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SURPRISES ABOUND AT THE Austin Museum of Art—some pleasant, others not. A recent exhibition by the long-struggling and still homeless museum, called "The Road to Aztlan: Art From a Mythic Homeland," ranks among the pleasant ones. The collection of historical objects from Mexico and the American Southwest, which originated at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, represented a departure from the cutting-edge contemporary fare the museum's temporary galleries on Congress Avenue usually deliver. It indicated that AMOA is serious about its pledge to expand the museum's audience. New CEO Bill McLellan reported that more than a thousand visitors crowded into the leased space on the first floor of a downtown office building during the first week of the exhibition. He sounded relieved.
Yet I wonder if the museum's leaders noticed how much Aztlan and the museum have in common. The mythic homeland of the Mexica (Aztec) people has been described as a metaphoric place, an illusory cultural homeland impossible to pinpoint in time or space. So, too, does AMOA remain an illusory construct. While most art museums define themselves through their building and collections, AMOA has neither a new building nor a substantial collection of its own. Despite a twenty-year effort to build a downtown showcase for the visual arts, it still exists only in temporary quarters and borrowed spaces and in the hearts and minds of the folks of Austin.
My own heart has held a warm place for the museum since I served as a member of the board of trustees and then its president in its early incarnation. I was therefore surprised when McLellan and others at AMOA objected to my writing about the museum's recent history. They insisted that this magazine's portrayal could make or break the museum's current (and third) effort to build a downtown facility. Don't you believe it! If the museum succeeds this time—and I have little doubt that it will—it will do so because museum leaders have finally grasped what everyone should have known all along. World-class art museums don't appear fully formed, no matter how many dollars are spent. They evolve over time.
"A MUSEUM IS MORE THAN A BUILDING, it is more than the collection it houses, and it is certainly more than the entertainment it provides in an effort to secure its survival," wrote Elizabeth Gill Lui in her book Closed Mondays. "It is indeed a metaphor for the place in each of us where we preserve those things most personal, most valuable, most simply beautiful." Austin has a constituency for such a place: A recent poll commissioned by AMOA found that 82 percent of the respondents said they would visit a downtown arts facility should it be completed. Why then is Austin still the only city of size in Texas without a jewel of a building after two decades of program analysis, committee meetings, architectural hoopla, and fundraising? It looks to me like another example of Austin's desire to play in the big leagues without learning the rules (which is evident in everything from high culture to urban planning)—plus a couple of runs of economic bad luck.
The first downturn came just as AMOA was getting started, in the mid-eighties; the second was brought on by the bursting of the high-tech bubble in 2000. Certainly the current economy and the events of September 11 have altered the environment for this and every other American museum for the foreseeable future. But AMOA's worst problems were of its own making. During the prime fundraising years of 1995 to 2000, when Austin was enjoying one of the greatest booms Texas had ever seen, AMOA adopted and then misused an unconventional administrative system, ignored standard fundraising wisdom, overestimated both its physical needs and its ability to attract support, and turned its back on the community it purports to serve. The museum declined the use of city bonds that had already been approved by the voters, representing more than one third of its initial cache of capital-fund dollars. The staff managed to alienate donors and potential donors while board members neglected their staff-oversight responsibilities and passed ill-considered budgets.
At last new leadership has the museum on a different track. Current board chairman Lynn Sherman and president Bettye Nowlin are busy mending fences trampled by prior administrations. They are attempting to reconnect with the museum's past and build on its numerous strengths—one of which, identified by the museum's recent poll, is the old name "Laguna Gloria," which the museum cast aside in the mid-nineties in its haste to move downtown.
For many years Austin's community art museum took the name of the quaint villa that housed it. Once the home of Alamo savior Clara Driscoll, it was situated on a lush twelve-acre tract in West Austin. Its reputation rested then as now on the strength of exhibitions it originated or borrowed rather than on the smattering of objects it owned. Fiesta, an annual art show that used to be held on the grounds in the spring, brought thousands of visitors to the site. In the early eighties—about the time I served as the president of the museum board—the organization formally committed to moving downtown to escape the physical limitations of the West Austin site, which could not provide adequate space, security, or climate control for the art or easy access for audiences. The successful outcome of a 1985 bond election to provide $14.7 million for a city-owned downtown museum (estimated to cost around $16.5 million) confirmed the community's support for a new facility. But the project came to a halt with the fall of oil and land prices that wiped out the local


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IWCO Direct in Chanhassen, Minn., is serving as an early adopter of two new production inkjet color press offerings just being introduced by Canon Solutions America: a continuous-feed Canon Océ ImageStream 3500 and a cut-sheet Océ VarioPrint i300 (formerly called project Niagara). Dave Johannes, senior VP of operations, describes the value proposition these two new output devices will provide IWCO Direct while attending the recent Inkjet Summit 2015.
