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Hi everyone,
I'm writing a Rock, Paper, Scissors program in Java. I am in my first Java class and I am still new at this
So far I have it so that the user enters a number that corresponds with their choice. I am supposed to error check the user input to make sure it is either Rock, Paper or Scissors, and if not, they will be prompted to enter it again. I'm supposed to use a
do/while loop to allow the user to continue playing games until ready to quit, and what's scaring me the most, is I have to use a multi-dimensional array to store the user's choices and the computer's choices for each round, and output the game details for
each round.
Can anyone PLEASE help me? I feel like this is overwhelming and I'm so lost.


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Sugar Shout Out Aug. 17, 2011
Sugar Shout Out: Put a Modern Spin on Your Summer Food Favorites!
- 5 classic Summer dishes, and modern updates to go with them
- PopSugar NYC: where to find friendship bracelets from local designers
- How to get a graffiti nail art look
- Say I do, again: get inspired to renew your vows
- Tori Spelling shares the secrets of stealing time with your kids
- Back-to-school special: Fab's college intern shares her Fall shopping list
- New ways to complete a successful speed cleaning
- Buzz discusses why the Sex and the City prequel will work better as a TV series
- Quick tips for negotiating a salary for a new job
- Stand up and dust yourself off: ways to get back on the fitness wagon
- What do you know about your dog's eyes?
- Calorie counter wants to be your only diet app
- See a Sugar reader's before-and-after kitchen remodel
- Video: Ryan Reynolds vacations with Sandra Bullock — are they dating?
- The road to Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries's wedding!

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(Pocket-lint) - So you've bought a 3D television, you've got your 3D Blu-ray player, now all you need is your 3D electric shaver, no? The Philips SensoTouch 3D electric shaver plays on the idea that the blades offer a three dimension shaving experience and buy into the buzzword de jour. Luckily for us you don't have to wear active shutter glasses whilst you get your shave on.
So what are they like? Turns out the promise of a rather gentle shave is actually rather correct. Our experience so far has been a shave on the Philips stand at IFA, in Berlin, Germany, where we put set it to task on 3 days worth of weary trade show stubble.
The SensoTouch 3D uses a range of Philips technologies. GyroFlex 3D is "the distinctive three-dimensional component that allows the shaver to perfectly follow the unique contours of the face". UltraTrack is "the new innovative shaver head that gives a close shave and keeps skin irritation to a minimum" and Aquatec is "an inbuilt seal that allows men the versatility to choose between a comfortable dry shave and a refreshing wet shave for those who prefer to use a gel".
In reality that all means you get three circular blades in a triangle formation that work to raise then cut the hair on your face, hugging your face in the process, giving you a clean shave whether wet or dry. Whether that means you using a gel over the sink or in the shower is up to you, but it does allow those worried about shaving dry the option to shave wet.
A simple touch sensitive on off switch glows at you, inviting you to turn it on and those wishing to push the boat out further can get an optional docking station to charge and clean when it's not on your face. Our shave was wet. Three days growth challenged it to the extent that we know a wet shave would be quicker, although the results were very good.
On a blind test with a couple of male and female friends, those that we kissed when prompted afterwards said our face was very smooth, with one going as far as saying it was "baby soft". It might be expensive (£300) but if you are after those kind of complements, this will help deliver them.
We've only had the one shave with the Philips SensoTouch 3D shaver but as far as electric shavers go we were impressed.
However, we can't believe that the a simple Gillette razer wouldn't produce equally good results for a fraction of the cost. Thankfully we all have choices galore when it comes to shaving and if you're after a versatile electric shaver this might be just the ticket.


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The name Salhan has a rich and ancient history. It is an Anglo-Saxon name that was originally derived from the baptismal name Soloman, which was an ancient personal name. Baptismal names began to appear as surnames relatively late in the growth of the naming tradition. This is a little surprising, given the popularity of biblical figures in the Christian countries of Europe. Nevertheless, surnames derived from baptismal names grew in popularity during the Middle Ages, and have become one of the foremost sources for surnames. The surname Salhan also has origins as a nickname for a man who was considered to be wise or fortunate.
The surname Salhan was first found in Surrey where they were Lords of the manor of Caterham from ancient times. Alternatively, the name could have been derived from Selham, a small village in the Chichester district of West Sussex. The village dates back to the Domesday Book where it was listed as Seleham and literally meant "homestead by a copse of sallow-trees." [1]
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Salhan research. Another 120 words (9 lines of text) covering the years 1240, 1303, 1371, 1468, 1800, 1426, 1390, 1411, 1414, 1435, 1414, 1435 and 1541 are included under the topic Early Salhan History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Before English spelling was standardized a few hundred years ago, spelling variations of names were a common occurrence. Elements of Latin, French and other languages became incorporated into English through the Middle Ages, and name spellings changed even among the literate. The variations of the surname Salhan include Saleman, Salman, Selman, Selyman, Seleman and others.
Notables of the family at this time include John Selman (died 1426), English politician, Member of Parliament for Plympton Erle (1390-1411); and John Selman (fl.1414-1435), English politician, Member of Parliament for Plympton Erle (1414-1435.)
Thomas Soulemont, Soleman or...
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A great wave of immigration to the New World was the result of the enormous political and religious disarray that struck England at that time. Families left for the New World in extremely large numbers. The long journey was the end of many immigrants and many more arrived sick and starving. Still, those who made it were rewarded with an opportunity far greater than they had known at home in England. These emigrant families went on to make significant contributions to these emerging colonies in which they settled. Some of the first North American settlers carried this name or one of its variants: George Selman who settled in Barbados in 1634; Michael Selman arrived in Philadelphia in 1741; another Michael Selman arrived in Philadelphia in 1844.


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CanLit Shout Outs: September 2016
Welcome to CanLit Shout Outs, Room's new monthly blog series. On the first Sunday of every month, I will post a list of recent publications, awards, and other literary accomplishments by past and present Room contributors, board members, contest judges, interviewees, and friends. Think of this as a "what's-awesome-in-CanLit" celebration by someone who likes books a little too much, or, better yet, as your monthly feminist shopping list.


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Burger King is selling sandwiches with blowjobs. Various female sex symbols orgasmically consume burgers in TV ads. What next? Hardee's asks you to "Name our Holes." Hardee's executives love to fuck biscuit dough.
A Biscuit Hole is a bit of biscuit dough "rolled in cinnamon and sugar and served with icing for dipping." In a press release, Brad Haley, Hardee's executive vice president of marketing, said: "They really are irresistible and it's almost impossible to eat just one." (Must. Not. Comment.) He added: "But what to call them was a big challenge. One of my favorite options was 'Biznuts,' a cross between 'biscuits' and 'donuts,' since the closest thing to them are donut holes."
Ha, how about you call them "Vaginas and Anuses?" Ha. People will want to eat them then I bet! Ha. Right after they ejaculate into them!


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BWW TV: See Brooke Shields in THE ADDAMS FAMILY - Performance Highlights!
