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Michael Colgrass (b. 1932) began his musical career in Chicago where his first professional experiences were as a jazz drummer (1944-49). He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1954 with a degree in performance and composition and his studies included training with Darius Milhaud at the Aspen Festival and Lukas Foss at Tanglewood. He served two years as timpanist in the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra in Stuttgart, Germany and then spent eleven years supporting his composing as a free-lance percussionist in New York City where his wide-ranging performance venues included the New York Philharmonic, American Ballet Theater, Dizzy Gillespie, the Modern Jazz Quartet, the original West Side Story orchestra on Broadway, the Columbia Recording Orchestra's Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky series, and numerous ballet, opera and jazz ensembles. He organized the percussion sections for Gunther Schuller's recordings and concerts, as well as for premieres of new works by John Cage, Elliott Carter, Edgard Varese, and many others. During this New York period he continued to study composition with Wallingford Riegger (1958) and Ben Weber (1958-60).
Colgrass has received commissions from the New York Philharmonic and The Boston Symphony (twice). Also the orchestras of Minnesota, Detroit, San Francisco, St.Louis, Pittsburgh, Washington, Toronto (twice), the National Arts Centre Orchestra (twice), The Canadian Broadcast Corporation, The Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, the Manhattan and Muir String Quartets, The Brighton Festival in England, The Fromm and Ford Foundations, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and numerous other orchestras, chamber groups, choral groups and soloists.
He won 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Music for Déjà vu, which was commissioned and premiered by the New York Philharmonic. In addition, he received an Emmy Award in 1982 for a PBS documentary "Soundings: The Music of Michael Colgrass." He has been awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships, A Rockefeller Grant, First Prize in the Barlow and Sudler International Wind Ensemble Competitions, and the 1988 Jules Leger Prize for Chamber Music.
He has created a method of teaching children—and teachers—how to write music using graphics. In April of 2009 he did a project with the Middleton Regional High School in Nova Scotia, where high school students wrote seven pieces for band in three days and conducted them in public concert on the fourth. As a result, his method was adopted by the Nova Scotia education system for inclusion in the junior high curriculum. Most recently he had students at Toronto's Rockcliffe Middle School write a group composition for the Esprit orchestra in three days, which was premiered on 25 May 2010 with Alex Pauk conducting.
Among his recent works are Crossworlds (2002) for flute piano and orchestra commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and premiered with soloists Marina Piccinini and Andreas Heafliger. Pan Trio was commissioned and premiered by Soundstreams Canada in 2005 and premiered by them with Liam Teague, steel drums, Sanya Eng, harp and Ryan Scott, percussion. Side by Side (2007) for harpsichord and altered piano with Joanne Kong as soloist, was commissioned by the Esprit Orchestra, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) and the Richmond Symphony Orchestra. Zululand (2010) for wind ensemble, was commissioned and premiered by the University of Wisconsin at River Falls.
As an author, Colgrass wrote "My Lessons With Kumi," a narrative/exercise book, outlining his techniques for performance and creativity. He lectures on personal development and gives workshops throughout the world on the psychology and technique of performance, in which participants do exercises from this book. His newest book, "Adventures of an American Composer," is published by Meredith Music and distributed by the Hal Leonard Corporation. See book website and blog: http://www.colgrassadventures.com.
He lives in Toronto and makes his living internationally as a composer. His wife, Ulla, is a journalist and editor who writes about music and the arts.


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Knight, B., Akhurst, B., Matthews, V.B., Ruddell, R.G., Ramm, G.A., Abraham, L.J., Olynyk, J.K. and Yeoh, G.C. (2007) Attenuated liver progenitor (oval) cell and fibrogenic responses to the choline deficient, ethionine supplemented diet in the BALB/c inbred strain of mice. Journal of Hepatology, 46 (1). pp. 134-141.
Subrata, L.S., Lowes, K.N., Olynyk, J.K., Yeoh, G.C.T., Quail, E.A. and Abraham, L.J. (2005) Hepatic expression of the tumor necrosis factor family member lymphotoxin-beta is regulated by interleukin (IL)-6 and IL-1beta: transcriptional control mechanisms in oval cells and hepatoma cell lines. Liver International, 25 (3). pp. 633-646.
Knight, B., Matthews, V.B., Akhurst, B., Croager, E.J., Klinken, E., Abraham, L.J., Olynyk, J.K. and Yeoh, G. (2005) Liver inflammation and cytokine production, but not acute phase protein synthesis, accompany the adult liver progenitor (oval) cell response to chronic liver injury. Immunology and Cell Biology, 83 (4). pp. 364-374.
Lowes, K.N., Croager, E.J., Olynyk, J.K., Abraham, L.J. and Yeoh, G.C.T. (2003) Oval cell-mediated liver regeneration: Role of cytokines and growth factors. Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 18 (1). pp. 4-12.
Lowes, K.N., Croager, E.J., Abraham, L.J., Olynyk, J.K. and Yeoh, G.C.T. (2003) Upregulation of lymphotoxin expression in liver progenitor (oval) cells in chronic hepatitis C. Gut, 52 (9). pp. 1327-1332.
Kok, C.C., Croager, E.J., Witt, C.S., Kiers, L., Mastaglia, F.L., Abraham, L.J. and Garlepp, M.J. (1999) Mapping of a candidate region for susceptibility to inclusion body myositis in the human major histocompatibility complex. Immunogenetics, 49 (6). pp. 508-516.
French, M.A.H., Abraham, L.J., Mallal, S.A., Degli-Esposti, M.A. and Dawkins, R.L. (1992) MHC genes and HIV. Today's Life Science, 4 (6). pp. 32-36.
Abraham, L.J. and Rood, J.I. (1985) Cloning and analysis of the Clostridium perfringens tetracycline resistance plasmid, pCW3. Plasmid, 13 (3). pp. 155-162.
Abraham, L.J. and Rood, J.I. (1985) Molecular analysis of transferable tetracycline resistance plasmids from Clostridium perfringens. Journal of Bacteriology, 161 (2). pp. 636-640.
Abraham, L.J., Wales, A.J. and Rood, J.I. (1985) Worldwide distribution of the conjugative Clostridium perfringens tetracycline resistance plasmid, pCW3. Plasmid, 14 (1). pp. 37-46.