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Fresh Asparagus Soup is an amazingly delicious and easy to prepare appetizer recipe. Try it for once; you wont wish to try any other appetizer for your coming parties!
|Fresh asparagus
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|Chicken broth
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|4 , chopped
|Russet potatoes
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|Seasoned salt
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|Freshly ground pepper
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|Sour cream/Plain yogurt
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs) (Garnish)
|Chopped fresh tomatoes
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs) (Garnish)
1. Break off the woody, fibrous ends of the asparagus spears and discard. Rinse the asparagus spears and cut into 1-inch pieces. Add to a 3 1/2-quart electric slow cooker along with the broth, scallions, and potatoes.
2. Cover and cook on the low heat setting 6 to 7 hours, or until the potatoes are tender. Increase the heat to the high setting.
3. Using a blender or food processor, puree the vegetable solids in batches, with a little of the cooking liquid, until as smooth as possible. Return to the liquid remaining in the slow cooker. Stir in the seasoned salt and pepper. Cover and cook on high 30 minutes longer.
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Favorite food is sushi. Favorite TV show Family Guy or MythBusters. And believe it or not I love just about all kinds of music. It keeps me open to learning new music and appreciation for all types of performers.
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We live for The One, we die for The One.
Originally posted by coretex666
yeah, i know there are people like you, who like "realism in games", but what you are doing is more or less FORCING a lot of people to do things they dont like so they could enjoy rest of the game. come on - its a GAME, it is supposed to be fun and relaxing :)
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humz i was writing this post about how i did not like your #7 but after thinking things trough. apart from the eating. i cant remember havind alot of potions on me in past MMO's i was always acompanied by a healer, grouping was mandatory. im sitll not sure about your drinking and eating part tho. if it would take too much time to actually do then i won't like it very much.
your #9 death penalty is good but i would say limit it to exp. wich brings me at #6 id like to have some levels. skill leveling can stay but i don't think you can do without levels in a game as extensive as this wich is skill (skilllevel) and gear based.
edit: levels imo should have a cap but it should be extremely hard to lvl up and lvl skills up. dying (from npc's not PC's) would give you a harsh penalty (10% exp of your current level to be paid back into the penalty at a rate of 50% of all gained exp)
i really like your game but if you want too remove all forms of NPC's the only thing you hold is crafting and PvP. Im not really a PvP nut.
Dont know if you are still around OP but there is a major flaw imo in your idea, why would anyone play the game to make planks. It might sound good when you write it but people wont enjoy logging into the game to make planks for a long period of time. Realism does not mean it's good game design and while I share some of your ideas I do not think you thought it through on a player level. Also locking players into factions will not work out well for you im quite sure because forcing players into factions is not something the sandbox community enjoys much. At least you should have a outlaw faction to let people fight anyone they want (ArcheAge style).
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Originally posted by coretex666
Three words not including these six.
Age Of Wushu.
Ill add this as well.
Get yourself into the second western beta starting on the 20th December. They are allowing anyone who joins the site a ten hour beta session, after that you will need key. Ill have eight next monday and a few friends will have some we will post on the AOW section on this site.
Two have already been claimed but the other eight ill just post in the beta thread, first come first served.
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"I shall take your position into consideration"
Originally posted by Benedikt
I know. I stated at the beginning that the game would probably be niche. It isnt really aiming for masses. People who want something relaxing play WoW after school / work which is fine.
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"I shall take your position into consideration"
Originally posted by xeniar
I am afraid that character levels would make it a themepark. I do agree that if you have levels, there should be a cap which is very hard to reach.
I probably should specify that by removing NPCs, I mean characters, like vendors or basically any non player characters which are on your side. I would definitely like to keep mobs in the game, so that there would be regular PVE, just not in form of raids or instances as we know it from themepark games.
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"I shall take your position into consideration"
Originally posted by Rimmersman
AoW may be an interesting game. However, I did watch some videos and visually, it is not very attractive for me. I understand that MMOs are not so much about graphics, but the design seemed "too Asian" for me.
I may give it a try to see if the game is so good that it will make me like it in spite of it.
