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Another delicious time was had by all again this year at the annual Maine Lobster Festival Seafood Cooking Contest. Held Friday morning at the North Entertainment Tent on the Lobster Festival grounds, the event drew a record crowd. Despite the rain, the heat was on as this year's five finalists entertained festival-goers and impressed judges with their unique seafood recipes.
This event is always a lively, fun time in great part to outstanding emcee Louise MacLellan-Ruf and volunteer Celia Crie Knight. Audience participation is encouraged as lobster lore is discussed and there is an opportunity to ask questions of the panelists as they prepare their dishes.
The five amateur chefs who shared their culinary talents this year were John Ruppert, Brunswick, ME; Adam B. Marcus, Owls Head, ME; Tyrrell Hunter, Brunswick, ME; Justin Libby, Tenants Harbor, ME; and Gerald Huang, Jersey City, New Jersey.
Contestants and Judges (L to R): Adam B. Marcus, Allison Fishman Task, Lynn Archer, Melanie Beckett Hyatt, Louise MacLellan-Ruf, Gerald Huang, Tyrrell Hunter, John Ruppert, and Justin Libby.
L to R: Allison Fishman Task, Tyrrell Hunter, Lynn Archer, Melanie Beckett Hyatt, Louise MacLellan-Ruf
This year's winner (and her second year in a row taking the top prize), was Tyrrell Hunter for her Spectacular Seafood Cannelloni.
Judges were Lynn Archer, owner and chef at Brass Compass Cafe and Archer's on the Pier in Rockland; Allison Fishman Task, host of the Yahoo! Original Program, Blue Ribbon Hunter; and Melanie Beckett Hyatt, editor of Maine Food & Lifestyle.
Check our blog in the coming days for complete stories, recipes, and images! As always, we had a great time covering and helping promote this special event!


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Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Wando's perfect seven-game winning streak came to end in Summerville Tuesday night as the Green Wave rolled past the Warriors, 76-51.
With center Matthew Pegram sidelined with a back injury, Wando (7-1) showed a vulnerability in the paint that Summerville attacked throughout the game. The Green Wave regularly drove into the lane for layups, followed their shots for second-chance opportunities and outrebounded the Warriors on both ends of the floor.
Tyler Palmer led the Green Wave with 18 points, John Jenkins added 17 and Timmy Singleton scored 11. Summerville made 26 field goals inside the three-point arc and had five players finish with at least seven points.
"Obviously, we were hurting inside not having (Pegram)," Wando head coach David Eaton said. "He's great at help defense, grabs all the boards. He's our leader down there and you could tell we missed him tonight."
The Warriors offense sputtered without a post presence but struggled mightily shooting from outside. A normally dangerous three-point shooting team, Wando connected on just three three-point attempts.
Summerville (3-1) limited Wando to two points through the first five and a half minutes of the game while it reeled off 11 straight. The Warriors committed eight first-quarter fouls against just one from the Green Wave who held a 19-6 lead by quarter's end.
With his team reeling, Jamez Rogers willed Wando back into the game with a 12-point second quarter. The Warriors closed the half on an 11-2 run, including a buzzer-beating three pointer from Rogers over two Green Wave defenders. Rogers finished with a game-high 25 points.
"(Rogers) went at it tonight on offense," Eaton said. "I'm proud of the way, when we were down, he stepped up, showed a lot of maturity and played really hard."
Summerville took back control with a 15-1 run through the first three minutes of the second half. Rogers cut the lead down to nine with two free throws with just over three minutes left in the third quarter. It'd be as close as Wando would come the rest of the night. No Warriors besides Rogers scored in double digits. Andrew Glover was Wando's second-leading scorer with seven points on two made field goals.
"We hit nothing all night," Eaton said. "We're used to averaging about 20 more points a game than this. We really needed those threes and, obviously, better defense."
Green Wave escapes Lady Warriors
Summerville scored five unanswered points in the final minute and a half to earn a 56-52 win over the Wando Lady Warriors in Tuesday night's opener.
Angela Collins connected on a deep jumper from the wing to give Wando (0-7) its first lead of the second half, 52-51, with less than two minutes to play.
But Chelsi Anderson answered back for Summerville on the ensuing possession, and Heather Chapman followed with two free throws with 40 seconds left to seal the win.
Chapman led all scorers with 21 points. Kimberly Smalls scored a team-high 20 for Wando, while Baleigh Winkler added eight.
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The Northwest High School boys track and field team scored a total of 10 points during last year's state championship meet. That landed the Jaguars in 24th place. Had somebody predicted a Northwest 4A state title this year, the first thought would have been that they must be speaking of the always powerful girls.
But at 6:20 p.m. on Saturday at Morgan State University, coach Robert Youngblood was informed that his boys had just secured the Maryland 4A team title, beating out county rival Clarksburg, which had swept the county and region championships prior to this past weekend. And an hour later, he stood smiling with his teammates, a trophy that seemed most improbable last year, shimmering in his hands this year.
"I told the guys, they followed the lead of these girls," Youngblood said. "The girls have been successful for years and they liked what they were doing and they bought into what I was telling them. Dahri [Jahn-Richardson] leading the sophomores through cross country and indoor, these guys showing up for throws — I don't know, they all bought in."
Northwest earned 68 points, finishing ahead of Clarksburg's 51.5. Gaithersburg finished third.
In the girls team standings, Bowie cruised to the team title ahead of second-place Wootton. Bethesda-Chevy Chase finished fourth.
From the outset the Jags hopped on the back of sprinter Jalen Walker, who came through in sublime fashion, and the sophomore carried them all the way throughout their precipitous ascent. Walker, who scored five of those 10 points last year, won the individual 100 (10.95 seconds), 200 (22.26), led off the silver medalist 800 relay team (1 minute, 32.70 seconds) and then secured the school's first ever boys team title by anchoring the victorious 1,600 relay (3:26.30).
"I told the guys, I said 'Jalen is not a gimme,'" Youngblood said. "Even though he did pull it off."
Added Walker: "I was shaking. I was shaking. Winning the one and two, the four-by-four, everything…. Northwest. You got to look for Northwest the next couple years, because we're not going to slow down."
Josh McDonald provided a huge boost in the 400, chasing winner Dorian Claggett all the way down to the final meter before taking second in 50.20 seconds and earning an invaluable eight points. The senior had previously led off the fifth place 3,200 relay team (8:15.27) which added another four points to the team total and rounded his meet out by granting Walker a comfortable lead in the 1,600 relay. And finally, as the sun was setting in Baltimore, the results of the last event was announced: Brandon Young had thrown a discus 138 feet, 5 inches, further than anybody in the state, good for another 10 points. That's the stamp on the team state title.
"The Knights had it pointed in the right direction," Youngblood said of former coaches David and Alexia Knight. They moved to Texas after last season. "I just tweaked it here and there and they're state champs. Can you believe that?"
At last week's 4A West Region championships, you were more likely to hear Thomas S. Wootton's Gwen Shaw hacking up a lung than voicing a discernible sentence. Her breaths came in hoarse gasps. She labored through finishes that she typically cruises on. She was more bent on qualifying than hitting personal records — the most obvious sign she wasn't quite right.
"Not quite, getting there," she said of her recovery. "I started some antibiotics, got an inhaler, getting better slowly but surely. Doctors aren't sure, they think it was tracheitis or laryngitis but they're not quite sure what it was."
Whatever it was that was draining Shaw at Col. Zadok Magruder last week didn't carry over to Morgan State this weekend. The Louisville-bound senior remained undefeated on the year in the 100 hurdles, winning in 14.42 seconds to claim her first state crown in that event. She then followed that up with a neck-and-neck victory over Bowie's Janice George in the 400 (56.60 seconds to 56.74); earned a bronze in her new event, the 200 (24.80) and anchored the Patriots second place 1,600 relay team (3:58.14).
"I knew I had to go out strong to stay up with Janice but she started leading me about halfway down and I had a moment of doubt whether or not I could pull it back," Shaw admitted of her 400 race. "But I gave it everything I had and was like 'The 400 is my race, the 200 doesn't matter as much' so I just gave it everything I could."
