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The Port Mortuary at Dover Air Force Base, Del., lost portions of remains of seven victims killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to an independent panel tasked with investigating the mortuary.
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Army Gen. John Abizaid, who chaired the Defense Department-created panel in the wake of revelations that remains of troops had been lost or mishandled, declined Tuesday to elaborate on the incidents outlined in the report.
Among the other incidents: a $25,000 payout to the wife of a fallen Marine whose personal effects were accidentally destroyed in January 2007; human remains "misrouted" in 2005 "in a fashion (constituting) dereliction of duty;" and, two civilian cadavers that were used in 2009 to "test" crematorium facilities. The investigation also found that the remains from a Navy crew killed during a T-39 accident were cremated and disposed of as medical waste in July 2006 rather than being interred for group burial.
During a combative news conference in the Pentagon, Abizaid said he did not know how extensive issues were regarding the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks and declined to provide the documents used by his panel that relate to the mishandled remains.
The report states that shortly after Sept. 11, several portions of remains from the Pentagon attack and the Shanksville, Pa., crash site couldn't be identified, so those portions were placed in sealed containers and provided to a contractor, who incinerated the portions and disposed of them in a landfill.
"The fact that we failed to ship only 7 of the more than 2,400-plus portions represents, from a purely statistical perspective, success but falls short of the 'zero-defect' operation we and the Department of Defense expect," according to an intra-Defense Department memo cited by the report.
The Air Force first came under fire for its operations at Dover in November after an Office of Special Counsel report blasted the service for what the agency said is "a pattern of the Air Force's failure to acknowledge culpability" for mishandled and lost remains.
The Office of Special Counsel investigation found that a fragment of remains of two F-15 crew members disappeared from a small plastic bag at the mortuary, a Marine's left arm also was sawed off to fit into a military uniform without notification or consent from the family, and a portion of a soldier's remains disappeared. In five separate cases, fetal remains from military families were shipped to Dover using plastic pails inside non-reinforced, used cardboard boxes.
Media reports after the Office of Special Counsel investigation's release also found that portions of remains of fallen troops were being incinerated and dumped in a Virginia landfill.
The panel headed by Abizaid found that a "lack of clear command authority and supervision, lack of command and control technical oversight, unclear relationships among coordinating organizations (and a) lack of directive authority" created the environment of "gross mismanagement" found by the Office of Special Counsel.
The report submitted to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta lists 15 recommendations for Dover Port Mortuary. Among them:
• The Defense Department Inspector General should inspect Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations annually.
• The Air Force should direct a general officer to oversee Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations and "require, among other oversight functions, that it develop a stringent command and technical inspection program necessary to accomplish its mission."
• The Defense Department should review options for interment other than retirement at sea, such as interment in Veterans Affairs facilities.
Air Force Secretary Michael Donley told the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that the Air Force supports the results of the panel and "are embracing their recommendations and we intend to move out on those."
U.S. Rep. Todd Platts, R-Pa., asked whether there is any way to set up memorial markers at spots in a landfill where some remains of fallen troops were dumped.
"I'm not sure that it's possible for the Department of Defense to reconstruct the history for every single case where this practice was in place," Donley said. "Certainly, we are in a better place today. Certainly, we apologize for any additional grief or concern caused to the families as a result of this prior practice."
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The Legislature's Democratic leaders want to use their newly minted supermajorities to do things that they could not do before, but are leery of doing things that might alienate voters and jeopardize those supermajorities.
They prefer, therefore, an incremental approach to using their two-thirds legislative votes, thus slowly warming voters to the exercise of their new power, rather than shocking them.
One likely way they'll wield their new authority is a constitutional amendment to reduce the voter approval margin for local government and school district parcel taxes from two-thirds to either a simple majority or 55 percent.
It appears to be popular and they see it as an extension of lowering the vote requirement on school bonds from two-thirds to 55 percent some years back, and also a small, if significant, erosion of Proposition 13, the iconic 1978 ballot measure that made it tougher for state and local governments to levy new taxes.
Parcel taxes are a form of property tax, but instead of being based on property value, they generally impose the same dollar amount of tax on every property parcel, regardless of size or value.
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Making Room for Collaboration
In a constantly and rapidly changing business environment, organizations increasingly look to collaborative work processes to stimulate practices that will generate market value and gain competitive advantage. But while everyone seems to agree that collaboration is a good thing, business leaders and consultants often have differing ideas on what collaboration is and how—or even if—it can be managed and supported.
In fact, "collaboration… is a word with fuzzy but modern overtones. Collaboration suggests something more intense than coordination and less all-inclusive than community. Collaboration is sometimes used interchangeably with cooperation, although it suggests both a deeper level of involvement with others as well as some creative output, whether that be a product, a process, or an ongoing discussion." *1
The elusiveness of collaboration certainly hasn't diminished its perceived importance, however. In a recent survey of 1,656 executives from 100 countries, a majority said that it is vital to the future of their organizations. The survey results found that "increased collaboration will be a defining feature of the company of 2020. Executives expect to see a lot more collaborative problem-solving inside and outside their firms, and clear majorities intend to create employee incentives to encourage collaboration across functions (79 percent) and with external stakeholders (68 percent)." *2
If collaboration is so vital, what is the recent thinking about the structure and value of collaborative practices? And how can organizations use their physical facilities to encourage and support those practices?
Collaboration = Knowledge Sharing
Stephen Kosslyn, a professor of psychology at Harvard University, has noted that "people often grapple with problems in groups, be they formally designated teams or casual huddles around the water cooler. Just as a mechanical calculator can extend our mental capacities, other people help us extend our intelligence—both in a cognitive sense (as required to solve problems) and in an emotional sense (as required to detect and respond appropriately to emotions, ours, and those of others). " In this way, he explains, other people can serve as extensions of our own brains, filling in for our individual cognitive and emotional limitations. He believes that as researchers come to understand how collaborative groups arise and operate, they will learn how to increase human intelligence. *3
This understanding of collaboration as a means of sharing knowledge and extending human capabilities represents a new focus for the study and development of work groups within the organization. Where the emphasis had been on teams—operational teams, project teams, cross-functional teams—as a means of accomplishing specific tasks and goals, viewing collaboration as a means of managing knowledge gives group interaction a deeper, more pervasive role in the organization. Individuals working together to create, share, and use knowledge are seen as essential to the effective real-time development and implementation of strategies that form the basis of organizational success. Collaboration has become a survival skill.
As a recent report by the New Paradigm Learning Corporation, a research and consulting firm, notes, "The exchange of knowledge among individuals or teams leads to innovation and the generation of new capabilities. And as the market evolves at increasing speed, competitive advantage will come from building capabilities faster than others." The report goes on to emphasize that collaboration can no longer be viewed as a progressive management tool to be employed by certain types of corporations with "open" cultures, but a practice that must be embraced by any organization hoping to survive and succeed in today's business environment. "Real collaboration is hard work. But there is no avoiding it: Businesses that embrace collaborative networks of knowledge exchange—via the right technologies, processes, and culture—will be able to build capability at a pace that will keep them competitive." *4
Tacit Versus Explicit Knowledge
The first step in understanding collaboration as a way of managing knowledge is to be clear about what knowledge is. Experts in the field of knowledge management emphasize that knowledge is more than information and that knowledge sharing is not the same as sharing information. According to Hubert Saint-Onge of New Paradigm Learning, knowledge is "the ability to take effective action. It is information that has been validated, generally in a social context where individuals have confidence in one another." *5
Unlike information, knowledge is not something that can be stored in a database or transferred completely by means of written or verbal instruction. In fact, knowledge is often acquired without the use of language, by observation, imitation, and practice. We all know more than we can tell, and the part we can't tell is often communicated through joint activity or simply being around other people—in other words, through collaboration.
