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Thread: A Call to Arms v2
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A Call to Arms v2
OK, welcome to the call to arms organisational thread.
If you want to know how to take part, go read this guide:
If you want to know what all the fuss is about, look at these front page RPS posts
Assuming nobody has a problem, I'm going to try and lead us through this. I may need a break at some point, so if somebody else could be ready to fill in, pending emergencies or AFKness, that would be handy.
I want to keep a nice and simple structure, composed of a few parts:
Command Group - Myself, our comms liasion, and 1 - 2 scouts/general dogsbodies. Sat in the Supreme Giraffe and Chums mumble channel
Intro Group - 2 - 3 "Greeters", who will invite people to the outfit, answer early questions, and get them shuffled off ASAP to combat squads. Also new arrivals. In the Platoon 1 mumble channel.
Combat squads - an estimated 8 squads. There needs to be a radio officer for each. This can or can not also be the squad lead, depending on preference and availability of people. Also in here is a mix of new and returning players. In the various Squad Play channels.
Roles and Responsibilities
Squad leads - Be nice. Be proactive. Realise that things will be slower, and you'll die to small enemy forces. Make sure you have comms binds set up in case you lack an RO. I'll see if I or someone else who knows what they are doing can get this sorted out at the start of the night, but if not, here is a guide on how to make recruitment work:
Radio Officers - Anyone who even might be this, please set up one extra mumble bind. You want to create a shout, on any suitable button, to the "Supreme Giraffe and Chums" channel.
This will be used to give sitreps, ask questions/make requests of the leadership, and any other needs you may have. Anyone who thinks that they might do any leader role should do this.
Greeters - Be friendly, knowledgable. Invite people to the outfit. Be at least Giraffe Beacon rank so you can do invites (we can arrange promotions for those who need it).
Scouts - A couple of people, happy to fly around scythes and report back to me what they see, and to do any other small tasks that show up in the night.
Liason - Work with other outfits as and where necessary. Cooper has already pencilled himself in for this.
Grunts - Help out the new guys. Be friendly, but not too noisy. Go along with your SL, don't whitter too much about game balance. Have fun. Shoot lasers.
Supreme Giraffe - Give all squads direction. Contact each squad radio officer directly. Keep the platoon as a whole moving. Keep the herd as a whole informed as to what they are doing and why.
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So, there's been some muttering about this happening again, possibly on Thursday/ (Muttering as in Jim tweeting to the world about it).
So we want to plan for it. I think having a thread for it separately is a good idea.
Some things to note:
- Last time we peaked at ~120 players. It will only get this big again if there's a front page post, and then only maybe. Need to be ready for this sort of scale however.
- Having squads within a platoon open recruitment appears to work just fine now, as long as the squad leads know what they are doing. We should be using this!
- New players fight much, much weaker than our regular groups. Strategic decisions need to allow for this. (Basically, use at least one more squad than you think you need)
- Having a 10-member big strategic leader comms channel probably won't work, need to decide on a command-comms structure that will.
- Getting some good AAR work done would be great for general outfit bigging-up.
I'll update this post as we go along.
Last edited by CMaster; 11-04-2013 at 12:01 AM.
Why won't a 10 member channel work, or what do you mean? Surely we play stratgir and keep it per squad so new players can ask questions and are able to speak. This is of course after they've visited the Cooper Bootplatoon.
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Some more personal opinion:
I think we should have a supreme Giraffe. If I can be there, I'd quite like to do it (I'll be able to feed back on that by the end of the day, probably) . However, I'd need to run somewhat different comms to what we normally do. Ideally I'd like to be able to talk to squad leads in pairs, and have them talking to each other. I'm not sure if that can be done easily with mumble however. Maybe using tokens? Failing that, it's fairly easy to have all squad leads shout to the SG individually, and all SLs just shout a the SG. Makes coordinating intel a pain however.
Amerish is probably the best bet. It's normally the quietest continent, and while there's a lot to like about Esamir, I worry that the relentless monochromacity will get people down - the lack of magriders if we don't have Eisa could frustrate too.
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Rats. Would love to be part of this as a newbie, but not normally available on Thursdays
meh, again, numbers only for you :/Hear from the spirit-world this mystery:
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Angel and demon, man and beast art thou,
Yea, thou art all thou dost appear to be!
I think the call in system needs to be set up for this. ROs will then also call in to other ROs in the same platoon, as well as the SG. SG coordinates the platoons, PLs coordinates squads, and ROs talk to other ROs if need be.
Edit: meant that ROs call in to PL, but perhaps we skip the PL and just call in to SG and do it Broclave style? Like Coopera platoon is one or two squads (giraffe 1/2) and so on. PL2 and PL3 are then giraffe 3,4,5,6 etc. SG CMaster coordinates all, we skip playing in platoons basically and just squad it.
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Explain "call in system", please?
SG at the top that decides everything. Radio officers in all squads. Giraffe 1 is alpha squad in platoon 1 (or in this case likely the whole noobplatoon).
ROs call in and say - This is giraffe 1. SG responds - go ahead/hold. Giraffe 1 RO - we have secured Arx and can help at Crux, are we needed, over? SG - yes, support giraffe 2 and 3 at crux hq, bring armor. G1RO - copy.
Basically, keep it short and ultra organised. It feels like a necessity in ops this size.