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After reading through your suggestion I LOVE what you're saying about craftng, this is one thing that NO ONE seems to get right in mmorpgs, (hoping for arche age) and I have always agreed woth what you said about the world map, however I feel realism in terms of having to eat sleep etc. ruins games, I am personally not fond of designers making games realustic for the sake of it being realistic. I just don't get the point. Although housing is really missing from mmorpgs currently. And I actually o agree with 2 fctions but they need to be warring (like you were stating) rather than being like hey I just saw a member of the horde (people understand wow referencs so they are the best to make), oh im on a pve server lets just run around killing stuff for our quests side by side despite the fact that we hate each other. Games should reward you for seeing a member of the opposite faction randomly in the wild and attacking them, as factions are meant to hate one another. This allows for a game to centre around the conflict while encouraging people to partake in pvp but not forcing them to..
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"I shall take your position into consideration"
Originally posted by Kuro1n
The outlaw faction seems to be a good point. Maybe it would be good to give players the ability to attack players of their own faction / nation and have some sort of "penalty" for that. You may become a murderer and the players who choose to be guards (kind of like historical police :) ) would be getting experience and rewards from the city treasury for killing them.
May be worth considering letting the players basically leave their nation and start a new one. However, it would be considered something like a rebellion and the nation would be after them, so that creating a new nation and keeping it in longer term would be very difficult.
I will give it a thought and add it to the concept.
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"I shall take your position into consideration"
I am kind of surprised nobody likes the "must eat / drink" idea.
Guess I should remove it :)
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Well seems you are still active OP, I'm currently working on a project has some of these aspects and yes locking players into something is generally quite bad.
EDIT: and the eat and drink idea is something we use.
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"I shall take your position into consideration"
Originally posted by Kuro1n
I dont think the necessity to eat and drink has to be designed in such a way that it would annoy the players. However, the responses so far indicate that players do not like this idea.
I was hoping it would contribute to the realism I was trying to achieve.
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I don't Forum PVP. If you feel I've attacked you, it was probably by accident.
Originally posted by coretex666
I'm not uncomfortable with it. As long as eating / drinking has a reason to exist in the game mechanics.
After all, we stop at a crafter and repair our gear. Why not stop at the Inn and grab a sandwich and a pint?
From a conversation a long while back, a dev told me not to "punish" people for not doing something, but rather "reward" them for doing it. Then it's their idea.
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Originally posted by XAPGames
Depends very much on what type of a game you are trying to make.
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1. Medieval light fantasy setting - lets say medieval with some basic magics
Not sure about the sandbox idea, really. I´d rather have it a mix of sanbox elements (making villages and such) and PvE (dungeons, open world quets) because a lot of people don't really like PvP that much. It should be possible to just be a PvE player and still have enough to do.
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"I shall take your position into consideration"
Originally posted by Findariel
Thanks for the review.
Some interesting thoughts there.
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But you don't like Black Desert? I mean it has everything you want from MMORPG.
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Player accomplishment is relative to the chance of meaningful consequences in the event you fail.
Let me start by saying I havent' visited this forum in a while;. I enjoy challenging peoples ideas and try to get everyone thinking. I'm not going to sugar coat my comments, but they are not indented to be destructive, they are intended to constructive. I have spent a LOT of time understanding game economies. When you understand the economy of a game, which should be the foundation of any MMORPG, you understand peoples motivations and goals. To often the way the economy works runs contrary to the fun that people should be having when playing a game.
Originally posted by coretex666
I can see you've given your idea some thought. I'm going to challenge you in the areas I'm familar with.....
Obtaining drops from monsters means that people are motivated to kill monsters? Correct? If the drop rate is too low players won't find the game fun because only players with an enormous amount of time will have good stuff.....
What about player made items you say? Well it depends, which items are better, player made or drops? If drops are better then players will obsess about obtaining them, making player made items inferior and of little value, if player made items are best, players will do whatever tasks they must do to collect the raw mats to make them
So your economy is driven by....Killing NPC's?
All the stuff that players bring into the world, how will you prevent saturation of items in the world? Will you have decay? Players hate decay, not because there items break, but generally because of what they have to do to fix it....
Specialization is good but there are pitfalls, what your describing can better be called the division of labor, the problem with this idea is that people who need other people to do what they want generally don't like not being able to find other people they need when they want them. They will get frustrated very quickly if they have to wait.
Who guards these raw mats? I mean I assume this isn't simply a game of gathering.