In a research survey conducted by Xerox that asked corporate employees where knowledge was stored in their company, most responded that knowledge was stored in employees' heads, rather than on paper or in electronic formats. *6 This unwritten, or tacit, knowledge—the "know-how," intuition, memory, and internalized experience that exist in and between the minds of the individuals that make up an organization—is the knowledge that is essential to the organization's ability to create, innovate, and produce value on a continuous basis. And it is in the transfer of this knowledge, in the constant, dynamic interaction between learners and teachers that the real power of collaboration resides.
Where old theories of learning focused on transfer of knowledge via documentation and training, learning theorists today see learning as a social interaction in which knowledge is communicated in more "real" and meaningful contexts. People "construct their understanding out of a wide range of materials that include ambient social and physical circumstances and the histories and social relations of the persons involved," write researchers John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid. "Learning is essentially becoming an 'insider'—learning to function within the community. Learners are not acquiring explicit, formal 'expert knowledge,' but the embodied ability to behave as community members." *7
The model of knowledge creation that scholars Ikujiro Nonaka and Konno Noboru advocate is a continuous loop in which tacit knowledge is communicated through physical experience and face-to-face interaction and then converted to explicit knowledge through dialogue and documentation. Once the newly explicit knowledge is internalized through use and practice, it once again becomes tacit, and the cycle repeats. *8
This view of knowledge as "value in waiting," surrounding us always and emerging only when we work together to resolve problems and meet challenges, calls for a different approach to knowledge sharing than has been traditionally applied in business organizations. For example, a study of "corporate knowledge management in action" cites a large enterprise that invested millions of dollars in a "skill-pool database" documenting past assignments and problem solutions, only to find that employees didn't use the database, preferring to go to their colleagues for answers instead. In this and many other instances, the researchers found that coworkers were not necessarily able to use the knowledge of others simply because it was written down, and that most employees believe that the most valuable knowledge sharing takes place while talking to colleagues. *9
Communities of Practice
Research on how tacit knowledge is transferred within and across organizations has focused on "communities of practice"—informal networks that form around a common work-related interest or goal to share experiences and "best practices." A typical organization will have many different communities of practice, and most people belong to more than one. Theorist Etienne Wenger, who first popularized the term, defines communities of practice as "groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems, or passion about a topic and who deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis." *10
Wenger says that, while these kinds of work-related social groups have always existed, companies are just now beginning to recognize their power as a strategy for managing tacit knowledge. "From a business standpoint," he writes, "the tacit aspects of knowledge are often the most valuable. They consist of embodied experience—a deep understanding of complex, interdependent systems that enables dynamic responses to context-specific problems. This type of knowledge is very difficult for competitors to replicate." *11
However, communities of practice by their very nature are not easily "managed." They tend to form spontaneously—not by management fiat—and participation in them is a personal, self-motivated choice. But while organizations can't establish communities of practice the way they develop organizational structures or project teams, they can provide conditions that encourage communities of practice to form and that help them to flourish.
As an example, one company, puzzled as to why it took employees so long to set up services for customers, finally hired an anthropologist to analyze the interactions of the people involved in the process. She found that the various departments responsible for pieces of the process never communicated informally, and so had little understanding of each other's roles and little opportunity or incentive to work on solving problems together. When the company relocated the process participants so they were all working in the same area, informal communities of practice grew up around the various tasks involved in the process, and the time to complete it was cut from 17 days to three. *12
Other researchers have found that "high levels of interaction and communication are linked to innovation and reduced time to complete projects." *13 An example of this is the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Team-X. It has consistently reduced the time it takes to complete tasks for hundreds of projects from three to nine months down to a few days. Ethnographers who studied the team in action found that part of the reduction could be attributed to the absence of "a bottlenecked management hierarchy" and the presence of an efficient knowledge network that was both explicitly designed and naturally evolved. *14
Importance of a Shared Environment
In fact, evidence suggests that "co-location" may be the single most effective way to promote and support communities of practice, simply because nonverbal behavior plays such a central role in the transfer of tacit knowledge. When people are physically near each other, they have the opportunity to signal and understand each other without words, and common ground is easier to establish when people converse face to face and can read each other's body language and other nonverbal cues. Co-location also affords the opportunity for spontaneous encounters that promote social relationships and collaboration.
Some years back, a group of workplace researchers at MIT came up with the "30-Meter Rule," which says that the frequency of one person's interaction with another person sitting more than 30 meters (about 99 feet) away is about the same as if the two people were located in different buildings (or cities). *15
Proximity is perhaps the surest predictor of interaction, and some research suggests that sharing tacit knowledge simply doesn't happen without a shared work environment. As one research group reports, "When people across distance collaborate, and lack the experiences of a shared work environment, interaction is hindered. Without much prior shared experience of working in the same environment, implicit knowledge is not transferred among people when they are at different sites." *16
One reason for this is the amount of "environmental monitoring" that goes on daily in the workplace. Even when they don't appear to be listening or engaged in the conversation and activity of others in the immediate vicinity, people are attending on some level to what is going on around them. Ethnographic studies have shown that, by monitoring the environment, workers "can detect opportunities and reasons to interact, see the problems and solutions that their colleagues deal with. This enables sharing of knowledge and advice. And enables learning." *17
A shared location also enables learning by observation. Watching how others interact with coworkers, react in a crisis, or use shared documentation and technology, is a powerful tool for understanding everything from the most practical matters to internalizing corporate culture and values and "the way things are done here." In a shared setting, the use of shared materials and equipment is visible to everyone in the room, allowing people to adjust their behaviors to coordinate their use. Watching how others use these "artifacts" can lead to a shared understanding of their use and the interaction around them. *18
Organizational design experts believe it is often worth the cost and effort to move or even geographically transfer key employees so they can be physically located together. Studies have found that virtual communication alone is never "enough to spark effective collaboration among community members. Many people are reluctant to ask colleagues whom they don't know for help." *19
Knowledge sharing relies to a great extent on the kind of social connections and informal interactions that only happen when people meet face to face.
