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February 28, 2005, 03:46:39 AM »
I'm in the concept stage of game design, my first game design, I'm a virgin, and reading the forums here concluded that this is the right place to start. I'm actually in the phase right at the beginning of Roy's sticky on Structured Game Design
, that is; imagining play.
I'm not familiar with the vast plethora of RPG's out there, nor much of the philosophy expounded here (I'll get there), in short I've had a fairly limited and short lived gaming experience. But this is what I want:
I want the game to be fun, to have a light-heartedness about it, or a warmth, yet perhaps be serious at times as well. I imagine the players laughing a lot and generally having a good time. I'm thinking along the lines of "The Princess Bride", any of the Terry Gilliam films, the Narnia series, the "Arabian Nights" etc. I'm not after a beer and pretzels game – oh that's another thing; I want the game to appeal to the pre-teens age group, which my children will hit one day soon (most likely sooner than later).
Risus is tempting but I think they could handle something with a little more depth. Here are some offerings in the sacrificial forge:
What was it about the game; the tone of the text in the rule book? The comical pictures? Or the mechanics of the system?
In short, what encourages this sort of play? The setting obviously as humour, how is this mimicked by the system?
And most importantly,
What games have you played that captured this spirit? So I can check them out.
Gracias amigos,
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February 28, 2005, 05:49:27 AM »
Welcome! I greatly appreciate the time you've taken to read over the forums and get an idea of the posting practices. It makes it easy and fun to reply.
I think your distinction between text and play is important. Most of the so-called "beer and pretzels" games are not really intended for fun play, but for funny reading. They're parodies, and parodies do not have to work well; in fact, they can work poorly and that might be part of the fun. Ninja Burger is a lot like this.
Usually, when people ask this sort of thing, I start talking about my game Elfs, which is satire - a little different. Its humor does derive from a subject external to itself (specifically D&D play of a certain stripe), so if one isn't familiar with that, Elfs isn't especially funny. But if the group is, then the game
humorously, if a little bitingly.
But in your case, it seems to me as if you're talking more about gentle or appreciative humor, the kind that's based on loving something rather than kicking it a good one. So here are some games which often have hilarious stuff happen in them, but which do so by enjoying the wonderful, sometimes absurd stuff in the source material, and in most cases by allowing a great deal of creativity to get expressed freely:
The Shadow of Yesterday
Extreme Vengeance
Army Ants
Soap (a little cold-blooded though)
Greak Ork Gods (a little violent/gory though)
The Questing Beast
The Dying Earth
Primetime Adventures
One last thing, though - it also so happens that the same kind of appreciative, joyous interactions can occur among a group when the game doesn't concern funny stuff at all. I'm not entirely sure that you're distinguishing between humor involving the imagined stuff and appreciation/joy among the role-playing group. So far, I'm sticking with the former because you specifically asked about it, but it might be worth considering whether you're really talking about the latter.
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February 28, 2005, 06:22:07 AM »
Continuing on Ron's assumption of gentle humor, I'd like to add a whole genre: Pulp games. (
would my personal choice example from those) They have a nicely light-hearted, loving-yet-silly way of treating very serious issues. Modern action/agent games (Extreme Vengeance included) also work on the same principles of what's seen as funny, so comparing the approaches of those two genres might be fruitful for observing how certain nuances in design affect the humor of games.
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February 28, 2005, 06:26:56 AM »
I've got a work in progress that might warrent a quick look if anything.
The Imp Game is based on your stereotypical minions of the bad guys- think Pain and Panic from the Disney Hercules movie- and their feeble attempts to try and live up to their master's expectations while frequently blowing it.
As humor can, my AP posts here are a little crude, but thats considering its played as a "beer and pretzels" game with several 20 somethings. In the right hands with the right supervision you could play out a typical saturday morning cartoon show instead of razing a village.
Imps benefits from a very free environment- players say what they do on failures or successes, no GM is needed to micromanage, and rolls are simple.
Playtest doc is available at
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February 28, 2005, 09:40:04 AM »
This is a little off topic, since you're specifically asking about humor, but I recall several discussions about sacred cows of rpg design, and one in particular struck me: character death.
What I mean is this:
Lots of rpgs have damage or combat systems that can lead to character death. In many cases, this possibility is unwanted by gms, players, or both. Some games then work really hard to then get around this issue ( providing some sort of "save" points, have accumulative hit points) or have soft rules suggestions such as GM Fiat type to save the characters' bacon.
The thing that struck me was that some designers have tackled this head on, by making character death "voluntary", based on player choice. Lots of bad things can still happen to the character, but the ultimate choice to rub them out resides with the owning player.
While this doesn't specifically relate to humor, having something like this as an open, discussed rule might allow a more laid back approach to gaming, and could be worth considering as a design aspect.
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February 28, 2005, 02:48:28 PM »
I'm currently helping Dregg develop Spookybeans, an RPG based on the works of Jhonen Vasquez, Roman Dirge, and Serena Valentino, and other similar goth comics. In general, we're aiming for a fairly lighthearted tone (even when 'nny goes around killing people).