What your describing is a game where you trade time playing the game world to earn raw mats so that you can do what?
Those with more item to collect raw mats win?
With respect, its sounds boring. What do you say to players who play MMORPG's to play other players and not just the game?
Again, the division of labor isn't a bad idea, but one must understand the problems associated with it.
Why do you want realism....I'm not being snarky...Think about it. Does realism make it more fun? Do you thank that it's more immersive? People value fun over immersion. I promise. Nothing spoils a game faster than tedious actions performed in the name of immersion.
Sleeping and eating are boring and people won't like it, period. People want to PLAY a game not WORK it.
Don't get me wrong. I'm all about immersion, but again this is another pitfall you need to be careful of.
As far as durability (decay). This is simply a to remove stuff from the world. period, that's all it is. Now because players are constantly bringing stuff and money into the world stuff has to be taken out, so I see decay as a necessary part of the game, however, the problem is, how to people cure decay? Is it to farm mobs and endless hours of gathering...Boring, people won't like it.
If your going to have decay, which I think you should, overcoming it has to be fun, otherwise people will hate it.
Don't get realism confused with fun. If you have a mechanism in the game like sleep or eating, that's ok, but don't do it because its "realistic", do it because there is some other necessary mechanism in the game tied to it. For example in an effort to create consumption of the millions of items players drag into the world, perhaps players can avoid sleep if they use raw mats combined to make a potion that allows players to avoid sleep. This is a simple mechinism to encourage consumption and increase demand for mats that might otherwise build up.
What your creating is a situation where players have to play the game to get stuff. Then they use that stuff to play against other players. So my success in battle has more to do with how much and how well I play against the game rather than how well I do against other players.
Be original, this has been done sooooo many times.
Eliminating NPC's, while a fresh and innovative idea, is going to be tough. Monsters are NPC's right?
You havent established your coin-of-the-realm, where it comes from and how to plan to prevent inflation, so it's had to comment on the aspects that involve money.
Nothing more frustrating then being zerged by random NPC mob....
Full loot is another bad idea in a game where items have so much influence. It punishes people who are new and casual and in my experience the communities are filled with greifing 16 year old's who like to ruin the experiences of other players. Again, this is been done, there are other innovative alternatives to full loot and meaningless death....
This is an area open to innovation and original thinking.
I wanna know, being an economist, where your money comes from?
How would you prevent inflation?
Would you have action markets that are global or localized?
What about travel. how easy is it to travel in your world?
How much can a player carry, or bank?
How would you prevent hording (if at all)?
Just a few things to get you started. I apologize if you've answered some of this already in the thread, it's long and I didn't read it all. Feel free to point me to a post if you've answered or addressed my questions.
Presentation for new MMORPG economics concept http://www.slideshare.net/talin/mmo-economics-concept-v-10
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Eat and drink is fine.
Make like GW2 where the food give buff to players for some time
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Good ideas OP . I have a few ideas to add as well:
1. Missile weapons should be manually aimed with the mouse.
2. The chance to hit should be calculated by the server using the laws of physics.
3. The chance to penetrate armour should be calculated in the same way and be dependent on armour type , speed of missile etc.
4. Taking an arrow to a vital area of the body should kill instantly. To the legs should slow the victims movement etc.
5. Movement of the characters should be realistic like in the Batman Arkham game not like in Darkfall which is jerky all over the place. The laws of physics apply here too.
6. The game should require you to wee and poo which will be funny as hell. Seeing a dragon up close might cause either or both natural functions to occur.
7. Swinging your melee weapon should be realistic. A bit like Skyrim but with added complexity or types of attack and defensive moves.
8. There should full collision detection implemented for all objects which will allow for interesting tactics to be tried like shield walls (roman/spartan origin), or forcing enemy over a narrow bridge (battle of stirling bridge origin)
9. When you Stab or slice into someone or some monster then you should get blood on your blade. It will be educational to people and teach them the horrors of violence.
So what would the cost be to develop this game?


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Does that mean that the bridge contract – short-term, lower cap hit than if the contract gobbled up unrestricted years – is on the wane? As James Mirtle of the Globe & Mail wrote on Monday:
"The landscape is shifting rapidly in the favour of players such as Vladimir Tarasenko (St. Louis), Derek Stepan (the Rangers) and Braden Holtby (Washington), who can all make a case they deserve to be paid like stars."