Even with the development of sophisticated technology designed to promote virtual collaboration, being physically present will continue to be a requirement for certain groups. Professors Gary and Judith Olson of the University of Michigan write that, "Collaborative work at a distance will be difficult to do for a long time, if not forever. There will likely always be certain kinds of advantages to being together….We will find uses for [present and future collaborative technologies], and descriptions of collaborative work in the future will enumerate the emergent social practices that have put these technologies to useful ends. But it is our belief that in these future descriptions distance will continue to matter." *20
Designing Collaborative Space
A number of studies suggest specific ways that organizations can use the physical environment to support and stimulate communities of practice and knowledge sharing. It's interesting to note that much recent learning on the subject has come from computer scientists who are trying to understand the salient features of a shared physical environment in order to emulate those features in software designed for use by groups who are not co-located. *21
1. Location, location, location
Given the importance of face-to-face communication and casual and unplanned interactions—and in light of the 30-Meter Rule—location of individuals within an office space is an important consideration in configuring a knowledge space. This includes the placement of employees and the distances between them. Exchanges are dependent on physical location, and the closer the offices, the more likely people are to interact.
In addition to proximity, research suggests that the ability to monitor the presence and "interruptibility" of another person is a key enabler for interactions in which one person seeks out another for discussion. One study found that 80 percent of office interactions were unplanned and occurred as a result of one person perceiving that another was available for conversation, i.e., not currently involved in focused work.
The researchers conclude that designing space to maximize visibility will also maximize the number of interactions among coworkers. *22 Visual access to other group members also enhances the nonverbal communication and learning by observation that is so crucial to the transfer of tacit knowledge and trust building. *23
2. Visual display
Since knowledge work is a largely cognitive activity, its processes are mostly invisible. Tacking surfaces, white boards, and technological tools such as projection and large video displays allow people to illustrate ideas and post thinking-in-process to make the work visually accessible to the group, aiding memory and the organization of tasks and materials. An integral part of communication, visual display helps to document, reinforce, and focus group members on a shared project or idea and encourage participation. *24
Information displays that chart the decisions and reasoning behind a particular piece of work or track the history of a project from its inception can be powerful learning tools, sharing knowledge that may be lost or hidden when a report or design is seen only in its final, polished form. The design and location of visual displays and artifacts also influence the effectiveness of knowledge transfer and the coordination of efforts among group members. Placement that allows ready viewing and evaluation by people as they sit at work or move along a routinely traveled corridor can heighten shared awareness. *25
Displays that allow people to stand around them in a circular formation—a three-dimensional model placed on a round table, for example—have a particular power for group interaction, through the creation of a "shared transaction space." When people stand in a circle or surround a table, their transaction spaces overlap to form a shared one. As one researcher explains, "Establishing, changing, and leaving one of these overlapping formations correlate with beginning, participating in, and ending a social interaction, and changes in the formation give subtle social signals. Since people seem to interpret its establishment as an indication that social interaction is appropriate, implicit creation of the formation might stimulate group interaction." *26
3. Layouts and traffic patterns
Observational studies have found that interactions are often the result of movement patterns and occur in or near personal workstations and well-trafficked corridors. *27 Pathways that meander around workstations and shared equipment such as printers or photocopiers provide more opportunity for ad hoc encounters than strictly linear layouts can offer. *28
Here again, visual access is key. One study found a high correlation between frequency of interaction and the number of individuals who can be seen from any point along a given circulation path. *29 Another observational study comparing two groups of employees housed in different buildings with different layouts found that the group working in the building with a maze-like layout and low visibility had far fewer spontaneous interactions than the group working in the building with clustered workstations, higher degrees of interior visibility, and a circulation system with a strong central path. In general, layouts with the greatest number of connections to other spaces had more interaction among workers. *30
Most of the research looking at traffic patterns and office layouts found that informal interactions were more likely to take place in corridors or at workstation entrances than in areas such as copy rooms or even coffee nooks designed to accommodate casual meetings and exchanges. As one report put it, "The pathway seems more important than the destination." *31
Balancing Solitude and Interaction
Of course knowledge work does not consist entirely of social interaction, and even in the most collaborative environments, one person's interaction is often another person's interruption. A supportive work environment has to offer the opportunity for the privacy and solitude for people to focus on solitary work as well. The need for protection from distraction and interruption is often at odds with the goal of promoting interaction and enabling the kind of environmental monitoring that allows the transfer of tacit knowledge. As one researcher writes, "This is the central dilemma of collaborative work environments—providing effective support for both interactive and individual work." *32
While co-location, proximity, and visual access have obvious benefits for knowledge sharing and picking up information relevant to one's own work, interruptions have a cognitive cost in the time it takes to reorient oneself to the task at hand. Just how disruptive an interruption is depends on the context in which it occurs. One observational study found that situations where interruptions were considered negative events included those that occurred during tasks that require a lot of concentration and those that result in losing one's train of thought for the task at hand. In contrast, interruptions that were related to the interruptee's current work were often considered fortuitous or beneficial. *33
Interestingly, this study found that co-location and visual access actually reduced the frequency of "negative" interruption experiences. Co-located people went longer between interruptions (11 minutes and 56 seconds) than people who were physically separated from their teammates (9 minutes and 56 seconds). Researchers concluded that this was due to the fact that people working in the same physical location were aware of when their colleagues were busy and when they might be open to interaction. *34
Providing individual workspaces that allow people to position themselves to signal levels of concentration and openness to interaction can aid this process. Glass partitions that allow visual access but block auditory incursions may be a solution in some instances, although they will deter the kind of environmental monitoring that allows workers to offer suggestions or support when they overhear colleagues grappling with a relevant issue or problem.
Another solution is to provide enclosed spaces where individuals can work for periods of time undisturbed, or to allow people to work at home in certain situations. However, research shows that the kind of mobility working this way requires is more difficult to achieve than formerly anticipated. People continue to rely heavily on paper documents and reference materials, and a full complement of technological devices—printer, full-screen monitor, etc.—is often necessary. *35
Research suggests that more effective solutions to the problem of providing a balance between the need to interact and the need to work effectively at individual tasks will come as we learn more about the relationship between cognitive processing and workstation design. Instead of the current focus on reducing distractions and interruptions from other people, for example, a cognitive approach to design would consider how to improve the immediate work environment by reducing the factors that contribute to sensory overload while adding features that aid cognitive processing. *36
As cognitive scientists and designers collaborate to develop these kinds of work environments, Professor Kosslyn's optimism about collaboration leading to a dramatic increase in human intelligence may prove well founded.
1. Kate Convissor, "From Slime Mold to Wikis: The Nonzero of Collaboration," SEE, Issue 6, Spring 2007, pp. 19-41.
2. Economic Intelligence Unit, "Foresight 2020: Economic, Industry and Corporate Trends," The Economic Intelligence Unit, March 2006, p. 78.
3. Stephen Kosslyn, "The World Question Center 2007," The Edge, <http://www.edge.org/q2007/q07_4.html> (accessed February 21, 2007).
4. Hubert Saint-Onge, "Collaborative Knowledge and Competitive Advantage," New Paradigm Learning Corporation, 2005.
5. Ibid.
6. Xerox Research Centre Europe, "Office Social Life Is Key to Business Growth!" <www.xrce.xerox.com/news/feature/office_social_life.html> (accessed March 27, 2007).
7. John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid, "Organizational Learning and Communities of Practice," INFORMS, <www2.parc.com/ops/members/brown/papers/orglearning.html> (accessed March 27, 2007).
8. Ikujiro Nonaka and Konno Noboru, "The Concept of 'Ba': Building a Foundation for Knowledge Creation," California Management Review Vol. 40, No. 3, Spring 1998.
