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"What if..."
What if there were a game about means rather than ends, the experience rather than the completion. It appears to me that "leveling up" "beating the game" or "killing the monster" are not the inherently rewarding components of a game. Take sports as an example. People don't play sports just because they want to win. Rather, they play sports because the mere experience of engaging in them is rewarding on a level far below the abstractions of status and hierarchy. Sipping hot chocolate or smelling a frangrant flower are engaged in because the experiences themselves are rewarding, not because once you've drunk the cocoa you get "cocoa xp" or because you "leveled up your flower-smelling ability." In short, I think that the whole concept of designing games around "success" or "end" should be exchanged for games which focus on the experience of the game or means to its "end".
I think thatGameCompany has adopted this idea in its purest form with its flOw and Flower games. These focus exclusively and very consciously (on the designer's part) on an experience rather than an end. As one review I read put it, flOw and Flower blur the distinction between the "toy" and the "game". These games are about creating feelings in the player directly rather than handing them "medals". Another game which implements this experience-based model is Shadow of the Colossus. I think this game is more about experiencing the colossi than about "beating" them or achieving the "end" of the game. The sights, sounds, and movements are, in themselves, the essence of what makes the game enjoyable. Also, Age of Conan's combat system is a decent example of this. When I engaged in combat in AoC, I never thought for a moment about how much closer the approaching kill would get me to an objective, I enjoyed the act of battle itself. I could be level 60 or level 1 and still get the exact same enjoyment out of it.
Ultimately, what I'm envisioning: a truly huge "game" that is really just the toy-like experience of stepping into another world and being there, "smelling the roses" as it were. Probably the most perfect encapsulation of this idea is the old story of Alexander the Great in which, upon reaching the Himalayas he cried because there were no more worlds to conquer. He didn't care that he had conquered the world, he cared that he could no longer be conquering one.
Here's an excellent article on the subject - in case you haven't had enough of the experience of reading yet ;)
...and while you go indulge your lust for reading about game-design theory, I'm going to have a swig at this Irish-cream type liquor over here... just so I can say I did it, you understand.
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Originally posted by SirBenedict
Would be great if games were designed more along those lines, but instead 99% of the market insists on trying to clone WoW and giving us more and more of this repetetive boring ass gameplay that consists of tab targeting and pressing your most useful hotkeys. I definitely get more of the feeling youre describing when playing FPS games vs othe rplayers because the fight itself is actually exciting, wether you win or lose. Same goes for single player RPGs where theres some real depth to the game and the story and more innovation behind the combat systems to make them unique instead of the same tired crap weve been using on MMOs for like 10 years and theyve all become about getting to end game and being the highest level with the best gear, not about actual fun & skilled combat.
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But the problem is, for AoC's example is that I HATED the combat system. So when your making a means based game, you really need to make the game exceptional. Not saying AoC's system is bad, and I'm sure a lot hail it as great...but I really never found AoC to be 'means' based at all. I personally felt Vanilla wow was that way, I loved everything about it. Things are different now, but perhaps that is what made WoW so successful, it was fun from the start.
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So it really depends more on the player not the game.
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Yea I was just writing and avoiding the point, its a terrible habit I have. My real issue is that because its the player, companies are forced to create games that cater to specific groups of people--most having a hard time doing this.
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I think most games would benefit from making the means to its ends a better and more enjoyable experience. But I'm not sure I would enjoy a game without any ends.
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Originally posted by GreenChaos
I had a similar experience in City of Heroes. I probably have 20 lvl 50s on that game, did some of the same content over and over but it was always so different because of the group or the class because that game has vastly more customizable powers and combos than most class based games. (hell more diverse than some skill based).
Eve is another one. The unusual way of balancing 'bigger is not always better' means you can learn to excel at so many different roles.
"Never met a pack of humans that were any different. Look at the idiots that get elected every couple of years. You really consider those guys more mature than us? The only difference between us and them is, when they gank some noobs and take their stuff, the noobs actually die." - Madimorga
I think it depends on the person.
In Dark Age of Camelot, I only cared about the journey. I never focused on getting to max level, because I loved just grouping up and dungeon crawling or finding a nice place to xp above ground. The same goes for SWG.
I think it's the community that determines whether to enjoy the journey or the destination. If an overwhelming majority of players concentrate on end game, then that'll either rub off on you, or you'll suffer for not rushing with them. For example, in World of Warcraft, many people enjoy the leveling up experience and running dungeons, yet many people fealt they had to rush to level cap if they were to stay with the large body of people who are also leveling up. This is because if you want to have an easier time finding a group, then you gotta keep up, especially when it comes to raiding. Spots in a good raiding guild can be competitive to get.
In theory, a game where there aren't levels, but only a skill system that allows you to get better by actively participating in the use of that skill (ie. use a sword to get better at swords), would allow you to enjoy the journey. Take Darkfall for example. Imagine if Darkfall, instead of being inhabited by PvP fanatics, was instead inhabited by those who like to roleplay, socialize, and enjoy the journey. You have a community that spends most of their time exploring, building up their city and houses, working on their trades and making money, while warring only with opposing nations (guilds) that occupy land that has much needed resources.
So the problem here is that most of the MMO community care only or almost only for endgame. It certainly would help if a game made every effort to make the journey enjoyable, but the repetitiveness is inevitable in a game that's supposed to last for years. Hack n Slash single player games, such as Diablo are examples of repetitive gameplay that people just enjoy. People enjoy MMO's much the same way, except that MMO's last a lot longer than a Diablo-esque game does, resulting in people complaining about the grind, when they wouldn't if they were playing Diablo. This begs the question of whether or not MMO's should have an ending for those MMO's that revolve around telling a story.
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"What if..."
The point that really comes out and strikes me is that a means-based game design would inherently alienate some while drawing in others. It's the same as in each analogy I gave. Some people like smelling flowers more than others; some people enjoy cocoa more than others; and some people wouldn't touch basketball with a ten foot pole.
However, this begs the question: does one game need to draw in everybody? Football makes a fine living without all the basketball fans, it seems to me, and chocolate companies are buzzing along just fine without the entire planet addictively sucking chocolates 24/7. My point is, if a game really did succeed in providing at least one genuinely, solidly, and inherently satisfying and self-fulfilling activity, then would it not succeed in its purpose as a game more so than the current crop of modern, ends-based games?
The point that means vs. ends is more of a player-side issue than the designer-side issue is also well taken, but I think it is moot, to a large degree, because, ultimately, it is an inherent part of a designer's job to create a game that is not only entertaining when played the right way but also ensures that the players indeed do play it that way. And I don't consider this mere personal speculation. If you refer to Sid Meier's keynote address at the GDC, you will notice a couple of things. First and foremost that he entire talk is about how the game designer needs to take into account the psychology of the gamer, the ultimate inference being that the game designer needs to methodically manipulate the consciousness of the player. Second, and more to the point, is the bit where Meier explains that the game designer needs to prevent the player from engaging in self destructive behavior such as paranoia (I think this is in his principle of "Mutually Assured Destruction"). In short, I think it can be stated the it is Sid Meier's opinion that it is the responsibility of the designer, not the player, to prevent self-destructive game play behaviors and attitudes (such as the "pass go" mentality I am bewailing).
The issue of player community is very similar to the issue of individual player psychology. In fact, the latter is really an extension of the latter with one caveat: it feeds back. I agree that the community has a tremendous impact in shaping the psychology and behavior of the individual player (any elementary introduction to principles of psychology establishes this), but I disagree, again, with the assumption that the player community "forms itself" out of nothing. I believe that it is, again, the developer's job to shape the community as well as the individual player psychology.
