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Restaurant Recipe: Pan Seared Pekin Duck Breast, Braised Beluga Lentils, Grilled Asian Pears and Mushrooms and Red Wine Reduction
Destination Hotels & Resorts has challenged their chefs across the country to take part in The Destination Dish. Each month one ingredient is selected for the chefs to create a recipe around the chosen element and to incorporate it into their restaurant menu. Be sure to check our blog each month for a new delicious recipe you can enjoy in the comfort of your own home or in Luminaria.
THIS MONTH'S featured Ingredient is Lentils!
Pan Seared Pekin Duck Breast, Braised Beluga Lentils, Grilled Asian Pears and Mushrooms with a Red Wine Reduction
Serves 4 People
4 7-8 oz boneless (skin on) pekin duck breast
12 oz wild mushrooms, quartered
2 Asian pears, peeled and wedged
braised beluga lentils, recipe below
red wine reduction, recipe below
Braised Lentils
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp unsalted butter
1/2 c diced white onion
1/2 c carrots, peeled and diced
1/2 c celery, diced
6 sprigs fresh thyme
1 c black lentils
2 c chicken stock
1 tbsp champagne vinegar
2 tbsp chopped Italian parsley
Heat sauté pan over med-high heat; add olive oil and butter, sweat onion, carrot, and celery until onions are translucent. Add thyme and cook for a few minutes more. Add lentil, stir then add chicken stock. Bring to boil, turn to a simmer, cover and cook for 25 to 30 minutes. (Add more stock if needed.) Season with salt and pepper, add vinegar and chopped parsley.
Red Wine Reduction
1 large onion, chopped
2 small celery ribs, chopped
2 carrots, chopped
3 garlic cloves, chopped
1 tbsp olive oil
1 bottle red wine (750 ml)
1 bottle ruby port wine (750 ml)
Sauté onion, celery, carrots, and garlic in six quart pot over moderately high heat, stir until golden, about 10 minutes. Add wines and simmer, stirring occasionally. Reduced to 1 quart, about one hour. Pour through sieve into saucepan and simmer until reduced to two cups. Reheat reduction and season with salt and pepper.
Pan Seared Pekin Duck Breast
Heat large sauté pan over low heat, score (crisscross) fat on duck breast, season with salt. Cook skin side down until fat is completely rendered, ten minutes. Turnover and sear for another four minutes. Rest before slicing, reserving fat for mushrooms.
Grill pears on each side over med-high heat until grill marks appear. Set aside.
Reheat sauté pan, cook mushrooms over high-heat until caramelized, season with salt and pepper.
In large bowls, place heaping scoop of lentils on bottom; sliced duck breast on top and top duck with pears, mushrooms, red wine reduction. Enjoy!
Posted by Brett Sparman, Executive Chef
A Sweet Rendition of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
This holiday season the Inn and Spa at Loretto brings the ageless magic and splendor of the North Pole to the Land of Enchantment. Childhood memories inspired, we've showcased the true spirit of Christmas with our candy rendition of the legendary Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Friends.
For many years, Rudolph has been a treasured holiday classic and our sweet rendition captures the personalities of each character and brings back good old fashioned holiday nostalgia.
Passing the grand tree and entering the lobby, guests can view Pastry Chef Andrea Clover's 5th annual holiday display now thru New Year's Day.
The following items were used in Chef Clover's creative construction -
- 14 lbs of rice cereal
- 192 egg whites
- 25 lbs of sugar
- 48 lbs of powdered sugar
- 33 lbs of chocolate
- 12 lbs of marshmallows
Andrea Clover is an award winning sugar expert, baker, chocolatier, and chef. You can see her compete on Food Network's "Sugar Dome" episode that debuts in January.
Posted by Sandra Morello, Marketing Coordinator
Wintertime Tips for your Skin from the Spa at Loretto
Winter season is a time of shorter, colder days and nights. At this time of year, our skin can become drier and more prone to irritation in which special care is needed. You can help your skin feel better by following the tips below.
- Moisturize. Use a moisturizer that will provide extra hydration. This is also a good time to use a more concentrated moisturizer at night to keep your skin soft. A moisturizer that contains oils, such as avocado oil, will help to provide a barrier on the skin's surface to prevent moisture loss. Don't forget your hands and feet, they need special attention too.
- Use Sunscreen. Sunscreen is a must all year around. You can apply sunscreen directly or a purchase a day moisturizer or foundation that contains SPF 15 to 30.
- Humidify. Purchase a humidifier and use while sleeping, especially if you live somewhere with a dry environment like Santa Fe. This helps moisten the air and prevents moisture loss in the skin.
- Exfoliate. Make a habit of using a gentle product to exfoliate your skin, including dry heels and elbows. Depending on your skin type you should exfoliate at least once a week. The less dead skin you have, the better your moisturizers will work.
- Avoid Hot Water. Hot baths and showers tend to dehydrate our skin. Use lukewarm water when bathing and washing your face.
- Hydrate. Drink plenty of water or herbal teas to keep your body hydrated from within.
The Spa at Loretto has a variety of skin care products to help with your skin's special winter needs. Please call or visit and let one of our amazing aestheticians help you create a personalized skin care regime to fit your needs.
Posted by Suzanne Chavez, Spa Director


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Cartoon Network has expressed interest in this show a few times, and it finally made its way near-uncut on Adult Swim
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My best AMV, and the last one I've done, featuring my 3 favorite anime in 2001: Excel Saga, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop. The TV show 'Anime Fun TV' event show this AMV. :) http://www.retrojunk.com/details_tvepisodes/1668/3303/ The song it's El Mambo - Solemar. By the way, I'm sick off people taking my AMV and changed the credit, I worked hard on that one!
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Thread: pen tilt in bamboo?
January 12th, 2012 #1
pen tilt in bamboo?
Did anyone tried to hack a wacom bamboo tablet to make the tilt work?
I have a Wacom Create and im very happy with it, but i'm curious about the tilt feature.
Hide this ad by registering as a memberJanuary 12th, 2012 #2
lol do you have a link?
I own an intuos myself, but it's really amuzing if bamboo hardware can detect tilt, but they locked it intentionally
so you can basically get a ghetto intuos 3 given current bamboo's pressure specs AND unofficial support of tilt?
on the fourth day of glitchmas my painter gave to me
four random crashes, three broken brushes, two system hangups & one corrupted workspace
January 12th, 2012 #3
haha, there's no link, i mean't, if anyone tried at all.
that's what i'd like to know, if the hardware can detect tilt and it's locked,
or if there is a way to hack it, like opening the pen and all, and twitching something inside the pen.
