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Marketers must match their content on a specific device to the types of information consumers most often access through that device in order to guarantee the best conversion rate.
According to the seventh annual 15miles/Neustar Localeze Local Search Usage Study conducted by comScore, the device that a consumer utilizes can often signal which usage mode that consumer is in when conducting a local search. Understanding this relationship can help marketers better align their content and messaging to leverage the specific purchase stage the customer is proceeding through on their path to purchase.
For example, if a consumer favors on-device in the beginning stages of the purchases process, rich descriptions, visuals, and videos can help them select a product. Conversely, consumers at the end of the sales process often favor "where to buy" store location information and sales promotion (coupon/discounts) opportunities. Understanding and tuning your content to the usage mode can provide a competitive advantage.
In the past I have ordered consumers into three local search modes: Finders, Searchers, and Shoppers. Typically, "Shoppers" are at the beginning stages of the purchase process, educating themselves on brands and products available in a particular category. These users tend to have the lowest incidence of brand preference at this stage. "Searchers" tend to be in the middle of the purchase funnel, with some understanding of products and brands; often these users are in the comparison stage. Finally, "Finders" are 100 percent brand-committed and are simply seeking purchase location information.
Desktop and laptop searchers tend to be engaged in the beginning stages of the purchase process and could be characterized as Shoppers. Unlike tablet and mobile phone users, they are less likely to be brand- or specific product-committed.
As represented below, Searchers tend to be in the comparison-shopping mode more so than PC/laptop and mobile phone users.
This fact creates an opportunity for marketers to feature visually compelling selling scenarios and competitor product/service comparisons that are easily consumed on the unique canvas that the tablet computing devise affords. Immersive experiences like video and product demonstration/exploration pinch-to-zoom pictures can provide these consumers seeking detailed information on "Why to Buy" your product over another company's. Finally, when considering your tablet experience, do not forget to provide a "thumb-friendly" shopping cart experience, as tablets score second to PC/Laptops when making a purchase on-line.
The final usage mode, "Finders" are consumers that have already decided on "why" and "what" to buy and are now seeking to purchase. Clues to this can be inferred from the primary information that is sought out by the differing device users. Address/location information is the number one type of information sought by mobile phone users along with driving directions.
Compared to other devices, mobile phones have the highest purchase conversion rate. Nearly 80 percent of mobile phone searches end in a purchase. So featuring clear direction information and sales promotion information can help tune your content to the users' mode and increase sales conversion. As pointed out in my article "Mobile Website or Please Read the Fine Print?," we explored in more detail what makes a good local/mobile Web presence again, as consumers use each devise differently based on where they are in the purchase process.
This all seems so logical; match content on a specific device to the types of information consumers most often access through that device. Yet, we continually see marketers trying to be all things to all people, believing that more is more as it relates to content. Nothing could be further from the truth. Tune your content to the device. You wouldn't try to list your entire product catalogue on a smart watch computing device, or would you?
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Mirroring the plot of Toy Story, a Woody doll has been separated from its real life owner. Bev McNeill, 50, rescued the Woody doll by the side of the M4 as she drove from Heathrow Airport to Marlborough, Wilshire.
Determined to return the doll to its home, Ms McNeill took to the internet to try and re-unite old friends.
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If you want to change your photographs, you need to change cameras. Changing cameras means that your photographs will change. A really good camera has something I suppose you might describe as its own distinctive aura.
-- Nobuyoshi Araki
I don't think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the day
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Cameras are wonderful little contraptions.
By making photographs, they are tools with which one can express their personal taste and private sensibilities. At the same time they physically exist as expressions of these same concepts. The relationship one has with their cameras affects their approach to making a picture.
People who shoot film simply do because they choose to, and the Photo Culture of Tokyo is full of film camera users. When I meet them out on the streets I ask to photograph their camera, and usually post it here the same day. All of the photos were shot with a Ricoh GRDII. I trust that this irony is not lost on anyone.
These photos are meant for sharing. By all means, re-blog away. Clicking on the images will present you with a version 1000 pixels wide to further enjoy.
