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---- — William Kromer, a longtime English and Spanish teacher at Downsville Central School, died Tuesday from injuries suffered Aug. 23, when he struck a deer with his motorcycle on Route 97 in Hancock.
Kromer, 66, of Hancock, had been in a coma at Wilson Memorial Regional Medical Center in Johnson City since the accident.
Family and former students recalled him as brilliant and loving man.
"It's very, very heartbreaking to see such a sad ending for such a wonderful person," said Stacie Haynes, a former student of Kromer and former president of the Downsville Central School Alumni Association. "He was so kind and caring, and he still had so much to offer to us." "He really was a rock for those students," his daughter, Rosetta Kromer said. "He really supported them with a very optimistic and positive (outlook). For the most part, that's who he was. That's definitely who he was."
Kromer began teaching in Downsville in 1974 and retired in 2004, his widow, Blanca, said. He began teaching Spanish at the Family Foundation School in Hancock shortly thereafter, she added.
Blanca Kromer said she met her future husband at Grand Central Terminal in New York City shortly after she arrived from Lima, Peru, to study at Columbia University.
"He approached me half in Spanish … asking me where was I from," she said. "And I thought, 'This is going to be tough, because I hardly spoke English.'
"After I met him in Grand Central station, we exchanged addresses, and I said, 'OK, maybe I will write to him,' and a few weeks later I got a letter from him, half in Spanish … That started our relationship.
"And then he said to me he wanted to go out on his motorcycle. The only wheels he had was the motorcycle. He was an avid motorcycle rider, very cautious. That's what's killing me."
Kromer was riding a 900cc 2008 Kawasaki Vulcan at the time of the accident, police reports and family said.
His daughter said Kromer was not only fluent in Spanish, but also spoke French, Italian, Portuguese and Latin and had a rudimentary knowledge of Romanian and Cherokee, the latter obtained from his family's sponsorship of a Native American child in North Carolina.
He wrote music and played organ at St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Downsville and St. Margaret's Episcopal Church in Margaretville. Blanca Kromer said he also sang in the Delaware County Men's Choir until it was dissolved.
He was an "avid reader and (had) a near-photographic memory," Rosetta Kromer said.
"The man could just pluck out facts from the middle of book he read five years ago," she said.
"I grew up feeling if I ever had a question, you either went to the Internet or my dad. He was like a walking, talking encyclopedia."
Among his many activities, Kromer found time to help coach soccer and baseball at Downsville.
Kromer earned a bachelor's degree from Bard College and master's degrees from the State University College and New Paltz and the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College.
His corny sense of humor was legendary.
"At school they were known as Kromer jokes," Rosetta Kromer said. "He was infamous for that, because no matter how (bad) your day was going, he'd find a way to make you smile."


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By Clay Horning
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NORMAN — In an open scrimmage Friday evening at Lloyd Noble Center, coach Sherri Coale's Oklahoma women's basketball team may have suffered a very big loss with its season very near.
During the scrimmage, redshirt freshman guard Maddie Manning, who lost her true freshman season to a torn anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee, suffered a potential season-ending knee injury to her left knee.
The program is still waiting to learn the exact nature of the injury, though it is feared to be serious.
Additionally, Sooner point guard Morgan Hook suffered a dislocated thumb on her right hand.
There is no timetable for Hook's return to full action, though the program believes her time away will be measured in days rather than weeks.
Manning had just moved into the starting lineup last season when she blew out her knee in practice.
In six games last season, she averaged 21.5 minutes, 6.2 points and 3.3 rebounds.
The exhibition portion of OU's schedule begins at 7 p.m. Nov. 2 against Cameron at Lloyd Noble Center.
The regular season begins Nov. 8, also at Lloyd Noble Center, against Stetson, as part of the Preseason WNIT.
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NEW YORK — Philadelphia joined the first three teams in the trenches, picking up Oklahoma tackle Lane Johnson fourth overall in Thursday's NFL Draft. The Kansas City Chiefs took offensive tackle Eric Fisher of Central Michigan to begin the selection process, then Jacksonville went for Texas A&M's Luke Joeckel.
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With the U.S. and U.K. Trials coming to a close, the world championships merely a month away and still a decent amount of free time during the summer, it is expected that some people who see all those different athletes cruising through the water get struck by the idea to give swimming a chance themselves. And, why not? You don't really need that much to swim. You need access to a pool and a suit, cap and goggles and you're good to go.
Then, maybe some of you get struck by the virus and instead of just splashing around or doggie-paddling your way through the laps, you want to get better. So what now? Get a coach, join a team. But sometimes, that is easier said than done. Granted, I don't know the circumstances in other cities or countries, but in my hometown of Berlin, most Masters teams have one training session per week, usually starting at 8 p.m. and I have a job that doesn't have me finished before 8:30 p.m. Having our own personal coach is not something a lot of people can afford.
As usual, the internet provides a solution for that problem. I can't think of anything under the sun that you can't learn by watching videos on YouTube. And having a visual sometimes works better than reading up on things, especially when it comes to sports.
I am - more or less - a breaststroker so naturally, I did watch and got pointed to a lot of videos featuring Brendan Hansen and Rebecca Soni from sites like www.goswim.tv and the YouTube channel ProTips4U (who offer a wide range of videos for other sports as well). YouTube user JimmyDShea has his own 'How to swim' series that breaks the strokes down in an easy to understand way.
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'Ryan Lochte -- Backstroke Technique' are at least aesthetically pleasing.
Another disadvantage of not having a coach is that you maybe want to come up with your own workouts instead of just swimming back and forth for as long as you can. That's where the Speedo Pace Club comes in handy. On top of tutorial videos, they also have plenty of workouts for every training stage and they give you the possibility to log your swims so you can see the distance you cover in your workouts.
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Fairline maintained the look of the Squadron line in the 42's styling, albeit in a compact package. Large deckhouse windows flood the saloon with light; hullside windows provide at least a little daylight to the cabins too.A Chip Off the Old…With an extra-large flybridge, wide side decks and a spacious cockpit, the Squadron 42 maintains the yachting philosophy of her larger sisters. Two transom gates, one on either side of a reversible bench seat, make for easy passage onto the swim platform, where Fairline engineers have created an optional cantilevered launch and retrieval system for the tender. (A jet-drive RIB will be ideal here; the company recommends a Williams 285.) We haven't seen this system ourselves yet, but given Fairline's reputation for finicky design and engineering, we're confident it will function as advertised. But it's an option, so folks who don't need a tender can choose to keep a conventional swim platform.The Squadron 42 is so new the company hasn't released actual photos yet. But this rendering of the optional launch system for the tender gives an idea how it works. Carrying a useful tender on a boat this size is problematic, but this arrangement should make it a lot easier. The mechanicals are concealed when the tender is afloat.She's Built ToughSince day one, Fairline has been known for building rugged boats and the Squadron 42 continues the practice, from the outside in: Two layers of gelcoat are brushed, not sprayed, into the mold before the first layer of fiberglass is laminated. Extra gelcoat means a more durable finish, and one that's easier to repair when the inevitable dings and scratches appear. After layup is complete, Fairline also gelcoats the inside of the hull – the smooth finish is easier to clean, and resists water absorption in the bilges.When the tender's gone, there's no sign of the launching gear. We'd like the radar mast to be a little bit taller, to keep the pulses farther above our head when we're standing, or even sitting, on the flybridge.The laminate proper is alternate layers of hand-laid unidirectional fabric and woven roving, using isophthalic resin to protect against osmosis, important in areas where the boat will stay overboard all year. Polyurethane foam coring stiffens the deck; integrally molded engine stringers support the bottom. A liner is bonded to the hull, then the hull and deck are both bolted and bonded to create a strong almost-monocoque structure. Bulkheads are carefully hand-fitted, then fiberglassed into place. The result is a boat with a minimum of squeaks and rattles, and one that will be as happy in the boisterous waters of the North Sea as in the balmy Mediterranean.AccommodationsTo keep the saloon open and airy, Fairline designers utilized large cabin windows and an open-plan galley – it's "down," on the lower deck, but situated near the stairway from above and separated from the saloon by only a glass partition. The galley has all the equipment required aboard a boat of this type, but can be fitted out with options to make it even more chef-friendly.The saloon has a convertible dinette and room for extra chairs or other furniture, too. The helm seats two. The galley, on the lower deck, is open above, keeping it bright, airy and pleasant for the cook.The galley, midships to port, is easier to see on this lower-deck plan. It appears to have plenty of counter space and enough mod-cons to keep most cooks happy. The master stateroom, forward, centers around what Fairline calls a "semi-floating" double bed. The guest cabin can be easily converted from single berths to a double. There are two en-suite heads.PowerThere's nothing fancy about the Squadron 42's powerplant – no pods, but conventional straight-shaft diesels. Power options are twin Volvo-Penta D6 EVC Shaft diesels, tuned to either 370- or 435-hp, or twin Caterpillar C7 ACERTS, 460-hp each. Fairline predicts speeds from 28 to 31 knots, depending on power.Here's something unusual: While each Squadron is a-building, its engines are sitting on their rubber mounts on the shop floor. This "breaks in" the mounts, compressing them before the engines are installed, and makes realignment after a few hours of operation unnecessary. If you've ever bought a boat that started vibrating from shaft misalignment even before the new-boat smell was gone, you'll appreciate this touch.On deck, the Squadron 42 is what we expect: A comfy sunpad, wide side decks, high rails and first-class fittings.RecommendationWe don't have pricing info on this boat yet, but based on previous Fairlines we predict it will be at the high end, but not the highest end of boats in its class. Quality costs money – there's no way around it. But in the case of Fairline you also get what you pay for. Should you be looking for a first-rate flybridge cruiser in this size range, you ought to check out the new Squadron 42. There are a lot of fine boats in this segment of the market, though, so we think you should look at many of them before making a choice. It will also give you an excuse to visit lots of boat shows.