On Tuesday, June 28 THE ADDAMS FAMILY welcomed stage and screen star Brooke Shields in the role of Morticia. Ms. Shields joined current Broadway cast members Roger Rees as Gomez, Brad Oscar as Fester, Rachel Potter as Wednesday, Jackie Hoffman as Grandma, Zachary James as Lurch, Adam Riegler as Pugsley, Heidi Blickenstaff as Alice Beineke, Adam Grupper as Mal Beineke and Jesse Swenson as Lucas Beineke. Click below for performance highlights of Shields & co. in action!
In the past decade, Brooke Shields has won rave reviews and has established herself as an acclaimed Broadway musical leading lady with her performances as Ruth in Wonderful Town, Roxie Hart in Chicago and Sally Bowles in Cabaret. Her Broadway debut came in 1994 as Rizzo in Grease, for which she won a Theatre World Award.
This past summer she starred with Raul Esparza in Alan Menken's Leap of Faith at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. She recently starred in the new play Girls Talk at the Lee Strasberg Theater, also in L.A.
Shields has received numerous awards and accolades for her extensive repertoire of talents. She was nominated twice for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy, and was also nominated for The American Comedy Awards' Funniest Female Performer in a Television Series Leading Role for her hit comedy show, "Suddenly Susan." She is the recipient of five People's Choice Awards.
She was recently seen in her own show "In My Life" at Feinstein's at the Loews Regency, sharing stories and songs from her incredible journey in show business.
A Princeton University, Honors Graduate, Shields is the author of The Brooke Book, On Your Own, Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression, and her first children's book, Welcome To Your World, Baby. She released her second children's book It's the Best Day Ever Dad for Harper Collins.
Now in its second year on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (205 West 46th Street), THE ADDAMS FAMILY has grossed more than $65 million since its opening in April, 2010.
A national tour of THE ADDAMS FAMILY will begin in September of this year at the Mahalia Jackson Theatre for the Performing Arts in New Orleans. International productions of the musical have been announced for Sao Paulo, Brazil in spring, 2012 and Sydney, Australia in spring 2013. Several other international productions are in the planning stages.


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Kristine and I watched Damages and I turned to the Family Forest® to see if there were family ties connecting the two stars, Ted Danson and Glenn Close.
As often happens when I go exploring in the Family Forest®, I got sidetracked from the original mission. First I visited the Captain's Log archives and rediscovered the interesting ancestral story relating to Cheers.
I also found that I had not yet done a story I had intended to do about Ted in his role as Lemuel Gulliver in the 1996 movie Gulliver's Travels. I wonder if Ted knows that according to recorded history, he is a distant cousin of "Gulliver's Travels" author Jonathan Swift?
Then I went looking for ancestors Ted Danson and Glenn Close may share. One potential common ancestor who caught my eye, probably because of my two recent
Bourne Ultimatum posts was Ted's ancestor Thomas Bourne who came to Plymouth, MA in 1636 and was "the eldest of the Marshfield settlers."
Glenn Close did not appear as one of Thomas Bourne's descendants, but a number of other famous historical figures and Hollywood celebrities did show up as cousins of Ted.
Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, a hero in the War of 1812, is a 5th cousin four times removed. J.P. Morgan is a distant cousin, as are all of the Grosvenors of National Geographic fame.
Hollywood celebrity Bourne cousins of Ted Danson include Humphrey Bogart, Christopher Reeve, Richard Gere, and Hugh Heffner.
Could Thomas Bourne ever have imagined that four centuries into the future he would have descendants whose names would be recognized internationally?


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Come unto Him (New Era)
1. He came to us; he loved us that much.
There isn't a soul he's unwilling to touch;
No life so dark he cannot light;
No sadness, no sorrow he cannot right.
Come unto him.
2. He came to earth; he lived as a man.
There's no earthly care he can't understand;
No earthly pain he did not feel;
No hunger, no heartache he cannot heal.
Come unto him.
3. He lived like us, acquainted with grief.
To those who believe he offers relief.
He opens eyes; he forgives sin;
For the humble, the faithful, who follow him.
Come unto him.
Come unto him.
Come unto him.
Come learn of him.
He's meek and humble and lowly of heart.
Come unto him.
Come unto him.
Text: Steven Jones
Music: Sam Cardon
Artist: Cardon/Jones
Album: Music Published in the Church Magazines: New Era
Composition Date: 1995-04-01
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My boss wants to spank me until I'm red all over. And I want to let him!
Damien Hudson was only supposed to take me on a date. He wasn't supposed to take my virginity. I wasn't supposed to let him. And I definitely wasn't supposed to like it.
Now he's my boss, so my boring job has just gotten a lot more exciting. I know I'm being a bad girl but I also know that my older, more experienced and filthy rich boss knows just how to punish me for my sins.
I'm on a mission to give him my body for whatever purposes he sees fit… but what will he do to my heart?
I took her virginity and now she's working for me.
I didn't become the billionaire CEO of several successful companies by giving into distractions. Sure, I f*ck a lot of women but I don't ever do it more than once, less they get too attached. And I keep it in my pants at the office.
Until I go on a date with Katie Finnegan. It was just a dare but we got out of hand. Meaning that I got into her sexy panties and she got into my f*cking head. Now both things are all twisted up.
She's my employee now and being with her is bad for both my business and my personal life. I'm determined to put our one little scorching hot night in the past. But first I'm going to have to take her over my knee and spank her for letting it happen in the first place.
What if both of us like the way I punish her just a little too much?
**More, Boss is a standalone quick and dirty office romance with no cliffhanger and no cheating. It features a dominant billionaire alpha male and a feisty BWW who find their happily ever after. This limited edition is on sale for a short time only and includes two bonus bad boy books (Jensen: A Military Bad Boy Romance and Larson: An Outlaw MC Bad Boy Romance) for your continued reading pleasure. More, Boss ends at approximately 30% of your Kindle.
Excerpt from More, Boss: A Bad Boy Office Romance
Copyright 2017 by Juliana Conners; All Rights Reserved.
Damien had instructed me to come to his office after I finish the filing, so I do. It's my first day of working for him and he's already having me stay late. This can only mean he wants to be with me again the way we were before.
I can't believe that after he took my virginity, he's now in charge of my employment. But there's no one else I'd rather be my boss— in more ways than one.
He and I are the only ones still at the office. Or at least I think so anyway. But I suppose part of what makes this— whatever "this" is— so fun is wondering whether that's really true.
A chill runs down my spine and I can finally see what Ruby found so enthralling when it came to working for the man she was sleeping with. I'm not sure what all this type of arrangement entails but I'm ready for it.
I'm so glad just to have the chance to be with Damien again. He must feel the same since he's having me stay here late, just the two of us.
I know it's not like we're Madilyn and Asher, or Cameron and Ruby, having a full-blown relationship. What Damien and I are doing will just stay confined as a secret office fling.
And that's fine with me. I don't want to get too involved. Only bad things happen when people fall in love.
As soon as I walk into Damien's office, he looks at me with somber, dark eyes.
"Katie," he says.
I can tell he's trying to act gruff, as if he means business. But his eyes are looking at me in that way that lets me know he wants to take me. Make me his all over again.
I can already feel my panties getting damp. I can't believe how much control he has over me. My own body betrays me when I'm near him, so I just give into it.
