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The start of kindergarten is bittersweet for most parents. On one hand, we're excited for the new experiences that await our youngsters as they begin their school careers; at the same time, we mourn the passing of the baby years. How quickly they grow up.
While our first-born child, Julian, is now in university, I clearly remember the day he started junior kindergarten. He was so proud to be going to "the big school", carrying his new backpack and wearing the outfit that his grandmother had given him to mark this special occasion.
Me, I was ready to cry. Not just because JK represented a new milestone – my 4-year-old was growing up – but out of fear that he might have an allergic reaction at school.
Julian had been diagnosed with peanut allergy only six months earlier. My husband Victor and I were still getting used to the routine of reading food labels, preparing safe meals, and remembering to carry an epinephrine auto-injector everywhere.
Now, as our son moved out of our protective bubble and the watchful eyes of his babysitter, we had to advocate with more people to ensure that he would be protected at school where he would soon spend the better part of the day.
Our journey into the brave new school world began with registration. Victor and I met with the principal and the teacher to review some basic measures that would help to keep Julian safe.
Though we were reassured that the staff would do its best to safeguard our son, I continued to feel anxious every morning as I handed him over to his teacher, breathing a sigh of relief at noon when I was greeted by his smiling face at pick-up time. My son, meanwhile, loved his teacher and enjoyed his new friends and activities.
That first year was very difficult. Every time the phone rang I was afraid it was the school calling to say Julian had had a reaction.
Already stressed with the burden of trying to anticipate where food might pose a risk, my anxiety escalated when the mother of a peanut-allergic child said, in a judgmental tone: "I can't believe you didn't know peanut butter is often used as bait in mouse traps! Haven't you asked the school to remove them?" What an irresponsible mother I was. How could I not know this?
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The other day I wrote a piece about Bioshock Infinite lead Ken Levine's very frank assessment of what sells video games from an "off the shelf" perspective. The controversy was that despite a wondrous floating city and a host of colorful characters, the decision was made to make the Infinite cover simply a grizzled man holding a shotgun.
The idea was to appeal to a broader demographic of "frat guys" who like typical military-style shooters. True fans would know what Bioshock Infinite was either way, so why not try and ramp up the mass appeal?
Well, today we have something of a counter point to that coming out of Naughty Dog. Creative Director Neil Druckmann spoke to VG247 about his decision to showcase the game's female lead,
Ellen Page Ellie, front and center on the box art. He could have moved her into the back and given Mr. Grizzled Male the center spot, but Druckmann is fighting back on the notion that a female lead can't sell games off the shelf.
"I believe there's a misconception that if you put a girl or a woman on the cover, the game will sell less. I know I've been in discussions where we've been asked to push Ellie to the back and everyone at Naughty Dog just flat-out refused."
He goes on to talk about how his characters were influenced by the recent discussions about females in video games. Or rather, how they weren't influenced:
"I tried not to be mindful of too many outside influences, which is things like the industry, and how women are portrayed. I believe that should not affect a person's writing. It's about trying to find core truths in your story, and then letting that be the driving force."
I'm not sure where I land on this whole box art debate. I support Ken Levine's right to try and appeal to the traditional shooter market by sacrificing originality on the cover, but I'm also fully on board with The Last of Us showcasing their female lead as well. If she's a hugely important character, why not feature her?
I think there's perhaps too much weight put on box art in general in this day and age. Yes, there is an uninformed "casual" gaming public out there, but it's a lot of guesswork as to which box art actually attracts which audience. Is the appeal to frat bros enough to offset the possible loss of women? Does either group truly care about box art that much? I'd have to see some hard data before a definite conclusion can be reached on this issue, as right now it seems to be more about PR and starting or avoiding controversy than anything else.
The Last of Us is out May 7th, 2013 for Playstation 3.

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I am either very old-fashioned or very naive. Maybe both. But I grew up thinking that those who ran for public office, especially for the U.S. presidency, did so as public servants and statesmen. Some of that might still be in play, but the overwhelming motivation now seems simply to be winning. Beat the other guy, at any cost, both financially and morally.
Regrettably, Barack Obama's campaign team has been resorting to some very unstatesman-like Mitt-bashing and Mitt Romney has responded with a similarly unpleasant lack of statesmanship. May the worst man lose.
I will not be voting for Romney, but as the campaigns trade sucker punches, I am befuddled by the way Romney has presented himself in this campaign. If he wanted to present himself to the electorate as an honorable public servant and statesman, he actually has a couple of pretty good highlights on his resume that he seems to prefer to shield from public view.
In general, he did a decent job as Massachusetts governor, behaving with bipartisan reasonableness as a Republican in a predominantly Democratic state. Pundits tell us that this sort of centrism appeals to swing voters who will play a decisive role in the election's outcome. And when he took charge of the Salt Lake Olympics, he did an admirable job of cleaning up what was a dysfunctional and corrupt committee and subsequently overseeing the smooth and totally incident-free consummation of the first major international event in the U.S. after the 9/11 disaster.
The governorship and the oversight of the Salt Lake Games would seem to entail the kind of skill and management style that would pertain directly to being president. Yet I assume he is shying away from talking about his days in charge in Massachusetts because a) he made deals with Democrats, spawn of the Evil Empire, and b) it opens up that can of worms known as Romneycare. He risks exposing himself to lock-step conservatives as someone who might not be trusted to keep the faith.
And the only whisper I have heard of his role in the Salt lake Games has been in using the Games as his out in trying to convince his critics that he was not an active participant in Bain Capital from 1999 to 2002. This is mysterious, really, because the Olympics have widespread, nonpartisan appeal and unless there is some yet-to-be-revealed skeleton in Romney's Olympic closet, he performed his role effectively and with distinction.
What Romney chooses instead to foist on the voting public as his main presidential qualification is his managing role at Bain Capital. Oddly, he argues that Bain can provide a national template for job creation, which is utter nonsense. Some of Bain's companies added jobs, some cut jobs, but for a capital-investment company like Bain, employment is beside the point.
Bain existed to make money for its investors (Romney most prominently). Period. If adding jobs to meet a growing company's needs was called for, Bain was all for it. If paring jobs to make a company leaner and more efficient, Bain was for that, too. The objective was not to see companies grow or shrink, or succeed or fail, but to see that whatever course of action was taken would maximize Bain's return on investment. How this relates to the skills of being president follows a skewed and, in my opinion, failed logic. We are not voting for an Investor-in-Chief.
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MILLERS CREEK - In a tournament dominated by three-time defending state champion West Wilkes, area teams had their shining moments Saturday at the Mountain Valley Conference meet.
East Wilkes captured three individual titles, while Starmount - two second- and third-place finishes - and Elkin - two bronze medals - held their own.
Zack Prevette, Cody Mathis and Zack Faircloth brought home crowns to help power the Cardinals to a fourth-place team finish.
Prevette (45-2) powered his way to the 132-pound final with two dominating pins in his first two matches. In the finals, the senior took on West Wilkes' Justin St. Germain.
After a hard-fought first two periods, Prevette hit a reversal to start the third to go up 4-2. St. Germain escaped for a point, but the senior recorded the winning takedown for the title.
