Asilient Anomie is a mental disorder which is characterized principally by a transformation of the real vision of oneself, for an erroneous vision. It demonstrates the inability of an individual or of a social group to solve problems and to reach a standard high place of life. It causes them to obtain negative results before adversity. Social Asilient Anomie is produced by the structural changes that form differences, alienation and social, racial and ethnic exclusion. One could call social asilient anomie the opposite of social resiliency. It forms the belief that one cannot realize, reach, or satisfy the majority of their needs or wants, when actually--they can. It is the incorrect belief of being incompetent when coping adversity. Asilient Anomie is considered an important transformation that directly and negatively affects the socioeconomic development of big social groups (Flores 2006).
Asilient Anomie has a different orientation and application to anomie. To differentiate, it is called Asilient Anomie, as called by the International Research Institute for Development (IRID).
In a society with a high level of social differentiation such as Latin American, Emile Durkheim could again redefined anomie as he did in 1893 in his publication The Division of Labor in Society: a state without rules that destabilizes the relations of the group, thereby preventing their positive social integration. This arises when the collective order is interrupted, allowing human aspirations to rise above any possibility of achievement. In its extreme case, this can lead to suicide.
Merton (1964) provides more defined and specific guidance on application: social structures exert a definite pressure on certain people in society, thus producing a nonconformist behavior rather than a conformist. When a breakdown occurs between the institutional and cultural goals, in the successful access to the goals of a society by legitimate means, there is a deviant behavior called anomie. We can imagine a historical chain of collapses of the collective order, as a string of anomie, one over the other. As the case of a small community in harmony, which is captured and turned into slaves by another more powerful community, and then falls again and again into the hands of different ethnic, racial and social communities. Transforming their values, beliefs, customs and standards, over and over again. This effect changes, evolves, and is reproduced throughout generations, creating a great anomie that prevails submission, sacrifice and adaptation to the environment until there is a feeling of well-being even in death. Perhaps, at the end of the line is a great poverty as a disguise of a new form of virtual slavery, with slightly better privileges that allow the strongest groups, although indifferent, to feel good.
In 1962, in Washington, D.C. thousands of the American Sociological Association members gathered to address the issue of “Anomie and deviant behavior: a critique”. At this meeting it was said that anomie is the deviant behavior that today, modern urban societies emphasize the goals of competitive success and material gain as much education, but this provides limited means for everyone to achieve these targets legitimately, given the differences of racial and ethnic status, particularly of social classes. The increased pressure to produce a deviant behavior emerges among lower socioeconomic groups, where opportunities to acquire material goods and quality education are lower. Despite that, asilient anomie can also be found in developing countries among higher socioeconomic groups.
There are two other ways that anomie is defined. One social (Atteslander, 1999), and the other cross-cultural psychiatric (Jilek, 1985). Investigations completed by Atteslander call anomie a condition of socio-economic structures which are characterized by rapid structural change whereby the social systemic process which reinforce social integration declines in salience and force. At the same time the disintegration of social and cultural structures are simultaneously heightened. This state of anomie is associated with a great difficulty in individual adaptation, which results in: an overall loss of social orientation, the development of feelings of insecurity, high levels of unwarranted fears, development of marginalization, increased and uncontrolled over-expectations, feelings of relative deprivation, and doubting of the legitimacy of main social values.
This form of anomie is related to "resiliency". Specifically with "Resilience". These days the English-speaking scholars suggest a difference between "resilience" and "resiliency" --comparable to what difference there is between "freedom" and "liberty." The first concept refers to the process that is described as resilient. The second refers to the state of resilience. In this regard discussions are still found in recent literature. In Spanish there is still not an explanation of the difference. The relationship between asilient anomie and resilience broadens the relevance of resilience.
Resilience is a word of Latin origin. It comes from a verb meaning to jumb or bounce back, to rebound. In psychology, social psychology and sociology it is not associated with resistance, but to cope adversity and rebuild. It is a capacity to cope adversity and to regain the original state.
In physics, resiliency is shock absorption, expressed in kilograms per square centimeter. Although it originates in the area of physics of materials, its use has spread to social and psychological areas. Like social anomie, social resilience is defined by several investigators as an attitude that gives the person or social group an ability. For example, Rutter 1987, defines resilience as the ability to turn adversity into opportunity for challenge, prevent negative stress, and help develop the ability to deal effectively with stress and crisis. It gives the person resilience and adaptability to change.
