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- "It does not matter where we go. It is not the destination that matters. It is the journey."
- ―Kreia
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords is the sequel to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, which was widely regarded as a major commercial and critical success. The original game, however, was developed by a different company, BioWare. According to the game's producers, the change of developers was primarily due to BioWare's occupation with other titles, such as Jade Empire and Dragon Age. BioWare is understood to have recommended Obsidian Entertainment as an alternative developer, having worked with many of Obsidian's key members when they were part of the now-defunct Black Isle Studios. The Sith Lords was constructed using an updated version of the original Knights of the Old Republic Odyssey engine, which Obsidian obtained from BioWare.
- "The first story draft was pretty terrible, mostly because we weren't allowed to play K1 before drafting it, so we really knew nothing about the first game and were writing in the dark (Revan who?)."
- ―Chris Avellone, Lead Designer for The Sith Lords at Obsidian Entertainment, talking about story development.
Development of The Sith Lords began at approximately the same time that the original Knights of the Old Republic was released for the Xbox, on July 15, 2003. From the beginning, the production team had decided that the general atmosphere of the universe would be much darker than in Knights of the Old Republic and that the situation for the Jedi would be grim.[7] Chris Avellone, Lead designer for the project, felt that it would be a challenging task to create a sequel to what he felt was an amazing story that BioWare had developed for the original Knights of the Old Republic and that there would be a lot of pressure created for the team. He began with determining what was considered fun in the gameplay elements and what kind of story would have to be developed to complement those elements. The next step was to watch every Star Wars movie, read every book and comic book about the Expanded Universe and even sitting through The Star Wars Holiday Special. To him, it was vital to understand what adventures had already been created, the parameters of the EU, and which bad ideas it was prudent to stay away from. Only then did he feel it was time to look at the overall vision of the project.[8]
The first phase involved distinguishing the character, or the hero's motivation, from player motivation and how the story would develop to integrate the two. In The Sith Lords, the character was a disgraced veteran of the Mandalorian Wars who was the last known Jedi in the galaxy and the target of dark side assassins who were determined to eradicate all Jedi. Certain circumstances had severed the hero's connection to the Force, but the character was being given a chance to slowly regain that connection and rediscover what it meant to be a Jedi or Sith. The player motivation involved providing the teasers that would stimulate the player into wanting to continue the game and encourage the player to explore the story and locations fully. For example, this could have been accomplished by revealing critical information, introducing a new companion or acquiring new special abilities. It was felt that each stage of the game should ask and answer the question "Why should the player care?"[8]
The following phase involved devising the critical story points and filling in the story to link those points together. The purpose was to throw the player for a loop, but allow enough foreshadowing so that the player would stay interested. After the overall story had been developed, the game outline was divided up between the designers who would then go about filling in the details of their particular section of the storyline.[8]The main goal was to give the player high adventure, lots of alien races and new worlds to visit. The development team also wanted to create a story that would pull the player into seriously thinking about the difference in using the Force for good and evil and the consequences of those actions.[3]
Plot summaryEdit
The game takes place approximately five years after the conclusion of the first game, and during the times of the Dark Wars, and focuses on a mostly different set of characters. The conclusion of the first game varied depending on the choices of the player, with either the light side or dark side of the Force emerging triumphant—at the beginning of The Sith Lords, players specify which of these outcomes they wish the sequel to follow. Regardless of how the original game ended, however, the beginning of The Sith Lords sees the Sith having almost completely destroyed the Jedi Order. The character whom the player takes control of is a Jedi Knight banished from the Order after she went to fight in the Mandalorian Wars. The Sith believe her to be the last remaining Jedi, though in the beginning known simply as the Exile or Jedi Exile by characters in the game due to a customizable name.
Among the characters who join the main character are Kreia, who acts as a mentor to the main character; Mira, a bounty hunter (she only joins if the player is light-side aligned on Nar Shaddaa); Hanharr, a Wookiee bounty hunter (he joins only if the player is dark-side aligned on Nar Shaddaa); Atton Rand, a former elite operative for the Sith during the Jedi Civil War who turned to smuggling after leaving the Sith, having found out that he was Force-sensitive (Atton is the love interest of a female Exile); Bao-Dur, a Zabrak engineer; Brianna, an Echani Handmaiden (she only joins if the Exile is male and is one of the two love interests of a male Exile); Mical, a former Jedi Initiate turned historian (another love interest for the female Jedi Exile); Visas Marr, a Miraluka Dark Jedi apprentice to Darth Nihilus (she is the other love interest of a male Exile); and G0-T0, an interrogation droid. Several characters featured in the first game are also brought into this sequel, and a few can join the main character's party: T3-M4, an astromech droid; HK-47, an assassin droid; and Canderous Ordo (as Mandalore the Preserver), a Mandalorian. Enemies include Darth Sion, a Sith Lord with a shattered body, held together with the Force and Darth Nihilus, a being of hunger that fed on Force-sensitive energy. The new planets which the character may visit include Telos IV, the environmentally destroyed home of Carth Onasi; Nar Shaddaa, the Smugglers' Moon; the planet of Onderon; Onderon's jungle moon Dxun; and Peragus II. Korriban and Dantooine, which also appeared in the original KotOR, are also revisited. The Ebon Hawk, the ship used by the main character in the first game, once again is the main method of transportation.
Opening crawlEdit
Major charactersEdit
This is based on the canonical female light side version of the game.
Meetra SurikEdit
Meetra Surik (also known as the Jedi Exile) is the main protagonist of Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. Ten years before the events of the story, Surik was the general in Revan and Malak's crusade against the Mandalorians in the Mandalorian Wars. During the climactic Battle of Malachor V, Surik activated the Mass Shadow Generator, which caused over a thousand instantaneous deaths during the fight. While this event ended the war, the traumatic strain of experiencing so many deaths through the Force caused Surik to instinctively sever her connection, and she was subsequently exiled from the Jedi Order. After wandering the periphery of the galaxy for a decade, Surik is pulled into the conflict between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Triumvirate. Gathering companions and healing the dying Jedi Order in her journey, Surik one by one slays the members of the Triumvirate, encountering the shadows of her past along the way and conquering her inner demons. She eventually defeats Kreia on Malachor V, thus ending the threat she posed.
Darth SionEdit
Darth Sion (also known as the Lord of Pain) is one of the leaders of the Sith Triumvirate. Sion was an infamous Sith warrior who served under the Sith Lord Exar Kun during the Great Sith War until he was killed in battle. However, Sion harnessed his hatred through the Force, allowing him to rise from the dead whenever he is defeated. This talent comes at great cost, however, as Sion's wounds from his defeats never heal, and he is forced to endure constant pain and agony. In the Jedi Civil War, Sion sided with the Sith against the Republic, and helped form the Sith Triumvirate with Darth Traya. However, he betrayed her when he believed she was growing too weak for the Sith, and led his forces on a five-year long extermination of the Jedi. When Meetra Surik returns to the galaxy after ten years of absence, Sion becomes obsessed with hunting her down, yet she evades him during each encounter. Eventually, Sion confronts Surik on Malachor V, where she is able to convince the Sith Lord to abandon his hatred, causing him to die willingly.
Darth NihilusEdit
Darth Nihilus (also known as the Lord of Hunger) is a leader of the Sith Triumvirate alongside Darth Sion and Darth Traya. His past life is almost completely shrouded in mystery, sans the fact that he was once a Jedi Knight who served under Revan in the Mandalorian Wars. During the catastrophic end at the Battle of Malachor V, the man who became Darth Nihilus miraculously survived Meetra Surik's activation of the Mass Shadow Generator, though the experience left him scarred. The strain of experiencing so many deaths through the Force caused Nihilus to crave Force energy, and he kept himself alive on the dead planet by draining the Force from whatever vessel he came across; this misuse of Force power ravaged Nihilus' form until he became a wound in the Force. He was eventually found by Darth Traya, who trained him and Sion as her apprentices and led a galactic extermination of the Jedi. Nihilus later aided Sion in overthrowing Traya, and actually detached from Sion later on, causing major destruction, and taking on an apprentice of his own, Visas Marr. Nihilus is later lured to Telos IV by Traya under the false pretense that there are Jedi on the planet for him to consume, and he is drawn into a confrontation with Meetra Surik and a redeemed Visas Marr, who do battle with Nihilus and slay him.
Kreia (Darth Traya)Edit
Kreia is a mysterious old woman that Meetra Surik meets on Peragus II after eluding Darth Sion and his Sith assassins. A powerful Force sensitive, Kreia acts as Surik's mentor throughout her journey to restore order to the Galactic Republic, helping her reestablish her connection to the Force. While her motives are at first a mystery, Surik gradually discovers Kreia's origins. Kreia was in fact the original teacher of Revan, and was blamed for his fall after the Mandalorian Wars and was exiled from the Jedi Order as punishment. Turning to the dark side, Kreia took on the title of Darth Traya and took control of the remnants of Revan's Sith Empire, forming the Sith Triumvirate. Before she could begin her revenge against the Jedi, Kreia was betrayed by her two conspirators, Darth Sion and Darth Nihilus. Now exiled from the Sith as well, a maddened Kreia attempts to use Surik as a wound to destroy the Force, thus ending both the Jedi and the Sith. Her plan fails in the end, and Kreia is slain by Surik on Malachor V.
Atton RandEdit
Atton Rand, is a former soldier of the Galactic Republic military who served under Revan in the Mandalorian Wars. He is one of the first to join Meetra Surik in her quest to defeat the Sith Triumvirate. Loyal to Revan, Atton would follow him again in the Jedi Civil War. After that war, Atton became a smuggler, eventually finding himself imprisoned in the Peragus mining colony where Surik finds him. After escaping Peragus on the Ebon Hawk, Atton continues to travel with Surik as the ship's pilot. Over the course of the journey, Surik learns more about Atton's past as well as his aversion to Jedi, who he was once quite experienced in killing. Surik eventually uncovers Atton's own Force sensitivity, training him as one of the Lost Jedi. After the destruction of Malachor V, Atton helps the rest of Surik's followers in rebuilding the Jedi Order.