9. Nicoline Petersen and Flemming Poulfelt, "Knowledge Management in Action," Anthony Buono (ed.) Developing Knowledge and Value in Management Consulting Volume 2: Research in Management Consulting. Greenwich: Information Age Publishing, 2002.
10. Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, and William Snyder, Cultivating Communities of Practice. Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 2002.
11. Ibid.
12. Thomas Stewart, "The Invisible Keys to Success," Fortune, August 6, 1996.
13. Judith H. Heerwagen, Kevin Kampschroer, Kevin M. Powell, and Vivian Loftness, "Collaborative Knowledge Work Environments," Building Research & Information, November-December 2004, 32(6), pp. 510-528.
14. John Chachere, Raymond Levitt, and John Kunz, "Can You Accelerate Your Project Using Extreme Collaboration? A Model-Based Analysis," Stanford University Center for Integrated Facility Engineering Technical Report #154, November 2003.
15. T. J. Allen, "Communications Networks in R&D Laboratories," R&D Management, Vol. 1, 1970.
16. Ulrik Christensen and Gloria Mark. "Different Facets of Mobility in Collaboration: An Empirical Study of an Event Production Company," <http://www.ulrikchristensen.dk/publications/christensen_jcscw.pdf> (accessed March 27, 2007).
17. Ibid.
18. K. Schmidt and I. Wagner, "Coordinative Artifacts in Architectural Practice," Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, 2002.
19. Tim Laseter and Rob Cross, "The Craft of Connection," Strategy + Business, Issue 44, Fall 2006.
20. Gary M. Olson and Judith S. Olson, "Distance Matters," Human Computer Interaction, in press, p. 31.
21. Judith Heerwagen, et al., "Collaborative Knowledge Work Environments."
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. Cheskin Research and Herman Miller, "Collaboration: Applied Exploration Report," 1998.
25. Judith Heerwagen, et al., "Collaborative Knowledge Work Environments."
26. Eva Hornecker, "A Design Theme for Tangible Interaction: Embodied Facilitation," Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005.
27. Mahbub Rashid, et al., "Spatial layout and face-to-face interaction in offices—a study of the mechanisms of spatial effects on face-to-face interaction," Environment and Planning B, Vol. 33, No. 6, 2006, pp. 825-844.
28. Cheskin Research and Herman Miller, "Collaboration: Applied Exploration Report."
29. Mahbub Rashid, "Spatial layout and face-to-face interaction in offices—a study of the mechanisms of spatial effects on face-to-face interaction."
30. Judith Heerwagen, et al., "Collaborative Knowledge Work Environments."
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid.
33. Gloria Mark, et al., "No Task Left Behind? Examining the Nature of Fragmented Work," Paper presented at Computer and Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2005.
34. Ibid.
35. Judith Heerwagen, et al., "Collaborative Knowledge Work Environments."
36. Ibid.


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Favourite RPG Element?
February 20th, 2008, 23:21
We've done this before at RPGDot but it's time to update and see if things have shifted.
What is your favorite single gameplay element in an RPG? Yes, we realise a great game is a synthesis of many or all of these elements but we want to separate them out to find their relative importance. Note that things like "story" have been left out because we're looking at active gameplay -
Some of these are difficult to define, so here's a rough guide:
- most designers would argue that interaction with a game is really an exploration of its system environment. In this case, we mean the player-driven discovery of new territory, places and objects; not so much when the game funnels you directly to a new specific location or goal but when you have some discretion (it may be a lot or a little) to uncover new things yourself.
Character interaction
- usually dialogue but encompassing everything from quizzing quest NPCs to party banter.
- getting down and dirty. Assume a combat system you really enjoy.
Character development
- creation, growth and equipping all rolled together. Putting those extra points in those little boxes. This could be the simple act of increasing power with every level to the meticulous design of plotting out and executing a superior character template to admiring your pimped out dude (or dudette) with their fancy armour and stylish purple cloak. Yes, purple. I like purple, OK?
- has elements of all the others but is more focused. Having that specific task, pursuing it to its heroic conclusion, getting the reward for killing the rats in the basement and ticking it off the quest list - a job well done. One more safe basement in a crazy, dangerorous world.
- from subtle how-do-you-discover-the-hidden-thieves-den to those mages that lock the door to their tower with a silly math puzzle and then have a trapped tile pattern in the hall. Are there carpenters out there that specialise in this stuff? Traps-R-Us?
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|Alright this article has potential to be funny, this is the important thing when considering your re-write :). But in order to get that ICU off your article and bring it up to our standards around here, it needs a lot of work. Less memes, more satire and more content. Not to mention the fact you need more funny pictures to go with your text.
So I'll section review this if you like (even though most are only 2 lines, I'll give it my best shot).
Introduction - As a general rule, an introduction needs to be a couple of lengthy paragraphs in length, with a funny image and very funny content that you should try and maintain throughout the article. But the introduction needs to be A+ material in order to get the reader interested in reading your article through to the end. What I see is a quick quote and a couple of lines of rather poorly written prose, you need to work on your intro to bring it the quality I mentioned above, ok?
Early Life - First off the "Over 9000" has to go, it sounds overly cliched and is not funny. Period. Second off the statement made at the start of this section is lazy and sounds like an attempt to avoid detail on purpose. Writing needs to have an element of detail to it in order to be successful. You've offered 2 lines with zero detail, please include some detail and less meme ridden material.
Invasion of Koridai - This highlights a major event and therefore should be a major section, with at least one satirical image, you have provided a bunch of very short sentences, in the form of he did this... he did that... so I'm going to ask you greatly rethink this section, and add a heap of detail and humor to it so it makes the reader feel like they are there, which is critical for your success and keeping the reader interested in what you have to say.
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It doesn't have to be lengthy as there are multiple characters to describe, simple saying he doesn't have any is dull, boring and lazy. Images should come into this section too!
Powers and Abilities - Follow a similar format as listed above, it should work here too I imagine :)
Recent Events - This is one sentence, it needs to be a lengthy paragraph. That's all I'm gonna say because I'm sick off repeating it. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry I had to be so harsh, but its important I was. Simply follow these steps and your article, can and will become funny!
|You have shown a slight understanding of the subject you are writing about. You identified it and gave a quick, very skimmed and sadly, humor lacking synopsis of the subject. So I'm going to make a suggestion you add more detail to it. So protips:
Please follow these protips of detail and images to improve the humor and concept of your article.
|Prose and formatting:
|Alright it's good to see you have edited some links to your article, but this is far from enough to make it of a good quality. First off you need a few more links, coupled with good content and well formatted in images. When I say format them well, I mean make them sit beside blocks of text, not below and to the rights, which I see in your current image. Second off a quick spell check would b a good idea as I noticed a few spelling errors in your article, but that's only minor.
Lastly when you are adding in more links to your article, and and avoid red links all together if possible. That's about all I have to say for this section.
|You seriously need more image than just the one. By which I mean add an image to just about every single section of your article. Not only that, but fiddle with the sizes, added hilarious captions and align come on the left as well as the right. This is important, as images are humorous and back up what you are saying.
