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Dark Centuries is a fantasy medieval MMORPG where the Vikings, Celts and Saracens fight for supremacy. Read more
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Dark Centuries is a fantasy medieval MMORPG where the Vikings, Celts and Saracens fight for supremacy.
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About this project
The Dark Centuries is a MMORPG, gender fantasy medieval game, with a realistic graphic-style.
We want to create a game that is an alternative to the many standardized clone-products that have been in the market since 2004.
In The Dark Centuries, you can choose to be one of three playable factions, characterized in the middle ages (years 1.000 - 1.300 AD) and inspired by glorious civilizations that existed in the past: The Norns, descending by the Vikings, the Keltios, deriving by the Celts, and the Sarq'Yin, inspired by the Saracens.
The aim is to beat your enemies, and final victory is achieved by invading the enemies' frontiers and defeating the enemy Great Lord.
The Dark Centuries: designed by gamers and for gamers. The Dark Centuries offers you the opportunity to carve out your own gaming-style, whether you spend hours a day playing it or a few minutes a week; no matter if you choose to impersonate a fighter, a mystic, a thief or a crafter, regardless of which activity you choose to perform.
Whenever you play, The Dark Centuries will teleport you to another dimension, made of its own rules and characters, sounds and noises so it feels as though you are really there. The Dark Centuries will become your new world.
As developers of the game, we are particularly committed to create an immersive context not only by adopting the right graphic details but above all by introducing new playing mechanisms and players interaction rules, stimulating community playing.
As if arriving in a new place for the first time, players will have to spend time looking around, speaking to other citizens for hints or directions, and find a way to make some money and go in search of a market to buy food, clothes and weapons. In summary, you will be required to find your way of living and chose how to contribute to the prosperous development of your realm, and your new home.
Each realm is made of an inner portion and a frontier. The inner portion hosts a Capital and other important cities; Players will have the opportunity to directly interact with certain city areas, building their houses (in-game housing), shops (depending on their profession as a crafter) as well as public utility buildings (stables, blacksmith's shops etc.). Players will contribute to create their world, building it and making it their own. The frontier is divided in three tiers based on the distance from the inner realm; the nearest tier is the most protected while the farthest is the most savage. In the frontier players can extend their control over the territories by conquering keeps, outposts and resources gathering points.
Factions and characters
As already stated, in The Dark Centuries there are three playable factions.
Although there will be just one main race characterized by human like features, the graphic engine will offer ample possibilities to customize each character.
Characters will be divided in four main groups; the Fighters, specialized in melee combat, the Mystics, specialized in the use of magic, offensive, defensive and curative, the Thieves, specialized in ranged attacks and ambushes, and the Crafters which will be better described in a dedicated chapter.
Particular attention will be dedicated to mobs creation as they are taken directly from historically accurate legends. For example, a mob of the Keltios realm will be the Sluagh (the dead celtic sinner).
Sluaghs are scary creatures that hunt down souls. According to Irish folklore, sluaghs are dead sinners that come back as malicious spirits. These spirits come from the west flying in groups like flocks of birds and try to enter a house where someone is dying to take away that person's soul. Some Irish families would keep there west-facing windows shut at all times to keep the sluaghs out of their homes.
Crafters are one of the pillars of the in-game community we plan to forge, exactly at the same hierarchical level of fighters, mystics and thieves. They follow a dedicated pattern of growth, study to acquire how to learn specific recipes, experience the usage of different ingredients to obtain the most powerful product makes, fulfil a different set of tasks and missions and, last but not least, produce the highest quality objects findable in the game.
Either eager to limit his exploration to the surroundings of his house, to find the appropriate ponds where to catch the best fishes for their culinary recipes, or willing to visit distant lands to spot the rarest herbs for his potions; jealous of his own recipes to the point to keep them secret or open to make them known to others to help them make experience, a crafter is essentially a player who longs to live adventures like all the other players and to continuously access higher level of excellence in the interest of the realm!
Crafters will play an important role even in frontier thanks to a range of abilities enabling them to fight alongside other players without directly entering in combat (for example using turrets, mechanical traps and various other devices).
- It completely eliminates the joy of discovery and exploration
- It heavily affects the player's immersion in the game world
In conclusion therefore, while admitting that a GPS model map is of great help to players' travelling around, we honestly believe that when it comes to emotions and in-game immersion, this system takes out more than it gives in practical terms.
