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There was a time when Detroit had glory days. Then she hit the skids. Big time. Look, Detroit is a rustbelt city, a Springsteen kind of place. But there are signs of life, little green shoots, and if you are a person who thrives on the slimmest of odds and wants to see a city kicking away the dirt, the home of Motown (motor and town) is a place to see. The Henry Ford Museum in nearby Dearborn, which houses the Rosa Parks bus and the limousine in which John F. Kennedy was assassinated, are good reasons to see a city just out of rehab. Another is that there is a hard core of optimists who don't give a toss if an emergency financial manager has been called in to fix things. There's a creative buzz swirling about: musicians such as Jessica Hernandez (Amy Winehouse with a Hispanic lilt) playing at The Bakery Loft, and the Detroit Creative Corridor Centre that mentors designers and artists, are making noise. Even the three city icons, General Motors, Chrysler and Ford, have decided to start spending. Then Twitter goes and opens an office downtown. Happy days, perhaps. Lunchtime on Woodward Ave, the "Fifth Avenue" of Detroit, is full of office workers chomping on Coney Dogs, a type of chilli hot dog found only in this town, and deep-fried donuts called paczki. You only have to wander through the farmers' markets or have coffee and macaroons in 14 East Cafe in the historic Park Shelton Building to see that despite being almost bankrupted by inept politicians, and the sacking of a police chief, Detroit is on a (small) roll. Places like pretty Belle Isle on the Detroit River – where music festivals are scheduled for the next few years (Metallica is first up next month) – The Mexicantown Bakery, the Kowalski Sausage Factory, and hotels such as the soon-to-open 400 room Crowne Plaza – see a future, as does the snazzy Aloft Downtown hotel which opens next year. And as long as the Tigers' Rick Porcello keeps mixing his pitches in the Major League Baseball competition and his fans keep turning up to Comerica Park stadium in downtown Detroit, the city will keep on keeping on. Any city that produces Stevie Wonder, Francis Ford Coppola, Diana Ross and Henry Ford must have something in the water. And about those paczki . . . have your cardiologist on speed dial.
At the Pile Gate, one of the four medieval entrances to Dubrovnik, there is a plaque. Take a look. But first, take a trip to October 1, 1991. The medieval coastal city in the south of Croatia on the Adriatic is surrounded by 7000 Yugoslav National Army soldiers. They begin to shell the place. Within days, the city's hotels, from the most luxurious to the tiniest guesthouse, are packed with 15,000 frightened civilians., mostly from the surrounding countryside. . From the hills overlooking Dubrovnik, snipers pick off people dashing across streets and firefighters fighting blazes, anyone within range. Several thousand soldiers versus around 500 defenders is no match. The city has no strategic value but must apparently be "neutralised". The Old Town, the walled city town centre, is a ghost town but is spared. There is criticism later in 1992, when the siege ends, that too much emphasis is placed on the damage to more than 11,000 buildings and not enough on the 114 civilians killed. By 2005 the city has been faithfully restored. The red terracotta roof tiles, curved and smooth and a Dubrovnik feature – they were originally made by using a person's thigh as a template – were shipped in from France soon after the war ended as local tile factories had been destroyed. It fell to local architect Matko Vetma to rebuild a living antique and UNESCO treasure. When the siege began, he was working at the Institute for the Protection and Conservation of Historical Monuments. So when nine 17th-century palaces had been gutted and most rooftops were in tatters, he set to work in earnest. Dubrovnik has always been a crossover point between East and West and much of the greenery – lemon and orange trees in particular – that line the dusty pathways into the city is said to be from cuttings brought by medieval travellers from China.. Today, the cobblestones of the Old Town, worn smooth since the 13th century by four empires, show no evidence of conflict. Over summer, the hotels are bursting. The annual Dubrovnik Summer Festival is in full swing, the Hotel Bellevue's views across shimmering Miramare Bay astonish, the Gundulic Square morning market bustles, the shop-filled Stradun pedestrian precinct sings to the sound of swiping plastic, restaurants such as glitzy Orsan on the Lapad peninsula buzz, and the traditional gold and enamel Moretto jewellery is perpetually the ultimate souvenir to hunt down. And that plaque? It shows every city site that took a hit.
Friday evening on Kano-cho, in Chuo ward, Kobe, outside the Kondo Building. The locals of Japan's fifth largest city – yappy teenagers, groups of young women in spiky heels, false eyelashes lined with glowing LED diamantes, dandies with sharp hair and pointy shoes – are out and about. The fashions are designer-hot, funky, out there; the city lights neon and dazzling. There's plenty of entertainment in this port city. There's karaoke happening, gambling salarymen, concrete boxy buildings lining the street, council workers in light green overalls still sweeping. Asahi Soft Drink trucks are scooting about doing last-minute deliveries. The week is over. And then, curiously, the sounds of an Irish fiddle. Yes, the Irish pub concept is big in Japan and Kobe has at least two of them. They do a rather polite trade, especially on Friday nights. The evenings are also soaked in Hakutsuru sake and Kobe Wagyu beef at such restaurants as the 141-year-old Steakhouse Kobe Oi. Monday, January 16, 1995, however, would have been quieter. The following evening, more than 6000 lay dead, 26,000 were injured, 100,000 buildings were destroyed or damaged, and the Japanese economy was down a $US100 billion black hole. The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, which struck just before 6am on the 17th, was a cataclysmic yet defining moment in this great city's evolution. Within months, $US450 million had been donated by fellow citizens and within weeks most people were back at work. The city of Kobe picked itself up and continued on. There was something of a pioneering spirit at work here. Today, the city thrives and is rebuilt. There is greenery everywhere: low, carefully-clipped hedges alongside roads, planters brimming with shrubs even in the most downtown areas such as our Friday night hangout. You only have to visit the Kobe City Museum, the Kobe Artists Museum on Kitaguchi Island or the Earthquake Memorial Park to see a city both managing and remembering. When the earthquake struck, heavy industry was thumped hard and so now there is an emphasis on service and burgeoning intelligence-based industries such as medical technology and IT. The port, however, remains central to the city's wealth. One of the best places to see the city of 1.5 million, especially at dusk, is from the cable car-accessed Mount Maya in the 930-metre high Mount Rokko range, some 10 kilometres west out of town in Kita ward. From up here, you can think about that visit to the Hakutsuru Sake Museum. If you squint, you can see the 108-metre high steel lattice Kobe Port Tower, gleaming and red and, in true Japanese style, featuring an adjoining hotel. It's a symbol of Kobe. It looks delicate but is remarkably solid.