I also take other kinds of photographs as well.
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Leica MP à la carte with 50mm f2 Summicron lens
He told me he ordered this camera to celebrate his 30th birthday- he said he wanted a camera for life.
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Nikon F100 with 50mm f1.8D AF lens
Photographer: Cueisao / tumblr
Selected promotional postcards for photography exhibitions and events in Tokyo (and one in Hokkaido), September, 2014. This set includes two separate Daido Moriyama shows.
Ray of Grade Select asked if I was interested in doing a collaborative T-shirt. Why not? It turned out pretty cool. It's got this picture from Nov.1, 2011 on it.
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Note: Shirts do not include a Leica or my cat, who naturally decided that the best possible place in my apartment to lay down on at that moment was this shirt as I started to photograph it.
Now showing: Zuisha vol.8
Where: Totem Pole Photo Gallery, Shinjuku (map)
When: August 26 - September 7th, 2014 / 12-7pm (closed Mondays)
What: Twenty-one fiber prints made as best as possible from what turned out to be a batch of Oriental FB Seagull paper with emulsion problems. This ongoing series remains an experiment and a way of working.
I've been going past Lucky Camera in Shinjuku since 2001- I even bought my first rangefinder there in 2002 (a Bessa R2) and my first Leica (M6TTL) in 2004. I can't believe that in thirteen years I never noticed that their Fujifilm Fujicolor sign had a misspelling. Actually, this is their old location- they moved to a new shop near Isetan in Shinjuku earlier this year. You can check out Lucky Camera online here: lucky-camera.com/english
As for "Camara", when the shop window looked like this, there wasn't much reason to look anywhere else.
Seen: Yangon
Who: Yoshihito Muta
Where: 3rd District Gallery, Shinjuku
When: August 15 - 24, 2014 / 1pm-8pm
Muta is one of 3rd District's members and has been holding several exhibitions of his work each year there since 2009. On his profile page (link) you can see samples of his work by clicking on the dates or titles of the shows- then click on the sample image to bring up the larger sized scrolling online galleries. A great example of his Tokyo street work is the wonderfully titled "since 1988 lookin' for the face" series.
Yangon is also known as Rangoon in English. The show is made up of images he took to Burma just this past June- about six or seven weeks before the show. He said in his statement that he leisurely walked around with ten rolls of film and had no objective or timetable of any kind. The pictures reflect this mindset.
Interestingly, for the show Muta printed not just the entire 35mm frame, but also the surrounding edges including the sprocket holes of the film. Laying bare the physical element of the material used to make these pictures like this possibly correlates to the openness of the town and the people he photographed. He's not using artifice to enhance his idea of a place, but rather through transparency shows he has nothing to hide. The place and his pictures are good enough as is.
While walking in Ginza I ran into my friend Narashige Matsuki and his wife, Yumiko. He was packing his Plaubel Makina 6x7 rangefinder (top) and Leica M4-P (left). We got coffee and got caught up- since we all last met the two of them took a trip to LA and the American southwest. I love how intimate and personal his pictures are. This picture from their trip is so great.
To all you millions of 17 year old art and design students* on this site, I really suggest following him on tumblr. He's making pictures that you will like. He's making pictures that can really teach you something about photography. Don't think that you need to detach yourself emotionally from your photos! Figure out what makes you (and who you're with) what you are, and go from there.
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Leica M4-P with 50mm f2 Summicron lens and half case
The young woman holding this Leica is Yumiko (website / tumblr) and while this camera actually belongs to her husband, Narishige (who lovingly and almost exclusively photographs his wife), she takes pictures as well.
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Giovanni Pascarella, a postdoc researcher arrived in Japan in 2010 and when not investigating on the effect of neurodegeneration on DNA in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases spends his spare time making photographs. Recently, he has began printing in the darkroom. He tells us that…
As you can see it's a very minimal set-up, both for space constraints and because I just started printing a few months ago and being a beginner my needs in terms of equipment are low. Around my enlarger I have a timer, contrast filters, some improvised tools for dodging and burning, and a speaker to fill my printing sessions with some good tunes (lately it's mostly Mogwai and other post-rock bands).
