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NEW YORK (AP) — Saying Google is stealing business from online book retailers, the Authors Guild asked a federal appeals court Friday to reinstate its lawsuit contending that the Internet giant is violating copyright laws with its massive book digitization project.
The Guild filed papers with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan, saying that Google's effort to create the world's largest digital library was violating the rights of authors and stifling competition in the busy Internet book sales market.
Google declined to comment on the Authors Guild's effort to reverse a November ruling in favor of the Mountain View, Calif.-based company.
The Guild asked the court to hold Google liable and to return the case to the lower court for remedies. Its lawsuit sought $750 for each of the more than 20 million copyright books that Google has already copied.
"Google is yanking readers out of online bookstores," Authors Guild President Roxana Robinson said in a statement. "Google digitized authors' works in order to lure book buyers away from online booksellers to its turf, seeking to bring countless eyeballs to its ads."
She said Congress should create a national digital library.
In appeals arguments, Guild lawyers argued Google was also unfairly boosting its advertising revenues and stifling competition.
The Guild's lawyers said Google shocked the literary community in December 2004 when it launched its library project by partnering with some of the world's largest libraries "to gain free access to millions of copyright-protected books."
"Google emptied the shelves of libraries and delivered truckloads of printed books to scanning centers, where the books were converted into digital format," the Guild's lawyers said.
They wrote that the library project was designed to lure potential book purchasers away from online retailers like Amazon.com and drive them to Google.
But Judge Denny Chin concluded Google did not run afoul of copyright laws because it only shows snippets from the books in its database. He said it would be difficult for anyone to read any of the works in their entirety by repeatedly entering different search requests.
He also said the company's library project provided a "transformative purpose" by giving new life to out-of-print and old books that had been forgotten.
"In my view, Google Books provides significant public benefits," Chin wrote.
Associated Press Writer Michael Liedtke in San Francisco contributed to this report


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When I last checked most of the genealogists I know were also people who had to live and do other things besides genealogy once and a while. But it is still interesting how many things I do every day relate to genealogy in some way or another. One of the notable events of this past year has been the phenomenal increase in my ability to find out things. It started with maps. Google Maps revolutionized the way I find places, not just for genealogy, but going to stores or other locations. Part of the reason this ability has made such a change is the availability of Google Maps on my iPhone. I used to carry a road atlas in my car, along with a detailed street map of Phoenix. No longer. Anyplace I happen to be, I can simply search and have almost instant directions to where ever I want to go.
Google Maps' ability is not limited to directions for travel, if I want to go to Costco or Target, I can search on that business and find the nearest location. This map idea has now expanded, during the past year, you can now search for almost any published book in the world and find the nearest library that has the book. This program is called WorldCat and contains the combined catalogs of over 10,000 libraries. During the past year, WorldCat added another service, searching the Internet for digital copies of a book. If you use WorldCat to do an advanced search, you can specify the format of the book, including a listing of all of the scanned, digitized copies of the book that may be available on the Web or any other format, including audio books and CDs. That brings us to scanned books, during the past year there has been an continuation of the explosion of scanned books on the Internet. Google Books is a good example, Google now has in excess of 10 million titles. You might want to check out ePub format. EPUB (electronic publication; also sometimes ePub, EPub, or epub) is a free and open e-book standard, by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). Files have the extension .epub. EPUB is designed for reflowable content, meaning that the text display can be optimized for the particular display device. The format is meant to function as a single format that publishers and conversion houses can use in-house, as well as for distribution and sale. It supersedes the Open eBook standard. Wikipedia. What does this mean? I can now read almost all of the available books on my iPhone!
OK, so how does this apply to genealogists? Think of the thousands of family history books being digitized every month. Many of these books will be available online on your desktop computer or even on a smart phone, like Google's Android phone or iPhone. With these devices you can carry around your whole genealogy file, assuming you purchase an App that will display the file.
This goes on and on, of course, because finding out everything takes a little bit of time. Speaking of iPhones, there is an App (application or program) called SnapTell. Using the the camera on your iPhone, you can take a photo of the cover of any CD, DVD, book, or video game, and the application will automatically identify the product and find ratings and pricing information online. This really works, even for obscure genealogy books, as long as they are available through Amazon.com or a similar Website. This looking up stuff can be carried even further. You can use your iPhone to read UPC barcodes. Yes, you can be in a store and scan a bar code and the iPhone will look up the price and tell you if there is a better price somewhere else. The App is called RedLaser.
Who knows what tomorrow will bring, Google is supposed to be working on an App for Android that will let you take a picture of anything and it will look it up in Google. Good Luck.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Finding out almost anything and everything
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Hi James--I have even more good news. Now WorldCat results for library materials are being surfaced through RedLaser. So you can get your maps, digitized content and more--through the world's libraries via WorldCat. Oh, and when a GoogleBooks preview is available, we also show it in WorldCat.org!ReplyDelete
Isn't technology a great tool when put to good use. Great to see you put it to good use and good luck in using technoloigy as a tool in your genealogy researchReplyDelete
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From Gown to Town – Professional Training for City Magistrates in Thirteenth-Century Italy
Four didactic settings
Against the background of this brief overview of the podestà literature it is now time to turn our attention to the specific communicative situations in which these texts originated and functioned.
During an early, experimental stage (1180s-1220s) the podestà office was still in an embryonic phase and not yet ready to be fully articulated in writing. The figure of the podestà replaced, alternated with or, more exceptionally, was joined to the consulate at the helm of the Italian commune. [1] Up to the 1220s, this podestà was usually a local figure. [2] Sometimes even more than one podestà was appointed. [3]
Moreover, the required number of podestà was relatively limited at this stage. [4] Initially, the podestà could easily be recruited from among the best in the ranks of the militia. [5] Building upon their education as prominent milites, with its stress on military and legal competences (although not necessarily possessed to the same degree), [6] and, in many instances, their previous political experience, these leading personalities discovered the ins-and-outs of this office through direct experience, through trial and error. Furthermore, they were often elected to this position because of their particularly needed expertise and skills, for instance, in the domain of warfare or conflict resolution. In combination with a healthy dose of common sense these first generation podestà had to seek specific educational support only on those topics in which they felt a specific instructional need.
