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Wlatsoom Peak is the highest point in an old chain of folded mountains. The mountains themselves are rather undramatic, being weathered and clad almost completely in woodlands. Only a handful of sheer stone faces show under the summertime greenery. In the winter, more of the stone shows, but the mulch of fallen leaves covers the rest of the mountain.
A Rank and Noisome Mountain
It happens fairly regularly, the peak gives a start, sets the trees to shaking and sends the birds flying. The ground shakes for a second or two and then everything is fine, for a bit. Then the smell comes, a sour smell that leaves a bitter taste in the mouth and brings tears to the eyes. It's isnt bad upwind from the mountain, but the smell clings to the hollows and the lowlands something fierce. After a bit the smell goes away, to wherever the wind blows it, but then the peak gives another shake and starts the stink up again.
Orc Country
Orcs are native to the mountain chain, having long since been pushed out of the arable lowlands and waterfront territories by expanding human kingdoms and nations. While they are still bloodthirst and belligerent as orcs are wont to be, the days of marching under crimson banners to the beat of war drums are gone. The orcs in the Lower Wlatsoom range have adopted a mish-mash culture that mixes their nomadic warrior culture with a semi-settled culture borrowed from humans. The orcs have since become largely settled and are ble to support themselves through subsistence agriculture and retain rather exceptional animal husbandry skills. The Wlatsoom orcs speak pidgin Common, but frequently use orcish nouns when they speak.
The orcs for the most part make for loud and obnoxious neighboors, but aside from a handful of livestock raids and general theft, they are not considered outright dangerous. Travelers and explorers can generally buy safe passage with tobacco, goblin snuff, and liquor. The Wlatsoom Orcs are very tolerant of outsiders, and have a surprising percentage of mixed blood orcs, half orcs and resident humans.
The Undermountain
Wlatsoom Peak is rather unique among mountains as it has regular geothermal and seismic activity without being a volcano. The inside of the mountain is criss-crossed with caves and fissures that were created by draining water and stress fractures. This is being heated by a geothermal vent which also serves to fill the caverns with foul smelling vapors. Once a certain amount of pressure is reached, something deep in the earth releases and a great gush of hot mephitic gas comes rushing into the caves, blowing out of the various small and hidden entrances to the cave system. The action causes a very weak seismic event and blows the stinking gas out of the mountain with some force.
Into the Deep - Few things invite adventurers quite like dark holes in the earth. The caverns inside of Wlatsoom are deep and ancient, and there is no telling what might lay beneath the rural country of the orcs and their ever-stinking mountain. Insert dungeon crawl with delving too deep, Lovecraftian ruins, and things that should not be.
Not Bad Folk - The Wlatsoom Orcs are like their peak, loud and odiferous, but that doesnt automatically make them bad folk. The PCs can be given a chance to see orcs as something other than bloodthirsty barbarians.
The Death-Speaker - The Wlatsoom Orcs have started organizing, casting their makeshift plows into spearheads and axeblades. The local raiding and shennanigans have turned bloody and left several dead. An orcish shaman has recieved visions of a new horde and has started organizing the greenskins, all inspired by breathing in the fetid fumes that come from the mountain's bowels.
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Environmentalists, U.S. attorney's office criticize California Gov. Jerry Brown's wildfire liability plan
Gov. Jerry Brown tucked provisions into his budget that would limit payouts in wildfire liability cases, potentially saving timber companies and other major California landowners hundreds of millions of dollars as federal prosecutors pursue record-high damages in court.
The Democratic governor also asked lawmakers to impose a 1 percent lumber tax to fund forestry oversight while reducing industry costs. And he wants to reduce the frequency with which California reviews tree-cutting plans for environmental impacts.
Brown pitched the ideas as ways to help the state's timber industry provide jobs after a construction downturn and fierce competition with producers from the Pacific Northwest. He also highlights $30 million in new lumber tax funding for environmental reviews that have gone missing due to budget cuts.
But the plan has drawn strong opposition from the Sacramento-based U.S. attorney's office, which is aggressively pursuing wildfire negligence cases, as well as some environmentalists who contend Brown is giving the industry too much.
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My Cowardly Sister
An open letter to my sister who blogs under the name The Cranky Housewife:
Liberal feminists are typically loud mouthed complainers who want to have their cake, eat it too just as long as there are no trans fats… and they certainly won't be baking that cake from scratch like some housewife or something. Just what kind of woman do you take them for?
Any man who is married to a conservative feminist will tell you that his least favorite conversations ever start with the words, "Honey, I'm not happy about something." Those husbands know full well that this one simple phrase is (like it or not) a call to action, and can quite literally change the world – one universe at a time. Once a conservative feminist gets a bee in her bonnet there will be no peace until her demands are met, and if that means changing the direction in which the planet Earth revolves around the sun in order to restore harmony... well, the sooner we get started working on that the happier we'll all be.
So she is a good Christian, homespun sort. and I am a fat loudmouth with no kindness in my soul.
Brittany, Don't waste your breath. My sister has always made up stories when facts don't exist. If you listen to what she writes you understand that "conservative feminism" is bullying people until you get your own way. She thinks that Puritans were first wave feminists! Not exactly the word that I would use to describe Mary Wollstonecraft assuming that Crankypants even knows who she is. (oops, I forgot, education and culture are wastes of time when one has laundry to do - truly the feminist mantra).
Remember that her type is a bully and a user and will insult, lie, and use any institution that they can to get what they want.
Let me tell you about an example. Picture a man and woman who spend several nights a week at the home of their daughter who just gave birth to triplets to watch over, feed and change the moppets over night so their daughter and son-in-law could sleep. Now imagine that when the boys reach their first birthday, that man and woman are told that they are terrible people and the woman is an alcoholic who is a danger to those children. In order to have contact with their grandchildren that man and woman would have to stop drinking, go to AA and then go into therapy. Imagine then the folks being told that the daughter's parish priest (who never met the folks) agreed that the folks were a danger to the daughter and her family.
Now you might ask the question, "If the folks were so dangerous, why did the daughter allow her sweet boys to be thus endangered?" Ahh. The answer is: the daughter needed them. And when she didn't anymore? Well out to the trash with you. And I bet you aren't surprised to learn that the daughter in this story is my sister, the cranky housewife.
Good Christian and homespun family sort that she is hasn't let her parents see her children in 7 years. I haven't seen them either even though I baptised them the day that they were born.
