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By the beginning of this third round of the Excellence Initiative – the Excellence Strategy – RWTH has already developed into an Integrated Interdisciplinary University for Science and Technology, focusing on the convergence of knowledge, methods, and insights. It now aims to create a unique national and international educational, research, and transfer environment with dynamic research networks that transcend individual disciplines and organizational boundaries.
In its successful application for the Universities of Excellence funding line, RWTH identified and elaborated a total of ten measures that will be crucial for further developing as an Integrated Interdisciplinary University of Science and Technology.
Measures for the Excellence Initiative
Measure 1 – Strengthen and Expand Disciplines
The focus here is on strengthening both life sciences and simulation and data sciences. RWTH also plans to establish several professorships to advance research and the University's international visibility in these disciplines.
Measure 2 – Accelerate Integration
Three key areas of focus are intended to support and accelerate the integration of interdisciplinary research. This includes the Exploratory Research Space, ERS for short, with its well-established ERS Seed Funds, the new format of the flexible ERS Prep Funds, and the promotion of ERS projects with international partners in the International Research Space, IRS for short.
Meanwhile, each self-organized center will work on a core research program in a bottom-up process that uses state-of-the-art infrastructure and a unique research network.
Last but not least, the profile areas will be strengthened as they are the most important interdisciplinary structure. In future, the profile areas will be included in the planning of new professorships and the formation of alliances with external institutions and industry.
Measure 3 – Internationalize Frontier Research
The Kármán Conferences that were established under Institutional Strategy II will be continued so that current research topics will keep being promoted in an interdisciplinary and internationally visible manner.
In addition, writing workshops on online collaborations, team writing, and interdisciplinary communication will be supported.
A variety of initiatives to promote internationalization are also reflected in all the other measures, emphasizing the relevance of internationally-oriented research throughout the University.
Measure 4 – Stimulate Open Science
In accordance with its digitalization strategy, RWTH will use a consistent research data management system to make data generated at the University easier to find, as well as more accessible, interoperable, and reusable.
The aim is to lead the German and international scientific landscape with this effective use of resources and knowledge and to encourage greater participation in research. To this end, RWTH will continue to expand its personnel and technical infrastructure.
Measure 5 – Collaborate in Living Labs
In future, innovative research will be conducted in so-called Living Labs and involve members of the public and other groups.
RWTH hopes that this will lead to a close cooperation between science and civil society, which will not only ensure greater transparency and more acceptance, but also offer meaningful solutions to complex problems.
One of these Living Labs will be dedicated to the topic of Responsible Research & Innovation, or RRI for short, and particularly involve students in interdisciplinary research teams together with non-profit organizations.
Measure 6 – Nurture Talents & Teams – Boost People
Measure 7 – Research-Oriented Teaching
RWTH supports interdisciplinary education for young researchers, so that students can expand their expertise beyond the boundaries of their disciplines.
In the Honors College, exceptionally talented students are identified and individually supported. With the help of their personal mentor, Master's students can determine their own curriculum to the greatest possible extent and adapt it with a view to pursuing doctoral studies at a later stage.
To promote self-determination among students, RWTH is also planning a series of digital formats for online learning as part of its digitalization strategy for teaching, so that courses, materials, and research findings can be accessed online at any time.
The University will also encourage teachers to improve their teaching by providing the Exploratory Lecturer Space from its own funds for research-oriented teaching and innovative teaching methods upon request.
Measure 8 – Stimulate Entrepreneurial Transfer
To encourage entrepreneurship, this measure focuses on the development of personal entrepreneurial skills and structural support for entrepreneurial transfer.
This development will be enhanced by the newly founded RWTH Innovation GmbH, the Collective Incubator – part of the application for the Excellence Start-up Center.NRW – and the Frontier Workshops, in which representatives from business and society discuss future requirements in topics relevant to the profile areas.
The Knowledge Hub will be set up to ensure that knowledge is transferred from RWTH to the public. It acts as an essential component of the desired Open Science culture.
Measure 9 – Evolve and Mature Strong Alliances
To further deepen the Jülich Aachen Research Alliance, JARA for short, the JARA sections will be connected even more closely to structures at RWTH and Forschungszentrum Jülich, FZJ for short, for example in the profile areas.
In addition to institutionalizing important research areas and coordinating funding procedures, RWTH and FZJ have also agreed on joint professorship appointments.
Besides cooperating with FZJ, RWTH also aims to intensify cooperations with other non-university research institutions, such as institutes from the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the Leibniz Association, and the Max Planck Society.
Measure 10 – Tune Agile Governance
The basis for the successful implementation of measures 1 to 9 is agile governance, which particularly stands out for responsiveness and the ability to renew, react quickly, and cooperate.
To ensure cross-faculty planning and structural development, the Dean's Council will be replaced by the Planning and Allocation Committee – PAC in future, in which all deans and members of the Rector's office are represented.
PAC is supported by the Scientific Strategy Board in content-related matters. The allocation of funds from the ERS funding system and the Strategy Fund provides incentives for university-wide participation in the implementation of RWTH's strategy and promotes new ideas.
A particular focus is on the establishment of joint infrastructure platforms, interdisciplinary centers, new organizational structures, and the rapid restructuring of subject areas and chairs.
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Using Geophysical Field Studies as the Focus for Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in an Introductory Geophysics Course
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For more information about the peer review process itself, please see https://serc.carleton.edu/teachearth/activity_review.html.
This activity has benefited from input from faculty educators beyond the author through a review and suggestion process. This review took place as a part of a faculty professional development workshop where groups of faculty reviewed each others' activities and offered feedback and ideas for improvements. To learn more about the process On the Cutting Edge uses for activity review, see http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/review.html.
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1) Project proposal (containing: over of potential types of projects, proposal requirements, survey design considerations, project background material and outline of project)
2) Conducting the field surveys
3) Final project (and possible variations)
Students conduct a field geophysical study on the Lake Superior State University campus that was a U.S. military camp in the 1950's and 1960's. There are concerns as to whether the military left anything buried behind such as underground storage tanks, unexploded ordinances, buried drums, etc. The study area is the likely location of the next campus housing building. After undertaking this study we were contacted by the US Army Corps of Engineers and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to see our results which students presented to them. The US Army Corps of Engineers and Michigan Department of Environmental Quality are now using our results as they examine what might have been left behind at the facility. Students were excited about undertaking a "real study" answering an important question where the results were unknown to anyone a head of time.
Overview of project design
1) a. Students design the geophysical survey (written and oral presentation) including which instruments to use and why, what are the survey characteristics (I provide guidelines for survey time constraints)
b. Students must create models of expected anomalies for each of the different instruments proposed
c. Students discuss and debate the merits of the various proposed geophysical techniques and survey characteristics
2) Students carry out the field geophysical survey as teams
3) Students use computers to process, display, model and interpret the geophysical data they collect
4) Students present results of the study both orally and in a written form (e.g., technical report, scientific paper, scientific poster, etc. depending on year and other projects)
Addresses student fear of quantitative aspect and/or inadequate quantitative skills
Determining whether students have met the goals
project proposal (written and oral)
interim reports final report(written and oral)including:
data processing
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- project proposal (Microsoft Word 43kB Aug15 07) field survey considerations (Microsoft Word 24kB Aug15 07) final project report (Microsoft Word 36kB Aug15 07)

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The government says 57-year-old John Wilson of Yale faces up to 20 years in prison at his sentencing April 11. It says he also pleaded guilty to a tax crime and agreed to pay $2 million.