Ultimately, therefore, I think that the design of a means-based game would have to be paired with a careful system for managing player psychology both at the group and individual levels. How to do this would be the subject of a whole other thread... it would be pretty fascinating though... Anyway, for our purposes here, it suffices to say that yes player psychology is essential to shifting focus from the end to the journey, but no this isn't the player's job, it's the developer's. Okay, now that was too long - sorry.\
ps: ohoh, I almost forgot. Here's one of my favorite articles germane to this issue.
pps: I don't want us all to get hung up on AoC. I don't think of it as the ultimate expression of successful gameplay. It has many failings. Instead, get hung up on thatGameCompany. Read about Flower and flOw and most of all, listen to Chen's little acceptance speech at about 40:00 of the GDC Choice Awards. That's really more where I'm coming from. AoC really wasn't that ground breaking, so far as I can see. Flower is.
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When you're in the business of making money, you give the customer what they ask for. The most vocal of the community, the portion that results in good or bad press, wants gameplay that caters to unhealthy gaming habits. They're people who have unhealthy gaming habits, maybe unhealthy mental and physical states, and no real life ambition. Yet developer's cater to them, because that's where the money is. Most people who are healthy, both mentally and physically, and have real life ambition are not playing video games. Notice I said "most," because there's always the exception and I'm sure our genre has about 1 games worth of that exception.
With the market being as saturated as it is, you have those exceptions spread out over more games. There ARE games out there that focus on the journey, yet those games have low populations and some even close down. The market for the game you speak of just doesn't exist in large part because most online gamers are unhealthy people looking for "non-fun," but addicting gameplay to make them forget their pitiful lives.
You think that a game company can magically wave their wands and make a game that's fun to play as is, but you don't take into consideration that these companies depend on subscriptions to keep going. It's just not possible right now to keep online gamers busy with content for months at a time with the 10's of millions of dollar budgets they're currently operating with. Hell, Bioware's Star Wars must be the most ambitious MMO project to date, spending around $200 million dollars. They're about as close as getting to what you speak of.
I just think that while it's fine to come onto a gaming forum and speculate, or ask philisophical questions that no one can answer without first having doctoral students spend years analyzing the MMO market, the MMO consumers, and the psychology and etc. dealing with it, you need to acknowledge the reality that every developer and player is faced and dealing with.
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Originally posted by nate1980
could you give me few examples of those games pls? because i really cannt think more or less of any such mmorpg
edit: ok, maybe wurm on freedom server and a bit UO
Games that focus on the journey, to name a few:
1. Saga of Ryzom
2. EvE
4. Champions
5. CoX
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Right, means based only works if the player can put up with the linear content and finds enjoyment in playing different characters; or the there is no way to achieve an end to the character, like in EVE.
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Originally posted by mmoguy43
I would think being completely non-linear would work better for this type of thing, basically a sandbox design with lots of different elements that can be changed constantly with your character to make it advance and have flexibility for different parts of the journey, though not in a linear fashion, more like allowing you access to a larger variety of things, and some slight boosts in power to different things, rather than a typical level grinder where its all about getting to level cap and gearing up.
Ryzom comes to mind when i think of this, because youve basically got a whole bunch of small parts that you can combine the way you want to make up different skills for everything from attacks, spells, crafting, and gathering, and alter those skills anyway you please throughout the game for things like increased damage, range, aoe, duration, etc but while balancing it by also increasing the costs of the different parts (HP/Stamina costs and stuff). You do gain access to some bigger and better things as you progress in leveling up the different skill branches (fighting, magic, crafting, gathering, etc), but youre not trying to rush through to get max level and automatically increasing your power by massive leaps like in WoW type games.
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Originally posted by Drezeks
Vanilla WoW was certainly a better experience, before everything went... Just plain bad.
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I would personally want a game that focuses on means, but have rewarding, satisfying ends as well. That way the entire experience just clicks. Rather than pushing the player to reach a high level, or to work to get gear (World of Warcraft, anyone?) developers need to find new ways to make the paths leading to those rewards diverse and interesting. Rather than just "questing" or (the primary source of boredom) "grinding" to meet a goal. Grinding means doing the same repetitious thing over and over, and I would like to know how exactly developers thought that was a good idea to do for every aspect of the game.
You want cool gear? Get your ass to level X and work for it. How do you do that? Do the three quest types; kill this, get that, go here. Repeat with lynx paws, goat bladders, and blood elf spleens for hours on end. There, twenty quests down and you only have forty more levels to go.
You want to craft something awesome? Craft this useless crap for 250 skill levels and spend this much gold.
You want gold, too, you say?? Don't get my started.
It's just not fun to me. Grind CAN be good if the task you're doing is fun, but working my ass off to make a level rise by 1 every hour or so does not sound fun to me.
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Like some have already said: It's not the game, its the player. Its all an illusion. When you see past it - there's nothing to "experience". When it becomes familiar - it becomes less exciting.
All I see in Eve is different colored sky-boxes. I see no "universe". After a while in AoC, the melee becomes a button mash just like any other game. You can't keep that feeling forever and it is foolish to demand it from games.
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Originally posted by Quirhid
It is not just a familiarity problem. Most games become refined as the content updates and expansions come out to make content and balancing easier. The game often loses any sort of special feeling due to the refinement that occurs.
Often times they become less inspired as time goes on. Part of this is due to the brains leaving for other projects. Part of this is due to shrinking the size of the support team post release.
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Sorry, but....
In a means-based game design, how would the developers scam people with their abusive cash shops?
Because 99% of the money spent on cash shops are destined to acquire power in-game, thus the end-based game design.
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Originally posted by SirBenedict
Leveling up is rewarding, if you leveled up in an MMORPG that was actually challenging and required skill/effort to level up. Of course, if you were playing WoW, I guess it wouldn't be very rewarding.
Know what else is rewarding? World PvP.
It's funny because you guys don't seem to know why MMORPGs have suddenly started sucking, and think there needs to be some major change to them.
The only change that is needed is to revert to the older style MMORPGs that made the game challenging, painful, etc.
World PvE, World PvP, Death Penalties. Guild vs Guild or Faction vs Factions is probably the most fun thing that comes out of an MMORPG, yet it is not present in current MMORPGs because they've sugarcoated it and put it in an Arena system where you don't lose experience, and you basically compete over items to buy in a gearshop.
Well, now you know why MMORPGs are garbage. Catering to those players who didn't want any features that cause discomfort is what has been ruining MMORPGs.


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- Law Professor Testifies Before Congress
Standen to Testify Before House Committee on Energy and Commerce
Professor Jeffrey Standen has been asked to lend his legal expertise to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce by providing testimony on the National Football League's StarCaps case, named for a banned weight-loss supplement containing the steroid-masking agent bumetanide.
The case involves two Minnesota Vikings players who were suspended for violating the league's anti-doping policy after testing positive for the banned supplement. The players sued the league, claiming that as employees in Minnesota, state labor laws protect them from drug testing by the national league. Just last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit agreed, blocking the players' suspensions. The decision poses a substantial threat to the extant anti-doping rules in all professional sports.
"The issue at hand is whether federal labor laws trump state workplace protections," said Standen, who will testify before Congress at 11:30 a.m. EST on Nov. 3.
"In my view, the courts need to treat the NFL differently than other multi-state employers," he said. "The NFL is a single entity, but its components compete against each other. Professional games need to be competitive, so we need parity rules in place to ensure a few teams don't have an advantage because they're exempted from drug testing."
"All national sports teams need a single, unified standard for employee eligibility and protections," he added. "Federal labor laws either need to be amended to preempt state laws in these matters or the Congress needs to convince player unions to waive the relevant state rights."
A member of the Willamette law faculty since 1990, Standen began focusing his scholarly research on sports law six years ago. Since that time, he has published numerous journal articles on a range of sports-related legal topics and has gained a national reputation as a sports law expert through his robust legal blog, http://thesportslawprofessor.blogspot.com/. His most recent text, Taking Sports Seriously: Law and Sports in Contemporary American Culture, was published by Carolina Academic Press in 2009.
He currently is writing two new texts for Oxford University Press: Sports Law in the United States (2010); and The Beauty of Bets: Prediction Markets, Sports Firms and the Compensation of Professional Athletes (2010).