Oh, and I am a liberal. And I used to work "outside" the home, which deeply offended the her new, improved extended family.
So don't pay too much attention to what Mscrankypants has to say. She is full of bluster and bull and I haven't seen her bake a cake from scratch or otherwise in the 36 years I was allowed to consort with her.
You say that the tea party neglects history? True that. My sister is truly one of them at heart. She cast off her parents, her sister and her two nieces in order to protect her new world from evidence of her previous existence because those facts don't mesh with what she wants you to know about her.
The heartlessness she showed her nieces, in particular, is a perfect mirror of how the Tea Party operates.
Give me what I want or the little one's get hurt.
Very homespun indeed.


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Stock markets around the world remained volatile as worries about a global recession continued to overshadow relatively good news on US inflation.
Inflation at the consumer level was flat in September, the government reported Thursday, temporarily halting Wall Street's slide. But stocks soon turned sharply lower and continued to swing wildly.
Stocks in Europe and Asia fell, while credit markets remained tight and oil prices declined to a 14-month low.
"Looking at inflation right now is like looking in the rearview mirror while ignoring the train wreck dead ahead," Chris Rupkey, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi economist, told CNBC.com.
"Even Fed policymakers are saying the economy appears to be in a recession," he adds. "And that is why the stock market has fallen more than 40% from the highs last year. It is discounting a recession if not outright depression."
After more than a month of unprecedented government intervention, it's unclear what policymakers can do next to calm markets.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Thursday that he's not proud of the mistakes leading up to the crisis, but insisted the administration is pursuing the right course to end it.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has left the door open for another rate cut, saying Wednesday that inflation pressures are moderating. But the Fed's emergency half point cut on Oct. 8, which brought its target short-term rates to 1.5 percent, did little to affect the actual rates banks charge borrowers and each other, which remain dramatically higher.
The availability of short-term commercial paper loans—which businesses use to buy raw material and pay workers—fell for the fifth straight week, according to the Federal Reserve.
"The market is just very worried about a severe international economic downturn," said David Moore, commodity strategist at Commonwealth Bank of Australia in Sydney.
The U.S. economy is suffering from a litany of woes: falling wages, weak consumer spending, tight credit, slumping home prices and rising job losses.
While the number of new peoplesigning up for unemployment benefits last week dropped, new claims still totaled 461,000 -- a figure associated with deep troubles in employment conditions.
Citigroup reported its fourth straight quarterly loss Thursday. The bank said it had cut 11,000 jobs in the third quarter, bringing its job cuts for the year to 23,000.
Coming economic data on housing, consumer spending, manufacturing and employment are "apt to show either stagnation at depressed levels or substantial further deterioration," Goldman Sachs economist Seamus Smyth said in a report.
The economy might not recover until 2010, Donald Kohn, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, said Wednesday evening.
The plunge in stocks put the nation's economic anxiety front-and-center as the two major presidential candidates, Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain, squared off in their final debate Wednesday night in Hempstead, N.Y.
Earlier this week, after governments around the world announced plans to use trillions of dollars to prop up banks, including a U.S. plan to buy about $250 billion in bank stocks, the market appeared to be turning around—or at least calming down.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke have expressed confidence that the government's radical efforts to stabilize the financial system and induce banks to lend again will eventually help the economy.
But Bernanke warned that even if financial markets calm, the nation will not snap back to economic health quickly.
"Stabilization of the financial markets is a critical first step, but even if they stabilize as we hope they will, broader economic recovery will not happen right away," Bernanke told the Economic Club of New York on Wednesday.
President Bush plans to speak on the financial crisis early Friday—before U.S. markets open— at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce headquarters across from the White House.
Officials said the speech wasn't intended to put forward new policy actions, but rather would give the nation a more detailed explanation of what the government is doing to combat the crisis.
Leaders of the world's top economic powers, the Group of Eight, said they would meet "in the near future" for a global summit to tackle the financial crisis. The group comprises the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Canada and Russia.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the meeting could be held next month. He said the discussions should include not only the world's richest nations but also major emerging economies such as China and India.
The current financial crisis began more than a year ago in the United States when lax lending standards on certain home mortgages came home to roost. Foreclosures skyrocketed, mortgage securities soured and financial companies racked up huge losses.
—AP contributed to this report.
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Kenyan church moves past painful election history
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- The Rev. Joshua Kimuyu pointed where his church floor is broken and black, a scar from an attack five years old. More than 200 young men armed with crude weapons stormed the Africa Inland Church in Nairobi's sprawling Kibera slum and set a generator on fire.
The explosion tore through the roof, creating one of the most visible scenes of postelection violence after Kenya's disputed election of 2007.
The dark spot is a constant reminder of the church's vulnerability during national elections. But for Kimuyu there was no question of keeping its doors shut this Sunday, the day after Kenya's election commission announced the winner of the East African country's fiercely contested presidential election. This time, Kimuyu said, there was nothing to fear after the two leading candidates --winner Uhuru Kenyatta and loser Raila Odinga --pleaded for calm and unity.
"When presidential candidates spoke to the media, they kind of fueled the steam in the people," he said, looking back on the disputed election of 2007, when more than 1,000 people died in tribe-on-tribe violence. But this time, although the election was hotly contested and close, the candidates urged Kenyans to respect authority, and that appears to have made a difference, said Kimuyu.
Sunday was a day of peace in Kenya. No violence was reported. Only the most minor of disturbances were reported late Saturday in the hours after Kenyatta was named the winner.
Odinga, who called the election "tainted," vowed to press a case of election irregularities with the Supreme Court. But he asked that Kenyans love one another and remain at peace.
The election commission said Kenyatta, the son of Kenya's founding father, won last Monday's vote with 50.07 percent of ballots. Kenyatta stands accused by the International Criminal Court of helping direct some of the 2007-08 postelection violence in which tribes attacked each other with machetes and bows and arrows and the police shot protesters.
Five years ago, President Mwai Kibaki was hurriedly sworn in for a second term, even as Odinga said the election had been stolen. His supporters took to the streets.
At the time, the Africa Inland Church was targeted because it was believed to be patronized by the Kamba tribesmen of Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka, whose willingness to serve in Kibaki's government was seen as a betrayal by the opposition.
In the wake of the 2007-08 violence Kenyans passed a new constitution. That document says that President-elect Kenyatta cannot be sworn in before the court rules on the petition Odinga says he will file. If the court rules that Kenyatta did not cross the 50 percent mark, then Kenyans will vote in a run-off election between the top two finishers.