Abraham, Lawrence Joseph (1986) Molecular genetics of antibiotic resistance determinants from Clostridium perfringens. PhD thesis, Murdoch University.


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Posted on 07/30/2013 7:31:44 PM PDT by matt04
Another court ruling has taken the fizz out of New York City's ban on big, sugary sodas.
A New York appeals court on Tuesday ruled that the city Board of Health exceeded its legal authority and acted unconstitutionally when it tried to put a size limit on soft drinks served in city restaurants.
"The Board of Health overstepped the boundaries of its lawfully delegated authority," the court said in its decision.
The state Supreme Court Appellate Division, with its opinion, upheld an earlier ruling that stopped the ban from taking effect in March. The rule would stop many eateries from selling non-diet soda and other sugar-laden beverages in containers bigger than 16 ounces.
The beverage industry and other opponents say the measure is riddled with exceptions, unfair and ineffective.
The city's law department has promised an appeal. "Today's decision is a temporary setback, and we plan to appeal this decision as we continue the fight against the obesity epidemic," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a statement.
In its unanimous opinion, the four-judge panel said Tuesday that the health board was acting too much like a legislature when it created the limit. The judges wrote that while the board had the power to ban "inherently harmful" foodstuffs from being served to the public, sweetened beverages didn't fall into that category. They also said the board appeared to have crafted much of the new rules based on political or economic considerations, rather than health concerns.
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Now what will Bloomberg do? Appeal to a higher court, to keep this legal battle going?
Maybe Bloomberg will get some humility, that he is not smarter than everyone else, and that he has limits to what he can force on people for their own good.
A Mayors job as I understand it is to oversee the operations of city departments and city government. It is not an annointment of Crown or Dictator position. It should never be an office where Mayor decides he/she is more qualified to make a persons choices in food and beverages. The mayor and his underlings are way out of bounds authority wise and the courts called their hand on it rightfully so.
Maybe Bloomberg will get some humility, that he is not smarter than everyone else, and that he has limits to what he can force on people for their own good.
Maybe it'll start raining shiny bright newly minted silver dollars, too. As often as they're defeated, Marxists back up, change direction slightly, and start new fights. They're persistent as cockroaches.
It's not a mayor's job, agreed. But this is about Bloomberg and his ego and "legacy" NYC has far too many problems, problems that go to the heart and soul of city leadership (e/g. crime) yet nary a word from Bloomin Idiot.
He represents exactly what's wrong with politics. It's all about H I M
You summed it up. He wants to control all the little people within as well. That's just not his job.
Nah, bloomberg has a big NSA room with all the blood sugar levels of the city's diabetics, telling them how much sugar they need exactly every second of their lives... but mind you, he knows better than doctors, same endocrinologists with an ounce of wits who will admit that their patients often know their disease and daily care/treatment more than themselves as doctors.
So go figure... the madness of big government just keeps on rolling. But the method to the madness is Detroit: downsize property prices with high taxes so the bureaucrates can get the cheap deals first when reform occures.
But it was a procedural thing, implying the ban could be on if done the "right" way.
Despite losing a battle, His Royal Hiney Bloomberg vows to continue his War on Freedom.
An, but they don't care that its been declared illegal twice...they go forward with it anyway. Maybe we should start ignoring THEIR laws?
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WINDERMERE, Fla. (Stockpickr) -- Professional traders running mutual funds and hedge funds don't just look at a stock's price moves; they also track big changes in volume activity. Often when above-average volume moves into an equity, it precedes a large spike in volatility.
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Today's Volume: 1.76 million
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Volume % Change: 120%
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From a technical perspective, BBG is starting to spike back above its 200-day moving average of $20.24 with above-average volume. This move is quickly pushing shares of BBG within range of triggering a near-term breakout trade. That trade will hit if BBG manages to take out some near-term overhead resistance at $21.64 with high volume.
Traders should now look for long-biased trades in BBG as long as it's trending above some key near-term support at $19.52 and then once it sustains a move or close above $21.64 with volume that hits near or above 1.46 million shares. If that breakout triggers soon, then BBG will set up to re-test or possibly take out its next major overhead resistance levels at $23 to $24.
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Today's Volume: 4.83 million
Average Volume: 5.14 million
Volume % Change: 51%
From a technical perspective, NBR is spiking higher right above some near-term support at $14.49 and back above its 200-day moving average of $14.94 with decent upside volume. This move is quickly pushing shares of NBR within range of triggering a near-term breakout trade, which will hit if NBR manages to take out its 50-day moving average at $16.37 and then once it clears more overhead resistance at $16.34 with high volume.
Traders should now look for long-biased trades in NBR as long as it's trending above $14.49 or above its 200-day at $14.94, and then once it sustains a move or close above those breakout levels with volume that hits near or above 5.14 million shares. If that breakout triggers soon, then NBR will set up to re-test or possibly take out its next major overhead resistance levels at $17.28 to $18.24.
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Batman is lured back into action after a lengthy hiatus — to prevent a terrorist from nuking a Gotham City closely resembling the Big Apple — in the imposingly dark and hugely entertaining "The Dark Knight Rises.''
Superhero movies are perhaps the most predicable genre out there right now (sorry, Marvel fans), but take it from someone who can usually spot plot twists half an hour away: Christopher Nolan's dramatically and emotionally satisfying wrap-up to the Dark Knight trilogy adroitly avoids clichés and gleefully subverts your expectations at every turn.
Eight years after the end of 2008's "The Dark Knight,'' Christian Bale's Bruce Wayne is a shattered recluse who hobbles around his mansion on a cane following the death of his fiancée — and his long-unseen alter ego, Batman, is being blamed for the death of DA Harvey Dent.
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As summer kicks off, Stevens Research Assistant Professor Jon Miller is once again reminding beach-goers of the dangers of rip currents, especially in the first summer after Hurricane Sandy.
Miller, a coastal processes specialist for the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium (NJSGC), joined experts from the National Weather Service (NWS) and the United States Lifesaving Association (USLA) in a press conference for news media on Long Beach Island on June 4, 2013 to raise rip current awareness and inform swimmers how to stay safe on New Jersey beaches.
