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For as long as I have played World of Warcraft, "twink" has been a dirty word. Conventional wisdom held that twinks were the reason low-level PvP was inaccessible to normal players, that those toons with their Green Tinted Goggles and their Lucky Fishing Hats –the most visible sign of a level 19 twink — had ruined casual battleground play.
Prior to the great Battleground Experience Patch of 2009, I think the conventional wisdom had identified the symptoms correctly while missing the real problem. A new player venturing into Warsong Gulch, clad in a few quest greens and whites, with untrained skills and professions and only a few hours of /played under their belt, would (and did) get slaughtered at the hands of players with a deep understanding of their abilities and the battleground, best-in-slot gear, maxed skills and professions, and weeks of /played time. Couple that disparity with the nerdrage prevalent in so many battlegrounds and the 10-19 WSG bracket was hellish for casual players.
Setting aside the nerdrage, which is its own independent problem, the ability disparity is neither unique to WSG nor the fault of twinking players. With but one exception, this is the almost the exact same problem experienced at the level cap: a freshly-dinged 80 is nothing like the main of a hardcore raider or arena gladiator with maxed skills and ilevel 245 gear, except in level only. If we ignore the character levels, the attitudes of hardcore raiders and twinks are identical: pursue excellence in your character's chosen activity and seize every advantage possible. What would you call a raider without maxed professions, who refuses to ever flask before a run or get the Hodir shoulder enchants?
The exception I mentioned above is that hardcore raiders and gladiators get to select both their teammates and their opponents, while WSG twinks could not. Raiders can be as picky as they want about who is in the raid, and run content appropriate to their ability. Gladiators have opponents chosen for them based on a complicated evaluation of gear and performance, and while the system has some flaws, it does prevent teams in crafted blues going up against teams in Relentless gear.
Battlegrounds can be joined by anyone who could find the appropriate Battlemaster and met the level requirements. I think this is why the conventional wisdom about twinks in Warsong Gulch was right, though it was for all the wrong reasons. It was never the twink's fault. Warsong Gulch sucked for casual players because they weren't fighting other casual players, and it sucked for twinks because they would get non-twinks assigned to their team, with no corresponding weakness on the other side. In other words, the content was too hard for some characters to handle, and those players with characters who could handle the content grew frustrated at their inability to choose teammates who took it as seriously as they did.
But since there is an order of magnitude more casual players than there are twinks, twinking became the dirty word.
This situation changed with patch 3.2 and the introduction of XP to battlegrounds. In one fell swoop, Blizzard both opened up the low-level battlegrounds back to casual players, and gave twinks their own battlegrounds. The decision to let experience-frozen characters only play their own kind divided each bracket in two: a leveling bracket and a twink bracket. It was a good move, though it had devastating effects on some of the brackets. My level 59 Death Knight Cynwulf couldn't find a match in his twink brackets for weeks after 3.2 hit, while the leveling bracket exploded with players flocking to the rich XP rewards. Alterac Valley became a place for lightning-fast leveling through difficult stretches, with people leveling alts all the way to 80 within its frosty confines. It changed the dynamic of the game, opening up a new way for players to level. Quest for a while, then take a break and play battlegrounds for a night without falling behind!
I have heard that a similar phenomenon took place in the 19 twink bracket as the 59; very long queue times for infrequent matches. Some twinks resorted to playing in the leveling brackets and leaving the matches before they finished to avoid too much experience gain. But many twinks just had a hard time finding games after 3.2 dropped.
It's difficult for me to reconcile those reports with the current situation, three months after battleground XP was implemented, because both the 10-19 leveling bracket and 19 twink bracket are thriving now on the Ruin battlegroup. I suspect that what happened was that since 3.2 contained so many changes (Argent Coliseum raids, new tier sets, new heirloom items, a new battleground, and mounts at lower levels) that twink players found other things to occupy their time. I know that 3.2 is when I threw myself out of the battlegrounds and into raiding. I leveled my few alts with their new mounts. I played some Isle of Conquest. I ran the new Argent Crusade dailies every single day and became an heirloom item junkie.
But mostly, I ran the Trial of the Champion and heroics until my eyes bled.
I don't know what it was, specifically, that caused me to roll a new alt. I'm a slow leveler, and I have tried to focus my attention on as few characters as possible to achieve as much as I can with them. Perhaps it was the mount changes, or all the pretty heirlooms I was getting, but something caused me to roll a paladin just to see what it was like. I outfitted her with some nice heirlooms, leveled her up to level 12 or so, and then took her into Warsong Gulch to see if things had changed since my last ill-fated visit.
Oh. My.
Warsong Gulch at 10-19 is completely different now. The leveling bracket is filled with toons of all different levels, gear, and player skill. Interestingly, level seems to be a poor predictor of performance, which is counter to what you might expect. The matches are short but not frenetic. Best of all, you get to see how your class plays in PvP before a lot of complications are added – there just aren't as many things to keep track of as with an endgame character. Your opponents lack a lot of counters that they get later on, so you can learn how your abilities are really supposed to work.
It's really a great experience. I recommend at least trying WSG again if you're starting a new alt. It is a great training ground and helps you understand the core of your new class much better than solo questing does. (Running Deadmines is the other part of learning a new alt that I find really valuable.)
The leveling bracket of WSG is also ridiculously low-stress. I jokingly call it the Come-As-You-Are bracket, because you will find such a wide variety of gear, skill, and ability spread throughout both teams. Compared to the intensity of endgame PvP, this bracket is like a pickup flag football game. Sure, you want to win, but having fun is just as important.
If the matches in the 10-19 leveling bracket are afternoon pickup games, the level 19 twink matches are decidedly professional affairs. The expectation is that you're geared, skilled, stocked, and prepared. You need to know your role in the fight, or learn it quickly.
The item levels are different, but the hardcore attitude is just the same as the endgame: be the absolute best you can be. If you're not there yet, you better be working on it.
Seeing this attitude applied to level 19 characters is really amazing. The potential abilities are astonishing, if you are willing to pursue them. Bandages that heal you to full in two ticks? Food buffs that give 10-20% more health?
I don't know about you, but I had no idea any of these things were possible when I first leveled up through Westfall and Loch Modan.
The experience cap has made twinking much easier; no longer do you need to plan out every step from level 10 on. You can quest all the way to 19 and then get your gear, if you choose. Faction changes allow players to get the best of both worlds now, eliminating the problem of faction-only BiS gear. Yes, that's how hardcore twinks can be – faction changes for a BiS ring.
Having a separate bracket for these characters is a very good thing, for everyone involved. Twinks fighting twinks is a completely different kind of game, with a slower pace and more emphasis on control. There are no facerolls in the twink games.
And when you beat a premade, the taste of victory is very, very sweet.
You don't have to be as hardcore as the most hardcore twink to take away some very good lessons from their approach.
First, train your professions to max level as early as possible. You can pick them up at level 5 and reach 150 skill by level 10 – do it. This gives you access to all the benefits at a time where they are completely OP. You will also have a viable income if you are rolling on a new server. Don't forget that many of the best endgame professions are not very good at lower levels, and vice versa. Herbalism, Mining, Skinning, and Engineering all have excellent benefits while leveling.
Second, max out your First Aid. At level 10 you can reach 225 skill, which let's you use (but not make) Heavy Runecloth Bandages. So you can use any old-world bandage you can get your hands on. Bandaging can be done in combat and is a cheap, easy way to reduce downtime.
Third, get good gear. Heirlooms are great if you have access to them, but crafted gear is really good at low levels, too. Seriously, crafted gear. Check it out. Enchant it if you can afford it.
I've started doing these things on my alts and it's remarkable what a difference it makes. A level 10 dwarf warrior with Green Tinted Goggles and fully-enchanted heirlooms makes leveling a joy, not a grind.
I admit – I giggle a lot going into WSG and beating people 5-9 levels higher than me in 1:1 combat.
It's funny; I didn't originally associate these tips or attitude with twinking; I considered it part of learning how to play well, especially for a part of the game I struggle with. Let me be honest — I made just about every mistake you could make while leveling, No, really, I'm terrible at it. But I got to the endgame, I learned how to play, and now I'm learning again by watching the twinks.
Twink. It isn't a dirty word anymore.


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Thorsteinn Gestsson scored the only goal of the game in the fourth minute as Columbia edged Yale 1-0 at the Soccer-Lacrosse stadium. Dean Arnaoutakis and Alex Maffeo combined to make eight saves to post the shutout in goal for the Lions. Dwayne Whylly made five saves in goal for the Bulldogs, who saw their four game winning streak come to an end.
The winning goal came when Gestsson deflected in an Einar Benediktsson shot off a rebound just 3:18 into the game. The Lions (3-10-2, 1-4 Ivy) had the better of the play in the first half, outshooting Yale 8-5. The Bulldogs, though, picked it up in the second half. Yale's best scoring chances came with 25 minutes left in the second half. Alex Maffeo stopped an Alex Munns' blast. The rebound came right to Lindsey Williams, but Maffeo was able to save Williams' shot as well.
"We improved in the second half, but the early goal proved to be too much to overcome," said Yale head coach Brian Tompkins. "Their goalkeepers made a couple of big saves."
The Lions outshot Yale 12-10 for the game.
The loss dropped the Bulldogs to 6-9 overall and 3-2 in Ivy League play.
Yale returns to action next Friday at Brown at 7 p.m.

