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Awesome stuff Jared, as always!
Hey All,
I haven't posted for a while since i've been extremely busy with work, both personal and professional. However, for GenCon this year, i have recently finished my second map of Hyranden, this time of the East. I had a blast with this one, and it will be my showpiece for the show, so if you are coming please come by and pick one up! They are 24x30 Inches, so quite large The map is Extremely detailed, but unfortunately i can't really fit it up here in it full glory.
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The Eastern lands are just that: The Eastern kingdoms of Hyranden. I wanted a good mix of cultures and kingdoms, and didn't want to just throw them in there, though there are a few factions from the first that make a minor appearance. Al' Kadesh is a large Turkish-esque faction in the south centered around their Capital city in the middle of the desert. Their allies lie to the north which are the militant Aracen who have only recently converted, which has brought them into conflict with the Thessaleans, who are a dacian-esque people who live in the Northern foothills. Across the mountains are the Karingian, who are a frankish-esqu people who are uniting under a single Chieftain and establishing a firm rule of the huge valley they are in. They hail from the north, and had originally fled the growing menace of the Morankaar and Shadowkin. North of them are some minor tribes and factions, each vying with each other, and slowly being pushed south. To the north east are the remnant s of the first men, the Haeldrum, who are related to the Gael and the Nordmael of the West. Few in number, they are doubty warriors who migrate around the plains of the Valley, following game, though they have a few established settlements and a city or two. The Varans are also another northern people who are viking esque, trading and raiding while establishing towns and footholds on the coasts of the south. The Bulyars are a bulgarian/ancient tartar-esque people who have forged a small but powerful kingdom on the coast. They are constantly fighting with the Varans, Shadowkin, and the Haeldrum, having put up fortifications and keeps to guard themselves against attack. Along the coastal islands the Ilam Faal, who are a Moroccan trade-federation of nobles and petty kingdoms. They trade with anyone who has coin, and have a powerful warfleet that they use to safeguard their interests. Of late, Karesh and the Iban have forged a strong relationship with one another as they look to new lands, especially the west. To the far east are the Shoshimi, an ancient tibetan-esque people who are born warriors. Their clans fight bitter wars against one another in their mountainous terrain, and they are particularly suspicious of outsiders. The Nabani and the Oridrae have island cities and trading posts all over the Great inner sea, carrying trade goods and foreign items to the west. To the South east are the Elhohim, a faction who have managed to stagger to its feet in the power vacuum of the recent wars of the their more powerful northern neighbor, that of Al' Kadesh. With the wars over and power redistributed, the Elhohim may face an invasion of their fledgling nation sooner than they'd hope.
I used a very similar technique tot he first Hyranden map, and i worked completely in Photoshop CS4. Starting with a basic line drawing of the coasts, i then put in the mountains, then tress and rivers, and then painted in the background. I developed some new icons for the cities and such, and painted in Illustration flourishes reminiscent of old Italian maps in the corners which were alot of fun. I painted up the new faction shields and placed them in there, though its took alot of time deciding on what should go where sensibly. The typography was pretty hard due to the sheer number of labels i wanted to include, but i think it turned out pretty well.
Thanks, comments welcome!
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Awesome stuff Jared, as always!
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Jared your work never ceases to awe and inspire me. This is an incredibly lovely piece. Repped and Rated.
A realy stunning work! Where is it on display at gencon?
Thanks for the high praise guys, it means alot!
Schwarzkruez- This will be my 3rd year in Artists alley at Gencon, though i'm not exactly sure where i'll be placed this year at the show (they never tell anyone until you pretty much get there). Rest assured, i'll try to be near the main corridor if i can! I'll have this up on a portable easel for display, usually to the right of my table
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Always excited when I see a RedEpic topic ! You have such gorgeous style - truly an inspiration. The textures you use are so good - especially your oceans.
Wow this is truley amazing, You have such talent RedEpic
Awesome map with a lot of details!
Thanks guys, i appreciate the kinds words!
*UPDATED* Just revised the coastlines, it seems i had left off a shadow element and i softened them up. Looks a bit softer now.
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I apologize about bumping this thread, but I gotta know...
What technique did you use for your trees and forests? I love the fact they all appear to be single dots of trees, but can't fathom that they were all put down individually.


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Interviewed by The New York Times, Roger Kennedy, a former director of the National Park Service, expressed concern about the presence of the young-earth creationist anthology Grand Canyon: A Different View in the NPS-supervised bookstores in Grand Canyon National Park. Referring to the fact that many visitors to the park will assume that any book sold in the bookstores are approved by the NPS, he remarked: "That's the problem ... and we need to pay attention to it."
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The cover story in the November 2004 issue of National Geographic, by the acclaimed science writer David Quammen, is entitled "Was Darwin Wrong?" And, of course, the answer is no.
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On Monday, Oct. 4, the governing council of the Biological Society of Washington issued a new statement regarding the publication of a paper by Intelligent Design advocate and Discovery Institute Center for Science and Culture director, Stephen C. Meyer, in the society's journal, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.
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Evolution is a problem for some of the members of the Charles County, Maryland, Board of Education, to judge from a recently released list of goals and suggestions compiled by its members. Among the entries were recommendations not to use 10th-grade biology textbooks "biased toward evolution" and to provide creationist books and videos to students.
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You know that friend who gets sweaty and angry and tense whenever someone says something bad about Cincinnati? The friend who will defend it like King Arthur defended Camelot, not only the city itself but the idea of it? I'm that guy.
I will Wiki whatever city you grew up in and show you point by point why Cincinnati is better. "But adult internet star Raven Riley is from Middletown and did you know that the Cincinnati Public Library is arguably the largest public library in the country?" I say, scrambling for anything that might appeal to the Cincinnati-hater.
Last night was the season finale of Taking the Stage, the Cincinnati-based docu-drama about students at the School for Creative and Performing Arts. I've officially watched two episodes of the show (the first and last) and am therefore unqualified to comment on the quality and/or relevance of the content.
Has it really been 14 years since Beavis and Butt-head (dis)graced MTV and 15 years since the duo invaded movie houses with Beavis and Butt-head Do America, which, despite being a bit of a letdown as a full-length movie, is still one of my all-time favorite moviegoing experiences due to the unprecedented enthusiasm put forth by the sold-out, opening-night crowd at — of all places — the Western Hills Showcase?
I admit that I occasionally watch the popular TV series Glee with some mixed feelings: The musical theater side of me loves it, the serious theater nut thinks it's too shallow for words. But the world seems more in the former camp than the latter, and that's led to a new social phenomena — "Glee Parties," which are popping up around the country, including one right here in Cincinnati.
Tune to PBS this evening for A Broadway Celebration: In Performance at the White House (9 p.m. on WCET locally) , featuring some of the biggest stars from the New York stage. Nathan Lane emcees the quickly paced hour, Idina Menzel — recently in Cincinnati with the Pops — sings "Defying Gravity" from Wicked and "What I Did for Love" (with composer Marvin Hamlisch as her accompanist), and veteran Elaine Stritch belts out two numbers from Stephen Sondheim's Follies, "Broadway Baby" and "I'm Still Here" (the latter earns the event's only standing ovation).


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NSA lacks authority and ability to spy on all of us
Published: Sunday, June 23, 2013 at 6:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, June 21, 2013 at 6:26 p.m.
This NSA retiree would like to explain what NSA is doing. First and foremost, the NSA cannot routinely collect information on individuals such as ourselves because it is against the law and because NSA, with its banks and banks of supercomputers, does not have the computing power nor the manpower required to process the billions of emails, Facebook posts, tweets or phone calls that occur daily in the U.S. and around the world.
I've been retired for more than 15 years, so I'm just guessing here, but what the NSA most likely can do is establish and maintain a "hit list" of names, organizations and other indicators of communications links suspected of being terrorist-related. Then it uses computers to sift through the pieces of information that the hit list picked up. Then it discards the "chaff" and establishes files on those communications links that look promising. Tedious manual and computer processing are required to winnow the information and produce reports for national decision-makers' eyes only.
