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Founders | Indie Hotels in Jaipur, Mumbai and Delhi
The term 'Indie' is often used as a short form for independent and 'Boutique' referring to a small business serving a sophisticated or specialized clientele. This could explain the current design movement that can be seen in both fashion and hospitality businesses. When buying into an indie boutique brand, you expect a niche experience that is crafted to individual taste. We interviewed founders of such hospitality addresses to understand what goes behind crafting a design-led unique experience ideal for a slow modern traveller.
Guntas Randhawa, Haveli Hauz Khas, New Delhi:
What led to the idea of your boutique stay? How did it all start? What background of education and work experience do you have?
After I retired from the Indian Administrative Service, my wife and I together opened a Bed & Breakfast - 'Haveli Hauz Khas' - in my home/heritage mansion. I am a heritage aficionado and have written books on Indian heritage and travel - having toured extensively in India and abroad.
Could you describe the design aesthetic you chose and more about the design philosophy of your brand?
Haveli Hauz Khas is designed with Indian heritage as the main theme - with photographs, lithographs, canvases, carved wood, traditional textiles and hand-woven durries. The rooms and the common areas are on the heritage themes of Ajanta, Hampi, Banni, Kama and Neem. Haveli is adorned with a wide range of eclectic and rare photographs I have taken over the course of my life, from capturing slowly disappearing nomadic tribes, to rare reproductions of the cave paintings of Hampi & Ajanta to seldom seen portraits of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. In addition to this, guests are free to peruse and browse my extensive book collection, including of books written by me.
Describe the client profile you currently have. Is there a market that you wish to tap into in the future?
Our guests are primarily from Europe / Australia, who are looking for a uniquely ethnic, safe and luxurious space to stay in rather than a standard hotel chain. We would like to further expand into other demographics who are seeking this traditional experience.
What sort of special services and facilities do you provide? Are there any add-on services to your product?
Haveli Hauz Khas is a safe, tree-lined, quiet, centrally located oasis for travellers. Hauz Khas is one of the most pleasant areas of Delhi and is centrally located. It has easy access to the airport and the major roads, tourist sites and commercial areas. All the major tourist sites and monuments are close by, like Hauz Khas village and its lake and monuments, Qutub complex, Mehrauli archaeological park, Safdarjung and Humayun's tomb, Hauz Khas Metro Station. Hauz Khas Village itself is close by, housing some of the best restaurants in Delhi and a vibrant nightlife, for guests to check out.
We strive to make sure every guest is well taken care of, be it from landing into Delhi, answering their queries about India or their travel plans. In addition, I have travelled to almost all parts of India and can answer a lot of queries guests have about India and its customs. We would love to share our space with travellers and art lovers!
How do you compete with the likes of BNB which is also now doing boutique luxury?
The more the merrier! India is famous for its warmth and hospitality. Haveli Hauz Khas offers a unique experience, from it's safe, quiet and green location to the large bedrooms, in addition to interacting with me and having all their questions about India answered.
We are fortunate and lucky to have been featured by the Telegraph and a few popular travel portals have featured us as well: Thanks to our happy guests, we have been awarded the TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence for 2017 & 2016, and currently are the no. 6th B&B out of 1143 B&B's in Delhi
In 3 Words, what are your USPs?
Location, Comfort, Uniqueness!
We strive to be an Oasis for all travellers.
How do you monetise in the non-traveller season? Are there any brand activities and other collaborations that bring in business?
Luckily we are more or less occupied for the whole year, either with travellers or long-term guests!
Abhishek Honawar, 28 Kothi, Jaipur:
How did it all start? What led to the idea of your boutique stay? What background of education and work experience do you have?
It all started with the vision of late Mr. Munnu Kasliwal (The Gem Palace) who wanted a home away from home for all his guests and collaborators who came from all over the world. This led us to where we are today. After his passing, Siddharth Kasliwal (son of Munnu) led the idea to design the hotel with French Architect Georges Floret, Lebanese designer Nur Kaoukji and me (Abhishek Honawar - Hospitality professional - Honawar Hospitality).
Honawar Hospitality is the company that co-founded and operates 28 Kothi & Cafe Kothi in Jaipur.
I have completed my diploma in Hotel Administration and Food Technology from Sophia's polytechnic - Breach Candy, Mumbai. Since culinary school, I co-own Neighbourhood hospitality Pvt. Ltd. (Bombay) with two friends (one from culinary school and another). This company owns and operates 5 restaurants in Bombay. (3 gastro pubs, 1 Bakery Cafe, and 1 newly opened Indian restaurant). Honawar Hospitality (fully owned by me) came into existence three years ago to focus on the hotel sector.
The goal for the hotel and the cafe is to be a brand ambassador for contemporary modern India that focuses on its culture and heritage and, presents itself in an uncomplicated way. The design at 28 Kothi is minimal, clean and thoughtful of the all the worldly comforts for the modern day traveller.
For this project, we have a focused set of travellers who visit Jaipur to enjoy its culture and heritage and often come here to explore and execute ideas in fine textile and jewellery.
At the moment we services include Bicycle rentals nearby, Central air conditioning, Free wi-fi, Garden, Golf nearby, Library, Luggage storage, Multilingual staff, No pets allowed, Off street parking, Off Site, gym facilities, Restaurant, Room service, Shopping area nearby, Smoking rooms (on request), Spa, Spa treatments (on request), Wake-up service, Wood burning fireplace, Yoga
our offerings and approach are closest to a boutique hotel. We keep ourselves updated with the requirements of a modern day traveller.
creative, being thoughtful and privacy
thankfully, we have had a good non-traveller season with repeat international guests who come to Jaipur to work. Our cafe is also instrumental in creating an atmosphere which brings in the creative audience which in turn helps the business.
Pauline Bijvoet, Scarlette, New Delhi:
I was in India for 4 years, working for a French designer brand. I wanted to do something in the hospitality business, a bit of deco mixed with cooking and hospitality, even if I did a business school, this was something I liked, and India was the right place to do it, so much of possibilities in decoration, in food and a big demand in boutique hotels in Delhi.
I am trying to use mainly Indian materials, and I added a small French touch, in the silver crockeries for example, like in the old French houses. I am very particular in the Indian technics, painting, fabric weavings, woodwork etc... I even just bought a beautiful Pichwai painting to put in the breakfast area.I work only with small artisans, especially in cotton weaving, you can find all in the shop in the house.
No particular market, it is the diversity which makes the magic, you can meet business people, designers, tourists, young, old, families... Everyone is welcome here!
We really want to be a home away from home, so we would try to fit in any requirement from the guests, travel info, food, good addresses, anything!
The word of mouth is the best publicity I have, we try to keep the service and house as constant as possible, even in the low season, we do not change the quality of our guests stay, as other places could do...
Home away from home, charming place, conviviality.
The house is quite small, and we have a lot of frequent travellers, who come for work even in the rainy season!!!
Abedin Sham, Abode Hotel, Mumbai:
It all started around the end of 2012. My father was running a guest house, so the property always existed. My ex-business partner and I, Lizzie Chapman (who co-founded Abode Bombay with me), always had friends visiting. These visitors were either forced to choose from traditional cookie cutter five-star properties or really low-end budget guesthouses/hostels. Most 5 star hotels also just seemed to offer really over the top service that was way too formal, which is something most international guests are not really used to, not comfortable with. Given the intensity of traveling in India, where tourists are bombarded at every given moment when out on the streets, our mission was just to create a little bit of home where guests could come back to and unwind; we wanted them to have space, and be comfortable having conversations about their travels and just live with other guests. We saw a gap in the mid-upscale market.
Abode is built on community. Early on in the building process, we realized that most travellers want great beds, good pressure in the showers, clean rooms, wi-fi, good linen, authentic service, and safety anywhere they travelled anywhere, but especially in India. Guests don't really care for elaborate floral arrangements.I have over 12 years of hospitality experience. After I graduated from Cornell University, I worked with Hyatt Hotels, and boutique hotel group HK hotels in New York before coming back to India.
We wanted to showcase the rich art deco history of Bombay. Over the years, architecture has just been covered up and hidden with layers of paints, wires, and plaster boards. We worked with Katy Buckley and Sian Pascale to strip back the years of cover-up, and just go with a classic aesthetic where we showcased the brilliant craftsmanship of local artisans.
Our clients are mainly professionals that are looking for a more experiential stay during their stay. They're interested in getting a local experience, finding little cafes, restaurants, and retail stores not usually found in typical tourist guides.They range from 25-45 and mainly work in the non-traditional industries.
We work to empower the local economy and try in our small way to help out micro industries. Our travel company is run by women only, and our spa is mainly serviced by people that are blind (we work with the Victoria school for the blind). We provide us guests cell phones during their stay for them to use
We have a unique service offering and focus on our service offerings. A lack of hotel rooms means there's room for everyone to find their own niche, which we think is great for the market.
Service, simplicity, authenticity
Being a small hotel, we don't see a massive drop in the offseason. We are starting to see a lot more local travellers coming over during the offseason. We haven't done any brand collaborations yet, but it's something we would be open to in the near future.
28 kothi, Jaipur
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Q: Need help beating Spice Bandits level Wooden Walls I've tried and tried, replayed earlier levels over to level up, nothing I do is working.  Can anyone help me with a strategy for Wooden Walls - the third level in Africa?