Years later, in 1998, Grotberg defines resilience as a universal ability that allows a person, group or community to prevent, minimize or overcome the damaging effects of adversity. Resilience is also a social concept.
Boris Cyrulnik (1999) is one of the longest to have studied resiliency, and believes that one cannot be resilient alone, as the strength is built on interaction with the environment and the social environment. Although it is considered that we are all born with resilience, it will be reduced by parents and teachers from the age of 2 to 19 years old, developing asilient anomie instead. Resiliency is now of interest in sociology, anthropology, psychology and social psychology.
More recently Murray (2003) defines resiliency as a positive attitude that allows the individual to cope adversity, no matter how difficult. Successfully addressing or responding to adversity and all the problems of life and developing strengths to withstand that adversity.
In this article we define resilience as a standard of attitude and behavior, which is characterized mainly by transforming the real vision of oneself, for a vision that demonstrates the competence of the individual and the social group to solve problems and achieve a high standard of living, making it so that they obtain positive results when coping adversity. It is caused by structural changes that form integration without social, racial and ethnic differences. It resembles a tennis ball that is hit hard towards the ground, but immediately bounces back and rises rapidly towards the sky. The harder it hits the floor, the higher it rises (Flores, 2007).
Ann S. Masten (Flynn, 2006) confirms that resiliency indicates how well a system has responded to coping with a challenge. This concept can be applied to any human system or human organization, such as family, school or community. If there has been no challenge an individual, family, or any other type of system, they can be described as competent and successful, but not resilient. Researchers have often assessed resiliency in children in terms of progress or success in achieving the development goals for growth. Some are universal goals such as walking and communicating. Others are not, such as reaching an academic achievement, getting along with others, or follow rules of conduct for the community. During the transition to adulthood, there emerge new development goals in the workplace, romantic relationships or becoming parents. There are many types of risks and adversities in life. From an acutely undesirable event to a chronic situation that is characterized as dangerous or as having a persistently high and cumulative risk.
Parents today must learn to educate their children to build capacity to face any adversity of the difficult life that lies ahead. The only way to raise children today is to form resilience, allowing for the resiliency with which they were born to emerge. Not to be constantly involved in growth, believing wrongly that the role of a father or mother is to constantly give orders.
Correlating codes with good results has enabled us to form a list of factors associated with resilient behavior in children and young people:
Relationships and parenting. (Formative upbringing)
* Strong connections with one or more effective parents.
* Strong connections with one or more effective parents.
* Parenting quality (provide affection, rules, monitoring, expectations, socialization).
* Bonds with other prosocial adults (kinship, networks, mentors, teachers, elders).
* Positive connections with colleagues or similar social connections.
Individual differences.
* Learning and problem-solving skills (Intelligence).
* Self-regulation skills (self-control of attention, emotions, and impulses).
* Positive vision of themselves and their abilities (self-efficacy and self-worth).
* Positive perspective on life (belief that life has meaning, faith and hope).
* Qualities of attraction (social, academic, athletic, charismatic personality, talents).
Community environment.
* Effective schools.
* Opportunities to develop valuable skills and talents.
* Quality community (security, collective monitoring, positive organizations like Scouting, emergency services).
* Connections with social organizations (clubs, religious groups).
* Socioeconomic advantages.
A formation of Asilient Anomie, like the one that forms among poverty or in those with over-protective parents, may leave a child highly vulnerable to adversity and very ill-equipped to achieve the development goals that lie ahead.
It is imminent in developing countries to promote resilience for ALL children at risk and not at risk--promoting Resilience programs for both parents and scholars. If not cared for and nurtured, resilience can be substituted by Asilient Anomie.
Asilient Anomie resembles can be compared to the eagle that is born among chicks and all his life believes that he is a chicken without even attempting to fly. He died believing he was a chicken. In less developed countries there are many people who continue to die believing that they are chickens and are unable to resolve or cope with their daily hardships. It should be recalled that for many years, society and various religions have turned women into a weak, submissive and selfless group. In other words, asilient anomie was built in women. They were led to believe that this was the natural way until after several attempts during the French Revolution, in 1911, and during the first and second World Wars, it was discovered and published all over the world that women was not like that. There are some countries and peoples who have not yet reached this truth. In less developed countries not only women believe that they are incapable, but also men. Many men have Asilient Anomie without knowing it. Perhaps they will die without knowing it.