When the director of national security, James R. Clapper, was asked if PRISM targeted American citizens, his response was, "Not wittingly." The media chose to hear that as a "yes." The point was that a vacuum-like collection program might very well suck up some communications made by innocent American citizens, or AMCITs, but that data would be put aside for destruction at some designated date.
For AMCITs to be legally targeted, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court must issue a warrant, which must be based on a valid reason, and it will have very strict parameters for carrying out the surveillance.
Unless you are involved in organized crime, treasonous activities against the U.S. or are involved in planning and carrying out terrorist activities, you have nothing to worry about.
Any NSA employee found to be checking on AMCITs who don't fall into these categories will be punished. Depending on the level of these activities, the employee may even be dismissed or charged with a felony and face possible imprisonment.
All NSA employees are required to read the associated regulations and document that he/she has done so at least annually. There cannot be any excuses. "I didn't know!' won't fly.
The NSA and the intelligence community agencies have their missions, and spying on American citizens gratuitously is not listed on the mission statements of any of them.
Having said that, I opine that if the intelligence community had not been in a state of downsizing. resizing and reorganizing due to our having "won the Cold War" when 9/11 struck, we might have been on top of information there were terrorists living and working in the U.S. capable of pulling off such a heinous set of acts. Were we as organized then as we are now, we very well might have prevented it. That's my 2½ centavos.
Luther Deese is a retired senior-level expert for the National Security Agency and now lives in Ocala.
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Jim Foglesong was 90 when he passed away at a Nashville hospital after a brief illness, and now Brooks has spoken out to express his condolences.
In a statement to the Associated Press, Brooks writes, "Today, the music industry lost its greatest diplomat for kindness, tolerance, faith, and sincerity. But do not weep for Jim, I have never met a man with a stronger faith, anyone who knew Jim knows where he is now. Instead, weep for those of us who are left here without him… truly, a great, great man."
Born in West Virginia, Foglesong began work as a session musician in New York before helping bosses launch Epic Records and moving to Nashville.
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Car Craft 60th Anniversary Observance - Big IdeasWritten by on September 13, 2013 Contributors: Car Craft Archives Tracking the Trends Fads, Fashions, and Flops from Car Craft's Past
American patriot Thomas Paine offered this sage advice to his fellow revolutionaries: "Lead, follow, or get out of the way." Centuries later, Car Craft writers continued to follow Paine's wise counsel.
Does a magazine simply report new trends, or does it create them on its ink-stained pages? The archive suggests that both forces were often at work. At times, CC's editorial package was seriously behind the curve; at others, it was so far ahead that it was in jeopardy of falling off the leading edge.
Automotive fashion is as fickle as hair styles and music. A car that's cool today can quickly become as dated as mullets and disco. So, as we look back at Big Ideas from Car Craft's past in this segment of our 60th anniversary observance, remember that they reflect the best and worst of times.
Drag Racing: It's A/Gas!
From its conception as TV Guide–size HONK! in 1953, Car Craft was in magazine purgatory. Its editorial coverage ranged from kustom kars and traditional street rods to lakesters, dragsters, and model cars. There was little to distinguish Car Craft from dozens of other car books on the newsstand— including its Petersen Publishing rivals, Rod & Custom and Hot Rod.
That all changed with the Feb. '65 issue, when Car Craft declared its allegiance to drag racing. The magazine's commitment to the quarter-mile sport was announced by Editorial Director Dick Day: "The 'All-New' Car Craft is here—and, like us, you'll find it A/GAS!"
Suddenly, CC had a reason to exist. A new masthead proudly proclaimed CC to be "The Automotive Show & Go Magazine." Street rod buildups, motorcycle tests, and model-car plans still appeared alongside drag racing articles, but the new direction was clear. Noted racer/engine builder Tony Nancy contributed a monthly tech column, illustrator Steve Swaja penned a series of cutaway illustrations that became the magazine's trademark, and centerspreads showcased wheelstanders, fuel dragsters, Super Stocks, and Gassers.
As street rods and customs were gradually winnowed from the table of contents, CC became a hardcore racing magazine. Don Garlits and Tom McEwen were the magazine's new mainstays, appearing frequently on covers, centerspreads, and features. This shift to drag racing, in turn, attracted a new generation of racer/writers raised on nitromethane and tire smoke, not angel hair and Frenched headlights. The introduction of the Car Craft All-Star Drag Racing team in 1967 gave the magazine legitimacy among racers and the speed equipment industry.
The Feb. '68 issue introduced yet another new masthead; Car Craft was now "Drag Racing's Complete Magazine"—a declaration that endured until March 1978. As the new decade dawned, dragstrips were booming, the factories were buying ads to tout powerful new models, and performance was in full flower. What could possibly go wrong?
Minicars And Mileage
Imagine the hate mail we'd receive if a Volkswagen appeared on the cover of Car Craft today. In the early '70s, it happened twice—and there were no reported death threats or letter bombs.
In fact, Volkswagens were an integral part of the automotive performance scene. Building and racing souped-up Bugs was a popular pastime in California, and VWs were regularly featured on Car Craft's pages throughout the muscle-car era. Buggin' Out, a department devoted to all things Volkswagen—from dune buggies to dragsters—first appeared in the Jan. '69 Car Craft and had a four-year run.
As a perfect storm of emission laws, outrageous insurance rates, and safety regulations engulfed the American muscle car, CC editors looked to minicars for salvation. Vegas and Pintos soon populated the magazine's pages, and articles on the "Import Hop-Up Boom" showed incredulous Car Craft readers how to modify Datsuns and Toyotas. A comparison test of "Nine Minicars for Under $2,500" included such memorable machines as a Fiat 128, a Plymouth Cricket, and a 36hp, two-cylinder Honda coupe.
The OPEC oil embargo of 1973–'74, followed by a second Energy Crisis in 1979, meant hard times for gas-guzzling muscle cars—and for the magazines that covered them. Car Craft responded with articles on improving fuel economy: "20 Gas Saving Tips" was the highlight of the Mar. '74 issue, and "How to Get 21 MPG From Your Chevy V8" was a compelling cover blurb in June '74.
Dragsters For The Street
The notion of driving a race car on the street has seduced generations of car enthusiasts. The advent of "Dragsters for the Street" introduced a theme that was to become a staple of Car Craft's editorial package for decades to come. The Mar. '68 issue featured a remarkable collection of what came to be known as "Street Freaks"—a street slingshot powered by a SOHC Ford, a Gasser-style supercharged '55 Chevy, a big-block powered Anglia, and a blown Willys coupe. Although several were thinly disguised race cars, the idea resonated with readers.
One year later, the "Drive-In Dragsters" were back, featuring a mid-engined, Toronado-powered '55 Nomad, billed as a "Street Wheelie Wagon." The first use of the term "Street Freaks" appeared in the Nov. '70 issue that featured a street-driven, flip-top two-seat Nova that was built from the remains of the Hawaiian Funny Car that took flight at the '69 NHRA Winternationals.
But something else was going on. If L.A. was the birthplace of Dragsters for the Street, then Detroit was the cradle of seriously fast street racers. Jimmy Addison's understated 10-second Plymouth, immortalized by writer Ro McGonegal as the Silver Bullet, was the leader of this clandestine pack.
The parallel universes of street freaks and street racers existed side-by-side in Car Craft for decades. Flamed-and-supercharged machines ruled the covers as "Homemade Musclecars" and "More Mind Blowers for the Street," while serious street racers equipped their cars with Pro Stock–style powertrains.
The debut of Pro Street in the Nov. '81 issue signaled the next step in street machine evolution, as these two trends merged and morphed. Late-model bodies outfitted with full-race engines, rollcages, and massive rear tires stoked the race-car fantasy, while glitzy paint and graphics paid Technicolor homage to the custom cars in Car Craft's not-so-distant past. The Car Craft Street Machine Nationals fueled the frenzy, as builders attempted to create increasingly outrageous machines. The most extreme expression of the Street Freak/Pro Street movement was Rick Dobbertin's flip-top J2000 Pontiac, dissected in the June '13 issue's 60th anniversary retrospective.
