and by 4.5 times more potent by 2090. This obviously has a huge impact on the world's rock stars, whose lifestyle depends on the substance. Either rock stars will face extinction by 2100, or else natural selection will give us an entirely new species of heroin-resistant musicians.
She's a hardy breed.
Curiously, the opposite effect happens in tobacco plants, that lose nicotine and other compounds with the increase of CO2, which we assume means cigarette companies are going to have to supplement smokes with heroin in the future. That makes sense, right?
#4. The Death of Vegas
Las Vegas is a great place to ruin your life with debt or VD and people flock to do just that each and every year. Unfortunately, this utopia of despair is facing a silent threat most people beyond city planners never stopped to consider: Las Vegas is in the desert.
"You know what would really bring this place together? Casinos and whores."
When the desert gets warmer, water becomes more scarce and officially Vegas is in a sticky spot as water levels in Lake Mead continue to drop with each passing year. And legally, the city will be required to find an alternative water source if water levels drop another 17 feet as that will drop the level below the existing intake pipes.
And the sign will get all dusty and no one wants that.
The city spent $800 million to build a new pipeline deeper into the lake but if levels keep dropping that won't help; some predictions have Lake Mead disappearing by 2021. The effect spreads much further than Vegas (up to 36 million people would be affected) but Vegas is in an extra precarious position since, you know, the desert thing. If the worst case scenario plays out (and it's looking likely) not even all the tears shed in Vegas by bankrupt fathers and exploited showgirls will be able to keep lawns green.


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Inspired by Joseph Stiglitz's The Price of Inequality and Timothy Noah's The Great Divergence, which lay out in disheartening detail the growing inequality of income and opportunity in the United States, I have a new article in City Journal: "A Wealth of Words." I hope you'll find time for the whole article, but here's my CliffsNotes version.
With the decline of the middle class, the aristocracy of family so deplored by Jefferson seems upon us; the counter-aristocracy of merit that long defined America as the land of opportunity has receded. But there is a road back to the City upon a Hill.
There's a positive correlation between a student's vocabulary size in grade 12, the likelihood that she will graduate from college, and her future level of income. The reason is clear: vocabulary size is a convenient proxy for a whole range of educational attainments and abilities—not just skill in reading, writing, listening, and speaking but also general knowledge of science, history, and the arts. If we want to reduce economic inequality in America, a good place to start is the language-arts classroom.
The correlations between vocabulary size and life chances are as firm as any correlations in educational research. Of course, vocabulary isn't perfectly correlated with knowledge. People with similar vocabulary sizes may vary significantly in their talent and in the depth of their understanding. Nonetheless, there's no better index to accumulated knowledge and general competence than the size of a person's vocabulary. Simply put: knowing more words makes you smarter. And between 1962 and the present, a big segment of the American population began knowing fewer words, getting less smart, and becoming demonstrably less able to earn a high income.
The sociologist Donald Hayes, following the lead of the great literacy scholar Jeanne Chall, found that publishers, under the influence of progressive educational theories, had begun to use simplified language and smaller vocabularies.
If vocabulary is related to achieved intelligence and to economic success, our schools need to figure out how to encourage vocabulary growth. They should understand, for starters, that word-learning occurs slowly and through a largely unconscious process. Consider the word "excrescence." Few know the word; fewer still encounter it in their everyday lives. Maybe you do know it, but imagine that you don't.
Now suppose I gave it to you in a sentence: "To calculate fuel efficiency, the aerospace engineers needed an accurate estimation of excrescence drag caused by the shape of the plane's cabin." That single exposure to the word is probably insufficient for you to grasp its meaning, though if you know something about aerospace engineering, you'll be likelier to make a good approximation. Here's an encounter in another context: "Excrescences on the valves of the heart have been known to cause a stroke." Perhaps now you have a vague understanding of the word. A third meaningful encounter will allow you to check your understanding or refine your sense of the meaning: "The wart, a small excrescence on his skin, had made Jeremy self-conscious for years." By now, you probably have a pretty solid understanding of the word, and one more encounter in a familiar context should verify your understanding: "At the far end of the meadow was what, at first glance, I thought a huge domed building, and then saw was an excrescence from the cliff itself."