A couple of things we're working on to encourage this:
1. Basically, no PC death; at least, not in the usual D&D "Game Over" kind of way. The idea of Hit Points has been abstracted even further than in D&D (we call it Tar, as in "getting the tar beaten out of you") in order to transform what would normally be a combat system into an all-purpose conflict system, which could just as easily take the form of trading insults or a pie eating contest as it could be regular combat (in fact, in such a game, I envision actual regular combat to likely be a pretty rare thing). When you get to 0 Tar, you don't die, you just lose the conflict. Your character will bounce back in whatever situation they find themselves in as a result of losing the previous conflict.
2. You can turn a failed rolled into a success by taking on Ouchies, or complications. Bascially, these are things that are somewhat external to the actual roll you just made, but somehow make your character's life just a little more difficult. Frex: you got the vending machine open, but you scraped your arm up, and it smarts real bad. Or you managed to get away from the security guard, but now have turned down a blind alley and are completely lost.
Now here's the clever bit: The reward system centers around taking Ouchies. So the more interesting you make your character's life, the more points you earn, which can then be spent to boost subsequent rolls. So Invader Zim spends the whole episode bumbling around, and he bounces from frying pan to fire, but by the end he can usually get it together to at least end up where he started.
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February 28, 2005, 04:23:04 PM »
I highly recommend checking out the Wicked-Dead Brewing Company's line of games, which can be found here:
Some of them will not be appropriate for what you're seeking, but a few of special note that might be are Cat, Run Robot Red, and The Secret Lives of Gingerbread Men.
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February 28, 2005, 05:50:00 PM »
I'm surprised no one has mentioned either
Teenagers from Outer Space
or Steve Jackson's
provides numerous openings for hilarious play, and
has a game mechanic in which players are rewarded for successfully making the game master (Animator) burst out into laughter. I've run both, and they succeed in encouraging humor through presentation, amusing images, gaming advice, and even the game mechanics (particularly
Doctor Xero
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February 28, 2005, 06:28:26 PM »
My favorite humor games are RISUS, Paranoia, and Ghostbusters, and Run Robot Red!
I've had some very funny sessions come out of my own game, Code of Unaris.
Chat transcripts here:
I also had a My Life With Master play session get pretty humorous.
At the end of our session the group of minions put the Master in a group hug while hanging onto a set of electrodes. The brain in the jar minion lived. Until his nutrients run out. We really played it in the Young Frankenstein mode.
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February 28, 2005, 06:51:13 PM »
Great Ork Gods (suggested by Ron way back) came to mind as I was reading your post. I don't know if its The Princess Bride type humor though. Its more ridiculous and ridiculously violent type humor. Still, I think it might be a good reference.
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February 28, 2005, 09:15:52 PM »
Hi Chicony,
As you can see, a lot of people have provided a lot of games for you to think about.
What's the topic or basic concept for your game? If I were to make up a character, what might I come up with?
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February 28, 2005, 10:14:35 PM »
Wow! I certainly came to the right place! And perhaps bit off more than I can chew! I've got a lot of research ahead of me, thanks you all so much for the suggestions.
One last thing, though - it also so happens that the same kind of appreciative, joyous interactions can occur among a group when the game doesn't concern funny stuff at all. I'm not entirely sure that you're distinguishing between humor involving the imagined stuff and appreciation/joy among the role-playing group. So far, I'm sticking with the former because you specifically asked about it, but it might be worth considering whether you're really talking about the latter.
Good point Ron. Though I definitely see the humour coming from the story, I'm quite good at character impersonations; pulling faces and peculiar accents, so quirky characters will take a big role, and I hope the unconventional tone of the story will be infectious to the players as well. So to answer your last question; I haven't gone too far in that department yet but imagine a quote of critical appraisal on the front cover saying, "The Princess Bride meets The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (that's next to the star shaped sticker with Best Seller! written on it of course).
So characters like Eric Idles' in Baron Munchausen, the fastest human alive, who has enormous leg muscles from running all the time, or even Invisible Boy (in Mystery Men) who can only turn invisible when no-one is watching. I have to admit I haven't gone too far with it yet.
I could probably ask a lot more questions, but will check my lazy self, and go follow up all of your suggestions.
P.S. Elfs sounds like a game
like to play and Ben your Spookybeans has some interesting stuff going on, though I think the setting would have to change a bit for pre-teens! Nate, Imps looks interesting. Geez, where do I end? Man, I'm going to have to keep coming back to this page to follow all the links and games mentioned!
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February 28, 2005, 11:12:22 PM »
Oh, I read the thing about not modifying posts and may have pressed the 'submit' button a little prematurely (premature submissions are not something I'd like to discuss by the way, let's just say it's been a problem for a while now and leave it at that), but all I wanted to add was a bit about 'theme'.
Theme… Ummm… Tall tales and grand adventures. Adventuring would be the big thing for the characters, exotic lands, exotic people, treasure, monsters, pirates, giants, but definitely not in the D&D sense, in the more romantic sense; that is the treasure will be mostly a concern of the 'bad guys', the monster perhaps a truly exotic creature of the sea that is worshipped by the local community.
I first thought the players would actually play children characters, but it may be a little too Enid Blighton and perhaps playing adults is an important fantasy for them? It may be empowering for them.
Anyway, I'll stop there.
Ben Morgan
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March 01, 2005, 05:24:30 AM »
Regarding TFOS and Toon, I know of at least one Spookybeans mechanic that owes directly to these two games.
As far as the setting for Spookybeans, the ickiness can be scaled to taste; ranging from up near JTHM, all the way down to Invader Zim.