Let's face it, El Salvador has had a lot of bad press. So why on earth would you want to visit its capital San Salvador? Apart from the luscious green setting and near perfect climate, visiting a city that has wrenched itself out of murderous conflict and bounced back to celebrate an almost peaceful era seems a fine reason. The 15th century Metropolitan cathedral on Plaza Barrios, where the Archbishop of San Salvador Oscar Romero was murdered by government goons in 1980, sets the course for any visit. Leftovers of Spanish colonial architecture are everywhere, sitting side by side with grand expressions of religious patriotism and hero symbolism. These include the Boulevarde de Los Heroes, the towering Monument to the Divine Saviour of the World and the extraordinarily relevant Museo de Arte, featuring the Freedom Monument, a stone sculpture of a cowering peasant family and protective soldier. They offer a clue to why this city admires ideals of liberty and struggle. There is a sense here that architecture and art, especially murals and mosaics, are fundamental in erasing the memory of those demolition squads of the recent past. Yet there is more to San Salvador than conflict. Salsa dancing is a craze if not an obsession. Tickets go fast if band Los Hermanos Flores is in town. Or you can climb a volcano, tongue-twistingly called Quetzaltepec, that towers like a green mantle over the city. To get to it, you pass through small towns that cling to the side of the mountain, such as El Progreso. A dusty football park with wonky goalposts is where the locals can be found most evenings, with the sound of the lively La Raza band singing a Latin American-Spanish version of Oh! Carol blaring somewhere in the background. Also on the road to Quetzaltepec is Café Miranda; on clear days the distant hills of Guatemala and Honduras are visible. Sitting up here with a plate of pupusas, the national dish of beans, cheese and ground pork packed into a corn tortilla, and a con piquete – coffee plus a shot of rum with a loaded gun kick – the scene seems perfect, the city lights flickering across the volcano crater. But there's a flipside to any story. San Salvadoran shanty towns such as La Cruz, with their crooked TV aerials and light globes hanging from tree branches, are still spooked by crime, while bullet-proof Mercedes sporting inky black windows cruise the one hour south to the exclusive Fisherman's Beach Club in smart La Libertad on the coast. It was ever thus.
Walk down winding narrow alleyways to the Quadrilatero Romano, the ancient Roman city centre of Turin, and after crossing Via Santa Teresa, you might find yourself in Caffé Torino in Piazza San Carlo sipping a negroni and making sure your booking for the nearby Grand Hotel Sitea is in order, as are your dates for Slow Food's Salone de Gusto extravaganza in October. On a warm evening, the hard years of Turin are easily forgotten. When Fiat ceased assembly-line production at its giant factory in the Lingotto area of Turin in 1982, it seemed the structure – and by extension, the city – would be left to decay. The factory had been a thriving production centre since 1939, a symbol of Italian achievement and brilliant industrial architecture, admired and written about by Le Corbusier. The 500-metre test track on its roof was seen as triumphant. But when Turin was hit by severe recession in the early 1980s, the Lingotto factory was doomed, its downfall symbolic of a city in distress. A quarter of Turin's population moved out. By 2002, the economy had improved and the long-anticipated transformation of the factory was complete. It was re-opened by Giovanni Agnelli, the 81-year-old supremo of Fiat, who died the following year, his vision complete. The site now houses luxury residential sites, hotel accommodation, a gleaming shopping centre with a Slow Food supermarket, auditoriums, theatres, the tiny art gallery Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli set on the roof, and tranquil courtyard gardens. The rooftop spaces, with dramatic views over northern Piedmont and snowy peaks, remain. As do factory remnants such as a small 1916 Matté Trucco-designed grid of the original factory – testimony to its glory days. Industrial abandonment was commonplace in Turin, yet projects such as the Lingotto conversion and the 2006 Winter Olympics gave the one-time Italian capital (briefly, 1861 to 1865) the opportunity to flourish. The city bursts with history, stretching back to Emperor Augustus around 30BC. Its historical museums, including the not-to-be-overlooked Egyptian Museum, gardens such as the serene Venaria Gardens, the sprawling Piazza Castello, the river Po, Juventus football club and yes, that mysterious shroud housed in the 15th-century cathedral. Turin was always seen as a northern industrial city, not as glamorous as Florence and Rome, nor stylish like Milan and Venice. It was instead a city of grit, racked by political and civil unrest, and organised crime – especially in the 1970s, the "bullet years" as they were known. And Fiat is now flat-out making cute little electric cars. . . for the Californian market only. Italians, it seems, won't have a bar of them.
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There's no reason why it should be a game for me of course, other than the Everquest name, but I can't help feeling disappointed in just about every announcement that is made about the game at the moment, and from the look of things the direction that the game is moving in is one that I'm not particularly excited by to say the least. My initial excitement after the first announcement has slowly been whittled away to a sense of mild disinterest.
|Is anyone else getting annoyed by recent developer comments and the lack of real info?
It's more than that however. Whilst nothing is locked in stone it's the design decisions that the developers seem to be taking that have me worried as well. A game that seemed to be offering something truly different now seems to be devolving into a copy-cat, vanilla experience with no challenge and designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator.
I'm now going to make up for my relatively slow rate of blog updates recently. Cue long, stream-of-consciousness rant!
So, let's get specific.
I've already mentioned my issues with the changes to the lore aspects of the game. Since writing that earlier post I've actually read through the first two e-books that SOE have released, and whilst I don't have a major problem with the new lore itself (it's quite well written and interesting) I do have some issues with what it might mean for the game.
First of all, other than the names of places, races and characters, there is hardly anything in common with the lore of the original Everquest games. Now let's be honest, the EQ franchise has had some pretty awful, cliched lore itself, and it's only gotten more complex and slightly ridiculous over the last 15 years (since the first few expansions of the original game at least). However the changes made in the new lore mean that the game is basically nothing to do with the original EQ I.P. at all. It is far more than the J.J. Abrams style "re-imagining" that has oft been quoted by the developers.
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Dark Elves have not been twisted into being by Innoruuk. Ogres are no longer stupid, dumb creatures created for war by Rallos Zek. Don't ask me what's happened to the Halflings, Barbarians, Wood Elves or Erudites, I have no idea. Again, this is nothing like the Everquest I.P.
The inclusion of firearms and "modern" elements, that according to a recent video will almost certainly make it into the game, moves the game even further away from the original I.P. These elements are not at all "everquesty" as the developers claim. In the video they seem to be making excuses for decisions that have already been made, despite them supposedly taking fan feedback into account via the Roundtable system. Several mentions of firearms during the EQ Fanfaire make it obvious that the decision to include them had been made well before the Roundtable question.
The results of the modern concepts Roundtable show only 34% of people responding positively to the suggestion, and 49% responding negatively (at the time of writing), yet the video twists these results to give the developers the answer they wanted all along.
Other Roundtable discussions have me worried with regards to the game mechanics. There was a similar negative reaction to the Roundtable question about whether all races should be able to play all classes. 54% of people voted against the idea, yet the developers decided to go the other way. It's not even the idea that the developers are ignoring the will of the community that has me worried (after all, they are the developers, not us), but rather the reasons they gave and the suspicion that they had already made the decision prior to the Roundtable vote.