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Big Rapids, Mich. - The Ferris State University men's and women's tennis teams continued action on their annual spring break trip on Wednesday (March 7) against Missouri-St. Louis on the road in St. Louis, Mo.
Both matches were interrupted due to darkness with the women's contest resulting in an unfinished score. FSU held a 4-2 advantage when the match was stopped.
Meawwhile, the men's team was able to pick up a 5-1 win despite the fact three singles matches were not finished due to darkness.
The Bulldog men improved to 5-2 overall this spring with the victory.
Both Ferris State teams wrap up their spring break trips by visiting DePauw (Ind.) over the next two days in Greencastle, Ind. The women will face the Tigers on Thursday (March 8) at 4:30 p.m. (ET) with the men taking on DePauw on Friday (March 9) at the same time.
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MEN'S RESULTS - Ferris State 5, Missouri-St. Louis 1
Mar 07, 2012 at St. Louis, MO (UMSL Tennis Center)
|Singles competition
|1. Laurent Galarneau (FS) def. Mueggenburg, Nils (UMSL) 6-2, 6-2
|2. Jack Swan (FS) def. Heyburn, Harry (UMSL) 7-6 (7-4), 6-1
|3. Steven Roberts (FS) def. Schumacher, Marius (UMSL) 6-1, 2-6, 6-2
|4. McLarty, Tim (UMSL) vs. Otto Keresztes (FS) 6-7 (4-6), unfinished
|5. Gorter, Tim (UMSL) vs. Razvan Mag (FS) 6-4, unfinished
|6. Naranjo, Felipe (UMSL) vs. Oriol Vidal Cortes (FS) 1-4, unfinished
|Doubles competition
|1. Laurent Galarneau/Steven Roberts (FS) def. Mueggenburg, Nils/McLarty, Tim (UMSL) 8-2
|2. Heyburn, Harry/Schumacher, Marius (UMSL) def. Jack Swan/Tyler Marengo (FS) 9-8 (9-7)
|3. Otto Keresztes/Justin Hermes (FS) def. Gorter, Tim/Naranjo, Felipe (UMSL) 8-4
WOMEN'S TENNIS - Missouri-St. Louis 0, Ferris State 0 [Suspended]
Mar 07, 2012 at St. Louis, MO (UMSL Tennis Courts)
|Singles competition
|1. Ana Jan (FS) def. Werner, Louisa (UMSL) 6-1, 4-6, 6-4
|2. Tabitha Simpson (FS) def. Henkel, Danielle (UMSL) 6-4, 6-3
|3. Cantalupo, Leanne (UMSL) def. Laurence LeBlanc (FS) 7-5, 6-2
|4. Bandi, Pujitha (UMSL) vs. Melissa Flowers (FS) 6-4, 3-3, unfinished
|5. Rynkiewich, Katie (UMSL) vs. Natalie Diorio (FS) 5-7, 0-1, unfinished
|6. Garcia, Leticia (UMSL) vs. Mary Coleman (FS) 1-2, unfinished
|Doubles competition
|1. Werner, Louisa/Bandi, Pujitha (UMSL) def. Melissa Flowers/Laurence LeBlanc (FS) 8-5
|2. Natalie Diorio/Julie Fusik (FS) def. Cantalupo, Leanne/Henkel, Danielle (UMSL) 8-6
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Paulo Pinheiro, the chair of the International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, is a seasoned diplomat trained in the tradition of Brazil's foreign affairs ministry, Itamaraty, with its celebrated emphasis on impartial mediation, dialogue, and strong skepticism toward foreign intervention to resolve international conflicts.
However, during a meeting Thursday in the Brussels office of the United Nations, he could not hide his indignation over attacks against civilians in Syria. As his report clearly establishes, these abuses are carried out by governmental forces, "with the apparent knowledge and consent of the highest levels of the state," as well as by anti-government armed groups, "although their abuses are not comparable in scale and organization with those carried out by the state."
Pinheiro also sharply criticized the Syrian government's policy toward the media. "I am really concerned by the lack of access for the international media," he told a small group of journalists. "The situation is all the more worrying since journalists who work underground run additional risks. I talked recently to the correspondent of the Brazilian daily O Estado de Sao Paulo, who sneaked over the border from Jordan, and I was really relieved when I heard that he was back in Geneva."
CPJ research shows that eight local and international journalists have been killed on duty in Syria since November, at least five in circumstances that raise questions about government culpability. A CPJ review of the fatalities found substantial evidence that two local journalists, Ferzat Jarban and Basil al-Sayed, were directly targeted by government forces. In addition, circumstantial evidence and witness statements point to the possibility that government forces may have taken deliberate, hostile action against the press that led to the deaths of three international journalists, Gilles Jacquier, Marie Colvin and Rémi Ochlik.
The diplomat refrained from directly attributing responsibility for the killing of journalists to the Syrian state. "The Syrian government does not do anything to protect journalists but we cannot prove that these journalists have been directly targeted," he said. "In fact some of these deaths [Colvin, Ochlik] occurred after we had ended our mission."
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Through my work, Masked, I explored two facets of human nature. The first, our uncanny ability to veil our inner selves so that our 'interface' with others reveals only what we want them to see; and second, the superficiality of our judgement of others. The masks represent how one's identity can be limited by an aesthetic perception. My sculptures are intended to be both comical and uncomfortably eerie. I hope an audience can see something strange yet familiar in the characters I have created – perhaps even something of themselves.
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Internet Killed the Tabletop Star
The same force that brought the tabletop roleplaying industry near the brink of death may now be the key to its survival. Allen Varney analyzes the fraught relationship between the internet and the paper-and-dice RPG.
It was an interesting read.
Don't forget the play-by-post websites.
i loved warhammer 40k, aparently the games workshop stores are a little bare now that warhammer online has come out... i wouldnt know tho... i havnt been since... :|
(i wish 40k wasnt such a bitch to get into.. u gota buy $500+ worth of gear, spend FOREVER painting stuff just so you can play proper games... i mean.. its freaken great but cmon lol)
But the painting is part of the fun......
A good article.
Can't really say much about Tabletop gaming, having only ever played Magic: The Gathering, which I was beat CONSTANTLY at.
Actually I thought the painting was the best part. I've never in my life played any tabletop game but I've bought little units from 40K, normal Warhammer, LOTR and many more just to paint them. It really increases your dexterity and gives you a little trophy to put somewhere for your hard work.
Warhammer 40K isn't a RPG, it's a war game. I've played tabletop RPG's for years, it's a lot of fun, but now I play online via chat rooms. It'd be nice to have a good resource for doing a battle mat, though, most of the ones I've used were either obnoxiously hard to use, slow, or too damn simplistic.
Warhammer has a fantasy RPG offering called Warhammer Fantasy Role Play that is a true blue RPG and actually a very solid system. And 40k has a game called Inquisitor which I've not explored but it is also fully RPG'ized. I'd dare say that both have more actual role-playing elements them than D&D has.
Roleplayers are not dead, they've just rolled up new characters.
Witness the Companion mod for Vampire: Bloodlines that was only completed this month, which not only fixes a lot of Bethesda's bugs but adds whole new gameplay.
Then there's Neverwinter Nights, Balder's Gate (Still), the new D&D that focuses on MMO gameplay.