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Also, I think the SG should have a couple of dogsbodies - preferably people who can fly a scythe and do scouting missions, but also fill in any other emergency tasks that come up on the night.
@Bankrotas: Jim said before PS2 even went into beta, that the only RPS outfit he would be involved with was a Vanu one.
As I said, one platoon is just that - no squads. So it's basically 1 PL (Cooper) that also communicates when moving over people, and then we have 8 SLs and 8 ROs. I am sure we can get SLs that have no need for radio officer. But yeah, in call in RO might be largely unnecessary.
Regarding PL, it is not needed indeed, except for Coopers platoon.
ROs might be useful for inter squad comms. No other way then to use such things or perhaps SLs just use shout to all in mumble.
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+1 for SG with radio officers and sending squads at least in pairs.
Also, if this happens i'd really like to see us do something really ... "big". Oh, and it'd probably best to have a higher than usual number of medics in the squads so that we can make sure people always get revived. Definitely a better experience for newer people.
One thing I've been toying with for a time is having the PL be just a paper-pusher, moving people around whenever needed. This is a task that always needs to be done by someone (possibly less often if per-squad recruitment works), but just distracts from actually leading. This could be a good time for that.
I think we really should try to get SL+RO in every squad wherever it is possible. It makes such a difference to the experience! The SLs won't be able to take care of their squad members properly if they are listening in on 8-10 others talking to the SG, even if the comms channel is ever so tidy and disciplined. That's what I think, at least. We've got loads of vets, we should be able to manage this, surely?
I don't think this one will be as big as the firt one either, to be honest. Not enough advance warning. This is not to be disparaging or anything, I still applaud the initiative!
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The idea being discussed so far is to make all comms direct between SG and the RO/SL. So there's no worry about excess noise, meanng there's a lot less noise for the SL to deal with. Honestly, my experiences with the joint RO/SL system so far have all been bad, so I'm really not sold on it yet, although I'd be happy to go with it for this session, if we could find the ~16 people we're going to need.
Why do you not like the RO/SL system?
It seems like there have been several people now that point out the negative with the system but fail to see the _massive_ gain and difference it does for squad leading. After being grunt under a SL not using a RO lately, there was a rather large difference in comparison to how I myself was able to lead my squad and when said SL had to wait for orders and such. It does make a huge difference in decisive leadership and such.
The negative is a slight delay (under 10 seconds) between SG/PL and SL. That is nothing. When relaying stuff it goes the same way. This adds up of course, but I have never had a situation where something was outdated because it didn't reach the SG/PL in time. PS2 is not really that hectic that 10 seconds is a matter of life and death. Good leadership however is.
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Because when I've been platoon lead and asked for sitreps, I get either silence or "don't know" from the radio officers the majority of the time. (OR once told to shut up by an RO, because they wanted to listen to their squad).
Because when I've been a grunt, I've been confused for 10-15 minutes as to who was leading the squad. I was told to shut up by the RO as much, if not more than I was by SLs. Because all the SL did in pretty much every case was repeat whatever the RO had said. (e.g. RO would say "We have to go to Auraxicom" SL would say "Get in the bus to go to Auraxicom".
Because when I've been an SL, I really want to know the context. Because I want to let the PL know what I need to achieve the objective, not have to explain it to someone else, then wait for them to explain it wrong to the PL, then wait for the result to come through too late.
It's not been a disaster at any point. But I've not yet seen the benefits of it at all.
Sad to hear your experience of the radio/lead split has been predominantly bad. To be fair I've only done it twice, both times as radio operator, but it worked very well for me then, I think. Not sure how other members of the squad found it, of course. Granted, it takes a certain mindset to make a good radio giraffe; you need to know when to report in, when to request new orders, and such. I didn't do that very good at all times, sometimes getting lost in the game when I should've been asking for new orders, for instance.
We can leave it up to every squad leader how they want to handle it of course, since it may not be to everyone's taste. Rather have enough squad leads than put people off by requiring they conform to a procedure they're uncomfortavle with, I suppose.
SL is SL in the game. RO should declare him/herself as well. We have had a lot of pretty fresh people on the RO mission, so that could be it. I also have felt that sitreps and such have been lacking and that ROs have not responded in much detail, but I felt that if the SLs can lead better, it is well worth it.
Perhaps we need to go to the call in system full time then, and skip the radio officers. I really, really, really dislike the command channel as it makes any form of squad leading beyond "lets go here" nigh impossible with the headsplittering chatter that goes on in there. That can also be MUUUUUCH improved, but it seems like most want to keep it chatty or something. I really think PLs and SGs should say as much as "go here, bring x" and that is _it_. Nothing more, no discussion, nothing. We have way too much chatter in command about how/when/with whom.
If we used call in we could have more elaborate discussions SL to SL or SG to SL.
Still though, I much prefer not caring for comms when squad leading. That way I can just focus on leading my squad and succeeding in just that. If I have to wait for orders and can't direct my squad for 20 seconds why they also need to shut it, that is absolutely terrible. With ROs as well you can have priority speakers and channels without missing squad chatter, since squad chatter does not matter for the RO.
All in all though we need to be much, much more decisive, short and militaristic with orders and command comms. SG should explain the general plan to the whole platoon/all who are playing, SLs should not be given that info other then what their objective is and very important intel as well as if vehicles are needed.