Café Racers
If the fantasy of the Street Freaks fad was to drive a Funny Car on the street, then the premise of the Café Racer movement was to wheel a road racer on the highway. While the hallmarks of Pro Street were blowers and wheelie bars, spoilers and fender flares were favored by the Café Racer crowd.
The Café Racer concept originated with motorcyclists who decked out their bikes with Grand Prix–inspired styling cues. When the idea of a street-worthy road racer migrated to the automotive realm, the result was heralded as "Road Racers for the Street" in the Mar. '78 Car Craft. The idea resurfaced as "Street Machines for the '80s" in several subsequent issues.
Strongly influenced by the winged-and-flared race cars competing in the IMSA GT series, the Café Racers were the pioneers of the Pro Touring movement. They introduced a new vocabulary to Car Craft readers: Stabilizer bars, spring rates, and camber curves became the new buzzwords. Enthusiasts discovered that handling could be as rewarding as horsepower—and immune to the anti-tampering laws and emission inspections that made it difficult for citizens to modify engines, legally.
As with any fashion, some took the Café Racer concept to its illogical conclusion, creating outrageously flared and lowered cars that sacrificed real-world performance for far-out styling. But the legacy of the "Road Racers for the Street" survives in today's street GTs, canyon carvers, and track-day cars.
Vans, Pickups, And CB Radios
The simultaneous appearance of vans, pickups, and CB radios in the pages of Car Craft was an unholy trinity, a sure sign of the Apocalypse. Although the masthead still declared Car Craft to be "Drag Racing's Complete Magazine," the reality was starkly different.
Car Craft unwittingly aided and abetted the van craze with its first customized Econoline project. Featured in the Jan. '71 issue, the CC Van was tested by Simon Stokes and the Black Whip Thrill Band. Yes, really.
The first van appeared on a Car Craft cover in April '74, unleashing a torrent of similar covers, featuring "Funky Pickups and Vans"—a theme repeated throughout the mid-'70s. The nadir was perhaps the blown Hemi cover van (Feb. '77) that pitched its driveshaft just as astonished staff photographer Jon Asher released the shutter. Surely a candidate for the worst cover blurb in the magazine's history, "Van Couch Plans" adorned the Oct. '76 issue.
But it wasn't just garish vans that made this period so painful. CB radio was another craze that swept through the pages of CC like a plague of locusts. With "10-4, good buddy" echoing in their ears and dynamite stories, such as "Citizens Band Radio Tech" and "CB Troubleshooting" on the assignment sheets, writers longed for the days of 454 Chevelle drag tests and road trips with Dyno Don Nicholson.
CC's flamed and chopped GMC pickup project (Nov. '73) at least looked the part, when it was pictured trailering a race car. The same cannot be said for the Datsun stepside pickup, the California Cruiser van, and the Pinto panel wagon projects that appeared in subsequent issues. Attempts to confiscate and destroy these copies have thus far proven futile.
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The Feb. '65 issue saw the debut of an "al-new" Car Craft that focused on drag racing. The Bakersfield-winning Ansen-Pink AA/Fuel Dragster was an appropriate cover subject to announce the magazine's new editorial direction.Terry Cook's "How to Build the Ultimate Junior Stock" series was hugely influential in establishing Car Craft as the authority on door-slammer drag racing. The articles on Joe Allread's '57 Chevy followed the "Junior Stock Science" approach professed by Bill Jenkins and Jere Stahl. The Winternationals-winning '57 Chevy Stocker of Big John Barkley launched the series on the July '68 cover.Drag racing was evolving rapidly in the late '60s, as one-piece fiberglass bodies and dragster-style chassis transformed Funny Car technology. CC was there every step of the way with this airbrush/photo compilation of Jack Chrisman's topless Comet.Bugs were big in Car Craft in the early '70s, making more appearances on CC covers than Camaros. With dozens of aftermarket manufacturers cranking out speed parts for Volkswagens, the flat-four was cheap and easy to modify.Could CC readers raised on Boss 429s and L88s get excited about four-cylinder subcompacts? As the vise of emission regulations and insurance surcharges for performance cars tightened, the cheap, lightweight Pintos and Vegas were seen as affordable alternatives.Performance and racing were in dire straits in March 1974, judging by the hysterical tone of the CC cover blurbs. When OPEC shut off the oil, CC responded with helpful instructions on how to install a second gas tank to avoid long gas lines.Street Freaks warranted a special section in June '72, when Richard Guess' V8-powered Corvair graced the cover. Inspired by a logo for Goodie's Speed Shop, Guess installed a supercharged 327 Chevy behind the Corvair transaxle. Perhaps the "FUBAR" license plate was prophetic.What could be freakier than a Funny Car on a suburban boulevard? John Franks rebuilt the Hawaiian FC's chassis as a two-seater, installed a radiator to cool the alcohol-burning supercharged 427ci Chevy, and went cruising. An unknown CC writer coined the term "Street Freaks," and it stuck.
With new cars offering anemic performance and emission laws discouraging engine upgrades, an appealing alternative in 1978 was to build a road-racer replica for the street. The spoilers and fender flares favored by Caf� Racers were a far cry from the blowers and ladder bars favored by Pro Street aficionados.In June '79, Car Craft declared that swoopy, road racing–inspired styling would define street machines in the '80s. Well, maybe not. The issue included a report on the clandestine road races taking place on winding Mulholland Drive on the ridgeline above Los Angeles.


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2015: Played in 13 games with nine starts between the pipes … Compiled a total of 483 minutes and posted a 7-2 record in his nine starts … Made double-digit saves in four games … Stopped a career-high 19 shots in the 16-6 win at Mercer (2/15) … Posted 12 saves in a 17-13 loss to No. 1 Denver (2/14) … Had 10 saves in wins over Air Force (2/8) and at Georgetown (3/14) … Finished the season with 86 saves, a .486 save percentage, an 11.30 goals against average, five ground balls and two caused turnovers … ACC Honor Roll.
2014: Duke's starting goaltender … Finished the year with a 9.92 goals against average and a .505 save percentage … Started the final 18 games of the year and finished with a 15-3 record … Earned the starting role after coming off the bench to make nine saves in a 14-10 victory over Denver … Registered 10-plus saves in eight of his 18 starting assignments … Made a career-high 15 stops in a loss to Maryland (2/26) and again in the 9-8 overtime victory over North Carolina (3/15) … Had 14 saves as Duke beat Virginia 17-15 (4/11) … Also picked up a career-high seven ground balls against the Cavaliers … Saved at least 50 percent of shots he faced in nine of his 18 starts, including the NCAA Championship game against Notre Dame … Stopped 59 percent of shots faced (10-of-17) in 15-7 win at Notre Dame (4/5) … Picked up five ground balls versus the Irish in the regular season … ACC Academic Honor Roll.
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wow guys im not asking for your honey holes just some general info
What info are you looking for that can't be found on the DOW web site?
just wondering how the hunting is their what is terrain like is a lot of elk their has is the hunting pressure real bad etc.
Ok, I was trying to get you to ask more specific questions. I haven't hunted those units, and i'm sure those who have will help you. However, I can help some. About 80% of what you're asking can be found on the DOW site. They really do want to help you. You can see how many hunter hunted the unit, and what was killed. That will give you a general idea how crowded it is. You can see how many tags were offered, and how many applied and got what tags. There's a general description of the area in print, and then that have maps of every unit with the summer, winter range, and even the corridors when they move. Plus much much more info to help you. They even have an Elk Hunting University.
There is one more thing you can do that very few even thinking about doing. Call up the DOW and ask them for the phone number of the warden for the units you want to hunt. Call them up and they'll give you more info about the unit than any hunter will. They'll tell you the good and bad areas to hunt. I've become good friends with my local warden, and he's always willing to help out.
Part of hunting is research. Now, get at it!
thank you very much old hunter I'm on it .