Mathis (52-4) bettered his teammate on the afternoon, recording back-to-back pins to punch his ticket into the 152-pound final.
The senior followed those wins up with a dominating pin of Wilkes Central's Dylan Adams less than a minute into the first period to claim the crown.
Faircloth (47-7), like his teammates, pinned his way to the championship bout at 195.
In the finals, the senior controlled Forbush's Dylan Edwards throughout for East's third title. Faircloth opened with a takedown and a near fall in the first. He capped the win with an escape and takedown in the third.
Derek Woodie nearly made it a four-peat for the Cardinals, but was stunned in the final seconds of the match on a late takedown to fall 6-3 in heart-breaking fashion.
An "emotionally drained" Starmount squad put two wrestlers in the final, capturing two silver medals.
"It was a good overall effort," Starmount head coach David Oliver said. "I think the kids that placed in the finals could have won. They gave good effort - the wrestling was there. But I think we felt a little emotionally drained after what's happened over the last couple weeks."
For the Rams, Benton Branch surprised the 160-pound bracket by reaching the final. Branch upset No. 1-seeded Luke Wagoner (North Wilkes) in the semifinals to punch his ticket.
In the championship bout against Wilkes Central's Evan Adams, Branch hit a takedown to grab an early 2-0 lead. But a reversal and a escape gave Adams a 3-2 edge.
Adams completed the comeback, recording a pin with just under a minute left in the second period.
"Branch was a little unexpected as a junior. He beat the No. 1 seed in the semifinals, who pinned him earlier in the year. He was very competitive in the championship match, but got caught," Oliver said.
Starmount senior Michael Wood looked to add a statement to his impressive senior campaign.
Wood, who came into the tournament with a 34-1 mark, recorded a tech fall and a pin to reach the 182-pound championship match Saturday.
In the finals, Wood took on Ashe County's William Miller (32-5). Miller recorded four takedowns in the bout, including two in the second period, to bring home the individual title 8-4.
"Wood was as expected. Miller is a real good, technical wrestler and kept him on his feet. He didn't really get to wrestle his kind of match," Oliver said.
Marco Fuentes and Cody Leonard added third-place finishes for Starmount.
A young Elkin side dominated the consolation bracket, racking up two bronze medals and four fourth-place finishes.
Dylan Gentry rebounded from a semifinal loss to Starmount's Wood with a comfortable 14-2 victory over East Wilkes' Austin Bare in the consolation semis.
The junior captured the bronze with a 1-0 win over West Wilkes' Joshua Kilby in the finals.
Freshmen Levi Collins made noise in the 113-pound bracket, pinning Forbush's Laken Jowers to finish third in his first conference tournament.
Said Javier (120 pounds), Zane Millsaps (152), Thomas Bartley (160) and Tyler Stoltzfuz (195) added fourth-place finishes for the Elks.
"We put six in the consolation finals with two third-place finishers. We're still pretty young," coach Perry Lloyd said. "It's all a building process. The kids worked hard today and all year."
East Wilkes finished fourth in the final team standings with 88 points, while Elkin came in sixth with 64. Starmount finished eighth with 54.5 points.
Lloyd said the team will build on the performance for next year with a new crop of wrestlers from the middle school.
"We'll build on this because we basically have everyone coming back next year and a group coming up from the middle school. Hopefully we can continue to cycle," he explained. "Ultimately we want to be good enough to win a state championship. We won one in 2004, but it's been a long time. We'd sure like win another on in the near future."
Conference teams will now prepare for their respective West Regional, scheduled for February 23. Oliver said the Rams will have a "tough regional" but several wrestlers will be "right there to qualify."
"Wood will have to compete against Miller and Parker Von Egidy from Piedmont. He'll have to battle through them and a couple other guys to place top four to qualify for state," he said. "He can do it, but he'll have to work hard these next two weeks to get ready.
"Ian Fennell at 170 has a good opportunity. The regional is set up nicely for Garrett Stokes at 220 to slide in. Leonard and Fuentes have an opportunity to qualify," Oliver continued. "They're all going to be right there in that consolation semifinal match or the finals to qualify for state. It's a very tough regional down there. So you're going to have to win those tough one- and two-point matches to qualify."
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Former Sandusky resident finds success writing YA novelsWritten by Don Lee | | firstname.lastname@example.com
There's more to a teenager than you might think.
Trish Doller wants you to know that.
She wants teens to know someone knows that.
And she wants to accomplish that by telling you a story.
With one novel on the shelves, another coming in September and a third in the works, the former Sandusky radio personality and newspaper reporter is accomplishing that.
Now living in Fort Myers, Fla., with her husband Phil, a tour boat operator, and their two young-adult children, she's readying her second book for publication and framing her third, already set to hit the shelves in December 2014, all the while working at a book store.
She's always had stories to tell and she said she tried a number of different approaches. Writing for young adults, she said, let her tell the stories she wants to tell.
"I was always writing young-adult (YA)," she said. "I just never knew there was a name for it. The first time I read a YA novel when (I was an) adult, I had an 'aha moment."
And she thinks the young-adult genre is unfairly maligned.
"You wouldn't ask a pediatrician when he's going to start treating 'real' patients," she said. "But a young-adult writer is asked, 'When are you going to start writing for adults?'"
Part of the problem is a perception driven by the books at the top of the young-adult bestseller lists, recently dominated by sparkly vampires dripping with an adult's idea of teen angst.
But part of the problem, Doller said, is simply the assumption of what a book for young adults is.
"What you find on the shelf of the young-adult fiction section (of a bookstore or library) is exactly what you find on the adult shelves" in terms of subject matter, said Doller, who works for a bookstore in the Fort Myers area.
"We forget teenagers are people," she said. "They have all the feelings adults have, and they're learning to process them in ways adults have already learned. … the successful (young-adult) authors haven't forgotten how that feels."
In fact, the characters in her books tend to be young people who have had to grow up in drastic ways — and who, upon returning to a situation that by any objective standard is better than what they were in, find they have more growing up to do even as they try to recover some of the innocence of their childhood.
Travis, the hero of Doller's first book, "Something Like Normal," is a 19-year-old Marine on leave after returning from Afghanistan, bringing with him the nightmares of his best friend's death in combat. He returns to an unfaithful father, a too-dutiful mother and a younger brother who has taken his car and his girlfriend — and the girl-next-door who is still paying for a stupid thing he said as a kid.
Callie, heroine of Doller's forthcoming "Where the Stars Still Shine," was kidnapped as a child by her mother and, after seven years on the road during which she frequently had to be the "adult" for her dysfunctional mother and was molested by one of her mother's boyfriends, is returned as a teenager on the cusp of legal adulthood to the large, squabbling and loving family she barely remembers.
Both books end, not with happily-ever-after endings (Travis faces a second deployment to Afghanistan; Callie's mother is in jail and the promising new boyfriend is moving away to a better job) but with the idea the characters are almost back on track — if the right decisions are made, if the right things happen, if luck goes their way.
"I don't think happy endings are necessarily as interesting," Doller said.
Nor, she added, are they realistic.
"You don't always get happy endings in life. [My characters] don't either."