In The Dark Centuries, we intend to address the issue of maps in a serious and consistent way, by introducing a skill called Cartography. Unavailable at the early stages, this skill will be available in a basic version for all classes, and in a more advanced version to crafters only. By studying cartography, players will be able to produce maps that will be simple drafts at the first levels (indicating only cardinal points and dimensional boundaries of the territory) to become more and more detailed at higher levels (reporting important elements of the site and even indicating the names).
How it works: Spread around the territory there are a series of special nodes for mapping, that the cartographer is able to recognize. These nodes are divided into:
- Generic (available at all levels of cartography), represented by scenic spots of the map, for example heights, roofs, towers, mountain peaks, and so on and so forth. From these points, the cartographer is able to have a clear view of the area and then to draw a map for the portion that falls within a certain radius.
- Speciality (only available to crafters) that are highlights of the territory that clearly distinguish an element of detail, for example a milestone on a road will make the same road appear on the map. The same thing will happen for an abandoned tower, the entrance to a cave, and so on and so forth. This way we believe exploration of the various game zones is strongly stimulated, without having to make use of automatic achievements .
Furthermore, the maps will be drawn in a rather simple way and can never be viewed simultaneously with the game: if you want to look at a map, you have to call it on the screen, choose the way and then close it up and return to travel. Maps must be a support to players' orientation and never become similar to GPS systems; these will not indicate the direction the player is going to and will not guarantee players to always take the right path.
Key Features
The Dark Centuries has a number of features that make it quite different from the products currently on the market. These will be explained in the Principles of the game, that will be put in the updates section, during the next month.
Some samples are as follows:
- Community driven quest system: Rather than by characters with an exclamation mark on their head, quests will be given by NPCs who monitor the supply level of communities in the various settlements. The quests will be generated by the actual needs of a community. For example the lack of materials will generate the need to gather additional resources and automatically make available a specific quest to players who want to take it. Other kind of quests will require players to defeat monsters threatening the settlement, or to recover special objects belonging to the community, and so on and so forth.
- In game housing system: players will be able to build a house in an existing settlement (not an instanced area) and therefore to actively forge their community;
- Bravery acknowledgments: players will have the chance to distinguish themselves by killing tons of enemies in battle and having their names carved into marble tags proudly shown into the main capitals. Furthermore, players will be able to become even more influential by acquiring the rank of quest-givers and affect the social aspect of the game;
- Realm invasion: The conquest of an enemy realm begins at the farthest point of the frontiers, as the players advance and consolidate control over territory, and ends laying siege to the castle of the enemy Great Lord, at the very core of the enemy realm.
- Challenging game experience: As former RPG players, we know that achieving the result too easily results in getting bored soon. For this reason, the level of difficulty of the game, without being too excessive, will still be calibrated to make the gameplay a challenging experience, that will never get too easy.
- Dedicated mobile application: it will enable players to perform specific tasks regardless their physical presence in front of their pc; crafting a weapon or armor, managing the family treasury or ordering the goods for sale will be possible every time everywhere.
Why we need you
The funds raised through Kickstarter will enable us to hire SW engineers and developers needed to accelerate the development and deliver a playable Beta by the end of 2015.
Having cumulated thousands of played-hours to the very best MMORPG the market has been offering since 2000, our team have brought in incredibly skilful creative artists in order to give life to our imagination.
While we are convinced these are very important skills to have, especially when creating a game from scratch, on the other hand we are aiming to create something unique, an original piece of work, an experience that will change the way gamers play and we realize that for a game like the one we have in mind we most probably need more than all of this.
On the same token, this is the basic reason why we are using Kickstarter as our funding platform as this is the biggest opportunity to hopefully find several like-minded gamers who will be with us in the coming months, provide us feedback, try our Beta, and also be ambassadors for our Quest!
We have a wealth of experience in the gaming industry including structuring game dynamics, combat methodologies and artwork. We have previously worked on several successful games such as SpaceStunt 3D, Fairytale Fights (PS3/XBox 360) and PomPom Party (PS2). We are very excited to move forward with The Dark Centuries.
Risks and challenges
There are risks associated with any start-up, let alone an online game that aims to entertain many players. As a team we have the experience to understand how to successfully run a start-up and know what it takes to deliver a project on budget and on time. We have set strict deadlines for this project that we are committed to respect. In order to meet them, in addition to our core members, we aim to involve experienced freelance professionals which will enable us to speed up things where needed while at the same time keep a high level of quality and performance.