"I think potential for rip currents is stronger this year due to the fact that there is more sand in the system and because more structures are exposed due to all of the beach erosion from Hurricane Sandy," Miller said.
Miller is a leading expert on the rip currents, the leading cause of death at the Jersey Shore one of nature's deadliest phenomena. Last year, he partnered with the NJSGC and NWS to develop a novel rip current reporting smartphone app that enhances communication among lifeguards and with the NWS and could help prevent rip current related deaths.
Miller and Stevens Computer Science Professor David Klappholz worked with a team of Stevens Computer Science majors to build a mobile device technology to collect and distribute up-to-the-minute rip current data, such as size, strength and location.
Lifeguards in South Seaside Park, N.J., Sea Girt, N.J., and other New Jersey beach communities have piloted the app, identifying and cataloguing rip current occurrences in real-time and using the app to understand conditions on adjacent beaches. It is also being used by the NWS to inform rip current forecasts, and by the research community to gain greater understanding about the threat of rip currents.
At the press conference, Miller described how the app is refining understanding about where and when rip currents occur and under what conditions they are most prevalent. Miller and the other speakers – Water Drag, a senior meteorologist with the NWS; Don Myers, USLA Long Beach Lifeguard Patrol Supervisor; and Jay Mann, managing editor of The Sandpaper and the NWS surf reporter for Long Beach Island – also spoke about the increased dangers of rip currents due to Hurricane Sandy's impacts.
The press conference was a follow up to a 2012 rip current awareness press conference, also held during the first week of June, which is officially Rip Current Awareness Week. Last year's event took place in Asbury Park, N.J.
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NBC10 Philadelphia: Post-Sandy Rip Currents More Dangerous Than Normal
Press of Atlantic City: Changes from Sandy may cause more rip currents
Asbury Park Press: Swimming at your own risk? Sandbars left by Sandy could lead to more dangerous swimming
Asbury Park Press: Are the Beaches Back to Normal?
The Star-Ledger: 'State of the Shore' Reveals Hurricane Stripped Beaches of Sand, Elevation
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I've recently taken on some small batch production work making wood plaques, trophy stands, signs and so on. I'm looking for some advice on what the best finish products and techniques would be for a one man operation needing to keep expenses and finish time to a minimum. This contract has potential to yield pretty high quantities of products and hand rubbed stains with spray on urethane is way too time consuming. Need help!
This is why nobody else is doing it. Small items have a high cost to finish and without the right setup it is hard to make money on.
How many pieces will you do a week, how big are they, what wood and color do they need to be and how much does the finishing budget allow per piece?
Quantity could be anywhere from 10 to 50 pieces per week. I'm primarily working with red oak but am trying to find a cost effective species that's easier to work. Pieces range in size from a small 12"x12" plaque to a 4'x8' sign. Stain colors can range as well but most of it is the typical golden oak. I haven't quite figured out how much to allow for finishing.
Spray Stain and UV curtain coater.
The above method is the most efficient.
My $.02 would consist of the following:
Plaques,trophy bases and such are not high usage items.They are also not color specific so rather than using oak and adding the cost to prep and stain, I would use a wood such as Walnut,Maple,Cherry etc that look good without any stain in order to eliminate a step as well as inventory. A small increase in price on wood can be made up with lower finishing costs.
Secondly, on the finish schedule the volume is far too low to consider production systems like UV and the durability is not warranted. I would set a minimum number of products needed to fill a full work day and then divide that number by your shop rate to figure out what to charge and then only finish them in batches so you are efficient.
As far as the product, any nitrocellulose lacquer will work if you have a booth and 2 coats would be acceptable. If no spray booth I would look at just using a tung oil or similar finish as that would be very quick and easy on small pieces.
If you have access to similar products being produced in the price range you are at, figure out what finishes they use as well and match it.
why not pre-cat ?
agreed that durability is not a major concern ; but pre-cat is no more difficult to use than nitro , no more costly ( I pay more for nitro than pre-cat from my supplier ) , and builds a bit better .
Curtain coater and UV coatings? I used to purchase UV in drums and it was over $45.00 a gallon. I'm sure Josh is a small user and would have to pay through the nose for that. As for the curtain coater, I wonder if mine is still in the back of my garage?
Thanks for all the helpful information everyone. I'm going to be speaking with a local finish supplier tomorrow about products. I've avoided 2 part laquers because we do not have a spray booth and can't afford one right now. I'm currently spraying General Finishes Arm R Seal over their oil based stains. The process is just too labor intensive. I'm doing one coat of wiping stain, then 2/3 coats of Arm R Seal to get a decent finish. If I go with a laquer, should I add a sanding sealer in the mix? I like the idea of a wipe on togue oil type finish, but am afraid the customer wants to keep some color options other than natural wood.
If they do insist on stains, explain to them the process and the need for additional charges and if they agree the extra steps add value to the product then you can increase your rate accordingly.
As to the question from the poster about Pre cat vs NC, If you can do it for the same or less then sure. In my area NC is less expensive than PreCat and has the advantage of burn in without needed to scuff without worrying about recoat windows. But I am not saying it wont work.
If you must stain, use a fast drying NGR or alcohol based stain. The quick dry time allows you to go right to finishing. Have you thought about spraying shellac, since you don;t have a booth it dries very fast so no worries with dust. A coat of wax and then a power buffing and you're good to go.
SW's BAC Wiping Stains can be brush or spray applied, then wiped, and topcoated in a couple of hours. They are terrific but my experience is limited compared to many others here. Arm-R-Seal is a great product but it dries far too slowly and the overspray makes a mess. I'd switch to a waterborne like GF's Enduro Lacquer. It dries quickly, and can be scuff sanded and recoated in about an hour. Cleanup is a breeze.
I'd get away from oak, too. Cherry, walnut, or alder would be far better for ease of finishing.


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MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin prison officials said they fired a probation agent accused of stealing prescription drugs two days before she was formally charged.
Prosecutors filed multiple charges against Kim Hoenisch on Dec. 21, including felony drug possession and misconduct in office.
According to a criminal complaint, Hoenisch worked in a Department of Corrections field office in Wausau and stole Vicodin from probationers while they were taking urine tests. The complaint also said she stole Vicodin from one of the probationer's houses and her cousin's house.
