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GM: GeneralTacticus
Current Player List:
Skanky Burns
Link to Previous Game Thread.
Galactic Overlord
A New Forum Game from
Jamski Productions
Galactic Overlord is a game of space strategy and warfare for any number of players. It is turn based and builds on the success of the well known Paper-Stone-Scissorstm system. Each player is the ruler of a faction determined to bring the whole galaxy under their domination using every means at their disposal until they are the sole survivor and the almighty Galactic Overlord!
Setting up the Game
Each player starts the game with three Bases. A Base is a planet, hollowed out asteroid, huge space station or any other large structure capable of supporting life and industry. Each player also starts the game with 20 Build Points, or BPs. As long as the player has at least one base still in operation he recieves an additional 5 BPs each turn per home base, and 2 BPs each turn per captured base. The player's initial BPs can be used before the game starts to build the starting Ships or more Bases according to the following table:
Spending BPs
Self-built bases 1 through 6 cost 16BP each.
Self-built bases 7 through 12 cost 32BP each.
Self-built bases 13 through 18 cost 64BP each and so on.
The more expensive the Ship, the more Bases are required to build one:Code:Frigate......1 BP Cruiser......2 BPs Battleship...3 BPs Dreadnaught..4 BPs Titan........5 BPs
***NOTE - Only self-built bases count towards maximum hull sizes***Code:Frigate......1 home Base Cruiser......2 home Bases Battleship...3 home Bases Dreadnaught..4 home Bases Titan........5 home Bases
Each Ship built can be armed as you wish with Lasers, Fighters or Torpedoes with each weapon taking up one unit of space from the Ship's total. A ship may only carry one kind of weapon.
EXAMPLE : A Battleship might have 3xLasers (Laserbattleship), a Cruiser 2xTorpedoes(Torpedocruiser) and a Frigate 1xFighters (Carrierfrigate).Code:Frigate......1 unit of space/2 hit point Cruiser......2 units of space/4 hit points Battleship...3 units of space/6 hit points Dreadnaught..4 units of space/8 hit points Titan........5 units of space/10 hit points
BP's may be stockpiled for use later during the game.
Playing the Game - Orders
This part of the game is similar to Nuclear Wartm. Each player sends his orders to the GM who processes them all together once they are recieved.
Normal Orders (you may make both these orders in conjuction with the orders in the next section)
- Build Ships/Bases : You may spend your BPs or stockpile them for later. Ships built that turn may be used for attack and defence, Bases built may be destroyed that turn. Damaged Ships may be fully repaired for a cost of 1 BP (Now you see why big ships are good)
***NOTE - You need to already have bases built for them to count for hull size allowance.***- Use Spy : If you have a Spy you may stop one of your opponents orders that turn being exectuted. The Spy is lost. Spy affects Attack!, Rebuild Generator and Train Spy.
Special Orders (you must choose only one of these per turn)
- Attack! : This starts a fight between your fleet and that of an opponent. You must choose which ships to send, and which to leave at home in case you yourself are attacked that turn. See Combat for more.
- Raise Shields! : This protects your Bases and Ships from all attacks that turn, and also stops any spies. Any opposing fleet that attacks you will take twelve Hits (distributed as per combat damage) while you remain snug and secure. The generator is exhausted by this use and must be rebuilt.
- Build Generator : Rebuilds a shield generator. Multiple shields can be stockpiled for later use.
- Train Spy : Trains and inserts a new Spy for your cause. Multiple spies can be stockpiled for later use.
You may want to orgainise joint attacks on an opponent with an ally. In this case you must agree on an Order of Battle between the allies. If two differenet opponents attack at the same time without informing the GM of their alliance, then the defender must fight them consecutively, fighting first against the one who posted their orders last.
It is possible that when a player is attacked by two non-allied fleets at the same time that he loses both battles. In this case both attackers gain a base. Allied fleets that attack together must decide who is to get the captured base.
The GM applies hits to allied fleets in the same way as to a normal fleet. This means that if one ally has smaller ships than his partner, he will take the bulk of the casulties. War is hell.
The GM
The GM will report each turn on the activities of each player. He will keep their orders secret and their current navies secret also, but will reveal their bases, the size of their navy and their current BPs.
Winning the Game
You win the game by destroying all the bases and fleets of your opponents to become the Galactic Overlordtm!!!
Playing the Game - Combat
Combat Version 1.2
Combat is a simple, and yet complex, Paper-Stone-Scissorstm system :
Every player must also specify an "Order of Battle" every turn, whether attacking, or expecting to be attacked. Failure to do so results in the loss of your whole fleet in confusion and panic. This is simple to do though. The players must specify what order they want to use their weapons.Code:Lasers - beat - Fighters Fighters - beat - Torpedoes Torpedoes - beat - Lasers
EXAMPLE : Lasers-Fighters-Fighters-Torpedoes-Laser-Torpedoes (LFFTLT)
These can be further refined by different tactics.
Tactics 1 - Range:
You may instruct your captains to try to engage at different ranges.
- Close In - Lasers from both fleets count an extra x2. If both fleets Close In then this stacks to a x4. This negates Back Off.
- Back Off - Lasers from both fleets count an extra x0.5 penalty. This is negated by Close In. If both players Back Off this stacks to x0.25.
Default is no special orders.
Tactics 2 - Formation:
You may instruct your captains to engage using different formations.
- Bunch Together - Your ships huddle together to protect each other from Fighters, but are more vunerable to the large explosions of Torpedoes. Attacks with Fighters against Bunched Together fleets are at x0.5, while Torpedoes get x2.
- Spread Out - Your ships spread out, making the fleet hard to target with Torpedoes, while leaving individual ships vunerable to Fighters. Attacks with Fighters against Spread Out fleets are at x2, while Torpedoes get x0.5
Default is no special orders. These orders can be used even when sending out a single ship.
Example of full OOBs:
Code:Attack: TFFTLT back off, bunch Defence: LFTFTL close in, default
- Add hitpoints for fleets involved in the battle (2xBP cost of fleets)
- Add total Fighters/Lasers/Torps in each fleet.
- Sort fleets according to their empire's Order of Battle. Fleets with no OoB are destroyed.
- Adjust raw fighter/laser/torp numbers.
- The fleet with the "winning" tactic in a given round has their raw total attack strength doubled.
- Spreading or bunching your fleet affect the opposition's raw total attack strength. Double or halve this accordingly.
- The higher adjusted total wins. Apply Hits equal to the difference between the totals.