A: Build some level 3 Tesla Coils where the creeps come, and it will defend you for a few early air waves too. That will help save money. Then build the air towers, and build some fart and goo towers to defend the ground waves, and if you have enough money building nukes will help too.
I did it with these conditions:
massive builder   10
frequent upgrader 10
damage            10

A: It is a hard level but I passed it by using a ton of magic abilities like freeze and auto defence. I used mainly tesla coils.

A: Have you tried creating a corridor near the base? I line up five towers in a line, south to north, then another line of four towers one space to the left, north to south, and a final line of two or three, as much as I can afford.  With upgrade points, I'm putting out 13 towers at start.  As you can, upgrade to the best mini guns, add some slow towers by round 10 or so, and get your AA when needed.  Any time I have trouble with a level, it usually means I need to upgrade more.

A: Thanks to the other answer about building Tesla coils near the enemy entrance as a start, that helped me. I don't have all the upgrades listed, here are mine:

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*Damage 7/10

*M Builder 8/10

*F Upgrader 7/10

I managed to complete the level anyway even though my base was quite severely damaged in the process.
After the 3 Tesla coils, I built a goo gun to slow down the creeps, and then I had to build another Tesla coil (and later some missiles) near my base as some fast running creeps broke through anyway. I just used missiles and an AA gun to pass the level with the aircraft. I did not have to use any magic, and actually managed to pass the level.
As I got more money, I upgraded a few of my Tesla coils near the top left to BBQs as well as the one beside my base.

A: I cleaned it with building a route to next to base with teslas and some air defense.

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Q: Using Dropbox's zxcvbn password strength estimator I'm trying to get zxcvbn, Dropbox's password strength estimator, to work right... but I'm having some issues!
I've included the asynchronous loader.
My next problem is that I don't know enough JS to figure out how to actually use this thing....
<input id="password" name="password" size="35" class="textInput required" type="password">

is it used as some kind of monitor on that field?
Thanks for the help, I'm still learning JS/jQuery...

A: <input id="password" name="password" size="35" class="textInput required" type="password"/>
<div id="result">
Laaa laa laa...
</div>

$('#password').keyup(function() {
  var textValue = $(this).val();
  var result = zxcvbn(textValue);
  $('#result').html("cracktime : " + result.crack_time);
  //use this result as you like
    /*
    result.entropy            # bits

result.crack_time         # estimation of actual crack time, in seconds.

result.crack_time_display # same crack time, as a friendlier string:
                          # "instant", "6 minutes", "centuries", etc.

result.score              # [0,1,2,3,4] if crack time is less than
                          # [10**2, 10**4, 10**6, 10**8, Infinity].
                          # (useful for implementing a strength bar.)

result.match_sequence     # the list of patterns that zxcvbn based the
                          # entropy calculation on.

result.calculation_time   # how long it took to calculate an answer,
                          # in milliseconds. usually only a few ms.
    */
});

Fiddle for you, http://jsfiddle.net/MhZ4p/
replace the traverse function for just crack time
traverse(result);

to:
$('#result').html("cracktime : " + result.crack_time);


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Q: Make `enumerate` start from a new line I'd like to put enumerate on a new line, but cannot use \newline because there is no line to end!
Here is the code:
\newtheorem*{quoz}{Teoremi del quoziente}
\begin{quoz} % \newline here does not work
    \begin{enumerate}
        \item Se $\lim\limits_{x \to \alpha} |f(x)| = +\infty$ allora $\lim\limits_{x \to \alpha} \frac1{f(x)} = 0$.
        \item Se $\lim\limits_{x \to \alpha} f(x) = 0$ allora $\lim\limits_{x \to \alpha} \frac1{|f(x)|} = +\infty$.
        \item Se $\lim\limits_{x \to \alpha} f(x) = l$ allora $\lim\limits_{x \to \alpha} \frac1{f(x)} = \frac1l$.
        \item Se $\lim\limits_{x \to \alpha} f(x) = l$ e $\lim\limits_{x \to \alpha} g(x) = m \neq 0$, allora $\lim\limits_{x \to \alpha} \frac{f(x)}{g(x)} = \frac lm$.
    \end{enumerate}
\end{quoz}

Currently the problem is that the first point starts where the theorem's title is. I find it kind of ugly. Is there a way to make it start after a new line?
I tried doing
\begin{quoz}$ $\newline
    \begin{enumerate}
%...

But that adds too much space and feels like a hack. Is there a better way?
EDIT: I discovered that for some weird reason this works
\begin{quoz}$ $
    \begin{enumerate}
%...

I don't get why because $ $ should be inline... Nevertheless, is there a better way?

A: Here's a solution that also teaches you how not to define a new unnumbered theorem each time. The *-version of genthm does a break, in case you want to start with a list. However, I find this bad style and I'd start the theorem by stating the general assumptions we're making on the functions.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[italian]{babel}

\usepackage{amsthm}

\newtheorem*{nonamethm}{\nonamethmname}
\newcommand{\nonamethmname}{}

\newenvironment{genthm}[1]
 {\renewcommand{\nonamethmname}{#1}\nonamethm}
 {\endnonamethm}
\newenvironment{genthm*}[1]
 {\renewcommand{\nonamethmname}{#1}\nonamethmcheck}
 {\endnonamethm}

\newcommand\nonamethmcheck[1][]{%
  \if\relax\detokenize{#1}\relax
    \nonamethm\relax
  \else
    \nonamethm[#1]%
  \fi
  \mbox{}%
}

\begin{document}

\begin{genthm*}{Teoremi del quoziente}
\begin{enumerate}
\item Se $\lim\limits_{x \to \alpha} |f(x)| = +\infty$,
  allora $\lim\limits_{x \to \alpha} \frac{1}{f(x)} = 0$.

\item Se $\lim\limits_{x \to \alpha} f(x) = 0$,
  allora $\lim\limits_{x \to \alpha} \frac1{|f(x)|} = +\infty$.

\item Se $\lim\limits_{x \to \alpha} f(x) = l \neq 0$,
  allora $\lim\limits_{x \to \alpha} \frac1{f(x)} = \frac{1}{l}$.

\item Se $\lim\limits_{x \to \alpha} f(x) = l$ e $\lim\limits_{x \to \alpha} g(x) = m \neq 0$,
  allora $\lim\limits_{x \to \alpha} \frac{f(x)}{g(x)} = \frac{l}{m}$.
\end{enumerate}
\end{genthm*}

\begin{genthm}{Teoremi del quoziente}
Siano $f$ e $g$ funzioni definite in un intorno bucato di~$\alpha$.
\begin{enumerate}
\item Se $\lim\limits_{x \to \alpha} |f(x)| = +\infty$,
  allora $\lim\limits_{x \to \alpha} \frac{1}{f(x)} = 0$.

\item Se $\lim\limits_{x \to \alpha} f(x) = 0$,
  allora $\lim\limits_{x \to \alpha} \frac1{|f(x)|} = +\infty$.

\item Se $\lim\limits_{x \to \alpha} f(x) = l \neq 0$,
  allora $\lim\limits_{x \to \alpha} \frac1{f(x)} = \frac{1}{l}$.

\item Se $\lim\limits_{x \to \alpha} f(x) = l$ e $\lim\limits_{x \to \alpha} g(x) = m \neq 0$,
  allora $\lim\limits_{x \to \alpha} \frac{f(x)}{g(x)} = \frac{l}{m}$.
\end{enumerate}
\end{genthm}

\end{document}

The optional argument (coming after the mandatory argument) is supported for both environments.


So, this will be my first blog entry. Today I've decided that tomorrow will be a major turning point in my life. I've been working nearly 50 hours a week for Harley Davidson, and although I am grateful for the job, it's been taking it's toll on my personal life, I miss my wife, my dog, weekends and my garage. Commissioned work has been piling up faster than I can manage, and I feel like the universe is telling me it's time to take the plunge. I look forward to having more time to hone my craft, and develop my business. This is only the beginning.


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New Lands is the second nonfiction book of the author Charles Fort, published in 1923. It deals primarily with astronomical anomalies and has been described as "largely a satirical attack upon the pomposity of astronomers".

