September 2011
I humbly apologize for the long delay in getting this month’s newsletter out. It's not much of an excuse, but like all new mothers feeding their infant every other hour, I have been going without sleep trying to get everything else finished that I used to do, sans sleep (that wonderful dream like state we sometimes take for granted lol). To see the baby pictures, be sure to check out my photo album titled Wings cast toward the sun...Icarus.   August saw a number of fun features and games added! Here is the lowdown: The wonderful addition of Ludocrous was added to GoldToken’s game repertoire this August, thanks to the creative graphic talent of our own FixitDave and Mecir's coding skills. Several fun Ludo variants were also added along with it:
New Profile Images Added For Your Enjoyment  Choose from the wide selection of Profile Pictures available (old and new) and post the section and number of your favorite on the Profile Image Requests DB To personalize your profile! { Image: goldtoken.com/pics/albums/photo39813110804091423.gif } Platinum Membership Improvements!
 to Mecir for these fabulous improvements!You now have More Profile Background Choices!  Sports, cars, kittens, puppies, movies...there is a whole gamut to choose from for every taste. Go to your profile, and click the pick background from list link under your account name to choose yours!Translation support has been added! When writing a new message, you now have an option to translate it from a foreign language to English. The original language of the message should be automatically detected. This should be useful mainly to the non-native speakers amongst us. Please note that you can turn off translation support in your preferences. Please also keep in mind that automated translations may not be always correct or accurate. The translation feature is powered by Google TranslateTwo New Game Boards have been added! Everyone can play! Give a game board a try today!
 New for September, I would like to introduce GoldToken's Newshound. Please send all your submission for the Newsletter to GoldToken's Newshound from now on as he really has a nose for news!!!  This month, we are running the Club Owner of the Year contest. When I think of the clubs here at GoldToken, I think of them as mini GoldTokens. Each one a part of the larger site but yet a site of their own. You can find a club for anything and everything you want, however, these mini sites would not work at all with out the hard work put in by every club president on the site. The work some of these presidents/owners put in, simply amazes me. They want their club to be the best club on GoldToken and it shows. They organize tournaments, contact other clubs to see if they want to participate, write news for the club to keep them up to date, contact their players on a variety of issues, setup and moderate their discussion boards. Just thinking of all they do makes me tired. So if you are in a club be sure to thank your club presidents and owners today. They have earned it! Have a wonderful month and play like you mean it! --Badger Special thanks to our incredible GoldToken news group who really stepped up to the plate to get the newsletter out this month. I couldn’t have done it without them!In this month's newsletter, we have:
Birthday Wishes: -- Happy Birthday to kiwiyeti on September 2nd! - From The Friendship Club  -- Happy Birthday to nanners on September 3rd!  -- Happy Birthday to Sushi Warrior on September 3rd! -- Happy Birthday to Megababe on September 3rd! -- Happy Birthday to ken on September 7th! - From your wife nadia maria -- Happy Birthday to Deb - From { Club } on September 7th! -- Happy Birthday to Hamsarnie on September 8th! -- Happy Birthday to Rosesncards on September 8th! -- Happy Birthday to cdc11 on September 11th! - From { Club }, The Backgammon Tournament Club and { Club } -- Happy Birthday to dustmuffin on September 12th! -- Happy Birthday to Brendans Grandmom on September 13th! -- Happy Birthday to China_Blue on September 13th! From The MasterClass Club -- Happy Birthday to VBeginner on September 13th! -- Happy Birthday to Bluejay on September 14th! - From { Club }, laura lee -- Happy Birthday to Philliesfan 915 on September 15th! -- Happy Birthday to NEUROTIKA on September 16th! - From { Club } and { Club } -- Happy Birthday to babken on September 18th! From The Backgammon Tournament Club and The MasterClass Club -- Happy Birthday to BILLYBILL on September 18th! -- Happy Birthday to Carol91859 on September 18th! -- Happy Birthday to Grover on September 20th! - From { Club }, { Club }, and The Friendship Club, laura lee -- Happy Birthday to Blue Warrior on September 21st! -- Happy Birthday to jgbrunelle on September 22nd! -- Happy Birthday to lorrilee on September 22nd! -- Happy Birthday to marybryant90 on September 24th! -- Happy Birthday to Moms Danny Boy on September 24th! - From { Club } -- Happy Birthday to Nicodemus on September 25th! - From The MasterClass Club -- Happy Birthday to rockdude on September 25th! -- Happy Birthday to nisqually on September 26th! -- Happy Birthday to bomoan on September 26th! - From { Club } and { Club } -- Happy Birthday to Ana on September 26th! - From { Club } -- Happy Birthday to jaro70 on September 26th! -- Happy Birthday to Oh No Mr Bill on September 27th! - From { Club } and The Backgammon Tournament Club -- Happy Birthday to Freddie on September 28th! - From { Club } -- Happy Birthday to nadia maria on September 29th! - From The Friendship Club, { Club }, The Renegades Gaming Club and Lorraine of the Renegades -- Happy Birthday to Silkwood on September 29th! - From { Club } -- Happy Birthday to JTOhio on September 30th! -- Happy Birthday to sweetblue on September 30th! -- Happy Birthday to hoot on September 30th! From { Club } Anniversary & Other Wishes: -- Happy Wedding Anniversary   goes out to sallyp and her husband on September 1st!-- Happy Wedding Anniversary goes out to Gail_M and her husband on September 2nd!-- Happy 37th Wedding Anniversary goes out to nightingale and her husband on September 6th! -- Happy 47th Wedding Anniversary goes out to GeorgiasGrandad and his wife, Margaret on September 29th! -- Happy 21th Wedding Anniversary goes out to ken and his wife nadia maria on September 29th! Other Wishes: * If you would like to announce any birthdays, anniversaries or other special events coming up for next month, please send GoldToken's Newshound a message before the 25th of this month, so we can give them a shout out in next month's newsletter! (Please keep all announcements upcoming and not belated. Announcements submitted after the newsletter is published, can not be put in after the fact, we're sorry!)
What is really going on? Whenever someone is moderated, disciplined for attacking another player, or is directed to deal with GoldToken Support to resolve an issue, it more often than not gets blamed on Badger. Those of us, who has been here for any amount of time or have dealt with her in anyway, know that she’s very easy going, and has a warm, fun loving nature. Badger may be the one responsible for the day to day running of GoldToken, but her job is really that of overseeing several teams of site volunteers (all affectionately known as The Squirrels) who are actually in charge of answering the support queries, upholding the site rules, checking player profiles, accepting photos, blogs, nickname changes etc. Each one of these trusted players is highly trained on the site rules, policies and required to work as a team. Each will discuss as a group what moderation and/or disciplinary action may be needed before any action is ever taken to ensure things are fair and that the reasons for the action will be clearly stated if and when a moderation and/or disciplinary action takes place. So we wrote this helpful explanation in an effort to put proper perspective where it belongs. If a Games Administrator makes a post on the discussion boards, it serves as a warning, often instead of what should be moderations. When our site moderators post as Games Administrator, they try to be direct and to the point. A few people complain that our site moderators or service teams are harsh and rude. When they lighten up and post nicer warnings or explanations, others complain that they are condescending. Our poor mods and support team simply can't please everyone no matter how hard they try. In such situations, please remember our volunteers want what all of you want: a fun, happy, safe place to play. Keeping the boards clean is just one aspect of that. In the entire 8 years since Badger has been managing GoldToken, with Matt as her trusty sidekick, they have followed up on many moderation complaints, only firing one moderator in that entire time frame. The site moderators and support team are indeed most fair. As we have all seen, Badger is quick to apologize and immediately repost something that was moderated in error. Unseen are the number of banned players she gave second, third and forth chances to, despite the troubles they were in. Unseen are the thousands of memberships, upgrades, phone calls and one on one help she so freely gives. It is to be noted that things between players in any kind of trouble and GoldToken tend to be quite blown out of proportion. Perhaps this happens because it is easy to complain. To throw the naughty behavior off oneself and blame others can be trendy and draw positive attention the player seeks. Those representing GoldToken are under a strict policy to not tell what they know about any player or situation. Thus, the side everyone hears is always the side of the person in question. Unfair as it may seem, remaining closemouthed about things like this can really hurt GoldToken and Badger’s image. However Badger insists that this is one policy that will not change. All the site volunteers who work hard to keep this a great site, hope that in the future, when someone is complaining about GoldToken treating them unfairly, players will keep in mind that there is always another side to the story, and that contrary to popular belief, players are not "singled out and picked on" and that GoldToken is taking the high road and not airing dirty laundry for all to see.  for your time ~~The Squirrels…..all 101 of us!