Before making the commitment to purchase this equipment I wondered for some time whether it wasn't just better to rent one of the darkrooms available around Tokyo or Yokohama. But in the end I decided to go with my own darkroom mainly because of convenience: I can print whenever I want and it takes only 10-15 minutes to prepare everything. However I've found that I need to be fresh and relaxed in order to produce good results. Therefore I print only on the weekends. I got most of the equipment from Yahoo Auction Japan. With a bit of luck you can find some very good deals there for darkroom stuff…the enlarger itself cost me just 2.000 yen! (about $20 USD)
I'm currently reading and studying a lot about basic printing techniques. It's been quite a relief to discover that Internet is still a very powerful resource for darkroom learning material, and there are several active forums focused on traditional photography from which it's easy to get answers for even the most detailed questions in a short time. Classic books from master printers are also readily available on Amazon, most of the times second-hand and for very reasonable prices.
Getting into printing has been the best things that happened to my photography since going back to my film roots last year, and I actually have to thank you, Jesse and the other people from the community for encouraging me to do so (even a few words sometimes can be a powerful primer). My awareness of light and composition are greatly benefiting from this experience and although the process of shaping a photograph from my mind on the paper can be frustrating at times (well, most of the time) having in my hands the final print always fully repays me of everything.
A scan of the July 2014 Tokyo Camera Style monthly feature in Nippon Camera
My editor and I went to meet Issei Suda (right) at his exhibition in June at a gallery called Wadagarou over near Ginza. I had met him once before at an opening reception at PGI a few years ago and again last September at his massive retrospective Fragments of Calm at the Tokyo Metro Museum of Photography. A fantastic (and fantastically prodigious) photographer who has had some recent re-releases of his photo books, Suda Issei is finally getting some of the exposure abroad which he deserves. If you're not familiar with the man, listen up: He's one of the best street photographers you've never heard of. Of his books, I recommend Minyou Sangaand Waga Tokyo 100 in particular but his retrospective exhibition catalogue Fragments of Calm is an affordable overview of his work which I've talked about on this blog before.
As for the left hand page, I photographed everyone on the same sunny day in May. The bottom two pictures are people I met at Kameido Tenjin (a really great environment for shooting) during that shrine's Wisteria festival. The top two photos were taken a little later at Nezu Shrine, during that shrine's azalea festival. Interestingly, I ran into the couple in the frame at the bottom right again in Nezu. Small town Toyko.
Leica M4-2 with 50mm f3.5 Elmar lens and Leica handgrip
Photographer: Issei Suda (website / photobooks)
Nezu Shrine
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Good article. There are so many good ideas listed. I have to narrow down a list for me and stick to it.
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Thank you, that was very helpful! I saw many things I could possibly do. Now I have to narrow it down and commit to what I choose.
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Great ideas. I'm giving up internet (except what is necessary for my business). No FB or BC etc...
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The Supply of Storage for Natural Gas in California
AbstractDo natural gas storage decisions in distant California respond to NYMEX futures price spreads? Daily data about flows into and out of storage facilities in California over 2002-2006 and daily spreads on NYMEX are used to investigate whether the net injection profile is consistent with the supply-of-storage curve first observed by Working for wheat. Storage decisions in California do seem to be influenced by a price signal that combines the intertemporal spread and the locational basis between California and the Henry Hub, in addition to strong seasonal and weekly cycles that determine net injections to a considerable extent. The timing and magnitude of the price response differ across storage facilities. Regulatory requirements and operational constraints also limit the response to short-lived arbitrage opportunities.
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AMES � The turning point lasted a matter of seconds.
Iowa State seemed to finally be rolling early in the second half of Tuesday�s Big 12 game against Oklahoma, as the Cyclones pulled within 36-35 on Hallie Christofferson�s short jumper.
But the Sooners weren�t having it.