January 12th, 2012 #4
I guess I misunderstood you than.
Nope, I don't think there's a way to add tilt to bamboo;
you may or may not need it depending on software you're using, though -
right now it's mostly photoshop's bristle brushes and painter's dry media taking the most advantage of tilt; most of CG art is done without using it anyway.
(however if you feel your art will benefit from tilt, or you want to replicate the real pencil behaviour digitally, it might be worth to purchase intuos)
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Ty Brings Home the Win at State Park Speedway
by David Phillips on May 18th, 2015
Ty Majeski took a big step towards a successful defense of his ARCA Midwest Tour title by winning the second round of the 2015 series at State Park Speedway in Wausau, WI. Despite posting a record-breaking qualifying lap in the iRacing Ford Fusion, Majeski was bumped down to second by Tim Sauter. After coming from P7 to second in the Fast Dash race, Majeski traded paint — and the lead — with Sauter over the final 13 laps of the 100 lap feature before the veteran sim racer grabbed the lead for keeps with five laps remaining. "(Sauter) got me a little messed up there and I returned the favor," said Majeski. "But that, that's just typical short track racing. It was awesome! Kudos to him, he could've wrecked me [...]
Gooden Doubles-Up
by Cam Stark on April 6th, 2015
Barber Motorsports Park; one of the most underrated tracks in the world. It may be a short 2.38 mile circuit, but this certainly doesn't take away the challenge it poses to drivers. The 16 turn circuit features a vast array of gradient changes along with a flurry of quick and slow speed sections. The Verizon IndyCar Series is the most high profile series (to date) which takes on the challenge of this Alabama track; but today it's a chance for the iRacing Pro Mazda drivers to take on the challenge in an attempt to be victorious. Justin Brunner secured pole position for the 20 lap race with a 1.19.485. Joining him on the front row would be last week's winner – who I'm sure would be trying to double up [...]
NASCAR iRacing Pro Series Duel in the Desert
by Dylan Kapisky on November 14th, 2014
This past Tuesday, the NASCAR iRacing Pro Series took to the virtual Phoenix International Raceway for a Veterans Day edition of tight, short-track racing. The one mile track with the dogleg on the back stretch, proved to be a challenge for even iRacing's best. The online race saw 10 cautions for 38 of the 156 laps. The last caution came out with five to go, setting up a green/white flag restart – started and completed by Ryan Lowe. "Don't pull a Kentucky, Ryan," Lowe says he thought as he took the green/white flag "where I lost the race on a one lap shootout, because I spun the tires" He didn't pull another Kentucky, getting a great jump on the restart and leading the field around to the checkered flag. "This [...]
Sandt Jr and Powers Go to the Wire
by Stan Bragg Jr on November 12th, 2014
The NASCAR iRacing.com SK Modified Series traveled to Lucas Oil Raceway for Week 2 of the six week season. Under the virtual lights, this .686 mile track held true to the high profile short track style racing and this feature race would be no different. With the SoF of just 1599 we would see various levels of skill as 14 drivers took the grid, but the sim racing up front was tight and intense for the entire 50 laps. David Powers and Bobby Sandt Jr led the field to the green with Powers getting a great jump on the field. Sandt Jr and Carl Sunberg quickly went single file and looked to run down Powers while, behind them, Alan Fenhaus and Russel Ieler looked to do the same. The front [...]
Road Warriors Get "Rad" at Oulton Park
by Andrew Pinkerton on October 2nd, 2014
Oulton Park hosted the fifteenth round of the 2014 iRacing Road Warrior Series. The Road Warriors' weapon du jour was the Radical SR8, an extremely nimble and very fast car. Weighing-in well under 2,000 pounds and with nearly 380 horsepower on tap, this beast demands a few hairs on a sim racer's chest – and preferably the soles of their feet — in order to extract its peak performance. The Radical will bite you when you least expect it, and this past weekend of sim racing was no exception: Only nine cars finished on the lead lap at the checkered flag across all of the races . . . combined. The Saturday 1:00 GMT kicked the weekend off with 18 starters. Rob Kodey had the pole, but ran into problems [...]
Moreira Wins Spa, Lotus 79 Championship!
by Marc Dorval, photos by Thiago Izequiel on July 24th, 2014
The 12th and final week of the Classic Lotus Grand Prix 2014 Season 2 Series ran at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium. The series championship would be decided this week between Nuno Moreira of the Ligier team and Andrea Ventura of the Elf Gitanes team. The Race 26 CTC drivers were joined by three other sim-racers for the main Sunday race. Reflecting the series championship standings, Moreira had pole position with a qualifying time of 2:06.444, while Ventura was in front of the left lane with a time of 2:06.925. The slowest qualifier had a time of 2:11.789. Arto Ihamäki was over-eager at the start, collecting a black flag and dropping to 23rd position early on. Paolo Accurso slid into Copersucar's James Rawson at the start, causing damage to [...]
Moreira Edges Fritsche in Zandvoort Nailbiter!
by Marc Dorval, Pictures by Thiago Izequiel on June 25th, 2014
The Classic Lotus Grand Prix Series travelled to the Netherlands' Circuit Park Zandvoort for its eighth race week of 2014 Season 2. A favourite of many drivers, the Grand Prix configuration of this race track features a testing blend of straights, tight, medium and high-speed turns that thrill spectators and drivers alike. Zandvoort is a safe track, though, scoring 2.86 as the lowest incident-per-driver statistic in Lotus79 races in 2014. Six warm-up races were run prior to the main Sunday race. The winners of those races were Arto Ihamäki of the Walter Wolf Racing team, Richard Walker, Lotus' Gernot Fritsche and Michel Dudognon of Sachs Racing who won three of those races! Fritsche had pole position with a qualifying time of 1:26.255, just ahead of Ligier's Nuno Moreira who clocked [...]
Gernot Fritsche Tames Interlagos in Lotus 79!
by Marc Dorval on June 18th, 2014
Week 7 of the 2014s2 Classic Lotus Grand Prix Series was held at the famous Autódromo José Carlos Pace (Interlagos) track in Brazil. Conditions were warm and not very humid, with a very slight breeze. The fans were stoked by the World Cup soccer tournament, the history of Ayrton Senna (and the aforementioned Carlos Pace) at this track, as well as all the cool cars and fantastic drivers in attendance for the race! The pre-Sunday warm-up races numbered five this week, with Ligier Gitanes' Nuno Moreira winning one of them, and Elf's Andrea Ventura and Lotus' Gernot Fritsche winning two each. 28 cars gridded for the main race, with Ventura in pole position after logging an incredible 1:24.786 qualifying time! 25 of those drivers were card-carrying CTC members sporting their [...]