The primary reason they give for allowing any race to become any class is that they don't want to limit or "punish" players for decisions they make, especially when the decision is made at the start of a character's life. They say they don't want to inconvenience the players (a refrain they seem to utter regularly). This seems completely nonsensical to me.
First of all, without inconvenience you don't have a game. Another word for inconvenience in gaming terms is "challenge". Limiting races by classes forces the player to make a decision, and choice is the fundamental concept in any roleplaying game (and even more so in a sandbox game). It means decisions matter, instead of effectively giving each character a different skin. In a game decisions should matter, and they should have consequences (I'm just coming off playing The Stanley Parable, which is a game that illustrates the importance of choice and consequence more than anything else I've played).
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There are other issues I have with the direction that the game seems to be taking with it's mechanics.
Now I'm hoping that some of these issues only apply to Everquest Next Landmark, where to be fair I can see that they may have some advantages. If they make it into the full EQNext game then my fears that the developers are trying to please everyone and will end up crafting a middle-of-the-road experience will have been confirmed.
First up, fast travel. EQNext Landmark will have a fast travel system, based on lines of power. You will even be able to travel between different servers so that you can tour and see the creations of other players. Sounds neat in a Minecraft-alike game right? This would be a terrible design for the main EQNext game in my opinion however.
Fast travel systems make a game feel like a game and not a world. They remove inconvenience (challenge?), making many modern MMOs seem like little more than chat lobbies with a load of instanced content. They do nothing to foster a sense of community. Travelling across a large and dangerous world can actually build community. People group up and help each other and have time to communicate and talk. And in a game that is boasting of an ever-changing world the journey from place to place is important.
Any fast travel system should at the very least require the input of other players. Then you might get druids and wizards helping people out like you did in the original EQ. Of course, if any race can be any class then we can all be druids and wizards, and just fast travel ourselves, meaning we don't have to do any of that messy "talking to other people" business.
The worst thing EQNext could do would be to allow fast travel to different servers. Such a move would completely go against developing a sense of server community.
My next fear is that we will end up with yet another game with a terribly weak death penalty. Most MMO developers talk up their death penalties before launch, saying they will definitely be a deterrent to dying. After a couple of months people are killing themselves on purpose in order to effect a fast travel across a zone.
Death penalties based on item wear or cash-to-revive systems just offer no challenge once the game has been around for a little while and the economy has grown slightly. They are no deterrent at all. Death is hardly even a minor inconvenience after the first few weeks.
Some developers excuse easy death penalties by arguing that, if an encounter is challenging enough, players will be encouraged to keep trying new tactics until they overcome it. They say if the death penalty is too harsh they will give up too soon.
I remember well some of the discussions in the beta forums for The Old Republic on this subject. I wrote about it some time ago (and even before then too!). The systems designer wrote the following:
By adding this system, we are able to create content that kills the player once or twice until they figure out how to overcome it. We can create challenges and players are given a chance to overcome them. They can afford to fail, regroup and try again instead of spending 15 minutes sitting around while some player tries to make his way back to the group.That all sounds fine. Except that developers always seem to overestimate the difficulty of their encounters. I love The Old Republic for lots of reasons, but let's face it, none of the content is challenging. The death penalty in TOR might as well not be there.
If you are looking for hardcore and punishing death penalties that weed out the weak players (e.g. the ones that don't have infinite patience and time), The Old Republic will not be your game. That does not mean we're attempting to make an extremely easy game with no challenge.
One game that does have challenging content compared to most modern MMOs is The Secret World. Even in that game (another game I love by the way) death is no penalty and is now used as a way of crossing the zones quickly by most players.
Whilst not advocating a return to the corpse-runs of old (they were a major pain in the ass at times, especially if your corpse timed out leaving you with literally nothing) I do think it is worth considering some of the benefits (yes benefits!) such a harsh system brought. Apart from making death a serious matter, corpse runs actually helped engender that most elusive of things - community. It was often necessary to persuade (or pay) a friendly necromancer to summon your corpse, find a wizard to make you invisible whilst you made a mad run to safety, dragging your corpse behind you, or even find a group to help you recover it. When you were in a group and someone died you found yourself helping that person out of a sense of duty, even though it might mean spending a couple of hours doing so.
In the Roundtable poll on death penalties I found it interesting that 61% of people have voted for a tough death penalty (perma-death, corpse run, or lost xp), whilst only 39% have voted for a minor (or zero) death penalty. It will be interesting to see which way the developers decide to go in light of this poll, and the answer may confirm my fears for the game, or put them to rest. I have a horrible feeling this will be yet another Roundtable poll where they decide to go against the will of the community however. After all they are trying not to inconvenience players (or give them "denial of service" as one particularly horrible developer quote put it).
There are some signs of hope. The developers have said that most of the content in EQNext will be contested rather than instanced. This is a good thing in my opinion. You don't need to create carefully crafted story-based content if your emergent AI and voxel technology is up to the task of creating a dynamic open world. The developers have also hinted that there will be no auction house, raising hopes that players will have to actually communicate with the community at large in order to buy and sell goods (the East Commonlands tunnel even appears to be present in some of the concept art).
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- Class limited by race
- No auction house
- No LFG (looking for group) tool
- No DPS (damage per second) meters
- A serious and harsh death penalty
- Social utility skills for classes (group ports, feign death, group invis, etc)
- No universal fast travel
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There is still plenty to look forwards to in EQNext, especially seeing what the developers can do with the emergent AI and voxel systems. I'll still be trying the game. It may be, after all, that it's simply not the game I am looking for, and that is OK. I just hope it might turn out a bit different because, well, this...
However, after the initial buzz and excitement following the reveal of the game there has been nothing concrete from the developers. Until they give us something real to see (real gameplay or system details perhaps) then I'm afraid my attention is wandering to other places.

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A recycled toothbrush may sound, well, unappealing at first. But as I wandered down the aisle looking for a new toothbrush yesterday, I spotted this cool orange brush that came in its own carrying case. Lo and behold, I had found the Recycline ! Now that I have used it a few times, I am hooked. The shape is just right and it has a nice, soft grip. And when I need a new one, I can ship the old one back to Recycline for recycling in one of their postage-paid envelopes. I never had a toothbrush that made me this happy.
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These guys were there performing legally given assignments by their direct superiors. In other words the US Government. They swore an oath to do just that. Upon swearing that oath you give up the right to sue privately in military matters. It's not as if they were suing about a privately owned lemon car or a defective TV.
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Diplomatic sources said Mr Howard would also come under pressure to provide additional peacekeeping forces when he meets British Prime Minister Tony Blair in London. Britain wants up to 1000 Australian infantry to help enforce the peace.