Bao-Dur Edit
Bao-Dur, is an Iridonian Zabrak mechanical and technical expert who was responsible for the creation of Darth Revan's Mass Shadow Generator on the planet Malachor V. He carries with him the guilt and shame for being ultimately responsible for the deaths of so many people, both on the surface and in the orbiting fleets, at one time.
He is encountered in the game once the Exile and her companions Atton and Kreia crash land on the surface of Telos IV. Bao-Dur and his small guardian/tinker droid (which strongly resembles the "training drone" Jedi Padawan Luke Skywalker duels with on the Millennium Falcon in Star Wars: A New Hope) stand watch over the fallen trio until they regain consciousness. He re-introduces himself to the Exile, noting it was unlikely he would be remembered, even though he was the only Zabrak engineer in the fleet.
Bao-Dur has replaced his left arm with a mechanical one that has a large capacitor energy storage in it. This energized compartment allows him to do considerable hand to hand damage in combat as well as to overload various forms of stationary deflector shields he encounters.
If the Exile spends time conversing with Bao-Dur, a light-side Jedi can help him come to terms with the death he has caused and release him from his guilt, unlocking the Lost Light Jedi inside of him, or as a dark-side Jedi, teach him to accept and revel in the power and destruction he has caused, and unlock the Lost Dark Jedi inside of him.
Mical (The Disciple)Edit
Visas MarrEdit
Visas Marr is a Miraluka, a race of Force-sensitives that can "see" through the Force, but are otherwise effectively blind. The Last Council of the Jedi tried to meet on the Miraluka colony world of Katarr, hoping that the Force-sensitive nature of the Miraluka would hide them from the prying eyes of the Force-devouring creature Darth Nihlus. It did not work and Nihlus descended on the planet and rendered it entirely barren, killing absolutely everything except for one survivor, Visas Marr. The Sith Lord forced Visas to look upon her world with her Force sight and, sensing the utter destruction of all life around her, plummeted her into despair and led to her fall to the Dark Side and she became the apprentice (slave, to be honest) of Darth Nihlus.
As the Exile rebuilds her connection to the Force, Nihlus is made aware of her existence (once the player reaches 25% on either the Light or Dark side point totals) and dispatches Visas to find and kill the Exile. After this cutscene plays, the next time you enter the Ebon Hawk, you will immediately be dragged into another cutscene in which the Exile makes her way to the Starboard Dormitory and engage in a brief (one-sided) dialogue with Visas before she attacks you.
Once you defeat her, she is taken to the medical bay where her obscure race and extensive injuries are revealed. As she is already a Jedi (Sith) she does not need to be unlocked as some of the others do, but she can be redeemed to the Light (much to Kreia's scorn and ridicule) and her powers and abilities make her a formidable ally through the remainder of the game.
Mandalore the PreserverEdit
(Note: This is based on the canonical female light side version of the game. Gender, Force alignment, order of planets visited and other variables can differ depending on the input of the player.)
Escape from PeragusEdit
- See also: Skirmish at Peragus II
It is the year 3951 BBY, five years after the Jedi Civil War, and four years after redeemed ex-Dark Lord of the Sith Revan's departure to the Unknown Regions. Revan's ship, the Ebon Hawk, badly damaged, emerged in the Peragus system, with six passengers on-board: two droids that formerly belonged to Revan, T3-M4 and disassembled HK-47, two other droids, 3C-FD and an HK-50, and two Humans, Meetra Surik, and an old woman named Kreia, both unconscious. T3-M4 managed to dock the ship into the Peragus Mining Facility, where Surik was put into the medical bay of the Administration level, and Kreia, mistaken for dead because she was in a deep trance to survive the flight, into the morgue.
After awakening, Surik found Kreia, as well as a smuggler by the name of Atton Rand locked in a prison cell. The three of them seemed to be the only beings alive in the entire facility, which was covered with dead miners and crawling with assault-programmed mining droids, which started "mining" organics. Eventually, Surik discovered that HK-50 was responsible for the damage done to the facility, and destroyed the droid.
Meanwhile, another ship arrived at Peragus: the Harbinger, the Galactic Republic capital ship that was transporting Meetra to Telos IV before a series of events that resulted in them ending up in the facility. When Surik, Kreia, and Atton—in an attempt to escape Peragus—boarded the Harbinger, they discovered that the ship had been overrun by the Sith, led by Darth Sion. As Kreia approached Sion, in an attempt to distract him, Surik and Atton escaped through one of the ship's fuel pipes. Meanwhile, Sion severed Kreia's hand with his lightsaber, and Surik discovered her newly formed Force bond with Kreia when she unexpectedly felt her pain. Meetra and Atton continued and met up with T3-M4, and after reaching the hangar bay, boarded the Ebon Hawk. As they were trying to stop the Sith from boarding, Kreia caught up with them after escaping from Sion, despite the loss of her hand. As they tried to escape the Peragus system, flying through an asteroid field surrounding the planet Peragus II, the Harbinger fired at the Ebon Hawk and missed, hitting one of the asteroids, which caused a sequence of explosions that completely destroyed the mining facility, asteroid field, and the planet itself.
Refuge on TelosEdit
With the Peragus astrogation charts recovered from the Harbinger containing only the planet Telos, which is slowly recovering after Saul Karath's bombardment during the Jedi Civil War, the three had no choice but to board Citadel Station. There, they were immediately disarmed and detained by the Telos Security Force for the duration of the investigation on the destruction of the Peragus mining facility—not coincidentally, the main fuel supplier for Citadel Station, without which the station would not be able to maintain its orbit around Telos. During the investigation, a mysterious woman stole the Ebon Hawk with T3-M4 locked on-board. Chodo Habat, the leader of the Ithorian team responsible for the restoration efforts on Telos, offered Surik to restore some of her lost connection with the Force, and provided a shuttle off Citadel Station in exchange for eliminating their rivals, Czerka Corporation. Despite Kreia's disapproval of an alliance with Chodo, Meetra accepted his offer, uncovered some details about Czerka's illegal business (certainly enough for the Telosian Council to drive them off the planet) and, together with her companions, flew to the surface of Telos.
On Telos, the shuttle was attacked and damaged by a Czerka air defense turret and crash-landed in a restoration zone, miraculously near a Zabrak named Bao-Dur who was a former technician under Surik in the Mandalorian Wars. He refused to call her anything but "General". He also designed the Mass Shadow Generator, which played a significant role in the Mandalorians' ultimate defeat in the Battle of Malachor V, and currently worked for the Ithorians. Fighting their way through Czerka mercenaries, Surik and her companions reached an abandoned Republic military base, where Bao-Dur pinpointed a breach in the planetary defense system in the polar region as the most likely location of the Ebon Hawk. Having boarded a yet another shuttle (in the process discovering the base was swarming with hostile droids), Surik, Kreia, Atton and Bao-Dur headed to the polar region of Telos.
Hidden AcademyEdit
Upon arrival, the shuttle once again crash-landed on a polar plateau as a result of being shot down by three HK-50 droids. After dealing with them, Meetra discovered a Jedi Academy hidden within the plateau. When they entered it, Surik's companions were locked in prison cells, and she was brought before Atris, one of the Jedi Masters (and, in fact, the only Jedi in the academy) who previously banished Meetra from the Jedi Order for fighting in the Mandalorian Wars. Surik offered her help against the new Sith threat that had revealed itself on Peragus by finding any Jedi who may have survived the purge after the Jedi Civil War. Impressed that Surik held no evil against her, Atris allowed her to take back to the Ebon Hawk (which Surik learned was stolen by one of Atris' handmaidens) and freed her companions.
When the party assembled once again on the Ebon Hawk, T3-M4 "told" Surik that he downloaded a holorecord of her trial from Atris' archives. It turned out that there were Jedi Masters in hiding - the Jedi Council members that exiled her, namely Zez-Kai Ell, Kavar, Vrook Lamar and Lonna Vash. She decided to find them to discuss a plan of action against the new Sith and maybe even figure out why she lost her connection to the Force.
Nar ShaddaaEdit
The first stop on their search was the planet of Nar Shaddaa. Nar Shaddaa was the "gaping maw of Nal Hutta." The massive population and large cityscape of the planet made it easy for one to hide and lay low for a while. Unfortunately, Surik did just the opposite. In her attempt to find Jedi Master Zez-Kai Ell, Surik made an effort to cause much anger and distress to the Exchange, and get the bounty hunters off her back. When Meetra was captured, the famous bounty hunter Mira joined up with Meetra's party and they rescued her on G0-T0's yacht. During the rescue, the yacht's cloaking was sabotaged and Vogga, one of the local Hutts whose freighters were being raided by G0-T0's yacht, quickly seized the opportunity and destroyed it, right as the Ebon Hawk escaped.
Finally, Surik came back to Nar Shaddaa and found the Jedi Master. The Master confessed that he felt that the Jedi Order had much to take responsibility for, and their inability to do so at Surik's trial caused him to leave. He answered her questions and taught her a lightsaber form. He then agreed to go to Dantooine and wait for her there.
Immediately after Nar Shaddaa, Surik sought out Jedi Master Kavar on Onderon. As the Ebon Hawk entered the Onderon system and joined the long line into Iziz Starport, Colonel Tobin fired on the ship and began a massive space battle above the planet. The Ebon Hawk took damage during the battle and was forced to crash land on the jungle moon Dxun. In their explorations of the moon in search of passage, the Exile encountered a large group of Mandalorians, led by Mandalore the Preserver, also known as Canderous Ordo. Mandalore accompanied Surik to Onderon on his own shuttle.
Once Surik landed on Onderon, she grew knowledgeable of the crisis that was brewing in Iziz. Onderon military General Vaklu declared martial law in the city and began subtly rallying support for his revolution against his cousin, Queen Talia. Mandalore's personal friend Dr. Dagon Ghent, after being cleared of charges for the murder of Captain Sullio, thanks to Meetra's investigation, found Master Kavar and made contact. At the time, Kavar was serving as a Jedi bodyguard and adviser to the queen, and he left the palace walls to meet with Surik in the cantina.