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Yesterday, on his way to and back from his inauguration ceremony at the Capitol Building, the POS saw these scenes as his motorcade passed in front of the Navy Memorial on Pennsylvania Avenue.
How come we didn't see this in the MSM's reports yesterday? [Snark]
Steven Ertelt reports for LifeNews.com, Jan. 21, 2013, that a pro-life group, Created Equal, had set up the graphic abortion pictures.
Mark Harrington, the director of Created Equal, talked about why his organization set them up:
"On January 21, 2013, President Obama put his hand on the Bible and swore 'to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, so help me God.' That same Constitution that he swore to uphold reads that we are to 'secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.' Our posterity is a reference to our offspring – preborn children. Because Obama supports abortion and infanticide, he violated his oath of office the moment he put his hand on the Bible. The irony is Obama swore to protect the rights of future preborn children while at the same time defending the injustice of abortion. Many Americans have become numb to the fact that an entire generation has been lost to abortion. We hear their cries for justice, and we will not be silent. We will defend them."
I'm surprised the pro-life protesters weren't arrested for being "low level terrorists" — which is what the Pentagon thinks. [Snark]
See also "Obama is evil," on the ice-hearted POS voting three times against the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, thereby consigning to death babies who survive a botched late-term abortion.
If you're among the 62,615,406 Americans who had voted to reelect this POS, the blood of the millions of unborn human beings who will be aborted in the four more years to come is on your hands.


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Woman Kills Cat By Blowing Heroin Smoke On It
A Colorado woman is being accused of killing a pet in a most unusual manner.
Danielle Blankenship was allegedly smoking heroin and exhaling the fumes from the dangerous drug right into the face of Muffin, her boyfriend's roommate's cat.
While the 21-year old may have believed she was doing the feline a favor, by getting it high, Muffin didn't take to the illicit substance, and passed out cold.
Eventually cops responding to a call that Blankenship also punched her boyfriend in the face found Muffin, who was taken to the local Humane Society for treatment. The vets were able to briefly revive the cat, but it passed later that night.
Blankenship was charged with third-degree assault and misdemeanor animal cruelty. If toxicology reports reveal that the kitty did in fact died from heroin poising, she could face even more charges.


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I don't have brilliant photos of it - I only had about half an hour in which to take them before taking it to the post office, the sun was in the wrong spot to use my usual wall, my good camera had a flat battery (so I used the old one, which for some reason was also set on a very low resolution), I couldn't find a wall big enough for it to hang completely flat, and the best option didn't have room for me to stand far enough back to take a good straight-on image! However, I do have some nice detail images, and some progress photos, and will photograph it properly when I get it back in a week's time.
I absolutely love this quilt; I love the colours, and the effect of the blocks, and am thrilled with the border quilting - the centre quilting is just average, but it doesn't detract from the rest, so that's ok.
I used nine different colourings of the same star block, using a palette of seven aqua fabrics in varying tones and shades, plus a few extra aquas for the borders and binding. Ideally the border and binding fabrics would ahve been selected from those used in the centre, but I dind't have enough - and I decided to add the aqua borders after piecing the top (in fact, I'd actually sandwiched it without them, then changed my mind!).
These blocks are all shown prior to quilting
I did photograph one block in detail after quilting; I quilted the stars with silver metallic thread; each star in a different pattern:
A section of the border (looking at the photos again, I can't wait to do more quilting like this!):
I showed more photos of the whimsical feather quilting when I was doing it back in June, and love it as much now as I did then.
I used a bowl and Hera marker to mark the scallops and the feather spines - it was quick and easy (practically no pre-planning required) and left no marks to remove later! The feathers radiate form the corners, and 'meet' in the centres of the sides - I just kept adding 'another bowl' on either side until the gap between them was smaller than 2 bowls
I made my own template for the snowflakes (used in the corner scallops, and scattered among the loops in the background of the star blocks), but had difficulty removing the blue pounce. The blue water-soluble clover marker wasn't that keen on coming out, either.
This shows the quilting over the whole quilt - the only way I could get the whole thing in:
And the (rather sad) best I could do straight-on (admittedly it is a whopping 100 x 92in, king-size quilt!):
Stars of the Sea will be hanging in the Express Publications stand at the Festival of Quilts in Adelaide next weekend.


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At the beginning of our review, we said that the GTX 660 Ti Phantom may do pretty well if the performance and price are right.
As far as performance goes, we were pleasantly surprised. We didn't get GTX 670's performance at factory clocks, but it was close enough. Gaming at 1920x1080 is a joy and most games will allow maximum settings. Of course, depending on the game, higher resolutions are definitely not off limits.
As far as pricing goes, it may work against the Phantom. Gainward priced the card some €15 higher than the reference GTX 660 Ti but to be fair, overclocked GPU, Phantom cooling and extra overclocking headroom may very well justify the price. However, the GTX 660 Ti starts just below €300 in Europe, and tends to go up to €350 or even €370 (for the 3GB model), whereas most gamers were expecting €250-300. Furthermore, this price range is quite popular and you'll find many quality cards there, such as the HD 7950.
If you're looking for quiet cooling with a nice factory overclock, then the Phantom is definitely worth looking at. Note however that the card is three slots wide.
Powerful Phantom cooling really helped us in our overclocking and we managed to squeeze out additional 130MHz for the GPU and 250MHz (1000MHz effectively) for the memory, which was enough to leave the GTX 670 in the dust.
So, if you're looking for an affordable card that still packs a nice punch, and then some, then Gainward's GTX 660 Ti Phantom will be more than a worthy weapon of choice.


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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Hitachi Ltd said on Friday it would cease production of chips used in information and telecoms hardware at the end of March 2014.
"The semiconductor industry has seen an increasingly horizontal division of labor in terms of development, design and manufacturing in recent years," said Hitachi in a statement.
Hitachi, an industrial manufacturer that makes goods ranging from nuclear reactors to washing machines, said efforts to boost cost efficiency and competitiveness drove the decision.
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TOKYO — Tokyo's governor promises that the return of the Olympics in 2020 — nearly a half century after the city's first games — will be a sports success and an economic boost to the nation.
Thousands of Tokyo residents crowded the plaza in front of City Hall to welcome home Gov. Naoki Inose and members of the bidding committee on Tuesday from the IOC vote in Argentina. Tokyo was chosen to host the games Sunday, beating out Madrid and Istanbul.
Inose said the games will be a chance to make new history for the nation, coming after years of economic sputtering, the devastating earthquake and tsunami of 2011 and the ongoing nuclear crisis that disaster touched off.
"It's all ahead of us," Inose told the crowd. "Let's all pull together as a nation."
The prospect of hosting the Olympics lifted share prices in construction, real estate and tourism-related companies, boosting Tokyo's Nikkei 225 stock index by 2.2 percent soon after trading began Monday morning.
Concerns over the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, just northeast of Tokyo, almost derailed the Olympic bid. Tokyo has been in the running for seven years.
Containing radiation from the crippled nuclear plant in Fukushima continues to be a major problem, but the government and the power company that runs the plant insist there will be no health risks for the hordes of athletes and spectators expected in Tokyo for the games.
The plant's operator in July acknowledged tons of contaminated underground water has been leaking to the Pacific for some time. Recent radioactive water leaks from storage tanks have added to fears the problem is out of hand, but Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said at Sunday's IOC meeting the leaks are completely under control.
The 1964 Olympics were a milestone in Japan's post-World War II recovery. Japan rushed to build expressways and introduced its first high-speed Shinkansen bullet trains. The games won Japan worldwide recognition for its growing affluence and economic power.
This time, hosting the games could bring more than $40.4 billion and create more than 150,000 jobs, according to some estimates. More than half of it would be new demand for construction, sales of Olympics-related goods and purchases of new televisions and other appliances.
The government also hopes to boost visits by foreign tourists to 30 million a year by then, from the 8.36 million who came to Japan last year. Officials say the preparations will help the greater Tokyo area — home to 35 million people — overhaul its aging infrastructure.


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Namco Bandai has set the A/NZ release of Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 for March 7.
The game, which is a sequel to 2010's Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2, will be available in March 7 on both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
As the previous games in the series, Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 is based on the Naruto: Shippuden anime series that began airing in English territories since 2009.
In addition to the ninja action and adventure that are hallmarks of the franchise, the third instalment in the Ultimate Ninja Storm series boasts over 80 playable characters, advanced online modes and enhanced fighting mechanics.
The story mode is based on the Fourth Great Ninja War that is covered in the anime, enabling players to relive key events from the story arc.
One-versus-many action stages will form the brunt of the adventure, as well as cinematic boss battles with villains and beasts found in the anime.
The game's multiplayer mode will enable players to battle against the world in user created tournaments and friendly player matches.