The production of the Oculus pastoralis, a speech collection covering a selection of thematic issues directly relevant to a podestà, fits such a context of topic-specific training. Not only was it useful in boosting its recipient's oratory skills, but it also cleverly packaged a multi-faceted discussion of some central themes of the profession.
Later family dynasties, or parts thereof, started to specialise in the paid exercise of governmental duties. [7] The prosopographical evidence shows that, as a rule, the fulfilment of this prestigious and coveted office had only an episodic character. Only rarely did a podestà occupy this office more than four times, and, if they did, these appointments were often not consecutively held. [8] However, when one looks at this phenomenon at a family level, it is evident that members of certain families started to occupy these offices on a regular basis. [9] Within these budding political dynasties political expertise and experience was transmitted from one family member to another, from one generation to the next, via oral, one-on-one education, as these families recognised the importance of passing on skills, knowledge and values.
It is easily conceivable that the De regimine potestatis, a didactic poem composed by a father for his son, is a written remnant of this type of family-organised instruction. Composed at the end of his career as a judge in service of the highest imperial circles, Orfino da Lodi felt the need to reflect on the profession he had exercised. He was motivated to transmit his accumulated knowledge and experience to his beloved son, Marco, starting out in a similar career – a true testament to his political and legal expertise.
From the 1220s onwards the podestà office became more complex. Artifoni highlights that the definitive breakthrough of the podestà regime – a single, non-native professional - generated not only the reinforcement of the political autonomy of this top office, but also a broadening of political participation at the basis, accompanied by a formalisation and institutionalisation of political relationships. [10] The podestà institute penetrated the entire spectrum of communal politics and covered a wide variety of local practices and routines. As a result, blood no longer necessarily guaranteed possession of the required traits, skills and values to the same degree as it did for the first and second generations of podestà. [11]
The podestà office also spread more widely, from Northern to Central Italy, and a higher number of persons entered into the office. This increase is clearly visible in the results of the prosopographical study led by Maire Vigueur. [12] For the period 1201-10 the number of appointments is 131. In 1211-20 it climbs to 198, and in 1221-30 it jumps to 309 appointments. Consequently, the proper exercise of the office was no longer self-evident for all new entrants and a need to put into writing what may once have been understood developed in order to secure the appointment of magistrates qualified to govern. [13]
For this type of support and guidance these podestà tended to look to the legal specialists of their staff. None of the surviving texts was written by a podestà. [14] These legal experts were perfectly equipped for this educational task. They were able to commit their governmental know-how to writing in an easily accessible style for non-specialists. They were trained in the recording of practices and customs and steeped in a culture of consumer-oriented writing. In addition, they had access to source texts to be ransacked for useful principles. Moreover, they were highly familiar with the best governance practices in communal Italy through their itinerant lifestyle or daily involvement in governmental affairs. Lastly, the retinue context, with its regularly held, informal meetings, formed the perfect laboratory for such retinue-based training – a true nursery of governmental expertise.
The production of the De regimine civitatum by Giovanni da Viterbo, a fully-active judge, at the request of his Florentine podestà corresponds to this type of training.
The fourth and last setting deals with private teaching. As Brunetto Latini unexpectedly ended up living in exile in France (1260-66/7), he had to look for new sources of income. In addition to his continued services as a trusted notary to exiled fellow-citizens, [15] he seems to have turned to the private teaching of an unidentified pupil situated in France in order to provide in his living expenses. [16] In the process Latini found a literary outlet for his political commitment, adroitly selling the podestà regime as an attractive power-sharing structure to his French audience, and he managed to condense a library into a single manageable volume, his Tresor.
The production of this Tresor has taken instruction in the art of ruling a step further. The Tresor encapsulates the treatment of the podestà office in a full-blown encyclopaedic project. It is not only intended as an introduction to a political office, but it also provides its recipient with a strong knowledge base, an effective moral compass, and the necessary rhetorical skills to efficiently govern a city in accordance with Italian customs. [17]
[1] Enrico Artifoni, 'Podestà del comune italiano', in Federico II: Enciclopedia fridericiana (Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, 2005), II, pp. 527-29 (p. 528); Emilio Cristiani, 'Le alternanze tra consoli e podestà ed i podestà cittadini', in I problemi della civiltà comunale (Atti del Congresso Storico Internazionale per l'VIII° Centenario della prima Lega Lombarda – Bergamo, 4-8 settembre 1967), ed. by Cosimo Damiano Fonseca (Bergamo: Cassa di Risparmio delle Provincie Lombarde, 1971), pp. 47-51.
[2] On the difference between a local and non-native podestà: Ernesto Sestan, 'Ricerche intorno ai primi podestà toscani', in Scritti vari: II. Italia comunale e signorile (Firenze: Le lettere, 1989), pp. 1-55 (pp. 57-64).
[3] Paolo Cammarosano, 'Il ricambio e l'evoluzione dei ceti dirigenti nel corso del XIII secolo', in Magnati e popolani nell'Italia comunale (Quindicesimo convegno di studi – Pistoia, 15-18 maggio 1995) (Pistoia: Centro Italiano di Studi di Storia e d'Arte, 1997), pp. 17-40 (pp. 26-27).
[4] Massimo Vallerani, 'Le leghe cittadine: alleanze militari e relazioni politiche', in Federico II e le città italiane, ed. by Pierre Toubert and Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (Palermo: Sellerio, 1994), pp. 389-402 (pp. 390 and 393).
[5] Jean-Claude Maire Vigueur, 'L'ufficiale forestiero', in Ceti, modelli, comportamenti nella società medievale (secolo XIII-metà XIV) (Pistoia, 14-17 maggio 1999) (Pistoia: Centro Italiano di Studi di Storia e d'Arte, 2001), pp. 75-97 (p. 83).