Even I've still got a weekly RP meet, at the moment we're doing The Dresden Files. Now there's something Tabletop RPG's can do that Computer games will never accomplish.
Yes, I am aware. However, neither of those are Warhammer 40K, and you don't have to buy an army or paint hundreds of miniatures to play them. Half this thread is talking about war-games, which are not "tabletop RPG's".
While it's sad to see so many fewer tabletop venues and distributors, the games are still alive. And as long as we can endure the shocks from our nostalgia bracelets, they're not going to die any time soon.
By the way, Allen, thanks for Paranoia. The Computer is pleased with your loyalty.
Just a question: Why, when people talk about playing games without a computer/embedded system, do they always talk only about tabletops and pen&paper games? What happened to boardgames? People tend to know the most obscure tabletops and P&Ps but they seem to think that board games begin with Snakes and Ladders and end with Monopoly. I would suggest reading this list. You may recognize some but I'd wager that you've never heard of most of them. Starting out with Agricola probably wouldn't end well (the manual is crap) but you could safely go with Puerto Rico. Tabletops, P&Ps and CCGs often require tons of material to be bought, most board games can be bought in one piece and that's all you need, some get expansion packs but those are more like PC game expansions, improvements if you want them but not the bulk of the material you really need.
I'm not sure what people you're referring to, KDR_11k, but my experience as a professional pen-and-paper RPG designer was that people in both the video game business and in the general public spoke of (and recognized!) board games like Puerto Rico and Settlers of Catan more than tabletop RPGs. The resurgence of board games through American party games like Apples To Apples and Euro-style hits like Ticket To Ride has gotten press in newspapers for the last 5-8 years, at least.
So, for what it's worth, I've heard of those games you listed, and my experiences with general assumptions seem to have been quite different from yours. Who knows why.
My gaming store sells all the things refereed to so far and the store is relatively successful. their are a lot of devoted gamers that go to their so it seems that even though their are very few retailers, its still a strong niche market.
As for tabletops, they've always had trouble do to the negative image of how nerdy it is. Even a lot of miniature and card game players are afraid to tried in that territory. But really MMO's are far from having the freedom that tabletops have, and even those other role-playing programs cant match that actual face time, if its available.
Great article, Allen. I am a huge lover of traditional tabletop, and, like you, see a lot of value in using the 'net to further that tradition. Though Season 1 of GOLD pits tabletop against MMO, I don't think they are mutually exclusive -- a lot of MMO folks also play tabletop (Felicia Day of the Guild is a great example -- she plays a weekly D&D game). And whatever you think of 4e (and the opinions are widely varied), I can already see evidence at my local gaming shop that its simplicity, balance and updated tone are bringing in new, young tabletop role players (tho I haven't yet been converted ;-).
Tabletop has become the smaller cousin to MMO, even though TT came first, and inspired MMO. That's not gonna change. I just hope, through innovation and clever use of the 'net, TT will stick around, and in such a way that publishers large and small can continue to make a living producing great content. That's the thing we don't talk about as much, but it's a very real driver of the direction of the market: if small presses and innovators can make a living, TT RPGs will thrive. If you're constantly losing financially, eventually you will have to close your doors.
Obviously I'm hopeful that won't happen. And the $50 I spent on RPG stuff this weekend puts my money where my mouth is ;-)
I still blame the influence of MMOs for the horror and shame that is D&D 4th edition.
Hey, Allen, really good thoughts. Some of this resonates in terms of sociology. In The Social Construction of Reality, Berger and Luckmann comment on this seemingly-endless division into smaller and smaller communities:
"In advanced industrial societies, with their immense economic surplus allowing large numbers of individuals to devote themselves full-time to even the obscurest pursuits, pluralistic competition between sub-universes of meaning of every conceivable sort becomes the normal state of affairs."
(Though I expect that Berger and Luckmann were referring to how jobs and professions affected worldview, rather than games and their worldview.)
Good article, Allen.
BTW, I've been reading your stuff since SPACE GAMER. Remember whe- *BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT* Ok, ok, never mind.
Alas, I can't be as optimistic as you are. The cold fact is, the Internet obviates the face-to-face interaction which is the sine qua non of paper & pencil RPGs.
Nah, 40K isn't an RPG - but honestly, neither is 4th Edition D&D at this point. What USED to be a fantasy-themed RPG with a combat element has become a fantasy-themed tactical combat miniatures game with an RPG element.
Which is what Chainmail was. The circle is complete.
Finally... sorry folks, but RPG.net needs to be killed. With fire.
I'm not worried about tabletop for two reasons.
1) The video game tastemakers are not unaware of the impact tabletop gaming has had on their industry. Many of them celebrate it and even partake. Not only does the Penny Arcade Expo feature a tabletop and boardgaming section of the convention but the boys from PA recently posted about using a laptop and webcam to bring a far-away friend in on their D&D game: www.penny-arcade.com/2009/2/2/
2) In much the same way as the webcam from above, new technology will only serve to improve tabletop accessibility. I stand by my prediction that we are on the verge of widespread access to augmented reality and that it will change tabletop gaming for the better. Imagine the game master being able to see things on the board that the others can't. Forget comparing notes and charts, all the stats will be available, projected onto the real space but only for the individual to see.
Tabletop will stay healthy until its revival, believe you me.
Nice visitor. Landed here from J.M.'s Grognardia blog.
I would just add that the RPG blogging community has tons to give back to table-top gamers. All they need to do is check out the RPG Bloggers Network with its 200+ blog firehose (http://www.rpgbloggers.com). That or check out the recent preview at WIRED Magazine about the RPG Blog Anthology, aka OPEN GAME TABLE. But this may all be preaching to the choir here. Still, niche hobby's aside -- I suspect a grass roots revitalization of the hobby as the community reorganizes itself and its habits to be more in line with a Web 2.0 world.
"It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise."
Ahem... are we entirely sure that Alan Moore is speaking of Board Games here. My strong suspicion is that he's slightly out of touch and means Tabletop Roleplaying Games. Now you might say, "Why, what do you mean?"
Well, I am the proud owner of the DC heroes supplement, the Watchmen Sourcebook. (Which you may drool over here http://www.amazon.com/Watchmen-Sourcebook-Heroes-Role-Playing/dp/0923763201 ) This sourcebook bears the man's imprimatur.
Now, I know that I take great joy in the fact that the two main industries in the United States are Board Games and Hollywood Films, and I enjoy the fact that every comic book studio wants their comic book to be adapted by the powerful Board Game industry.
However, when I visit the universe that this article appears in, I find that board games are only slightly above comic books on the respect meter. Also, that drops off considerably when you aren't talking about children's board games. Like a Watchmen branded edition of Candyland, perhaps? In fact, there are the somewhat obscure places that make games for weird boardgame fanatics like myself, and then there's the places that simply rebrand Monopoly, Risk or Clue for whichever property they are working on.
He probably doesn't realize that since his work was adapted to "Board Games" the field has crumbled in the face of video games.
They took the credit for your second edition'y.
Oh-a oh
Paper-and-dice roleplaying is not dead yet but it is in critical condition and has a lot of internal bleeding. It was to be expected with all the advancements of the world wide web and of those computers that comes bundled with it. You dont have to look far to see those impacts... A single look at Dungeons & Dragons Insider and you understand perfectly where this is going. No this is not publicity for Wizard of the coast... it's the exact opposite because they dont want you to know what i'm about to tell you; Tabletop roleplaying is comming out of the closet and turning to the digital side of the force. And this is bad news for them because most of the products they sell depend on the inexistence of virtual tabletop games.
