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Posted by Eric Wilbur, Boston.com Staff January 9, 2012 09:56 AM
Here's Vancouver Sun blogger Harrison Mooney on Saturday's game and the "uninformed" Bruins crowd.
It's not surprising that [Henrik Sedin] dislikes the Boston faithful. They can seem...uninformed. (Of course, when you consider where they get their information, you can't blame 'em.) For example, Cory Schneider got the start in this game, but the crowd jeered Luongo five times. Ridiculous. Only once did they get it right, chanting "We Want Luongo," proving that their relationship with him is akin to a kindergarten crush. They pick on him because they secretly like him.
Wow. Does Mooney really believe that the crowd thought Luongo was in net? I don't know what to think. It's either a lesson in the etiquette of taunting, or another desperate attempt to make Boston fans seem like uneducated neanderthals. I know we didn't burn Causeway Street after the game, so maybe there is work to do before being considered true hockey fans. Sorry, Vancouver.
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What Size Brushes?
I received my Tablet (Intuos 3) and I am disappointed with my progress. I thought I could draw much better, but I just can't get the hang of Tablets but I WANT to do virtual drawings-paintings because how flexible it is (with effects etc) that can really enlighten your drawings and or paintings.
I was wondering was size brush you use for lets say pencil art. Right now I am using some sort of wedged / diamond shape that is Brush Size 5 (Photoshop CS2). Is that too big, too small? On the dot? Or is it personal preference?
I also cannot understand the concept of shading on a computer. On paper, I can shade very nicely but on the computer, I don't know how to apply a big fat brush of 1 color and make it seem like shading? Plus, the smudge tool is not working very well for me since I find it just distorts the pixels rather than mixing colors with one another.
What do you think I can do? =( and what are some of your preferences?
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first, you shouldn't be blind on how big your brushes or what brushes you need.
try out the really basic round brush in photoshop, set size to the presure.
based on how big the canvas is, the brush is of course realtive in size, so using that 5px brush on a a4 canvas would make reealy thin lines.
but try working a bit bigger, that might help, you can start just droping out forms and stuff in small format but then, often you want to bring up the canvas some sizes (That's great thing about doing it digital!).
and shading, are you talking cartoon now? i'm not into cell shading at all, but if we talk about usual shading and blending color, you could use the same brush as above, maybe pic a bigger size, set the opacity low and start "building" upp color, and on the fly using the ALT key for eyedropping color so you can go another step an make that nice blend.
i think i saw some tutorial on this before? here at CA.
kepp away from the smudge, there is good ways to use it though, but thoose comes often later on, so try using a basic brush, i tihnk that will learn you the most about painting, setting it to different flow and opacity, play around with it, do some blending, or other exercises.
hope something was useful of this.
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About the StoryThe Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.
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Language: English (en)
First Publication Date: October 1, 2011
Current Version: 6
Development System: Inform 7
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Translated to German in PataNoir - Ein unvergleichlicher Kriminalfall, by Simon Christiansen ; Marius Müller (translator)
5th Place - 17th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2011)
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I dont recall any other game that does anything quite like this.
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It is totally awesome and fun and if you like noir and/or language you are in for a treat.
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I probably played PataNoir for more than two hours on and off. It was good enough for me to bother finishing but not good enough for me not to resort to using the walkthrough a few times. The name 'PataNoir' is taken from the word 'pataphor'. Some people might object that a pataphor is a metaphor but the game deals in similes, but my contention after studying the various philosophy of language arguments about metaphor is that a metaphor is just a truncated simile. So I approve of the name.
I love the concept of the game: similes coming to life such that they can be manipulated to solve puzzles. There were some issues in the implementation. A lot of it made me smile. The writing is very sparse, similes aside, but sometimes it works. Simon is obviously going for the Chandler style patter and occasionally he gets it right.
The game was blessedly free of typos and grammar mistakes. My overall impression of PataNoir was that it's a neat idea, mostly well implemented- with some puzzles overhinted at and some nearing impossible without the (mostly excellent) in-game hint mechanism. This is surely a sign that the puzzles were hard to hint for as they weren't very naturalistic, which I suppose is an inherent danger in a surreal game. I'm glad the game was made, and it's exactly the sort of game that lends itself to non-IF players as a good example of the possibilities of IF. I wouldn't recommend it first, but then I wouldn't recommend it last.
