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Thursday, 27th September, 2012, 03:14 AM #1
Review of The Heart of Fire by Darklight Interactive
Sometimes its just good clean fun to pull out a cliché and run with it. Perhaps one could say that a better word here might be trope, but regardless of the term, we DMs have all been done it at one time or another. We have characters battle gigantic fire demons in orc-infested dwarven mines, force them to fend off giant squids attacking their sailing ships in the middle of a monsoon, and rescue fair princesses kidnapped by evil sorcerers bent on world domination. And why?
Because a lot of times, its just great fun to play out those familiar heroic-fantasy scenarios with your gaming friends, regardless of how cliché it might be!
So when you come across an adventure set on a remote volcanic island, and an evil cult bent on some mysterious purpose with their hideout inside an active volcano, how can you not immediately be intrigued? As it so happens, Darklight Interactive published a new mini-campaign this past summer for D&D 4e gamers. Set for characers Level 10 to Level 12, The Heart of Fire features all that stuff with strange islands, mysterious cults, volcanoes, and so much more!
The Heart of Fire
- Design: David Flor
- Illustrators: Sigbjorn Pedersen (cover)
- Cartography: J.D. Harvill, David Flor
- Publisher: Darklight Interactive
- Year: 2012
- Media: PDF (135 pages)
- Retail Price: $3.99 from RPGNow.com
The Heart of Fire is a mini-campaign/adventure for a party of heroes of Levels 10 to 12, and designed for use with 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons. The mini-adventure features an island setting which can be used for this and for other adventures as desired by a DM. There are 16 new or custom monsters and over a dozen new traps to pit against heroes during their quest. In addition, there are new magic items, including an original and unique tripartite artifact which can be found as loot along the heroes path.
Production Quality
The production quality of The Heart of Fire is very good, with some fine writing and a good plot design for this mini-campaign. The adventure is presented in a similar design structure as Wizard of the Coast products, and the monsters, traps, and magic items use writing formats readily recognizable to D&D 4e players and DMs. The author includes both table of contents and bookmarks in the PDF, for good organization and ease of reference throughout the sizable document.
The cover art is fairly decent, but there is a notable lack of interior illustrations which is somewhat disappointing in a product of this volume. However, what the product lacks in artwork, it makes up for that easily in the cartography department. There are over 50 adventure and encounter maps in the pages of The Heart of Fire, including a fantastic rendering of the island setting of Pyrias by J.D. Harvill. The encounter maps are nicely detailed, and its a real shame the author did not include a render of them to scale so they can be printed and used at the gaming table.
Dancing on a Volcano
In a lot of respects, The Heart of Fire mini-campaign is a throwback to old school module design and I mean that as a compliment. The author offers features in the adventure that are reminiscent of modules produced during TSR days, with a dungeon delve feel, rather than the encounter to encounter paradigm often seen in 4E. In addition, there are solid hooks to get characters involved, random encounters, and room for expanding the campaign to include other adventures in the area and even suggestions by the author on ways to work on those.
The author opens with an overview of the adventure, along with some history to frame the premise in context for the Dungeon Master. The adventure takes place on a volcanic island called Pyrias, where a village called Serpents Cove is located. Legends abound surrounding the island, including rumors of a dragon, a cult, lost treasure, and even an artifact. The author has several hooks and quests to choose from to get the heroes roped into investigating the island, and offers additional quest material that can be added beyond the main storyline should a DM decide to develop it. Pyrias is a big volcanic sandbox, and there is definitely more than one way to explore and develop the adventure.
One of the things I really liked, and contributed to the old school feel of the adventure, was the inclusion of random encounters and rumors. There are other forces at work on the island besides the mysterious cult and its volcano hideout, and the author provides not only rumors both true and false about them, but also a list of random encounters which the heroes might encounter in their explorations.
The main thrust of the adventure centers around a couple of big sprawling dungeon delves. The large labyrinthine complexes are multi-leveled, and are full of encounters, skill challenges, and tricks and traps for the adventurers to overcome. The number of encounters in the adventure is massive more than 30 possible encounters although certain actions by the heroes might possibly decrease this number along the way. The author provides a nice mix of combat and skill challenge/role-play encounters, and several of the encounters can be handled by either method depending on the tactics of the heroes. There are several very large encounters in The Heart of Fire, including a couple of boss fights. And treasure is a mix of pre-assigned pieces of new treasure, and other places where DMs can hand out standard level-appropriate parcels.
The only real problem I see with The Heart of Fire is a logistical one. There are a huge number of encounters in the adventure, and it is written to span Level 10 to Level 12 characters. There are more than enough encounters in the adventure to carry a party of adventurers up two or more levels by the time the adventure ends. And assuming the heroes start at Level 10, the encounters might require some rebalancing for handling characters who suddenly gain a Paragon Path, which represents more power than just gaining a single level. On the other hand, a DM could restrict leveling until the full adventure ends, but I think most players would have a problem going through that many encounters before getting to level their characters. Of course, characters starting the adventure at the higher end of the level range could easily level-up to where the combats become too easy, requiring a DM to make adjustments to keep them relevant.