[6] Guido Castelnuovo, 'Bons nobles, mauvais nobles, nobles marchands? Réflexions autour des noblesses italiennes en milieu communal (XIIe-début XVIe siècle)', Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes, 13 (2006), 85-103 (p. 88); Franco Franceschi and Ilaria Taddei, Le città italiane nel Medioevo: XII-XIV secolo (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2012), p. 172; Gilli, 2005, p. 100; Maire Vigueur, 2001, pp. 80-81; Maire Vigueur, 2000, p. 1097; Daniel Waley, The Italian City-Republics (London: Longman, 1988), p. 14. Menzinger ventures to link the pioneering role of the Milanese podestà to their particular legal competences. Sara Menzinger, 'Forme di implicazione politica dei giuristi nei governi comunali italiani del XIII secolo', in Pratiques sociales et politiques judiciaires dans les villes de l'Occident à la fin du Moyen Âge, ed. by Jacques Chiffoleau, Claude Gauvard and Andrea Zorzi (Rome: École française de Rome, 2007), pp. 191-241 (p. 209).
[7] On this phenomenon: Artifoni, 2005, p. 528; Enrico Artifoni, 'Tensioni sociali e istituzioni nel mondo comunale', in La storia: I grandi problemi dal Medioevo all'Età Contemporanea:Volume secondo. Il Medioevo: 2. Popoli e strutture politiche, ed. by Nicola Tranfaglia and Massimo Firpo (Torino: UTET, 1991), pp. 461-91 (p. 468); John Kenneth Hyde, Society and Politics in Medieval Italy: The Evolution of the Civil Life, 1000-1350 (London: MacMillan, 1973), p. 103; Waley, 1988, p. 43. See also: Giuliana Albini, 'Piacenza dal XII al XIV secolo: Reclutamento ed esportazione dei podestà e capitani del popolo', in I podestà dell'Italia comunale: Reclutamento e circolazione degli ufficiali forestieri (fine XII sec.-metà XIV sec.), ed. by Jean-Claude Maire Vigueur (Roma: École française de Rome, 2000), I, pp. 405-45 (p. 441); Jean-Louis Gaulin, 'Ufficiali forestieri bolonais: Itinéraires, origins et carrières', in I podestà dell'Italia comunale: Reclutamento e circolazione degli ufficiali forestieri (fine XII sec.-metà XIV sec.), ed. by Jean-Claude Maire Vigueur (Roma: École française de Rome, 2000), I, pp. 311-48 (pp. 343-44); Andrea Zorzi, 'I rettori di Firenze: Reclutamento, flussi, scambi (1193-1313)', in: I podestà dell'Italia comunale: Reclutamento e circolazione degli ufficiali forestieri (fine XII sec.-metà XIV sec.), ed. by Jean-Claude Maire Vigueur (Roma: École française de Rome, 2000), I, pp. 453-594 (pp. 516-17).
[8] For the criterion of four appointments: Sergio Raveggi, 'I rettori fiorentini', in I podestà dell'Italia comunale: Reclutamento e circolazione degli ufficiali forestieri (fine XII sec.-metà XIV sec.), ed. by Jean-Claude Maire Vigueur (Roma: École française de Rome, 2000), I, pp. 595-643 (p. 634).
[9] On the importance of the family level: Philip Jones, The Italian City-State: From Commune to Signoria (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004), p. 541. See also: François Menant, L'Italie des communes (1100-1300) (Paris: Belin, 2005), pp. 80-81.
[10] Enrico Artifoni, 'I podestà itineranti e l'area comunale piemontese: Nota su uno scambio ineguale', in I podestà dell'Italia comunale: Reclutamento e circolazione degli ufficiali forestieri (fine XII sec.-metà XIV sec.), ed. by Jean-Claude Maire Vigueur (Roma: École française de Rome, 2000), I, pp. 23-45 (p. 42). See also: Cammarosano, 1997, p. 27; Gilli, 2005, p. 51; Milani, 2007, pp. 82-83; Occhipinti, 2008, p. 64.
[11] See also: Menzinger, 2007, p. 196.
[12] Tables prepared by Alessandro Volterra and Laurent Maire Vigueur: I podestà dell'Italia comunale: Reclutamento e circolazione degli ufficiali forestieri (fine XII sec.-metà XIV sec.), ed. by Jean-Claude Maire Vigueur (Roma: École française de Rome, 2000), II, pp. 1101-29.
[13] Stephan Epstein, 'The Rise and Fall of Italian City States', in A Comparative Study of Thirty City-State Cultures, ed. by Mogens Herman Hansen (Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2000), pp. 277-93 (p. 284). See also, on the link between the increasing complexity of the commune and the need for leaders with a certain level of education: Gina Fasoli, 'Rapporti tra le città e gli studia', in Università e società nei secoli XII-XVI (Nono convegno internazionale – Pistoia, 20-25 settembre 1979) (Pistoia: Centro Italiano di Studi di Storia e d'Arte, 1982), pp. 1-22 (p. 12); Carla Frova, Istruzione e educazione nel Medioevo (Torino: Loescher, 1973), p. 100; Antonio Ivan Pini, 'Discere turba volens: Studenti e vita studentesca a Bologna dalle origini dello Studio alla metà del Trecento', in Studenti e università degli studenti dal XII al XIX secolo (Studi e memorie per la storia dell'università di Bologna. Nuova serie VII), ed. by Gian Paolo Brizzi and Antonio Ivan Pini (Bologna: Istituto per la storia dell'università, 1988), pp. 45-136 (pp. 59-60).
[14] On the tendency of the ruling elite to look upon writing as an activity to be performed by subordinates, see: Franco Cardini, 'Alto e basso medioevo', in Lo spazio letterario del medioevo: 1. Il medioevo latino: Volume I. La produzione del testo: Tomo I, ed. by Guglielmo Cavallo, Claudio Leonardi and Enrico Menestò (Roma: Salerno, 1992), pp. 121-43 (pp. 134-35).