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Going out on top, especially in sports, seems like the dream way for anything to end. Happily, the 2013-14 athletic year at Mississippi State was able to pull off the feat.
Thousands of miles from home, the final event of the athletic calendar came and went in less than two minutes, as Brandon McBride capped the Bulldog year with a brilliant run for a National Championship in the 800-meter sprint.
It was a fitting finale to an overwhelmingly successful year for the Maroon and White.
We had National Titles, victories on the road, at home and at neutral sites – our coaches, student-athletes and fans were broadcast across the world on satellite, cable and internet. Bulldogs set records in classrooms, courts, fields and the like.
MSU was represented on All-SEC, All-American, All-Region and countless other teams, with honors coming preseason, midseason and postseason for so many of our teams and individuals.
Speaking of, a dozen of our teams were represented in postseasons spanning from winter to summer and there were times of the year we could hardly go a day without seeing another team or individual move up in the rankings.
From degrees and draft picks to game-winners and all-nighters, 2013-14 marked a special year in Bulldog history.
Soccer kicked us off in late August with the debut of first-year head coach Aaron Gordon, and we watched as Elisabeth Sullivan cemented her status as one of the all-time greats to play for State, becoming the No. 1 goal-scorer in MSU history.
Volleyball followed shortly after, a season marked by record crowds, gritty SEC wins and a pair of All-Americans we can be proud of.
On the very next day, and the very last one of August, our men's and women's cross country teams kicked their year off in dominating fashion, sweeping the Memphis Twilight competition, the start of a continually successful season.
Coach Mullen's football team had an interesting and, as it turned out, exciting year. Perhaps few campaigns represented the toughness, dedication and tenacity of Bulldog sports as our football men fought through injuries, inexperience and setbacks to end the season on a three-game win streak, and using three different starting quarterbacks to win those three games. After taking down Arkansas in overtime on the road and reclaiming the Egg Bowl in overtime in Starkville, the Bulldogs rang in the new year by handily taking victory from Rice in our fourth-straight bowl game.
Our men's and women's basketball teams signified the oncoming winter when they began in late fall, both teams trending upward entering their second years with Coaches Ray and Schaefer.
Each surpassed their previous year's win totals.
Our only time as host in the postseason for 2013-14, the run by our ladies in the WNIT was one of the most exciting and promising weeks of Bulldog athletics in some time, offering entertainment for the present and optimism for the future.
Come January, Coach Steve Dudley's track and field teams began their six month stretch of dominance, beginning with the indoor season and the first of our two individual national titles. By the time indoor and outdoor concluded, Erica Bougard and Rochelle Farquharson had won SEC titles and Brandon McBride had been crowned the National Champion in both the indoor and outdoor 800-meter.
Our men's and women's tennis teams continued the tradition of big springs we're building at MSU. The ladies entered the rankings for the first time in many years, a pair of our seniors had stellar final campaigns and both represented their team in the postseason.
Meanwhile, our men's team continued a streak which has had them in the ITA Top 25 for 54-straight weeks of polls and once again found itself in the NCAA Tournament, finishing its fourth-straight season in the Top 20. Ranked seniors led the way and yet again our youth was honored when Florian Lakat was named the SEC Freshman of the Year.
And what more can I say about golf teams? Coach Clay Homan and the men reached the NCAA Tournament for the second year in a row, while Coach Ginger Brown-Lemm and her ladies have cemented themselves among the best in collegiate golf.
Led by All-Everything junior Ally McDonald, our women not only reached the NCAA Tourney, but made it to the National Championships for the second year in a row, finishing sixth overall, one of the best seasons in the history of all Bulldog athletics.
On the diamond, our softball team reached the NCAA Tournament for the third time in the three years since Vann Stuedeman took over as a coach, recording the second-best record in program history and one of the best starts to a season MSU softball has ever seen, all while senior Alison Owen became the all-time leader in strikeouts for the Maroon and White, a feat she accomplished in only two seasons.
Over at Dudy Noble, Coach Cohen's team once again showed itself to be one of the best in the SEC, a Bulldog was named the SEC Scholar-Athlete for the second-straight year and yet again our fans proved themselves to be the best in the country. No place in America is better for college baseball, and you showed us that when you set the record for the biggest on-campus crowd in college baseball history on Super Bulldog Weekend, an incredible atmosphere for our Bulldogs and a walk-off win over our rivals.
Beyond athletic achievements, the Bulldog Club set a record for giving and surpassed 10,000 members. Our facilities have continued their upgrades, offering our teams the best and most up-to-date resources for success, all while the athletic department has grown substantially with new positions, new hires and an infusion of experiences.
There is never a bad time to be a Bulldog, but now is certainly one of the best times, and 2013-14 showed us that.
Thank you all – fans, coaches, staff, student-athletes and everyone involved – for an incredible year.
Our search for a new men's tennis coach didn't have to go very far, as assistant coach Matt Roberts has been promoted to take over the spot vacated by Per Nilsson. The Bulldogs have finished the season in the Top 20 for four-straight seasons, and Matt has been an important part of that the past two years. A former three-year captain at Arkansas, Matt has coached at both Michigan State and Mississippi State, and has exhibited the critical ability to recruit and develop players. He's going to do a great job for MSU!
Yesterday, we announced a two-year football series against North Carolina State, with games in Raleigh in 2020 and in Starkville in 2021. This followed an announcement from last month of a two-game series against Arizona (2022 and 2023).
You'll recall that, beginning in 2016, the SEC is requiring its 14 schools to schedule at least one non-conference game against a school in the Big Ten, Big 12, ACC and Pac-12. In addition to the games against NC State and Arizona, we are close to finalizing a 2018-19 series with another school from one of the "Big Five" conferences.
That leaves us with 2016 and 2017 still open as we work to fulfill the league's non-conference scheduling requirement. Since football scheduling is done year's in advance (i.e. the series' with NC State and Arizona), and many of the schools in those other four conferences already have plans in place for '16 and '17, it is providing a challenge to get those years lined up. However, we continue to pursue potential options while working with the SEC office to get our future schedules where they need to be.
We'll keep you posted as more developments emerge.
It's been four years since the SEC amended its policy on artificial noisemakers, allowing fans at Davis Wade to bring our beloved cowbells to home Bulldog games and ring them during certain permissible windows - pregame, halftime, between quarters, during timeouts and after scores.
