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Burlington, VT (Feb. 4, 1999) -- Well, I've checked in on two of the experimental screens I began tracking at the beginning of 1999, now for the third and last. Tonight it's the Plowback Ratio screen. It's been said that Warren Buffett is a fan of this measure of a company's use of earned cash. During the year or so we've been keeping an eye on it the screen has picked some great companies.
To bring new readers up to date, let me explain what the "plowback ratio" is and how the Workshop's Plowback Ratio screen works. Plowback ratio is one of the company balance sheet parameters that's tracked by Value Line, and they define it as "net profit less dividends divided by common equity including tangible assets, expressed as a percentage." Basically, it's the percent return on equity, but it doesn't count dividends as return.
The idea is that if a company is running a nice wide profit margin, continues to see enough expansion potential in its franchise, and has enough new ideas to keep building a bigger and bigger business, the future is bright.
To pick the high plowback stocks I am tracking, I used the following method: Starting with all 1700 stocks in the Value Line Investment Survey, select the 20 stocks with the largest market capitalization that also sport a plowback ratio of 25% or greater.
Here are the twenty that made the cut at the beginning of this year, along with how they've fared so far in 1999. They are listed in descending order of 26-week total return as of 12/31/98.
Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) 29.05% Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL) 40.87% Int'l Business Mach. (NYSE: IBM) -4.95% Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC) 16.97% Dell Computer (Nasdaq: DELL) 47.40% Amgen (Nasdaq: AMGN) 22.12% Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) 19.73% Safeway Inc. (NYSE: SWY) -8.21% Guidant Corp. (NYSE: GDT) -2.73% Gap (The) Inc. (NYSE: GPS) 19.27% Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) 0.06% Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) 20.28% Schering-Plough (NYSE: SGP) -2.26% Abbott Labs. (NYSE: ABT) -4.85% Campbell Soup (NYSE: CPB) -20.00% Sara Lee Corp. (NYSE: SLE) -12.86% Bestfoods (NYSE: BFO) -7.75% Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) -6.25% Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) -3.73% Computer Associates (NYSE: CA) 20.09% Top 5 25.87% Top 10 17.95% Top 15 11.52% All Twenty 8.11%
Well, well not a bad start at all! Remember this is an untested screen, so don't read too much into this short burst. Use this list to compare to your favorite screen performance, or maybe to key into certain companies that you'd like to study further.
Interesting that this screen is doing great and it doesn't even have any requirement for the stocks to be on Value Line's favored #1 or #2 lists. Sorry, Value Line analysts, you are unnecessary here.
Although the screen is awash with high tech outfits, it is not a narrow sector play to begin with. It found at least two non-tech companies that are trouncing the market so far this year, so you can't attribute all of its recent blip of success to the technology weighting.
I usually put up the most up-to-date plowback picks here, but Value Line's download page was broken when I tried it a few times. Below are the plowback screen stocks from the last Value Line edition I had downloaded, which was January 20, 1999. The stock list is amazingly static, so I wouldn't expect it's much different than a newer one. As usual, the stocks are listed in descending order of 26-week total return.
Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) 115.32% Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL) 96.14% Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC) 67.96% Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) 61.61% Amgen (Nasdaq: AMGN) 58.95% Dell Computer (Nasdaq: DELL) 55.91% Int'l Business Mach. (NYSE: IBM) 53.1% Gap (The) Inc. (NYSE: GPS) 41.9% Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) 39.29% Computer Associates (NYSE: CA) 22.9% Safeway Inc. (NYSE: SWY) 21.79% Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU) 14.89% Schering-Plough (NYSE: SGP) 9.83% Abbott Labs. (NYSE: ABT) 5.73% Sara Lee Corp. (NYSE: SLE) -5.76% Tellabs Inc. (Nasdaq: TLAB) -5.9% British Amer Tobacco (NYSE: BTI) -9.45% Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) -11.57% Campbell Soup (NYSE: CPB) -18.86% Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) -24.03%
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Start your day in Café 1914 with a cup of coffee made from freshly ground beans grown in the Panama highlands. The café also features delicious pastries and sandwiches. At the Bridge View Restaurant, sample international dishes and enjoy beautiful views of the canal. If you want a taste of home, dine at TGI FridaysSM Restaurant, located on our property. You can enjoy juicy burgers, tempting desserts and specialty drinks. We are also minutes from top-rated restaurants that serve entrees made from fresh local ingredients.
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At the inaugural Chief Digital Officers Summit earlier this year in New York City, digital media leaders met to discuss the challenges and opportunities resulting from digital, social and mobile media. One topic that rose to the top was the industry's willingness to disrupt existing business models; "adapt or die," a la "Moneyball" was a term used to describe the challenge. This struck a chord with me because "Moneyball" exemplifies the type of business model disruption that is both required and occurring in digital media.
The book "Moneyball" by Michael Lewis provided a firsthand look at the way a baseball team, the Oakland Athletics, attempted to compete with big spenders like the New York Yankees on a shoestring budget. The team employed statistical analysis to evaluate players, build its organization and take advantage of inefficiencies in the game. The Oakland Athletics changed the way the baseball front office evaluates and values players and competes against teams with bigger budgets. It also forever changed the business model for how teams acquire and value talent.