Actually in such a set up PLs are essential. So the SG commander issues a general order to Platoon 1 (move to Ikanam from the north, securing adjacent territories) and Platoon 2 (move to Ikanam from the south, the same), and the PLs allocate assets. For instance one squad to North Grove, the other three to NC Arsenal because there is resistance there. The situation changes, and North Grove is counter-attacked, so the PL switches some of his squads there. The SG is getting sit-reps, and if the situation becomes too hot, orders Platoon 2 to reinforce Platoon 1.
Think of them as regiments, battalions and companies.
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Anyway, enough about that for now.
How are we going to set things up so that people can easily step in on the night to do what needs to be done?
I guess have a SG channel, tell anyone who is doing radio work to just set up a shout to the SG channel. Any SGs canidates can reasonably be expected to put the time in to set up the appropriate key-binds for mumble I think, and to do so in advance.
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Do we want to put out a request for volunteer war reporters - or just encourage people to make notes as the night goes on for better AARs?)
Might it even be a good idea to have the SG shout at a whole squad, rather than just one member of it? Provided they can keep things brief of course.


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Varina Howell Davis was born at her family plantation, the Briers, near Natchez, Mississippi in 1826. As a plantation owner's daughter, Davis received her education from a private tutor and later attended finishing school. She was seventeen when she met Jefferson Davis while visiting the Hurricane, the plantation of his older brother, Joseph Emory Davis. "Uncle Joe" was an old family friend, but it was the first time she met any of his extended family. Davis was taken with her beauty and intelligence, and by the time her visit ended two months later she and Davis were unofficially engaged. Margaret Howell, her mother, objected to the engagement. She was not convinced that Davis, widowed and eighteen years older than her daughter, was a good match for Varina. She thought he was too brooding, and feared that Varina would be second fiddle to his former wife. Eventually, however, she gave in and they were married on February 26, 1845.
Jefferson Davis had intended to live the life of a planter, but within just a few months of the wedding, he was nominated for a seat in the US House of Representatives. Long interested in politics, Varina was ideally suited for the life of a politician's wife. Varina had grown up believing strongly in the Whig party. She gave up her Whig beliefs, however, for the Democratic views of her husband. As her husband rose in political ranks, she rose in the ranks of Washington society. When Jefferson Davis resigned his seat in the Senate at the outbreak of the Civil War, Varina was depressed and sad to the leave the city that had become her home, having lived there for most of her adult life.
They returned to their Mississippi plantation, the Brierfield but their days there were short. Jefferson Davis was elected the President of the Confederate State of America and the Davises moved first to Montgomery, Alabama, the temporary capital, and then to Richmond, Virginia, the permanent capital. There she was pleased to find many of her Southern friends from Washington DC, including Mary Chesnut. Varina settled comfortably into her new role as First Lady, and enjoyed much public support and adulation for the first year of the Confederacy. During the second year, however, as living conditions deteriorated and commodities became scarce, people began to speak out and criticize. While acknowledging her intelligence, critics claimed she put on airs, and that she wasn't as well-read as she claimed. They accused her of being uncouth and domineering, having far too much influence over the President. Some accused her of entertaining too lavishly in such trying times, while others thought she was too skimpy and accused her of hoarding the President's salary. Others frowned upon her style of entertaining, thinking it too much in the manner of the Yankee capital of Washington DC, and questioned her loyalty to the Confederacy. Despite the criticism, Varina continued in her support of the troops. She knitted countless articles of clothing for soldiers, donated rugs for blankets and made shoes of the scraps. She spent hours visiting soldiers in the hospitals, although she did not serve as a volunteer nurse at the request of her husband.
Following Jefferson Davis's arrest at the end of the Civil War, Varina Davis and the children were sent to Savannah, where she complained of being a virtual prisoner as she was forbidden to leave the city. While she rarely ventured out, the children did. The soldiers, carpetbaggers and Union supporters treated the children cruelly and Varina constantly worried for their safely. After a former slave leveled a gun at one of them, she arranged for them to go to Canada along with her mother. Varina then turned her attention to gaining her husband's release from prison. She petitioned endlessly and he was finally released in May 1867. The Davises struggled for a few years as Jefferson unsuccessfully tried to establish himself as a businessman. They retired to Beauvoir in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1879 after a friend bequeathed it to them in her will. After Jefferson died, Varina stayed at Beauvoir for a few years. She then donated it to be used as a Confederate veterans home and moved to New York, where she supported herself as a writer until her death in 1905.


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Running back Chad Simpson is the 2012 nominee as the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' Most Outstanding Player.
Simpson -- who rushed for 1,039 yards and 5 TDs in just 14 games this season -- was announced as the club's MOP Wednesday morning as the Bombers announced all six of their nominees for the season-ending CFL awards that will be announced late next month in Toronto during Grey Cup Week.
"It feels great. I had no idea this was even going on today. I just found out," said Simpson, who was at a doctor's appointment Wednesday morning and did not receive the news until he arrived back at Canad Inns Stadium just as practice ended.
"It means a lot to me. I've been trying to show the world for awhile what I could do if I was ever a starting (running) back. I'd always missed that opportunity for some reason. The NFL is a hard place. But Winnipeg gave me a shot and I'm very grateful for it."