- Combat continues until one fleet recieves more hits than it has hitpoints, or 6 rounds of combat have taken place.
- A destroyed fleet loses.
- If both fleets survive, the fleet that takes the most Hits is the loser.
- Remove destroyed ships, smallest first, in the same order as the OoB.
- If the attacker won, he captures one base.
- If the attacker destroyed the entire enemy fleet, he captures all his opponents bases.
First we calculate the hitpoints of the ships involved in the battle. Spaced has 5 battleships, 2 dreadnaughts and 6 titans, so (5x3 + 2x4 + 6x5)x2 = 106.Code:TLFTLF FFLTLT hp 106 hp 48 4LB 1LT 3LF 2FD 2FT 18FF 1TB 3TT 3TF RAW DATA Spaced Jamski ----------------------------------- 18 torpedoes 18 fighters 17 lasers 18 fighters 18 fighters 3 lasers 18 torpedoes 3 torpedoes 17 lasers 3 lasers 18 fighters 3 torpedoes back, default back, spread L > F > T > L ADJUSTED DATA Spaced Jamski ----------------------------------- 9 torpedoes 32 fighters Spaced takes 23 hits 8.5 lasers 18 fighters Spaced takes 10 hits 18 fighters 1.5 lasers Jamski takes 17 hits 9 torpedoes 3 torpedoes Jamski takes 6 hits 4.25 lasers 0.75 lasers Jamski takes 4 hits 72 fighters 3 torpedoes Jamski takes 68 hits
Jamski has 24 frigates, so (24x1)x2 = 48 hitpoints.
In this example, Spaced has 4 laser-battleships and one laser-titan. (4x3) + (1x5) = 17, so his raw laser damage is 17.
He has 2 fighter-dreadnaughts and 2 fighter-titans, (2x4) + (2x5) = 18 so his raw fighter damage is 18. The rest of the raw damage is calculated in a similar manner for both fleets.
So now we come to our first line of combat with 18 torpedoes against 18 fighters. As fighters beat torpedoes, the fighters number is doubled, giving us 32 damage. Next, tactics are taken into account. Spaced used default, so no change there. Jamski spread his fleet out, so torpedoes do half the normal damage, giving us 9 damage. We then compare these two numbers. 32 beats 9, so Spaced takes the difference (32-9) hits. This is not enough to kill his fleet, so combat continues to line 2.
Next, 17 lasers versus 18 fighters. As lasers beat fighters, the raw laser damage is doubled to 34. Due to tactics, however, this is divided by 2 twice. Both players back off, halving laser damage, which leaves us with 8.5 damage, 8 rounded down. 18-8 leaves Spaced to take an additional 10 hits. This is still not enough to kill his fleet, so to round 3 we go.
As you can see from the table above, Spaced's fleet rallied after the initial two rounds and drove away the Jamski hordes.
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Last edited by GeneralTacticus; August 2, 2004 at 05:44.
+1I confirm wanting to join this game.
M... oh.
In any case, thanks for volunteering to GM. A lot of work involved.
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I should have been auto-listed in this game. Harumph.
I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).
Well, let's give it another shot!
I'll give it a shot.
Stop Quoting Ben
Play hangman.
Lots of interest.
So... thoughts on rules changes? I believe there were people proposing limits to shield and spy stockpiles, and I was trying to generate some discussion on fleet adjustment during combat.
1) If GT is happy with the combat updated round by round then do that, it's clearly better.
2) Regarding combat generally, I feel the balance has shifted a lot to no casualties for the winner from the mutual destruction we had before (though, in fairness many of the battles last game were lopsided). I don't want to tone it down too much, since we want to encourage violence ( ), but I wonder if the modifiers are a touch too strong.
3) There should be limits on both shields and spies. I'd say a separate limit of 3 for both works well.
4) I think there should be no limit on building; it isn't necessary in this game like in NW, since if you die you lose the lot in one turn. I favour keeping the higher costs after a certain point, but 32 for base 7 is silly. How about 16 cost until 6, then 24 cost until 9, then 32 thereafter? Seems better to me.
5) What happens when two people attack on the same turn needs work. I don't think the first person to send in orders should go first - I have always felt that way in forum games. It should be randomised. The second person should attack *whoever* is in the base, leading the "lucky" second person the chance of mopping up the original owner, or taking on the new conqueror.
For #1 - I'd be happy to do that, I'm just a bit worried about the effects it would have on combat, given that anyone who managed to get in a crushing first round would almost inevitably win the entire combat. Perhaps an adjustment every 2 or 3 rounds?
For #2 - I think, as you said, that this simply resulted from very lopsided battles. And it should be noted that in the last battle of GO2, Geo was outnumbered by over two to one, yet he still managed to destroy over 20% of our combined fleet on the very first round. It's all in the tactics.
For #3 - no objections here.
For #4 - Agreed. As it is, new bases after the sixth won't turn a profit for 7 turns, which, IMO, is rather too long.
For #5 - interesting idea. Thoughts, everybody?
N.B. I think the current rules regarding the second player to arrive are fine - they might well not want to attack whoever the new owner is, as they might be using entirely the wrong OOB, and/or be simply outmatched by the scale of the enemy fleet.
Oh, and should I add a note regarding co-op victory to the rules? I don't really think it takes anything away from the game (obviously, since I went for it with Spike), and I think the added glory of being the sole winner provides enough incentive not to go for it automatically. If I'd thought I could win by going it alone, I most certainly would have.
Me too.Originally posted by GeneralTacticus
If I'd thought I could win by going it alone, I most certainly would have.
Oh Hell, I'm in again.
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Re: #1, I don't like the prospect of a crushing first round either. Perhaps the current system is the best approximation, after all, I can hardly see "real" space battles taking place so that commanders throw only a sort of ship at a time at the enemy.
Re: #2, I agree with GT, the modifiers are alright.
Re: #3, #4
Re: #5, I support this idea. Since the attacks are hardly co-ordinated, it's not possible to tell who will be first until somebody gets there, so it'd do well to randomize it.
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Perhaps instead of continuous damage, we should calculate damage after the first 3 rounds of combat, and also make the OOB split into two halves, each of which contains lasers torpedos and fighters. For example then, TLTLFF would not be allowed, where TLFFLT would be allowed.
Play hangman.
#1 and #2: I'm in favour of counting damage and distracting ships each round, just to make tactics very important. At least there is more chance then that both sides have damage.