Overview
In the first part of the book, Fort criticises astronomy, listing predictions astronomers made that never came true. He also continues his attacks on scientific dogma, begun in his previous book The Book of the Damned, citing a number of mysterious stars and planets that scientists failed to account for.

Fort expands in this book on his theory about the Super-Sargasso Sea – a place where earthly things supposedly materialize in order to rain down on Earth – as well as developing an idea that there are continents above the skies of Earth. As evidence, in the second part of the book, he cites a number of anomalous phenomena, including strange "mirages" of land masses, groups of people, and animals in the skies.

Of all of Fort's books, New Lands is the worst-regarded.  His speculations (serious or joking, he does not reveal) concerning continents in the sky and the supposed top-like shape of the Earth have dated considerably. It has been suggested that Fort's arrangement of the book - particularly his criticism of astronomers and long-established concepts in its opening chapters - risked it being seen as a piece of "crank literature".

Publication
New Lands was published by Boni & Liveright in 1923. It had poor sales - which led to Boni & Liveright turning down Fort's next book for publication.

Availability
New Lands is available in Dover Publications' The Complete Works of Charles Fort with Fort's other paranormal writings. A paperback version was published in the 1990s.  An edited online version is also available.

References

External links
Edited And Annotated Online Version

Books by Charles Fort
1923 non-fiction books
Books about extraterrestrial life
UFO culture
Pseudoarchaeology

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In north Bulgaria, along the Danube, and through west Bulgaria (Šopluk), dances in 9/8 (2+2+2+3) rhythm are known as Dajčovo or Lile Lile.
In Romanian, it is known as Şchioapa but not very common, with a variant around Sibiu in south Transylvania and north Muntenia called Hodoroaga, which rhythm is slightly changed to 5/4 (2+2+2+4).
Dajčovo is a circle dance where a leader calls what various the circle should do next.
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}

@end

@implementation CIContext (TSAdditions)

- (id)tsinitWithCGContext:(struct CGContext *)arg1 options:(id)ops{
    debug(@"%s:%d", __FUNCTION__, __LINE__);
    debug(@"ops: '%@'", ops);
	return [self tsinitWithCGContext:arg1 options:ops];
}

- (void)tsdrawImage:(CIImage *)im inRect:(CGRect)dest fromRect:(CGRect)src {

    int viewport[4];
    glGetIntegerv(GL_VIEWPORT, viewport);

    printf("----------------------------------\n");
    debug(@"viewport: %d %d %d %d", viewport[0], viewport[1], viewport[2], viewport[3]);

    debug(@"im: '%@'", im);
    debug(@"dest: %@", NSStringFromRect(dest));
    debug(@"src: %@", NSStringFromRect(src));
    [self tsdrawImage:im inRect:dest fromRect:src];
}

@end

@implementation COScript (SpelunkingAdditions)

+ (BOOL)insertInMainMenu {

    NSMenu *mainMenu = [NSApp mainMenu];

    NSMenuItem *mi = [[NSMenuItem alloc] init];
    NSMenu *submenu = [[NSMenu alloc] initWithTitle:@"Cocoa Script"];
    [mi setTitle:@"Cocoa Script"];
    [mi setSubmenu:submenu];

    // insert it before the Help menu.
    [mainMenu insertItem:mi atIndex:[[mainMenu itemArray] count] - 1];

    NSMenuItem *sItem = [submenu addItemWithTitle:@"Spelunk" action:@selector(cosShowSpelunker:) keyEquivalent:@""];

    [sItem setTarget:self];

    return YES;
}

+ (void)cosShowSpelunker:(id)sender {
    debug(@"%s:%d", __FUNCTION__, __LINE__);

}

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    method_exchangeImplementations(class_getInstanceMethod([CIContext class], @selector(drawImage:inRect:fromRect:)),
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The Wolf's Hook was the symbol for the Waffen SS division Das Reich.
Embroidered knit cap. 100% acrylic. Size of the cap is 22 cm X 22 cm. One size fits all heads unless you wrecked your mom on the way out or something.