September's game of the month is Ludocrous! Join us in a fun Double Elimination Tournament by signing up today for The September 2011 Game of the Month - Ludocrous Tournament - with 6 sided dice!  Ludocrous also know as Parcheesi Parcheesi is an American version of the Ancient game of Pachisi, the national game of India, in which you race around a track on the game board, attempting to block your opponents while moving your markers to the goal. The game is also known as Pachisi, Parchisi, Parcheesi, and Twenty-Five, and is a descendent of the older game of Chaupar. This great game, I remember laying the board out on the living floor or the kitchen table and playing it for hours with friends. Use the safe spaces as often as you can because you can’t be sent back to your starting place if you are on one of them. If someone land on you on a regular space they send you back to your starting place and they get to go 10 more spaces. If you build a blockade try to do it on a safe space that way when you break up your blockade wait till you have a large number them move only one piece leaving the other on the safe space. Note for the color blind and visually impaired may be the pieces could also have different shapes like Stars, triangles, square and round. We hope you enjoy it! Special to *Chef Dale* for writing this month's Game of the Month Nugget. You too, can write a knock-out Nugget and reap the rewards! If your Nugget is chosen as the winner for GoldToken's Game of the Month in GoldToken's Monthly Newsletter, you will win:
Augusts’ winner is: Granny's Shepherd's Pie
2 pounds sweet potatoes (about 4 large) 1 tablespoon molasses 1 teaspoon grated peeled gingerroot 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper 1 tablespoon olive oil 2 cups cubed peeled butternut squash 2 cups diced carrot 1 cup diced peeled parsnip 1 cup diced peeled turnip 1 cup quartered mushrooms 1 cup sliced celery 1 cup diced onion 2 (14 1/2-ounce) cans vegetable broth 2 tablespoons chopped pecans Place sweet potatoes on a baking sheet, and bake at 375° for 50 minutes or until very tender. Let cool, and peel. Combine sweet potatoes, molasses, gingerroot, salt, and pepper in a bowl; beat at medium speed of a mixer until smooth. Set aside. Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add squash and next 6 ingredients (squash through onion); sauté 8 minutes. Add broth; bring to a simmer, and cook 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Spoon squash mixture into a 3-quart casserole. Spread sweet potato mixture evenly over squash mixture. Bake at 375° for 35 minutes; sprinkle with pecans, and bake an additional 15 minutes. GoldToken's Lillie will receive a "one time" access to the entire list of site icons, and can select any one that is not currently being used by another player, regardless of membership level (Silver and Wood members can keep the icon for 1 year!). Please send a big  to Lillie!  September's recipe contest is: "5 ingredients or less" (every recipe must use 5 ingredients or less). The winner will be given a "one time" access to the entire list of site icons, and can select any one that is not currently being used by another player, regardless of membership level (Guests, Wood and Silver members can keep the icon for 1 year!). Rules:
This month we interviewed furryfeet **~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~** 1. What brought you to Goldtoken? Like many others, a person I was playing with on another game site told me about GT back in 2003. Signed up here and never went anywhere else. How'd you choose your name for GT? Took the name furryfeet because of my cats 2. What interest you most on GT? The different types of games, tournaments, meeting and making new friends from all over the country and the world. what bothers me is when all of a sudden one of the people you're playing with dissappears and no one knows what happened to him/her. you get to know some people pretty good and it's like losing a friend. 3. Do you belong to any of the clubs? How about the chat only clubs (birds, kitties, garden)? I belong to about a dozen clubs. Maybe one or two are chat only. In our The Kitties Korner & Doggie Daycare Club we play games but anyone is free to ask questions about their cats if they have any problems and are looking for advice. 4. What State or Country do you reside in? I live in the southeastern part of Wisconsin Do you live in the City or Country? city What in your State or Country do you think tourist should definitely see? I think the Wisconsin, Dells area is pretty nice, also Door county up north in the fall when leaves change color. 5. What hobbies to you have? I used to huntWhat other interest do you have? I play casino poker sometimes and we take one day bus trips 6. Children? Grandchildren? I have one son & one daughter, 2 grandchildren, a boy and girl. Do any of them play on GT. Yes, My son-in-law plays here. 7. Do you work? I retired in 1995 If so what kind of work did you do? After 30 years working in a factory and then worked 12 years part time at a boarding kennel. I was a section supervisor and did maintenance/repair work 8. Any pets? We had a dog **~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~** We would like to say to Stan furryfeet for letting us step into her personal life for a bit.If there are any questions you would like to see asked in future interviews, please let us know. Laura laura lee