I'm afraid to say too much, because I don't want to say everything. How I loved what he did to me before, for my very first time. How I want him to do it again.
"I'm your boss now."
"I know."
Silence fills the office. I'm waiting for him to say what he's thinking. Afraid of what it could be. Suddenly, his careful tone seems to be letting me know that it doesn't seem as if we're on the exact same page after all.
"We can't do what we did before, ever again."
He nods his head at me, as if wanting me to agree.
"I know."
But I don't really know. I feel disappointed.
I guess that's it then.
"This needs to be a professional work environment and the last time I saw you, you didn't behave very professionally at all."
"That's true."
I say this part hesitantly, not wanting to ruin the mood. There's a crack in his voice that lets me know he wants me still, just as much as I want him. He just knows that he's not supposed to take me. Even if I want him to.
"You made me do dirty, filthy things to you."
"Very true, Boss."
"I took your innocence. And now I'm your boss."
"That's right, Boss."
"You made me do it."
"I know. It was my fault."
I know he wants me to say these things. He wants me to absolve him of his guilt.
It should seem strange that he's blaming me for things that he himself clearly enjoyed very much. I can still remember his hard, throbbing cock, which let me know just how much he enjoyed it.
But saying these things also makes me feel powerful— that I can make him do things he logically doesn't want to do. He can't help himself. Just like I can't help but get wet and weak for him.
"Before we can move forward, I think it's only right that I punish you for what you made me do to you."
"I agree."
I sit up straighter, wondering what exactly he has in mind. I would welcome any touch from him— even if it's punishment, as he calls it.
Anything so that I can feel him, be close to him, once again. I've never known a power as strong as the hold he has over me, for reasons I can't even understand. And I'm glad to know it's mutual.
"After this, we're going to be done," he says. "As soon as I punish you."
"Yes sir."
"Why don't you come over here and let me administer your punishment?" he asks.
I nod, not even needing to talk anymore. Just wanting to let myself go and give up control to him.
I walk around to his side of the desk and stand next to him.
"I need you on my lap so that I can give you the spanking you deserve," he says.
His voice sounds authoritative. Commanding. Boss-like.
"Yes, sir."
I bend over and lie down across his lap, so that I'm looking at the floor of his office. He lifts up my skirt, so that my bare ass is exposed to him. I'm wearing a thong but otherwise he can see everything.
"You were very naughty the last time we were together, weren't you?" he asks, his hands tracing the curves of my ass cheeks.
"Yes, Boss, I was," I admit. "I was a really bad girl."
I can feel his cock rising slightly beneath me, poking my belly. I've missed it and I want to make it as hard as I know it can get. I want him to do all things he did to me the last time we were together: when he made love to me for my very first time.
"You made me want to do really dirty things to you, didn't you?"
He grabs my ass with both of his hands and squeezes hard. I do my best not to cry out in pain, but I let out a little gasp.
"I did, Boss."
"I'm going to punish you for that," he says. "I need to spank you. To show you who's in charge."
"Yes, Boss."
His hand comes down hard and fast on the left side of my ass.
"Ouch!" I can't help but cry out.
He places a hand over my mouth.
"I've only just begun to punish you, my pet. It's going to get a lot worse than this. It's the only way you'll learn not to make me want to defile you like I did last time we were together."
I had known the spanking was coming— he had certainly given me fair warning— but I hadn't known it would hurt so much. I had never been hit like that before. As tears well up in my eyes, I realize I also liked being spanked more than I was expecting as well.
How can one man give me both so much pleasure and so much pain, all at the same time?
"Do you need another spanking, my dirty little girl?"
"Please, Boss," I say, almost instinctively.
He hits me again in the same spot where he had already just hit me. I had been expecting it on my right ass cheek this time but now my left burns even more.
"Owww. Boss."
"Your little butt cheek is so red and sore," he says, patting it and then squeezing it. "I'm leaving my mark all over it. Because you've been such a bad girl for me."
He hits me one, two, three more times all in the same spot, until I'm panting and crying out, "Oh my God. Please, Boss, Please."
"Please what?" he says, pulling my thong over to the side while his cock grows even harder underneath me. "Do you want me to stop spanking you, or do you want more?"
"More, Boss," I say, immediately, almost surprising myself with my answer.
"But I'm spanking you so much that your poor little butt cheek is getting raised and welted," he says, his hands tracing up and down the area he had just hit.
Then he slips a finger inside me.
"I just want to see how wet your tight little pussy is," he says, tracing the inside of my pussy like he was just tracing the welts he is leaving on my ass. "To see how much you really want more. I see that you do. I'm not sure my punishment is effective then. I'm going to have to punish you some more."
"Yes, Boss," I beg, as he begins to rub my clit, teasing me with how much I want him. "Please, Boss. More, Boss."
"All right," he says, hitting me hard and fast on my left ass cheek again. "If you insist."
This time I really do cry out in pain, but he grabs onto my clit and twists and pulls it, making me nearly come from the pleasure of the sting mixed with the force.
"Why don't you suck on my cock to show me how much you want me to keep spanking you?" he asks.
I obediently unzip his fly and grab ahold of his long, hard cock. I've been wanting and missing it so much.
"That's a very naughty girl," he says, as I wrap my lips around the head of his cock. "It's very bad when you do such dirty things to me. I'm going to have to punish you some more for that."
"Please, Boss," I say, raising my ass up higher for him, begging him to spank me again. "More, Boss."
He leans his hips forward and pushes my head into his cock with his hand.
"Show me how much you want more punishment," he says, as I take his entire cock into my mouth and suck on it. "Yes, just like that."
He hits my other ass cheek now, hard and fast and many times in a row as I nearly choke on his big cock. He fucks my mouth with his cock while he spanks me and then he holds my swollen ass cheek in one hand while he rubs my clit with his other hand.
"Oh my God," I say— or try to say— but my mouth is so full of his cock that I can't even get the words out. He pulls my hair while I suck his cock. "It feels so good, Boss."
I feel an orgasm coming on that feels almost as strong as the one I had when he was inside me before. I can't even believe it. He expertly flicks and rubs my clit while fucking my mouth.
"I'm coming, Boss," I tell him, as I give in to a wave of pure pleasure and ecstasy.
"That's my good little girl," he says. "You're being a very good girl for your Boss, by being so bad that he has to punish you."
I come on his hand as his cock pulses inside my mouth.
"Now you're going to make me come," he says, taking the juices from my pussy and rubbing them all over my ass. It feels soothing but I'm still coming down off the high of the orgasm and I don't want it to be over yet.
He shoots his cum into my mouth while I eagerly swallow it.
"That's a good girl," he repeats, as he squeezes my ass while I lick the head of his cock, trying to make sure I've got all of his sweet liquid in my mouth. "Eat up all of my cum like my hungry little slut."
I lay panting and exhausted across his lap, my breasts on his leg and his hand still cupped on my ass. Then he slaps me hard, one last time, and leans back, away from me.
"That's it," he says, "Get up."
I obediently rise and start straightening out my clothes. I can't believe I have to go home soon and face my dad, the pastor. I can only imagine what he would say if he knew I had just sucked my boss's cock while he spanked me and played with my pussy. It's not exactly what he meant when he said he wanted me to get ahead at work.