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Aimé Césaire was born June 26, 1913, in Basse-Pointe, a small town on the northeast coast of Martinique in the French Caribbean. He attended the Lycée Schoelcher in Martinique, and the Parisian schools Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Lycée Louis-le-Grand.
His books of poetry include Lost Body (George Braziller, 1986), with illustrations by Pablo Picasso, Aimé Césaire: The Collected Poetry (University of California Press, 1983), and Return to My Native Land (Penguin Books, 1969). He is also a playwright, and has written The Tempest (G. Borchardt, 1968), based on Shakespeare's play, and A Season at Congo (Grove Press, 1966), among others.
About his work, Jean-Paul Sarte wrote: "A Césaire poem explodes and whirls about itself like a rocket, suns burst forth whirling and exloding like new suns—it perpetually surpasses itself."
He is also the author of Discourse on Colonialism (Monthly Review Press, 1950), a book of essays which has become a classic text of French political literature and helped establish the literary and ideological movement Negritude, a term Césaire defined as "the simple recognition of the fact that one is black, the acceptance of this fact and of our destiny as blacks, of our history and culture."
As a student he and his friend, Léopold Senghor of Sénégal created L'Etudiant noir, a publication that brought together students of Africa and the West Indies. Later, with his wife, Suzanne Roussi, Césaire co-founded Tropiques, a journal dedicated to American black poetry. Both journals were a stronghold for the ideas of Negritude.
Césaire is a recipient of the International Nâzim Hikmet Poetry Award, the second winner in its history. He served as Mayor of Fort-de-France as a member of the Communist Party, and later quit the party to establish his Martinique Independent Revolution Party. He was deeply involved in the struggle for French West Indian rights and served as the deputy to the French National Assembly. He retired from politics in 1993. Césaire died on April 17, 2008 in Martinique.
A Selected Bibliography
Lost Body (George Braziller, 1986)
Aime Cesaire, The Collected Poetry (University of California Press, 1983)
Non-Vicious Circle (Stanford University Press, 1984)
Cadastre (Third Press, 1973)
Return to My Native Land (Penguin Books, 1969)
State of the Union (Asphodel Book Shop, 1966)
Discourse on Colonialism (Monthly Review Press, 1972)
A Tempest (G. Borchardt, 1985)
The Tragedy of King Christophe (Grove Press, 1969)
A Season in the Congo (Grove Press, 1968)


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Expert Witness 1359 has had an active interest in the antique business since the 1950's, attending many auctions, buying and selling antiques and collectibles. He holds a degree in engineering from Broome Technical Community College and graduated from Reiches College of Auctioneering.
In 1974 Expert witness 1359 was admitted to the American Society of Appraisers and, in 1980, advanced to the level of Senior Member, certified to appraise Antiques, Decorative Arts and Residential Contents. In 1992 he joined the Appraisers Association of America as an Accredited Member and in 1995 he was elected to their National Board of Directors. In 2005 the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors bestowed a Fellowship on him. He has lectured, taught classes and conducted appraisal clinics for many years and appears frequently on television and radio talk shows and appeared weekly on a television show. He is accredited by the University of the State of New York to conduct adult education courses on Antiques and Collectibles. He is licensed and bonded auctioneer within New York State and by the State of Pennsylvania.
Expert witness 1359 has given expert court testimony in New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Michigan, New Jersey and Massachusetts. His appraisals are accepted by the Internal Revenue Service and many state courts. He is qualified to do the IRS form 8283 regarding non-cash charitable donations.
In 2005 the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors bestowed a Fellowship on him.
To date there are only 6 other personal property Fellows in the United States. To become a member one must demonstrate the highest standards of education, professional training and ethical conduct.
Involved in the valuation of cars from the 1950's. From 1959 through 1971 he was owner, promoter and manager of a NHRA (National Hot Rod Association) sanctioned track. Since 1964 to the present, he has promoted many car shows and has been actively engaged in the used car market including appraising classic and specialty vehicles.
Licensed by the Department of State of the State of New York since 1969 and currently is the Principal Real Estate Broker of a private company. He has successfully completed the required education courses offered by NYS: Realtor Associate, Realtor and Real Estate Appraisal. Since 1979 he has been actively engaged in the Auctioneering of Real Property. In 1989 he passed a comprehensive written examination qualifying him as a Certified Real Estate Appraiser for the State of New York, certified to appraise real property for the Department of Transportation as well as other State agencies. He has been appraising real property since 1974.
1985 - Began appraising major collections of baseball cards for insurance purposes and litigation.
1988 - Auctioned a sports memorabilia business containing over 300,000 sports cards.
1991 - Began preparing 8283 appraisals of major sports items for non-cash charitable donation.
1995 - Selected by the Racing Hall of Fame, Saratoga, NY to appraise Kentucky Derby Trophy and other significant donated items.
1995 - Collaborated on Shaquille O'Neil's personal sports memorabilia collection.
1996 - American Society of Appraisers and Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame initiated client referrals throughout the United States on sports related items.
1998 - Consultant for Sports Illustrated Magazine and Chicago Tribune Newspaper – Sports.
2003 - Appraised the world's oldest known soccer ball (football) for the Soccer Hall of Fame, Oneonta, NY
2004 - Appraised the original Heisman sculpture from which all Heisman trophies have been made
2006 - Appraised items missing from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Museum in Springfield, MA
Broome Technical Community College - Mechanical Engineering Degree
Reiches College of Auctioneering, Mason City, Iowa
Lecturer and Instructor on Antiques and Collectibles
International Conference of ASA, 1986, Portland, OR, Values of American Clocks
State University of New York at Binghamton - Continuing Adult Education
Binghamton High School - Continuing Adult Education
BOCES - Continuing Adult Education Courses
American Society of Appraisers - Antique Clocks and Watches
NYS Chapter of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors - The Treasures of Russia
Personal Property Journal of ASA - Staff writer
Numerous Area Historical Societies and Service Clubs
Published articles in Ralph & Terry Kovel's Monthly Newsletter
Southern NY State Estate Planners, Syracuse, NY - Real Estate at Auction
Western New York Chapter of ASA, Rochester, NY - Real Estate at Auction
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Lochner v. New York, case in which, on April 17, 1905, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a New York state law setting 10 hours of labour a day as the legal maximum in the baking trade. The opinion drew a stinging rebuke from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., whose dissent became the prevailing interpretation of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by the 1930s, when maximum-hours laws were held constitutional.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the majority of bakeries in New York City existed in tenement house cellars, because rents were low and the floors—whether of wood, dirt, or occasionally concrete—were sturdy enough to support the weight of an oven. These spaces, however, had never been intended for commercial use. Whatever sanitation facilities the tenements had—sinks, baths, and toilets—drained down to sewer pipes in the cellar, which leaked and smelled foul, especially in the heat generated by the baking ovens. Ceilings in cellar bakeries were as low as five and a half feet (about one and a half metres) above the floor, a height that would force most workers to stoop. There were few windows, so even in the daytime little light came in. In the summer workers suffered intense heat, and in winter even the heat of the oven could not keep the bakeries warm. The lack of adequate ventilation also meant that flour dust and fumes, natural in any baking, could not escape.
Most people who visited these workplaces agreed that they were filthy and that the bread they produced posed a health hazard to consumers. Working long hours in this environment could not have been beneficial to the health of the workers, either. In 1895 the typical bakery worker laboured 74 hours a week, and many worked even longer.
To address these problems, the New York state assembly passed the New York Bakeshop Act (1895). Modeled on the British Bakehouse Regulation Act (1863), the law established minimum sanitation standards, including prohibitions against keeping domestic animals in bakeries and against workers sleeping in the bake room. A key provision was a clause limiting the working hours of biscuit, cake, and bread workers to 10 hours per day and 60 hours per week.
In October 1901 a grand jury in Oneida county, New York, indicted John Lochner, a local bakery owner, for violation of the Bakeshop Act on the basis of an inspector's complaint that one of Lochner's employees had worked more than 60 hours in one week. In a pretrial motion, Lochner asked for dismissal on the grounds that the grand jury had not properly stated the charges and that, even if the charges were true, what he had done did not constitute a crime. After the judge dismissed both objections, Lochner refused to plead and was found guilty.
Lochner took his case to the Appellate Division, which upheld the law (3–2), and then to the Court of Appeals, New York's highest court, which also ruled for the state (4–3). He finally appealed to the Supreme Court, which heard oral arguments on February 23, 1905.
In their argument before the Supreme Court, lawyers for Lochner attacked the Bakeshop Act as prohibited class legislation, because it applied to some bakers and not to others (e.g., it did not apply to bakers in hotels, restaurants, and clubs). They also maintained that the hours provision did not fall within the legitimate purview of the state's police power (its power to issue laws and regulations to protect public health, safety, and welfare), because baking was not the type of business that needed special regulation. Unlike mining, for example, baking was a generally healthful occupation. Thus, if the court allowed the law to stand, "…all trades will eventually be held within the police power." Finally, they denied that the Bakeshop Act was actually a health measure. The New York law, they declared, was really an hours regulation on which there had been tacked a few sanitation provisions.
Interestingly, the lawyers' brief contained an appendix consisting in part of mortality figures from England. The figures showed that the mortality rate of English bakers was lower than that of the general population and about equal to those of cabinetmakers, masons, and clerks. The appendix also included excerpts from medical articles recommending better sanitation and ventilation in bakeries but not shorter hours.
Arguing for the state, Julius M. Mayer, the New York attorney general, filed only a short brief in which he made three points: first, Lochner had the burden of proving the statute unconstitutional, as opposed to New York having to prove it was valid; second, the purpose behind the Bakeshop Act had been and remained the protection of the public health and the health of bakery employees; and, third, since the law was so clearly a health measure, it fell within the legitimate purview of the police power.
Majority and dissenting opinions
In its ruling, the Supreme Court ignored the question of class legislation, holding instead that the Bakeshop Act (particularly its hours provision) was an unconstitutional infringement of freedom of contract (the freedom of employees to sell their labour to employers), which the court had recognized in Allgeyer v. Louisiana (1897) as part of the liberty protected by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. (The due process clause prohibits the states from depriving "any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.") Writing for the majority (5–4), Justice Rufus Peckham argued that the curtailment of contractual freedom imposed by the act could be sustained only if it served to protect public health or the health of workers at risk, which it clearly did not do. "Clean and wholesome bread," he asserted, "does not depend on whether the baker works but ten hours a day or only sixty hours per week." Citing Holden v. Hardy (1898)—in which the court had upheld an hours law that applied to workers in dangerous occupations, including mining—Peckham then asked whether any proof existed to show that baking was a dangerous or unhealthful trade, and he concluded that none did (here he clearly relied on the appendix submitted by Lochner's lawyers, though he did not cite it directly). Since the hours law failed to qualify as a health measure, it could not be maintained as a valid exercise of the police power, according to Peckham.
Justice John Marshall Harlan delivered the main dissent, which was joined by Justices Edward White and William Day. The police power, Harlan wrote, extends at least "to the protection of the lives, the health, and the safety of the public against the injurious exercise by any citizen of his own rights," and the Fourteenth Amendment had never been intended to interfere with this power. Liberty of contract certainly did exist, but it had to be subordinate to the police power.
Although Harlan's dissent was well crafted, for the most part it has been overshadowed by the brief but memorable dissent by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The majority opinion, he charged, was based on "an economic theory which a large part of the country does not entertain." The state's right to interfere with liberty of contract was well established in history, he argued, pointing to such examples as laws against usury or Sunday work. Furthermore, a constitution is not supposed to embody a particular economic theory, be it paternalism or laissez-faire. "The Fourteenth Amendment does not enact Mr. Herbert Spencer's Social Statics" (1851), a famous argument for laissez-faire, Holmes wrote. The whole idea of liberty, he continued, is perverted whenever it is "held to prevent the natural outcome of a dominant opinion," except when everyone could agree that a particular statute infringed upon fundamental principles, which was not the case here. He concluded that a reasonable person would find the hours provisions to be legitimately related to health and that therefore the law should be upheld.
While bakery owners and other businessmen applauded the court's decision, organized labour denounced it as reactionary, confirming their view of the judiciary as a handmaiden of capitalist entrepreneurs and an enemy of working people. Lochner was destined to become a symbol of judicial interference with the democratic process, and Holmes's dissent became a rallying cry for the Progressive movement in the United States.
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End of Season Spats, for Rory and Tiger December 17 2012
World number one Rory McIlroy / Stephen Hindley, AP End of season spats involving Rory McIlroy and also Tiger Woods. Rory is being sued by Oakley, for breach of contract, according to a law suit filed last week in Federal Court at Santa Ana California. Oakley had tried to use it's " Right of first refusal" to counter the reportedly $200 Million offer from Nike. Apparently Rory and his agent Conor Ridge decided to ignore the counter offer, thereby breaching the Oakley-McIlroy contract. Oakley were upset that a new $300,00 advertising campaign which Rory was to have endorsed for 2013, has been wasted. Rory';s management company Horizon Sports Management have stated that; "McIlroy has fulfilled all of his obligations to Oakley, and the claims in the lawsuit are entirely baseless." I have to admit that I would be upset at having wasted that kind of money on a new campaign, but I am sure a lawsuit is going to cost a lot more, they must be feeling pretty confident. I have just purchased a set of Oakley sunglasses for golf, etched on the lens is Dragon Golf, a small advert for my company, wonder if Rory will still be wearing Oakley sunny's. Tiger Woods / getty The spat involving Tiger Woods is a little more baffling, especially as Tiger himself has not been involved personally, although he has been personally vilified. The Australian billionaire Clive Palmer, owner of the Palmer Coolum Resort golf course, that has been the host of recent Australian PGA Championship events has verbally put down Tiger. His rant is recorded thus; "Tiger Woods isn't the No. 1 golfer in the world anymore, we don't want to look backwards; we want to look forwards. So why would we get Tiger Woods here? I would prefer to have this year's winner Peter Senior, than Tiger Woods. I am sure Peter Senior could beat Tiger Woods on a good day. I am sure he could. Tiger Woods has improved a lot, but he's an emotional wreck, and he's not a good example for kids, anyway." He may be a billionaire, but with that kind of thinking it is easy to see why The Australian PGA are proposing to move their tournament to another course, after the new negotiations for next years tournament broke down. Actually I always thought the Coolum Resort was owned by Arnold Palmer, bet most people would have preferred Arnie to run the place. Palmer himself reckons that the Aussie PGA will go back to the Coolum Resort, citing he has lined up Rory to play in next years event; " If you rang him now, he would probably tell you unless it's at Palmer Coolum Resort, I won't come. We can be sure he won't come if it goes somewhere else. If it stays here, there is a chance he might come here. We had Darren Clarke and Bubba Watson." I hope Rory has not signed anything yet, last thing he needs would be another lawsuit dropping on his doorstep if he decided not to travel to Australia. Of course Tiger Woods has never entered the Australian PGA Championship, and probably never will.