An excellent example of resilience development in a child, one who was resilient to his death, is Robert Baden-Powell (B-P), founder of the Scout Movement, a living example of resilience building. B-P became a prominent author on youth development and education. His ideas, outlined in "Scouting for Boys" and other works are an inspiration to youth groups around the world to become resilient for life. At eight years and four days, he wrote a short composition titled "Laws for me when I am old", which included two important ideas: I would like poor people to be as rich as us, it is fair that they should be as happy as us, you will be good if you make an effort to make this happen...
He was self-taught in the ability of: painting with both hands, singing in choir, soccer, theater arts, exploration, hunting, and tracking. He wrote tirelessly, books and articles on human development based on: coping in adversity, self-esteem, autonomy, conscientiousness, hope, responsibility, and tolerance for diversity and frustration. These are the foundations of resilience. All of this made him stand out in all that he undertook. He won titles and medals. He always achieved his goals. He rose in all the sense of adventure and love of the outdoors that so strong in children. In his final letter to the Scouts, Baden-Powell wrote:
...I have had a most happy life and I want each one of you to have a happy life too. I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life. Happiness does not come from being rich, nor merely being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy, so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man. Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one. But the real way to get happiness is by giving out happiness to other people. Try and leave this world a little better than you found it and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best. 'Be Prepared' in this way, to live happy and to die happy — stick to your Scout Promise always — even after you have ceased to be a boy — and God help you to do it.
This Scout Movement could deepen the studies of resilience to transform its annual agenda and implement it in every activity, as a great way to promote resilience in today's world, so diverse, so changeable and so full of adversity.
It could be relevant to apply a universal tool that measures the levels of resilience and asilient anomie simultaneously as does the IAAR Test (Test on Inventories of Asilient Anomie and Resilience), already developed and validated in the International Research Institute for Development (IRID) (Flores, 2007). It is important to measure these levels within samples of social groups by country and compare the trends in poverty, Asilient Anomie and Resilience-- to search for explanation of why there is greater Asilient Anomie in less developed and poor countries. Special thanks to Danna Bramhall for this translation.
Asilient Anomie has a different orientation and application to anomie. To differentiate, it is called Asilient Anomie, as called by the International Research Institute for Development (IRID).
In a society with a high level of social differentiation such as Latin American, Emile Durkheim could again redefined anomie as he did in 1893 in his publication The Division of Labor in Society: a state without rules that destabilizes the relations of the group, thereby preventing their positive social integration. This arises when the collective order is interrupted, allowing human aspirations to rise above any possibility of achievement. In its extreme case, this can lead to suicide.
Merton (1964) provides more defined and specific guidance on application: social structures exert a definite pressure on certain people in society, thus producing a nonconformist behavior rather than a conformist. When a breakdown occurs between the institutional and cultural goals, in the successful access to the goals of a society by legitimate means, there is a deviant behavior called anomie. We can imagine a historical chain of collapses of the collective order, as a string of anomie, one over the other. As the case of a small community in harmony, which is captured and turned into slaves by another more powerful community, and then falls again and again into the hands of different ethnic, racial and social communities. Transforming their values, beliefs, customs and standards, over and over again. This effect changes, evolves, and is reproduced throughout generations, creating a great anomie that prevails submission, sacrifice and adaptation to the environment until there is a feeling of well-being even in death. Perhaps, at the end of the line is a great poverty as a disguise of a new form of virtual slavery, with slightly better privileges that allow the strongest groups, although indifferent, to feel good.
In 1962, in Washington, D.C. thousands of the American Sociological Association members gathered to address the issue of “Anomie and deviant behavior: a critique”. At this meeting it was said that anomie is the deviant behavior that today, modern urban societies emphasize the goals of competitive success and material gain as much education, but this provides limited means for everyone to achieve these targets legitimately, given the differences of racial and ethnic status, particularly of social classes. The increased pressure to produce a deviant behavior emerges among lower socioeconomic groups, where opportunities to acquire material goods and quality education are lower. Despite that, asilient anomie can also be found in developing countries among higher socioeconomic groups.
There are two other ways that anomie is defined. One social (Atteslander, 1999), and the other cross-cultural psychiatric (Jilek, 1985). Investigations completed by Atteslander call anomie a condition of socio-economic structures which are characterized by rapid structural change whereby the social systemic process which reinforce social integration declines in salience and force. At the same time the disintegration of social and cultural structures are simultaneously heightened. This state of anomie is associated with a great difficulty in individual adaptation, which results in: an overall loss of social orientation, the development of feelings of insecurity, high levels of unwarranted fears, development of marginalization, increased and uncontrolled over-expectations, feelings of relative deprivation, and doubting of the legitimacy of main social values.
