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Welcome to
4—6 PM at the Hotel Colonial, Alamos, Sonora, Mexico
Thank you all for coming today!
The Making of
"Our Stories of Alamos, a Pueblo Magíco"
Joan Winderman had a dream to make known the stories of the fascinating women of Alamos – which led to the publication of "Our Stories of Alamos, a Pueblo Magico." With pleasure we also acknowledge her dogged dedication to collecting these stories. I'm sure many of you can recall your own story of that! We know you love and collect books, Joan, so please accept this 500 Peso Gift Certificate to Kathy's Korner Book Salon as a token of our appreciation.
I also acknowledge the contributions of Donna Love – who got the book rolling with a writing class for 25 local women and interfaced with other writers throughout — and Bernadette McAllister for photographs, and for the support of Betsy Maier.
Lorna Acosta created Kathy's Korner Book Salon to honor her sister's memory, and it has become a repository of an amazing number of books—donated and for sale—with the ambiance of the independent bookstore which has all but disappeared in America. It is also the headquarters for Los Amigos de Educación, which provides scholarships for further education to Alamos youth. With pleasure we acknowledge Lorna's contribution to literacy and education, and gift her the net proceeds of $500 U.S., from the sale of the first printing of "Our Stories of Alamos." PLUS Los Amigos' ownership of all native book files for future printings and updates and the proceeds thereof.
Linda Adams has been a tremendous help to Lorna and Kathy's Korner and is available next door with name tags for the women writers so we can further identify each other and have our books autographed by everyone present. I'm looking forward to meeting the women writers and thanking them in person for their contribution—and have them autograph my book! There is also a sign-up sheet for any woman who may want to contribute her story for a possible second edition. Joan Winderman will also be helping with the autograph party next door. Thanks also to Louise McPherson, another Los Amigos board member, and her partner, Rob, for balloons and set-up.
We'll take a short break. Please help yourself to the food and enjoy some water or wine. Next, I'll describe the self-publishing sequence of "Our Stories" by way of illustrating to you the steps required should you be interested in self-publishing a book through Amazon.com and CreateSpace print-on-demand or e-book services. The CreateSpace services are free! Following, I will introduce today's authors who will speak about the writing experience. Books for sale benefit Los Amigos de Educación.
There are only two main questions an author must answer to produce a successful book:
Who is your audience? How will you reach them?
With this book we identified the audience as the people of Alamos and we would reach them by mouth and through Alamos Notes. And if it got wider distribution, so much the better. We would not be investing a large amount of money, and believed we could recoup our investment. Now, of course, we would like to sell as many books as possible to benefit Los Amigos de Educación.
IDEA: Author – Joan Winderman: An idea whose time had come: lunch at Teresita's March 30, 2011 Joan mentioned her idea of making known how special the women of Alamos are, and the other four of us—Donna, myself, Bernadette and Betsy—thought it was a great idea too. We invested our time and money to make it happen today.
TEXT: Writers – the women of Alamos wrote their stories (the most amazing feat of all, I think) Editors – our content editor and interface with the writers was Donna Love; a professional editor was hired for the final line edit.
GRAHICS: Photographers: myself, Joan, and Bernadette submitted a variety of photos of Alamos.
As stories and photos came in, I put up this blog to show our progress and keep us inspired.
This is my main work–making text and graphics look good and make sense; i.e., form and function.
I examined the stories, their length, etc. and decided the best format would be to put them in alphabetical order by first name and use a maximum of two pages per story.
If each story did not fill two pages and there was a big white space left, I combed the photos to find one appropriate to illustrate their story, with the goal to ultimately provide a variety of photos that would showcase the essence of Alamos, its people, plants, animals, architecture, ambiance, festivals, etc.
Sample pages and covers were prepared for the committee, reviewed, and refined to create the book you see today.
I assigned an International Standard Book Number (ISBN) and purchased a barcode for the back cover.
PDF files were prepared to spec and uploaded in November to my account on CreateSpace.com, the print-on-demand arm of Amazon.com, and were immediately for sale worldwide.
We ordered 225 books printed and sent to Joan in Tucson, to be delivered by Joan, Lorna, and Louise McPherson to Alamos in time for Christmas—to give a free book to each of the women writers, and for sale to others. We were able to completely recover our initial investment of $1700 by January 15.
We planned to have a book launch back at Teresita's on Februrary 16, 2012, to honor the women and sell books. That became Christmas 2012 book sales, expanded to include my talk about self-publishing, plus book sales and talks by local authors (Donna's ideas)—and thus grew into the celebration today, which I named "Alamos Book Fair 2013," at Kathy's Korner and Hotel Colonial venues.
Donna, an entertaining writer, and one of the authors who will speak today and has books for sale, is also a good book publicist. Jim Swickard of gave Donna contact information for national tourist related associations. Those letters and requests will go out soon. If you have any influence or suggestions who Lorna might contact for bulk sales (the ideal way to sell a book, along with having a niche market), please let her know.
Please welcome five of our local authors:
Robin Ellis, will speak about writing her book while pregnant and with breast cancer, "She's Alright."
Emily Preece, author of personal Alamos stories, "Over These Cobblestones."
Donna Love, who brings four books to the table: "Tell Me a Story," "To Make the House Complete," "Walking for Our Lives," and "Driving for Walking for Our Lives."
Robert Cabot, author of several books, one of which is nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
Leila Gillette, who wrote and illustrated "Stately Homes of Alamos."
These local authors will be available afterwards for your questions and to sell books. A portion of today's sales goes to Los Amigos de Educación, so I urge you to purchase at least one book from each author if you can! They will be happy to autograph books for you. Books are also available for purchase at Kathy's Korner Book Salon – proceeds to Los Amigos de Educación.