Those permissible windows were chosen in 2010 because they mirrored when "institutionally controlled" sound - music and sound effects - was allowed to be played through the stadium sound system.
At this year's SEC Spring Meetings in Destin, the league amended when "institutionally controlled" sound can be played in SEC stadiums, making it now allowable to play PA music between plays up until the moment the center is over the football.
And since the cowbell legislation is tied to the "institutionally controlled" sound rules, it has opened the opportunity for us to ring more often during Bulldog home games.
However, even though we have more freedom on when we can ring, using our cowbells while the other team's center is over the football opens the MSU Athletic Department up to fines by the league office. Our intention is to use the resources you provide us with wisely, and in a manner which helps our student-athletes and coaches be as successful as possible. I think you'll agree with me that paying unnecessary fines is not a wise use of our football program's precious resources.
Also, when we play on the road, we expect the home teams PA to follow the noise rules and not play music while our center is over the football. We should expect the same compliance of the rules from ourselves and our fans.
So, let's enjoy the new rules to express our Bulldog love by ringing those cowbells, but when the other team gets ready to run a play, set the bell down, and, as our fight song says, "Yell like H---."
We are now less than two months away from the 2014 Bulldog football season and the opening of renovated and expanded Davis Wade Stadium. Seemingly every MSU fan I run into these days asks about the stadium's progress.
The contractor is scheduled to turn the stadium over to the university on August 20. The pace ofwork has quickened substantially over the last few weeks, and that August 20th date is still reachable. Many of the interior spaces are currently getting finishes (paint, tile, counters, light fixtures, etc.), and key exterior work (seating, windows, etc.) is scheduled to wrap up by early August.
Installation of a key fan feature, the north end zone 110-foot wide video board, began this week, and all 321 video panels are expected to be in place in two weeks.
Bulldog fans set a new Mississippi State football season ticket record in June, and have now purchased 44,833 tickets, including all of the new club and suite tickets in the north end zone.
Due to expansion, we still have a healthy supply of season tickets to sell, with several locations and price points to choose from. Also, a limited supply of memberships to The Gridiron (new field level club available to any season ticket holder) are also still available. Log on at HailState.com/tickets or MSUBulldogClub.com for more information, or call the MSU Ticket Office at (662) 325-2600.
We appreciate what you do for Mississippi State Athletics and want to encourage you to get others involved. There are three things you can do to help the athletic department at Mississippi State reach its desired goals –
1. Buy Season Tickets
2. Financially Support the Bulldog Club
3. Get Others To Do The Same
Thanks for taking the time to read this Update.
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This regular column is for Dungeon Masters who like to build worlds and campaigns as much as I do. Here I share my experiences as a DM through the lens of Iomandra, my Dungeons & Dragons campaign world. Even though the campaign uses the 4th Edition rules, the topics covered here often transcend editions. Hopefully this series of articles will give you inspiration, ideas, and awesome new ways to menace your players in your home campaigns.
If you're interested in learning more about the world of Iomandra, check out the wiki.
MONDAY NIGHT. Several months ago, a dragonborn rogue named Baharoosh (played by Stan!) joined the party. From the day he arrived, he made it clear that he was an agent of the Vost Miraj (the intelligence gathering arm of the Dragover Empire's martial caste), sent to aid the party in its fight against the more extreme elements of the empire, and to send back reports about their activities. The party was understandably suspicious of Baharoosh, but they were a bit perplexed as to what to do with a spy who showed his ulterior motives so plainly.
Over time, Baharoosh proved his loyalty to the group and revealed his conflict with his Dragovar masters (he was a devout worshiper of Bahamut who wanted to purge Tiamat's influence from the empire), but he was never quite able to garner the full trust of the other characters. They always wondered where his ultimate loyalties lay, and whether he could be trusted with sensitive materials and information.
In recent weeks, the party even came to question Baharoosh's dedication to their work. Whenever a fight commenced, he quickly fell to the ground and was spirited off by Vost Miraj minions. When the hostilities were done, Baharoosh would reappear, fully healed, with some new assignment from his spymaster, Zarkhrysa—the latest of these assignments being to secure the signature of a Grand Vizier on a document that would brand him as a traitor to the empire. Unfortunately, the document also implicated the Shan Qabal (the research arm of the arcane caste to which the party wizard, Alex, belongs) as having been behind a terrorist attack on the Dragovar capital city.
Baharoosh helped the other characters rewrite Zarkhrysa's document so that it more blatantly condemned Turazad but made no mention of the Shan Qabal. After the party ambushed the Grand Vizier and dominated him to get the signature, Baharoosh brought the document to Zarkhrysa who, upon seeing the modifications, looked coldly at her once trusted agent and said menacingly, "I am NOT pleased."
i, I'm Stan!, one of the D&D producers at Wizards of the Coast and the guy who plays Baharoosh in Chris's Monday night campaign. With all that's happened to my character lately (and the overview above is just the start of the story), Chris asked if I'd step in and take the reins of the column for a week to discuss what I think about the way Chris, as the DM, handled my character's latest predicament.
Let me begin by saying that over the last several weeks of game play, I've made more than a few questionable tactical decisions and suffered a phenomenal string of bad die rolls. In the previous half dozen or so major encounters leading up to this past week's session, Baharoosh had been poisoned, dominated, swallowed whole, and beaten into unconsciousness—generally within the first three rounds of combat in any given fight. I failed nearly every saving throw, Perception check, and death save that crossed my path. There was more than one occasion where Baharoosh should have died. The party was forced to leave him behind, or worse, didn't have any idea where he was. My poor dragonborn spy was on death's door, and all Chris had to do was let things proceed on their natural course to let Baharoosh pass silently from the campaign.
But he didn't.
Each time, Chris came up with an inventive, feasible, and logical (within the campaign parameters) reason for someone to save Baharoosh's life. Often it was the Vost Miraj, and at least once it was Zarkhrysa herself. And each time there was a price to pay for this intervention—a mission to be achieved or a piece of information to be delivered.
Of course, from the perspective of the other characters, it seemed like Baharoosh was constantly abandoning them during the battles—running off to hide under the hem of his spymaster's skirt, and only coming back when the coast was clear. [DM Note #1: For the record, dragonborn spymasters don't wear skirts in my campaign. They wear Kevlar girdles.] Consequently, Baharoosh had to prove his value to the team again and again. But every time he did, it was by performing an act that made it clear that he valued the party more than he did the spy organization, thus decreasing the likelihood that the Vost Miraj would be there to pull his fat out of the fire the next time.
In this latest session, Baharoosh had his loyalties very clearly and plainly tested. Zarkhrysa, tired of his failures, expressed her displeasure as described above and, when Baharoosh replied with a defiant "I know," she pulled out a death warrant, wrote his name on the document, signed it, and said, "You could save us all a lot of trouble if you simply do the job yourself, like any honorable dragonborn would." He was alone in hostile territory, without the party to back him up. [DM Note #2: The other characters were hiding not terribly far away, but to Stan!'s chagrin, they decided to pick a fight elsewhere.] Faced with the head of the imperial spy corps who wanted him dead, Baharoosh drew his weapon and launched an all-out fight for his life.
Unfortunately, my recent spate of bad rolls continued—Baharoosh couldn't hit a blessed thing. Chris, on the other hand, was rolling particularly well, so Zarkhrysa and her minions had no trouble bringing the rebellious Baharoosh to his knees. Within three rounds, he was bloodied, having made no attack roll higher than an 8 the entire time. The kicker came when Baharoosh was dominated by the spirit of an ancient yuan-ti prince possessing one of Zarkhrysa's allies (really . . . look, I can't explain all this . . . I'm just a player).
When the opportunity arose to save against the domination, I rolled a natural 1.
"Now, do what you didn't have the guts or honor to do on your own," the yuan-ti commanded. "Kill yourself!"
Baharoosh raised his dagger, aimed it at his own heart . . . and I rolled a natural 20.
Although the self-inflicted blow dropped Baharoosh well below zero hit points, he didn't quite meet the death threshold of reaching a negative number equal to his bloodied score. On the next round, I made his first death save . . . and rolled a natural 1. Before I had a chance to fail two more death saves, though, Zarkhrysa picked up Baharoosh's own dagger and finished the job once and for all. Then her minions took Baharoosh's body away to make sure that it was disposed of in a place and manner that would ensure he was never going to be anything more than an unpleasant memory.