No need to buy those heavy books that cost a fortune, no need to call your friends to come to your place to play in the basement, no need to wait for that guy to pick up the dices after he failled to properly roll them onto the table... that is unless you really want to. The alternative is a virtual tabletop program designed to do exactly all that for you and even more. A game with animated characters instead of miniatures that offers you a list of possible moves for everyone, each turns, clearly depicted on screen so that you can select with the click of a mouse just like some sort of customizable online final fantasy tactic game from the future. This would be lots of fun if it existed.
In my mind and in my car, we can't rewind we've gone to far
I think I see the point of the article (let's be honest here: it's mostly to tell RPG players about all these new tools and ideas they're missing out on), but it seems terribly mis-named. Three quarters are all about the shape of the new, Internet-powered "Tabletop Stars" rather than the way the Internet has killed anything. Sure, sure, Wizards of the Coast killed Dragon and people prefer Amazon to the local gaming store -- so what?
Every medium of entertainment is: (1) being killed by the Internet, (2) squeaking by the way it was despite the effects of the Internet, and (3) experiencing a resurgence thanks to the Internet all at the same time. Cheap instantaneous worldwide communication will do that. :)
Perhaps large parts of the RPG industry are struggling, but large parts of the RPG industry are really just hobbyists playing at being real businessmen, running horribly inefficient companies that have consistently failed to innovate both product and process -- we should expect that kind of a business to struggle.
Are a lot of people playing WoW in place D&D? (Seriously, are they? I'm not sure anyone in the industry has much in the way of data about that.) Good for them, if it's something they like! Two decades ago, this was an audience that pen-and-paper roleplaying games just got by default. Now they have to work for them. That, too, is how things should be in a healthy market.
Meanwhile, as the articles says, modern indie games are "bringing the fire" -- not just to design but to play itself. Even if the whole industry folds and the only books that come out are the result of hobby economics (i.e. keeping your day job), we'll still have lots of classy, professional, intelligent games.
There's never been a better time to play pen-and-paper RPGs. I don't think it much matters how many people are doing it.
-- Alex
Maybe I'm still just too hopelessly idealistic, but I have a career/life goal to operate a tabletop gaming store that offers what amazon.com can't: a fun, welcoming place to meet up with your buddies and play the games. I know that some places do that already, but what I've seen so far are open places with some large tables. That's it. My vision is closer to the Starbucks of gaming: a place that feels instantly home-y, where you'd -want- to hang out at. The Wizards of the Coast Center by the University of WA is my inspiration (but smaller-scale); anyone know why they failed, with a good setup & great location?
A side-note: WotC and Games Workshop aren't exactly helping promote a positive image for the industry, releasing new rulebooks every few years. The rules to Chess have stayed the same for how many years now? :>
If you do open that gamming store, all those new books are going to be a godsend. How are you going to sell a book to somebody when they have all they need?
On an aside, To quote 2 really inventive men. "as long as their is campfire, and people telling stories, their will be RP", and "if they ever found out that they REALLY do not need rules to do this, we will be in trouble". That being said, my table top game started as like 4-7 and grew to me gamming with over 200+ (easily) over the last 9 years. Really, forum gamming killed something? I would have to say 4th edition (of D&D) is the hammer, nail, coffin, and grave of good RP. Much like 3.5 saved us from the vanilla of 3rd, lets hope a "4.5" is more gaming and less game. I of course, won't buy it. I will be all over a renewed free form kick, or likely GODLIKE, if the next generation of it does not blow. The White Wolf and 40K Dark Heresy seems to be about the next immediate corner though for me.
My straightforward rebuttal to complaints about WotC and GW's rewrite (and pricing) models is this; they're still here, the other guys aren't. If you make a static product, then everyone buys it once. It could be the greatest product in the world, but you could never stay in business supporting it.
I do wish you luck on your "Starbucks of games" idea though; I'd like to see a mid- to upscale hobby store that supports the social aspect of tabletop gaming, one that'll kill the "hygenically-challenged manchildren" image that unfortunately got attached to the genre.
-- Steve
I started back in seventh grade and never had the cards to really do anything. Then I got a bit older and bought up a bunch of cards and studied some stuff, and wow, my deck building improved. Granted, it was old mechanics, but it was still a mean deck. Several ways to annihilate your opponent. So much fun.
Good article, for sure. I didn't follow all the links, and (I read this yesterday, maybe?) don't remember if there was one for finding AD&D groups in your area. Will have to reread. Anyone find 3x or 4 lacking? I just did not like them for anything more than videogames, really.
My mum still plays D&D XD
I still play D&D (3.5 rules, don't like 4.0) and I play Dungeons and Dragons Online MMO. I think one would be surprised on how many people do play some verison of table top. I think it isnt dead, just changed.
I dunno...I'd say the gaming community (and by that, I mean pen, paper, dice, and a couple of cases of Dew) is still pretty strong. I've got two nights that I play (albeit online via AIM and it's dice roller). One night, it's either D&D 3.5 or Alternity, and on the next, it's either Cyberpunk v3 with one GM, or Heroes Unlimited being run by myself. Plenty of people on my other communities want me to run games for them, and...well...
I've been pretty naughty at work.
Had a customer bring their kid in the other day. They were looking for a game for him, and he said he was heavy into the free-range video games - the sandboxes, the "build your owns", so forth. I suggested quite a few games that met the criteria and, as a snarky aside (as I am prone to do at work), said "hey, if these don't work, go and get him some Dungeons and Dragons books and let him have fun with those".
They came back three days later and thanked me, saying the D&D idea was great and that the whole family got into it.
There's hope for the pen and paper yet!
Family is the #1 reason I still play tabletop games. They were the ones that got me into it originally in the mid/early-80s, and I still get together with my family a couple of times a month to play some D&D. We have incorporated technology like D&D Insider's character builder and such, and I highly doubt we would ever go "virtual tabletop" because the gaming experience is about us getting together and having fun.
Thanks for that, Allen. I only got into RPGs after I got used to using a computer and the Internet, so I've pretty much grown-up around the whole Internet-and-gaming idea. I'm involved in four online RPGs, and some people want me to run a Paranoia game over IRC (coincidentally enough).
Also, to those who really hate 4th Ed DnD: yes, it's annoying because everything is considered an encounter (after writing that, I started imagining a group of people in front of a door, with the rogue in front... and then the Final Fantasy fight music starts. Hehehe), but it's still a lot of fun... Provided you don't read the new Manual of the Planes, and have never played a Planescape game. Bah.
The PHB 2 is bringing back the idea of crafting a background for your character. Along with gnomes. Double-bah.
Also, DnDOG. For DnD, as well as any other roleplaying game. Just figure out how players will use their character sheets.
Come to Ireland. Go to Models Inc in Dublin. Big tables, and an incredibly friendly atmosphere. Martin, the owner, is a great guy, and the staff are wonderful. Four or five RPGs are run there, as well as Magic events and 40k tournaments. It's a great place.
Ditto, from a GM who considers Paranoia far too much fun to run.
Problem was that most tabletops weren't roleplaying games at all, but more focused around mechanics. If you open a pen and paper rpg manual, most of it will be things like encounter tables, experience tables, charts of armor, weapons, creature data, etc.