Eat! Drink! Be Merry! Buy Books and Support the Youth of Alamos!
We published this book and created this event around it, to bring the people of Alamos together in community and with an appreciation of our strengths in diversity. I say, "Well done, Alamos!" Today's event raised money for two scholarships for the youth of Alamos!
Photographs by Joan Gould Winderman and Patricia Hamilton.


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Streaming Television
Streaming television has become the norm ever since DVRs like Tivo hit the market. According to recent studies, 60% of all streamed programming in the United States are programs which are sports related. These programs include those like are found on ESPN, ESPN 2, and then actual sporting events like those from the NFL, NHL, NBA and Major League Baseball.
Online Video Games
Online games are now becoming more advanced with the recent update to console platforms. While many still feel that the consoles have yet to surpass PC quality gaming, others are now showing that some PC's can't handle the graphics that the next gen consoles are able to produce. So the gaming market may do a barrel roll with the new consoles and microtransactions, but the next decade should start to show some new and better technology.
Next Gen Gaming
The integration of sports/ athletics and modern media have culminated into a new brand of entertainment that is more engaging for the viewer. Some of the familiar titles will continue to show continued stability such as the Madden and FIFA franchises.
Quality Sports Programming
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AIRR Records
AIRR contains retired Indian Affairs records from BIA agencies and OST offices all over the nation. Records—from as far back as the 1700s—include trust, education and other historic Indian Affairs records. The only Indian records not stored at AIRR are active records at DOI offices and those that have become legal property of NARA and will remain at NARA facilities around the nation.The facility continues to receive boxes from the field as active records become inactive. A total of over 200,000 indexed boxes had been sent to AIRR for permanent storage by the end of fiscal year 2012. In the past three years, the monthly average of boxes received has been 1,157.
Each standard records center box holds one cubic foot of material; one cubic foot holds approximately 2,500 sheets of paper.
OST Records Management Video (Runtime: 5:00; released May 2010)
May 26, 2010
VOICEOVER: While new Indian trust records are created every day, there are records dating back to 1800s.
This program explains the life cycle of Indian trust records—records that are managed by the Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians and the Bureau of Indian Affairs and maintained and preserved deep in limestone caves in the American Indian Records Repository.
VOICEOVER: Aliza works for a Bureau of Indian Affairs Realty Office. She is one of the 1,500 records contacts in B-I-A and O-S-T program offices who has been delegated responsibility as a first point of contact on records management. She provides guidance to her program staff and her manager on records management issues.
VOICEOVER: Aliza's records management training taught her:
• to identify a record from a non-record and a fiduciary trust record from a general trust record
• the correct way to label file folders and arrange them in a filing system that complies with the Indian Affairs Records Schedule
• when and how to ship inactive records—those no longer needed for everyday business—to the American Indian Records Repository, which is called air [AIRR]. AIRR is located in Lenexa, Kansas.
VOICEOVER: When inactive records are to be sent to AIRR, a Move Plan Package, which includes an inventory of the file folders, must be prepared and approved by O-S-T's Office of Trust Records, also referred to as O-T-R.
VOICEOVER: To begin the process of sending inactive records to AIRR, Aliza places file folders—organized by record series number—into Federal Records Center boxes. The files are in the same order they were arranged in the filing cabinet. She doesn't mix file folders labeled with different records series numbers within a box. Then she submits her Move Plan Package to her O-T-R Regional Records Liaison for review.
VOICEOVER: All twelve B-I-A regions have regional records liaisons who provide records contacts, like Aliza, with guidance and technical assistance.
VOICEOVER: After the regional records liaison reviews the plan and required changes are made, Aliza mails it to O-T-R in Albuquerque for processing.
When received, O-T-R's program support assistant assigns an O-T-R accession number to the Move Plan Package for tracking purposes and future reference. Then the plan is routed to O-T-R's director for final review and approval.
When Aliza receives final approval, she completes the preparation of the boxes, putting the move plan package in the first box.
VOICEOVER: Program offices ship records to AIRR via a third party carrier that uses a point-to-point tracking system.
VOICEOVER: O-T-R staff members compare boxes received at AIRR with the Move Plan Package and inventory and then confirms with Aliza that her boxes have been received.
VOICEOVER: AIRR staff index the contents of each box into the Box Index Search System. BISS is an electronic database used by researchers to find records for B-I-A and O-S-T customers. BISS is also used to search for records required by tribal attorneys, Department of Justice personnel and solicitors from the Department of the Interior.
Surveillance cameras are used in the research areas to insure the safety of records.
VOICEOVER: After they are indexed, Aliza receives a final inventory for each box of records. She also receives a National Archives and Records Administration Records Transmittal and Receipt Form, the S-F 135, and a NARA Transfer Number, which is unique to a box of records. NARA uses this transfer number to track stored boxes.
VOICEOVER: AIRR is a cooperative effort of the Department of the Interior and NARA, built to NARA archival quality standards, which means temperature, humidity and lighting are controlled to provide the least negative effect upon paper documents.
VOICEOVER: Access to AIRR, and Indian records stored there, must be approved by the O-T-R Director.
VOICEOVER: Security at the entrance to AIRR is provided by a Department of Homeland Security contractor. Everyone entering and leaving must pass through the metal detector at the guard post. All visitors must show identification and sign in when entering and sign out when leaving AIRR. Remember, no program records for B-I-A,
O-S-T and Indian Affairs can be destroyed.