Dr Rice, who has taken a central role in postwar Iraq planning at the White House, will join the leaders for talks at the President's ranch. She described Mr Bush's relationship with Mr Howard as "very strong" and said US-Australian relations had "never been better".
Her comments came as the security situation in Iraq remained tense after US troops killed at least 13 Iraqi demonstrators and wounded scores more in two incidents the town of Falluja, near Baghdad.
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Ubuntu generally does a great job of letting you browse Windows workgroups, access shared folders, and even share Ubuntu folders with other computers on the network (including Macs, which can also access Windows shares). Sometimes, however, Ubuntu doesn't want to play nice with others. If your PC connects physically to a network of Windows PCs with shared files or printers, you can see this for yourself: Choose Places, Network, and click the Windows Network icon. If you see all your shares, you're set. If not, follow the steps below.
If Ubuntu doesn't spot your network shares right away, you can still see a Windows PC's shares by typing the path to the server in the Windows Network browser window's Location field--for example, smb://fileserver , which will then display all of the file server's shares. To connect to individual Windows shares directly, choose Places, Connect to Server; choose Windows share in the 'Service type' drop-down list; enter the server and share names in the corresponding fields; and end by clicking Connect. To create a permanent link to the share in Ubuntu's Nautilus file manager, put a checkmark next to Add bookmark, and enter a descriptive name in the 'Bookmark name' field before clicking Connect.
To share a folder with other computers on the Windows network, right-click a folder (choose Places, Home Folder to try this with one of the folders in your Home directory) and choose Sharing Options. Check Share this folder, and click Install service in the dialog box that suggests you install the Windows networks sharing service. After the software installs, log out of Ubuntu, and then log back in. Finally, right-click a folder and choose Sharing Options again to share it with other computers on the network.
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Butler posted a record of 1-1 with a tremendous ERA of 2.22. Along the way he collected six saves, which was the sixth best mark on the circuit in 2009. Stingy might be a good way to describe the 20-year-old. The opposition managed only a .189 average against him. In 28.1 innings of work, he posted 34 strikeouts to go along with 12 walks.
For the sabermaticians, he posted an FIP of 2.47 and a RA9 of 2.86. Gulf Coast League hitters grounded out 48% of the time while posting a .277 average on balls in play.
Butler was rewarded for his fine play with a promotion to Johnson City where he did not allow a run in two appearances.
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Cale Johnson showed impeccable control that earned him a quick promotion to Johnson City. In 12 GCL innings, he struck 14 while walking only two.
Omar Diaz made 11 appearances out of the pen and was able to pick up two victories along the way. The 21-year-old struck out 13 in 13 inning while struggling with his control.
Left-hander Manuel De La Cruz had as many walks as strikeouts but did pitch lefties tough. He did not allow a hit to a left-handed hitter but he did walk five in limited action.
Luis Orozco did finish second on the team with four saves but posted an ERA of over five.
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MR. OLBERMANN: Let's get early reaction, after the polls closed just 19 minutes ago, from the Obama campaign, Congressman Patrick Murphy of Pennsylvania joining us now.
Congressman, thanks for your time tonight.
REP. MURPHY: Thanks, Keith. I appreciate it. And actually, I went to college in Wilkes-Barre and my brother lives there, and he's supporting Barack Obama, Keith. And, in fact, he's overseas right now with our military. And I think that's one of the things that differentiates these two candidates. Barack Obama had the judgment before the war to speak out against Iraq, and now he has the judgment to lead our troops out of Iraq within the first 16 months.
MR. OLBERMANN: To what degree is that -- that does not turn up in the exit polls as the number one issue at the moment. Obviously it has been. It was certainly when this campaign started a year and a quarter ago. What is the feel on the ground relatively to it -- less about Obama and Clinton and more about the issue and when it perhaps comes up and shows itself at its correct size?
REP. MURPHY: Right. And Keith, I think the number one issue that people care about is change. And the people are smarter sometimes than the people who overanalyze this stuff. The people in Pennsylvania and across our country, Keith, understand that Iraq and the economy go hand in hand. When you spend $3 trillion in Iraq, that's $3 trillion you can't spend on education, on infrastructure, on creating these green-collar manufacturing jobs for green energy so we can wean ourselves off that foreign oil. They get it.
And that's why I think Barack Obama has been dramatically able to cut into Senator Clinton's lead. She was up 33 points -- 33 points, Keith. It's now hopefully going to be in single digits, and I think that would be a great night for Barack Obama.
MR. OLBERMANN: Is there a disconnect, Congressman? The number we just saw in the exit poll is 73 percent of voters in Pennsylvania. Three-quarters, essentially, say the thing that they want most in their presidential candidate is to bring change. And yet what we're looking at right now is something close to a tie. It's certainly not 73 percent to 22 percent in the outcome of this or anything like that. What does that say about a disconnect between the change candidate and Senator Obama's support?
REP. MURPHY: I think you have to look at it -- you can't look at it in a vacuum, Keith. You've got to say, look, Pennsylvania is a state where Senator Clinton is well-known. She's a neighboring U.S. senator, just up north of New York. The fact that the Clinton brand name here -- it's the second-oldest state in the entire country.
He had a lot of obstacles. It's a closed primary today, so people couldn't register, or if they were independent, they couldn't vote for Barack Obama today. I know I was at a train station yesterday morning and a woman grabbed me and she said, "Patrick, I would love to vote for Barack Obama tomorrow, but I forgot to change. I thought I could vote tomorrow, but I'm an independent." And I said, "Well, we've got to get you to become a Democrat before next November, even though you could vote on that."
But Keith, I think people have been inspired across Pennsylvania. I just was down in Center City coming to the studio, Keith. There is a line of people a few blocks away here, at least 65 deep, waiting to vote, to cast their vote for change. And I think, you know, if it becomes within single digits, it's a great night for the Barack Obama campaign.
MR. OLBERMANN: One would think all the Democrats would be saluting that, that apparently it's double the 2004 primary totals.
Congressman Patrick Murphy of Pennsylvania, thanks for your time tonight, sir.
REP. MURPHY: Thank you, Keith.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18970417/


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Newell Leads Heptathlon After Day One Of Liberty Kickoff
Newell (Roanoke, Va.) was the top finisher in each of the first three events, running the 60-meter dash in 7.06 seconds, long jumping 6.52 meters and heaving the shot put 12.42 meters.
The Flames' Clarence Murray (Jr., Birdsboro, Pa.) paced all competitors in the high jump with a leap of 1.88 meters. That effort propelled Murray into second place with 2,633 points.
Joel Beck (Fr., Leola, Pa.) gave Liberty control of the top three spots in the day one standings, totaling 2,602 points.
The second day of the Liberty Kickoff will begin with the men's weight throw at 9 a.m. The women's pentathlon 60-meter hurdles will mark the first track event, at 11 a.m.