I would also like to heartily (albeit belatedly) recommend Elfs. Yes, it's a silly little game.
, the sugar coating very cleverly conceals a pretty groundbreaking director stance mechanic, and as far as encouraging players to divorce themselves from their characters in order to gain a greater appreciation of the big picture, it does a damn fine job. After all, it's hard to identify too closely with a character whose defining characteristic is set to either Oral, Anal, or Genital.
As for addressing the tall tale theme, Dying Earth is definitely worth looking at. The more I think about it, the more I really love the Tagline mechanic.
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For decades, women with multiple sclerosis have noticed that they tend to do better while they are pregnant. That has led to an experimental drug for the disease that's based on a hormone associated with pregnancy.
The hormone is a form of estrogen called estriol. It's abundant in a woman's body only when she is pregnant. Adding estriol to treatment with an existing MS drug cut relapses by 47 percent in a study of 158 women presented at the American Academy of Neurology meeting in April.
The result is "quite remarkable," says Rhonda Voskuhl, an author of the study and a neurologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. It suggests that estriol could greatly enhance the effectiveness of current MS drugs, Voskuhl says. Those drugs, which are designed to modulate the immune system, can cost up to $60,000 a year.
Multiple sclerosis is a disease that damages the myelin sheath covering nerve fibers. Researchers believe the damage is caused at least in part because the body's own immune cells begin attacking myelin. About 400,000 people in the United States have multiple sclerosis, with symptoms ranging from muscle weakness or paralysis to difficulty thinking.
The new research on estriol was inspired by decades of anecdotal reports from women like Melissa Sherak Glasser of Woodland Hills, Calif. Glasser is 41 now, but was diagnosed with MS when she was just 15.
She remembers putting one hand into a tub of bathwater to check the temperature and being surprised that it felt cold. "Then I put my other hand in and it was burning hot, and I thought, OK, something's wrong," she says.
An MRI scan showed that Glasser had MS. But Glasser didn't let the disease slow her down much. She was a cheerleader in high school, then went to college and graduate school and got married, despite relapses that caused temporary blindness, vertigo and difficulty walking.
When Glasser was in her mid-20s, she got pregnant. And one day, during an episode of morning sickness, she realized something surprising: Her MS symptoms had gone away. "I felt so horrible with all the pregnancy hormones, and I had to laugh," she says.
Glasser reported this to neurologists at UCLA who had been monitoring her MS since she was diagnosed more than a decade earlier. They weren't surprised. They'd heard stories like that before from women with MS. And pregnancy's effect on MS symptoms had been confirmed by a large scientific study in 1998.
So by the time Glasser became pregnant for the first time (she has four children now and was free of MS symptoms during all four pregnancies), Voskuhl and other researchers were already hard at work trying to identify the factor that was protecting pregnant women with MS. "If we could just figure it out, we would have an inroad to a major discovery," Voskuhl says.
The researchers knew that during pregnancy, a woman's immune system changes. "Pregnancy involves a fetus, which has half of the father's proteins on it," Voskuhl says. "So it's half foreign. In order to not reject that half-foreign fetus, the mother's immune system shifts."
Voskuhl figured that whatever was causing that shift was also protecting the woman's nerve fibers from MS. And she suspected a key factor was the hormone estriol.
So the researchers gave estriol to mice with multiple sclerosis and waited to see whether it would help them. "And indeed it did," Voskuhl says. "The mice were not paralyzed; they were walking around fine. It was just a dramatic reduction in their disease." Doses of the pregnancy hormone even worked in male mice.
Voskuhl was confident that estriol could help people with MS. But it took more than a decade to find out.
Drug companies weren't interested in estriol because it isn't a patented chemical, Voskuhl says. So she turned to the National Institutes of Health, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and foundations, including one set up by the family of Melissa Sherak Glasser.
Ultimately, Voskuhl got the millions of dollars she needed to conduct a two-year trial of estriol in women who also were taking the widely used MS drug Copaxone. The success of that trial clears the way for a much larger study that can be submitted to the Food and Drug Administration for approval.
Glasser is confident that estriol will ultimately be approved as a treatment for MS and hopes to be one of the first people in the U.S. to get a prescription.
It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Good morning, I'm David Greene.
And I'm Steve Inskeep. We have a couple of stories on Your Health for this Monday morning. In a moment, we'll hear about a new treatment for severe heartburn that is changing some people's lives. First, we'll hear about an experimental drug for multiple sclerosis. That drug has its origins in an intriguing observation that women with MS tend to have fewer symptoms during pregnancy. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports.
JON HAMILTON, BYLINE: Multiple sclerosis usually strikes people in their 20s or 30s. Melissa Sherak Glasser was only 15 when the first symptoms appeared. She was about to take a bath.
MELISSA SHERAK GLASSER: I put my hand in the water to feel the temperature, and it was cold. And I thought, that's strange. And so then I put my other hand in, and it was burning hot. And I thought, OK, something's wrong.
HAMILTON: A MRI scan showed that Glasser had MS. It's a neurological disease that can cause everything from odd sensations, to muscle weakness, to trouble thinking. But Glasser didn't let the disease slow her down much.