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These spooky Halloween cupcakes are almost as fun to make as they are to eat, and kids will love to join in.
Use any one of the following decorating ideas on its own, or put several together to create a tray of different treats. Easy to bake, all of these cupcakes are based on the same devil's food cake recipe.
Tombstone Cupcakes How-To 1. To make a cupcake cemetery, spread devil's food cupcakes with chocolate ganache icing (all recipe links follow). Dip the top of each frosted cupcake in crushed chocolate wafers to create the look of dirt, then insert shortbread-cookie tombstones, piping them with scary messages like "Boo!" or "R.I.P." in royal icing.
2. Top more devil's food cupcakes with chocolate ganache and chocolate-wafer "dirt," make a hole in the center of each cupcake with your finger, and position half a Gummi worm to look like it's slithering out of the hole.
3. Enlist your kids to draw scary Halloween figures, or copy Halloween images out of books. Cut the pictures out, tape them to cocktail straws (you can cut the straws shorter, if necessary), and insert them into cupcakes you've decorated with orange-tinted cream-cheese frosting.
4. Decorate more devil's food cupcakes with orange cream-cheese frosting, then spell out words or phrases like "Happy Halloween" by forming one to three letters out of thin black licorice on top of each cupcake.
5. Serve your cupcakes on a tray covered with candy corn.
Recipes Devil's Food Cupcakes
Chocolate Ganache Icing
Shortbread Tombstones
Cream Cheese Frosting (tinted with orange food-coloring paste)
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Old Dominion's move to Conference USA seems more inevitable by the hour, no matter the financial and competitive challenges. The Monarchs' long-time home, the Colonial Athletic Association, is just too fractured, even if VCU and George Mason decline overtures from the Atlantic 10.
With that in mind, let's glance at how Conference USA membership could affect ODU's headline sports.
FOOTBALL: In each of the past two seasons, a pair of C-USA teams has finished among the Associated Press' top 25 -- No. 18 Houston and 20 Southern Mississippi in 2011, No. 21 Central Florida and 24 Tulsa in 2010. That's a far cry from 2000-09, when no league team cracked the AP's season-ending poll.
Now Houston and UCF are among four C-USA schools bailing for the Big East, and none of the five replacements announced Friday – Charlotte, North Texas, Louisiana Tech, Texas-San Antonio and Florida International -- has ever been a national force. But Florida International and Louisiana Tech have fared well recently in the Sun Belt and Western Athletic conferences, respectively.
Coached by former Miami offensive tackle Mario Cristobal, FIU has played in a bowl each of the last two years. Louisiana Tech is the reigning WAC champion and is the alma mater of three Pro Football Hall of Famers: quarterback Terry Bradshaw, defensive lineman Fred Dean and offensive tackle Willie Roaf.
Safe to say, C-USA would be an exponential upgrade for ODU's fledgling Championship Subdivision program.
MEN'S BASKETBALL: Over the last seven seasons, or since Marquette, DePaul, Cincinnati and Louisville left for the Big East, C-USA and the Colonial are remarkably similar. Each has received four at-large NCAA tournament bids, and each is 13-11 in NCAA play.
The CAA's George Mason and VCU reached the Final Four in 2006 and '11, respectively. C-USA's Memphis lost the 2008 national championship game to Kansas in overtime.
But Memphis owns all of C-USA's tournament victories in that span, and the Tigers are headed to the Big East. UAB in 2005 is the last league team other than Memphis to advance in the NCAA bracket.
Similarly, George Mason and VCU account for 12 of the CAA's 13 NCAA wins since 2006, and many expect them to leave for the Atlantic 10. The conference's other NCAA victory was ODU over Notre Dame in 2010.
Among the five newcomers, Charlotte has the only notable men's basketball profile, with a 1977 Final Four and 10 NCAA appearances from 1988-2005. Karl Malone led Louisiana Tech to the 1985 Sweet 16, but the Bulldogs haven't made the tournament since 1991.
In short, ODU likely would be immediately competitive in C-USA.
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: The Colonial and Conference USA have one Sweet 16 between them in the last seven years, that ODU's in 2008. Otherwise, it's been grim for both leagues. The CAA is 3-10 in the past seven NCAA tournaments, C-USA 2-9.
Louisiana Tech will bring storied tradition to C-USA women's basketball in the form of 10 Final Fours and two national championships – the Lady Techsters won the first-ever NCAA tournament, in 1982 at Norfolk Scope. But they have not advanced in the tournament since 2004.
ODU, the 1985 national champion, is in similar decline, missing the last four NCAAs. Second-year coach Karen Barefoot's reclamation project likely would be just as challenging in C-USA as in the CAA.
BASEBALL: This probably would be the Monarchs' sternest test other than football. Since 2006, C-USA has earned 16 at-large NCAA tournament bids to the CAA's two.
Three current league members boast recent College World Series appearances -- Tulane in 2001 and '05, Southern Mississippi in 2009 and Rice seven times since 1997. The Owls won the 2003 national championship.
Conversely, ODU is among the CAA's weaker programs. Not even reigning American League Cy Young winner and MVP Justin Verlander could pitch the Monarchs into the NCAA tournament from 2002-04 – their last appearance was 2000.
Three C-USA teams are among the top 25 teams on baseball's Rating Percentage Index – No. 18 Rice, 19 Central Florida and 22 East Carolina. The CAA's best is No. 53 UNC Wilmington.
FIELD HOCKEY: No school can match ODU's nine national championships, the most recent of which came in 2000. But presently, Conference USA does not sponsor the sport, so the Lady Monarchs, NCAA semifinalists in 2011, could be on their own.
MEN'S SOCCER: Switching leagues would challenge an ODU program that has reached 10 of the last 15 NCAA tournaments, including the last three. C-USA has sent four teams to each of the last two postseasons – the Southeastern Conference's South Carolina and Kentucky compete in C-USA soccer because the SEC does not sponsor the sport.
Two of Conference USA's better programs, Southern Methodist and Central Florida, are moving to the Big East, but newcomer Charlotte reached last season's national title match, losing to North Carolina.
In short, if Old Dominion football could go from zero-to-60 like Tony Stewart, and that's an XXL if, the Monarchs and Conference USA would fit athletically.
Look for plenty more on ODU's possible move in the coming days online and in print.
I can be reached at 247-4636 or by e-mail at email@example.com. Follow him at twitter.com/DavidTeelatDP
Here's a link to my Daily Press print columns, including Sunday's on ODU's potential move.