VOICEOVER: No records stored at AIRR can leave the facility. If Aliza needs records that have been sent to AIRR, she'll receive copies of those records. In most cases, she will receive the copies within 24 to 48 hours of her request.
That's pretty good, when you consider there are over 190,000 boxes of Indian records stored at AIRR.


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Laudrup denied reports emerging from Spain that Swansea had bid £6million for his services in January but confirmed the 24-year-old was on his radar.
Botia, who has been part of Spain's senior squad but is yet to be capped, only joined Sevilla from Sporting Gijon last summer.
"He is a good player, but there are a lot of good players in that position," Laudrup told the South Wales Evening Post.
"He may be on a list but it's a long list.
"We have been linked with three or four players already, and this is only the beginning.
"There will be a lot of rumours with the transfer window coming up."


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Bitter Vet™
Joined: 9/13/06
Fools find no pleasure in understanding, but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
We see a lot of threads and posts decrying the loss of "virtual worlds" and I'm certainly one of the guilty parties in this regards, but I got to thinking, just what makes a MMORPG more realistic yet at the same time remain fun?
For example, I favor mechanics such as local markets as opposed to global ones, but I don't mind having auction houses while others probably prefer players run the stores or trade themselves.
I liked it better when MMORPG's used food/drink to restore health and stamina (and somewhat influence the pacing of the gameplay), but I wouldn't want to have to eat or drink regularly to avoid starving to death as was the case in Xyson. (or Ultima VI for those who remember that one)
Travel times....mixed feelings about this. They sort of work at a strategic level in games like EVE, where you basically have to provide a means for players to intercept each other and have them part of the strategic equation when chosing combat/logistics option.
But that doesn't mean I didn't love Blessed Teleport Scrolls in my first MMORPG Lineage 1 where a player could set up to 30 waypoints in the game and use these scrolls to instantly teleport to them. (You had to walk to the area the first time to expose the map however).
They weren't free, in fact, a fair share of every players game income/time was spent either farming or buying BTS's. I got rich selling them as I farmed them with my Bugbear Mage in the ant caves.
And lets face it, I would not care for a MMORPG that made my avatar have to "relieve" himself on a regular basis, sometimes there's just such a thing as too much realism.
So that's the question, what sorts of mechanics do you prefer that makes one MMORPG more of a virtual world than another?
In my day MMORPG's were so hard we fought our way through dungeons in the snow, uphill both ways.
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Made History
Joined: 7/11/11
Pink, it's like red but not quite.
Originally posted by Kyleran
Unrealistic PVP (i.e. no consequence, instant respawn, dive right back in to fight some more). Rambo-movie level of unrealistic, else video-game pvp just doesn't work.
Pretty much required for PVP at all, isn't it? Even the games that brag about the 'realism' of their pvp don't have posses of citizens chasing them everywhere (bounty systems at least begin to approach the problem, I guess).
We won't even begin to catalog the thousands of ways PVE departs from "realism" in the name of fun.
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
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Joined: 11/19/12
For now I'll comment on the display. I don't want photo-realism. I'd rather have things look like a different, fantasy place. Might expand on this later, have to feed pets :D
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Joined: 7/05/11
Sandbox is your only hope for a decent mmo ;)
Well considering the majority of mmorpg's today are your basic cookie-cutters, they lack the appeal most people want. Probably why most the newer games bomb after just a few months.
If you play the exact same game, same classes, same combat, same options, lack of features, lacks of social interaction, lack of world all with just different skin........ you can only stomache it for so long. Quests only get you so far. You need the other stuff to keep you going.
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Joined: 3/05/07
Originally posted by Kyleran
Good post there K.. I would also like to see weight allowance as EQ did.. The more you wore and carried the more it effected your ability to run and walk in the game.. AS IT SHOULD be.. Making having a buff strength meaningful.. I can also do without the super realistic graphics too.. I'm perfectly happy with the graphics in WoW and GW2 as the example..
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I think with my heart and move with my head.-Kongos
On markets, I'm split. Things that are a 'one off' kind of nature and won't be sold in large stacks should be in player stalls. Things that are sold in large stacks should be sold in a stock market.
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
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Joined: 4/12/06
I intend to live forever -- So far so good!
I'd like games to move closer to reallism without quite getting there.
What I mean is that I'd like to have the laws of Physics be a bit more prevailant. I'd like to climb trees, and use gravity as a means to do things...whatever they may be. I wouldn't mind if a game came along soon t hat would slowly implement one thing at a time over the course of it's life time and build the game as I play it, provided they had a solid base for me to play with before hand.
It's sort of like Minecraft does it. They gave you a working game for you to play with and then slowly over time they start adding things for you to use.
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-
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The adult I am takes care of most things real life. However my inner-child is a GAMER!!
Originally posted by Kyleran
Highlighted red is what it makes it so hard. Example, loved SWG's crafting, mastered every prof. yet encountered dozens of people trying to get into crafting, yet complaining "why all the hassle, why can't I just buy item X from a cashshop or auction instead spending time make the same items over and over again which turn out useless but just give some xp." I just saw it as something logical and somewhat realistiic to have it in such a way in a more virtual world setting.
I should only be able to go so far before I really need to take care of my wounds, like your example of Xyon I also don't want the depth of actually starving to dead when I am out of food, but I don't mind a little downtime like applying bandages or let meds do their time to work or actually needing certain professions/other players to cure you from certain disseases.