By the time the rest of the party finished their combat and got up to Zarkhrysa's office, she, the yuan-ti spirit, all the minions, and every last trace of Baharoosh were gone. Of course, from their point of view, this was exactly like what had happened at the end of the four previous fights. As near as they could tell, Baharoosh was off with his spymaster getting some new bit of information—he'd show up again eventually. Or not. You never can tell with spies.
And so my character died. Permanently. And no one in the party will ever know, or perhaps even care.
Telling this story to friends, a few of them remarked that they thought my DM had treated me badly. My character was put in a nearly impossible situation, with no resources and no access to the rest of the party. When things went (predictably) against my character, the villains killed him out of hand and removed the possibility that the party could retrieve and revive him.
Looks pretty bad for Chris and his reputation as a fair, quick-thinking, and fun-minded DM.
But, if you ask me, he did everything perfectly.
While this fateful session began in medias res, the scene was one that Baharoosh had arrived at organically. I chose for him to make all the decisions that set up the scene, and I even decided to have him march into that chamber where he knew the deck would be stacked against him. I chose to make him defiant rather than apologetic. I shifted the encounter from a menacing social interaction into full-on combat. Indeed, from the very beginning, I chose to play a character that was an active member of a morally questionable organization and about whose loyalties the party could never be certain. In other words, it was a long road getting to the "no win scenario" that Baharoosh found himself in, and I willingly had him walk every step along the way.
Chris certainly made it clear to me, at various junctions, that Baharoosh's actions would have consequences. I knew that he was offending Zarkhrysa, and that she had a well-earned reputation for taking revenge on those who crossed her—embodied most clearly by the skull of her predecessor that she kept as a trophy on her desk. [DM Note #3: I thought it would be cool if Zarkhrysa kept the skull as a reminder of what could happen to her if she's not careful, and I liked the idea of the players never knowing if she had a hand in her predecessor's demise. But best of all, I hit upon the idea that Zarkhrysa would use Speak with Dead scrolls to solicit counsel from the skull. Seems like something a spymaster would do, don't you agree?]
It is always fair, I think, for the DM to give a character bad choices to make, as long as the player understands the repercussions. And, in the wake of that, it is always reasonable for the DM to follow up on those repercussions if the character makes those choices anyway. In fact, I'd say that it's worse for the DM to spell out specific consequences for risky behavior, then not follow through with them when the time comes. Doing that can lead the players to feel like their characters can do anything they want without fear of reprisal or ramification. For my part, every time Baharoosh played fast and loose with his orders from his Vost Miraj handlers, I knew that he was risking being cut loose or (worse) being made a target.
Additionally, one thing that we all accept—players and DMs alike—is that the dice can sometimes be cruel. And in a game where success and failure are determined by dice rolls, being unlucky can be deadly for a character. There are, of course, many varied and sometimes subtle levels of success and failure, and the DM is there to adjudicate that sort of thing. But when one failure follows another, when die rolls come up repeatedly in the lower 20% of all probabilities, they begin to have a narrative weight of their own. [DM Note #4: Tell that to the employees of Acquisitions Incorporated.]
My string of bad die rolls clearly bespoke of a character having a bad day. (A bad week, actually.) Anything that could go wrong pretty much did. A bad Perception check didn't mean Baharoosh merely failed to notice a detail—he focused on the wrong detail, or saw things in a false context. A particularly low attack roll became more than an errant swing; it was an embarrassing misstep.
When the session was over, Chris asked me what I wanted to do next. He kept a door open for Baharoosh to return—even from such a definitive and seemingly inescapable end—if that's what I wanted. But, after thinking about it for a day or two, I decided to let the poor dragonborn rest in peace. It's never easy to lose a character, and especially not so when that character falls in an embarrassing and ignominious set of circumstances. But there is something to be said for having the cold comfort of a story that makes sense. [DM Note #5: I just didn't want to put Stan! through the pain of rolling up another 27th level character. I'd already tortured him enough.]
Chris's offer, though, reminded me that he always is open to possibilities. His campaign is vibrant, and flexible, and able to absorb any particular event and keep rolling on. Like in the real world, life in Iomandra goes on and adapts to whatever set of circumstances the characters happen to create.
I'm not sure what my next character will be. But I have a sneaking suspicion that no matter what choice I make, there will be a niche somewhere in the Dragovar Empire for him, and (more than that) somehow there will be intrigue, menace, and most of all adventure waiting for him.
Now if I can only do something about my horrendous die rolls!
I'd like to thank Stan! for bearing the burden of this week's column. In previous installments, I've talked about how character death is handled in my campaign, and this is not the first time I've backed a player character into a corner. Did I set out to kill Baharoosh? No. But as the campaign reaches its end, I wanted to put the character in the most dangerous situation he'd ever faced and bring a long-simmering conflict between him and his temperamental superior to a boil.
The thing that keeps my campaign alive for years on end is the idea that conflict comes in many forms and can be resolved in different ways. Most of my energy is spent thinking about how the actions and decisions of the player characters might give rise to new conflict. Every new conflict I can imagine becomes the seed for a future encounter, or sometimes an entire adventure. And not every conflict can be solved by the swing of a sword or a skill check. Sometimes it's about a character wrestling with his role in the party or his place in the world. Sometimes it's about choosing loyalties, turning enemies into friends, and turning friends into enemies.
If you ask me how Baharoosh died, I might say "bad dates" to be funny. [DM Note #6: That's a Raiders of the Lost Ark reference, for all you 20-somethings who've never seen the film.] A case could also be made that the Dice Gods were gunning for him, or that his demise was written into his genetic code at character creation. Or it could be that the fault lies with the other player characters who abandoned Baharoosh in his time of need. But the DM? I think not! After all, it's the DM's job to set up conflict and make it as interesting and immersive as possible. Okay, yes, it's true that I orchestrated the situation leading up to Baharoosh's death, but not because I wanted to kill off the character. If that were true, I wouldn't have given Stan! the opportunity to bring his character back. Ultimately, he chose Baharoosh's fate. The character had faced his demons and lost, and that's sometimes the way conflicts end.
Until the next encounter!
—Dungeon Master for Life, Chris Perkins


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TERRE HAUTE — The last Softball Scene column featured a discussion of the recent success of the Outkast men's team and the 59-game winning streak enjoyed by the First Financial coed team looked as though it was going to be a Sports Illustrated cover jinx situation. No sooner do I tout each team's success, then they both encountered troubles.
In the Terre Haute Family Y coed league, First Financial's long winning streak came perilously close to ending. The previously unbeaten Fox Canteen squad rallied from an early 9-2 deficit to tie the score at 14-14 in the top of the seventh inning on the strength of a three-run home run by Jason Van Dyke.
But First Financial's Erik Smith stroked a solo blast in the bottom of the seventh to preserve the winning streak with the 15-14 victory.
The Fox Canteen team is presently 8-1 on the season. Team members include Andy Fox, Chris Nichols, Kyle West, Pam Pahnke, Stephanie Shelton, Tasha Sturm, Annette Sullivan, Ashley Oliver, Ali West, Sherri Elder, Van Dyke, Ryan Swiger and Ryan "K" Nichols.
The Outkast men's team suffered through the Bloomington Invitational tourney without their leading hitter Kevin Wilt (foot). After dropping their opening game to Dirty Birds by a 15-5 score, Outkast defeated Middle's Open 10-7, before being eliminated by PAS Easton in a tough 21-19 loss. It was their first tournament since early April that Outkast failed to finish with a winning record.
• On a more positive note, the Crawlworks men's team continued to enjoy a successful season. Playing in the Bloomington Invitational Class D/E division, Crawlworks earned a fourth place finish with a 4-2 record.