Adapt or die. The Oakland Athletics' payroll was less than one-third that of the New York Yankees. To compete, the team pioneered mathematically driven selection and bargain hunting for undervalued players. This strategy enabled the Athletics' manager to be smarter with his dollars.
Similarly, today's digital media businesses are increasingly forced to use analytics to find new ways to differentiate themselves and become more efficient at capturing higher advertising dollars and new revenue. The large incumbents have new, nimble competitors that are disrupting their businesses. The questions remain: Are these incumbents willing to disrupt their legacy businesses? Are they willing to do what it takes to capitalize on the digital opportunity?
So what's our problem? Analysis and action were at the heart of what the Oakland Athletics did to understand the root cause of its organizational issues.
"We aren't winning."
"We aren't scoring enough runs."
"So what's our problem?"
"We aren't getting enough guys on base."
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To be successful, media companies also need to ask the question, "So what's our problem?" The answer may lie in rethinking platform, distribution and monetization strategies for digital products.
There is a paramount need for discoverability, for rapid creation of new offerings, for the flexibility to change products based on market reaction, and for the ability to monetize as-yet unknown business models. The key to success is to personalize each user's experience and provide the functionality, feedback and offers that maximize his enjoyment of a service. Dynamic pricing based on user requirements, preferences and actions, and the ability to acquire, analyze, adjust and act based on user behavior is essential.
Developing new products and maximizing digital assets across the entire business is a fluid process. Relationships and agreements between an organization and its customers and channels must adapt. Companies will require unprecedented flexibility to change products, pricing and business models based on customer analytics. A "now-cast" view of the business along with the ability to create, deliver and monetize business models is the key to unlocking new revenue streams.
Define new revenue models. In 2000 Apple turned the music world upside down with the introduction of the iPod and iTunes, revolutionizing the way in which music was accessed, bought and played. In a relatively short time span, music has graduated from digital downloads to live streams curated for listeners' personal tastes. Companies like Pandora, Spotify, Slacker and others offer free-Internet radio (supported by ads) and also give their audiences the opportunity to remove the ad with a monthly subscription or a monthly premium subscription that provides customers with an on-demand service to select songs of their choice.
An example of the opportunity to unlock new revenue streams through the reshaping of content distribution relationships is the global content distribution and promotion agreement between Spotify and Yahoo. Spotify is integrating and promoting its on-demand service on Yahoo!'s Media Network, which reaches 47 percent of the total worldwide Internet audience – 700 million unique users monthly. Yahoo! users will see Spotify links on the site, but they will only be able to play music if they've already downloaded and opened Spotify's software. New Spotify users have to sign up for the service using their Facebook logins. Spotify will initially roll out to Yahoo! Music and later will be contextually integrated globally across the rest of Yahoo!, including its leading entertainment sites, Yahoo! Movies and omg!.
In turn, Yahoo! will create an app for Spotify's platform featuring Yahoo! original entertainment content, which will reach Spotify's more than 10 million active users. There is an upside for Spotify, which needs to reach beyond its music fans to increase its numbers, and for Yahoo!, which will receive a cut of the revenue for new paid Spotify subscribers. Other publishing relationships offer potential, as well.
The Spotify and Yahoo! partnership provides a look at the shift occurring in the digital world at large. Simple subscription and traditional paywall models have to evolve to support the potential of all digital platforms along with the varied distribution relationships emerging.
It's hard to predict what the next chapter will be, but it will certainly include marrying applications to the ecosystem of services and channels and dealing with copyright laws, and it must reflect a willingness by incumbents to change the way they do business. The fusion of technology, platforms and content distribution has the potential to drive the next big disruption. To adapt and survive, the industry first needs flexible monetization platforms that support existing and evolving business models, settlement and revenue sharing in order to break free of cookie-cutter subscription models and basic paywall approaches.
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Links to full-text works, biographical information, and bibliographies on Hindi poets and authors to from classical times to today.
- Iqbal : poet philosopher of Pakistan
Detailed biography of his life, discussions of his major literary works and political accomplishments. Provides details of the Iqbal Academy, Pakistan, which aims to promote the the study of Iqbal's works and his teachings. The academy's journal, 'Iqbal review' is available via a link from the website, and selected articles are offered in full text. The site also has a selection of Iqbal's poetry in Urdu and Persian as well as a list of publications to aid those studying Pakistani literature, philosophy and politics.
- Kabir : the mystic poet
Contains a selection of poems written by the mystic poet Kabir, who was noted for his two line poems (dohas) and love songs. The poems are indexed by genre and are presented in both English and Hindi. There is also a page with a small number of the works translated into French.
- Kazi Nazrul Islam
An exhaustive resource about the Bengali poet Kazi Nasrul Islam. Extensive biographical details are given, along with anecdotes and comments from Nazrul himself as well as essays and commentaries on his life and works by others.
- Literature zu Sudasien (Library of the South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg)
Holds some rare and valuable literature from the 18th to the early 20th century. It offers access to digital full text versions of selected works of these historical publications.
- Love sonnets of Ghalib
Complete translation, transliteration and explication by Sarfaraz K. Niazi.