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I don't know why it is, but I love cheesy sci-fi laced narratives with an ensemble cast and a medium to low budget. Sure, that's rather specific, but that's what Captive State is shaping up to be.
Co-written and directed by Rupert Wyatt (2011's Rise of the Planet of the Apes), Captive State evokes the tone of a mix of Enemy of the State and District 9.
The film takes place ten years after aliens have taken over Earth, and people have divided into two groups: Worker Bees for their alien leaders, or rebels against them.
It stars Vera Farmiga, John Goodman, Alan Ruck, D. B. Sweeney, Kevin Dunn… Okay, this may not be the ensemble cast I mentioned earlier, but you'll recognize all of these people's faces when Captive State releases on March 15th in the US.
As with all of the films on this list, the less I know, the better. If you're like-minded, feel free to skip the included trailers.
Oh, look, I'm already cheating. Yes, there were eleven films I really wanted to see, and Under the Silver Lake (this long-delayed release) is no exception. Silver Lake follows a man on the search for a mysterious girl who just shows up in his apartment building's communal pool one day.
His search for her unravels a larger conspiracy that has honestly made me wonder if writer/ director, David Robert Mitchell, struck a nerve all too real in the underbelly of Hollywood, and it was that that caused a delay. Of course, that itself is technically a conspiracy, so let's not get lost in the weeds, shall we?
At any rate, I'm looking forward to Under the Silver Lake, as I was a huge fan of Mitchell's last film, It Follows. This film stars Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough, Topher Grace, and Riki Lindhome. Look for it as it (hopefully) releases on April 19th.
What a front-loaded 2019! I've been a fan of director David F. Sandberg ever since I came across the horror shorts he became known for on his Youtube account, ponysmasher. One of which, Lights Out, was adapted into his first feature film of the same name. Soon after, came an incredibly impressive sequel to the Conjuring Universe film Annabelle– Annabelle: Creation which was immensely better than it had any right to be.
I didn't know a lot about Shazam before seeing him in the DC Animated shows, but his story is a lot like what we've seen with 2011's Green Lantern or Marvel's Captain Marvel. A young man is gifted powers by a dying alien, and voila! But this time, the hero is a twelve-year-old prepubescent named Billy Batson.
The film stars Asher Angel, Zachary Levi, Djimon Hounsou, Jack Dylan Glazer, and Mark Strong.
Man, another DC bad guy, Mark Strong? Well, at least this one has some promise.
Look for this funny superhero film when it lands April 5th.
Now, this is a superhero film that asks the question, What if Superman was evil? Brightburn plays out that premise, but with a horror twist. Jackson A. Dunn plays the preteen boy named Brandon, who, as a baby, crashed on Earth near his adopted parents' farm.
The parents, Elizabeth Banks (Pitch Perfect) and David Denman (Pam's boyfriend, Roy, in The Office), begin to notice a dark trend in the boy's psyche and eventually have to (I assume) run and hide for their lives. Again, the less I know, the better.
The film is co-written by Guardians of the Galaxy 1&2's James Gunn, so you know that it'll be well-versed in superhero lore even though it's a new creation.
Look for it on May 24th.
Now, to stay in the horror realm, but leave superheroes behind for a second… IT: Chapter Two is the sequel (second half, really) to the smash hit based on the novel of the same name by the one and only Stephen King.
The first IT was the most successful horror film ever (not adjusted for inflation), and with reason. It was surprisingly funny, beautifully shot, and Pennywise was menacing on a whole new level. Not to mention the stellar cast proved that child actors aren't always terrible.
Now, that cast has only grown in sheer talent as we begin to see the adult "Losers Club" with Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, James McAvoy, and more playing the roles.
It'll be hard to be as scary as the first IT, but I know that Andy and the crew will do their best.
Look for it on September 6th.
And we're back to superheroes! No surprise here, since I've loved Marvel's massive twenty film epic, and look forward to witnessing the 90s through Marvel's lens. The Skrulls look like the Skrulls I know and love– green skin, big ears, 90s purple suits, and all!
The film stars Brie Larson as the titular hero as she uncovers the truth behind a decades-long alien war that has been quietly happening outside of Earth until the events of this film. How will they explain this secret war (No, not THAT secret war), and how can they explain away the absence of Captain Marvel for the entirety of the MCU's existence? Only time will tell, and it's less than a month away.
The film co-stars Ben Mendelsohn, Jude Law, and boasts several recurring characters: Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury, Clark Gregg's Agent Coulson, Lee Pace's Ronin, Djimon Hounsou's Korath, and assumedly a few more familiar faces.
Look for it on March 8th.
Part of the reason I loved last year's Won't You Be My Neighbor? documentary about Mister Rogers was that it was an amazing film. But it also reminded me of the wholesomeness of a man that I grew up watching. When Fred Roger's show was on, I couldn't look away, even as a bratty little kid.
Fred Rogers had such a kind spirit, and I could think of no one better to play him than the nicest man in Hollywood, Tom Hanks. What a match made in Heaven. I don't know much about the story other than it's about a reporter who begrudgingly writes a piece on Fred and in turn, opens his heart to the good in people (and in Fred). That to me is the embodiment of Fred Roger's everlasting message.
Based on yet another true story, Tarantino's newest film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is his take on the Charlie Manson/Sharon Tate tale of murder and cult status during the height of 60s era Hollywood.
Broken record here… I don't know much about it, and I prefer it. There's no trailer, nor poster. The only thing we know besides the vague synopsis is this truly prolific ensemble of actors.
Margot Robbie, Leonardo Dicaprio, Brad Pitt, Dakota Fanning, Al Pacino, James Marsden, Scoot McNairy, Timothy Olyphant, Kurt Russell, Tim Roth, Emile Hirsch, Damian Lewis, James Remar, Luke Perry, Rumer Willis, Lorenza Izzo, Michael Madsen, Bruce Dern, Zoe Bell, Clifton Collins Jr., Lena Dunham, and even Harley Quinn Smith.
The cast is as random as they are talented, and the only potential connection to them all is that they wanted to work with Tarantino again (or for the first time).
At any rate, look for a film full of movie references and intense violence when Once Upon a Time in Hollywood debuts on July 26th.
Jordan Peele has been living his dream. For the past few years, he's been writing and directing horror content. First, Get Out, then The Twilight Zone reboot, and now, Us.
Ever since he announced he was making another social thriller, I've been eagerly anticipating its release. And now, it's so close! Again, the first half of 2019 in terms of films, is chock full of slated releases!
There are dozens of theory videos on YouTube regarding the thematic elements within the film, but avoid them at all cost because they'll likely ruin the film for you.
Starring: Winston Duke, Lupita Nyong'o, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex, Elisabeth Moss, and Tim Heidecker.
Look for this new horror classic on March 22nd.
I've never been excited for a film solely based on its writer/director and ensemble cast, but Knives Out dares to break some of my rules. The film is written and directed by Rian Johnson, who directed one of my favorite sci-fi films of all time, Looper. What? What did you think I was going to say?
As for the ensemble cast… Daniel Craig, Ana de Armas, Chris Evans, Michael Shannon, Toni Collette, Christopher Plummer, Jamie Lee Curtis, Lakeith Stanfield, Don Johnson, Riki Lindhome, Jaeden Liberher, and Katherine Langford. Whew… I'm faint.
It's an eclectic cast to be sure, but it's the tease of a murder mystery/whodunnit plot that has me the most intrigued. And that's all there is to know about the film as of press time, and that's totally fine by me because… The less I know the better.
Okay, so one more superhero film, and this is the mother of them all. The true culmination of ten years of film after film, compounding on top of one another gaining traction to this ultimate finale.
Sure, the films will continue on in perpetuity, but this film completes the first massive arc and will seed the next ten years of films going forward. It's a major accomplishment and a much-needed breather before their next phase in the MCU.
Starring pretty much everybody who's ever been in a Marvel film thus far, Endgame proves to be the most entangled film out of the entire Cinematic Universe.
Look for it on April 26th.
And there you have it! My personal list of films that I want to see this year. To which movies are you looking forward to? Maybe some of my runner-ups like Godzilla: King of Monsters or Rocketman? Or maybe you're more of a Downton Abbey fan?
Let me know your most anticipated films below!
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December 2019 This month's spotlight is on CLEBC contributor Colin Galinski of Galinski Pension and Benefits Law Corporation. Colin is a seasoned contributor who has worked on such publications as: Family Law Sourcebook for British Columbia, Annotated Family Practice, and has presented at numerous conferences including: Family Law Conference, Canadian Elder Law Conference, and Employment Law Conference.
How did you first get involved with CLEBC?
My first involvement with CLEBC was in 2009 when I co-authored a paper for the Human Rights Conference; I was hooked right away. Over the next couple of years I presented at the CLEBC Employment Law Conference and presented and was on the planning committee for the CLEBC seminar Pension & Benefits: Critical Issues & What's Often Overlooked. Tom Anderson, QC (a 2018 in the Spotlight star!) and I also did a live CLE-TV broadcast in the early days.
I've gotten to know Tom very well professionally and as a friend over the past 10 years; his widely-known dedication to CLEBC was contagious.
What are you currently working on (or have most recently worked on) with CLEBC?
I feel very fortunate to be in an annual groove with CLEBC: starting in 2013/14 I have had the pleasure of drafting the annual updates to the pension division content in the Annotated Family Practice and the Family Law Sourcebook. 2020 will also be my 5th opportunity to deliver the pension division module to the Advanced Family Law Mediation course. I've recently presented at the Biennial Family Law Conference (2019) and I enjoy presenting at the more specialized courses as well, such as Aging, Death, and Divorce (in 2017; a cheery topic!) and Elder Law Conference (2017), which are very relevant topics in our world of changing demographics.
Pension law intersects with so many other areas of law, and what I value most about CLEBC is that its many courses and publications provide practical information and skills to BC lawyers to identify and address the many nuances and pitfalls of pension law.
Pension and benefits law is a very specialized area of practice. What lead you to practice in this area?
The world of pension law is fascinating. Pensions in Canadian society have a magnitude that is difficult to fully appreciate. Once we break through the technical aspects, there is a common thread that runs through all pension work (whether it's on behalf of a large pension fund client or a family law lawyer navigating a complex pension division issue), and that is a concept I've come to describe as "dignity in retirement."
It is important to keep in mind that at the other end of this exceedingly technical and nuanced work there is a real live human being that is depending on these retirement funds to enjoy his/her elder years. My strongly held view is that when all professionals working with pensions keep in mind the goal of providing dignity in retirement to Canadian retirees, our work becomes more collaborative and professionally satisfying, with better outcomes for the pension plan members.
What is the most valuable piece of advice you have received?
I've received two highly valuable pieces of advice. Both were given by mentors who were far too gracious (and subtle) to ever appear to be dolling out bits of wisdom or life suggestions.
Tom Anderson, QC, taught me to handle pension division work with an unwavering focus on fairness, transparency, and ensuring that all involved are aware of the various options under the legislation and terms of the plan at issue. In keeping with its nature as family property, a pension should be divided on relationship breakdown in a manner that as much as possible preserves dignity in retirement for both parties. Tom was a trusted resource to lawyers across BC, and it's an honour to carry on this work in the same vein.
The second, and much earlier piece of advice I received was more a gentle nudge than true advice. About 15 years ago, well before I had considered law school, I spent 5 years working in labour relations at a university in Ontario after I completed graduate school. One evening in October my colleagues and I were back at the office debriefing after a particularly challenging collective bargaining session. The Chief Negotiator, a retired law professor, casually asked me if anyone ever spoke to me about law school. I replied that no one in my world had ever said those two words to me! He let me know the last sitting of the LSAT for that year was coming up in November and I should think about taking a crack at it, which I did. I was admitted to law school in January and began courses that September. It was not so much advice that I received, but a subtle encouragement that changed the course of my life.
Other than law, what are you passionate about?
I'm passionate about my family and the outdoors, and am constantly amazed at the variety and beauty of BC's natural spaces. My wife (also a lawyer) and I spend a lot of time with our young children in the mountains – where we can relax, see some incredible sights, and get away from the demands of our work lives.
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How can Narrativism moderate an entirely open-ended situation?
Author Topic: How can Narrativism moderate an entirely open-ended situation? (Read 2477 times)
Daniel B
Co-inventor of the Normal Engine
I'm splitting this post off of one in the Actual Play forum, entitled "[D&D] Hot elves, morality, and the missing initiative roll". The comments made in it (especially those by Meramec/John and athornton, thanks guys!!) have gotten my mind spinning. The title question has a lot of context behind it regarding a system I'm building, so I'll describe the context here.
I've been slowly chipping away (for the past year and a half, blah) at a system that I want to be as flexible as possible, to adapt to a wide variety of gaming groups. Although I didn't know it when I started, I'd been designing it as a baseline Sim system, where by Sim, I just mean it has a mostly Objective World Description (OWD) as you might find in an electronic virtual world. My latest incarnation of the system is based on a two dimensional model, with the two dimensions being:
the horizontal, Bartle's Ladder (or Path), which describes the game over time, i.e. sometimes as short as a single session or as long a year. Although the terminology is my own, Bartle's Ladder is found in his book "Designing Virtual Worlds" and is based upon his work in the article "Players Who Suit MUDs"
the vertical, the Big Model, which describes gameplay at a given moment. The exception is the Social Contract (outermost) layer, which may contain the entire 2D system. It is described here at the Forge, if you look hard enough and have a lot of patience :-D
The player-types described in each model don't really map to each other, but I believe they are complementary. The player types suggested in each model are:
Bartle - eight types along three axes, namely (Act On versus Interact With), (Player versus World), and (Implicitly versus Explicitly). They can be placed into a ladder-like structure, such that a given player will follow a path down this ladder over time.
Big Model - Gamist, Simulationist, Narrativist. Players behave under any one of these Creative Agendas at a given time, though they'll generally have a preferred agenda and may operate under other agendas in service to this main one.
Despite the fact the types don't map between the systems, the reason I think they are complementary is that, as I've suggested, one describes how players change over time while the other describes the whole system (including players) for individual events, moments of time. The sore-thumb is Narrativism; narrativism is not suitably represented by the Bartle types because of the difficulty in bringing it into an electronic virtual world (for which Bartle's theory was created), given the fact that such a world is already visually and audibly presented.
So be it. My ideal game is, as the above makes pretty clear, heavy Sim before any other priorities. Therefore, I can just focus on building a major Sim (minor Gamist) system and forget about my goal of making a game to appeal to a wider audience, right? Well .. no, it's not that simple. I don't just want my cake, I want to eat it too. A Sim (Gamist) system alone does not adequately describe my ideal system. With purely Sim (Gamist) rules, any trace of the soul of a really good story is eliminated. I want some Narrativist blood running through the veins of the system, keeping the Sim (Gamist) machine alive. Without such blood, Skeletor cannot face-off against He-Man unless he's vastly overpowered to survive it (at least, if you want to keep Skeletor as a main character), and Superman is out of luck when it comes to saving Lois Lane from certain death by pothole, if he runs out of Stamina before he can go back far enough in time by flying around the globe.
My ideal system is, then, one that is Sim (Gamist) most of the time, but which switches to Narrativist "when appropriate", whatever that means. To get narrativist situations mid-game, you need either luck, a system that is set up as Narrativist, or a skillful GM. I don't want to rely on luck, and I've always been hesitant to build Narrativist-like rules into the core of the system because I felt it would limit the flexibility of my system by far too much .. precisely what I'm trying to avoid! Games like Cthulhu? Sorcerer? MLWMaster? Although I haven't read them, the titles of the games make it sound like they carry too many boundaries for my taste. e.g. If you're in a Cthulhu universe, you will, eventually, go insane. What if I want to play in the Cthulhu universe where people find an inoculation to the insanity? Do I need a new ruleset?
My only option was to hope for a skillful GM. Actually I wasn't going to expect this either; I planned to provide structures and systems in the GM's Guide to help him out. I still intend to do this, and yet ..
The "[D&D] Hot elves, morality, and the missing initiative roll" post made me reconsider my stance on not including any Narrative rules at all. It really would be nice if there were some rules to support the GM when Skeletor himself shows up to fight He-Man, instead of just expecting the GM to run the game entirely because the Sim rules are no longer appropriate. I'm still facing my original fear of Narrativist rules, though; namely, that any system I build will necessarily put boundaries on the limitless variety of narrativy situations that could occur. Is there a single set of rules to moderate a Skeletor-versus-He-Man battle and a Superman-must-save-Lois conflict? How can Narrativism moderate an entirely open-ended situation?
Here's a couple of tentative stabs at a solution. If anyone has other ideas, feel free to suggest them.
Other properties I want for the system that I haven't mentioned yet is that I want to favour playing the game at the table (versus at home), and I want players to feel freer to introduce new content into the game world (but not so free that they threaten the Objective World Description). So I came up with a system of Character Currency that might just allow for it. The Currency system is pretty open-ended in that you can buy just about anything, if you have enough for it. Following is an extensive live of examples -
a permanent +2 Strength bought between sessions is expensive!
a permanent +2 Strength bought to kill the last remaining foe is less expensive
a temporary +2 Strength bought to kill the last remaining foe is cheap
permanent control of a powerful King is expensive!
adopting a social connection with a King is less expensive
permanent control of a 0th level serf is less expensive
adopting a social connection with a serf is very cheap
The Currency system wouldn't have rigid costs, so the GM would have to feel his way through it, but hopefully some parameters and guidelines would make it easier. My original purpose for the Currency system was to have larger changes to the continuity of the world be more expensive. Note that the key phrase here is "changes to the world". This Currency system could very easily be made to apply to the story, as well as the world. Changes to the story would become decreasingly expensive over time. Skeletor would be cheapest to engage in combat when "it's time".
Furthermore, we could pull the GM into the Currency system so that any player, including the GM, would need to pay to turn a given situation (which would otherwise be Sim- or Gamist-resolved) into a Narratively resolved situation. So, all narrative resolution would effectively be just a simple bidding system. We do run into a small problem in that the Banker (i.e. the GM) is also the one responsible for his own funding, which is a conflict of interest. Meh, these are just hideously rough ideas at the moment. (No judgments yet, please.)
Oh well, that's all I can think of at the moment. Bed time.
Dan B
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Ford: "Why? What did she tell you?"
Arthur: "I don't know. I didn't listen."
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Re: How can Narrativism moderate an entirely open-ended situation?
Can I get that in plainspeak, tl;dr format? The esoterica is choking me.
Eero Tuovinen
Acts of Evil Playtesters
I don't want to be nasty, Daniel, but that is one messed up post. I think I understand what you're looking for here, but to do so, I need to be an expert in Big Model terminology - not because you use that terminology, but because you misuse it.
Now, I have to ask: are you interested in trying to straighten out your understanding of Creative Agenda and how it maps to your game design problem? I'm asking because this doesn't seem like something where it'd be very useful for me to just throw out a couple of pithy corrections; a thorough discussion would be needed to go through the issue in detail, and it'd likely roll over your practical problem. I often suggest in this sort of situation that we just put aside the Big Model terminology - as I see it, your problem here can be phrased in a more productive and intelligible manner without delving deep into it. So it's your call - do you want to discuss how Creative Agenda works, or do we want to look at your actual problem (which seems to be the issue of how to balance world modeling vs. genre adherence in your resolution system, if I understand you correctly)?
(You could also start another thread to "firewall" these two topics and prevent them from overcoming each other, of course - your call.)
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Eero, let's take your latter suggestion and stick to the purpose of the original post, i.e. discussing "the issue of how to balance world modeling vs. genre adherence". That's a pretty damned succinct way of putting it.
Actually, I think the nugget of the problem I'm having stems from that: just what the heck is "genre" in an open-ended environment? Even within a single genre, the open-endedness makes it difficult to pull off meaningful results if the rules don't clamp down. It doesn't work too well if one player is playing "He-Man versus Skeletor" and another is playing "He-Man versus Hordak" (and therefore Skeletor is a supporting rather than a main character). I suppose figuring out how to balance things would come a lot more readily if I can get a handle on this, first.
Why all the extra stuff in my first post? I wanted to avoid this situation -
Me: "I'm looking for help in this."
You: "Tell us more about the project, so we understand what it's for."
Me: "Better not."
You: "Hm, why help you, then?"
Now I've frightened you all away, so it's no longer an issue, LOL .. ah well
Perhaps on topic - who determines what 'genre adherance' is/involves? Or is it being treated here as one of those 'No, I'm not defining it, adherance to genre X just involves having Y & Z...no, the Y& Z requirement is not an invention of my own mind, it's a hard fact!'. At which point I'd normally laugh except I know exactly how seriously people will say that.
Hmm, let me take a stab at this and see how far off I am.
You want a game where you'd like players to actively develop the world ad hoc by purchasing (by some means) traits that influence that world?
This sounds similar to an anime I enjoyed watching, Eden of the East (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_of_the_East<exactly
Now, I think I've covered Gamist, Narrative, and Sim all in one shot. I may have even touched on the Bartle stuff a bit.
Is this what you had in mind?
-Curt
I think that the question of genre adherence vs. setting realism is an interesting one. Both of those terms are natural language, vague as hell, and not suitable for nitpicking; both of them are also absolutely central to certain sorts of roleplaying, so a game that can get a fruitful handle on them seems like a worthy endeavour to me. I'm not so hot on this "I'm making a game that is everything to everybody" angle, but we can pretty effectively ignore that for now, too - I'll ignore it, anyway. (I have a personal relationship with this search for the universal rpg, as I worked along similar lines around a decade ago - didn't work for me, ultimately I learned more and realized that an universal game is a contradiction in terms.)
I'll think aloud a bit here... What does it mean that a game is being "realistic"? A simple, and perhaps fruitful, thought in this regard might be that in a realistic game the players are adjudicating the introduction and consequences of events on the basis of their understanding of the setting without utilizing their dramatic sensibilities. A genre adjudication, on the other hand, accounts for dramatic issues like where a story should be going. Looking at it this way (very rough as theory for now), it comes to me that both of these are simply different modes of event introduction and resolution - whether the game is "realistic" or "dramatic" doesn't concern the rules-system, necessarily, but rather the considerations that the players focus on while using the system.
It's an interesting idea that one should like to use realistic and dramatic reasoning in the same game at different times. As I understand your explanation, you're interested in a game where the default consideration were realistic, but when play veers towards the dramatic, a different resolution logic takes over. (Make no mistake, it seems to me that this is pretty common - usually games approach this a bit differently, though.) One method for doing this that might be interesting - and I'm just brainstorming here - would be to have some sort of drama gauge that'd tell us when to switch to a different set of priorities. A simple method could be to have a pile of drama chips in the middle of the table during play, and allowing the players to add to the pile according to certain rules. Then, perhaps when the pile has ten tokens or however many, the game would turn on the dramatic rules.
Ha, I note now that the above idea is almost exactly the one used in the excellent Dead of Night. It's a game that grapples with the same field of issues that you do, in many ways. That game balances the dramatic and realistic concerns by giving the GM an explicit budget that he can use to mess about with dicing to force the results to better accord with his dramatic sensibilities. The funny bit is how the GM's pile of chips grows larger towards the more crucial scenes of the game, so the game swings from a rather value-neutral and "realistic" resolution system to something where at times the GM can outright force the resolution to follow dramatic precepts.
Putting that aside for now, an interesting thought occurs - what do you think Daniel, is it sufficient to resolve conflicts dramatically at times, or do you also need to do other types of dramatic coordination during a session? I'm thinking of something like whether Skeletor comes to the scene in the first place - will the GM determine this based on realistic likelihood or dramatic concerns, what do you think? In other words: do the dramatic moments and need for dramatic considerations run in longer arcs in your game, or do you just find that you need to nudge some individual conflicts now and then, but otherwise run the game in a dramatically unconcerned manner? Can a character get stuck into a story that spans several scenes or even sessions and effectively determines in advance what each scene will be about?
Sigh. Yeah, I used the word drama in the other thread quite deliberately.
Thing is though, use of drama of does not IMO really sit well with negotiated interactions. This is really a form of story telling, with more similarities with plays or poetry than with Story Now narratavism. I point out of the umpteenth time that this is a confusion guaranteed by the fact that the term "story" remains unpacked and refers to such a wide range of things that it is easy to use in totally different senses and contexts.
Dramatic story of the type you probably mean is something that at least substantially must be designed in advance. And then, it can't be negotiated in play, because the other participants do not know the dramatic necessity or logic underlying an event and will therefore send it down a different path, ruining the effect. This is precisely what leads to simulationist railroading. But some sort of currency to pay for the railroad, as it were, doesn't really solve the problem; either it can be enforced, and the GM always has enough currency to do so, or it can't and goes off the rails anyway.
And yet, if all dramatic sense is eliminated, and things just go on "as they would happen", you may well end up with a form of play that is utterrly dull and which nothing of consequence ever occurs. Squaring this circle at present remains a Gm function; there is very little, it seems to me, that we can say about relevant techniques etc, not lreast becuase there has not been much interest in Sim as a whole.
Callan: I've been thinking about that "genre adherence" question. I was considering creating different roles for people like "Physics Master" and "History Guide", who would be the authorities if a dispute came up, but I very quickly rejected the idea because it's sucky. I still haven't decided :-S
Excalibur: Very interesting! I like it! I'm going to have to check that movie for some serious inspiration. Thanks for letting me know about it
Eero: Indeed, what's important here is the reasoning behind decision-making more than the system itself. When I started, I was convinced that a system for dramatic decisions was rather pointless at best and, if you were going to use drama at all, it was best that the GM simply override the rules to make it happen. However, I have since changed my mind on the subject and really want to try and build an actual system to supplement dramatic decision-making. The system you'd described sounds more like a gear-shift, which I may also use, but is not what I'm ultimately looking for.
As for your questions on dramatic moments versus arcs, I don't want to choose ahead of time. My ideal system should allow me to either have the occasional dramatic bursts or long campaign-spanning dramatic arcs. For example, if I'm feeling like playing a dungeon crawl, the bursts are sufficient and the campaign-spanners would be irritating. On the other hand, if I'm playing something out of the Star Wars universe, the long arcs would be better (e.g. Leia and Han, Leia and Luke, Luke and Han, Luke and Vader .. heavy relationships!)
As for the search for the Universal RPG, I feel for ya :-) .. in one way, I have "given up" too, but in another way I've committed more strongly. I'm no longer trying to appeal to literally everyone. Instead I'm trying to build a game which does what I, as a GM, have always wanted my systems to do. One thing I want is for the system to conform itself as much as possible to my players, rather than the other way around. (I realize it sounds like this is another way of saying "Universal System", but it's not.)
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You give only two possibilities; either a foregone dramatic climax, or a negotiated path that will likely not lead to that dramatic climax. I'll use a metaphor because the logical half of my brain works better in pictures. Say the foregone conclusion is the peak of a mountain. It's really fun to see off the top of the mountain, so the GM would like to get there, but it's equally fun to let the group choose their own path and go exploring. Forcing them to choose a path up to the apex of the mountain is the "simulationist railroading" you mentioned, and is irritating from the players' perspectives because it violates the freedom of exploration they were promised.
I suggest that there is a third possibility, and it is this possibility that I'm aiming for. Instead of the GM choosing a mountain for the players, he just builds a landscape with a lot of "potential peaks". In other words, there are hints of adventures to hook the players' attentions but nothing is fixed, not even the peaks, necessarily; the GM need not know the adventure conclusions in advance, and it might be more fun if he doesn't. The players can grab onto a hook or explore in an entirely weird direction in the landscape. The Currency in this system does railroad something, but not these "lateral" movements that the players make. No significant changes should happen to the world as they move laterally and learn about it.
Instead, I'm trying to make the Currency force the players to move "vertically" at some minimum rate on average. They might ask "which mountain should we climb?" and debate about it with each other, but the system's only answer is "I don't care, but start climbing in five minutes!" As they climb, they may still make lateral movements to other mountains (or even climb down a tiny bit), but their ability to do so will decrease as they go up, and as the system pushes them. Eventually they should be screaming to get to the apex of whatever mountain they've ended up on, racing towards some critical narrative thing, whatever it may be.
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In regards to Daniel's reply to Callan:
Reading this, I am very much reminded of Dogs in the Vineyard. It might not actually be on the same scale as what you're talking about, but the town creation rules seem to fit your description quite well.
The GM provides the players with a situation, a town where things have gone very wrong and a bunch of NPCs, just like the different peaks you speak of. The incentive to act is also clearly stated: it's the Dogs' job to clean up the mess, period. Now, sure, they could walk away at any point so it's perhaps less forceful in this respect than what you speak of.
Quote from: Daniel B on February 26, 2010, 12:50:33 AM
When I started, I was convinced that a system for dramatic decisions was rather pointless at best and, if you were going to use drama at all, it was best that the GM simply override the rules to make it happen. However, I have since changed my mind on the subject and really want to try and build an actual system to supplement dramatic decision-making.
I think just following the rules procedure at all times can provide drama - in effect, the entirety of gameplay rests on top of a ruleset. What your talking about is a bit of dramatic licence, then some rules, then some dramatic licence, then some rules, etc. In the end either dramatic licence gets in the way of rules, or rules get in the way of dramatic licence.
You'll just end up going to dramatic licence all the time, eventually. It's either rule procedure all the time or just keep doing what you were doing before.