Men's Heptathlon Day One Totals
1) Daniel Newell, Liberty – 2,865
2) Clarence Murray, Liberty – 2,633
3) Joel Beck, Liberty – 2,602
4) Dustin Wright, Unattached – 2,575
5) David Lewis, Virginia – 2,531
6) Doug Zimmer, William & Mary – 2,502
7) Martin Ross, William & Mary – 2,477
8) Matt Tarr, Liberty – 2,338
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Georgia "Y" to shutter its doors
In Oconee County, there's a movement to establish the county's first YMCA. But in nearby Stephens County, Georgia they've thrown their hands ups in despair. WNEG reports this week that the Toccoa-Stephens YMCA will close at the end of the month—for good! The CEO, Robin Dake, says the decision by the board of directors is a financial decision.


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Jorge Posada's impending retirement has me thinking about great Yankee catchers. I'm not old enough to have seen Bill Dickey, Yogi Berra or Elston Howard in live action, but I've been fortunate to see both Posada and Thurman Munson up close and personal.
Posada will be an interesting case for Hall of Fame discussion. His late start, coupled with his defensive shortcomings, will hurt his chances, though perhaps not irrevocably.
Munson's case for the Hall of Fame is a tougher sell. Due the ravaged state of his knees, he was already in decline by the time of the horrific plane crash and fire that took his life in 1979.
His three phenomenal seasons of 1975 to 1977 constitute an impressive peak—he was arguably a better player than Carlton Fisk during that stretch—but three straight Hall of Fame seasons are not enough, at least not by themselves, to gain entrance to Cooperstown.
With his squatty body and distinctive red chest protector, it's always easy to pick Munson out on other player's cards, like Terry Crowley's 1973 Topps card and Carl Yastrzemski's 1972 "In Action" card.
Munson received his own action card in the 1972 set; he was one of 72 players to merit an action photo, complete with red banners all the way around. Technically speaking, we don't really see Munson in action here, but rather in conference with one of his pitchers.
Those conferences on the mound could become rather heated, with Munson loudly imploring his pitchers to pick up the pace, knock a hitter off the plate or simply throw some damn strikes.
That brings us to this week's baseball card mystery. It's a two-parter, involving both location and identity.
First off, the Yankees are clearly wearing their road grays, so we know that this photo was not taken at the old Yankee Stadium. Given the absence of the "Green Monster," I think it's safe to say that it's not Fenway Park, either.
That leaves us with 10 other choices, including old RFK Stadium in Washington, home of the Senators.
Second, I'm left wondering which Yankee pitcher is standing on the mound next to Munson. His face is bathed in shadow, making an indentification difficult. His glove is not evident on his left-hand, so it is likely a southpaw.
It could be Fritz Peterson, but I'm not certain. Other possibilities on the 1971 Yankees are Mike Kekich (whom I remember as being thinner than the pitcher on this card) and four relatively obscure relievers: Alan Closter, Rob Gardner, Gary Jones and Terry Ley.
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Section 1. Composition of the Hearing Panel. (1) Disciplinary actions shall be heard by a hearing panel consisting of the hearing officer and at least one (1) board member appointed by the board.
(2) A board member who has participated in the investigation of an initiating complaint or who has personal knowledge of the facts giving rise to the complaint or for other reasons is unable to render a fair and impartial decision shall not sit as a member of the panel hearing that particular complaint.
(3) Separation of functions. No member, officer, or employee of the board who is engaged in the performance of investigative or prosecutorial functions for the board in a particular case or a factually related case, shall participate in or advise in the decision of the disciplinary action, except as a witness or counsel in the hearing.
Section 2. Hearing Fee. If the board finds against the respondent on any charge, or if the hearing is scheduled at the request of a credential holder or applicant for relief from sanctions previously imposed by the board pursuant to the provisions of KRS Chapter 319, a hearing fee in an amount equal to the costs of stenographic services and the costs of the services of a hearing officer, if any, shall be assessed against the respondent. In case of financial hardship, the board may waive all or part of the fee.
Section 3. Notification of Action Taken. A press release describing all final disciplinary actions taken by the board to suspend, revoke, or refuse to issue or renew a license, restrict, or place a credential holder on probation shall be provided as mandated by federal law, to the Association for State and Provincial Psychology Boards for publication in their data base, and at least to the newspapers with the largest circulation in Louisville, Lexington, Frankfort, the city of business of the respondent and to the AP wire service. Nothing in this administrative regulation shall be construed to limit KRS 319.092(5). (13 Ky.R. 2162; eff. 7-2-87; Am. 20 Ky.R. 580; 934; eff. 10-21-93; 28 Ky.R. 1461; 1803; eff. 2-7-2002.)


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What happened?
Why did Neanderthals disappear?
Well, recently there has been a lot of progress in reconstructing paleo-environments.
The new records have a much greater resolution.
What seems to be going on is that there are very great variations in temperature and climate
that are extremely abrupt and very, very high--very high in magnitude.
So what this means is that--is that the environment would be changing constantly.
So if you are relying on, you know, the environment around you for hunting and gathering
and so on, it's not a very good--a very good time to be alive.
And I'm talking about very abruptly, this would be within a decade.
Now, Neanderthals went extinct, why did they go extinct at this particular time?
They had, in fact, survived previous glacial cycles that, you know, presumably were similar
and, you know, came out of them unscathed.
So what we think happened is that, in fact, modern humans had some advantage--
competitive advantage over Neanderthals in this very tough time.
It could be as simple as better clothing, or more efficient hunting,
or hunting of other animals, small animals, birds, things like that
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NCH has published research showing that one in five of all parents say lack of money sometimes makes it impossible to feed their children properly.
Researchers found that almost half of parents on a low income said they had had to go hungry in the past year.
The charity claims a typical basket of healthy food costs 17% more than a basket of unhealthy food.
Fresh fruit
The Going Hungry report, a snapshot of low-income families from across the UK, said the situation was getting worse.
The price of convenience food is going up more slowly than items such as fresh fruit.
Over the last 15 years, the average cost of a healthy shopping basket has increased by half, compared to only a 33% increase for an unhealthy basket.
According to the report, a quarter of children never eat green vegetables or salad.
NCH is calling on the government to pay much greater attention to the impact of poverty on children's diets.
David Turnbull, director of the charity in Scotland, told BBC Radio Scotland that the research highlighted a continuing problem for a small group of people on the lowest incomes.
He said: "In many respects the government's policy of moving people into work and out of poverty is a solid one, but it does mean that those on the lowest income are under the most pressure.
"Healthy food costs more and people sometimes have to go for the cheapest option. It's a vicious circle that people are caught in.
"A lot of people live away from out-of-town food retailers and have to depend on local shops where prices are higher, so they are paying an added premium.
"Basically the poorest people have to pay the most for their food."