An uncontested Gioya Carter layup, followed by a a sneaky steal by Aaryn Ellenberg and subsequent uncontested Carter putback, restored a dominant order Oklahoma established early.
Poof went No. 17 (USA Today coaches poll) ISU�s momentum.
And thud went the Cyclones, who tumbled to their fourth straight loss, 75-54, before a crowd of 10,121 at Hilton Coliseum.
�We just never could recover,� ISU Coach Bill Fennelly said.
The Cyclones saw a home losing streak hit three games for the first time since the 2003-04 season.
Their overall skid of four straight is the longest since a five-game slump that started the 2011-12 Big 12 season � and comes on the heels of a school-record 14-game win streak.
�I feel like we try but we don�t try hard enough,� said ISU�s Nikki Moody, who scored a team-high 18 points.
So what happened?
More importantly, how to fix it � and where to start?
�We�ll try to make some changes, but people don�t like to hear this: sometimes the players gotta change,� Fennelly said after his team made just 4 of 26 3-point shots. �This is unacceptable. We didn�t play well tonight at home, three straight losses at home, which doesn�t happen here very often. � So, some soul searching to do. We�ll see. This is life, man, and we�re going to find out who wants to bow up and fight through it.�
The aforementioned turning point spurred a 19-3 run by Oklahoma (12-7, 3-3), which avenged an 82-75 overtime home loss to the Cyclones earlier this month.
�They came out swinging,� Sooners Coach Sherri Coale said of her team.
ISU came out missing.
Tuesday�s 3-point shooting struggles made the Cyclones 9 of their last 63 from distance at Hilton.
That�s 14.3 percent � and, Fennelly said, puts too much pressure on the defensive end.
�It�s the same stuff with us,� he said.
That�s included foul trouble lately.
Forward Hallie Christofferson drew her fifth whistle with 7:42 left.
She finished with 15 points and eight rebounds.
Guard Jadda Buckley � who scored a career-best 29 at Norman � took two shots in 28 minutes, missing both.
�To shoot the ball twice in 28 minutes when you shoot the ball as well as she does, I don't know,� Fennelly said. �It�s gone from kind of a joke to it�s not funny anymore. So, we�ll see. At the end of the day she's the one that�s got to do it and we�ll see if she wants to or not.�
Same goes for all of ISU�s players, who seek to get back on track Saturday at Texas Tech.�We�ve just got to be tough on the floor,� Moody said. �We�ve got to go out there with an attitude that we�re better than the other team and we�re going to play harder and we�re going to win.�


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I haven't look at a new pen-and-paper RPG since sometime in the mid 90s, but I'm kind of curious what's happened in the past 10-15 years or so? What are the best fairly recent pen-and-paper RPGs -- what are the most popular ones that are new. I assume stuff like D&D and World of Darkness are still around, but what are some fairly recentish ones that have gotten big followings? Have there been any that introduced really new mechanics or game play philosophies?
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on May 21, 2011
If you lean in a Lovecraftian direction I hear good things about
Trail of Cthulhu
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on May 21, 2011
The Savage Worlds core system
, introduced in 2003 by means of its first game Deadlands, makes it easy for game world creators to create a rich and unique world without having to reinvent the wheel. The system itself is not nearly as complex as DnD but it does allow newcomers to rapidly develop fun-to-play characters and ensures a great adventure. Some popular settings include Hellfrost (fantasy in a deep winter setting), Lowlife (a post-nuclear freak show world where my last character was a sentient donut who thought he was a cowboy), Pirates of the Spanish Main, Sundered Skies, and the aforementioned Deadlands (cowboy horror).
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, of course.
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on May 21, 2011
The most important trend in RPGs in the last dozen years is the concept of indie RPGs. With the internet and print-on-demand and stuff, people are writing lots of RPGs on their own, without intending to target the large traditional RPG audiences. The effect has been that you get lots of crazy small games that cater to specific demands and can be really sharply targeted and distinct from the norm. That said, you can trace a lot of the innovation back to two concepts, "Narrativism" and the return to old-school gaming. I put "Narrativism" in quotes since it's kind of divisive, in part because there isn't wide-spread agreement on what it means, but in terms of practical effect it's led to a couple things.