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thanks for asking
Also try getting ahold of the biologist for the area. We contacted the biologist for the area we hunted in WY and he was a huge help on narrowing down the areas we hunted. He also gave us the best idea of the time of season to hunt when there were less hunters in the field. I would also recomend having a good map in hand when you talk to both the warden and the biologist. I purchased a hunt area map from mytopo.com and marked areas while I was on the phone with him. Good luck!


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Not quite a 20% chance of drawing id you put in seperately. Its still a 10% chance you just have 2 names in on the draw. If you put in for as a party, then there will be 1 name to get that 10% chance. The odds do decrease a tiny fraction if you put in for a party. But in no way will it give you a 20% chance.
Sorry Birdhunter but i have to disagree. If they send in separetaly they "WILL' have "TWICE" the chance of one of them drawing versus sending in as a group. That is not my opionion that is a mathematical fact.
Fairly certain if you put in as a group your odds drop on an individual basis. Both names go in under one application. That's the way it is in most states I know. You're better off on an individual basis applying alone.
Also the other issue I hate about 22 is that the Cow hunters hit the unit hard and overlap with the bull hunters. As a result the bulls head for the steep nasty stuff pretty fast after opening day. Once they get up that mountain those big bulls are hard to find and it is not easy to get to them. I had a buddy hunt it, there were several good bulls that got killed openign day, after that it was hard to find anything with much size. It is unfortunate that the cow hunters are there the same time and really disappointing that the hunt went the way it did.
I'll elaborate a little more....if there are two tags and 10 people put in, you have a 20% chance. If two people put in on a party application, you'll have a 1 in 9 chance of drawing two tags (a little more than 10%). If you put in separately there's a 20% chance one of you will draw. If you put in separately there's roughly a 1% chance you'll both draw. That's the way the statistics work.
Fink i never said guarantee. But odds are if ten people apply for a tag with ten percent odds one will draw it....no guarantees though.....


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Monday, September 7, 2009
Should We Encourage Majors to Go to Grad School?
I was asked recently to help evaluate a highly selective undergraduate institution's Philosophy department. The department prided itself on having "placed" many of its undergraduate majors in decent graduate programs. According to the department, this is one of the measures of its success.
But I'm not so sure. In my view, my department gets too many applications, and grants too many PhD's, and so on. Given the realities of the job market and the possible (likely?) fate of many small colleges, it seems inappropriate to encourage students to pursue graduate work. Am I wrong?
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The department prided itself on having "placed" many of its undergraduate majors in decent graduate programs. According to the department, this is one of the measures of its success.
It seems as if it's very common for departments to think this way. And your question strikes me as a very good one.
My proposal: As a general rule, we shouldn't encourage students to apply to phil. grad school. One exception to the rule is a student who plainly can end up making invaluable contributions to the discipline of philosophy-- the discipline would be much richer with this student's contributions than it would be without them. Maybe it also matters whether the student would simply be miserable unless he/she studied philosophy at the grad level.
- September 7, 2009 at 4:56 PM
- Inside the Philosophy Factory said...
I strongly agree with Spiros...
Of course, that contribution could be excellent teaching. Of course, that's assuming a significant change in the system -- but, a girl can dream, no?
- September 7, 2009 at 5:13 PM
Meno, I'm curious. How can you tell that it is obvious that a 21 year old will be making major contributions to the field, 5-7 years in the future?
Also, I don't think it should be encouraged. I was neither encouraged nor discouraged from doing so, but was told by some profs what the pros and cons were. I decided from there, on my own.
If anything, I would say UGs should be encouraged to go to/apply to terminal MA programs if the a) aren't the sort that you can tell will make contributions or b)are unsure as to whether or not they want to go on the a PhD.
- September 7, 2009 at 6:43 PM
C.D. Broad said it best:
"It is to be feared that Spinoza would not have been enlightened enough to appreciate the beneficent system of the Ph.D. degree, introduced into English universities as a measure of post-war propaganda, whereby the time and energy of those who are qualified to do research are expended in supervising the work of those who never will be."
- September 7, 2009 at 6:44 PM
One exception to the rule is a student who plainly can end up making invaluable contributions to the discipline of philosophy-- the discipline would be much richer with this student's contributions than it would be without them.
By this rule, of course, almost all philosophers currently working at universities should not have gone to grad school. I strongly suspect this applies to the author of the comment as well. But this would leave us with few philosophy departments at all. I take this as a reductio of the suggestion.
Obviously we should be careful about encouraging students to go to grad school, especially to programs where finding jobs upon graduation is unlikely, and we should give them as clear a picture of the job situation as we can. But the proposal suggested here, if it were meant seriously (I can't really tell), is clearly much too strong in its requirements.
- September 7, 2009 at 8:53 PM
By all means encourage the best of your majors--just them. Nothing else is justified.
- September 7, 2009 at 9:47 PM
I think it is generally most responsible to gently discourage students from going to grad school. The ones that go anyhow are the ones that deserve to be there. Philosophy programs also need to do a much better job at placing people outside of academia. This applies to undergrad and grad alike.
- September 8, 2009 at 8:26 AM
As an almost-done grad student I can honestly say right now, I wish someone had discouraged me from going to grad school.
I am definitely not one of thise who will make invaluable contributions to philosophy, but I've always known that, and have made my peace with it.
The distressing thing for me though is that I'm not even going to be one of those non-contributors who somehow sneaks their way into becoming a faculty member. After all this time and effort, I'm going to be unemployed and debt-ridden, when most of my similarly talented peers are earning decent amounts of money and are well established on their chosen career ladder.
I screwed the pooch. And so did those academic advisors who encouraged me to do this.
- September 8, 2009 at 8:59 AM
There's a huge though largely undiscussed problem here, namely, what else are we going to encourage our majors to do? Imagine if a music teacher, for instance, told her student, "Don't become a music teacher, there's too much competition for jobs and the odds are against you getting one," and then didn't offer anything other suggestions for what to do with a training in music.
Philosophers have always gently discouraged their student from grad school--my teachers certainly did anyway! And guess what? In the absence of anything better to do with my degree, I decided to go to grad school anyway. Until we come up a standardized list of other viable options (a list that includes more than just, say, go to law school), our discouragement is disingenuous. In the absence of such options, we'd be more honest not just to discourage students from grad school, but from majoring in philosophy in the first place.
- September 8, 2009 at 10:44 AM
"There's a huge though largely undiscussed problem here, namely, what else are we going to encourage our majors to do?"
The faculty at my undergraduate philosophy program always advised students to pursue philosophy as a second major. The philosophy department's course requirements were small enough it was relatively easy to do this (although I'm sure it forced some people into a 9th or 10th semester).
As a result, just about everyone I knew in the philosophy program was a double major: philosophy and computer science, philosophy and psychology, philosophy and classics, philosophy and english, philosophy and physics, etc.
As far as I know, I'm the only one who actually went on to graduate school in philosophy, but I don't think many of my classmates would have thought their degree wasted. For instance, I know of one who is getting his doctorate in psychology and studying moral behavior and choice making. Surely his philosophical training is of some value to his chosen profession?
- September 8, 2009 at 11:25 AM
I don't know how to answer the question in general; for me, it is an individual by individual question whether to advise graduate school. I'm not sure there is good advice for students in general. It is important to inform those bent on grad school about the riskiness of that move, even for the most talented. Indeed, many of my most gifted students have not been comfortable taking the sorts of risks one must take to become an academic philosopher. They've gone on to other things.
I certainly think it would be a mistake to design a philosophy major around the goal of preparing majors for graduate school in philosophy. Among other things, that itself would convey an unwarranted level of confidence in philosophy as a viable career for majors, which it is most certainly not. Naturally there should be opportunities for majors who have a burning desire to pursue a graduate degree to prepare themselves. But it is important to remember that the vast majority of majors would benefit from other sorts of intellectual pursuits.
- September 8, 2009 at 1:05 PM
- 729 said...