"Professor Standen has distinguished himself as an important sports law scholar," said College of Law Dean Symeon C. Symeonides. "When Oxford University Press and Congress come to you for your legal opinion, you certainly have made your mark as a valuable voice in the field."
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Great Games. Great Players.
A Recap of the FFG World Championship Weekend
Last weekend, players from around the world converged upon our headquarters in Roseville, MN for the FFG World Championship Weekend, where we hosted World Championship Tournaments for seven different games:
- A Game of Thrones: The Card Game
- Android: Netrunner The Card Game
- Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game
- Dust Tactics
- Dust Warfare
- Warhammer: Invasion The Card Game
- X-Wing™
Over three days of enthusiastic participation and stiff competition, we enjoyed top-level games, including several World Championship Finals that featured the best players from both Europe and North America. After all was said and done, we proudly hailed nine new World Champions (including the A Game of Thrones Melee, Joust, and Overall Champions).
A Game of Thrones: The Card Game
This year's World Championship for A Game of Thrones: The Card Game featured one of the strongest fields of competitors the game has ever seen. The reigning North American Champion, five former World Champions, and two European National Champions all fought to defend their bids for the Iron Throne from multiple Regional Champions and other hopeful players. In the end, three players rose to power.
2012 A Game of Thrones: The Card Game Melee World Champion – Mathieu Hosatte
2012 A Game of Thrones: The Card Game Joust World Champion – John Bruno
2012 A Game of Thrones: The Card Game Overall Champion – Derek Shoemaker
Congratulations to all three for their success in the battles, intrigues, and power struggles of the 2012 A Game of Thrones World Championships!
Android: Netrunner The Card Game
With all the buzz surrounding Android: Netrunner, the game's inaugural World Championship Tournament was one of this year's most hotly anticipated events. It also marked the first major indication of the developing metagame. Throughout the preliminary rounds, the field of Runners was evenly divided, but players clearly favored Haas-Bioroid above the other Corporations, as the megacorp represented 40% of all decks.
Once the field cut to the top four, however, another trend emerged. The Criminal, Gabriel Santiago, appeared as the clear favorite, representing three of the top four decks, including the eventual first, second, and third place decks. Haas-Bioroid still represented half of the top four decks, but it was Weyland Corporation that eventually took home the trophy.
2012 Android: Netrunner The Card Game World Champion – Jeremy Zwirm
Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game
If there was any tournament that best highlighted the strides Fantasy Flight Games took over the last year to make the FFG World Championship Weekend a truly international experience, it may have been the 2012 Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game World Championship Tournament. A field consisting of players from North America, France, Italy, and Tokyo fought to retain their sanity as they uncovered the terrible truths of the Ancient Ones' influence over all reality.
After the preliminary rounds, the top four boiled down to a dream match-up between three-time European Champion Graham Hill and three-time World Champion Tom Capor. In the end, Tom Capor just had too many answers to Graham's rush deck, and he earned his fourth consecutive World Championship!
2012 Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game World Champion – Tom Capor
Dust Tactics
The 2012 Dust Tactics World Championship was a true contest of champions, pitting the French and German National Champions against one another, as well as a number of American contenders, including last year's Dust Tactics World Championship Runner-Up, Louis Gentile.
The tournament culminated in a final match between French Champion Julien Bertheau and American Louis Gentile. The game was extremely tight. Julien's army featured long-range walkers and expensive hero-led squads while Louis focused on maneuvering his squad-heavy Axis army to grab crucial cover. In the end, he destroyed more Army Points than Julien and added the Dust Tactics World Championship to the Dust Warfare North American Champion title that he had won earlier this year at Gen Con.
2012 Dust Tactics World Champion – Louis Gentile
Dust Warfare
This was a very good year for fans of Dust as 2012 not only saw tense competition for the Dust Tactics World Championship, but also saw the premiere of the Dust Warfare World Championship Tournament. Players came together from across the fan community, bringing competitive armies from each of the game's three factions: Allies, Axis, and SSU.
Among the tournament's other highlights, North American Champion Louis Gentile and finalist Richard Busby fought a rematch in the tournament's second round. Louis brought his battle-tested Axis list while Richard exchanged his old Allies list for a new SSU list focused on KV47 walkers. Ultimately, both narrowly missed making the finals, a surprise match between two Allied players: Chris Seefeld, a long-time Dust Warfare expert, and sixteen-year-old newcomer Julian McPherson. In the end, Julian was able to use his two air-dropped Fireballs and their BBQ Squads in a flanking move to pin Chris's army into a corner of the table and crush it.
2012 Dust Warfare World Champion – Julian McPherson
Warhammer: Invasion The Card Game
The top players from Europe and North America fought for dominion over the Old World in the 2012 Warhammer: Invasion The Card Game World Championship Tournament. After four hard-fought preliminary rounds, four players earned their way to elimination play, two each from Europe and North America. They also divided two each between the forces of Chaos and the High Elves. The High Elves proved too much for the minions of Chaos during the semifinals, setting up a mirror match for Saturday's finals in which Jeremy Zwirm's High Elf deck outraced Oliver Franke's for a 2:1 match win.
This championship marked an incredible turn-around for the High Elves, who had formerly seen little luck during Warhammer: Invasion tournament play, but it marked an even more dramatic accomplishment for Jeremy Zwirm, who won his second World Championship of the day, having overcome Benjamin Marsh in a marathon, four-hour Android: Netrunner match earlier in the day!
2012 Warhammer: Invasion The Card Game World Champion – Jeremy Zwirm
The inaugural X-Wing World Championship Tournament drew the galaxy's best squad leaders to the FFG World Championship Weekend for a full day of dramatic dogfights. Players of all skill levels were present, and the crowd was extremely friendly and welcoming, divided almost equally between Rebels and Imperials. Formation-flying and head-to-head confrontation were the tactics of choice for most, regardless of faction.
During the final match, Nick Stanton's hard-hitting Rebel squad shot down Imperial player Doug Kinney's "Howlrunner," making him the first Rebel player to accomplish that feat. However, that left Nick's squad in the wrong place at the wrong time. With a little help from the dark side of the Force™, Doug's expertly built and flown killing machine smashed the Rebel fleet and earned him the first X-Wing World Championship.
2012 X-Wing World Champion – Doug Kinney
A Worldwide Audience
While we were thrilled to host so many high-quality tournaments and so many enthusiastic players during the FFG World Championship Weekend, we were also delighted to be able to stream live coverage of featured events. This was something new we were able to offer for our World Championship Weekend. We were able to learn ways we could improve our coverage for future events, but we were also pleased by the positive response as fans across the world tuned in to see their friends and other renowned players contest heated struggles in their favorite games.
Click the thumbnail above to watch 2012 A Game of Thrones: The Card Game Joust World Champion John Bruno discuss his experience at the FFG World Championship Weekend (QuickTime, 12.5 MB).
Enthusiastic players from Europe joined us early in the morning to follow their favorite games. Others stayed up late in California to cheer on their friends. And Star Wars fans across the world have scrutinized the coverage we offered of our Star Wars™: The Card Game demos.
In the end, the FFG World Championship Weekend may have been contested by those players who came to Roseville, MN last weekend, but we are proud to have shared the experience with our Organized Play community worldwide.
We thank you all for making this year's FFG World Championship Weekend a great event, and we look forward to seeing all of you next year!
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As a former mayor of a village on Long Island, I can testify that you rarely have an opportunity to take advantage of a gift of 60 percent of the cost of a needed project. The project of need in Waitsfield is a new home to replace our current town hall, now cramped in the lower level of our town library building. The situation is critical since the library needs the space for its own expanded use, including conference space along with added books recordkeeping and storage. Waitsfield is the only town, as we look at our neighboring towns of Warren, Moretown, Fayston and Waterbury, that does not have its own town office building.