For Kimuyu this is tremendous progress from five years ago, when Odinga called for mass action.
"I think this is one of the things that have changed since the last election," Kimuyu said. "Odinga is an advocate of the new constitution."
In the run-up to this election, clerics and activists held rallies that preached peace and unity no matter the election result. That investment seems to have paid off, with some of the most hardened Odinga supporters saying he should concede for the sake of the country.
In the Kibera slum, an Odinga stronghold that saw some of the worst violence after the 2007 election, residents went about their business on Sunday morning. Stalls were open, and some young men even seemed more animated by European football than by the outcome of the election. In Kimuyu's church a choir sang as he got ready to deliver a sermon that he said would focus on what it means to be a responsible, lawful citizen.
"We never talk politics here," said Ericson Munyao, a long-time member of the church who was among the first to witness the 2008 attack. "We just tell them to vote wisely, not who to vote for. We simply preach peace."


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- Since the financial crisis, liberals have been correct that the proper economic remedy was aggressive monetary and fiscal policy.
- But things are changing. Economists increasingly think the job market is getting tight and that there's little the Fed can do about long-term unemployment.
- Liberals, who are rightly concerned about the long-term unemployed, don't buy that the job market is tightening and think the Fed must remain ultra-aggressive.
For the most part, the "left" has been on the correct side of all the big economic policy debates since the economic crisis hit.
Inflation has not been an issue at all, meriting exceptionally aggressive Fed policy.
The public debt has also not been an issue at all, and attempts to cut spending have been completely counterproductive and damaging to the short and long-term health of the economy.
Liberals were on the correct side of these debates. Conservatives were, by and large, not. You can get into debates about other issues (taxation, health care policy, trade, etc.) but the two issues above — inflation and debt — were the real biggies.
But times change, and a gap is starting to grow between the liberal view of things, and how economists are seeing things.
This is most evident in the view of the labor market.
The liberal view is that there's tons of room for the Fed to be more aggressive in the pursuit of full employment.
Meanwhile, economists are starting to come to the conclusion that the job market is not far from being "tight." More specifically, the view among more and more economists is that the headline unemployment rate (which is currently at 6.6%) is a fairly accurate gauge of the job market, and that various measures of long-term unemployment (and labor force participation) tell us very little.
The New York Fed recently published a study, for example, that showed that short-term, not long-term unemployment, is the best thing to look at if you want to predict wage growth. In other words, if you want to know if the job market is tight enough to induce a rise in worker wages, the best input is short-term unemployment. The large numbers of long-term unemployment don't seem to have a big depressant effect on wages.
Evan Soltas posted this chart yesterday, showing the relationship between the headline unemployment rate (also known as U-3) and the rate at which workers quit their jobs. Workers quitting their jobs at a higher rate is a good sign, since it's an expression of confidence. When the economy is bad, workers don't quit their jobs. What the chart shows is that the relationship between unemployment rate and quit-rates has remained steady, suggesting that it's the headline unemployment rate (not long-term unemployment) that best captures the state of the workforce.
Up until recently, the left was very much in step with where the mainstream of economics was (more easing, wherever you can get it).
But daylight between the two is emerging. Economists are increasingly talking about a tightish job market.
Ryan Cooper recently wrote at The Plum Line:
As the unemployment rate continues to fall, Fed Chair Janet Yellen is going to face increasing pressure to tighten money before inflation starts to creep up. This would be a tremendous mistake, and the left must mobilize against it.
The view from the left is basically: Even if the labor market is getting tight (which they deny), the Fed should press hard on the gas pedal, so that employers start to employ the long-term unemployed.
And that might be the proper path, and if there's anyone who has the stomach to engage in the strategy, it's probably Janet Yellen.
Meanwhile, the view of more and more people in the economics-sphere is that the job market is getting tight, and there's little more the Fed can do.


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The Headliners Club, which celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2015, is Austin's premier downtown private club. Located on the 21st floor of the Chase Tower, the club enjoys unparalleled views of Austin and the surrounding landscape. With its superb staff, management, and membership, the Headliners Club is a unique organization that offers its patrons a memorable experience.


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ARBOR, Beautifully curated, very inspiring images from the online exhibition!
The RSVP project, a web-based initiative of online exhibitions presented by the Michael Mazzeo Gallery, brings together artists from the global photography community to present work on common themes.
The first of these exhibitions, ARBOR , comes at a time of worldwide economic, cultural and environmental crisis when we are confronted with the need for reevaluation, renewal and stability. Prompted by this climate, I chose as the theme, a subject both familiar and profound.
Arbor was curated from images submitted by artists in response to a call for photographs of trees. The tree as muse, metaphor, witness, oracle. Nature's exemplar of strength and adaptability, trees are the living embodiment of wisdom and peace. A recurring reminder of the cycle of life and rebirth, trees command reverence and inspire us to moments of awe.
Through varied methodologies, the artists presented here have decoded and reframed a common subject to address issues of material and metaphysical significance. With a spirited curiosity and experiential awareness of the natural world, they have provided us with a rich diversity of images and ideas. It is in bringing together this wealth of compelling photography that I hope to provide a place for contemplation, a respite in an anxious world, an Arbor.


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Wednesday Results:
* From 8-8:30 p.m. ET, a special Wednesday telecast of "30 Rock"
(1.2/4 in 18-49, 3.6 million viewers overall) matched the show's Thursday 18-49 ratings of the prior two weeks and hit a season high in total viewers (pending updates), despite the move to Wednesday to face last night's Halloween distractions. "30 Rock" also matched NBC's top
18-49 rating since October 3 in this highly competitive time period versus Fox's "X Factor," CBS's "Survivor" and ABC's "The Middle."
* From 8:30-9 p.m. ET, "Guys With Kids" (1.4/4 in 18-49, 3.8
million viewers overall) built on its 18-49 lead-in by 17 percent. The increase gives "Guys With Kids" a build on lead-in with each of its six telecasts to date in this time period. The only other 8:30 comedy on ABC, CBS, NBC or Fox this season to build on its 18-49 lead-in even once is NBC's "Up All Night." "Guys With Kids" matched its 18-49 rating of the prior three weeks, despite last night's Halloween distractions.