First off, putting mechanics on things that weren't previously mechanized, and in particular on character relationships. The classic example here is
My Life With Master
, a game where you play (essentially) Igors under an oppressive Doctor Frankenstein, and the game is about managing the relationships you have with others to bring the game to a tragic or happy conclusion -- and you don't necessarily get to role-play your way there; you make choices and there are mechanics that determine how things shake out for you. Sometimes this gets called "System Matters" -- the idea that the mechanics of the game actually determine the style in which the game gets played.
The flipside of this is "rules focus" -- you put in rules for the things that are important and you gloss over the things that aren't important.
Primetime Adventures
, for instance, is about playing games that feel like tv properties, and its rules emphasize things like characters having "feature episodes" where the emphasis is on them and their issues, and tracking character arcs across a season of play; on the other hand, the specific types of conflict they have makes very little difference in the rules, whether it's a fistfight or a math exam. Going along with this is a ditching of "simulationism for the sake of simulationism". Trail of Cthulhu (which Artw mentions earlier) breaks with the older Call of Cthulhu RPG by saying, explicitly in the rules, that the investigators will always find the clues they need for the adventure to continue without having to roll the right number on the die or whatever. There is still the opportunity for cleverness and character skill, but failure due to bad search rolls is taken off the table.
The next important trend coming off Narrativism has been games about, basically, "moral issues". One of the most popular examples here has been
Dogs in the Vineyard
, a game where the PCs are traveling Mormon-analog gunfighters in the Old West, going from town to town and meting out justice for the demon-complicated situations the people have got themselves in. The trick here is that there is no objective morality given in the game -- whether the characters are in the right or wrong depends entirely on whether the players say they are. Especially for people who have hair triggers about Mormonism this game description can turn people off, but in my experience the game is a great engine for wrestling with moral and philosophical decisions without ever feeling heavy-handed. (Vincent Baker, the author of the game, is one of the breakout stars of the indie rpg scene.)
The final trend is I guess what I'd call "playing hard". D&D and Vampire and older games tend to be written under the assumption that the GM will ease off when necessary to avoid killing people, and similarly characters will hold off on creating broken builds or hogging the spotlight just because they can. On the other hand, something like
Burning Wheel
-- a sort of stripped-down and turbo-charged take on D&D, with special emphasis on making elves and orcs and dwarves that actually feel like Tolkien's elves and orcs and dwarves -- is written with the assumption that everyone will play as hard as possible, and it doesn't actually work that well unless they do.
This is a good lead-in to the other big trend, old-school gaming. In part as a reaction to 4th-edition D&D's embrace of some of the narrativist trends, and in part as a reaction to 3.x-edition D&D's Huge Pile Of Rules model, there's been a big push towards getting back to the basics. In many cases this has been basically clones of the original games, whether it's as far back as Basic D&D or as "recent" as first edition AD&D. I think probably the
Swords and Wizardry
site is your best place to look for these.
I'm not as familiar with the games in this space (and I think part of the point has been to get away from system), but it seems to me that the trends have been towards more randomness, whether in character creation or leading to characters dying in combat because life is short and exciting, more unashamed embrace of D&D tropes but with some attempts to think about them seriously (it's not a game and it's NSFW, but the
Playing D&D with Porn Stars
guy's blog is a great reference here), and less attempts to quantify things -- you don't have to have bought the carpentry skill to rank 10 to build a door, you just have to convince the GM that your background would reasonably allow it and then you roll the dice.
Anyway, this post is super-long but I've just touched on what's out there. There's a whole range of new RPGs in the scene, some obscure (
Montsegur 1244
is set in a castle under siege from the Albegensian crusade) and some more mass-market (
Spirit of the Century
is a pulp-adventure game where the system is both light enough to be moddable but heavy enough to be tactical and interesting). As usual the best place to start out is reading blogs and podcasts.