This form of anomie is related to "resiliency". Specifically with "Resilience". These days the English-speaking scholars suggest a difference between "resilience" and "resiliency" --comparable to what difference there is between "freedom" and "liberty." The first concept refers to the process that is described as resilient. The second refers to the state of resilience. In this regard discussions are still found in recent literature. In Spanish there is still not an explanation of the difference. The relationship between asilient anomie and resilience broadens the relevance of resilience.
Resilience is a word of Latin origin. It comes from a verb meaning to jumb or bounce back, to rebound. In psychology, social psychology and sociology it is not associated with resistance, but to cope adversity and rebuild. It is a capacity to cope adversity and to regain the original state.
In physics, resiliency is shock absorption, expressed in kilograms per square centimeter. Although it originates in the area of physics of materials, its use has spread to social and psychological areas. Like social anomie, social resilience is defined by several investigators as an attitude that gives the person or social group an ability. For example, Rutter 1987, defines resilience as the ability to turn adversity into opportunity for challenge, prevent negative stress, and help develop the ability to deal effectively with stress and crisis. It gives the person resilience and adaptability to change.
Years later, in 1998, Grotberg defines resilience as a universal ability that allows a person, group or community to prevent, minimize or overcome the damaging effects of adversity. Resilience is also a social concept.
Boris Cyrulnik (1999) is one of the longest to have studied resiliency, and believes that one cannot be resilient alone, as the strength is built on interaction with the environment and the social environment. Although it is considered that we are all born with resilience, it will be reduced by parents and teachers from the age of 2 to 19 years old, developing asilient anomie instead. Resiliency is now of interest in sociology, anthropology, psychology and social psychology.
More recently Murray (2003) defines resiliency as a positive attitude that allows the individual to cope adversity, no matter how difficult. Successfully addressing or responding to adversity and all the problems of life and developing strengths to withstand that adversity.
In this article we define resilience as a standard of attitude and behavior, which is characterized mainly by transforming the real vision of oneself, for a vision that demonstrates the competence of the individual and the social group to solve problems and achieve a high standard of living, making it so that they obtain positive results when coping adversity. It is caused by structural changes that form integration without social, racial and ethnic differences. It resembles a tennis ball that is hit hard towards the ground, but immediately bounces back and rises rapidly towards the sky. The harder it hits the floor, the higher it rises (Flores, 2007).
Ann S. Masten (Flynn, 2006) confirms that resiliency indicates how well a system has responded to coping with a challenge. This concept can be applied to any human system or human organization, such as family, school or community. If there has been no challenge an individual, family, or any other type of system, they can be described as competent and successful, but not resilient. Researchers have often assessed resiliency in children in terms of progress or success in achieving the development goals for growth. Some are universal goals such as walking and communicating. Others are not, such as reaching an academic achievement, getting along with others, or follow rules of conduct for the community. During the transition to adulthood, there emerge new development goals in the workplace, romantic relationships or becoming parents. There are many types of risks and adversities in life. From an acutely undesirable event to a chronic situation that is characterized as dangerous or as having a persistently high and cumulative risk.
Parents today must learn to educate their children to build capacity to face any adversity of the difficult life that lies ahead. The only way to raise children today is to form resilience, allowing for the resiliency with which they were born to emerge. Not to be constantly involved in growth, believing wrongly that the role of a father or mother is to constantly give orders.
Correlating codes with good results has enabled us to form a list of factors associated with resilient behavior in children and young people:
Relationships and parenting. (Formative upbringing)
* Strong connections with one or more effective parents.
* Strong connections with one or more effective parents.
* Parenting quality (provide affection, rules, monitoring, expectations, socialization).
* Bonds with other prosocial adults (kinship, networks, mentors, teachers, elders).
* Positive connections with colleagues or similar social connections.
Individual differences.
* Learning and problem-solving skills (Intelligence).
* Self-regulation skills (self-control of attention, emotions, and impulses).
* Positive vision of themselves and their abilities (self-efficacy and self-worth).
* Positive perspective on life (belief that life has meaning, faith and hope).
* Qualities of attraction (social, academic, athletic, charismatic personality, talents).
Community environment.
* Effective schools.
* Opportunities to develop valuable skills and talents.
* Quality community (security, collective monitoring, positive organizations like Scouting, emergency services).
* Connections with social organizations (clubs, religious groups).
* Socioeconomic advantages.
A formation of Asilient Anomie, like the one that forms among poverty or in those with over-protective parents, may leave a child highly vulnerable to adversity and very ill-equipped to achieve the development goals that lie ahead.