A note: this is the review for the comp release. Newer releases are likely to be smoother and better hinted.
Related reviews: simile, metaphor, magic system, dream, surreal, noir, detective, mystery
The big concept of PataNoir is that similes occupy their own adjacent reality that you can manipulate: change the simile, change the real world. One frequently-employed subset of this involves altering the personalities of people. Elements of one simile can be used to tinker with another, and in some sequences similes are gates that allow you to plunge into entirely separate worlds. There are, then, a number of distinct kinds of manipulation that can be performed with similes, and they're thrown at you pretty much all at once, together with rules about how the system works (similes can be used to modify real-world things, but can't act directly on them: a simile key will not unlock a real door.) When I first played it I had a little trouble taking on everything at once, and stalled out perhaps halfway in.
The simile hook provides a good deal of rather lovely imagery (kicking in good and early), with elements of fantastic journey about it; to film this you'd want Terry Gilliam (or vankmajer, though it's not quite that dark). There is a hauntingly dark atmosphere to much of it. Not every section is quite as spectacular as it could be: the climactic scene in particular could be richer and darker. But there are many images I took away from this: (Spoiler - click to show)the angel fountain encircled by snake-paths, the sleeping giant, the eyes you swim into like subterranean lakes, the plunge from bottles on a table in a messy apartment into a minaret-studded city. There's much here of the raw stuff of imagination, the pure delight of strange transformations.
Structurally, the game has areas you can travel between, and you will fairly often need to travel back and forth. The game's natural pace is a sort of Anchorhead-like, leisurely poking around at things; but I ended up speeding things up with the walkthrough a good deal, for a couple of reasons. Dream or hallucination is a flow state: it's not something where you get hung up on a fair-but-difficult conundrum for a while and have to work through it logically. The play experience matches up much better with the experience-as-written when you cheat. Simile-logic isn't really consistent enough for a Savoir-Faire simulationist approach, and there's often a whiff of read-author's-mind about the solutions. In the impossible-to-make Platonic ideal of this game, more or less everything you tried would advance the plot somehow. That said, going to the walkthrough really doesn't ruin the experience: it's still hauntingly strange.
Christiansen's biggest limiting factor remains narrative voice. This is exacerbated because of PataNoir's reliance on a genre that makes very strong demands on narrative voice, even when done as a pastiche. Noir needs a tone of slangy self-assurance, murky motives, a grimy, uncomfortable world full of implied sex, violence and desperation. PataNoir feels a bit more in Thin Man territory: there's a noir template, but it's being used in service to something else, it's as much a comedy on noir tropes as anything, and thus it's rendered nonthreatening. The characters are a little too straightforward: the obligatory femme fatale has the mandatory dangerous curves, but these are only significant as a simile: but the PC doesn't feel as though he regards her with either lust or trepidation.
And then there's the ending. (Spoiler - click to show)The protagonist, it turns out, has a rare mental-health condition ("Lytton-Chandler syndrome") and, off his meds, has likely fantasised the entire thing. A lot of people felt this was a cop-out; I'm not convinced of this, but I don't think it really matches up with the story as written. The tough, non-flowing puzzle structure isn't suggestive of hallucination, but of solid, graspable, permanent worlds; the contrast between the rich simile-worlds and the flat detective-noir story suggests that they genuinely do occupy separate worlds, rather than being elements of the same hallucination.
So ultimately I came out of this hoping that Christiansen would team up with a more confident wordsmith, or perhaps find something that allows him to develop his own voice rather than trying to replicate an established style.
I didn't play the previous releases, but started with the open beta of release 5. A solid effort, the gameplay is fun and novel, although at times I did try each object until I got to the right one. The experimenting didn't detract from the overall experience, however, and I never felt stuck.
Some of the sequences were stronger and flowed together better. Some of the simile-based puzzles early on felt a little shoehorned or simple, but they improve substantially as the game goes on. In particular, everything after (Spoiler - click to show)your first confrontation with Camino was strong, challenging, but fair.
The help system is clever and useful, although it may over-simplify some parts of the game, so I'd suggest not resorting to it as quickly as the tutorial might suggest. A few puzzles that I could have solved on my own were rendered easy by the use of it, and it felt a little bit like cheating.