That realism — along with research into what it's like to be a returning veteran — resulted in praise from a not-quite-expected quarter for "Something Like Normal." Veterans, especially young veterans and the people who help them, praise the book for its realistic portrayal of a young person going through post traumatic stress disorder.
A servicewoman identifying herself only as "Heather" wrote in January on the GoodReads website: "Though I couldn't finish this book because it just hit too many triggers for me, I still give it a high rating because of the author's uncanny grasp on what this less-than-1% of the population goes through in our attempts to return to 'normal' life."
Doller said she heard from one veteran whose wife would not read his own memoir "because she'd lived it (what he went through), so he had his wife read 'Something Like Normal.'"
She also heard from a teacher who was trying to reach a student who just didn't like books. "Something Like Normal" caught the student's interest and led to a desire for more books to read.
That connection, where readers "see themselves" in what you've written, is what an author wants, Doller said, and it means more to her than awards.
Not that her debut novel hasn't received them: The Young Adult Library Services Association has placed it among its Best Books for Young Adults and Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, according to the website for Doller's publisher, Bloomsbury Books.
For her third book, scheduled for publication in late 2014, Doller plans to move out of what she calls her "wheelhouse" of "trauma-and-recovery" plots. Tentatively titled "Arcadia Falls," the story centers around Arcadia Wells, a teen girl living a more-or-less normal life who agrees to go on a road trip through Florida with two good-looking tourists — but the trip goes tragically wrong.
This book, Doller said, will be more of a "psychological thriller," something that will take her out of her "comfort zone."
The book was supposed to be something entirely different, but the character, Arcadia "Cady" Wells, "popped into my head. She had nothing to do with the story I was working on but she would not let me go."
Another story demanding to be told. Doller knows what that's about.
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White Pines Inn Cabins
Located in Northwestern Illinois, near Oregon and Rockford, White Pines Inn resembles a pioneer village with 25 authentic one-room log cabins with gas fireplaces. Set among the towering pines, the cabins have beautiful hardwood floors the color of maple syrup. Each cabin has a queen, hand-hewn log bed with a double bed trundle underneath, and a private bath. There are 13 one-room cabins with open-beamed ceilings. There are 12 additional cabins built in groups of four under one roof.
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Kryptonite Bar
Kryptonite is a live, original music venue specializing in Elite Craft Beers, customer service, signature cocktails, a sweet patio, Stand Up Comedy on Tuesdays, Trivia on Wednesdays, BARGO on Thursdays and so much more.
Famous Fossil Vineyard & Winery
Taste soft reds, crisp whites and luscious fruit wines all make at the winery using the best of Illinois grapes. Watch wine being made and then relax and enjoy a glass of wine in the tasting room or on the deck overlooking the vineyard. The Sweet & Savory Plate of meats, cheeses, fruits and chocolate is available daily for a light lunch or snack. Special events are held throughout the year including vineyard tours, festivals and wine & food pairings and a small private room is available for showers, parties & meetings. To learn more about Famous Fossil wines or upcoming events, visit our website. Open: June thru December: daily: 11 am - 6 pm; January thru May: Wednesday thru Saturday: 11 am - 6 pm; Sunday: Noon - 5 pm.
Maxson Riverboat & Restaurant
An authentic, elegant paddlewheel boat is docked at Maxson Restaurant on the Rock River. Dining and sightseeing cruises are offered.
Carlyle Brewing Company
Enjoy the taste of quality, handcrafted beer in the atmosphere of a true European-style ale house in the Rockford Region's premiere microbrewery. Ten to twelve styles of ales and lagers are on tap at any time, chosen from more than 30 styles of beer brewed on-site throughout the year. For a real treat for the beer lover, try the sampler tray of current beers. Delicious homemade root beer is a great treat for the whole family, available in a tall glass or as a root beer float. Sandwiches, bratwurst, and hot pretzels are also available.
Hailey's Winery
Hailey's Winery specializes in handcrafted wines from grape varieties native to Illinois, as well as other varietals, and seasonal fruits. We are a fully functioning winery, with all wines produced and bottled on the premises. Wine tastings are available in our tasting room any time during our business hours, and we also have weekend music events. In addition to wine, we have homemade bread, cheeses, chocolates, and gift items.
Stockholm Inn
Popular with both locals and visitors, this restaurant's menu and decor echoes Rockford's Swedish heritage. In addition to American food, the Stockholm Inn cooks up Swedish pancakes with imported lingonberries, Swedish meatballs and other Swedish favorites. And great coffee, of course! Banquet rooms are available. Home of the Lingonberry Gift Shop with "the best Scandinavian gifts in the world."
Blackhawk Chocolate Trail
A delicious mixture of cocoa is found every which way along the Blackhawk Chocolate Trail in the four-county area of Northwest Illinois. Enjoy visiting candy stores, bed and breakfasts with special chocolate-themed packages, gift shops and old-fashioned soda fountains.
Come home to Lino's for great food and great music. Lino's is a long-standing Rockford Italian eatery with lots of atmosphere. Full menu of pasta, pizza, veal, chicken and fish with nightly specials. Enjoy smooth Jazz from the Midwest's best musicians every Tuesday and Thursday, 6-9pm, at "Jazz Night in Old Italy." The core group consists of Eddie B. Jazz trio with special guest musicians from all over. Enjoy the music in the "Village" of Old Italy.
Silver Moon Winery
Enjoy a glass of wine by the fireplace and chat with the winemaker, who is always delighted to share his passion for making wine with guests.
The Office Niteclub
Located in downtown Rockford's historic River District, The Office offers dancing, drag shows, karaoke and an outdoor patio in warm-weather months.
Abreo Restaurant, Wine Bar & Patio
In the heart of the up-and-coming 500 block, Abreo has become known as downtown's premiere restaurant and nightspot. Housed in vintage 1888 architecture, the atmosphere is uniquely its own. From its cozy wine bar with a beautiful stone fireplace, its whimsical dining room, its peaceful garden patio, to its intimate wine cellar, Abreo is an experience for all of the senses.
Social Urban Bar & Restaurant
This hip Rockford restaurant cooks up seasonal dishes inspired by the produce and meats supplied from local farmers. The bar offers a nice selection of craft beers and wine, along with more than a dozen different absinthes.
The Crooked Roof
Lanark's newest restaurant with amazing pizzas, specialty burgers, and sandwiches. Live music every weekend and a good time every day.
Five Forks Market
Tapas-based cuisine plus a variety of sandwiches and soups. Extensive gourmet "to go" menu. Wine sales and free wine tasting Saturday afternoons.
Der Rathskeller German Restaurant & Bar
One of Rockford's oldest restaurants, featuring German cuisine in a warm, intimate old-world setting. German ancestry shines through at this favorite eating place since 1931. Banquet facilities available. Delicious sandwiches for lunch and traditional family style German specialities for dinner. Live accordion on weekends. Outside dining in the Biergarten.
Giovanni's Restaurant & Big Al's Bar
A local favorite, Giovanni's Restaurant is known for its good food, service and competitive prices. Extensive banquet facilities. Big Al's Bar, an upscale entertainment and jazz bar, has a bar menu that includes pasta dishes, sandwiches appetizers & much more.