- Pandanus Sanskrit e-texts
Searchable collection of Sanskrit electronic texts, transcribed and proofread by students of the Seminar of Indian Studies (Institute of South and Central Asia, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague).
- The Plants of Kalidasa's Meghaduta
Tamomi Sato's multimedia presentation of plants mentioned in Meghaduta, Kalidasa's poem in Sanskrit. Colorful paintings of the plants and the audio of the poem is also included.
- Project Madurai
An open and voluntary initiative to collect and publish free electronic editions of ancient Tamil literary classics. This means either typing-in or scanning old books and archiving the text in one of the most readily accessible e-format.
- Salidaa : South Asian Diaspora Literature & Arts Archive
The collections comprise both text-based and visual materials from spheres perceived as both traditional and classical. The site is of most interest to those studying or researching the cultures and societies of the British-based South Asian diaspora communities.
- Sanskrit documents collection
Sanskrit texts, tools to learn Sanskrit and links to other sources for Sanskrit.
- Sanskrit heritage site
It gives the user access to a wealth of resources and language tools to assist with the translation, transliteration and study of Sanskrit texts.
- Sanskrit Knowledge Systems
It aims to investigate the extent and structure of Sanskrit scientific understanding between the years 1550 and 1750. The site lays out the working principles of the project and gives access to many of the texts that are worked upon, as well as to a number of full-text versions of working papers.
- SARIT (Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts)
Displays Indological texts marked up with TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) guidelines, and provides machine readable texts for philological research.
- Somadevah e-texts
A repository of Sanskrit texts in transliteration without any commentary with occasional notes.
- South and Southeast Asian literature : classic and postcolonial writers in English, 1825 to present
A searchable collection of fiction & poetry.
- Tibetan Himalayan Digital Library
This is an exhaustive and comprehensive resource for anyone studying Tibet, Himalaya or Buddhism and has material in Tibetan, Nepali, Chinese and Dzongkha.
- TITUS : Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien Several texts in various Indic languages.
Religion, Philosophy, & Indology
- Arunachala & Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi
Several texts, photos and links.
- BuddhaNet's e-book library
Theravada and Mahayana Suttas
- Digital Shikshapatri
Access to a treasure of the Oxford's Bodleian Library and a wide variety of online resources which set the Shikshapatri, written by Shree Swaminarayan, in its historical, cultural and religious context.
- Dvaita Text resource
Downloadable texts from the tradition of Acharya Madhva.
- Gita Supersite
Multilingual Bhagavadgita with translations, classical and contemporary commentaries.
- GRETIL (Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages)
Includes related Indological materials from Central and Southeast Asia.
- Indologie Zurich Textarchiv
Text of Bhagvadgita, Brahmapurana, Brhatkathaslokasangraha, Gaudapadakarika, and Harivamsa are available.
- Internet Sacred Text Archive
Several texts of Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism and Sikhism are available here.
- Jain literature
Books, audio, video in English, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit & Prakrit.
- Jambudvipa
A well-designed and maintained website giving access to a large number of resources for the scholar of Indology and Sanskrit.
- Mahabharata resources
Gives a long list of resources for those studying the Mahabharata.
- Muktabodha on-line library
Selected Sanskrit religious & philosophical texts.
- Philologica digital texts (at Indica et Buddhica)
Machine readable texts for Indology & Buddhology. Free registration required.
- Pali Canon online database
A database version of the Pali Canon (in Pali) based on the digitised text prepared by the Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project. The advantage of using this version of the Pali Tipitaka is that it makes it easy to search for individual words across all 16,000+ pages at once and view the contexts in which they appear.
- Ramakrishna Math & Ramakrishna Mission Publications
Biographies, text of Gospels of Sri Ramakrishna, Complete works of Swami Vivekanada, and Lectures of Swami Vivekananda along with the copies of two serial publications, Vedanta Kesari and Prabuddha Bharata.
- Sacred scriptures of Hinduism
Includes text of many scriptures and links to resources.
- Sankaracarya : complete works
The site has complete works of Adi Sankaracarya in many Indian languages. The text can be downloaded and doesn't have any font display problems in PDF files.
- Sanskrit Web
German language site with an English version. The main texts on the site are the Rigveda, the Yajurveda and the Samaveda, although a further section takes you to a page giving access to a number of shorter documents.
- Sri Granth
Sri Guru Granth Sahib search engine & resource. The site permits viewing of parallel passages in any chosen combination of Gurmukhi, Hindi, Punjabi, and English, plus a transliteration and two Punjabi teekas (commentaries).
- Vedic Literature at Maharishi University of Management
PDF files in Devanagari script of the Vedas, Upanisads, Samhitas, Puranas and other texts. It also has an index of the vedic literature.
- Virtual e-text archive of Indic texts (part of Indology : resources for Indological Scholarship, BASAS)
Social Sciences
- Archives of Indian Labour
Free registration required to access the material.
- Sarai multimedia digital archive
Everyday Archive on cinematographic and media practices, contemporary social movements of urban life.