Videogames did that far better, so many people went to them. I used to be a hardcore Battletech player, but very little of that game couldn't be replaced by an online variant. Same with steve jackson's car wars.
Most people actually don't focus on the roleplaying as much as they think. Look at most MMOs, where the roleplaying crowd is a minority on a few servers. Once pen and paper rpgs were trumped in terms of simulation by computer and videogames, they quickly became niche.
is it just me or did this article contain entirely too many links? it seems to me that at least every tenth word was a link, and the article as a whole suffers because of the assumed knowledge of what all of these sites and utilities are
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Pope Francis and Vatican officials expressed hope that Palestinians and Israelis can forge a peace agreement "as soon as possible" as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the pontiff Monday, the Vatican said.
The meeting with Netanyahu at the Vatican's Apostolic Palace comes months ahead of Francis' anticipated trip to the Holy Land, a biblical region that includes Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Netanyahu also met with the Vatican's secretary of state, Archbishop Pietro Parolin.
The discussions focused on "the complex political and social situation in the Middle East, with particular reference to the reinstatement of negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians, expressing hope that a just and lasting solution respecting the rights of both parties may be reached as soon as possible," the Vatican said.
Pope Francis is expected to visit Israel on May 25-26, an official Israeli source told CNN last month. The Vatican would not confirm the exact dates of the trip.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas invited Francis to travel to the Palestinian territories during Abbas' visit to the Vatican in October.
Pope Francis met with Israeli President Shimon Peres at the Vatican in April. A Vatican communique issued after that meeting said they had discussed the hope for a speedy resumption of direct talks between Israelis and Palestinians.
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SONAS video from NAB 2010 Conference
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The latest update to the IBM Storage channel on YouTube is fellow IBMer Bob Dalton presenting IBM Scale-Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS) at the NAB 2010 conference. Here is the quick [2-minute YouTube video].
For more videos, check out the [IBM Storage channel].
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Day 4 - The Last Sessions and My Final Thoughts
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Wrapping up my post-week coverage of the [Data Center 2010 conference], I stuck through the end to get my money's worth at this conference. As the morning went on, it became obvious many people booked flights or started their weekends prior to the official 3:15pm ending of the last day.
Final thoughts?
I suspect this will be my last post of 2010. I will be taking a much-needed break, celebrating the Winter Solstice. To all my readers, I wish you good times over the next few weeks, and a Happy New Year!
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The show floor closed after Wednesday's lunch, so many people made their last attempts to meet the folks at the booth.
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Continuing my post-week coverage of the [Data Center 2010 conference], we had receptions on the Show floor. This started at the Monday evening reception and went on through a dessert reception Wednesday after lunch. I worked the IBM booth, and also walked around to make friends at other booths.
Across the aisle were our cohorts from IBM Facilities and Data Center services. They had the big blue Portable Modular Data Center (PMDC). Last year, there were three vendors that offered these: IBM, SGI, and HP. Apparently, IBM won the smack-down, as IBM has returned victorious, as SGI only had the cooling portion of their "Ice Cube" and HP had no container whatsoever.
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Mastering the art of stretching out a week-long event into two weeks' worth of blog posts, I continue my coverage of the [Data Center 2010 conference], Tuesday afternoon I attended several sessions that focused on technologies for Cloud Computing.
(Note: It appears I need to repeat this. The analyst company that runs this event has kindly asked me not to mention their name on this blog, display any of their logos, mention the names of any of their employees, include photos of any of their analysts, include slides from their presentations, or quote verbatim any of their speech at this conference. This is all done to protect and respect their intellectual property that their members pay for. The pie charts included on this series of posts were rendered by Google Charting tool.)
Whether you deploy private, public or hybrid cloud computing, the benefits are real and worth the changes needed in skill sets and organizational structure.
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Continuing my coverage of the [Data Center 2010 conference], Tuesday afternoon I presented "Choosing the Right Storage for your Server Virtualization". In 2008 and 2009, I attended this conference as a blogger only, but this time I was also a presenter.
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While the conference is divided into seven major tracks, it quickly becomes obvious that many of these IT datacenter issues overlap, and that approaches and decisions in one area can easily impact other areas.
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Facebook tells privacy advocates not to 'shoot the messenger'
You have no right to be forgotten, argues big IT
Facebook insisted yesterday that it is heavily focused on tightening privacy controls for its users, even if information posted on its platform is re-published elsewhere by people accessing the site.
The company's EU director of policy, Richard Allan, told attendees at a Westminster Media Forum seminar on Tuesday that the vast majority of Facebookers are on the site in order to share and find content with people online.
But he said he was concerned about what he described as "the concept to shoot the messenger".
Allan said: "There is an increasing trend that where people are uncomfortable about content, they're not necessarily going to the source of that content, but they're going to those places where the content is shared or indexed and asking them to resolve the problem. I think that's extremely worrying for a whole range of reasons."
Facebook hadn't always got its privacy controls "exactly right" in the past, admitted Allan.
He thinks the social network, which now has around 600 million people worldwide signed up to its platform, has done a good job of fine-tuning its data-handling abilities, despite some privacy worrywarts continuing to express concern about information that is mined from Facebook online.
"There's a popular concept that you can't delete information on the internet," said Allan.
"Facebook is very clear about how you can do that. It's confined to our own service. We're very explicit in our terms to say 'Hey, if you publish information to everyone on Facebook, you're publishing to the whole internet'.
"The information that you publish [can be taken by] other people and publish[ed] elsewhere. We can offer deletion in our own environment but we can't offer the same in other environments."
Allan added that many users of Facebook actually want the company to ensure that their data is kept on the company's platform. It's only "exceptional cases", according to Allan, where adequate "mechanisms" need to be put in place.
Amberhawk Training's co-founder and director Dr Chris Pounder said that the notion of "the right to be forgotten" could only be applied on an international basis. However, he pointed out that "Americans don't apply privacy to something in the public domain".
Just last week the European Justice Commissioner, Viviane Reding, said citizens had the right to proper data protection, and the "right to be forgotten", and deserved national regulators which would enforce such rules.
But Pounder said many policy-makers were missing the point around online data because, in his view, it's not a privacy issue but a publishing one, which relates much more closely to how watchdogs deal with data protection.
"Right to be forgotten will not work. Simple as that," Pounder said.
Information Commissioner Chris Graham said that 1998's "Data Protection Act is showing its age", and added that education was key to enabling individuals to better understand how their data is circulated online when they sign up to services such as Facebook.
The ICO has a code of practice about personal information online that Communications Minister Ed Vaizey has told the commissioner isn't "widely read at the Dog 'n' Duck".
Graham wants not only regulators and companies, but also citizens and consumers, to learn about how their personal data is stored and published online.
But Microsoft's worldwide technology officer for privacy, Caspar Bowden, who was speaking yesterday in a personal capacity, bemoaned the role of the ICO – and said it needed to "steer people in a much more active way than we have seen before".
Bowden said: "The privacy risk is not clear to consumers."
He spoke of the "chief weakness" in the Data Protection framework, currently being mulled at a European level and pointed squarely at the UK's Data Protection Act, which states that data is only considered to be personal if it is identifiable to the data controller.
"If some other parties may collude to identify data, then that is not considered a personal risk in the UK," said Bowden.
"This has been a frankly poisonous issue throughout the UK Data Protection policy for the past 11 years, since the Act came into force," added Bowden.