Irish Rose Saloon
Cozy, neighborhood restaurant in downtown Rockford's River District offering fresh seafood, delicious appetizers and unique spirits.
JMK Nippon
Midwest's finest Japanese restaurant where they prepare your meal right before your eyes at the Teppan tables. Traditional seafood, steak and chicken dishes and sushi bar. There is also a karaoke bar.
Octane InterLounge
Upbeat, casual dining in downtown Rockford's River and theater district. Great appetizers, salads and entrees. Try the Espresso Martini! Plus, free wireless Internet access. Outdoor drinking and dining in season.
Beef-A-Roo - Warehouse East
Not a chain, but a Rockford Original cooking it just for you. Sandwiches are made to order and the sides, including baked potatoes, are delicious. Each area location has its own, distinct personality.
Edwards Apple Orchard West
Edwards West is a popular destination for families to enjoy the sights, tastes, and activities of an apple orchard and farm market. For a fun family outing, enjoy the experience of picking your own apples, pumpkins and raspberries. Visit the play area featuring the wooden bus and train, the corn cribs, the wagon slide and our animals in the "Petting Farm." Stroll through the over 100 year old dairy barn with displays of bright colored apples, freshly squeezed cider, fresh apple cider donuts, and wonderful gift items that are on display.
Shogun Japanese Restaurant
Highly skilled chefs prepare and demonstrate the art of Japanese cuisine right at your table.
Kuma's Asian Bistro
Executive Chef Kuma Kim, born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, has assembled a collection of Asian cuisine with emphasis on contemporary taste and popularity. Kuma's decades of experience in the restaurant business and her attention to customer satisfaction has positioned Kuma's as a restaurant dedicated to tasty food, excellent service, and memorable experience. Outside dining in season.


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Chez Vous
Captivated by decorative flourishes discovered while wheeling their toddlers' strollers through European villages, architect Karen Dunning and husband Lee founded Chez Vous in 1996 to bring a bit of that aesthetic to American homes. Handpicked offerings range from fun and funky to lovely and semi-precious. Chez Vous definitely doesn't take itself too seriously. This down-to-earth approach to hunting and gathering decorative treasures results in incredible finds at incredible prices.


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During the last two centuries, the intelligentsia predicted that religion, the "opiate of the people," would wither away and die. The last decade has opened our eyes, if they were ever closed, to the reality that, far from vanishing, faith and religion are raising their heads once again all over the world.
To be honest, religion is not always a pretty sight. Those of us who believe in the God of Love often find ourselves in the position of having to justify religious faith in a skeptical and even hostile world. In several countries, and sometimes here in the U.S., the free exercise of religion runs into the heavy hand of government, reminding us that practicing our faith may require sacrifices reminiscent of a forgotten past. This may also be an opportunity for those from different faiths to work together to preserve the freedom to worship the Creator in diverse ways.
Another reality that must be faced is that the fastest growing religious affiliation in the U.S. is "no church at all." Many are searching, but not always in the same places they did a generation ago. The younger generation is less interested in religious theories than in seeing a lived faith.
In this context, what shall those who feel called to ministry do? How can we rise to the challenges of our chaotically secular age? How can we reach out to the very people who feel let down in their previous experiences with religious leaders and institutions, or even closer to home, by their own families? How can we be effective when a new generation is more familiar with tweets and Facebook than they are with scripture and preaching of the Word of God?
Whether you are a Christian or come from another religious tradition, Unification Theological Seminary seeks to be a resource for your personal spiritual development, where you can ground your faith in its historical roots and position it in the context of the world's great religious traditions. UTS is also a place to develop your skills for effective ministry, whether it be in the area of counseling, church growth and leadership, youth and young adult ministries, or interfaith social justice.
This year we are expanding course offerings with degree-based courses in the area of marriage and family ministry as well as non-profit leadership and grantwriting. We are also welcoming the first entering class for our new Bachelor of Arts degree program to our Barrytown campus.
I believe this is an auspicious moment in the history of UTS, which will allow it to serve a wider range of students with new programs, offered in innovative ways, so that UTS can fulfill the dream of our founders, Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon and Rev. Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, that it would train future leaders in America and in the world. We are very excited about the future of interfaith ministry, and about UTS' role in equipping its students to be innovative leaders in their communities. 2013-2014 is going to be a great year for UTS, and I hope that you will be part of it!"
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Finding new medicines to fight CF and ultimately cure this disease is the driving force behind the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. To achieve this goal, we aggressively invest in drug development research with the most successful and innovative biotech companies and scientists in the world. In keeping with this business model, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics, Inc., the Foundation's nonprofit drug development affiliate, customarily enters into contractual agreements with pharmaceutical companies to receive royalties after the approval and/or sale of certain drugs that are developed as a result of CFFT funding. Any royalties CFFT receives are reinvested in support of our mission.
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This recipe is great! I will definitely make again. I also added brocolli and some red bell pepper.
Balsamic & Parmesan Roasted Cauliflower
From EatingWell: January/February 2008
Roasting isn't usually the first cooking method you think of for cauliflower but the results are quite delicious. The florets are cut into thick slices and tossed with extra-virgin olive oil and herbs. Wherever the flat surfaces come into contact with the hot roasting pan, a deep browning occurs that results in a sweet, nutty flavor.
108 Reviews for Balsamic & Parmesan Roasted Cauliflower
Both my husband and I loved this cauliflower. We ate all of it and he was asking for more. I will certainly make this again. Also I used red wine vinegar in place of Balsamic and I added teaspoon of parsley along with the marjoram.
I decided to try this out on my not-cauliflower-loving hubby. When it came out of the oven, we both started picking at it. He kept saying, "I'm not sure if I like it" as he was popping pieces of it into his mouth. We were waiting for the rest of the dinner to finish cooking and the cauliflower almost didn't make it to the table! ;) We kept slapping each others' hands away from the pan. Now, just a few weeks later he is asking me to make this again so he can decide if he likes it. Haha (oh, btw I used oregano in place of marjoram).
This was soooooo good! Very easy and tastey.
I am always pleased to find recipes for foods I like but can serve in different ways. I am a huge cauliflower and broccoli and cabbage eater. I have at least one of these each day if not more. The roasted parmesan idea was wonderful. I loved the taste and have given other people a sample and they loved it too. I was so happy when I found the recipe for making "mashed potatoes" that were really cauliflower. Now I have a third variation and pleaser. I also have some on hand when I read, watch t.v. or a dvd.. It helps to not have the fats and the salt or other snacks.


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At a glance: Advertising Design
"A heart, a generous caring, loving heart … that is what I think of when I think of Ohio Northern University. Back in the late '60s, when I was a student, I realized that the art and design department cared about each and every student … and they still do. The faculty always went the extra mile to help us succeed. When I was invited back to visit in 2000, I quickly realized that ONU's heart is still alive and well and ticking away – not only in the A&D department but in all the other aspects of the University. I have very fond memories that have continued to inspire me and continue to make the art and design department at ONU special for me."
Marilyn Lysohir, BA '72 (art)
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Advertising is an important business activity that requires knowledge in planning, research and creativity. The program responds to a more sophisticated and demanding field in design and teaches students to develop advertising that acts as a catalyst in the world of mass communication. Advertising design students participate in a broad range of courses taught through the BFA or BA program. Students also may take courses in interactive and web design. Visit our department's web site.