Their meeting was immediately interrupted by Colonel Tobin and a squad of Onderon military soldiers. Kavar helped Meetra escape the cantina, and she then retreated back to Dxun.
Surik left Dxun on the repaired Ebon Hawk and departed the Onderon System, to be away until Kavar reattempted contact. The third stop on their search was the grassland planet of Dantooine. Dantooine was devastated by the Attack on Dantooine perpetrated by Darth Malak several years before. The surviving populace had established a government in the former home of the Matale family which they named Khoonda, with Terena Adare at its head. The people of Khoonda were fearful of the Jedi, who they associated with the Dark Jedi responsible for attacking them in the past.
Surik came to the world in search of Vrook Lamar, a Human Jedi Council member. Once on Dantooine, she heard rumors that Terena Adare was in contact with a Jedi, and she approached Adare to inquire about his whereabouts. Adare realized some time ago that the Khoonda Militia would not provide sufficient protection, so she had maintained secret contacts with the Jedi Master. The administrator granted Surik permission to search the Enclave ruins for Lamar. In the ruins, she fought through several waves of laigreks, but found no trace of the master. She ran into Mical, a former Jedi Initiate who was going to be her Padawan before she left for the Mandalorian Wars. He had been sent by Carth Onasi to find and protect any Jedi artifacts he can find. He agreed to join her group and help find the masters with her. Surik also found the corpses of several mercenaries in the library, and a datapad found on one of their bodies indicated that Vrook had been captured.
Surik led her party to the Mercenary enclave in the crystal caves not far from Khoonda, where they found the mercenaries preparing to sell Lamar to the Exchange. Surik approached the group and asked for his release, but her pleas fell on deaf ears and she was forced to defeat the mercenaries to rescue Lamar. Unexpectedly, the freed Vrook chastised her, telling her her that her actions just caused an all-out war, and revealing that he had allowed the mercenaries to capture him so that they would not attack Khoonda. As Surik left the caves to return to Khoonda, she met Azkul, the leader of the mercenary groups. He asked her to join him in his campaign against Khoonda, but Surik refused and dispatched Akzul's mercenaries.
Back at Khoonda, Surik bolstered the stronghold's defenses by activating droids and security systems, as well as gathering extra members for the Militia. Akzul's mercenaries attacked, precipitating a long and hard-fought battle that culminated with the defeat of Akzul at the hands of Surik and Lamar. With the mercenary threat averted, Vrook Lamar answered Surik's questions and taught her a new lightsaber form. Surik departed the planet, taking the gratitude of its people with her.
Return to DxunEdit
As Surik departed Dantooine, she received word from the Mandalorians on Dxun that Kavar had just made contact, and that she was needed back immediately. The morning of that day, General Vaklu declared Queen Talia guilty of treason and began the revolt against her. But the situation had now become far more complicated, because the Sith, led by Darth Nihilus had become involved and offered aid to Vaklu's Separatists. The Onderon Civil War had begun.
The Sith were using the Tomb of Freedon Nadd on Dxun as their main base. After repairing the telecommunications array, the Mandalorians had finally found it. Surik handpicked a group of her party members to infiltrate the tomb and destroy the Sith forces there, while she would go to Onderon and help turn the tide of the Civil War.
The group hiked through the jungle, engaged the Sith on the field, and cleansed the tomb.
Return to OnderonEdit
Surik, along with Kreia took a salvaged Basilisk war droid into Iziz and interfered in the battle. They fought their way up the Sky Ramp and into the palace. With the help of Master Kavar, they got to the Queen before General Vaklu could kill her, and ended the Onderon Civil War. Immediately afterward, Kreia secretly revived Colonel Tobin from his state of unconsciousness and had him deliver a message to Darth Nihilus, informing him to go to Telos IV, and destroy the last of the Jedi.
After ending the Onderon Civil War Meetra went to Korriban, the last world she needed to visit, in an effort to find Master Lonna Vash, in the Sith Academy, located in the Valley of the Dark Lords. Unfortunately, Surik was too late to save her from Darth Sion. Sion sealed the door to the academy and tried to have Surik killed. With Kreia's help, Meetra escaped.
Rebuilding the RepublicEdit
Surik learned much about her companions' past, learning that many of them were Force-sensitive, and trained them in the ways of the Jedi. Surik's apprentices who would later restore the Jedi Order known as the Lost Jedi. Furthermore, she discovered that Kreia was Revan's first teacher, exiled by the Jedi and later by the Sith, and that Revan himself left known space to fight an unknown threat from his Sith days that continued its existence beyond the Outer Rim.
When visiting Dantooine and Onderon, Surik was caught in the middle of conflicts between the weakened Republic and two powers aiming to weaken it further—the Exchange and Onderon separatists, respectively. By G0-T0's request (and having no other choice if they needed to contact the Jedi Masters), she stabilized the political situations on these planets, preventing them from being lost for the Republic, even though the resolutions led to two bloody conflicts known as the Battle of Dantooine and the Onderon Civil War.
Kreia's fallEdit
Finally, three of the surviving Masters—Kavar, Vrook and Zez-Kai Ell—gathered on Dantooine, in the rebuilt Jedi Enclave. Surik learned from the Masters that the Council did not cut her off from the Force (as Kreia led her to believe). She instinctively caused herself to become deaf to the Force after activating the Mass Shadow Generator on Malachor V and being unable to withstand the Wound in the Force that she created by doing this.
However, Surik failed to persuade the Jedi Masters to unite against the Sith. The Jedi Masters explained that this new Sith threat, which caught them unprepared, fed on Force users, so that whenever Jedi gathered, they inevitably died, and everyone and everything around them shared the same fate. This was what happened on Katarr, Visas Marr's home world and the location of the previous Jedi Conclave. The Jedi Masters explained to Meetra, that they believe she would eventually cause the death of the Force, and they feared that Surik would lead the Sith to the Enclave. Therefore, the Jedi Masters refused to accept Surik back into the Order and decided to separate Surik from the Force; this time, forever.
Kreia then intervened, forcing the three Masters away from Surik and declaring their arrogance and lack of understanding, before forcing them to undergo the same loss Surik had felt on Malachor with a powerful force drain. The masters, unable to live without the Force, died. Surik retained her connection to the Force, but remained unconscious as Atris' handmaidens ran into the Enclave and took Kreia to her mistress as a prisoner (If Surik is male, Brianna will take Kreia to the academy). This left Surik no choice but to return to the secret Telosian academy, as she believed that the Force bond between her and Kreia was fatal and, should Atris execute Kreia, she would die as well.
However, Atris did not execute Kreia, for while Kreia revealed her Sith name, Darth Traya, she also revealed to Atris that she had already, without realizing it, fallen to the dark side, studying the knowledge of Sith holocrons. Kreia departed for Malachor V; when Meetra arrived, she found only Atris, who revealed that Darth Nihilus was about to attack Telos, an event also orchestrated by Kreia through her manipulation of Colonel Tobin. Surik confronted the now fully fallen Atris and defeated her, but spared her life. Atris told Surik that Kreia threatened to destroy the Force by sacrificing herself at the Trayus Core on Malachor V, and Surik departed to face the more immediate threat of Darth Nihilus.
Battle of TelosEdit
- See also: Battle of Telos IV
Surik arrived on Citadel Station to discover that the Battle of Telos IV had already begun. Fighting through Citadel Station, Surik and her companions managed to reach an orbital shuttle which they used to board the Ravager, with the help of the Mandalorians led by Canderous. Once on board, Surik, along with Canderous and Visas Marr, planted charges on the Ravager, Nihilus' flagship, before heading to the bridge to confront Nihilus himself.
During their duel, Nihilus attempted to consume Meetra as he did other Jedi, but it proved to be his undoing - rather than draining the Force from Surik, he was weakened by the void in the Force, the echo of the Mandalorian wars that she carried, and was defeated in combat. Surik and her companions departed the Ravager, which was destroyed, saving Citadel station and Telos.
Upon her return, Carth Onasi arranged an appointment with Meetra, and retold the story of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and asked her to search for Revan, to tell him that "Admiral Onasi is following his orders" to keep the Republic safe. After meeting Surik, Carth met with Bastila Shan, who followed Carth to Telos.
The final battle: Malachor VEdit
- See also: Battle of Malachor
Surik left Telos, heading to Malachor V, where she found and fought through the Trayus Academy to reach the two remaining Sith Lords—Kreia, now as Darth Traya, the headmistress of the academy, and Darth Sion, his will broken. Despite Sion's regenerative abilities, Surik eroded his will through words, and during their duel convinced him to give up the Force, and his pain, as she had, thus ending his immortality.
She then confronted Darth Traya at the core, who refused redemption, challenging Surik to silence the echoes of Malachor, to kill her former master, lest all she had accomplished "be as nothing, as empty, and as violent as Malachor itself." Surik dueled Kreia, and emerged victorious.
Upon defeat, Kreia gazed into the future from the Trayus Core, revealing the future of Surik's companions, of the planets they had visited, of the Mandalorians, and even of the Republic itself. She also revealed that Revan had come to Malachor, after the Mandalorian wars and again after the Jedi Civil War, where he discovered evidence of the "true Sith," whom he had gone to fight, "in his own way." Meanwhile, on Malachor's surface, Bao-Dur's remote powered up and reactivated the Mass Shadow Generator, despite G0-T0's attempts to stop him, destroying them both. As Malachor V collapsed upon itself once again, the Ebon Hawk arrived in time to rescue Surik, while Kreia died with Malachor. Surik left Malachor for the last time, heading to the unknown regions to search for Revan.