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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this short presentation of the Escort ship. The versatility of theses ships is mostly what make them so popular in the sector. They can be used for troops or material transport, can fly in space as well as on planet surface and they include decent weaponry.
Here you can see the Noxarian Starship Fearless (NSS NF-I). This ship is owned by the Order of the Equinox. Every escort include multiple reactors and flight stabilizers that allow the ship to fly, of course, but also to stand still while in the air. The silver dish visible on the engine is the radar system.
One pilot is required. There is storage in front of the ship for the pilot stuff. The stick on the left engine is the communication system.
The cockpit is large enough to fit heavy armored minifig. There is a small storage compartment behind the pilot.
Cargo bay.
The cargo bay can be loaded with material or personnel.
Cargo bay access.
Side storage allow some extra material to be loaded.
Landing gear operation.
Combat mode.
Two Lx-2 laser cannons mounted on the cockpit wings are deployed. There is also two torpedoes on the wings.
The cargo bay can carry up to six units.
Escorts are modular ships. They consist of a small fighter (called Falcon), docked on a modular section. To detach the Falcon, additional landing gears are deployed from the module. The Falcon landing gear is retracted and the wings are deployed. Then, the Falcon is good to go, leaving the modular section on the ground. The module can then be used as a small outpost since communication and radar systems are presents.
A view of the crew, Outpost and Falcon.
That's it!
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Johnny Mathis
If you appreciate the days when pop music meant Nat King Cole singing "Unforgettable" or Frank Sinatra crooning "Strangers in the Night," then you'll want to head to Akoo Theatre to check out Johnny Mathis. The Grammy winner recently had to tend to some issues with his hip but says his "velvet voice" is sounding just fine. So, "Wonderful! Wonderful!" "It's Not for Me to Say" and "Chances Are" will be as fresh as the days when popular music was made up of beautiful ballads. Why go: Yes, Virginia, there will be Christmas songs. (Mathis has five Christmas albums.) Reconsider: We have Mathis to thank for starting the greatest hits trend. 8 p.m. Friday at Akoo Theatre, 5400 N. River Road, Rosemont; $65-$95; 800-745-3000, ticketmaster.com
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Shaun Piccinino said he knew he wanted to be involved in film ever since his first stage production when he was 5 years old.
Piccinino, a Huntington Beach resident who never went to film school, has been noted for his visual effects work with productions like Cartoon Network's clay-animated shows "Robot Chicken" and "Moral Orel," as well as his work directing episodes of Spike TV's "Deadliest Warrior."
His second directed feature film, "The Lackey," has gained notoriety in various film festivals, including this weekend's SoCal Film Festival in Huntington Beach.
"The Lackey" follows bad man Jude St. Clere (Piccinino), who discovers that his junkie ex-girlfriend had his daughter, who is practically homeless and malnourished. He vows to take care of her and leave his dark past behind, but must endure one last job and finds himself in a bloody Mob war in order to earn enough money to provide for his child.
For "The Lackey," Piccinino not only directed the film, but also edited it and acted as the main character.
He said he feels that the key to success is knowing all aspects of film, not just one element like acting or directing.
"In this day and age and economy, you have to diversify or die," he said. "It also helps as an independent filmmaker because you never know how you're going to get your projects, so it's extremely important to be able to know how to do a lot of these things as a means for an end.
"There are two things that are extremely important for a director. I think they should know how to act, or at least understand it, and know how to edit. When you're shooting and you're already seeing the edit in your head, it will save you time, make your story more coherent and just make everything work out more smoothly."
"The Lackey's" visual effects nod to filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino and Guy Ritchie, who Piccinino said inspired him as a director.
"The image quality is really high quality," he said. "But we wanted it to feel gritty, like it was maybe shot in the '70s or '80s, so we took those images and damaged them in post. We saturated and sucked out a lot of the colors. … It's kind of funny to shoot on such a high resolution, then edit it to make it look old and gritty."
"The Lackey" won the Best Editing for Feature Film award at the eighth annual Action on Film International Film Festival in August.
Piccinino said the biggest secret to success in the film business is perseverance.
"You just have to stick it out," he said. "The people who stay are working, so that is a huge success in a way. The ones who keep going at it will make it. It's not always about the greatest talents, but it's about the people who are the hungriest and stay the longest."
"The Lackey" will be shown at the SoCal Film Festival at 4:30 p.m. Saturday. Admission is $5. For more information about the film, visit thelackeymovie.com.
The SoCal Film Festival will take place Thursday through Saturday at the Huntington Beach Central Library Theatre, 7111 Talbert Ave.
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The Two Towers
The Two Towers is the second volume of The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, containing Book III: The Treason of Isengard and Book IV: The Ring Goes East.
For quotes from the movie adaptation see: The Lord of the Rings movies page
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Book III
The Riders of Rohan
- Not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!
- 'How shall a man judge what to do in such times?'
'As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves, and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.'
- 'The counsel of Gandalf was not founded on foreknowledge of safety, for himself or for others,' said Aragorn. 'There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.'
- Do not be hasty, that is my motto.
- Learn now the lore of Living Creatures!
First name the four, the free peoples:
Eldest of all, the elf-children;
Dwarf the delver, dark are his houses;
Ent the earthborn, old as mountains;
Man the mortal, master of horses
- Not so hasty! You call yourselves hobbits? But you should not go telling just anybody. You'll be letting out your own right names if you're not careful.
- My name is growing all the time, and I've lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to.
- Many of those trees were my friends creatures I had known from nut and acorn; many had voices of their own that are lost for ever now. And there are wastes of stump and bramble where once there were singing groves. I have been idle. I have let things slip. It must stop!
The White Rider
- 'Yes, I am white now,' said Gandalf. 'Indeed I am Saruman, one might almost say, Saruman as he should have been.
- I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.
- He is in great fear, not knowing what mighty one may suddenly appear, wielding the Ring, and assailing him with war, seeking to cast him down and take his place. That we should wish to cast him down and have no one in his place is not a thought that occurs to his mind. That we should try to destroy the Ring itself has not yet entered into his darkest dream.
- The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through the fire and the abyss, and they shall fear him. We will go where he leads.
- I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin. Then darkness took me; and I strayed out of thought and time, and I wandered far on roads that I will not tell. Naked I was sent back — for a brief time, until my task is done. And naked I lay upon the mountain-top.
The King of the Golden Hall
- Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
Who shall gather the smoke of the dead wood burning,
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?
- We are all friends here. Or should be; for the laughter of Mordor will be our only reward, if we quarrel.
The Road to Isengard
- I have lived to see strange days. Long we have tended our beasts and our fields, built our houses, wrought our tools, or ridden away to help in the wars of Minas Tirith. And that we called the life of Men, the way of the world. We cared little for what lay beyond the borders of our land. Songs we have that tell of these things, but we are forgetting them, teaching them only to children, as a careless custom. And now the songs have come down among us out of strange places, and walk visible under the Sun.
- So that is the King of Rohan. A fine old fellow. Very polite.
Flotsam and Jetsam
- One who cannot cast away a treasure at need is in fetters. You did rightly.
The Voice of Saruman
- The guest who has escaped from the roof, will think twice before he comes back in by the door.
- 'The treacherous are ever distrustful,' answered Gandalf wearily.
- Often does hatred hurt itself!
The Palantír
- Oft evil will shall evil mar.
- There is nothing that Sauron cannot turn to evil uses.
- Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.
Book IV
The Taming of Sméagol
- Be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
- We promises, yes I promise!' said Gollum. 'I will serve the master of the Precious. Good master, good Sméagol, gollum, gollum!
The Passage of the Marshes
- If the One goes into the Fire, and we are at hand? I ask you, Sam, are we ever likely to need bread again? I think not. If we can nurse our limbs to bring us to Mount Doom, that is all we can do. More than I can, I begin to feel.
The Black Gate is Closed
- It had always been a notion of his that the kindness of dear Mr. Frodo was of such a high degree that it must imply a fair measure of blindness. […] Gollum in his own way, and with much more excuse as his acquaintance was much briefer, may have made a similar mistake, confusing kindness and blindness.
- He had all the injured air of a liar suspected when for once he has told the truth, or part of it.
The Window on the West
- I would not snare even an orc with a falsehood.
- Faramir to Frodo
- It's a pity that folk as talk about fighting the Enemy can't let others do their bit in their own way without interfering. He'd be mighty pleased, if he could see you now. Think he'd got a new friend, he would.
- 'For myself," said Faramir, "I would see the White Tree in flower again in the courts of the kings, and the Silver Crown return, and Minas Tirith in peace: Minas Anor again as of old, full of light, high and fair, beautiful as a queen among other queens.
- I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
- We are truth-speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or die in the attempt. Not if I found it on the highway would I take it I said. Even if I were such a man as to desire this thing, and even though I knew not clearly what this thing was when I spoke, still I should take those words as a vow, and be held by them.
- I am wise enough to know that there are some perils from which a man must flee.
- The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.
The Forbidden Pool
- 'We are lost, lost,' said Gollum. 'No name, no business, no Precious, nothing. Only empty. Only hungry; yes, we are hungry. A few little fishes, nasty bony little fishes, for a poor creature, and they say death. So wise they are; so just, so very just.'
Journey to the Cross-roads
- They cannot conquer for ever!
The Stairs of Cirith Ungol
- Who can now hold the fords when the King of the Nine Riders comes? And other armies will come. I am too late. All is lost. I tarried on the way. All is lost. Even if my errand is performed, no one will ever know. There will be no one I can tell. It will be in vain.
- Frodo raised his head, and then stood up. Despair had not left him, but the weakness had passed. He even smiled grimly, feeling now as clearly as a moment before he had felt the opposite, that what he had to do, he had to do, if he could, and that whether Faramir or Aragorn or Elrond or Galadriel or Gandalf or anyone else ever knew about it was beside the purpose.
- The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: adventures, as I used to call them. I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of a sport, as you might say. But that's not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have been just landed in them, usually — their paths were laid that way, as you put it.
- I never thought of that before! We've got — you've got some of the light of it in that star-glass that the Lady gave you! Why, to think of it, we're in the same tale still! It's going on. Don't the great tales never end?
- 'I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, or course; but I mean: put into words, you know, told by the fireside, or read out of a great big book with red and black letters, years and years afterwards. And people will say: "Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring!" And they'll say: "Yes, that's one of my favourite stories. Frodo was very brave. wasn't he, dad?" "Yes, my boy, the famousest of the hobbits, and that's saying a lot."'
- 'To hear you somehow makes me as merry as if the story was already written. But you've left out one of the chief characters: Samwise the stouthearted. "I want to hear more about Sam, dad. Why didn't they put in more of his talk, dad? That's what I like, it makes me laugh. And Frodo wouldn't have got far without Sam, would he, dad?"'
- 'We're going on a bit too fast. You and I, Sam, are still stuck in the worst places of the story, and it is all too likely that some will say at this point: "Shut the book now, dad; we don't want to read any more."'
- Even Gollum might be good in a tale, better than he is to have by you, anyway...I wonder if he thinks he's the hero or the villain?
- For a fleeting moment, could one of the sleepers have seen him, they would have thought that they beheld an old weary hobbit, shrunken by the years that had carried him far beyond his time, beyond friends and kin, and the fields and streams of youth, an old starved pitiable thing.
- The fleeting moment had passed, beyond recall. 'Sneaking, sneaking!' he hissed. 'Hobbits always so polite, yes. O nice hobbits! Sméagol brings them up secret ways that nobody else could find. Tired he is, thirsty he is, yes thirsty; and he guides them and he searches for paths, and they say sneak, sneak . Very nice friends, O yes my precious, very nice.'
The Choices of Master Samwise
- The Ring'll be found, and there'll be no more songs.
The Lord of the Rings - Part 1 The Fellowship of the Ring - Part 3 The Return of the King; See also: The Lord of the Rings Movie Trilogy
External links
- HarperCollins: UK & Worldwide Publishers
- Houghton Mifflin: US Publisher
- Official Site of the Movie Trilogy
- Movie Trailer for "The Two Towers"
The first volume of Tolkien's greatly acclaimed epic was first published July 29, 1954, the second on November 11 of the same year, and the final volume on October 20, 1955. They have inspired generations of readers ever since, and millions of new admirers are growing acquainted with the story because of the very popular motion picture adaptations directed by Peter Jackson.
These selections of quotations are designed to give but a taste of the what many hail as the magnificence of the tale, and some of the striking language employed within it.
Like many great books it is a work that many read many times for the beauty of it's language and it's themes, and these quotations are intended to provide a rich sampling as to why, without providing too extensive an indication of the plot of the story itself — and also to provide those who have read it with a collection of small reminders of what makes it so memorable. Like all the greatest literature it is full of both triumphs and tragedies, with complex connections and associations that do not always become apparent on the first reading, nor even with many readings thereafter. To emphasize the fair use nature of these quotations this footnote and links to the official publishers of the books occur on all the pages for quotations from The Lord of the Rings