Overall Score: 4.0 out of 5.0
I was very impressed with The Heart of Fire, and I think a lot of gaming groups can enjoy an adventure of this quality. While there are some familiar tropes in this fantasy adventure, they are put to good use making a plot which is fun and exciting, as opposed to being too obvious. The adventure blends a new school sand-boxy encounter series with an old school mysterious dungeon delve quite seamlessly, and there is a lot of play sessions packed into one dynamic mini-campaign. While I have some concerns about the sheer number of encounters, however, most gaming groups will likely figure out a way to handle the logistics of encounter levels and leveling in The Heart of Fire to find the adventure a satisfying experience.
From a price-wise standpoint, Im a bit shocked. The Heart of Fire might lack that final high gloss polish one might find in a WotC release, but the writing, plot, maps, and everything else in the product demonstrate a high degree of detail well worth owning - and at only $3.99, theres no excuse for 4e gamers not to grab a copy for their gaming libraries!
So until next review I wish you happy gaming!
Reviewers Note: This Reviewer received a complimentary copy of the PDFs from which the review was written.
Grade Card (Ratings 1 to 5)
- Presentation: 3.5
- - Design: 4.0 (Solid writing and plot; good layout for 4e gamers)
- - Illustrations: 3.0 (Decent cover art; no interior illustrations, but will give bonus points for maps)
- Content: 4.0
- - Crunch: 4.0 (Excellent encounter design and monster design)
- - Fluff: 4.0 (Lots of hooks; some plot resolutions without combats; good setting for further adventures)
- Value: 4.5 (A total steal the author should charge a lot more for this module!)
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Majority rule, as a decision-making principle, has posed serious concerns for conservatives over the decades. These concerns have been central to major conservative works on American institutions and practices, such as John Adams's A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America (1787) and John C. Calhoun's A Disquisition on Government (1851). James Madison in The Federalist 10 (1787) deals directly and openly with a perplexity surrounding majority rule that has preoccupied many conservatives, namely, how can republican governments, based on the principle of political equality and majority rule, avoid rule by oppressive majorities—or, as Madison put it, majorities that would rule in a manner "adverse to rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community"?
Conservatives, on the whole, oppose a plebiscitary democracy because its foundations rest on a view of society as merely an undifferentiated collection of individuals. In this form of democracy, often associated with the underlying values and assumptions that guided the French Revolution, majorities rule directly on matters, both great and small, through electoral processes designed to register their "will." Conservatives, by contrast, fearing that such direct rule would result in rash, oppressive, or ill-considered decisions that would only serve the immediate interests of the ruling majorities, are decidedly inclined to favor institutional arrangements that provide for delay and deliberation in decision-making processes. For this reason, most conservatives, quite unlike the proponents of plebiscitary democracy, see merit in representation of the people by qualified and informed individuals who should not necessarily be bound by their constituents' wishes. They also see merit in and defend bicameralism, the separation of powers, and other institutional processes often charged with producing "gridlock." These views stem, in turn, from the tendency of conservatives to view society as a complex hierarchical organism comprising a multitude of institutions, associations, and groups such as church, family, communities, voluntary associations, and the like. For this reason, they are prone to support processes and institutions that are designed to achieve a consensus among the relevant parties when there is conflict or disagreement, rather than submitting matters to an up-or-down vote. Moreover, virtually all conservatives draw a distinction between state and society. Though this distinction at times may be blurred, it recognizes that individuals as well as varied social institutions, groups, and associations have spheres of authority that limit the reach of political majorities.
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Rewa (India)
Earth : Asia : South Asia : India : Plains (India) : Madhya Pradesh : Rewa (India)
Rewa is a city in India.
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Rewa is connected by rail via Satna, which is 55 km away. However the frequency of trains is not much and therefore traveling from Satna to Rewa by road is still more popular.
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Wild life lovers are welcome to the land of tigers. Today Bandhavgarh, in Madhya Pradesh, India, has the highest density of tigers in the world making it just the best tourism destination. Bandhavgarh National Park is one place where you certain of seeing a tiger in its natural habitat. It is in this valley where white tiger was found.
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Rewa is a place where, you can see natural beauty in and around the city. It is mainly famous for waterfalls, the main waterfalls are Quonti, Chachai and Bahuti waterfall. River Bichiya and Beehar confluences in core part of the city and there is also a low height water fall which looks great when you enter the city. Khando is a place, which is mainly famous for its beautiful topography, and a big Tank known as " Govindgarh Talab", prepared by Baghela Kings, it is 15 km south from Rewa.
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Mayor Coleen J. Seng will present the 2006 Gerald Henderson Human Rights Award to Florine Joseph during a ceremony at 4 p.m. Tuesday, November 21 in the Mayorís Conference Room. Joseph is a former employee of the Lincoln Action Program (LAP). She was nominated by Lincoln Board of Education member Barbara Baier.