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Newberry gearing up to hold vaccine walk this weekend
Suzette Cook, Staff Reports
The Rotary Club of Gainesville and Newberry Mayor Jordan Marlowe are teaming up this weekend to get the word out about COVID-19 vaccine efficacy and registration.
T.J. Pyche, a Rotary Club board member, said he reached out to Marlowe about the event because his fiancee' attended Newberry High School where Marlowe teaches history.
"We got involved with some of the reconciliation work with Marlowe," said Pyche, who works as a communications manager for the Gainesville Supervisor of Elections office.
"It's a good thing to do not only on Gainesville but in Newberry as well," Pyche said about the outreach effort. He said volunteers will go door to door starting at 2 p.m. Saturday to deliver UF Health's vaccine efficacy and safety information. Volunteers will meet at Oak View Middle School and then split up to canvas the city.
The goal is to not only inform residents about the COVID-19 vaccine, but also assist with getting people signed up to receive it as well.
"In case they have a barrier, we'll help them sign up," Pyche said.
In Gainesville, he organized an event two weeks ago and had 40 people knock on 500 doors.
"The goal is even if we get one additional person who may not have been able to to sign up and now they can enjoy some of the freedoms of being vaccinated," Pyche said.
Some volunteers in the effort are health care professionals, but anyone is welcome to contact Pyche to help out by emailing pychetj@gmail.com or calling 352-467-9865.
"It's a relatively easy way to get the community together to do something important," Pyche said. "Lots of people are vying for a finite resource, so it's not simple," he said.
Marlowe announced the event at the Monday night planning and zoning meeting and encouraged residents to contact him with questions.
"I get my vaccine education Friday night," he said. "And we will start to help people register and get on waiting lists."
The City of Newberry Commission opted out of the Alachua County Emergency Order early on in the pandemic because they stated that the face mask requirement could not be enforced. Many Newberry businesses also opted to not enforce any face mask wearing rules for employees or customers.
As of March 2, Alachua County has reported 22,371 cases of COVID-19, 1,025 hospitalizations and 234 deaths. According to the Florida Department of Health COVID-19 dashboard, the 32669 Zip code, which includes the City of Newberry and adjacent areas such as Jonesville, has had 1,136 reported cases of the virus.
Several Newberry City Hall employees and Newberry Commissioner Ricky Coleman contracted COVID-19 since the pandemic started. Coleman has been absent from attending meetings and has been excused indefinitely from his attendance since being hospitalized for battle with COVID-19 since early January.
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A popular Polish sausage in the Northern-Baltic Sea area.
Grind: lean pork through 1/2" (12 mm) plate; soft fat trimmings through 1/8" (3 mm) plate; back fat or hard fat trimmings with 3/8" (9 mm) plate; beef through 1/8" (3 mm) plate.
Emulsify beef in food processor adding 60 ml cold water. Add spices during this step.
Mix ground pork with beef until sticky. Add ground fat and mix again.
Stuff into 36 mm hog casings. Form 50-70 cm (20-28") links and tie up ends making rings.
Hang for 12 hours at 2-6° C (35-43° F). Drying is also allowed at room temperature for 2-3 hours.
Cook sausages: in water at 72-75° C (161-167° F) for 25-35 min until the meat reaches internal temperature of 68-70° C (154-158° F).
OR: in the last stage of smoking bake sausages for 30 min at 75-90° C (167-194° F) until sausages reach 68-70° C (154-158° F) temperature inside.
Cool in air at 18°C (64° F) or lower.
In the past additional steps were added to produce a semi-dry Baltycka sausage that could be kept at room temperature.
with warm smoke (24-32° C, 75-90° F) for 24 hours until casings develop dark brown color.
The sausage was dried for 7-12 days at 12-18° C (53-64° F), 75-80% humidity until sample sausages achieved 82% yield. If mold appeared it was wiped off with a cloth.