GLASSER: I was a cheerleader, and I was very active. And so I, for some reason, always got symptoms on Fridays before games. And in my uniform, my mom would take me to the neurologist. He'd say, OK, just be careful. I would leave and go right to the game and cheer.
HAMILTON: Glasser went to college and to graduate school and got married. Along the way, she had a series of relapses. They caused temporary episodes of blindness, vertigo and difficulty walking. Then when Glasser, was in her mid-20s, she got pregnant. And one day during an episode of morning sickness, she realized something.
GLASSER: I was complaining, and I felt green. And I felt so horrible with all the pregnancy hormones, and I had to laugh. And everyone's like, what's wrong? And I'm like, this is my problem. Like, it's not, I can't walk. It's not I can't see. It's that I feel nauseous.
HAMILTON: Glasser's MS symptoms had disappeared, as they would during each of her four pregnancies. Neurologists often hear stories like that, and pregnancy's effect on MS was confirmed by a large scientific study in 1998. By that time, Glasser's doctors at the University of California, Los Angeles were trying to figure out what was protecting women like her. Rhonda Voskuhl, a neurologist, says this research was inspired by the things that Glasser and other pregnant women with MS had been reporting for years.
RHONDA VOSKUHL: I saw it as a gift almost, a hint that there's something that is very important that's happening during pregnancy. And so if we could just figure it out, we would have an inroad to a major discovery.
HAMILTON: Multiple sclerosis appears to cause the body's own immune system to attack the myelin sheath covering nerve fibers. The body seems to mistake myelin for a foreign substance. But Voskuhl says during pregnancy, a woman's immune system changes.
VOSKUHL: Pregnancy involves a fetus, which has half of the father's proteins on it. So it's half-foreign. In order not to reject that half-foreign fetus, the mother's immune system shifts.
HAMILTON: Voskuhl figured that whatever was causing that shift was also protecting the nerve fibers. She was especially interested in a form of estrogen called estriol, which is only present in large quantities during pregnancy. Voskuhl gave estriol to mice with MS and waited to see whether it would help them.
VOSKUHL: And indeed it did, and indeed it was very dramatic. So the mice were not paralyzed. They were walking around fine, and it was just a dramatic reduction in their disease.
HAMILTON: Doses of estriol even worked in male mice, and Voskuhl was pretty sure the treatment would work in people. But it took more than a decade to find out. Drug companies weren't interested because estriol isn't a patented chemical. So Voskuhl turned to the National Institutes of Health, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and foundations, including one set up by the family of Melissa Sherak Glasser. Ultimately, Voskuhl raised millions of dollars and was able to conduct a two-year trial of estriol in 158 women. All the women took an MS drug called Copaxone. Half of them also got estriol. Voskuhl says adding the pregnancy hormone made a big difference.
VOSKUHL: Within only one year of treatment, we saw a 47 percent reduction in relapses, which is quite remarkable.
HAMILTON: Voskuhl presented that finding at a scientific meeting just a few weeks ago, and now she's working with the FDA to design a much larger trial that could eventually allow estriol to be marketed to people with MS. In the meantime Glasser, who is 41 now, says she appreciates what Voskuhl has accomplished.
GLASSER: It was really actually amazing to watch her get the results that she got. She worked so hard for people with this disease.
HAMILTON: Glasser says she hopes to be one of the first MS patients in the U.S. to get a prescription for estriol. Jon Hamilton, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Jeffery Temple, a Business Management major, completed his Credit for Prior Learning Portfolio earning 43 credits towards his undergraduate degree. Congratulations, Jeffery!
In reflecting on the knowledge he gained through his professional and personal experiences, Jeffery knows that strong communication skills have been key—especially in his roles as a manager, husband and father. The topics he wrote for are:
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. — The 2011 Ohio Valley Conference soccer season begins this week, and thanks to a 2-1 victory over Lipscomb Sunday, Tennessee Tech heads into league play with confidence and momentum.
The Golden Eagles open OVC play on the road, playing at Eastern Illinois on Friday at 3:30 p.m. before squaring off against SIU Edwardsville on Sunday at 1 p.m.
SIU Edwardsville is playing its first season as a full member of the OVC.
Tech will enter Friday's match on the heels of a 2-1 victory over Lipscomb Sunday in its first home match after a seven-game swing away from Tech Soccer Field.
"We needed that confidence boost as a team," said head coach Daniel Brizard. "I think we've played well, I just think sometimes the result hasn't gone our way. To actually get the result in terms of playing well and in front of a fantastic home crowd, hopefully it will give us some momentum we can take into this weekend."
Though Brizard would have liked to have seen his squad take better advantage of its 23 shot opportunities against Lipscomb, he views the win as a step in the right direction toward how he would like the Golden Eagles to play down the stretch.
"We didn't have a great shooting percentage, but the fact that we were getting shots on frame and toward the frame was a step up from our previous couple of games," he said. "Defensively, it was a great game for our team. They weren't worn out because our attack could possess the ball more. We're doing what we need to do defensively, but when we don't have the attack in front of us, something is going to get through at some point."
Tech enters conference play with a 3-6-1 overall record, a mark that places them sixth out of 10 teams in the OVC standings.
-Walk-on freshman Amanda Koch notched her first career assist in Sunday's win over Lipscomb. Koch has started three matches and is averaging 33 minutes per game.