Spiros: I don't think that you are wrong about this. But I also find that it is crucial, given that this is the case, to kick student advising into high-gear. By "high-gear" I mean have some good answers to the question "What can I do with my philosophy degree?" I'm not at all vague about this, and have gathered my own set of examples from my years of teaching, and am willing to talk through ideas with students, getting the full scope of their interests and skills. I've found that its important to make sure that dedicated philosophy majors don't believe that not doing philosophy as a career is any sort of "failure." This is far from the truth, and sometimes needs to be addressed directly.
The kinds of examples I have on hand, besides successful law school placements, are students who have gone into Public Policy MA programs. Scoff if you must, but a couple of my former students have gone on to Divinity Programs. Some of our recent strongest philosophy majors are kicking ass in other fields, especially the sciences. Advanced logic courses have done students a world of good, likewise research and communication skills have given them an edge.
Lately, I've been giving this topic a lot of thought. The more I've let go of graduate program placement as a criterion for success, the more happy I've become as a teacher. Maybe I just really enjoy corrupting as many of the youth as I possibly can no matter what they end up doing, though it's just as likely that it's genuinely interesting to consider and attempt to make good on the claim "philosophy goes with everything."
- September 8, 2009 at 1:47 PM
I agree that the graduate school option should be discouraged.
But pragmatically-based criticisms of the undergraduate major seem a hasty. At the very least, they must explain away the evidence that philosophy majors tend to do pretty well by the usual financial measures.
- September 8, 2009 at 1:54 PM
Anon 1:54--
I've seen the payscale.com list already, but unfortunately it doesn't say what other professions philosophy majors are entering to such resounding financial success (my dept. chair's hypothesis is that the numbers are just skewed because we train so many future lawyers). My criticism wasn't of the philosophy major in and of itself, but that we need to outline some serious alternatives to grad school if we are sincere about telling students to major in philosophy.
Anway, I appreciated 729's suggestions, especially the Public Policy MA track. They are doubly helpful in my case, since the students I'm advising will get beat ever time for grad school by the kids at Spiros' highly selective place, and probably at lots of other less selective places as well. So I'm in need of some serious alternatives to offer.
--Anon 10:44
- September 8, 2009 at 6:26 PM
I'm with the "discourage grad school in philosophy camp."
w/r/t to the "alternatives" issue, and riffing off of 729's list (which I think is spot-on), if they want to go to school in something else, here's a list.
MPA programs.
Public health programs (including MPH and the more research-focused MS programs)
Information systems stuff (IS school, etc.)
Library School (MLS, e.g.)
Fisheries science
medical school
Physician's assistant school
elementary or secondary education certification
Most of these don't require that much work in specific fields.
Other things they can do with a philosophy major without going back to school:
precisely the same things that can be done by majors in _any other humanities and social science
field_: history, music, sociology, psych, econ, english, etc., as well as many undergrad science
majors: biology, ecology, forestry, etc.
Those degrees are all well and good, but don't teach you much that a smart person can't also pick up with a few weeks of on-the-job training. They don't turn loose social science or science majors with study design or data crunching. Philosophy doesn't need a justification as an undergrad major any more than any other major (save engineering, business, and few of the sciences). Job seekers from undergrad philosophy backgrounds just muddle through, exactly like everyone else.
- September 8, 2009 at 7:27 PM
- Michael Cholbi said...
Anon 6:26 - I had the same reaction as your chair. But philosophy majors who become lawyers are excluded by this:
"This chart is based upon PayScale Salary Survey data for full-time employees in the United States who possess a Bachelor's degree and no higher degrees and have majored in the subjects listed above."
That actually makes the findings all the more surprising and encouraging.
- September 8, 2009 at 8:21 PM
I can think of a whole lot of job options that philosophers should be able to have, but for various do not. Examples:
Title: Assistant to the Pastor
Description: Helps pastor with research, edits sermons for content so that the pastor doesn't make stupid arguments, offers personal counseling to Church members
Title: High School Philosophy Teacher
Description: Teaches high school students how to think, also holds in-house philosophy critical thinking and ethics seminars for teachers
Title: Philosophical Advisor to the President
Description: Check presidential speeches for logical fallacies and suspect claims
Title: Judicial Assitant
Description: Explain the arguments of lawyers to Judges, assist in the preparation of rulings
If anyone knows of any openings in the above positions, be sure to let me know.
- September 9, 2009 at 10:54 AM
- Larry Franz said...
I agree that you should only encourage your very best students to continue in graduate school, and only after making sure they understand the odds against getting a good teaching job.
Nevertheless, here's a real-life example to consider, although not the typical one you've been discussing.
I was a philosophy major at a mediocre state university back in the early 70s, who ended up taking the best financial offer I got from a grad school, and went to a Big Ten university. After two years, I got my M.A. and was invited to stay, but decided to take a "sabbatical", which has now lasted 34 years. The main reason I dropped out was that I thought my chances of getting a job were slim -- I was also really tired of being in school.
The career I eventually followed was in software development, and I've been very successful, at least until the recent merger/downsizing. (Back in the 70s, a computer science degree wasn't a requirement to get an entry-level programming job -- just telling someone I had taught symbolic logic was a big plus.)
Now that I'm approaching "voluntary" resignation/retirement (i.e. being laid off in a relatively nice way), I've decided to start working on philosophy again, so among other things I'm auditing a Philosophy of Language course at a local college.
I've seriously thought about going back to grad school, not thinking that I would one day get a teaching job, but just because I never lost my interest in the subject and would like to see what I could do, given a second chance.
I'm wondering, however, if any department anywhere would accept a student who's approaching 60.
Would anyone here encourage this ex-philosophy major to go to grad school again? Is it unrealistic to think I could get accepted? Should I just try to find a way to take a course here or there indefinitely? Am I nuts for even thinking about trying this again?
Based on what some have said here, if I did get accepted, it might be a good thing that I would take a slot away from a younger person who would be better served doing something else.
- September 9, 2009 at 6:07 PM
You da man, Larry Franz. We knew you'd be back. They all come back. I hope you get into a grad program.
- September 10, 2009 at 1:05 AM
While I agree that you should encourage only the best majors to go on to grad school, this doesn't mean you should discourage everyone else. In fact, everyone else has a right to pursue their legal dreams, and -- with effort and some luck -- many of them may survive grad school and find gainful employment. Yes, the odds are stacked against these less-than-best majors, but it could reasonably happen. (Me.)
Compare the paternalism proposed here to, say, athletics. Should you discourage a mediocre athlete from playing college ball or even at a semi-pro level, if you believe she or he won't reach the professional ranks? Isn't the pursuit of a dream valuable in itself? (Yes.)
To give as a reason for discouraging that the job market is oversaturated is a selfish reason: You want someone to drop out so that you can get hired someday. If you were any good, why worry about competition from these lesser students?
- September 10, 2009 at 1:12 AM
- 729 said...
Anon 1:12 AM: To give as a reason for discouraging that the job market is oversaturated is a selfish reason: You want someone to drop out so that you can get hired someday. If you were any good, why worry about competition from these lesser students?
It seems to me you're confused. I have no idea how you've come up with the notion that philosophy professors are competing with their undergraduate students. Like a number of posters here, I already have a TT position and have had it for years. A few other posters are ABD or are new Ph.D.'s (also already teaching for a while). The question isn't about competing with our own students. The question regards the substantial recent decline in TT academic positions. People on the job market now (ABD, new Ph.D.'s and non-tenure track) are having terrible difficulties. In light of this, TT and T folks are wondering how to deal responsibly with advising undergraduate philosophy majors.
I fail to see "selfishness" in worrying about the prospects of undergraduates we mentor. Over-saturation a graduate students and Ph.D.'s is, in my book, worth worrying about at least as much as I attend to my students' academic progress and achievement. They need to be well informed, and need excellent advising. All of our students need this presently, not only philosophy majors. There's this jobless economic recovery going on you might have heard about. My students are terrified (when they're not depressed). I honestly don't see my concerns about the prospects of the philosophy students I mentor as being different in kind from all of the students I advise (a much wider class): They're all confronting difficult prospects.