Teleporting depends on the game but overall I don't have issue's with it. I love great wide open gameworlds, but eventuelly you have seen it all and seen it allot and there just might not be anymore reason to travel by land all over again. Though I love vehicle/creature travel allot more it has to be a meaningfull travel, if I just need to travel 15 minuted from point A to B with just barren land I'll pass and choose a teleport option, if that same 15 minutes consists of area's filled with resources, explorable dungeons, NPC enemy's, wildlife then it's 15 minutes well spend which most likely expand to allot more minutes then actually reaching point B.....atleast most of the time for me...
Eventually the player interaction is what makes the game come alive. People these day's rely so much on game NPC's to make the world come alive as they have seen it with singleplayer games. But I don't mind NPC's react in a more realstic way, their line of sight is often awefull, you're often able to kill/shoot/blast an enemy while that another enenmy is 2 feet next to him. In that I would say take a look at enemy behaviour in Fable, they might even warn you first when getting to close and respond to eachothers reactions.
Why should a NPC tell you to get 10 wolfhides, instead a player can request that for use in his/her craft.Let me try to find or be that crafter that makes the best items. And while anyone can reach a master lvl in crafting, still should make every master crafter different due to different stats on resources used with crafted items.
Overall I want the realism that fits the theme of the game but to get back at your highlighted red part, it's just hard cause fun is really subjective. If I look at what the masses enjoy in this genre is what I also enjoy but from other genre's. I just want my MMORPG experiance to go beyond that.
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Joined: 10/24/04
Draw Something is now an MMO. God has forsaken us.
Whether you can have realism or fun depends on the audience. Casual gaming is the opposite of realism because the time scales just dont work out.
Hardcore players may or may not be amenable to realistic gameplay. It also depends on the gameplay. Farming for instance. A year long growing cycle? Never gonna fly.
In your local market system does it take a month to move between nations? How many hours to go to and from major cities?
So now we see it even boils down farther to what do you mean by realism?
Another aspect of the audience is action combat vs strategy, and no, not RTS, strategy. Also warfare vs economics. Some people tolerate crafting WoW style to get the other benefits but they don't actually like it. Much less a more serious system like EvE or SWG.
Can I make a more realistic but still fun system for an MMO? Depends on if I draw my playerbase from city builders and wargames or from action RPGs and FPSes. Yes and No respectively.
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Joined: 6/17/11
The more realism the better...
can you imagine having you main tank die of a heart attack during a final dungeon raid boss fight?
or hearing that your character can't raid anymore because he got Alzheimer's.
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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Originally posted by Icewhite
^ This
Do people here remember the movie Excalibur? It was lambased for having boring fight scenes. John Boorman went for the realistic route, and did his research to back it up. He showed us how a fight really would be like with 40lbs of plate armor strapped to someone's body and a claymore weighing up to 7 lbs in their hand. Sorry, but you're just not doing backflips and multi-attack hits with that kind of gear. You're not doing those kind of moves with leather gear either. Visit any Renaissance Fair and ask one of the wandering rogues how heavy leather gear can be.
I'll tell you what. Let's get a game designer to build us a PvP game that operates on real-world principles and physics. You swing your sword...maybe hit something...and then rest until you can gather enough strength to do it again 45 seconds later. Two or three minutes for each fight and no one wins because both parties are too damn tired to continue.
Oh and when you're injured and can't fight any longer? You lay right where you are until someone can drag you away and tend to your wounds until you are ready to fight again. Let's say 72 hours later...or possibly days...or weeks.
Let's not forget that when you're dead, you're dead. The end. No rez for you.
I'll take unrealistic gameplay any day, thank you.
Optional PvP = No PvP
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Originally posted by grimgryphon
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realism can stop short of giving me bruises or making me bleed at the keyboard.
no but seriously, if the game's theme is "medieval realism" then i expect A LOT of realism. if the theme is "Flying monkey fairies" then i expect A LOT of unrealism.....just pick you theme and be true to it.
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Ultima Online's attempt, modernized, with some aspects that Rockstar Games is known for.
That's the amount I'd like.
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Perhaps tomorrow will be better.
I want realism and a lot of it but not realism as in REAL life but realism as something that COULD be possbile.I mean gaming in general is not realism but no reason the concepts can`t be.
Example i don`t like seeing games that have mages shooting flames like a minigun.The concept of flames should be a conjuring idea,to conjure them from the elements or the sky and take a bit of time.
One thing i would like to see is not so much aiming but the ability to take cover,i don`t like attacks bending around corners or going through walls.I do however enjoy splash damage and would like to see more of it.
For the most part games do a decent job on realism,it is only the odd time i see some really ridiculous ideas.
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Originally posted by DMKano
Have you ever been to a RenFaire? Or did you just watch a shitty movie using geek culture as a punchline? Those people at RenFaires who can walk around in real historically accurate plate armor are much stronger than some preppy gym rat.
The people who are serious about RenFaires walk the Appalachian trail with 40 pound backpacks. Or go cross country in Iceland.
Walk 100 miles in 8 days with a 40-50 pound backpack and having to set up and take down your own camp and cook your own food every day.
Then you can make fun of people at the RenFaire.
I won't hold my breath.
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that's an awesome question Kyleran.
made me think. on forums! I KNOW RIGHT?
I love the games that i perceive as being more "worldlike" than "gamelike"... i dont think i ever really sat down to quantify what traits make up "worldlike" to me soooo without further adieu..
1) there needs to be an open path to move through the world. this as opposed to the "themepark" style of unveiling the game world a little bit at a time through channeling the players from hub to hub. EX: eve online ... after those first tutorial missions the game basically says, hey, its a big world out there. here are the ways you can find what you need but we arent going to lay out a path to guide you.