"Amanda doesn't come from the strongest soccer background where she is from, but she makes up for it with sheer persistence and will to be the best player she can be," Brizard said. "She has been a big lift for us this year."
- The Golden Eagles have now gotten goals from eight different players this season after Andrea Meloff scored her first of the year against Lipscomb.
- Sophomore goalkeeper Becca Toler ranks 15th in NCAA Division I in goalkeeper minutes. Toler has played 928 minutes this season and has yet to come out of a game. Senior defender Lindsey Reed has also played 928 minutes.
- Tech is 8-5-2 all-time in OVC openers.
-Eastern Illinois is 1-6-2 this season with a 1-2 home record. Most recently, the Panthers fell 2-0 to Akron on Sept. 17.
-EIU and TTU have faced one common opponent in Belmont. Tech fell to the Bruins 3-1 on Aug. 21 while Belmont defeated the Panthers 1-0 on Aug. 26.
-Eastern Illinois leads the all-time series against Tech 13-3-3. The last meeting ended in a 1-1 tie on Oct. 17, 2010, in Cookeville. Sarah Gawthrop provided the goal for the Golden Eagles.
-EIU is scoring 0.67 goals per game this season while opponents are managing 1.67 scores against the Panthers.
-Kristin Germann leads Eastern Illinois offensively. The junior from Carbondale, Ill., has scored four goals and assisted on another. Goalkeeper Jessica Taldone has started six of nine games and has notched 47 saves while allowing 11 goals.
-SIU Edwardsville is 2-2-1 this season with an 0-2 home record. Most recently, the Cougars played St. Louis to a 0-0 tie on Sept. 18.
-SIUE leads the all-time series against Tech 1-0. In the only meeting between the two schools, the Cougars took a 1-0 victory on Sept. 25, 2008 in Cookeville.
-The Cougars are scoring an average of 1.67 goals per game this season while surrendering 2.00 goals per game.
-Devon Thomas is SIUE's points leader with seven on the year. The senior from Brookfield, Ill., has scored two goals and distributed three assists. Goalkeeper Claire Lovercheck has started five of six games and has accumulated 16 saves while allowing six goals.


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Rose, The bowl in Pina (it's on p. 49 in my edition) is a similar shape but made differently, with canes and bits of murrhines. Two pages further on there is one, which, although not the same shape, is more like yours in spirit. It might be where Anita saw the label "Made in Italy."It would be interesting to start a thread posting the fist piece of Murano, or glass, each of us bought. David
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Two weeks ago the numbers for online video consumption in the U.S. came out from comScore (basically, the internet-video version of Nielsen, but site-specific). I found out about it through Marc Hustvedt's great online video resource, tubefilter.tv.
Two key takeaways:
– 6.3 BILLION viewing sessions. Everybody is watching internet video, and watching more and more of it.
– The average video duration is 5.4 minutes. It's been climbing steadily from December 2007.
Think about that second stat for a second. If you're coming from TV land, 5.4 minutes doesn't sound like much screentime. But if you're coming from web video land, this is huge.
When my partners and I started The Burg way back in 2006, comScore wasn't even around, but online 'common sense' was. This common sense told us, nay, SCREAMED at us, that a minute and a half was an ideal video length, and anything longer than 3 minutes was suicide. This frightened us, as a typical episode of The Burg was anywhere from 14 to 22 minutes long. So, we played it safe. We began to create shorts of anywhere from 30 seconds to 5 minutes (yes, even our shorts were longer than most people's 'longs'.) We interspersed our normal eps with our shorts. We fully anticipated looking at our viewcount and having much less views for our longer eps.
The exact opposite happened. Our views actually went down every time we posted a short. Why? We don't know exactly. But after talking to fans, we have a pretty good idea: they were outside the chronology of the story. They were little jokes, standalone scenes, things that didn't fit in the tightly plotted and structured episodes of The Burg. And so, people didn't care as much. I knew right then that we had something good. People were hooked on the structure and the story and didn't mind the length.
Ever since then, I've rigidly maintained that length should not be the top deciding factor when you're creating your content. I've been mocked for this, as there are many creators who believe otherwise. In the early days, there were a lot of 90-second episodic thrillers. For me, even when well produced, the story jolted and jittered, because 90 seconds of a thriller is enough to get you to a cliffhanger, but usually seems to stop short of great character development. When working with other online portals, I've had to cut 5 minute shorts to under 3 minutes, and in the process, lost some of the best moments because they just didn't fit. (This is not to say you can't make a great episode in 90 seconds – of course you can. I just think you shouldn't have to.)
I get why this happens in TV. You have a fixed inventory of time. 22 minutes for your sitcom once commercials are factored in. It becomes a surgical process (and to a degree, it should with all content). But on the internet, there is no such restriction. Yet content creators and programmers decided to all limit themselves to one anyway. It seems cynical, arbitrary, and a big underestimation of viewers' tastes.
Well, it seems that common sense was wrong in this case. People are now, officially, measurably, watching longer and longer video. And 5.4 minutes is the average. Meaning, many people are consuming video that's much, much longer.
As Hustvedt states, "If the same trajectory were to be taken forward a few years, which is probably a conservative estimate given the current market, we'd expect to see average online video duration at 10.4 minutes by 2014."
Which means, by my shoddy estimate, people are going to be ready for The Burg by… let's see… May 2017. Hm. Oh well. Better 11 years early than too late.


