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I can't comment on winter care of this pine, but I do know that it is not a favorite for bonsai. I've seen one or two good examples, but it has leggy branches and is a challenge. Good luck!
I just liberated a droopy Italian Stone Pine from a post Christmas sale at Sam's Club.
I have found that it cannot handle the cold that we experience here in New Jersey in winter
and would like to get some feedback as to how to care for it over the remainder of winter either
indoor in a cool room (50-60 degrees F) or in an unheated garage with a window.
I tend to think the garage is too cold for it as well as outside as it gets into the 20's there as well.
Does anyone have any experience with this tree indoors? I will continue to find out how to deal
with it over time but need some immediate feedback on care at this time.
It was a bit dry and I flushed it twice with water and it drained well. I also soaked the foliage. I
don't think it's in too bad condition now.......just need some after care for now.
I can't comment on winter care of this pine, but I do know that it is not a favorite for bonsai. I've seen one or two good examples, but it has leggy branches and is a challenge. Good luck!
Central Coast of California
Well I'll deal with those issues if and when I get it through the winter and into a pot.
I've decided on an unheated garage with insulation around it's pot. I will put the pot it's in
in a larger pot and pack turface around the smaller pot to insulate it. Hope it works.
I've got an Italian Stone Pine from a christmas sale as well, a few years ago.
After working with it for over 4 years, it seems like an easy material to work with (in spite of the opposite that I am hearing from others). So far, it back-budded easily when I pruned it back hard, and responded to everything I did with it.
The more serious challenge will start when it looses the juvenile needles and starts sending out the long mature ones. Right now it's a mixed bag, most needles are the short, juvenile variety, but the long ones started coming out.
But this is California, and they love it here. I can't give advice on how to grow them in Jersey.
Stone Pine is a poor choice for bonsai on the East Coast. Overwintering is the biggest obstacle.
Stone pine is a Mediterranean species like Pomegranate. It can't take the deep, prolonged cold here--unless you live near the ocean--in which case it might work as a landscape plant.
The problem with growing these on the East Coast is that just keeping them alive is not nearly enough.
When creating any kind of bonsai, a tree has to respond to bonsai techniques. In order to do that, the tree has to be in top condition: very healthy and vigorous.
The cold environment is stressful to the Stone Pine. In addition, the bonsai techniques add another level of stress. This can slowly weaken the tree, and the decline can take years.
So, before you do anything, you need to make sure that the plant is very healthy and growing, not just surviving.
Unfortunately, the garage will probably kill the tree too. I doubt the species has developed any need for dormancy which means it's probably growing. The lack of light in the garage will prevent that...
Well, I've re-hydrated it. It looks very nice now. I've acclimated it in a cool room and insulated it and it's now in the garage for better or worse. Victrinia Ridgeway has guided me through the process and I'm hoping for the best. Many of the articles read say it's OK down into the 20's if given protection so we'll see. It's in a south facing window in the garage.
One thing for sure. If I'd left it in Sam's it would be dead for sure and for the cost of a couple of bucks I might save it and have a nice tree to work with in the fall.
I'll let you know.

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I love the grey/blue in this picture. I saw the picture posted here on a blog
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By David Malitz
The Embarrassment one of those bands that fell through the cracks in the early '80s, not quite punk, not quite pop and from Witchita, Kan., that'll do it to you. "Sex Drive" is their best-known "hit."
The Embarrassment, "Sex Drive"
Kath Bloom, "Come Here"
The New Pornographers, "Jackie"
The Clash, "Four Horsemen"
Pavement, "Best Friend's Arm"
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When you wish upon a star.....
Adults are only kids grown up, anyway. WD
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A sure cure for these doldrums, I have found, is a visit to my mother, who was born 100 years ago this very day, June 19th, in 1911.
Her father, a dentist, moved to Winona from Lanesboro when she was still a baby in the days before W.W.I, making me still something of a newcomer to Winona. Nevertheless, Mom has lots of memories of the old days here. They lived on Lafayette Street in a house, now gone, next door to the old Cathedral Grade School. Her earliest memory of Christmas was that she and her brothers were not allowed out of bed until the first street car rumbled down Main Street, which they lay awake and listened for all night long.
In winter those days there was a toboggan run built like a log sluice that came down from Garvin Heights Road and ran out onto the frozen Lake Winona. There are pictures of it at the Historical Society. She wanted to, but was not allowed to ride it, since it was quite dangerous and was finally closed after some kids were killed on it one year.
In any case, life was far more tenuous back then. The reason her family moved from Lanesboro was to be nearer to the medical help available in Winona she and one of her brothers had contracted polio down there, but recovered fully in the Winona General Hospital up on West Seventh.
She remembers with fondness visits in the family Model T to her relatives in Black River Falls, except for her mothers extreme anxiety on the trip home, lest they run late and have to cross, after dark, what was popularly called the death road, which ran between Bluff Siding and the Wisconsin end of the old wagon bridge. It was a narrow track, and when the light was poor travelers were likely to careen down its steep bank and into the black waters of the Mississippi to drown.