Winnipeg's other nominees were receiver Chris Matthews (75 receptions, 1,137 yards, 7 TDs) as the club's top rookie; kicker Justin Palardy (FG's -- 36-41) is the team's most outstanding special teams player; middle linebacker Henoc Muamba (55 tackles, 2 sacks, 5 forced fumbles) is the most outstanding Canadian; tackle Glenn January is the team's most outstanding offensive lineman; and Alex Hall (9 sacks) is the club's top defensive player.
The Bombers made the announcement just as the team took the field Wednesday morning for practice in advance of this Saturday's game final game at Canad Inns Stadium between the Bombers and the Montreal Alouettes, the final regular season game of the season for both teams and the final game of any kind for the Bombers in 2012.
The awards were bittersweet for some.
"If I was given the option of not winning this award and making the playoffs," mused January, "I'd definitely take a playoff team over this."
Still, January said he was humbled to receive an honour that has gone to some of the all-time Bomber greats over the years. "When I first got to Winnipeg, I went back and looked at all the players that have been honoured with this award in the past -- the (Chris) Walby's, the (Miles) Gorrell's and the Lyle Bauer's of the world. To think my name is going to be on that list with those guys is pretty special."
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James Beard award–winning author Gil Marks, whose next book is a history of America through its cakes, says that the braided chorag (akin to the Jewish egg challah) was found through the realm of the Ottoman Empire and is better known to Americans by the Greek name tsoureki. "The name derived from the Turkic cevrek (round)," he says. He notes that in some parts of Armenia, the baker will hide a coin in one of the individual rolls or in the braided loaf. This tradition has deep roots in history. "In a practice dating back to the Roman Saturnalia and readopted in medieval France and then spreading to Spain and Germany, a small token of luck — originally a fava bean (an ancient symbol of fertility), but later also a whole almond (or in nineteenth-century Louisiana, a pecan half typically substituted), coin, ring, little horseshoe, china charm or small porcelain doll — was commonly baked inside the circular loaf," he writes in his upcoming book, American Cakes.
Of course, no matter where the tradition originated, the result is still, thankfully, the same: whoever gets the slice of bread or the individual roll with the coin will essentially have their cake and eat it too for the rest of the year! Blessings are assured.
Anne Marootian's Chorag
Recipe adapted from Robyn Kalajian's blog, TheArmenianKitchen.com
Mahlab is the dried "heart" of the cherry pit. It can be purchased in most Middle Eastern stores. If you can't find it, you can omit it; the taste will be slightly different, but still delicious. This recipe can easily be doubled.
Total Time: 4 hours 20 minutes
Prep: 4 hours (including 3 hours for rising)
Cook: 20 minutes per baking sheet
Yield: 30 to 36 rolls
Level: Medium difficulty
1/2 pound (2 sticks) unsalted butter
1 cup milk
1 egg
1 envelope (2 1/4 teaspoons) active dry yeast
1/4 cup warm water (105° to 110°F)
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon ground mahlab
1 tablespoon fennel seed
1 tablespoon anise seed
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
2 tablespoons baking powder
5 to 5 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for the work surface
1 egg beaten with 1 tablespoon water, for egg wash
Melt the butter in a saucepan. Add the milk and heat gently. Cool to room temperature.
Beat the egg and add to the milk.
In a small bowl, dissolve the yeast in the water. (You can check the temperature with a food thermometer, or by putting a drop on your wrist. If it feels comfortable to your wrist, the temperature is good to go.)
Mix the sugar, salt, mahlab, fennel seed, anise seed, ginger, and baking powder together in a small bowl. Place 5 cups of the flour in a large mixing bowl. Combine the sugar-and-spice mixture into the flour. Add the milk-egg mixture. Stir in the dissolved yeast and mix well.
Place the dough on a lightly floured work surface and knead until it is smooth and elastic, about 10 minutes. If the dough seems a bit sticky, work in up to 1/2 cup flour that wasn't used earlier.
Place the dough in a large, clean bowl, cover with plastic wrap, then cover that with a towel. Allow to rise for 2 hours.
Gently deflate the dough. Break off a piece of dough about the size of a golf ball. Roll it into a thin rope about 16 inches in length. Break off about one-third of the rope. Shape the longer piece of dough into a horseshoe U shape. Place the shorter piece of dough in the center of the U, and braid the three strips of dough.
Place the braided chorag on an ungreased baking sheet. Continue to shape dough until tray is full. (Don't place chorag too close to each other. Give them room to expand while they bake. If necessary, use extra baking sheets.) Let the chorag rise on the baking sheet for 1 hour.
While the shaped dough is rising, place racks in the top and bottom thirds of the oven and preheat the oven to 375°F.
Brush the tops of the chorag with the egg wash. Place one baking sheet on the bottom oven rack and bake until the bottoms of the chorag are golden, about 15 minutes.
Transfer the baking sheet to the top rack and bake until the tops of the chorag are golden, about another 5 minutes. Transfer the rolls to cooling racks. Continue this procedure until all the sheets of chorag have been baked.
Store the completely cooled chorag in a container with a tight-fitting lid, or place in freezer bags and freeze until ready to serve. They can be thawed in the microwave: wrap each chorag in a paper towel and microwave on low to medium power for about 30 seconds or until defrosted.