So, here we sit with an opportunity to build a new building to suit our needs which would cost $1,250,000 less a state grant of $750,000, which would reduce our taxpayer cost to $500,000. The grant can only be adaptable to construction of the town hall building on the designated property known as the Farm Stand property, now vacant.
We need a yes vote no later than July 30 from my fellow Waitsfield residents for the select board to put the town office building construction under way. It is a must since an opportunity such as this is likely to be gone forever should the vote fail. It is an obligation, my friends, that would save us thousands of taxpayer money for another project at another time and another time will come – you can count on it.
We need to move our town hall out of the library. Please do not procrastinate. Vote yes at the current town office. You can vote in advance by absentee ballot until Monday, July 29, at 4:30 p.m., and on July 30 at the Waitsfield Elementary School from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Gene Scarpato


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The Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) was established by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) resolution 9(I) in 1946, to assist the ECOSOC in supervising the application of the international drug control treaties. In 1991, the General Assembly (GA) further expanded the mandates of the CND to enable it to function as the governing body of the UNODC, and to approve the budget of the Fund of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme, which accounts for over 90 per cent of the resources available to the United Nations for drug control. In ECOSOC resolution 1999/30, the CND was requested to enhance its functioning by structuring its agenda into two distinct segments: a normative segment, during which the CND discharges its treaty-based and normative functions; and an operational segment, during which the CND exercises its role as the governing body of UNODC.
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High-level review 2014 ----------> UNGASS 2016
The Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation Towards an Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World Drug Problem of 2009 is the main policy document of the United Nations guiding action by the international community in this field. It reaffirms the principle role played by the CND as one of the United Nations organs with prime responsibility for drug control matters. In line with its mandates, the CND monitors the world drug situation, develops strategies on international drug control and recommends measures to combat the world drug problem, including through reducing demand for drugs, promoting alternative development initiatives and adopting supply reduction measures.
In 2014, the CND conducted a high-level review of the implementation of the Political Declaration and Plan of Action, and the outcome of that high-level review is being submitted to the GA for its consideration in view of the special session of the GA on the world drug problem in 2016. The high-level segment of the fifty-seventh session of the CND adopted a Joint Ministerial Statement on the mid-term review of the implementation by Member States of the Political Declaration and Plan of Action. The Statement determines the progress achieved and challenges faced in the implementation.
The CND meets annually when it considers and adopts a range of decisions and resolutions. Intersessional meetings of the CND are regularly convened to provide policy guidance to UNODC. Towards the end of each year, the CND meets at a reconvened session to consider budgetary and administrative matters as the governing body of the United Nations drug programme.
Subsidiary bodies of the CND are the Subcommission on Illicit Drug Traffic and Related Matters in the Near and Middle East and the meetings of the Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies (HONLEAs) for Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Carribean, and Europe respectively. The purpose of these meetings is to coordinate activities to counteract illicit drug trafficking and to monitor new trends within the respective regions. The recommendations of the subsidiary bodies are submitted to the sessions of the CND for its consideration and follow-up action.


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Morning, folks. Short, simple roundup of what's in GO! Magazine today. Find all this stuff at The Bulletin's music page:
There are a bunch of solid shows in town this week, and it seemed to me that an inordinate number of them featured female artists, so I packaged those together. Click right here to read up on the contemporary folk of Beth Wood and Shireen Amini, the sultry Americana of Emma Hill, the soulful hip-hop of God-Des & She (who are headlining the That's So Gay black and white party), and VJ Kittyrox, who runs the popular 80s Video Dance Attack party, which is exactly what it sounds like.
Elsewhere in this week's music section: local band Roses at Gunpoint will play to raise money for paralyzed snowboarder Tyler Eklund, Empty Space Orchestra ends its four-week residency at Silver Moon, Elliot and Adventure Galley headline a Rise Up show at Century Center, The Quons are at Velvet, Willie Carmichael is at Three Creeks Brewing Co., and new music spot The Marilyn hosts Justin Lavik / Grace Laxson tonight and The Sweet Harlots Saturday. Plus, Mountain Country Idol has started in Redmond, pitting several local artists against each other over several weeks in an effort to find Central Oregon's finest country act.


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Mining in the mountains became a big business. Campo Bonito, also called Camp Bonito, was one of the biggest mining groups. Campo Bonito is located in what is known as the Control District, Old Hat District and Santa Catalina District, south of Oracle. The San Pedro River flows along the east. Tucson is on the south side of the Catalina Mountains.
The mineral list from the Campo Bonito mines included Calcite, Dolomite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite, Scheelite, Talc and Wulfenite. 1
By 1912, several months after Arizona became a state, the Bisbee Daily Review published an overview of mining in the Catalinas.
"Campo Bonito. To the north and west of Apache camp and at a lower altitude is the scene of the Cody-Dwyer M. & M. company's operations. The company has thirty-six locations here and a forty-ton mill has been installed. There is a scheelte gold ore that yields to the milling and concentrating process.
The Southern Bell, owned by the Cody-Dwyer Interests, is now under bond to Capt Jack Burgess.
The property consists of nine patented and four unpatented claims, a patented mill slto and a ten stamp mill. Pepper Sauce Gulch is the location of the "Buffalo Bill" claims, consistIng of twelve In number. The Coy-Dwyer and the Cody-Burgess combinations own and control several groups In addition to the foregoing that are receiving more or less practical attention.
The ore in the vicinity of Campo Bonito is in places a disseminated sulphide carrying gold and sliver values. Oxidizing agencies have freed the values to a considerable extent from their base combinations, making amalgamation practicable to a certain extent.
Both Apache Camp and Campo Bonito are In tho "Old Hat" district and are easily accessible to Tucson by excellent wagon road. The E. P. and S. W. railway has surveyed to the former camp and the course of line runs approximately near to all tho important mining interests now known in that locality. Its construction is well within the realms of the possible." 2
1. Mindat.org Database: Pure Gold Mine, Campo Bonito Mines, Apache Peak area.
2. "Santa Catalinas and the Old Hat Mining Districts," Bisbee Daily Review, May 14, 1912, page 5m, image 5


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New Warcraft Lore Book Series Shows the Unseen History of Azeroth
Warcraft Chronicle: Volume 1 covers the beginning of the franchise's universe up through the first game.
Warcraft Chronicle: Volume 1 covers the beginning of the franchise's universe up through the first game.
Countries include Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore; involvement and fate of Blizzard's SEA branch in Singapore yet to be known.
GDC 2010: Studio game design chief Rob Pardo lays out company's core game-making philosophies that drive high-quality hits.
Sony Pictures' scrapping of superhero movie could mean an earlier-than-expected start to Sam Raimi's big-screen adaptation of Blizzard series; effect on Activision's upcoming Spider-Man game unknown.
[UPDATE] Reports claim director Sam Raimi's superhero film has been delayed several months; effect on Blizzard-inspired big-screen blockbuster unclear.
Blizzard game design chief Rob Pardo and lead designer Jeff Kaplan discuss acclaimed fantasy franchise's long history, from orcs and humans to the World of Warcraft phenomenon.
Blizzard, Legendary, and Warner Bros. announce Spider-Man director will helm the long-in-the-works big-screen version of Blizzard's genre-dominating MMORPG.
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We've previously posted preliminary information and photos of the special edition frozen BMW M3 and M5 M Performance Editions, but now here's the full official release information and gallery from BMW UK.
Two exclusive new M Performance Editions for the BMW M3 and BMW M5 are being built by BMW M GmbH solely for the UK market. Just thirty of each model will be available costing £74,080 OTR for the M3 M Performance Edition and the M5 M Performance Edition is priced at £95,140 OTR.