* At 9 p.m. ET, "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (1.7/5 in
adults 18-49, 6.2 million viewers overall) retained 89 percent of the
1.9 rating for last week's 300th episode and retained 94% of last week's
1.8 in these preliminary fast-affiliate ratings. Last night's "SVU"
built on its lead-in by 21 percent in 18-49 rating and by 64 percent in total viewers. From its first half-hour to its second, "SVU" grew by 13 percent in both 18-49 rating (to a 1.8 from a 1.6) and total viewers
(6.6 million vs. 5.9 million). "SVU" topped NBC's time-period average last season by 70 percent in 18-49 rating (with a 1.7 vs. a 1.0) and by
28 percent or 1.4 million persons in total viewers (6.234 million vs.
4.868 million) in a highly competitive time period versus ABC's "Modern Family" and "Suburgatory," CBS's "Criminal Minds" and Fox's "X Factor."
* Keep in mind that last season, "Law & Order: SVU" originals
added an average of 47 percent to these next-day "live plus same day"
ratings in 18-49 when Nielsen reported "live plus seven day" results.
* At 10 p.m. ET, "Chicago Fire" (1.5/4 in adults 18-49, 5.5
million viewers overall) retained 88 percent of its lead-in from "SVU."
From its first half-hour to its second, "Chicago Fire" grew by 7 percent in 18-49 rating, 5 percent in adults 25-54 (to a 2.0 from a 1.9) and 2 percent in total viewers (6.5 million vs. 5.4 million).
* "Chicago Fire" is the first 10 p.m. drama this week to generate
a half-hour to half-hour gain in 18-49, 25-54 or total viewers (pending updates).
In Late-Night Metered Markets Wednesday night (averages currently exclude seven markets, including some of the country's biggest: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, Baltimore, Hartford, Providence and Columbus):
* In Nielsen's 56 metered markets, household results were: "The
Tonight Show with Jay Leno," 2.7/7; CBS's "Late Show with David Letterman," 2.8/7; and ABC's combo of "Nightline," 3.1/8; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 2.0/6.
* In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, adult 18-49 results
were: "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," 0.7/4; "Late Show," 0.7/3; "Nightline," 0.9/4; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 0.8/5.
* At 12:35 a.m., "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" (1.4/5 in
metered-market households) tied CBS's "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" (1.4/5). In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, "Late Night" (0.5/3 in 18-49) beat "Late Late Show" (0.4/3).
* At 1:35 a.m., "Last Call with Carson Daly" averaged a 0.9/4 in
metered-market households with an encore and a 0.3/2 in adults 18-49 in the 25 markets with local people meters.
NOTE: All ratings are "live plus same day" from Nielsen Media Research unless otherwise indicated.


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ACMA has directed Telstra to comply with a privacy clause in the Telecommunications Consumer Protections Code (TCP) following the telco's breach of the code for over eight months last year.
Telstra was found to be in breach of the code by ACMA and also in breach of the Privacy Act when customers' personal information in its database was made publicly available from 29 March, 2011 to 9 December, 2011.
Customer names and phone numbers were made public and in some cases, customers' dates of birth, drivers' licence numbers and credit card details were also made available. Up to 734,000 customers were affected.
It is the first direction given by ACMA under the revised code since it was registered 1 September this year.
The TCP code aims to protect customers from unexpected charges, sort out confusing mobile plans and improve the handling of customer complaints. It applies to all telecommunications providers, including ISPs and landline and mobile carriers.
New powers given to ACMA include being able to force companies to ensure pricing information is clear on advertising; improve information on plans; improve complaint handling; and increase transparency around billing and expenditure.
"Put simply, if a provider breaches the code, you can expect us to direct it to comply," Chris Chapman, ACMA chairman, said in a statement.
"Given Telstra has proactively taken steps to remedy its processes with a view to preventing such an incident from happening again, a direction with respect to the specific code provision is the appropriate measure."
If Telstra fails to comply with the privacy clause in the TCP code, ACMA could talk the telco to court and seek a pecuniary penalty.
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Minutes after a Miami jury convicted Walter Bailey on Tuesday of a vicious double murder, he lunged and spit at one of the prosecutors.
Corrections officers quickly wrestled Bailey to the ground, handcuffed him and dragged him away. Jurors had already exited the court. His target: senior prosecutor Gail Levine, who was unhurt in the attack.
Bailey, 33, now faces the death penalty for the September 2006 murders of Andre Potts and Royston Smith, shot dead inside a Model City duplex during a drug-and-cash robbery.
Miami-Dade jurors deliberated just over two hours. Bailey was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of attempted murder, occupied burglary with assault while armed and armed robbery.
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When Nottage staggered to the front door, Smith saw her and returned to finish her off with a second volley. But she survived her wounds — and was the key witness at trial.
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Brown Butter Cinnamon Rolls
Just when I thought cinnamon rolls couldn't get any better, well, two words say it all…
…brown butter.
I mean, come on! I have made my 1-Hour Cinnamon Rolls recipe a zillion times. But it was not until recently that the idea even occurred to me to brown the butter in it. Once I had the idea, though, you'd better believe I made a batch of these stat. But then I didn't even think to add brown butter to the cream cheese frosting, so then I had to make a second batch. And then I got so frosting-happy that I poured basically a lake of frosting on them which — while heavenly — was not quite photogenic. So alas, I just "had" to make a third batch with a reasonable amount of frosting. And, ahem, taste test them too.
Food blogging is rough, guys. ;)
Seriously, though, back to brown butter.
I considered just popping a note in the original 1 Hour Cinnamon Rolls recipe suggesting that people also try it with brown butter. But frankly, this version tasted epic enough that it felt totally worthy of its own super special post. The brown butter changed everything!
Sure, they are still sweet and soft and doughy and cinnamon-sugary as always. But brown butter brings a depth and nuttiness to any recipe that's unlike any other ingredient. And it's so easy to make too!
I have included instructions in the recipe below for how to make brown butter on the stovetop (classic). But I discovered a few years ago that it's also super easy to make in the microwave, and have been doing that ever since. Just pop your butter in a very large microwavable bowl. (You need a large bowl because it will bubble up and you don't want it to overflow.) Then microwave it for about 3-5 minutes or until the butter turns a nice amber color. You don't want it too dark, or it will burn. But you also don't want it too light, because then it isn't as flavorful. So aim for a nice middle ground.
Then mix up your simple dough, let it rise, then roll it out into a large rectangle. Brush some of your melted brown butter on it (and don't worry if a little spills over the sides of the dough). Then sprinkle it with your cinnamon and sugar mixture, and roll the dough up nice and tight.