Monica Bhide is the author of "Modern Spice" (Simon & Schuster, 2009).


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UPDATE (12/24/13): At the conclusion of the Fall Sports' season, Saint Leo University is ranked 20th overall in the Learfield Sports Directors' Cup standings, marking the school's highest-ever ranking at the end of the first semester. This updated ranking reflects contributions from volleyball and men's soccer, both making return trips to the NCAA Championships after a hiatus. The Lions now have totaled 155 points.
To date, seven fall NCAA championships have been completed in women's cross country, men's cross country, field hockey, women's soccer, men's soccer, women's volleyball and football.
CLEVELAND, Ohio – As Saint Leo University begins to put the wraps on one of the most successful Fall Sports' seasons in the school's history, the Lions have used that success to propel themselves into the Top 20 in the Division II Learfield Sports Directors' Cup standings.
Originally earning the 16th spot on the rankings, the Lions capitalized off of a 26th place result in the men's cross country championships and a 33rd place finish on the women's side. The combined point totals from the national appearances gave the Lions a total of 80 points.
Saint Leo does not sponsor women's field hockey, football or men's water polo and therefore did not register points for those sports in the rankings.
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About 150 million years ago, a sizeable chunk of Africa broke away and floated into the Indian Ocean, allowing the rich array of primitive animals aboard the newly formed island to evolve in isolation. Today, the miracle that is Madagascar holds more than 200,000 species of plants and animals, many found no place else on the planet. But since the arrival of people 2,000 years ago, more than 90 percent of its original forest has been destroyed, carrying many species into extinction.
No one understands the urgency of saving this threatened evolutionary wonder better than Dr. Luke Dollar, a scientist devoted to ensuring every minute and dollar spent on conservation efforts counts. "A conservation project may be well-funded and issue glowing reports, but if 25 percent of forest cover is lost while it is in effect, something's wrong," Dollar explains. "When I arrived, my work was on the ground and I could see the habitat disappearing. I needed a way to quantify the qualitative claims being made by conservation management. I used satellite images, and pictures don't lie. Comparing an image of an area taken at one point in time, with an image of the same area later provides an irrefutable measure of the success or failure of conservation programs, no sugarcoating. It also shows what areas need the most attention first."
Grassroots efforts such as this are Dollar's passion. "I'm a big fan of muddy boots. Field biologists are there in the forest, fighting the fight. We see what's happening to habitat firsthand, and that knowledge is invaluable—without it, bad decisions will be made."
Dollar stresses that to simply go to a remote place, collect data on a little known species, and write papers is no longer enough. "We need to let policymakers know what's happening. My best days involve working in the field, then flying to the capital city to meet with government officials, then flying back to the field."
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Expanding on their success, Dollar raised money to finance unlimited education for any qualified local child. "My goal," he explains, "is to one day have a director of the national park service who came from one of these forest villages and knows what it's like on the ground."
Dollar first came to Madagascar in 1994 as an undergraduate research assistant studying lemurs with Duke University. The lemur he was assigned to follow was eaten by a fossa, an elusive predator found only in Madagascar. Dollar was instantly intrigued and upon discovering the species had never been studied, vowed to return. "Here was a mysterious predator which sat atop the food chain in the world's top biodiversity hot spot, yet no one knew anything about it. As a flagship species, the fossa plays a crucial role in maintaining the equilibrium of Madagascar's entire food chain."
Dollar's decade of fieldwork has quantified the fossa's shrinking numbers, now about 2,500, and yielded a trove of data on its biology and behavior.
"When you're in the field it's muddy, sweaty, stinky, gritty—there's no sex appeal to it at all, but it's great fun. I wake up every morning knowing I'm one of the luckiest guys on Earth because I'm doing exactly what I want to do and it's going to make a difference."
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BRUNSWICK, Ga. - A 24-year-old former Navy sailor was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for attempting to distribute child pornography.
Dustin Struckman, of Peoria, Ill., will be required to register as a sex offender. At the conclusion of the sentencing, Struckman was returned to the custody of the United States Marshal Service to serve his sentence.
According to the evidence presented at Struckman's plea and sentencing hearings, in January and May 2011, Struckman, who was then enlisted in the U.S. Navy and located in Kings Bay, was making available for distribution over a peer-to-peer network various child pornography videos and images.
When interviewed by a special agent with the Naval Criminal Investigation Service, Struckman admitted that he had been downloading and viewing child pornography images for several years and utilizing a peer-to-peer network for that purpose.
Struckman's computer was found to contain at least 33 videos and 16 still images depicting child sexual abuse, with at least one video depicting a child as young as 3 years old.
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Processing lxml-3.2.3.tar.gz
Running lxml-3.2.3/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-rbld5V/lxml-3.2.3/egg-dist-tmp-F8R_lI
Building lxml version 3.2.3.
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warning: no files found matching '*.txt' under directory 'src/lxml/tests'
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The announcement was hailed around the world as a further sign of reform: Myanmar would again allow privately owned daily newspapers from April 1.
In the media industry, where companies and journalists have lobbied hard for the right to publish daily rather than weekly, the news was greeted with a mixture of relief and trepidation, as the reality of compiling, printing and distributing a newspaper every 24 hours sunk in.