Showcasing BMW Individual, … CONTINUED
Photos and pricing has now been released of the F10 M5 M Performance Edition special "Frozen" models. From the photos, you can see M Performance black kidney grilles and side gills trim, as well as an alcantara steering wheel and contrast stitching throughout the interior (blue stitching for Frozen Blue, white stitching for Frozen White, and orange/red stitching for Frozen Red). The dash trim is inscribed with a "Number X of 30 M Performance Edition". We also hope the full M Performance Parts catalog will … CONTINUED
Along with the M3 M Performance Edition models, BMW has also released this video teaser for the new limited BMW M5 M Performance Edition models for the UK. The centerpiece of each M5 M Performance Edition model is the Frozen (matte) paint, which will include Frozen Blue, Frozen Red, and Frozen White. Only ten units of each color will be produced, for a total of just 30 cars.
BMW recently launched the M Performance Parts catalog for the F20 1 series, F30 3 series, and F10 5 … CONTINUED
BMW UK has released a video teaser for the new limited BMW M3 M Performance Edition coupe models that it will offer for the UK market. Each M3 M Performance Edition model will feature an unique Frozen (matte) paint color – Frozen Blue, Frozen Red, and Frozen White. Just ten units of each color will be produced, for a total of only 30 cars.
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Taylor Tomberlin was adjudicated guilty by Chief Judge William Prior Sept. 13 and resentenced to eight years confinement. The adjudication of guilt is the down side of a defendant pleading as a first offender.
Tomberlin was on probation for the charge of theft by receiving. He pled guilty to the offense Sept. 28, 2009, and was allowed to enter the plea under the first offender act, which means if he successfully completed his five years probation as ordered, the felony would be wiped from his record.
Assistant District Attorney Keagan Goodrich prosecuted the case. She told the court that Tomberlin violated his probation by receiving a DUI and obstruction charge Dec. 3, 2011, and Bibb County charges of theft by taking April 22, 2012, theft by taking fiduciary April 26, 2012 and burglary May 2, 2012.
She said other violations include not reporting and a curfew violation. Goodrich said Tomberlin had a previous modification May 27, 2010, and recommended the defendant be adjudicated guilty and sentenced to 10 years.
"He has been through the detention center and has had repeated violations. We made his conditions special and sent him to boot camp," she said.
Goodrich said, as soon as the defendant got out, he tested positive for marijuana and alcohol and was going to bars and drinking. She said his family put him in a treatment center in New Jersey, and he was discharged from there for violations.
For the full story, pick up a copy of this week's newspaper or subscribe to our e-Edition at http://ee.jcnews.com.


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Home: Where The Heart Is
From the moment it begins beating until the moment it stops, the human heart works tirelessly. In an average lifetime*, the heart beats more than two and a half billion times, without ever pausing to rest. Like a pumping machine, the heart provides the power needed for life.
This life-sustaining power has, throughout time, caused an air of mystery to surround the heart. Modern technology has removed much of the mystery, but there is still an air of fascination and curiosity.
Explore the heart. Discover the complexities of its development and structure. Follow the blood through the blood vessels. Wander through the weblike body systems. Learn how to have a healthy heart and how to monitor your heart's health. Look back at the history of heart science.
Soon, your fascination and curiosity may lead to understanding and respect.
To learn even more about the heart, try taking a look at some recommended resource materials, enrichment activities, and a brief glossary.
*Note: The average lifetime total heartbeats is based on an average of 72 beats per minute during an average lifespan of 75 years. 72 beats per minute x 60 = 4,320 beats per hour. 4,320 beats per hour x 24 = 103,680 beats per day. 103,680 beats per day x 365 = 37,843,200 beats per year. 37,843,200 beats per year x 75 = 2,838,240,000 beats in an average lifetime.
Kids can learn more about the heart at Discovery Camp at The Franklin Institute!


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Women's Basketball Rebounds to the Finish
Turnovers limit chance for win
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- December 5, 2009
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HAMBURG, NY – For the first time this season, the Hilbert College women's basketball team proved to themselves that they can compete against their Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) opponents. La Roche College visited the Hafner Recreation Center on December 5 for a 40-minute battle with the Hawks. Hilbert hurt themselves by committing too many turnovers throughout the contest and lost the game 86-70 to the Redhawks from Pittsburgh. Hilbert's record stands at 0-8 (0-3 AMCC) while La Roche moves to 4-2 (2-1 AMCC).
La Roche jumped out to an 8-0 lead within the game's first minute and fifteen seconds. Hilbert fought back and was able to get as close as 11-12 with 14 minutes left in the first half. La Roche went on a 23 – 7 run during the game's next four and a half minutes off 6 of Hilbert's 19 first half turnovers. Intermission found La Roche taking a 49-34 lead to the locker room with 31 points being earned off Hilbert's turnovers as well as La Roche's 11 steals. The Hawks outrebounded La Roche 25-24 and shot 50% from the floor.
After regrouping at half time, the Hawks came back just as determined as before. La Roche was able to build the biggest lead of the game within the first 3 minutes of the second half (61-34) but Hilbert found ways to score and defend and whittled the lead down to 10 points on several occasions in the next 8 minutes. The game finished out with both teams making multiple trips to the foul line as they each had two different players disqualified for fouls.
6'0 freshman Devin Davis (Waterbury, CT/Sacred Heart) had her first double-double of her collegiate career, finishing with 10 points and 16 rebounds to pair with her team-leading 5 assists. Julie Bossard (Arkport, NY/Canisteo-Greenwood) {in photo to right}shot 7-10 from the floor and was the Hawks leading scorer with 16 points and 2 blocks before fouling out. Freshman Amber Grosch (Depew, NY/Depew) also hit for 12 points and 8 rebounds. The Hawks finished the game outrebounding La Roche (52-48) and shooting 51% from the floor, both firsts for the program this year.
"Although we are not satisfied with the outcome, we are enjoying our progress," said Hilbert head coach Matt Phifer. "We are starting to become the team we feel we can be,"
The Redhawks were led by Chantelle Jennings with 27 points after hitting 9-9 from the foul line. La Roche's point guard, Chloe Stewart followed closely behind with 23 points, 7 steals, 5 assists and 6 rebounds.
On Wednesday, December 9, the women's basketball team will travel to North Buffalo for their 6 pm tip-off against Medaille College (5-1, 3-0 AMCC).
Hilbert College, located in suburban Hamburg, N.Y., south of Buffalo, is a private four-year college founded in 1957 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition. With nearly 1,100 students, Hilbert is a dynamic Western New York college that offers career-focused majors, including one of the top criminal justice programs in the region, and more than 50 minors and concentrations. The college's engaging, student-centered campus community offers numerous leadership, internship, and service learning opportunities from which students launch successful careers while making positive changes in their communities. The Hilbert Blueprint promotes a well-rounded student experience over four years – starting with the Foundations Seminar in the freshman year, followed by Sophomore Service, Junior Symposium, and culminating with the Senior Capstone. Hilbert has expanded its academic offerings with the college's first graduate programs and new Accelerated Degree Programs geared to adult learners.
Upcoming Events
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- Summer Session A2 Ends
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Google's alternative to JavaScript is not called Dash, the name has been changed to Dart. Designed as an object-oriented programming language that's both flexible and structured, Dart should be familiar to Java and C++ programmers, while inheriting some advantages of scripting languages like JavaScript.
Dart is "a class-based optionally typed programming language for building web applications" and Google says that it's better suited for large-scale projects. "Developed with the goals of simplicity, efficiency, and scalability, the Dart language combines powerful new language features with familiar language constructs into a clear, readable syntax."
Dart is flexible because it's both static and dynamic, it's both for clients and servers and it's useful for both small scripts and large projects. Dart apps are easier to debug, to maintain and to develop collaboratively. The language is optimized for performance and doesn't allow programmers to use features like defining constants that have to be computed at runtime.
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We've been publishing political letters to the editor for several weeks at the Creston News Advertiser, specifically regarding the three-person race for county supervisors including Bob Brown, Dennis Brown and Lois Monday.
As we bear down on Election Day, I feel comfortable enough to give an opinion on these three candidates running for supervisor because I'm there in the gallery for meetings each Monday morning as they work through every agenda item.