Cut it into 12 equal pieces and place it in a greased baking dish, and let the rolls rise awhile longer. Then bake them for 15-20 minutes until slightly golden on top and cooked through. And whip up your brown butter cream cheese frosting while they are a-cookin'.
Once you pull the warm rolls out the oven, drizzle them generously (even more generously than my photos) with all of the frosting…
…and then dive in and grab a bite while they're still warm.
Trust me. Once you try this brown butter version, I'm pretty positive there will be no going back.
Enjoy every last bite! :)
Brown Butter Cinnamon Rolls
Brown butter makes all the difference in this delicious (and quick!) Brown Butter Cinnamon Roll recipe.
Dough Ingredients:
- 1 cup milk (I used 2%)
- 1/4 cup (melted) brown butter (*see instructions for brown butter below)
- 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, divided
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1 envelope instant or 'rapid rise' yeast (approx. 2 1/4 tsp)
- 1 egg
Cinnamon-Sugar Filing Ingredients:
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 Tbsp. ground cinnamon
- 1/3 cup (melted) brown butter
Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients:
- 2 Tbsp. (melted) brown butter
- 4 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 1-2 Tbsp. milk (if needed)
To Make The Brown Butter:
Before you begin making the dough and filling, prepare your brown butter.
To make brown butter in the microwave, place butter in a large microwaveable bowl and heat for 3-5 minutes, or until the butter has come to a boil and then turns an amber color. Be careful that the butter does not burn.
To make brown butter on the stove, place butter in a large saucepan and heat over medium-high heat until boiling. Let the butter boil for 2-4 minutes, or until it turns an amber color. Be careful that the butter does not burn.
To Make The Dough & Filling:
Pour the milk into a microwave-safe bowl. Heat on high in the microwave for 30 seconds, then remove and stir in the melted brown butter, and test the temperature with your finger. You want the mixture to be lukewarm, but not hot to the touch. If it is too cool, continue heating the mixture in the microwave for 20 second intervals, pausing after each to stir, until the mixture reaches the correct temperature. If the mixture gets too hot, let it sit out for a few minutes until it has cooled to the lukewarm temperature.
In a separate bowl, whisk together 3 cups flour (not all of the flour), sugar and salt until combined.
In the bowl of a stand mixer (**see note below for an alternative method of making this by hand*) fitted with the dough hook attachment, add yeast and lukewarm milk mixture and stir by hand to combine. Add the flour mixture and egg, and beat on medium-low speed until combined. If the dough is sticking to the sides of the bowl, add the remaining flour, 1/4 cup at a time, until the dough begins to form a ball and pulls away from the sides of the bowl. Continue beating for 5 minutes on medium-low speed. Remove the dough hook and cover the bowl with a damp towel and let rest for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, make your filling by whisking together sugars and cinnamon in a bowl until evenly combined.
When the dough is ready, turn it out onto a floured work surface. Then use a floured rolling pin to roll the dough out into a large rectangle, about 14 x 10 inches in size. (If you want all edges to be even, you can use a pizza slicer to cut the dough into a perfect rectangle.) Use a knife or pastry spatula to spread the melted brown butter evenly over the entire surface of the dough. Then sprinkle the cinnamon and sugar mixture evenly on top of the melted butter so that the entire surface of the dough is covered.
Beginning at the 14-inch edge, tightly roll up the dough. And then give the final seam a little pinch so that it seals. Use a piece of dental floss*** to "cut" off the two ends of the roll (an inch on each end) so that they are even, then discard the dough that was cut away. Use the floss to cut the remaining dough into 12 equal pieces.
(***To cut dough with dental floss, simply break off a piece of floss about 12 inches long. Then very carefully slide the middle of the floss under the dough to the place where you want to "cut". Then pull the ends of the floss up and cross over the top of the dough, and give a quick tug to literally cut all the way through the dough. This is the best method for not squishing your dough while cutting it — although the standard knife method still works too.)
Place each of the cut cinnamon rolls into a greased pie plate or 9 x 13-inch baking dish. Then cover again with a damp towel, and leave the dish in a warm place to rise for 25 minutes.
While the dough is rising, make the icing (instructions below).
When the rolls have risen, uncover the dish. Then place on the center rack of the oven and bake at 350 degrees F for 15-20 minutes, or until the rolls are golden and cooked through. Remove and let cool on a wire rack for at least 5 minutes. Drizzle with frosting and serve.
To Make The Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting:
Either in the bowl of an electric stand mixer, or a mixing bowl, whisk the melted brown butter and cream cheese together until combined. Add in powdered sugar and whisk until combined. If the icing is too thick, add a tablespoon or two of milk to thin it out.
**If you do not have an electric stand mixer with a dough attachment, you can simply stir the ingredients together, and then knead by hand for 5-7 minutes.
If you make this recipe, be sure to snap a photo and hashtag it #gimmesomeoven. I'd love to see what you cook!
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56 comments on "Brown Butter Cinnamon Rolls"
I was actually totally planning on developing a cinnamon roll recipe today! BUT – I've actually never made any from scratch. CRAZY RIGHT?! So I was scared…I think I'll just make your recipe instead. Brown butter? I am in! Pinned!
These buns look just perfect :) seriously!
This is not something I'd normally make, but I'm thinking my husband will be so surprised and happy if I make these for Father's Day. I think his happiness will be worth the sugar coma, no? :)
They're gorgeous Ali and definitely picture perfect! I didn't know cinnamon rolls could get any better either. :)
Have a beautiful weekend!
Perfection in a bun and perfect for fathers day!
Oh my, it's cinnamon rolls like this that make me so glad I'm not a food blogger! I'd be like 400 pounds because I'd have no self control when these came out of the oven.
Brown butter cream cheese frosting…………oh this is gonna be good!
A bit confused by your instructions in making the dough. You say to heat the milk and butter in the microwave until the butter is melted… but isn't the brown butter made separately? So should you warm the milk separately as well until it is lukewarm and then combine with the brown butter?
Ali!!! These are incredible. Dooling over here :)
or drooling :)
Smudge would eat the whole pan! Exactly the reason to make them.
This is genius!!!
Cinnamon buns in an hour?? I can handle that. YUP.
Brown Butter makes everything better! These look so good! Cinnamon rolls are the one thing that I haven't come up with a good gluten free alternative. I think you just need some gluten to make perfect cinnamon rolls! :)
These look so yummy and great photography! My girlfriend is not a fan of cinnamon. That just means more for me :)
Ali…. This is pure genius!!!!