The denouement had a surprising last twist--although it felt very straight-forward, there was a well-done plot twist your player could create. It doesn't substantially alter the game, but it is a hidden choice that really engaged my mind and made me consider the morality of my character, the story, and the other participants. It also made me wonder what I'd do in real life--all in all, a very well done example of choice in a narrative.
I highly recommend this game on the strength of it's writing, gameplay, and novelty.
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Prologue: March 28, 2011
So there I am, perusing one of my favourite ADV threads - Single ADV men .....For the wominz of ADV - and I come across this posted by Rat734
WHOOT ~ I think I've come up with my best crazy idea yet.
I'm gonna set up my own blind date. The way I got it figured there is some woman in the silent masses that can't wait to meet me. I'm going to make it easy for her.
WHEN: Saturday April 9th, 2011 at High Noon
WHERE: Zion National Park Checkerboard Mesa parking lot
HOW: I'll be there. Just show up
NOTE: I know how this will play out. I'm gonna be the first man in the history of ADV that has been stood up by an imaginary woman...
Now the Ratman also posts on another thread I participate in where we've engaged in some flirtatious banter and we've also chatted via PM. He's a very intelligent guy and his writing is fantastic. He sees into the center of a situation and describes it in a very articulate and sensitive way. He, like I, is an incurable romantic. It also doesn't hurt that he looks like this
I show the post to a couple of my co-workers and say "Wouldn't it be wild if I just show up there? What an adventure it would be!"
"Uh, yeah" they reply "Cool" OK, they're not articulate, sensitive or romantic.
By the next day I'm actually starting to take this idea seriously and to their credit so are my co-workers, they're really good friends. I need to leave on Monday, April 4 and I need to be back Wednesday, April 13. It'll be a whirlwind trip but I figure I can fit in a little sight-seeing too, like maybe Death Valley. The first key is to get some leave, if I can't get the leave I can't make the trip, so the leave request goes in. If I get the leave I'll make up my mind whether I'll really go. On Thursday I find out my leave has been approved. The adventure is a GO!
OK, I have to see where this is going?:shog
So it's the 19th.....:lurk.
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Now there's a few things you should know going in. The longest solo motorcycle trip I've ever done is from my home near Victoria, BC to my Mom's house near Horsefly, BC. About 600km (370 miles) one way in one day, stay a few days, drive home in one day. I did that once. The longest motorcycle trip I've ever done was through the BC interior with a friend, about 1500km (930 miles) over 5 days. And I've done 2 other motorcycle trips: one 2 day trip with friends and the trip I wrote about in my other thread. That's it.
Now I'm planning to leave in 3 days on a 5000km (3000 mile) solo trip. My plan is to take I5 south to Sacramento, US99 to Bakersfield, US58 to Barstow and I15 to Zion maybe with a stop in Death Valley, time permitting. Stay in Utah a couple of days then drive home by the same route in 3 days. OK, stop now, I can hear the laughing from here. Go back to the paragraph above and read it again. :deal
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I've had a couple of days to think over the logistics of this trip and I decide it would be a good idea to give myself a couple more days. Who knows, there might be other things I want to see. I've never been to Las Vegas and I've read some fascinating trip reports about Toroweap so I ask for 2 more days leave. I don't have to be back until the 16th now but I will have to work the night shift that night if I get back that day. Yeah, yeah, you know I just live to amuse you.
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Ok, as you get to the C'board Mesa parking lot, wave at the rat and keep going. All that way and miss Hwy 12?? :eek1:eek1:eek1 Dont do it.
OK ride it together.
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I hadn't told the Ratman of my plan, that would spoil the intent and the surprise, but now I PM him. I tell him of the trip. I also tell him to put on his tour guide hat, I'm coming anyway.
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Cindy get to me and well have a great time. I knew you would be one that would consider the whole Blind Date thing appealing and not because of anything I might offer but because of this
You my dear friend suffer from Dreamers Disease. I have been a lifelong sufferer myself and recognize the symptoms. We will trade time, money and energy for this mystery of Romance. We will make fools of ourselves in front of others as we proclaim our Love of Romance. The more outlandish the proposal the stronger our belief in its potential.
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The adventure is still ON!!
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I don't think this happened being the Disaster strikes comment and, yes it is the 20th and the date was for the 9th of April
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San Antonio - David Frost won the AT&T Championship on Sunday, beating Bernhard Langer with a birdie on the second hole of a playoff after overcoming a six-stroke deficit in the final round.