Teammate Sylvia Deppen, meanwhile, captured the longer half of the hurdling events, winning the 300 meters in 45.59 seconds. She also tacked on a fifth place in the 100 hurdles (15.12), a silver in the 100 (12.15) and added a leg on the 1,600 relay.
Montgomery County's other winners
Walt Whitman's Clare Severe will go home to Montgomery County adorning a pair of gold medals. She took a wire-to-wire victory in the 1,600 (5:05.34) and later picked up a second in the 800 (2:17.27) with one of her signature kicks.
Poolesville's Chase Weaverling, who won the 3,200 on Thursday's drizzly meet, added his second top finish of the weekend in the 1,600, finishing in 4:24.50 to beat Edgewood's Lenier Tucker by less than a second.
Elliott Davis was the lone male highlight from Quince Orchard, winning the triple jump with his bound of 45 feet, 6.75 inches to squeak past Old Mill's Trevon Edwards by 1.75 inches.
Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association
State track and field championships
Team scores
Class 4A girls
1. Bowie 92; 2. Thomas S. Wootton 64; 3. North Point 50; 4. Bethesda-Chevy Chase 39; 5. Leonardtown 33; 6. Walt Whitman 30; 7. Clarksburg 29; 8. Oxon Hill 26; 8. Richard Montgomery 26; 10. Northwest 25.5.
Class 4A boys
1. Northwest 68; 2. Clarksburg 51.5; 3. Henry A. Wise 44; 4. Gaithersburg 42; 5. Perry Hall 33; 6. Thomas S. Wootton 32; 7. North Point 31; 8. Quince Orchard 29.5; 9. Oxon Hill 29; 10. James H. Blake 28; 10. Old Mill 28; 10. Severna Park 28.
Class 3A girls
1. Thomas Stone 55; 2. Howard 54; 3. Milford Mill 48.5; 4. Huntingtown 47; 5. Linganore 39.5; 6. Aberdeen 39; 7. South Hagerstown 37; 8. Urbana 36; 9. La Plata 32; 10. Tuscarora.
Class 3A boys
1. Mount Hebron 58; 2. Hereford 55; 3. Digital Harbor 43; 4. Tuscarora 41; 4. Watkins Mill 41; 6. Howard; 7. Linganore 33; 7. Thomas Stone 33; 9. Centennial 31; 9. Baltimore City College 31.
Class 2A girls
1. Oakdale 89; 2. Middletown 77; 3. Largo 74; 3. Liberty 74; Frederick Douglass (PG) 45; 6. Harford Technical 43; 6. Henry E. Lackey 43; 8. South Carroll 37; 9. Century 29; 10. Long Reach.
Class 2A boys
1. Century 111; 2. Long Reach 62; 3. Edgewood 51; 4. Frederick Douglass (PG) 41; 5. Oakdale 33; 5. Largo 33; 5. Liberty 33; 5. Patuxent 33; 9. Fallston 24; 10. Poolesville 23.
Class 1A boys
1. Perryville 95.5; 2. Boonsboro 90; 3. Pikesville 83. 9. Forestville 21.


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Wrong-way motorist charged in wake of 3-car crash on I-35
By Ana Ley : November 23, 2012 : Updated: November 24, 2012 12:46am
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A wrecker driver prepares to flip over a car that rolled off Interstate 35 at Rittiman in the wake of a crash.
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Police said a suspected wrong way driver caused a collision that sent this Chevrolet Impala rolling off Interstate 35 at Rittiman Road.
A wrong-way motorist who police suspected was driving drunk was blamed Friday morning for causing a three-vehicle collision that sent a car rolling off Interstate 35.
Police said Destiny Salinas, 18, entered Interstate 35 from Walters Street heading north against southbound traffic about 8:30 a.m. She had just left a private residence, Detective Brandon Campbell said.
Minutes later, a crash was reported at Interstate 35 and Rittiman Road in the highway's southbound lanes.
The driver of a blue Chevrolet Impala said he tried to swerve out of Salinas' way in the highway's left lane, but he clipped her car and sent it spinning on the highway toward another vehicle.
The Impala landed upside-down on the highway's access road.
Salinas apparently kept driving, and officers tracked her down at Interstate 35 and Walzem Road on the highway's right shoulder, 7 miles from where she had entered the interstate.
Campbell said she appeared intoxicated, and she was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated and intoxication assault.
No one was critically injured in the wreck. Campbell said the Impala's driver likely survived the rollover because he was wearing a seatbelt.


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Located in the Medina, in the Bab Doukala district of Marrakech, this Riad with a lap pool is a 15-minute walk from Jamaâ El Fna Square.
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Breakfast is provided.
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Located in the Medina, in the Bab Doukala district of Marrakech, this Riad Nejma lounge is a 15-minute walk from Jamaâ El Fna Square and 10 minutes Majorelle Guarden. Moroccan specialties are served on terrace or upon request.
Each air-conditioned room has free Wi-Fi access and an en suite bathroom. A continental breakfast can be delivered to guests' rooms.
Guests can enjoy the sun terrace or take shade under the banana plants and sit by the fire in the evening. Riad Nejma Lounge can organize body treatments and massages in guests' rooms upon request.
The owners, Barbara & Steven, welcome you in their cute paradise. All along your stay, they will provide personal service, advices and tips, that will make your trip more confortable and enjoyable. Our riad offers 6 rooms. Welcome to you !`
We speak French, English, Spanish and German and will be present during your entire stay all day long.
In particular,
- We will cook a delicious typical Moroccan cuisine, served in our dining room or on the terrasse
- We will help you organize all your excursions in Marrakech
- We can offer you on demand transportation service from anywhere in the city (touristic area, airport, train station,...)
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breakfast / pool / solarium / bar / diner ...
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deally located in the Medina near the Jamaa El Fna square and the city center (10 minutes walk). possibility of candlelight dinners on the terrace.
turism taxes € 2.50 per person & per night (paid directly at the riad).
airport transfer € 15.00 for 2 people.
Possibility of diners € 20.00
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The hosts were very nice and the staff were also very helpful. The riad is in a good location with a nice balcony
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Très bon accueil de Barbara et de Aziz qui se sont montrés à l'écoute tout au long de mon séjour.
Les chambres sont agréables et la décoration soignée et atypique.
Petit déjeuner léger mais correct.
Seul véritable point négatif : L'état de propreté de la piscine (déplorable) et l'absence de la majorité des produits disponibles à la cartes, j'espère que vous aimez le thé à la menthe !
Je reviendrai cependant avec plaisir ! (à condition d'une piscine vraiment impeccable)
Great little Riad with tons of atmosphere, nice staff and the most amazing rooftop you can imagine!
We had a very enjoyable stay in Marrakesh. We found the guesthouse to be exactly as it looked online - bright, attractive and authentically Moroccan. There was a friendly welcome - the host, manager and staff were very helpful. It was well situated, being only 10 minute walk from both the main square and the new town. While we were surprised it was down such a narrow lane initially, we soon discovered the whole Medina was a series of narrow lanes and alleyways! Particularly loved the atrium style reception area (ideal for a last drink at night) and the rooftop terrace for sunlit breakfast in the morning.
Es un riad en una zona muy local a unos 15 minutos andando de la plaza. Marrakesch es una ciudad muy segura por lo que andar tarde por la zona no es un problema. El Riad es sencillo pero el precio es bueno. Muy aconsejable contratar el servicio de transporte desde el aeropuerto.
La familia es francesa y no saben español y su inglés es limitado.
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I think with my heart and move with my head.-Kongos
I assumed that a consistent narrative or storyline was out of the question. If developers could do that procedurally, they would be doing it now. The point would be to see what else gets generated, and what new stuff the developers add as you explored new zones. Perhaps claiming new zones and getting the mining rights for the zones would be part of the reward. A consistent story or narrative to tie all of them together might be asking a bit much.
The best* you could do is have some islands of planned and designed developer content interspersed with the procedural content. The islands of planned content move a story along, provide quests and possible a direction for the player to move in
If the player goes West, they'll find a series of sand people villages, ruins of ancient snake people, ghost towns and various random Western stuff until they get to the next island of scripted or directed content to continue the narrative of Western expansion. If the player goes North, they find bear people and villages, mountains and cave systems with mines and various random Northern stuff until they get to the next island of scripted or directed content to continue the narrative of Northern expansion.