Love the brown butter idea :)
brown butter & cinnamon rolls are my two favorite things in life. I'm dead.
I need a batch of these this weekend!
A perfect Father's Day recipe!!!!
This looks beyond yummy. I was secretly hoping to see a picture of the ones with a "lake" of frosting on them.
I was actually hoping the same thing! 😂
Oh man these look so good. I love love love cinnamon rolls on weekend mornings. Right out of the oven when they are still steaming hot. I can only imagine how wonderful they would be with browned butter.
Your 1-hour cinnamon rolls are a go-to classic at our house. Can't wait to try these!
whoaaaaaa awesome!!! these look so yummy!
I COULDN'T AGREE WITH YOU MORE!!!!!!!!!! brown butter is like pure, unadulterated liquid gold and I find myself salivating at the sheer thought of it! Every time I have to use melted butter in my recipes, I always try to go further and brown it!!!!!! It just transformssssss the dish!!!! <3 Just like these cinnamon rolls!!!!!!!!!! I can almost taste it from here!!!! And that frostinggggg!!!!!! This does not get any better! <3 <3 <3
I have saved this recipe so I make sure I actually try making it! How can I not? They look absolutely delicious and so perfect! You must be quite the bread maker.
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These look so delicious and perfect! I would love one with a cup of hot coffee. *bats eyes at you innocently*
Brown butter makes the world a better place. I can't wait to try these!
I love your full disclosure, aka use a lot more frosting than what is pictured. :) Yes, these definitely look picture perfect, and what a great way to improve your I-thought-they-were-already-perfect cinnamon rolls. Gorgeous!
I am obsessed with brown butter, these look incredible!
I dont understand the recipe :D
do I have to put butter and milk together?
And do I use the brown butter for the dough or do I just Cover it with it??
But those look amaaaazing!!!
Super delicious!! Best cinnamon roll recipe ever…
Hi, can I make the brown butter cinnamon rolls ahead of time and then put them in the oven the morning after.
Hi Ali – these look incredible. I'm planning on making these for Valentine's Day – do you think I can prep them the night before and then just put them in the oven next morning? Thanks x
Your Last edit fully omitted the brown butter in the instructions for the dough portion, the 1/4 cup.
Great recipe btw!!!
Made these today, and they were a total hit! Although I've got to say, I'm really impressed with your cinnamon bun making skills, because they took me a solid 2 and a half hours from when I started to when we finally ate. My lack of a stand mixer/dough hook definitely didn't help. That said, I'm still probably going to make them again, which is definitely saying a lot about how wonderful they are!
These look amazing! I've made many cinnamon roll recipes trying to recreate something close to my grandmother's. Unfortunately, her amazing recipe went with her.
Hi Ali, I've made these before and they were AMAZING! I would like to make them for Christmas, but do you have any recommendations on how to make them mini? i.e. I'd like to get more than 12 servings, and make the portion smaller.
Making these for Christmas morning!! Have you tried making them the night before so they're ready to be popped in the oven the next morning? Do you think they would turn out the same?
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Hi! I've made this recipe several times and it's ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS! I was curious what size pie dish you use, standard 9″? I've only used a 9×13 pan and the rolls seem to fill it up completely once baked. I'm a bit concerned the pie dish doesn't have enough space. Thanks!
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Not sure why I have not thought of making my cinnamon rolls with brown butter before, but glad I saw this! They look great and will be making the next batch with brown butter! BTW, I also put 1-Tablespoon of cinnamon into my dough…after all they are cinnamon rolls!
Can you make these the night before and cook them the next morning?


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 27 diseños de 5 diseñadores freelance.
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Next New Networks launched the Next New Creators program to discover, meet, and work with the most talented and committed producers working in online video. The program enables creators to focus on the content while we champion their ideas and handle the rest.
Our creators (we've already signed a bunch of them!) are the most talented people in online video. They're young (20 to 30, for the most part), and they're popular. We need a great logo that looks awesome stamped across the various producer's pages. This will tie together everyone in the program under one brand, one look. We've already amassed over a billion views, this will be the chariot to drive us to the next billion!
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The "next new" text should be the same as our current text for "new next networks" (see attached) - you can have more fun with the "creators" text if you'd like to use another font.
Our Next New Networks "mascot," the NBot is attached as well. Create something that would feel at home within the world of that brand.
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* We're creators, too. The Next New Creators program is run by people who've been in your shoes. We understand your needs and want to share what we've learned.
* Trust is the currency of the Internet. We trust you to make an excellent show; you trust us to give you straight-forward advice, and work hard for you and your show.
* We're only successful (and happy), when you're successful (and happy).
* You own your show. The Next New Creators program believes in creator-owned content on the Internet.
* We believe in the power of branding and good design. We will help you take the look and feel of your show, and the places your show lives, to the next level.
* We like to work with people that are nice and have good ideas. Just like us.
Looking forward to some great designs!
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January is designated School Board Recognition Month in Texas, and Northside ISD is joining other districts across the state to gratefully acknowledge the invaluable contributions that elected Board of Trustees make to their communities.
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Northside ISD alumni are scattered across the country, and even around the world. But no matter where their lives have led them, our alumni all share a common bond—and that's the place they started out. That's why the Northside Education Foundation is working on new publications for Jay, Marshall, Holmes and Clark high schools.
The 83rd Legislative Session convenes Tuesday, Jan. 8, and Texas lawmakers will have tough decisions to make about school funding, accountability, and testing.
Northside ISD has just launched an iPhone and iPad app that provides community members a quick, easy, and mobile phone-friendly way to access information about NISD schools and services, including campus phone numbers and addresses, cafeteria menus, and district news and events. The app can be downloaded for free through the App Store. NISD is currently working on an Android version but a release date is not available yet. Click here to learn more.
The Northside ISD Board of Trustees is seeking nominations for two new schools scheduled to open in 2014.
In the wake of the Newtown, Conn. school shooting, false rumors are being spread throughout NISD schools. All schools will be open on Friday.
By Dr. Brian T. Woods.
Similar to many of you, I watched with horror the events of last Friday in Newtown, CT. As an educator and a parent the event was particularly painful. We all grieve for those involved in this tragedy. In Northside, many have asked about our security procedures and some have expressed interest in more security measures being installed. I wanted to update you on the measures we have in place and where we plan to go in the future with respect to school safety.