'Action needed'
Christopher Holmes, director of children's services for NCH Scotland, added: "It is right to be concerned about rising levels of childhood obesity - but NCH's new report shows that it's unfair to place all the blame on parents and children.
"The comparatively high cost of healthy food and sophisticated marketing used to encourage children to eat junk food are also significant factors.
"Action is needed in schools, in the community and within the food industry. Most of all, the government must make healthy food affordable to low-income
"Otherwise, drives to end child poverty and improve the nation's health are set to fail."
National action plan
NCH is calling on food retailers and manufacturers to reduce salt, sugar and fat levels in food for children, improve labelling, remove snacks from supermarket checkouts and only promote healthy food.
The charity also wants the government to develop a national action plan to stamp out food poverty.
Scottish Socialist Party MSP Frances Curran said: "This report is a damning indictment of the poverty and inequality that exists in 2004 in a wealthy country like Scotland.
"It also spotlights the disgusting hypocrisy of well-fed Scottish Executive ministers such as Frank McAveety, who earns £70,000-plus a year, benefit from a subsidised parliamentary canteen providing fresh, healthy food at knock-down prices, while thousands of children live on a diet of cheap, high-fat, high-salt convenience foods."


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August 10th 2012 – In this week's Smash the State we feature a two part show, with this one featuring an ACAB report and an update on the Red Square revolt in Quebec. We have articles looking at undercover pigs in England fathering children with activists, running away from those responsibilities, then stalking the child and mother for the following years; the announcement that new York city wont support the pepper-spraying cop who attacked caged women; and a report on the murder of a refugee by Lethbridge cops.
The report then looks at a rabble.ca piece showing bullying by toronto police at a neighbourhood assembly in toronto, which also shows how the TPS benefit when kids shoot each other. And we read the disgusting story of a cop who will not spend time in jail for having sex with a 15 year old girl he got drunk and high with.
We then shift to an update about the Quebec student/social strike, with a piece from @TeamCarmelle on neighbourhood assemblies, and another talking about the convergence and the stopping the restarting of classes.
The revolutionary musical interludes this week included propaghandi's failed statesand there is also a communiqué from the anti-capitalist, pro-community invisible army of defaulters.
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Starting Monday, June 10, you no longer need to use a special username and password to access ILLiad Interlibrary Loan to request books, articles, and other materials. The system is now set up to work with your GCC network username and password:
If you already have an ILLiad account, and you used your network username as your ILLiad username, you'll be taken directly to the ILLiad main menu. If you do not have an account, you'll be taken to a new user registration page the first time you login.
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Darnell McDonald's week and a half of service to the New York Yankees may have cost him more than he received in return.
McDonald - who was forced to slice off his dreadlocks due to team rules - was claimed off waivers from the Boston Red Sox on July 4.
But after just four at-bats in pinstripes with no hits, the outfielder was "cut" again by the Yankees when he was designated for assignment today.
The move was made to clear room for C.C. Sabathia who is starting tonight in his return from the disabled list.
McDonald said goodbye to his trendy look and was smacked in the face in the process, but did he have a worse week than Jonathan Sanchez?
Sanchez was acquired by the Kansas City Royals in November as part of a trade that sent Melky Cabrera to the San Francisco Giants.
Cabrera is hitting a career high .353 with eight home runs, 45 RBIs, 55 runs scored and 10 stolen bases this season.
The switch-hitting outfielder was seleceted to his first All-Star game and took home the Midsummer Classic's MVP - in Kansas City of all places.
While Cabrera has done more than he was supposed to do, Sanchez has done all he is going to do.
The lefthander struggled as a Royal posting a 1-6 record and 7.76 ERA before Kansas City designated him for assignment today.
The decision came after Sanchez allowed seven earned runs in 1 1/3 innings in a 9-4 loss to the Seattle Mariners on Monday.
Both are unemployed but which player had the worse week?
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YA Bound Book Tours is organizing a Blog Tour for: Amber Sky by Claire Warner. This tour will run from August 28th to September 1st. If you would like to participate in this blog tour, please fill out the form below. Blog tour posts must be up by 8am (ET) and must be the top post of the day, please take this into consideration when choosing a date. E-books will be provided for review. Promo spots (interview, guest post, dream cast, etc.) are very limited, priority will be given to review spots. Please note that signing up will not guarantee you a spot on the blog tour. Selected bloggers will be notified by email.
by Claire Warner
Genre: Dystopian Steampunk
Release Date: June 2nd 2017
"You thought I did this out of the goodness of my heart?" He gave a short mirthless laugh. "Not a bit of it, this is going to be dangerous for me. What are you offering for my help?"
Beneath the Amber Sky, the nobility control the food, education, and the mysterious C.O.I.L.S of Copper and Brass. To Tay, struggling to keep her siblings alive, the ideas of rebellion and freedom are distant and unreachable.
But when her father is arrested, she begs Darius James, the son of the Overseer, to save his life. Darius agrees, but his help costs her a favour, one he can call in at any time.
Darius' favour will bring her to the Palace, and the perfect position to help the growing rebellion. But the court has games beyond anything she has seen before, and Darius' secrets will add to the danger.
Tay is now able to make a difference, to join the rebellion, find the C.O.I.L.S and discover the secrets of the Amber Sky. All she has to do is survive.
About the Author
When I was a child, I made up games and characters when my sister and I played with dolls. As I grew older, I would make up scenarios and scenes, fully intending to write them down but never finding the time. In my late teens, I discovered the world of role playing and settled into an avid 'geeky' life of D&D, comics, sci-fi and fantasy fiction. Years passed and I finally gave voice to the stories in my head. I write romance, fantasy, action and adventure. I love tales of steampunk and history, tales of magical powers and dark curses lurking in the shadows. Though The Black Lotus is not my first attempt at a novel, it is the first I have finished.
And some fun facts about me:
I sew.
My favourite Disney film is Atlantis.
I've been a film extra and stood 5 feet away from Sam Rockwell.
Babylon 5 is my fave sci-fi show.
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DruidMurphy, London
In a celebration of one of Ireland's finest playwrights, and a portrait of a nation, the multi-award-winning Druid company from Galway presents DruidMurphy, a trilogy by Tom Murphy and its biggest-ever project. The three plays, directed by Garry Hynes, tell of Irish emigration from 1846 to 1970. Conversations On A Homecoming finds a man returning home in the 1970s from New York to a reunion at his local pub. A Whistle In The Dark sees a family gather in 1960 Coventry. Finally, Famine looks at the effect of the great Irish famine of the 1840s and alludes to the widespread hunger in Ireland in the 1950s.