You've probably figured out that the word "excrescence" means "an outgrowth." That's an accelerated, artificial example of how word-learning occurs. Almost all the word meanings that we know are acquired indirectly by intuitively guessing new meanings as we get the overall gist of what we're hearing or reading.
The context for an unfamiliar word isn't just the other words surrounding it in a text but also the situation referred to by those words. Familiarity with the relevant subject matter ensures that a student's unconscious meaning-guesses are likely to be right.
So the fastest way to gain a large vocabulary through schooling is to follow a systematic curriculum that presents new words in familiar contexts, thereby enabling the student to make correct meaning-guesses unconsciously. There are so many words to be learned by 12th grade—between 25,000 and 60,000—that a large vocabulary results not from memorizing word lists but from systematically acquiring knowledge about the social and natural worlds.
The idea is to immerse students in a domain long enough to make them familiar with the context—and thus able to learn words faster. For the purposes of teaching vocabulary, a "domain" could be defined as a sphere of knowledge in which concepts and words are repeated over the course of two or three weeks. Such repetition happens automatically in a classroom unit on, say, plants and photosynthesis.
I would make three practical recommendations to improve American students' vocabularies, and hence their economic potential: better preschools; classroom instruction based on domain immersion; and a specific, cumulative curriculum sequence across the grades, starting in preschool. Of these, the last is the most important but also the toughest to achieve politically. But the new Common Core State Standards for language arts, now adopted by more than 40 states, may offer a ray of hope (see "The Curriculum Reformation"). One statement in the new standards reads: "By reading texts in history/social studies, science, and other disciplines, students build a foundation of knowledge in these fields that will also give them the background to be better readers in all content areas. Students can only gain this foundation when the curriculum is intentionally and coherently structured to develop rich content knowledge within and across grades." A second encouraging passage: "The Common Core Standards do not—indeed, cannot—enumerate all or even most of the content that students should learn. The Standards must therefore be complemented by a well-developed, content-rich curriculum."
These two statements are big steps forward from the failed how-to approaches of the recent past. My hope is that some influential district superintendent will require a specific grade-by-grade knowledge sequence. The striking success of one major urban district could transform practice throughout the nation.


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We talk soooo much about wanting the Oscar, or not wanting it. Campaigning, or not. This seems to be one step away from "being prepared if you win" or not. When Christopher Plummer took the stage last night, I felt relaxed almost instantly. He had us. He wasn't going to let the moment be awkward. Full Story


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Dr. Henry is a highly skilled and artistic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, certified by the American Board of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons.
She offers the highest standards of medical excellence and professionalism tempered with her personal warmth and genuine caring attitude.
As a graduate of the University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Dr. Henry received her general surgery training at the Oregon Health Sciences University Hospital.
Her plastic surgery training was completed at the Rush Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago.
While there, she was associated with the renowned Midwest Breast Surgery Center of Chicago, as well as the Rush Presbyterian/St. Luke's Craniofacial Center.
Dr. Henry earned a second fellowship in aesthetic and breast surgery at St. Vincent's Hospital in Portland, Oregon and is on the medical staff of Marin General and Novato Community Hospitals.
Publications and Presentations
Dr. Henry has been a guest on numerous national and local television and radio news shows and is a frequent guest speaker for local community organizations.
She is the author of:
THE PLASIC SURGERY SOURCEBOOK (Lowell House, 1999)
and just released:
THE FACE-LIFT SOURCEBOOK (Lowell House, December 2000).
Read Vogue Magazine's review of Dr. Henry's book.
Check Dr. Henry's calendar for seminars, media appearances and published articles.
Affiliations & Memberships
Society Memberships
Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, the American Medical Association, the California Plastic Surgery Society, the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, the Marin Plastic Surgery Society, and the California Medical Association are among the professional organizations to which Dr. Henry belongs.
Your Consultation
Please contact us for a consultation or appointment for any of our services. Our practice is devoted to plastic surgery services and your special needs. Dr. Henry's practice is an ongoing source of education and information regarding plastic surgery. Our knowledgeable staff welcomes your questions and comments. We will do everything to help make your vision of beauty, grace and harmony a reality.
Staff & Facilities
Surgical Facility
Our fully accredited AAAHC ambulatory surgical suite is conveniently located in the heart of Marin County at our Greenbrae office. Our entire staff of caring professionals is fully trained and thoroughly committed to the care and comfort of our patients. Our surgical suite features the most up-to-date equipment and offers the special privacy which cosmetic surgery patients appreciate. Our soothing atmosphere and restful décor create a comfortable, relaxing environment while allowing us to closely monitor the patient from pre-surgery to post-operative care.