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- 24 large fresh mushrooms
- 6 tablespoons butter
- 3/4 cup dry bread crumbs
- 1 envelope onion soup mix
- 1/2 cup sliced almonds
- 1/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
- Remove stems from mushrooms and finely chop; set caps aside. In a skillet, saute chopped mushrooms in butter until tender, about 6-8 minutes. Remove from the heat; stir in the bread crumbs, soup mix and almonds. Stuff firmly into mushroom caps.
- Place in a greased 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. baking pan; sprinkle with cheese. Bake, uncovered, at 425° for 12-15 minutes or until tender. Yield: 2 dozen.
Originally published as Stuffed Mushroom Caps in Taste of Home October/November 1997, p64
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I'm so glad you're here! I wrote a bunch of stuff, so why not come in and click around for a while? Gosh, if I had known you were coming I would have written more.
I'm Hope Jahren and this is my blog about interactions between women and men and Academia. I started it in 2013. I haven't posted to it lately because I've been finishing "Lab Girl". It's a really good book, or at least the New York Times seems to think so. The book has zero overlap with the blog, I promise. You'll be able to buy a copy in April of 2016 if you want to. In the meantime, however, there's a lot of posts here, and I still mean every word of them, so have at it!
Golly, I learned a lot from writing this blog. It's helped me figure out that people definitely want funding, might want babies and are sick of feeling like impostors. People also wonder why anyone would want to piss off Nature. Whoa-boy did those posts get read! Not having been born yesterday, I'm halfway done with a post about a well-funded impostor baby who boycotts Nature.
But I also wrote some really good stuff that didn't get read quite as much. Why not take a gander?
Closest to my heart is the collection of my three comic books … but there's more. So much more.
I wrote a love letter, a hate letter, a note to your parents, a poem and a recipe for cheese.
I wrote about Marie Curie, Becky Sharp, Leonard Nimoy and Carl Sagan.
I wrote about anti-vaxxers and trigger warnings.
I gazed into the bottomless navel that is Twitter and wrote about what I saw.
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I told you what to say and what to do when the sexism happens.
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I wrote down the stuff that the strict word-count at Nature and the New York Times didn't let me really explain.
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October 27, 2011 — (Bronx, NY) — A panel of prominent medical school deans from across the country convened today in New York City to discuss the future of annual medical school rankings issued by U.S. News & World Report, which are now celebrating their 20th anniversary.
The U.S News & World Report Summit, titled "The Impact and Future of Medical School Rankings," was co-sponsored by the magazine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Mount Sinai Medical Center.
Allen Spiegel, M.D.The purpose of the summit was to discuss the usefulness of the U.S. News rankings, their flaws and how the ranking system can be improved.
The consensus among the nine deans, associate deans and academic representatives was that the rankings are deeply flawed. Several pointed out those defects include a response rate of between 17 and 19 percent to the reputational survey sent to residency program directors — a measure that accounts for one-fifth of the overall ranking score.
Strikingly, Jules L. Dienstag, M.D., the dean for medical education at Harvard Medical School, categorically rejected the meaning and utility of the rankings despite the fact that Harvard is currently ranked number one.
The deans cited other flaws, including a heavy weighting of high MCAT scores. While it's widely accepted that many students with lower MCAT scores prove to be excellent medical school students, physicians and physician-scientists, admitting students with lower scores negatively impacts a school's ranking and likely discourages diversity goals.
Allen M. Spiegel, M.D., the Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Dean at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University stressed the need for more ethnically and racially diverse physicians given the demographics of the U.S. "Having doctors that you can relate to improves care," he said. Dr. Spiegel highlighted the high incidence of health disparities in the U.S. as a key driver for the lower average life expectancy in the U.S. as compared with countries in Western Europe which spend far less per person on health care than the U.S.
The deans and the audience for the panel discussion — which included many medical students and prospective students — agreed that the U.S. News ratings do little to reflect the educational quality of each medical school or its commitment to community service.
The summit was moderated by Brian Kelly, editor of U.S. News & World Report, and included Robert Morse, director of data research at U.S. News, who has led the rankings project for years. U.S. News announced Thursday, November 3, that it would contact the Association of American Medical Colleges — which collects detailed data on medical students — that might better inform the U.S. News rankings.
The two panels of deans, associated deans and academic representatives included Dr. Spiegel; Dr. Dienstag; R. Michael Tanner, Ph.D., Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities; Lee Goldman, M.D., M.P.H, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Nancy. C. Andrews, M.D., Ph.D., Duke University School of Medicine; Dennis S. Charney, M.D., Mt. Sinai School of Medicine; Joseph P. Grande, M.D., Ph.D., Mayo Medical School; Robert N. Golden, M.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine & Public Health; and Robert Alpern, M.D., Yale School of Medicine.
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Dragonlance and the Realms as Intellectual Property
Philip Athans has put together a lengthy article contrasting the development of the intellectual property that comprises the Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms settings. Extensive discussion with Tracy Hickman and Ed Greenwood provide a great deal of high-quality insight. For example, Hickman writes:
Story is the universal conveyor of meaning. Properly deployed story in game settings extends the game experience beyond the rules and the setting into the realm of change, growth and life application. I think it is a mistake to fixate on the specific and more tangible elements of the setting; one needs to have a grasp of the overall tone and message that a 'property'—whatever that is—conveys to the reader. Dragonlance isn't meaningful to readers because it has dragons and lances. It's meaningful because it conveys a certain attitude, viewpoint, promise and meaning.