First, I'd like to point out, Ron Riley will more than likely be on the three-person board in January when the board of supervisors moves from five to three members. He's running unopposed for the two-year term.
That's great news for county taxpayers worried whether this new change to a three-person board will work. Riley has experience, was a board chairman in 2011, works respectfully and cooperatively and makes each vote with the best interest of the county in mind.
Regarding the race between Bob Brown, Dennis Brown and Monday, we published a question-and-answer profile on the three candidates in last Wednesday's CNA. That article gives you a pretty good indication of what each candidates stands for.
It's my opinion they all have strengths.
If you want a conservative, budget-hawk, Lois Monday is without a doubt your supervisor.
She looks intently at every bill that comes through the county. She's strongly against borrowing money. She's like the stern mother who pinches pennies, "scrimps and scrapes" and is focused on making each taxpayer dollar count.
I would also credit Lois and the auditor's office for pushing the board to change health-insurance providers for this fiscal year. That change to Bernie Lowe & Associates is expected to save the county taxpayers about $198,000 in 2012-13.
If you want a supervisor who has a strong work ethic and independent mind, Dennis Brown is your supervisor.
I must give credit to both Dennis Brown and Riley because they've taken on some of the more controversial issues this fiscal year, namely the research involved in scoring the master matrix for the Taylor hog confinements. Dennis is always ready to tackle a tough issue and nobody does it in a more fair, professional and justified way than Dennis Brown.
I'd also say, in a world where empty promises from political candidates are becoming more common, you can trust when Dennis Brown says he will do something, it will get done.
And lastly, if you want experience and a lot of it — about 28 years worth — then Bob Brown is your candidate. Last January, he was elected board chairman of the current board — a board that has this county headed in the right direction.
Bob Brown knows this county's roads and bridges as well as anyone on the board. He can probably identify them better than half of the mail carriers that deliver on them.
Each of these candidates bring their own strengths to the board of supervisors room, which is a primary reason this board works so well together.
I won't tell you who to vote for.
But, I do have peace of mind knowing whoever you do select next week will help form a very good three-person board — a three-person board county taxpayers can trust.
I truly believe that.


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The Department of Geography celebrates as it approaches its centennialPosted Feb. 28, 2013
On April 5th, 1913, David Olson, was hired as one of the first faculty members at Kent State University. In Fall 1913 he went on to be the founding Chair of the Department of Geography.
This Fall, we therefore proudly turn 100. The upcoming year will be marked by celebration, reflection, and vision for the next 100 years. Details will be updated at: http://www.kent.edu/CAS/Geography/centennial/


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Yesterday afternoon, eighteen returning residents made their way back into Tasssajara where they join the four remaining monks who stood up to meet the fire. Ten people, however, did not make it in as there was a lot of back burning activity close to the road and they were turned back. They spent the night in Jamesburg and Carmel Valley and hope to make it in today.
There is much cleaning and repair work to be done before we can reopen and continue this year's guest season. As of now, Tassajara is closed through August 2nd, but much depends on how things go in the days to come. Please continue to check with us for updates. We will also email updates for people who sign up in the form above.
We are accepting student applications for the remainder of the guest season through work period: July 25th through September 26th, for a minimum of 5 days. More information and application are here.
Sitting with Fire has posted images of the road in and out of Tassajara, showing the scope of the burned areas and the pockets of green here and there that were spared.
Over the weekend, KUSP (Central Coast Public Radio) interviewed Abbot Steve Stücky on the effort to save Tassajara from fire and how that relates with Zen practice. The interview is available as an audio stream.
We are working hard to determine the financial impact of the fires, both in terms of damages and lost income from the guest season. So far, we have received a wonderful and generous response from our community of friends, students, alumni and guests. We appreciate all donations, so please continue to give what you can.
You can also give by check payable to San Francisco Zen Center noting Tassajara Fire on the memo line, and mail it to:
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This puzzle educates while it entertains! Forty wooden pieces with images associated with each of the forty states help develop geography and memory skills. State borders are also shown under pieces. When each piece is placed correctly in the puzzle board, your child will hear the names of the states and capitals! Sounds like a great idea!
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We have rich conversations with our clients every day, and increasingly these conversations are happening online. We encourage you to ask questions, share your views, and connect with like-minded professionals.
The International Annual Review demonstrates our achievements and reflects the insights and expertise professionals bring to client relationships.
KPMG's Global IFRS Institute provides information and resources to help Board and Audit Committee Members, Executives, Management, Stakeholders and Government Representatives gain insight on the evolving global financial reporting framework.
KPMG's global network of climate change and sustainability practices helps you build long-term value in a rapidly changing world.
Mining organizations need to adapt across the mining asset lifecycle, from expansion to closure, as changing economic, political and regulatory environment demand greater flexibility.
The Chemical industry's landscape is changing fast - global companies are developing or launching new products and services – and appear optimistic - setting sights on geographic expansion.
Report shows VC-backed companies haul in US$32 billion across 1,819 deals globally in Q2 2015 driven by mega financing and rise of non-traditional investors.
Growth. Volatility. Disruption. Uncertainty. When it comes to doing business, CEOs globally are being challenged to navigate the path to success within an environment of constant change.
The global job search tool allows you to search available career opportunities within many of our 150 member firms worldwide.
KPMG's International Case Competition (KICC) is a chance for students to challenge yourself to solve a real business issue and an opportunity to meet new people across the globe.
We gave KPMG people in cities around the world a simple brief – tell us what it's really like to work for a KPMG member firm.
Here's what they told us alongside some facts, figures, achievements and awards.
What it's really like
Get a feel for everyday life and work at KPMG — from the people who work here.
1.1.1 Three Words to describe KPMG
Sydney – Knowledge, insight and adventures
Hong Kong – Professional, diversified and innovative
Sydney – Successful, driven and passionate
Amsterdam – Professional, common sense and friendly
Moscow – Communication, quality and knowledge
Johannesburg – Play of choice
Moscow – Professional, supportive and responsible
Hong Kong – Integrity, friendly and professional
Johannesburg – Professional, people-focused and cares about the community
Moscow – Dedication, team of strong professionals and my friends
Sydney – Fun, exciting and challenging
Johannesburg – Challenging, multi-faceted and very exciting
Moscow – Professional, it's dynamic and I find it an exciting place to work in
New York – Caring, professional and committed to serving the community
Moscow – Development, good opportunities and, of course, good friends
Hong Kong – Professional, helpful and cheerful
Manchester – Social, professional and big
Johannesburg – Diverse, dynamic and solution driven
Hong Kong – Professional, experienced and great quality
Hong Kong – Cheerful, integrity and proud
London – People, dynamic and global
Hong Kong – Professional, confident and cooperative
New York – True global network
Hong Kong – Proud, international and professional
Moscow – Fun, honest and it's developing
1.1.2 87% feel proud
87% of our people are proud to be associated with KPMG.
It could be because of the value KPMG places on diversity – KPMG also received recognition for its diversity initiatives in 2011. Notably, Working Mother magazine honored KPMG in the United States with its most prestigious recognition, naming the firm as a Top 10 organization on its 100 Best Companies list. KPMG in the UK was listed as one of the Top 50 Employers for Women by The Times. KPMG in Canada was named one of Canada's Best Diversity Employers for 2011).
1.1.3 83% recommend KPMG
For some it's because of the benefits that help our people achieve a good balance between work and home. For others it's the support and advice they receive from their peers, or quality of their colleagues. But don't just take out word for it: speak to our people on campus or through people you know. (Global People Survey 2008)
1.1.4 Join the 1000's that read our careers magazine
To get a feel for life at KPMG, join the thousands of others who read our Global Careers Magazine. Here are just a few stories from our people
Values in action
When an earthquake struck China's Sichuan Province, people from all over the country provided help and assistance. People from KPMG China were also on the front line, putting our values into action.
When experience pays off
Switching careers is no reason to leave behind your previous skill set, as Mousumi discovered when she moved from a London law firm to KPMG's Global Diversity team in Toronto.