But if the majority does not agree to this, how about this: the OoB MUST consist all weapon types in groups of 3, and after that all weapons are used (after 3 battle rounds thus), destroyed and damaged ships are counted and distracted if necessary. The order in which the weapons are fired linked with the formation and distance still have their effect, and battle damage happens more likely on both sides then. So never 2 similar weapons in the first group of 3, and a countdown after all weapon types have fired then.
#4: I can see the merit of Spikie's reduced base building costs after the 6th, but why not together with it that base 7-12 only adds 4 BP's every turn/base, 13-18 only 3 Bp's? I see it as that the best interstellar real estate is populated after the first 6, and so less 'minerals' can be harvested by the remainder.
Or else, why not 'incorporating' conquered bases by the new empire by letting them increase their BP' from 2 to 5 in a number of rounds (with 6 as max. again for 5 BP's bases)? As we saw in GO II, the last 3 Overlords were the ones who kept building first before conquering neighbours. Let the agressive overlords also have a way to have good real estate in due time.
#5: a randomizer could be that who is the closest in the gamelist attacks the victim first. But I wouldn't automatically let a second attacker starting the battle if his assumed victim is already mopped up. One can always order to press the attack if he wishes so there is no need for this.
Sth that came up during last game: someone attacks, but fails. Another overlord takes in the meantime all his bases. So in essence we have an overlord with quite a number of ships left but no bases anymore. How about allowing such an overlord continue to exist so he can try acquiring new bases by seeking an allied attack or even a single attack?
Another possibility: new order 'attack to the death'. An overlord orders to continue attack untill one of the fleets is no more. To achieve this the OoB starts again after the first 6 rounds are done.
And yet another proposal: put the base cap back on six, but in every battle an attacker can only conquer one base. If there are more attackers on the same overlord then they can all attack different bases, and the 'Huh, bases already owned by another player??' won't happen so offen anymore. Only the first attacker will meet the strongest fleet and has the least change to succeed, and so on.
Edit: ah, I see Chaunk has the same idea regarding the OoB...
fighters and torpedos would be launched before the ships got into real danger,so the current combat system is ok.
O yes, regarding alliances... how many overlords may share victory then? Will we decide a cap on that?
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I think Geo and Chaunk's idea is probably best; it would increase the importance of tactics, while not making the opening rounds the sole determinant of victory. However, I think the rules for destroyed ships would need some revision if we went down this route; maybe, instead of removing all ships of a certain type before moving on to the next, eliminate all small ships first, then then the bigger ones?
I thought it already worked that way.
It doesn't. You can put any weapon type anywhere in the OOB you want, and unless a fleet is destroyed outright, losses have no effect until the end of combat.
I meant smaller ships destroyed first.
Yes, but AFAIK, you remove a larger ship of the same type ebfore a smaller ship of a different one; e.g. if lasers were first on your OOB, a laser titan would be removed before a fighter frigate.
That is a good idea, GT. Hadn't worked out yet how ships were removed due to battle damage (was not so important for me as player, the GM took care of that ).


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"An authentic page turner…. Rogers [vividly] captures this era of Elvis records and small-town Maine fishing life." —Down East 1 After we almost burned down a summer cottage, my friends and I were not allowed to see each other for the rest of July and August. It was 1963, and I was twelve. After the fire, my parents decided that they should take me in hand lest I end up in jail. Grand, my grandmother who lived across the road from us, usually took care of me while they worked. Daddy made his living as a lobsterman and had to haul traps every day. My mother, Carlie, was a waitress at the Lobster Shack. She cut back on her shifts to keep me out of trouble. Being under Carlie's playful eye wasn't the worst thing that had ever happened to me. I had her pretty much to myself for the last two weeks of July, and we did something different every day. 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Ah lewie lewa, Oh whoa, I saida we gotta go, thumped on the radio. My best friend, Dottie Butts, and I spent one afternoon listening to "Louie Louie" every time it came on, because we'd heard it was dirty. But it was hard to figure out the words. Dottie said the singer sounded as if his tongue had been cut to ribbons and he was trying to sing through the blood. We came up with the words, "Every night, at ten, I lay her again. I chuck that girl then I went away." I asked Carlie about what she thought the words might be, but she shrugged. "Dunno," she said. "It's all about the beat, I guess." When we reached the beach, Carlie paid a fee at a booth and we parked in a dirt lot. The sun bounced off the paint on the cars and made me squint. "Don't do that," Carlie said. "You'll get a line between your eyes and look old before you're twenty. We'll get you sunglasses at the snack bar." She looked into the rearview mirror as she layered on bright pink lipstick, then we got out the picnic basket along with an old blanket and our towels and we headed for the bathhouse. When Carlie pulled off her panties, her thatch shone like copper. Fire crotch. I'd heard those words spoken about my mother one day as I waited for her to get off work. Two men were sitting close to me and one said to the other, "Redhead. I'll bet she's got a fire crotch." Now, when I saw Carlie naked, that's what I thought. She pulled her suit up over her hips, worked it over the penny-sized nipples on her small breasts, then wrestled the straps up over her back. I rolled my suit up over my skinny, hairless body, wishing something would bump out or curve in so I could say I was becoming a woman. Carlie had told me, not too long before when I'd been whining about my girl's body, "Pretty soon you'll be so dreamy the boys will walk into walls." Because she had said it, I held some hope of it in my heart. "Let's go," Carlie said, and we gathered our belongings and headed for the snack bar. Carlie bought me sunglasses with pink cat rims and we hopped and squeaked barefoot up over the hot boards covering the tarry, hot boardwalk. "Run!" Carlie said. We pounded over the boards to the top in a rush and took in a strip of sun-beaten sand and curly, bottle-green breakers below us. More people than I would see in a year sprawled on blankets or jumped and screamed in the waves. About halfway down the beach, a woman in a black bathing suit stood and waved at us from a yellow blanket. When we got close enough, Patty hollered, "Hey Florine," and Carlie and I threw our picnic basket and beach bag down onto the blanket. "Hot," Carlie said. "I'm going to cool off right away." She grabbed one of my hands and Patty grabbed the other one and they ran me down toward the waves. Before I could scream, a wall of water flung me down, tumbled me like laundry, scraped me along the sand bottom and spat me back onto the beach, where Carlie grabbed me. "Scared?" she asked. Of course I was, and back we went, time and again, until we were scratched and beat up. We dipped into the backwash between breakers