But I know that no lecture or sermon from my strict father could be any crueler than the look that Damien is giving me now. It's one of satisfaction mixed with regret. He prides himself on his discipline, his integrity. I know he can't believe what we've just done.
"Now that I've sufficiently punished you, we're over," he says. "You may leave now. And tomorrow you will only be my employee. That's it. Nothing else."
"Yes sir," I say.
I turn to leave with disappointment, my ass stinging and sore, and I'm wondering how I'm going to be able to walk tomorrow, let alone sit down. Damien clears his throat, giving me just enough hope to pause before I'm about to walk out his office door.
"Let me see your ass one more time before you go," he says. "Just to make sure I've really punished you enough.
I lift up my skirt so that he can see my undoubtedly red and welted ass cheeks.
"That's good. It's obvious I punished you a lot. Don't make me have to do that to you again," he says, causing my heart to race with excitement at the prospect. "Because next time I won't be as gentle. It might hurt so much that you'll want to run away. I might have to tie you up to prevent that from happening. I can't even say what I might do, if you make me punish you again. Do you understand?"
"I do, Boss," I tell him.
"You can go now."
"Yes, Boss."
I leave, but I know it's not for good. It can't be.
My aching ass is a reminder of what he likes to do to me. He can't just take my virginity and spank me for letting him do it and then forget all about me forever.
He wants me just as bad as I want him. There must be more. I just know it.
The only problem is, I'm beginning to think it's more than just physical. I'm beginning to think we've both let ourselves get in too deep to stop this even if we want to.
How much more can either of us handle?
I suppose I'm going to have to find out. Because this feels too good— and too bad— to stop now.
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I'll show her the ropes. Then I'll tie her up with them.
Madilyn doesn't know it but I hand-picked her to work for me.
I'm used to getting what I want, and I wanted her the moment I laid my eyes on her.
Those curves. That smile. The way she looks at me with those innocent eyes- I get hard just thinking about it.
Now I plan to teach her everything- and I do mean everything.
Under my watch, she'll experience a lot of firsts. Her first boss. Her first trial. Her first fu*k.
Sure, it's frowned upon to mix business with pleasure, but I built this firm from the ground up and I don't follow anyone else's rules.
I'm the one in control- always.
Too bad I may be breaking my own coveted rule.
I'm used to taking risks in the courtroom- but my heart is off limits.
Landing the job at Asher Mark's law firm was a dream come true.
Who knew he would also be the guy who would leave me wet after one glance?
I don't like guys like him who think they can do what they want. And we have nothing in common.
Sure, we're both ambitious lawyers but the comparison stops there.
He's older, filthy rich and much more experienced in the courtroom- not to mention the bedroom.
He wants me bad. He thinks I'll say "Yes boss," "Please boss," "More boss."
But I'm the type of woman who likes to stay in control of my life, my career and my relationships.
So why do I want to give it up- quite literally- to my boss, of all people? And what will happen to my career- and my heart- if I do?
**Yes, Boss is a full length standalone dirty office romance novel with no cliffhanger and no cheating. It features a dominant billionaire alpha male and a feisty BWW who find their happily ever after. For a limited time this edition comes with two bonus books: Out of Bounds: A Bad Boy Sports Romance and Jensen: A Bad Boy Military Romance. The title novel ends at approximately 35% of the book.
Take Me. Teach Me. Train Me. Please, Boss.
I'm filthy rich and used to getting everything I want:
A yacht, jet skis, a private plane and plenty of f*cking women.
But my one rule is never to mix work and pleasure.
An office fling isn't worth losing my lucrative law firm.
Now I have a spunky young secretary named Ruby.
I also have a dilemma.
Because I want Ruby in a way I've never wanted anyone.
My c*ck is as ready as my mind is hesitant.
I'm her much older boss— old enough to know better.
I can tell by the way Ruby looks at me:
I make her knees weak and her panties wet.
She thinks she wants me. For her very first time.
But she doesn't know what it is she's asking for.
I don't just want her on my desk, on my floor, on my lap.
I want her tied up and begging me to do whatever I want with her.
Taming her will be quite a challenge.
Ruby's no pushover. She has a mind of her own.
I'm beginning to suspect she also has some dark secrets.
Her own past, mixed with my present desires, could get us both into a lot of trouble.
Tying her up could take me down.
But I don't let anyone's rules f*cking stop me from getting what I want. Not even my own.
*Please, Boss is a standalone dirty office romance with no cliffhanger and no cheating. It features a dominant billionaire alpha male and a feisty BBW who earn their happily ever after. For a limited time this edition comes with two bonus books: Harlow: A Military Bad Boy Romance and Larson: An Outlaw MC Bad Boy Romance. The title book ends at approximately 35% of your eReader.
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Meet the Author:
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Post-election, Nate Silver's book sales soar
Nate Silver, the New York Times prognosticator who became something of a controversial figure in the final days of the 2012 presidential campaign, has seen an 850 percent spike of his book sales since nailing his electoral predictions yesterday, according to CNN Money.
The book, "The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't," is currently the number two bestseller book on Amazon.com, behind only the children's book "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel."
Silver writes the blog FiveThirtyEight for the New York Times, and he, in addition to a number of other pundits, appears to have correctly predicted which states would go for President Obama and which would go for Romney in last night's contest. (The winner in Florida has not yet been called.) But in the days leading up to the campaign, his blog, on which he predicted the odds of an Obama victory at over 90 percent, took on a uniquely polarizing status: The right targeted Silver as a liberal apologist who favored skewed polls; the left, meanwhile, revered him as a purveyor of data-driven rationality - particularly in the days following Mr. Obama's widely panned first debate performance, during which Silver continued to bet on an Obama victory.
Amid backlash over his popularity, and the inevitable backlash to that backlash, Silver engaged on Twitter with his detractors, attempting to bet Sandy relief money with MSNBC's Joe Scarborough before being rebuked by the Times public editor in the pages of the paper.
He later backtracked on that bet, donated $2,538 to the Red Cross, and has since taken a somewhat more circumspect approach on Twitter in recent days. After disproving those who doubted his approach, however, he did pause for a moment of self-promotion: "This is probably a good time to link to my book," he wrote on Twitter. Apparently, he was right.


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Residents of home held at gunpoint
Kansas City police said they were looking for three people in connection with a home invasion late Sunday.
Officers said they were called to a home on East 58th Street in Kansas City just before midnight.
One of the residents of the home said an intruder came into his bedroom with a gun and ordered him to empty his pockets and take off his shirt and pants. Police said the resident handed over a cellphone and a small amount of cash.
Police said the residents of the home were held at gunpoint while two other men ransacked the house, stealing a television and video game console. They were last seen heading west on East 58th Street.
Investigators said one of the residents reported knowing the initial intruder from prison. Another resident reported speaking to that same intruder twice in the hour before the attack.


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Rivoli Theater
41 Springfield Street,
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The Elms Theater opened in 1927 and was the first theater to be wired for sound in the city. The name was changed to the Rivoli Theater in 1932. According to an August 15, 2007 article in The Republican, "The Rivoli was a smaller version of the spectacular movie palaces of the 1920's, with marble pillars, wrought-iron chandeliers, carpeted corridors and halls embellished with painted murals depicting Greek and Roman mythology and, on the town's largest stage, a huge movie screen surrounded by rich purple drapes."