Distinctive features
- Comprehensive curriculum gives students exposure to 2-D and 3-D form, theory and practices.
- Professors are dedicated artists, designers, teachers, scholars and mentors.
- In-house design studio offers real-world business and professional experiences.
- Opportunities abound for field experience at primary and secondary schools, externships for studio art majors and internships at graphic and advertising design firms, museums and many other businesses and organizations.
- Visiting artist program brings to campus accomplished artists and designers
- Study-abroad programs in locations such as Italy, Ireland and France expose students to the exciting and wide world of culture and art.
- Students can gain hands-on experience designing University publications such as The Northern Review (student newspaper), Polar Droppings (department newsletter) and The Northern (University yearbook) and numerous department campaigns.
- Numerous talent awards and scholarships are granted to gifted students.
The department of art & design is housed in the Wilson Art Center for the Visual Arts, providing students with updated equipment, resources, wireless capabilities, and a stimulating environment in which to work. Most beginning courses meet in the drawing studio, which is well-equipped with drawing tables, group work stations, and storage space to meet the individual needs of students. The students also have access to the design computer studio. This space contains the latest Macintosh computers, scanners, color and black and white laser printers, digital cameras, updated software and a small periodical library. A design studio, located next to the computer studio, is well equipped with drafting tables, light board tables, and group work stations. Most class presentations take place in the lecture room, located adjacent to the visual resource library. This department library contains thousands of slides to numerous videotapes, DVDs, and books for instruction.
The students' senior capstone projects are displayed in the Elzay Gallery of Art. The gallery is connected to the classroom-studio building by a loggia and is used to display work of artists of invited exhibitions throughout the year. Other studio/classrooms located in the Wilson Art Center include a painting studio and a printmaking studio. A variety of gas electric, soda, and raku kilns, and furnaces are adjoined to the ceramics and sculpture studios.
Student organizations
Student organizations available to advertising design majors include AIGA/The Professional Association for Design, Kappa Pi National Art Honorary, and the Student Art League. Other organizations from on campus include the American Marketing Association (AMA), which is open to majors and non-majors, and gain industry knowledge and insight. Another option is Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), a global non-profit organization with chapters around the world. SIFE helps students develop leadership, teamwork and communication skills by learning, practicing and teaching the principles of free enterprise. Advertising design students can also join local American Advertising Federation chapters.
Program outcomes
The department of art and design is committed to teaching and learning through an intensive, structured and sequential program of visual design studies and liberal arts education. Our goal is to develop students as creative, productive and intellectually curious designers capable of historical and cultural insight, critical thinking and technical proficiency in an area of emphasis. The University and Department has programs in place to assist students with internship acquisition, career search upon graduation and student-employer networking opportunities. Some graduates have gone on to get advanced degrees.
Professional placement
Advertising design graduates can pursue many fulfilling career paths. Alumni have embarked on exciting careers at companies such as American Greetings and Art American in Cleveland, Ceramics Monthly magazine and the American Ceramics Society in Columbus, The New England Journal of Medicine in Massachusetts, Dr. Pepper in Texas, ABC Carpet and Home in New York City, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Walt Disney Company in Florida, Periscope (Mercury) Studio in Washington and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
Graduate schools
Recent graduates have pursued graduate education in design at institutions such as George Washington University, Kent State University, and University of Cincinnati.
Career opportunities
There are four major types of advertising jobs:
- Planning and coordination by client services;
- Creative development and execution of individual advertisements by writers and designers;
- Choosing of the channels of communication or media that will carry or distribute the advertising messages:
- Research to supply the data to help carry out the functions in other areas.
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- advertising account executive
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- advertising design manager
- advertising design researcher
- art director for print, TV, and websites
- copywriter
- creative coordinator
- design director for print, art, photography
- interactive design/art director
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MAC Girl About Town Lipglass over Lipstick; Nail Lacquer
MAC Fashion Sets: Lipglass Review Round-up
Of the sixteen Lipglasses in this launch, it ended up being a mixed bag. A lot of the common problems seen from the thicker formula of Lipglass came up, and these tend to be seen more often in lighter, milkier shades. These lighter shades tend to apply unevenly and settle into lip lines. Darker shades tended to be more opaque and less problematic, though the less opaque they were, the more unevenly they applied.
Lipglass is a heavier, thicker, and very sticky formula (it is often my benchmark for how sticky a gloss is–many readers have experience with the formula, so it often works as a global reference point), which doesn't mean that it's bad, but I know that it specifically does not appeal to some for those very reasons. I think the thickness could probably be improved upon as more and more glosses have come out and have a lighter feel that's more comfortable and wears just as long and as well–it's more a sign of improved and more refined formulas in the past decade. MAC has shown it themselves with their gloss extensions and limited edition formulas.
This opinion does not change or have any impact on the overall rating, which is about the product and its quality and relevant metrics in relation to quality. I don't think the lipglosses are necessary if you own or love the lipstick version and do not typically wear gloss alone or are only really seeking out the gloss to pair with the lipstick. The lipsticks are very opaque on their own, so they do not need a semi-opaque or opaque gloss on top to help it along. What the glosses really do is add glossiness, which can be achieved with clear gloss. If you want to mix your favorite lipstick-now-gloss shade with other lipsticks or wear it on its own, then some of the shades can certainly be worth purchasing.
The top-performing shades were: Girl About Town, Impassioned, Morange, Russian Red, and Spice (A- — no lipgloss received an A). Good but not great shades were: Angel, Please Me, Rebel (B+). The most under-performing shades were: Saint Germain (C); Chestnut and Myth (B-).
Availability: Based on the information I have received from MAC, the distribution of these shades is regional. I cannot confirm the extent of non-regional shades being available online for your region (e.g. whether all of these will be available on the UK website). I can confirm only that for North America, all shades are available for purchase online. Only the North America-specific shades will be available in-stores on May 3rd, 2012. Select Macy's will also carry Latin America & Middle East region-specific shades.
North America: Chestnut, Girl About Town, Myth, Rebel, Russian Red, Snob, Spice; only Russian Red is permanent
Asia Pacific: Angel, Morange, Impassioned, Peachstock, Ravishing, Razzledazzler, Saint Germain; all shades are limited edition
Europe & Africa: Impassioned, Morange, Myth, Rebel, Russian Red, Saint Germain, Spice; only Russian Red is permanent
Latin America & Middle East: Girl About Town, Impassioned, Morange, Pink Nouveau, Please Me, Russian Red, Snob; only Russian Red is permanent
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- MAC Angel Lipglass
- MAC Chestnut Lipglass
- MAC Girl About Town Lipglass
- MAC Impassioned Lipglass
- MAC Morange Lipglass
- MAC Myth Lipglass
- MAC Peachstock Lipglass
- MAC Pink Nouveau Lipglass
- MAC Please Me Lipglass
- MAC Ravishing Lipglass
- MAC Razzledazzler Lipglass
- MAC Rebel Lipglass
- MAC Russian Red Lipglass
- MAC Saint Germain Lipglass
- MAC Snob Lipglass
- MAC Spice Lipglass
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MAC Fashion Sets: Lipglass Review Round-up
|I would stay away from some of the lighter, milkier glosses that are on the opaque side (sheerer is better for lighter shades), but the more opaque, darker shades may be worth checking out if you want to wear it over non-matching lipsticks or on its own.