In those days the old bath house on Latsch Island faced out onto Bathhouse (naturally) Slough between Minnesota and Wisconsin; older Winonans will remember the structure, but probably not till it was moved to the other side of the island to face downtown Winona. For years one of the local retailers, H. Choate & Co., (whose grand, iconic old building still stands, now housing Hearts Desire, on the corner of Third and Center), held a contest at the beginning of summer to see which girl could strip out of her clothes, into her bathing suit, and scramble out of the changing room, down the wooden steps, and into the water first. The prize was a new bathing costume, which mother won one year. She admits to fudging herself a leg up on the competition by the subtle stratagem of wearing her old suit, rather than undies, beneath her street clothes.
Mom met my dad at church services in the Congregational Church on Broadway when they were both attending Winona Teachers College, now WSU. Their initial attempts at starting a family ended in sorrow, as her first two children were stillborn. (We helped her find the unmarked grave of the one who went full term over in Woodlawn Cemetery a few years back, and marked it with a little stone.) However, she quickly mastered the childbirth thing, bearing me and my four siblings in fairly quick succession. (I was actually born with no help from the doctor; I was early, he was late.)
Mom tells the story of trying once more, after my two older brothers and I came into the world, for a girl. At the age of 39 she got her wish, plus another boy, after my twin sister and brother were born. She was a petite 52, the twins each seven pounds at birth. Mom remembers having to be helped out of her chair in her ninth month with them. The long awaited girl, my sister Nancy, was a fussy, troublesome child who never slept, in contrast to her brother Nick, a placid, cheerful baby.
Whatever verbal gift I have I owe to my Mother, who was also a gifted pianist, whose music would drift up the stairs and lull me to sleep many a summer night. However, when it came time to form the family band, she was relegated to the drums, as it was paramount that our audiences should have absolute proof, by the keyboard mastery of the Edstrom tots, of the Pointer Systems magical properties. Her lasting musical legacy to the world was badgering my father to make some money out of the band arrangements he was giving away to fellow high school band masters and thus Hal Leonard Music was born.
Mom was able to stage a happy reprise of her mothering days, baby-sitting our two daughters, Cassidy and Morgan, while Fran and I struggled to keep the infant and struggling Winona Shopper alive. The precocious Cassi was her pride and joy, and she was always a stalwart defender, and apologist for Morgan, who could be a difficult child.
Now Morgan takes her two little girls, Peyton and Andie, to see their great-grandmother every Friday morning. Later, Mom will always say to Fran and me, That Morgan shes such a good mother!
Well, she has had good examples.
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The following is Part 2 of 2 on data in education. The first article introduces the concept and application of data in education. The second article looks at recent movements by the Department of Education in data mining, modeling and learning systems.
Big data analytics are coming to public education. In 2012, the US Department of Education (DOE) was part of a host of agencies to share a $200 million initiative to begin applying big data analytics to their respective functions. The DOE targeted its $25 million share of the budget toward efforts to understand how students learn at an individualized level. This segment reviews the efforts enumerated in the draft paper released by the DOE on their big data analytics.
The ultimate goal of incorporating big data analytics in education is to improve student outcomes – as determined common metrics like end-of-grade testing, attendance, and dropout rates. Currently, the education sector's application of big data analytics is to create "learning analytic systems" – here defined as a connected framework of data mining, modeling, and use-case applications.
The hope of these systems is to offer educators better, more accurate information on answer the "how" question in student learning. Is a student performing poor because she is distracted by her environment? Does a failing mark on the end-of-year test mean that the student did not fully grasp the year's material, or was she having a off day? Learning analytics can help provide information to help educators answer some of these tough, real world questions.
Data Mining to Answer Questions
Educational data mining is a major part in the move toward big data learning analytics. Recent trends in education have allowed researchers to amass large volumes of unstructured data. Structured data has been collected for years in the education sector, typically in the form of grades or attendance records. New methods of interactive learning have led to more unstructured data through intelligent tutoring systems, simulations, and learning games. This allows for the collection of richer data sets than previously possible, creating new research opportunities into students' learning environment.
Educational data has several unique characteristics. Summarized;
…[E]ducational data is … hierarchical. Data at the keystroke level, the answer level, the session level, the student level, the classroom level, the teacher level, and the school level are nested inside one another. (DOE: Learning Analytics, pg. 18, 2012)
Thus, when a student answers a single question, several variables are being simultaneously analyzed.
Time is also an important factor. Do large gaps between answering correct questions translate into better answers? Does a student spend too much time on the first parts of exams only to rush the latter parts?
The order, sequence, and context in which the questions are answered provide even greater amounts data researchers can use to uncover patterns in student learning. Students may preform better when asked a series of increasing difficult, but related questions rather than randomly selections of questions from a common pot. The move toward adaptive testing in the GRE (standardize testing for graduate school) shows a trend toward this effort.
Researchers can use all of this data to answer important questions about what makes the best learning environment for students. Understanding important questions academic questions can help educators create models about student learning efforts.
How the data is collected is important for its future usability. A challenge behind receiving the influx of data will be to standardize it on the front end so it can be usefully dissected. This does not mean converting unstructured to structured, but rather intuitive methods of categorizing incoming information similar to how YouTube has users categorize their videos during an upload. The DOE would need to be a standard-bearer for the organizing how this information is incorporated into databases for use modeling purposes.
User Knowledge and Behavior Modeling
Monitoring "how" a student tests has enabled researchers to model student behavior effectively. Beyond simply getting the correct answer, how a student works toward that goal can be just as important,
• How long has the student taken between questions?
• What previous kinds of questions have the student gotten correct/wrong?