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UPDATED: Parts of North Lubbock Evacuated Due to Acid Leak with Bayer Crop Science
UPDATE 2:05a, May 9, 2013
Within the past 15 minutes, Lubbock Fire Department officials have corrected the chemical that is leaking from a tanker in North Lubbock. The chemical leaking is hydrogen chloride. According to LFD, when released into the air, hydrogen chloride reacts with the moisture in the air to form Hydrochloric Acid. It has a vapor density of 1.268 which means that it is heavier than air (it sinks) but is readily dispersed by wind.
Also, the Salvation Army shelter at 16th Street and Avenue J. is now open for those needing shelter during the evacuation. Personal items like pillows, and toiletries can be brought to the shelter.
Just after Midnight, Thursday morning, parts of North Lubbock were evacuated after an acid leak with Bayer Crop Science in the 100 Block of Erskine Avenue.
According to Nick Ochsner with KAMC 28 News the lead was discovered by Bayer Crop Science employees around 7p, Wednesday night.
The chemical leaking is described as an Anhydrous Hydrochloric Acid leak by Lubbock Fire Department officials. The Anhydrous Hydrochloric Acid is leaking from a 3000 pound tank located on a trailer consisting of 10 tanks. A Lubbock Fire Department Hazmat team is on the scene to monitor the situation. A specialized Hazmat team from Dallas is en route to Lubbock. The team from Dallas will transfer the contents of the leaking vessel to a new containment vessel. Lubbock Fire Department officials expect the Dallas Hazmat team to arrive around 5:00am.
The Salvation Army, with the help of the Red Cross, is opening a shelter for affected Lubbock citizens in Downtown Lubbock at 15th Street and Avenue J.
You will be able to hear updated news on this situation during the overnight hours on News/Talk 790, KFYO; 98.1 KOOL FM, 94.5 FMX, 99-5 Blake FM, 102.5 KISS FM and SportsRadio 1340 The Fan.