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BA Chinese Studies / Overview
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- Learn the language spoken by a quarter of the world's population in Western Europe's most linguistically diverse city.
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Western Digital (NYSE: WDC) is a vertically integrated manufacturer of hard drives. Western Digitals main competitors are Seagate (STX) and Hitachi Global Storage (private company whole owned by Hitachi), all three are now about the same size in term of market share. The company produces drives for use in desktops, mobile devices, enterprise, and consumer electronics, and sells components to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
As the hard drive industry is fairly commoditized, intense competition from its competitors is ordinary. Competitors are Seagate and Hitachi Global Storage and the non-vertically integrated manufacturers: Samsung, Toshiba (TOSBF), and Fujitsu (FJTSY, who produce complete hard drive units but do not internally produce all main components (head, disc, gimbal assembly and channel decoder). These non-vertical integrated companies also have other products which they can use to offset a loss in their hard drive devisions.
Another source of competition comes from advances in solid state devices (SSDs) containing flash memory threaten WDC's core product offerings, because SSDs have many advantages over traditional hard drives, especially in mobile applications. However, in the third quarter of 2009 WDC acquired SiliconSystems, Inc, thereby entering the solid state harddrive market.[1]
In the second quarter of 2009, WDC began to design, develop, manufacture and sell media players. A media player is a device that connects to a user's television or home theater system and plays digital movies, music and photos from any of our WD®-branded external hard drives or other USB mass storage devices.[1]
Western Digital's business has more than doubled in the past five years due to the growing demand for desktop drives, greater market share, and strong growth in other hard drive products, especially in the mobile and consumer electronics markets. The company has invested an increasingly greater percentage of its revenue in capital and research and development expenses. New product development is necessary to gain a foothold in new markets and to outpace the threat of competing flash memory.
In 2009, WDC earned a total of $7.5 billion in total revenues. This was a decline from its 2008 total revenues$8.1 billion. This had a negative impact on WDC's net income. Between 2008 and 2009, WDC's net income declined from $867 million in 2008 to $470 million in 2009.
Western Digital's Caviar desktop hard drives are in the 3.5" form factor, range from 36 GB to 2 TB in storage capacity.
Notebook hard drives are in the 2.5" form factor. Western Digital's Scorpio notebook drives range from 40 GB to 160 GB in storage capacity. The 1 TB drive is the company's newest mobile offering, and uses perpendicular recording technology.
Applications such as databases and e-commerce require especially high performance and reliable hard drives. Western Digital's Raptor enterprise-class drives rotate at a faster speed than consumer hard drives, allowing for faster data access. The company also offers a WD Caviar RE line with enhanced reliability features.
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Western Digital controls 22% of the hard drive market, and its competitors are Seagate, Hitachi, Samsung, Toshiba, and Fujitsu.
The market is divided into "independent" and "captive" manufacturers. Western Digital and Seagate are independent manufacturers, meaning that they are entirely focused on manufacturing hard disk drives. Captive manufacturers Hitachi, Samsung, Toshiba, and Fujitsu are more diversified companies with a hard drive division. Captive competitors may sell hard drives at break even profit or even at a loss when it can bundle drives with other more profitable components, such as computer memory. This makes competition especially intense and sometimes irrational for independent manufacturers like Western Digital.
Due to the similarities in market share and business focus, Seagate and Western Digital are chief rivals in the market. The two companies' offerings cover 97% and 90% of the market respectively. Both companies produce desktop, mobile, enterprise, and consumer electronics products, and sell mainly to OEMs. Thus, many of the same market forces such as seasonal changes in sales and commoditization of PCs affect the two companies in the same ways.
One particularly important rising competitor to hard drives are flash-memory based solid state devices (SSDs). Unlike hard drives, flash memory are solid state, so they contain no moving mechanical parts, use less power, are smaller and less likely to break. These advantages make flash memory very attractive for use in portable devices such as digital music players and cameras. Flash memory has not replaced hard drives because cost is higher, transfer speeds are slower, and there is a limit of approximately 100,000 read/write operations. However, each of these limitations are being gradually overcome with technological advances. Samsung and SanDisk have announced or released SSDs up to 64 GB that have already began to replace hard drives in ultraportable laptops. Although hard drives are still the dominant storage device, SSDs represents an impending threat to Western Digital's business.
Western Digital has been slower than competitors to incorporate perpendicular recording into its products, which allows for greater data capacities and faster access speeds. Currently it has one product with the technology (160 GB Scorpio notebook drive).


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CALGARY — The Alberta government has launched an online questionnaire to study the experiences of Albertans with multiple sclerosis, especially those who have undergone controversial out-of-country Zamboni treatments.
Health Minister Gene Zwozdesky said he's heard of the procedure leading to adverse effects, including death.
But he's also listened to stories of the vein procedure — also called liberation treatment — giving people with the neurological disease less pain and a much-improved quality of life.
"It's compelling enough for us to do something," the minister said at a press conference in Calgary on Wednesday.
Wednesday's announcement adds meat to the bones of a push outlined by Zwozdesky last December, when he said $1 million would be put toward studying the treatment. The Alberta Multiple Sclerosis Initiative (TAMSI) will gather information from MS sufferers through a series of questions posted on a secure website. The results will be used to design clinical trials, likely to proceed a year or two from now, the minister said.