Story Games
, and
are all good places to begin.
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I'm a big fan of Unknown Armies. It's a game of 'post modern magick' loosley inspired by Tim Powers. Skills are freeform, so you can use your 'Good Mother' skill to bandage somebody's wounds. Power comes from obsession (so alcoholism is a magical school) or from embodying a universal archetype. The largest magical group is a loosely spread network of McDonalds employees.
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Not entirely sure if it's popular, but it's certainly one of the best-- d10 roll-and-keep, sword-and-sorcery alternate European history system of
7th Sea
, most of it now sadly out of print, but still adored by a dedicated cult following.
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Eclipse Phase
is a transhumanist sci-fi RPG noteworthy for being released entirely under the Creative Commons Licence. And contrary to any expectations that might instill, it is actually really, really fucking good.
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on May 21, 2011
Eclipse Phase is
awesome. I wish I had a good local game.
I'm a personal fan of
Dark Heresy
, but that's because I'm a tool for the Warhammer 40k fluff. When I do play, I tend to go for fairly low-power characters with heavy RP and only occasional and stay away from, say, Deathwatch, which is power-armored Space Marines who can take out Hive Tyrants in one round.
Pathfinder is great; it's basically D&D 3.75.
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On the innovation tip, Inkyz is right on the money, there's been an explosion of small press rpgs, that are very, very different than older rpgs.
James West's
The Pool
(free .rtf file) has a nifty mechanic where players get to take over the GM's role to describe the outcomes of events during rolls. What this means is, a GM can never railroad play, as a core part of the rules is that players can step in and change the world directly whenever the dice get rolled.
is a Ghostbusters as a 90's startup company game that takes that idea further. (The full game costs money, but you can download the "Startup Edition" for free and see the core rules).
The Shadow of Yesterday
is a funky fantasy game that was released
free as HTML with a Creative Commons License
, though you can order a hardcopy at price at the first link. The game uses "Keys" which allow players to pick HOW their character earns XP, and thereby, direct the story. If one player chooses things like "Key of Romance" and "Key of Friendship", they get experience for pursuing those things, while someone who has "Key of Vengeance" or "Key of the Quest" gets points for those as well.
All of that went into shaping
Lady Blackbird
, a completely awesome, free, steampunk game that's great to just pick up and play.
Then there's a whole lot of games without GMs at all.
1001 Nights
is a game where the players all play different servants in the Sultan's court, who pass their time telling stories, and trying to one-up each other for the Sultan's favor. When you're telling the story, you can recast each character as someone in your story ("The brave warrior looked a lot like you, Ahmad the Calligrapher..."), and the other players shape the story by asking questions ("But did the warrior choose to keep the vow, or his principles?"). It's an amazing game that's easy to pick up and play.
is a highly structured GMless game, where the players set up facts about the world and the characters by spending points in play. When the players conflict about outcomes, dice are rolled for the outcomes, which produces more points to define the world. I'm always amazed at how well this game works, every time. It's crufty in it's writing, but great in play.
Other varied games:
is an awesome rpg about Greek heroes questing the world to complete tasks for the gods. The game is explicitly about competing- the players use their characters to try to get the most Glory though outdoing each other and being the best hero of the party. That said, the PCs also end up earning Vows from each other, which the players can cash in, strategically, in order to swoop the best Glory at the right moment. It's very gamist, and about winning, but mixes cooperation and competition in a really neat way.
Free html version, minus setting, here
) is a hard sci-fi game based on the FATE engine (which, is based on FUDGE, if you ever saw that during the 90's). Diaspora does hard sci-fi without getting caught in deep crunchiness. It has really neat abstracted rules for tactical combat, political manipulation, social schmoozing, and more.
If there's specific things you like in your games, I can make more specific suggestions, but there's a lot of options there to play with.
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This was my intro to our current Eclipse Phase game. Great world, average system (though it has some great bits).
Picture Earth a fifty to a hundred years or so from now - technology (including the ability to fabricate anything you can imagine with nanobots and upload your consciousness to a computer/robot/vat-grown body/uplifted octopus) has gone pretty wild and we've just invented artificial intelligence!