and cleaned the sand from our suits as best we could. We staggered back toward our blanket, me trailing behind the two most beautiful women that I knew. Even though they both were small in height, they walked tall and carried themselves high and proud. They tossed their heads at the same time, and their wet hair flung sprays of salty water into the air. When I tossed my head, I tripped over my big feet and almost fell over. Back on our blanket, we ate peanut butter and grape jelly sandwiches, chugged root beers, and looked out at the ocean. "You behaving?" Patty asked me. "Haven't started any fires lately, have you?" "We didn't mean to do it," I said. "It didn't burn down all the way." "I'm joshing you," Patty said. "Rich bastards deserve a little smoke in their eyes from time to time." "Well, let's talk about something else," Carlie said. She took a deep breath and let it out. "Ain't this grand," she said. She pulled her bathing suit strap away from her shoulder. "Do I have a burn?" "You just got here," Patty said. "I burn easy," Carlie said. She poured baby oil onto her legs and rubbed it in. "What about me?" Patty asked. Carlie snorted. Patty was golden in all the places we could see her. "Am I tan?" I asked. Carlie took off her sunglasses and looked at my shoulders. "No," she said. "You have my skin. Your father, now, there's someone who tans easy." "How is the old man?" Patty asked. I wanted to say he isn't old (even though he was twelve years older than Carlie) but Patty saw my look and gave me the gift of her dimples. "It's just an expression, Florine," she said. "Your daddy's a stud." "What's a stud?" I asked. "He's fine," Carlie said. "Hauling." "Same old same old," Patty said. "Oh, by the way, someone's missing you." "Who?" Carlie asked. Patty grinned like a cat. "You know," she said. I couldn't see Carlie's face, but she must have given Patty a look, because Patty glanced at me and her smile got smaller. She grabbed a yellow-knotted string purse from beside her on the blanket and fished out a dollar. "How about you get an ice cream, my treat," she said to me. "Okay?" she asked Carlie. "I want to stay," I said. I wanted to hear about who was missing Carlie. But Carlie said to me, "You get an ice cream and you come right back," and I went. Mostly she was easygoing, but when she asked me to do something, I did it. I traveled fast over the hot sand and skimmed up and down over the boardwalk to the snack bar. I stood in line for what seemed hours but was most likely minutes. I got a chocolate jimmy cone and headed back, paying attention not to get it all over me. I was halfway back down the beach when I noticed the man with Carlie and Patty. He was a darker gold than Patty, and he had black hair. He was stretched on his back on the blanket, hiked up on his elbows, talking to Carlie, who sat facing him, her knees up near her chin, her hands wrapped around her legs. I crunched the nubbin end of my sugar cone as I walked up to them. The man turned toward me, shutting one eye to keep down the glare of the sun. When he smiled at me, one tooth snaggled out of the left side of his mouth. "Hi," he said. "You Florine?" His hair was slicked back, shiny. His eyes were blue. He looked at Carlie. "Looks like the old man, I guess," he said. "She's got some of your coloring, but she's going to be bigger in every way." Patty giggled. My ears felt hot. I swallowed the rest of my cone and decided I didn't like him. "Can we go for a walk?" I asked Carlie. She looked at me over the top of her sunglasses. Her face was turning pink. "Sure," she said. She got up and brushed herself off. The man looked at her legs. He shifted his hips on the blanket and moved himself up onto his elbows a bit more. "Who's that?" I asked as we walked out of earshot. "Mike," she said. "He comes into the Shack. He's a customer." "Is he the someone who misses you?" I asked. "What do you mean?" Carlie asked. "Patty said someone missed you." Carlie shrugged. "I don't know," she said. "It doesn't matter. I don't miss him." She stopped and stretched, looked out over the ocean. Then she said, "Come here. Stand in front of me." I did, and she bent down and pointed toward the line between the sea and the sky. "See the horizon?" she asked. "Yes." "If you could walk through that line and come out on the other side, you would be somewhere completely different. Wouldn't that be a gas?" "Yeah, I guess," I said. A seagull landed nearby, cocked its white head, and studied us with a yellow eye. Carlie waved it off. We walked toward a pile of rocks and sat on a black one with a flat surface that fit both our butts just fine. We looked out at Carlie's horizon for a few seconds, then she said in a dreamy voice, "When I was a kid, before I'd go to sleep, I'd put myself to flying. I'd go to all these places and touch down, look around, see if I recognized anybody. Then I grew up, drove up here, and there was your father, walking towards me with the sun hitting the back of his head like a halo. Blue eyes, big smile, big shoulders, big man, and I said to myself, 'Well, here he is, Carlie. This is where you stop.' He's a good man, Florine. One of the best men I've ever met." She looked at me and said, "What do you think about before you drift off?" "I don't know," I said. "'Course you don't," she said. "You're your father's girl. And that's not a bad thing." She patted my arm and I winced. "Oh shit," she said. "Honey, you're sunburned. We'll go back to the blanket and pack up. Then let's go home, okay?" It was fine with me. Patty and snaggletooth Mike were jumping around in the waves. As we came closer, they waved at us and ran for the blanket. Patty shook drops of cold water on me. "Want to go in some more?" she asked. Carlie said, "We're going home, Patty. Florine has a sunburn." Mike lifted the bathing suit strap near Carlie's shoulder and ran his finger along the line between white and red skin. He said, "You got one too." "Stop it," Carlie snapped. Mike backed away. "You got to tell me the rules, Carlie. Just gotta know the rules." Head down, he walked toward the pile of rocks we'd just left. "I'll talk to you later," Carlie said to Patty, and we left her stretched on her back on the blanket, one leg bent, looking toward the rocks where Mike had gone. We were both quiet on the way home and we didn't play the radio. About halfway to Long Reach, I saw a boy about my age swing out over a pond on a thick rope that hung from the branch of a large tree. 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This book will ring true for anyone who has grown up in a small town, where truth is always stranger than fiction." — Debbie Taylor, Book Buyer, Shermans Book Stores, Maine "Refreshing . . . A piercingly knowing portrait of the complicated thoughts and actions of a maturing teenage girl . . . with a one-of-a-kind setting and dialect straight from the shore." —David Svenson, Portland Monthly "Incredibly detailed, rich and real…You will find yourself drawn into this book quickly and fiercely." —Katy England, The Maine Edge "The young, prickly, and thoroughly endearing narrator of Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea got to me in a big way. Not since Ellen Foster have I rooted so hard for a fictional girl, whose losses, while deep and abiding, show us what she's made of. I loved spending time with Florine, and I'm still thinking about her. 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Friday, February 26, 2010
Details on McCaffrey wrongful conviction: Priest made sure reluctant recanter recanted
I tried to locate Father Guberovic, because I want to write to him. He seems to have moved on from the parish where this incident occurred and I can't find him. If anyone knows his whereabouts, please let us know.