True, but there are some stragglers. We saw Nazem Kadri sign a $4.1 million deal for one year from the Toronto Maple Leafs on Sunday, and on Monday the Washington Capitals signed Evgeny Kuznetsov to a 2-year, $6-million deal.
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Because how many guys can do this in a playoff game?
Johnny Oduya, Marcus Kruger willing to wait for BlackhawksGreg Wyshynski at Puck Daddy 14 hrs ago
The Chicago Blackhawks believe they've earned a couple of rights after winning three Stanley Cups in six years.
First, they believe they have the right to expect players to play sign deals that are favorable to the Blackhawks' cap situation. That means veteran players that will take less than market value to play for a chance at the Cup, and that means players that are on the roster signing contracts that won't blow out the team's financial structure.
And if a player decided he wants a contract that does blow out the salary structure? Well, we hear Columbus is lovely in the winter.
The Blackhawks also believe they have the right to ask for patience until they get their financial house in order, which is why center Marcus Kruger and defenseman Johnny Oduya – two players bound to have attracted interest as free agents – are biding their time while GM Stan Bowman figures out what to do with either Patrick Sharp ($5.9 million) and/or Bryan Bickell ($4 million). Because both want to remain Blackhawks.
Bruins sign Jimmy Hayes to 3-year deal, extend Brett ConnollyGreg Wyshynski at Puck Daddy 17 hrs ago
The Summer of Sweeney continues!
The Boston Bruins announced a trio of signings on Monday, and they all fall in the "yippee, GM Don Sweeney!" category rather than the "Dougie Hamilton debacle" category.
From the Bruins:
Boston Bruins General Manager Don Sweeney announced today, July 6, that the club has signed forward Jimmy Hayes to a three-year contract through the 2017-18 season worth a cap figure of $2,300,000, forward Brett Connolly to a one-year contract through the 2015-16 season worth a cap figure of $1,025,000 at the NHL level and forward Brandon DeFazio to a one-year, two-way contract through the 2015-16 season worth a cap figure of $575,000 at the NHL level.
Hayes is the type of "on the way up" goal-scorer that Sweeney said the Bruins were seeking this summer. He had 19 goals in 72 games for the Florida Panthers last season and is 25 years old. And of course, his acquisition was a cause for celebration in Dorchester pubs.
If you want to understand how much the Bruins have changed in the last year, give this a look from Nick Goss:
Leafs blog debunks Steve Simmons hot dog tale about Phil KesselGreg Wyshynski at Puck Daddy 18 hrs ago
"Talked to my mom and my wife this week: They seem to be in the minority. They don't think I'm the worst person in the sports world ... Amazing how many fans were offended by my column on the Kessel trade and how many hockey people — coaches, GMs, scouts, media — thought it was dead on." – Steve Simmons, July 5, Toronto Sun.
If you want to see a textbook example of "oblivious," read the passage above and then read Simmons' all-timer on the Phil Kessel trade, which will go down as one of the most pedantic screeds ever written about a player leaving town, one where you can actually hear Simmons' fingernails clawing at a narrative that had long slipped out of the media's grasp.
But we should applaud him for holding back from calling Kessel a "cancer" given his medical history, instead opting for the all-too-obvious "infection."
He couldn't hold back from turning his column's lede into a protracted fat joke about Kessel, of course:
Which, it turns out, was pretty easy to do.
Which means:
Kansas City not in NHL expansion hunt, despite past attemptsGreg Wyshynski at Puck Daddy 20 hrs ago
Not too long ago, the faithful in Kansas City would get downright indignant if you didn't include their fair city when discussing expansion and relocation options in the NHL.
And why not? The geography worked for a Western Conference team, with immediate rivals. The Sprint Center was, at the time, a state-of-the-art facility managed by NHL darlings AEG. Plus, exhibition games in KC received high marks from those involved.
Hence, Kansas City was used as a viable relocation bargaining chip by Mario Lemieux and the Pittsburgh Penguins and Charles Wang and the New York Islanders during negotiations with their municipalities.
Lamar Hunt Jr., who owns the ECHL's Missouri Mavericks, a minor-league hockey team that plays in Independence, called the NHL's $500 million price tag for an expansion franchise "a ridiculously big fee," and said that he is not aware of anyone in Kansas City who will make a push for a team.
"You could say that," he said. "That's certainly the truth."
Tyler Seguin is naked on a machine that's not a Zamboni, loves his rubber duckyGreg Wyshynski at Puck Daddy 22 hrs ago
The annual ESPN Body Issue is out, which means another collection of naked athletes that can make us all curse our metabolism and lethargy while marveling at their muscle tone.