Personally speaking, I do not consider my "mediocre" or even "low performing" philosophy students mediocre human beings. Whether a student excels in philosophy and whether a student learns a great deal from taking courses in or majoring in philosophy are two distinct matters. I don't confuse them. I push all of my students to excel. Some do, some do not. However, it is as plain as day that many of my philosophy students who do not always excel in courses will excel at many other things in life. In my experience, majoring in philosophy tracks interesting, curious and resourceful people--professional philosophy is just a by-product of this. I've never actually been able to dissuade a philosophy major who single-mindedly wants to apply to graduate programs from doing so. Yet, the competition to get in has become staggering lately, as I'm sure you must be aware. Responsible student advising requires fully informing students about things as they stand now--about getting into graduate programs and future job prospects.
- September 10, 2009 at 2:24 AM
To give as a reason for discouraging that the job market is oversaturated is a selfish reason...
Of course I'm not speaking to employed philosophers here. This comment was directed more at grad school students and other posters here. Sorry if that wasn't clear; I was just over on the Other Blog and had grad students on the brain. (Are there mostly employed philosophers on this blog?)
- September 11, 2009 at 11:33 PM
Responsible student advising requires fully informing students about things as they stand now--about getting into graduate programs and future job prospects.
Right. And my original post, the one you responded to, doesn't rule this out. Giving pros and cons of grad school and letting the student make up her mind is fine (and perhaps required), and I don't count this as discouragement. Rather, discouragement is more one-sided and is about pushing the student away from the grad school track. My point was that discouragement with respect to career choices and interest is too strong an attitude perhaps for anyone, including one's parents who presumably have the greatest responsibility and right to guide the student in any given direction; thus, it can't plausibly be a college professor's place to give the student this kind of personal guidance, except perhaps where it is explicitly soliticed.
Some professors might not view the philosophy job market as negatively as you or others: it could be that the best will always come out on top anyway, so those students wouldn't have a real cause to worry, or it could be that this free market competition is a desirable state. So discouraging a student to follow a path, that is not obviously harmful, in a major crossroads in life is exerting too much influence in a life of a person with whom you are not close, especially if you could be wrong.
Now, this is a bit different from encouraging gifted majors. Cultivation of talents can be encouraged; it seems to be at least supererogatory. Why the difference? One reason could be that it is more clear that a student is gifted than a mediocre will never succeed in philosophy at the graduate and professional ranks, so there is less of a chance of being wrong. And if that student truly is retarded and could not possibly survive graduate school, then she probably would not have been accepted to a program in the first place; and even if she did, she would not complete it. If she does, then why can't she be a gainfully employed and professionally satisfied philosopher, other than an unscrupulous program that, for revenue reasons, admits students it knows to be unqualified?
Professors in general think too highly of themselves and believe themselves to have much greater responsibilities and liberties than merely delivering education on a specific topic. Parents aren't paying for nerds like us to be life-coaches to their students, to squash their kids' dreams. That's their job.
- September 11, 2009 at 11:58 PM
- praymont said...
For those students who are determined to go to philosophy grad school, it's good to emphasize that they really need a back-up livelihood, some reliable trade/profession in which they're qualified or at least close to being qualified. With this in mind, some schools have programs that combine a law degree with a philosophy M.A. There should be more programs that do this sort of thing, combining a philosophy M.A. with a journalism degree, or teaching certificate, etc.
Re. philosophy majors who don't pursue a graduate philosophy degree: I've got a post in which I gather some of the studies and articles on their other opportunities, and in which I list philosophy majors who have succeeded outside philosophy. It's at: http://healthcareethicscanada.blogspot.com/2008/12/philosophy-degrees-and-famous-people.html
I'd appreciate any suggestions about how to add to that list.
- September 13, 2009 at 12:48 PM
Speaking of MA programs, that's not a bad option to steer students toward, especially for less-than-outstanding students who may struggle in grad school or on the market. Worst case, you leave with a MA, which is a lot more than most people have and can be an advantage in the non-academic job market; and at least you gave your dream a shot. Best case, you hit your stride in grad school and become a professional philosopher, as desired.
(Actually, the worst worst case is you fail to make it through the MA program, but you still would have given your dream a try.)
- September 13, 2009 at 9:02 PM
- Kevin Schutte said...
Most of the things I have to say on this have already been said by one Anonymous or another in this comment thread:
1. Encourage a second major. Any second major will do, but one with a clear career track is best. (It is better to have a backup career available before one needs it, rather than trying to get one after one needs it, as I am doing now.)
2. Suggest a terminal M.A. program. Those in my (Ph.D.-granting) graduate program who already had a terminal M.A. had a significantly higher rate of success (and a better understanding of graduate student funding/finances) in the Ph.D. program, compared with those who didn't.
3. Warn them about the non-academic factors that might cause them to underperform in (or after) graduate school. Necessary conditions to becoming a professional philosopher include (but aren't limited to) being able to bond with graduate school faculty, being able to interview well above average, being willing/able to move anywhere, and being willing to operate in an academically political environment.
4. Encourage them to continue studying philosophy, for it offers intrinsic value. Graduate study is not a necessary condition for further study.
- September 22, 2009 at 11:45 PM
Off the top of my head, the outcome figures for Philosophy PhDs look something like this:
50% never get a tenure-track job in Philosophy
30% get a very undesirable job in Philosophy (compared to their hopes and expectations upon starting grad school)
15% get a fairly undesirable job
4% get a desirable job but make little impact on the subject: they are read by a few dozen people, and appreciated by fewer.
1% achieve what most people go into the profession to achieve.
Set that against becoming a lawyer or banker or comparable professional: extraordinarily high pay, social prestige, arguably more influence on society, certainly much more power and responsibility the further one climbs the career ladder, the choice of where to live, etc.
It's a scandal that these facts are not drilled into every single undergrad thinking about Philosophy grad school.
- September 23, 2009 at 7:16 AM
I have recently decided to pursue options other than acadamia, and it is not easy. Just yesterday, I applied for a provincial government job as a policy analyst (I live in Canada), and when you get the the 'education' section, there is a drop down menu from which you select your major. Philosophy wasn't even one of the options! And I have talked to a number of employment consultants and recruiters who all have the same perplexed reaction when I tell them that I have a PhD in philosphy. One of the problems is that for most of the jobs I am interested in, I am competing against people who are obviously qualified. I may be qualified - perhaps even moreso - but it seems next to impossible to make that obvious to someone who has no real concept of what professional philosophers do. Much of what I am saying here is true for other disciplines as well. But if your PhD is in, say, economics or psychology, there are more obvious applications (a friend with a PhD in psychology walked straight into a managerial job with a social work firm). I am simply not a 'safe' hire. So, it is starting to look like I must either back to part-time adjunct teaching, or lower my expectations and take a job that I could have gotten (and more easily) without ever going to university in the first place.
Also, when I was teaching, I never discouraged students from majoring in philosophy, but I never encouraged it either. And I always told them that if they major in philosophy, it is a really good idea to at least minor in something with more obvious practical application. Note that I am not saying that there is anything wrong with philosophy; rather, this is more a statement about how it is perceived by many. (Of course, I always tell students that regardless of what their major is, they could benefit by taking philosophy classes).
- September 23, 2009 at 10:28 AM
Coming in with a late comment: I'd like to encourage everybody to never fail to encourage those students who impress you and who also happen to be members of under-represented groups in Philosophy. Help diversify Philosophy!
- April 1, 2010 at 12:55 AM
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What Do Americans Eat? Kale, Gluten-Free, and Organics Top 2014 Food Trends
Food trends come and food trends go. One year we're all raving about Sriracha, the next we're falling for the cronut. For the last 30 years, Parade has surveyed those trends and other American eating habits.
This year, foods like snack bars and frozen sandwiches have risen in popularity. As more people eat on the go, convenience foods are going to see a natural rise. According to Parade's survey:
- 27 percent of main dishes made at home are frozen or ready-to-eat meals.
- 80 percent of our meals are prepared at home, and over half of them are made from scratch or fresh ingredients.