You see, Father Guverovic is a hero, and I want to thank him.
In an age when Catholic clergymen have been unfairly painted with a broad brush as child molestors (similar to the hateful attitude that declares "all men are rapists"), it is well to remember that countless clergymen are out in the trenches day in and day out, helping countless people in countless ways we never hear about. This particular priest knew that a terrible injustice had occurred, and that for every day a man sat in prison, a terrible justice was still occurring. He insisted that a young woman who had told a terrible lie make it right. This had to be painful for the good priest, and it would have been easier for him not to become involved.
The next time you hear some Catholic basher make an off-hand "jest" about Catholic priests and altar boys, kindly remember Father Zeljko Guberovic, and in his name, chide the "comedian" that the vast majority of priests, like the vast majority of men, are good people who do their jobs and try to do the right thing day in and day out. And sometimes, like Father Guberovic, they even do heroic things.
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Rape Liar Didn't Want To Confess Because She Was Pregnant
The woman whose false rape accusations put an innocent man in prison for four years wouldn't have admitted her story was a lie if she knew she was pregnant at the time, according to court documents. Biurny Peguero Gonzalez told investigators she wouldn't have come forward during confessional with her priest if she knew she was going to have a child. "She said that had she been aware of her pregnancy, she probably would not have confessed when she did," the papers state.
According to the Post, the documents filed by the prosecution also reveal that after learning of her pregnancy, Gonzalez tried to avoid contacting authorities. The 27-year-old—who claimed she was raped in Upper Manhattan in 2005 to cover up a fight with her girlfriends and make them feel sorry for her—reportedly lied to her priest by saying she couldn't confess to her lawyer because she had lost her cellphone.
When she finally called her attorney, "it was from a church phone, with the priest watching to be sure she finished the job," the tabloid notes. Gonzalez's admission allowed Bronx construction worker William McCaffrey, 33, to have his 20-year sentence overturned. Gonzalez was sentenced yesterday 1 to 3 years behind bars for perjury.
Link: http://gothamist.com/2010/02/25/woman_who_lied_about_rape.php
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Good for this priest!
- Feb 26, 2010, 5:32:00 PM
- Snark said...
You're completely right. We should never stand for clergymen (Catholic or otherwise) being tarred as child molestors, rapists, etc.
It's just another example of men being targeted for being men.
This must be opposed by all of us - including the non-religious (like myself). - Feb 26, 2010, 6:00:00 PM
Thank you, Snark. Beautifully stated. A friend of mine was a priest (he died of a sudden illness) but when the clergy sex scandal struck, he said he was ashamed to wear his collar in public. This is a man who'd done good all his life and, as Snark said, was now being tarred for being a man.
- Feb 26, 2010, 6:08:00 PM
Status of Rev. Guberovic:
You can call and ask his whereabouts @:
St Anthony Of Padua Roman Catholic Church
615 8th St
Union City, NJ 07087-2913
Phone: (201) 867-3818
I've seen his name in another church's bulletin in a prayer request.
So perhaps they know his status. - Feb 26, 2010, 6:23:00 PM
Prosecutors: Michael Irvin won't face rape charges
http://www.newyorkcrimestatistics.com/article/Prosecutors%3A%20Michael%20Irvin%20won%27t%20face%20rape%20charges/?k=j83s12y12h94s27k02 - Feb 26, 2010, 7:49:00 PM
Notice that Michael Irvin is counter suing his accuser and they still refuse to even NAME her!
- Feb 26, 2010, 8:11:00 PM
A priest is an easy target for false accusations.
I was a n altar boy growing up and the priest that taught me how to serve mass was thrown out of his parish based on someone's accusation of a rape that supposedly happened 25 years or more earlier.
They pretty much did a hot job on him in my local paper....so I stopped subscribing to it as a result.
NO ONE will believe a priest did NOT do anything.
I knew this guy and it showed me how easy it is to destroy someones entire life and reputation. - Feb 26, 2010, 8:16:00 PM
I meant "hit job"
- Feb 26, 2010, 8:17:00 PM
Catholic clergymen have been unfairly painted
How much more evidence do you need to understand the severe problem of priests abusing children?
I see absolutely nothing in this thread that cries out for the children who were molested and raped.
I see only big high 5's for the F***ing abusers.
Lexxie - Feb 26, 2010, 9:50:00 PM
- Archivist said...
Hey Lexxie, way out of line. Nobody here disputes that some priests have abused children and that some Bishops covered it up. If you read this blog long enough, you will understand that our mission is to end these vile stereotypes that tend to paint ALL priests as moletester; ALL men as rapists, or violent, or selfish.
We are not a site that defends wrongdoing. We are a site that doesn't like the good members of a group to be unfairly tainted by the bad.
The vast majority of priests don't fit that group. Sorry. Won't sell here. - Feb 26, 2010, 10:15:00 PM
All priests are not rapists, all men are not rapists, all women are not false accusers.
I'm not tring to 'sell' you anything as you insinuated. What are YOU trying to sell your sick readers.
One priest urged a woman to recant and you put him on a pedestal. You have a way of attracting the dregs don't you.
Lexie - Feb 26, 2010, 10:43:00 PM
- Archivist said...
Lexie, please don't post here again. We live in a world where false accusations of rape that ruin countless men every year, including many of our readers, are tolerated, even implicitly encouraged. If you are a regular reader (and you're not), you'd would know how that occurs. Prosecutors, police, judges, television reporters, sexual assault counselors, college administrators, and many, many others play along and allow innocent men to be treated as collateral damage in the "more important" war on rape. The victimization of our sons is treated as less important than the victimization of our daughters.
When someone goes out of his way to insure that an innocent men is freed from a multiple year false rape hell, you are damn right we are going to put him on a pedestal. Why? Because so few people do it. And one innocent man might still be in prison -- being raped (he suggested he was subjected to prison atrocities) -- if it were not for this priest.
Shame on you for trivializing a heroic act that spared an innocent man of this hell. Shame on you!
Don't post here again. - Feb 26, 2010, 11:09:00 PM
I am amazed how no matter what is said on this blog, thre is always one nutcase who has to take exception to it.
- Feb 26, 2010, 11:28:00 PM
I find it hard to believe there aren't a bunch of falsely accused priests.
- Feb 26, 2010, 11:31:00 PM
well if priests are NOT subjected to false accusers, then they are the only group of men not subjected to them.