[15] Traces in the archives show him travelling to and from Arras, Paris, and Bar-sur-Aube. For a detailed discussion: Roberta Cella, 'Gli atti rogati da Brunetto Latini in Francia (tra politica e mercatura, con qualche implicazione letteraria)', Nuova rivista di letteratura italiana, 6/1-2 (2003), 367-408. See also: Irene Maffia Scariati, 'Gli atti rogati da Brunetto Latini in Francia (tra politica e mercatura con qualche implicazione letteraria)', La Rassegna della Letteratura italiana, 109/9/2 (2005), 459-61.
[16] The conundrum of the exact identity of the patron of this work has given rise to much speculation and hypotheses generally point to someone living in France, either an exiled Florentine or a member of the royal court - including Charles of Anjou, or someone in his entourage. For an introduction to this debate: Beltrami, 2007, pp. xx-xxi, footnote 34. For the hypothesis of an exiled Florentine: Carmody, 1948, p. xviii (referring to Davizzo della Tosa); Irene Maffia Scariati, Dal "Tresor" al "Tesoretto": Saggi su Brunetto Latini e i suoi fiancheggiatori (Roma: Aracne, 2010), pp. 26-27, footnote 2; Pierre Swiggers, Le "Tresor" de Brunetto Latini et l'usage du français (Leuven: Departement Linguïstiek KUL, 1998), p. 9. Contra: Cella, 2003, p. 403; Brigitte Roux, Mondes en miniatures. L'iconographie du Livre du Trésor de Brunetto Latini (Génève: Droz, 2009), p. 50, footnote 31; Wendelien van Welie-Vink, 'Was Charles d'Anjou Brunetto Latini's biaus dous amis? De openingsminiaturen van Li Livres dou Tresor nader bekeken', in Representatie: Kunsthistorische bijdragen over vorst, staatsmacht en beeldende kunst, opgedragen aan Robert W. Scheller, ed. by Johann-Christian Klamt and Kees Veelenturf (Nijmegen: Valkhof, 2004), pp. 315-41 (pp. 319-23). For the link to Charles of Anjou: Julia Bolton Holloway, Twice-Told Tales: Brunetto Latini and Dante Alighieri (New York: Peter Lang, 1993), pp. 60-61; Welie-Vink, 2004, pp. 321-22, and 332. Contra: Roux, 2009, p. 50. Some scholars even hint that both categories are not mutually exclusive. According to them, Brunetto Latini may have produced the work for a wealthy Florentine living in France who, in turn, presented it as a gift to the French royal court. Bolton Holloway, 1993, p. 60; Welie-Vink, 2004, p. 332.
[17] On the tripartite structure of the Tresor, see especially : Christel Meier, 'Enzyklopädischer Ordo und sozialer Gebrauchsraum: Modelle der Funktionalität einer universalen Literaturform', in Die Enzyklopädie im Wandel vom Hochmittelalter bis zur frühen Neuzeit, ed. by Christel Meier (München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2002), pp. 511-32 (p. 518); Christel Meier, 'Organisation of Knowledge and Encyclopaedic Ordo: Functions and Purposes of a Universal Literary Genre', in Pre-Modern Encyclopaedic Texts, ed. by Peter Binkley (Leiden: Brill, 1997), pp. 103-26 (pp. 110 and 113); Christel Meier, 'Vom Homo Coelestis zum Homo Faber', in Pragmatische Schriftlichkeit im Mittelalter, ed. by Hagen Keller, Klaus Grubmüller and Nikolaus Staubach (München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1992), pp. 157-75 (pp. 173-75); Christel Meier, 'Cosmos Politicus: Der Funktionswandel der Enzyklopädie bei Brunetto Latini', Frühmittelalterliche Studien, 22 (1988), 315-56 (p. 349). See also : Bernard Ribémont, De Natura Rerum: Études sur les encyclopédies médiévales (Orléans: Paradigme, 1995), pp. 81-85; Roux, 1993, pp. 48-49.
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I don't really know of any games that focus on what you're willing to loose to succeed, apart from stuff like Dogs in the Vineyard where you can choose to escalate a conflict in which you seem to be losing, so you can still win but have to pay steeper and steeper costs if you do end up losing. Since I've never given DitV a read-through this is just my impression of how it works based on what other people have told me.
I do think that if you're going this route for resolution (which could turn out to be incredibly rewarding in play), it seems like the only viable option is to have it work along the lines of
A: Loose the first round of conflict
B: Escalate
C1: Win conflict
C2: Lose the conflict and lose more stuff than if you'd lost in step A.
It'd be interesting to skip the above though, just to see how a system in which you simply set two losing-stakes against each other, though. Any thoughts on how you're going to handle the inherent difference in value between the stakes you're likely to be getting? What I'm getting to is: If Character A offers "If I lose this conflict, I don't get the girl" and Character B offers "If I lose this conflict, I die", it seems like Character B has a lot more to lose, and hence should get some kind of advantage.
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February 06, 2011, 05:52:38 PM »
I was considering that this system would need very strongly defined resources. The severity of different bets would have to be tracked in a numerical fashion.
Minor stakes might simply be "I spend an hour of minor effort" or "I am out of breath" which might have a level 1 stake. "Spend a day of exhaustive effort", "Sprain" as a level 2. This may be tied into certain traits, so that someone could loose set amounts of "Professional Reputation" or "Funding" traits.
Both the loser and the winner suffer their stakes. Usually this means that the victors (with the high stakes) will suffer more to achieve their procedural goals then those goals are actually worth. There would have to be some kind of balancing measure and some kind of method of recovery, but I think it could be an intriguing idea.
Anyone else see similar approaches in existing games?