Hampstead Theatre, NW3, to 30 Jun
Mark Cook
A Soldier In Every Son – An Aztec Trilogy, Stratford upon Avon
The same cast who are appearing in Maria Aberg's lively and controversial King John and Roxana Silbert's revival of Richard III (both to 15 Sep) will also appear in this new play by one of Mexico's leading playwrights, Luis Mario Moncada, which is inspired by Shakespeare's history plays. Spanning more than 100 years from the late-14th century, when the Aztecs transformed themselves into a great empire, the play tells the story of this ancient civilisation and the politics, passion and lust for power that both fuelled its rise and destroyed it.
Swan Theatre, Fri to 28 Jul
Lyn Gardner
The Two Most Perfect Things, London
An evening of frothy but incisive wit and charm is promised with The Two Most Perfect Things, a show celebrating the lives of two of the biggest stars of stage and screen in the interwar years, Noël Coward and Ivor Novello. Written by Adrian Fisher and Stuart Barham – who also star in this five-hander – it uses their words, letters and music and gives biographical snapshots in revue sketches. The Coward canon is well-known, from theatre standards such as Private Lives to the song Mad Dogs And Englishmen. Although a top songwriting award is named after him, Novello's work is less familiar but it includes musicals such as The Dancing Years.
Riverside Studios, W6, Wed to 21 Jul
Whatever Gets You Through The Night, Glasgow
Take a dash of David Greig, add a smidgen of Withered Hand, a splash of Annie Griffin, a tot of Douglas Maxwell and a touch of Talkingmakesnosense, and you may have the most singular performance of the year. There's an amazing array of Scottish talent in this ground-breaking production directed by Cora Bissett that – as well as live performances at the Arches – is also a book, album and a film, the latter premiering at Summerhall during the Edinburgh festival fringe. Featuring a pot pourri of stories taking place across Scotland between midnight and 4am, the show combines circus, cabaret, spoken word and music to tell the stories of lovers, lost souls and those saying goodbye for the last time and meeting for the first time.
The Arches, Tue to Fri
Blue Remembered Hills, Chichester
Under Jonathan Church, the Festival Theatre has had a remarkable few years of success at home and in the West End, and while it celebrates its 5oth birthday, the theatre proves that it's young at heart with a season of new work in a temporary new space designed by a young team of architects called Assemble. The space is being handed over to the young, too, with producer Holly Reiss overseeing a season from rising directors Anna Ledwich, Michael Oakley and Tim Hoare. The season includes a new play, Fred's Diner, from Penelope Skinner (15 Aug-2 Sep), a revival of April De Angelis's Playhouse Creatures (19 Jul-11 Aug), and begins with Anna Ledwich's production of Dennis Potter's Blue Remembered Hills.
Theatre On The Fly, Festival Theatre, Tue to 14 Jul
Love Letters To The Public Transport System, On tour
Many of us use public transport every day, and all we really care about is that our bus, tube or train gets us to our destination. But what about the people whose job it is to keep the system running? Molly Naylor's hit monologue, which will be heading to the Edinburgh fringe after a short Scottish tour, offers a real story drawn from the lives of those who labour to keep us on the move, and whose efforts are often only noticed when something goes wrong.
Dornie Hall, Kyle, Tue; Macphail Centre, Ullapool, Wed
Shobana Jeyasingh: TooMortal, London
Shobana Jeyasingh has made her work for a variety of spaces other than theatres, including the grand courtyard of Somerset House, and for her latest piece she investigates the architecture of churches. Exploring the space, TooMortal also evokes the special qualities of these buildings. Places of peace and solace, these churches also evoke the tenacity over the centuries of human faith.
St Mary's Old Church, N16, Wed to 30 Jun
Judith Mackrell
Matthew Bourne's Play Without Words, Leicester
Matthew Bourne's 25th anniversary season continues with this much-deserved revival for his take on the style and sexual obsessions of the 1960s. Based on Joseph Losey's 1963 movie The Servant, its clever layering of action and character elaborates a tense, reverberating story about rich bachelor Anthony and his high maintenance fiancee Glenda as they fall prey to the machinations of their working-class servants. Terry Davies's slick atmospheric jazz score drives choreography that builds intimate gestures into tight sophisticated dance.
The Curve, Fri to 7 Jul


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Hello Michelle,
I checked with my Henderson's City of Winnipeg Directories and found the following information.
1947 no BESSO
1948 no BESSO
1954 BESSO, Michael J (Barbara) brakeman CNR living at A 734 Sherbrook Street.
1966 no BESSO
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Wally's Novelty Mix: She Yo-Yos Me and I Yo-Yo Her Back: Tenacious D is a joke band, but they're a great joke band. One of my best friends always says that he likes them because "The world needs a novelty Ween". And I'm inclined to agree. This is from the self-titled (and currently only) album, and was taken from their HBO miniseries. It was kind of considered a spinoff of the great sketch-comedy show Mr. Show With Bob & David, even though the D never actually appeared on that show (although Bob & David produced the show and the members of Tenacious D, especially Jack Black, the actor, appeared in the show as occasional performers, but never as the band). They're often foul-mouthed, but they make up for it by being pretty funny and pretty good musicians. They do have a movie coming out, The Pick of Destiny, and there'll probably be a tie-in record for that, probably a soundtrack, I would assume. Anyway, though, that'll be great, and I"m really excited for it. - Rev. Syung Myung Me


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Sept. 11, 2012
Alumnus Florian Zitzelsberger (B.S. computer science '11) was credited in Pixar's animated "Brave" film as part of the core team - Presto Animation System.
Within days of finishing his studies and earning a bachelor's degree in computer science, Zitzelsberger started work as an intern at Pixar Animation Studios in Emeryville. A self-described video game fanatic and animated film aficionado, Zitzelsberger moved to the United States in 2007 from Schrobenhausen, near Munich, Germany, to study computer science at Cal State Fullerton.
"During my childhood, I closely followed the development of the mid-1990s dot-com bubble in Silicon Valley and I knew that California was the place to be for anyone who was serious about innovative software development," said Zitzelsberger in a 2011 interview. "As I became older and about to graduate high school, I realized that my dreams were achievable, and with a lot of effort and dedication, I could apply to colleges in the United States and make the move from Germany to California. I identified a number of potential schools and decided that Cal State Fullerton would be the right place for me."


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The Knicks secured a commitment from one of this summer's prized free agents on Monday, coming to terms with forward Amar'e Stoudemire, the team announced.
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He agreed to a five-year maximum contract worth about $100 million, according to a team official who asked for anonymity because he was not authorized to speak for the team. The exact figures will not be known until the league's moratorium period ends on Thursday and the salary cap is announced. No contract can be signed until that date.


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By Kim O'Donnel, Special for USA TODAY
'Tis the season — to be snacking! As soon we've managed to scrape off the stuck-on bits at the bottom of the turkey roasting pan, we're back on the feed train, a 31-day grazing tour of cheese balls, eggnog fountains and chip-and-dip platters.
I'll bet my weight in shrimp cocktail that by the time you read this column, your social calendar is loaded with all kinds of holiday shindigs — and non-essential calories.