Whoo hoo!
But also - boo!
Because the AIs have gone psycho and are bombing us and plaguing us and making saw-equipped flying robots to cut off our heads and steal our brains! Curse those pesky AI!
So, war, explosions, megadeath. You know the drill.
Or rather you know the diamond-edged circular saw, because that's what the decapit-o-bot just used to cut off your head.
Now it's twenty years later. Humanity is down to roughly a billion people spread around the solar system in a deranged profusion of domed cities, spaceships, hollowed out asteroids. Everybody else is
. Earth is
A sizable percentage of the living are actually just 1's and 0's on a database somewhere, as there's not enough space or bodies for them. You can get synthetic (robot) bodies reasonably cheaply, but they're looked down on by most people.
That said, things are looking up. You've still got all your hypertech, so that's nice. The TITANs have gone, yay, transmitting themselves off (with roughly a billion and a half stolen consciousnesses) to parts unknown and leaving behind Pandora gates - a handful of teleporters that can transport matter across the galaxy to strange and alarming places. The System is divided into dozens of enclaves, factions and points of view. Lots of opportunity to make a space buck for those willing and unscrupulous enough to do what needs doing.
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came and went. Best anime-RPG that's ever been on the market. Works on an interesting 2d6 system. (They *also* released a d20 system, but it has some serious game balance issues.)
is the White Wolf (the people who make World of Darkness) attempt at "sword and sorcery". It has anime-esque influences (like the manga-style stories at the beginning of each chapter) and it encourages you to an all-around bad-ass. Classic WoD d10 system.
Iron Kingdoms
is a
fantasy world where coal-powered robots twice the size of humans are the favored weapons of the day. The best part?
There are models to represent characters... and a minis game too, if that's your thing
. Simple d20 system here.
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Students in New York can pursue hospitality programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Programs teach students about hotel and restaurant operations, marketing, cost controls and tourism. Opportunities also are available for students to participate in internships and gain practical experience in the field. There are approximately 20 schools that offer hospitality programs in New York; ten of the largest options are discussed below.
Buffalo State SUNY
Buffalo State - The State University of New York (SUNY) is based in Buffalo and offers a bachelor's degree in hospitality administration. Students can pursue concentrations in restaurant and institutional management or hotel tourism management. In addition to 400 hours of practical experience, students in both concentrations take courses in food and beverage management, hospitality operations, legal issues, marketing and computer applications.
CUNY New York City College of Technology
Located in Brooklyn, the City University of New York (CUNY) New York City College of Technology has hospitality associate and bachelor's degree programs. Students who earn the associate degree can pursue employment opportunities or transfer to a bachelor's degree program. Courses in the associate degree program include perspectives in hospitality management, wine and beverage management, culinary arts and hospitality marketing.
Students in the bachelor's program take courses in hotel and resort management, culinary and pastry arts, travel and tourism, and food and beverage management. The internship requires that students complete 120 hours of work over a minimum of eight weeks.
Monroe Community College
Monroe Community College is based in Rochester and features a hotel management certificate and a hospitality management associate degree program. The hotel management certificate program requires 35 credits and includes courses in hotel operations, hospitality services, human resource management, and banquet and event planning.
The hospitality management associate degree program is 65-70 credits and includes general education requirements, hospitality courses and an internship. Students also have the option of participating in concentrations involving travel, food service and culinary arts, hotel and golf management.
Niagara County Community College
Niagara County Community College is located in Sanborn and has hospitality certificate and associate degree programs. Students enrolled in the hospitality operations certificate program are required to complete 29 credits and take courses in culinary foundations, hotel operations, culinary foundations, and conventions and meetings management.
Students in the hospitality management associate degree program must complete 64 credits. The program consists of general education requirements, electives, hospitality courses and a seminar.
Onondaga Community College
Based in Syracuse, Onondaga Community College offers a hospitality management associate degree with specializations in culinary management, food service/institutional management, hotel management and restaurant management. The degree requires that all students take core courses in information systems, sanitation, nutrition and food preparation. Students also have an opportunity to take trips to New York City and Las Vegas.