As part of the ASA Dudley Challenge Series, the Bloomington Invitational performance boosted Crawlworks' chance of capturing the statewide competition. They are currently 13 points out of first place with one tourney left in the five-tournament series. They will be traveling to Topeka (Ind.) in mid-July in an effort to win the series and a handsome package of prizes. In an earlier tourney effort, Crawlworks finished seventh of 38 teams in the prestigious Border Wars tourney in Owensboro, Ky. They also captured a berth in the Avon Tourney of Champions in mid-September by winning a round robin affair at the Avon facility.
Softball Scene
Softball Scene: Recently-touted Valley softball teams fall on hard times
TERRE HAUTE — The last Softball Scene column featured a discussion of the recent success of the Outkast men's team and the 59-game winning streak enjoyed by the First Financial coed team looked as though it was going to be a Sports Illustrated cover jinx situation. No sooner do I tout each team's success, then they both encountered troubles.
- Softball Scene
SOFTBALL SCENE: Swingers win state title
The Swingers from Greencastle double-dipped Carlisle Plaza 10-7 and 8-6 to win the ASA coed novice state title in Lafayette last weekend.
SOFTBALL SCENE: Brent D. Long Tournament a success on and off field
Somebody forgot to tell the Tykal's American team that they weren't the favorite in the Brent D. Long Tournament last weekend at Spencer Field.
SOFTBALL SCENE: Team Bud takes third at coed state tourney
Following last week's news that local softball fortunes had improved with Crawlworks/All American Auto Repair's seventh-place finish in the Amateur Softball Association men's Class D state finals, this weekend's news is even better.
SOFTBALL SCENE: Wabash Valley slowpitch team takes seventh at state
News from the state softball front has improved as a result of Crawlworks/All American Auto Repair's seventh-place finish in the ASA MSP Class "D" state tournament this past weekend. With their finish, this is the first local team with a .500-or-better record in state tournament play.
SOFTBALL SCENE: Tough tournament trail
Results from various ASA state tournament play continue to trickle in and unfortunately for local softball interests, they are disappointing. The combined record for the Outkast men's team and the Ladies Last Call women's team was one win and four defeats.
Valley softball teams fail to impress in ASA tourneys
"Disappointing" might be the operative word to describe the outcome for Wabash Valley softball efforts in the ASA men's slowpitch Class D (North) and men's slowpitch Class E (North) state tournaments last weekend.
SOFTBALL SCENE: Copeland's wins its first Show-Me's coed tournament
Results are in for the Show-Me's coed city softball tournament and Copeland's are the new champions.
The eight-team affair was divided into two four-team pools, with the pool winners matched in the championship game.
SOFTBALL SCENE: Valley squad wins Bedford tourney, series titles
This past weekend the Crawlworks/All American Auto Repairs squad ventured to Bedford to participate in another leg of the Tanel 360/Dudley Challenge Series. In doing so, Crawlworks/All American Auto Repair not only captured the tourney title but also annexed the season-long series title.
SOFTBALL SCENE: Sign-up now under way for city slowpitch championship
Arrangements for the Show-Me's city slowpitch softball tournaments have been completed and interested teams are encouraged to sign up.
SOFTBALL SCENE: The talent ladder for local softball
I would like to open this week's column with a "thank you" to Tribune-Star sportswriter David Hughes for his excellent article featuring local softball star Kevin Kull, which ran in Wednesday's paper.
The article, which chronicled Kull's rapid rise to prominence, was a much-discussed topic around the ballpark Wednesday and Thursday evenings. In addition, it provided me with an idea for this week's installment of "Softball Scene."
SOFTBALL SCENE: Teams give some pep to area men's softball
Wabash Valley softball action picked up briefly at Spencer Field last Saturday as four men's slowpitch squads competed in tournament play.
SOFTBALL SCENE: Coed slowpitch softball tourney raises money for cancer research
Last weekend, Hamilton Center and the Terre Haute Parks and Recreation Department co-hosted a co-ed slowpitch softball tournament to raise money for cancer research.
SOFTBALL SCENE: Valley teams strong at tournaments
The results are in from last weekend's Bedford All-Nighter and Wabash Valley softball interests fared well in the 42-team men's slowpitch tournament.
SOFTBALL SCENE: Local adult softball teams gearing up for action
Well softball fans, it's time for yet another season of adult softball in the Wabash Valley.
SOFTBALL SCENE: Wabash Valley well-represented in state tournamen t
The Wabash Valley was well-represented in the ASA Coed Class D/E state tournament last weekend at the Avon softball facility.
Budweiser team has mixed results in national slowpitch regional tourney play
The local Budweiser men's softball squad ventured to Columbus, Ohio, this past weekend to participate in the 82-team ASA MSP national regional tournament.
SOFTBALL SCENE: Myers family softball tradition carries on
This past Jan. 10, local softball icon Wayne Myers passed away leaving behind two brothers, Fred and Bill, son Terry, daughter Elaine as well as grandchildren Haley, Whitey and "Chicky." In addition, the Indiana Amateur Softball Association was left without its commander in chief.
Softball Scene: Softball moments of years past
With the summer softball season coming to an end, I thought it might be interesting to look to past Softball Scene columns and dredge up a few old memories from seasons gone by. This type of column also serves as a reminder to those presently playing that in a few short years, your achievements will be largely forgotten by those who will be playing in future seasons.
Softball Scene: Valley squads fare well at state tournaments
The results from the Indiana Amateur Softball Association's MSP Class "C", "D" and "E" state tournaments are in and local softball interests fared well. Of the five local men's teams participating, four managed to come away with winning records.
Softball Scene: 8 Valley softball teams competing in 5 different state tournaments
This weekend several local softball teams are vying for titles in Amateur Softball Association state tournament play. In all, eight local squads are competing in five different state tournaments.
Softball Scene: Outkast heating up at right time with state tournament approaching
Local softball player and enthusiast Ryan Dehart recently made an astute observation when commenting on the Outkast softball squad. He said, "they're getting hot at the right time of the year." Lending support to Dehart's claim was Outkast's showing in the recent Hooter's Invitational hosted by Indy Sports Park.
Softball Scene: Get scoop on upcoming men's, co-ed tournaments in Wabash Valley
Several questions have arisen concerning the upcoming city tournaments for men's and co-ed softball teams. In an attempt to dispel any rumors and to address the questions, I will now address callers' concerns.
Softball Scene: Terre Haute ready for first-time city tournaments in July
The Terre Haute Parks and Recreation Department, working in conjunction with several interested softball parties, will be hosting city championship tournaments for both men's and coed softball teams.
Softball Scene: Hit Men making their mark on travel softball scene
I have recently noticed a dearth of young softball squads coming up through the ranks. In short, I am interested in knowing who will replace the Wabash Valley's top-caliber talent as they fall pretty to age, injury work and family obligations.
- Softball Scene: Valley teams have mixed results in state tournaments
- Softball Scene: 'Old School' softball at Saline City withstands test of time As the college football season begins and Wabash Valley adult softball action starts to wind down, those interested in a dose of "old school" softball should travel to Saline City this weekend.
- Softball Scene: Crawlworks' hard work to host tournament pays off Recent Softball Scene columns have been devoted to efforts to raise funds for various causes. The opening segment of this week's column will stick with that theme.
- Fund-raising tourneys a great way to contribute to community
- SOFTBALL SCENE: Crawlworks prevents Valley shutout Thank goodness for the efforts put forth by the Crawlworks men's slow pitch team in the ASA MSP Class D state finals. Without their 6-2 finish, local softball efforts were almost shutout in ASA state tournament play this past weekend.
- Softball Scene: Several Wabash Valley softball teams preparing for state-tournament action The next three weekends should prove interesting for local softball squads as several local teams will be competing for state titles. Hoping to improve on last year's second-place finish in the Amateur Softball Association of America (ASA) women's class C tournament, the Chop Shop women's team will be traveling to Kokomo this weekend. Chop Shop's second-place finish at state earned it a nationals' berth, and the squad finished fourth.
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- SOFTBALL SCENE: Swingers win state title


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Woodward News
Woodward, Okla. —
Graveside services for Carroll "Kibby" Ralph Rollins, 89 year-old Weatherford, Oklahoma resident, will be held Monday, April 22, 2013 at 10:00 A.M. at Elmwood Cemetery in Woodward, Oklahoma with Pastor Tony Barros officiating, under the direction of Lockstone Funeral Home.