For my documentary I am going to do Horseback riding. The title of my documentary is Why I Ride. I plan on interviewing a few of my friends from the barn. My friends Stacie, Toni, and Nicole. I plan on asking them me to tell me their name, their horses name, the discipline of riding that they do and what it is, ask them what they do in the discipline and why they choose it, how long they have been riding, and why they ride. Some B-Roll footage I plan on getting is maybe some videos of people at my barn, some videos of all of my friends riding, maybe some videos of them tacking their horses and untacking, and maybe some videos from a horse show I am doing.
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College campuses across the nation are filled with talented student athletes, those capable of exceling both in the classroom and on the court, field or ice.
Princeton University, a prestigious Ivy League institution, holds this distinction as well. Once the home of the legendary Hobey Baker, the New Jersey-based school currently hosts one of the greatest players of the modern era. The U.S. National Sled Hockey Team's all-time leading points scorer, Declan Farmer, roams the school established in 1746.
Now back and immersed in classes after a whirlwind winter, one that saw him reach the pinnacle of his sport – again – winning gold at the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games after achieving the same in 2014.
Farmer's shining moment in PyeongChang, South Korea was every hockey player's dream when he notched the game-tying goal in the gold-medal game against Canada, with only 37.8 seconds left to play, and followed it up with the game winner in overtime.
The outcome of the game was a surreal turn around, truly emphasizing Farmer's stature in the sport after the born-bilateral amputee began playing it as an 8-year-old, seriously competing just two years later. He made his U.S. National Sled Team debut in 2012, at the age of 15.
It's led to accomplishments, accolades – Farmer also has a gold from the Sled World Championships in 2015 – and many memories with the U.S. National Sled Team.
While Farmer has an ability to shine in the tensest moments and prop up his team, any mention of his all-time points lead, 162, is quickly deflected toward those who assist in his heroics.
In the process of his career, the Tampa, Fla., native and Tampa Bay Lightning Sled hockey member has become a marquee role model for others playing the sport. It's not a role Farmer takes lightly.
Farmer's 18 points in the 2018 Paralympic Games tied him for the U.S. team and tournament lead with teammate Brody Roybal.
"It definitely means a lot to me," Farmer said. "When I first met U.S. National Team players, a lot of them gave me advice. Josh Pauls, who's on the team now, coached me at development camp when I was 13.
Farmer skates four or five times a week, working out on his own. He holds a similar schedule to any other varsity athlete, having to manage his studies in the day and homework while finding time to practice and work out.
When the junior economics major slides onto the ice, he's intently focused on the nuisances of his game to help him perform.
It showed when Farmer led the Para Hockey Cup in points, with 12, as the U.S. staked claim to its fifth-consecutive tournament title.
The next chance to represent the U.S. is a two-game series against Canada, March 21-23 in Indian Trail, N.C., while a gold medal will be on the line at the 2019 World Para Ice Hockey Championship, April 27-May 4 in Ostrava, Czech Republic.
Until then, Farmer is focused on his studies, eyeing a chance at a third straight Paralympics gold in 2022.
Until then, he will continue to enjoy the journey.
"It's really just been a heck of a ride so far," he said.