I joined this site 27 January 2001, I was playing at IYT and a player there told me about this site, I was hooked on GoldToken from the start. I have not gone back to IYT since. This place is wonderful. I like the games here, all except give away backgammon, not to great at Checkers but I play it at times, Chess have not learned the game, and possible will not either. I like all the rest of the games thou. There are wonderful people here, I got my best friend to come and play here, she was here until she passed away this year. I got my sister to join and she is liking it here also Thank you Chad and Taylor for making this site, and Thank you Badger for keeping this site the wonderful place it has always been. Kat While playing with my brother jfromvt, at another site, he suggested I join GOLDTOKEN. This is now the only place I go to play any games. Everything I wanted is here! I could go on and say about all the good people, great games, etc. but if you are reading this, you already know. I never had a problem with anyone and they could eliminate the chump feature as far as I'm concerned. There are so many great games here and new ones coming all the time its hard to say what my favorite any more because it keeps changing. Would like to say thanks to eliphont551 for teaching me all about wiki's. I never turn down an invite, so send me an invite! jfromfl
September's contest is the Club Owner of the Year submitted throughout the month. All entries will be posted in a poll and announced for voting in next month's newsletter. The winning Club Owner of the Year will receive two extra months on their current membership! Please nominate your favorite club owner along with the name of the club on the , so we can add them to the poll.  to all club owners. While we know only one can win this contest, everyone of you deserve kudos for a job well done!
Some of GoldToken's informational banners are old and need to be replaced. So for this month only, enter GoldToken's Banner Contest! The Challenge Create a fresh new information banner for one of GoldToken's info pages, ladder games, discussion boards or other site feature and send it to GoldToken's Newshound.
The entry deadline is September 30th. To enter, send a new, never before seen 200x200 pixel information banner to GoldToken's Newshound. You can enter as many banners as you can create! The winner will be chosen by poll and announced in next month’s newsletter.
First off a big goes out to last month's winner DaMantis was the first person to name all 12 icons I was asking for. DaMantis will be given a "one time" access to the entire list of site icons, and can select any one that is not currently being used by another player, regardless of membership level (Guests, Wood and Silver members can keep the icon for 1 year!). Here is where you can find the icons we asked for last month: 1. midnitelady 2. Whimjest 3. GameNut 4. BrnIdGirl 5. Deb 6. crazyjanie 7. DavidJ 8. gatorbon007 9. booboo 10. Dbledee 11. kittyrambo 12. Doodles Now ready to get your hunt on?Here are the icons for this month. The winner will be given a "one time" access to the entire list of site icons, and can select any one that is not currently being used by another player, regardless of membership level (Guests, Wood and Silver members can keep the icon for 1 year!). Rules:
Example - if I post this icon { Image: goldtoken.com/pics/icon110303100118.gif } you send me a private message with the name GoldToken's Icon Fairy. Got it? Okay here we go. This month I am looking for these icons: 1) { Image: goldtoken.com/pics/icon090502165954.gif } 2) { Image: goldtoken.com/pics/icon070722140325.gif } 3) { Image: goldtoken.com/pics/icon071006131110.gif } 4) { Image: goldtoken.com/pics/icon110104072555.jpg } 5) { Image: goldtoken.com/pics/icon090410102013.jpg } 6) { Image: goldtoken.com/pics/icon070801011936.gif } 7) { Image: goldtoken.com/pics/icon100526180159.gif } 8) { Image: goldtoken.com/pics/icon100421145401.gif } 9) { Image: goldtoken.com/pics/icon070725223134.gif } 10) { Image: goldtoken.com/pics/icon070724223909.gif } 11) { Image: goldtoken.com/pics/icon100421150355.gif } 12) { Image: goldtoken.com/pics/icon100505181844.gif } Good Luck. The *Icon* Fairy