Voice castEdit
- CEO and Executive Producer - Feargus Urquhart[1]
- Producer - Chris Parker,[9] Michael Gallo[9]
- Lead Designer - Chris Avellone[1]
- Design Team - Ferret Baudoin,[1] Michael Chu,[1] Tony Evans,[1] Scott Everts,[1] John Morgan,[1] Kevin Saunders,[1] David Maldonado[1]
- Composer - Mark Griskey [11]
- Lead Artist - Aaron J. Meyers[9]
- Art Team - Aaron Brown,[9] Trent Campbell,[9] Doug Cope,[9] Tim Cox,[9] David Espinoza,[9] Mustazar Essa,[9] Lucas Feld,[9] William Harper,[9] Edward Lacabanne,[9] Brian Menze,[9] Dennis Presnell,[9] Glenn Price[9]
- Additional Concept Art - T.J. Frame,[9] Chris Appelhans[9]
- Additional Modeling and Texturing - Robert Giampa[9]
- Lead Programmer - Chris Jones[9]
- Programming Team - Adam Brennecke,[9] Anthony Davis,[9] Jay Fong,[9] Frank Kowalkowski,[9] Ben Ma,[9] Dan Spitzley,[9] Richard Taylor[9]
An asterisk ( * ) indicates a character who is essential to forwarding the game's plot. Two asterisks ( ** ) denote a character whose first appearance or mention was elsewhere in Star Wars continuity.
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Alternative storiesEdit
If the player chooses to follow the dark side, they can throw Kreia into the core of Malachor V and assume the throne of headmistress of Trayus Academy. Meanwhile, G0-T0 destroys Bao-Dur's remote and deactivates the Mass Shadow Generator, keeping the planet intact.
Both Obsidian and LucasArts have expressed a desire to yet again expand upon the franchise, LucasArts' representatives stating they have no intention of abandoning Knights of the Old Republic. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 3 was in development, but was cancelled sometime in 2004 due to a difficult period for LucasArts. In March 2007, news of a spin-off was made official when "Aristotle," owner of a Knights fansite, interviewed several staff members of LucasArts.
Later in the year, Electronic Gaming Monthly reported in the rumors section of their May 2007 issue that BioWare had hired an online team for work on a massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on the Knights of the Old Republic series.[12] The game, Star Wars: The Old Republic, was finally and officially announced in July 2008 by EA CEO John Riccitiello.[1] It was finally released December 20th, 2011, and was generally well received by the critics.
Behind the scenesEdit
In June 2009, in Kotaku Australia interview Chris Avellone revealed the "true Sith" planned to be remnants of Naga Sadow's Sith Empire, "orchestrating the collapse of the Republic from behind the scenes, interfering with key events to cause echoes through the Force and leave it ripe for invasion – hopefully without a shot even being fired."[13]
Although the game did allow the game character be named freely, The Old Republic: Revan—Drew Karpyshyn novel released November 2011—did reveal her canonical name to be Meetra Surik, and appearance that didn't match any of the available female appearances on the game.[14]
On July 21st 2015, over ten years after the original release of The Sith Lords, Aspyr Media released a port of the game for both Mac and Linux.[2] Aspyr also added several new features to the game including:
- 37 Achievements for both Steam and Game Center [15]
- Gamepad support
- Support for widescreen and native resolutions, including Retina/4k/5k resolutions
- Steam Cloud saves (Steam only)
- Steam Workshop support (Steam only)
- A number of bug fixes.
These features were also passed onto the PC Windows version.[16]
An official petition has been started on Aspyr's website for those interested in a potential mobile version of the game.[17]
Game modsEdit
Because of the flexibility of the game's Odyssey game engine, The Sith Lords is often a subject of modding in the gaming community. A number of modding groups have attempted to recreate and restore missing or cut content left in the game files.
Team Gizka's project was the first of these, erected in 2004 to promise restored content, save the cut M4-78 Droid planet and in early 2008 their project reached closed beta stage. Other modders, using the handles DarthStoney and Zbyl, created a restoration mod inspired by Team Gizka which accomplished all of Team Gizka's initial goals, including a restored HK factory and various bug fixes. As of late 2010, the Team Gizka site was disbanded.
However, as recent as 2014, a full-scale mod known as The Sith Lords Restored Content Mod was released that restores most of the cut content.
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/rpg/kotor2/tech_info.html?tag=tabs;summary Url accessed on October 25 2008
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 http://blog.gameagent.com/knights-of-the-old-republic-sequel-comes-to-mac-and-linux/ Url accessed on July 25 2015
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/rpg/kotor2/video/6096604/star-wars-knights-of-the-old-republic-ii-the-sith-lords-developer-interview-2 Url accessed on October 25 2008.
- ↑ http://www.classification.gov.au/special.html?n=46&p=156&sTitle=Star+Wars&sMediaGames=1&sDateFromM=1&sDateFromY=2004&sDateToM=10&sDateToY=2006&record=199761Url accessed on October 25 2008
- ↑ http://www.usk.de/64_Pruefdatenbank.htm?id=64&s=search&title=star+wars&publisher=&genre=0&system=Microsoft+XBOX&freigabe=0&s.x=60&s.y=11 Url accessed on October 25 2008
- ↑ Knights of the Old Republic Campaign Guide
- ↑ http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/rpg/kotor2/video/6095390/star-wars-knights-of-the-old-republic-ii-the-sith-lords-developer-interview Url accessed on October 25 2008.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/rpg/kotor2/news.html?sid=6109428&mode=previews Url accessed on October 25 2008
- ↑ 9.00 9.01 9.02 9.03 9.04 9.05 9.06 9.07 9.08 9.09 9.10 9.11 9.12 9.13 9.14 9.15 9.16 9.17 9.18 9.19 9.20 9.21 9.22 9.23 9.24 9.25 9.26 9.27 9.28 9.29 9.30 9.31 9.32 9.33 9.34 9.35 9.36 9.37 9.38 9.39 9.40 9.41 9.42 9.43 9.44 9.45 9.46 9.47 9.48 9.49 9.50 9.51 9.52 9.53 9.54 9.55 9.56 9.57 9.58 9.59 9.60 9.61 9.62 9.63 9.64 9.65 9.66 9.67 9.68 9.69 9.70 9.71 9.72 9.73 9.74 9.75 9.76 9.77 Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords on MobyGames
- ↑ 10.00 10.01 10.02 10.03 10.04 10.05 10.06 10.07 10.08 10.09 10.10 10.11 10.12 10.13 10.14 10.15 10.16 Knights of the Old Republic at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Mark Griskey's Official Website
- ↑ KOTOR MMO in development?. Computerandvideogames.com (2007-04-25). Retrieved on April 30, 2007.
- ↑ Question Time: Your Interview With Chris Avellone. kotaku.com.au (2009-06-03). Retrieved on July 16, 2009.
- ↑ The Old Republic: Revan
- ↑ http://store.steampowered.com/app/208580/ Url accessed on July 25 2015
- ↑ http://blog.gameagent.com/faqs-star-wars-knights-of-the-old-republic-ii-the-sith-lords-mac-linux/ Url accessed on July 25 2015
- ↑ http://www.aspyr.com/games/star-wars-knights-of-the-old-republic-ii-the-sith-lords/ Url accessed on July 25 2015
See alsoEdit
- Cut content from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (soundtrack)
- Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords: Prima Official Game Guide
External linksEdit
- http://www.starwars.com/games-apps/knights-of-the-old-republic on StarWars.com (backup link on Archive.org)
Official linksEdit
- E3 Lineup Includes KOTOR II: The Sith Lords on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org)
- See the KOTOR II Trailer on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org)
- LucasArts Launches KOTOR II Site on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org)
- Crafting the KOTOR II Story on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org)
- The Art of KOTOR II on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org)
- Now Available: KOTOR II on StarWars.com (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org)
Gaming sitesEdit
- The Sith Lords Restoration Project at the Star Wars Fan Wiki
- The Sith Lords Restored Content Mod at the Star Wars Fan Wiki
- The Sith Lords Restoration Project which aims to restore the cut content to the PC version of the game
- M4-78 Enhancement Project - expansion of the original M4-78 mod, created by modder Darth Stoney, which restores the cut planet M4-78.
- Download KotOR II mods on the FileFront Network
- [2] The Sith Lords modding tools.


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This bread is a pretty addition to the table during the holidays. Cherries, walnuts and chocolate chips give fast festive flair to the loaf of moist banana bread. —Phyllis Schmalz, Kansas City, Kansas
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1-1/4 cups mashed ripe bananas (about 3 medium)
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
- 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 1/4 cup chopped maraschino cherries
- In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture. Beat in bananas just until combined. Stir in the walnuts, chocolate chips and cherries.
- Pour into a greased 9x5-in. loaf pan. Bake at 350° for 70-80 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack. Yield: 1 loaf (16 slices).
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"Until they push me out of here."
That's what Dolphins quarterback Chad Henne said a few weeks ago when asked how long he planned to remain on the roster. Well, the nudge is probably the Dolphins deciding to go after a big-name quarterback this offseason.
By showing interest in Peyton Manning, Matt Flynn or trading up to draft Baylor's Robert Griffin III, it's likely Henne's days with the Dolphins are done. Unlike Matt Moore, Henne's contract has expired.
The chances of him returning are slim.
"I hope so," Henne said of playing in Miami next season. "If not, then I'll move on, but I love this team. I love being down here."
Henne started four games before sustaining a season-ending shoulder injury against the San Diego. He's completed rehab and said he's ready to contribute wherever he lands.
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I pulled two Case Keenum 2012 Bowman Football cards from the same blaster. I am not sure which one is the base and which is the variation though. Can you help?
Nice cards. The base card is the one where he is holding the ball up by his ear in the white jersey. The variation is the dark jersey. Let me know if you have any other questions. Here is a list of the photo variations from 2012 Bowman Football.
1). I decided I want to send a few cards to Beckett and I saw on your video that you also sent cards into Beckett before. My cards are in hard plastic top loaders to keep them protected. Can I send the cards I want to have graded in these top loaders or should I send them in a durable sleeve?
From what I've been told is that 'normal' or cards that aren't overly thick are best sent in via a Card Saver I or Card Saver II type case. If the card is too thick or cannot work in that case, you can send it in another case.
2). On the Beckett submission sheet, it says Qty. when filling out information on the cards you want to be sending. What does that mean exactly?