But do choose your images well, don't just pick random images from the series just because they are what the subject is about. Make sure they have an element of humor to them as well as being relevant importantly.
In summary, add a heap more images (once more content is added), make them funny and well formatted and it will improve a heap!
|My overall rating out of 10.
|Final Score:
|Don't be discouraged from my review, keep at it, I know it can do well if you are dedicated! As previously stated, humor, format, concept, content and images are seriously lacking and need a lot of work before you class this article as finished. None the less a promising start :)
|~Sir Frosty (Talk to me!)


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Family Archivist Survival Kit
Like a time capsule,
but without all the digging and burying.
You're here because you really, really love the family photos entrusted to your care:
First of all -- let me reassure you that you are not alone. I've met family archivists who are so confused about this step that they get stuck here and end up doing nothing. Heck, even *I* get overwhelmed, and I read archival supply catalogs for fun. (Yep, it's true.)
The Practical Archivist (and Photo Rescue Kit) at work.
Profile from this Madison Magazine article.
Hiya! I'm Sally J.
I'm here to take the hassle out of how to safely store your most beloved and treasured family photographs.
You can't purchase a Family Archivist Survival Kit (FASK) from any stores, and it's not available in any archival supply catalogs.
This kit is the biggest one I've ever assembled. Not only does it include all the tools you need to safely examine, label and organize your photos, it also includes the most commonly needed envelope, folder and box sizes -- made only from the highest quality PAT-passed materials. Made right here in the U.S.
Basically, my Family Archivist Survival Kit includes everything you need to start creating a proper family archive - using the exact same tools I use for my own family collection. (Er, except I picked the wrong size big envelopes for my own stuff. In other words, I made the mistakes so you don't have to and your kit is actually BETTER than mine.)
Awesome free bonus with every kit!
Every Family Archivist Survival Kit (FASK) comes with a CD packed with over 10 hours of instructional content at no extra charge. That means, along with archival boxes in 3 different sizes, along with the folders and envelopes in the exact right size, along with the microspatula, the two kinds of pencils and the white gloves....you will also get over 10 hours of recorded classes and Q&A sessions that will teach you how to organize, arrange, preserve and scan your treasured family photographs.
All of that content will be yours as soon as you pop the CD in your computer. Details about what you'll learn from my Joy class are available at joyoforganizingphotos.com (Yours free with purchase)
2015 FASK SALES CLOSE EARLY! Thursday, OCTOBER 15th
$146 (plus $29.42 S&H)
Note: All sales are pre-order.
Your kit will not ship out to you until November, 2015.
These kits are available for a short time only each year. There's a simple reason for that: Picking, packing and then shipping out bulky boxes asks a lot of my family. It's an invasive hassle. We earn money doing it, but there are easier ways to make money. So why do I bother? Well, it's actually pretty fun to do this kind of work with my kids. Not every day, but once a year? Delightful!
But my main motivation for going through all the hassle is because I know in my heart of hearts that it doesn't matter how many classes I teach or how many hours I consult with clients...having the right tools is where the rubber meets the road. Finding the right tools is difficult and confusing enough to bring even the best projects to a grinding halt. Heck, it's confusing for me sometimes and I read archival supply catalogs for fun. Yes, I really do.
Family Archivist
Survival Kit
This kit will make barriers disappear.
Barriers that have prevented you from storing your most treasured family photos the way you should -- the way that will help them survive as long as possible for many generations to come.
Not only do you get the archival boxes, envelopes, folders and hand tools you need...
You also get the information you need to do it properly.
That's right! You get over 10 hours of instruction via my recorded workshop, created for family archivists just like you. It has very little jargon and lots of practical real-world advice. All that instruction is included on a FREE CD that ships with your Family Archivist Survival Kit (FASK)
- All Sales are Pre-Order. You order a kit from me via PayPal using any major credit card and the "Buy Now" button below. Orders will close on Thursday, October 15th or as soon as the last available kit is sold.
- Your kit will be packed and ready to ship from Practical Archivist World Headquarters by November 19th. If you are one of the earliest purchasers, your kit will ship closer to November 1st. I will be ordering them in lots of 12 to keep the chaos at my house to a minimum.
- ONLINE BONUS MATERIAL: The good news is won't have to wait until the boxes and your CD arrive to get started. Access to the online bonus material -- including recordings my entire Joy of Organizing Photos workshop --is via an automated email process. As soon as you confirm your subscription to the FASK list, you will receive the login and passwords you need to get started by exploring the online instructional content. If you're uncomfortable downloading large files, don't fret! All that instructional how-to content will arrive at your doorstep with your boxes in the form of a FASK CD.
All Boxes, Envelopes & Folders Have Passed the PAT (Photographic Activity Test)
Definition: "A standard procedure (ISO 14523) to check for potential chemical reactions between materials used to make enclosures and photographs stored in those enclosures." --Society of American Archivists Glossary of Archival Terms.
The PAT is the only Independent 3rd Party Test that shows enclosures will not react with your photographs and cause damage over time. Some manufacturers do their own testing (I know of one large retail chain and one direct marketing company that do this) but I find that less than reliable. Independent testing is your best bet.
Your Family Archivist Survival Kit (FASK) Includes:
Loose Photo Kit ($38)
Perfect for loose photos you've been storing in a shoebox, random drawer or bag.
It's also a great place for all those single photos sent to you in letters that you have no idea what to do with.
The envelopes include plenty of space to write notes, which is a great idea because seeing photos from the past always sparks memories.
"The shortest pencil is better than the longest memory."
This kit includes an attractive tan box (PAT passed) that can hold prints up to 5x7" upright. You also get 25 paper envelopes that can store multiple prints AND 25 paper sleeves that hold a single photograph each. Storage for up to 1,000 photos 5x7" and smaller. Prints must be 4x6" or smaller to fit in envelopes, sleeves hold up to 5x7"
Dimensions: Box is 5.5 x 7.5 x 12" Envelopes are 4.81 x 7.25" and sleeves are 5.5 x 7.38" Colors: Box is tan, metal edges are black, envelopes are eggshell and white. Qty: 1 box + 50 envelopes.
Documents & Ephemera Kit ($38)
This upright storage kit (PAT passed) fits neatly on a shelf.
It's perfect for items sized around 8.5 x 11" such as 8 x 10 photographs, magazines, unfolded letters, office records, handbills, greeting cards, magazine clippings, menus and small posters. It comes with 25 folders to help support the upright materials plus keep them protected and organized. Folders have a full tab to allow maximum description (the more description on the folder, the less you need to handle the original items).
Dimensions: Box is 10.25 x 12.25 x 5". Folders fit documents 8 x 10" and smaller. Colors: Box is tan, metal edges are black, folders are eggshell. Qty: 1 box, 25 folders.
Oversize Kit ($45)
Flat storage is the best solution for large size materials.
I created this kit through trial and error with my own collection. Spacious enough to hold 11x15 prints, or an 8x10 print mounted on an 11 x 14" mat board. One of the long sides of the box is left unattached, making it easy to remove the bottom envelope without having to take out all the envelopes on top of it. We call it a drop front box in the biz. Tall enough to house a pile of items 3" high.