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With outstanding student loan debt at nearly $1.4 trillion and rising, you wouldn't be hard-pressed to find people who think student loans are a big problem for Americans. Student loan refinancing isn't a catch-all solution to the issue, but it's one of the strategies for paying off student loans while allowing existing borrowers to save money on their high-interest loans.
The short answer is yes, you can. However, you need to understand your options fully before committing to any solution.Consolidation and refinancing are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same procedure. Consolidation is a process offered by the federal government, while refinancing is done strictly in the private sector.
Consolidating your student loans means that multiple loan agreements are compacted into a single agreement. If you consolidate federal student loans, your interest rate will be calculated by averaging the rates of your original loans through a weighted scaling. With a federal Direct consolidation loan, you can lower your monthly payments by extending your loan repayment term to up to 30 years (though this may mean you pay more in interest over the life of the loan), and the interest rate will then be rounded up to the highest eighth of a percentage point. Federal consolidation loans have a fixed interest rate.
One of the advantages of consolidating your federal student loans is that you may qualify for loan forgiveness options or additional repayment options. At the same time, consolidating may cause you to lose borrower benefits associated with your original loans. Before you apply for a federal consolidation loan, ask about how it will affect your borrower benefits and your loan costs. You can ask your student loan servicer or call the Education Department's Loan Consolidation Information Call Center at 1-800-557-7392.
What Does it Mean to Refinance Your Student Loans?
Keep in mind that refinancing your loans means you'll lose the borrower benefits associated with your original loan. Make sure you understand the terms of the loan before you apply for it — like if you can postpone payments if you lose your job or if you can get the loans discharged if you become totally and permanently disabled. Once you refinance a federal student loan with a private student loan, there's no way to reverse the action.
No matter if you choose to consolidate your student loans, apply to refinance your debt with a private lender or take advantage of one of the many student loan repayment options available to federal loan borrowers, it's crucial to continue making your payments on time. Late loan payments can seriously damage your credit and hurt your ability to take out a car loan, buy a house or get a credit card, among other things.


Factors To Consider When Choosing A Real Estate Appraiser.
There are a great deal of buildings in the real estate market and determining their value is a very important thing especially if you want to sell the property. Insurance for a couple of properties is by and large a law in a couple of countries thusly if you have any commercial building, you have to insure it against particular risks. When you want to insure your building, you will first have to know the value of the building so that the premiums for the insurance cover can be determined by the insurance company. The value of a building or any real estate property is determined through appraisal and this value will be used to determine the amount of taxes you will pay.
In a perfect world pick an appraisal organization that charges a sensible measure of cash for their administrations which is within your set spending plan. Another vital factor that you should consider when you picking such an organization is their authenticity. An individual or an association can only appraise property if they have a legitimate permit which fundamental as it shows that they are met all necessities to offer those organizations. You ought to therefore preferably enlist a real estate appraiser or commercial industrial appraisal association that has been registered by the appropriate specialists or else their appraisals will be rejected.
You should also consider the notoriety of the real estate appraiser you need to employ since it will assist you with determining if they offer solid and accurate estimations or not. You should likewise ensure that you have done some examination on a real estate appraiser before you enlist them so you can check their effectiveness. There are surveys on the web on various real estate appraisers which will enable you to locate a capable real estate appraiser. Preferably hire a real estate appraiser that has adequate experience in that line of work if you want accurate results.