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February 06, 2011, 08:07:00 PM »
Vincent Baker's Poison'd does something similar: fights have three levels of escalation, based on what kind of fight it is (e.g., swords, pistols, broadsides, ship pursuit). If you're losing after round 1, you can opt to take round 1 consequences (usually mild) and lose. Or you can escalate to round 2. Round 2 consequences are always worse if you lose. Or you can escalate to round 3, which is terrible if you lose.
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I suppose the key factor is that all of Vincent's designs (that I have seen to date) assume that the chance of victory was variable yet the cost of victory is zero. By contrast, the approach I am suggesting is that the chance of victory is 100, if you are willing to pay the cost. \
Any notable stake-setting games outside of Vincent's?
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February 06, 2011, 11:01:43 PM »
It could be said that in
functional conflict resolution system that use "stakes", they are
"winning stakes" and "losing stakes".
Example: in dogs in the vineyard, or in primetime adventures, let's say that my character is in conflict with a NPC to save the life of his wife.
Now, if he win, she is saved... but if he lose, she is dead! So, it was a "winning" stake... or a "losing" stake?
I suggest that if your "stakes" are not both winning and losing ones, they are not stakes at all. From what I get of your intention, I think you are talking about a resource cost for the character to get into the conflict and to increase his chances to win. It's difficult to say, without some other information.
By the way, the "game development" subforum
"Some available document is absolutely required, preferably through a link. If I don't see that, then your thread gets bumped to the Inactive File, do not pass Go, et cetera."
, so if you don't have some document to link to, probably you should ask Ron to move this thread in Actual Play adding some actual play account (maybe what gave you the idea of this design?)
(Excuse my errors, English is not my native language. I'm Italian.)
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February 07, 2011, 04:53:48 AM »
1) Traditionally, what I have seen is that participants in a conflict each define what happens if they win and usually there is no cost associated with victory due to the element of chance. By contrast, this approach is resource expenditure rather then fortune based and consists of defining exactly how much each participant will suffer during the conflict. If D&D style conflicts were run in this way, each participant in a conflict could bid with hitpoints. The participant who chooses to loose the most hitpoints would win a procedural victory and rescue the princess, while the one who bids for less damage would fail on their procedural attempt.
Example 1:
Goal A: Rescue the Princess
Goal B: Repel the invaders
Bid A1: 5 HP
Bid B1: 7 HP
Bid A2: 15 HP
If side B doesn't bid higher, then side A rescues the princess at a cost of 15HP. Side B only pays 7HP but fails to repel the invaders.
2) You are quite right concerning the subforum rules. I had read them and I was in a bit of a quandary. Firstly, this stemmed from discussions of theory and was completely unrelated to actual play. Secondly, this was a relatively preliminary design idea which I was trying to start researching. I could have thrown in a few lines on my blog and linked to that as a "document", but that seemed counter to the spirit of the subforum rules. That said, I could compile my explanation into a brief document and provide a link should Ron wish. Thanks to the discussion thus far in this thread I have fleshed out my idea a bit more and it might be feasible to write it up.
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With Great Power has a mechanic where you can get more cards by putting one of your super powers at risk.
I haven't had a chance to play it yet, but everyone I know who has played it, loves it.
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Hey guys!! I am so thrilled to have been asked to be a guest designer for Paper Artsy. I wanted to try something new after going through a spell where I had created a slew of ATC's over the course of a few months. Many, many (many) moons ago I was really into Pyrography or wood burning as I casually call it. When Darcy asked me I thought this might be the perfect time to pull out my wood burning tool, sketchpad and the gorgeous JOFY stamps and see what I could come up with.
By stamping the flowers and butterfly on the tracing paper I could easily move the images around under my sketch to determine placementt.
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Now let the fun begin!!! My particular wood burning tool has interchangeable tips. Like anything else it's easier to start slowly and build up layers or thickness of the lines. I also embrace the primitive lines that sometimes occur when you hit a knot in the wood itself.
Tada!!! Obviously this took some time. I think it was most of the day off and on. Sometimes the tool itself gets so hot that it helps to unplug it for awhile then resume later.
I knew I wanted the wood aspect to shine through so I chose just Beach Hut and Autumn Fire which I watered down and used like a watercolor or stain.
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Description of current positionI am the Careers and Outreach Program Coordinator for the American Geological Institute in Alexandria, Virginia. On the careers side, I help collect and interpret data about the current Geoscience Workforce and careers in the Earth Sciences, and run AGI's Academic and Corporate Associates Programs. For outreach, I coordinate programs for students, teachers and the general public, such as Earth Science Week, and AGI's Minority Participation Program.
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UNION COUNTY, Fla. – Union County Sheriff Gerald M. "Jerry" Whitehead died Wednesday at the age of 60, the Sheriff's Office said.
Whitehead was elected in 1984 and started serving Union County as sheriff in 1985. He was the longest-serving sheriff in the state of Florida.
Whitehead died about 2 p.m. after a brief illness. He was admitted Tuesday to North Florida Medical Center and died from cardiac failure, according to the Sheriff's Office.
Baker County Sheriff Joey Dobson, who was childhood friends with Whitehead, said he'd been having some health issues of late but was working through them.
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"Our prayers are with the entire Whitehead family, and we all mourn the loss of our sheriff," the Sheriff's Office said in a statement.
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Captain Brad Smith with Bradford County Sheriff's Office recalled a time when Whitehead single-handedly stopped a cross county chase.
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"Sheriff Whitehead was a well-respected man and a humble sheriff who believed a man was only as good as his word, and who was dedicated to doing things the right way," Steve Casey, executive director of the Florida Sheriffs Association, said in a statement. "Today, we pray for his family that they may celebrate his life and his legacy, and we send our appreciation for all that the Whitehead family has given and sacrificed for the safety and welfare of our citizens."
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Hi guys,
My names Aaron Braund, I'm the latest member to join RecWorks, I'm going to be looking after much of the marketing here. If anyone has any questions about the GDC or RecWorks then just fire me an email at email@example.com.