- Feb 26, 2010, 11:49:00 PM
lexie, yer attempts to foment hysteria her are nearly impotent. When hysteria sisters try and paint all men as rapists, this hysteria turns a sound legal system into a type of "Klan court", and yer "Klan court" is a perversion and its days are numbered.
Unrestrained hysteria leads to injustices of the law, so its near time to dismantle the faulty and inflammatory hysteria machine.
Have a nice day!! - Feb 27, 2010, 3:58:00 AM
Faulty and inflammatory misinformation "hysteria" has a tendency to turn a sound legal system into a type of "klan court" where perversion of justice are commonplace.
The gender feminist / law enforcement misinformation ALLIANCE needs to be put on trial, for I beleive it is un-constitutional, and is leading to perversion of the law. - Feb 27, 2010, 4:03:00 AM
Lexie, I am sure that those who have been abused by priests will be really glad to know that they are being used as collateral to help get women who make false rape claims off the hook.
By all means crawl around in the sewer to exploit an issue like this for your own agenda. But please don't be so damn sanctimonious about it. - Feb 27, 2010, 4:06:00 AM
- Snark said...
"I see only big high 5's for the F***ing abusers."
False accusers = abusers.
You want to see high fives for the F***ing (sic) abusers? Go to any feminist website. - Feb 27, 2010, 6:25:00 AM
"The gender feminist / law enforcement misinformation ALLIANCE needs to be put on trial"
Except that won't work. The only solution is to get everyone to wear a hat lined with aluminum foil to keep the alien mind-control satellite from entering our brains. - Feb 27, 2010, 9:51:00 AM
"BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Connecticut authorities have decided not to go forward with the prosecution of three Sacred Heart University lacrosse players who were accused of conspiring to sexually assault a woman in a dorm room, a lawyer for one of the men said Thursday."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/gang_rape_case_against_conn_lacrosse_VNTagFthrHrWZsBDUTQBcM#ixzz0gkSQjOEN - Feb 27, 2010, 9:52:00 AM
Completely OT, but an interesting read nonetheless I think.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1254164/Single-mother-Britain-Three-women-explain-babies-dont-need-father.html - Feb 27, 2010, 10:16:00 AM
What occupations should a young man avoid in this day and age to keep safe from false accusations?
Obviously "Priest" is one. La Crosse player seems to be another.
What else? - Feb 27, 2010, 11:04:00 AM
- Sonja Newcombe said...
Anon: Any sportsman. Aside from some of the more obscure sports, nearly all the major sports have had some "scandal" or another.
One exception I've noted here in Australia is the V8 Supercar drivers.
...and I just realised I've missed Race 3 of the season already. Go me. - Feb 27, 2010, 12:35:00 PM
"The gender feminist / law enforcement misinformation ALLIANCE needs to be put on trial"
Except that won't work. The only solution is to get everyone to wear a hat lined with aluminum foil to keep the alien mind-control satellite from entering our brains.
I say..I'm tickled that you make a mockery of the only real solution to this "cultural perversion" that has taken over our legal system. The blind can lead the blind all they want, but their needs to also be very real solutions presented that will address the issue.
This degree of ALLIANCE is unconstitutional. So giggle about aliens all you want, but if we ever cast off this perversion of our legal community, it will be rooted in the procedures to "Break the misinformation Alliance" - Feb 27, 2010, 12:50:00 PM
"I say..I'm tickled that you make a mockery of the only real solution to this "cultural perversion" that has taken over our legal system."
No, the only real solution is changing the law. For a solution to work it needs to correctly identify the problem it is trying to solve.
Just like feminist policies based on seemingly imaginary ideological constructs such as "patriarchy" and "rape culture" have only made things worse for everyone, there is nothing to be gained by trying to address your persistent delusion of an "alliance" because it does not exist.
You insist on repeating the same exact nonsense over and over and over and over again. Yet, no matter how many times other people have asked, you cannot provide any evidence to support your unsubstantiated claims.
While perhaps you have the right to make yourself look crazy, the danger is that you hurt the credibility of all of us who recognize false rape accusations as a very real and serious problem, and risk alienating those who might otherwise be on our side. - Feb 27, 2010, 2:39:00 PM
- Toysoldier said...
It also appears that Peguero initially wanted immunity from perjury charges in exchange for recanting: http://glennsacks.com/blog/?p=4099.
- Feb 27, 2010, 3:06:00 PM
Sir, with all due respect I have explained the current "gender feminist / law enforcement Misinformation Alliance" for you many times, and will do it again.
example 1..When police arrest a non violent man in a domestic violence situation, and hold him in jail until he pleads guilty to a lessor charge just to get out, this sir is one of the ways law enforcement is "manufacturing statistics".
Another example of the current law enforcement practice of "manufacturing faulty and inflammatory misinformation" is my own false rape accusation case.
When i was brought down to the police station for questioning, i was so humiliated for being there on a rape accusation that I specifically requested that i will not cooperate unless i know this girl will be charged with for making this false rape accusation against me.
The law enforcement officers assured me that "yes if she made a false rape accusation against you (something that could put me in jail for 20 years, or get me Rape lynched) that she would be charged.
Well after the facts came out, and there were no taxi cab reports to be found ( she said i raped her and she ran out of my apartment and took a cab home)..and there were 2 semen loads in her and neither were mine, it was clear her rape accusation against me was a lie.
I then demanded she be charged in order to clear my name to the people she told this false rape accusation to, and thats when i understood another perversion in the current law enforcement protocol that "manufactures faulty and inflammatory misinformation.
You see in order to meet their gender feminist bosses 2% false rape accusation number, when in reality the percentages are much higher, the law enforcement community simply "re-defines what the meaning of is, is"
The law enforcement community that handled my case told me that "WE DON'T KNOW SHE WAS LYING TO US", and i said "what do you mean you don't know she was lying to to, did you not check the taxi cab company that she said came and got her from my apartment, did you not check the 2 semen loads in her from the 2 other guys she had sex for drugs with???"
They started to get angry with me for insisting she be charged, and in effect told me to go away. Now i understand they don't want to leave any PAPER TRAILS of false rape accusations. By Not leaving any paper trails of false rape accusations, they can continue to tell the public the faulty and inflammatory misinformation that only 2% of all rape accusations are false, when the reality is much greater.
It is these procedural protocols that are in effect "manufacturing faulty and inflammatory misinformation that is building a societal pre-judice against the innocent.
It is un-constitutional to use state and federal funds to manufacture a prejudice like the way law enforcement across the country are now engaging in. - Feb 27, 2010, 3:38:00 PM
To point out the current gender feminist / law enforcement misinformation Alliance..is like David throwing a rock at Goliath, he aimed right for the eye, for hitting him anywhere else would be "IMPOTENT".