That means if you were to send in multiple versions of the same card. For example if you had 10 of the exact same card, instead of listing them all .. you can just write 10 in the QTY. If you only have 1 card, you can just put a 1 in that box.
3). Below the filling out section on the form, there are two boxes with statements asking if you just want your cards just to be authenticated. Should I mark one of these boxes or just ignore it?
Typically this is just for people who want the card to go in an "Authentic" slab ... and NOT be graded. This option is sometimes used by collectors who have a really nice card, but not in great condition. For example, you might have a really nice vintage Mickey Mantle card that is not in great condition. The card could be fake, so to authenticate it you send it in to Beckett and they slab it "Authentic' without grading it. It makes highly faked cards easier to sell. You can do the same on an autograph card...or other cards. You'll want to ignore this feature for now if this doesn't fit into what you are looking for.
Hello I am a new collector I currently don't have much but I want to sell some things, any advice would be appreciated.
Hi, thanks for the e-mail. eBay has long been one of the best places to sell cards because it has so many buyers. The fees run at close to 20 - 30% after the sale, so you'll want to keep that in mind. Considering you want to start small - that's a good thing, and I would just start by experimenting with different cards you have. Just make sure you always ship things out quickly and you shouldn't have too many problems selling on eBay.
I pulled a Buster Posey red championship materials card from 2012 Topps Tribute Baseball, which are suppose to be numbered to 10. Oddly mine was numbered 1/4. I never heard of this and was wondering if you did.
Nice card. The only thing I can think of is they only had a limited amount of a Posey jersey left - and they just didn't have enough to complete the red parallel #/10. Perhaps some other players had the same issue - but the Posey is the only one I've heard of.
If I want to buy a box for my kid and I want a particular player, can I buy a box that tells me what players might be inside? Does the serial number on the front of the box tell you?
From what I know, there is no 100% way to know what players are contained within a box. While more popular players tend to have more cards, you cannot tell if they are in boxes based on the serial #. My guess is that serial numbers on boxes is more used for licensing and inventory control more than anything - and is for the most part random.
Is Panini not making gridiron football for 2012?? I cant seem to find anything on this set.
Thanks for the e-mail, and good question
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Do you know what the print run was for the normal Autographed cards in 2005 Bowman Chrome Baseball? Also, did Justin Verlander get a Superfractor from that set? I have read that one was not printed for him.
Great question, thanks for the e-mail.
I pulled an Albert Pujols 2001 Fleer Platinum RC card, short-printed to 10/21. Being young an not knowing any better, I got the card signed by Albert. I know that unsigned it carries good value, but I was wondering if you had any ideas on how I could make the card marketable again. I have had the suggestion of getting the signature authenticated.
Answer:Thanks for the e-mail, good question. You are correct, unsigned, the card is very valuable - however with the right authentication - you will certainly get more for it than left un-authenticated.
The suggestion of getting the signature authenticated is a great idea. I know PSA/DNA has this service, and I believe Beckett (BGS) does as well. They will encapsulate the card (which helps protect it from future damage as well), and if you wanted to sell it - it would make it much easier to sell on eBay, to a dealer/collector - or elsewhere.
Here is the PSA/DNA service:
Hope that helps, PSA/DNA or Beckett would be the services I would use. You can mail the card in, or find when they attend a card show in your area. If you have any other questions let me know. Thanks for the e-mail.
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OUTLOOK:A veteran middle infielder, Josh Rutledge returns for this third season as the Tide's starting shortstop and will once again team with junior second baseman Ross Wilson to form one of the nation's top middle infield units ... the junior has started 118 games in his UA career and is batting .339 (172-for-507) with five home runs and 75 RBI from mainly the leadoff or No. 2 spot in the batting order ... also added four triples, 23 doubles and 24 stolen bases ... scored 126 runs ... also started 58 SEC games in his two-year career and compiled a .346 average (88-for-254) with two home runs and 32 RBI ... has scored 56 runs and added 13 doubles against SEC foes ... a first-team All American in 2009, Rutledge hit .303 (73-for-239) with a five home runs and 44 RBI, both career highs ... he hit .281 with two home runs and 19 RBI in 28 SEC games as a sophomore ... he was one of three UA players to hit for the cycle in 2009, joining Kent Matthes and Jake Smith ... Rutledge hit for the cycle with a 4-for-5 effort at South Alabama on April 21, 2009 ... he finished the game with four runs scored and five RBI ... earlier in the season, he had six hits and nine RBI in back-to-back wins over Mississippi (March 22) and UAB (March 24) ... Rutledge earned Freshman All-American and Freshman All-SEC honors after a stellar rookie season in 2008 ... played and started 61 games and recorded the second-highest batting average by a freshman in Tide history ... Rutledge hit .369 his freshman season and led the SEC with 91 hits in the regular season ... his .369 average is second only to David Magadan's freshman school-record .393 average in 1981 ... set UA record with 23-game SEC hitting streak from March 21-May 10 ... also recorded third-longest hitting streak in school history with 28-game hitting streak from March 26-May 10 ... led all SEC freshmen in hitting (.369), total hits (99) and multi-hit games (31) as a freshman ... led UA with 31 multi-hit games ... named SEC Freshman of the Week on April 27 after an 8-for-11 performance against arch-rival Auburn as the Tide captured the weekend SEC series.
2009 SUMMER BASEBALL:Played in the Cape Cod League for the second straight summer ... spent the 2009 season with the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox ... led the Red Sox to a league-best 28-15-1 record and Eastern Division championship ... lost to eventual champion Cotuit in the CCL Playoffs ... played in 35 games and batted .250 (28-for-112) with two doubles and 11 RBI ... also added 17 runs scored, 10 walks and seven stolen bases ... summer league teammate of Micah Gibbs (LSU), Tyler Hanover (LSU), Matt Little (UK), Ben McMahan (UF), Austin Ross (LSU) and Drew Hayes (VU).
CAREER POSTSEASON NOTES:Rutledge has started all 11 postseason games in his two-year career ... hitting .290 (13-for-45) in his postseason career with 11 runs scored, three doubles and six RBI ... started all four postseason games in 2009 ... he batted .294 (5-for-17) with four runs scored and two RBI ... he batted .333 (3-for-9) at the 2009 SEC Tournament with three runs scored and two RBI ... he went 2-for-8 (.250) with one double and one run scored at 2009 Clemson Regional ... started all seven postseason games for the Tide in 2008 ... he batted .286 (8-for-28) with seven runs scored, two doubles, four RBI ... he also added four stolen bases, five walks and a .417 on-base percentage ... as the starting shortstop, Rutledge made only one error in (.950) in 21 postseason chances ... in four SEC Tournament games, Rutledge hit .313 (5-for-16) with five runs scored, two doubles and two RBI ... he went 2-for-3 with one double and two runs scored in win over Georgia on May 22 ... added two RBI against LSU on May 24 ... started all three games at NCAA Conway (S.C.) Regional and hit .250 (3-for-12) with two runs scored and two RBI ... in his NCAA Tournament debut, Rutledge went 3-for-6 with one run scored and one RBI against East Carolina on May 30.
SOPHOMORE (2009):First-Team All-SEC selection ... started 57 games at shortstop ... missed only game of the season vs. Arkansas (sore back) on May 8 ... snapped streak of 79 consecutive starts, dating back to April 4, 2008 ... batted .305 (73-for-239) with five home runs and 44 RBI, both career highs ... hit .281 (34-for-121) with two home runs and 19 RBI in 29 SEC games ... made only six errors in 29 games ... ranked 11th in the SEC with 64 runs scored and ninth with 13 HBPs ... recorded seventh cycle in Alabama history at South Alabama on April 22 ... he was 4-for-5 with four runs and five RBI in the game ... it was UA's third cycle of the season, joining Kent Matthes (vs. Nicholls State, Feb. 24) and Jake Smith (Samford, April 15) ... tallied 21 multi-hit games ... co-leader with six, three-hit games ... hit safely in 42 of 57 games ... opened the season by hitting .269 (7-for-26) in first seven games ... went 3-for-5 against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on March 5 ... posted six-game hitting streak from Feb. 24-March 5 ... matched a career high with six at-bats against TAMU-CC on March 7 ... went 3-for-5 and scored two runs in UA's series-clinching win over No. 1 Georgia on March 14 ... was a perfect 4-for-4 with home run, four RBI and three runs scored in 24-0 win over Alabama A&M on March 17 ... slugged first career home run, with a two-run home run in third inning ... it was his first home run in 339 career at bats ... went 3-for-5 with three runs scored, home run and career-high five RBI in 19-6 win at Mississippi on March 22 ... slugged first career SEC home run, with two-run shot in second inning ... tied career high with six at-bats against Mississippi Valley State on April 1 ... went 2-for-4 with three runs scored and one RBI against Troy on April 7 ... scored 100th career run on April 11 against LSU ... went 2-for-3 and matched career-high with three runs scored vs. Mississippi Valley State on April 14 ... batted .365 (5-13) with two RBI in three-game series at Vanderbilt on April 17-18 ... game-winning two-run single in series opener ... posted back-to-back two-hit games in final two games of series ... played 100th career game on April 18 at Vandy ... recorded seventh cycle in Alabama history on April 22 at South Alabama ... he was 4-for-5 with four runs and five RBI in the game ... it was UA's third cycle this season ... Kent Matthes (vs. Nicholls State, Feb. 24) and Jake Smith (Samford, April 15) also recorded cycles for the Tide ... tied a career-high with five RBI at USA ... two hits and two RBI at Mississippi State on May 1 ... recorded three hits in series finale at Auburn on May 16, including two-run home run to give UA an 8-0 lead in fourth inning ... Rutledge was the Tide's starting shortstop and hit third in the batting order in all three games against Cuba ... hit .250 (3 for 12) in the series and had one hit in all three games ... he tripled and scored the Tide's first run in game two of the series ... added an RBI single in the Tide's five-run fifth inning in the series finale.