Frost and Langer each shot 6-under 66 to finish at 8-under 208 on TPC San Antonio's Canyons Course.
Second-round leader Mark Calcavecchia had a 74 to finish two strokes back. He bogeyed four of the first 11 holes.
The 53-year-old Frost also teamed with Michael Allen to win the Legends of Golf in April and has three career Champions Tour victories. The South African won 10 times on the PGA Tour.
The tournament was the final full-field end of the year. The top 30 on the money list qualified for the Charles Schwab Cup Championship at Desert Mountain in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Rudyard and the Raj
A look at the formative years in India, where the 'Kim' author found his raw material
Kipling Sahib
By Charles Allen
Pegasus, 426 Pages, $28
When asked what he thought of England, Rudyard Kipling had a habit of saying that it was "the most wonderful foreign land I have ever been in." Though he is today associated with the high noon of Britain's Empire, in some ways this apparently most English of writers remained, at heart, an outsider in his own country.
Born in Bombay in 1865, Kipling spent his early years there before being sent at age 6 to England, where he was bitterly unhappy. His return to India at 16 as a fledgling journalist marked the start of his prolific writing career, which was to span half a century. In that time he would enjoy a degree of popularity unrivaled by any other British author since Dickens, only to find himself marginalized by the time of his death in 1936, an embarrassment to a reading public that had grown disillusioned with the imperial enterprise of which Kipling was the de facto figurehead.
"Kipling Sahib" is a curious book, in that it deliberately dismisses the second or "English" half of Kipling's life and career. Contending that, after the turn of the century, "Kipling's extraordinary powers of imagination were already on the wane," Charles Allen prefers to focus exclusively on the glory years preceding Kipling's final return to England in 1900, at age 35, and on the vital Indian experience that provided the raw material for so many of his best-loved works, including the "Jungle Book" short-story collections and the novel "Kim."
Mr. Allen is peculiarly fitted to telling this tale: He is the great-grandson of the owner of the Civil and Military Gazette, the Lahore-based newspaper that gave the adolescent Kipling his first break in journalism, and he is an established oral historian of the era of British rule in India known as the Raj. "Kipling Sahib" rarely covers ground that other biographers -- especially Andrew Lycett -- haven't covered before, but it offers a vivid and fully rounded picture of the emotional and physical context of Kipling's apprenticeship as a writer. Mr. Allen is particularly good at conjuring the social and cultural milieu of 19th-century Anglo-India. ("Anglo-Indian" was the term used at the time to describe the British in India.) He ably depicts the rigid hierarchies, the bureaucratic grind, the sexual tensions, the stifling heat.
Though an ardent supporter of empire, Kipling was in many ways an untypical "sahib," an individualist bent on exploring the forbidden, seamier side of the Punjab region for his fiction. He soon became famous for his pithy, precocious pieces about the soldiery, the civil service and the indigenous peoples of the Raj, subjects that he also addressed in verse. The stories he wrote for the Anglo-Indian press (most of which were only about 2,000 words long) were small miracles of compression. Witty and knowing, they succeeded in pulling off the double feat of subtly satirizing the stock figure of the bumptious Anglo-Indian for his readers abroad while still endorsing the imperial ideal. The stories' publication in 1888 as "Plain Tales From the Hills" made the 23-year-old Kipling a household name in both Lahore and London.
As far as the English literary establishment was concerned, however, Kipling's fatal mistake as a serious writer was that he allowed his work to become linked with a popular (and later discredited) ideology and mood. And yet, as Mr. Allen notes, Kipling was nothing if not contradictory. For each example of what the writer Robert Buchanan, a contemporary of his, called Kipling's "Hooligan Imperialism," there is usually another story or poem that endorses the opposite point of view. For every tale by Kipling of Bengali cowardice there is one of Sikh bravery; for every assertion that the conquered peoples are childlike there is another, equally strong insistence elsewhere in Kipling's work that they, too, are men. He will warn us against the dangers of miscegenation on one page and celebrate interracial love on the other.
Kipling himself realized that his lack of a coherent philosophy, of a unified idea about men and women, fitted him uniquely for the plasticity of the short story and poetry but disqualified him for the "long distance race" of the novel. It also put him squarely, after 1900, in the vanguard of the new modern aesthetic. This, contrary to what Mr. Allen alleges, is where Kipling really came into his own as a writer.