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What to expect is cross platform with next gen consoles, F2P with nickel and dime cash shop, sandbox-theme park hybrid for casual players that will fall short of everyone's hopes and dreams about what the game should be or could have been. Quick cash grabs are the new innovation and the buzz words like sandbox are the new EPIC.
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I want holy trinity , no switching roles with one character like rift .
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Smed had the idea for Everquest
some history from Brad McQuaid aka Aradune
Smed and I founded Verant. We started our own corporation, with him as President/CEO and me as Vice President.
business article from 2002
After 18 months at San Diego State University, where he was studying computer science, Smedley dropped out to write games on contract for Alien Technology Group. In 1993 he finally took a full-time job at Sony. He needed the salary to support his own online habit: By then, Smedley was running up $600 monthly bills on CyberStrike, one of the first graphic action games played online against others.
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Shared world, not personal storyline.
Norrath is coming back and as a world. This will be great.
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Originally posted by Nadia
so basically he's like george lucas then
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Smed is the reason we have EQ and really the reason we have real MMOs. Hate on him if you want people, but do not take credit away from him for what he has brought to all of us.
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Perhaps tomorrow will be better.
There is ONLY one thing i want to know before moving forward and that is the CASH SHOP details.None of the game matters to me if it is a game designed to get more than acceptable value.
I am good with 15 bucks a month,straight forward cost,perhaps even 25 but i will not accept hidden costs or any form of misleading pay scale.
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"Use no way as way, no limitation as limitation."
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Originally posted by health001
This function was introduced I believe with a patch late in the original game or with Kunark I forget now...
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I only have one question: When ?
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I'd like to know if there will be raiding and in what numbers??
Will there be PvP, and what type will it be??
What I want to know:
1. Instances - If their is any, and if so hopefully not over used.
2. World - Is it more open, and not the generic railed quest hub that has become the norm, where you trip over quest givers. I want to explore, find camps, dungeons, rare spawns, and bring back the roaming high level dangers, they brought excitement.
3. Dungeons - If their are instances, at least make it 50% open/non-instanced. I would like it to be 100%, but heck 50% would be a huge departure from what we get now.
4. Game play - I know action is the new rage, which is fine for FPS type lobby mmos, but I want what I call a real mmo. I am fine with a dodge or whatever, but I want more traditional game play on this front. I want their to be more focus on what I thought made EQ special, was the precision/tactics, along with the small amount of time to be more social....This would also go more along with their being a role system....If you can change your roles up or whatever, I am open to, but for all the trinity hate, I actually like it.
5. Crafting/Harvesting - This may be the trickiest part, if they are bringing more sandbox back, then how do they balance it with raids/dungeons. Do they do like SWG/Vanguard to where you get a lot of things raiding that go into crafting to make things better? Do they maybe offer comparable items, but slightly different....Is their some decay? Harvesting - I would love a system somewhat like Vanguards, with common, rare, and ultra rare materials...I would be ok with maybe some sort of SWG system also... If crafting is not going to be worth doing, then none of this really matters and they should maybe limit it to some kind of small buffs items, like food....No sense in wasting time on something that is 'crafting', in name only. Like WAR on release, they had crafting, but it was the worst implementation I had ever seen in a MMO.
6. Housing - I would like to see a housing area system, like Vanguard, where you have many areas throughout a big world, with cheaper lots, more expensive lots, and house building choices...This would be a big undertaking and I could see it not being in the cards, due to taking away from the game too much, or launching later. What I do not care to see, and this is personal, as a lot of people do like it, is instanced housing, it feels more like a bank box I can decorate....I personally would just rather more bank space if that is going to be what they do.
7. Leveling/AA/XP - I would love to have leveling slowed down a lot again, I don't see a huge need to maybe bring back the 'hell' or double XP levels every 5 levels, but a slow down would be nice. A alternative to this would be bringing back AAs, but to make them as more of a function to leveling, but make it so people do not maybe feel that it is like that...Since they would be 'max' level....The big drawback to this is that you will probably get people feeling things are alienated and people are being snobs because they cannot play due to lack of certain AAs in a group or some such...I would prefer a slow down period, along with AAs....I also would be good with skills, and no levels, like UO, where you have a cap.
8. Payment model - Pretty sure this will be f2p, I would of preferred p2p, or even b2p. I just hope they do not make it p2w and ruin it. I also would like to see a quality sub option, that pretty much eliminates the cash shop. I doubt that happens, but I really dislike cash shops, it feels like they are trying to drag every nickel and dime out of you they can in a lot of games. Not all do that, but when you make a f2p or b2p game, you have to make people want to buy things, and often that comes at an expense of balance imo.
9. Starter areas/races - I hope they make this like EQ, where we have many different looking and feeling areas where races start. I miss this, often we get a story that explains why you only have 1-2 starting areas, so that makes it to where people cannot make this a complaint in a way...We need a world that has many different areas and places to see, no reason to cheap out in this regard.
10. Travel - I am ok with more limited travel, we probably will not see the OOT boat time travel anymore, but I am ok with druid/wizard/sow/mount travel....If limited portal/PoK travel happens, to where you still have to run and see the world some, I can live with that also.
11. Raids - Will they be more open, like original EQ Vox/Nagafin raids, will they be 72 person, 48, 32, 24, 20.... I am pretty open to this, but I would like to know what they are going to do. I want to keep these separate from dungeons, I mean I have seen like 2-3 person 'raids' in some games, I mean that is a half group dungeon!
12. How are they going to use storybricks? Does this mean created/instanced content, or maybe even open content that is created, that would be something new. It would take a continent maybe for players to make things that could be added/approved by SoE, that would be different. The recent create your content stuff seems to be a big hack/exploit waiting to happen. I mean it is a start, and things always start out a little bad, but the content with created open content sounds like it could be interesting.
I am sure I have many more questions, but I gotta get off of here, and this is a good start for what I want to know personally.
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Originally posted by Xthos
why even have lots? if the world is large enough they can make it so you could just build your house anywhere. would be really cool if they added the ability to terraform too so you could build a small island in the middle of a lake or something and put your house on it.
as for the rest of your points,i really hope they pull away from the traditional themepark and go more towards a true sandbox. some little themepark dabs here and there wouldn't be bad but i really hope i don't see any yellow ! over any NPC's head.
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Originally posted by Nadia
OMG! I forgot about this. The most awesome things about EQ and EQ2. The custom UIs!!!!
I hope EQnext will have it possible for players to make their own.
EQ - The guy who made the blue pipe frames and the dark transparent glass inside those frames. I forgot who that was.
EQ2 - Without a doubt, ProfitUI. The best player made ui of all time in that game. :)
I want to know everything they go out of their way to not comment on... you know, the stuff they really don't want you to find out about until AFTER they got your money in their pockets.