Graham retorted: "It's about the difference between what the law is, what the law should be and what the law might become. Caspar [Bowden] said that the law wasn't the way it should be, the UK had not transferred a directive as they should have done... But the law I'm administering is the DPA 1998." ®
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D-backs' mojo swatted away by Cards
PHOENIX -- On Tuesday night, the D-backs took the same approach at the plate that they took in their Opening Day victory over the Cardinals 24 hours earlier.
Instead of another win, though, the D-backs couldn't get the big hit they needed and the Cardinals prevailed, 6-1, at Chase Field.
St. Louis starter Jaime Garcia walked four in his 5 2/3 innings, but when the left-hander missed, he missed down in the zone. So, while the free passes provided opportunities, the D-backs were not able to elevate the ball and take advantage.
"He kept the ball down, lots of changing speeds and he located well," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said. "He kept us off balance. We were trying to get the ball up, but he kept it down. Just unable to get a big blow when we needed it with guys on."
Garcia did leave a fastball up to Miguel Montero in the second, and the D-backs catcher lined it the opposite way for a homer that gave Arizona a 1-0 lead.
D-backs starter Trevor Cahill followed up a strong spring by pounding the strike zone against the Cardinals. The right-hander threw first-pitch strikes to nine of the first 10 hitters he faced and held St. Louis to one run on three hits over his first five innings.
The game would turn in the sixth, though, thanks to a pair of decisive at-bats.
The first came with one out, a runner on first and Matt Holliday at the plate.
Cahill had Holliday down, 1-2, and threw a changeup that bounced in the dirt for a ball. Cahill tried another changeup, this one was nearly as low as the previous one, but Holliday somehow went down and hooked the ball on a line over the wall in left for a 3-1 St. Louis lead.
"It was a pretty good pitch," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. "He went down and golfed that ball. Typically, you're not going to get hurt when you're down in the zone like that, but Matt's got some exceptional ability. That was obviously the offensive turning point for us."
When he hit it, Holliday did not think it was going to leave the yard.
"I was just hoping he didn't catch it," Holliday said, referring to left fielder Alfredo Marte. "When I first hit it, I thought, 'Don't catch it. Don't catch it.' Then, 'Get over the fence.' Their starting pitching these first two days has been really tough, so for us to be able to kind of break through and get some runs, it was good."
It was the third homer for Holliday in nine career at-bats against Cahill.
"I thought it was a pretty good pitch," Cahill said. "I threw it where I wanted to throw it, and he's just really strong. Even if you get him off balance, he's strong enough to still hit it out. He's just probably the strongest guy I've seen. If it hits the barrel it's going to go out, no matter if he's on one foot or one toe or whatever. He's just kind of a freak athlete."
Garcia retired the first two Arizona hitters in the bottom of the sixth, but then walked the next three to load the bases.
It seemed like the D-backs might finally break through, as Matheny summoned right-hander Edward Mujica from the bullpen and Gibson countered by sending up the left-handed-hitting Jason Kubel to pinch-hit for A.J. Pollock.
Mujica started Kubel with four straight split-finger fastballs before missing with a fastball to run the count to 3-2.
Mujica threw another fastball that Kubel fouled off, and traditional thinking said a split would come next.
"I think everybody knows that I'm going to throw my split-finger changeup," Mujica said. "Everybody is just looking for that pitch."
Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina, though, called for a fastball instead, and the pitch froze Kubel, who took it for and inning-ending strikeout.
"I think he was looking for something slow, like maybe my changeup," Mujica said. "I surprised him with a fastball away."
Said Kubel, "He threw a lot of splits and then two fastballs the last two pitches and it was just tough, good location."
The Cardinals put the game on ice in with a three-run seventh inning that included a pair of home runs off reliever Heath Bell, who was making his D-backs debut.
"He didn't locate at all," Gibson said of Bell, who retired one of the six batters he faced. "He didn't execute his pitches very well tonight, and if you don't execute against this club, they are very good."


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California Governor Jerry Brown's administration will release the final chapters of the plan- including estimated costs and funding for the project.
The goal is to restore habitat in the Delta while providing a reliable water supply to 25 million Californians.
The administration also says it would reduce the probability of water disruptions due to earthquakes.
But opponents say there are better alternatives than the tunnels. Dr. Jeffrey Michaels, with the University of the Pacific, conducted a benefit cost analysis of the project.
"Compared to the tunnels, a seismic levee upgrade strategy is faster, cheaper, protects more economic assets and saves lives from the flood risk," says Michaels.
Several members of Congress who represent the Delta area are also scheduled to discuss their concerns about the project later this week.
They say the Governor's plan would devastate the region.
The proposal still has to go through an lengthy federal approval process.


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Reading 1: The Traders
William Becknell was the "father of the Santa Fe trade." In the summer of 1821 he started west from Franklin, Missouri, with 20 or 30 men. He followed the Arkansas River and spent two days moving rocks so his horses could get through 7,834-foot-high Raton Pass, where Indians, Conquistadors, trappers, and traders had already established a rough trail. He soon learned that the newly established Mexican government had reversed the traditional Spanish policy of excluding foreign merchants from its territory and was prepared to welcome traders from the east. He hastened to carry what goods he had with him to Santa Fe. In January he returned to Missouri with bags of Mexican silver dollars. The next year, Becknell went back to Santa Fe, following a shorter route across the Cimarron Desert where he could use wagons.
The Cimarron Cutoff soon became "the" Santa Fe Trail. The hazards of the desert and the constant threat of Indian attack were soon judged to be less troublesome than the difficulties of crossing Raton Pass. The original trail, now known as the Mountain Branch, followed the rocky beds of Raton Creek on one side of the pass and Willow Creek on the other. A traveler described the journey in 1837:
We were obliged to follow the wandering of a clear, pebble-paved stream, called the Ratone [sic.], and sometimes, where cliff and precipice utterly barred our way, the wagons were obliged to be drawn along in the bed of the creek. At one place, so difficult was our progress, that we advanced but a mile and a half in a day. Overhanging branches and projecting roots were obliged to be cut away, and heavy rocks removed, for the creek was barely wide enough to admit the wagons between the rugged banks . . .One unfortunate wagon was upset three times, and once right into the creek.1
Neither route could avoid Glorieta Pass, where the trail turned south to cross the Rocky Mountains. A traveler described the pass in 1844:
...the road winds and turns, crossing steep pitches and ravines, over rocks, and around boulders, making short and difficult turns, with double teams to make an ascent. . . . One of these difficult passes we called the "S" which required all the skill of the best drivers to get around.2
Profits were high during the early years of the trade. A caravan leaving Missouri in May 1824, consisted of 25 wagons carrying $30,000 of textiles, clothing, hardware, and other goods. It returned the following September with $180,000 in gold and silver and another $10,000 in furs. American traders soon extended their journeys south to Chihuahua and Mexican caravans began to move eastward along the trail. By the 1840s, international trade over the Santa Fe Trail was valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars.