The article is a good, insightful look at IP—as opposed to game, or story—devlopment. Check it out.
"The Worlds That Outgrew Their Stories: Two Roads to Intellectual Property Success"
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Will HindmarchSeptember 22, 2010
This is a really great piece, provoking some new questions while also addressing some that I've had about world-driven versus story-driven shared worlds for a while. I'll go back and re-read this piece before I comment more on it, but it's a great look at the thinking behind these worlds and the stances of the co-creators who helped to make them successes. Recommended.
Cam BanksSeptember 22, 2010
Every "new edition" of a setting like this creates a fury of discussion and often divides the fan base. When we were producing Dragonlance product under license, we had a core vision to meet, we tried to tie up all loose ends and establish a singular continuity, and we always had to make it work with the novels. Sometimes there were retcons, which some people loved and others hated. But always it was with a passion for the setting, not just because we wanted to do something for the sake of it being cool.
Keith SenkowskiSeptember 22, 2010
An interesting article that brings up the question: "Is their path to relative success the right path, or just a successful dead end?" They are certainly very successful in regards to the gaming community, but fall short once compared against other IP in the greater cultural sphere.
Brand RobinsSeptember 22, 2010
Nice find.
I particularly like this line: "But if you give a product a vision, a direction and a structure within which everyone can explore their own ideas . . . then you don't have to sweat the individual details because everyone being on the same page and within the same structural parameters of the unified vision."
In my experience, this is pretty fucking core to success in any group creative/communicative endeavor.
The kick in the pants of it, though, is that its often this slippery place of vision and direction. Like, its less that everyone is on the same page and more that everyone has the same karma (in the Buddhist sense). That is to say, everyone is moving in the same direction with similar intent and at a similar speed.
Because when you hit certain moments of definition and really drill down to specify that vision, you often find out it isn't there. Like Cam's experience with Dragonlance — sometimes you find that visions split.
But, sometimes, you have to wonder if they really changed, or if its that there never was one central vision in the first place. The key to brilliant success in this issue seems to revolve around a certain negative capability, a certain ability to never fully say and never fully know, and yet know enough to say enough to convey what actually matters.
Magic, really.
JDCorleySeptember 23, 2010
I like how the comments get all of, what, three in before someone says how much better it was back in the old days and how Hasbro has RUINT EVARAYTHANG
Will HindmarchSeptember 23, 2010
Keith, what are you standards for success? Nothing lasts forever. While Dragonlance and the Forgotten Realms aren't, say, Star Wars, they're pretty successful by a lot of meaningful measurements. They have plenty of fans, they have long lives, they've been bestsellers and they've attracted and developed a lot of talent, haven't they?
I'm not sure there's one true path to a successful shared-world property which these two endeavors missed. I think each shared-world property makes its own way across the sand. It's not like the success of any IP is formulaic and reproducible, else we'd have a lot of Star Warses. How much success is enough?
Will HindmarchSeptember 23, 2010
Are split visions an inevitability of any project that outgrows or outlasts a single creative participant? Readers may kvetch, but the books are still bought and read and presumably enjoyed, no?
The level of static in an audience may rise and fall, as a property moves through time and adjusts its own dials and outputs, but some noise in the signal is probably inevitable. The trick is keeping the static within acceptable levels such that the fan base doesn't dissolve or fail to replenish itself as fans inevitably drift away in favor of other properties, other hobbies, other ways to spend their time. I think. 🙂
Jeff TidballSeptember 23, 2010
More interesting/sad/important for me, when comparing something like Dragonlance to something like Star Wars, is the fact that we're simply not going to see the massive popular IP juggernauts we saw in the 20th century again, ever. The mass market simply lacks the mass, now, for good or ill.
(I say for good.)
Keith SenkowskiSeptember 23, 2010
I think a truly successful does two things. It reinvents itself, adding new life to the products, and it touches the culture outside its safe zone. You see this in comics, gamings more healthy cousin, but you also see it in product design everywhere. Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance have been hit or miss in their reinventions, and have not effectively worked their way into the greater culture outside gaming.
Brand RobinsSeptember 23, 2010
I smell apples and oranges. Comparing one of the biggest new media forms and a raging monster of IP creation to Dragonlance is like saying that a welter weight boxer isn't successful because unlike Mike Tyson he's never had a video game named after him.
There are lots and lots and lots of IPs out there in lots and lots of fields. Some of them are monsters of rock and some make their owners pocket change every year. Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms are neither, so comparing them to either rather than other properties in their size range seems a straw man.
Though, if we want to talk missed game IP chances… I can't help but think the folks who had it get away on them were White Wolf. If you watch ever so much of modern "urban fantasy" you can see the WW IP with the serial numbers filed off. From Twilight to True Blood to Vampire Diaries, Lost Girl, and even parts of the Dresden Files… so much of it clearly went through the cultural wringer, but started in a place near a WW game somewhere.