Fritsche Overcomes All at Brands Hatch!
by Marc Dorval on June 9th, 2014
The Classic Lotus Grand Prix Series held its sixh weekly race of 2014 Season 2 at the historic Brands Hatch Circuit in Kent, England. Cool weather greeted us, but the skies were clear and the crowds were in abundance. Brands Hatch is a surprisingly challenging course for the Lotus 79. To wit, the average incidents per race this week was 5.83, second only to COTA for all of 2014. The combination of cold temperature, elevation changes, narrow road and off-camber turns requires (even) more skill than usual. Sunday saw 26 drivers join the main race. Seven warm-up races were held earlier in the week as well. Participation was lower than usual: some blame the difficult course, others blame a flu bug that is affecting some drivers. In any case, Nuno [...]
Billy the Kid? Try Ryan the Comeback Kid…
by Brooks Westfall on June 4th, 2014
The virtual Silver Crowns of iRacing were loaded in digital big rigs and hauled out to the desert of Phoenix, Arizona for Round Five of the iRacing Silver Crown Cup. After last week's thrilling 40 lap sim race in Indianapolis, some short track action was the right medicine for the sim racers. With three of the first four rounds staged of speedways, it was a good change for the drivers to test their sim racing skill on the grass roots of racing. Unlike the short track opener at Lucas Oil Raceway, the 100 lap sim race at Phoenix International Raceway was quite clean. The iRacing FIRST Safety car only paced for 24 laps, leaving over three quarters of the event in the drivers' hands. With Jeffery Mays and Michael Clement [...]
Moreira wins in Lotus 79 Sonoma, Gernot Fritsche DNF!
by Marc Dorval on May 27th, 2014
Week 4 of the Classic Lotus Grand Prix Series was held at the Sonoma Raceway in California, USA. Many regular drivers spent the week practicing for the iRacing Indy race and so were not ready to qualify and race with us. Despite that, 29 cars registered for the main Sunday race! Lotus driver Gernot Fritsche and Ligier's Nuno Moreira were one-two on the grid today, with qualifying times of 1:20.048 and 1:20.083 respectively. The slowest qualifier timed a lap at 1:24.993. Turn Two Incident Moreira got a great start at the green light over Fritsche, and the two ran side-by-side through Turn One and up the hill to Turn Two. As they were jostling for space, Fritsche's right wheels touched the dirt slightly. Coming back on the asphalt, Fritsche touched [...]
Lanpheer Starts Radicals Defence in Style
by Katier Scott on May 19th, 2014
Tom Lanpheer started the defence of his iRacing Radical Racing Challenge title in style with strong performances in both the first two rounds. The Mid West sim-racer now leads the charge by 29 points from Scandinavian Mattias Anreus and Division 2 driver, Fin, Samuli Kumo. The Radical arrived this season with another boost to its handling in the shape of a configurable rear differential, while its aero-balance also received tweaks in the form of optional dive planes. The end result is a certain amount of divided opinion as some drivers prefer the balance created by running with dive planes, while others prefer the low df options. So far the differences in lap times between the two seem generally to be small but the downforce settings are extreme and there is [...]
NiS Open Garage: Charlotte
by Don Scott on May 15th, 2014
Headed into Charlotte Motor Speedway I am reminded of something I mentioned in a previous article about iRacing's setups being tantamount to getting setup sheets from the previous owner when you purchase a race car. At times these setups may require large changes to adapt them to our own driving preferences. This leads us to two areas where you can make changes to help correct cars that seem out of control. The two areas I am going to focus on this week are basic track bar and spring adjustments. Both of these topics are critical changes we make in NASCAR constantly. Making adjustments in both of these areas can significantly improve cars that seem too far on the loose or tight sides. When speaking of the track bar you should [...]
Nuno Moreira Wins Lotus 79 Week 1!
by Marc Dorval on May 7th, 2014
For the drivers of the Classic Lotus Grand Prix iRacing Series, a new season is a time of renewed hope in their driving skills, individual and team strategies, and of course their cars' setups. The racing break allowed teams to sign up new drivers, and so teams have been disbanded and re-created. It's also a time to show off new team paints! Master artists such as Paul Arnall and Mark Fisher have been in high demand for the quality and accuracy of their paint jobs. Great personalization assistance was given by Mark Pickford and Marko Kiikka as well. Rumours of speed advantage for certain paints were rampant, and we're not sure if there's truth in them. Nevertheless, we expect great pictures with all these beautiful cars! As for the racing, [...]
Dobie Wins Season Finale – Fritsche Wins Lotus 79 Championship!
by Marc Dorval on April 25th, 2014
The 12th and final week of the 2014 Season 1 Classic Lotus Grand Prix iRacing Series was held at the Road America course in Wisconsin, USA this Sunday. 33 drivers, including 23 CTC Members, brought their cars for Sunday's main online race. It was wonderful to have new drivers join us for this season finale, as well! Albilad Williams' Nuno Moreira earned pole position this week with a qualifying time of 1:53.915. Behind him was RAM Viceroy's Bill Fraser with a time of 1:54.293. The slowest qualifier came in with a time of 2:00.522. Six of the sim-racers were unable to post a qualifying time, and so started at the back of the pack. The start of the race was not kind to many drivers. Essex Lotus' Salvatore Larne, catching [...]
Mission: Mercer
by Justin Sutton on April 14th, 2014
Three races remaining. 45 points separating Marc Mercer from Blake Townend. 253 corners from lights-out to checkered flag. Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, Australia could be the place where Mercer clinches the championship. With his current lead all he needs to do is outscore Townend by six points, and not get outscored by Wojciech Swirydowicz, to put the nail in the coffin since those two are the only other competitors with a mathematical chance of winning still. In qualifying Swirydowicz grabbed pole with a 2:30.321 ahead of Mercer, Townend, Wojciech Rabsztyn, and Sebastian Job. As the cars lined up and started to rev there was an immediately visible gap in the grid where Townend's black and red F2000 should have been, and as the lights turned green it became painfully [...]
Gernot Fritsche Wins at VIR, Expands Lotus 79 Championship Lead
by Marc Dorval on April 2nd, 2014
The ninth week of the 2014 Season 1 Classic Lotus Grand Prix iRacing Series was held at the beautiful and terrifying Virginia International Raceway this past Sunday. Terrifying? Consider that only 23 drivers elected to take part (of whom 19 are regular CTC members), and that only four warm-up races were able to get adequate participation. Many drivers worried about their Safety Ratings, reputation damage, and overall embarrassment on this fast, tricky, and dangerous track. Matt Pawelski of RAM Viceroy won three of the four warm-up races. Family issues prevented him from sitting on the grid on Sunday, however. Essex Lotus' Gernot Fritsche won the fourth warm-up race this week. Ligier Gitanes' Andrea Ventura won pole position at the starting line with an excellent time of 1:37.913, while Fritsche's 1:38.042 [...]