DOC officials issued a statement Thursday saying they terminated Hoenisch on Dec. 19 for what they called failure to exercise good judgment. Agency Secretary Ed Wall said when department officials learned of Hoenisch's alleged conduct they immediately asked the state Justice Department to investigate.


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Recently I have been interviewing a lot of tiny house folks about their lives in their tiny house. While I knew the story of many of these tiny house folks, I had never had a discussion to the depth as these interviews. It was helpful that I knew a lot about these folks, their houses, and tiny houses in general because it meant we could skip the basics and get into nitty gritty.
Over the course of the interviews I realized that there were some things that were so similar it was uncanny; to the point where people started saying the exact same words. Now in some cases these people didn't even know each other, so I realized weather it was tiny houses or the type of person that is attracted to them, they have a lot in common. It's kinda eerie.
1. DIY Tiny House Builders Unusually Have The Worst Car For Hauling Materials
Almost without fail tiny house people couldn't be less equipped to haul building materials than the car they have. Almost every single person I talked to didn't have a truck, they often had smaller cars. This is the case with me. I drive a Smart Car, which if you didn't know, it is the smallest road legal car in mass production today. I quickly realized when I needed to figure something out when my boards were the standard 8 feet long, but my car only was 6.5 feet long tip to tail.
Despite having the least suited cars, we make it work.
2. We Are Over Saying We Live In A Tiny House
After building and living in a tiny house, most people are tired of having to explain what a tiny house is, then having to explain why, then having to defend the choice. As Ella from Little Yellow Door puts it "its just a house, it just happens to be very small". Luckily for me I have gotten through that process with most of my friends and family. I now just say I am building a house, never mentioning that its tiny or I'm building it with my own two hands. The only time I feel it really necessary to explain is when it comes up that my houses is tiny or on dates (I figure they should get the heads up).
3. Everything Has a Place And It Needs To Go Back There.
We don't have a lot of stuff, but the stuff we do have has its rightful place in our homes. Every tiny house person I've talked to has said this to me, that they have a place for everything and they have to put it right back when they are done. They don't have room for clutter and if something is out of place, you can tell because its such a small space.
4. Buy A New Trailer
I have now talked to about 40 people about this particular topic and almost every time, almost without fail, they say that if they bought a used trailer, they had wished they had took the leap for a new trailer. I already know there will be some people that disagree with this, I can see the comments now, but I'm sticking to my guns on this one.
Most of the people who bought a used trailer ended up spending days cleaning up their trailer. They also spent money on fixing and replacing most of the trailer. About 80% of the people I spoke to ended up replacing tires and axles on their trailer, which meant a lot of those people spent the same or more than what they would have if they just bought new.
Macy Miller of Mini Motives also pointed out that in your first few months you have a lot of energy, excitement and drive, buying a used trailer sapped most of that energy as she toiled on getting her trailer to a point where she could then start building. I think this is a really good point, its better to use this energy getting building done, not days with an angle grinder trying to root out rust. The other aspect to this is that when you buy new, you know exactly what you are getting.
5. Tiny House People Are Grateful
Without exception tiny house people are very grateful for the lives that they live. They know the value of everything they have, whether it is a possession, a relationship or an opportunity. I recently was reading a study that one of the biggest factors in people who were happy was gratitude and expressing that gratitude. I think this comes into play in a major way with tiny houses, because they understand the value of what they have.


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DOVER -- Thousands turned out for the 28th annual Dover Apple Harvest Day for what organizers are calling the biggest year yet for the event.
"It's a great day," Mayor Dean Trefethen said as he took in the Mallet Brothers Band, one of the main music acts entertaining the crowd in the heart of downtown.
Trefethen took the first bite of an apple during the opening ceremonies of Apple Harvest Day and said he loved the way entertainment was spread out through the city.
Local musician Tim McCoy, visiting Apple Harvest fest with his mother, Lois, said the big stages this year were entertaining, and made him think about performing at the event next year.
"It's just fantastic," he said.
Bobbing for apples nearby at Henry Law Park, Avery, 2, and her brother Reilly, 5, were enjoying the event for the first time.
The Rollinsford natives, attending with their mother, Tia Pass, were taking in whatever the day had to offer.
"It's well worth it, Pass said. "We've had a fantastic time."
"I'm so glad my friends made me come out to see what's here," Sarah Laherty said.
She was new to the Garrison City, but not new to festivals. Having grown up in a small town in Iowa she celebrates each and every holiday, she said.
Laherty brought her friend's daughter, Mikisha Hartley, 9, who was excited to have her face painted like a tiger.
"I don't even like apples," Mikisha said.
Liking apples was not a prerequisite for having a great time at the festival, but it did help some.
"Well I bought a bushel," Daniel Backowies said, who waits every year until Apple Harvest Day to make apple crisp for his friends and family.
"I grew up in Dover and I love this stuff. I looked forward to it every year," he said.
Many Dover natives usher in the fall season with the festival, and look forward to the apples.
But this year apples were hard to come by," said Molly Hodgson-Smith, executive director of the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce.
"It's been a bit of a challenge," Hodgson-Smith said.
She said some of the orchards normally used as suppliers for the event struggled with their crop this apple season. She also said some of the orchards hosted their own harvest day, therefore making themselves unable to participate.
There were still enough for people to enjoy. The caramel covered apples were a main attraction on Main Street. So were other kinds of apples and apple products.
"She's here to eat the different apples of the season," Heather Montgomery, of Dover, said about her daughter Abigail.
She and her husband Jeremy moved to Dover a few years ago.
"We love that the weather is nice and the events are family friendly," Montgomery said.
Apple Harvest Day in Dover draws big crowd
DOVER -- Thousands turned out for the 28th annual Dover Apple Harvest Day for what organizers are calling the biggest year yet for the event.


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Heard in the high school hallway: #.
No, that's not pronounced "pound" or "number." Try "hashtag."
The character so ubiquitous on the social media website Twitter, first as an organizing tool and then as a way to add commentary to short posts, has made the leap to everyday speech, especially among teens.
"In the last six months, it's gotten really popular to speak in hashtags," said Megan Skelly, a senior at Lakeville North High School. "It's kinda funny."
For example?