As we mentioned earlier, Tyler Seguin of the Dallas Stars is our hockey representative in this year's issue, and it's a little change of pace. Instead of the Adonis poses of Ryan Kesler and Zdeno Chara, ESPN captures the whimsy of being a 23-year-old multi-millionaire hockey player, posing Seguin naked on a machine that is not a Zamboni but an "ice resurfacing machine."
As well as giving him the ultimate goofball sports star pose: Having him hold something in front of his penis. (See also: Gronkowski, Robert.)
This is honestly the most oddly arousing episode of SESAME STREET we've ever seen…
Marek Vs. Wyshynski Podcast: Rob Rossi on Phil Kessel; NHL Free Agent Frenzy
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It's a (gettin' down on Fridays) edition of Marek vs. Wyshynski beginning at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT, and we're talking about the following and more:
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Helene Elliott calls on Kings to terminate Slava Voynov; jail begins Monday
According to Igor Eronko of Sports-Express, Los Angeles Kings defenseman Slava Voynov will begin his jail sentence on Monday, July 6.
Voynov pled no-contest on Thursday to a misdemeanor count of corporal injury to a spouse, and his jail time will be up to 90 days along with 52 weeks of domestic violence counseling and eight hours of community service (that better damn well be at a women's shelter).
Voynov's NHL agent, Rolland Hedges, said in statement: "Mr. Voynov accepts responsibility for his actions the night of the incident and will complete his sentence as required by the court. Mr. Voynov and his wife believe that ending domestic violence both inside and outside of professional sports must be a high priority."
Another priority, according to Helene Elliott of the Los Angeles Times?
Ending Slava Voynov's time with the Kings.
From Elliott:
The Kings can terminate his contract, trade him, or keep him with the team. Here's a vote for one of the first two options.
If he can play again, of course. As Elliott writes:
Mats Zuccarello celebrates Marty St. Louis, 'Lord of the Rings' style
It's something that brings us great sadness when we think about: a diminutive New York Ranger, deciding to walk away from something we all celebrate.
No, not Martin St. Louis retiring; Mats Zuccarello refusing to embrace his legacy of being the Norwegian Hobbit Wizard, which was his Elijah Wood-inspired nickname when he entered the NHL.
Well, nothing speaks to the magnitude of St. Louis' retirement on Thursday after 16 season than the fact that Zuccarello gave him an Instagram send-off using the very meme he's attempted to avoid for years.
Check out the Tolkien-esque celebration of Mats and Marty, a.k.a. Frodo and Samwise:
What, no Henrik Lundqvist as Aragorn and John Tortorella as Gollum?
T.J. Oshie trade gives 5-year-old girl a meltdown (Video)Greg Wyshynski at Puck Daddy 4 days ago
T.J. Oshie was traded by the St. Louis Blues on Thursday to the Washington Capitals.
Whenever a fan favorite is sent packed, emotions will run high, and Oshie was certainly a favorite of Blues fans. Especially young ones, because he had really big eyes like an Anime character.
Like, for example, this five-year-old girl, who hid in a closet weeping upon finding out that "T.J. OSHIE LEFT THE TEEEEEEEEAM!!!!!"
Kelly Manno found her, and conducted this brief experiment in burgeoning fandom, as Manno discovered our young Oshie fan can't accept the idea of rooting for him when the Capitals play the Blues … which is a level of dedication we'd expect from, say, a six year old.
This entire sub-genre of "Adult Sports Fans Filming Children Who Don't Yet Have The Emotional Capacity To Deal With Loss" exists somewhere in between exploitation and guilty pleasure entertainment. We'll just go ahead and assume this moppet is being filmed so her family can have a good-hearted chuckle when Troy Brouwer skates the Cup next June.*
* Provided he's traded to the Blackhawks, of course.


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From PC Magazine's Security Watch....
Disneys Princess Wallpapers
This month, Appthority came across Disneys [sic] Princess Wallpapers on Google Play, whichdespite the name in the titleis not a legitimate app from Disney. It "blatantly uses the Disney brand to promote a cookie-cutter wallpaper app with Snow White-themed pictures," Watkins said.
In this case, this app collects private information, such as the user's name, email address, and phone number, and sends the data to multiple analytic and ad networks, Appthority found. Most of the data is sent as plain-text, as well.