•What kind of hints does the student benefit from most?
Monitoring these interactions can help create a behavior profile for individual students that can help educators understand the specific processes a student goes through in order to grasp the material.
Creating adaptive learning systems using these student behavior profiles can enhance the effect. Armed with the information of "how" a student learns, developers can then tailor future questions and hints designed to increase the retention and synthesis of information. Developers like DreamBox Learning and Knewton have created and released their versions of an adaptive learning system. Their software provides millions of ways students can work through the program based on how they complete their assignments.
Education Use-Cases
Educators and researchers have developed five major techniques for extracting value from educators' big data.
• Prediction – for understanding the likelihood of expected events. For example, having the ability to know when a student intentionally misses a question despite actual ability.
• Clustering – Discovering data points that naturally go together. Useful for putting together students of similar academic ability.
• Relationship Mining – discovering relationships between variables and encoding them for later use. Useful for detecting if a student gets the correct answer reliability after seeking help.
• Distillation for human judgment – building visual models human parsing to aid in machine learning models.
• Discovery with models – meta-study using models developed using big data analytics.
Researchers believe these techniques will help educators more effectively guide students toward a more individualized learning process.
What is striking is how these education use-cases overlap with other common uses of big data analytic systems. For example, commercial banks may use clustering algorithms for profiles of purchases that will allow them to more readily detect fraud in a system. These uses provide a framework for the creation of useful learning analytic systems.
Learning Analytic Systems
The implementation of all of these leads to the creation of a learning analytics system – techniques hold the promise of improving the academic outcomes of students. While similar systems have been in place in the commercial sector of years, the education sector has many challenges ahead before it truly becomes a success story.
Acquiring the data presents its own sets of challenges. For college-age and mature students, data collection is not a major issue, however for school-age students, it does require collectors to jump over some hurdles to prevent potentially identifying individual students. Some hurdles are legal, while others are ethical. Regardless this does slow down the overall process of collection.
The number and skill of data collectors is also an issue. Website's use of cookies for data gather is a common method companies can uniformly gather information. The DOE, however would have to rely on the thousands of school districts and networks of researchers to refine and certify data.
Even with its innate challenges, learning analytics represent a quantum leap in creating a customized learning environment for each student. Custom-fit learning curricula handed daily to each student, early detection systems designed to find the warning signs of potential disenrollment and dropouts, multi-year learning plans designed to challenge rather induce boredom. All made possible through the use of big data analytics.
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Thursday, November 18, 2010
For the past day or so, we've been watching four eagles soaring high, high and then, occasionally, diving down. Something must be really excellent about the fishing right now.
As much as I hate to mention holidays out of order, I'm starting to plan for our advent calendar. I wrote a post a couple of years ago about the topic; if you're interested, here's that link. Along the same lines, these advent action cards are fantastic.
Love The Dinner Diaries.
Jan has a great roundup of ornaments.
I mentioned a problem with constantly disappearing scissors; my sister (who has children older than mine) recommended I lock them up, to avoid things like haircuts. Oy! We have managed to avoid that one so far.
Do you wear socks? I never ever do, except when I exercise. I have one pair of smartwool socks I love, that I try to remember to wear to the boys' hockey games; they recently got a hole in them.
I hope your week has been a good one.
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- Vanessa said...
I have the same problem with disappearing scissors so make sure they always go in my kitchen cupboards which are mostly transparent. I'm already excited about Christmas and just finished all my shopping. It sounds a bit like obessive organisation but I honestly can't face fighting my way through the crowds in December. Making an advent calendar is a lovely idea; I should try that.
I wear socks but only for sports and in the house at night when I've changed into my pyjamas and have cold feet. In the daytime, I stick to tights. Have a lovely weekend Lecia! - Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 11:36:00 PM PST
- Sammi said...
That sure was a miscellaneous post :D
I have the only pair of scissors in my house that aren't used in the kitchen.. I hide them in a pencil case, and I move it around my room so no one can take them ;o)
I am wearing two pairs of socks right now. I wear a pair for work, and a pair for when I walk the dog and go out on my scooter, because otherwise my feet get so cold. - Friday, November 19, 2010 at 2:24:00 AM PST
- Cathy said...
I love the shot of the boys and their grandfather. It looks like it might have been a real discovery/learning situation. How very precious to have captured that.
- Friday, November 19, 2010 at 5:05:00 AM PST
- A Day That is Dessert said...
Thanks for stopping by and sharing your thoughts, friends. Enjoy your weekend! xoxo
- Friday, November 19, 2010 at 9:00:00 AM PST
- Karena said...
Lecia wonderful images!!Have a great weekend!
Come enter my giveaway from Empress of the Eye! You will love the interview!
Art by Karena - Friday, November 19, 2010 at 11:01:00 AM PST
- Char said...
i have to buy scissors in multiples because i'm always misplacing them. gorgeous shots
- Friday, November 19, 2010 at 12:25:00 PM PST
- RW said...
Not only do the scissors go missing but the homework pencil jar is always empty despite me filling it up weekly. I don't get it.
I wear socks in the winter. And tights. Bare legs and feet in the summer.
Your photos are remarkable. - Saturday, November 20, 2010 at 8:12:00 AM PST
- Francesca said...
You wear winter shoes and boots with no socks on? I wear all layers I can in winter, and often have to wear socks in bed too!