"Let's say somebody got mad at you for something you aren't sorry for," said Mikayla Lonergan, a Lakeville North sophomore. "Whatever. Hashtag, sorry not sorry."
Her friends offer other examples: Quote something profound? "Hashtag, truth." Flirting with that cute classmate? "Hashtag, I can't date you if ... (insert silly qualifier)."
Odd as it may sound, linguists say it's nothing new.
"This is the kind of thing we do with language. We take things from one context and put it in another," said Naomi Baron, author of "Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World" and a professor at American University. "It's a way of being cute."
Acronyms from instant messaging and texting build off abbreviations from previous eras.
In a sense, RSVP and AWOL paved the way for OMG and BFF. In the case of LOL, the meaning has changed over time from "lots of love" to "laugh out loud." It's a small leap from there to speaking in hashtags.
While the shortened phrases, written or spoken, may start with a niche of the population, it doesn't take long for them to spread in a digital age.
Baron points to colleagues in their 50s, 60s and 70s who toss out BRB (as in "be right back").
"We do this because we're social animals, as well as being people who should act our age," Baron said. "You hear these things, why not use them?"
As hashtags become more commonly known, the trendiest make the jump to speech.
"You'd never really say one that isn't popular, because then people wouldn't get it," said Kendall Huber, another Lakeville North sophomore.
It's also possible to use hashtag lingo without uttering the word "hashtag" itself.
As in: "I can't find a wireless connection ... [pause] First-world prob[lem]."
Translation: Yes, I know I'm whining about an inconvenience in a generally well-off country.
Or turn the school's unofficial motto into a hashtag both typed and spoken. If you're a Lakeville North student full of school pride: "Let's go to the football game! (#)North or none!"
Use the hashtag equivalent of air quotes -- criss-cross the extended index and middle fingers of both hands while making a quip -- at your own risk.
"I've only seen that a couple times," Lonergan said.
Students in teacher Nicole Kronzer's English classes at Champlin Park High School have made a good-natured game of stumping her with hashtag talk.
It started when she confessed confusion when a student quipped, "Hashtag, YOLO." The acronym means "you only live once" and the laughing students told her it was "like so three months ago."
"I think there's absolutely no way an adult can keep up, and maybe we shouldn't," Kronzer said, admitting she's impressed by the cleverness of the ever-changing lingo.
She often compares notes with her colleagues.
"Lunchtime becomes this teenage-to-adult dictionary translation time sometimes," Kronzer said.
Entertained or annoyed, some can't help but wonder what all this digital babble bodes for grammar, spelling and proper speech.
After all, a 2009 study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that half of teens let informal language slip into their school writing assignments. Thirty-eight percent admitted using shortcuts learned through instant messaging and e-mail.
But University of Minnesota linguist Anatoly Liberman, who lumps Twitter and texting in with all sorts of other slang, is not concerned.
"It's alive today and dead tomorrow," he said. "It takes stronger artillery to destroy English."
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Brazil progress as Chile pay penalty
Brazil advanced to the World Cup quarterfinals after prevailing 3-2 on penalties against Chile following a 1-1 draw in Belo Horizonte.
- Lang: Neymar defies pressure
- Brewin: All hail Cesar
- Social reaction to Brazil's win
- Sampaoli: Chile have written football history
- Scolari: Brazil can't be polite anymore
- Brewin: Hulk revels in supporting act
Neymar's penalty in the shootout proved decisive when Chile defender Gonzalo Jara smashed the final spot-kick against the post to keep alive Brazil's dreams of winning a World Cup on home soil.
Chile had taken Brazil all the way and nearly snatched it at the death through Mauricio Pinilla's strike which struck the crossbar.
Brazil had taken the lead through a goal awarded to David Luiz -- even though it appeared to come off Jara -- before Chile netted a deserved equaliser through Alexis Sanchez.
Brazil's win also saved English referee Howard Webb from becoming the country's public enemy number one after he found himself at the centre of huge controversy when he disallowed a goal by Brazil forward Hulk for handball.
Webb had also turned down a penalty claim by Hulk, as well as one by Chile's Eduardo Vargas, while Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari was furious he did not take a tougher line on some forceful challenges on Neymar.
It was Neymar who was the man at the centre of most of the action for Brazil in the first half but it was Marcelo who shone first with a skilful turn on the edge of the box that fooled his marker and earned the Real Madrid full-back space to send a low shot just a yard past the post.
Chile looked threatening on the break but Brazil dominated possession and took the lead in the 18th minute when Neymar's corner was headed on by Thiago Silva and then diverted into the net. Luiz was credited with the goal but replays appeared to suggest it was an own goal.
That should have been the signal for Brazil to assume total control but instead Chile pounced on a mistake to equalise.
After Hulk messed up a return to Marcelo's throw-in by their own touchline, Vargas snapped up the ball and found Sanchez who neatly slotted home his second goal of the tournament.
Neymar continued to look Brazil's biggest hope and his header from Oscar's cross bounced off a defender's arm, which diverted the angle just enough to take it past the post.
Oscar found his range and his brilliant cross-field pass found Neymar again threatening but he dallied; Chile then scrambled the ball clear but it ricocheted off Fred and just over the bar.
A dipping strike from distance by Dani Alves was turned over by Claudio Bravo, before Brazil's out-of-form striker Fred made perhaps the most embarrassing miss of the World Cup so far, mis-hitting the ball hopelessly just before the break.
But Brazil always looked vulnerable and another error, by Luiz Gustavo this time, saw Sanchez threaten again but Luiz managed to hurl himself in to block for a corner.
The second half saw Brazil frustrated by nerves and by Webb, while Scolari's decision to push Neymar further forward saw him drop out of the game.
Then came the controversy. Brazil believed they had gone in front after Marcelo's long ball was brought down by Hulk, who then sliced it into the bottom corner, but it was wiped off by an assistant's flag who said the striker controlled it with his upper arm. It was a controversial decision and to rub salt in the wound Webb booked him.
Chile then began to assume an air of superiority while Brazil looked worried, and were grateful to wonderful save by Julio Cesar to turn aside what looked a certain goal for the excellent Charles Aranguiz.
Former Manchester City striker Jo came on for Fred and looked destined to score straight away but somehow missed, then Neymar's flicked header was straight at Bravo.