* This isn't actually the best you can do. This is just an example of what could be done to add some narrative to the open world. It's late though, and I don't feel like rewording that bit of text.
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Originally posted by lizardbones
I think I get you -- the narrative need not follow a linear path. You can create story in chunks, "randomly", like pieces in a puzzle and then slowly have the narrative become apparent as everything comes together as a whole. This is actually a completey valid method of stoytelling -- there might be some linearity within a chunk of content, but even then you can add random elements within those small chunks, and even they need not play out exactly the same as long as that chunk "makes sense."
Another thing here, and a bit of a tangent -- these story chunks can just be "what's happening" in a particular areas, and have objects -- rope, picks, flashlights -- basically all the stuff you might need to complete an objective. But leave it up to the players as to exactly how to use those objects to complete the objective. Leave the objective up the players -- how do they react to the situation within that particualar area? Maybe there's a person gone missing. They can decide to follow or not, but how that chunk gets "resolved" depends on what the players do.
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I think with my heart and move with my head.-Kongos
The "filler" could be something like this:
* As players travel, when they get to the edge of a zone, a new zone is created procedurally.
* Zones are not necessarily square, and not all zones have content. Some might just be "farming" zones.
* Non-farming zones have a dominant species of intelligent life. Humans, dwarfs, elves, gnomes, guinea pigs, giant insects and probably fuzzy cat/bear/dog things.
* When the player enters a zone, they can interact with the dominant species, earning their trust or ire. This would be in the form of resource gathering or perhaps building towns and such.
* The player could also earn a races trust by destroying races in neighboring zones.
* The player's reputation follows them to nearby zones, but it would not be infinite. If the player is hated by Elves in zone A, by the time they get to the elves in zone G, they've never heard of the player so the player is neutral to those elves.
* Players are the only way for resources to get from zone to zone.
* Players are the only way for the species in one zone to interact with the species in another zone at all.
* It should be possible for the player to eventually own one or more zones, collecting the resources and defending the zone against neighboring zones and most especially against players in neighboring zones.
All of this would be in addition to the exploration content, archeology and perhaps scientific discovery of ancient technologies. Perhaps the player has to unlock a zone before they can participate in the ongoing struggles with the different species and they have to reach a certain level of trust with the dominant species before they can own a zone.
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My myriad of deaths online are equal parts fatfingering in a pinch, and what makes for an actuarialist's nightmares, death by envronment.
I usually look for the tallest point on the map and, Onward Ho! Even in the most dog eat dog slice of PvP madness (Mortal Online) I know now where to get the mountain flowers. The deepest underground aquifer and darkest back alley mushroom patch is where I find my stride. From ledge to ledge, even the occasional off-creature bounce. The only thing that I have yet to encounter is the elusive procedural explore. I've played Nethack since the early 90s and still cant get past the realm of the vampire lord. Go figure.
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If you are going to generate unique content for each player or team, how is that different from a single-player instanced game like Modern Warfare 2 (except for more variety in the maps, of course) and many others?
If the content is somehow persistent, then it would seem that it will suffer google death.
I can't see a way around these two ideas. Maybe I just need more imagination, LOL.
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Originally posted by Ortwig
If you put "exploration" in that context, it is no difference than a random dungeon that you explore. In that case, if the "fun" is the discovery of treasure, defend, or attack combat, or steath, then the "site seeing" part of the space is just irrevelant, and may as well give them a dungeon layout (unknown to them), and ask them to either a) find the treasure, b) defend a place, or c) attack and kill some stuff.
The traveling part is not relevant. I suppose in that context, exploration is ok. My beef is with the kind of exploration that requires 10 min of hiking, looking at generic mountains, before something interesting (like an encounter) would happen.
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Originally posted by nariusseldon
I think the key point is "something interesting". I agree that huge worlds aren't much value of there's nothing there. Oblivion is a great example of a large world where there's always something a few hundred meters off. A cave, a fort, some wierdo NPC lost in the woods, or a remote inn are examples.
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Originally posted by XAPGames
Actually i am sick of SKYRIM (i play SKYRIM a bi tmore than Obl .. and i assume they are similar). Too much running around. Too many generic cave. Main story quest stuff is 100 miles apart. Too much walking around.
I would like it a lot better if it is more focused.
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Let em put a slave ring thru u're nose u're prob not going to like where they're taking you. Think.
Originally posted by Ortwig
Omg, it's like you people read my mind!!! I was so thinking that the other day.
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I've always thought that game devs missed the boat on making limited zones dynamic and fun.. Having static zones is ok for the most part as it gives the game a sense of stability.. When I travel thru Ohio for example it's pretty much the same and never changes besides the weather ( dammit, bring back day/night cycles and weather).. However, the same doesn't hold true for little pockets such as a cave.. Who controls the cave today, may not always be the case tomorrow.. This is what i'm missing and would like to see in a MMO
Using EQ as an example.. How many of us remember zone in areas like Blackburrow or Splitpaw? When and if a true raid is successful, is it safe to say that new habitants might move in? Sure it could be another pack of gnolls, (slightly different), or maybe dervs? or bandits? or whoever.. Since back in the day when raiding was open world, if a 50+ raid group was successful in killing the boss when he spawns, within a week the zone will start to repopulate with a mixure of new mobs... Each month the zone changes a little more towards the direction of the next occupiers (not wall street).. lol I would set it up that it would take 4 months before the new occupiers take it completely over and call it home, then randomly the big boss spawns and the cycle repeats all over again.. This gives the dev team plenty of time to play with and change the game from year to year..
PS.. for this to be successful a new game would have to adopt leveling options like GW2 has done, so that older higher level toons don't go back to a changing lower level zone and zerg it.. Today's technology gives us the freedom to never allow us to outlevel older zones.. The benefit of gaining levels is the ability to enjoy MORE zones, not just simply add a couple at the same time avoiding a couple because they became trivial..
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To get the best gameplay a combination of exploring and combat would be the most engaging. Anyone remember exploring the planet maps on ME1?
Exploring on its own is fine as long as there was some other end game like a raid that was combat based. But then you get balance issues, what is giving the best type of reward and how often? So to avoid that, do the two types of gameplay together.
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Originally posted by nariusseldon
Well it's 100% random if you throw just a bunch of junk in to the point where it's nothing but a grab bag (garbage in garbage out). What I believe we're saying is that if you work in tailored, well-thought out content that makes sense in the context of the setting and world, that you can build an actual narrative. I don't think anyone here is recommending the former. I think the only time terrain really comes into it is as a container for an location, encounter or event, or where the terrain itself becomes the encounter. (e.g; find a way through the mountain pass or over a wide river while defending against marauders, etc.).
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Originally posted by nariusseldon
hmmm, that's the type that i like.
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I don't mind raiding but these devs really need to give the players something touse the gear for after raiding. As it is you raid and its pretty much a waste of your time since the gear serves no purpose. I was thinking a daoc style frontier zone thing.
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A. Proven right (if something bad happens)
B. Pleasantly surprised (if something good happens)
Either way, you can't lose! Try it out sometime!
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Originally posted by Ortwig
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What I think would work would be just like what the title suggested. But like an ant farm, multiple path in the dungeon, the problem is that certain paths leads to lair of Big Bosses that is invincible, that means once someone triggers it, it will hunt down every player in the zone.
And each boss lair is random.
So what is happening would be that first when you get to the zone with 20~40 players, you split up as you get to a fork, then as you explore and finding treasures you get deeper and deeper to the dungeon zone. Once somone triggers the Boss lair, its a race to the beginning or the end, depending on where you run. If you are caught, you are out.
If you are caught, you get 1/4 of the gold, if you escape you get the total amount your teams have gathered.
Add some traps, some tactical mechanics, and i think that would be a very fun activity.
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About London
"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford," said English intellectual Samuel Johnson more than 200 years ago, in possibly the most famous quote about what was, for centuries, the world's most famous city. What might have been gentle exaggeration then, though, is now almost literally true.
London's vast size and scale makes it impossible to "do" on a single visit – or many years of visits – but even on a short trip, it is possible to get a good flavour of this sprawling metropolis. This is made even easier by London's comprehensive – if sometimes erratic and complex – public transport system, which covers almost the whole city.