This months club interview is with Honeybear or the { Club } 1. Please Tell us a little about your club.... Name? { Club } How long has this club been on GT?... Since Aug 28,02. So that means it will soon be 9yrs. About how many members do you have? Right now we only have 39. 2. Are you the original owner? YES If so, what prompted you to start this club? I wanted a club that really felt Homey.  Somewhere if you have a bad day  you can talk about it and if you are having a good day you can share that also. I think over the years our members have become more like family than just someone you meet on the computer. We've shared births and marriages, sickness  and even the worse thing, losses. 3. What kind of games does your club play? We only play inner club challenges. But we play for prizes and once a year several of our member get together and make a Friendship afghan. My goal is for everyone in the club to get one! We also do recipe challenges where the loser has to post a recipe and our members put up prizes for us to play for also.What kind of discussions does your club get into? Most of our discussions are about our families. When one of us gets a new baby, grandbaby or great grandbaby our club will send out a "Baby Shower" package. All the items come from our members. We even have several crafty ladies that make baby afghans and booties. 4. Does your club do a lot of club vs. club ? No 5. What do you think of the tourny ones. I enjoy playing in them in other clubs but they are not for Home Place. Or do you enjoy doing the wiki's? We keep up with our own wiki's. 6. Do you have a lot of 'helpers'? There are only 3 officers in { Club }, Nancy is President but really she should be the CO-OWNER cause without her I would be lost. Then we have DINGEROO as our Vice President. She is a sweet lady and a good friend. 7. What are your future plans for your club? Just to leave things the way they are. No reason to mess with something that has worked this well for this many years. 8. Do you have any other clubs? No. I belong to some really great clubs that I enjoy playing challenges in but { Club: The Home Place } keeps me busy. MaryJane for letting us have a look at your club...... Laura
The Pork Chop Club The Pork Chop Club is the only club that offers the finest foods cooked by Pepper, and entertainment by the famous pole dancers, partygirl and Callie. Their famous bar tender STUSTU accompanied by eliphont551 are well known for their famous drinks served by hoot with an owl on her shoulder. Last but not least they have porkpie1 as our "bouncer" so all players have to be good!!!!!!! ( this submitted by porkpie1 Sounds Like Fun to this Reporter....  { Club } This club is struggling right now, they are looking for a New Owner. The club right now has 20 members. If Reality Tv is your passion and you would like to own a Club this might be the place for you. You can send your inquiries to Gzess The Crafters Fair Club The crafter's fair club is working on its second "hugs" scrapbook. The first one was a huge success so we decided to make one for a dear friend of GoldToken. This person has been going through some great personal difficulties and we want to bring a smile to their face. The sign up process has just started and we could use at least 3 more people to make it something special. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE A SCRAPBOOKER TO PARTICIPATE. PM Scrapbooking Maven to find out who it is for and all the particulars. The Sallyp and Friends Club Since becoming GoldToken club of the year The Sallyp and Friends Club have had a constant stream of new members, they have started a couple of new tournaments to try and introduce new members to the club. An Officers meet the Newbies and an 8 player special knockout for each new members. They have also made a new club board, a question and answer board called Ask cekj Where each month cekj is going to pick a club member and hopefully find out a bit about that member with some fun question and answers. Their Special days tournaments are now in there 6th month and we have games ready for the rest of the year to celebrate members special days. They have also started their 2nd set of Alphabet Tournaments after the success of the 1st series. The United Atheist League Club "The United Atheist League Club was established nearly three years ago and is proud to be a member of the GoldToken family. The name comes from the TV show "South Park" by Trey Parker and Matt Stone. We might have called it the humanist, reality, philosophy, agnostic or even the gnostic club but if you have seen the show you would understand. We are an island in the sea of Christian clubs here and we have a lively discussion board where we debate everything from the inane to the divine". quote by JimC They have a few ladders and teams available. The club is open to anyone regardless of ideology - the more points of view the better! Their discussion boards are unmoderated so if you are easily offended when your ideas are challenged then this club might not be for you. JimC advises that a sense of humour is mandatory. The Club Nascar Club Club Nascar is happy to announce that raceky has won the first segment of the Nascar Hypergammon Race. WONRHAF and fladutchess raced to a close 2nd. Nascar racing is on the back part of the year, drivers are racing to get into the "The Chase". There are only two races left before the complete 12-driver Chase field is set, seedings and all. As of Bristol, Kyle Busch and Jimmie Johnson are tired for 1st place in the standing. Budgie For all you "Bingo" players, Budgie has a new bingo game up and a game that pits the boys against the girls. The Multi-Player Gaming Center Club Fairy Tales club has had a lot of fun with their caption contest, New picture every two weeks. They have also added the new game Ludocrous and variants to the long list of multi-games to choose from.