Kibby, son of James A. Rollins and Ruby (Carroll) Rollins was born October 5, 1923 in Dallas, Texas and passed away Thursday, April 18, 2013 at Corn Heritage of Weatherford, Oklahoma following a brief illness.
Kibby spent his childhood years around Madill and Clayton, Oklahoma in Pushmataha County. At age 15, following his mother's death he went to live with his sister, Josephine and her husband, Sydney in Fairfield, Texas until his enlistment in the Army Air Corps at age 19. After being discharged from the service in November 1943, Kibby worked for Geophysical Co., then the Stock Exchange Bank in Woodward, Oklahoma where he met his wife, Margaret Jo. Corbett. They were united in marriage June 1, 1945. After the Woodward tornado of April 9, 1947 he went to work for Phillips Petroleum Company until his retirement in 1985.
Kibby is survived by his wife of 68 years, Margaret Jo Rollins of their home in Weatherford, Oklahoma; two sons, Jerry Wayne Rollins and wife, Won of Benton, Arkansas and Michael Lee Rollins of Weatherford, Oklahoma; three grandchildren, Shawn Riseley and wife, Kimber Lynn of Weatherford, Oklahoma, Diane Hughes and husband, Kevin of Benton, Arkansas, and Jack Wayne Rollins of Benton, Arkansas; two great-grandchildren, Braden Asher Hughes, age 14, and Kaylen Rylee Hughes, age 8 of Benton, Arkansas; several nieces, nephews, cousins, and two step-grandchildren, Aaron Holmes and wife, Sylvia of Albuquerque, New Mexico and Noah Holmes and wife, Debbie of Bartlesville, Oklahoma; and one step-grandson, Corey Holmes of Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was preceded in death by his parents; one brother, James A. Rollins; four sisters, Pauline Patterson, Louise Kiblinger, Joshephine McIllveen, and Lucille McClendon; and daughter-in-law, Diane Elaine Rollins.


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IBM Lotus Domino: Classic Web Application Development Techniques
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- Classic techniques used for Web-enabling traditional Domino applications
- Demonstrates how to incorporate HTML, CSS and JavaScript into designs
- Offers tips and suggestions for testing, debugging, and troubleshooting
- Organized, easy to read, and well-illustrated, with numerous code examples
- Instructions valid for Domino versions 6, 7, and 8
Book DetailsLanguage : English
Paperback : 344 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : March 2011
Author(s) : Richard G. Ellis
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Enterprise Products and Platforms, Enterprise, IBM, Web Development
Table of ContentsPreface
Chapter 1: Preparation and Habits
Chapter 2: Design and Development Strategies
Chapter 3: Forms and Pages
Chapter 4: Navigation
Chapter 5: Cascading Style Sheets
Chapter 6: JavaScript
Chapter 7: Views
Chapter 8: Agents
Chapter 9: Security and Performance
Chapter 10: Testing and Debugging
- Chapter 1: Preparation and Habits
- Preparing yourself as a developer
- Gather a list of public websites that use Domino
- Get certified in Lotus Notes / Domino application development
- Use Domino Help
- Consider using external editors and development tools
- Create sandbox applications
- Create a personal cookbook
- Create a personal document library
- Create a website
- Adopt new language and terms
- Pay attention to web programming developments and practices
- Standardizing applications
- Abide by your organization's web development guidelines
- Usability
- Style
- Mechanics and process
- Create libraries of common resources
- Planning your work
- Take notes
- Use to-do lists
- Keep a list of all active projects and tasks
- Report your progress
- Working the project
- Work with users, not against them
- Identify the champion and other players
- Don't start without clear requirements
- Understand the budget and timeline; provide an estimate
- Avoid scope creep
- Assume that all Notes applications will be web-enabled in the future
- Familiarize yourself with an unknown design
- Assess an existing application for web enablement
- Think like a user
- Think like a developer
- Write a report
- Keep an issues log
- Improve the application under the covers
- Enhance performance wherever possible
- Add error trapping
- Add diagnostic and repair aids
- Provide the customer with a summary of changes
- Documenting your applications
- Add comments to the code
- Create internal developer notes
- Add release notes to the About document
- Include external documentation in the design as file resources
- Create user-oriented help pages
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Design and Development Strategies
- Planning the design
- Understand the scope of the project
- Annotate the requirements document
- Understand the workflow
- Determine the need to access external databases
- Decide on one database or several
- Review existing designs
- Copy the design of an existing application
- Evaluate the security needs of the application
- Using consistent naming conventions
- Name databases so that URLs are easy to remember
- Use standard versioning for design templates
- Use standard versioning for major design elements
- Use unique names for all major design elements
- Name design elements sensibly
- Name form fields consistently and appropriately
- Create different versions of design elements for Notes and the Web
- Name Domino groups and roles appropriately
- Use Domino groups and roles appropriately
- Name roles consistent with other applications
- Attending to human factor issues
- Create clean and flexible designs
- Design for specific display characteristics
- Design for accessibility
- Add titles to pages, forms, and framesets
- Optimize the use of images
- Use image resources instead of pasted images
- Using appropriate design elements and techniques
- Consider alternate design strategies
- Learn the Properties dialog box
- Use hide-when formulas
- Avoid using the Java applets
- Avoid server refresh round trips
- Conform to HTML standards
- Avoid using non-standard, deprecated, and invalid HTML tags
- Avoid using HTML formatting tags
- Use configuration documents
- Developer testing
- Add diagnostic and repair tools
- Set up test IDs
- Test with browsers used by your users
- Clear the browser cache
- Promoting the design from testing to production
- Use a staging server for user acceptance testing
- Segregate administrative and developer duties
- Request that templates be signed by an authorized signing ID
- Understand how templates are applied to production applications
- Reviewing other sources of help
- Read the Notes and Domino release notes
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Forms and Pages
- Setting properties appropriately
- Set the content type (MIME) property
- Take full control with content type HTML
- Generate HTML for all fields
- Opening forms and pages directly
- Viewing the source in a browser to investigate anomalies
- Composing and saving documents
- Create documents
- Edit documents
- Save documents
- Save documents using $$Return to specify the next page
- Save documents using a WebQuerySave agent to specify the next page
- Improving the layout of design elements
- Identify all HTML tags
- Use view template forms to display views
- Use framesets for layout
- Use <div> tags to replace framesets
- Align fields
- Use tables to align fields
- Use <div> and <label> tags to align fields
- Use <fieldset> and <legend> tags to group related fields
- Using computed text
- Display a customized title bar
- Display customized messages
- Using hidden computed fields
- Add fields to provide access to key document attributes
- Access CGI variables
- Improve @DbLookup and @DbColumn formulas
- Using HTML to add value to a form or page
- Use special fields
- Convert between Notes and HTML
- Creating pseudo Action Bars for the Web
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Navigation
- General precautions
- Do not hardcode URLs, filenames, or UNIDs
- Use @WebDbName
- Use $Ref
- Use a "go forward" navigational strategy on the Web
- Avoid generating complex dynamic pages
- Application launch options
- Launch the About document
- Launch a specific homepage
- Launch a frameset
- Launch a view
- Launch a form
- Launch a graphical navigator
- Launch documents in context using Auto Frame
- Creating a custom application login form
- Creating menus
- Create Hotspots
- Create menus with outlines
- Create menus with tables
- Create menus with HTML and CSS
- Create dynamic menus with views
- Displaying a design element after exiting a document
- Use $$Return to select a design element
- Display the previous view
- Display the parent document
- Using response forms for interim workflow steps
- Coding default error pages
- Providing directions and help
- Add meaningful labels and guidance text
- Add titles to design elements
- Link to the About and Using documents
- Add customized help pages
- Opening another application in a separate window or tab
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Cascading Style Sheets
- Using CSS for styling design elements on the Web
- Learn basic CSS coding
- Associate CSS rules with design elements
- Locating style rules in applications
- Use a page design element
- Use Style Sheet Resources
- Add style (sparingly) to Properties
- Minimize the use of internal and inline styling
- Use common style sheets
- Use a Domino application as a style sheet repository
- Use the HTML directory on the server
- Developing CSS rules
- Work with an application rather than a template while writing CSS
- Make sure you have control over the style of an element
- Clear the browser cache
- Remove HTML formatting
- Remove conflicting inline and internal CSS rules
- Use fully qualified CSS selectors
- Accommodate different browsers
- Adding style to form and page elements
- Use color effectively
- Style text