Comes with 25 PAT passed envelopes, also sized 11.5x15. I chose envelopes instead of folders to reduce the risk of loose items falling out. These envelopes have a foldable flap, but no glue -- which could seep through at some future point. These envelopes include lots of space for notes.
Dimensions: Box is 15 x 11.5 x 3". Envelopes are 15 x 11.5" Colors: Box is tan, metal edges are black, envelopes are eggshell. Qty: 1 box, 25 oversize envelopes, no glue.
Photo Rescue Kit ($25)
This is the first kit I ever designed, and I'm as proud as I've ever been to show it off.
Your Easy Peasy Photo Rescue Kit s where you'll find all the hand-held tools you need to properly archive family photographs.
A pair of white gloves, two hard-to-find marking pencils and the wonder tool known as a microspatula. That tool comes in real handy if you ever need to rescue photographs from those horrible sticky magnetic albums, also known as The Chemical Sandwich of Dooooom.
All the details you could possibly want to know about my Photo Rescue Kit can be read by clicking here.
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Fabulous! Bonus! Items!
- Gaylord Guide to Collections Care. 64 page illustrated booklet that covers all the basics of storing collections long term. Written by conservators. Includes case studies on the specific storage needs of different types of heirlooms including documents, pamphlets, ephemera, photo albums and costumes. Drawings and photographs included. Super helpful!
Hard copies of all of the goodies listed above will ship with your kit, electronic PDF versions will be on your CD.
Got Questions?
Call my mobile office, also known as voicemail: 608-616-0058. *Please leave me an email address for replying, if possible..
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August 29, 2010: London police confiscate the phones of three Pakistan cricket players after the News of the World expose on spot-fixing
February 4, 2011: Britains Crown Prosecution Service charge Salman Butt, Mohammed Asif and Mohammed Aamer with two counts of conspiracy
November 1, 2011: Butt and Asif convicted. Formally disclosed that Aamer had pleaded guilty.
April 7, 2000: Delhi police make public the tapped conversation between South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje and an alleged bookie of Indian origin
November 1, 2011: Delhi police yet to file a chargesheet in the case.
Four thousand two hundred and twenty-five days are not enough for Delhi police to complete a job that London police did in 159 days. Another 270 days later, the UK court also delivered the first convictions of cricketers for rigging parts of a Test.
The Indian investigation is incomplete as the police are yet to arrest Sanjeev Chawla, the key accused and a London-based bookie who had allegedly offered Cronje money to fix matches.
The police have also not been able to question some of the South African cricketers involved in the case. In contrast, London police not only questioned the suspects but ensured that Butt, Aamer and Asif returned from Pakistan to face trial, although they were allowed to go home less then a fortnight after the scandal broke.
Chawlas phone conversation with Cronje, which was tapped by Delhi police in March 2000, blew the lid off the scandal and confirmed the existence of the racket.
We are still trying to extradite Chawla who is hiding in the UK. He is the main accused in the case that became one of the biggest scandals in cricketing history, said an IPS officer who headed the probe then.
Displaying a keen sense of timing, the officer added to good measure: After the conviction of the Pakistani cricketers, we are now planning to appeal to the court to announce Chawla as a proclaimed offender.
The rest of the country may feel the case is as good as dead but the officer said the probe is not complete and there are still some key gaps to be filled.
Eleven years ago in 2000, the police had registered an FIR against Cronje, Chawla, Rajesh Kalra, a south Delhi-based businessman, Kishan Kumar, the late music baron Gulshan Kumars brother, and Sunil Dara, a Delhi-based bookie living in West Asia.
Kalra, Kumar and Dara were arrested but they were released on bail later after the police failed to file the chargesheet.
The probe is on and the chargesheet is yet to be filed. The tragic death of Cronje also slowed the investigation process, Asok Chand, the deputy commissioner (crime branch), told The Telegraph.
The former South African captain, who died in a plane crash in 2002, had received immunity from criminal prosecution in South Africa in exchange for his confession.
In 2006, Delhi police managed to question Herschelle Gibbs, the South African player who had been avoiding the investigators since the scandal broke in 2000. During his interrogation at the crime branch office, he confirmed receiving offers twice to under-perform but said he never accepted them, said an officer.
We needed to look into Gibbss bank accounts to authenticate his claim of not taking money from Cronje. But the South African authorities did not help much, the officer added.
Gibbs later wrote in his autobiography that Delhi police had intimidated him with the threat of death penalty.
The officer also blamed the delay on the inability to pick up Chawla. The chargesheet cannot be filed on the available documents and evidence as we still do not have the complete information. Chawlas questioning is very important to fill in the gaps and to reach a logical conclusion, he said.
K.K. Paul, the then Delhi police commissioner, recalled: This is the first time we exposed match-fixing in cricket. It was a shocking revelation and many people were not ready at that time to accept the hard truth. Initially, people had criticised the police for unnecessarily creating an issue out of nothing. But now with the conviction of the two Pakistani cricketers people have realised that we were on the right trail.
The moral of the story came from Ian Botham. Nothing has happened since (the Cronje scandal). I think the ICC have just sat on their hands and pretended its not there. Well, now they know its there so they have got to act, Botham told Reuters.


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text: Hey all, Stephen, I infer that Christian can't evaluate the expression yet. (If he could, then deriving the type of the result would be trivial) Presumably the variables in the expression don't yet have known values. So he has an expression which cannot be evaluated, but he wants to guess what type the return value would be if the variables in the expression were known. The variables in the expression do have known types. So I wonder if you could pick a prototypical value for each variable, (eg. set all floats to 1.0, and all integers to 1) and then evaluate the expression to see what type the result is? Obviously this won't work for all expressions (eg. "x / (x - 1)"), but maybe it would work enough of the time, depending on what form your expressions take. Am I misunderstanding entirely, or only partially? Jonathan Lepisto, Stephen P wrote: > What about treating the return type of the python expression as object then coerce the object into the type required by the database? If the coercion fails, then that could be treated as a type error. > > For example, after using python to evaluate the expression '2+(4*5)', the returned object could be converted to an integer using System.Convert.ToInt32() or to a string with System.Convert.ToString(). System.Convert throws InvalidCastException for those cases that cannot be converted. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Michael Foord > Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 4:21 AM > To: Discussion of IronPython > Subject: Re: [IronPython] Type analysis of expression > > Christian Schmidt wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> we are using IronPython embedded into our application to evaluate user >> defined expression. The "variables" used in the expressions are strongly >> typed and the results need to be written back into a database. >> >> I know that the return type of a dynamic expression cannot be determined >> in general. But what would be a pragmatic way to guess the return type >> of an expression? >> > > Hehe. If you're evaluating arbitrary functions provided by the user then > I don't know of any way of 'inferring' the return type - beyond parsing > it and modelling the type flow through the expression (which would be a > lot of work). > > All the best, > > Michael > >> Thanks, >> Christian >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users at lists.ironpython.com >> http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com >> > > > -- Jonathan Hartley Made of meat. http://tartley.com tartley at tartley.com +44 7737 062 225 twitter/skype: tartley


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In all, seven children and two adults were transported to hospitals following the 3:30 p.m. Saturday crash at Compton Avenue and Imperial Highway near the Los Angeles border with Compton, said Sgt. Norma Vargas of the Los Angeles Police Department South Traffic Division.