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| The Caveman Competition in The 2010 Olympic Tournament Group 4A Tournament | |||
| Mystery Game 7 Caveman | GOLD | { Club } | *StormChaser |
| Mystery Game 7 Caveman | SILVER & BRONZE | The 2015 Winter Olympic Team Minerva Club | McGoo98 |
| Mystery Game 7 Caveman | SILVER & BRONZE | { Club } | ozallan |
| The Decoy Salvo Competition in The 2010 Olympic Tournament Group 1 B Tournament | |||
| Decoy Salvo | GOLD | The 2015 Winter Olympic Team Juno Club | 1926 |
| Decoy Salvo | SILVER & BRONZE | The 2015 Winter Olympic Team Neptune Club | jonfunk |
| Decoy Salvo | SILVER & BRONZE | The 2015 Winter Olympic Team Juno Club | triwire |
| The Fives and Threes Competition in The 2010 Olympic Tournament Group 2A Tournament | |||
| Fives and Threes | GOLD | { Club } | ozallan |
| Fives and Threes | SILVER | { Club } | Gail_M |
| Fives and Threes | BRONZE | { Club } | Chris |
| Fives and Threes | BRONZE | { Club } | Karen Q |
| The Backgammon (3 Point) Competition in The 2010 Olympic Tournament Group 1 A Tournament | |||
| Backgammon (3 Point) | GOLD | The 2015 Winter Olympic Team Apollo Club | neil c |
| Backgammon (3 Point) | SILVER & BRONZE | { Club } | Chris |
| Backgammon (3 Point) | SILVER & BRONZE | { Club } | golfnutrof |
| The Devious Salvo Competition in The 2010 Olympic Tournament Group 1 B Tournament | |||
| Devious Salvo | GOLD | The 2015 Winter Olympic Team Neptune Club | Lew |
| Devious Salvo | SILVER | The 2015 Winter Olympic Team Apollo Club | SkiptonBull |
| Devious Salvo | BRONZE | { Club } | PattyMac |
| The Loco Ochos Competition in The 2010 Olympic Tournament Group 3B Tournament | |||
| Loco Ochos | GOLD | The 2015 Winter Olympic Team Juno Club | MsLady |
| Loco Ochos | SILVER & BRONZE | The 2015 Winter Olympic Team Jupiter Club | fep84 |
| Loco Ochos | SILVER & BRONZE | { Club } | funtobewith11 |
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. At first I used the name of one of my cats but I was always telling them to "get your furry feet off the keyboard", so I thought it would be a good nic.
and fish 
when i was younger but just can't get up that early now 
to different casinos in ours and the surrounding states now and then.
there. I took out the dogs 
that others were afraid to handle. For some reason they all 
(except one) seemed to like me. Most of the boarders were pretty good but there was always a few that gave you a funny look. I really liked working at that kennel 
years ago but have had cats since 1980. We are on cats number 5 & 6, Beretta and Mylo. 