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I disgree. DS9 has aged substantially better then TNG despite the fact that at the end, both series were overlapping each other. And DS9 IMO has aged better than the lousy CGI during the first couple of years of B5. One thing I do agree with though is because the whole story for B5 was thought out in advance the overall continuity of the story is better than DS9. However, once the producers decided to make the Dominion war arc the center piece of the the reminder of the 7 years it got better.
I watched both back during their original run. I felt they were both watchable, but then again, I'm not very partisan like that. I watched both DS9 & VOY first-run and enjoyed both and felt each had strengths & weaknesses. I'm not sure how much is many people just being very all-or-nothing vs. there being a very purist but very vocal minority loving their show and hating the main rival. Maybe a lot of people did watch both, but are silent because they don't get so worked up about it. * Plot: I felt Babylon 5 had the better plot overall and, even in spite of some pitfalls and boring times (hello Telepath Arc), was overall handled better over the entire series. DS9 was very enjoyable overall, but had some crap (the Klingon detour war. Like a meal of candy, some episodes were very enjoyable upon viewing that episode ["The Way of the Warrior"] but it was a needless detour from all the key players in DS9 (Season 5 on, the Klingons settled into their proper place as a B-tier supporting race in the fight). They were able to salvage it though by weaving it back into the Dominion ("Apocalypse Rising" was very cool). Other pitfalls were a horrible stretch (funnily enough, also in Spring 1998) and ... hard to explain, the 10-part final chapter, while good, it did kill the energy in the rest of the season (like dead ground around a large tree. Everything got tied into the final arc with not too much able to be done early) along with some crappy eps (but some very good ones too). The Romulans remained bit players in how they were shown unfortunately. B5 had fewer pitfalls, perhaps because so much did plug into greater arcs and things kept moving. I didn't mind the Ferengi episodes at all, BTW (except for "Profit and Lace" & "Ferengi Love Songs"). Of course, there was a downside to B5... very high rate of reruns. 22 episodes a year opened up a block of 3rd-runs. DS9's 26 episode season made for much less waiting between new episodes. Then there was B5's ABSOLUTELY SCREWY & STUPID scheduling. - Holding back the last few episodes totally killed the momentum that was building up and the chance for some spectacular cliffhangers (e.g. "Z'ha'dum", though "Endgame" would have made for a MUCH better finale than "Intersections in Real Time"). DS9 did this right. They had some great finales that while not cliffhangers like TNG or Voyager, they left a big dangling plot point ("The Jem 'Hadar", "The Adversary", "Broken Link", "Call to Arms" especially). - Do people know key episodes like "Babylon Squared" & "Chrysalis" only aired once and didn't reair for nearly 3 1/2 years, meaning viewers who joined later had no idea what had happened/couldn't get caught up? The show aired on PTEN's system, which was on a calendar year schedule. B5 tried to transition to a tv-season schedule but got stuck in an awkward in-between position. With many spots for 3rd reruns, especially in 1996, they could have easily picked out the key eps to bring newer viewers up to date. - But hey, TNT did some stupid things too- "Sleeping in Light" aired the night before Thanksgiving, a night that ratings of other sci-fi shows (I've seen Voyager's numbers along with other shows) take a slight to big hit. I haven't seen B5's Season 5 ratings though. "Sleeping in Light" might be the best series finale to get the smallest audience. I also think B5 is a bit 'drier', which makes it easier to burn out on as opposed to DS9 (heck, Star Trek as a whole) that remains rather fresh even after extensive viewing. Some of that might be the one downside to serialization (higher interest the first time around at the cost of lower interest other times around, especially after a 2nd viewing to notice the things one missed), some of it is style. B5's style just has something about it that makes it... yeah, it's kind of hard to describe it in words. * Cast (and Commander): I felt DS9 had the better cast. Even though Babylon 5 had by far the best actors/characters out of both- Londo & G'Kar, overall DS9's cast was more interesting. Sheridan was better in any given episode than Sinclair (he did shine at times, but yes, overall he was wooden) but he did come off too much like a hothead. Sisko, especially Season 3+ (and at times in Season 2) was a much more interesting captain. Ivanova was kind of 'catty' to not get censored here and her tragic past fell flat/didn't seem to connect, whereas Kira did seem like a former militant with an edge who grew up in a nasty occupation (but was readily adapting to turning into an