City of Westminster
Greater London covers a vast area, but many of the most well-known sites are in the City of Westminster, a district covering a large part of central London. Westminster is home to the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace, along with the upper-class residential districts of Mayfair and Knightsbridge.
Westminster's famous West End holds much of London's entertainment industry, along with Soho, a great place to wander through, as well as for spotting the odd celebrity coming in or out of the Groucho Club on Dean Street. Taking in Regent Street, Oxford Street, Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus, the West End is a good if touristy starting point for London – and parts, such as Covent Garden, are genuinely charming.
For a slightly different perspective, stroll north of Oxford Street up Marylebone High Street, a genteel shopping street which still holds decent independent restaurants, as well as minor London institutions such as Patisserie Valerie, or the excellent Daunt Books – then carry on to Regent's Park.
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Many of London's various outer boroughs still retain their distinct identities, reflecting the towns and villages they once were before being swallowed up by the city.
These identities can sometimes be relatively recent. Brick Lane in Tower Hamlets, to the east of the city centre, was the first home in the UK to many immigrants from Bangladesh. The street and area around it has a clear Bengali flavour to it – and has now shed its formerly seedy reputation to become a thriving cultural hub.
Further east still, Docklands sees the remnants of run-down docks sitting next to – and now being taken over by – the gleaming towers of Canary Wharf and its increasingly hectic bustle of high-powered businesses. Next door lies Greenwich, home to the Royal Observatory, where visitors can straddle both the East and West hemispheres as they stand on the Prime Meridian – zero degrees longitude.
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While not on the same scale as Florence or Paris in the culture stakes, London holds almost too many museums to count – and also plenty of small theatres and music venues.
For culturists, the big names are essential: the Tate, Tate Modern, National Gallery and British Museum are all doable even in a short visit, while those looking for high-brow entertainment can usually find something happening at the South Bank. Visitors with more time should investigate local listings magazines and websites to find the latest exhibitions and performances.
Dining and Nightlife
For many visitors to London, the West End is the first and last place they will go for entertainment. The area is home to "Theatreland", an area packed with theatres carrying long-running plays and musical extravaganzas, generally including something by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Along with theatres, and the cinemas around Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus, the West End is liberally scattered with big-name restaurants and clubs, but also includes London's Chinatown, where it is still possible to get a traditional Chinese meal.
Over London's centuries of existence, immigration has brought many waves of different nationalities to the city, all of them leaving their culinary mark. In the last decade, London has also seen an influx of high-end chefs from around the world, giving many traditional cuisines an interesting twist – and an equally interesting price.
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Between them, London's main airports of Gatwick and Heathrow have served as the traditional international gateways to the South of England.
From Heathrow you can easily head to points west. Visitors after a quintessentially "English" experience can head to the West Country, a land of rolling green fields, haystacks, cream teas and "quaint" little villages – albeit ones charging London prices for hotel rooms. For a less touristy West Country experience, head to the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset; not a true island, the district offers rolling gorse-covered hills, rugged coastline, and the striking mediaeval ruins at Corfe Castle.
From Gatwick Airport, which is as close to England's south coast as it is to central London, head down to Brighton to see the archetypal British seaside resort. Famous for its piers – but currently only able to boast the Palace Pier (its rival, the West Pier, now lies in ruins after a pair of devastating fires) – Brighton was once the playground of George, the Prince Regent (later King George IV), and his palace now sits converted as the Royal Pavilion.
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Switch to Skelton a last-ditch effort to save Whisenhunt's job
Ken Whisenhunt must be coaching for his job.
How else would you explain the decision to name John Skelton the starting quarterback for Sunday's game in Seattle?
"Some of it has to do with Seattle -- playing up there, having played against them once already this year," Whisenhunt said of the move. "There are a lot of factors, but I'm not going into each one of them."
He doesn't have to. We already know.
It was obvious to anyone who watched the Cardinals over the last few weeks that for his many faults, Skelton was then and still is a better option at quarterback than Ryan Lindley.
Skelton has completed just 54.7 percent of his passes this season. Lindley? 48.5.
Skelton has thrown just two touchdown passes against five interceptions. Lindley? Zero touchdown passes and five picks.
The only knock against Lindley is that he's not ready to be an NFL starter right now, which is exactly what one would expect from a quarterback taken in the sixth round of the draft. The blame for Lindley's struggles -- and those of the team with him under center -- falls squarely on the head coach's shoulders, which is why he made the move back to Skelton.
And given reports this week that the Cardinals front office has had some discussions about Ray Horton -- presumably his viability as a Whisenhunt replacement -- it stands to reason the Cardinals head coach is looking at these final four games as a final chance to keep his job.
Really, how many coaches would survive a 12-game losing streak in year six of their tenure?
Even with Skelton under center -- or maybe in part because Skelton is under center -- the possibility of Arizona losing out remains strong. Would one more win be enough to warrant keeping the head coach? How about two? Three or four would have to do it, right?
Who knows. In fact, the decision may have already been made.
But if you're Whisenhunt, the move back to Skelton had to be made.
It would have been impossible to sell his locker room on the idea that Lindley gave them the best chance to win, and continuing to trot the rookie onto the field surely would have been met with frustration from the players and rolling eyes from fans and media alike.
As well as losses.
So Whisenhunt went back to a quarterback he clearly does not believe in in a last ditch effort to save his job.
With the Cardinals' record along with their schedule, it may prove to be too little, too late.


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- Toward a uniform account of scrambling and clitic doubling (1997)
- A commonly held view in the literature on Scrambling and Clitic Doubling is that both constructions are sensitive to Specificity. For this reason Sportiche (1992) proposes to unify the two, an approach which has become quite standard in the relevant literature ever since. However, the claim that clitic doubling is the counterpart of Germanic scrambling has never been substantiated. In this paper we present extensive evidence from Greek that Clitic Doubling has common formal properties with Germanic Scrambling/Object Shift. Our evidence consists mainly of binding facts observed when doubling takes place, which seem, at first sight, to be completely unexpected. On closer inspection, however, it turns out that these facts are strongly reminiscent of the effects showing up in Germanic scrambling. We propose that these properties can be derived under a theory of clitic constructions along the lines of Sportiche (1992) implemented into the framework of Chomsky (1995). Finally we suggest the that the crosslinguistic distribution of Scrambling as opposed to Clitic Doubling should be linked to a parameter relating to properties of Agr: Move/Merge XP vs. Move/Merge X° to Agr. We show that this parameter unifies the behaviour of subjects and objects within a language and across languages. The paper is organised as follows. In section 2 we present evidence from binding, interpretational and prosodic effects that doubling and scrambling display very similar properties. In section 3 we present Sportiches account and point out some problems for it. In section 4 we present our proposal.
- On the distribution of adjectives in Romanian : the cel construction (2008)
- This paper deals with the variable position of adjectives in the Romanian DP. As all other Romance languages, Romanian allows for adjectives to appear in both prenominal and post-nominal position. In addition, however, Romanian has a third pattern: the so-called cel construction, in which the adjective in the post-nominal position is preceded by a determiner-like element, cel. This pattern is superficially similar to Determiner Spreading in Greek. In this paper we contrast the cel construction to Greek DS and discuss the similarities and differences between the two. We then present an analysis of cel as involving an appositive specification clause, building on de Vries (2002). We argue that the same structure is also involved in the context of nominal ellipsis, the second environment in which cel is found.
- The properties of anticausatives crosslinguistically (2006)
- The causative/anticausative alternation has been the topic of much typological and theoretical discussion in the linguistic literature. This alternation is characterized by verbs with transitive and intransitive uses, such that the transitive use of a verb V means roughly "cause to Vintransitive" (see Levin 1993). The discussion revolves around two issues: the first one concerns the similarities and differences between the anticausative and the passive, and the second one concerns the derivational relationship, if any, between the transitive and intransitive variant. With respect to the second issue, a number of approaches have been developed. Judging the approach conceptually unsatisfactory, according to which each variant is assigned an independent lexical entry, it was concluded that the two variants have to be derivationally related. The question then is which one of the two is basic and where this derivation takes place in the grammar. Our contribution to this discussion is to argue against derivational approaches to the causative / anticausative alternation. We focus on the distribution of PPs related to external arguments (agent, causer, instrument, causing event) in passives and anticausatives of English, German and Greek and the set of verbs undergoing the causative/anticausative alternation in these languages. We argue that the crosslinguistic differences in these two domains provide evidence against both causativization and detransitivization analyses of the causative / anticausative alternation. We offer an approach to this alternation which builds on a syntactic decomposition of change of state verbs into a Voice and a CAUS component. Crosslinguistic variation in passives and anticausatives depends on properties of Voice and its combinations with CAUS and various types of roots.