New Mexico, which had been one of the most isolated parts of Mexico, was now heavily dependent on the trade that came in over the trail. Although Anglo-Americans continued to be a small minority, many were connected by business and marriage with influential local families. Anglo-American newspapers, books, and fashions in clothing and architecture were changing traditional patterns. According to one historian of the trail:
Commercially, New Mexico had been conquered by the United States long before 1846. The path of empire soon to be followed by the American army had been fashioned by the wagons of the traders.3
Questions for Reading 1
1. Who pioneered trade on the Santa Fe Trail?
2. What difficulties did traders encounter on the trip from Missouri to Santa Fe?
3. Why did they prefer the Cimarron Cutoff to the mountain route?
4. Why do you think the value of the trade expanded so rapidly? What effect did it have on New Mexico?
Reading 1 was adapted from Richard Greenwood, "Raton Pass" (Las Animas County, Colorado, and Colfax County, New Mexico) National Historic Landmark Nomination Form, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1975; and William E. Brown, The Santa Fe Trail: National Park Service 1963 Historic Sites Survey (St. Louis, MO: The Patrice Press, 1988).
¹ John E. Sunder, ed., Matt Field on the Santa Fe Trail(Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995), 100; cited in David Dary, The Santa Fe Trail: Its History, Legends, and Lore (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000), 160.
¹ John E. Sunder, ed., Matt Field on the Santa Fe Trail(Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995), 100; cited in David Dary, The Santa Fe Trail: Its History, Legends, and Lore (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000), 160.


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Saturday, July 27, 2013
Happy Blogoversary to Me!
I started writing this blog for my family. I never expected to be still writing four years later, and I never expected it would grow to something anyone else outside the family would like to read. But today I have 240 followers, have received over 3,000 comments on almost half a million page views, and I've written 1400 posts.
Thank you so much to all my followers and readers! This blog has evolved into something I never dreamed of happening over these few years. I wonder what it will look like down the road? Stay tuned and we'll find out together!
Copyright 2013, Heather Wilkinson Rojo
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Congratulations Heather on a splendid blog. Your energy and commitment are boundless.ReplyDelete
Blogiversary Congratulations from your mates downunder.
Congrats ! It gets better and better and has become quite a service to New England genealogy !ReplyDelete
Happy Anniversary. I will join you in your journey into the future to bigger and better things. I always find something interesting, informative and it brings a smile to my face, especially on weather vane Wednesday. Thank you.ReplyDelete
Happy Blogiversary! Hopefully we will meet again soon at a New England Geneabloggers Bash.ReplyDelete
Happy Blogiversary. Well done!ReplyDelete
Happy Blogiversary, cousin!ReplyDelete
Happy Blogoversary! Entertaining, and inspiring; here's to many more years!ReplyDelete
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Congratulations to you!! I love reading your posts, Heather - you're an inspiration! Cheers!!ReplyDelete
Happy Blogiversary and many, many more. I look forward to reading more of your genealogy adventures!ReplyDelete
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Regards, Grant
Happy Blogoversary Heather!ReplyDelete
What an accomplishment! Four years! Congratulations, Heather.ReplyDelete
The rose on that cake is shaped like a little angel face with wings. : ))
Thanks for all the kind messages! I appreciate my readers very much!ReplyDelete
Happy Blogiversary! Congratulations and here's to many more years of wonderful blogging!ReplyDelete
Happy Blogiversary Heather!!! Sorry I'm a little late with my blogiversary wishes to you and your blog.ReplyDelete
Congrats on four years, Heather!!! Best wishes for many more!ReplyDelete
I was incommunicado in the Adirondacks on your blog anniversary. Please accept this belated but hearty CONGRATULATIONS! Four years and 1400 posts -- it boggles the mind! :-)


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- Season steaks with salt and pepper, drizzle with olive oil, and rub with 2 teaspoons parsley and garlic. Let stand 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, prepare indoor or outdoor grill, and mix together 2 teaspoons parsley, cream cheese, bleu cheese, jalapeno, shallot, and vinegar in a small bowl until smooth.
- Grill steaks, turning after about 5-7 minutes. After turning, spread half of bleu cheese mixture on each steak, and cook an additional 5-7 minutes, until desired degree of doneness is achieved (topping will soften).


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – After dropping their season opening double header to Catawba College by a combined score of 15-4, the Georgia Southwestern softball team was looking for an answer in Sunday's doubleheader against Queens (N.C.). The answer was an exciting one as the Lady Hurricanes took both games in dramatic fashion 3-2, 6-5.
GAME ONE: Queens-2 Georgia Southwestern-3
After Lady Hurricane pitchers surrendered fifteen runs over two games the day before, senior pitcher Casey Burns would lock it up for GSW on the mound. Burns, the Hopehull, Alabama native, would throw seven innings, surrendering four hits and giving up two unearned runs with five strikeouts.
Unfortunately for her, Georgia Southwestern hitters provided little run support for Burns through the first six innings. Gabby Buck's RBI single in the third inning would be the only run for the Blue & Gold until the seventh and decisive inning.
The Lady 'Canes entered the bottom of the seventh inning down 2-1. Ashley Cavender would open the inning by reaching first base on a fielding error. Hayley Knight would follow Cavender with a bunt single to give GSW two base runners with no outs.
Just as she did in the third inning, third baseman Gabby Buck would deliver the goods while GSW's chips were down. The senior would single to left center driving in Cavender and then Knight on an error would also score to give the 'Canes the victory in walk-off fashion. Buck would finish the game going 3-4 with 2 RBIs and a 2B.
GAME TWO: Queens-5 Georgia Southwestern-6
GSW's response to their walk-off win in game one appeared to be a muted one in the early going. Designated player Whitney Britt would drive in a run in each of her first two at-bats for Queens to help build a 4-0 lead after five innings. It wasn't until the sixth inning that the GSW bats would come to life. A pair of RBI doubles from Avery Purser and Jessica Chewing would get the Lady 'Canes on the board and cut the Queens lead in half at 4-2.
Sophomore Erin Vick would prove to be a stabilizing force on the mound as she would only surrender one unearned run in her outing over the last two and a third innings of the game. Yet, her only run allowed could come in the sixth inning to give Queens a commanding 5-2 lead going into the seventh and final inning.
The GSW half of the seventh inning would prove to be an eventful half as Hurricane hitters caught fire. The first three batters would all single, which lead to a slew of RBIs by Brittny Dennison (sacrifice fly), Avery Purser (single), Janna Anderson (single) and Jessica Chewing (fielder's choice). By the middle of the seventh Georgia Southwestern had come back to take the 6-5 lead.
Vick would strike out her first batter, but followed it up by giving up a walk and a single. She would recover to close the door on Queens and give GSW its second come from behind rally of the day.
Coach Ward and company would account for sixteen team hits with three players (Buck, McElroy and Purser) all going 3-4 on the day.
GSW Softball will have a mid-week road doubleheader as their next challenge. The ladies will play two on Wednesday, February 8 at Albany State University with action schedule to begin at 1 p.m.


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The death of wartime Vietnamese general Vo Nguyen Giap has triggered public mourning in Vietnam the likes of which have been unseen since former leader Ho Chi Minh passed away more than four decades ago. Given the current leaders, it may not be witnessed again, according to many of the 150,000 people who lined up to pay respects to the so-called "Red Napoleon."
The Vietnamese Communist Party orchestrated the sendoff for Giap, emphasizing his leadership in the wars first against France and then the US. However, it ignored his later years, when the general's popularity allowed him to air rare public criticism of the ruling elite.
Still, the death of the country's last old guard revolutionary inevitably stirred reflection by some on the country's current leaders, only one of whom fought against the US. Giap's passing comes as the government is struggling against public dissatisfaction over corruption and a faltering economy.