administrator and leaving the guerrilla warfare behind). Garibaldi was a good character to watch but Odo's character (not to mention his feuding with Quark) and story were far more interesting. A number of Odo's episodes were among the best standalones in the series. Zack very much came off as a background kind of character. Bashir was far more interesting than Franklin, even ignoring his plot twist and even going beyond his O'Brien friendship dynamic. Franklin just filled the doctor role with not much memorable to do outside the sickbay besides his turn at the descent & redemption rebound that most B5 characters got. O'Brien was very enjoyable to watch. He was the down to earth everyone and a skilled engineer. B5 didn't have anyone like him (not even a quartermaster or maintenance chief who could have been involved in fixing the station after battles, getting the weapons ready, like imagine a chief engineer melded with a chief tactical officer). Then there's the guilty pleasure, the screw with O'Brien episodes. Delenn became a pretty good character, good even if she was below Londo & G'Kar in coolness and great story arcs (she got some good scenes though). I did like having Bill Mumy (Lennier) around even if it was a thankless role just to give Delenn another Minbari to talk to. Vir I didn't care for (too much of a bumbling idiot, though the idea of a pure-hearted Centauri amongst an entire retinue of schemers & connivers was good). Marcus came off as a bit of an arrogant bastard, an awkward Frankenstein of flippant loose cannon and singularly devoted adherent. Never cared for Talia. She seemed like Spoiler: SPOILER a treacherous plant the entire time, a tightly-wound ice queen that of course would support authoritarian or powerful, shady forces . Lyta was much better. But all of these couldn't match up with Jadzia Dax (well, pre-Season 5 Dax), Quark, Martok, Garak, Rom. Jake was kind of parallel in stature to Lennier. * Villains: I voted for both. Each had their strength and weaknesses. The Dominion were interesting, particularly in how it was set up. Reclusive leaders considered gods or myths by everyone beneath them, genetically engineered soldiers, genetically engineered bureaucrats. Though in keeping it simple, they did sacrifice depth (missing the huge opportunity to bring in the Hunters from "Captive Pursuit" who were the most interesting people pre-"The Jem'Hadar") and we didn't see too much of other races under the Dominion, especially after they were introduced ("Starship Down" comes to mind) so the Dominion did have some abstractness, with it not being clear how member worlds saw it and who they thought was really in charge. The Jem 'Hadar were quite memorable in many episodes, with many sides being presented of what could easily have been a 1-D race of tough cannon fodder, generic white orcs. The Shadows had awesome ships and "Z'ha'dum" was cool (using Sheridan's wife to get to him, the old human (Justin?) explaining things), but they were rarely-seen CGI creatures. That was by design. It kept them shadowy & mythical, but it also made them closer to the generic ancient race reawakened to cause chaos 1000, 2000, 5000, 10,000 years later. Order vs. Chaos was cool, though there was some disbelief (like a race that old wouldn't mentally mature, both of them) and the First Ones, the idea was cool as 'third parties' but they weren't really fleshed out at all, just these cool mysterious races to try and find, then throw at the enemy like pretty fireworks. The late Season 3- early Season 4 run was excellent though, but the Centauri Cartagia storyline overshadowed the storytelling (though the Shadow-Vorlon War certainly stole all the action). Really, the Shadows, all we saw were impersonal shadow ships (parallel the Jem'Hadar, but more befitting your generic horde) and Shadow agents/bureaucrats (parallel the Vorta). With Odo & the Female Founder, we got a good understanding of the top race in the villainous entity, but with the Shadows, it was just invisible boogeyman that believe in social darwinism. The Dominion also felt more realistic, like one could kind of imagine a geopolitical entity like that as opposed to the more fantasy/RPG/Tolkienesque ancient evil/hidden civilization singularly driven by an ideology. I love RPGs and it was cool the first time around, but I've been able to appreciate the Dominion story more on 2nd... nth go-arounds. On the 2nd tier, DS9 still beat B5. The Cardassians were depicted with great depth and complexity in the series. We saw quite a few people, different sides in many episodes, not just Dukat but episodes like "Second Skin", "Tribunal", Garak & the Obsidian Order, et al, and later Dumar. They came off as having more depth than the knee-jerk stock noble warriors the Minbari Warrior Caste or the Clark Earth dictatorship that was more a distant threat than anything. We never really saw much outside of insinuations with Nightwatch; it was just reactionary military types allowing for a civil war space battle to be shown. I loved those episodes in