Out of the box reporting
On a four-month assignment to the United Nations in New York, project manager Uzma brought a business perspective to a governance project, helping adapt businesses' response reports to the UN Global Compact.
Working in Dubai
Two KPMG managers found fresh challenges in the United Arab Emirate of Dubai. By moving to a new country they uncovered the sorts of responsibilities and projects they couldn't have found back home.
1.1.5 Kin Shan's KPMG
"I get to meet a lot of people in my work. A typical day consists of understanding client's business and liaising with client staff, working in teams of up to about ten people — all from very different backgrounds.
The opportunity to achieve my ambitions is one of the things that attracted me to KPMG. There is excellent training to support professional development, and I hope to become a senior manager or partner eventually. I'm really looking forward to being in a position to train others too."
- Kin Shan, Accountant, Audit, KPMG China
1.1.6 What type of person works at KPMG?
Moscow – A KPMG person is a person with dedication, because sometimes our work can be intense. Days can be stressful and only integrity and interest in knowing what you do can make you a really successful KPMG person.
Montreal – I think it's a person who is dedicated, who likes challenges in life and likes having fun.
New York – I would describe my colleagues as some of the smartest people I have ever met, very intelligent, diverse. They are all from different backgrounds, different experiences, different countries — so, very vibrant environment.
Hyderabad – My colleagues are amazing. They are highly talented and it's exciting to work with them.
Johannesburg – They definitely have to be above average, flexible and caring about people and about everything that is happening around them — passionate and highly innovative people.
London – Fun, diverse, bit whacky at times and very motivated — that's what everyone's got in common here.
Johannesburg – Someone who cares for the greater good
Sydney – Someone who has the drive to excel, someone who can balance both work and personal life and, obviously, someone who is a good team player and communicator
Johannesburg – Somebody who is not afraid of a challenge, not afraid of hard work but can strike a balance — I think that is the most important thing.
Manchester – Someone who is hardworking, dedicated, likes to have fun and has plenty of outside interests
New York – Someone who has values and is dedicated to their job
Johannesburg – Somebody who respects the individual; somebody who's a team player
Delhi – There are some crazy and wild people here — people who can bring in a cheerful, energetic environment, and sometimes the craziness helps, especially because we work late hours and with tight deadlines.
Moscow – They are really great professionals and are always ready to provide you with help and support.
New York – Very professional, caring and fun to work with
Johannesburg – KPMG people are free thinkers; they are passionate people and people who will go above and beyond the call of duty.
Sydney – Everyone is really friendly, intelligent and hardworking.
London – A KPMG person is someone who is driven, career motivated, friendly, approachable, good with clients, good with teams and likes to have fun as well.
Moscow – On my first day at KPMG, I got a chance to meet really educated and interesting people; I am really excited to work with such people.
Johannesburg – My colleagues are the most interesting, diverse bunch of people you can imagine. We have different types of people with all sorts of lives and we have a lot of fun together.
1.2 The bigger picture
Find out how KPMG firm reach far beyond the world of business — and what that means to our people.
1.2.1 Why is KPMG such an influential organization?
New York – It's really the people that we have — a set of highly committed people doing a great job, great client service and always conscious of our role towards our communities.
New York – KPMG is such an influential organization because of our values. We are really committed to our communities and we also value our people.
Toronto – KPMG has a lot of reach and it's a global organization. It has a big presence in our country. I think part of the reason is because we are involved in our communities. It is not only from an audit, tax or advisory perspective, but our leaders and our people are heavily involved in the communities.
1.2.3 $23.03 combined revenues (billion)
1.2.4 See why our values really matter
We believe that business has a critical role to play in helping to solve some of the world's issues. Every day our people are putting their skills to work and having a positive impact on their communities. This approach is central to what it means to be a part of KPMG. Here are just a few examples of how our people are contributing.
US, Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities
KPMG in the US established a scholarship fund with Major League Baseball TM's Reviving Baseball in Inner cities ® (RBI) which aims to increase the participation of city children in baseball.
Spain, Study and Play
Last July, nearly 100 volunteers from the firm's Madrid, Barcelona and Pamplona offices collaborated with local not-for-profit organizations, spending over 1,000 working hours tutoring 182 socially marginalized children.
Japan, Global Millennium Villages
In September 2008, KPMG member firms announced a 5-year, $1.5 million contribution in support of the Millennium Villages initiative. KPMG people will provide free, skills-based assistance to the village in sub-Saharan Africa – helping to create economic growth and development.
Indonesia, Renovating Our Village Schools
People from KPMG in Indonesia provided essential aid and repairs at the village elementary school in Cipinang Melayu.
South Africa, Elephant Relocation
KPMG in South Africa has been a part of the South African National Parks elephant relocation program since its inception, successfully relocating over 850 animals.
Cayman Islands, Ocean Literacy Program
KPMG in the Cayman Islands is working with the Central Caribbean Marine Institute supporting their Ocean Literacy Program which aims to ensure every child in the Cayman Islands understands how the ocean affects the underwater wildlife, environment and local economy.
1.2.5 What personal passions has KPMG helped you to support?
Moscow – One of my biggest passions and interests is volunteering in the community and I am sharing this strategy that KPMG has adopted, which involves helping children in the disadvantaged social or medical risk groups.
Toronto – I am heavily involved in charity in the Toronto area and KPMG has given me time, resources and support to give back to that charity.
New York – On the personal front, I love playing squash and I have represented KPMG and have won a couple of corporate squash tournaments. So, that was something aside from professional life.
Johannesburg – The thing that drives me is my family and that is my passion in life — the things I do, the people I spend my time with. So, I want my career to fit in with that and complement each other. I have made lots of friends here and they have also come into my little family circle.
Montreal – I love teaching. I was a lecturer at the McGill University and I love to teach. So, with the people around me, I can keep on pursuing that passion.
1.2.6 Excellence recognized
KPMG member firms are proud to win awards for the work that they do and the professionalism they bring to the industry. Here are just a few of them:
Hong Kong Tax Firm fo the Year 2010
KPMG no. 2 Universum's most attractive employer list in 2010, 2011 and 2012
Canada's Best Diversity Employer 2011
KPMG Singapore wins Corporate HR Awards
#1 Worldwide M&A Advisor by volume, 2011
IA&P's 2011 World's Best Outstanding Advisors
Accounting Age 2010 Award Winner
1.2.7 Michael Hastings: Putting our skills to work
Michael Hastings – Global Head of Citizenship – It's a fantastic privilege to be part of KPMG, operating all over the world. There are 145,000 incredibly able, very bright, very energetic, very committed people. At the heart of KPMG is a commitment to our communities. We want to set the pace on corporate citizenship. We want to lead change; we want to be involved in dynamic solutions that change the societies in which we work.
At the core of our commitment to communities is the principal that we want to provide opportunities that enable our people to make a difference in their cities, villages, towns, communities and nations —we should be prepared to move the needle forward on the big questions that trouble our world, like, climate change and poverty. We should have a strategy that empowers people to use their skills as well as to use their hands. So, we've joined forces with organizations at the front line — NGOs like UNICEF, World Vision, Save the Children, Oxfam and The Millennium Cities Program — to get our people skills lined up with the issues of deprivation and need, educational development and giving ways in which we can make a difference for the poorest people in the world.
1.2.8 15% less carbon
We've been widely recognized for achieving our goal of reducing our carbon footprint by 25% in 2010. We have set a new goal for reducing our footprint by another 15% by 2015.
KPMG in Canada was voted one of Canada's Greenest Employers. Our Irish firm won Ireland's Green Professional Services Award. Computerworld cited our US firm's focus on innovative, emission reducing targets.
1.3 People growing
We want our people to learn and grow. Discover the learning and support that help them do exactly that.
1.3.1 What has been your biggest achievement?
London – Coming on secondment has helped me meet lots of new people, build good networks, experience different clients, and learn about IFRS. So, I think that was probably the best.