- Saturday, November 20, 2010 at 11:48:00 AM PST
- Paige said...
Re: scissors, I have lots of 'em around the house, but this year for Christmas I'm gonna buy a kitchen shears for the hubby because he's always grabbing whatever he can find for cutting open packages and cutting into pizza. (!!) The other day I found him using my very special "sewing only!" scissors for something in the kitchen and I about drew up divorce papers. Kidding, of course!
- Saturday, November 20, 2010 at 3:46:00 PM PST
- Denise Michaels - Adventurous Foodie said...
I have kitchen scissors for cutting flower stems or other things and a couple pairs of regular scissors - the ones with the bright orange handles. And I'm always losing them, too.
Gorgeous pictures. Truly lovely.
Are those Cornish pasties in the picture? They look like they're about to go in the oven. I'm originally from Michigan and have family in the UP where pasties are a big tradition. I'm sure I haven't had one in over 20 years. - Sunday, November 21, 2010 at 5:13:00 AM PST
- KPiep said...
Fabulous pictures!
I love my socks - but then all I wear anymore are my handknit socks and my running socks. Soooo comfy! - Sunday, November 21, 2010 at 6:35:00 AM PST
- A Day That is Dessert said...
Thank you, friends!
Francesca: My boots have fleece lining! And, it's rare to need those boots :) My climate is far milder than yours... xo Lecia - Monday, November 22, 2010 at 10:08:00 PM PST


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The stars of Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" must have saved their weirdest outfits for the film's London premiere last night. It was a given that Helena Bonham Carter would wear something strange, but even Anne Hathaway went a little kookier than usual for the event. In fact, Burton and Johnny Depp were dressed the most normal out of the bunch, and that was only because they had on suits.
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Yesterday at my "Everything's a Dollar" store I got the following great products.
A Fiskars Photo Inspirational Memory Kit which included; A sheet of peel and stick corners, a sheet of Inspiriation peel and Stick stickers A Stencil ((12) A sheet of pre-printed frames. 4 sheets of reversible cardstock 4 sheets of reversible patterened paper.A Great Deal all for 1$ And Packages of AllNight Media Stamp Art papers. 10 Decorative sheets -5 large 5 small Silver collection and a green collection (with Mulberry type papers. I know I've paid at least $5 for a pack of this. I also got 2 separate stamp sets by All Night Media 1 - Frame It 3 frame and 2 corner stamps in puppy dog designs (bones paws etc. 2- Frame It of Wedding designs - rings, heats, corners etc. Bothe the Stamp sets wer by All Night Media. Have to go again tomorrow and see if they put anything else out. |
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Wow Minnie! What great deals! I'll have to check out my dollar stores here in Alabama. I did find some nice goodies at Dollar General the other day - since I'm into Altered Books, I am on the lookout for all kinds of embellishments. They had some awesome bracelets and necklace/earring sets for a buck each - each had several different charms, many beads, all kinds of cool dangly stuff that I can use by disassembing them! Also found a large sheet of stick-on earrings for little girls - real neat shiny "gems" that will be great for embellishing. Thanks for the heads-up, Minnie. You always find the greatest bargains! jackie (alabama) |
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Yesterday's The Wall Street Journal article – "Do Real-Estate Agents Have a Secret Agenda?" – reported on the well-known, but often undisclosed, practice of sellers offering buyers' agents additional incentives to close a deal.
Sometimes when properties, typically new developments, are not selling as fast as the builder had anticipated they offer additional incentives. Similar to a car manufacturer's "0% financing" or "Friends and Family" programs, sellers will offer buyers incentives such as a granite counter upgrade package, free closing costs or a year of free homeowners" dues.
Other times the incentives are hidden. Just like when you pay the invoice price on a car, the dealer still gets paid. The same thing happens in real estate. As the WSJ article points out, there are some pretty serious incentives being offered to the buyer's agent such as 10% commission as opposed to the usual 3%.
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Stephanie's grandparents blame her anger on being abandoned by her father and then her mother. The other Huff girls have adjusted better, but Linda says Stephanie reportedly has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. She also may be developmentally delayed and have other mental-health problems. Kidz Ark couldn't keep Stephanie forever, though; once she successfully completed the facility's program, she was released back to her grandparents.
The teen stayed in touch with Linda, and she frequently calls her from jail. Linda mostly tries to encourage Stephanie to keep her chin up, but she also tries to explain the seriousness of the situation. "I'm not sure she comprehends it," Linda says. "I asked her if she'll ever write to Shawna's parents, and she said, 'I want to, but I can't do it yet.' She has a pretty flat affect; she doesn't get overly excited about much."
The first week Stephanie spent in jail, she cried and couldn't sleep, according to Linda. "She tells me she's sad about not being with her family and that she's worried her grandparents won't be around when she gets out of jail."
Stephanie's public defender, Stephen Sneider, obtained a gag order, effectively sealing any public records related to the case and preventing witnesses -- including Stephanie -- from speaking. Stephanie's grandparents declined to comment for this story but gave Linda permission to share what little she knows of the young woman.
Linda had stopped by the grandparents' home ten months after Stephanie left Kidz Ark to check on her. She and her sisters were in the back yard, playing with their pet rabbits, and, Linda says, Stephanie seemed to be doing well. But just a few months later, she was back in court for running away again. Her grandparents tried to get help for Stephanie -- they wanted her to return to Kidz Ark -- but the Weld County Department of Social Services turned them down because of a lack of funding.