Renovations were executed in 1984 and the theater remained somewhat busy until the multiplex boom hit the area.
The Rivoli Theater was one of many gilded small town movie palaces that were owned and operated by the Goldstein family. Their once mighty empire has dwindled to just a few existing theaters and one of the last to close in 2000 was the Rivoli Theater.
Ronald Goldstein finally sold the massive theater, which claimed to have the largest screen in New Engalnd.
The building sustained water damage in March 2001, due to a water main break, but the theater was not harmed. Its original, free-standing, ticket window is a rare sight in the area and its vintage stylings are apparent even to this day.
The Rivoli Theater is listed as temporarily closed, but with each passing day, its renaissance seems further away than ever.
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I stopped by the Rivoli the other day. The place is still closed, with neat, large piles of seat standards and armrests in the lobby. It does not look like much has gone on there recently. I recall seeing films there in the 80's. On the faux balcony in the rear of the theatre there were two huge air conditioner units that pumped cool air in the house (See the excellent pics on Cinematour.com). Their sound was loud and disturbing to the movie. I also remember looking into the orchestra pit and seeing piles and piles of empty cardboard boxes and other junk. A lot of the seats were broken.
I frequently sought to go to Western Massachusetts Company locations as they were all extremely run down and I couldn't believe they were allowed to remain in operation. Around that time (mid 80's) they were operating the Palace and Showplace in Pittsfield, the Showplace and Garden in Greenfield, the Casino in Ware, the Bing in Springfield, the Calvin in Northampton, and the Amherst Cinema. Some of their closed locations included the fabulous Paramount in Downtown Springfield, the Capitol in Pittsfield, and the Victory in Holyoke.
There is much work being done, especially the exterior. I saw roofers working and windows in the small vacant retail shops replaced. The marquee has been taken down revealing the orginal one. The classic ticket booth, gone! Hopefully, these items will be preserved. The entranceway looks like a black hole now. Hopefully, that will change soon. I kind of think Konrad W. is taking the conservative route financially and doing gradual reconstruction.
The 2/6 Marr and Colton, initally installed in the Rivoli, is now being installed in the Grand in East Greenville Pa (www.TheGrandTheater.org).
Thanks to the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Propst, we hope to have the instument playing Christmas 2006.
Latest progress report has the exterior completed, but the interior notta. According to a newspaper report Konrad must arrange additional financing in order to complete the project. Personally, I hope he isn't in over his head. That building will be the focal point in the revitalization of downtown Chicopee.
According to a newspaper article written today by Stephen R. Jendrysik, Chicopee Historian, in the Springfield, MA Republican, the Rivoli opened as the Elms Theater in 1927. Became the Rivoli in 1932. Originally ran silent movies but was the first Chicopee Theater to be equipped for sound. Theater screened MGM, Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros. and RKO Radio pictures usually about a week after their showings in Springfield. The ceiling had stars and clouds. Ushers in their brass-buttoned uniforms escorted well-dressed patrons to their seats. Rich purple drapes surrounded the screen. Organ music was provided by Miss Rene Breglio prior to movie showings and the occasional silent picture. Mr. Jendrysik also mentions that the Exchange, Midway, Willow, Pastime, Wernick and Royal were other theaters operating from time to time in Chicopee.
According to that article the interior of the theater has been gutted – a shame. Much of the space has been renovated into offices and retail, but the new owner plans to have a theatre utilizing the stage house and front of the old auditorium to create a new venue for concerts, stand-up comedy and the occasional movie.
The Rivoli in Chicopee is listed under Western Massachusetts Theatres inc., 101 Bridge St., Springfield (Nathan Goldstein) in the 1942-43 Motion Picture Almanac. It was apparently too new (as the Elms Theatre) to appear in the 1927 Film Daily Yearbook, but there was a Playhouse in Chicopee listed there, with 900 seats.
A recent article about the Rivoli says they hope to open the nightclub in six or seven months. http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/08/rivoli_owner_hopes_to_reopen_t.html
The Theatre Historical Society archive in IL has the MGM Theatre Report for the Rivoli. Located on Springfield St., Good condition, 1261 seats; has been showing MGM Product for 10 years. There is an exterior photo taken in May 1941. Competing theater is the Victoria.
I went by there yesterday and the box office is gone now, the doors are boarded up and the building is for rent. I posted 2 photos on the tab above.
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I believe the two hardest periods of a new company are when you first start it and when you grow beyond being able to handle every task yourself.
When you give birth to a new business, you have to work hard to save pennies and handle as much of the operations yourself to survive financially. This is good because you get to design every part of your new venture and structure it to be mean and lean.
For a software start-up, this usually means automating as much as possible. As sales grew with No Thirst Software, I went from hand generating license files with AquaticPrime to PHP scripts that generated and emailed those type of files to a full database back end that simply emailed license codes and sent the license files directly to our software when it pinged the server.
This was easy automation to do because I'm a programmer; I write code and this was just code on a web server talking to code in my Mac software. No big deal.
Other roles are harder to automate. I have a CPA to file my tax paperwork and do the heavy lifting in accounting, but I still have to maintain the books, track expenses, and fill out paperwork (and I hate paperwork). The bookkeeping automation really needs a person, which means hiring and management duties. It's not as comfortable a task as adding some PHP scripts. I'd love to have my wife, Judy, jump in here and tackle this role but she's pulling in a steady paycheck with health insurance benefits for the family so that's a tough call. Are we ready to completely depend on our little company for all our financial needs?
Another time sink is support. I love doing support because it helps me understand how our customers use our products and I find ways to improve them. MoneyWell would never have grown as fast as it has in the direction it has without me doing tech support. I have been toying with the idea of delegating some of this to a part-time person for a while but it was incredibly hard for me to let go for several reasons.
Fear and Workflow
The first was a concern that our support quality would drop. I worked hard to create a reputation for outstanding support and I didn't want that to get lost.
The second concern was my time to train a support person. Handing off support is great if the person taking it can answer the questions asked. Delegation without education is like asking my CPA to finish my Objective-C code—both crazy and stupid.
The third concern was workflow. My workflow was impossible to scale up past two people and even then not really effective. I used IMAP services to file emails into various folders for resolved issues, those needing action, and those needing to be fixed via code changes.
This workflow issue was the biggest of the concerns by far. If I couldn't automate the workflow more, I couldn't hand off support. In the past when I had a larger company with a few dozen employees, I wrote my own customer service system. I liked it because I had control over it and could improve it whenever we needed new functionality. Today, I have plenty of software to write that could be making me money so the thought of spending my time writing an internal app was out.
I looked at other products I had used in the past but they didn't fit my desired flow. I also looked at FogBugz, but the design felt too complicated and alien to the simple design of both MoneyWell and Debt Quencher. I really tried to like it but I knew that I'd never adopt it.
Then I started to use Lighthouse to track my bugs and features because there was a cool OS X front end for it, Lighthouse Keeper. Even without Martin Pilkington's desktop interface, Lighthouse was really nice to use. It didn't have every feature, but what it did have was implemented nicely.