- On the role of syntactic locality in morphological processes : the case of (Greek) derived nominals (2008)
- The paper is structured as follows. In section 2, I briefly summarize the facts on English and Greek nominalizations. In section 3, I discuss English nominal derivation in some detail. In section 4, I turn to the question of licensing of AS in nominals. In section 5, I turn to the issue of the optionality of licensing of AS in the nominal system.
- From hierarchies to features : person splits and direct-inverse alternations (2006)
- In the recent literature there is growing interest in the morpho-syntactic encoding of hierarchical effects. The paper investigates one domain where such effects are attested: ergative splits conditioned by person. This type of splits is then compared to hierarchical effects in direct-inverse alternations. On the basis of two case studies (Lummi instantiating an ergative split person language and Passamaquoddy an inverse language) we offer an account that makes no use of hierarchies as a primitive. We propose that the two language types differ as far as the location of person features is concerned. In inverse systems person features are located exclusively in T, while in ergative systems, they are located in T and a particular type of v. A consequence of our analysis is that Case checking in split and inverse systems is guided by the presence/absence of specific phi-features. This in turn provides evidence for a close connection between Case and phi-features, reminiscent of Chomsky's (2000, 2001) Agree.
- Agent, causer and instrument PPs in Greek : implications for verbal structure (2008)
- In this paper we investigate the distribution of PPs related to external arguments (agent, causer, instrument, causing event) in Greek. We argue that their distribution supports an analysis, according to which agentive/instrument and causer PPs are licensed by distinct functional heads, respectively. We argue against a conceivable alternative analysis, which links agentivity and causation to the prepositions themselves. We furthermore identify a particular type of Voice head in Greek anticausative realised by non-active Voice morphology.
- Structuring participles (2008)
- In this paper we discuss three types of adjectival participles in Greek, ending in -tos and –menos, and provide a further argument for the view that finer distinctions are necessary in the domain of participles (Kratzer 2001, Embick 2004). We further compare Greek stative participles to their German (and English) counterparts. We propose that a number of semantic as well as syntactic differences shown by these derive from differences in their respective morpho-syntactic composition.
- PP licensing in nominalizations (2008)
- In this paper we compare the distribution of PPs introducing external arguments in nominalizations with PPs introducing external arguments in the verbal domain. We show that several mismatches exist between the behavior of PPs in nominalizations and PPs in the verbal domain. This leads us to suggest that while PPs in the verbal domain are licensed by functional structure alone, within the nominal domain, PPs can also be licensed via an interplay of the encyclopaedic meaning of the root involved and the properties of the preposition itself. This second mechanism kicks in in the absence of functional structure.
- Plural marking in argument supporting nominalizations (2008)
- This paper investigates the conditions under which Argument Supporting Nominalizations (ASNs) can receive plural marking. Under ASNs, we discuss deverbal nouns that express an event and preserve argument structure. In our discussion we consider ASNs in Romanian, English and German.
- The subject-in-situ generalization revisited (2007)
- The goal of this paper is to re-examine the status of the condition in (1) proposed in Alexiadou and Anagnostopoulou (2001; henceforth A&A 2001), in view of recent developments in syntactic theory. (1) The subject-in-situ generalization (SSG) By Spell-Out, vP can contain only one argument with a structural Case feature. We argue that (1) is a more general condition than previously recognized, and that the domain of its application is parametrized. More specifically, based on a comparison between Indo-European (IE) and Khoisan languages, we argue that (1) supports an interpretation of the EPP as a general principle, and not as a property of T. Viewed this way, the SSG is a condition that forces dislocation of arguments as a consequence of a constraint on Case checking.


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Thank you Bonnie ,Alex Sam, Jen and Marsha I wish I was as eloquent with prose as you all are, spending 50 years of my life in the construction field where you only need a 742 word vocabulary didn't help most construction workers are better edjucated than they let on it's mostly an act thats not the word I want to use but I can't remember the other one [when I'm writing I keep a dictionary at hand] your comments glow eloquently [I got to use that word twice in one pargraph]
Jen very nice pastel of your grandson kinda nice accidental BG too the sketch isn't bad either for just a quick bit of fun
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my exceedingly old, very small water colour box which I cherish and Love because it has been with me on most of my ein plein air trips abroad.
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Sarah, what a unique and interesting painting. Love it. That watercolor box has served you well. Thanks for sharing.
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Jen Your WIP of the small one .reminds me of Norman Rockwell and some of the humorous paintings he did. Great expression on his face. Now you will have to hurry and finish so we can all see the final product.
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Sarah I would never had thought of painting my watercolor box. You have done a fine job and made it interesting to look at. Very well done.
Bonnie The sky in your painting reminds me of early morning right before the sun comes out very pleasing.
Just by looking at this Alex I would think it was an oil painting. I don't see how you do it and so small too.
Sarah, artists' materials clearly make wonderful art in all senses of the word! A lovely painting of your art box.
Geri, thank you for your very nice comment!
Comments and critiques are welcomed and appreciated.
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Wow!! So much has happened. I really need to get started on something soon.
Great WIP's and paintings everyone!!
"Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life." ~ Pablo PicassoC & C are always welcomed and appreciated.
This is a very nice WC of yourWC box Sarah nice to have you stop back
Jen, how busy you are and I might add "BRAVE" you are unafraid to tackle anything... good for you.... good job with the romantic ride in the gondola....
Susan: love is in the air.... good job
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Jen, forgive me. I missed your gondola drawing. You have some good value in this one. My nagging you to push, push, push the darks has paid off. You are not afraid of the darks at all. This is a very cute idea. How much more romantic could you get.
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They ran. They walked. They Tweeted.
The 36th running of the Cooper River Bridge Run and Walk is over but the personality and fun of the race is captured through hundreds of social media posts by participants and the people who cheered them on.
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Voter fraud must be stopped
Evidence now shows that there was massive voter fraud in the presidential election and now supposedly inspectors are being sent to investigate. What good will it do? The die is cast and the progressive agenda marches forward. But, no matter who was elected or what your political affiliation, this is deplorable news for all Americans. No wonder David Axelrod was so confident about his mustache days before the election despite the numerous polls showing Romney in the lead.
Here are just a few examples of what has surfaced so far:
• In 59 voting districts in Philadelphia, Obama received 100 percent of the votes with not even a single vote recorded for Romney (a mathematical and statistical impossibility).
• In 21 districts in Wood County, Ohio, Obama received 100 percent of the votes and GOP inspectors were illegally removed from their polling locations, and, again, not one single vote was recorded for Romney (statistically impossible).
• In Wood County, Ohio, 106, 258 voted in a county with only 98,213 eligible voters.
• In St. Lucie County, Fla., there were 175,574 registered voters, but 247,713 voted.
• At one poll location in St. Lucie County, there was a 158 percent voter turnout.
• Palm Beach County, Fla., had a 141 percent voter turnout. (Note that Alan West lost because of these two counties)
• In Ohio County, Obama won by 108 percent of the total number of eligible voters.
• Obama won in every state that did not require a photo ID and lost in every state that did require a photo ID in order to vote. Imagine that. No wonder it is being fought against so vigorously.
The media is complicit in this assault against fair elections and what America stands for and now the question remains if the Aiken Standard will fall right into line.
Jan Collova
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Archbishop Nienstedt under investigation. (UPDATED)
Grant Gallicho July 1, 2014 - 1:16pm
Archbishop John Nienstedt of St. Paul and Minneapolis is being investigated for "multiple allegations" of inappropriate sexual conduct with seminarians, priests, and other men, according to the archbishop's former top canon lawyer, Jennifer Haselberger. The investigation is being conducted by a law firm hired by the archdiocese. Nienstedt denies the allegations.