Paul Smith's College
Located in Paul Smiths, Paul Smith's College offers an associate degree program in hotel and restaurant management and a bachelor's program in hotel, resort and tourism management. Both programs include practical experience, allowing students to learn in real-world working environments. The associate degree program includes courses in beverage management, food service sanitation, front office management, hotel accounting and human resource management. Students in the bachelor's program take courses similar to those found in the associate program, as well as courses in event planning, resort and recreation management, marketing and wine studies.
Rochester Institute of Technology
The Rochester Institute of Technology is located in Rochester and has hospitality programs at the associate and master's degree levels. Students enrolling in the hospitality and service management associate degree program can pursue specializations in hotel and resort management or food and beverage management. Both of the programs are 60 credits and include courses and a co-op experience.
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St. John's University
St. John's University is based in Queens, and students at the school can earn a bachelor's degree in hospitality management. The program is 126 credits and ensures that students have an understanding of the current issues in the hospitality industry and the communication involved in talking with clients. Students have an opportunity to participate in internships to gain practical experience in the field.
SUNY College of Technology at Delhi
SUNY College of Technology at Delhi has hotel and restaurant management programs at the associate and bachelor's degree levels. Students are required to complete 320 hours of work experience and have an opportunity to intern with Disney.
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Trocaire College
Trocaire College is located in Buffalo and offers certificate and associate degree programs in hospitality management. The certificate program requires that students complete a minimum of 35 credits, while the associate degree program requires a minimum of 65 credits.
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School Comparison Table
|School Name
|School Type and Setting
|Hospitality Programs Offered
|Undergraduate Tuition & Fees (2012-2013)
|Buffalo State SUNY
|4-year, public; large city
|Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Administration
|$6,694 in-state, $15,944 out-of-state*
|CUNY New York City College of Technology
|4-year, public; large city
| Associate in Applied Technology in Hospitality Management,
Bachelor of Technology in Hospitality Management
|$5,769 in-state, $11,979 out-of-state*
|Monroe Community College
|2-year, public; large suburb
| Hotel Management Certificate,
Associate of Applied Science in Hospitality Management
|$3,772 in-state, $6,912 out-of-state*
|Niagara County Community College
|2-year, public; rural fringe
| Hospitality Operations Certificate,
Associate of Applied Science in Hospitality Management
|$4,040 in-state, $9,584 out-of-state*
|Onondaga Community College
|2-year, public; large suburb
|Associate of Applied Science in Hospitality Management
|$4,634 in-state, $8,684 out-of-state*
|Paul Smith's College
|4-year, private, not-for-profit; distant rural
| Associate in Arts and Sciences in Hotel and Restaurant Management,
Bachelor of Science in Hotel, Resort and Tourism Management
|Rochester Institute of Technology
|4-year, private, not-for-profit; large suburb
| Associate of Applied Science in Hospitality and Service Management,
Master of Science in Hospitality - Tourism
|St. John's University
|4-year, private, not-for-profit; large city
|Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management
|SUNY College of Technology at Delhi
|4-year, public; remote rural
| Associate in Applied Science in Hotel and Resort Management,
Bachelor of Business Administration in Hotel and Resort Management
|$7,090 in-state, $11,260 out-of-state*
|Trocaire College
|4-year, private, not-for-profit; large city
| Hospitality Certificate,
Associate of Applied Science in Hospitality Management
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Anti-Semitism in Britain: "Sit Up and Take Notice"
by George Igler
"There is a direct link between politicians saying things and people being emboldened to go and attack Jews." — Jonathan Arkush, Vice-President, UK Board of Deputies.
It is never the person who commits these sorts of crimes that is held morally responsible by Britain's media or politicians. That honor is reserved for a nation over 2,000 miles away, Israel.
What if Christians objecting to the genocide being carried out by ISIS in Iraq, say, went around in mobs violently menacing Muslim businesses?