FRESHMAN (2008): Recorded a phenomenal freshman season ... played and started 61 games for the Crimson Tide and led the team with a .369 (99 for 268) batting average ... second freshman in school history to lead the team in hitting ... David Magadan (.389) led the team as a rookie in 1981 ... Rutledge's .369 average is also the second-highest batting average by an Alabama freshman ... recorded 99 hits, the most by an Alabama freshman and the 10th highest-total in school history ... led UA in hitting (.369), runs scored (62), hits (99), stolen bases (16) and multi-hit games (31) ... also led all SEC hitters with 91 hits during the regular season and paced the league with 56 hits in 30 conference games ... led UA with .406 (54 for 133) batting average in 30 SEC games ... led the Tide in SEC play in hitting (.406), hits (54), on-base percentage (.452), multi-hit games (17) and stolen bases (3) ... his .406 conference batting average was second only South Carolina All-American and first-round draft pick, Justin Smoak ... 2008 Freshman All-American selection by Collegiate Baseball newspaper ... Freshman All-SEC selection by SEC head coaches ... hit safely in 53 of 61 games ... went hitless in back-to-back games only once against Coastal Carolina (May 31) and East Carolina (June 1) in the final two games of the season ... also hit safely in 28 of 30 SEC games ... UA's leading hitter against Ole Miss (.636) and Auburn (.727) ... also leading hitter in February (.391), March (.363) and April (.422) ... after going hitless in his UA debut against Cal Poly on Feb. 22, Rutledge rebounded to hit safely in his next eight games ... batted .500 (18 for 36) in those eight games and scored 11 runs ... posted six multi-hit games in eight-game stretch from Feb. 23-March 5 ... posted back-to-back four-hit games against Nevada (Feb. 29) and Dallas Baptist (March 1) at the 2008 Southwest Diamond Classic in Frisco, Texas ... named to the Southwest Diamond Classic All-Tournament team, after hitting .693 (9 for 13) and six runs scored helping UA to the championship ... batted .444 (4 for 9) in two-game series with Troy (March 4-5) with back-to-back two-hit games ... hit .538 (7 for 13) with four runs and three multi-hit games against No. 4 Vanderbilt (March 21-23) ... leading hitter against No. 15 Ole Miss with a .636 (7 for 11) average, including back-to-back three-hit games on March 28-29 ... went 3 for 4 with three runs and season-high three RBI vs. Mississippi Valley State (April 8) ... hit .467 (7 for 15) in three-game series at Tennessee (April 12-13), with two, three-hit games ... hit .412 (5 for 12) against Mississippi State (April 19-20), including back-to-back two hit games in the April 19 double header ... scored a season-high three runs in UA's 21-7 win in series opener ... named SEC Freshman of the Week after hitting .727 (8 for 11) against arch-rival Auburn (April 25-27) with two RBI and four runs scored ... tied season high with four hits and two RBI in UA's 17-7 series-clinching win over the Tigers ... hit .357 (5 for 14) in the Tide's first road series win at Arkansas on May 2-4, including back-to-back two-hit games to open the series ... posted Alabama freshman record 28-game hitting streak (March 26-May 10), where he batted .430 (52 for 121) with 27 runs, five doubles, one triple and 19 RBI ... the 28-game hitting streak broke the freshman record of 27 games set by David Magadan in 1981 ... the 28-game streak was the third longest in school history ... logged 15 multi-hit games during the streak ... posted school record 23-game SEC hitting streak from March 21-April 11, where he batted .459 (45 for 98) with 22 runs, four doubles, one triple and 10 RBI ... tallied 13 multi-hit games during his SEC hitting streak ... posted 15-game hitting streak at the Joe from March 21-May 11, where he batted .525 (31 for 59) with 19 runs, five doubles, one triple and 13 RBI ... had 10 multi-hit games during the home hitting streak ... capped an incredible regular-season by going 6 for 16 (.375) against No. 7 Georgia with five runs scored and two RBI ... had two hits and scored two runs in UA's 17-13 series-opening win on May 16 ... added three hits and two runs scored in series-clinching win on May 17 ... Rutledge singled and scored winning run in ninth inning off Georgia's All-American closer Joshua Fields in the series finale ... he was 5 for 16 (.313) at SEC Tournament with two doubles, two RBI and five runs scored ... he was 2 for 3 with two runs scored against No. 1 seed Georgia ... honed his skills that summer in the prestigious wooden-bat Cape Cod League, where he played for the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox ... played in 41 games for the Red Sox and earned starts at shortstop (23), outfield (19), second base (6) and third base (3) ... hit .294 (48 for 163) with one home run and 10 RBI ... wrapped up the summer with 13 extra base hits, including nine doubles and three triples, and scored a team-high 26 runs ... also paced the Red Sox with 48 hits.
HIGH SCHOOL:A 2007 graduate of Cullman High School where he was a four-year starter for Coach Bryan Bowen ... hit .445 with 17 home runs and 102 RBI during his junior and senior seasons ... was a two-time All-State selection (2006 and 2007) ... played in consecutive Class 5A state championship series (2006 and 2007) at Montgomery's Riverwalk Stadium ... hit .454 with 12 home runs and 69 RBI as a senior ... a 2007 First-Team All-State selection by The Birmingham News and the Alabama Sports Writers Association ... the 2007 Class 5A Player of the Year by The Birmingham News and the ASWA ... a member of the 2007 Birmingham News Super All-State Team ... led the Bearcats to a 48-7 record and a top 20 national ranking by USA Today and Baseball America in 2007 ... helped the team to the Class 5A State Championship with a two-game sweep against Bibb County High School, Cullman's first state title since 2002 ... went 3-for-7 (.429) at the plate in the championship series with one run scored, two RBI and three walks ... earned a save (0.1 IP) in Cullman's 5-4 win in game one ... as a junior in 2006, he hit .436 with five home runs and 33 RBI, a .602 slugging percentage and a .497 on-base mark ... led the Bearcats to a 37-13 overall record that season ... collected four hits and two RBI in the 2006 Class 5A state championship series as Cullman finished as the runner-up to Stanhope Elmore ... named the 2006 Cullman High School Offensive Player of the Year ... was selected to play in the 2006 Alabama High School Athletic Association (AHSAA) North-South All-Star game ... played in the Alabama Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) All-Star Showcase in Troy, Ala. ... a three-time National Honor Society selection ... a member of Cullman HS Key Club ... played summer ball for American Legion Post 15 under coaches Nathan Brownlow and Alan Lang.
PERSONAL:Full name is Joshua Alan Rutledge ... son of Tony and Cheryl Rutledge ... has one older brother, Michael, who played baseball at Mississippi State (2005-07) and Samford (2008) ... both Josh (2007) and Michael (2002) won state championships at Cullman High School.


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Bassist Peter Hook has been the pulse of two of rock's most enigmatic groups: Joy Division and New Order. He discussed the history of both bands at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Tuesday evening, November 30. The Legends Series session featured a sit-down interview and performance. The event's free tickets disappeared quickly, and it streamed live via rockhall.com. If you missed it, some highlights are here.
It was a busy week for Hook, who stopped in Cleveland between a concert in Italy and a show at Washington, D.C.'s 9:30 Club. The DC show was the opening night of a US tour for Hook's latest band, the Light. The Light is playing original material, but opens their set with Joy Division's entire debut album, Unknown Pleasures. The Joy Division set is hotly anticipated and long overdue: In 1980, singer Ian Curtis committed suicide the night before the band was scheduled to leave for an American tour.
Hook sat for a two-hour Q&A session with Rock Hall Director of Education Jason Hanley, but first the Foster Theater screened the same short film that is preceding the Light's live shows. The collection of vintage clips captured scenes of Joy Division's rise through late-70s British post-punk scene, from live footage to the iconic black-and-white video for "Atmosphere."
More recent real video footage chronicled the ascension of New Order, the surviving Joy Division members' next band, which redefined dance-club music and eventually packed stadiums all over the world. Between old clips, scenes from the 2002 movie 24 Hour Party People presented dramatic recreations Manchester's Factory Records-Hacienda night club scene, which New Order helped fund with smash singles like "Blue Monday." That landmark dance track became the best-selling 12-inch single of all time, but still lost its label money.
Hook was his own opening act for this Legends session. Before the interview, he took the stage alone and played bass along with three instrumental New Order tracks, "Elegia," "Sooner Than You Think," and "The Happy One," an unreleased song from the Technique sessions.
Then he opened up about his life and career, discussing his growth from an ordinary working-class kid to a self-described "old geezer" whose biggest groups are being honored in a Rock Hall of Fame exhibit. The transformation started at a Manchester concert by the Sex Pistols, who inspired a crowd of young Mancunians to form Joy Division, the Buzzcocks and the Fall.
Hook on the Sex Pistols:
"I'd never heard them, but I'd read about them in the press. The thing that intrigued me was: they had a fight at every gig. I'd been to see Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple, and that sort of intensity was different. The Sex Pistols were awful, but what got you was the attitude."
On his overnight conversion to the punk movement:
"I went home, too the collar off the dog, cut my clothes up — my mother didn't talk to me for a month."
On the grim British vibe that echoes in Joy Division's material:
"There was maybe an air of desolation about Manchester and Salford that came through in your music, but what we felt was very, very well summed up in our music."
On Joy Division's relatively prolific output -- the band could only afford to rent a practice space for three hours a week, but still managed to write two songs each session:
"It was wonderful. It was like a deluge. Joy Division were absolutely fantastic, and it was so easy. Ian delivered all the time – everybody did."
On the detached quality of Joy Division's recordings, which Hook was long critical of:
"I didn't [like it]. I wanted it to sound like the Sex Pistols. Thank God I didn't get my own wish. You're 20, you're writing great rock music. You sound fantastic in the practice space. All you want to do is take someone's head off. There's no subtlety in it.
"[Producer] Martin Hannett, God rest his soul, saw something in it we didn't. He gave it the longevity and depth and the ethereal sound that makes it sound great today.