Skin Care Products
Marin Med Spa
Northing is more youthful than healthy, glowing vibrant skin. We are committed to finding the most innovative professional skin care products and devices. Our professional skin care treatments range from acne treatments to the most medically advanced chemical peels. We offer skin care products that are exclusive to licensed physicians.
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Payment Options
We are pleased to offer Care Credit as a financing option for our patients. We also have other financing options.
Kimberly A. Henry MD
350 Bon Air Road, Suite 1,
Greenbrae, CA, 94904, US
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Pipe & Tube Nashville 2012 issues call for papers, roundtable participants
The organizing committee for Pipe & Tube Nashville 2012 requests papers and roundtable participants for its "Optimizing Operations Through Continuous Improvement" conference, to be held June 26-28, 2012. The show, devoted to updating seamless and welded tubular product technology and processes, is a collaboration of the Tube & Pipe Association International® (TPA), based in Rockford, Ill., and the U.K.-based International Tube Association (ITA).
The conference will include innovative sessions, interactive roundtables, video plant tours, and networking opportunities for industry professionals involved in tube or pipe production and fabrication.
The committee will accept papers on any topic concerning tube or pipe production and fabrication. The four roundtable discussion topics are bending; GTAW versus multicathode, GTAW versus GTAW-plasma, and GTAW versus laser welding; roll tooling design; and methods of inline annealing following tube mill welding.
Tube and pipe executives interested in submitting a paper or participating in a roundtable discussion should visit the conference Web site at www.pipetubeconf.com/nashville, click on Speaker Information, and download the appropriate application.


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The U.S. Department of the Interior places a high priority on respecting the government-to-government relationship between the federal government and the federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native tribes.
We are committed to their prosperity by partnering with them to address challenges in the areas of economic development, education and law enforcement as well as other issues they are concerned about. Our work supports Indian self-determination because it helps to ensure that the tribes have a strong voice in shaping the federal policies that directly impact their ability to govern themselves and to provide for the safety, education and economic security of their citizens. We provide services directly, or through contracts, grants or compacts, to 565 federally recognized tribes with a combined service population of approximately 1.9 million American Indians and Alaska Natives.


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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
I have really tried to embrace the upcoming CWG with graciousness and joy. I have bought tickets for many of the events. To get into the spirit of things I ask all young MBAs who apply to my firm to name three Commonwealth countries. Sadly, the five girls I have interviewed last week could only name India! I have sponsored and organised police verification for all my staff. I have watched the maid and worker populace diminish as the migrant workforce has been banished from the vicinity of the Rajdhani. The kid is perennially tired with practice and the newly scheduled opening ceremony practice will now make her miss her fresher's party where too she had a part in a play. Cest a vie....
Remember the time we hosted the Asian Games? We were a country that had humility and graciousness and not the arrogance that we now possess. Lalit Bhanot, the OC secretary general says westerners have a different standard of hygiene than Indians and refuses to admit lapses in the preparedness of the athlete's village even as the Embassies of various countries send squads to clean up the premises. Twenty years ago I had to postpone my engagement for over six months and compromise on the ring since my fiancée had sheepishly spent the money he had saved on a colour television to watch the Asian Games.
People are angry and ashamed at the disgrace we are facing on the international arena with our state of preparedness. Indians are gracious hosts and the organisers should have to face the repercussions of such lapses in preparedness. I recently met a lady who used to be a neighbour and has now moved to a farm house; the family has built a few of the stadia for the games. It is nice to know that not everyone is suffering due to the CWG.
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Aah! Forget about managing the CWG games. They can't even manage to hide their corruption. Its showing everywhere. :)ReplyDelete
its really disgracefull..and yet no one is ready to accept the faults...they are reall arrogant..u r true what u saidReplyDelete
Excellent, heartfelt post, and I have to admit that I'm visiting your blog after a long hiatus.ReplyDelete
On the bright side, the organizers of the Commonwealth Games have ensured that for the first time, the entire world cares about the Commonwealth Games. (I am being sarcastic of course)
I for one, will be much happier when this fiasco ends.