The investigation was spurred by information the archdiocese received late last year, according to another person with knowledge of the investigation. (This inquiry is not related to a December 2013 accusation that Nienstedt touched a boy's buttocks during a confirmation photo shoot. The archbishop denied that allegation, and, following an investigation, the county prosecutor did not bring charges. Reportedly the case has been reopened.) Near the end of the year, it came to light that a former Twin Cities priest had accused Nienstedt of making unwanted sexual advances.
The archbishop agreed to hire an outside law firm to investigate the accusation. By early 2014, the archdiocese had selected the top-ranked Minneapolis firm of Greene Espel. Nienstedt, along with auxiliary bishops Lee Piché and Andrew Cozzens, flew to Washington, D.C., to inform the apostolic nuncio of the allegations. Over the course of the investigation, lawyers have interviewed current and former associates and employees of Nienstedt—including Haselberger, who resigned in protest in April 2013.
"Based on my interview with Greene Espel—as well as conversations with other interviewees—I believe that the investigators have received about ten sworn statements alleging sexual impropriety on the part of the archbishop dating from his time as a priest in the Archdiocese of Detroit, as Bishop of New Ulm, and while coadjutor and archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis," Haselberger told me. What's more, "he also stands accused of retaliating against those who refused his advances or otherwise questioned his conduct."
The allegations are nothing more than a "personal attack against me due to my unwavering stance on issues consistent with church teaching, such as opposition to so-called same-sex marriage," Nienstedt said in a written statement. He also suspects that accusers are coming forward because of "difficult decisions" he has made, but, citing privacy laws, he would not elaborate.
"I have never engaged in sexual misconduct and certainly have not made any sexual advances toward anyone," Nienstedt told me. "The allegations are a decade old or more, prior to my service as archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis," he continued, emphasizing that "none of the allegations involve minors or illegal or criminal behavior." The "only accusation," Nienstedt explained, is of "improper touching (of the person's neck)," and was made by a former priest.
The archbishop has been under intense scrutiny since September 2013, when Haselberger went public with damning accounts of the way the archdiocese had dealt with clerics accused of sexual misconduct. One of those priests was Curtis Wehmeyer, a man with a history of inappropriate sexual behavior who was nevertheless promoted by Nienstedt to become pastor of two parishes. Wehmeyer went on to molest children at one of those parishes. One of the questions investigators have been asking is whether the archbishop had an unprofessional relationship with Wehmeyer.
"Fr. Curtis Wehmeyer was an archdiocesan priest and I was his archbishop," Nienstedt said. He characterized his relationship with Wehmeyer as "professional" and "pastoral," and explained that it preceded his "learning of [Wehmeyer's] sexual abuse of minors."
Nienstedt was named an auxiliary bishop of Detroit in 1996, and became bishop of New Ulm, Minnesota, in 2001. Just six years later he was appointed coadjutor of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. He was installed as archbishop in 2008. Before long, Nienstedt had established one of the signature issues of his episcopate: homosexuality. His statements on that issue add controversy to the investigation of his own behavior.
"Those who actively encourage or promote homosexual acts…formally cooperate in a grave evil and, if they do so knowingly and willingly, are guilty of mortal sin," Nienstedt wrote late in 2007. That echoed a column he wrote the year before—while bishop of New Ulm—cautioning Catholics against watching Brokeback Mountain, a film about two married cowboys who fall for one another. He wondered whether Hollywood knew just how dangerous their "agenda" was: "Surely they must be aware that they have turned their backs on God and the standards of God in their quest to make evil look so attractive."
Before the 2010 midterm elections, Nienstedt turned his attention to the burgeoning gay-marriage movement. He recorded an introduction on a DVD opposing gay marriage, which was sent to four hundred thousand Minnesota Catholics. The same year a Catholic mother wrote to him pleading for acceptance for her gay son. He recommended she consult the Catechism. "Your eternal salvation may well depend upon a conversation [sic] of heart on this topic," he replied. And in 2012, Nienstedt led a coalition of religious leaders pushing for an amendment to the state constitution defining marriage as between one man and one woman. Reportedly, Nienstedt committed $650,000 to those efforts. The amendment failed.
But by the fall of 2013, Nienstedt's focus would be pulled away from gay marriage to an issue of greater urgency: the sexual abuse of children by priests. In September of last year, Minnesota Public Radio reported that the archdiocese was aware of Fr. Curtis Wehmeyer's history of misconduct when Nienstedt promoted him to pastor. He refused to inform the parish staff of Wehmeyer's troubling past. The cleric eventually molested the children of a parish employee.
As MPR and other news outlets continued coverage of that and related stories, Archbishop Nienstedt announced a task force that would review "any and all issues" related to clergy misconduct. Its fifty-three page report—released April 14—criticized the archdiocese for "serious shortcomings," but did not mention the investigation of Nienstedt. That's because the task force "was established to review the archdiocesan policies on clergy misconduct toward minors," Nienstedt said. By the time Greene Espel learned about the task force, the group had "disbanded," having completed its report, according to Bishop Piché. "Nevertheless," he continued, "a call from an archdiocesan official promptly was made to a former member of the task force." The task force has stated that it will not speak publicly about its report. [Update: MPR reports that the chair of the task force "said she knew nothing about the investigation."] *
Around the time the task force published its report, Greene Espel attorneys phoned Haselberger to set up a meeting, but she was skeptical. "There is no precedent in the church for an investigation of this kind," she told me. Since she resigned last year, "the archdiocese has been distinctly hostile toward me." That "caused me to wonder if this was some sort of trick." Her skepticism diminished when she met with the lawyers days later. They produced a January 31 letter from Nienstedt to auxiliary Bishop Lee Piché authorizing him to oversee an investigation, Haselberger said, along with an e-mail naming another priest to act as a liaison between the archdiocese and the investigators.
"I did this for the benefit of the archdiocese," Nienstedt explained, because "I knew it would be unfair to ignore the allegations simply because I knew them to be false." And that's what he would have done if he learned of similar allegations against any priest, the archbishop said.
Haselberger informed Greene Espel attorneys of a letter she'd seen from Wehmeyer to Nienstedt thanking the archbishop for a recent dinner. She also told investigators that the archbishop had asked for assistance in arranging for him to visit Wehmeyer in the inpatient sex-offender treatment program where he was residing before sentencing. At the time he had not met with Wehmeyer's victims or their family, according to Haselberger. The archbishop denied that he sought such assistance, and said he never visited Wehmeyer in prison or at any treatment facility.
Greene Espel lawyers wanted to know whether Nienstedt asked to visit any other detained priests. Two other priests had been in jail while Nienstedt was in St. Paul. They had both been released by January of 2013, when Nienstedt wanted to visit Wehmeyer. "To my knowledge," Haselberger replied, "he never visited them or expressed any desire to do so." As far as she could recall, Nienstedt struck up a friendship with Wehmeyer "after I warned him about Wehmeyer's history in 2009." Nienstedt said that the two had a "professional, pastoral relationship" before he learned that Wehmeyer had abused children.
Haselberger asked the Green Espel attorneys what the firm planned to do with the information it was gathering. "They said that their task was to investigate, and that they would be providing a report to the archdiocese," she said. Once the report is complete, Nienstedt told me, it will be given to the pope's ambassador to the United States, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who will presumably inform the pope about its contents.
"I pray that the truth would come out as a result of the investigation," Nienstedt said.
* This paragraph has been corrected. The original version included a comment from Nienstedt erroneously claiming that Greene Espel had advised the archdiocese not to inform the task force of the investigation of the archbishop.
Update: Archbishop Nienstedt released this statement after my story was published. Auxiliary Bishop Lee Piché also released a statement.
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Riveting. Appreciate your work Grant. Paradoxically, the Archbishop makes history by authorizing an outside investigation into his own behavior. The positive is that this sets a precedent, unless there is another case, where the head of a diocese is investigated by ecclesiastical permission.
Reminiscent of Cardinal O'Brien.
I can't help but wonder whether the Archbishop is actually hoping that the investigative group will find and reveal the truth -- truth that he himself has repressed. Yes, he's reminscent of Cardinal O'Brien. Tragic.
Self-hating, psychosexually immature, deeply closeted gay men tend to be the most homophobic of public figures.