It is imminent in developing countries to promote resilience for ALL children at risk and not at risk--promoting Resilience programs for both parents and scholars. If not cared for and nurtured, resilience can be substituted by Asilient Anomie.
Asilient Anomie resembles can be compared to the eagle that is born among chicks and all his life believes that he is a chicken without even attempting to fly. He died believing he was a chicken. In less developed countries there are many people who continue to die believing that they are chickens and are unable to resolve or cope with their daily hardships. It should be recalled that for many years, society and various religions have turned women into a weak, submissive and selfless group. In other words, asilient anomie was built in women. They were led to believe that this was the natural way until after several attempts during the French Revolution, in 1911, and during the first and second World Wars, it was discovered and published all over the world that women was not like that. There are some countries and peoples who have not yet reached this truth. In less developed countries not only women believe that they are incapable, but also men. Many men have Asilient Anomie without knowing it. Perhaps they will die without knowing it.
An excellent example of resilience development in a child, one who was resilient to his death, is Robert Baden-Powell (B-P), founder of the Scout Movement, a living example of resilience building. B-P became a prominent author on youth development and education. His ideas, outlined in "Scouting for Boys" and other works are an inspiration to youth groups around the world to become resilient for life. At eight years and four days, he wrote a short composition titled "Laws for me when I am old", which included two important ideas: I would like poor people to be as rich as us, it is fair that they should be as happy as us, you will be good if you make an effort to make this happen...
He was self-taught in the ability of: painting with both hands, singing in choir, soccer, theater arts, exploration, hunting, and tracking. He wrote tirelessly, books and articles on human development based on: coping in adversity, self-esteem, autonomy, conscientiousness, hope, responsibility, and tolerance for diversity and frustration. These are the foundations of resilience. All of this made him stand out in all that he undertook. He won titles and medals. He always achieved his goals. He rose in all the sense of adventure and love of the outdoors that so strong in children. In his final letter to the Scouts, Baden-Powell wrote:
...I have had a most happy life and I want each one of you to have a happy life too. I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life. Happiness does not come from being rich, nor merely being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy, so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man. Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one. But the real way to get happiness is by giving out happiness to other people. Try and leave this world a little better than you found it and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best. 'Be Prepared' in this way, to live happy and to die happy — stick to your Scout Promise always — even after you have ceased to be a boy — and God help you to do it.
This Scout Movement could deepen the studies of resilience to transform its annual agenda and implement it in every activity, as a great way to promote resilience in today's world, so diverse, so changeable and so full of adversity.
It could be relevant to apply a universal tool that measures the levels of resilience and asilient anomie simultaneously as does the IAAR Test (Test on Inventories of Asilient Anomie and Resilience), already developed and validated in the International Research Institute for Development (IRID) (Flores, 2007). It is important to measure these levels within samples of social groups by country and compare the trends in poverty, Asilient Anomie and Resilience-- to search for explanation of why there is greater Asilient Anomie in less developed and poor countries. Special thanks to Danna Bramhall for this translation.
Z-Net was a mIRC script front-end designed to allow users to easily find other people, and launch netplay sessions for video game emulators running on the windows platform. Its design can allow support for many emulators, and even other types of programs, by use of simple "addons" that can be publicly created for Z-Net. Z-Net follows in the footsteps of programs such as zbattle and Kaillera, but differs in its implementation and goals, as well as features and open source nature.
History
Z-Net was originally created in the later quarter of 2003 as a netplay front-end for the SNES emulator ZSNES, in an attempt to replace the program zbattle, whose servers had been down almost a year at the time. Within days of Z-Net's release, zbattle came back online, but being so far along, Z-Net continued development. Z-Net's goals shifted more to compete with the zbattle, due to the author's issues with zbattle. Despite the fact that Z-Net's community was growing, and the scripts features continued increasing, Z-Net soon faded away as its design remained unfinished and buggy as the creator shifted his project goals onto two other versions of the client; a complete mIRC script re-write, and a standalone client that did not use mIRC. Soon after, the author dropped all projects entirely for various reasons, and the Z-Net project remained inactive for 3 1/2 years.
On December 1st 2007, DarkAkuma publicly announced he had been working on a re-designed mIRC script for several weeks. The author was disappointed with the way the project was left, and thought the emulation netplay community had not grown as it should have in recent years. The first public beta was released on January 8, 2008. With the new version, a cleaner interface and support for more emulators were the main features. Z-Net was in its fifth beta phase until the author once again lost interest in the project, citing the lack of popularity as the cause this time, and as a result both the website and the forums were down for almost a year. The site returned on February 6th, 2009.