The alleged DUI driver ran a red light while northbound on Compton Avenue, Vargas said. He struck the car of the man with three children who was stopped on eastbound Imperial Highway waiting to make a turn.
Injuries ranged from one child who was unconscious, to another who almost bit through their tongue, to lacerations and complaints of stomach pain from the seatbelts, she said. A 6-month-old infant and 2-month-old child were taken to hospitals as a precaution because they were not able to tell paramedics where they hurt.
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Foltynewicz sets tone in one-hitter05/25/2013 12:29 AM ET
By Josh Jackson / Special to MLB.com
Mike Foltynewicz completed his first no-hit outing as a pro on Friday night. And he knows just what allowed him do it.
"I let my defense help me out a lot, and that's a lesson," he said. "The defense was working really well, just awesome. That's been a huge boost to my confidence up here."
The Astros' No. 7 prospect faced one batter over the minimum over five innings and combined with David Martinez on a one-hitter as Double-A Corpus Christi blanked Northwest Arkansas, 2-0.
"That feels great. It's always something cool to look back on," Foltynewicz said after walking three batters and striking out two. "I knew back in the fourth ... we hadn't given up any hits, but I just wanted to go out there and compete. You don't really notice it, but it's in the back of your mind. I just have to go out and do my best."
The fact that his lights-out performance came a little over three weeks after he was promoted from Class A Advanced Lancaster was icing on the cake. He's allowed only two earned runs over 21 innings for a 0.86 ERA in five Double-A appearances, including three starts.
"I'm real excited right now," Foltynewicz said. "I'm finally proving to a lot of people that I'm the real deal. People who doubt me, who thought that the Lexington season [in 2012] was some kind of fluke or something, to show people why I got drafted and what I can do ... I'm just really, really happy to be here."
After Royals No. 4 prospect Orlando Calixte reached in the first on a one-out error by third baseman Jonathan Meyer, Foltynewicz was engaged with a battle at the plate with Carlo Testa. He noticed Calixte leading off first and threw over three times, then, after three straight balls to Testa, picked off Calixte.
"That was big. I was trying to look for a double-play ball," Foltynewicz said. "I was watching [Calixte], though, and I had a feeling that on 3-1 he'd be inching up. He was probably going to steal and I popped over there and caught him off-guard."
Foltynewicz ended up walking Testa.
"I got upset with myself," he said. "Having a guy 3-1, I'm just trying to put the ball over the middle of the plate and make him hit it. But after that pickoff, the crowd had gotten into it and I was a little too excited and I missed. I try not to get too fine with my pitches instead of just letting my stuff work over the middle. So, yeah, I was a little upset with myself. I'm hard on myself. That's part of my natural instincts. I'm a competitor. I hate losing. It's just part of my game out there."
What did he do about it? Struck out Yem Prades to end the inning.
"I took a couple deep breaths and went on to the next batter. I let my pitches get over the plate, and he was fouling me off and fouling me off, and finally I reared back on one. It went high on me, but he swung through it," the 21-year-old right-hander said.
Foltynewicz has been able to rear back and find more heat this season than he had in the past. Throughout his Minor League career, he's been able to reach the high 90s with his fastball. Last August, that started to change -- for the better.
"I starting hitting triple digits at the end of last year, once in a while," he said. "It was weird. As opposed to the velocity dropping at the end of the year, I got stronger. Now I'm feeling awesome, feeling really good. I've been hitting triple digits once every couple innings or so this year. Sometimes, when I need to, it feels like I can reach back and put something extra on it."
After striking out 29 batters over 26 innings for Class A Advanced Lancaster and fanning nine over five frames in his Double-A debut, Foltynewicz has only 10 strikeouts in 16 innings for Corpus Christi.
That number worries Foltynewicz "not at all."
"I want to let my defense do the work, be aggressive and let guys put the bat on the ball, especially since the defense has been so awesome ever since I got here," he said. "Strikeouts will come, but I just want to make good pitches and get outs."
The Illinois native walked Prades with two outs in the fourth, but Astros No. 16 prospect Max Stassi threw him out trying to steal second.
"That was huge for me. I was kind of losing it pretty good on that [next] hitter and that saved me big-time," Foltynewicz said. "Otherwise, having first and second, two outs, who knows what might have happened? It was a good pitch for [Stassi]. I didn't mean to throw it up at all, but I did, and he made a great throw."
Foltynewicz worked a 1-2-3 fifth but knew his night was over. The Astros are using a piggyback rotation below the Triple-A level in which a pitcher goes five innings in a start, then works four out of the bullpen a few days later. Foltynewicz would like to have seen how long he could have preserved the no-hitter but was not bothered by his early departure.
"That's something you can't control. You just go out there and put out your best for five innings or four innings, set your mind for that and let it all out," he said. "That's something I've learned to do, ever since we got the news in Spring Training.
"It's weird, knowing you only have five innings or 75 pitches, or four innings or 60 pitches, but it's also good knowing you can let it all hang out there instead of pacing yourself. It's also weird coming out of the 'pen. But all of us are doing well and it's kind of fun."
Foltynewicz came away with no decision because Naturals starter Jason Adam (0-6) matched him for six innings. After the Royals' No. 11 prospect retired nine straight batters, he hit Astros No. 13 prospect Domingo Santana to open the seventh. Erik Castro and Meyer followed with singles to produce the game's first run.
"He was good. His curveball was real good, actually," Foltynewicz said of Adam. "To have a pitchers' duel is really fun. You go out knowing you've got to be good. And when you get a run, you know you need to put up a zero when you go out. In a pitchers' duel, you always watch him and when you go out there, try to one-up the other guy."
David Martinez (8-0) was the one who answered with a zero. After allowing a leadoff single to Roman Hernandez in the sixth, the 25-year-old right-hander faced the minimum over the final four innings to become the Minor Leagues' first eight-game winner.
"That's quite an accomplishment for him," Foltynewicz said. "He's pitching awesome right now. He deserves it."


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Modern Settler, 2015
All songs written by Seadar Rose (Harper Rose Music/ASCAP) and Aaron Davis (Yella Dog Records/ASCAP), except "Poor Elijah/Tribute to Johnson" (D. Bramlett/J. Ford/L. Russell) and "Street People" (Bobby Charles)
Seadar Rose Lead & harmony vocals, acoustic guitar, banjo, kazoogle
Aaron Davis Lead & harmony vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo, percussion
Tom Davidson Fretless and 5-String Bass, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Andy Peterson Drums, percussion, harmony vocals
With… Ben Winship (bouzouki, mandola), Mark Longfield (organ, wurlitzer, piano), Ted Wells (pedal steel), Rachel Gray Bundy (trumpet), Jason Fritts (tenor sax), John Kidwell (trombone), Karee Miller Jaeger (harmony vocal on "Poor Elijah/Tribute to Johnson")
Recorded at The Hen House, Victor, ID Produced by Aaron Davis, Seadar Rose and Ben Winship
Press "On Modern Settler, Screen Door Porch has transformed roots music into something much larger—a down home good time vibe. Sonic hypnosis has set in and Screen Door Porch seem like the only place to live." – Bently's Bandstand Best Releases, 2015
"An impressive musical discovery." – Paste Magazine
"Wyoming's own Bonnie Raitt. Meet Seadar Rose of Screen Door Porch." – Music Munch
Screen Door Porch
The Fate & The Fruit, 2012
All songs written by Seadar Rose (Harper Rose Music/ASCAP) and Aaron Davis (Yella Dog Records/ASCAP).Co-produced by Screen Door Porch and Britton Beisenherz.