I am getting tired of writing about CWG, and am worried that things will probably get worse in the days to come. My biggest worry is not whether bridges and stadiums will hold (I hasten to add that I fully understand and respect your concern for your daughter). I am worried about what is going to happen AFTER the Games. Even if some kind of enquiry is conducted, there are so many agencies involved that it will be easily possible for them to pass the blame around endlessly. Authorities have already made downright insensitive and irresponsible statements (Kalmadi, Dixit, Bhanot, Reddy... the list is endless) to defend the recent incidents. Just imagine what will happen once the Games are over?ReplyDelete
And yes, I remember Asiad '82 as clearly as if it had happened yesterday. The sense of pride and excitement was palpable everywhere. Just compare the mascots. Appu became a household name in India. And now? Games are less than a fortnight away, does anyone even mention Sheroo? Appu symbolized a unifying force. Sheroo might just end up symbolizing the opposite.
I feel it should be called off...terrorism, rain, Yamuna floods, incompetence, Indian Standard Time...do we need any more reasons?ReplyDelete
I think the CWG will go forth. There may be hiccups along the way. But it will take place. Then there might be probes into some of the corruption charges. And after a few years, the media will tire of this and everything will be forgotten.ReplyDelete
first time to your blog! and its impressive, am following you!
CWG, i think even God cannot help our country in this. And ah, ur child had to go for rehearsals there? God! so irresponsible of them.
Looks like the disgraceful incidents have caused some heads to turn,ReplyDelete
let's hope everything move in the right direction at least from now on…
However, if the authority can take the brunt of criticism and ignominy they should postpone it and punish the guilty…


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KTXS Special Report: Mystery still surrounds House of Yahweh
EULA, Texas - In the highly guarded, quiet community of Eula, down a private road and behind a huge gate, there's a group of people who believe their compound is the only place that will survive the apocalypse. House of Yahweh members follow the word of their leader Yisrayl Hawkins and believe in Yahweh's laws, all 613 of them.
Kay Hawkins met and married Buffalo Bill Hawkins long before he changed his name to Yisrayl Hawkins and took over the House of Yahweh. After Buffalo Bill was suspended and later resigned from the Abilene Police Department, he was ordained an elder in the House of Yahweh.
The sect was founded by Bill's brother Jacob Hawkins in Odessa. Bill changed his name to Yisrayl in 1980 and started the House of Yahweh in Abilene. When the religion developed a large following, a second campus was created in Eula.
After years of working with Yisrayl, Kay Hawkins was told she was not the leader's only wife.
"On July 24, 1993 [an elder] gave the sermon that polygamy was now a law in the House of Yahweh," Kay said.
Kay thinks that's when Yisrayl ruined what she said could have been an honorable religion.
"He builds something up and then one way or another he will destroy it. He built up the House of Yahweh, and then he destroyed it by making it become a polygamist, doomsday, slave compound," she said. That's when Kay chose to leave the compound.
In 2008, Yisrayl Hawkins was arrested and charged with bigamy and child labor violations. Two different birth certificates of children born at the House of Yahweh had Yisrayl listed as the child's father, but the bigamy charges were dropped after members said they had no knowledge of Yisrayl's supposed multiple wives. Yisrayl is on probation after pleading no contest to child labor violations.
The same year, Yadidiyah Hawkins, an elder in the church, was convicted of sexually assaulting a child and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Brain Butcher represented the child victim in Yadidiyah's case.
"My client experienced sexual abuse almost the entire time that she was at the House of Yahweh. As far back as she can remember she was being sexually exploited by her stepfather and we've developed evidence that the House of Yahweh elders knew that this was going on," said Butcher.
A civil case charging Yisrayl with failure to report the sexual abuse of a minor is set for trial in March.
Butcher said Yisrayl's response to the case was to deny the whole thing.
"They think that her stepfather, who's in prison for what he did to her, was wrongfully convicted and that he's some sort of martyr," said Butcher.
"She's been exploited and I think she feels like the House of Yahweh knew it was happening. They let her down. They should have protected her and that's something that she struggles with," he added.
Yisrayl's secretary said he was too busy with other work to comment on the charges.
Butcher said after talking to dozens of former and current House of Yahweh members, he learned the practice of marrying minor females to elder males is common.
"I think there's a wide array of abuses that are happening within the House of Yahweh. I think there are members within the House of Yahweh who are exploited financially, emotionally and sexually," said Butcher.