MS, a chronic disease, causes physical symptoms ranging form numbness, fatigue and pain to difficulty speaking and inability to control bodily functions.
The treatment was developed by Italian Dr. Pablo Zamboni and involves opening blocked veins in the neck with balloon catheters similar to those used in coronary angioplasty. The treatment is not approved in Canada and hasn't been scientifically proven.
Dr. Luanne Metz, Calgary MS Clinic Director, said officials will ensure that only MS sufferers participate by asking each online visitor for their Alberta health care number, and matching it with medical records. This will help with the legitimacy of the study, and ensure no one person is able to fill out multiple questionnaires.
Metz notes she wants every Albertan with MS and related conditions to participate, whether they have undergone the treatment or not. The province believes there are 11,000-13,000 MS sufferers in the province, with about 700 new cases diagnosed every year.
Officials want to study the impact of MS in a broad sense. Metz said nobody knows for sure how many Albertans have undergone the vein treatment.
On Wednesday, some MS sufferers in Calgary were supportive of both the government's survey, and its cautious approach.
"There's so much unknown," said Kathy Collins, 60.
After hearing of the positive results, she's considering undergoing the treatment. But her MS symptoms are not debilitating, and Collins said she's going to wait for "safe, ethical studies" before making a decision about the invasive procedure.
"It does scare me, absolutely."
However Calgarian Linda Zack, 58, who paid to have the treatment in Poland last year, said she will not participate in the government's survey. She said it's a waste of time.
"They have blinders on. They don't want to hear the good things," she said.
Zack, who says she's suffered from MS for 35 years, said there's no doubt the treatment works. Feeling in her lower body has returned, she said, and muscle spasms that kept her awake all night are gone.
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Asphalt truck overturns in JaffreyBy MEGHAN PIERCE
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May 21. 2013 3:26PM
JAFFREY — A truck carrying more than 50 tons of asphalt overturned on Prescott Road coming around a corner near Squantum Road Tuesday afternoon.
Sgt. Scott Stevens said he responded to the scene at 1:12 p.m. for the rollover.
The driver, Bruce van Vellen, 50, of Hudson, was entangled in his seat belt and needed assistance getting out of the cab of the truck, Stevens said.
The DHART helicopter responded to the scene. Van Vellen complained of shoulder, neck and rib pain, but DHART medical workers cleared him of serious injuries and did not transport him. Instead, a crew from Jaffrey Ambulance took him to Monadnock Community Hospital in Peterborough.
Van Vellen was delivering 50.94 tons of asphalt from Continental Paving's asphalt plant in Litchfield to a paving project in Rindge on Cathedral Road.
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This information applies only to aid directly from John Brown University. It does not affect any federal or state aid that a student may have. It also does not apply to the JBU Semester in Ireland Program.
Off-campus study is a valuable part of a student's education. Therefore, JBU allows a certain number of students per year to apply a portion of their institutional financial aid to semester abroad programs. In allocating financial aid funds to semester abroad programs and selecting students to receive such a benefit, the university's policy is driven by two guiding principles:
- Study abroad programs that immerse students in a foreign culture are some of the most valuable, life-changing educational experiences that a student can have.
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Not far beneath the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa may lurk large lakes. A study published online November 16th in Nature reveals that strange circular areas on the moon called chaos terrains come from the breakup and refreezing of ice overlying extensive pockets of water — in one case, with a volume equal to that of North America's Great Lakes — no more than a couple miles down.Water and ice are nothing new on Europa. Astronomers have long suspected that a liquid water ocean hides beneath the moon's cracked, tortured ice. But so far no one's come up with a good explanation for all the features of chaos terrains. These regions have domes or depressions on the ice and can span hundreds of kilometers. Astronomers first took a close look at them in the late 1990s with the Galileo spacecraft. The images "made us step back and wonder what's going on," says Geoffrey Collins (Wheaton College), a planetary scientist and Europa researcher who was not involved with the new study.
Particularly prickly is the question of how to create such tall domes, like those seen in the region called Conamara Chaos: on average the icy pimples are some 700 feet (200 m) tall, far higher than expected if they resulted from the freezing of surface water or plumes of warm ice welling up from below to fracture the surface (the two main competing theories).
The new model, set forth by Britney Schmidt (University of Texas at Austin) and her colleagues, creates a hybrid of these two ideas. The scientists took archived Galileo data and studied it with an eye toward what researchers have learned from watching terrestrial ice in action, especially subglacial volcanos and collapsing ice shelves.In Schmidt's scheme, deep regions of subsurface ice become buoyant compared to their surroundings, by warming from repeated tidal squeezing as Europa orbits Jupiter. The warm-ice plumes rise from the ocean-ice boundary through the thick shell. As a plume nears the surface, the pressure it puts on overlying brittle ice causes this ice to melt. The meltwater becomes what on Earth is called a perched lake, a lens-shaped body of water trapped inside the ice shell by hydraulic forces. The trapped water then creates new cracks and widens old ones in the overlying ice, which is a couple of kilometers thick. Eventually the ice breaks up into big icebergs surrounded by crushed-up ice.
"You never have liquid water on the surface," Schmidt said in a press conference. "As those big strong icebergs move around, they can break up all the weak ice in between, which can fill with water — still not be liquid, but fill with water," which makes the rubble-like, lumpy material salt-rich. Over the course of hundreds of thousands to millions of years, the liquid lens and icy rubble refreeze.