Appthority found the developer for this app, "mbrlealye," had quite a few other Disneys Princesses apps and Batman apps on Google Play exhibiting similar behavior. It appears the developer may have initially released the apps under a different name before re-posting in Play under the current account. It's not clear at this point if the developer deleted the games from the earlier account or if Google had flagged and terminated that account.
Other Fake Disney Apps
The Ultimate Disney Movie Quiz by RevolutionApps, Drawing Disney Cartoons by App9.org, Disney Trivia by LiquidIceStudios, Lovely Disneyland Locker Theme by Locker theme World, Disneyland in Night LW by Paarshv Inc, Disney Movie Songs Videos by AndroidBeautyGirl," and Disney Movie Quotes by TovsonApps, are all fake and potentially risky, Appthority warned.
Walt Disney Studios Park Wallpapers and Backgrounds by Ivana Ahardert, Disneys Princess Theme by "akamonandy," and Disneyland HD Live Wallpaper by Pro Soft appear to have been removed from Play. If you have installed them, you should consider removing them.


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His name is Nick Purdue.
His name is Nick Purdue.
Sunday, Dec. 20, 2009 - Downtown Convention Center - Reno, Nev.
125: #7 Eric Morrill, Edinboro 4-3 dec. #3 Anthony Robles, Arizona State
133: #7 Jordan Oliver, Oklahoma State 4-2 dec. #9 Boris Novachkov, Cal Poly
141: #3 Jamal Parks, Oklahoma State inj. def. Germane Lindsay, Ohio
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174: Mike Benefiel, Oklahoma State pinned Ryan DesRoches, Cal Poly (WBF 2:33)
184: #13 Zack Giesen, Stanford 5-4 dec. Nick Purdue, Ohio
197: #9 Alan Gelogaev, Oklahoma State 14-5 maj. dec. #15 Dennis Drury, N. Carolina
HWT: #2 Josh Rosholt, Oklahoma State 2-1 dec. (OT) Ricky Alcala, UC-Davis
The way Rosholt is winning this year gives me a heart attack every match
In the semis, Pataky trailed Edinboro's Eric Morrill, ranked No. 7 nationally, for much of the bout and then hit a textbook cement mixer with :20 left when he trailed by only two. Pataky not only did not pick up any back points as Morrill rolled through, but he was not even awarded a takedown, handing Morrill a 10-8 win.
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Pataky was losing earlier in the day and hit a mixer to stick a kid -might be better for him not to fall behind 4-5 points .


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Dunkin is the place for donuts without going to a specialty bakery. You can get in and out in a couple minutes (with a very good coffee in you hand) My only complaint is the vanilla cream filled donuts do not have tha amount of cream they used to have.
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WASHINGTON — Crabs are a summer staple, and your love of the iconic crustacean could win you airline tickets — if you can come up a winning name for Maryland's blue crab that's on the state's Treasure the Chesapeake license plates.
The Chesapeake Bay Trust is taking entries for its "Name the Crab Contest."
More than 1,000 people last year voted to name the blue heron on the Treasure the Chesapeake's plate. He's "Wade."
But the nameless blue crab in the corner of the license plates continues to have an identity crisis.
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You have until July 21 to enter.
Three names will be chosen as finalists and voted on by the public.
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Winners being announced on Aug. 4.
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Recipe by Deborah
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1 cup
semisweet chocolate chips
2 cups
all-purpose flour
2/3 cup
butter, softened
1/4 cup
light corn syrup
2 teaspoons
baking soda
1/4 teaspoon
1/2 cup
white sugar
small peppermint patties
1/3 cup
white sugar
I don't know how it is possible to make 96 dough balls from this recipe, but it is still delicious! Mine made about 76. Also 12-15 minutes is way too long to bake for. I did about 7-8 minutes.
I only got 32 cookies (that's 64 halves) out of this recipe. Perhaps I'm using the wrong size of mints? I was using the York peppermint patties, in the Christmas wrapping, about 1.5" in diameter. The candy's pretty thick, and when you press the two halves together to make the "sandwich," what happens is that the warm cookie kind of smooshes around the candy. These make big cookies, and not a lot of them. However, it's a great recipe to make with kids; my 4-year-old son loved "helping" me make them. And I do like the cookies by themselves, without the candy. They're light and dome-shaped. With a bit of peppermint, vanilla, or orange extract, they'd be pretty good all by themselves. The dough was too wet to form balls and roll into sugar; I just dropped it by spoonfuls onto the pan. But you could sprinkle a bit of sugar on top for that sparkly effect easily enough. I probably won't do this recipe again as written. I'll try to chill the mints and slice them across (like a bagel) to make the finished cookies thinner. Happy holidays!