Last night we had our Lego XP Game event ran in association with Thoughtworks and Queen Mary University.
The event ran from 6pm till 7.30pm and went really well. 30 people came along, a blend of graduates, lecturers and consultants from Thoughtworks. The event was lively, with some great fun had by all. Afterwards, everyone went to the Half Moon pub for some beers and some informal networking.
Here is the event page – If you passed by and have some feedback please add it as a comment here – http://www.meetup.com/grad-dc/events/40795692/.
The event demonstrated the benefits of working within an agile team. Groups had to build Lego animals for a "client" following an agile software development process. Tasks were prioritised to be delivered on time so there was a high emphasis on teamwork. Groups worked well in general and produced some very interesting results. Meeting the clients ever changing needs and expectations was challenging, but ultimately fun for all!
Thanks first of all to Queen Mary University of London for allowing us to host the event in such a spacious environment.
Massive thanks also goes to the team at Thoughtworks who acted as the clients and explained the agile process so expertly.
Finally thanks to everyone in the group that made it out last night. The GDC is a rapidly growing network of undergraduate developers with a serious interest in programming. If you know anyone that would be interested in joining, please forward some details.
Our next event is the December Code Share. Details can be found here – http://www.meetup.com/grad-dc/events/41237242/ – avid Java puzzlers and coders should definitely come along!
One more thing, RecWorks are always actively recruiting for graduate developers, if you're looking for a new role after uni then please contact myself, Laurence or Barry by phone or email for an informal chat. If you are not sure what to do after you graduate and would like to discuss your options or just get some free informal CV/Interview advice then either check out www.developercareers.co.uk or let me know and I'll put you in touch with our careers concierge team.
Hope to see you at the next one!


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Much of the speculation, mostly my own, about what would happen at RootsTech 2014 centered around the agreements announced by FamilySearch.org with other large online genealogy companies that included Ancestry.com, MyHeritage.com and findmypast.com. I am not sure that you could consider any of the public announcements at the Conference to radically expand on what had already been said many months ago, but by going to several presentations by the programmers and talking to a number of people including listening carefully to what each of those entities was saying, I think I have a little better idea about some of the details of the agreements and what is likely to happen in the future.
As I understand it, the basic agreements provide for FamilySearch.org to enable the other three entities to share in FamilySearch's Historical Record Collections. All of it. This means that if you have a subscription to any one of these big three online genealogy database programs, you will eventually have access to the approximately 1 billion records now on FamilySearch.org and some or all of the records to be added. Because of individual agreements with each of the companies, there may be some records available to one of the companies that are not available to all of the others in the future. In addition, there are likely other agreements being made with other companies that have not yet been finalized and disclosed. In return, the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who have collectively paid for the acquisition of these records will have full access to the other three databases. I am not yet sure exactly what that means or how that will happen, but apparently when members log in with their LDS Account, they will have access just as if they were full subscribers to the programs.
No time table has been announced for all this to happen. There are only vague references to "later this year." It will not do any good to call or contact any of the four companies, especially FamilySearch, because they are still working on the programming to allow this to happen. That was very clear from listening the programming engineers in the sessions at the #InnovatorSummit.
The benefit of all this is staggering to all of the parties involved. The users of the commercial databases get a billion more records, many of which they did not know existed online. The members of the Church get access to billions of records, even if the vast majority of them are entirely clueless about the existence of the agreements, RootTech 2014, genealogy or much of anything else going on with genealogy in their own Church (editorial comment). That's it essentially. If I am wrong, no one has, so far, told me I am wrong. Thanks for reading all the stuff I have written the last three days.
Friday, February 7, 2014
#RootsTech -- What is happening with FamilySearch and Ancestry.com et al.
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James, thank you again for your energetic, persistent and on-the-spot reporting. I love getting glimpses of the future through your very perceptive 20/20 vision. Guess I'll be dragged into the world of the 'newest technological advancements' available to family historians with kicking and screaming....kickin' but... and data scream .. .. streaming. Blog not withstanding, I've gotta move into the future.... NOW.ReplyDelete
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Sources close to "American Idol" continue to dispel rumors that Howard Stern will be joining the show, and some have gone so far as to say no formal offer was ever made to the radio host.
"Could he have talked to someone at 19 Entertainment (the production company behind 'Idol')? Sure. Did he get an offer? No. No way," said one source.
Stern originally told his radio listeners that he was offered a role on an television show, without naming the program, and said that he carefully considered the offer, laid out demands, and ultimately said no.
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Is he creating pure fiction for the purposes of having negotiating power when his five-year deal with Sirius satellite radio ends later this year? Possibly, but Stern might have gotten such an offer — just not for "Idol." The latest rumor is that Stern was actually offered a seat on "America's Got Talent."
"He gets an offer from 'America's Got Talent,' talks about it without naming the show on his radio show, and of course everyone assumes it's 'Idol,' " said another source familiar with Stern's offers. "There's no way he's going to deny it's 'Idol' and 'Idol' isn't going to deny it because it's good that the show's being talked about, and Howard is a big fan."
Stern's rep did not respond to requests for a response, and representatives for "America's Got Talent" had no comment.
Jay-Z didn't want 'World' remake
The new recording of "We Are the World" will premiere during Friday's Olympic opening ceremony. In an NBC News interview with Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie, two of the original "WATW" participants, it's revealed that Jay-Z was among those who thought that the classic song should be left alone.
"A lot of people told us that (there should be no remake of the song)," Jones said. "Jay-Z said that to me. He said it shouldn't be remade."
Richie said that the opportunity to pass along the song to a new generation was part of the decision to go ahead with the recording, sales of which will benefit Haiti.