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Originally posted by evilized
I have to agree with you on this. Leaning toward a traditional sandbox would be the best move for them, the game wont be for everyone and it would be a mistake to try and make it like that. Allow players to build their homes similar to what SWG did or even make it more fun and create zones where you can create kingdoms where you are protected by them and fight for them. Making a really FUN sandbox is way easy compared to making a themepark, as long as you have live hosted GM events once to twice a month you can keep your staff employed and players happy.
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Is it going to be like Alpha World where you can build your own world and you have to purchase worlds .
Kinda like Second Life I guess . Sand Box + Story Bricks + EQLore = Second Life with dwarves and elves right ?
Well, the lots thing is so the world doesn't get too cluttered, guess you could have prohibited areas, like UO moved to, after they had clutter problems...
Also, to add to my list.
Server types - PvP/RP/PvE/Team PvP - I know it takes more to pull off, but I would like to see server types. They could make the sandbox more appealing to people, if they actually plan and cater to different servers/communities. They you could have FFA world pvp, ffa world pvp with full loot, faction (good/evil/neutral if 3) pvp, roleplay that actually is more suited to maybe use the storybricks aspect even more, where players can make towns, put on events, plays, etc...for people that like to do that. Those that don't, it doesn't take anything away from how they like to play the game.
Also, on the sandbox note, I am good with sandbox, I like it, UO is one of my favorite games of all time, but I would be totally shocked it they went say 80%+ traditional sandbox. I see it maybe more of a 60/70% being the max.
I am excited to see it, but not knowing anything for the most part, I also have to stay open to dislike for whatever they do. I think you would be a fool to be all in, with what they have shown so far. We just have words, and I played UO/EQ for 6-8 years each, so if we got a updated more featured UO or a EQ/UO updated mix with player tools, I can be 'good' on a range of stuff.
What I am not good on is a e sport, railed, instance everything lobby mmo, if they do this, no way in hell I play it.
Completely different and unique race starting points are a must - far from each other, too, so the trip to meet a friend from another race becomes a journey or adventure.
I also hope, and would like to know if, they will bring racial armor back into the game. Looking unique to your own species/race was pretty cool back in the day (though it all looked the same within a race back then - something that would have to change).
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Originally posted by Hellidol
1. Instances are an attempt to make dungeons not feel crowded like a city. Vanguard tried to do a more modern take non-instanced world / dungeons, and what they did was created the dungeons in such a way that there were multiple ways to progress through them. However, it didn't work very well as even with multiple paths and fast respawning mobs, groups would often clash with each other. The original EQ was notorious for us players having "wait in line" to "camp" a mob. In Vanguard, good dungeons became congested and it really hurt the experience. Instancing solved these kinds of problems in other games, but it makes the world feel less alive and immersive. I guess I'm saying that I'm fine with either way, as long as it's done good.
2. I agree. A dynamic changing open would would be a lot more fun than the standard bread crumb trail quest hubs. Give the players freedom and reward exploration. Something sort of like the Dynamic Event system in GW2 might be really good. Reward exploration, don't punish players for working together, etc. I'd really like to see a great open world experience.
3. This was already talked about. Instances can be good, instances can be bad. What matters is if they do it right, no matter what style of dungeon they choose to go with. Personally, I think an open dungeon that simply gets harder and reacts to more players appropriately would be the best solution. That way, if you run into another group, or 2 or 3, like what happened in Vanguard and EQ's open dungeons, you're not fighting over mobs or tripping over each other. It would simply just become challenging and rewarding for everyone involved.
4. You touched on a lot of different things, class roles, trinity, style of gameplay, etc. I would say that I'm all for any kind of combat system, Action like in Tera or Neverwinter. Traditional like in EQ, WoW, Aion, SWTOR, etc. Or a mix of the 2, sort of like GW2. But just make sure the gameplay is fun. I've played some action combat games which sucked compared to the gameplay in EQ2 or Vanguard, but I've also played action games that made traditional combat seem lame. All I'm saying is stick to something and do it right. As for class roles, I prefer freedom myself. I hate "liking the concept" of a class, but not wanting to be what ever role that class is. I prefer systems where a character is either completely customizable, or class systems where your class is really just a theme, but you can make it fit multiple roles depending on how you spec it.
I'm also in for some sort of small downtime, maybe not in between every fight, but enough so you actually have time to socialize with people you're playing with. Too many MMORPGs now a days are anti-social. I'd like to see them bring some of that back, but without getting into the pitfalls of original EQ. I also think that integrated in game VOIP will help a lot with this. I generally use Vent, as I own my own server, but it would be really nice to walk up to another player and instantly verbally speak with them, or to get into a pick up group and instantly be coordinated with VOIP. I think it would really make the game feel more alive and immersive.
5. I think crafting NEEDS to be made useful, or else it's going to alienate a lot of it's fanbase. Vanguard had an amazing crafting system, complete with it's own gears, skills and levels. Creating a piece of gear was like fighting a mob, you had to react to complications and take advantage of innovations with skills you learned through leveling up. All gear was highly customizable, the item type, rarity, extra stats, procs, it all made for a system that allowed a crafter to really custom make items to order. It was great. However, how do you mix this with adventuring? Well honestly, I think the best possible solution is to only have very basic gear drop from adventuring, but have crafting materials be the main drops in the game. That way, you can either buy a piece of gear outright from a crafter, or provide materials you found in dungeons and have the crafter make you something to order for less money. That way, a crafter could be useful, and never be seen as obsolete, but it also allows adventure drops to be useful too.
6. EQ2's housing system is considered one of the best for instanced housing, and Vanguard / SWG's housing are often considered the best examples of open world type housing. I have no doubt EQN is going to have a good housing system in some form. I trust what ever they come up with will be well worth spending time on. Though I am hoping for a SWG style housing system haha.
7. AA's are fun, especially if they're done right. I also don't mind slower leveling, as long as the gameplay is fun to go with it. If a game is "fun", then simply playing it should be reward enough. If the game is not fun, then leveling and getting gear becomes a second job. The level/gear system then becomes a bandaid for a much more serious problem. I don't care how long or short the leveling system is. I just want the actual gameplay to be fun, regardless of how fast or slow leveling/getting gear is.
8. EQN is going to be F2P, just as all their other models are. However, SOE does not make their games "Pay2Win". There will be things in the game that you will really want in the cash shop, like bag slots, and exp boosters, and skins, but really, they have to make their game bring in money some how. I think F2P works well with SOE games. You can try out their games with no risk, and the things in the shop are valuable enough to want them, but if you don't buy them, you're not going to be "beaten" by other players because you don't have them. Moral of the story, P2P is a dying model, and even if you spend $100 in the cash shop, that's still the same as paying for a box and playing for 3 or 4 months on a pay to play game. Embrace the micro transactions. They aren't going away.
9. I really do hope they offer multiple starting locations too. They give the game a LOT more replay value, and a lot more freedom.
10. Travel is a tricky thing, but I have a feeling that they're not building the world's largest sandbox just so you can teleport directly into dungeons from the starting city lol. I'm sure there will be some fun travel.
11. As for raids, I hope they just come up with a system that appeals to all sizes of player guilds and groups. Some people love huge raids, some people hate them. I think the key is freedom. How they do it, we'll just have to wait and see.