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===Configuring ACPID===
===Configuring ACPID===
Revision as of 09:01, 9 November 2011
There are many guides on how to configure multimedia hotkeys using program such as xev or keyTouch. However, this guide explains how to use the simple utility of acpi_listen and generate your own script for hotkeys.
Who Should be Using This Guide
This guide assumes that you know your keyboard signals through acpi. If you do not know whether or not this is the case, I suggest looking:
Installing Necessary Tools
You should already have these tools installed, but just to make sure you will need
sudo pacman -S acpi acpid acpitool
Refer to this guide on what modules you should load (i.e. through /etc/rc.conf or modprobe)
Using acpi_listen
Under root, or with sufficient access to the input devices, run:
If pressing a special key, such as previous or next, receives a response that looks similar to:
hkey VALZ 00000000 00000b31
then all is well and we can continue.
If nothing appears on the screen during execution of the Template:Codeline, that means that the pressed keys do not generate an ACPI event. In this case you can't use ACPI for monitoring these keys. See the page Hotkeys for other ways of mapping keys.
Configuring ACPID
The ACPI daemon reacts to ACPI events according to the 'handler.sh' file. This is located in
You can either directly edit this file, to react to the ACPI events, or you can point it to another shell script (i.e. /etc/acpi/hotkeys.sh)
Under the section
case "$1" in
Add the following lines:
hkey) case "$4" in 00000b31) echo "PreviousButton pressed!" exailectl p ;; 00000b32) echo "NextButton pressed!" exailectl n ;; 00000b33) echo "Play/PauseButton pressed!" exailectl pp echo "executed.." ;; 00000b30) echo "StopButton pressed!" exailectl s ;; *) echo "Hotkey Else: $4" ;; esac ;;
The '00000b31' etc. values are the response received from acpi_listen. In 'hkey VALZ 00000000 00000b31', $4 is the final part, which was what distinguished my keys apart.
Also, the exailectl script is a brief shell script I created for controlling Exaile music player. As the ACPID is run from root, you will need to use
sudo -u (username) exaile
for example, otherwise it will not detect your user-level program and recreate another.
Old: Sample Script
As keyTouch and other keyboard programs did not work for me, or did not work effectively, prior to editing my handler.sh file I created my own script that runs in the background and reacts directly from the output of acpi_listen. However it is a poor method to use, caused my laptop to be constantly active and noisy. I have provided the script here anyway, feel free to use it / modify it to suit your needs and post suggestions on how it can be improved. Currently, it is setup for a Toshiba Satellite A50 laptop to control exaile, but can be modified very easily for Amarok, Xine or other non-music related functions (internet, email).
export STOP_MYHOTKEY=0 i=`acpi_listen -c 1` case "$i" in "hkey VALZ 00000000 00000b31") #echo "PREVIOUS" exaile -p ;; "hkey VALZ 00000000 00000b32") #echo "NEXT" exaile -n ;; "hkey VALZ 00000000 00000b33") exaile -t ;; "hkey VALZ 00000000 00000b30") #echo "STOP" exaile -s ;; *) #echo "ELSE: $i" ;; esac e=`echo $STOP_MYHOTKEY` if [ "$e" != "1" ] then ./myHotkey.sh & fi
Note: This does not need to be run as root if you can receive an acpi_listen response from a user account (again, meaning you have access to the input devices).


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It's time for us to wrap up the Value Added Quilt Along. It's been an absolute pleasure seeing what you have all been up to! There were stacks of lovely fabrics all neatly arranged according to value, pretty value blocks, black and white photo's of value differences and some of you have been super busy and finished your quilts already!
Even though we are wrapping up the QAL our tutorials and value lessons will still be available on our blogs.
Lesson 1 - Understanding value
Lesson 2 - Using value to lead the eye
Lesson 3 -Value patterns in quilts
Lesson 4 -Value dynamics
The Bargain Basement quilt tutorial can be found on Amy's blog here
The Jacob's Ladder quilt tutorial can be found on Jolene's blog here
The Value Dance quilt tutorial can be found on Rachel's blog here
The Boy's Nonsense quilt tutorial can be found on my blog here
So we thought it would be great to celebrate our QAL with a linky party to show off all your value added makes.
Have you been quilting along with us, did you do one of the value exercises, how did you get on with value? Come join the party and link up with us!
x Leila


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If there's one thing to be said about the holidays, it's that EVERYTHING is in excess.
From tinny Christmas music and festive banners at the stores to the scads of holiday parties we're all invited to -- and, of course, who can forget the food? Loads of cookies, candies, and treats as far as the eye can see. It's easy to get sucked into the mindset to eat all you want because "the holidays come once a year," but that's a great way to ruin your diet.
So here are some tips for avoiding putting on the holiday pounds while STILL having a good time!
1) The first rule of thumb when attending any party that features one or two courses, usually appetizers and desserts, is to eat your dinner before you arrive. That way, you're not chasing down the server with those delicious meatballs on a stick that are loaded with all kinds of unhealthy (yet delicious) ingredients.
2) Stick with the veggie plate. Most parties that have appetizers offer one. It may look a little pathetic in the middle of all those mini stuffed hot dogs, but that's where you should get the bulk of your dinner (if eating ahead isn't an option).
3) If your party lacks a fruit or veggie option, load up on water during the party. It helps you feel fuller and less likely to chow down when you're saving those calories for some cookies.
4) Avoid telling yourself that it's okay to overeat because "the holidays come once a year." That's a surefire way to end up a size bigger. Plan ahead accordingly and give yourself a little - not a lot - of leeway when it comes to holiday goodies.
5) If you're going to a pot-luck gathering, cook a dish that's low in calories and big on taste so that you're certain you have something to eat that's loaded with fat.
6) Pretend that your weekly calorie intake is like your checkbook. If you splurge one day, you're broke for the rest of the week. Same goes for food - if you're going to have one really amazing meal, make sure that the rest of the week, you stick to eating healthily.
7) While it's important to be conscious of what you're putting into your body, do allow yourself to indulge a little. If you eat veggies and water for "dinner," have a cookie! Or if you prefer savory, dig into the appetizers and ditch the baked goods!
8) And if you go overboard with the delicious holiday treats? Remember that it happens. To everyone. Don't beat yourself up over it! Just use it as an opportunity to do better next time.
What are some of the ways YOU handle dieting during the holidays?
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Thursday, 12 January 2012
Crafting Mojo
15 comments:
- Fiona said...
She had a wonderful time and is well and truly paper craft hooked. She thinks the world of you too and thinks your one in a million - But I already knew that LOL. Thanks for giving her a lovely day. Hugs - Fee XX
- 12 January 2012 at 13:18
- By Hoki Quilts said...
Love love love your tags and the gifts from Fee are just gorgeous.
- 12 January 2012 at 13:23
- Sue said...
Hi Jo
How nice to spend some time with a youngster crafting, would love to see what she made. The doily looks really pretty and the chocolates looked even prettier!
Good luck finishing your craft room!
- 12 January 2012 at 13:51
- Anonymous said...
Hi Jo, so good to hear you have had a nice break and that you have been spoilt. I am back from holidays and having a much needed stop in Perth. I am back at work and hopefully I can get a blog up (been naughty but have found it so hard). I love looking at your site, I get inspiration and so excited when you see what people are up to. The fire must have been very scary, we've had the big fire in Margaret River late last year, it was so devasting. Stay safe, happy holidaying and good luck for the New Year xxx Meg
- 12 January 2012 at 14:14
- Kerryanne @ Shabby Art Boutique said...
Glad to hear you have your crafting mojo on Jo. Gorgeous tags and always fun to craft with a fellow crafting addict.
- 12 January 2012 at 14:33
- Leanne said...
Your tags look great Jo, what do you do with them?
The doily Fee made you is very pretty.
- 12 January 2012 at 14:44
- Lib said...
Love the tags, Jo.
Very cute, almost makes me want to start scrap booking!
- 12 January 2012 at 15:23
- De said...
Sounds like a lovely day. Great tags
- 12 January 2012 at 16:16
- Annie said...
Sounds like you've had a wonderful holiday...a little creating, a little (OK, lots) of reading...and a new craftroom in progress....hope the next few days go as slllllooooowwwwwww as possible :)
- 12 January 2012 at 21:45
- Susan In Texas said...
I love your babushka pencil case. I need to get one of those. I have pencils all over my sewing room.
Happy stitching,
Susan in Texas
- 13 January 2012 at 00:43
- Karen 'n Chris said...
Awesome tags Jo. Good to hear that the younger generation are willing to forgo electronic entertainment.
Gorgeous gifts too.
Hmmmm striping, plastering, painting. That all sounds very familiar.
- 13 January 2012 at 08:53
- Roseanne said...
Wow your tag look great. The gift you got of fee are gorgeous.
- 13 January 2012 at 09:05
- Maree: said...
Your Tags are Lovely..Miss.A is Lucky to have Great Mentors.
Enjoy the rest of your Break.
- 13 January 2012 at 10:45
- Kathy said...
It's so much fun sharing what you do with someone else, sounds like you both had a great day :) Good luck with finishing the sewing room (and thank goodness the wall paper is over with: been there/done that!)
- 13 January 2012 at 16:41
- Anonymous said...
Hi! I came here via the universal craft blog directory. Love your tags and quilt. I had to go back to work this week too. How dare work interfere with our crafty projects ;)
- 17 January 2012 at 09:38