Season 4, but because Earth was effectively to viewers seen as much as what goes on inside North Korea, it was a more abstract threat than real save for the military skirmishes in deep space ("Endgame" is among my top few favorite sci-fi episodes of all time though, easily beating out its VOY, X-Files, SG-1 namesakes). It could have put a human face on the enemy, make up for the Shadows' greatest weakness in storytelling, but Clark might as well have been a Shadow, heck, same goes for any in his regime, like the parallel SS beyond their own one cameo (yeah, they had a big role in that episode, but in the big picture of the series, it was figuratively a cameo, like the Streib [alien Grays who abducted Sheridan]). Back to Minbar. It may have served Delenn's point that the Worker Caste was invisible and the real builders behind the other castes, but it made them an abstract as well. They should have been introduced to the viewers with some episode showcasing them, like in Season 1 or so. It just seemed like a race filled with a Church-like entity and a bunch of holy warriors with elements of military resentment of civilian-leadership giving the orders. It came off like just an attempted military coup mixed in with an inter-Church schism more than a civil war stemming from an extremely imbalanced society in how it was presented. I will say that Centauri intrigue was very well done though, mad Emperor Cartagia, the overwhelmed, paranoid little Regent, schemers like Lord Refa. I think the Centauri were the villains with the most depth in B5, better than Earth, Minbar, or the Shadows. Londo's dealings with 'the devil' (Vir's crowning moment of awesome scene), and the payback from the 'imps' that succeeded the 'devils' and the Centauri Season 5 arc were very well plotted. I think of all the big war/villain arcs (Shadow, Minbar, Earth, Centauri), it was the one with the fewest downsides or weakpoints.
DS9 can only wish it was as complex as Babylon 5. Babylon 5 can only wish it looked as neat and put together as DS9.
DS9 obviously benefits from superior production values, but B5 at its peak was far more compelling storytelling.
One of the things that i liked about Babylon 5 is that Earth became a bad guy under President Clark. A planet sized North Korea complete with the propaganda and anti alien isolationist elements. Political opposition figures are arrested, tortured, made to confess and sent to prison. Human Colonies that opposed the Martial Law decree by President Clark are bombed and blockaded untill they surrendered. It took an alliance of humans from Mars, Babylon 5 and other human colonies, renegade Earth Military personnel and their alien allies to bring down President Clark. The scenes of earth vessels fighting earth vessels in episodes like Point of No Return and Severed Dreams were memorable. 4:38
Interesting poll. I gave better plot to B5. It had a story to tell from the start and it told it. I like DS9's plot very much but there is no question that B5 was planned, and I enjoyed that. For cast, there is no doubt in my mind that DS9 had the better cast, there were some real stinkers on B5. That said, B5 did have Mollari and G'Kar, and Peter Jurasik and Andreas Katsulas alone are able to elevate the acting to the point where I voted for both shows in this category Sisko get the nod for better hero. I'm not a fan of Sherida, I preferred Sinclair. Dominion gets the vote for baddies, Jeffrey Combs as Weyoun is fantastic and you have to count Marc Alaimo as Dukat and Casey Biggs as Damar in the baddie camp and there is no question that these three characters, portrayed by these three actors are more compelling antagonists than wavy shadow spiders. So, B3 = 2, DS9 = 3. I love both these shows!
Plot: B5, by far. It fell into a hole in the fifth season, of course, but for me DS9 fell into a hole much earlier and didn't recover. YMMV, of course. Cast: Hmmm. B5 had Jurasik and the superlative-beyond-belief Katsulas, who were (IMO, anyway) by far the best actors in either series. Furlan is a far better actress than she's generally given credit for. DS9 had Robinson, Auberjonois, Meaney and Visitor. Both series had some truly dreadful actors as well. This is the one area in which I reckon DS9 almost shades B5. Commander: B5, by far. I detested Sisko. I could envision wanting to follow Sinclair and Sheridan anywhere. I wouldn't follow Sisko into a room, never mind anywhere else. Villains: B5, by far. The Shadows had a credible motive. The Dominion's was pathetic - it basically amounted to little more that "they're mean to us because we're different, so let's kill 'em". I didn't find that anywhere near as interesting or compelling as the Shadows. Bingo. For various reasons, DS9 just didn't do anything like as much for me as B5 did. It never put me on the edge of my seat, never made me feel I had to know what happened next. I did enjoy the first few seasons but after that...eh. To each their own but B5 compelled me to keep watching. DS9 did not. Simple as that. Or, simple as this: Bingo again.