Even the editor-in-chief of one of the nation's highest-circulation publications, U Thaung Su Nyein of 7Day News Journal, was unsure whether his team would be ready by April. He admits he was surprised that the announcement came so soon.
"Daily takes a lot of work – finance, human resources, machinery, more procedures and also responsibilities. We will try our best to be able to run daily by April. But things might not go well for whatever reasons. We might start later than that," said U Thaung Su Nyein, who is also managing director of the 7Days' publisher, Information Matrix.
Not all papers will make the transition from weekly to daily, and he said the weekly market would become more competitive.
"More people will read daily newspaper so only those strong weekly journals with solid news and opinion will remain. Small and uninteresting journals will get even fewer readers."
But Mr Ross Dunkley, managing director of Myanmar Consolidated Media, which publishes The Myanmar Times in English and Myanmar, said he was confident his organisation would make the transition successfully.
"We have known for some time that [the announcement] was just around the corner and have commenced our planning," he said.
"I'm confident that we have enough time to prepare ourselves. … This is going to be a tremendously exciting period for our organisation and we will pursue our goal. We've waited for this for a long time."
While reports have suggested there could soon be eight to 10 daily newspapers, Mr Dunkley said there was "not room for 10 players or even half of that number".
"I predict at the end of year one there will be no more than three left in the game," he said. "I'd say don't be in this game if you can't afford to spend US$2 million or more. It wouldn't be hard to drop $5 million before you saw some light."
For journals lacking human or financial resources to go daily alone, there is the option of combining with like-minded publishers or focusing on smaller geographic areas, such as a single city or state and region. Dr Myo Min Htike, the owner of Venus News Journal, said he had already begun discussions with "some friends who share the same spirit and eagerness to publish daily".
"We might combine to be a big publication but are still just discussing it at the moment," he said. "The main challenges are capital, the staff capacity, printing and distribution."
Even if his publication remains a weekly, he said he has plans to reform its contents to remain competitive in the daily environment.
"When daily private newspapers come out, I will definitely change our style. At the moment we focus mostly just on news."


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Flowery Branch's interim mayor, Mike Miller, announced Thursday night he plans to resign Sept. 27 to run for mayor.
DALTON - With a week to go before Tuesday's runoff for Georgia's 9th District congressional seat, candidates Tom Graves and Lee Hawkins clashed Tuesday night over whether a trip to Missouri counts as traveling across the country.
PENDERGRASS - Republican gubernatorial candidate Eric Johnson promised Wednesday to give the state's manufacturers a reprieve on certain sales taxes.
CLERMONT - They stayed friendly and civil, agreeing on a wide array of hot-button topics - such as water and sewer, ethics and taxes.
Early voting has gotten off to a robust start in Hall County.
Two new polls on the Georgia governor's race provide some encouraging news for former U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal, yet the Republican primary remains a wide-open battle.
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DAHLONEGA - A bank's lawsuit claiming congressional hopeful Tom Graves and State Rep. Chip Rogers defaulted on a $2.2 million loan is without merit, Graves said Thursday, and blamed its dissemination to the news media on 11th-hour "gutter politics."
Flowery Branch began the year with a group of freshly elected council members and no scheduled elections.
CUMMING – Amid countless American flags, name tags and campaign placards, Conrad Quagliaroli stood out more than anyone, including three candidates for governor, though he never took the stage at Saturday's Forsyth Freedom Festival.
Butch Miller was officially sworn in Thursday as a state senator at the Hall County Courthouse.
Eleven candidates in the recent special election naturally leads to a lot of leftover signs. But with a unique election schedule this year, the signs may not be going anywhere soon.
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March 30, 2011 – New York Rangers 0, Buffalo Sabres 1 (Game No. 77, Away No. 39)
* The Rangers were defeated by the Buffalo Sabres, 1-0, tonight at HSBC Arena, and are now 41-31-5 overall with a 23-15-1 mark on the road. New York is now 8-2-1 in their last 11 contests, and are 6-2-0 in their last eight road games.
* Three of the Rangers last four games finished with a 1-0 score (2-1-0 in those contests), and each of their last four contests have been decided by one goal.
* Henrik Lundqvist stopped 34 shots, and is now 33-25-5 overall with a 19-12-1 mark on the road. He has made 30 or more saves in 25 of his 63 appearances this season, posting a record of 15-8-2 with a 1.91 goals against average, a .947 save percentage and six shutouts in those contests. In the last 10 games, Lundqvist is 8-1-1 with a 1.67 goals against average, a .942 save percentage and three shutouts over the span.
* New York won 33 of 55 faceoffs (60%), led by Brandon Dubinsky's game-high, 12 faceoff wins in 18 attempts (67%). Dubinsky leads the team with a 51.8% faceoff winning percentage (411-794) on the season.
* Dan Girardi and Sean Avery tied for the team-high with four hits apiece. Girardi also led the team with two blocked shots and logged 25:15 of ice time.
* The Rangers will return to action when they face-off against the New York Islanders tomorrow, Mar. 31, at Nassau Coliseum (7:00 p.m.), to close out their back-to-back set. The game will be televised live on MSG Network and can be heard on 1050 ESPN Radio and newyorkrangers.com. Prior to tomorrow's contest, the Blueshirts' optional morning skate is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. at Nassau Coliseum.