Furthermore creating a viable alternative to a successful game's model is a challenge. We recognize this and perfectly understand that our aim is very ambitious. While our perspective and many years of experience as gamers represent an invaluable asset to have, we also realize that we need to bring the viewpoint of many more gamers into it. Involving the gaming community into the project to test our assumptions, to gain more ideas, leveraging the brainpower of people who are "passionate but unsatisfied" gamers like us, who will want to be part of the driving engine and help us deliver our dream is not only a way to mitigate this risk, but also key to success in our opinion.
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The only real problem with using the S4 Zoom as a phone is getting used to holding what looks like a camera to your ear. The jutting out lens takes getting used to but if you really like the idea of the phone with a proper camera lens then it's a tolerable problem.
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If a smartphone and camera in one is your dream come true then it's an unequivocal, yes. The Samsung Galaxy Camera-inspired features really give the S4 Zoom the edge over the likes of the iPhone 5 and the HTC One for snapping photos – enough so to tolerate the extra bulk.
If you're undecided on the idea, however, it's not such an open and shut case. For instance, you could buy a Google Nexus 4 (£239) and a Samsung WB250F Smart camera and still have change left over from the Zoom S4's circa-£450 asking price.
There is a trade-off on the design, too. The S4 Zoom is an S4 Mini with a big lens attached, but doesn't fit as snugly in the pocket. That's okay if you have a bag to pop it in, but not so if you always carry your phone in your pocket.
It will be interesting to see how it matches up with the Nokia Lumia 1020 as well. The new Lumia looks more jeans-friendly and has some promising camera features, but lacks the long zoom lens. Which is the better approach? We can't answer that question right now, but it's an interesting one.
The Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom is a great smartphone/camera hybrid – it's a decent mid-range smartphone and camera delivers where it counts. We can't recommend it to everyone, but if you love the idea then you'll love the S4 Zoom.
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Advertising mogul Charles Saatchi and fashion advisor-designer Trinny Woodall are said to be dating each other.
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Ok, maybe you don't like wandering around drunk in the wilderness. ** I RESPECT THAT ** BUT !, Why do I have to give up MY hiking experience to save you the 90 minutes out of your whole hike you have me harassing you, just because you don't like aggressive knife toting drunks in the wilderness?Yes, I agree that I have a big responsibility when being armed and intoxicated, and it's one I take very seriously. Am I perfect? Of course not. But I just can't get over the nastiness some people have over the drinking of far too much liquor on the trail.It's a medication. Like aspirin, chemotherapy, and antibiotics.... Why can't people understand the medical value of alcohol ? Is it because the smell of bathing in tequila distracts from my message ? Maybe it is the urine stains on my pants and shoes. I think that might be a legitimate point, and I am willing to consider it, WHEN I AM NOT IN THE WILDERNESS ! I don't like wilderness tablets, pack rafts, or people wearing boots that are too hard on the delicate soil, but hey, on trails where they are allowed? oh well, I just have to deal with it, and I DO. *BUT* when people get all up in my business, I find a bottle or two really helps me express myself to the offending puritans and good samaritans. Horses ? Same thing, a few bottles, and they are not nearly as much of a concern. Ok. I'm done.
Easy one. All alcoholic beverages should be banned, period. So many deaths, so much violence- it's the alcohol lobby that keeps this going.
If there is a worm in your tequila, you can be assured it is over 100 proof, as lesser concentrations allow the worm to disintegrate. For the ultra=lighters out there.
I worry most about Ninjas. Swords and throwing knives. So quiet also. Scary. I need a drink for bravery.
"Easy one. All alcoholic beverages should be banned, period. So many deaths, so much violence- it's the alcohol lobby that keeps this going."I hope you're kidding.The 21st Amendment to the Constitution is far more dear to my heart than the 2nd. Take my AR-15. Just don't touch my twelve pack.
But maybe they only want to take our guns away so they can get to the beer....On second thought, I'm pro 2nd and 21st Amendment.
Of course I was kidding. I am for legalizing drugs....Edited to add that I believe we should be able to eat, smoke, drink, sleep with, marry, believe or not.......whatever and whomever we want.
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"Of course I was kidding. I am for legalizing drugs....."Me too, though I have to wonder about the legal ones. Maybe we need to legalize the illegal ones and make the legal ones illegal.Ever see a teenager on too much of mom's Xanax? Yuck.