2) there needs to be freedom of action however there also needs to be consequences for "sociopathic" actions. this one is a killer for me. again let me reference eve. in eve you have the freedom to be a horrific murderer of innocent miners. it's a world like game after all an just as in the "real world" nothing is *physically* going to stop someone from being violent towards someone else. HOWEVER since, again, eve is world-like, there are in game police who monitor the space lanes of eve and issue security hits (and sometimes summary execution) for acts of rampant douchery. this punishment is part of what keeps eve from degenerating into a nothing-but-pvp fest.
3) i'm going to use eq2 for this example. you need to be able to have a place to call your own. note i didnt expressly say housing because in games like eve you can have soverignty with your alliance in a few systems which is kinda-sorta like having a place of your own. but to me the classic example of this is eq2 (SWG and vanguard too i hear but i didnt really play those). Eq2 is very good at letting you have a good load of tools to design your own space and then keep it as private or as public as you wish. especially now where you are allowed to design your own piece of ornamental fun and submit it to eq2 and even have them put it in the cash shop to make a wee bit of royalty off of your idea ^^.
4) there should be freedom of opportunity. by this i mean that, should you want to do nothing but make stuff that should be fine. but if if you want to be a jack-of-all trades that's fine too. there should be activities in the world-like game that make it so you dont feel like you "have to" do one thing or another at the "end-game". as a matter of fact...
5) there should NOT be a percievable "wall" between the character building phase of the game and the "endgame".
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Originally posted by grimgryphon
And yet, I myself would prefer more realistic combat like you describe above (and really liked Excalibur btw) and wish factors like that prevented things like bunny hopping, you know, like a stamina pool that dropped rapidly if you hopped around, but went down more slowly for steady combat swings. That way a player would have to manage his stamina pool carefully, and when he ran out..yep, he was pretty much done for.
The 2nd half of your post takes it to the point of hyperbole, of course I don't want to have to lay around for 3 days to recover, (but 10 to 20 minutes like we did in early DAOC was fine). Permadeath? No thank you, goes along with my original comment of not wanting to have to relieve myself as a game mechanic. (not so fun to have to do in RL either)
There can and should be a balance between realism and fantasy, to varying degrees of course, and I was mostly interested in what sort of game mechanics make a MMORPG more of a virtual world to you, not so much how realistic certain mechanics are.
In my day MMORPG's were so hard we fought our way through dungeons in the snow, uphill both ways.
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I'm not a fan of realistic permadeath.
For travel speed, it depends greatly on the game. If you need to get a group to do a dungeon, I don't want to wait half an hour for the group members to arrive at the dungeon entrance. But if a game economy is based around shipping goods around and having different local prices in different parts of the world, then instant travel will break that.
You know what I want that would be realistic? A round world. No more developers joining the Flat Earth Society. Make it light on one side of the world and dark on the other, and which "side" is light changes smoothly as time passes.
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The Associated Press | May 08,2014AP Photo
Kryn Miner, an Army veteran, was shot and killed by a relative April 26 in Essex after threatening family members with a gun.BURLINGTON A teenagers fatal shooting of a troubled Army veteran father who threatened his family then tossed the child a loaded gun was legally justified, a Vermont prosecutor said Wednesday.
No charges will be filed against the child of Kryn Miner, 44, a veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, who was shot and killed inside the familys Essex Junction home last month.
Miner had threatened to kill his four children, physically assaulted his wife and threw a loaded handgun to the teen who came to her aid.
Do you want to play the gun game? Miner who served in the 82nd Airborne Division and was sniper qualified asked the teen, according to authorities. The teen said no, but fired six shots when Miner pulled another gun from a bag. Miner was hit five times.
The teenager reasonably believed the siblings and mother were all in imminent danger of being killed or suffering great bodily harm, Chittenden County States Attorney TJ Donovan said. Miner was armed, pointed the gun at his wife and child and acting with an extreme indifference to the value of human life, he said.
Miner had served tours of duty in Iraq, Afghanistan and Panama. He had been public about his struggle with PTSD, appearing on a Chicago TV station to talk about the Lone Survivor Foundation, which helps wounded veterans return to civilian life and offers retreats to service members diagnosed with combat-related PTSD.
Hours before he was killed, Miner, a fitness trainer who also worked as a military contractor, had begun acting erratically after attending a wedding with his wife and two of their children, Donovan said. He became verbally then physically abusive toward his wife, who in the past had been able to calm him, Donovan said.
It was his wifes scream that prompted the teen to go to the parents bedroom, where the final altercation happened.
Miner had three daughters and a son, ages 7 to 18. Authorities are not releasing the name or age of the child who fired the fatal shots.
We want to protect the privacy of the young person and what we dont want to do is have this young person have to publicly answer for this act for the rest of their lives, Donovan said.
The Associated Press is not publishing the names of the children.
Miner had pointed a gun at his wife and children and threatened to shoot them in another incident more than a year ago, but it was never reported to law enforcement, Donovan said.
Miner served more than 25 years in the armed forces, including multiple tours, most recently in Afghanistan in 2010 with the Vermont National Guard. He retired recently due to health issues, his family said, but never forgot about his fellow comrades.
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This unit provides students with knowledge of the national compensation schemes within the Australian healthcare system in the context of the practising clinical exercise physiologist. Students will develop their understanding of appropriate ethical and professional behaviour for exercise physiologists. The unit also provides students with the opportunity to learn to work with a patient base within a controlled environment from all the stages of an exercise intervention (the initial referral, assessment, design, monitoring, modification and progression). Upon completion of this unit, students will be well placed to work effectively in a clinical exercise environment.