On one hand I feel deeply sorry for him. On the other, I viscerally am shouting: "Yes, yes. Get the SOB."
All corruption of power in the church hierarchy needs to get stopped. The full truth needs to be exposed in order for children to be protected today.
Sadly the sex abuse and cover up within the church is still going on to this day. Cardinals and bishops are still not removing accused predator clergy, and they are still not reporting to law enforcement. Their so called "zero tolerance" policy is not being followed by the bishops who created it. They don't have to, because there is no punishment to force the bishops to change their ways. Until many of these bishops are demoted, disciplined, and held accountable for their crimes of enabling child predators nothing has changed. It is still business as usual.
Sex abuse thrives in secrecy and secret systems that allow it to continue to this day.
Silence is not an option anymore, it only hurts, and by speaking up there is a chance for healing, exposing the truth, and therefore protecting others
Judy Jones, SNAP, Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests
I am wondering if, in the statment attributed to Archbishop Nienstedt, "Your eternal salvation may well depend on a conversation of heart . . . ," the word "conversion" is meant instead of "conversation."
While "unwanted sexual advances" towards other adults may make him unfit to be a bishop, its not a crime. If these unwanted advances involved force or coercion, that would be different (and I imagine, then it would be a crime). But is the claim, basically, that he hit on people? I think most of us have been the recipient of those kinds of "advances" at different times, I don't know -if that;s all there is- that it makes sense to lump it in with sexual abusers.
Facebook: Question any action by anyLBGTQ and you are a bigot, hateful person.
Make any unproven allegation against a member of the Catholic clergy- Gotta be true-say no more!
-Only on Facebook.
While "unwanted sexual advances" towards other adults may make him unfit to be a bishop, its not a crime.
Unless the other adults are working under his authority and he risks retaliating against them if they reject his advances. Like, for example, a professor and one of his non-minor students.
A widespread lament here in Minnesota: How long, O Lord?
You must have discovered the " Da-Vinci Code"!
The allegations will stop when the million dollar settlements stop.
First announce that there will be no cash reward. After that the investigation may start to have some credibility.
This was all so predictable and oh so very pathetic. Archbishop Nienstedt is a strong Bishop who came into the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and started cleaning up the parishes, especially those which had gone too long with rogue and unfaithful priests.
He built up the Seminary which is overflowing with dedicated young men. He is a holy and strong leader. He had the nerve though to go against the large LBGT community in Minnesota and the secular soulless elite with the campaign against the false premise of gay marriage. That was the reason why he is being attacked non stop. This is how the enemy works
The false accusation by the young man of being groped while having a group picture taken didn't work for the LGBT community so they have now found another way to attack. I am sure they have plenty of men who are willing to come forward and lie to further their attack against the Archbishop. The problem is that they always try to attack in the media first because they know they can create havoc and unrest and suspicion in those who are not solid in their faith and in the end, when, their lies are exposed, the media is nowhere to be found.
Everyone has to live with what they do and will be judged in the end by a higher power, the Lord God. As the Lord said to Saul, Why are you persecuting me? When you attack His followers, you attack Him. I will pray that the Lord will bring this evil to an early end and that those involved in it, will be able to see themselves as the Lord sees them.
Sexual harrassment in the "workplace" is a crime ... http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/sexual_harassment.cfm
Deb and Pat,
That's pretty much Phil Donahue's line before (and even after) the magnitude of the coverups of sexual abuse became public. We should reserve judgement until the investigation provides us with evidence on which to base our judgements. Asserting that this is an evil plot is a good way to protect the guilty.
Ms. Brunsberg - please save us from your propoganda.
Archdiocese - has roughly 400 priests for 850,000 catholics; 25% of these priests are religious. Average age is well over 60 years old.
Nienstedt ordained six men this year; ten last year which was the largest class since 2005 (before Neinstedt's time). Half those ordained are older candidates - more than 35 years old.
He built up the seminary - really? The stats indicate that this is an embellishment that isn't convincing. Next year - he hopes to have 8 students in 3rd theology, 8 in 2nd theology, and 11 in 1st theology. If anything, appears to be an expensive use of archdiocesan money to maintain a theology seminary when you barely have 25 students residing there?
As Neinstedt's antics become more and more publicized, let's see what the long term impact is on both the seminary numbers and the archdiocese. Even if all of these students were ordained, it would not keep up with those dying and retiring and leaving.
On anothe rnote - you reference the *false* allegation of the young man - it appears that the case has now been re-opemed. Wouldn't be too quick to jump to the use of the term *false* - yes, it is still an allegation but we don't know enough in terms of whether it is false or not.
Finally, your homophobia is showing in your comment.
Pat and Deb --
You talk as though Archbishop Nienstedt has given no evidence of being an enabler of homosexual behavior, when in fact he clearly enabled Fr. Wehmeyer to engage in child abuse by appointing pastor not once but twice after Wehmeyer had been credibly accused of abuse. These appointments clearly put him on the side of the abuser.
Apparenly there really is such a thing as repression -- the refusal of the unconscious to allow socially unacceptable feelings into consciousness. But repression does not excuse his enabling -- his conscious self knows that it is wrong. Time you recognized that fact for the sake of the children. If you care about him, you'll pray for him, not make excuses in the face of clear evidence of wrongdoing.
Kind of like all those lies they told about Marciel Maciel of the Legionnaires of Christ, right?
Oh...wait...they were true.
10 allegations? I can understand 1 being a fake but how many allegation of multiple contacts have been fake.
Keep up with the paranoia about the gay community. It's served you folks well in the past up until the time the truth came out.
Jim McC. --
Do you know how the psychiatrists explain such repression and consequent misbehavior? On the surface such a theory does seem totally counter-intuitive, but apparently it is quite real. Poor man.
Bill deH. --
Those clergy figurers sound like the boast by an English order several years ago that its convent population had increased by 20% in just the last two years. When someone checked out the figures they found something like this: instead of the of 4 novices of the previous year, the novice population went up to 5. Vatican statistics.
The Archdiocese of St Paul has both an undergraduate and a graduate seminary. I do not know the enrollment of either, but do know that the undergraduate institution at least, and possibly the graduate one as well, enrolls students from all over the country. This helps explain a large enrollment, but does not answer the question about how many students are studying for the Archdiocese itself.
I believe the situation is where someone splits off behavior or views they cannot face consciously and therefore reject. Denial can be very powerful. It's actually the perfect cover.
But how often have we seen the outspoken opponent actually trying to convince him or herself when the reality is otherwise? The unconscious exposes the lie.
Yes, may the truth be known.
Thank you, Bill, for your comments to Pat and Deb. Their ignorance about survivors is encyclopedic.
Yes, Archbishop showed strength in his fight against same sex 'marriage', and now the gay mob will not stop until they have him, but he's strong and will continue to fight the good fight.
Michael - only cited the graduate seminary, St. Paul's. The divinity school is actually part of St. Thomas University and trains both clerical and lay students. So, was focusing just on the seminary (obviously, the divinity school as part of St. Thomas is very large)......the college has more but that is meaningless at this point in time. There is a substantial and significant drop out rate from undergraduate to diaconate. But, your point is correct - the seminary houses both undergraduate and graduate and could find one example of other diocesan students - reference to 26 Theology I students (11 of these are from the archdiocese).
If it accepts students from other dioceses, then that might mitigate the operating expenses but it doesn't change the fact that the archdiocesan vocation picture is still not as robust as the original commenter tried to pass off.
Ann - psychiatrists do explain the alleged Nienstedt behaviors and Jim McCrea did a good job of summarizing it - self-hatred that is so deep and has become so ingrained that a permanent defensive posture is taken that attacks all homosexuals in order to over-compensate for his own homosexuality which he has denied, shoved down, etc. Eventually, the denial mechanisms no longer work and you begin to see acting out behaviors. These may be sporadic - momentary loss of control before the self-loathing hatred expressed in total control re-exerts itself.
Eventually, you can reach a point in which the core identity is questionned - so, it can be much more than just immature psycho-sexual development.
Pat and Deb, it's exactly such an unsympathetic attitude toward sex-crimes survivors that keeps them from coming forward.
Bill deH. --
Thanks. It just seems to be totally irrational -- to think that loathing others will somehow cure one's self-hatred. But Freud never said the unconscious is rational, quite the contrary. And that's why I do feel sorry for anyone with such a problem.