"Today, playing it with the group, we use elements he gave it. He really did give it an otherworldly feel. It always reminds me of a pool on a moonlit night that you're desperate to jump into. It took me 28 years to get there, but the guy was an absolute genius. He was an absolute lunatic. He never spoke to you in English. He'd say, 'Make it harder, but make it softer' or 'Make it treble-y-er, but bottom-y-er.'"
On his trademark high-register bass sound:
"That came about early, when I paid 10 pounds for my first bass cabinet. It sounded dreadful, so I played high up. And Ian Curtis, God rest his soul, said 'That sounds great when you do that. Let's work on that. Right, Barney, you do some chords. Steven, you do those jungle drums.' And there you have Joy Division."
On starting fresh after Curtis' death:
"We always said as a group, in those moments in the pub when you're drunk, if any of us ever left, the band would be over. And when Ian died, then the band was over. It becomes very important to yourself, as a musician, not to trade on your past glories."
On learning to write without Curtis:
"It was like driving a car with a flat tire. We'd always had Ian to spot the good parts."
On signing to Quincy Jones' Qwest label for US distribution:
"It was a great compliment when we gave [1983's] Power, Corruption & Lies to Quincy – we just assumed he'd mix it again, because he was God, he was Quincy. I remember saying to Quincy Jones, 'Aren't you going to remix it?' He said, 'Remix it? You f**kers have done a great job! F**k that!' And he just put it out. Like, 'Wow, Quincy thinks we're good!' He really is a fantastic man."
On the mixed blessing of New Order's anonymity as musicians, even at the peak of their popularity in the States:
"You could play a gig at Six Flags to 30,000 people, and you could walk around, and nobody ever recognized you, because there was no pushing of you as a person in the videos or the records."
On New Order's famously synthesizer-driven aesthetic, and their love of flexible hardware like the Yamaha DX-7:
"We brought a lot of synths, and we found that generally the less you could mess about with them, the worse they sounded. What I found astonishing about Bernard was: you could give him a synth, and he could sit there for hours and hours, twiddling knobs until you were so bored you could put your head though the wall. But at the end of it, it was worth it."
On New Order's three post-1980s LPs, released in 1993, 2001, and 2005:
"Republic in particular was Bernard's vision of what he wanted New Order to sound like. And the rest of us gave up, to be honest. That's why Get Ready sounded more to me like a New Order record than Republic ever did.
"Unfortunately, when we got to Waiting for the Siren's Call, it was a bit too far in the other way for my taste. It was too soft. We got all these producers in, ostensibly, so me and Bernard wouldn't argue. But I said 'When we argue, we make a better record.'"
On New Order's multiple dissolutions:
"Tastes change, people change. All of us can testify to that if we've been in a long-term relationship. Our tastes and ambition and our drive change [as did] what we wanted to accomplish with the group. And it was time to knock it on the head. I felt that we were doing it for all the wrong reasons. The saddest thing was, the last gig was to 125,000 people in Argentina."
On the band's short-lived attempt to carry on without Hook following the 2006 breakup:
"I've always said that if any of us ever left, it was over. [Sumner] even tried to squirm out of that one. It's inconceivable to me that you could have New Order without Bernard and Stephen. And that's what hurt most, that they thought they could do it without [me]."
On not having a home studio, responding to an audience question:
"I don't have one. I got sick of people tramping around my living room… I don't like musicians."
On Johnny Rotten, Hook's early inspiration and, later, tour mate and friend:
"Johnny Rotten taught me that you've got to be true to yourself. If you're not enjoying it, you shouldn't be doing it. He's a very difficult man. When we toured with him, he was hell. He's a hell of character. He did not get New Order, and I don't blame him. He's still a great friend."
On his current tour with the Light, performing Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures. Hook fronts the band while his son Jack plays bass.
"I tried to get a couple guys I know to sing. They were very weary, 'coz there was a lot of internet criticism — keyboard terrorists were out in force. They pulled out, wouldn't do it. I though, 'Shit — all right, I'll have to do it.' Then I thought, 'Who am I gonna get to play bass?' And I realized my son, who's 20 now, the same age I was when I started."
On the tour's reception:
"It's been fantastic. If I had a dollar for every old geezer I've seeing standing there crying, I'd be a happy man. And I love the old geezers. I am one myself. And it's not just old geezers [at the shows] either."
On finally bringing a Joy Division tour of sorts to the States 30 years after the tragically canceled American debut:
"It's a bit odd. It feels very strange. America is the Promised Land to a lot of British musicians. When we finally did get here as New Order, we were very welcomed… New Order were larger than the Spice Girls and Oasis in America. So it's great to be back."


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Although it originated in Ireland, the tune and melody of "Londonderry Air" is known worldwide, its flowing cadence inextricably linked to Irish heritage. When English lawyer and songwriter Frederic Weatherly was introduced to the tune in 1913, he recast lyrics he'd previously penned to match the "Londonderry" melody, giving rise to "Danny Boy,"arguably the most celebrated version of the song.
For more than a century, the stirring folk ballad has been adapted by a diverse cast of performers, including various Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees. Here, we look at versions of "Danny Boy" by Sam Cooke, Johnny Cash, Jackie Wilson, Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Eric Clapton.
Sam Cooke
Cooke cut a beautifully soul-infused version of "Danny Boy" for his 1958 self-titled debut album, adding a charismatic lilt to the arrangement.
Johnny Cash
Cash recorded a hauntingly solemn version of "Danny Boy" for his 1965 Columbia Records release Orange Blossom Special, an album that included various folk and country standards as interpreted by the incomparable Man in Black.
Jackie Wilson
Wilson, who could effortlessly transition from rock to blues to soul, transformed "Danny Boy" – reportedly one of his mother's favorite songs – in 1965 with a version that showcased his depth and range as a vocalist, while imbuing it with a singular gospel feel.
Roy Orbison
Appearing on his 1972 album Memphis, Orbison's "Danny Boy" features the singer's tender emoting and the arrangement to match.
Elvis Presley
"Danny Boy" was among Presley's favorite songs, and he put his stamp on it for 1976's From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee, delivering a dramatic version complete with stirring falsetto.
Jerry Lee Lewis
Lewis' output in the 60s included a version of "Danny Boy" that was steeped in traditional country timbre, with a pedal steel accompaniment as steely as Lewis' vocals.
Eric Clapton
Three-time Hall of Fame Inductee Clapton tackled "Danny Boy" with a sparse classical guitar arrangement that highlighted the melody and showcased how powerfully evocative it was with or without lyrics and vocals.
See, hear and experience more from the men and women who changed rock and roll history at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio!


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- 2 celery ribs
- 2 medium carrots
- 1 medium onion
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 4 medium potatoes, peeled and diced
- 2 cans (6-1/2 ounces each) minced clams, undrained
- 1 bottle (8 ounces) clam juice
- 1 cup plus 1 tablespoon water, divided
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1 can (12 ounces) evaporated milk
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 2 bacon strips, cooked and crumbled
- Finely chop the celery, carrots and onion. In a Dutch oven, saute vegetables in oil until tender. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Stir in the potatoes, clams, clam juice, 1 cup water, thyme, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 12-15 minutes or until potatoes are tender.
- Gradually stir in milk; heat through. Combine cornstarch and remaining water until smooth; stir into chowder. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Stir in bacon. Yield: 7 servings.
Reviews for Golden Clam Chowder
"This recipe was pretty good but I was expecting more due to all the other great reviews. I'm still on my quest to duplicate the clam chowder from the now-defunct Shells Restaurants in Florida."
"I Love,Love,Love this recipe. I am not really a clam chowder kinda girl. But I loved this! My family loved it too. I just added a little extra bacon but followed this to the T. Def will make again!!"
"This is awesome. I like that there is no heavy cream and I have skipped a few ingredients that I did not have on hand...it still comes out phenomenal! A Friday staple for our family of ten. Thanks, Amanda Bowyer!"
"This recipe was decent, but it could be better. I'd add corn next time."
"I am not a fan of clam chowder but my husband is so this was my first time making clam chowder and it was great! The recipe is quick with most ingredients I had on hand. I too skipped much of the thyme because it's not my favorite and wonder what other spice I might add the next time I make it. I am considering the Tabasco as someone else suggested! I served it with the TOH Braided Onion Potato Loaf and that was a good combo. I will make this again for sure!"


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ZF-7594: Fatal error: Call to a member function getHeader()
Using the Zend_Rest_Route throws fatal error PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function getHeader() on a non-object in ...\Zend\Rest\Route.php on line 165
i commented this part out to get the rest working
} elseif ( $this->_request->getHeader('X-HTTP-Method-Override') ) {
$values[$this->_actionKey] = strtolower($this->_request->getHeader('X-HTTP-Method-Override'));
The problem remains under php 5.2.10 under Windows XP Apache 2.2 as module.
(Info: inside creating issues the component selector does not show all components, so i decided to chose unknown)
Set component and change assinee
Can you show me the setup code you used to construct the Route object? I need a way to duplicate the issue with a test so I can fix it reliably.
Thanks, -L
I'm using the Zend_Application with my own run method inside the Bootstrap adding the Zend_Rest_Route for my test controller 'member' inside the default module:
public function run() { $front = $this->getResource('FrontController'); $default = $front->getDefaultModule(); if (null === $front->getControllerDirectory($default)) { throw new Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Exception( 'No default controller directory registered with front controller' ); }
try {
$front = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
$restRoute = new Zend_Rest_Route($front, array(), array(
'default' => array('member')
$front->getRouter()->addRoute('rest', $restRoute);
$front->setParam('bootstrap', $this)
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo $e->getMessage();
This is the $request object from inside Zend_Rest_Route->match($request)
Fixed in trunk and 1.9 release branch.
Thanks MWO. Did we need a test case for it? I had the same fix ready to go but had trouble reproducing in a test case. :(


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Game of Runs Goes in Tigers' Favor, Top Penn 60-44 in Regular Season Finale
It was a game of ups and downs, but one that the Princeton women's basketball team came out on top of Tuesday evening. After conceding their once 18-point lead, the Tigers employed a late second half rally to eclipse Penn 60-44 at The Palestra in the 2012-13 regular season finale.