The Chile keeper stood up strong again after brilliant work by Hulk, but it was Brazil who were relieved to take the game to extra time.
Oscar had a half-chance with a header, Bravo kept out Hulk but it was Chile who nearly snatched it at the death only for Pinilla's blistering strike crashed back off the crossbar.
Penalties followed, and Julio Cesar saved from both Pinilla and Sanchez either side of a Willian miss to put Brazil in charge, but Claudio Bravo then blocked Hulk's effort.
However, after Neymar had converted, Jara hit the post with the final penalty to send the hosts through.
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Stepfamilies can be successful if family members work to build healthy relationships. Find out how to help your child adjust to being part of a blended family.
Relationships in stepfamilies can be complicated. When a new stepfamily forms, each family member faces a unique set of challenges. Still, it's possible to build a successful blended family.
Consider the challenges a blended family might pose for your child — and what you can do ease stress and promote bonds as you build a new life together.
Your child might be dealing with anguish over a divorce or the death of a parent — or perhaps your child stills harbors hope that you and your ex-spouse will reunite. Your child might also worry that the new marriage and family situation won't last.
Listen to your child's fears and concerns, and allow your child to heal at his or her own pace. Don't expect your child's feelings to resolve quickly or at any specific moment — such as at your wedding or on moving day.
To prevent your child from feeling overwhelmed by change, spend time nurturing family relationships that existed before the creation of your stepfamily. For example, plan special activities or outings that involve only you and your child.
Remember, too, that a child entering a newly blended family might feel torn between the parent with whom he or she primarily lives and the other parent. A child also might feel that liking his or her new stepmom makes him disloyal to his mother. Respect your child's feelings, and be careful not to make negative comments about the other parent — regardless of your feelings for him or her.
It can be difficult for a child to navigate relationships with a new stepparent or stepsiblings. Your child doesn't have a shared family history with these new family members, and they may have different beliefs and ways of doing things.
To help your child form these bonds, you might identify shared interests among members of your blended family. Encourage your child to spend time getting to know his or her new family members. Be careful to let the new relationships develop at their own pace, however.
It can take a couple of years — or even longer — for a new stepfamily to adjust to living together.
Don't pressure your child or other family members to make new relationships work right away. Instead, encourage all family members to treat each other with decency and respect.
Most stepfamilies are able to build relationships and work out their problems over time. Others need extra help. According to the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, your child might benefit from talking to a mental health provider if he or she feels:
In addition, family therapy might be helpful if:
Remember, making a successful stepfamily takes time. Encourage your family to get to know each other and develop new traditions together. Over time your blended family can build lasting bonds.
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Denise will be shooting this week on Showtime's new show, Ray Donovan. The show is about a professional "troubleshooter" in LA (Ray Donovan played by Liev Schreiber), called on to dig the city's wealthiest, most elite clientele out of their various messes.
Denise joins a formidable cast full of star names — including Kate Moennig as Ray's colleague Lena, Jon Voight as Ray's father Mickey, and Elliott Gould as Ray's mentor Ezra. She will be portraying Elliot Gould's characters long time mistress.


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Written by: Lennon-McCartney
Recorded: 18, 22 October 1965
Producer: George Martin
Engineer: Norman Smith
Released: 3 December 1965 (UK), 6 December 1965 (US)
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PersonnelJohn Lennon: vocals, rhythm guitar
Paul McCartney: harmony vocals, bass
George Harrison: harmony vocals, lead guitar
Ringo Starr: drums
George Martin: piano, tambourine
One of the highlights of the Rubber Soul album, In My Life was written mostly by John Lennon, and started out as a nostalgic set of memories of Liverpool.
There was a period when I thought I didn't write melodies, that Paul wrote those and I just wrote straight, shouting rock 'n' roll. But of course, when I think of some of my own songs – In My Life, or some of the early stuff, This Boy – I was writing melody with the best of them.
All We Are Saying, David Sheff
Lennon regarded In My Life particularly highly, citing it – along with Strawberry Fields Forever, I Am The Walrus and Help! – as among his best.
For In My Life, I had a complete set of lyrics after struggling with a journalistic vision of a trip from home to downtown on a bus naming every sight. It became In My Life, which is a remembrance of friends and lovers of the past. Paul helped with the middle eight musically. But all lyrics written, signed, sealed, and delivered. And it was, I think, my first real major piece of work. Up till then it had all been sort of glib and throwaway. And that was the first time I consciously put my literary part of myself into the lyric. Inspired by Kenneth Alsopf [sic], the British journalist, and Bob Dylan.
All We Are Saying, David Sheff
Early drafts
He first had the idea for the song in 1964, when journalist Kenneth Allsop asked Lennon why his songs were less revealing and challenging than his books. Musing on this, Lennon decided to take a nostalgic look at specific places and memories from his Liverpool past.
I think In My Life was the first song that I wrote that was really, consciously about my life, and it was sparked by a remark a journalist and writer in England made after In His Own Write came out. I think In My Life was after In His Own Write… But he said to me, 'Why don't you put some of the way you write in the book, as it were, in the songs? Or why don't you put something about your childhood into the songs?' Which came out later as Penny Lane from Paul – although it was actually me who lived in Penny Lane – and Strawberry Fields.
All We Are Saying, David Sheff
In the same interview, Lennon described how the song's early draft was significantly different from the final version.
In My Life started out as a bus journey from my house on 250 [sic] Menlove Avenue to town, mentioning every place I could remember. And it was ridiculous. This is before even Penny Lane was written and I had Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields, Tram Sheds – Tram Sheds are the depot just outside of Penny Lane – and it was the most boring sort of 'What I Did On My Holidays Bus Trip' song and it wasn't working at all. I cannot do this! I cannot do this!
But then I laid back and these lyrics started coming to me about the places I remember. Now Paul helped write the middle-eight melody. The whole lyrics were already written before Paul had even heard it. In In My Life, his contribution melodically was the harmony and the middle eight itself.
All We Are Saying, David Sheff
The original draft mentioned a list of Liverpool landmarks, including Penny Lane, the Abbey pub in Childwall, the Old Dutch café, and the Dockers' Umbrella – the colloquial name for the Liverpool Overhead Railway, now demolished.