What I loved about Babylon 5 was the wonderful concepts. They had some really amazing concepts. What I couldn't stand about B5 is that most of them got dropped halfway through like a sack of potatoes, never to be revisited again. There were only a couple of arcs that seemed to play themselves out completely, like "The One." What I loved about DS9 was that even though they didn't deal with as many great, larger than life, concepts, they managed to do more with the less that they tackled in terms of things playing out to some kind of satisfying resolution. Even though things weren't as planned as B5, this series took some time to work on what it did and that showed. Plus, the look of it was better. DS9 had the better cast, but B5 had some wonderful and intriguing aliens in Londo, G'Kar, and Kosh. I also liked the human cast as well. Both the Dominion and the Shadows had their strengths and weaknesses, but I like them both equally, so I voted for them both. DS9 had the better commander in my book.
And teakcake with the Captain Janeway avatar: Voyager can only wish it didn't have as many time travel and hollowdeck episodes not mention the very worst of ST Trek, the dreaded Threshold episode where some of the crew evolve into giant salamanders and mate.
B5 was a tremendous achievement and certainly had the best bad guys, but lost out heavily in all the other areas. With notable exceptions Andreas Katsulas and Peter Jurassik, the cast ranged from plain embarrassing to barely adequate and just doesn't compare. I'd be more than happy for JMS to bring it back, but it doesn't compare to DS9.
I prefer B5 plot over DS9 plot anytime. I voted for B5 Cast because of Andreas Katsulas and Peter Jurasik acting. Their acting alone compensated for the few others bad acting in the series. Sheridan and Sisko were a close fight but in the end i voted for Sheridan because i am more familiar with him. The Shadows as the villains were far more interesting. The Dominion were nothing more than run of the mill villains who fought others because they saw them as threats. The Shadows were hardcore Social Darwinist who practiced what they preached. A far more interesting antagonist.
I will defend Threshold until my gills dry out. I only wish it had been me in that mud pool with Salamander Janeway Who had the most holodeck episodes of all the holodeck series? I don't mean eps where some character is in it for a brief scene for color but episodes that primarily take place on the holodeck or are about the holodeck malfunctioning. While I've always bashed holodeck episodes there were some very good ones in both VOY and DS9. I'm very fuzzy on TNG ones as its my least watched series so I can't comment there. As to time travel, I love time travel and I will take as much as Trek can give me. No complaints there.
I was a LOTR nerd in high school, read the trilogy quite a few times. But I love Babylon 5 far more. Sure the story itself is not as tight, not as complete, not as perfectly explained, the show is like a diorama compared to the LOTR films. But the Bab 5 universe is endlessly fascinating in a way LOTR is not. Also, it contains real women!
The problem with a great plot is, if your storytellers aren't so good, the plot can suffer. And at times, the bad acting made B5 a pain to me. Then again, Peter Jurasik and Andreas Katsulis (spelling???) made up for some of that quite well. The Shadows really were nothing more then evil baddies for the sake of being evil. Unfortunatly, after a while, so was the Dominion. What started out as a great concept (a UFP but different, more of a dictatorship) quickly turned towards something more one-dimensional as wel. The idea was to have different races on the bridges of Dominion ships, all subject races to the Founders, making sure that by ruling them, these races could never hurt them. The Founders ruled the Dominion out of fear of being ruled themselves. The Shadows.... well, some people just want to watch the world burn. And that works great for a movie-villian (The Dark Knight), but as a basis for a serial villian that needs to work for two or three seasons... pretty difficult. JMS made that up by having the Shadows having bad-ass ships and plotting behind the scenes, but their overall motivation (aswell as the motivation for the Vorlons) was lacking, I feel. Perhaps I had hoped for something more grand.


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Entry Standards
Entry Standards
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Student Satisfaction
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A guide to how satisfied students are with the quality of teaching they receive.
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Research Quality
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A measure of the quality of the research undertaken in the University.
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Research Intensity
Research Intensity
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Graduate Prospects
Graduate Prospects
A guide to the employability of graduates on completion of their courses at the University.
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Student-Staff Ratio
Student-Staff Ratio
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Academic Services Spend
A guide to how much the University spends on supporting services such as libraries and IT.
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Degree Completion
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The proportion of students expected to successfully complete their studies and gain a degree from the University.
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- St Mary's is a successful, London-based university with strong international links founded on Catholic values, providing a warm and welcoming environment for all students.
- Founded in 1850, St Mary's University has a long and distinguished history within higher education and will be celebrating its 165th anniversary.
- It gained full university status in January 2014, with Francis Campbell taking on the role of Vice-Chancellor and His Eminence Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, appointed as Chancellor.
Location and Transport
- St Mary's is situated in the London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames, a safe leafy suburb just a few minutes away from the river.