I found out that Active Reload/ENTP was creating a customer support system to match up with Lighthouse. It was still in beta so I held off riding this bleeding edge of technology and pushed the task of delegating support onto the back burner.
The Wakeup Call
My wakeup call came in two parts. First I was asked to include MoneyWell in the MacUpdate MUPromo Spring 2009 Bundle. About 43,500 bundles later, I learned a lot about how well my sales and licensing automation was built and how little code I was writing when handling a minor avalanche of support. Halfway through this bundle, I left for San Francisco to attend Apple's World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC)1 where I fully woke up.
It was in a talk given by Wil Shipley at an overcrowded Cocoaheads meeting held at the SF Apple Store. Even as Wil talked about not doing support as a developer, I resisted. In my head I kept saying, "I need to stay connected to my customers. This has helped me improve my software." He finished and I pretty much had blown him off. Then later that evening I started thinking about all the code that I was not writing and how I was cheating my customers of new versions. I wasn't as worried about my competition as I was about not shipping the very best products because I was devoting my developer skills to support instead of new code. Late that night, I pulled up the Tender Support website and signed up.
Letting Go
While at WWDC, I talked to Judy about hiring a support technician. We tossed around a few ideas and I resolved to make sure it happened once I got back home. Four days after I landed at Houston Intercontinental Airport, I had a support person—my son Patch. He had worked with me before redesigning the No Thirst Software website so I knew what he could do when he put his mind to something, but I wasn't going to push him into the business if he wanted to go a different direction. Thankfully, Judy had discussed this option with him while I was away and he came to me asking if he could help.
This made sharing the support role easier. It wasn't going far, just to another room in our house, and I could pull Patch into my office to give him training whenever necessary. If he hadn't stepped up, I would have advertised on our company user forum and this blog for a person to fill the role. After Patch, my preference would have been a MoneyWell user that didn't need training on the operation of our flagship product.
Tender Support
It's only been a week of working with Tender and a few days of having it live for our customers to use, but I'm thrilled with it. The discussion forum is much more structured than our old Google Groups forum—we can mark issues as open or resolved, assign priority queues to issues, and, best of all, support emails go to the forum so they can't get lost in a cluttered inbox. It's not as large and in charge as FogBugz, but that's part of its appeal. We're even more committed to offering timely and effective support as our customer base continues to grow, and Tender will help us stay on top of our game. My next blog post will talk more about this customer support tool and why it fits No Thirst Software so well.
1. If you're a developer on the Mac or iPhone and you haven't attended WWDC yet, put it on your calendar for 2010 and start saving money now.


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Miller, Jonathan Wolfe,1934–, English director, actor, writer, and physician. Forsaking medicine, Miller made his first London (1961) and New York (1962) stage appearances as coauthor and actor in the zany satirical revue Beyond the Fringe. Miller directed The Old Glory in New York and Danton's Death, The School for Scandal, and The Merchant of Venice for the National Theatre. He has written and directed radio shows, written theater and art criticism, and in 1969 toured the United States as director of the Oxford and Cambridge Shakespeare Company. Since 1974 he has directed operas, including the highly successful 1984 production of Verdi's Rigoletto for the English National Opera and his 1998 staging of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro (1998). He also wrote and hosted the television series The Body in Question (1978) and Madness (1991). As a director, he eschews elaborate productions and encourages his actors to attempt new interpretations of their roles.
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Drink the Book: Arnie Palmer Jelly Shots Recipe
Sweet tea vodka is quick becoming one of this summer's guilty pleasures. Mixed with club soda and garnished with a wedge of lemon, the stuff goes down just about as easy as its zero proof inspiration, making it prime jelly shot material.
Taking a cue from the Arnold Palmer (otherwise known as the half and half), these sweet tea and lemonade jelly shots from Michelle Palm's Jelly Shot Test Kitchen, this spiked combo of iced tea and lemonade could just as easily be called the John Daly for their hefty vodka content.
Just like last week's festive Blue Hawaii Jelly Shots, these Arnie Palmers are made using a two layer method. The tea layer is made up of both sweet tea vodka, strong-brewed black tea, and simple syrup. It's left to set while the lemon layer is prepared. You can either make a lemon syrup using fresh lemons or use Palm's shortcut method with strained lemonade mix—either one will pack plenty of lemony punch.
Once set and sliced, these shots end up being just as refreshing as their sippable inspiration but a whole lot more fun.
As always with our Drink the Book feature, we have five (5) copies of Jelly Shot Test Kitchen to give away this month.
Adapted from Jelly Shot Test Kitchen by Michelle Palm. Copyright © 2011. Published by Running Press. Available wherever books are sold. All Rights Reserved.
- Yield:18 to 24 jelly shots
- Active time: 45 minutes
- Total time:3 hours
- Lemon Syrup
- 1 ½ cups water
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 4 medium lemons, each cut into 8 wedges
- Simple Syrup
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup water
- Tea Layer
- 1/2 cup brewed unsweetened black tea
- 1 envelope Knox gelatin
- 1/2 cup sweet tea vodka
- 1 to 2 teaspoons Simple Syrup or agave nectar, if desired
- Lemonade Layer
- 2/3 cup Lemon Syrup
- 1 envelope Knox gelatin
- 1/3 cup vodka
Prepare the Lemon Syrup:Combine all ingredients in a medium saucepan. Muddle the lemon wedges. Bring to a rolling boil over medium heat. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and strain immediately. Allow the syrup to cool to room temperature.
Short cut: A 50-50 mix of frozen lemonade concentrate and water may be substituted for Lemon Syrup. Make sure to strain to remove any lemon pulp!
Prepare the Simple Syrup:Combine sugar and water in a medium saucepan. Heat over medium heat until the sugar is dissolved, about 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and allow to cool to room temperature.
Prepare the Tea Layer: Pour the brewed tea into a small saucepan and sprinkle with the gelatin. Allow the gelatin to soak for a minute or two. Heat the mixture over very low heat, stirring constantly, until gelatin is dissolved, about 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in the sweet tea vodka. Taste and add the simple syrup, if desired. Pour mixture into loaf pan and refrigerate until set, 1 to 2 hours. (When set, the mixture will be cloudy.) Prepare the Lemon Layer.
Prepare the Lemon Layer: Pour the lemon syrup into a small saucepan and sprinkle with the gelatin. Allow the gelatin to soak for a minute or two. Heat the mixture over very low heat, stirring constantly, until gelatin is dissolved, about 5 minutes. Remove from the heat, and stir in the vodka. Allow the mixture to cool slightly.
Remove the set Tea Layer from the refrigerator. Using a fork, rake the set mixture until small, uniform globules form. Ladle the Lemonade mixture into the pan over the Tea Layer. Return the pan to the refrigerator until fully set, several hours or overnight.
To serve, cut into desired shapes. Makes 18 to 24 jelly shots.
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using System.Net;
Firstly I am only going to cover detecting proxy settings for IE and authenticating to that proxy. Some other browsers also use these settings e.g. Chrome (Firefox doesn't however, it has it's own independent settings)
The framework is clever and will use IE's proxy settings automatically (these settings are in WebRequest.DefaultWebProxy) however it is only so clever. If proxy authentication is not enabled then you will never have a problem connecting to the internet through C#, but if it is it won't ask for a username and password automatically like IE, it will just error and vaguely tell you that a username and password is required.