- Style headings and labels
- Underline links in text but not in menus
- Style fields
- Highlight required fields
- Style buttons
- Replace the default Action Bar buttons with hotspot buttons
- Style the default Action Bar buttons
- Style borders and margins
- Work with images
- Style menus
- Style printed pages
- Add more than one class to an element
- Summary
- Chapter 6: JavaScript
- Using JavaScript in web applications
- Keep it simple, comment the complex
- Use browser object detection
- Use browser detection only when really necessary
- Locating JavaScript in applications
- Place functions in JavaScript libraries
- Add JavaScript in the JS Header
- Add JavaScript to web events
- Use a page for JavaScript
- Use a subform for JavaScript
- Consolidate and co-locate JavaScript
- Developing and debugging scripts
- Use browser debugging tools
- Validate JavaScripts
- Using JavaScript to enhance forms and pages
- Run JavaScript on load
- Access CGI variables
- Validating fields
- Validate number fields
- Use a date picker for date fields
- Warn users before leaving an un-submitted form
- Use Ajax calls to avoid server round trips
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Views
- General guidelines
- Create some diagnostic views
- Display documents in a hierarchy
- Display Replication or Save conflict documents
- Specify a default view
- Use view templates
- Use the same view template for several views
- Compute the view title
- Exploring view options for the Web
- Understand view Action buttons
- Use Domino-generated default views
- Include HTML tags to enhance views
- Use the "Treat view contents as HTML" option
- Structure HTML views as tables
- Code links to open documents
- Structure HTML views as lists
- Set the view line count
- Create Notes versions of HTML views
- Use the View Applet (with caution)
- Creating Action buttons
- Provide view navigation buttons
- Code next and previous navigation buttons
- Code first and last buttons
- Let users specify a line count
- Code expand and collapse buttons for categorized views
- Co-locate and define all Action buttons
- Create your own Action buttons
- Adding style to views
- Style Domino default views
- Style HTML views
- Opening documents in a separate window
- Adding view scrollbars dynamically
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Agents
- General LotusScript agent guidelines
- Give agents meaningful names and aliases
- Structure and document agents
- Use agent subroutines and LotusScript libraries
- Harvest ideas from Designer Help
- Setting agent attributes
- Set who can view and run an agent
- Set an agent's runtime context
- Set an agent's runtime privileges
- Hide unused agents
- Developing agents
- Use web safe @formulas and LotusScript
- Include a basic error trap
- Write messages to the browser as a web page
- Write messages to an agent log file
- Working with documents
- Use WebQuerySave
- Access a document from an agent
- Access a document open in the browser
- Access a document not open in the browser
- Detect the type of client invoking the agent
- Detect whether a document is in Read or Edit mode
- Prevent a document from being saved
- Redirect the browser to the next page
- Process selected documents in a view
- Writing special purpose agents
- Send e-mail notifications
- Export data to a spreadsheet on the Web
- Summary
- Chapter 9: Security and Performance
- Security
- General guidelines
- Plan your security
- Manage Domino groups
- Specify anonymous access
- Set the maximum Internet access level
- Manage the application ACL
- Enable SSL
- Prevent opening an application in a browser
- Hiding is not securing—Use element access lists
- Understand application backup and restore procedures
- Add security to forms and documents
- Understand the "Generate HTML for all fields" attribute
- Prevent users from reading existing documents
- Prevent users from editing existing documents
- Prevent users from editing selected fields using a Controlled Access Section
- Prevent users from editing selected fields using hide-when formulas
- Do not use field encryption
- Track document changes
- Make a form available to anonymous users
- Control navigation options
- Code an explicit logoff
- Manage agent security
- Performance
- General guidelines
- Listen to your users
- Design for ease of use
- Archive or delete old documents
- Remove obsolete code and design elements
- Clean up and optimize code
- Use tools to assess response time
- Improve forms
- Limit the use of images
- Use Ajax calls to retrieve data
- Use simpler hide-when formulas
- Validate fields with JavaScript
- Improve views
- Remove unused or redundant views from the design
- Limit the data displayed in views
- Remove unnecessary view column sorting
- Minimize the use of view column formulas
- Avoid time-based view column formulas
- Create views as an alternative to common searches
- Modify database properties
- Investigate Domino server options
- Summary
- Chapter 10: Testing and Debugging
- Testing
- Test with different browsers
- Test with different user privileges
- Craft the staging environment to resemble the production environment
- Engage other people for testing
- Test every feature if possible
- Test responsiveness
- Create a written test plan
- Track defects
- Create detailed user documentation while testing
- Require user sign-off
- Monitor the application after Go Live
- Debugging
- General guidelines
- Reproduce the problem
- Isolate the failure
- Code a $$ReturnGeneralError form
- Check the Domino Log
- Use the Web
- Use Design Synopsis
- Troubleshoot forms
- Dynamically display hidden fields on the Web
- Expire the cache
- Debug CSS
- Use browser-based debugging tools
- Troubleshoot agents
- Incorporate dynamic debugging messages
- Create troubleshooting tools—display scheduled agent information
- Troubleshoot problems with data
- View field values in Document Properties
- Create diagnostic views
- Write document repair agents
- Document problems and solutions
- Keep a personal problem solving journal
- Report back to the user
- Summary
Code Downloads
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Sample chapters
You can view our sample chapters and prefaces of this title on PacktLib or download sample chapters in PDF format.
What you will learn from this book
- Incorporate dynamic debugging, which can be turned on after an application is in production
- Learn to style design elements with CSS rules
- Learn how to use the various application launching options
- Create and customize views for the Web
- Work with hidden fields and CGI variables
- Validate fields with JavaScript
- Include a date picker on a web form
- Learn to incorporate AJAX into an application
- Include diagnostic features to help you understand an existing application
- Understand how LotusScript agents work with web pages
- Learn to troubleshoot web applications
- Review ways to improve application performance
In Detail
Domino is an application server that can be used as a standalone web server. As part of the Domino suite, it provides a powerful collaborative platform for the development of customized business applications. It provides enterprise-grade e-mail, messaging, and scheduling capabilities.
Early chapters provide suggestions for working with users and for managing your development time and effort. Later chapters focus in detail on forms and pages, views, navigation, agents, security, performance, and troubleshooting. Examples demonstrate clearly how to incorporate HTML, CSS, and JavaScript into Domino designs. By the end of this book you will have learned what you need to know to quickly and competently tackle web application enhancement tasks.
Beyond providing a good understanding, this book will continue to serve as a valuable source of ideas and techniques. This book brings together essential classic strategies and techniques used to deploy Domino applications to the Web. Chapters cover all major design elements, with a special emphasis on how to craft these elements to work well with web browsers. Many topics include alternative techniques for solving particular problems. Illustrations and examples can be used where appropriate, or they can serve as jumping off points for your own solutions.
Classic and timeless tips and techniques for Web-enabling traditional Lotus Domino applications
Chapters present principles and techniques in an order that roughly mirrors the application development process itself, from gathering requirements through final testing. The focus is on understanding and enhancing applications using classic techniques, in circumstances where it is impractical to rewrite applications using XPages. Each chapter focuses upon a particular aspect of Domino Web applications and provides guidance, recommendations, illustrations, and sample code.
Who this book is for
This book is for novice to moderately experienced Domino developers who are new to the task of Web-enabling traditional Domino applications. Readers should be familiar with using Domino Designer to develop applications for the Lotus Notes client. It is also assumed that readers have, or can acquire, at least rudimentary knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.


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He was born on January 25, 1926 in Milburn, Okla.
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Mr. Raper served in World War 2 as a heavy equipment manager in the South Pacific and he enjoyed animals, country music, square dancing and going for drives.
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(SANTA CLARA, CALIF)-- It is two years until the 2014 opening of the new stadium in Santa Clara, and it is also the two-month mark for Phase II of the Stadium Builders License (SBL) process. Some interesting statistics and fun facts are emerging.