Features
Z-Net boasts a fully customizable chatroom, with PMs, through the use of the ever popular IRC client, mIRC. Players can also host gamelists containing games they want to play, which then become viewable by other players who open the gamelist window. Z-Net's CRC-Checking feature highlights games that match in red, while others remain gray. Double-clicking said red matches prompts the host to Decline or Accept a game request, and launches the game in a the corresponding emulator if Accepted.
Additionally, Z-Net contains an addon system, that supports scripts written for other emulators, or even programs, that can be installed from the main Z-Net settings window. This allows the possibilities for emulator authors and users to create their own Z-Net addon scripts, be it for an unsupported emulator, or just for an additional channel specific to a particular language or popular game.
A total list of features includes:
*Full UI customize ability.
*CRC match compatibility.
*Support for an unlimited number of programs, officially including:
**Zsnes1.36
**Zsnes1.42
**VirtuaNES
**Mupen64k
**Gens2.14
**MAME32k
*Multi-lingual channel capabilities.
*Game specific room capabilities.
*Zip support.
*ROM name mismatch support.
*Compatibility with multiple protocols, if available through the emulator.
*Hotkey shortcuts.
*Sounds.
*Manual Launching of netplay (IP addresses are automatically entered).
*Open source.
*Doesn't require a dedicated central server.
*mIRC's general scripting capability, for non-Z-Net related scripts.
History
Z-Net was originally created in the later quarter of 2003 as a netplay front-end for the SNES emulator ZSNES, in an attempt to replace the program zbattle, whose servers had been down almost a year at the time. Within days of Z-Net's release, zbattle came back online, but being so far along, Z-Net continued development. Z-Net's goals shifted more to compete with the zbattle, due to the author's issues with zbattle. Despite the fact that Z-Net's community was growing, and the scripts features continued increasing, Z-Net soon faded away as its design remained unfinished and buggy as the creator shifted his project goals onto two other versions of the client; a complete mIRC script re-write, and a standalone client that did not use mIRC. Soon after, the author dropped all projects entirely for various reasons, and the Z-Net project remained inactive for 3 1/2 years.
On December 1st 2007, DarkAkuma publicly announced he had been working on a re-designed mIRC script for several weeks. The author was disappointed with the way the project was left, and thought the emulation netplay community had not grown as it should have in recent years. The first public beta was released on January 8, 2008. With the new version, a cleaner interface and support for more emulators were the main features. Z-Net was in its fifth beta phase until the author once again lost interest in the project, citing the lack of popularity as the cause this time, and as a result both the website and the forums were down for almost a year. The site returned on February 6th, 2009.
Features
Z-Net boasts a fully customizable chatroom, with PMs, through the use of the ever popular IRC client, mIRC. Players can also host gamelists containing games they want to play, which then become viewable by other players who open the gamelist window. Z-Net's CRC-Checking feature highlights games that match in red, while others remain gray. Double-clicking said red matches prompts the host to Decline or Accept a game request, and launches the game in a the corresponding emulator if Accepted.
Additionally, Z-Net contains an addon system, that supports scripts written for other emulators, or even programs, that can be installed from the main Z-Net settings window. This allows the possibilities for emulator authors and users to create their own Z-Net addon scripts, be it for an unsupported emulator, or just for an additional channel specific to a particular language or popular game.
A total list of features includes:
*Full UI customize ability.
*CRC match compatibility.
*Support for an unlimited number of programs, officially including:
**Zsnes1.36
**Zsnes1.42
**VirtuaNES
**Mupen64k
**Gens2.14
**MAME32k
*Multi-lingual channel capabilities.
*Game specific room capabilities.
*Zip support.
*ROM name mismatch support.
*Compatibility with multiple protocols, if available through the emulator.
*Hotkey shortcuts.
*Sounds.
*Manual Launching of netplay (IP addresses are automatically entered).
*Open source.
*Doesn't require a dedicated central server.
*mIRC's general scripting capability, for non-Z-Net related scripts.
James De Leo is an Australian stand-up comedian and Television/ Radio Performer.
James started his television career in 2002 as a host of the ABCs Saturday morning music show - FLY- TV.
His television credits also include ABC TVs Late Night Fly, Talk Back Classroom, The New Inventors and Australian Film Institute award winning comedy Double the Fist.