"I'm not sure we will have a third leader like Giap and Uncle Ho," said Tran Thi Thien, who rose at 3am to pay tribute outside the Giap family home in Hanoi this past week. "I hope the current leadership would look at how people love and respect General Giap to improve themselves and better lead the country."
Yesterday, Giap's body was laid in state in Hanoi. The country's top leaders, along with veterans, diplomats and ordinary people paid their final respects ahead of Giap's funeral today in his home province. The country's flag was flown at half-mast and unrelated public events were canceled.
The mourning period has gone smoothly in a nation where little happens in public without the blessing of the ruling party. State media coverage projects a united nation, bolstering a government whose legitimacy still rests in part on its history of expelling foreign invaders.
News of Giap's death first spread over Facebook, which would have underlined to the old guard how information now flows beyond their control. The public mourning was also unscripted. About 150,000 people lined up over five days outside Giap's house to pay their respects, an outpouring of emotion that surprised his family, according to Giap's personal secretary, Colonel Trinh Nguyen Huan.
Giap is best remembered for leading Vietnamese forces to victory over the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954.
His Chinese advisers told him to strike elite French forces fast and hard, but Giap changed the plans at the last minute and ordered his jungle troops, clad in sandals made of old car tires, to besiege the French army. The French were defeated after 56 days, and the unlikely victory led not only to Vietnam's independence, but hastened the collapse of colonialism across Indochina and beyond.
"He was an outstanding general, but he was a very simple man," said Nguyen Chan, a 78-year-old who fought in Dien Bien Phu in 1954 and yesterday was in a park watching the coverage of the mourning on a big screen. "For us, he was a commander in chief, a teacher and also a father."
Throughout most of the war against the US, Giap served as defense minister and armed forces commander, but he was slowly pushed aside after Ho Chi Minh's death in 1969. The glory for victory in 1975 did not go to Giap.
He stepped down from his last state post, as deputy prime minister, in 1991. Despite losing favor with the government, he became even more beloved by Vietnamese.
At age 97, Giap opposed the proposed expansion of a bauxite mine, in part because it was to be operated by a Chinese company. This angered the party because it helped legitimize charges by its critics that it is too close to its fellow Communists in China, the subject of popular nationalist anger in Vietnam.
"Giap was a critical figure in contemporary Vietnam history, however one part of his life will always be associated with his question of authority," said Jonathan London, a Vietnam expert at the City University of Hong Kong. "His legacy will be used as badge of legitimacy for the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, but this is occurring at a time when Vietnamese are questioning the direction of their country."


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- Preheat oven to 425˚F.
- Place sweet potatoes and onions in a large baking dish or roasting pan. Toss with 1 tablespoon of olive oil and ¼ teaspoon salt. Push vegetables to the sides of the dish, making room for the chicken.
- Remove and discard the giblets from the cavity of the chicken, rinse the chicken under cold running water, and pat dry with paper towels. Place the chicken, breast-side up, in the center of the baking dish. Season the cavity with ½ teaspoon of salt and 1/8 teaspoon pepper. Then fill the cavity with the parsley, rosemary, and lemon.
- Mix together 1 tablespoon of the olive oil and the melted butter. Rub the outside of the chicken with the oil-butter mixture and then season with the remaining ½ teaspoon of salt and 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper.
- Roast in the oven for 45 minutes. Remove the chicken from the oven and baste with the pan juices. Continue roasting for another 20-30 minutes, until the juices run clear when the thigh is pierced or until a thermometer inserted into the thigh joint, away from the bone, registers 170°F-175°F. If the chicken is browning too quickly, cover with aluminum foil.
- Transfer the chicken to a platter and let stand for 10-15 minutes before carving. Carve the chicken, drizzle with any remaining juices, and serve with the potatoes and onions.


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One corner of Paradise is looking distinctly less heavenly at present.
The innovative green wall on the Children's Centre at Islington's Paradise Park is now brown, although I for one hope that it is not dead, only sleeping. Certainly the wide coverage of the wall's woes – in comment if not greenery – should shame the designers into sorting it out.
One of the critics of the wall is Tim Newark (currently representing the Tax Payers' Alliance) who damned it as experimenting with public money. As Mark Pack argues, opposing public sector innovation per se is a difficult position for the TPA to sustain, given their whole approach to public spending is itself innovative.
I do sometimes feel that the Tax Payers' Alliance are the spiritual heirs to the Islington Public Libraries Rejection Association who delayed the introduction of public libraries to our borough by 50 years with arguments such as "Personally I have a strong objection to have even a penny rate taken out of my pocket by force in order to provide Mary Jane with novels, or her friends with newspapers."
Of course it's right to scrutinise public expenditure, especially at this time of recession. The excellent mySociety team have a site sharing Freedom of Information requests, and recently highlighted this gem, about Royal Mail expenditure on rubber bands. So the next time you see red rubber bands scattered on the street, do pick them up and re-use them; after all, you've helped pay for them. But is the baseline peddled by the Tax Payers' Alliance in their regular media appearances (hattip to MarkReckons) that almost any public expenditure is bad, generating any light along with the heat?
If you value public services, rather than simply cost them, then surely it's best to propose savings from a basis of knowledge. The public sector has rightly been criticised for spending a fortune on bringing in consultants for endless reviews and reorganisations – an expensive trend that started under Mrs Thatcher and has flourished even more under new Labour – when frontline staff can often spot the best ways to cut waste. So I think Nick Clegg's 'In the know' initiative, free consultancy from real experts, is a brilliant idea. Although possibly one too dangerously experimental for the Tax Payers' Alliance to stomach.
To be fair to Tim Newark, even he says the green wall was a "wonderful" idea. And whether the Paradise wall survives or not, the idea of green walls is still flourishing in Islington.
Sophie Talbot and the Kings Cross Community Projects trust have been promoting a new greenwall on Wharfdale Road for two years now. They are seeking private sponsorship; so even the TPA should be happy. You can support the project with a donation here.


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Brazil coach Jose Guimaraes:"We played a great match today, especially in terms of serving and blocking, and we did what we thought we could do. We really understood that this was a key match against Holland, and we prepared well for it. I was very happy that we executed what we planned to do. Compared to yesterday, we were very well prepared. We could focus better on the Dutch team. We didn't know enough about the Czech team yesterday, and didn't prepare well. We did much more image training for today's match."
Brazil captain Fabiana Claudino:"We played well. We played with the brightness of a Brazilian team. We played fundamentally well, especially. Especially our serve was good today. Holland is very strong in attacking the middle, and we were concerned about this, so we really tried to block that today. Our setter Fabiola really helped the team today, she kept calm under pressure."
Netherlands coach Avital Selinger:"I think they played great today, and that's the reason why it looked that way. If you want to play the world championships, you should be prepared physically and mentally to sustain three matches in a row. Brazil did a great job, they deserve all the credit. From the first ball, they set the tone, and we were not able to convert the chances from the beginning. There were a few chances in defense on relatively easy balls, and Brazil escaped from the difficult situations. When we came into difficult situations, they took advantage of it. They punished us very hard and did not let go. That is what a championship team should do, and no less than that."
Netherlands captain Manon Flier:"Comparing to yesterday, we just played our own game against Italy. But today Brazil put a lot of pressure on us from the start They were serving very well and we had problems with our reception. We couldn't play our combinations like we did yesterday. Our block defense was less than yesterday. Brazil used a lot of tips. We didn't take the opportunities we had. I'm very disappointed by the way we played, and the result."