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The Mingo Central volleyball team had a good showing in the regional tournament. The Lady Miners just missed a getting a spot in the Class AA state tournament.
The Lady Miners played Tolsia at Chapmanville. They were in the losing bracket, but beat the Lady Rebels.
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This placed us in the championship game against Wayne.
Mingo Central took on a tough Wayne. Lady Pioneer team. In the first game, Wayne won 18-25. In the second game, Wayne won 18-25 and in the third and final game, Wayne won again, 25-16.
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STAFF WRITER | December 30,2012A Mendon woman left for dead by a hit-and-run driver on Route 4 Friday night was a mother, beloved girlfriend and nursing student who was preparing to work with the elderly, according to her friends and boss.
At 45, Drury Morgan had a 17-year-old son taking classes in Woodstock, but she was about to begin a career she had long wanted to pursue as a licensed nursing assistant, according to boyfriend Andy Blanchard of Mendon.
She was taking courses at Stafford Technical Center and she was almost done. She wanted to work in a nursing home, said Blanchard, who struggled to maintain his composure during a telephone interview Saturday. She said it was what she was put here to do because she really loved it.
Vermont State Police are still looking for the driver of one of the two vehicles that struck Morgan as she crossed Route 4 at 5:18 p.m. Friday.
Police said she was struck first by a dark-colored station wagon or hatchback possibly green that was described as being similar to a Subaru. The driver of this vehicle drove away without stopping, police said.
Morgan was then hit by a Honda CR-V driven by Joseph Ferrara of Huntington Station, N.Y., who stopped after the accident.
Despite the efforts of rescuers who tried to resuscitate her, Morgan died at the scene, police said.
No charges were brought against Ferrara, 50, who immediately called police after hitting Morgan.
But a state police sergeant at the scene Friday night said the driver of the other car would face, at minimum, a criminal charge of leaving the scene of a fatal crash.
No additional information was released by the police Saturday and the trooper investigating the crash couldnt be reached for comment.
Blanchard asked anyone with information about the crash or the identity of the driver to come forward.
A normal person wouldnt even leave a dog or cat on the road, he said. Im very, very angry. Im sure it was an accident, but Im also sure they knew they hit her. I only hope and pray that they come forward.
Investigators said Morgan was wearing dark clothing and may have been drinking before she crossed the three-lane highway.
But her boss at the Mendon Mountain View Lodge, where she had gone to pick up her paycheck, said Morgan acted responsibly Friday afternoon.
General manager Patrick Boandl said that based on the observations of Mountain View staff, Morgan may have been drinking before she arrived by bus at the lodge. But he said she drank soda in the lounge for 45 minutes before she left.
Boandl said Morgan was crossing the highway to get to the bus stop on the other side when she was struck and killed.
She was a nice lady and a good worker and were all very sorry, Boandl said.
Morgan worked as a waitress and housekeeper at the lodge. Boandl had hired her in October to help reopen Mountain View, which had been empty and on the market for seven months.
Boandl said the staff at the lodge planned to attend Morgans funeral, which has not yet been scheduled. He said the lodges owner plans to donate to a fund being established for Morgans son.
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- TOMORROW'S HEADLINES TODAY: City mayoral candidates debate campaign issues; Hartford, Conn., woman still missing; Neal Goswami reports attempts to legislate suicide; local woman loses 100 pounds through TOPS program.
- RICHARD'S POOR ALMANACK: On this day in 1878, JOHN TUNSTALL murdered near Lincoln, New Mexico, by the outlaw JESSE EVANS; in 1930, ELM FARM OLLIE first cow to fly in aircraft, first to be milked airborne; 1955, nuke test WASP; '79, snow in Sahara.
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"B.B. King brought blues from Mississippi to the mainstream. Through his velvety voice and his guitar, Lucille, he influenced the most famous musicians in the world, but more importantly, his music comforted people when they needed it most. Anyone could sing a song about falling in love, but only Mr. King could sing a song about heartbreak. Today, everyone's hearts are heavier with the passing of the greatest bluesman in history. May he and Lucille continue to play on in eternity."
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For anyone wishing to start an art collection on a budget, particularly if he intends to acquire the work of the very best artists in the world, multiples are the way to go. A one-of-a-kind piece of art, such as a painting or watercolor or drawing, can be prohibitively expensive, even for someone with deep pockets; but works on paper – limited edition, hand-signed prints or posters or photographs – can be acquired at a fraction of the cost.
This was the course of action followed by the St. Louis-based brokerage firm of A.G. Edwards in the mid-1960s. By 1991, the collection had become so large that the company created the Art Enrichment Program, whose purpose was to lend out selected works to local art institutions. A.G. Edwards was bought out by Wachovia Bank in 2007, and Wells Fargo acquired Wachovia in 2008. With each takeover, the art collection passed into new hands; but the decision to share the works with the general public still holds true.
Until Nov. 24, area residents can see at the Morris Museum in Augusta 50 works from what is now the 4,000-piece Wells Fargo Collection. The current show can be divided roughly into three types of multiples: posters, limited edition prints and photographs.
Among the posters, there is no more impressive specimen than Alphonse Mucha's color lithograph announcing Sarah Bernhardt's 1896 American tour. Although he later tried to break free from this single label, the Czech artist will forever be associated with the art nouveau movement. In fact, in France, this particular decorative style generally featuring intertwined organic forms was initially referred to as "Mucha style."