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(WUSA9) -- There's high drama over one of the highest-interest IPOs right now. The feeling now is that the government shutdown won't stop social media giant Twitter from revealing its documents this week to go public later this year.
Twitter already submitted its filing to the Securities and Exchange commission for an upcoming public offering. The company is expected to make the documents public this week.
SEC officials have to review any new IPO-related paperwork, but that won't be a problem as long as Twitter files the documents in the next few weeks.
Hundreds of thousands of government workers have already been furloughed. Unlike other agencies the SEC is allowed to keep its doors open and employees on the job for the time being.


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Welcome to the world of Forsaken.
You are an out-cast Master Samurai with exceptional skill. Born to be the Leader of a destroyed Empire, but Exiled by the Supreme Guardians of the Emperors Shine for Misconduct. You alone have traveled the devastated lands in search of rest and peace, but to no avail you have fallen to wayside as fate pulls you back into the very world you are trying to escape from. Armed with just a Katana, Kage (You) Must fight your way back into Honor and relinquish the title " Forsaken. "
Hello, My name is Malykai and I notice your Forum comments and I am making a game (already in-progress) and I think you would be a great addition to it. It is Open Concept game, meaning you are able to add you input and ideas into the game to shape its outcome. So the GDD I have but will change as we Create more and more. I am a 3D Modeler/ Animator/2d Concept Artist/Sound Engineer. I want this Team to be full of Newbies so that the hunger to create drives us. The Style and format of the game is hack and slash adventure (third person.) With this project the goal is to get a finished title under your belt and from there you can branch out and with your new experience build a bigger and better game. Thanks for your interest in the project
Now this is where you come in. We need artist (which I myself am also one) to help us realize this Vision which is already in progress. We need concepts including environment pieces Character works and the two combined.Also if you posess the skill to do 2D maps that's a plus but not mandatory. If you feel like this is a fit for you and have been wanting to add more to your portfolio, and work with other exceptional artist then this is the place. For compensation we will be splitting Royalties if we go for funding, but as of right now it is a non-paid project in which you can add that you have " Worked on game." to your portfolio.(Why not right?)
Deviantart thanks to you. you've been a great asset helping us move forward. I just wanted to let everyone know that we are moving into getting the animation pipeline rolling for the Main characters and Enemies and setting up a small prototype to work out all the kinks before we move on. Things have been moving great and we have received a great amount of contribution from the team.
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Thanks guys will have a update coming up here in the next couple days.Thanks again for all the help and support. BTW the animations are not final quality these are for testing and will be iterated several times and if you see a position full please don't hesitate to apply we could always use the help.
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City Council reviews Sumner Avenue sidewalk options
The Humboldt City Council reviewed plans for a new sidewalk with a retaining wall and wrought iron railing on Sumner Avenue, west and south of the Sumner Avenue Bridge during its regular bi-monthly meeting Monday night.
The council reviewed a couple of options prepared by Derek Johnson, professional engineer with Schlotfeldt Engineering in Webster City.
The first option is a barrier system with a sidewalk behind it, with a tall retaining wall.
The second option is using the existing retaining wall, demolishing the sidewalk and constructing a new sidewalk behind the wall with another retaining wall behind it. The second retaining wall would be elevated and would have a railing on top to keep pedestrians on the sidewalk.
The council directed city staff to have engineering plans developed for the second option.
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ATLANTA -- A man is now being held in the Gwinnett County Jail, who investigators believe killed his daughter in 2007.
According to FBI Special Agent in Charge Mark Guiliano, 28-year-old Christian Vasquez's extradition process was completed on Thursday. Immediately after, FBI agents escorted Vasquez back to Gwinnett County.
Guiliano said Prisi Vasquez, daughter of the fugitive, was only two years old when her homicide happened. Vasquez allegedly hit his daughter with an object that killed her, then he hid her body in the attic of their home in Lawrenceville.
Shortly after the incident, Gwinnett County Sheriff's Investigators obtained an arrest warrant, charging Vasquez with murder. From information found, investigators believed he had fled to Mexico.
Mexican Law Enforcement authorities arrested Vasquez in July 2010 in Puebla, a town located in south central Mexico.
Earlier, on August 27, 2008, a Gwinnett County Grand Jury indicted Vasquez, charging him with murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, and cruelty to children. Then, a federal warrant was obtained which charged Vasquez with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office officials found out that Vasquez was in Mexico, so they got a provisional arrest warrant that allowed for his arrest there.


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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. - Digging deep after dunking his tee shot into the water on the 14th hole and squandering a two-shot lead in the process, Tiger Woods collected his thoughts and controlled his emotions down the stretch to win The Players Championship on Sunday.
Woods was in control of the tournament before hooking his tee shot into a water hazard on 14 and making double bogey, allowing many players, including Sergio Garcia, back into the tournament.
Woods still had a share of the lead after his water miscue and took the outright lead with a birdie on the par-5 16th. Garcia, playing in the group behind Woods after the two spent Saturday and Sunday morning playing together but not talking to each other after an incident in the third round, matched Woods' birdie on 16 to grab a share of the lead.
But as Woods stood on the 18th tee, Garcia dunked not one but two balls into the water surrounding the island green at 17. Garcia then knocked his tee shot on 18 into the water.
Woods became the sixth player to win multiple Players titles in the tournament's 40 years, joining Hal Sutton, Fred Couples, Steve Elkington, Davis Love III and Jack Nicklaus, the only three-time winner.
Woods, who had a share of the lead with Garcia and David Lingmerth after 54 holes, has now won 51 of the 55 tournaments he's played when having at least a share of the lead after three rounds.
Woods now has 78 Tour titles, trailing just Sam Snead's all-time mark of 82.
Lingmerth (72) tied for second at 11 under with Kevin Streelman (67) and Jeff Maggert (70).
Garcia (76) dropped six shots in the last two holes to fall out of a tie for the lead to a tie for eighth at 7 under.
Woods and Garcia sniped at each other throughout the weekend.
It started Saturday when Garcia complained in a TV interview that his shot from the par-5 second fairway was disrupted by cheers from the crowd around Woods, who was some 50 yards away in the trees and fired them up by taking a fairway metal out of his bag. He said Woods should have been paying attention, and it became a war of the words the next two days.
"Not real surprising that he's complaining about something," Woods said.
"At least I'm true to myself," Garcia retorted. "I know what I'm doing, and he can do whatever he wants."
When they finished the storm-delayed third round Sunday morning, Garcia kept at it, saying that Woods is "not the nicest guy on tour."
Garcia, when asked if he would have changed anything about the flap with Woods, replied, "It sounds like I was the bad guy here. I was the victim."
Numbers piling up for Tiger
4: Victories in 2013. This is the earliest Woods has ever reached four wins in a season.
7: Victories in his last 21 PGA Tour stroke-play events.
52 of 56: Conversion rate when Woods has at least a share of the 54-hole lead.
78: Career PGA Tour victories. Sam Snead, with 82, is No. 1 on the list.
300: PGA Tour starts (including as an amateur). Woods also won in his 100th and 200th PGA Tour starts.
$5,849,600: Official PGA Tour earnings in 2013.
$106,800,300: Official career PGA Tour earnings.
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IBM Survey Results:
Financial Services IT Service Management Strong in an Uncertain Economy
Industry Solutions: Financial Services Sector Blog
By Mike Zelle, Market Segment Manager, Financial Services Sector - Tivoli Software, IBM
IBM conducted a global survey of CIOs and other IT investment owners during December 2008 and January 2009. In these 'uncertain economic times' the results are very interesting from a Financial Services IT point of view.
Key survey results
The current economic and market conditions these organizations face have had a significant negative impact on enterprise budgets. But IBM's survey showed the opposite to be the case for IT budgets.
• The vast majority of IT decision makers (85 percent), in financial services and across all industries, reported budgets remaining flat or changing only slightly
• 9 percent of those in financial services reported significant budget reductions
• 21 percent indicated that they were increasing their investment in IT
• 6 percent of financial services organizations indicated they would be significantly increasing their IT budgets in response to current economic and market conditions.