During 2007 James worked as a TV Reporter on numerous factual shows; ABCsSunday Arts a weekly one-hour, all-Australian arts program and as a sports reporter for the ABCs Hopman Cup
2007 also saw James head a four part series for Foxtel's Lifestyle Food Channel on the culinary festival Tasting Australia where he interviewed a number of renowned international chefs including Antonio Carluccio and Ireland's Rachel Allen.
Most recently in 2008 he reprised his reporting role for ABC sports at Hopman Cup 20.
His radio work includes appearances on ABCs Triple J, SEAFM, Austereo's Perth based station 92.9FM and as a regular correspondent for ABC Regional radio's drive program and top rating station Mix 94.5.
James is a comedy writer and performer and has been a 2005 and 2006 state finalist in Triple J's RAW Comedy and represented Western Australia in 2006 as a National finalist in Green Faces.
James studied at Murdoch University in Western Australia where he completed a Bachelor of Commerce in Management and International Studies. He then went on to study English Literature at the University of Western Australia before attending the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) at the Australian National University in Canberra.
James started his television career in 2002 as a host of the ABCs Saturday morning music show - FLY- TV.
His television credits also include ABC TVs Late Night Fly, Talk Back Classroom, The New Inventors and Australian Film Institute award winning comedy Double the Fist.
During 2007 James worked as a TV Reporter on numerous factual shows; ABCsSunday Arts a weekly one-hour, all-Australian arts program and as a sports reporter for the ABCs Hopman Cup
2007 also saw James head a four part series for Foxtel's Lifestyle Food Channel on the culinary festival Tasting Australia where he interviewed a number of renowned international chefs including Antonio Carluccio and Ireland's Rachel Allen.
Most recently in 2008 he reprised his reporting role for ABC sports at Hopman Cup 20.
His radio work includes appearances on ABCs Triple J, SEAFM, Austereo's Perth based station 92.9FM and as a regular correspondent for ABC Regional radio's drive program and top rating station Mix 94.5.
James is a comedy writer and performer and has been a 2005 and 2006 state finalist in Triple J's RAW Comedy and represented Western Australia in 2006 as a National finalist in Green Faces.
James studied at Murdoch University in Western Australia where he completed a Bachelor of Commerce in Management and International Studies. He then went on to study English Literature at the University of Western Australia before attending the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) at the Australian National University in Canberra.
Robert L. Chandler is a healthcare public relations executive and thought-leader. He is the founder and principal of Chandler Chicco Companies, a network of global companies representing capabilities in healthcare communications across public relations, marketing and branding, graphic design, media and production, and research and measurement.
Chandler has been in the healthcare industry for nearly 40 years. He has communications experience in most therapeutic categories having worked with clients such as GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Novartis, Johnson & Johnson, Bayer Healthcare, sanofi-aventis, Allergan, Genentech, Abbott, UCB, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Hoffmann-LaRoche, Eli Lilly, Bayer Diagnostics, Novo Nordisk and a number of teaching hospitals and trade associations.
Although “known for having a tough veneer and liking order,” Chandler created an agency with a surprising lack of traditional order, eliminating titles to ensure that “employees’ focus will remain on work and will not be stifled by hierarchy.” Together with Chandler Chicco Companies’ co-founder, Gianfranco Chicco, Chandler pioneered a new type of public relations workplace, making the agency a fixture on The Holmes Report’s Best Agencies to Work For list year after year.
Chandler appears in Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare (2009/2010), Who’s Who in America (1975 - Present); Who’s Who in the East (1975 - Present); and Who’s Who in Finance & Industry (1975 - Present).