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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
When you think about the word "partner" in your channel sales strategy, you may not necessarily conjure up images of close-knit teams like Bonnie and Clyde, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, or any of the Ocean's Eleven gang. Businesses recognize that partnerships are important, but there are a few key reasons they often get neglected.
First, when channel partners account for, say, only 5 to 10 percent of revenue, investing time and resources into giving the proper attention to channels may not be a high priority. Additionally, since partner channels are outside a company's jurisdiction and have more freedom to sell or not sell, suggest or not suggest a product, it is much harder for the parent company to actively drive sales or even keep track of sales activity within the partner organization.
But if your channel partners aren't a priority, you are missing a great opportunity to build revenue. If just 10 percent of revenue for a $1 billion company comes from channels, it still amounts to $100 million dollars. Imagine if that same company made time to educate, fund and improve the channel relationship? The results could easily outweigh the upfront time and resource investment to get the channel operating optimally.
Spending the time conceptualizing what you hope to gain as you enter into a partnership and then putting the pieces in place to get the partnership off on the right foot will help you hedge your bets for creating a fruitful channel. If you already have a less-than-productive partnership in place, step back and think about what it would take to obtain better results
Here are four steps for improving channel sales results:
Invest time and resources.
Don't forget that forging partnerships is supposed to expose you to new markets and new customer bases, often in areas that are difficult to cover due to resource or geography constraints. Growing companies, in particular, can leverage partner relationships from the beginning by training their channels on the product, messaging, brand promises and the company's specific sales process, all the while keeping in mind this shouldn't be a "one-off" interaction. As your company's sales methods, product offerings and messages change, be sure to keep your channels in the loop and continue to provide training when necessary to ensure that the right information is being disseminated and also to remain top of mind as channels create deals or look to appease the needs of their customers.
Additionally, be sure to demonstrate thoroughly your continuing relevance in the market so that partners feel comfortable "pitching" you to customers who would like market insight into your company financials or health, customer base, analyst opinions and differentiators.
Have a good answer to, "What's in it for me?"
Ultimately, determining and dedicating channel managers is essential. These managers should be compensated much like your sales teams to help drive new revenues and enable the channel to succeed. Effective channel partnerships typically enable revenue share, and partner sales reps should be able to identify right away what their cut will be for selling your products. By including some incentive to keep your products top of mind in sales, your channels will pay more attention to the partnership and ideally recommend and sell more on your behalf.
Make it easy to sell your products.
For companies with particularly complex sales processes, providing the typical collateral, messaging, and demos may not be enough for your partners to sell effectively. If your company uses (or is considering purchasing) sales software such as customer relationship management (CRM) or configure-price-quote (CPQ) internally, extend use of that software to your channels. This way, all channels are on the same page as far as what can feasibly be configured, quoted and sold by whom and to which customers, and you enforce sales best practices inside and outside of your four walls.
Think about the end destination – the customer.
Channels work when the company, the partner and, most importantly, the customer get a win. To facilitate a positive customer experience, even indirectly, be sure that your partners are aligning with the way you know your customers like to buy. Partners should be able to speak directly to their needs, be able to explain the system benefits to the specific customer and their industry, and be the "face" of your company, building trust and positive rapport with potential customers.
Naturally, your primary focus should always be investing time in your own sales force. But for your channels, a little TLC can go a long way.
Mike Mothersbaugh is Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Selectica, a company that provides CPQ and contract lifecycle management solutions to help companies sell complex deals with ease. His experience includes more than 20 years of sales leadership within the CRM, cloud computing, and CPQ industry, particularly in communicating value to enterprise-level organizations looking to maximize revenue within the quote-to-cash business process.


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SAINT LEO, Fla. – Despite the threat of inclement weather, the 15th-ranked Saint Leo men's tennis team took care of business as the Lions closed out their regular season with a 6-0 victory over visiting Eckerd College on Friday afternoon.
It was a win that gave the Lions their 14th victory in the regular season and solidified their place as the no. 3 seed in the upcoming Sunshine State Conference Championships. The match with Eckerd (1-12, 0-6 SSC) was shortened to just singles play as all singles flights were competed while all three doubles were passed up in the final tally.
The Lions have concluded the regular season in third place in the Sunshine State Conference and now begins to prepare for the postseason. Their first stop on what is hopefully long tournament play begins on April 18 at South County Regional Park in Boca Raton, Fla. They will face the No. 7 seed Florida Tech at 1:30 p.m.
#15 Saint Leo 6, Eckerd College 0
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|Singles competition
|1. #18 Aloua Adjenak (SLM) def. Dylan Randazzo (ECM) 6-1, 6-0
|2. Bruno Sisti (SLM) def. Stephen Felman (ECM) 6-3, 6-2
|3. Antoine Raffaelli (SLM) def. Frazier Springfield (ECM) 6-3, 6-0
|4. #28 Matt Nicholson-Lewis (SLM) def. Ben Levy (ECM) 6-2, 6-1
|5. Ismail Lemtouni (SLM) def. Luke Burton (ECM) 6-1, 6-2
|6. Jacobo Gonzalez (SLM) def. Jonathan Cheng (ECM) 6-0, 6-0
|Doubles competition
|1. Luke Burton/Stephen Felman (ECM) vs. Aloua Adjenak/Jake Fleischer (SLM) no result
|2. Dylan Randazzo/Frazier Springfield (ECM) vs. Bruno Sisti/Matt Nicholson-Lewis (SLM) no result
|3. Ben Levy/Jonathan Cheng (ECM) vs. Antoine Raffaelli/Fons Verberne (SLM) no result
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|Eckerd College 1-12, 0-6 SSC
|Saint Leo 14-4, 4-2 SSC; National ranking #15
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Dodgers can't catch Pirates, drop slugfest
Beckett allows four runs in 3 2/3 innings, then relievers give up eight
PITTSBURGH -- Josh Beckett came off the disabled list with his shortest start of the year, calling it "pretty horrendous," and that wasn't the worst of it for the Dodgers in Tuesday night's 12-7 loss to the Pirates.