Kay said she often drives past the compound and thinks about those still living there.
"Those poor people, they are prisoners and they don't even know it," Kay said.
Butcher said many of those who might want to leave the compound are unable to.
"They become financially dependent. Their housing is through Buffalo Bill, their jobs are through Buffalo Bill, and when everything that you have is tied up within a cult it's hard to get out of the cult," Butcher said.
Kay said some of them are afraid to leave.
"They are advised if they leave the House of Yahweh they are doomed to burn in hell," Kay said.
Kay spent 17 years writing a book about her experience with Yisrayl Hawkins and the House of Yahweh. She said it helped her heal and she hopes it might help other former House of Yahweh members.
"If you have someone who understands and you have someone to say 'I know exactly how you feel,' that is a powerful validation because people who have never been through something like this have no idea. It's a different world," said Kay.
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The Green River Boys and Girls Club sponsored a giant clean-up for the town in preparation for Melon Days. On Sept. 6 and Sept. 8, 190 volunteers from the New Haven Group Home in Spanish Fork visited the city and participated in a service project.
They cleaned and weeded along Broadway, along the parade route and around the affordable housing facilities. They cleaned around the old service station on the corner of Main Street and Solomon and moved the Thrift Store to that location. The entire project amounted to approximately 380 hours of work not including the volunteers in town who also helped.
It was a much needed service that helped improve the appearance of the town as several hundred visitors came to celebrate Melon Days.
The Thrift Store and More enjoyed a great day of business and all proceeds go to the Boys and Girls Club to fund various projects for the young people of the community. Their hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. They are located at 210 East Main and JoAnn Williams is the manager. She says donations are always welcome.
Great things are happening at the Community Center facility as it expands its programs in partnership with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. This organization reaches out to all young people and offers ways to help them succeed at school and prepare for the future. They welcome all to visit the Center and see first hand what is available to the children or ask any of the board members about the facility and its purpose.


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Developing Java ME on Mac
By seapegasus on May 28, 2008
As Karel already mentioned a few weeks ago, the Mobility pack can also be used on MacOS. (The mobility pack is written in Java and does run on Mac OS, but there is no current official WTK and no emulators for Mac OS, so netbeans.org never offered this download option.) Since people asked about it, I tried to install the third-party SDK and emulator and ran a sample app, and ta-daa, it worked. :) Here are a few "Doh!"s I came across, I'll write them down in case somebody else has the same questions.
- Installing NeBeans Mobility pack for Mac
- There is no download explicitly labeled "Mobility pack of NetBeans for Mac OS" or so on the NetBeans Installer page. Instead you download any other Java edition for Mac OS, for instance the Java SE edition. (Or use the one you already have.)
- Then you go to the Tools>Plugins menu, and install (at least) these two plugins: "Mobility" and "Visual Mobility Designer" (you can also install other items you need).
- In other words, don't look for a plugin explicitly called "mpowerplayer" or so. The Mac integration is part of the normal "Mobility" plugin now.
- Installing mPowerPlayer
- Next download the SDK for Mac OS -- click the "Get the SDK: Download..." link.
- Then download the emulator for Mac OS -- click the "free download" button.
- Remember the directory where you downloaded the stuff to. :-) The SDK is saved as mpp-sdk, the emulator is called mpowerplayer.app. I copied them into the "/Applications/" directory.
- Telling NetBeans where to find the JavaME platform
- Go to the IDE's platform manager (Tools menu) and add the mpp-sdk as a "Java MIDP Platform emulator". (If needed you can get more details how to do that on the FAQ).
- When you now create a new Mobile project, the MPowerPlayer SDK and QVGA device will show as options.
- Limitations?
- You cannot use the CDC framework yet, this implementation is only meant for CLDC/MIDP.
- You get a working emulator together with mpowerplayer, but it's only one. This is because emulators are released by phone companies, but they never released any for Mac OS. So you have to go back to a PC (e.g. on a virtual machine) to get one emulator for each type of phone if you want to do any serious crash-testing of your mobile apps.
- Tip: Instead of using different emulators, you can test the app on actual devices that you have. Use the help menu in the IDE and search for "deploy to mobile device" to learn more, but some devices don't come with software to connect to Mac OS, so you may be out of luck.