Judy Griego, director of the department, says she's been advised by the county attorney not to discuss any aspect of Stephanie's case. She also declined to speak in general terms about any funding difficulties the county is facing. Linda is quick to point out that it's not Weld County's fault it couldn't afford to send Stephanie back to Kidz Ark, where treatment costs $112 per day per child. Nor is it really the state's fault. She believes it all goes back to society's view of kids like Stephanie.
When Linda and her husband and another couple first got into the child-care industry, they ran a home near Colorado Springs. "We were fought by residents when we tried to open, and when we tried to expand our Sterling facility, we were fought there, too," she says. "People always tell us that what we do is wonderful, as long as it's not in their back yard.
"Everyone looks at these kids like they're horrible monsters, but they're not. They're human beings who have had bad things done to them."
Very bad things. Incomprehensible things.
Kidz Ark has treated children who were chained up by their parents, introduced into prostitution by their parents, left for dead by their parents. Many of the kids have been abandoned by their mothers. They found tequila in the bottle of one abandoned baby, and her seven-year-old sister, who weighed 72 pounds, had so much anger that it took three adults to hold her down when she went into rages. "When you have kids who have suffered this much abuse, it takes more than three, six, even nine months in therapy to help them," Linda says. "But that's all the funds are providing now."
Most of the kids Linda sees aren't adoptable or even ready for foster care, they're so troubled. But residential treatment centers -- which differ from residential child-care facilities, such as Mountain States Children's Home, in that they get Medicaid funding and can therefore treat kids with more severe problems -- have been suffering from budget cuts.
The Colorado Department of Human Services doles out block grants to the county departments, giving them discretion over how they spend the money. "After they spend that, 100 percent of the cost of RTC placement comes out of their pocket," explains Peg Long, executive director of the Colorado Association of Family and Children's Agencies. "Most counties have spent their reserves. The system is bankrupt. It's bankrupt at the county level and it's bankrupt at the state level."
She points to the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights as the cause. TABOR, as it's widely known, is a 1992 constitutional amendment that limits the amount of revenue the state can keep and spend. The legislation requires voters to approve additional taxation and to allow the state to keep extra funds when there's a surplus. Everyone from school administrators to Medicaid recipients have decried TABOR for the budgetary restrictions it's placed on social programs, and child-welfare providers are no exception. "The only bad guys here are the taxpayers who have applauded the tax cuts we've had in Colorado," Long says.
The amount of money RTCs receive from the state hasn't kept pace with the cost of treatment. For example, Denver Children's Home spends $169 a day per child on treatment but gets only $136 per child per day from the state. Due to the lack of funding, the length of time kids can stay in a residential treatment facility has dropped dramatically. In July 2002, the average number of days that beds were available in RTCs was 1,500; by July 2003, that number had dropped to 1,369.


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Call of Cthulhu LCG™: State of the Game April/May 2009 |
Call of Cthulhu LCG | Published 27 April 2009 |
by Nate French, Call of Cthulhu Developer
When I first came to Fantasy Flight Games in February of 2006, I came with the belief that I would be working on the company's 2 CCGs, A Game of Thrones and Call of Cthulhu. Even when I flew in for my interview and went out for dinner with Lead Designer Eric Lang, much of the talk was about the upcoming "Dreamlands" edition, which would be the third base set of the Call of Cthulhu CCG. From what I gathered, this set and its popular setting were eagerly anticipated by fans and collectors alike.
Unfortunately, the set would never see the light of day. In my first week at Fantasy Flight, I was told that the Eldritch Edition and its expansions were not performing as well as expected, and that the company was canceling the game. This put me in the unenviable position of essentially introducing myself, getting to know the community, and then following the honeymoon up with the dire announcement of the game's demise.
There had to be some light, some glimmer of hope at the end of the tunnel. Or else it was simply an impossible announcement to make.
Talking with Fantasy Flight Games CEO Christian Petersen, it was clear that the he loved the Call of Cthulhu card game, and everyone involved was disappointed that it was about to be canceled. As a final gesture of goodwill, mostly as a gift to the die-hard players who would play the game to the very end, FFG fleshed out the open-ended idea of "Asylum Packs." In these packs we planned to periodically release 20 fixed cards, giving the game and its fans a small taste of life after death.
Over the course of the next two years, four of these Asylum Packs were released: Spawn of Madness, Kingsport Dreams, Conspiracies of Chaos, and Dunwich Denizens. And, much to our surprise, the packs were quite popular, with numbers that far surpassed our modest expectation of demonstrating loyalty to the game and its die hard fan base: each of these initial, trailblazing Asylum Packs has completely sold out of our warehouse.
Thus, the seeds for the Living Card Game™ (LCG™) model were planted. Both Call of Cthulhu and its sister game, A Game of Thrones: The Card Game, went through a difficult time of transition, re-imagining, and change. Everything was challenged: from packaging and distribution to the look and feel of the cards and game components to the very theory of what it was that our target audience were looking for in a card game experience. To long-time players, some of these changes seemed arbitrary or silly, but the ultimate goal was always to transform two games that were struggling as CCGs, and reinvent them as viable, successful products that we would be able to sustain indefinitely into the future.