New Leader for Brazil's "Masters of Track"
by Thiago Izequiel on March 25th, 2014
The RUF championship of iRacing Brasil Masters of Track ran its sixth race and now has only four more to go until the ultimate winner is nominated. Bruno do Carmo has been the one to watch for the first half of this series, but can he keep his domain until the end? Diego Rancaño, a driver from Club Iberia had fought against this fact and won two times, against three wins for Bruno, but a new challenger came up: Thiago Almeida is now the newest driver to get at the winner's hall. Having competed at all races, Thiago always took his RUF to the limit but didn't have good luck when he could fight for the lead. Watkins Glen came with new winds blowing in his favor, while Diego and [...]
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by Brian Tate on March 24th, 2014
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In dublinfor cruise stop so we only have about 8 hrs. Can someone help with things to do. There will be 10 of us. Thanks
In dublinfor cruise stop so we only have about 8 hrs. Can someone help with things to do. There will be 10 of us. Thanks
rhonda, There are lots of choices, depending on your interests..... > Walking tour covering the most significant sites, including the Book of Kells at Trinity College > Hop On / Hop Off Bus tours, which will provide a good overview > Wander through the Temple Bar District and of course enjoy a pint (or two) of Guinness. Oliver St. John Gogarty's is usually quite "lively" (especially if there's a match on) > Take a tour of the Guinness Storehouse (often long queues though, so not necessarily the best thing to do with limited time). The tour culminates with a visit to the Gravity Bar, where you'll be able to enjoy your "free" pint (included with admission). It's a bit like a greenhouse, so usually warm in the bar, but the views are great! > Visit the Kilmainham Gaol, which is a significant site in Irish History (where some of the leaders of the 1916 rebellion were executed). It's been used in a couple of movies including the original Italian Job (Michael Caine) and also In The Name of the Father (Daniel Day Lewis). Happy travels and Sláinte!
Not knowing when your trip is, or what time you will actually be off the ship, I might not recommend the Book of Kells. If you don't get there early in the day, especially during peak tourist season, the line to get in can be long. Likewise, I would not recommend the Guinness Storehouse. It is expensive and you don't see anything of the brewing process, just a lot of advertising, and buying opportunities for the same Guinness souvenirs you can find everywhere. I would also suggest Kilmainham Gaol, and I agree that the hop-on, hop-off bus is a good, informative overview of the city. The whole route will take about 90 minutes, and you can get off wherever you see something you want to explore. You will definitely want to wander Grafton Street. There are always musicians along this pedestrian street that are fun to watch. You might also like the tour of a Georgian home at 29 Lower Fitzwilliam St.
Thanks so much....we are going in August by the way.
Trinity College is a good choice. As Nancy says, if you aren't there first thing (awhile before opening), the lines could consume a large piece of your day. Your cruise schedule will tell you when you get there. I usually start a little before that time by going straight to the gangway and waiting there to beat the crowds off the boat. Guinness factory tour isn't worth your limited time. It's like a Superbowl where all the commercials are Guinness and there isn't a game between them. The only good thing is the ale at the end - but you can get a pint anywhere. I'm not a fan of Temple Bar area. It's mostly big bars, like you would see in any big city, rather than quaint Irish pubs. If all else fails much of center is walkable, or you can use transit buses to get around.
If an Archaeology Museum sounds like something you might be remotely interested in the one in Dublin is great, housed in an amazing building and is free so you can spend some time without having to worry about "getting your money's worth". http://www.museum.ie/en/list/visit-us-overview-archaeology-ethnography.aspx I was blown away by this museum = I don't know why it doesn't get better billing. Have great time,


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For those old-schoolers that don't know - Ultimate Newcomer is about to released. It's a commodore 64 RPG that has been 20 years in the making. You can see info about it at:
I've played the earlier versions of the game, and can say it is one of the most compelling RPG's I have ever played. But what really caught my eye (and the point of this thread) is the developers philosophical statement regarding modern game development (http://call.of.cthul.hu/~hoild/Hype.html):
"The project is for proving a few facts mostly neglected in the CRPGs we have seen so far:
1. High levels of interactivity could be implemented in computer games with no need for heavy computing resources, but for time and effort by the designers.
2. High level, dedicated scripting languages are a key feature to develop sophisticated adventure and role-playing games, and such dedicated scripting languages could be implemented on, and be used for serious development in extremely memory-constrained, 8bit computing environments. The need for such a language is to empower the game/level designers, so that they could enhance and detail the game as much as they want, on their own, with no intervention by lesser life forms (i.e. programmers).
3. Storyline non-linearity and interactivity as well as interaction with NPCs could be developed to the extreme, while still keeping a coherent storyline and playable gaming environment – we think that "sandbox game design" and "Physics Is The Game" are just attempts to reduce development cycles and at creating games by mere programmers rather than game designers and storytellers.
4. Not even an enormous plenty of in-game items, levels and eye candy can replace the feeling of catharsis at the end of, and during hundreds of hours of smart, advancing, progressive gameplay. Yet all the above could be implemented at the same time."
I'm not personally aware of any MMORPG that uses the kind of high level script language, non-linear NPC interaction, or in-depth story that a game like Newcomer has. Does anyone know if such exists? I think the Newcomer devs set the bar for game design for all future MMORPG's even though their implementation of the idea is an old 8bit platform. As their statement says - the approach is valid for any modern RPG (and especially I think for the modern sandbox MMORPG).
I'm not sure what's going on in the modern game-design world, but the Newcomer guys are far ahead of the curve in at least a few aspects of game design.
Sorry to all the kids who never got to play a c64 RPG and don't understand what the hell I'm talking about... it's not too late to download an emulator.
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Are you saying that you want to see more personally-tailored instanced content in MMOs or are you trying to compare what can be done in single-player RPGs to what can be done in massively multiplayer RPGs?
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Originally posted by Loktofeit
I am a sandbox MMO player (of which there are few), and I'm not big on instancing in general... but these suffer from the critique posed by the Newcomer developers - they are mostly 'physics as game'.
What those developers are saying (and have proven with their game) is that you can have massive non-linear storytelling content using almost no memory footprint whatsoever. It's not a single-player vs. MMO thing - any game can do it regardless of size.