While Yasiel Puig (available to pinch-hit, but not used) and Hanley Ramirez (not available) remained on the sidelines again, the Dodgers erased a pair of two-run deficits but ran out of comebacks after eight runs were allowed by their middle relievers, including four consecutive walks issued by Chris Perez in what turned into a four-run bottom of the eighth inning.
Beckett said he wouldn't use his left hip impingement or torn labrum or two cysts -- injuries that rarely heal without surgery -- as "an excuse going forward." But they are all facts sure to cause added angst for management over the starting rotation with the non-waiver Trade Deadline nine days away.
So, too, is the bullpen, which had been the top priority to address even before this meltdown. Manager Don Mattingly turned to Perez in the eighth inning trailing, 8-7, instead of the usual eighth-inning pair of Brian Wilson and/or J.P. Howell -- that tandem having set up Kenley Jansen saves the previous two games. Brandon League took over and allowed a pair of bouncing singles that scored all three inherited runners.
"They can't go every day," Mattingly said. "If you're down a run, they can't do it every day. Other guys have to be able to hold the score there. We've got one lefty situational guy [Howell] and we've got to protect our seven-eight-nine guys."
Offensively, Adrian Gonzalez (three RBIs) slugged the Dodgers' first home run since July 9 and Scott Van Slyke hit their first pinch-homer of the year in a game that included four hit batsmen (one Dodger) and the ejections of Pittsburgh reliever Justin Wilson and manager Clint Hurdle.
Beckett, who came into the game with a 2.26 ERA, allowed solo home runs to Neil Walker, Ike Davis and Gregory Polanco in 3 2/3 innings, and was charged with four runs on six hits. He rarely used his fastball and his command was spotty. All of the homers were hit by left-handed hitters.
"This loss pretty much falls on me," Beckett said. "I put our guys in a bad situation, having to eat innings up that way. I feel I can do a better job making small adjustments and didn't do it today. That's not competing."
Beckett talked about continuing to pitch through his injury, which was aggravated running the bases in Colorado. Beckett was on the bases twice against the Pirates. He reached on an error and scored in the third inning, after which he allowed the third home run. He walked in the top of the fourth and didn't get out of the bottom of the fourth.
Beckett allowed the home runs to Walker and Davis in the second inning, but the Dodgers scored a pair of unearned runs in the third after an unnecessary throwing error by third baseman Pedro Alvarez on Beckett's slow roller. Pittsburgh scored two more in the third, but the Dodgers tied it again off Pittsburgh starter Vance Worley in the sixth by stringing singles from Carl Crawford, Juan Uribe and A.J. Ellis (two RBIs).
Former Pirate Paul Maholm followed Beckett with four outs, then allowed a pair of hits to start the bottom of the sixth and was replaced by Jamey Wright, who walked pinch-hitter Gaby Sanchez with two outs to load the bases, then allowed a two-run single to Polanco and an RBI single to Travis Snider. Wright hit Andrew McCutchen with a fastball in the back of the shoulder to load the bases again and then threw a wild pitch, scoring Polanco.
"I was a little frustrated after that," said Wright. "It's my job to get outs. It was downhill from there."
Wilson relieved Worley in the seventh inning, tried to hit Justin Turner with his first pitch in retaliation for the McCutchen plunk but missed inside, then drilled Turner on the left arm and was immediately ejected by home-plate umpire Toby Basner. Hurdle was ejected for arguing with crew chief Jeff Nelson, and Mattingly didn't seem to blame Hurdle.
"We all understood what happened," said Mattingly. "The only guy that didn't was the plate umpire. He could have given a warning and it would have been over."
Gonzalez, after fouling off a bunt, then homered to right-center, his 15th. With one out in the eighth, Van Slyke crushed a solo shot, his ninth home run, to make it an 8-7 game, but with one out in the bottom of the frame, Perez issued four consecutive walks.
"Definitely a step backward," Mattingly said of Perez, whose roller-coaster season brought him into this game having allowed one earned run in eight appearances after making some mechanical adjustments. "He had been pitching good, making progress."
Ken Gurnick is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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So… we have a few Adobe Education Leaders who have received MAX Unawards! These are listed below and I encourage other AELs to submit and be added here…
Tom Green (@TomGreen) won the award for 'Crustiest Tutorialist Of The Year'
Joseph Labrecque (@JosephLabrecque) won the award for 'Most Frustrated AIR Developer'
David Egbert (@DaveEgbert) won the award for 'Best Un Acceptance Speech'
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