"Me too, though I have to wonder about the legal ones. Maybe we need to legalize the illegal ones and make the legal ones illegal."Or at least not treat treat a drunk or drug addict as someone worse than someone who can afford to get a prescription to "take off the edge".......Edited for spelling
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- Episodes: 11
- Viewership rating: 9.1 (Kanto)
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- Broadcast period: 2012-Apr-12 to 2012-Jun-21
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The scene is set in the town of Yume (Dream) city. Due to financial difficulties, the town is in the process of merging with another city, meanwhile turning into a garbage disposal facility. The formerly prosperous town was referred to as the "Town of Songs", represented by the music hall, now torn down and in ruins.
Returning from New York having performed on Broadway, Kurasaka Mio was born and brought up in this city of dreams. Upon finding out the state the city, she stands up together with a group of mothers in a chorus group called "The Chansons" to bring the city back to life.
Mio is a dropout musical star, attending auditions on Broadway until her agent tells her that there are no more auditions available for her to attend. The one and only time she got through an audition was for a substitute role.
On the other hand, Isaka Chuko is the mayor's daughter and also is a housewife, who struggles to rebuild "The Chansons". While her father tries to go through with the merging of cities, she rivals Mio, who disposes of the old concept behind chorus' in attempt to incorporate a show choir into the routine. Chuko sticks to tradition and will not let Mio have her way without confrontation.
A super positive musical comedy, Mio and Chuko team up to chase their dreams together with the chorus girls. --Fuji TV
- Amami Yuki as Kurasaka Mio
- Ishida Yuriko as Isaka Chuko
- Oshima Yuko as Nonomura Mahiru
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- Kikuchi Mika as Minagawa Tamako
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- Katase Nana as Sakurai Reina
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- Koizumi Kotaro as Isaka Tetsuro
- Kuno Akiko (久野綾希子) as Mori Kanae
- Kishibe Ittoku as Isaka Kiyotada
- Kuroda Hiroyuki as boy (ep6)
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- Producers: Watanabe Tsuneya (渡辺恒也), Oki Ayako (大木綾子)
- Directors: Mitsuno Michio, Nishisaka Mizuki, Tanaka Ryo (田中亮)
- Music: Yamazaki You (山崎燿)
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The Museum Victoria and Parks Victoria crew at the Grampians National Park in western Victoria have discovered some cool critters after the first six days of the intensive Grampians Bioscan survey. Why elaborate when I can just show you what I mean.
Museum Victoria and Parks Victoria crew walking through the stunning scenery of Grampians National Park.Image: Heath WarwickSource: Museum Victoria
We've come face-to-face with the cute and furry, like the Yellow-footed Antechinus, Antechinus flavipes. These small mammals look a little like mice but they are not closely related. They are carnivorous, eating insects and small lizards. Females rear young in pouches until the young outgrow the pouch and they climb onto her back for a while. Males fight during breeding season, neglect to eat, and die within twelve days after mating.
Yellow-footed Antechinus, Antechinus flavipes.Image: David PaulSource: Museum Victoria
There have been five frog encounters so far, including the endangered Growling Grass Frog, Litoria raniformis. The conservation genetics of this species is currently being studied by museum PhD student Claire Keely.
Growling Grass Frog, Litoria raniformis. The female is the larger frog on the left, the male is on the right.Image: David PaulSource: Museum Victoria
Warm weather has given our researchers an opportunity to sample DNA from the local reptile populations. Here, a watchful Colin catches a Tiger Snake, Notechis scutatus, for a genetics project.
Colin with a captured Tiger Snake, Notechis scutatus.Image: Patrick HonanSource: Museum Victoria
A friendly Stumpy-tail, Tiliqua rugosa, faced off with museum herpetologist Jo Sumner. These lizards give birth to live young, which is uncommon in reptiles since most lay eggs. Mating pairs usually follow one another around and maintain a life-long bond.
Jo holding a Stumpy-tail, Tiliqua rugosa.Image: Steve WrightSource: Museum Victoria
We saw Australia's smallest freshwater crayfish (Western Swamp Crayfish, Gramastacus insolitus, about 3 cm long) and one of the largest (Glenelg River Spiny Crayfish, Euastacus bispinosus, about 15cm long). Both species are listed as endangered on DSE's Advisory List of Threatened Invertebrate Fauna in Victoria.
Left: Western Swamp Crayfish, Gramastacus insolitus. Right: Glenelg River Spiny Crayfish, Euastacus bispinosus.Image: David Paul / Mark NormanSource: Museum Victoria
And species that dramatically transform from larval stages into adults, for example the Dobsonfly, Archichauliodes guttiferus. The aquatic larval stage lives in the rocks on river beds while the adult flies around the plants along the river bank.