I suppose D&D, as a genre rather than a specific IP, has had a similar history. The D&D-ified elves and dwarves and clerics and paladins and shit more or less has become fantasy in a way that leaves ever so many fantasy games and books looking more like D&D then ever they did like Tolkien. Sure, everyone says they came out of Tolkien, but the tropes are all D&D and not anything from Middle Earth.
In both cases I think the problem was the games were drawing on other contemporary cultural sources (Ann Rice, Terry Windling, et all in WW's case, Tolkien and Brooks and Howard in D&D) and didn't set anything up (or enough up) that was their unique and identifiable thing. And so when we watch on True Blood and the Ventrue gets in a fight with the Brujah but they never actually say those words, there isn't a way to really mark it as belonging to WW. Cause richy vampires and biker vampires isn't something they actually invented or control, despite the fact that the particular cluster of tropes in play clearly (in many cases PAINFULLY CLEARLY) comes out of the IP — even if at second hand.
Keith SenkowskiSeptember 23, 2010
I see that as a self defeating attitude more than comparing apples and oranges. Comics recently have been well tended as IP, but it was not always so. They were just as poorly regarded and shepherded by their owners as games are now. There is no reason that with the right approach, game properties couldn't be as successful. The NYT best selling books not be exploited in such a manner is a clear example of the possibility of success.
I am not comparing them to Superman or Batman. I am comparing similar product types, that swim in the same part of the cultural pool. It is not a straw man argument. One, comic books, has recently, finally been treated with responsible business decision making. The other, games, is still in the ghetto despite having plenty to offer as an IP because some terrible business decisions.
Brand RobinsSeptember 24, 2010
Hmm. Could be. It sounds like we might be approaching a similar issue from different angles. Like, if WW had approached the WoD with a more deliberate IP policy from the start how much could they have gotten out of it?
Keith SenkowskiSeptember 24, 2010
Or, my favorite example. What if WotC had hired a real director/producer team to helm the DnD movie? I mean, I hate the R.A. Salvatore properties for a host of reasons, but why wasn't that their first movie project with an actual studio, not some fan?
MalcolmSeptember 28, 2010
Star Wars as we know it today is essentially the extension of an RPG IP. Its revival greatly depended on WEG content. Without it, there would have been no consistent library to build from on relaunch. This is a pretty big deal, because it speaks to competencies in our community that we don't even think about, and which are atrophying in a big way.
Things we reflexively do like leave open plot hooks, and story bits without a straightforward function are just being discovered in wider media, even as we're starting to get so "meta" we're getting worse at them.
We created the need for a Leland Chee, but we don't even bother to create parallel roles for our own IPs. One always gets the sense that essentially, nobody gives a damn what's in the Realms, how the Realms' big narrative progresses, or anything like that.
I question the idea that there will never be another Star Wars because, well, Harry Potter. Twilight. Movie Marvel. In the first case the author's wishes are the only thing holding it back; in the second, I believe it's just a matter of time. The third just needs a proof of concept crossover flick, and that's on the way.


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Iowa vs Michigan State College Football Odds, College Football Picks & College Football Predictions: The Iowa Hawkeyes and the Michigan State Spartans are set to butt heads tomorrow evening at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing. The No. 6 Hawkeyes are presently the top dog in the conference standings with a 3-0 league record, but the Spartans are just a game behind at 3-1. Kickoff is set for 7:00pm ET; the game can be seen live on the Big 10 Network. College Football Odds at Sportsbetting.com have the contest listed as a pick'em.
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In an effort to protect shore communities from future storms, many are opting in favor of artificially constructed sea walls to act as a buffer.
As the Sandy Relief Bill moves closer to materializing, Congressman Rush Holt (D-12) warns cuts to the Regional Ocean Partnerships in the legislation will prove detrimental to the region as it recovers.
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Up on the promenade a noisy flock of starlings bathed in puddles left by the morning rain, cascading spray that sparkled in the golden glow of winter sunlight. We climbed the path to the low cliff that juts into the sea at Parson's Rocks, on past the lighthouse then down on to the promenade again; to our left, the North Sea; to our right, rows of parked cars, their occupants dozing, reading newspapers, sipping coffee, eating chips or simply gazing at the horizon. A long line of gulls, perched on the railings, reluctantly rose into the air as we passed, then quickly settled, ever hopeful that a car window would be wound down and a chip would come their way.
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[Launching the Jupiter-1]
Major West: And the monkey flips the switch.
Dr. Zachary Smith: Never fear, Smith is here.
[Why the others should believe his warning about the spiders]
Dr. Zachary Smith: Trust me, Major. Evil knows evil.
Penny Robinson: Never love anything, kiddo, you will just end up losing it.
Robot: It sounds like old morse code.
Will Robinson: What does it say?
Robot: Danger, Will Robinson, danger.
Penny Robinson: [to her diary] On this eve before she is torn from all she knows, kidnapped, hurled into deep space against her will, what thoughts fill the mind of the young space captive?
Will Robinson: Will there be boys on Alpha Prime? Whatever will I wear?
Dr. Zachary Smith: You'll forgive me if I forgo the kiss, my sleeping behemoth. But the time has come to awake.