It is simply untrue to say that the Kipling who returned to England at the turn of the century had exhausted his creativity and was "all but done for," and that after this date there were "plenty of well-crafted stories but very little that really holds the imagination except in fits and starts." Kipling's sense of displacement in England, that "foreign land," provided the stimulus for a whole new way of working and opened up a fresh tranche of themes -- even before the traumatic events of 1914-18 shook the European literary scene.
Kipling's mature work, in collections such as "Traffics and Discoveries," "Debits and Credits," and "Limits and Renewals," deals head-on with some of the most pressing concerns of the modern age: global warfare; new conceptions of the human psyche; the effect of rapid mechanization on the way we live. His methods evolved, too, as the early 20th century saw him moving from the economy of expression typical of his Indian stories to a more complex economy of implication. From 1904 onward he pioneered a new kind of "puzzle" story -- "Mrs. Bathurst" and "Dayspring Mishandled" are examples -- that invited the reader to piece together a narrative resolution from a number of carefully dispersed clues.
While his critics complained that Kipling's work was becoming ever more obscure, a new movement, spearheaded by James Joyce, Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, was poised to sweep these quibbles away. Eliot -- who, like Kipling, was a writer much vexed by the meaning of "home" -- was a lifelong admirer: Eliot's own "Four Quartets" cycle contains a detailed allusion, in "Burnt Norton," to one of Kipling's late, great ghost stories, " 'They.' "
Ironically, despite Kipling's persistent popular image as a recidivist, flag-flapping Victorian imperialist, his most enduring literary legacy has probably been as a protomodernist. It is a pity that "Kipling Sahib," engaging and colorful though it is, does not at least gesture toward fitting the Indian and the English Kiplings together.
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Beach, climbing wall in plans for Mt. Lebanon pool
Mt. Lebanon is considering $49.1 million worth of improvements over the next five years, including some to make the township's swimming pool more fun.
Next year, it would spend nearly $4.4 million to renovate the swim center; $3.2 million on sanitary sewer upgrades; $1.8 million to reconstruct 1 mile of streets; and more than $1 million for turf and lighting at Wildcat and Middle fields.
"Our swimming facility is over 30 years old, and it's just in need of some reconstruction work," said township Manager Stephen M. Feller.
He recommends some spray features, a poolside climbing wall, a heater, a family slide and the installation of a beach area.
"It would mimic a beach, coming up at a gradual slope," said Recreation Director David Donnellan.
The recreation department would remove two slides and add three, including one wide enough for a family.
"The idea of the heater is just to make the beginning and end of the season comfortable," Donnellan said. It would not be used when the temperature is 90 degrees or higher.
He would like to alter the bathhouse so that parents can enter the pool without having to go through the changing area. Doing so would eliminate the uneasiness some adults feel when parents bring young children of the opposite sex into the changing area.
Kristen Swentosky, 38, of Mt. Lebanon uses the pool two to three times a week with her three children and knows how some women feel when she brings her 4-year-old son, John, into the changing area.
"It's even uncomfortable for me when there are women taking everything off," she said.
Swentosky supports the pool improvements, as do her daughters, Samantha, 11, and Megan, 10.
Samantha said she especially likes the proposed beach-style entry.
"And I like the climbing wall because then you just drop into the pool," Megan piped in.
Anne McCourt, 41, of Mt. Lebanon swims laps once a week and brings her family two to three times a week.
"The heating is very important just because it is so cold," she said.
Next year's plan includes $486,160 for the golf course and $164,280 for the tennis center.
Donnellan would like to regrade the golf course's fourth and fifth holes.
"Four is kind of angled the whole way so balls end up in the woods even when you hit a nice shot," he said.
He wants to fix the fifth hole so that golfers can see the green. Now, only the top of the flag is visible.
As for the tennis center, two courts would be rebuilt next year, and the bleachers at the main court would be replaced.
A public hearing on the proposal is scheduled for Oct. 11, and the commission expects to vote on the plan Dec. 13.
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Using Game Theory to Explain the Behaviour of Participants Involved in a Regional Governance Process
Howard, Jonathon, Rural Society
Starting in 2000, the NSW Government used a regional governance process to develop water management plans throughout the State. Under the process, the Minister appointed a range of stakeholders such as water users, conservation interests, indigenous interests, and natural resource management agencies to each committee, which then had to make difficult management and policy choices regarding the sustainable use of water. Several committees often worked in the same catchment, each focusing on a slightly different part of the entire water resource.