As we emerge on the other side of the transition, it is looking very much like the LCG™ venture has been a success. As I wrote earlier this month in my A Game of Thrones LCG™ State of the Game:
"As a product, the AGoT LCG™ is exceeding expectations, and the game has shown significant growth for the first time in years. The newly launched Spanish language version of the game has sold out of its entire print run, and this has generated a considerable amount of excitement for both the game and the LCG™ concept." |
And the news for the Call of Cthulhu LCG™ is even brighter. A number of our partners are picking up the game for alternate language editions around the world, and to meet demand we are going to be reprinting the English language Core Set (which has almost completely sold out of its first printing). These results have far exceeded our expectations. Not a bad turnaround at all, for a game we "canceled" 3 short years ago.
Enter the Darkness
This summer, Fantasy Flight Games will be announcing the debut of our first entirely new Living Card Game™. All I can say now is that it's an amazing game with a powerful license, and that lead designer Eric Lang and I have had a blast working on it.
As a might be expected consequence of this situation, the workload of three simultaneous LCGs™ is something of a beast, and I found myself staying at the office later and later as the weeks went by. It became clear that something had to give, and the decision was made by the company to make James Hata (Universal Fighting System designer and developer) a major part of the Call of Cthulhu LCG™ design team. I'll let James introduce himself to you in an article of his own, saying only that he is a brilliant designer and card player, and that the game will only benefit from his attention.
We've already begun the process of bringing James into the fold, but in the meantime, the next set for the Call of Cthulhu LCG™ has already been wrapped up and sent off for translation, and it's fitting, as our story of cancelation, death, and LCG™ rebirth comes full circle...
Perchance to Dream...
If you haven't already guessed, the next series of six Asylum Packs for the Call of Cthulhu card game is Dreamlands. More than any other project I worked on for this game, Dreamlands has been the most enjoyable. While the Summons of the Deep Asylum Pack series was designed essentially as an extension of the core set, focusing primarily on the basic mechanics of the game, Dreamlands was designed as a set with an identity all its own.
One old school mechanic that was intentionally held back from the Core Set was the Day/Night mechanic, and this mechanic comes back in force with the Dreamlands cycle. In a set built around Dreamer characters and the Dreamlands setting, the Night/Day mechanic was the perfect starting point.
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Another feature that makes Dreamlands a unique set in the CoC LCG™ is a new "Unique matters" theme that runs throughout the cycle. It always kind of bothered me that having the unique symbol was typically viewed as a minor detraction from a card's value in the Call of Cthulhu card game, as many of the named, recognizable Mythos personalities and entities were released as unique cards. A number of effects in Dreamlands reward unique cards, or (if you're of a more destructive mindset), punish non-uniques. Going along with this theme, the Dreamlands set offers up a feast of unique characters and supports, such as Nasht and Kaman-Tha, The Enchanted Wood, Nathaniel Elton, King Kuranes, Randolph Carter, The Silver Key, Princess Zura, Mnomquah, The Tower of Koth, and Richard Upton Pickman.
The Dreamlands set also takes a new look at some "tribal" decks, particularly the Gugs and the Ghouls. The mythos factions didn't get all the love, though, as the Agency get some powerful Attachment synergy, and the Syndicate get a new deck strategy that might end up drawing some of their opponents into oblivion. Dreamer characters and Dreamlands supports become hooks around which a player can build, and the neutral Zoog bring with them an entirely new type of resource. One thing I've learned about card design over the past few years is simply, don't underestimate the extent to which a certain type of player loves a good tribal theme.
Finally, the Dreamlands set comes with its own serial tale, introducing a Gregory Gry (a talented but reluctant Syndicate card shark) and the mysterious Twila Katherine Price (a rebellious Miskatonic University art student with an obsession for the Dreamlands) to the Call of Cthulhu LCG™. Their story kicks off in the CoC LCG™ Asylum Pack 13, Twilight Horror, and the tale continues throughout the entire Dreamlands series.
The Dreamlands set is currently in translation, and should be ready for a later Summer release.
In the Meantime...
In the meantime, the Summons of the Deep Asylum Pack series continues. This month, we've released Asylum Pack 10, The Terror of the Tides. (Official Release Date: April 30th.) This pack is all about the Arcane struggle, and it also introduces The Descendant of Eibon, the card designed by 2007 Call of Cthulhu world champion James Black, to the Call of Cthulhu card game. The Thing From the Shore, AP 11, will continue the Summons series in May, bringing with it the idea that "skill matters."
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Also, keep your eyes peeled for the upcoming CoC LCG™ tutorial video. I spent a couple days last week working with the FFG media department on the script, and the video is now in production. These guys (Keith Hurley and Jason Beaudoin) do top notch work (as anyone who has seen the AGoT tutorial can attest), and the CoC tutorial video should be available as a community resource in the next couple weeks.
As you're probably aware, there have been some issues and questions regarding organized play and support. Our former line coordinator, Paul Bromen, has left the company, and the marketing department is in the process of reorganizing itself to better accommodate our card games. As we move through this transition, we are also in the process of revisiting all of our organized play programs, and trying to find a program that best suits the needs of our LCG™ audience. To this end, we're asking ourselves and our fans what players (and particularly, LCG™ players) might want out of an organized play program, what it might take to get a gaming group who are into it as a casual "beer & pretzels" endeavor to participate in organized play, and what it might take to get a local group who play once a month at their game store to consider traveling for a Regional or National championship. If you're a player (new or old), servitor, or store owner, and you have any thoughts on these topics, feel free to contact me directly ([email protected]). We are committed to gaining a better understanding of our LCG™ audience, and putting together the best possible OP program for the CoC LCG™.