Legends Premium Sales, the company hired to market the seats and suites at the new stadium, launched its reserved seat sales campaign in June. The company promised the Stadium Authority that its sales executives would be available to personally meet with each current Candlestick season ticket holder. So far, the sales team has met with 56 percent of account holders. Al Guido, Vice President of Sales and Service for Legends, said when the team secured financing and moved the stadium opening to 2014, a year early, the sales effort had to establish an expedited schedule too. "Originally, we had expected a 2015 opening," said Guido, "but the announcement earlier this year to accelerate the construction changed everything. I am proud that we are meeting our goal to have personal contact with every customer." Some extraordinary statistics are related to that goal. More than 7,000 face-to-face presentations with season ticket holders have occurred since January of 2012. The sales staff is working seven days a week to meet the demand. Guido acknowledged that change is hard, but he offered proof that hundreds of current season ticket holders appreciate the planning that went into the relocation process for the new stadium. For example, he cited Shauna Baker, who has been an account holder since 1963. "I was nervous about the new stadium for my team," Mrs. Baker said. "I am a member of the 49ers Faithful, and I have been a season ticket holder for 49 years. Our family cheered them at Kezar, shouted and cried at Candlestick, and now we can't wait to see the team play in the new building in Santa Clara." Another member of the Faithful, The Kinney Family, is making sure the fourth and fifth generations of their family will be cheering the team at the new stadium. "Our grandfather was an original ticket holder in 1946, and he had six grandchildren," said Bob Kinney. "He was one of the first season ticket holders in Kezar. Now, my two brothers and I are going in together to buy two SBLs and our children will inherit them to carry on the legacy." Wait list sales will open in the Fall. If you are interested in purchasing an SBL in the new stadium and are not a current Candlestick season ticket holder, please join the wait list at www.newsantaclarastadium.com or call 415-GO-49ers for more information. The stadium in Santa Clara will be the new home to the San Francisco 49ers. It was designed by HNTB and is being built by Turner/Devcon; the stadium is expected to be one of the world's best outdoor sports and entertainment centers, setting the standard for the next generation of sports venues. The $1.2 billion venue will have 1.85 million square feet, seat approximately 68,500 and will feature an expected 165 luxury suites and 9,000 club seats. It was designed to be a multi-purpose facility with the flexibility to host a wide range of events including, domestic and international soccer, college football, motocross, concerts and various civic events, and will be expandable for major events such as the Super Bowl. For more information, go to www.newsantaclarastadium.com. Contact: Carey Marin email@example.com (408) 915-8049
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My company has recently installed a SAN system. Currently two systems are on the network with plans of phasing in the rest of the eight workstations over time. We have an autoloader tape backup unit attached to our server that handles daily backup of the non-SAN workstations over Ethernet.
I am interested to know what the options are in integrating our SCSI based backup system into the SAN when all work systems are connected to the SAN.
All workstations and server are Macs.
I would need to know which version of MAC OS you are using. My best answer would be to contact your backup software vendor on their support requirements for SAN based backup using MAC OS. On the hardware side, the matter is trivial. Just purchase a "data router" (which is actually a Fibre to SCSI bridge) and connect the tape library via the bridge to the SAN. All SAN connected servers should be able to now share the tape library. You must use a fabric switch though, as Hubs are not supported when connecting to disk AND tape over the same loop.
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Evernote for iPhone and iPad gets a huge update in the App Store
Evernote, the remember-everything productivity and note taking app that has been rocking the App Store since 2008, received a major overhaul for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad today. The 4.0 update brings a number of additions including a new homescreen with a more efficient snippet view, better note browsing and more!
If you haven't used Evernote yet we highly suggest giving it a try. There are so many ways of using Evernote to help get things done and improve your productivity that it would just be silly not to!
Hit the jump for a full rundown with a video of what's new, and let us know how it's working for you in the comments!
What's New in Version 4.0 Our biggest iPhone and iPod Touch interface update ever
New ways to see your notes – Snippet view: Intelligent note list view shows you more useful content – Image view: Browse all the image contained in your notes – Attachment view: Browse through files attached to your notes
Creating notes is faster and easier – Attach multiple images and recordings to a single note – Record 90 minutes long audio notes – Add text and snapshots to a note while recording – View and modify location data
Find your notes – View notes in specific notebooks – Find notes by tag – New Search screen with quick access to Saved Searches
Major speed improvements and bug fixes.
Stacks, shared notebooks and a major iPad update coming...
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Great update. Long overdue. Nice features.
Beautiful! This update finally makes Evernote as functional on the iPhone as it is on the desktop (where it is totally indispensable). So nice to be able to view by notebooks - I love this update!! :)
there is also a new desktop update!!
I have the app but have never used it. I just updated it also. Maybe I should try it out
give it a try. i use it like everyday, helps me not forget stuff!!! Extremely useful
I tried it the App, and I didn't really care for the user interface.
I much prefer "Awesome Note" for general notes, appointments, and reminders. (It also syncs with EverNote) Its UI is far superior, IMO.
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Phil Mickelson reacts to hitting his tee shot into the water at No. 17 during a Tuesday practice round at The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass.
Bubba Watson, Martin Kaymer and Rory McIlroy surely wouldn't trade away their major championships this year, but Rickie Fowler has played consistently best among those three tournaments.
See the action and emotion of Rory McIlroy's 2014 British Open championship at Royal Liverpool in Hoylake, England.
Sam Horsfield and Jorge Garcia each confirmed to Golfweek that they are both still committed to join Florida's men's golf program, led by new coach J.C. Deacon, in the fall of 2015.
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Samantha Wagner was in contention a year ago at the Junior PGA Championship before having to withdraw with food poisoning. Tuesday, Wagner opened with a 71 at Miramont Country Club in her fourth try at winning the event.
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Apple Releases New iPug: Apple stock surged again today as investors got a sneak peak at the new "iPug" which they believe will help them lick the competition.
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Storage resource management software is one way to make sure you have a leaner, meaner storage system in 2008.
One of the best ways to gain that visibility is to deploy storage resource management (SRM) software. This software has matured over the last five years, but there's still a lot of room for improvement. A recent Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research report reveals that 37.3% of businesses have deployed SRM solutions (see "Current and planned production use of SRM software," below). An additional 40.3% have SRM purchases and installations on their New Year's resolution list.
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Scott and Tammy Werner say they consider it an honor and privilege to partner with parents in the lives of their children.
"The most important thing in anyone's life is their kids," Scott Werner said. "So we take that as a huge privilege, but we also take it as a big responsibility and just appreciate the trust."
The Werners became owners of My Small Wonders Daycare Center in 2011.
"Prior to that I was the children's pastor at LifeChurch.tv," Scott said. "It was just a natural transition. We're excited to be in business in the private sector here in Edmond."
The Edmond City Council this week approved 5-0 a rezoning issue for My Small Wonders Daycare Center, located north of Covell Road, east of Kelly Avenue. The council also agreed to a request by developer Derek Turner to amend the Edmond Plan from Single Family Dwelling District Planned Unit Development to Planned Unit Development.
This location is on Village Parkway, a collector street for the Coffee Creek housing addition, said Bob Schiermeyer, city planner. This use is also adjacent to other office-type businesses, he said.
The PUD allows for office use in the event the day care business closed, Schiermeyer said. It also will cover the existing playground on the 1.25 acres of property. Plans are for the 6,802-square-foot addition to increase the existing building to 14,480 square feet and appear as one facility.
Edmond Planning Commission recommended approval in May by a vote of 5-0.
"When the addition to the day care is constructed, this PUD will be complete," Schiermeyer said.
The Werners are onsite each working hour of their day care along with their director and staff. The center provides a full kitchen for services.
"We buy everything fresh," Scott said. "That was one of the huge things we changed immediately. Our food costs went from about $500 a week to $1,300 a week because we wanted to offer fresh fruit and vegetables and bread."
The Werners also added a curriculum team for the entire center to enhance the work of the day care's teaching staff.
"Our baby waiting list goes until our new building will be here in April of next year," Scott said.
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