- Teddington, Twickenham, Kingston and Richmond are close by.
- Excellent transport links – just 30 minutes by train into central London.
Entry Requirements
- Those studying A levels will be asked for CCC or BCC as a minimum entry requirement.
Student Mix
The 5,335 students enrolled in the academic year 2014/15 comprise:
Level of study
- Undergraduate 73%
- Postgraduate 27%
Mode of study
- Full Time 75%
- Part Time 25%
- Other 3%
Student gender
- Male 45%
- Female 55%
Course Flexibility
- Part-time study.
- Workplacement opportunities.
- Foundation degrees.
- Study Abroad programme.
- Postgraduate Distance Learning.
Teaching Standards
- St Mary's has a proud reputation in training teachers.
- Both our Primary and Secondary Initial Education programmes were rated outstanding by Ofsted when last inspected in 2011.
- 88% student satisfaction rate in the National Student Survey 2015.
- Several degrees offer professional accreditations.
Research Standards
- St Mary's has a culture of research and scholarship supported by discrete research centres, research seminar programmes and academic conferences.
- Among the seven Units of Assessment submitted to the REF, the English and Communications Units were rated as ''world leading' or 'internationally excellent' in 61% and 60% of their respective Output submissions.
- Other successes include Sport and History in which 50% of the Output submissions were either 'world leading' or ''internationally excellent'.
- St Mary's has recently launched the Centre for the Study of Modern Slavery and appointed UK Anti-Slavery Commissioner, Kevin Hyland OBE, as a Visiting Professor.
Academic Strengths
- St Mary's is very well established reputation for excellence in the areas of Education, Sport and Theology and has a high level of achievement in many other areas.
Undergraduate Courses
Type of Qualification:
- All Undergraduate (147)
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Mode of study:
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Student Facilities
- Students have access to a state-of-the-art library, internet cafe, open access IT suites and a wide range of services to support studies.
- A new £6m library was opened in autumn 2015.
- State-of-the-art Media Arts Suite.
- State-of-the-art Strength and Conditioning Suite.
- Other facilities include dance and drama studios and extensive sport labs and facilities.
- New student services centre.
Disability Services
- The Disability and Dyslexia Team work closely with the other members of the Student Services team, providing support across many areas in private and confidential environment.
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Students' Union
- The Students' Union is committed to providing social events, support and information and to be a voice for students.
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- Over 40 clubs and societies catering for just about every interest.
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Careers Guidance
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- £250k strength and conditioning suite opened in 2014.
- £350k media suite, new for 2014.
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Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain on the Wurld Wide Web!
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You've gotta love social media at it's finest. It's not a stretch of the imagination to say that we all, in one fashion or another, have played the role of the "Monday quarterback" or backseat driver, but the anonymity of the internet's exploited overuse of emoticons, memes and avatars in a fictitious virtual world is more prevalent to some than good old fashioned face-to-face communication.
Recently a picture of a couple of Norwich City PD officers goofing off in the office re-surfaced on Facebook, and like clockwork the opposing forces collided like some sort of super hero battle of good versus evil. More than 100 Facebookers had strong feelings either for against the photograph from "alleged" locations as far as California.
Personally, I don't think the act itself was especially heinous or cause for alarm. After all, People fool around all the time at work, and again – sometimes one falls through the cracks. At most is was just some inappropriate tom foolery that, I'll admit didn't even go all that far.
Now, you can choose to love or hate the guy over on Chenango County Memes – often known for his seemingly slanderous approach to all things disgraceful in the 'Nango – for the content that he posts, but at the end of the day there is integral accountability associated with everything that he post. The administrator of that page is comfortable in his shoes and is transparent, rarely (if ever) does he seem to be offended by the slew of derogatory comments often channeled his way from people with differing onions.
Humans are fallible by nature. The one thing that people of all faiths and denominations can agree on is that people make mistakes. Heck, even the anarchists admit that.
You have made mistakes. I have made mistakes.
Four years ago I was arrested and charged with a DWI… I blew a .08%… so I was the legal definition of intoxicated, which for a man of my size really doesn't seem like much. What was more detrimental for the outcome of my situation was that I "fled" the police and hit two parked cars. My explanation, I panicked – plain and simple.
Needless to say, it cost me greatly. It cost me a marriage, a $35,000 car, at least $5,000 in legal fees, restitution and eventually a short stint in county jail. No fun.
As embarrassing as the entire incident is, I owned it… and I still do. I don't hide from the fact that I did something callous and stupid, and I never will. It's in the past and I have moved on. No one died, thankfully. Some will always argue "Someone could have died," and I'll always counter, "did they?"