One factor that affects the ability of these types of committees to operate is the institutional arrangements, or rules of operation and policies, under which they must work. Based on data from interviews and documents, this paper interprets how different participants behaved under certain sets of rules using game theory. The paper concludes by suggesting that game theory is helpful in explaining stakeholder behaviour. As such, its application may guide the development of robust operational rules prior to creating such regional governance processes.
Key words: Governance, Game theory, Water
Regional governance is a process incr easingly used by Aust ral ian governments in developing common pool resource policies and management guidelines (Bellamy & Johnson 2000; Jennings & Moore 2000). For example, representative democratic forms of regional governance, where participants are appointed to a committee based on their ability to represent a particular stakeholder group, have been used to formulate forestry, fishery and water policies (Lane 2003; Lane, McDonald & Morrison 2004). Governments favour these sorts of processes because, when well designed, they utilise local knowledge, encourage democracy, engender support, take into account values, resolve conflict and create conditions for fair and just policy outcomes (Jennings & Moore 2000; Lane, McDonald & Morrison 2004; Webler, Tuler & Krueger 2001;).
While policy makers and their advisors are enthusiastically embracing regional governance processes, there ar e many warnings that they need careful consideration. Essex, Gilig, Yarwood, Smithers & Wilson (2005) suggest the tendency to simply involve key actors in a new structure marginalises the wider community. It is also apparent that the rules for each process need to be developed according to the context (Edwards & Steins 1999; Webler, Tuler & Krueger 2001). In terms of representative processes, participants could be selected from a random sample of the group, by government, through a process of group selection, or by self-appointment (Catt & Murphy 2003). Problems are likely to arise if there is failure to distinguish the nature and purpose of the involvement by these stakeholder groups, the reason for which they should be included, and the best means for identifying their representatives (Catt & Murphy 2003).
Often, the challenge for designers is to ensure that despite cooperative, competitive, and individualistic goals being present, co-operative goals must dominate for the participants (Johnson & Johnson 1999). Representative processes are often used to resolve difficult policy and management choices regarding the most effective and efficient use of a scarce resource. Usually, conflict among the various competing needs has grown, while the resource base has become smaller. Yet, cooperation by all stakeholders is essential if the common pool resource is to be sustained (Kollock 1998). It is often difficult for a participant to cooperate when it is deductively rational for him or her to over exploit the resource for short-term gain. Indeed, participants may perceive they can obtain their goal only if other participants fail (Johnson & Johnson 1999). If it was possible to predict stakeholder behaviour under different types of arrangements, it may be possible to choose the arrangements that would encourage fair and just decision making in each particular context. …


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Creating a Healing Garden will likely be one of the most exciting and fulfilling endeavors you will ever take. The joy you will experience can not be described and can only be felt while designing, building and harvesting the fruits of your labors. Imagine brainstorming with your friends, designing your garden on a napkin or a professional CAD design, picking out your seeds and breaking the earth between your fingers. Watch in wonder as the young seeds sprout and grow into something amazing and delicious.
A Healing Garden is so much more than a garden plot. A healing garden is comprised of your heart and soul, love and peace, tranquility and meditation. A properly designed garden has many life changing attributes like walking paths, meditation spots, waterways and ponds, symbiotic wild life, life giving nutrients that you built with your own hands and so much more.
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Scott Black is a health educator who believes in an individual's right to control their lifelong health and "Total Wellness". He is passionate about people holding corporations and government agencies accountable to make available in the national marketplace an affordable diversity of healthy choices.
Since there is no "magic pill" and no "one size does not fit all" program, Scott teaches that achieving total wellness is a balancing act that combines all aspects of Body, Mind and Energy training.
His quest to become a life changer "sprouted" due to witnessing his youthful mother (38 years old) lose her health & life to cancer. Scott continues to educate himself, his friends and family and many others on how to live and enjoy total wellness in this fast paced modern life.
While Scott served as a weapons engineer instructor in Italy for the U.S. Air Force, he became a personal trainer & sports nutritionist and helped U.S. military members and Italian civilians.
Later, while being an executive trainer in several American corporations, Scott earned certifications as a Raw Nutritionist, Certified Nutrition Consultant and Detox Specialist.
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