Robot: Robot is on-line. Reviewing primary directives. One, preserve the Robinson Family. Two, Maintain ship systems. Three
Dr. Zachary Smith: What noble charges my steely centurion. Sadly I fear you have far more dire deeds in store for you.
Robot: Robot is on-line. Reviewing primary directives. Two hours into mission destroy Robinson family. Destroy all systems.
Dr. Zachary Smith: Now that's more like it. Farewell my platinum-plated-pal. Give my regards to oblivion.
Penny Robinson: Let's see, do I spend my last night on Earth watching Mom and Dad pretend not to be fighting, or blow ten years worth of allowance at the mall? You do the math.
[the Robinson family shares a tender moment of love as they are reunited]
Major West: You know, the planet IS breaking up around us.
Will Robinson: [after seeing the old ship 20 years into the future] Oh shit!
Dr. Zachary Smith: A boy of your intelligence should never swear.
[Smith sees the old ship]
Dr. Zachary Smith: Oh shit. Indeed.
Judy Robinson: Who was it that said, "Those who can't think, fight"? I think it was me.
[walks away]
Major West: [to Prof. Robinson] That's one cold fish I'd like to thaw.
[Judy returns]
Major West: [to Prof. Robinson]
Judy Robinson: Oh, I won't be home for dinner tonight, *Dad*.
[Judy walks away. West stares at John, who also walks away]
Major West: It's gonna be a *long* flight.
Major West: You know, I'm thinking this is your "kiss for luck" situation.
Judy Robinson: Thinking. Not your strong point, is it?
Major West: 8 years of flight training. Navigational holographics online. 50 combat missions. Course confirmed for slingshot exit of the solar system. Just so I could take the family camper on an interstellar picnic.
[to her diary, about Major West]
Penny Robinson: Ouch. Could he be cuter? I don't *think* so.
Robot: Will Robinson! I will tell you a joke! Why did the robot cross the road? Because he was carbon bonded to the chicken!
Will Robinson: We've got a *lot* of work to do.
Dr. Zachary Smith: Black was always my colour.
Major West: OK, last one to kill a bad guy buys the beer.
Dr. Zachary Smith: Like the drip, drip, drip of blood...
Major West: You really need to shut up.
John Robinson: There's a lot of space out there to get lost in.
Dr. Zachary Smith: Give my regards to oblivion.
Major West: What about you, Doc? Is there some lucky little nerd you left behind?
Judy Robinson: I've spent the last three years training for this mission. I'm trying to save the planet. I haven't had time for fun.
Major West: If there's no time for fun, Doc, then what are we saving the planet for?
[as Will looks for parts to Robot's body]
Will Robinson: Relax, Robot. I'm going to build you a new body. Mom always said I should make new friends.
Robot: Oh, ha ha.
Dr. Zachary Smith: [reprogramming the future Robot] Let's try this again, shall we? You are the puppet, I am the puppeteer. Do try to get it right this time...
[Major West arms the Proteus' reactor to explode, to kill the Space Spiders]
John Robinson: What are you doing?
Major West: You never leave an enemy stronghold intact.
John Robinson: Major, stop.
Major West: One of your father's first rules of engagement.
John Robinson: That's a direct order.
Major West: I hate spiders.
[the Jupiter II is hurtling towards the Sun]
John Robinson: We're caught in the sun's gravitational pull. We're headed straight for it.
Major West: Oh, really? Is that what the big round ball is?
Major West: It's working.
John Robinson: What?
Major West: If we can't go around the Sun, then we go straight through it, using your hyperdrive.
John Robinson: If we engage the hyperdrive without a gate, we could be thrown anywhere in the galaxy.
Major West: Anywhere but here.
Major West: I'm going to try to break us out of the atmosphere.
John Robinson: No, we don't have enough core material for that.
Major West: Well, maybe if we catch one of the thermal...
John Robinson: No, it won't work. I *know*. We have to go... down. Through the planet as she's breaking up. We can use the planet's gravity...
Major West: What?
John Robinson: To throw us ut the other side and back into space!
Major West: That's insane!
John Robinson: I don't have time to argue.
Maureen Robinson: Am I interrupting something? No really, I think you two should go ahead and slug it out. I mean, here we are on an alien world and you boys want to get into a pissing contest? Please, go for it. I'll have Judy down here in a heartbeat to declare you both unfit, and I'll take over this mission. Now I don't want to hear another word from either of you, is THAT clear?
Maureen Robinson: NOT another word. Better. Now if you've finished hosing down the decks with testosterone, I suggest you come with me. I may have found a way to get us off this planet.
Will Robinson: [speaking through Robot] Mom says to get the hell outta there!
Maureen Robinson: Get the hell out of there!
Will Robinson: [speaking through the Robot] Mom says to get the hell out of there.
Reporter #1: Professor Robinson, how do your children feel about traveling into space for the next ten years?
John Robinson: They couldn't be more excited.
[next scene]
Penny Robinson: This mission sucks!
Maureen Robinson: Get the hell out of there!
Robot: [being controlled by Will] Mom says, get the hell out of there!
Major West: [West assembles his gun as the spiders are attacking] A million bucks worth of weaponry, and I'd trade it all back for a lousy can of Raid.
Dr. Zachary Smith: I'm a doctor, not a space explorer.