12. I like the concept of creating your own content, just as long as it isn't exploitable. I'm sure they have safeguards in place.
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We showed up at shortly after 2:30, and took our places in line with more than a hundred others–hipsters, adventure-seekers, film freaks, the merely curious. We all wore sensible shoes and had gone to the bathroom; we slouched against the wall of the Brooklyn Heights Trader Joe's, all of us, like a gaggle of Yuppie-esque employment hopefuls, as traffic pounded by on Atlantic Avenue.
A tall blonde with a killer smile handed us a release to sign. It absolved the City of New York, the Borough of Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Historic Railway Association, the President of the US and God Herself of blame, should the "unimproved archeological site" we were about to enter collapse or explode. I suspected the form also covered rabid drivers who might pick us off as we made our way to that manhole in the intersection. The manhole through which we were expected to descend.
It was a slow process, like pouring rocks down a funnel. We hung out in small groups until we were called. When the long green light at Atlantic Avenue turned briefly red, we followed our leader through the crosswalk, out to the stripe in the middle of the road, where she left us cowering behind a file of orange traffic cones as buses and trucks and gypsy cabs sped past so close, we could have touched them if we had a deathwish. We dribbled up to the manhole one by one, and climbed down on a shaky ladder held by a volunteer.
Down, down.
Once below, we ducked under a girder, struggled through a doorway hacked into a packed-earth-and-brick wall, fired up our flashlights and stepped down uneven wood-plank stairs. We gingerly picked our way over the corrugated hard dirt floor, which had been covered by tarps, and found a place to sit.
Canned music played: Train in Vain; Train in the Distance; Railroad Blues; Last Train to Clarksville. A movie screen hung up front, white and empty in the strained light thrown by a line of bulbs wired to the high, round brick walls.
Welcome to Tunnel Vision.
The event, a slate of train-related short films shown in the oldest subway tunnel in the world, was scheduled to start at 3 p.m. and run to 5:30. We were all seated by 4. The music halted. The screen sputtered and filled with the image of a chugging locomotive–L'arrivée d'un Train en Gare de la Ciotat, one of the first "moving pictures"–a brief black-and-white film by Auguste and Louis Lumiere that, when shown in 1895, sent theatre-goers fleeing in fear of being run down.
And we were off.
Trains, trains, trains. We watched shorts about subways, about the long-gone Third Avenue El, about color and shape and form set to the rattle of wheel against track. We watched D.W. Griffith's The Girl and Her Trust, a drama about the theft of a staggering $2,000 by "tramps," that featured a handcar racing a locomotive, set to a stirring original score played live, next to the screen, by four superb musicians.
Tunnel Vision. It was unique. It was nostalgic. It was informative. It was entertaining. It was tough on the butt.
The last act on the menu was a presentation by Bob Diamond, who unearthed the tunnel thirty years ago. He runs the Brooklyn Historic Railway Association, which preserves it as the aforementioned "archeological site" and maintains public access to it.
Diamond was a college student in 1979, when he first heard of the mysterious train tunnel on a radio show.
The story was that the Long Island Railroad Company ran a steam engine down the surface of Atlantic Avenue in the 1830s to carry passengers between Brooklyn and Long Island. This new technology had a major flaw: the train couldn't stop in time when something or someone found its way onto the track. Which which was happening more and more frequently, because the city of Brooklyn, and the Atlantic Avenue neighborhood, were growing rapidly.
People in the area objected strenuously to the LIRR's inadvertent population control measures. So the railroad company plucked their locomotive from the public eye and sent it underground.
The company sank the line into a trench, and covered over roughly a third of a mile of it, the Atlantic Avenue tunnel, with an arch of brick whose inside dimensions measured 17 feet high by 21 feet wide, and accommodated two lines of track. According to Bob Diamond, the process was a monument to immigrant labor working with primitive tools; he says it took seven months.
The tunnel opened in 1844, and trains ran through it for fifteen years. Then bad publicity caught up with the locomotive again: a public backlash against steam-driven transport in general cited its legacy of collisions, fires, explosions–disaster scenarios that didn't inspire confidence in a train chuffing beneath a busy street. The line was discontinued in 1859, and the tunnel sealed in 1861–but not well, because the fellow who had contracted to fill it merely blocked up the ends and, history insinuates, pocketed the rest of the project's take.
Which was fortunate for Bob Diamond.
After he heard the radio broadcast, he spent months tracking the tunnel's history and looking for an entrance. He finally found a set of plans languishing in an office. Politicians and municipal engineers alike hadn't realized they were there. Perhaps this was because the railroad branch lived and died well before 1898, the year that Brooklyn ceased to be a city in its own right and became a borough of New York City.
Diamond located his manhole and, with the help of the city and the gas company, he and a few fellow volunteers unsealed it in 1980. And found–a dirt wall. Which they chipped away with picks and shovels. "All that dirt you see around the steps," Diamond told us, "That's what we cleared away to get through. You'll see a lot of beer cans there–those were ours. Cheap beer–we were students."
Legends abound. The tunnel might've been used by river pirates, counterfeiters, moonshiners and–during WWI–German spies brewing mustard gas. Old newspaper articles hint of elephantine rats and leonine feral cats. Rumor claimed abandoned steam engines still squatted on the track.
But Diamond found nothing. Just the tunnel itself. Even the tracks and ties had been spirited away.
Now, he and his Brooklyn Historic Railway Association run public tours every month or so. And, thanks to Tunnel Vision, the brainchild of three movie lovers–Alice Moscoso, Erin Stamos and Mimi Zora–he has helped stage the ultimate Underground Film event.
And there we were, in the tunnel.
A far more pleasant experience than it would've been 150 years ago.
For some terrific information about the tunnel, its history and lore, check out: http://brooklynrail.net/


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The aim of this unit is to access in literary and other texts representations of physical and mental pain, suffering and sadness. In medical, legal, social, psychiatric and familial contexts the need to give expression to the extent and nature of pain and its attendant alienating effects is crucial. Significantly the inexpressible qualities of pain and sadness isolate its victims and cause a breakdown between those who wish to help and those who desperately require it. This unit will attempt to negotiate this 'inexpressible terrain' by identifying successful manifestations of expressed pain in works of fiction as well as factual narratives whether pathographies or related discursive writings. The aim is not merely to interpret these texts but rather to meet the challenge of finding a language that communicates, explicates and legitimises forms of illness in the eyes of both a hostile and/or fearful society and sceptical or ill-informed medical, legal and social-work practitioners.
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Second season: Dramaturge of Tommy. Stratford: Jesus Christ Superstar. Elsewhere (all as dramaturge unless otherwise noted): The Who's Tommy, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Broadway); Slavs! (Steppenwolf); Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, Arms and the Man (Center Stage); The Who's Tommy, How to Succeed..., assistant dramaturge of Three Sisters (La Jolla Playhouse); The Lost Highway (The Old Globe); Hamlet, The Cherry Orchard (Foothill Theatre Company). Film/TV: Researcher, Cousin Bette. Training: MFA, University of California, San Diego. Et cetera: Chad is grateful to have the chance to return to Stratford to work with this production.


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