Dobsonfly, Archichauliodes guttiferus. Left: aquatic larva Right: adultImage: Blair Patullo / David PaulSource: Museum Victoria
And saving my favourite until last – the "Jabba-the-hut" spider, more officially known as a Badge Huntsman, Neosparassus diana.
Badge Huntsman, Neosparassus diana.Image: Heath WarwickSource: Museum Victoria
We've also recorded Wedge-tailed Eagles and Powerful Owls. Stand by for a report on week two!
The survey is being conducted with help from Parks Victoria's rangers and aims to document wildlife in the Grampians area. It involves over 60 museum staff and associates, including the Melbourne Herbarium and Field Naturalists Club of Victoria, and concludes at the end of November 2012.
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Today I'm broadcasting from a sweet spot in the Grampians National Park, western Victoria. The museum is conducting a fauna survey with Parks Victoria here over the next two weeks. It's spectacular countryside and this blog is the start of the stories from the trip that will involve over 60 museum staff and associates, including the Melbourne Herbarium and Field Naturalists Club of Victoria.
Here's how the trip started and the first few days of excitement, diary style. Stay in touch for more updates, photos of critters, or leave us comments if you have questions. We will be in touch when the internet reception comes good again.
9 days to go – 10.30am. Meet and greet with Parks Victoria rangers to discuss schedules.
6 days to go – 3.30pm. Final planning meeting at Museum Victoria.
1 day to go – 10.27am. Purchase 1 FME-Sierra cable, 1 FME-SMA adaptor, 1 male SMA-female SMA plug (for remote internet access). To think that ten years ago the nearest communication on a trip like this would have been a telephone booth on a highway in the nearest town 50 kilometres away.
1 day to go – 11.23pm. Throw some survival stuff on the floor for packing in the morning.
Last minute packing for the field trip. Image: Blair PatulloSource: Museum Victoria
Day 1 – 12.23pm. On route, traditional field trip greasy burger for lunch. Delish.
Day 1 – 4.14pm. Arrive at camping site, first wildlife sighted. A skink. I'm not a herpetologist so cannot tell the species.
Day 1 – 10.03pm. Mayhem in the mess hall. First collection has brought back scorpions. Look at the photo below to see how many scientists it takes to be amazed by a scorpion as it fluoresces under UV light! Similar scorpions live in backyards around Melbourne, occassionally entering houses. Usually the smaller scorpion species have more powerful stings because the larger species can overpower prey with their larger claws. The museum's Live Exhibits catcher, Colin, said: "I haven't been stung by this species, but a smaller one did get me once and that was a bit painful."
How many scientists does it take to watch a glowing scorpion? Image: Blair PatulloSource: Museum Victoria
This species glows under UV light from a torch. Why this happens is still a mystery. Image: Heath WarwickSource: Museum Victoria
Day 2 – 8.30am. Another safety briefing closely followed by research teams departing and dispersing to areas across the park. Mammal specialists are checking trap lines, bird observers are out with sound recording equipment, and a group is surveying snails.
Day 2 – 2.52pm. The divers get wet in a remote part of the MacKenzie River in the north-west of the park. Our Parks Victoria guide Ryan Duffy stops our vehicles by the roadside, seemingly in the middle of nowhere with no water in sight. We walk for about 100 metres into the forest, dodging the understory of bracken, wattle, and eucalypts still with trunks partly singed black from the 2006 fire. We arrive at a narrow section of the river and Ryan tells us that three platypus have been reported from here. There were no platypus today but the diving was amazing – freshwater sponges, crayfish, native fish and several species of nymphs and larvae were recorded.
One of the locals: a freshwater gudgeon. Image: Mark NormanSource: Museum Victoria
This little alien is a nymph that will grow into a dragonfly. Image: Mark NormanSource: Museum Victoria
Day 2 – 10.07pm. It's well dark now, but the second day isn't over. We're preparing for 30 degree temperatures tomorrow and the frog team just left to see who's calling-out tonight.
Closing thoughts for the day: this is definitely a place to check shoes for creepy crawlies in the morning before putting them on, and forget checking for redbacks under the toilet seat because the massive bull ants will bite before them.