We constantly debate the appropriate measure of security to have on a campus. We try to balance the use of technology and restricting access with the notion of school being a welcoming place for students, parents and volunteers. We will continue that debate.
In light of the horrific school shooting in Connecticut Friday...
While there is no indication that this is anything but an isolated incident in a state far from Texas, Northside ISD is very sensitive to concerns and questions from parents about our own crisis procedures.
Although Learning Tree can accommodate up to 160 students at certain sites, there is an average teacher to student ratio of 1 to 18. The staff includes after school program specialists, site leaders, and youth leaders, many of whom are college students studying to become teachers.
Northside ISD is holding a job fair for bus drivers, instructional assistant substitutes, food service workers, and food service manager trainees from 9 a.m. to noon Monday, Dec. 17 at the Northside Activity Center, 7001 Culebra Road.
For the first time, three Northside ISD football teams have advanced to the state quarterfinals, being held this weekend at the Alamodome. To celebrate this historic achievement, the public is invited to attend a pep rally for Brandeis, Brennan and O'Connor high schools at 7 p.m. Thursday at Farris Stadium.
More students are graduating from Northside ISD high schools than ever before. For the Class of 2011, the District's completion rate is 95.7 percent, and the graduation rate is 91.7 percent. Statistics for the Class of 2012 won't be available until next year.
The newly-renovated library at Ross Middle School was officially named the John McLaughlin Library Wednesday night to honor a man who has spent the last 18 years working to enrich the lives of students at the campus.
Solve this math riddle: Geometry teacher Matthew Patty has 63 students on 12 different middle school campuses. He can only teach class the first and last period of the day. How does it get it done? Two words: iPads and wireless internet. Welcome to distance learning in 2012.
The NISD Guidance & Counseling Department has launched a new website geared specifically to the needs of military families.
This past week, the Northside Education Foundation made history when it doled out $173,000 in grants one time.
It's the ultimate library. Students and staff never have to worry about getting an overdue notice and the library is always open.
This summer, NISD opened the new Los Reyes Elementary School, a school with a rich history that spans a century, and renamed Lackland City Elementary School – a school that is 52 years old – Jerry D. Allen Elementary School.
Representatives from more than 140 colleges and universities from across the nation will meet with thousands of NISD students at College Night, which will be held from 6 to 8:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 29.
School cafeteria food is a favorite target of the media, school politicians and the public in general. So in honor of National School Lunch Week, which runs Oct. 15-19, here's some answers to some common questions – and misconceptions – about the food served in Northside ISD's cafeteria.
All members of the NISD community are invited to join the Northside Team for the San Antonio Rock 'n' Roll Marathon Nov. 11.
The Drug Enforcement Agency once again will hold a National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29 to dispose of unwanted and expired prescription drugs.
Robert Green's entire career has been about service – first to his nation as an officer in the U.S. Army, and now to the children of Langley Elementary, where he's a third grade teacher and Chess Club sponsor.
Dr. R. Michael Flores, a 1987 Holmes High School graduate, was named Palo Alto College's sixth president by the Alamo Colleges Board of Trustees Tuesday night.


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Toward the end of "A Christmas Story, The Musical" you hear a small catch in the throat of the fine actor Gene Weygandt, who plays Jean Shepherd, the raconteur who gave the American Christmas its Ralphie and his Red Ryder BB gun. You immediately get what he's saying without actually saying: these memories of an imperfect, and thus perfect, Northwest Indiana lower-middle-class childhood of the 1940s are receding. The dad who struggled to come up with six bucks for a battery for the Olds; the mom who knew how to make any kid eat: These parents are now as dead as the narrator's 9-year-old self, when happiness was just the chance to shoot your eye out.
And it's that unexpected sense of the fragility of the childhood Christmas — after all, we all only experience a handful and then they vanish — that makes this new musical far more moving and satisfying than most of the audience was expecting and far better than most of the Christmas entertainments that pop up in theaters to celebrate brands and personalities, rather than the American family, struggling then and now.
It's true that "A Christmas Story, The Musical" tracks the famous 1983 movie closely — if it did not, most of the audience would demand refunds — and was clearly determined to honor the movie's numerous quirks and not merely drown everything in seasonal sentiment. But if you just want to relive those amusing scenes of frozen tongues et al., then TBS has an "A Christmas Story" marathon coming up in a week. The producers of this musical clearly understood they had to offer a deeper emotional experience, more of a celebration of an ordinary family filled with eccentrics, struggling for money but lucky in love. And that's what is achieved in a show that leaves you not just with a familiar backdrop narrative to Christmas, but a tribute to what parents do for their children, and what their children do for them.
Much of that flows from a little clutch of really lovely ballads from the very promising songwriting team of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, who save their best stuff not for Ralphie (although his "Counting Down to Christmas" is fun) but his mother. As beautifully played by Rachel Bay Jones — an actress who offers just a hint of a woman at once deeply loving and undeniably strange — sweet songs like "What a Mother Does" are likely to catch plenty of throats, especially if a mother is gone. It would have been easier, perhaps, to satirize the 1940s mother. But Jones offers a fuller portrait, not without longing, but seeming to capture the truth that happiness is best defined by how content we are within that which is available.
In terms of production values, this is a Broadway-caliber show, on the modest end. The cast is both experienced and stellar: Karen Mason, no less, is in the acting ensemble, playing the schoolteacher. The visual watchword was clearly to paint a picture of Ralphie's (and Shepherd's) point of view, and thus Walt Spangler's far-from-predictable set is like a snowy dreamscape with a modest home perched inside and other shadows coming and going. The framing device is Shepherd doing one of his radio broadcasts, replete with a foley artist whose effects melt very nicely into the memories and who, with a few barks, also takes care of the need for the turkey-stealing dogs from the hillbilly house next door.
The book by Joseph Robinette is hardly full of surprises, but it picks its dialogue deftly, walking wisely between the need to hit expectations and find broader, more theatrical themes. To the credit of these writers, and the director, John Rando, the show often veers from expectations. When poor Flick gets his tongue frozen to that pole, you expect him to sing. But Ralphie is the one who warbles with horror, only for Flick to get a toungueless verse just when you think the kid has been turned into a mute. Similarly, the show makes good use of Ralphie's fantasies, including a kid-friendly cowboy number called "Ralphie to the Rescue," wherein the 9-year-old hero of his own mind saves sundry authority figures in distress. The best song of the night, though, is "Somewhere Hovering Over Indiana," wherein the kids' wait for a Hoosier Santa, surely now flying up from around Evansville, being as that one is the only one for which they actually have a use.