Penny Lane is one I'm missing
Up Church Road to the clock tower
In the circle of the abbey
I have seen some happy hours
Past the tram sheds with no trams
On the 5 bus into town
Past the Dutch and St Columbus
To the Dockers Umbrella that they pulled down


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8584 Antero Peak Drive, Colorado Springs CO 80927
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The Paradise w/ basement is a "to be built" home and includes 2 beds, 2 baths, Formal and informal Dining, and 3-car garage. Options include 4,150 square feet, finished basement, 7 beds, 5 baths, 2-4 car garage, office, and recreation room. For cleaner floor plans and more photos please visit our Classic homes website.
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You've heard the saying: When it rains, it pours. Or how about this one: One thing leads to another. Nowhere more is this true than in household repairs. First we had a roof leak. We had the leak fixed but not before it stained our living room ceiling. Since our roof tile was over 30 years old, we contracted for a new white barrel tile roof. This got done.
Meanwhile, an insurance adjuster came by and paid for our ceiling repair. These contractors are due to start tomorrow. We've spent a couple of days moving everything fragile or mobile out of the living room, dining room, and hallway since the men will be removing the popcorn ceiling and replacing it with knockdown. The bathroom also needs a makeover as water dripped through from the leak there, too.
So we are moving away my years-old crates of books from the dining room when we notice coffee ground size particles on the ceramic tile floor…and a few dead insects. And more particles sprinkled among the books. Lately, we've seen some flying insects around the light sources at night. Could this be where they are coming from? I call the termite guy, swallowing my dread that we might need the house tented next. I hope it's drywall termites that can be spot treated. Otherwise, we may be in for more unpleasantness.
I really should get rid of those books in my never ending TBR pile. My Kindle and iPad are looking even more attractive, and my piles of print books less so. The pages are yellowing and who knows where I got them.
Speaking of yellowing, we've noticed a section of roof tile outside turning yellow. Could this be due to the black olive tree nearby whose leaves can stain? But they didn't stain our previous white flat tile roof. Or is this section defective? I call the roof people. They'll call back to schedule an inspection—I hope. They've been paid, so they have little incentive.
My husband suggests we cut down the black olive tree, and maybe our mature lychee tree along with it. They're both too close to the house and rain dead leaves upon our gutters (that need a cleaning). The fruit on the lychee, which we've enjoyed for many years, is now too high to reach. And the tree's roots are encroaching on the house.
Then there are the driveway and the pool that need renovations, and…the list goes on. Maybe we should call this the Homeowner's Lament. I'm glad my Kindle free promotion is over so I can pay attention to these issues. It'll be impossible to work anyway with people in the house tearing down the popcorn ceiling outside my office door.
What will we discover next? Are you sticking it out in your aging house or running to buy a condo?


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June 22, 2009, 11:24:17 AM »
A little while ago I ran Psi*Run for Meg, Julia, and Rob. We played it in 3 sessions.
I was thinking that Psi*Run would be really good for survival horror, like
The Descent
: a group of women go spelunking, get trapped, and try to escape while being pursued by underearth cannibal troglodytes. Meanwhile they have flashbacks about why and how much they hate one another.
Then it occured to me that Psi*Run might be good for
Jacob's Ladder
: the pursuers aren't cannibals or men-in-black, they're an accelerating breakdown in the characters' realities, sign of an onrushing revelation or realization. I thought about ExistenZ or Naked Lunch, maybe, about trying to get a handle on what's happening while staying ahead of the horrible wrongness that's intruding into your world. So when we played, that's what I did.
I didn't tell the players that was what I was doing. I wanted to see what would happen.
I took it as my job, as GM, to:
1. Create accelerating breakdown in the PCs' world, according to the game's pursuit mechanism;
2. Make it all rock-solid and immediate in play. Even if what's happening doesn't make sense, everybody knows and sees
what's happening;
3. Make it as, like, aesthetically unified as I could: it's all weird and wrong, but the imagery all hangs together;
4. Absolutely not, under any circumstances, try to make any of it make sense. By Psi*Run's rules, that's the players' job, not mine.
Like, Julia has her character go to the Gideon's Bible in the drawer, and I say "it's blank." Why is the Gideon's Bible blank? I don't know! I'm committed to not knowing, in fact. I specifically disavow knowing why as part of my job. But there's no doubt about it, here's Julia's character in a crappy motel in Southern Utah standing at the dresser looking at the Gideon's Bible, and it's blank. Outside in the parking lot, the paramedics (chasers) are ignoring the motel clerk lying there with his cracked skull, and even though they're 50 feet away and there are walls between them, the characters in the room can hear their quiet conversation perfectly. It sounds like insects and static, like "murrmrrTZKK urrm nm KAKZ RZK mrimm roo KTAT..."
Or Rob has his character Aaron question an NPC named Ruth Boyer, psychically disguised as Ruth's NPC husband Tom. Ruth and Rob's character Aaron have never met.
Ruth: "Oh Tom it's you, I must have been sleeping. I thought for a minute you were Aaron. Oh what a relief."
Rob: "And that was bad?"
Ruth: "Bad? Of COURSE it was bad."
Rob: "Why was it bad?"
Ruth: "What on earth, Tom? You know why it was bad."
Rob: "Tell me anyway."
Ruth: "Oh damn you and your tests and your checking up on me."
Rob: "Just tell me."
Ruth: "You're serious. You need me to jump through this dumb hoop."
Rob: "Ruth, I need you to say it."
Ruth: "FINE. Because Aaron doesn't exist."
Rob: !
Rob: "Then who is Aaron?"
Ruth: "Tom, please don't make me go through this."
Rob: "NOW, Ruth. Who is Aaron?"
Ruth: [quietly] "...He's the one who made me murder Brenda. Oh, Tom, oh Tom, oh my little Brenda."
Rob: !!!
Ruth: [crying]
Rob: !!!
So that was really fun and easy, me barfing this kind of wrongness out, making sure it was all solid and immediate, but not worrying whether it made any sense overall. If there was a realization or revelation rushing toward the characters, the players were the ones who had to create it.
They didn't! There wasn't. Just a bunch of concrete weird creepy awfulness that never revealed anything.