Also it is important to note that IE supports NTLM integration which when used with a compatible proxy server (e.g. ISA server) will seamlessly use your Windows credentials to authenticate with. This means it doesn't look like your proxy needs a username and password but it really does.
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So, firstly, how do you know in C# when the users internet connection goes through a proxy server?
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How do we find out if authentication is required? Well, unfortunately the best way I found was to attempt to connect to the internet.
// Check to see if authentication is required WebClient wc = new WebClient(); bool AuthRequired = false; try { wc.OpenRead("http://www.example.com/default.aspx"); } catch (WebException wx) { if (((HttpWebResponse)wx.Response).StatusCode == 407) AuthRequired = true; }
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Great! We know we need authentication, what do we do now?
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if (AuthRequired) { // Try default credentials (e.g. for ISA with NTLM integration) WebRequest.DefaultWebProxy.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials; AuthRequired=false; // Assume this will allow us to connect for now // Code continues below
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try { wc.OpenRead("http://www.example.com/default.aspx"); } catch (WebException wx) { if (((HttpWebResponse)wx.Response).StatusCode == 407) AuthRequired = true; } } // End of If statement above
So we use the exact same code as before to do another connection test. Since wc automatically uses the DefaultProxy object altering the credentials for the DefaultProxy alters the credentials in use for the WebClient.
If the authentication fails we return status code 407 again which signals it isn't integrated with your Windows Login
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So what's next. We still can't connect but we now know the proxy requires authentication and it isn't using NTLM.
We now need to prompt the user asking for their credentials. If these conditions are met at this stage it is likely the user will be aware of the need of a username and password to connect to the internet.
I am not going to cover creating a method for getting these details from the user, just how to connect once you have them
if (AuthRequired) { //TODO: Request Credentials here WebRequest.DefaultWebProxy.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("user", "pass");// Set the credentials here AuthRequired=false; // Assume this will allow us to connect for now try { wc.OpenRead("http://www.example.com/default.aspx"); } catch (WebException wx) { if (((HttpWebResponse)wx.Response).StatusCode == 407) AuthRequired = true; // TODO: Username and password is incorrect. Implement a loop or goto no internet connection screen } }
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November 20, 2011, 05:22:56 PM »
Hi, first of all, sorry for any mistakes i make, i'm Brazilian, My name is Thiago, and i have one idea for a rpg that i'm starting do develop, and i would love to hear some feedback about the main idea, i think i need some people criticizing it so I can work it better, so, let me explain it:
The main idea is, some years on the future (maybe 50, maybe 100) the world suffered a collapse, it can be a lot of things (the scenario will be open to customization in a lot of points) it could be a zombie apocalypse, a nuclear war, or even cthulhu. So, the human race is probably dead (at least the great majority of it).
The story is about a military base that was operated remotely and was creating "super soldier", all with genetic engineering, so they are "born" in adult age.
The story is about what happens when these guys wakes up, and find no instruction of who they are, or what they are. They just wake up, with some mixed memories, and dont know what to do. The game will be centered most on the learning, and how the characters experience the world, as everything is new to then.
The characters would have some memories "implanted" on then, some kind of training package, that may vary from one to another, but the idea is that memories are forgotten, and they might remember it, when seeing things related to it.
About the system, right now i only thinking on the direction it should take, focusing mostly on the learning system, on dealing with the experiences of the players (as everything is new to them). Players will probably have 3 number that will measure they instincts (using to measure they natural instincts, like some genetic memory), they ability to learn (so with more of this, they will learn more easily new things) and one of remembrance (that they will use to remember the implanted memories).
So, i think this is basically the main idea, could you guys say your opinion on it?
Thiago Edwardo
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November 21, 2011, 11:35:28 AM »
I like the idea. How will the Remembrance of implanted memories be a dramatic part of the game?
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November 21, 2011, 03:38:18 PM »
I worry that people would metagame and have trouble making their character learn something the player already knows. Also I don't know how replayable it would be since once you've "learned" something as one character it'd be less interesting to learn it with subsequent characters. Interesting idea though.
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November 21, 2011, 07:55:03 PM »
Bosky, i'm worried about that too, but, lets remember that the GM can try to revert this, the idea is that is not necessary an reality exactly like ours, and the characters are not exactly humans, so the GM will be advised to surprise the character, making some things that are normally well know, not real on this case. But, yes, it will depend a lot on the player's wanting to live that experience, but i'm thinking a lot on ways to prevent the metagaming. About replayability (thats not a real word right?) maybe it will be less interesting to learn something again, in other game, but, i will not have a closed list of skill you can learn, i will be using something similar to FATE aspects, so the skill the character learn will depend on the experience the player want to describe about that, and different personalities can have different reactions from the same experience, and, besides that, there is two real forms of learning, one, is the learning that will be on your character sheet, that one will not happen too often, it would mean more die throw (or more bonus to a dice roll), and the other, its the obvious learning, if you eat that leaf and get sick, you would probably not eat that leaf again, but hey, on the next game, maybe that leaf if not poisonous. Thinking about how some leaf make you sick, others dont, how it maybe its related to it's taste, color, and learning to identify poisonous plants, it's a totally different (maybe thats not the best example, but i guess its enough as an example).
And Paul, about the remembrance, right now i'm thinking that the players will select a few topics the characters received training in (maybe there will be predefined packages of training) but the characters don't remember must of it, the character will have an attribute that will define how good he is in remembering, probably, that attribute will give him some tokens that he will be able to spend when he is confronted with something that is related to his training. Thats a probability, im not sure about the tokens, or a bonus on trying to remember things. Im actually really thinking on trying to take dice away, and make the game use only tokens as the game should be more about describing your experience, that would be probably more important than rolling a dice, and, to avoid that players only say "im remembering it cause its related to my training" i'm thinking about going collaborative about that, so ther players and GM will vote if they think the idea is good and well explained.
Guys, thanks for talking about the game, that few question already helped me a LOT.
All critics are very welcome, thank you
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November 22, 2011, 06:43:44 AM »
I'm thinking that if you have three stats -- instinct, learning, and remembrance -- that your game should make them all thematically fundamental. For remembrance, maybe that's unreliable memories, falsely implanted memories, and pre-collapse political conflicts playing out because of what people remember (that may or may not be true).
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November 24, 2011, 09:58:15 AM »
Paul, Remembrance will be used on tests to try to remember you traning as a soldier.
But, your idea of political views is VERY interesting, i think i will try using something like that, not exactly false memories, but maybe they are mixed up, so in some situations. So a player with a lower focus on remembrance could have some mixed up memories about something, and be sure about something that's not true.
Nice man, thank you!
I started a blog to post my developments, but i will keep posting it here.
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November 25, 2011, 05:10:17 AM »
Hi, just posted something new on the blog
I was thinking on having some scenario option, something like pre-defined customization options to the GM, like, apocalypse options, so i would suggest how is the world if he choose a zombie apocalypse, or a biological war, or a nuclear war. Things like that.