The idea of the high-level script language is that storytellers can operate independently from programmers. Imagine every NPC in game having a miniature artificical intelligence algorithm. Most MMO's I know of have limited interaction: Buy from the vendor, sell to the auction house, get the quest from the quest giver. Even in the rare cases where you get to ask a question to the NPC, it is usually a pool of pre-scripted choices, with a similar pool of pre-scripted answers.
So to answer the qustion: I want to see more universally-tailored non-instanced content in MMO's, without comparing the differences between single and multiplayer RPG's.
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Originally posted by psykobilly
The issue is specifically the number of people interacting in a persistent virtual world.
"I'm not personally aware of any MMORPG that uses the kind of high level script language, non-linear NPC interaction, or in-depth story that a game like Newcomer has. Does anyone know if such exists? I think the Newcomer devs set the bar for game design for all future MMORPG's even though their implementation of the idea is an old 8bit platform."
In a separate and controlled environment, like in a single-player game or a game where new people are not leaping into the story at random points, almost ANYTHING is doable. There is explicit control over what will be done and how. There is explicit control over the amount of polies and number of textures every given scene has. There an extreme amount of freedom to decide and react to outcomes because you are doing so for one group or participant.
To present it from another angle:
A public town of NPCs (and the state of objects in that town) cannot cater specifically to your story, my story and the story of thousands of other people at the same time without creating very generic and disjointed experiences. The more controlled the environment, the more epic a tale can be crafted for the individual participants.
"I want to see more universally-tailored non-instanced content in MMO's, without comparing the differences between single and multiplayer RPG's."
Without exploring why it does work in single-player and non-persistent worlds, it's hard to explain to you why it doesn't work in massively multiplayer persistent state worlds.
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Originally posted by Loktofeit
It will work in massively multiplayer persistent state worlds, it just hasn't been tried yet to my knowledge. Hence my saying these guys are way ahead of their time.
In fact the NPC's CAN cater to thousands of people without creating disjointed experiences. The environment does not need to be controlled and pushed along in themepark-like style. Now, my interaction with an NPC will be generic as compared to another player only if I say the same things and ask the same questions. Ask a different question that another player didn't think of, and that opens up a new set of possibilities.
If you tried the game, I believe you would say... 'ahhhhh NPC's can be like this in every game.... even MMO's'. The difference between single-player and multi-player is that in MMOs you would have groups of people working together in different parts of the game world trying to figure out the different story paths. Whether this is interesting or not depends entirely on the storyteller.
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It's a pain to goto some websites on my tiny netbook, so instead I hope it is okay if I ask a simple question instead.
What is, specifically, so special about this game's A.I. or "advanced" features? An explanation in terms of gameplay, perhaps?
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Most on here are also so young, they don't even know what a C64 is except by cultural reference. (So they do know what it is, but not really, having never played it). In fact, you'd be sore to find anyone who was actually into the C64 to the extent of being a real gamer and on-the-edge of that current tech. Even real gamers (like myself, with over a decade of hardcore gaming) have only played a few times or through rom's or as a pass of time far after the C64 era. It's quite rare to find ANYONE who played these old systems like a real gamer would. Especially on these forums.
Heck, even the main administrator of the forums is younger than even myself, and I am young compared to some of the more ancient gamers :P It's phenominal when you find out that the forum administrators of every forum are younger than you, and some of the people they ban are double their age. It's a scary world, really, to know that such immature people have so much power on what many older adults find to be their enjoyment (forum communities). Very scary, and very strange, but it's quite common. I find most moderators to be about 24 years old on average, and tend to be very biased and one-sided, having favorites and people they dislike (and thus ban). I've seen it for a long time on here, most people who get banned are in their late 30's, late 40's. The Generation X, Y, and all Millenial's concepts are not the same as the baby boomer's, not by a long shot. Talk about moral & culture clashing!
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You're proud because they rubbed their programming wands for 20 years and produced a game for a dead system almost nobody plays on making a game probably about a deep as Baldur's gate II but simply because of the medium, a strictly inferior experience? WHAT TOOK THEM THAT LONG. I mean, even Duke nukem forever only took 14.
And to be perfectly blunt, don't be condescending about your old experiences. Nostalgia vision really doesn't work and save for a number of titles, lets not pretend most gamers of the 80s and 90s missed out. They had the Nintendo/SNES.
Originally posted by Disatisfied9
I don't really think they are advanced features. Neither do the Newcomer devs... they are pretty basic features that are lacking in most modern MMORPGS. I can't converse with NPC's in any recent MMO's I've played. When you are in Newcomer, you don't necessarily have any idea what an NPC's function is until you try to talk to them and ask them questions. In a modern MMO you see a bubble over their head that says 'vendor' or something equally silly. In Newcomer, you may have to know someone's friend or just be nice in order to get them to sell you something. You may think you have exhausted every possible interaction with an NPC, then meet someone who knows that NPC on the other side of the world, only to have to go back to find out what they 'really know'.
The point is that by having dynamic high level script languages integrated into the mid-level game physics core, you can have members of the design team purely focused on story, plot, immersion, lore, etc. They don't need to know how to code, as long as they are good story tellers. I have no problem with twitch gaming (which I enjoy greatly), but I like to have some depth and some puzzles or problems in game that actually require intellect over reflexes. That is completely lacking in the modern MMORPG, but it is at the core of the original RPG concept.
I understand most people on here are young and simply won't get it. They don't know that the Fallout series is based on a c64 game called Wasteland, for example (which was much 'deeper' and more fun than the Fallouts, imo). This post isn't directed at them... it's directed at the odd game designer who might see it and try to figure out what I'm getting at. There is a lot the modern designer can learn about what was 'right' in the old games that has been lost in the current era.
For everyone else, enjoy your Wow-clone, or seamless death match arena, or whatever you're into.
Originally posted by LordPsychodi
The critical reading skills seem to be lacking here so I'll explain for you.
The post is about the philosophy of game design, not about the game in question. Never did I say I was proud of anything. The game is deeper than Baldur's gate II, but that's just an opinion. I think the new Newcomer will take me longer to playthrough than it will take me to playthrough Skyrim, and I intend to put that to the test when both are out. I assume what took so long is that no one is doing it for money, and that everyone working on it has a real job (I'm doubting you do at this point).
I fail to see where I was condescending, although I'm leaning towards it now. A lot of modern MMORPG's (and regular RPGs) have shitty depth compared some older examples and that's just a fact of the medium - without high-end graphics, developers were forced to have a highly evolved story to make the game interesting. For the record, I had a nintendo and a c64 in the 80's at the same time. There is no comparison - c64 RPG's would take weeks if not months to finish, while any nintendo game on the market could be played through in a couple of days to a week tops.


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Did you arrive? No, I did not, but I had a very nice time.