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Batoche, Duck Lake, Fort Carlton, China Fragments, Vertical Artifact Display, 01 (Back)
|Batoche, Duck Lake, Fort Carlton, China Fragments, Vertical Artifact Display, 01 (Back)
|China, Plates, Batoche, Duck Lake, Fort Carlton, Fisher, Dennis, Jean
|This image (by Peter Beszterda) is of the back of a vertical display containing china shards collected at Batoche, Duck Lake, and Fort Carlton. They were collected by Dennis and Jean Fisher and their sons in late 1960s or early 1970s. They are part of the Dennis and Jean Fisher Collection. This collection contains archaeological artifacts taken from the battlefields of the 1885 Resistance as well as Fort Pitt (Saskatchewan), Cumberland House (Saskatchewan) and St. Peters Mission, Montana. The collection also includes various artifacts and ephemera relating to the 1885 Resistance and Gabriel Dumont.
Dennis and Jean Fisher Collection
Dennis and Jean Fisher Donate Métis-Related Artifacts to the Gabriel Dumont
On September 19, 2011, Dennis and Jean Fisher and the Gabriel Dumont Institute (GDI) formally signed a ``Deed of Gift`` which formally transferred their large collection of 1885-related and Métis artifacts to the Institute.
The Dennis and Jean Fisher Collection which contains several hundred Métis-specific artifacts, documents, photographs, ephemera, and books, is housed in GDI`s Publishing Department office in Saskatoon. This gracious donation will form an integral component of GDI`s proposed Métis Centre of Excellence.
In the fall of 2010, Dennis and Jean, residents of Saskatoon, approached Karon Shmon, GDI`s Publishing Director, about the possibility of donating their substantial Métis-related collection to the Institute. Negotiations continued over the next few months with most of the artifacts coming to the Institute in March 2011.
Dennis and Jean have spent a lifetime collecting Métis and First Nations artifacts and memorabilia. Dennis is originally from Hague, Saskatchewan, which is near the 1885 Resistance battlefields at Duck Lake, Tourond`s Coulee (Fish Creek), and Batoche. From an early age, he acquired not only a great love of history relating to the 1885 Resistance, but also a great affection for Métis and First Nations people.
Throughout the late 1960s and early `70s, the Fishers, assisted by their three sonsDennis Jr., Darwin, and Davidfound 1885 Resistance-related artifacts at Gabriel`s Crossing, Touronds Coulee (Fish Creek), Batoche, and Clarks Crossing. This was done before Parks Canada bought the farmlands on which the battles of Batoche and Tourond`s Coulee were fought in the mid-1970s. After obtaining permission from area farmers to search for artifacts, the items were diligently analysed, photographed, and sketched by Dennis (who is a trained draftsperson).
Some of the more interesting items collected by the Fisher family, and now in GDIs possession include: a piece of Gabriel Dumont`s cast-iron stove and various other artifacts found at Gabriel`s Crossing, including a partial white porcelain doorknob; items from Xavier Letendre`s home at Batoche; various used gun cartridges from Batoche and Tourond`s Coulee; and a nine pounder cannon shell, which was used by the North West Field Force during the 1885 Resistance.
Other artifacts in this collection include: two pieces of the steamer Northcote (which Gabriel Dumont`s forces disabled during the 1885 Resistance) obtained from an excavation in Cumberland House in 1971; fur trade items such as trade beads and clay pipe stems from Fort Carleton and Fort Pitt; and artifacts collected at St. Peter`s Mission, Montanawhere Louis Riel taught school. In 1884, Gabriel Dumont, Michel Dumas, and James Isbister went to St. Peters Mission in order to bring Louis Riel back to Batoche.
Dennis has also led an active life in terms of commemorating Métis history and the 1885 Resistance. As president of CFQC Radio in Saskatoon, he ensured that the radio station sponsored the closing of Gabriel`s Ferry at Gabriels Crossing as well as the opening of Gabriel`s Bridge in 1968; in 1984-85, he chaired Commemorate `85 events in Saskatoon which celebrated the centenary of the 1885 Resistance. Some of the Commemorate `85 events and projects that he worked on include commissioning Bill Epp`s Gabriel Dumont statue, which now sits in Friendship Park in Saskatoon (he convinced Epp to make a statue of Dumont rather than one of Louis Riel); working with the Saskatoon Métis Society to re-enact Dumont, Dumas, and Isbister`s trip to Montana to get Louis Riel to come back to Batoche to fight for Métis rights; and finding a lost image of Gabriel Dumont at the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, Wyoming and sharing it with various archives in Canada and with the public.
Dennis has also played a key role relating to other aspects of Métis history. For instance, in 1971, he travelled to Montréal with former Conservative MP Eugène Rhéaume to buy Louis Riels diary at an auction. Rhéaume purchased it for $26,500 in order to keep it in Canada. Dennis later had the diary in his home for a brief period in the 1970s, and had a photocopy of it made. This original photocopy is part of Dennis and Jeans gracious donation to the Institute. He was also a close friend of former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, and was one of his pallbearers. Diefenbaker had a great affinity for Canadas Aboriginal peoples, and Gabriel Dumont was one of his heroes. Dennis donated a wonderful series of photographs to the Institute of Mr. Diefenbaker and others at a Batoche archaeological dig in the 1970s. As with the artifact collection, Jean has been Dennis keenest supporter, contributing a great deal of time and work to their shared interests.
In late September 2011, Dennis and Jean were contacted by Gordon Bowman who read about the Fishers donation in a local community newspaper. Mr. Bowman, via Dennis and Jean, graciously donated a 7 pounder artillery shell to the Institute. The shell was likely used in the Battle of Cutknife Hill during the 1885 Resistance. GDI would like to thank Mr. Bowman for his generous donation.
The Institute would like to once again thank Dennis and Jean Fisher and their family for this gracious donation. GDIs artifact collection, thanks largely to a special partnership with the Office of the Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians, has grown considerably over the past few years. This substantial donation has ensured that the Institute continues to have the largest Métis-specific artifact collection held by any Métis cultural institution.
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|December 9, 2011
|Batoche, Duck Lake, Fort Carlton, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
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Guthrie tosses gem as Royals add to lead in AL Central
ARLINGTON -- It's been quite a month for the Royals: 30 games, 24 victories.
They're in first place by three games over Detroit, their biggest lead so far.View Full Game Coverage
ARLINGTON -- It's been quite a month for the Royals: 30 games, 24 victories.
They're in first place by three games over Detroit, their biggest lead so far.View Full Game Coverage
And when Kansas City beat the Texas Rangers, 6-3, on Saturday night, the Royals' record on this happy road trip reached 6-2 with one game remaining on Sunday.
Jeremy Guthrie pitched eight innings for the victory, evening his record at 10-10. Jarrod Dyson drove in three runs, Omar Infante had two RBIs and Alex Gordon got the scoring started with a solo home run.
"We're putting it all together at the right time," said Royals manager Ned Yost.
"Basically all year long we've pitched well, played great defense. We're now 51 games over .500 (59-8) when we score four or more runs. So the whole key was trying to score four runs and there was the majority of the season when we struggled to score four runs. But now we're doing a great job offensively."
In the last month, they've scored four or more runs in 18 games and won each time.
"We're getting clutch hits, we're getting big hits, we're getting runners on, we're taking advantage of mistakes -- and that's been the difference," Yost said. "We've got guys hot. We might have one or two guys hot at a time when we were struggling, now we've got five, six, seven guys hot and really swinging the bat well."
This one started with a first-inning stalemate. Gordon sent a home run down the right-field line off Rangers right-hander Nick Tepesch. And, on Guthrie's first pitch of the game, Shin-Soo Choo belted a homer to left-center field.
Yost thought Guthrie made a good pitch, a low fastball to try to get ahead.
"It was a good pitch for him to hit," Guthrie corrected, "especially since it went 410 feet."
But then Guthrie put down the next 12 batters in a row and his teammates got busy and scored three runs in the fifth inning. Dyson walked -- on four straight pitches, no less -- with the bases loaded to force in one run.
"I just think he couldn't find the zone there. I doubt if he'd tried to walk me with the bases loaded," Dyson said slyly. "But I'll take it."
Then Infante delivered a two-out, two-run single and the Royals had their magic number -- four runs.
They got two more in the seventh after Erik Kratz and Lorenzo Cain each singled and moved into scoring position on Alcides Escobar's sacrifice bunt. In came left-hander Alex Claudio to face the left-handed-hitting Dyson.
Good spot for a pinch-hitter?
"I think earlier in the year I would've pinch-hit for him in that spot," Yost conceded, " but he's been coming up with a bunch of big base hits against tough left-handed pitchers."
Bang, Dyson singled to center for two more runs and a 6-1 lead.
Guthrie finished up his eight innings, giving up just five hits and one walk. But by then he'd made 111 pitches and Aaron Crow was summoned to finish up in the ninth. He did, but not before the Rangers added two runs.
However, Guthrie got his 10th win and joined James Shields (12), Jason Vargas (10) and Yordano Ventura (10) in double digits. The last time the Royals had that many 10-plus winners was 1988 when the names were Bret Saberhagen, Mark Gubicza, Charlie Leibrandt and Floyd Bannister.
Yes, it's been a fun month and the Royals are at the stage where they can enjoy a light-hearted moment even during a game. Take the second inning when first baseman Billy Butler caught a high popup and, with a big smile, doffed his cap to the Royals' whooping dugout.
Butler had missed a foul popup at first base just the night before, not so funny at the time. But now there was laughter.
"The guys are on me, I misjudged a few popups," Butler said, chuckling. "Misjudge a few popups around this bunch and they're going to let you have a hard time. I wouldn't expect anything less."
It's been a fun 30 days, for sure. The team is atop the American League Central and hungry for its first postseason berth since 1985.
"It's been a good month," Guthrie said. "I'd take two more of them."
That, of course, would take them deep into October.