"If you have an opportunity in life to pass that legacy on to another group of people — another generation, another lifetime — and you're sitting there going, 'It can only be done because I did it,' then we didn't leave our egos at the door properly," Richie said. "In this case, when it's being taught in the elementary schools now as an anthem and it's little girls and little boys singing — not Lionel Richie, not Michael Jackson, not Springsteen — you understand? You pass the legacy on because it's not who sang it, it's what it represents. Where there are people dying, it's time to lend a hand to life, the greatest gift of all."
I heart the weekend box office
"Valentine's Day" stands the best chance at the box office this Valentine's Day weekend. Although too-good-to-be-true ensemble casts tend to spell doom, in this case, the rom-com should win out, thanks to the something-for-everyone star-studded lineup and the PG-13 rating (and of course, the timing).
Coming in second among the weekend's newcomers, look out for "Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief." It's really the only kid-friendly choice out there right now, and with producer Chris Columbus at the helm, expect it to have the feel of his previous kid flicks such as "Harry Potter" and "Night at the Museum."
Finally, there's "The Wolfman," with Benicio Del Toro, Emily Blunt and Anthony Hopkins. A horror flick over Valentine's Day weekend? There's a lot to be said for counter-programming ...
Courteny Hazlett delivers the Scoop Monday through Friday on msnbc.com. Follow Scoop on Twitter @courtneyatmsnbc.


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BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. -- Sherjill MacDonald's first MLS goal broke a tie just past midway through the first half and the Chicago Fire held on to beat the New England Revolution 2-1 Saturday night.
Chris Rolfe also scored to help the Fire (12-7-5) win their third straight and move into a tie with New York for second place in the Eastern Conference, five points behind Kansas City.
Fernando Cardenas scored for New England (6-13-5), which dropped to 0-6-1 in its last seven matches. The Revolution also lost by one goal for the 12th time this season.
MacDonald scored in his fourth league game on a header from six yards out in the 25th minute. It was set up by Patrick Nyarko's floating cross from deep in the left corner, and McDonald's shot whistled past Revolution goalkeeper Matt Reis.
The 27-year-old MacDonald joined the Fire as a designated player on July 24, signed from a team in Belgium to boost Chicago's attack.
The Fire opened the scoring on Rolfe's penalty kick in the fifth minute. Rolfe, in his second stint with Chicago, was tripped in the penalty area by defender A.J. Soares, and referee Sorin Stoica awarded the penalty kick.
New England tied it on Cardenas' shot from the goalmouth in the 11th minute. Cardenas' kick caromed off goalkeeper Sean Johnson and a Chicago defender before rolling over the goal line.
Johnson preserved the victory by diving to stop a 28-yard shot by Soares just before time expired.


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October 12, 2011
New Neuroscience Core Center to focus on supporting basic brain research
New Neuroscience Core Center to focus on supporting basic brain research
LA JOLLA—The National Institutes of Health has announced that the Salk Institute will receive $4.5 million to establish a Neuroscience Core Center, a new research center intended to accelerate brain research that lays the foundation for developing new ways to treat congenital brain defects and neurological diseases.
The new center is one of three established nationally this year by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to focus on basic brain research. More than half of Salk's faculty is engaged in neuroscience research, and the five-year grant will support their work by providing access to new technology and expertise.
"We are very excited about this center because it will provide unique services of great use to many of the institute's investigators, and will help expand our understanding of a range of neurological disorders, " says Dennis O'Leary, the Vincent J. Coates Professor of Molecular Neurobiology at Salk, who will serve as director of the new center. "Salk is already a leader in brain research and this center will be an exponential boost to our ability to do cutting-edge research in neuroscience."
The new NIH-funded center will provide research support in three areas that are particularly important for neuroscience: genome manipulation, imaging and behavioral studies.
The genome manipulation core will help scientists develop genetically modified mice as model organisms to study human neurological diseases, such as autism, schizophrenia and Alzheimer's. "We can manipulate embryonic stem cells to make different types of mice that have genes altered to relate to specific diseases," O'Leary says.
The imaging core will focus on electron microscopy and integrating structural analysis across imaging technologies to help scientists visualize the cellular and molecular mechanisms at work in mental disease.
"Brain researchers are increasingly focused on the links between genes and behavior, exploring how genetics play a role in brain development, which is ultimately manifested in a person's ability to function," O'Leary says. "These research cores will provide scientists with greatly needed resources and facilities for accomplishing the goals of this research. By centralizing and expanding these services, the center will provide Salk scientists access to new research technologies and free them from having to reinvent the wheel for each new project."
"This grant from the National Institutes of Health will provide a tremendous boost to the neuroscience research at the Salk, and we are grateful for their continuing support," says Salk Institute President William R. Brody. "Under Dennis O'Leary's leadership this new center will speed discovery of how genetic changes alter abilities such as motor function, learning and memory."
Salk Institute is internationally renowned as one of the leading institutions for neuroscience research, and has been recognized by the Institute of Science Information for its influential discoveries in brain research and by the National Research Council of the National Academies as a top program in the neurosciences.
About the National Institutes of Health (NIH):
NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) is the nation's leading funder of research on the brain and nervous system. The NINDS mission is to reduce the burden of neurological disease-a burden borne by every age group, by every segment of society, by people all over the world. For more information please visit www.ninds.nih.gov.
About the Salk Institute for Biological Studies:
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is one of the world's preeminent basic research institutions, where internationally renowned faculty probe fundamental life science questions in a unique, collaborative, and creative environment. Focused both on discovery and on mentoring future generations of researchers, Salk scientists make groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of cancer, aging, Alzheimer's, diabetes and infectious diseases by studying neuroscience, genetics, cell and plant biology, and related disciplines.
Faculty achievements have been recognized with numerous honors, including Nobel Prizes and memberships in the National Academy of Sciences. Founded in 1960 by polio vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk, M.D., the Institute is an independent nonprofit organization and architectural landmark.


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Oman signed a deal last week to buy 90 British-built armored personnel carriers (APCs) during a visit by Britain's Defense Secretary Geoffrey Hoon, the British embassy announced. A British spokesman told AFP the APCs, built by Alvis, would be a mixture of new models as well as vehicles to be refurbished in Oman. He gave no details on the value of the contract or delivery time.