Inspired by this thread about unintentional historical double entendres, I'm looking for a science fiction short story that was published twenty or so years ago. [more inside]
What is this story with a model town in it?
Forgotten Story Source Filter: I recall a short story or episode in a novel where a reclusive member of a town builds a detailed scale model of the town, which also reveals he knew the townspeople's secrets. What was it from? [more inside]
What short story is this?
Many moons ago I read a short story about several children who lived in a world that was almost perpetually dark, with the exception of something like 15 minutes of sunlight every 30 years. These children were horsing around outside, and two of them locked a third in a shed. While this child was in the shed, the sun came out, depriving him/her of the only opportunity they'd have in their life to see the light. Does this ring a bell for anyone?
Oh baby, I like it raw.... (Trouble finding a short story)
I'm having trouble finding any point of reference for a short story I was recently reminded of regarding a husband who suddenly gets the impulse to drink blood/eat raw meat. If I recall correctly, he just masticates the meat for the juices. It's a long drawn out thing of trying to hide this weird compulsion from his wife, making himself out to be a monster, but in the end it resolves well. [more inside]
Another "Help me find this story"
The core of the story is that a (possibly Indian) guy falls asleep (or is knocked out {during a robbery?}) (possibly near a river) and lives the whole lifetime of a separate existence in a dream. He wakes up (or comes to) at the end (and tries to integrate the experience). [more inside]
Name that short story (you'll see why I don't just Google the plot)
Can anyone help me identify a literary short story I read 20-25 years ago? Description is possibly triggering/NSFW. [more inside]
Help me find this short story
It is from the point of view of a man who comes home from war after such a long time that he was believed dead. After an awkward welcome, he finds out that his wife has been sleeping with his neighbor, a young man who was like a son to him before he left to fight. He eventually kills the young man and his wife and dies from a gunshot wound after being chased by the sheriff on a mountain or mesa. What is this short story?
Help my friend ID this Bradbury short
He writes: "I'm trying to remember the title of a sci-fi story by Ray Bradbury about a future where people are no longer scared of anything."
Science Fiction Short Story ID
The gist of the story: Natives take potion which slows their movements and thoughts to match those of trees, who it turns out are sentient and out to get us. [more inside]
MeFi Writers, Help Me With a Personal Writing Project
I'm taking next week off to do two things. The first is to develop some habits that are conducive to me writing continually, daily and with presentable results. The second is to actually have a product by the end of the week. I'm thinking one good and fairly polished short story. Please give me advice and ideas about how to accomplish this. Do you need a place to work that is for "writing only"? Do you have a daily routine? Did you have to develop self-discipline? Do you have rituals like meditation or having tea or writing by candle light? Do you listen to music? With an entire week to do whatever I want, how do I best use my time for writing? [more inside]
Sci-Fi short story search
I read a creepy utopia/dystopia sci-fi short story ~5 years ago, believe it was in an anthology and haven't been able to find it since... [more inside]
Trying to remeber a short story about alien archeologists
I'm trying to remember a short story I read years ago, in school probably, about alien archaeologists examining the only remains of earth after glaciers killed the last humans. [more inside]
Short story identification
What is this short story I read sometime in the late 1990s? Plot involved two teenage girls in the 1960s, Beatlemania, and the terrifying truths of growing up. [more inside]
Help me identify this sci-fi short story
Some time in the mid 1990s I read a sci-fi short story about an augmented individual hired to steal a password - I'm trying to figure out the name of this story and its author. [more inside]
Short Australian(?) horror story about... Pingles? Stay with me here.
Somewhere between 20 and 30 years ago in Australia, I read an anthology of horror stories. I'm pretty sure it was a specifically YA anthology (it wasn't very gruesome) and I think that the stories and authors were Australian. One of the stories was very elliptical, riffing on a sign that said something like "Pingles Parking", and ending with some unspecified but dreadful apocalypse at night, possibly involving parked cars and machinery actually being monsters (this being the hideous true meaning of "Pingles", or whatever the sign said). I think there was an illustration of a steam shovel silhouetted against the night sky. One of the final scenes featured the child protagonist's grandfather dying in bed, his skin "like paper" or "papery" or something. There may have been a lot of irony or misdirection that I completely failed to understand (like maybe it was all just about the horror of your grandfather dying, and there weren't any real monsters involved). MetaFilter, what was this story?
What was this science-fiction short story?
A friend read an SF short story in the 1970's, probably published in one of the common "Best of" anthologies of that decade. She's trying to find out the title, but Google and other sources turn up nothing so far. Can you help? [more inside]
Help me find this story or tell me to walk on.
There's a short story in which a woman tells her new lover that she has had a mastectomy and he abandons her. Or at least I think there is. [more inside]
How do I find out if a foreign work has ever been published in English?
I am trying to find out if an Italian short story now in the public domain has ever been published in English. [more inside]
Help me identify this short story based on my hazy memory, please.
I heard a story (fiction) on the radio a few years ago and I'd like to find out what it was called and who wrote it. It was most likely presented on the show "Selected Shorts" but I'm not certain about that. The story took place in a town where everything seemed normal except that a black shape appeared one day in the sky overhead. Slowly over time the black shape fills the sky until the horizon is covered. A married couple are at the center of the story - there's more about their relationship than this thing in the sky. I think the sky-thing is a metaphor for something unspoken that dominates our fears. The characters barely react to it's presence (I think.) Anyone out there know this story?
What to do with an unpublished, undated short story by my grandfather.
I recently found a short story written by my deceased grandfather that has no date or any hints as to when he might have written it. Am I out of luck on dating it, and should I just publish it as is with no special fanfare? [more inside]
Help me find a short story about mind control graffiti
This thread and this hypnotic diagram reminded me of a science fiction short story premised around the idea that breakthroughs in psychology and applied mathematics had made it possible to design two-dimensional black and white images that would produce extreme effects in anyone who looked at them. The result was a society in perpetual counter-terrorism lockdown. An image like "The Parrot" could cause immediate seizures and fatal strokes, and one terrorist sneaking a placard of it into the Superbowl could not only kill everyone in his immediate area but also viewers at home. Our main characters in the story are tweens who attend a school with translucent windows. They've gotten their hands on a low-powered nausea-inducing image and they've formed a secret club to take turns looking at it. Where can I find this story? [more inside]
Short story about a boy, a window and his sister who never exists
I'm pretty sure I came across this through the blue in the last few years: a story by an American author about a boy who becomes fascinated by a window he can see on the outside of his house (round? high?) that doesn't correspond with a window on the inside, and he cajoles his sister into touching it, and when she does she and the window don't vanish, they cease to have ever existed. What is it? [more inside]
It's My Thumb in a Box
I recently half-remembered a story I read way back in elementary school (late 80s-early 90s). I am not sure if it was a standalone short story or part of a novel, but what happens is the narrator has a big plastic bloody novelty thumb that he slips on and uses to prank the person he's with at the movies. [more inside]
What short story collection was the story story "Pagent Wagon" in?