The questions they had for their characters didn't lead to any central
, like "you're all dead but haven't come to terms with it," or "this is INSIDE the game," or "you're all characters inside a little kid's fever dream." When it was time for them to answer a question, they tended toward the superficial, the trivial, instead of digging deeper into the mystery. "Where's the zenith?" was on Julia's character. When the players answered it, they said "you pawned it. It was your mom's TV, is all." Julia: "that's all? That's too bad. Okay."
So that's how it went. At the end everybody said, "huh. Weird," and that was pretty much that.
So next time, maybe at the beginning of the game I'll say the words "Jacob's Ladder" out loud to the players. Maybe that will nudge them to dig in. Maybe it won't! I don't know.
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June 22, 2009, 11:45:01 AM »
Oh, a couple more notes.
1. We played with my house rules mods for the game. I'll share 'em if anybody's setting up to play and interested in a couple of tweaks.
2. The middle session was super fun. The game didn't live up to my vision for it overall, but hell, how many movies do you know that fall apart in the third act? Many. But the middle session, man alive, I got to create really fun imagery and keep the players in a constant state of "oh no holy CRAP what is going on here this is crazy creepy cool." If the whole game had been as good as the middle session, I'd by flying.
3. Whose idea was it to play without letting the players in on it? Mine. What do I deserve? Exactly what I get.
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June 22, 2009, 11:51:00 AM »
Thanks for posting this. This gives me a lot of food for thought for
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(That, and I won't be satisfied until I manage to work cut-ups into a mechanic or two.)
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June 22, 2009, 01:17:18 PM »
I'd like to see those house rules.
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Those house rules are so cool.
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June 23, 2009, 06:17:21 AM »
Hey Vincent,
I kinda think that I know the answer, but it's not 100% clear.
Did your players know that it's their job to make sense of all the whackiness? Is it explicit in their minds?
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It wasn't, to me.
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June 23, 2009, 06:30:28 AM »
Explicit in their minds
, I don't know (and Rob says no, so, no). It's strongly implied by the rules and setup. I didn't make an especial point of it, but answers in the game come from the flashbacks, the answers to their questions, and I'm specifically barred from providing them. By the end of session 1 everybody knew that, if they didn't before, so I figured they'd make the leap.
There's this too: Psi*Run proper banks a lot on genre familiarity, but I was screwing around with the game's genre without bringing the players explicitly on-board. I figured I'd bring the players
plicitly on-board, and that worked, but maybe it was still enough to baffle the game's genre-based processes.
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June 23, 2009, 03:32:26 PM »
I wish we'd pushed deeper, too. I also think I never quite got the hang of setting my character up to get answers. I was surprised we finished the game in only three sessions, but I liked my character's ending - turns out Sandy was a mathematical construct, not really a person at all. Cool, huh?
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Wow, so glad I stumbled upon this post, being a fan of Philip Dick I've been mulling a game like this. I've tried running something like it trad in a Cyberpunk game once, and that sucked, because it was a railroad.
I never did run a less trad one, but I did make a list of "unreality conditions" - wrong shit like "player seems to be in two places at the same time", "you see someone you thought was dead", etc. And, I was thinking of disguising it as a trad game where I'd follow their cues to figure out what really happened - either that, or keep pulling the rug out from under them, shattering every hypothesis as soon as they come up with one.
And that sounds like exactly what you did.
It may be too late to resurrect the thread but...
So, you weren't satisfied. You want that big reveal, right? The "you're all dead" or "you're all brains in vats" or maybe a set of complicated things that work together in concert: "Joe's a robot" and "the hatch was an experiment" and "the town was created explicitly for you as a test"...
You say "I should have let the players in on it" but...man...don't you want that bleed? As a player, I'd want to feel just as lost as the character. Knowing that I'm actually authoring the reveal? This is one place where I think I want the illusion of the there there. I'd want you to pull the wool over my eyes. And not even tell me you had done it, so you could do it again next time. You'd even consult the "module" - some blank pages in a folder behind your GM screen...
Did you ever try this sort of thing again? How'd it go?
I wonder if that means I shouldn't bother pursuing these lines either...
Here's some random extra thoughts I'm having right now:
I think the "reality turns out to be simulation" story is almost always unsatisfying at the end:
Spoiler warning, I'm about to kind of spoil the endings of a dozen "reality is simulation" stories.
Lost and the Prisoner - never have the reveal. What and why is the island? Who is number one? Answers just raise more questions. It's fun being on the ride but it never ends and you think the screenwriters don't have a clue either.
Imply it's not real but never give a definitive answer. Total Recall / Inception.
Existenz, Truman Show, 13th Floor, the Matrix: there's a transcendent signified. Now we're in the Real real. That's garbage to a postmodernist, right? There is no real real, deal with it. (Existenz wins, here, because it's self aware. "Transcendenz!" Awesome. And it has the last little tweak. Are they? Maybe.)
Or Dark City - yeah, we don't know what the Real real is. We're stuck here in our simulation, making the best of it. But you're living in a dream, man!
Or - a fake reveal. I don't want to spoil Ubik for you if you haven't read it, but it has the big reveal, and then in the last chapter Philip Dick throws us something that breaks the big reveal. We thought we understood it and didn't. That's cool but we feel kind of like we're just being fucked with. More satisfying than Lost, I think? At least there was a coherent explanation for everything that happened up to here.
Oh, Man in the High Castle. "It turns out we're all characters in a book." There's an ending for you. Break the 4th wall. "Turns out we're all just characters in a role-playing game!" Yuck.
Just realizing now, Jacob's Ladder is the closest to being satisfying: his conflict in the dream is real. And though it has a real Real it symbolically leaves it open, right: maybe there's more.
Maybe a best of both worlds is that the GM authors the big reveal, and the nature of the unreality is what gives the players their narrative power - within the dream. It's really secretly a sim game. The reason the players have narrative influence is because it's all just a dream....
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Those house rules are so cool.
is my goto game in a pinch. I can run it at the drop of a hat ... almost any where.
Vincent, I would very much like to see those house rules,
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If you've diagnosed your garage door opener problem and you've determined that it is beyond your means to fix it yourself, the next thing to do is call a garage door repair company.
For a licensed and insured company in the Columbus area, you can call Columbus Garage Door Service. They are local and provide same day emergency service. You can reach them at 706-801-9755.
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