Where the "cop-selfie heard round the entire city of Norwich" ties into my story is when I commented on the Facebook post something along the lines of "Anything shared on the internet is permanent and never goes away," something that the officers in the photo probably understand well and clear.
Where this story gets interesting is that an unidentified individual with an anonymous profile begrudgingly posted a link to the ES story that a former reporter wrote of my shortcomings four years ago. It was news, and it was his job, and I can now respect that.
This anonymous person basically tried to throw me under the bus and humiliate me.
Did it work? Absolutely not.
In response, I sent a message to this "masked man" (or woman… which I like to assume is the case since the sex of the person in question is listed as "male" on the profile… and deception seems to be his/her thing) calling them out for their cowardly act of trying to oust folks who may have fallen from grace accountable, yet remain anonymous and "untouchable" – effectively unaccountable for their actions.
Moral of the story; When attempting to mar someones character by shedding light on a past mishap –
1) Just. Don't. Because that just makes you a jerk. And a coward.
2) You'd better have a face and an identity to back it up – and be as transparent as the guy you're trying to throw under the bus. If you're going to call someone out, you'd better expect that you'll be called out. If not, you just look foolish. VERY foolish.


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Gann's Reclamation
Bring Khazgorm's Journal to Gann Stonespire.
Bael'dun Excavator slain (15) | |
Bael'dun Foreman slain (5) | |
Khazgorm's Journal |
In solitude I wander these roads.The dwarves of Bael Modan show no respect for my land. Horrendous blasts drive holes deep into the ground as noisy machines rip apart the hills. Lands which once served as home and provider to my tribe are now riddled with destructive dwarves.
Attempts at reaching a diplomatic resolution have failed. Now is the time for decisive action.
Drive the dwarves from the Bael Modan excavation by force and bring to me the journal of their leader, Prospector Khazgorm.
You will receive: 15 (or 2 61 if completed at level 110)Gains
Upon completion of this quest you will gain:- 4,370 experience
- 250 reputation with Thunder Bluff


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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Simple Rosemary Parmesan Crusted Chicken Tenders
Hello and Happy Tuesday TRSI readers! Today we are sharing these chicken tenders that I dearly love. I can not seem to get enough of them. The chicken is delightfully tender and juicy on the inside and the bread crumbs and Parmesan cheese form this incredible crunch. Then the rosemary ties it all up in the perfect flavor package... Oh, my mouth is watering thinking about them. Munchkin and I thoroughly enjoyed these every time I made them. I served them with Oven Roasted Tomato Sauce that I had in the freezer. Perfect compliment! Chad does enjoy them too, but is stuck on the Healthy Homestyle Baked Chicken Nuggets.
I usually buy a huge pack of chicken (5 pounds) and make these tenders and freeze them. I portion them in 1 batch increments and they reheat perfectly in about 10-15 minutes at 400°, flipping them half way through reheating. (Remember to prep your baking sheet with aluminum foil and non-stick olive oil spray when you reheat). If you don't have time to reheat it may take longer. Watch your time.
Enjoy these, they are so simple and so delicious. If you want to get creative you can put them in an oven safe dish and cover in layers of mozzarella cheese and tomato sauce. Fabulous!
Have you noticed the changes here at TSRI? The new logo and header and side bar features were designed by e3Studios. It is exactly what I was looking for!
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Rosemary Parmesan Crusted Chicken Tenders serves 4
1 pound chicken tenders
2 tablespoons flour
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
3/4 cup panko bread crumbs
¼ cup shredded parmesan cheese, finely chopped
2 egg whites
2 tablespoons fresh rosemary (divided, ½ chopped, ½ crushed)
Olive oil spray (I used my Misto)
Olive Oil Cooking Spray
Non-stick olive oil spray
Preheat oven to 425°. Prepare a baking sheet by lining with aluminum foil and spraying with non-stick cooking spray.
In a gallon sized plastic bag combine flour and salt, set aside. Add bread crumbs, 1 tablespoon chopped rosemary and parmesan cheese in a flat bowl, stir to combine. Set aside. In a second bowl, add egg whites. Set aside.
Add chicken tenders to plastic bag and shake until the flour coats the chicken tenders. Place chicken tenders, one at a time, into egg mixture. Flip chicken to cover on both sides. Remove and place chicken tender into bread crumb mixture. Flip in mixture to coat both sides, lightly pressing it on if necessary.