Wikipedia claims that "Pageant Wagon" by Orson Scott Card has only ever been in the short story collection The Folk of the Fringe (1989). This is wrong, as I've read it, and I've never read an OSR short story collection. I can even remember exactly when and where I read it, but not the name of the short story collection. So, what other short story collection has it been in? Possibly under another name? [more inside]
Not about the children on the planet where it never stops raining
Help me identify a science-fiction short story I read years ago. It's about the inventor of a remote-viewing device that also lets you view the past. [more inside]
How to write a story, pulp style
Specific story-writing method published by a '20s/'30s crime writer? [more inside]
Racing as Transistor Metaphor
I vaguely remember reading a SciFi short story about racing cars backwards around a track that was a metaphor for transistors. Does such a story actually exist, or is it all in my head?
Can you find this sci-fi short story?
I've been looking for this particular short sci-fi story for several years and I am finally giving up on going solo. Help me find it, hive mind. [more inside]
I can make your short story disappear
Please help me identify a short story I read in high school. It's about a man who claims that he can make people disappear to the extent that no-one will remember that they ever existed. He is asked to prove the claim... *possible spoilers inside* [more inside]
Which Jewish-American author could this be?
Can you help me remember the name of this Jewish-American author? [more inside]
Helplessness at a busy crosswalk
Can you help me identify a 25+ year-old short story that describes someone unable to cross a city street? [more inside]
Need to track down a short ghost story
Half remembered short story: Girl and Guy meet at rail station waiting room. Feel a relationship spark. They walk into nearest Town and dance at a bar. Halfway through the story the couple realise that they (and everyone else in the railway waiting room) are ghosts. *Might* have been a originally posted to the metafilter? [more inside]
Help me identify this short story
What's the story where the guy talks to a bunch of dead people and then finds out he's dead? [more inside]
Forgotten gem.
I'm trying to recall a Star Trek short story published 25-30 years ago. I have no author or title. It was in an anthology. [more inside]
Robot Jesus of the future
Looking for a short story I read 2 or 3 years ago about a robot who worked in a church, and started reading scripture, and was eventually killed by the townspeople because of it. [more inside]
Young Adult Linked Short Story Collections
I'm looking for linked short story collections. [more inside]
How to Survive a Bear Attack and Selling Typewriters, in Literature
Help me find two pieces of literature I read about thirty years ago, one a short story, the other a poem. [more inside]
What's this Sci-Fi short story?
What's this Sci-Fi short story? A scientist working on gender selection technology is contacted by future potential outcomes of his work (a male-dominated world and a woman-dominated world) that end up corresponding to the woman he marries.
Title of Short Story about a soldier made up of prosthetics?
I can't remember the name of a short story about a man who was made up almost entirely of artificial body parts. [more inside]
Curse you, you mysterious orb.
Story-about-orbs filter: in my eighth grade English class, I read a sci-fi story about an extraterrestrial orb that was collecting specimens from Earth. I'd love to find out its author and name (and, optimally, a copy of the story itself on the web.) [more inside]
Post-singularity theater short story id
Today's FPP reminded me of a short story about post-singularity life in the theater. [more inside]
Life at Half-Speed
Name that sci-fi short story I read as a child. [more inside]
Please help me find this depressing sci-fi short story.
Please help me find this depressing sci-fi short story. [more inside]
short story about a composer, a marine biologist and middle C
I'm trying to track down a short story. [more inside]
Trying to find an old scifi short story about time travel
I'm trying to find a SciFi short story I read as a kid - I read this story as a kid in the '70s or '80s. It was in a paperback collection of SF short stories I got from the school library, it could have been published anytime from the '50s to the late '70s. I have no idea of the title or the author, just my memory of the story. It involved someone who was walking backwards through time to get home. Some scientific accident had propelled him hundreds of years forward in time. On the wreckage of the lab, he appeared, briefly, once every year (or maybe every decade or century?). From an observer's point of view, someone flashed in and out of existence predictably on that spot. I think a holiday formed around the appearance. From the person's point of view, he was walking backwards through time, from the far future back towards the date of the accident. Each "flash" was a step in that walk. Anyone know what this story is called or who wrote it?
Know any stories about camouflage tattoos?
A recent conversation reminded me of something I once read. It was in a Playboy magazine, likely mid-80s, and it was either a short story or an excerpt from a novel if Playboy even does that kind of thing. From what I remember it was written in the first person about a guy (a reporter?) who hears about this Vietnam vet that has learned some art of tattooing which acts as the perfect camouflage. [more inside]
Short story about a curmudgeon's home life?
I'm trying to come up with the name of a short story I read eight or ten years ago. It is a first-person narrative of the domestic life of a cynically detached man who lives with his wife and kid. [more inside]
Name this story?
Can you tell me the name and author of this story? Aliens contact earth, but they say they will only negotiate with humanity through [woman's name] - it is up to [woman] to decree if humanity is given vast boons of technology, or if it is destroyed by the aliens. [more inside]
Help me identify this short story based on the plot!
Help me find the name/author of a short story with the following plot: human children are the work slaves of gremlins (goblins?), and made to do manual labor underground. Those with good behavior and who are getting older are "graduated" and told that they're being freed, but after a gremlin-only "ceremony," are killed for food instead. [more inside]
Semi-humourous sci-fi short story ID
I'm trying to remember a science-fiction (?) short story that I read about 10-15 years ago. Basically, a bunch of prominent citizens of Earth (including Miss Universe) are summoned to Mars to be harangued by a sarcastic alien who tells them they're all doomed. [more inside]
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How the 'Ed' Guys Got Mick Jagger
Goldblum was never attached to the show, and he's now working for
"As we got closer to the pilot, we had, obviously, many, many lists of people," Burnett said Wednesday at the Television Critics Association press tour. "And I believe it was Stephen McPherson [the president of
Beckerman and Burnett didn't really think they had much of a shot at getting the
"And we still never thought it was going to happen," Burnett says. "And then, very close to the pilot, it all came together and we were told Mick himself read the script ... and that he was going to call us. And Jon and I received a call from Mick Jagger and his producing partner, Victoria Pearman. We chatted about the show and whatnot.
"And the next thing we knew, he said he would do a cameo in the pilot."