About the remembrance and political views, i was thinking on two options:
1) The creating process was still a test, so they tried implanting different memories on each (different training and political views).
2) They had different training, but the same basic memories for knowledge and history (recent history), but each of then can only remember different parts of it, and they create they opinions based on that facts.
The second option needs more work, but i think its the best one, the players will be more busy, and we would have more interaction, and maybe even "hints" that will give a path to the game.
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November 26, 2011, 11:27:35 AM »
You may want to toy around with having things take place on an alien or drastically changed world. If the players have to learn how the world works, that can help put them in a similar mindset to what their character's would be experiencing. In short, the more otherworldly the scenario, the easier it should be to get players into an exploratory frame of mind.
You also may want to consider letting the remembrance trait grant a certain level of narrative control. For example, let's say the party finds a strange tool. A high remembrance roll may let them declare the general function of that tool. You may even want to make this a two part roll where the player makes an open roll to determine how vivid their memory of the object is, while the GM makes a secret role for how accurate that memory is. That way a character could be both utterly convinced and completely wrong at the same time.
I'd actually be tempted to map the traits you mentioned onto a few questions:
Remembrance: "What is this and what does this do?"
Learning: "How long does it take me to get this thing to do what I want?"
Instincts: "What do I do when I don't have time to think?"
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November 26, 2011, 12:46:00 PM »
Thank you Shimera9, love'd your comment.
I was already thinking about using some other world, maybe the characters are part of a plan to conquer or colonize a new world, that players will be really ignorant about everything, and that can be good.
And, i cracking my skull thinking about some good way to give characters narrative control, and then, you gave it to me... Really Thanks. I will think how to apply that exactly on the mechanics i was developing.
See, i don't pretend to use dice rolls, players will have tokens they will use on tests, to remember something or to learn something. Maybe the use of a token to take narrative control, IF the character remembrance is high enough, depending on the complexity (the target number) and if that subject is on one of his memories.
You described the traits very well.
The players will have 8 points to divide between the 3 traits (maximum 4), and that values can change with time, let's say, a character was trying to remember more his memories, but after some frustrations he way want to focus more on learning new experiences, im still thinking about exactly at what speed this will happen, but i like the idea.
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November 28, 2011, 08:43:11 AM »
Ok, i'm really loving the idea of giving players narrative control, and making the adventures collaborative.
That will probably change some of the things i had planned, but it will make a more interesting game.
I'm really thinking about a scenario that is a alien world, and the characters lost any communication with their creators, so we keep the basic idea, but now they are in a totally unknown place to both players and characters.
So i thinking about a mechanic that will let players act impulsively (instinct) and do some things that are not very complex (anything more complex can't be done with only instincts only)
The trait that will make easier to then learn new traits (and by that being able to deal with more complex challenges in that particular area)
And one trait that will make then remember some of their implanted memories, and as suggested by Shimera9 that last will give players narrative control, with that they will be able to define something still undefined on the scenario. Still thinking about some way to guarantee that the explanation for the change the player make on the scenario is not "off the mood", trying to make it only acceptable it the others players accept it maybe, need to give more thought to that.
that will be the player 3 traits, besides that he will have his knowledge, here we have no "skill list" they will work like fate aspects, but the actual knowledge learned will be defined by the GM, when learning something the player will explain about what experiences he is considering, and what he think he learned about it, then, the, after paying the appropriate cost in tokens, the GM will tell him what knowledge he just learned.
A Knowledge will have a level between 0 and 4, and a challenge complexity will always vary between 0 and 5.
The thing is, if you have a level on the knowledge, you would be able to raise it, to the limit of your instinct, using tokens, so someone with a "computers 0" ans instinct 1 can raise his computer skill to 1, and resolve tasks up to complexity 1.
I need some system too to define what can be resolved with instincts (the computer task above would never be resolved if the character don't have any level on computers).
I'm thinking of maybe describing some "areas of knowledge", and some areas will be a combination of other areas, so that areas would be to complex to try instinctively, only "pure" areas would be able to be resolved that way.
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December 16, 2011, 12:45:46 PM »
Major change on the scenario, now the game has none...
After some thought i realized that having a "closed" scenario would not be good, the gaming experience would not change much after some games.
So now the scenario (and full character backgrounds) are open, the core book will come only with a example and a guide to create your own scenarios.
So now the characters can wake up on another world, or in another time, or maybe they wakeup and are super smart monkeys, or goblins in a devastated world.
I think this is a really good change, and will improve the game a lot.
I'm starting to write a book but it's getting hard to find time to translate it all to english, but i will find some time, and when its done i will post it here.
Thank you all!
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December 16, 2011, 01:19:29 PM »
I have to say, this game sounds really cool. It sounds like a game I'd love to play. If you need playtesters in the future, I would definitely like to be one of them.
I really like that the purpose of the game seems to be more about discovering the past than surviving in the present. Or at least that's what I'm picking up. It's an idea I've been toying with in a little side project of my own. I might try and adapt some of the mechanics talked about here to fit into my own stuff, as I think they evoke just the kind of feel I've been groping for.
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December 16, 2011, 04:48:55 PM »
thanks josh, you made me happy today!
See, the idea could be focus on discovering the past, this will depend on how you focus your character (with the 3 stats i mentioned earlier), so maybe you would want to focus on remembrance.
The Master would provide a scenario, and a history, the focus is totally on the players.
Man, i will really try to update all blog posts and all work to english too.
The community here is much bigger, it's easier to develop with people giving opinion.
And josh, i think in some time (maybe a month) i will need some playtesters and i would love to have you as one of them!
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December 27, 2011, 04:54:26 PM »
Big changes now, the way i was developing the game, it would become an impossible monster, it would require lots of preparation from the Master, and the game would be interesting only in a big campaign, with lots of sessions, this could be interesting, but it can't be the game proposal. Thinking about the core of the proposal, the game will be about a group of people waking up without knowing what is happening, discovering where they are and who are they.
So im thinking about making a more random game scenario, the idea is that the game will be played without preparation (great turn here), like fiasco, or mortal coil. So, taking more ideas about fiasco and violentina (a brazilian game just release by friends in
) i was really thinking on tables of seeds, with elements that would be chosen probably randomly and would define the setting, and player's background.
I'm still thinking more about the specifics of the game mechanics but this will be it, a game to be played with no preparation, trying to give the players that feel, of playing with the unknown.
While i am thinking about collaborative constructions of some scenes and maybe the setting, i'm not sure yet if the game will have a game master (but i believe it will) or it will be entirely collaborative.
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Among its cutting-edge offerings are the Institute for Chief Information Officers, which is designed for future information technology leaders who have been targeted to assume significant management responsibilities, and the global BioExecutive Program, which delivers in-depth advanced knowledge and insights into emerging industry trends. Programs typically run from one day to several weeks in length.
Revenue from executive programs will help to support the Haas School's academic degree programs for undergraduate and graduate students, and enable the school to continue attracting the best faculty members.
The new executive education building will include state of the art, high-tech classrooms, as well as first-class residential space that will enable executive education participants to live and study on the premises while attending a program. Offices for the Haas School's Center for Executive Development will also be located in the building.