Seadar Rose Lead & harmony vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin, kazoogle
Aaron Davis Lead & harmony vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica, banjo, mandolin
With special guests Britton Beisenherz (electric bass, Rhodes, percussion), Jeff Bryant (B2 organ, Rhodes, clavinet), Kyle Clayton (upright & electric bass), Clint Simmons (drums)
Chartland #21 on Euro-Americana Chart, #29 on Roots Music Report Roots-Rock Chart, #63 AMA Americana Internet Radio Airplay Chart
Recognition Jackson Hole Weekly's 2012 Best of JH Reader's Poll: Best Band Playing Original Music (Silver), Best Local CD Release (Bronze), Best Musician: Aaron Davis – (Bronze)
Press "[Rose and Davis] swap lead vocals to suit the song and songwriter, a sort of Lennon/McCartney arrangement and get it right everytime: heartfelt yes, earthy certainly, but never languid. 'Burnin at Both Ends' and 'Shift Work' show both our heroes at their most gritty. The reality is that Seadar Rose and Aaron Davis go together like bacon and eggs. This is the sound of America, untamed and infinite." ~Americana UK (8 of 10 stars)
"Screen Door Porch delightfully combined the softer acoustics of Western America with the force of their Southern country vibe into a magnetic, energy-fuelled dialogue between lead vocals Aaron Davies and Seadar Rose. Davis' deep, ever so slightly husky tone marries Rose's sultry bluesy nonchalance in colourful conversation. Sometimes they'll oscillate between one and the other, but often they'll let the ongoing back-and-forth turn into heartwarming harmony, revealing the true power of the fronting duet." ~The Deli National
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Screen Door Porch
Screen Door Porch, 2010
All songs written by Seadar Rose (Harper Rose Music/ASCAP) and Aaron Davis (Yella Dog Records/ASCAP). Co-produced by Screen Door Porch and Britton Beisenherz.
Seadar Rose Lead & harmony vocals, acoustic & electric guitar
Aaron Davis Lead & harmony vocals, 6-string and 12-string acoustic guitars, electric guitar, harmonica, banjo, electric dobro, mandolin
With special guests Britton Beisenherz (electric bass, Rhodes, piano, percussion), Steve Bernal (cello), Kyle Clayton (upright bass), Katy Rose Cox (fiddle), Todd Pertll (pedal steel), Roberto Sanchez (drums, percussion), The Ramble Creek Choir (Kyle Clayton, Mandy Rowden, Margo Valiante, and Tanya Winch)
Chartland #16 on The Roots Music Report Folk Chart
Best-Of 2010 lists Roots Music Report's Top 100 Albums, Wyoming Public Radio's Best of Wyoming, Tupelo Honey's Top 20 Americana Releases, Twangville's Top 100 Releases, American Roots UK Editor's Top 25 Albums
Press "Rose's voice, paired with Davis's multi-instrumental chops and the support of Austin's finest makes Screen Door Porch the band and Screen Door Porch the album what it is: something new and fresh that can't or shouldn't be compared with anyone or anything else." ~605 Magazine
"Lends an easy Western flair to [Rose and Davis's] more prominent native influences of North Carolina and Kentucky, a combination that goes down as smoothly as top-shelf bourbon. " ~The Austin Chronicle
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Rear View Mirror, 2008
(Yella Dog Records, ASCAP)
All songs written by Aaron Davis, except "Pass it On" by Nate Jones and "Mystery Woman" by Dr. Ryan Allen and Aaron Davis.
Produced by Aaron Davis.
Aaron Davis Lead vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, mandolin, pedal steel, bass guitar, jaw harp, washboard, kalimba, percussion
With special guests Margo Valiante (harmony vocals), Seadar Rose (harmony vocals), Michael Batdorf (harmony vocals), Bill Plummer (bass), Ben Winship (mandolin), Marshall Davis (bass), Bryan Perkes (bass), Andy Peterson (drums), David Bundy (drums), John Kuzloski (harmonica), John Kidwell (trombone), Jason Fritts (tenor and baritone sax)
Chartland Reached #16 on The Roots Music Report Folk Chart
Press "Alongside Lucinda Williams, Todd Snider and Ryan Adams, Rear View Mirror is one of the best Americana releases at the moment! All are beautiful songs, and the strength of Rear View Mirror shines." ~Rootstime
"A truly phenomenal songwriter…marvelous blend of traditional Americana and roots-based music—from blues and jazz to folk and country, with his own experiences, history, and the glorious themes of the west." ~About.com
"One of the most dynamic, talented players in the local music scene." ~Jackson Hole News & Guide
"A breadth of expression and an absolutely outstanding talent." ~Lonestar Time (Italy)
Live at the Silver Dollar, 2007
(Gros Ventre River Records/Yella Dog Records, ASCAP)
Songs written by Aaron Davis & Margo Valiante, with songs by Bob Wills, Gillian Welch, Bonnie Raitt, Gram Parsons and four traditionals.
Aaron Davis Vocals, electric guitar and mandolin; Margo Valiante (vocals, acoustic guitar), John Kusloski (harmonica, vocals), Bryan Perkes (upright and electric bass, harmony vocals), Andy Peterson (drums).
Press "Boot-stomping and whiskey-soaked with raunchy slide guitar and smoking harmonica riffs." ~Jackson Hole News & Guide
"Playing a mix of blues, hard rocking electric country and a few traditionals, the band evokes associations of the hard life, hard partiers, and also the warm folksiness that one inevitably comes to experience and appreciate. Guitarist-mandolinist Aaron Davis is rock solid on his solos and offers some of the set's finest originals." ~Planet Jackson Hole Weekly
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Transcend, 2006
(Independently Released, ASCAP)
All songs written by Aaron Davis, except "Windy Grass" by Justin Fantl.
Produced by Aaron Davis & Marshall Davis.
Aaron Davis Lead vocals, acoustic & electric guitar
With Justin Fantl (bass), Brad Jezek (drums), Jason Fritts (alto, tenor and baritone sax), Matt Kramer (piano, organ, synthesizer, turntable)
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Press "Known for lush grooves encompassing a variety of musical styles from jazz to funk to reggae, their first album won't disappoint their following. At once ethereal, gritty and funky, Transcend brings to mind certain cuts by Beck and Phish. The defining characteristic is texture. Though its totem plant would be sagebrush, Transcend is a rainforest of sound." ~Planet Jackson Hole Weekly
"Transcend takes the listener to all parts of globe, in all sorts of wild places." ~Jackson Hole News & Guide
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