Maybe if people talked more openly about this particular possibility the bishops who suffer from the problem, as well as others, might not hate themselves so much. But then we'd have to wonder what's going on in our own unconscious selves, and we don't want to do that either.
Exactly, Angela. The summary judgment is survivors are just money-grubbers. To walk with a survivor for years through the diocesan legal meatgrinder, while dealing with the mendacity of bishops, is sadtly beyond their understanding.
Shouldn't Pope Francis order Archishop Nienstedt to suspend his ministry and not wear clerical garb during the investigation?
William, that error is in the original. I've added "sic" to the quote.
Pat Mallory:
You wrote,
First announce that there will be no cash reward. After that the investigation may start to have some credibility.
Are you saying there should never be cash awards? If so, why do you think that? And if you do think that, do you believe that any form of compensation should be given in cases in which sexual abuse has been established? If so, what forms of compensation?
The Archbishop did not show strength. He exposed weakness. He gave legislators proof about the actual voters in their districts felt about marriage equality.
So, Grant, not trying to be cynical here but in reading Nienstedt's response to these reports, he appears to state that any allegations about criminal behaviors are false.
Does this mean that it is possible that other allegations about behaviors with adults may not be false? Could one imagine that he is splitting hairs with this public statement?
And what if some of the allegations come from priests serving in his archdiocese or former diocese? Under most legal statutes, this would be considered a form of sexual harassment and criminal activity?
Sorry, but the infamous Bill Clinton's statement about *is* continues to echo in my mind.
Ann Olivier,
We have a tendency to try to make our lives balance out on some scale. The closeted homophobe will see what he calls a moment of weakness as something that is relatively minor compared to all the supposed good he is doing by pushing society against the gays.
The Archbishop's position was widely known; he was incredibly brave. What other catholic clergy in recent days has shown this kind of courage? Half of the voters, or nearly half voted for the state constitution to be amended to be only between one man and one woman. He spoke for a huge segment of society, actually, and not just for those in Minnesota.
One wonders what Hazelberger's position on this must be.
Missy - try to at least spell her name correctly.
And your conspiracy theory holds no water - there is no connection between Nienstedt's ridiuclous gay marriage stance and what she knows about the cover ups in the chancery and by the bishop.
If you want to talk about *bravery* - why don't you review her actions and life; that she resigned based upon principle (not ideology) in an effort to protect the children and their families in the church.
Your allegation is snarky; if not, slanderous.
I suspect that her position is that we should treat allegations of abuse seriously rather than automatically demonizing people who might be victims of sexual abuse as greedy and part of some grand conspiracy.
Ann: what Bill deH said @ 10:42 closely replicates the experience I have had. If a man (I can't speak for lesbians/women) is either so fearful of being discovered to be gay or so self-loathing about the idea, he will usually project that fear/self-loathing on to others who he views to be what he is but doesn't want to be. He will also, if he is a public figure, do all he can to divert any attention from himself, quite often by directing negative criticism of those who he can use as pre-emptive scapegoats.
Fear and/or self-loathing are terrible conditions that can not only damage the individual but people around him, either unintentionally or, in many cases, intentionally. "Lord, I am not like those other people."
My apologies for misspelling her name.
But I suggest you review the spelling of 'ridiculous' considering especially the content of your post.
I did not dispute that the disgusting actions of the gay priests. They should have been made public, and Archbishop did not do his job there, no doubt. The pope should come down hard on all of these men, but fails to do so.
But, this doesn't mean that her own ideas about what marriage should be did not come into play regarding this Archbishop and his actions with adult men. Whether what she says about his actions, the Archbishop's, is true or not, they are not crimes and her publicly discussing them serves only one side of the argument.
Jim McC. --
Thank you. Interesting, isn't it, that the Vatican and some American bishops direct their nastiness at homosexual men in the seminaries and at priests, but they never seem to bother about lesbian nuns. In other words, the issue for them is really gay priests -- and that is consistent with the psychological diagnosis that their motives are simply their own deep psychological problems. If the problem were really homosexuality as such they would also try to eliminate lesbian nuns. So very, very sad.
So, Missy, let me get this straight. Even if the allegations against Neindstadt do turn out to be true, we shouldn't discuss them because doing so "serves only one side of the argument" about same-sex marriage?
Right now, the allegations about this bishop are still unproven. However, since there are apparently quite a few allegations, one might suspect fire because of the amount of smoke. We can't really judge the man right now because we don't yet know what is needed to know to come to a judgment.
That said, a couple of questions for you -
Missy, does the "gay mob" you refer to include gay bishops? Gay priests?
Are you able to differentiate between homosexuality and pedophilia?
Are you aware of how the term "gay mob" comes across? How it conveys a strong and unchristian scent of homophobia and seems to deny the church's teaching that all must respect the dignity of gay people?
Are bishops part of the "gay mob" except when they oppose civil marriage for gays?
You say there is no "criminal behavior" - which is pretty much the same thing the bishop himself said - is this an attempt to mislead? If someone is intimidated by a superior, they often can be forced into a relationship they don't want. Is it not the same for clerics? Is it not against the law for a bishop to use his position of authority over seminarians and priests to sexually harrass them? It is not yet known if Nienstedt is guilty of that, but, many bishops have had to step down from office because of their gay relationships (consensual and non) with seminarians and priests.
Cardinal O'Brien of Scotland was a loud and vocal opponent of civil gay marriage in Britain, sometimes resorting to insulting and very extreme language (madness, grotesque, etc). As senior prelate in Scotland, he also prevented an audit into the sexual abuse of children by priests (pedophiles) from going forward. Eventually the priests whom he had sexually harrassed summoned up enough courage to speak out. The current case and the O'Brien case have many similarities, with both prelates failing to take action on the sexual abuse of children, as well as both opposing gay marriage in the civil sector in terms that could only be called "unchristian".
Finally, there is the issue of hypocrisy. It is very clear that O'Brien was hypocritical - not only in violating his vows, but in condemning all gay sexual relationships while engaging in them. We already know that Nienstedt protected a priest-pedophile, but we do not yet know if Nienstedt also broke his vows and broke them while abusing his authority as bishop.
What will be your response if this investigation proves the allegations are true?
You seem to believe that this bishop was "courageous" in opposing gay marriage, but, normally, defending the status quo takes little courage. The courage is shown by those who are no longer willing to accept a status quo that involves injustice under the laws of the country. Many African Americans showed great courage when they finally decided to oppose the status quo - to oppose the laws and those who supported laws that denied them equal rights under the law. The bishops are fighting civil laws - nobody is suggesting changing the laws of the various religious groups who believe that matrimony, as a religious solemnification of marriage, is reserved to opposite sex couples only.
What courage is found in opposing civil rights for minorities? What courage is found in trying to impose one's own religious beliefs in the civil sector on those who do not share them?
Drop the stones at least until the investigation has run its course.
Well, let me see. How about this? Let's begin by discussing all of YOUR non-illegal actions, publicly.
The Archbishop has made mistakes no doubt. But that didn't stop him from defending marriage the way God intended it to be. He showed courage.
Now, if he had tried to drag fellow priests kicking and screaming into a marriage contract of some kind with him, this would be different.
All homosexual activity is a sin, and he knows that.
Wait. Are you actually claiming that traditional marriage is the status quo?!! hahaha
There seems a palpable hatred of LGBT people in Missy's comments. It's because of stuff like this that the church should be *against* discrimination instead of trying to justify it (http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-06-18/obamas-anti-gay-discrimi...)
Faulty logic. And not true.
The palpable hatred is what you have for our beloved Catholic church, and its true teachings about homosexuality.
The "true teaching" of the church about homosexuality is a combination of a misinterpretation of scripture and a misplaced evotion to Aquinas' view of Arssitotle. It's not an intriniscally Christian view, as many other Christian denominations have dumped that "true teaching".
evotion = devotion
I agree with Bill about his parsing. He stated that none of the allegations involve minors and none criminal behaviour. He is probably correct but there is a raft of messy civil cases that can come forward that can prove to be embarrassing. 10 sworn affidavits already! I would be sweating if I were him and certainly not coming out swinging. Hubris.
Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.