Robot: Destroy Robinson family.
Penny Robinson: Here we go again.
Penny Robinson: This mission sucks. I don't wanna leave early. I don't wanna go at all.
Maureen Robinson: We will discuss this at dinner.
Penny Robinson: For the last three years, I've missed everything. Training. So I can spend the next ten years missing everything else. I'm not staying home for dinner. I'm going out to see my friends.
Maureen Robinson: Penny.
Penny Robinson: I'm going out to... say good-bye to my entire life.
Maureen Robinson: Penny I need you here tonight.
Penny Robinson: We're lost, aren't we?
John Robinson: Have you noticed, you take to opposite position to whatever I say?
Maureen Robinson: Of course I do, we're married.
Dr. Zachary Smith: Sarcasm is the recourse of the weak mind.
Major West: If this is all a dream, why can't there be more girls?
Dr. Zachary Smith: I loathe children.
Monster Smith: You should have killed me when you had the chance.
John Robinson: You know, you're right. I couldn't kill the man...
[takes out on of Will's science fair plaques as an improvised weapon]
John Robinson: But I can kill the monster!
Monster Smith: Haven't you made the doorway... too small?
Older Will: Not for me. But then, I'm not going, am I? The spiders didn't kill the girls. It was you. I just didn't let myself see it. You kept me alive because you needed me. Because I could build this for you.
Monster Smith: Poor, poor boy. Did you think that I would let you go? After all that I have become? Look at me. I am no mere man.
[He takes off the clothes covering him to reveal a spider/human figure]
Monster Smith: I am a god. Within these eggsacks lives a monster race of spiders. We shall descend upon helpless Earth. An entire planet on which to rule. An entire planet on which to feed! Time to die, *son*.
Older Will: I'm not your son!
Dr. Zachary Smith: [to the Robot] Unhand me, you mechanical moron.
Will Robinson: Oh, shit.
Dr. Zachary Smith: A boy of your intelligence should never swear... Oh, shit.
[Will, through the robot's holographic interface, sees the spiders eating the other injured spiders]
Will Robinson: Eww. They eat their wounded.
Maureen Robinson: [after will alters holographic projection of his principal, making her look like a gorilla] No more monkey business!
[after attacking Dr. Smith]
Monster Smith: I never liked me anyway.
Dr. Zachary Smith: You can't do it can you? You can't kill the man without becoming the monster.
Dr. Zachary Smith: Oh, be still my foolish heart.
Dr. Zachary Smith: It's the world behind the world Dr. Robinson. Lie once, cheat twice, and everything becomes clear.
Major West: [just before the spaceship explodes] I'm sorry.
Dr. Zachary Smith: Major West, I highly recommend you never breed. That, by the way, is my medical opinion.
Dr. Zachary Smith: [to Will Robinson] Let me tell you a lesson about life, kid. There are monsters everywhere... I know, I am one.
Dr. Zachary Smith: Something you should abide by on this world or any other, never trust anyone. Especially me.
[First night on an unknown unfriendly looking planet they crashed on]
Maureen Robinson: Good night, John.
John Robinson: Good night, Maureen.
Will Robinson: Good night, Judy.
Penny Robinson: Good night, Will.
Judy Robinson: Good night, Penny.
Major West: You guys have got to be kidding.
Will Robinson: [to Penny] Do they have a name for what's wrong with you?
Will Robinson: Can we cut back on her air supply so she's not so annoying when she wakes up?
Penny Robinson: Does he have to wake up at all?
Dr. Zachary Smith: Nothing good can come of this.
[last lines]
John Robinson: [before the Jupiter goes into hyperdrive] Initiate now.
Will Robinson: Cool!


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Wingless alas. Too bad it took a 50 ton truck to make it happen.
i wanna see the design / style / colors first before making a decision
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I'll get a few Tee's and a hoodie, Is there going to be a new design or another run of the last one, because my old clubwrx shirts are getting worn out
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+101 about the girly options, maybe some cut off tees in different colors (similar to the Hooters tees or even short shorts w/ the clubwrx.net logo on it w/ a WRX/STI on the back) just some things to let linger in those brains of yours; but that would only leed to Offiicial Clubwrx.net models!!! Don't know if the ladies are ready for that, but I would LOVE to be involved in the tallent scouting!!!
We keep this up & we might want to start about having official clubwrx.net apparel! Think about it......THINK ABOUT IT!!!!!!!! but we would have to come up w/ a set design! Depends on how much this all costs I'm sure the moderators & deticated clubwrx.net members would cover the cost. You never know until you ask or bring it up.
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In 1949, Nancy Randolph Davis was the first African American to attend Oklahoma State University, a school that was originally segregated. She died at 88 on Monday.
Once more, the White House is at the center of mayhem and mishap.
Learn more about Elliot Spillers, the new president of the Student Government Association at the University of Alabama. The last African American SGA president at the campus was Cleo Thomas, who was elected nearly 40 years ago.
Having survived a repeal attack in 2012, ACA is threatened, again, with the King V.
Burwell lawsuit challenging the legality of subsidies.
Apple replaces AT&T as it prepares to become one of Dow's stock market indexes.