I've got nothing against yipping it up, indulging in party treats — or shucks, having a quiet evening alone with my own bag of salty snacks. But does anyone else notice how easily one seemingly innocuous after-work holiday party can turn into a month-long feeding frenzy? I get bloated just thinking about it.
So, party animals, here's the challenge: Can we have our holiday snack plate with our health intact on New Year's Day? I think so. Although I don't profess to have the magic solution, I do have a healthful snack trick that kinda feels like fairy dust.
I make my own chips — from kale. Go ahead. Laugh and scoff all you want. But I'm telling you, these crispy green beauties may change your life. Botanically, kale is a brassica oleracea, a type of wild cabbage whose extended relatives include collard greens and Brussels sprouts. There are several varieties — curly and red Russian among them — but my favorite is the dark green-black ruffly Dinosaur kale (also sold as Lacinato and Tuscan kale), which results in a bang-up chip.
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After washing and thoroughly drying the leaves and removing the fibrous rib, you're almost there. Leaves get hand-tossed with olive oil and salt and crisp up in the oven for a mere 8 minutes. Transfer to a bowl and watch how quickly they disappear. Then give yourself a high-five because you've just polished off an entire bunch of über-nutritious leafy greens at the snackiest time of the year.
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Art Chica@s, an annual program that teams high school students with established artists to create an installation on site that the students then exhibit to family, friends and the general public. Partners include the Deaf Action Center, the Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas, the Dallas Independent School District, Uplift Education, and the Dallas Art Dealers Association.
Found Object Art, a partnership with the Dallas Independent School District and the Nasher Sculpture Center. Students learn about found object art at the Nasher and then, while helping clean the LRTX site, take some of the cast-off material back to their art classrooms to use to create sculptures. The resulting work is exhibited at the Nasher in spring. Here's a little photo book created during the 2012 exhibit.
Environmental Art, an annual juried program in which local artists create ephemeral work on site, primarily using natural materials found on the site. Works have included tree carvings (candidate trees have been identified by trained arborists), wood sculptures, privet-vine archways and huts, and carved benches. The current theme is Site and Sound and will include sculptures of wood and steel, and a multi-focal percussion performance.


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In the Museum we have many objects that tell the story of coin and medal production. Some of the most fascinating are the reducing machines whose intricate mechanisms were once integral to the process of minting. .. More
Posted on Friday, March 11, 2016 by The Royal Mint Museum
In the Museum we have many objects that tell the story of coin and medal production. Some of the most fascinating are the reducing machines whose intricate mechanisms were once integral to the process of minting. .. More
Posted on Monday, January 11, 2016 by The Royal Mint Museum
Happy New Year and welcome to our 2016 blog. The Museum would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our supporters and to give you a brief summary of our Inventory Project along with a sneak preview of some of the exciting events coming up this year. .. More
Posted on Tuesday, October 06, 2015 by The Royal Mint Museum
During the course of the inventory project we have catalogued 17,500 overseas coins. Many of them are large and impressive but, as we have discovered, it is important not to overlook even small coins in poor condition as they can also tell a fascinating story. Recently we came across an intriguing collection of aluminium one cent coins from East Africa, dated 1908. They are light weight with a perforated centre and some of them are covered in a thick powdery white corrosion layer. These aluminium coins are the first of their kind produced by the Royal Mint and, although they appear to have little value, they represent adaptability, innovative science and a commitment to continuous improvement that had gained pace when Charles Fremantle was Deputy Master of the Royal Mint (1868-1894). .. More
Posted on Tuesday, September 22, 2015 by The Royal Mint Museum
Since completing a catalogue of the coinage, medal and seal material in the main store, we have taken the opportunity to look more closely at some of the remaining objects. Of particular interest was a set of boxes labelled 'Tower of London', containing a series of electrotypes featuring various inscriptions and ranging from crudely scratched names and dates, or tags, to lengthy passages of text and detailed artistic impressions. .. More
Posted on Wednesday, August 26, 2015 by The Royal Mint Museum
Here at the Royal Mint Museum we are fortunate to have a large collection of objects that bring the history of coin production to life. However one particular artefact has caught our eye over the course of the Inventory Project. It is an automatic balance of the type introduced in the 1850s to weigh gold and silver coins. It is in working order and has a smooth and elegant action even after all these years of hard work. The coins make a pleasing sound as they are sorted, although originally they would have been collected in bags under the machine and made very little noise. Automatic balances were employed to weigh bullet cartridges as part of the Royal Mint's contribution to the war effort, and the machine's mechanism is fascinating to watch. But the real significance of this machine is that it represents the mass produced accuracy of the coinage produced by the Royal Mint. .. More
Posted on Friday, August 21, 2015 by The Royal Mint Museum
Since the last update from the Inventory Project we have been working to reorganise and catalogue more of the museum collection. The formidable job of recording the plaster models, rubber moulds and electrotypes is now complete. .. More
Posted on Friday, August 14, 2015 by The Royal Mint Museum
If you have read previous blog posts about the Royal Mint Museum Inventory Project you will be familiar with the types of objects we have been handling, but you might not know how they were originally used. The plaster models, rubber moulds, electrotypes and punches in the Museum store each represent a stage in the process of transforming a design from a concept into a coin, medal or seal. .. More
Posted on Friday, August 07, 2015 by The Royal Mint Museum
There was an air of excitement about the Royal Mint Museum this week as we prepared to receive a very special object into the collection. As part of a reorganisation of the Royal Mint engraver's workshop we were to transport a large wooden work bench into the Museum space. The work bench stands at approximately one metre high and one and a half metres wide. It is constructed of mahogany and pine and has evidently seen much use. There is nothing ostentatious about this bench. It is simple, elegant and above all, practical. So why is this unassuming object so special to us? .. More
Posted on Friday, July 31, 2015 by The Royal Mint Museum
At the Royal Mint Museum, weekly housekeeping is an important part of our duties as collections assistants and much of this activity is aimed to control populations of insect pests. These pests such as silverfish and carpet beetle larvae can cause significant damage to the organic materials within the museum's collection such as paper, textile and wood. As a large part of the museum's collection consists of books, documents, framed art and wooden boxed objects we take this threat very seriously. .. More
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At the Royal Mint Museum we are in a privileged position to be easily able to research original records from our archives on the Royal Mint and we are able to see plaster models and electrotypes that never made it past the design process to appear on an actual coin, medal or seal. These are rare works of art and an important reminder of the careful selection process that takes place in creating new coinage in particular. .. More
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Welcome to the Royal Mint Museum Blog. Here you'll get to meet the faces behind the Museum and find out how our hard-working team cares for this exceptional and varied collection. You'll find entries on our favourite objects, how we're looking after the objects, and the work being done to interpret and research the collection. You may also from time to time get a sneak preview of exciting projects and future exhibitions.