Here's where the strength of this new scenario comes into play: because water takes up less space when liquid, the formation of the lens lake by melting causes the surface above to sink, like in the Thera Macula region, whose rough-and-tumble surface dips about 2,600 feet (800 m) below the surrounding terrain. But when the rubble and the lake refreeze, the forming ice "gives you the extra boost needed to pop that surface back up into a dome," Schmidt explained, just like the domes in somewhat older Conamara Chaos.
"It is a very convincing model," concludes Robert Pappalardo (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory), who is a study scientist for the Europa mission concept. "It seems to explain a wide variety of observations."Collins agrees. One of the many observations Schmidt's model vindicates, he notes, is the presence of craters on top of chaos features. If the terrain was short-lived (as had been suspected), the craters shouldn't exist. "It was sort of disturbing," he says, "because it implied that chaos formation may last for quite a while, and the [lumpy rubble] continuously evolves over a long period of time." A million years in which to feed the subsurface pockets with water and slush is a good thing, because it allows more time for cratering. "That to me is really interesting because it gets to one of the mysteries that I always had trouble with."
Another observation the model explains is that ice in chaos regions is contaminated with compounds that seemingly come from below. But circulation between Europa's various layers is important not just for what comes up, but what goes down, because what goes down has big implications for whether life could exist on Europa.
"Anybody on the street could give you a pretty good account of what it takes to stay alive: water, food, shelter, air to breathe," Tori Hoehler (NASA Ames Research Center) said at the press briefing. There's clearly plenty of water, and ice provides shelter. "But the big and open question has been one of energy. And when we talk about food to eat and air to breathe, [that's] what we're really talking about." The cycling of ice in the model could provide a means to bring oxidants and other surface material down into the icy interior, from whence it could sneak down into the ocean and serve as fuel for organisms. "I think this really impacts the way we consider habitability on Europa."
To watch a video animation of how lakes form inside Europa's ice shell, go to the University of Texas at Austin's press release.


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She only recently became an aunt, but Kelly Osbourne is just about ready for another title: mom.
"I've got baby fever after I saw [her]," Osbourne says on Wednesday's Anderson, discussing the first time she saw her 2-week-old niece. (Her brother Jack welcomed a daughter, Pearl Clementine, on April 24.)
She adds: "I'd be the best mum ever. I would. I've got great training from my mum."
Her epiphany?
"I have to tell you, I never believed in love at first sight," the Fashion Police co-host, 27, tells Anderson Cooper. "And then when I saw how perfect and beautiful this baby was and is, I lost it. I cried more than anyone else."
For now, she's busy being Aunt Kelly for baby Pearl, who made her debut on the cover of HELLO! with mom Lisa Stelly, dad Jack and grandma Sharon (wife of rocker Ozzy Osbourne).
"I'm under strict instruction not to spoil her," she says, "but I don't think that's going to stick."
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Last Updated on Thursday, 29 April 2010 03:08 Written by Ron Klein, Berthoud, CO Wednesday, 28 April 2010 21:43
I was quite interested in the recent article about State Sen. John Wightman's remarks at a meeting in Gothenburg on April 10. Specifically when he talked about the forthcoming redistricting he stated that "Keeping Dawson County intact is something Wightman said he hopes is accomplished."
It appears that Sen. Wightman should inform himself about the existing boundaries of his own District 36. Nearly one-third of Dawson County, south of the Platte River, is in District 44 presently represented by Sen. Mark Christensen of Imperial and not his own District 36.
Is Sen. Wightman so uninformed that he does not realize that his District 36 does not include all of Dawson County? I think that is very likely based upon my personal attempts as a Dawson Co landowner to deal with him. This speaks poorly of him, but I believe it to be very representative of his lack of interest and ability to truly serve those with interests in his district. He is simply not good.
When Sen. Wightman failed to work with me and basically deceived me for nearly two years, I started working with Sen. Christensen. I found him to be very accessible, communicative, willing to listen and understand my concerns, and take legislative action in a timely and constructive manner to get the problem that had adversely affected me—and potentially all Nebraska landowners—corrected by legislation.
Sen. Wightman is a total opposite. He was inaccessible, not communicative, failed to actually listen and understand my concerns. However, he behaved in such a way as to effectively deceive me to believe that he might actually do something and by doing so delayed my ability to cause the necessary change to occur. But, he never did, and finally simply stopped responding to my communications. However, Sen. Christensen quickly and effectively took care of the matter. His action benefits all landowners in the state.
I suggest it is time that Sen. Wightman be retired from his legislative duties. He is doing a very poor job for his constituents and seems to be primarily feeding his own ego and sense of self-importance rather than actually constructively representing District 36. The voters of District 36 could do this in the November 2010 election at which time he is up for re-election.
I hope that a good honest and motivated candidate will come forward to oppose Sen. Wightman and that the District 36 voters will elect that person. As an absentee landowner I cannot vote of course, but I am certainly ready to provide campaign contributions and volunteer effort for a good candidate. Anybody but Wightman would be better from my viewpoint. While I cannot vote, my property interests still justify my need to see that the area has a decent representative in the Nebraska State Senate. John Wightman is not such a person.


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