The "Knights" crew traveled to New Zealand to shoot Jagger's scenes, as the Stones had just finished a leg of their most recent tour there.
"I believe he delayed his vacation a day or two for us, so he had all the reason to be cranky and exhausted, but he couldn't have been nicer," Burnett says.
"He seemed to have a fun time doing it, and he was great. ... I remember Jon and I standing there and we thought -- you know, we didn't know Mick Jagger, and he came down and we were about to shoot the first thing, and we looked at each other and we said, 'We're going to know in about 20 seconds whether this is going to be good or bad,' and as soon as he did the first thing, we just looked at each other and smiled and said, 'This is going to be a breeze, which it was.'"
So much so that it's likely Jagger will return to the series. It will be dependent on his schedule -- "Mick's a big busy rock star," Burnett jokes -- but Burnett and Beckerman hope to feature him in at least a handful of episodes.


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1. What previous actions by you demonstrate that you have the honesty, integrity, ethics and personal character to be an elected official?
I have always strived to be the most honest and ethical person with integrity and strong personal character. Throughout my professional career, I have always been entrusted with important positions and many of these jobs have been with governmental entities at the federal, state, county and municipal levels.
The endorsements of many elected officials including: County Commissioners Kristin Jacobs and Ilene Lieberman, Clerk of Courts Howard Forman, State Representatives Jim Waldman and Kelly Skidmore, State Senator Jeremy Ring, City Commissioners Marilyn Gerber and Lou Sarbone indicate their belief that I have the honesty, integrity, ethics and personal character to be an elected official also.
When County Commissioner Kristin Jacobs recently endorsed my candidacy for the Coconut Creek City Commission, she said:
"Please consider this email as my official endorsement for your candidacy for Coconut Creek City Commission Dist. E. I can't think of a citizen who has given more of their personal time, energy and heart to the betterment of Coconut Creek than you. You have given freely of yourself, expecting nothing in return, save the great feeling of knowing your doing your part to move the City forward. Your inherent integrity and character will be a tremendous asset to a city which is already considered Class A. I wish you the best of luck in this new challenge!" --Kristin
When I decided to run for the city commission, I was serving on the Planning & Zoning Board. I wanted to be certain from an ethics and legal standpoint that I resigned from the board and announced my candidacy for the commission properly. Therefore, I consulted the city attorney and followed the steps required.
Through my various roles in County and Municipal Government and as a member of the City's Planning and Zoning Board, I have become educated about the Sunshine Law and have had the responsibility to follow its provisions. Several weeks ago, I also attended a Broward Days Workshop on the Sunshine Law to re-familiarize myself with the various provisions.
2. What are your top priorities if elected, including your long-term vision for the city? Do you have any city ordinances, policies, regulations or charter amendments to suggest?
My top priorities:
· Improving our bulk trash pick up program by establishing the city into quadrants for pick-ups on one of four days. It is not safe to have bulk trash sitting around for so long, which happens all too often. Advertising one day results in bulk trash being left outside for days at a time.
· Maintaining and enhancing our land development policies to ensure a continuing smart growth approach and a balance of commercial, residential and light industrial to sustain our tax base into the future.
· Helping small businesses cut through the bureaucratic maze and review policies pertaining to permit reviews and inspections.
· Keeping our parks well maintained and improve drainage on the fields, where needed. I have advocated on numerous occasions for a city park in the north end of the city with swings and a playground.
· Assuming the responsibilities of keeping our waterways clean and overseeing proper drainage by starting with the abolishment of the Cocomar Water Control District.
· Ensuring the availability of clean drinking water and identifying opportunities to utilize reused water for parks, greenways, and medians. I would like to serve on the County's Water Advisory Board to help be an important voice in the future of meeting our water needs countywide. Our sustainability is dependent on water and we constantly need to look at creative ways to respect and protect our water supply.
· Assisting mobile home owners with additional relocation assistance when mobile home parks are sold and residents are going to be displaced.
City ordinances, policies, regulations or charter amendments to suggest.
Keeping City Hall closed on Fridays, especially when Holidays occur the following Mondays, is a policy that should be reviewed to ensure efficiency with the building permit process. I am hearing that there are delays with plan reviews and inspections that have some builders and business owners upset.
Since the job of Mayor currently rotates every year and is determined by the elected commissioners, I believe the next Charter Review Board should study whether or not an elected at-large mayor would be appropriate. It also may be worth studying whether the districted commissioners should continue to be elected citywide or by the voters in their respective district.
I would like to see the City of Coconut Creek assume the duties of the Cocomar Water Control District and dissolve the dependent water control district because I do not feel there is enough accountability having three people appointed by the County Commission act quickly enough to keep the waterway systems well maintained and functioning properly. The canal systems, particularly in the South Creek area of Coconut Creek, are filled with algae, dead fish and need major work. Almost ten years ago, I was Executive Director of the 1998-2000 Broward County Management and Efficiency Study Committee and we studied water control districts throughout Broward County. The Committee recommended dissolving or consolidating many water control districts and transferring responsibilities to the applicable cities.
Holding a one day City-wide Bulk Trash Pick-up is not working. Many times, my neighborhood must be one of the last to be picked up because bulk trash sits outside for several days. While the most recent bulk trash pick-up was scheduled for April 23rd, my bulk trash was not picked up until April 26th. Similar situations have happened in the past in my neighborhood also. It is often unsafe and unsanitary to leave this bulk trash outside for several days. I believe the city could be divided into four zones and assign different dates to the different zones. I spoke before the City Commission about this in 2005 and again at one of John Kelly's Town Hall workshops in April 2008.


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Fresh Green Beans With Sour Cream Sauce
7 Nov 2010
|Fresh green beans
|1 Pound, washed and pared
|2 Tablespoon
|Chopped onion
|3 Tablespoon
|1 Teaspoon
|1 Teaspoon
|2 Tablespoon
|Cooking liquid
|1 Cup (16 tbs) (From Beans)
|Sour cream
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
Cook beans 10 to 12 minutes in salted, boiling water. Do not cover. When cooked, remove 1 cup (250 mL) of cooking liquid and set aside. Cool saucepan under cold running water, then drain beans and set aside.
Heat butter in saucepan over medium heat. Add onion and cook 3 minutes over low heat.
Add vinegar and sugar; cook 1 minute over medium heat.
Mix in flour and continue cooking 1 minute.
Add reserved cooking liquid. Season with salt and pepper and cook 7 minutes over low heat.
Remove pan from heat and stir in sour cream. Sprinkle with paprika. Add beans, mix gently and let simmer 3 minutes over low heat.
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Fresh Green Beans With Sour Cream Sauce Recipe