- Feb 27, 2010, 3:43:00 PM
- Archivist said...
There is an alliance, in the sense that politics makes strange bedfellows. Law enforcement is under inappropriate scrutiny from rape feminist groups to take rape "seriously." Among many other things, the result is that law enforcement often takes precautions that it otherwise would not take. It arrests men based on the say so of a lone accuser because to refuse to do that would be seen as "not believing" a rape victim . And rather than release an accused rapist while they investigate, they fear the remote possibility that he will actually rape someone if released. If that were to occur, the hue and cry would sound wide and far among women's groups and the police officers who released him likely would lose their jobs. DAs are under similar pressures, as are judges.
The paramount fear of law enforcement is to have their faces splashed all over the evening news for having been "lenient" with a rapist. While women's groups lead the protests, the hysterical, law and order pulic gets right in line.
Thus, law enforcement gives muscle to this zero tolerance for any rape accusation, but rape feminism is leading the charge. - Feb 27, 2010, 4:19:00 PM
And most politicians realize that it would be political suicide to be seen as taking a softer line on sex offenders, which is invariably how such measures would be portrayed in the media or by political opponents.
We currently live in a time where populism rules the day, and the most lazy and emotive argument tends to win out. Things were not always quite like that.
When you have the women's groups, the law-and-order populists and the whole legal industry pushing the same barrow, it is a formidable alliance. - Feb 27, 2010, 8:29:00 PM
- Archivist said...
Nick, very well stated.
- Feb 28, 2010, 10:42:00 AM
nice post. thanks.
- Feb 28, 2010, 5:18:00 PM


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Sony shareholders' meeting to discuss splitting electronics and entertainment divisions
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Kaz Hirai hints the PS4 will release after Xbox 720
Kaz Hirai has hinted the next PlayStation console will not go on sale before Microsoft launches its Xbox 360 follow up.
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Sony looking at new projects to 'wow' its customers & avoid bureaucracy, says Kaz Hirai
Sony's CEO Kaz Hirai has laid out the company's approach to the future, following its CES presentation. Hirai has painted a roadmap consisting of new projects, a stronger focus and by giving its customers a 'wow' factor.
Tue, Jan 08, 2013 | 16:19 GMT
Sony's CES presentation skirts around gaming, talks tech – report
Sony's CES presentation took place in the wee hours this morning, although PS3, PS4 and PS Vita were notably absent from proceedings and instead, tech took centre stage. Some critics have even gone so far as to raise concern over what has been called by one site as 'disappointing'.
Thu, Aug 30, 2012 | 15:55 BST
Vita sales are "where we would expect it to be," says Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai
Vita sales are in line with Sony expectations, according to Kazuo Hirai; however, Sony's CEO admitted sales were a bit off in some regions.
Thu, Jun 28, 2012 | 17:09 BST
"One Sony" is the new mantra for getting the firm out of financial difficulty, says House
Andrew House, head of Sony's global games division, has said the PlayStation brand can help Sony financially recover, and boost the firm after reporting an annual record annual loss of £3.6 billion in May.
Wed, Jun 27, 2012 | 10:47 BST
Hirai drops PlayStation job
Kaz Hirai has stepped aside from his role as representative director and chairman on the Sony Computer Entertainment board. Hirai became CEO and president of the Sony Corporation on April 1. Thanks, GI.
Thu, May 10, 2012 | 15:06 BST
PlayStation Vita sales hit 1.8 million worldwide
Sony's confirmed sales of PlayStation Vita are at 1.8 million units.
Sat, Apr 14, 2012 | 20:25 BST
Analysts: Sony could defray costs by stripping down PSN's free services, employ more "freemium" content
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Wed, Apr 11, 2012 | 07:43 BST
Why Sony's £4 billion loss isn't the disaster it seems
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Thu, Apr 05, 2012 | 11:14 BST
Hirai to spearhead new Sony strategy announcement next week
New Sony CEO Kaz Hirai is set to announce a new strategy plan that will pull the company out of the red in a presentation next Thursday. The presentation will be broadcasted live in audio form, with the newly-inducted CEO at the helm of the call.
Via Engadget.
Fri, Feb 03, 2012 | 18:29 GMT
Quick Quotes: Hirai on tackling Sony's hardware woes
"I thought turning around the PlayStation business was going to be the toughest challenge of my career, but I guess not. It's one issue after another. I feel like 'Holy shit, now what?' We can't just continue to be a great purveyor of hardware products, even though some people expect us to do that. We really need to buckle down and be realistic. I don't think everybody is on board, but I think people are coming around to the idea that if we don't turn this around, we could be sitting in some serious trouble." – Sony CEO Kaz Hirai on fixing the firm's hardware business to The Wall Street Journal.
Fri, Feb 03, 2012 | 08:48 GMT
PlayStation business aiming to be number one, says Hirai
New Sony boss Kaz Hirai has made no bones about it: he wants PlayStation to be in the number spot in the industry.
Wed, Feb 01, 2012 | 09:22 GMT
Kaz Hirai becomes president, CEO of Sony Corp – details
Kazuo Hirai will take over as president and CEO of Sony Corp from Sir Howard Stringer, the company's announced this morning.
Wed, Jan 11, 2012 | 10:04 GMT
Hirai: PlayStation to lead Sony back into profitability
Sony Corp EVP and SCE chairman Kaz Hirai has said the PlayStation business will bring back profitability to the company, beginning with the western launch of PlayStation Vita. Hirai made the quote in a CES roundtable to a group of journalists, reported by Reuters, alongside Sony Corp president Howard Stringer. Stringer insisted on his part in the roundtable, where Hirai had already mentioned there'd be no PS4 announcement for E3, that the company's TV business would remain its main focal point.
Vita launches in the US and Europe on February 22.
Wed, Jan 11, 2012 | 10:33 GMT
Sony's Hirai debunks PS4 E3 reveal rumours – details
Sony Computer Entertainment chairman Kazuo Hirai has flatly denied whispers of an imminent PlayStation 4 reveal at E3 in June.
Tue, Jan 10, 2012 | 11:55 GMT
CES 2012: 500,000 Vitas sold, two new PS Suite phones
During its Consumer Electronics Show press conference in Las Vegas this evening, Sony revealed the Vita has passed half a million sales in Japan.