Toronto – I think my biggest achievement so far is making manager and moving to a new group, a new industry, getting that kind of exposure and just immersing myself into that group and excelling during this year.
Sydney – It is quite challenging, being straight out of the school and having to adapt to working in a full-time environment as well as studying. But KPMG really helps you through that.
Sydney – Becoming a Chartered Accountant — they have been very supportive with training and guidance, despite a busy working schedule. That is my biggest achievement.
Manchester – This summer I passed my Chartered Accountancy exams and last November I passed my Chartered Tax Adviser exams.
New York – I have been with the firm for three years and I have been promoted from a senior associate to senior manager within those three years. So, that, to me, is a great achievement. I was also involved in all the client activities and I was responsible for certain analysis. This is something I did not do three years ago and now I am responsible for it.
1.3.2 How has someone helped you build a career?
Montreal – I think everyone plays a part in the office in reaching our goals, whether it's your managers, partners, your clients, your performance manager or your mentors — they all play a small part in helping you reach where you want to in your career.
Sydney – I am a graduate tax consultant. I have a buddy who looks after my everyday activities and I have a performance manager who helps supervise the work I do and helps me get through my day-to-day work challenges.
Johannesburg – I was fortunate enough to be allocated to a performance manager who really took me under his wing and who has always been a sounding board for me, even now I am five years down the line into corporate finance.
Montreal – I joined the firm as a staff member and then I became a senior accountant. I had a senior manager who became a very good of mine. He was a coach, a mentor who showed me that I could always aspire for more and do better.
New York – A performance manager who really believes in you is critical to your success and that is what I have here at KPMG.
1.3.3 How are we recognized for our people work?
KPMG firms are committed to creating an environment where our people can develop the skills they need to become outstanding professionals and great leaders. That is one of the reasons we have won so many awards — from the best big company to work for in the UK to one of Canada's greenest employers.
1.3.4 Rachel Campbell, An insight into how we develop our people
"Supporting the development and stretching the performance of our people is at the core of our philosophy. Through a broad range of learning opportunities — from coaching and mentoring to leadership development, succession planning and international assignments — we provide an environment where our people can reach their full potential and accelerate their understanding of the broad business context within which our clients operate. This development 'on the job' provides our people with a challenging and stimulating work environment and ensures we are better placed to deliver excellent service to our clients"
- Rachel Campbell, Global Head of People
1.4 Working globally
Find out what it's like to discover new cultures, countries and ways of working.
1.4.1 Global clients needs global thinkers
Global clients need global teams and global thinkers. That's why, through our global mobility program, we move our people around the world. Here are some stories and photos from some of our international assignees.
Dora, host country US
I am very proud that KPMG encourages employees to volunteer and give back to the local communities and act for a good cause.
Willis, host country UK
My global opportunity has enabled me to develop more than I could imagine. I've developed personal relationships with colleagues from all corners of the globe and enjoyed world-class opportunities beyond any expectations.
Metin, host country South Korea
This is the office of KPMG Korea where I'm on secondment. Knowing the other culture in theory alone leads to situations like this: the westner bowing, the Asian trying to shake hands.
Jonathan, host country UK
This photo was taken on a hillside somewhere in Germany. The person taking this picture is a KPMG employee from the Singapore office that I bumped into on the mountain… small world.
Lydia, host country New Zealand
I've made many friends at work. This moment was unforgettable — I've never Christmas on beach. I am the second from the left. This is how we work at KPMG — TOGETHER.
Tracey, host country Canada
Traveling around the world seemed crazy at first. But this global opportunity assignment has helped me live in every moment and take in as many sights as possible.
Carolina, host country US
I went to New York with the Global Internship Program. I worked with a Global client and met people from around the world. I did a lot in just a month — an unforgettable experience.
Dave, host country Switzerland
This is on a hike in Switzerland. This cow was resting on an incredible ledge overlooking the alps and the lake below. If you make just a little can reach the most amazing view.
Fe, host country China (Hong Kong)
My assignment to KPMG China was challenging, but in the end, I could see my achievement and the personal growth it offered me. I would climb that mountain again.
1.4.2 Describe a global experience you've had at KPMG.
Hong Kong – I work in Hong Kong, which is a great place to work because it is a gateway to the huge markets of China. It is also a great place for us to link up with other offices around Asia Pacific.
Moscow – A year and a half long assignment in South Africa — I spent all the time in Durban. I was acting as an HR manager for a small office.
Mumbai – It is just the international collaboration and the international network — I think it is fantastic. I have never had an issue where I have reached out to another country and they haven't provided information to me. It's very fast; everybody is eager to help each other; its fantastic and everybody is very happy.
New York – I had an opportunity to go to Moscow for a month to do an evaluation project for a Russian company. It was the first time I went to Moscow and it was an eye opener for me. It was a completely different culture. But, I found the place to be very exciting.
Amsterdam – I always liked international experiences because usually we travel, for example, to the US, for about a week with the team and it's a very dedicated way of working. I really enjoy it. We start talking about the assignment on the flight itself. We do our work really hard because we are only there for one week and we try to squeeze as much out of it as possible.
Johannesburg – I have been fortunate enough to spend three months in Moscow, Russia. It was a fantastic experience. I have also had the opportunity to visit numerous KPMG offices throughout Africa.
New York – I have had the opportunity to work in KPMG offices in Mumbai, Amsterdam as well as in New York and that has given me a very good global perspective.
1.4.3 140,000 people
KPMG is over 152,000 people working in 156 countries.
Each year, KPMG member firms recruit thousands of people from around the world, from graduates to Partners. Perhaps you could be one of them?
1.4.4 What's the most exciting piece of work you've done?
Hong Kong – I think the most exciting element of my job is translating complex business information into simple and, hopefully, interesting messages for people across China.
Moscow – It involves liaising with six different KPMG offices spread across three different continents. My colleagues from those offices and I were trying to trace financial assets that had been packaged together and hidden away in offshore jurisdictions in low transparency — little tropical islands, basically. It was something like out of a John Grisham novel.
London – We won a new client and I came to the UK. It was great working on a new client because you have to really understand the business, read about the client and make the client get a fundamental understanding of what the processes are like, what the risks are, work these audit files from the scratch and develop things fundamentally from your understanding.
Toronto – I got my first opportunity to work on a public client when I moved to KPMG, here in Toronto. I now have a couple of big clients who have many things going on at any given point in a year. I have had the opportunity to work with various acquisitions and mergers that they have done and those have been fun.
1.4.5 6,700 international assignments
In the last five years over 6,700 KPMG firms' professionals went on international assignments to around 100 countries. KPMG's Global Opportunities program (GO) gives you the chance to work in member firms all over the world, giving you exposure to new clients, industries, cultures and a new way of life.
1.4.6 Search for jobs around our firms
Search opportunities from around the world that suit your skills and experience. Whether you are looking for your first role, an internship opportunity or your next career experience.
1.4.7 Brian Ambrose, Having a global mindset
"KPMG is a global organization and that gives you access to broad opportunities and experiences. You can enjoy exciting work for major clients across global and local markets, working alongside diverse people from different countries. At KPMG you'll develop a global mindset and network, and an awareness of different business cultures."
- Brian Ambrose, COO, KPMG International
1.4.8 What do our people say about working here?
"Audit is a very good way to see a variety of different business, and interact closely with the client. This is great preparation especially if you're coming straight out of university."
Discover what some of our people have to say about working here. Read their profiles to learn how they have sought, found and grasped opportunities at KPMG.
KPMG is a fascinating and truly global organization made up of outstanding people with a broad range of interests, talents and motivations. Our clients are drawn from every sector of business and industry imaginable — which means there are countless new challenges and opportunities for our people.
If you are thinking about a career at KPMG, we think this is a great place to find out whether it'll work for you.
For more information about careers in your location, select from KPMG's full list of local sites:
To view career opportunities in specific countries including graduate roles, please visit local member firm websites using the drop down box above.
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