IBM believes that these IT investments are continuing because these companies recognize that IT services can not only help the enterprise as a whole to operate more effectively and efficiently but also provide competitive advantage. These businesses have realized that just cutting costs within IT has limited business benefit and introduces unacceptable levels of risk to the entire organization that depends on the quality and reliability of IT services for efficiency, compliance, security and even competitive differentiation. If IT is 10 percent of the operational expense of a financial services business, cutting IT by 50 percent will yield only a 5 percent reduction in business operational expense, but will most likely unacceptably expose the other 90 percent of the business to significant new problems, risks and competitive disadvantage.
Financial services organizations were also disproportionately more likely than other industries to also expect IT to be an innovator, to research and recommend enterprise strategic objectives, to identify opportunities for innovation and to develop new business areas or services.
Financial Services IT priorities to support business requirements
The most commonly reported financial services priorities impacting IT investment plans were:
• Improving access to and leveraging customer information
• Improving efficiency / reducing costs of business activities
• Increasing customer retention.
Mandatory programs / projects that must take precedence:
• Compliance is a more pressing concern for financial services than it is for any other industry, with 88 percent of projects in this area continuing, expanding or being initiated.
• Systems management ranks as high as compliance, which is understandable given that the business infrastructure that is required to enable market survival for today's financial services company is increasingly an integrated digital platform of IT-enabled business services.
• These activities also explain why technology virtualization and storage consolidation, at 78 percent and 72 percent, are also high on the list, coming only after security. A scalable and manageable IT infrastructure is required to provide the resilient basis for quality services.
IT Service Management is the key priority
Smarter management of IT services is the top business-driven priority for IT. Service management builds on foundational capabilities—security, compliance, managing IT systems, and virtualizing and consolidating the physical infrastructure—that provide the basis for the reliable IT services required by the business.
Service management projects continued, expanded or initiated as a consequence of the economic and business environment was 68 percent—ahead of technology areas such as server deployment, mobility and network convergence.
Conclusion and recommendations
According to the results of the IBM study, IT leaders in the financial services industry are reprioritizing IT projects to focus on optimizing IT-enabled business processes. Accordingly, once they have met urgent requirements in areas such as compliance, systems management, virtualization/consolidation and security, they are investing in smarter management.
This business-driven approach to service management emphasizes the role IT services can play in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the organization as a whole rather than on the type of cost-cutting within IT that can produce negative and unacceptable business risks.
The study results point to the following key recommendations:
• Improve the quality and reliability of IT services that process financial transactions, provide integrated access to and leverage customer information, improve customer loyalty and retention, enable workforce productivity and support compliance.
• Prioritize smarter ways of doing things through service management and technology consolidation.
• Revise measurements and reporting to provide more visibility to process performance, quality of service, outcome metrics, costs, and business value.
• Change the focus from technology and optimized subsystems to optimization of IT-enabled business activities. This includes building out the digital platform of the business and improving the ability to manage it as the new business infrastructure.
• Apply some investments to tactical quick wins—but also work toward eliminating service-quality inhibitors through longer-term strategic initiatives.
For more information:
• Whitepaper: IT service management in an uncertain economy: Resetting IT priorities in the financial services industry- ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/sa/wh/n/tiw14033usen/TIW14033USEN_HR.PDF
• Pulse 2010 The Premier Service Management Event- http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/pulse/
February 21-24, 2010 MGM Grand, Las Vegas
Mike Zelle is the market segment manager for the financial services sector for Tivoli Software at IBM.


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I have never been an habitual reader of the Bible. This is a failing, I know, but my carelessness goes back to my childhood, at a time when I suppose I identified the Bible with school assemblies – and I more or less hated school. It is the same with our great authors – Shakespeare, Milton, Dickens, et al ; I associate them all with school, and I have more or less ignored them all until comparatively recently.
As a result of all this, I am not a cradle Christian, and for that I am somewhat grateful for my early life. I am grateful not least because I spent so much time trying to make sense of the crazy world of the adults in my life that I became insatiably inquisitive about all things. But, most of all, I became inquisitive about people and what makes them tick. In… Read more


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Athens, OH (Sports Network) - Wednesday's game between Eastern Michigan and
Ohio has been postponed following an incident near the Bobcats' campus earlier
in the day.
Ohio school officials also canceled Wednesday's classes Athens police received
a report of an armed robbery at an apartment complex located in the vicinity
of the school. The suspect had yet to be apprehended as of 12:25 local time
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included Wednesday's contest.
A makeup date has yet to be announced.
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text: By Christy SheetsSports Writer On Thursday night, Dec. 13, the Lady Cats traveled to play the Sutherland Sailors. Both teams were ready to play, but the Sailors took the early lead. At the end of the first quarter the Wildcats trailed by 15, 21 to 6. The second quarter saw the Sailors with a renewed ambition, but the Lady Cats refused to give up. The Sailors outscored the Lady Cats by just two points, and they headed into the locker room, 15 to 32. The Cats started the second half energized, and ready to play, but the Sailors refused to relinquish their momentum. The Sailors were able to gain 13 more points than the Lady Cats, lengthening their lead to 20 to 50. The Cats seemed tired in the fourth quarter, and the Sailors were not ready to go quietly into the night. Both teams played a hard fourth quarter, but in the end the Wildcats could just never get the momentum they needed, and the Sailors were victorious. As the buzzer sounded at the end of the fourth quarter the Sailors won 23 to 70. When asked about the game Coach Messersmith said, "Sutherland has a very good basketball team." He added, "Our girls worked hard, and I am very proud of our effort. We did some good things and learned some things we need to continue to work on." Offensively, sophomore Christina Daniels led the Cats with 11 points, followed by senior Chelsea Sowle with seven points. Junior Paige Aylward had four points, and senior Anna Griffiths had one point. Leading the team with offensive rebounds were Daniels (four), Aylward (two), Griffiths (one), senior Katelyn Melton (one), and junior Sara Hubbard (one). Leading the team with assists was Hubbard (three). Defensively, Melton led the Cats with six rebounds, one block, and one steal, followed by Daniels with two rebounds, one block, and two steals. Hubbard had three rebounds, Griffiths had two rebounds and one steal, Sowle had two rebounds, and sophomore Morgan Messersmith had one rebound.Next Action On Tuesday, Dec. 18, the Cats will play host to the Medicine Valley Raiders. The girls JV will start at 3:30.


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You like apples?
He beat Texas.
How do you like them apples?
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You can't die. That would upset the equilibrium in the Cave.
Prohman Empire.
Are you kidding me? People wanted him fired halfway through his second season?
Some people should give up trying to talk about football.
I didn't want him fired but I like green apples thank you very much.
I don't recall many people wanting him fired. If they did, they are complete idiots.
I think people were more concerned with Herman, than CPR.
When Prepared, Fear No One.
Wow, I don't remember seeing one single person who wanted him fired.
Anyone who wanted CPR fired after our arse whoopings should be perma banned.
There was like 2 people questioning him. The vast majority of the fan base loves him and rightfully so.
Yeah, sorry. As much fun as it would be to serve those apples had somebody said that...no one did.
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I'm pretty sure that was just one vocal idiot. I remember it, but I also remember everyone just shot him down when he said it. It was after the Utah game.
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Wow, I don't remember seeing one single person who wanted him fired.
Ya there were a few, probably banned now though.
Who wanted him fired?
Uh, who are you talking to? Haven't seen a single post saying anything like that. Your crazy man.
Nobody wanted him fired. Some questioned whether we really knew if he is a good coach or not yet. In his first two season, there has been three of the best victories I can remember in the last twenty years. I'd say yes he is a good coach, and I didn't need to see today to prove it. It is nice to see the team improve even though you know on paper they are totally outclassed. 2-1 against the tougher south schedule, Wally is amazing and the whole team has the heart of CPR.
Even if we lost by 52 again, thinking CPR should be fired is absolutely idiotic.
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