Place chicken tender on baking sheet. Once chicken is all on the baking sheet, spray with olive oil spray (Misto). Bake for 8-12 minutes (until the tenders are golden brown on the bottom side). Flip nuggets over, lightly mist with olive oil and bake for another 3-5 minutes, until crispy and golden brown on the outside.
Remove from oven, sprinkle with crushed rosemary and serve with marinara sauce.
Click here for a printable version of this recipe - The Slow Roasted Italian.com
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Edit: You could also use the principles of this tutorial to apply a ric-rac trim - thank you to Joanne from Sew Little Time for the great suggestion!
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Tutorial: How to apply a lace trim to a Peter Pan collar
Edit: You could also use the principles of this tutorial to apply a ric-rac trim - thank you to Joanne from Sew Little Time for the great suggestion!
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Thank you Jane, this is really great. Do you know, I've never thought of snipping the lace before...no wonder when I trim things they never really lie flat! So that was enlightening and I can't believe I didn't figure it out myself...haha!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great and very detailed tutorial! I love lots of pictures! I agree that one of the VERY BEST things about the online sewing community is all tutorials. I just posted my very first pants- Colette Clovers of course- and I linked to about 5 tutorials that I used. I had to laugh a bit, and then say many thanks!
ReplyDeleteooh what a great tutorial and the collar looks lovely! I've still not used my Banksia pattern and this could be the perfect addition to the collar - thank you for the tutorial!
ReplyDeleteJane, I LOVE this tutorial!!! I'm bookmarking this because there are so many cute collars on the 1940 McCall dresses and this would be such a fun way to liven them up!! Thanks for posting during Sew Grateful Week! xoxoxo
ReplyDeleteAbsolUtely clear.
Love the picture on the wall, can you please tell me who the artist is?RepliesThank you. The artist of the print on the wall is Eloise Renouf. Here's a link to that particular print http://www.etsy.com/listing/62481662/shape-study-flowers-harvest-limited
but she has lots more in her Etsy shop. I love her work too, I have another of her prints in my bedroom. xThank you. My grandmother had something similar in the spare bedroom, where I slept so it brings back memories.
I just saw a picture on Pinterest with tiny lace all around the straps and collar of a baby romper and was trying to figure out how to accomplish this when I found your tutorial. I'm pretty new to sewing, but it's very clearly explained and will work great on so many things. The next dress pattern I am cutting out for my daughter has a Peter Pan collar, so who knows. I may start there.


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Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Riggs welcomes 11 new freshmen into men's soccer program
MOC Sports Information MOUNT OLIVE -- Four all-state selections are among 11 players who each signed a national letter-of-intent with the Mount Olive College men's soccer program this fall. Preseason practice begins next week. All but one recruit hails from...Published: Aug 5, 2009 1:46 PM Full Story
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The optimism that accompanies the arrival of a new season and the realization of work yet to be done have been fresh in the minds of three area coaches as football practice has officially begun. Third-year Goldsboro head coach Eric...Published: Aug 5, 2009 1:46 PM Full Story


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Tony Romo's season is officially over. He was placed on injured reserve Friday after undergoing back surgery -- and days after owner and general manger Jerry Jones said the Cowboys quarterback was suffering from back spasms and could possibly play Sundayagainst the Eagles.
Now it will be up to backup Kyle Orton to lead Dallas to its first playoff berth since 2009.
Despite the setback to Romo, who signed a six-year, $108 million extension last offseason but is also 33 years old, Jones has no plans to draft a quarterback high in the 2014 NFL Draft.
"You'd like to every spring pick up a quarterback," Jones told 105.3 The Fan. "I think the real issue -- and maybe your question would be, would you seriously consider using a significant draft pick for a quarterback?
That's early. That's way too early to do that with the way things are today with my expectation of Tony's career, which I think will be for several years to come. It's too early to be drafting a highly ranked or, if you will, costly quarterback."
Since the Cowboys signed Romo as an undrafted free agent out of Eastern Illinois in 2003, the team has drafted one quarterback: Stephen McGee (fourth round, 2009). In 2001, two years before Romo's arrival, the Cowboys took Quincy Carter in the second round.
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Gettysburg College Pres. Janet Morgan Riggs '77 recently authored an editorial for the August 13 issue of the Huffington Post. Read the full piece below.
Addressing Affordability and the Need for Multiple Approaches to Higher Education: An Appeal to the President
In his speech last month, President Obama noted that a "cornerstone of a strong middle class... [is] an education that prepares our children and our workers for the global competition that they're going to face. And if you think education is expensive, wait until you see how much ignorance costs in the 21st century."