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The Allied powers assumed extraordinary authority in Germany. The Hague Convention of 1907 limited occupiers to the maintenance of law and order, but the Allies went far beyond that, attempting a complete reorientation of German thinking—what would come to be called "nation building." The Allied Powers' European Advisory Commission (EAC) had recommended that Germany's postwar government should be an Allied Control Council in Berlin composed of commanders of the occupying forces of the various powers. At the February 1945 Yalta Conference, British Prime Minister Winston L. S. Churchill, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin accepted that recommendation. Occupation zones were also set; at the suggestion of Churchill and Roosevelt, France was allowed a zone, although Stalin insisted it be carved from that area already assigned to Britain and the United States. The three leaders also agreed on steps to demilitarize Germany, dissolve the National Socialist Party, and punish war criminals. In May 1945, however, the military establishments of the occupying powers were in charge, and each occupying nation had a very different notion of how occupation policies should be implemented.
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Although the Allied Control Council met regularly, there were sharp disagreements on policy. The Soviet Union and France, for example, sought to keep German industrial production low, whereas Britain wanted it set high so the occupation would not burden already straitened British taxpayers. In the spring of 1946, the Allies agreed on a level of industrial production of 50–55 percent of the 1938 level, save for the building industry, which was critical to recovery.
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American occupation policy in Germany was governed by Joint Chiefs of Staff Directive 1067. It prohibited any fraternization between U.S. military personnel and civilians and denied food distribution to the civilian population except in extraordinary circumstances. The directive remained in effect until 1947. It took Soviet policies and the harsh winter of 1946–1947 to change this policy. British occupation policies were less doctrinaire and considerably easier on the civilian population. The British took the lead, for example, in organizing their zone into l?nder (states), although they were slower than the Americans in granting self-government. The French had great problems of their own and so did not devote too much attention to Germany. The chief French interest, which remained in force for a decade, was the economic integration of the Saar into the French economy. The French government also worked to try to prevent German reunification. The Soviet Union was determined to extract reparations from its zone, and it also sought to carry out land reform and to try to communize its zone. The latter effort, however, was more than countered by the brutal behavior of the Red Army toward the German civilian population.
Signs of frustration by the western Allies over the control machinery and the failure of the Soviet Union to treat Germany as an economic unit were obvious by 1946. That September, the British and Americans merged their zones economically to form Bizonia. The same month, U.S. Secretary of State James Byrnes announced at Stuttgart the U.S. intention to restore self-government in its zone of Germany.
Acute German suffering during the harsh winter of 1946–1947, the obvious need for currency reform (the western powers were merely subsidizing the Soviet financial system in eastern Germany), the formation of Trizonia (France joined the economic zone in the summer of 1947), efforts of the western powers to move toward German self-government, and finally the announcement by the western Allies that they intended to introduce a new currency in their zones all led to the Soviet blockade of Berlin. This, in turn, sped up the creation of a West German government in May 1949. Under the terms of an Occupation Statute, Allied military forces remained in the new Federal Republic of Germany, and Soviet troops remained in the new German Democratic Republic.
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Botting, Douglas. From the Ruins of the Reich: Germany, 1945–1949. New York: Crown Publishers, 1985.; Browder, Dewey. Americans in Post–World War II Germany: Teachers, Tinkers, Neighbors and Nuisances. Lewiston, NY: E. Mellen Press, 1998.; Davis, Franklin M., Jr. Come as a Conqueror: The United States Army's Occupation of Germany, 1945–1949. New York: Macmillan, 1967.; Diefendorf, Jeffrey M., Axel Frohn, and Hermann-Joseph Rupieper, eds. American Policy and the Reconstruction of West Germany, 1945–1955. Washington, DC: German Historical Institute,1993.; Ermath, Michael, ed. America and the Shaping of German Society, 1945–1955. Providence, RI: Berg, 1993.; Wolfe, Robert, ed. Americans as Proconsuls: United States Military Government in Germany and Japan, 1944–1952. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984.; Ziemke, Earl F. The U.S. Army in the Occupation of Germany, 1944–1946. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975.


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A Road Map to Implementing Evidence-Based Programs
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Overview Language Five
Stages Exploration Installation Initial
Implementation Full
Implementation Program
Once a program has been selected and materials purchased, the process of installing a program begins. Installation refers to making the structural and instrumental changes necessary to implement the program within an organization.
Establishing an Implementation Team within your organization will be critical at this stage. The Implementation Team is a core set of individuals charged with providing guidance through full implementation of the program. This team helps ensure engagement of the stakeholders, creates readiness for implementation, ensures fidelity to the program, monitors outcomes, aligns systems, and removes barriers to implementation. An organization can choose to develop the Implementation Team during the Exploration Stage; however, the participants may change as you move into the Installation Stage.
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