Megan Bowen had six of Princeton's opening 8-0 run, as the Tigers held Penn scoreless for the first 4:28.
Bowen posted her second double-double of the year with 10 points and 10 boards.
Lauren Polansky thrashed the ball from an oncoming Keiera Ray and dished it to a sprinting unguarded Blake Dietrick to give Princeton its first double figure lead, 12-2 at 11:37.
The Tigers cruised to an 18-point differential, 22-4 at 8:46, but the early momentum subsided heading into halftime.
Penn cut down the Tigers' lead to 10 by the break and opened the second half with 10 uncontested points to tie things up 30-30 with 14:48 left. On the other end of the floor, Princeton's offense came out flat, missing on its first eight possessions.
As Princeton struggled to connect, the Quakers found a way to take their only lead of the game, 34-33 at 10:26.
Consecutive triples from Kate Miller and Dietrick provided Princeton with the life it needed, reenergizing the Tigers and setting up a 20-2 run.
Miller had two key treys down the stretch to finish with eight points, while Dietrick concluded with 11 points.
During Princeton's late surge, senior Niveen Rasheed had seven points and three boards to guide the charge. Rasheed scored a team-high 13 points, including going 5-for-6 from the stripe.
Princeton (22-6, 13-1 Ivy) will now await its seeding and first round location for the NCAA tournament. The NCAA Selection Show on Monday, Mar. 18.


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DNREC's Division of Fish and Wildlife deer coolers are ready to receive donations as the DNREC lead the state's Sportsmen Against Hunger Program during the 2013-2014 Delaware deer hunting season.
Participating hunters may drop off their deer at any of the eight-walk in coolers maintained by DNREC. The coolers are checked periodically and donated deer are taken to the Sussex Correctional Institution's deer butchering program, or to participating private butcher shops where they are processed.
DNREC-maintained coolers for donated deer are located at:
New Castle County: Augustine Wildlife Area, Port Penn; Kent County: Woodland Beach Wildlife Area, Smyrna; Norman G. Wilder Wildlife Area, Viola; Division of Fish & Wildlife Mosquito Control Office, Milford; Sussex County: Assawoman Wildlife Area, Frankford; Gumboro Community Center, Millsboro; Redden State Forest Headquarters, Georgetown; Trap Pond State Park, Laurel.
Last year, more than 19,000 pounds of venison from more than 600 deer donated by hunters were divided among more than 30 food pantries and shelters statewide.
For more information: dnrec.delaware.gov/delhunt.
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Anthony Scott Johnson
Position: RB
Height: 6-0 Weight: 225 lbs.
Born: October 25, 1967 in Indianapolis, IN
High School: John Adams
College: Notre Dame (school history) (Johnson college stats)
Drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the 2nd round (36th overall) of the 1990 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 32 (3081st overall since 1950)
Other SR Links: College Football at Sports-Reference.com


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The Parley's Park Elementary School Student Council took the initiative to draft a resolution declaring Nov. 16 Summit County's Day of Giving. The students presented the resolution to the Summit County Council on Wednesday, Nov. 14, each reading a portion.
The community had already been practicing the concept, through the Live PC Give PC campaign, which encouraged residents to donate to their favorite non-profit during a 24-hour fund drive.
"The vision of the Live PC Give PC campaign is a community where everybody who lives, works and plays here in Summit County gives back to a non-profit they appreciate because it enriches their lives," Park City Foundation Executive Director Trisha Worthington said.
"One of the great outcomes of the Live PC Give PC campaign is that it has provided us a platform to talk to our kids and community about programs, about giving back, about service and about what a non-profit is and how they enrich our lives," she added.
Worthington thanked the teachers and parents who incorporated the Live PC Give PC message into the Parley's Park Student Council curriculum, and thanked the student council for taking the time to learn about the resolution writing process.
Councilmember John Hanrahan also thanked the students for the time, energy and effort put into the resolution.
"It's a great idea," he said. "I think it's really going to help with the goals you have of increasing people's awareness of this. Everybody on this council works on at least one, and in most cases several, non-profit boards. And a lot of people here have worked for different non-profits, too. So this is near and dear to all of our hearts as well."
Council Chair Dave Ure emphasized the importance service is to the survival of the community.
"If we had more organizations like this, if we had more days of giving service like this, you would need much less government," Ure said. "That's basically what we're for. When people like you take the initiative, it makes our job much, much easier."
The County Council unanimously approved the resolution.


text: Well as a Former Marine, DiOrio's stance sickens and disturbs me. His refusal to uphold the 2nd Amendment, that he swore an oath to protect, is disgusting. If you don't agree with the Constitution, then you don't swear an oath to protect it. If you did take that oath, then you should abide by it. As far as I'm concerned my oath had no expiration date.


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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is pleased to host a film screening of Gorman Bechard's Color Me Obsessed (2011, 123 minutes), a documentary about the legendary alternative rock band the Replacements, on Wednesday, December 12 at 6:30 p.m. in the Museum's Foster Theater. The evening will culminate with an interview with Bechard, conducted by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Director of Education Jason Hanley. This event is free with a reservation. Seating is limited. RSVP information is as follows:
Rock Hall Members can RSVP starting at 10 a.m. EST on Monday, December 3 through the Rock Hall website at https://tickets.rockhall.comor at the Rock Hall Box Office.
Non-Rock Hall members can RSVP starting at 10 a.m. EST on Tuesday, December 4 through the Rock Hall website at https://tickets.rockhall.com or at the Rock Hall Box Office.
For some music fans and kids with a passion for musical history, the Replacements are rock and roll defined. The Minneapolis quartet took a teenage-punk attitude, threw it in a blender with classic and pop rock, and then poured it into a Middle American pint glass. Over the band's 12-year existence, the band became incredibly well known for its span of energetic live shows.
Gorman Bechard's remarkable history in Color Me Obsessed takes the viewer from the band's first show as the Impediments to their 1991 onstage breakup in Chicago, and everywhere in between. Bechard bravely eschews including the band's music, photos, and live footage, instead relying solely on the fans: their well-kept memories, hilarious anecdotes, and differing points of views about the foursome's wildly varied discography and infamous antics.
Bechard has recruited a diverse roster of influential fans: musicians such as Husker Du, Babes in Toyland, the Decemberists, the Hold Steady, Archers of Loaf, Titus Andronicus, and Goo Goo Dolls; writers such as Jack Rabid, Legs McNeil, Robert Christgau, Jim DeRegotis, and Greg Kot; and actors such as George Wendt, Tom Arnold, and Dave Foley. Sprinkled in among that esteemed group are the more mainstream fans, who often give the most insightful and heartfelt perspectives of all.
What Others Are Saying about Color Me Obsessed:
One of "the seven best new music documentaries of the year."
-David Browne, Rolling Stone
"…the film is a shockingly refreshing and invigorating experience for anyone who has ever cared about any kind of music at all."
"One of the Top 5 Most Anticipated Music Documentaries."


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PEORIA, Ill. - The start of Bradley's 109th men's basketball season is still nearly six months away, but Bradley has solidified a 13-game non-conference schedule for the 2012-13 campaign that could give the Braves as many as 18 games against teams that participated in the postseason last year.
Including the nine Missouri Valley Conference home dates to be determined in the late summer, Bradley will play 16 regular-season home games and two home exhibitions for the second consecutive year. The 2012-13 Bradley Basketball Carver Arena season-ticket package will be comprised of 16 games, including the Nov. 3 exhibition contest, and season-ticket prices will remain unchanged for a fifth consecutive year. Renewal forms will be mailed to 2011-12 season-ticket holders next week and the deadline to return forms to the Renaissance Coliseum Box Office without penalty is June 1.
Among the non-conference schedule highlights, Bradley will host 2012 NCAA Tournament participant and Big Ten Conference member Michigan Dec. 1 to complete a 2-year, home-and-home agreement. The Braves also will start a similar agreement with Big East member South Florida, which reached the third round of the 2012 NCAA Tournament, by visiting the Bulls Nov. 20.
Following home exhibition games Oct. 29 and Nov. 3, the Braves will open the 2012-13 campaign by hosting Eastern Illinois Nov. 9 for the earliest start to a season in program history.
For the second year in a row, Bradley will play a regular-season game on campus when the Braves host Texas-Pan American Nov. 12 at Renaissance Coliseum. The packet being mailed to season-ticket holders next week will include a form giving season-ticket holders the option to purchase tickets for the Texas-Pan American game at a reduced rate.
The Braves will play three of the next four games on the road, beginning Nov. 17 at IUPUI. After visiting South Florida Nov. 20, Bradley will host Tennessee-Martin in the return game from the 2011 BracketBusters contest, then will visit Central Michigan Nov. 27 to start a 3-year series that will bring the Chippewas back to Peoria in 2013 and 2014.
Bradley will play its first four December games at home, beginning with the Dec. 1 visit from the Wolverines, who will be the first Big Ten team to play at Bradley since #9 Michigan State played in front of a Bradley home record crowd of 11,597 and escaped Carver Arena with a 66-61 win Dec. 4, 2007. In Michigan's only other trip to Peoria, Bradley earned a 74-67 win against the Wolverines Dec. 8, 1997.
The Braves also will host George Washington Dec. 4 in the return game of last year's 67-66 win in Washington, D.C. After a break for final exams, Bradley will play home to Georgia Southern (Dec. 17) and 2012 NCAA Tournament participant Mississippi Valley State (Dec. 19) in the first two rounds of the Las Vegas Classic. Bradley will continue play in the exempt tournament Dec. 22-23 in Las Vegas, where the Braves will face two of three possible opponents: 2012 NCAA participant Colorado State, Portland or Virginia Tech. The tournament's Dec. 22 third-round pairings will be announced later this summer and the losers will meet in the Dec. 23 consolation game, followed by the winners in the championship game.
Bradley's final non-conference game will be played the weekend of Feb. 23, when the Braves go on the road for its participation in the annual BracketBusters event.