Erwin J. Shustak Selected for 23rd Edition of "The Best Lawyers in America"
Erwin J. Shustak, recently was selected by his peers for inclusion in the 23rd Edition of "The Best Lawyers in America©" for his work in Financial Services Regulation Law. Best Lawyers© is the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession.
A listing in Best Lawyers is widely regarded by both clients and legal professionals as a significant honor, conferred on a lawyer by his or her peers. Inclusion in Best Lawyers in America has the respect of the profession, the media, and the public, as the most reliable, unbiased source of legal referrals anywhere.


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God the Geometer, opens a new window, opens a new window by Anonymous / Public Domain God as Architect/Builder/Geometer/Craftsman, The Frontispiece of Bible Moralisee
You know, because you've been told, that the Earth revolves around the Sun. You also probably know that planets other than our own have moons, and the way to test to see whether or not something is true is by experimenting. Thousands of years ago, these things were not widely known. The heavens above were anyone's guess, and the way things were was just the way the gods had made them. It was felt there was no need to truly understand them or put them in any kind of order.
The Greek scholars changed much of that. They were famous for their schools of higher knowledge, which were rather different than ours. Students would gather around a teacher, perhaps in a beautiful grove, and ask questions and discuss among themselves what might be the answers and the best ways to figure out those answers. Many of today's colleges still aspire to this way of learning.
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Ptolemy was an astronomer and mathematician. He believed that the Earth was the center of the Universe. The word for earth in Greek is geo, so we call this idea a "geocentric" theory. Even starting with this incorrect theory, he was able to combine what he saw of the stars' movements with mathematics, especially geometry, to predict the movements of the planets. His famous work was called the Almagesti. In order to make his predictions true, he worked out that the planets must move in epicycles, smaller circles, and the Earth itself moved along an equant. None of this was true, but it made the math work for his predictions. This flawed view of the Universe was accepted for many centuries.
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He is sometimes called the grandfather of science. He studied under the great philosopher Plato and later started his own school, the Lyceum at Athens. He, too, believed in a geocentric Universe and that the planets and stars were perfect spheres though Earth itself was not. He further thought that the movements of the planets and stars must be circular since they were perfect and if the motions were circular, then they could go on forever. Today, we know that none of this is the case, but Aristotle was so respected that these wrong answers were taught for a very long time. Aristotle, outside of astronomy, was a champion observer. He was one of the first to study plants, animals, and people in a scientific way, and he did believe in experimenting whenever possible and developed logical ways of thinking. This is a critical legacy for all the scientists who followed after him.
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Well over a thousand years later, Nicolaus Copernicus came up with a radical way of looking at the Universe. His heliocentric system put the Sun (helio) at the center of our system. He was not the first to have this theory. Earlier starwatchers had believed the same, but it was Copernicus who brought it to the world of the Renaissance and used his own observations of the movements of the planets to back up his idea. His ideas, including the revelation that the Earth rotates on its axis, were too different for most of the scholars of his time to accept. They used only parts of his theory. Those who did study his work intact often did so in secret. They were called Copernicans.
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Born in Pisa, Italy approximately 100 years after Copernicus, Galileo became a brilliant student with an amazing genius for invention and observation. He had his own ideas on how motion really worked, as opposed to what Aristotle had taught, and devised a telescope that could enlarge objects up to 20 times. He was able to use this telescope to prove the truth of the Copernican system of heliocentrism. He published his observations which went against the established teaching of the Church. He was brought to trial and, although he made a confession of wrong-doing, he was still kept under house arrest for the rest of his life. But it was too late to lock away the knowledge that Galileo shared.Other scientists, including Sir Isaac Newton and Johannes Kepler, seized its importance and were able to learn even more about the ways of the world and the heavens beyond.
These early scientists' legacy continues to this day. As time goes on, we use our instruments, science, math, reasoning, and creativity to learn more about the secrets of the Universe. In this way, we are directly linked to the astronomers of centuries ago who gave us direction to discover more about the dances of the planets and the nature of the stars.
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Discovery of the Solar System
This site from NASA follows the development of ideas about the solar system from Ptolemy to Copernicus to Galileo.
Makers of Science
Volume one of this reference set has information on Aristotle, Copernicus, and Galileo.
Recentering the Universe
An 88-page round-up of how these early scientists' work changed everything about people understood their world.
Articles on Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo, and Aristotle can be found in our online databases: Biography in Context and Encyclopaedia Britannica (English, Spanish, and children's versions).
Aristotle Leads the Way
Captures the life and times of Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher who studied a wide range of subjects and helped shape early scientific beliefs. In our young adult collection.
Contents: Among the trees of Athens -- Life in ancient Athens -- Life in the king's court -- Investigating the natural world -- Return to Greece -- Thinking about thinking -- On Earth and the heavens above -- On right and wrong -- Impact of Aristotle -- Life and times -- Life at a glance.
The Great Thinker
Stresses the importance of Aristotle's intellectual discoveries on the future of science.
Biography for Kids: Aristotle
A short online biography of Aristotle good for upper elementary grades that touches on some important points.
An enjoyable 128-page biography of the 16th-century Polish scientist that includes activities on retrograde motion, the solar system, parallax, and an astrolabe.
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Uses a newspaper format to take a look at developments that led from the ideas of Copernicus and other early scientists to the technological advances that enabled man to venture to the moon and beyond.
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A hypertext source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and the science of his time. Includes a biography, letters from his daughter, and a tour of his home. From Rice University.
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With savedroid (https://www.savedroid.com) Yassin wants to democratize cryptocurrencies by creating a unique AI-fueled ecosystem of crypto saving and investing for the masses. User will profit from easy access to smart saving and investment plans across Coins and Tokens. Yassin is Crypto and FinTech entrepreneur and enthusiast by heart. He is Founder and CEO of savedroid, Co-Host of the Frankfurt FinTech Meetup, and also co-founded the robo-advisor vaamo. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Yassin worked as strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company, Inc. During his consulting job his focus was on retail and private banking, especially growth strategies, product development and implementation, as well as marketing and distribution in Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Yassin completed his master in Economics and Ph.D. in Finance at Goethe-University Frankfurt.


Both of my grandfathers (still living today) defended our country in uniform. But I know very little of that lifetime of theirs. They have spoken very rarely of those seasons in their lives. I've heard the stories of their pre-war adventures, mid-war love rendezvous with their wives (/my grandmothers) and post-war heart celebrations with their families. I know that there was absolute devastation when deploying and absolute joy when returning home. While my investigative nature wants to know the details in between, they gravely sit back and say, "I don't want to talk about that." And rightfully so. I can't imagine the fear they felt leaving their families behind and the pain they experienced physically, emotionally and mentally. They fought beside the brothers they would lose so that we could have freedom. I can't bear to extract those painful memories from them. But I'm thankful for their courage. I'm thankful for their sacrifices. I'm thankful for their strength to fight.
And there's another veteran in my life that I am especially thankful for. Of his military life, too, I know very little. But I know that he was a Navy man. I know that he loves talking about the vessels, the beauties of the sea. I know that he also claims that he got diabetes because of all the cookies he ate on duty. But I'm not sure that I have ever heard him actually talk about the war though. Politics, yes. America, yes. The best Navy ships out to sea, yes. But the hardships of war? Not so much. Once again, rightfully so. I can't imagine attempting to extract those heavy details from him. And I refuse to try.
But my favorite details lie within the sweet stories of his deployment. It was during his service that he shipped out to the Philippines. Upon his stay, he met a sweet little lady by the name of Josie. He brought her back to America and they got married inside of the walls of their first home. One year later, their son JD was born. And 25 years after that, I had the privilege and joy of marrying their handsome son. I'm thankful for you, Mr. Jim. If it wasn't for your dedication to America's freedom, I fear that your amazingly loving and kindhearted son would not be here.
Moreover, if it weren't for our brave heroes, I fear we wouldn't have the freedoms and liberties we have as Americans today. In fact, I know we wouldn't.
So thank you, Mr. Jim, Papa Charles, Papa Roy, every man and woman who has ever served or is still serving. Thank you for fighting for our country and defending it well. Thank you for making America what it is today. Thank you for your sacrifices. Though we will never fully know of the hardships that entails, we thank you for it.
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