Sat, Jan 07, 2012 | 20:19 GMT
Sony dismisses report claiming Hirai is replacing Stringer
Sony has dismissed a recent report which claimed the company was planning to replace current president Howard Stringer with Kazuo Hirai.
Fri, Oct 21, 2011 | 05:38 BST
Sony in "discussions" to expand PlayStation Suite platforms
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To celebrate my "return", I've went through my products and marked down over a dozen of my favorites – slashing the price in half! The sale begins now and ends on Tuesday. Keep your eye out for items marked with a red "ON SALE" sign in the top right corner.
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New release! These crochet leg warmers can hold up to winter outfits, but are light enough for spring/summer as well. 12 fun colors, 2 different patterns. I've already listed them on marketplace to make it easy for you to shop without logging in.
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Would this sundae make your visit even more of a fundae?
18 February 2013 - 6:35pm
Would this sundae make your visit even more of a fundae?
That's our Food & Beverage Director, Jason, in the blue shirt.
Food is his business. Serious business.
Today was yet another day of "tastings" for Jason and his F&B management team.
No matter what he specifically asks the vendors (the Men in Black, above) to bring for sampling, they manage to show up with a few surprises.
Such as ...
... this inter- esting concoc- tion.
They called it a "Pot Roast Sundae."
Some folks on our Face- book page got a little bit con- fused about this - thinking we had tipped off the edge of the earth at long last.
No, that's most certainly not meat and ice cream. What you see is meat, potatoes and au jus. In a cup.
So perhaps "sundae" is not the best choice of word.
What do you suggest? Pot Roast Parfait? Meat 'n' Potatoes in a Cup?
And, more importantly, does this look delish to you? We'd love to know what you think!
No Thanks
Does not sound good at all. I go to amusement parks for amusement park food. This does not fit the bill. (And would not look great on the way out after a few laps on the Raven.)
I'll pass
It looks like something you pull out of the fridge on leftover night. I'm sure it's tasty but meat and mashed potatoes is a meal you sit down to eat (not carry around in a cup).
you know, having a Thanksgiving themed section makes food choices more exciting. I'm very happy to see something like this. Its really no different than at other parks with the fried turkey legs, or to go to a sit down buffet, but you have mashed potatoes AND meat on the go. yes please, I'll take 2.
Portable Pot Roast
Walkin' Taters (make a meat free variety for vegetarian friends, taters in a cup)
They had something like that
They had something like that at the Illinois state fair. they topped it off with a cherry tomato used to represent a cherry. They were very good and my boys loved them. I would definately purchase


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Boulder County Farmers Market, a nonprofit group that runs farmers' markets in Boulder and Longmont, hired Brian Coppom as executive director. Coppom replaces Shanan Olson, who left the post in June. Coppom has served at Naturally Boulder, a natural products trade group in Boulder, the Natural Products Association in Washington, D.C., and the Project Management Institute in Pennsylvania. He most recently was chief executive of MyROW International Inc., a project management and telecommunication engineering firm based in Hogansburg, New York. He also is involved with Inglorious Monk Bakery in Longmont, which is his wife's business, and with a Longmont market stand.
Heath Construction, a commercial construction company based in Fort Collins with projects throughout the region, named Rodney Rogers chief estimator. Rogers has 35 years of experience in estimating cost of construction projects.
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Monica M. Baldwin, a financial adviser and president of Main Street Investments Inc. in Longmont, was named to the Raymond James Financial Services 2014 Executive Council. The council honors financial advisers who demonstrate a high level of commitment to clients through personal service and professional integrity. This is the 10th consecutive year Baldwin has qualified for this recognition.
Vail Resorts Inc. (NYSE: MTN) hired Randall Mehrberg as executive vice president and general counsel, effective Dec. 2. Since 2008, Mehrberg has been the executive vice president of strategy and development for Public Service Enterprise Group (NYSE:PEG) and president of PSEG Energy Holdings, which develops, manages and owns renewable energy solutions. Mehrberg has a law degree from the University of Michigan Law School and a bachelor of science degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business.
Boulder-based West Flanders Brewing Co., a Belgian-inspired brewpub, hired Tony Hessel as executive chef. Hessel graduated from the Culinary Institute of America and worked as a sous chef and chef de cuisine at various restaurants in Denver before moving to Boulder. He has 18 years of experience including stints at The Mediterranean and Brasserie Ten Ten restaurants in Boulder.
Broomfield-based Famous Brands International, parent company of TCBY Yogurt and Mrs. Fields Cookies, appointed David Bloom senior vice president for strategic development. Bloom has been serving as chief development officer for Hurricane Grill & Wings since June 2012. Famous Brands also promoted Dustin Finkel to vice president for marketing; Belinda Oakley to vice president for operations; and Cassie Alvey to vice president for Mrs. Fields gifting.
Niwot-based Crocs Inc. (Nasdaq: CROX) appointed Greg Sullivan general manager of Crocs' Americas region, which includes North, Central and South America. Sullivan will be responsible for managing the regions' day-to-day operations, including overseeing sales, marketing, finance and human resources functions, as well as the region's wholesale, Internet and direct-to-consumer channels. Before joining Crocs, Sullivan spent 20 years at Wal-Mart Stores Inc., most recently, serving as senior vice president for operations for its Southeast division.
Tom Irvine, co-founder and chief executive of Neve Designs in Longmont, a company known for its ski sweaters, is stepping away from its day-to-day operations. Doug Saunders has been named general manager. Saunders has held management jobs in several ski and outdoor industry companies. Kate Saunders has been hired as director of merchandising and development.
Carolyn Barlow has joined Pedal to Properties, a full-service real estate firm in Boulder. Barlow as been a Colorado resident for 19 years and has five years of real estate experience. Barlow is on her way to attaining designation from the Council of Residential Specialists, an internationally recognized association that equips Realtors with training and education.
The Colorado Association of Realtors installed Jolon Ruch as president during the organization's 93nd annual state convention held in Denver. Ruch is a Broomfield resident and broker with the Main Street Group at Keller Williams Realty. Other officers who will serve with Ruch are David Barber, Re/Max Unlimited Inc., Aurora, president-elect; Ann Hayes, Keller Williams Realty, Grand Junction, treasurer; Keith Kanemoto, Prudential Rocky Mountain Realtors, Longmont, immediate past president; and Greg Zadel, Zadel Realty, Firestone, appointed past president. The board's responsibilities include leading and coordinating volunteer efforts of the association aimed at maintaining stability in Colorado's real estate industry, protecting private property rights, supporting efforts for affordable-housing opportunities and providing resources and services designed to help Realtors in Colorado succeed.
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