"The purchase of the troop transports is part of the sultanate's efforts to improve the fighting capacity and modernize the Omani armed forces," which are already equipped with British Tornado fighters, the official news agency ONA said. The two countries also decided on joint maneuvers to be staged Oman in the second half of 2001, ONA said.
Hoon met Tuesday on the final day of a two-day visit with Oman's ministers in charge of defense and foreign affairs, Sayed Badr bin Saud al-Bussaidi and Yussef bin Alawi bin Abdullah, respectively, and then went into talks with Sultan Qaboos.
In May 1999, Oman's defense ministry announced it had chosen the British firm Alenia Marconi Systems for a new radar and pre-alert system and the modernization of Omani air force communications.
Oman, whose policy is to diversify its sources of military hardware, also signed arms deals with the French companies Matra and Panhard for a surface-to-air missile system and armored cars. — (AFP, Muscat)
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There's nobody at the grocery store.
Or Starbucks.
Or the gas station.
This is what it's like when a town of 10,000 all year residents says goodbye to 20,000 students for the winter break.
But it's not all bad. Shoes and I move easily from family member to family mber's house for the holiday. I have hardly any appointments on my schedule for next week. I have the chance to have s leisurely conversation with Jen at the yarn store about why my cowl is bunching up.
We're settling in, which is odd. But welcome, too. It's time.


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The nation's top immigration official has written a stern warning to Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle about her policy that allowed Saul Chavez to skip bail and run out on felony charges.
"This ordinance undermines public safety in Cook County and hinders ICE's ability to enforce the nation's immigration laws," wrote John Morton, director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, on Jan. 4, the day my first column on Chavez ran.
The letter was obtained by the Tribune on Thursday.
"The potential gravity of Cook County's actions is highlighted in very real terms in today's Chicago Tribune concerning the case of Saul Chavez," Morton wrote.
In June, Chavez allegedly drove drunk and hit a pedestrian, dragging the body along Kedzie Avenue. He had previously been convicted of another drunken driving charge. Under the old policy, Cook County would have had to notify federal officials before Chavez, an illegal alien, was released from custody. The process is known as a "federal detainer."
But the new policy by Preckwinkle and members of the county board -- I call them the "Chavez 11" -- allowed the suspect to post bond and be released without the county notifying ICE.
Morton also warned Preckwinkle that her new policy jeopardizes millions of dollars in federal funds granted to Cook County to pay for the cost of holding illegal immigrants under the detainer program. Preckwinkle and her allies argue that it costs the county money to hold the suspects.
Morton said Cook County was reimbursed with almost $3.4 million in 2010 and some $4.4 million in 2009.
"Without access to the Cook County jails, ICE's ability to accurately verify the immigration status of criminal aliens detained by Cook County becomes more difficult. Moreover, it is fundamentally inconsistent for Cook County to request federal reimbursement for the cost of detaining aliens who commit or are charged with crimes while at the same time thwarting ICE's efforts to remove those very same aliens from the United States," Morton wrote.
He also argues that the ordinance "disrupts the federal government's efforts to remove deportable criminal offenders from the country and instead allows for their release back into the community. In light of criminal recidivism rates, the release of so many of these individuals to the streets of Cook County is deeply troubling and directly undermines public safety."
Since the Chavez 11 passed the new ordinance allowing suspects to flee the country, Morton writes that ICE has lodged federal detainers against more than 268 individuals either charged or convicted of crimes, including offenses like assaults on police officers.
"Cook County has not honored any of these more than 268 detainers, however, preventing ICE from considering removal proceedings against all but 15 of these individuals whom we were able to locate independently and arrest following their release into the community," Morton wrote.
Preckwinkle was quoted in a Sun Times column by Mark Brown on Thursday defending her position. She said that those who would use the Chavez fiasco to resume the policy of holding illegal immigrants in jail were "pandering to fear-mongering and race-baiting."
The nation's top immigration official has written a stern warning to Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle about her policy that allowed Saul Chavez to skip bail and run out on felony charges.


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Carson man state's top trooper
Carson City's Michael "Sean" Giurlani is the Nevada Highway Patrol's most senior trooper, and now he's got the badge to prove it.
Giurlani received badge No. 1, the state's lowest-numbered badge, in a ceremony Monday at the Highway Patrol's Carson City headquarters. His 14-year-old son, Jacob, pinned the badge on him as family members and others watched.
Giurlani became the top trooper when Trooper Lori McGrath retired last month.
"You know, it's really hard to believe," said Giurlani, 47, who started with the Highway Patrol in Las Vegas in 1988. "When you first start your career, you're thinking wow, how long are you going to be there. Now, you've done 25 years, and you're like, holy cow. It came and went in a blink of an eye — you had a family, you raised kids. I never thought in a million years that I would hold that No. 1 badge.
Giurlani has been working in Carson City since 2006; he also served a stint in Reno. He said that while he has the tenure needed to retire, he doesn't plan on doing so just yet.
"I like my job and the people I work with," he said. "I am going to stick around for a little bit and see what happens."
Law enforcement runs in Giurlani's family. His sister is a captain with the Highway Patrol, and his brother is a retired captain with Parole and Probation.
He initially had set his sights on a different type of career.
"I wanted to be a fireman, like my dad," he said. "He was a fireman here in Carson City for 21 years. I always wanted to do that, and I had a couple of friends who were troopers. You get that type A personality, with adrenaline rushes. With fire service, you had to wait for the call. In law enforcement, you go out and find it."
Giurlani has won several awards, including Trooper of the Year in 2007, according to The Associated Press. He also received a commendation medal for his response to the 2011 shooting at IHOP.
Giurlani said he appreciates the recognition.
"It can be for the most part a very thankless job," he said. "When you get this kind of feedback, especially from the command staff, it's a good feeling."


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