Education
1971: BS, Journalism, Bowling Green State University
1972: MS, Journalism, Ohio University
1980: MBA, Health Services Administration, Wagner College
Career
1971 - 72: Internship at Southeastern Ohio Medical Health Center
1972 - 74: Public Affairs Editor, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation
1974 - 76: Director of Community Relations, Wyandotte General Hospital
1976 - 82: Associate Administrator, Methodist Hospital
1982 - 93: Sr. Account Executive to Executive VP/MD, Burson-Marsteller
1993 - 95: Executive VP/MD of Healthcare Sector, Burson-Marsteller
1995 - Present: Principal, Chandler Chicco Companies
Honors and Recognition - Personal
• Awarded the Ohio University Alumni Medal of Merit, an award given annually to three alumni who have achieved distinction in their chosen fields. 2007
• Highlighted in “Who To Watch 2005,” PR Week, January 3, 2005
• Listed in “Healthcare PR Players of Today,” PR Week, October 2004
• Served as pro tem vice president of corporate communications for Genentech. In recognition of his work, Bob received the Genentech service award—the only non-employee ever to do so (1993)
Sample Articles, Publications and Speaking Appearances
• Editor, “The New Democratic Congress: What Lies Ahead for Healthcare,” PRime Cut, winter 2007
• Co-Authored “Damage Control,” Pharmaceutical Executive, February 2006
• Co-Authored “The Best Yardsticks: Measuring the ROI of Public Relations Using Applied Advertising Theories,” Communiqué, January 2005
• Quoted in “Sound Bites from the Experts,” Pharma Voice, September 2004
• Editor, author, “Viractive,” PRime Cut, spring 2004
• Co-Authored “The Umbrella Effect,” Communiqué, spring 2004
• Co-Authored “Betting on Buzz,” Pharmaceutical Executive, March 2004
• Co-Authored “Perfect Timing,” Communiqué, fall 2003
• Quoted several times in “An Inseparable Partnership,” Communiqué, fall 2003
• Co-Authored “A Balancing Act,” Communiqué, spring 2003
• Co-Authored “Integrated Communications: Reaching In and Out,” Pharmaceutical Executive, November 2002
• Co-Authored, “Creating a Buzz,” Pharma Voice, Jan./Feb. 2002
Chandler has been in the healthcare industry for nearly 40 years. He has communications experience in most therapeutic categories having worked with clients such as GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Novartis, Johnson & Johnson, Bayer Healthcare, sanofi-aventis, Allergan, Genentech, Abbott, UCB, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Hoffmann-LaRoche, Eli Lilly, Bayer Diagnostics, Novo Nordisk and a number of teaching hospitals and trade associations.
Although “known for having a tough veneer and liking order,” Chandler created an agency with a surprising lack of traditional order, eliminating titles to ensure that “employees’ focus will remain on work and will not be stifled by hierarchy.” Together with Chandler Chicco Companies’ co-founder, Gianfranco Chicco, Chandler pioneered a new type of public relations workplace, making the agency a fixture on The Holmes Report’s Best Agencies to Work For list year after year.
Chandler appears in Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare (2009/2010), Who’s Who in America (1975 - Present); Who’s Who in the East (1975 - Present); and Who’s Who in Finance & Industry (1975 - Present).
Education
1971: BS, Journalism, Bowling Green State University
1972: MS, Journalism, Ohio University
1980: MBA, Health Services Administration, Wagner College
Career
1971 - 72: Internship at Southeastern Ohio Medical Health Center
1972 - 74: Public Affairs Editor, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation
1974 - 76: Director of Community Relations, Wyandotte General Hospital
1976 - 82: Associate Administrator, Methodist Hospital
1982 - 93: Sr. Account Executive to Executive VP/MD, Burson-Marsteller
1993 - 95: Executive VP/MD of Healthcare Sector, Burson-Marsteller
1995 - Present: Principal, Chandler Chicco Companies
Honors and Recognition - Personal
• Awarded the Ohio University Alumni Medal of Merit, an award given annually to three alumni who have achieved distinction in their chosen fields. 2007
• Highlighted in “Who To Watch 2005,” PR Week, January 3, 2005
• Listed in “Healthcare PR Players of Today,” PR Week, October 2004
• Served as pro tem vice president of corporate communications for Genentech. In recognition of his work, Bob received the Genentech service award—the only non-employee ever to do so (1993)
Sample Articles, Publications and Speaking Appearances
• Editor, “The New Democratic Congress: What Lies Ahead for Healthcare,” PRime Cut, winter 2007
• Co-Authored “Damage Control,” Pharmaceutical Executive, February 2006
• Co-Authored “The Best Yardsticks: Measuring the ROI of Public Relations Using Applied Advertising Theories,” Communiqué, January 2005
• Quoted in “Sound Bites from the Experts,” Pharma Voice, September 2004
• Editor, author, “Viractive,” PRime Cut, spring 2004
• Co-Authored “The Umbrella Effect,” Communiqué, spring 2004
• Co-Authored “Betting on Buzz,” Pharmaceutical Executive, March 2004
• Co-Authored “Perfect Timing,” Communiqué, fall 2003
• Quoted several times in “An Inseparable Partnership,” Communiqué, fall 2003
• Co-Authored “A Balancing Act,” Communiqué, spring 2003
• Co-Authored “Integrated Communications: Reaching In and Out,” Pharmaceutical Executive, November 2002
• Co-Authored, “Creating a Buzz,” Pharma Voice, Jan./Feb. 2002