11 Ratings
Whenever I make these everyone thinks I'm so clever but they are so easy!
I does make 96 cookies. You just have to make small balls. I used my smallest cookie scoop and then cut them in half. They bake up to the perfect size to put the peppermint patty in and then press down a little bit. So Yummy! But DON"T bake them 12-15 minutes. I baked mine 10 minutes and that was perfect.
These are amazing holiday sandwich cookies! The cookies are a delightful combination of crisp, chocolatey, soft and gooey. Baking these is a bit harder than I expected. I ruined about a dozen before I figured out what to do. I added 1 tsp vanilla (for extra minty cookies I think I will add peppermint next time). I chilled two hours in the fridge, but the dough was still too wet to work with. 15 minutes more or so in the freezer fixed that problem. I worked with sections of the dough while storing the rest in the fridge. If you follow the recipe, you are going to be making TINY balls of dough. Trust me when I say this is what you want. They spread out a LOT when baking. Leave plenty of room on the cookie sheet between each one, no matter how small they look -- at least 2 inches. 12 minutes was MUCH too long in my oven. 9 minutes was perfect. The tricky part is making the cookie sandwiches without mauling the cookies. Assemble the cookies IMMEDIATELY on a warm surface (i.e. the pan itself, or the stovetop) -- do not let them cool at all, or they won't stick together properly and will be hard to work with. I used a very thin edged spatula to separate the hot cookies from the parchment paper I baked them on, then quickly flipped half of them over, slapped the mint on and put a right-side-up cookie on top, pressing down with the spatula to melt the mint. Then I moved them to the cooling rack. These were more work than I anticipated, but well worth it.
excellent cookie! i used a small cookie scoop to measure each cookie. after spooning out cookies i cut each ball in half the rolled in sugar. this made the cookie just the right size for the peppermint candy. i stacked them in a wrapped pringles can for a cookie exchange. they were a perfect fit!
These are only ok. The only mint peppermint patties I found are, in my opinion, too thick. So, I made some mint cream cheese frosting & put that in the middle instead, which was better, but not great. The third thing I tried was the best - a mint truffle Hershey kiss, but you have to flip half the cookies over & leave them on the cookie sheet & put the kiss on bottom cookie & let it melt. Once it is "gushy", put the top cookie on & let cool.
I only made a half of a batch after reading the others reviews, and wish I made a whole batch. They looked just like the picture! I wonder if that whole egg made a difference instead of a half? Anyhow I only made 22 whole cookies. If the ball is too small the mint oozes out of the side. I took a small cookie scoop, and then halved that amount.I added 1 tsp. hazelnut extract to mine. They are messy to make. I wonder if adding flour to ones hands while handling the dough would help, like I do when I shape bread dough? Or my grandma used to take wax paper and center the dough in a long tube and refrigerate. Then you slice off the the cookie like a coin after unwrapping the paper. A great holiday cookie, unless you are like me and love chocolate mint. I will make again and if I discover an easier way I'll let you know. Yummy recipe.
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Servings Per Recipe: 24
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 290
Calories from Fat: 89
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I'm using an old script engine that's no longer supported by its creators, and having some trouble with memory leaks. It uses a function written in ASM to call from scripts into Delphi functions, and returns the result as an integer then passes that integer as an untyped parameter to another procedure that translates it into the correct type.
This works fine for most things, but when the return type of the Delphi function was Variant, it leaks memory because the variant is never getting disposed of. Does anyone know how I can take an untyped parameter containing a variant and ensure that it will be disposed of properly? This will probably involve some inline assembly.
procedure ConvertVariant(var input; var output: variant);
output := variant(input);
//what do I put here? Input is still held in EAX at this point.
EDIT: Responding to Rob Kennedy's question in comments:
AnsiString conversion works like this:
procedure VarFromString2(var s : AnsiString; var v : Variant);
v := s;
s := '';
procedure StringToVar(var p; var v : Variant);
call VarFromString2
That works fine and doesn't produce memory leaks. When I try to do the same thing with a variant as the input parameter, and assign the original
Null on the second procedure, the memory leaks still happen.
The variants mostly contain strings--the script in question is used to generate XML--and they got there by assigning a Delphi string to a variant in the Delphi function that this script is calling. (Changing the return type of the function wouldn't work in this case.)