For this color lithograph, printed by a company with offices in Cincinnati and New York, Mucha cast the legendary actress in the title role of the play in which she had starred in Paris and which she now decided to introduce to an American audience. Attired in a heavily embroidered robe and holding a palm leaf in one hand, Bernhardt embodies the fictional Gismonda, the fickle ruler of Athens in Victorien Sardou's melodrama of the same name. Pledged to marry the man who saved the life of her young son, who fell into a tiger pit, Gismonda changes her mind after the rescuer Almeiro is revealed to be a commoner. The general populace, however, rallies around their new hero, marching on the palace with palm leaves held aloft; and after a number of twists and turns of the plot, Gismonda comes to realize that Almeiro wants her for herself and not for her throne. Love ultimately triumphs over politics.
Just as definitively did Mucha's poster, featuring her elongated, nearly life-sized figure, win the heart of the "divine Sarah," who commissioned him to create other advertisements for her numerous productions. Just as quickly as Mucha's posters of Bernhardt were put up on the street, some say, they were snatched by collectors.
The second type of multiple represented in the current show is the limited edition print, such as the one that first greets visitors as they enter the exhibition space: a trial proof of Andy Warhol's "Uncle Sam," created in 1981. Produced in a screen print edition of 200 as part of his "Myths" series, the work features the classic personification of the United States made famous by J.M. Flagg in his "I Want You" recruitment poster of 1917. There is no finger pointing, however, in this Warhol variation, which focuses instead on Sam's head and shoulders, particularly his bewhiskered face and his tri-color top hat. The fact that the image is also covered in Warhol's trademark diamond dust is indicative of the artist's devotion to the cult of celebrity, real or imagined.
The third and final multiple represented in the exhibition is the photograph. The Wells Fargo Collection boasts many fine examples of classic black and white photography, but I was especially drawn to a 1952 photograph by Dorothea Lange. Taken on the streets of downtown San Francisco, "Mother and Child" features a fashionably dressed young matron – looking more like a fashion model than a housewife – striding confidently down the sidewalk as if it were a fashion runway. Trailing behind her, with head cast down, is her small child in an oversized coat and cap.
This is a far cry from Lange's now-iconic, Depression-era "Migrant Mother," who stares off into the distance with furrowed brow in 1936 as her children cling to her on either side. "Mother and Child, San Francisco" embodies a far more prosperous, far more confident period in our history, after the Allies had won the war and America assumed her dominant role as an economic powerhouse and leader of the free world.
"Starters: Selections from the Wells Fargo Collection" will be on display until Nov. 24 at the Morris Museum. Wells Fargo customers get free admission to the museum during the run of the show by presenting a Wells Fargo credit or debit card. For more information, call 706-828-3815 or visit www.themorris.org.
A recipient of the prestigious Carolina Trustee Professorship in 2008, Dr. Tom Mack currently holds the G.L. Toole Chair at USC Aiken.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (March 6, 2012) -- Baylor is chasing perfection in this week's Big 12 women's tournament.
Most other teams are chasing bids to the NCAA tournament.
The top-seeded Lady Bears can reach 40 wins with three in the league tournament in Kansas City and six more in the NCAA tournament. That would cap a perfect season and elevate them to the upper echelons of women's basketball history.
Second-seeded Oklahoma and defending national champion Texas A&M appear to be safely in the NCAA tournament field. But things are wide open after that: Iowa State, Kansas State, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech could all play their way in.
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The founders of Roost, a Toledo-based software startup company, are spending the summer at the Y Combinator, a prestigious accelerator program located in Mountain View, Calif., and recently offered an update on their experience so far.
Roost co-founders Burton Miller, Casey Haakenson and Tim Varner reported their experiences via a live video feed from California at the Tech Connect, held July 9 at the Toledo Museum of Art Glass Salon. The business networking event was presented by Rocket Ventures and sponsored by ProMedica.
Roost, previously known as Notice Software, is among four groups of 20 companies per group participating in the accelerator program this summer. They updated the attendees at Tech Connect about what they are learning in the accelerator and answered questions from the audience watching them on a large video screen at the Glass Salon.
Miller said they have already realized that "their biggest problem is getting people to know about us." Varner added that marketing their service to potential users will be critical for their success.
The Y Combinator provides seed investments, business consulting and other opportunities to help startup teams build their companies and pitch to investors or acquirers. The intensive three-month program also includes weekly dinners with past Y Combinator alumni and top influencers in emerging technology.
The accelerator funds all types of startups, but is particularly interested in companies with Web and mobile applications. More than 500 companies worth more than $20 billion have passed through Y Combinator, according to Roost CFO Ben Trumbull.
"It is the best accelerator program in the country. Thousands upon thousands of startups apply, and only a tiny fraction are accepted," Trumbull said. "The entire team feels lucky and honored for this opportunity."
The Y Combinator program ends with a "Demo Day" when startups present their business concepts to an invite-only audience and participants become members of the growing alumni network. The network includes Reddit, Dropbox, Airbnb, Optimizely, and Stripe, among hundreds of other successful companies.
Roost, which has developed push notification software for desktop platforms, has operated out of the LaunchPad incubation program at the University of Toledo since it relocated from Seattle, Washington. Rocket Ventures was one of the major investors in Roost's recent seed round that raised $350,000 for the startup.
Roost has been a technology tenant-client of the LaunchPad Incubation Program since June 2013. It has received grant funding from LaunchPad Incubation, UT Innovation Enterprises and Rocket Ventures. Trumbull represents Rocket Ventures on the Roost board of directors and is working with the startup serving as its CFO.
Trumbull said without the support of the LaunchPad Incubation program, UT Innovation Enterprises and Rocket Ventures, Roost would not have had the unique opportunity to participate in Y Combinator and advance the business.