Finally, because I don't get to say so often enough, I'd like to finish this "state of the game" by thanking a number of people who have helped bring this game from where it was three years ago to where it is today, freely volunteering their time as playtest group leaders, and without their contributions, goodwill, enthusiasm, patience, and endless generosity, this game would not be enjoying its success: Travis Hoffman, Will Lentz, Fabio Soncina, and Vincent Manseau. Thank you for all of your contributions. And finally there are three community members who have gone above and beyond in unfathomable measure: Chris Long, Marius Hartland, and James Black. I cannot thank you three enough. It has been a pleasure working with you on this game.
These are exciting times for the Call of Cthulhu LCG™. In the months ahead, I'll be working closely with James to ensure that the Call of Cthulhu LCG™ continues to thrive and release Asylum packs for years to come.
I'm very much looking forward to the next round of insanity.
Nate French
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Based on the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft and his literary circle, Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game takes two players deep into the Cthulhu Mythos where investigators clash with the Ancient Ones and Elder Gods for the fate of the world. To learn more about Call of Cthulhu, visit our minisite.
Excellent article Nate!
I must also congratulate you on the 'Summons Of The Deep' series!
Our league has thuroughly enjoyed playing with the cards and the story
of miss Julia Brown had us hooked from the start. Expectations for Dreamlands
will be quite high in the community but after 'Summons' I am confident that you will
meet and exceed those expectations. Mr. Hata, if you are not familiar with 'Mythos' literature
I would suggest you dive in asap! Welcome to the Asylum James and best of luck to you!
Great article, and the new cycle looks to be exciting.
And those are some big mushrooms (or a small hand...). Delicious.
This is awesome and we're happy to see such a marvellous article !!
Well, it's time for us to propose some minor stuffs. Let's work !
Yes, an article like this has been overdue!
this is the kinda news ive been hoping to see after the agot article the other week. cant wait to hear from james and his take on the game.


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LINCOLN, RI – Amica Insurance has been recognized at the J.D. Power and Associates Customer Service Roundtable in Orlando, FL, as a 2012 Customer Service Champion—one of only 50 companies to have earned this distinction this year.
To qualify for inclusion on this elite list, companies must not only excel within their own industry, but also must stand out among leading brands in 20 major industries evaluated by J.D. Power. Among the five factors measured, Amica was noted for standing out in people, presentation, process and price among the group of 50.
To identify the 2012 Customer Service Champions, J.D. Power evaluated more than 800 brands. The 2012 Champions were identified based on customer feedback, opinions, and perceptions gathered primarily from J.D. Power's syndicated research in 2011. This group of 50 represents the highest-performing U.S. companies that deliver service excellence —both within their respective industry and across all industries measured.
"Amica is honored to be named a 2012 Customer Service Champion," said Robert A. DiMuccio, chairman, president and CEO of Amica Insurance. "We're also pleased to be among an elite group of companies recognized for providing exceptional customer service, each and every day."
DiMuccio noted that Amica has built its reputation on providing exceptional customer service, and he said recognition such as this is a demonstration of the hard work and dedication of Amica's more than 3,100 employees across the country.
"We believe hiring the right people and empowering them are at the foundation of service excellence," DiMuccio said. "Amica is fortunate to have the right people to believe in and carry on our long tradition of putting customers first."
In 2012, Amica was also recognized by J.D. Power for being "Highest in Customer Satisfaction Among National Auto Insurers, 12 Years in a Row"1 and "Highest in Customer Satisfaction Among National Homeowners Insurers, 10 Years in a Row." 2
1Amica received the highest numerical score in the proprietary J.D. Power and Associates 2011 National Auto Insurance StudySM. Study is based on 27,897 responses from policyholders of 45 insurance carriers surveyed from March to May 2011 about their experiences and perceptions. Visit jdpower.com.
2Amica received the highest numerical score in the proprietary J.D. Power and Associates 2011 Homeowners Insurance StudySM. Study is based on 9,173 responses from policyholders of 22 insurance carriers surveyed from April to July 2011 about their experiences and perceptions. Visit jdpower.com.
About Amica
Amica Mutual Insurance Company, the nation's oldest mutual insurer of automobiles, was founded in 1907. The company, with corporate headquarters in Lincoln, RI, is a national writer of automobile, homeowners, marine and personal umbrella liability insurance. Life coverage is available through Amica Life Insurance Company, a wholly owned subsidiary. Amica employs more than 3,100 people in 40 offices across the country.