I couldn't agree more.
In fact, there are several issues that the president raised in his speech that demand the attention of those of us who work in higher education.
First, the issue of debt. Colleges and universities have a responsibility to provide transparent financial counseling to our students and their families as they make decisions about what they can (and want to) afford. We need to help students understand what their monthly college loan payments will be following graduation, and we need to provide clear employment outcomes information about our graduates. According to The Project on Student Debt, an initiative of the Institute for College Access & Success, the average student debt at the time of graduation from college is currently $26,600. Depending on interest rates, this translates to roughly $300 per month, a cost comparable to what many people would consider to be a reasonable car payment. However, there are some individual cases where students clearly have borrowed too much, compromising their ability to get ahead -- or even make ends meet -- following their graduation. Colleges and universities should not balance their budgets on the backs of students who will never be able to recover from crippling debt. We must help our students to understand the difference between wise and uninformed borrowing.
That being said, we also need our administration to be forthright about college costs. In his remarks, President Obama chastised American higher education as "an undisciplined system where costs just keep on going up and up and up... costs that are going up 5, 6, 7 percent a year." That statement is truly perplexing, and I can only infer that the president's advisers are not giving him the facts. According to the College Board's 2012 study, Trends in College Pricing, the average tuition and fee rate has increased at an average of 2.44 percent at private, nonprofit four-year colleges in recent years; in fact, when one accounts for financial aid and scholarships, the average inflation-adjusted net tuition at private colleges has actually dropped by 3.5 percent over the past five years. And while it may be true that many public universities are increasing tuition at an aggressive pace (the same study lists an average tuition and fees increase of 4.96 percent at public four-year colleges during the same time period), they are doing so in order to fill gaps created by reduced state support. I know of no college or university president who isn't focused on cost and affordability. To suggest otherwise is unwarranted, and I would hope President Obama would look carefully at the work that's being done on many of our campuses to contain costs, before describing us as undisciplined and irresponsible.
Second, President Obama uses the phrase "a good education." What constitutes a good education? In his remarks, the president focuses on job training, a phrase that connotes learning a very specific set of skills for a specific job. Obviously, there are many jobs that require very specific training -- an X-ray technician, a commercial pilot, an electrician, and so on. But as he talks about our younger generations of students, he fails to mention the fact that many of today's college graduates will change jobs and careers multiple times throughout their lives. In fact, some will find themselves in jobs that don't yet exist. In contrast to a highly specialized education in a trade, a liberal arts education teaches critical thinking, problem-solving, effective communication, and global understanding. These are skills that transfer from job to job and provide excellent preparation for the career trajectories that today's youth will experience. I certainly hope President Obama perceives a liberal arts education to be a valuable approach to "job training."
In fact, our country is home to a variety of students who benefit from a variety of educational options; some of our students are 18-year-olds who would like to attend a residential college, some are high school seniors interested in vocational training, some are adults looking for retraining, and some are single parents who need access to courses on their own time. It is essential that we offer a range of opportunities to meet the varied educational needs in this country. We must recognize that a one-size-fits-all approach to education is unwise; we must think innovatively and try new initiatives that both enhance education and increase its accessibility to all students. Rather than arguing over which model is best, we must remember that there is value in variety.
Finally, there is one area that the president misses altogether. Although he discusses the importance of education for individual advancement and for economic reasons, he does not mention the critical importance of an educated citizenry for the survival of a strong democracy: a citizenry that can carry on civil debate, a citizenry that can work towards the solution of complex domestic and international problems -- in short, a citizenry that has the skills and the inclination to try to make this world a better place.
This model of education -- one that aims to create an educated citizenry -- happens to be the mission of many of our colleges. And while the cost of that kind of education may be high, it's hard to imagine that President Obama -- a college graduate who took out loans to fund his own education -- doesn't see its value. It is the responsibility of those of us in higher education to make that value apparent and to make available the opportunity of education to students from all economic backgrounds. And it is the responsibility of our leaders, and our president, to support us in this process. The future of our nation depends on it.
Founded in 1832, Gettysburg College is a highly selective four-year residential college of liberal arts and sciences with a strong academic tradition. Alumni include Rhodes Scholars, a Nobel laureate, and other distinguished scholars. The college enrolls 2,600 undergraduate students and is located on a 200-acre campus adjacent to the Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania.
Contact: Mike Baker, assistant director of communications, 717.337.6521.
Posted: Tue, 13 Aug 2013
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