Roost made a presentation to potential investors at the Michigan Growth Capital Symposium held June 17-18 in Ypsilanti, Michigan. It was among 35 to 40 companies that pitched their businesses to people representing some of the top investment firms in the U.S.
Trumbull said that they felt the event was successful for Roost; however those types of things don't happen overnight. He compared it to buying a house with a lot of stages involved in the process.
ProMedica CEO Randy Oostra discussed the unprecedented need for change in the healthcare business at the Tech Connect event.
"We believe a health care system should take a leadership role in the community, clinically, socially and economically," said Oostra, who leads the largest health care organization in Northwest Ohio with 16,000 employees.
Martin Dober, director of Invest Detroit's venture team, made a presentation about "What's Working In This Region." He cited the need for developing an entrepreneurial ecosystem and building talent for new companies as critical to the region's success.
Reports on two additional Rocket Venture companies, AquaBlok Ltd. and Blue Water Satellite Inc. were also given at Tech Connect.
AquaBlok is Rocket Venture's fastest growing company that develops and implements environmental remediation applications. The company currently has 17 full-time employees and recently opened a new production plant in Swanton, according to its president John Hull.
Bluewater Satellite of Bowling Green uses proprietary satellite image processing to show were problems exist on land and in water. The firm expects to generate $1 million in sales in 2014 for 84 percent growth and to reach $50 million in sales in five years, according to its CEO Milt Baker.
Bob Savage, president and fund manager at Rocket Ventures, hosted the Tech Connect, a revival of a quarterly business networking event formerly held by the Regional Growth Partnership. Savage is co-founder and managing partner of Savage Consulting in Toledo and CoreNetwork, a group of local investors.
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Rodney G., a reader of this blog noticed a new feature in Google Maps. "When you search for a city or a county or a ZIP Code, Google Maps now highlights the boundaries of what you searched for. If you are zoomed out, the whole area is shaded pink. If you zoom in a bit, it has just a big pink border with grey shading. Zoom in even more and it's a dashed boundary with grey shading."
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The airliner has been missing over a month now. A big plane has just disappeared. The big question is how can something that big just vanish? Actually, no one has seen or had contact with the pilots since the transponder was cut off.
Many people are in disbelief that all the radar sites couldn't track the wayward airliner. This had led to all sorts of speculative ideas as to what really happened.
The simple fact of the matter is that we are not quite as smart as we think.
The reason that aircraft have transponders is to identify the aircraft on radar screens. Without these transponders, aircraft are hard to identify by seeing a primary return on radar. You just can't see the aircraft with any certainty.
We think we can do anything with technology. We can't. In the 70s and 80s, smugglers brought in massive amounts of marijuana by airplane. The interesting thing about all this smuggling was that the smuggling aircraft merely cut off their transponders and headed for the United States. Day and night the smugglers headed out from Colombia, South America, Jamaica, the Bahamas or Mexico.
On the other side of this secret operation was civilian radar, military radar, the Drug Enforcement Agency, Customs, Navy, Coast Guard, jets and helicopters from all branches of the service and balloon mounted radar all looking for these lawbreaking aircraft. Even with all this, planes would come into this country to deliver illegal drugs. That should be proof that we can't really watch everything.
It's almost like believing that if we put an extra highway patrolman in Foreston, all the speeding in Clarendon and Williamsburg counties would be stopped.
Now we have to face the fact that sometimes there are strange occurrences without a good explanation. Even with full-time watching, things can move secretly. A law enforcement officer told me he had been on a detail to watch a pasture that was supposedly a landing strip for a smuggling operation. They staked out the pasture for a month. Somebody watches the pasture 24 hours a day for a month.
A year of overtime pay was wasted in that month. Finally, they stopped watching the pasture. Two months later a plane landed at the pasture with a load of drugs.
The smugglers left the stolen plane and got away with the drugs. The law enforcement had been expecting this but still couldn't detect the smugglers.
This just means that we are not going to find this missing airliner any time soon. With all the talk by experts, if we could have channeled all that hot air into the ocean the missing airliner could be floated out by now. If only.
I don't have any theories about where the plane went. I just know many things are lost and misplaced on a daily basis. We can lose things with out any help. Even things we lock up can be stolen, lost or misplaced. Many things go missing from museums, sheriffs' evidence rooms and even the junk drawer at your house.
Now there is talk of putting monitoring equipment on things like airliners, trucks, ships and even personal cars. Who is going to watch all this?
We don't have the time to watch all this. Even with all the modern stuff we think will help us, we will continue to lose things in the sky and in the ocean. Every year ships are lost at sea. They aren't found either.
Aviation on the other hand has a perfect record. They've never left a plane up there.
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Publisher: UNFPA, Population Council
This series of Adolescent Data Guides, which draws principally on data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), aims to provide decision makers at all levels – from governments, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and advocacy groups – with data on the situation of adolescent girls and boys and young women. The age range covered is 10-24. The data are presented in graphs, tables, and maps (wherever possible), providing multiple formats to make the information accessible to a range of audiences.
The Guides clearly define the gap between investment and need, and illustrate how the most vulnerable youth populations may be excluded from the very programmes intended to help them. The beneficiaries of youth policies and programs are often adolescents who already have an advantage (typically they are urban, older, male, unmarried, and go to school). Policies and programs repeatedly ignore large, neglected and pivotal subgroups of adolescents, such as 10-14 year old out-of-school girls, girls at risk of child marriage, rural adolescents living without their parents, and young migrants at risk of unsafe, exploitative work and trafficking.
These vulnerable groups of adolescents require special attention. The Guides are meant to inform, provoke discussion and ensure that interventions are based on concrete evidence and focus on those most in need.