Clarke Hallum, who plays Ralphie, wisely offers a very different take from Peter Billingsley, whose demeanor was inherently cinematic. Hallum's great strength is his voice — a clear and powerful instrument that allows him to pick perfect notes out of the sky like little pellets. He's supported by a bevy of decent, likable kids (although mercifully not so programmed that you can't believe they ever walked the streets of Hammond) and clutch of character actors, mostly from Chicago, such as Adam Pelty (who plays the self-loathing Santa) and George Andrew Wolff. As Ralphie's Old Man, John Bolton captures the same broadness you can see in the movie. For a while it feels like his work is not of a piece with the others, but by the second act, the always-funny Bolton finds more of his guy's poignant key: how his love for his family will always have to fight with his own insecurities, just like most married men. And he is, after all, seen here only as his son remembers him.
That wise rule is followed like a mantra. There's no reason why "A Christmas Story" should not be on Broadway next season, especially if the capable Warren Carlyle beefs up the dance a little. Since he was initially the director, I suspect Carlyle came up with much of the unpretentious movement vocabulary. But there's a need for more. I was also pulled out of the show by the sudden, Ralphie-fueled appearance of Mason's Miss Shields as a Wicked Witch and the kids, looking uncomfortable in this moment alone, as flying monkeys. Mason sings the stuffing out the number, but we don't all need to be suddenly thinking of "Wicked." "A Christmas Story" is all about terra firma, terra ordinary, a world almost gone, were it not for our need to seek such stories out at Christmas, when all we need is the people we love. And a gun.
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Martin O'Neill draws inspiration from 'great competition' in Brazil
Republic of Ireland manager looking forward to playing World champions
German captain Philipp Lahm in action in the World Cup final. Martin O'Neill says Lahm's move back into defence was key to Germany's triumph. Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images.
Ireland may not quite get to test that old theory about it being a good thing to catch World Cup winners off guard in their next competitive game. That dubious honour will be Scotland's, but Martin O'Neill sounded like a man who could happily wait the extra few weeks after watching Germany sweep through the competition from his base in Brazil.
The Republic of Ireland boss had already suspected, of course, that Ireland's Group D campaign might boil down to doing battle with the Poles and Scots (the latter yesterday confirmed that their game against Ireland on November 14th will be at Celtic Park) for second place but he has still been impressed with the way Joachim Löw and his men handled themselves here over the past month. The manager for the way he changed tactics and personnel mid tournament, the players for the way they raised their game when it became clear they would have to do so if they were not to come up short again.
"I think as the competition wore on they tightened up defensively," he said. "(Philipp) Lahm went to right back although unwillingly – I think he sees himself as a midfield player – but they had to do that. They were holding a high line with maybe not the quickest defence at the time and I think they learned from that.
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All the better, he says, for Löw's various interventions with the coach tinkering as his team progressed through the tournament amid calls for changes and criticism back home. Whether all of that influenced the coach, O'Neill admits, he simply can't be sure.
"I think he thought 'I'm going to upset some people but I have to do it to help the side,' maybe (Per) Mertesacker had to be sacrificed and Lahm had to go in there but whether it was pressure from other quarters, I don't know. But I actually think that has given them a bit of stability."
The setting for October's game will be rather different, he acknowledges. "This is under tournament rules here and things happen to you on a daily basis where you have to make these sorts of changes. But Germany are coming out of this tournament with their confidence intact. Playing Germany in Germany will be a totally different thing but, well, they're not in decline anyway."
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The revival by the Dutch of a three-man central defence was welcome to a man who had used the system himself to good effect at Leicester and Celtic while the success of a side like Costa Rica, who Ireland had played in Philadelphia in the lead up to the tournament, was a reminder of how good organisation and strong team spirit can still sometimes help to tip the scales in an unexpected way.
" I don't think that any of us would have thought on the basis of that first-half performance (in the 1-1 draw with his own team) that Costa Rica would have caused serious problems for the other teams in the group, never mind be as successful as they were.
"But I think that we all felt that there were teams here in this competition with not the greatest natural ability but who had a great spirit. Algeria for instance, and the USA found energy that you wouldn't believe in the game against Belgium. You see these things, you come back and you think that was motivational, that was really good."
As for the shifting of the tactical tides, he says he was happy to see a system make a return from the dead at this level but suggests that without the time to work day in day out with his players, a major change in the Irish team's direction is probably out of the question.
"You don't just do something because you think 'ah well, I've seen it work there'. You try to do a bit of work with it, even to walk it through, as long as the centre backs are comfortable coming out of their comfort zone.
"These are things to look at but it's actually about getting that time. We might spend one day, though, just one day, where we might say, 'listen lads, for want of a better thing, this is a plan B, this is what we'll go to,' but it depends on the personnel on the field at the time."
He returns to a slightly changed working landscape with Roy Keane, his assistant, having taken up his new role at Aston Villa but it remains, he insists, something he is entirely comfortable with. He spoke to Paul Lambert at the time to see how his opposite number felt things would pan out and he'll catch up with Keane over the coming days but he is more than happy with the assurances he has received from both men.
"Paul said that he gives the players, the senior players who are not involved at international level, a lot of time off anyway during that time (the international breaks) and even if they did come back for a day or two, they could cope with that if Roy was heading off with the Republic."
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For O'Neill himself the immediate future involves a return to Ireland today and a trip to Oriel Park on Thursday night for the Hajduk Split Europa League tie. After that, he hopes to take in a league game and look after a few bits and pieces out at the association.
The Dundalk game will bring back memories of his own earliest European football days with Distillery when he scored against Barcelona. Still, he suggests, something that makes his list of career highlights.
He last saw a Stephen Kenny side play when Derry City drew with PSG at the Brandywell a few seasons back and he is looking forward, he says, to see how the team gets on. If anyone catches the eye, though, he'll check them out again for European club football, like a World Cup he says, can be a poor enough indication of a player's ability to produce on a more day-to-day basis.
"Yeah, I'd like to see a bit more of him in that case," he says. "Sometimes, I know if I'm involved in that sort of game I will want to play to my very best and maybe beyond my best. Maybe there might an element that sometimes seeing a player in his own environment for a couple of weeks is better rather than seeing him stepping up in a game where you know that he is going to be at it from start to finish. It's maybe like choosing a player from a World Cup. I think it's hard to do."


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