CONTACT:Vince Burks, Corporate Communications, 50 Amica Way,
Lincoln, RI 02865-1155, 800-652-6422, ext. 24563
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Friday, July 11, 2014PSW Staff 07/11/14 02:22 PM,Listen Technologies announces G3, the third generation of Confidea wireless conferencing systems and a continuation of the company's ongoing partnership with Televic, distributor of Listen's multi-band wireless conference products to customers in North America. The G3 system integrates a new wireless engine and offers more available frequencies for improved global communication compared to other wireless conferencing solutions, according to Listen Technologies. G3 also provides simplified button layout with a more intuitive user interface, improved chairman control, upgraded battery technology… View this story
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Monday, June 09, 2014PSW Staff 06/09/14 07:08 AM,Listen Technologies has announced two key executive level changes made to help position the company for its next phase of growth and expansion. The company is also unveiling a comprehensive business plan involving new product introductions, brand positioning, sales channels, marketing and customer service. Cory Schaeffer, who previously served as vice president of sales, is now contributing in the newly created position of vice president of business development. In the new role, Schaeffer will focus on business development by strengthening… View this story
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Tuesday, May 13, 2014PSW Staff 05/13/14 08:40 AM,Listen Technologies Corporation announces its new Stationary RF systems, designed as a solution for system integrators, contractors and consultants working with venues seeking assistive listening for either legislative compliance or to meet the personal listening needs of their customers. The new systems, available in a range of configurations, offer a competitive price point to installers and high quality sound (with 20 dB less hiss than competitive products from other brands), and are backed by an extensive warranty and Listen Technologies'… View this story
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Monday, February 03, 2014PSW Staff 02/03/14 10:53 AM,To continue strengthening its sales force, Listen Technologies announces the appointment of a key representative firm for Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama. Listen Technologies is pleased to welcome Griffith Sales Associates as the company's representative for Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama. Griffith Sales Associates will be working Listen's full line of Wireless Listening, ListenPoint®, and Conferencing products for assistive listening, soundfield, tour group, language interpretation, and conferencing solutions found in venues all… View this story
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Monday, January 27, 2014PSW Staff 01/27/14 06:23 PM,Listen Technologies is pleased to announce its top performing pro-audio sales representatives for 2013. Each year Listen recognizes a select group of individuals and firms from across North America that demonstrate outstanding drive, passion, and commitment in representing its products. The awards and honors that Listen presents are: Rep of the Year, Listen Bull Dogs, and Most Improved Territory. In 2013, the Rep of the Year Award went to Dave Ellison of Ellison Northwest. "The team at Ellison Northwest was… View this story
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Wednesday, January 08, 2014PSW Staff 01/08/14 12:25 PM,Listen Technologies announced top honors to Ellison Northwest in University Place, Washington. Representative of the Year recognizes the firm that stands out for its commitment and passion in representing Listen Technologies. "The team at Ellison Northwest was an obvious choice for our 2013 Representative of the Year," says Cory Schaeffer, Co-Founder and VP of Sales Worldwide at Listen Technologies. "They communicate with us regularly, are continually working all of our product categories, doing demos, and have exceeded their sales goals… View this story
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'Speaking Math in Spanish' topic of BU lecture
'Speaking Math in Spanish' topic of BU lecture
For immediate release: Feb. 18, 2013
BLOOMSBURG — Paul Loomis, associate professor of mathematics, computer science and statistics, will share insights gained while traveling through Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile in "Speaking Math in Spanish: A South American Road Trip."
The lecture, free and open to the public, will be presented at 4:30 p.m., Monday, Feb. 25, in Bloomsburg University's Warren Student Services Center 004.
During six months in South America, Loomis visited universities, gave colloquium talks, sat in on classes and talked with students, faculty and administrators. In this lecture he will discuss how cultural, economic and political factors affect university life.
The lecture is sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts' Institute for Culture and Society. For information, contact Nancy Giles, assistant professor of psychology, email@example.com.
Bloomsburg University is one of 14 universities in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. BU serves approximately 10,000 students, offering comprehensive programs of study in the colleges of Education, Business, Liberal Arts and Science and Technology.


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MMAppearances.com is a leading booking agency for Mixed Martial Arts fighters. To make booking the fighters easier and more effective for the client, MMAppearances.com relies on an understanding of the world of Martial Arts based on long-term relationships developed over several years within the industry.
MMAppearances.com specializes in booking appearances for corporate events, speaking engagements, celebrity and athlete appearances, tradeshows, seminars, and many other vehicles of promotion. Their one-step access to current MMA fighters and personalities makes the booking process efficient and professional. "Through our extensive industry relationships with MMA fighters and experience negotiating hundreds of fighter talent deals, we help simplify the process of booking a fighter. Our goal is always to make the booking as professional, stress-free, and successful as possible" said Robert Cardenas, President of MMAppearances.com.
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According to ProFootballTalk, the New York Jets have signed former Oakland Raiders' running back Mike Goodson to a 3-year $6.9 million contract.
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— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) March 15, 2013
The Jets needed to fill a vacant spot in their backfield after the departure of leading rusher Shonn Greene, who signed with the Tennessee Titans on Wednesday.
ESPN is reporting that the Jets may see Goodson as a possible number one running back because of his big play potential (he averaged 6.3 yards per carry), and his ability to catch the ball out of the backfield (he had 40 catches for 310 yards in 2010).
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66 points is the kind of performance that'll get you a nickname. Not sure, but I'd guess it's something like Gumby or Stretch or Saucy the Milkman. Then again, there's a reason I'm not the MC at the world's most famous outdoor court.


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We build lasting relationships by helping our customers identify and achieve their financial dreams. We do this through our four C's as described below:
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First American Bank was originally chartered in 1935, and has thrived since 1990, under the care of the Mayes family. Today the bank has assets of about 300 million dollars and maintains seven locations in central Oklahoma.
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