Joseph was a human rights advocate for almost 40 years as part of LAP before retiring this past spring. As part of her work with those in poverty, she developed the Coalition of Landlords and Tenants program. In cooperation with the Legal Aid Society, she also helped create a handbook on landlord and tenant laws and provided legal forms to help with such issues as evictions, illegal confiscation of personal property and lack of redress regarding health and safety issues.
Joseph played a critical role in bringing family planning services to Lincoln in 1968 and was active in the African Congress of Negro People during the 1970s. She was an organizer for Lincoln Education Outreach and recruited hundreds of college students to provide tutoring, mentoring and other services to young people.
ďShe is forever dedicated to quietly righting injustice in whatever form she sees,Ē Baier wrote in her nomination. ďShe has promoted inter-cultural understanding by engaging herself in the difficult work of dialoguing one-on-one, changing one heart and one mind at a time.Ē
The Lincoln Commission on Human Rights (LCHR) established an annual Human Rights Award in 2000 to recognize outstanding achievements in furthering human relations in the City. In 2003, the award was named for the late Gerald Henderson, who was the first director of LCHR and a longtime civil rights activist. Nominees are judged on their achievements in improving human rights based on activities implemented, services performed, or programs operated in the City. Previous winners are Dan Williams; Cecilia Olivarez Huerta; Josť Soto and the Division of Affirmative Action, Equity and Diversity of Southeast Community College; Milo Mumgaard and the Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest, Inc.; and Judi M. gaiashkibos.
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Premiere 19 September.
Dance. How is a memory formed? What makes an impression and what is forgotten? In dance performance 'In memoriam', three choreographers give three different answers.
Watch a clip from the performance.
The three choreographers.
Stijn Celis (b. 1964) grew up in Zaire, moved to Belgium in 1972 and trained to become a dancer at the Koninglijk Ballet School in Antwerp. Today he lives in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. In 1982 he became employed at the Royal Ballet in Flanders, four years later he moved on to the Zürich Ballet, then to Zürich Modern Dance Company and from 1992 to the Ballet de Grand Theatre de Genève, where he also began his career as a choreographer.
Christina Caprioli was born in Italy and after many years of work in Europe and the US, she developed a significant artistic profile and is today rated as one of our foremost Swedish choreographers. Her choreographies have been widely acclaimed on both national and international stages as has her teaching. Christina Caprioli runs the dance company ccap, which is the prerequisite, the core and continuity for her work, and where she has produced over 30 productions over the last 15 years.
Johan Inger, choreographer and scenographer, was born in Stockholm and trained at Kungliga Teaterns Balettelevskola (The Royal Theatre's Ballet School) and at the National Ballet School in Canada. In 1985 he became employed at Kungliga Baletten (The Royal Ballet) in Stockholm where he was appointed soloist in 1989. In 1990 he became engaged in Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) in Holland where he performed leading roles in works of, among others, Jirí Kylián, Nacho Duato, Ohad Naharin and Mats Ek.
School performance 25 September at 12 noon.
World premiere.
Your Passion is Pure Joy to Me by Stijn Celis.
Movements towards Trust and Consolation
In our time there is probably no rock star that has grappled quite as much with the question of trust and consolation as the Australian singer and guitarist Nick Cave. His songs consistently revolve around the question of whether or not consolation is possible after one has lived through and survived the most diverse catastrophes, from the great worldwide ones to those that are highly personal and private.
With Nick Cave the question of faith is not so much a question of the existence of God. In his songs it is much more a matter of how one can live with one's memories without being broken, of how, in spite of all the heavy memories, one is able to recreate and retrieve a belief in life.
/ Armin Kerber, dramaturgist for Stijn Celis Your Passion is Pure Joy to Me.
(Excerpt from the programme for In Memoriam.)
God is in the House by Nick Cave.
We've laid the cables and wires
We've split the wood and stoked the fires
We've lit our town so there is no
Place for crime to hide
Our little church is painted white
And in the safety of the night
We all go quiet as a mouse
For the word is out
God is in the house
God is in the house
God is in the house
No cause for worry now
God is in the house
See a film of the rehearsal.
World premiere.
Slope by Cristina Caprioli
Cristina Caprioli is one of Sweden's foremost choreographers and is a guest now for the first time at GöteborgsOperan. The production Slope is an incline, a gliding away from the place, an inevitable disappearance, the memory of a persistent movement and of the artist Sol LeWitt. The dance is engulfed in Jens Sethzman's beautiful lighting and scenography.
See a film of the rehearsal.
Empty House by Johan Inger.
Johan Inger created Empty House for Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) in 2002. The work is based on the memory of a time and place, how to find the strength to leave a situation and the confrontation that results from making the move. Johan Inger was previously artistic director of Cullbergbaletten and is now in-house choreographer for NDT.
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Ellen Grady, a Catholic Worker from Ithaca, N.Y., doesn't like the idea that war has come home to her backyard.
The war is the country's war on terror. The place where it is being waged is the Hancock Field Air National Guard Base near Syracuse, a little more than an hour north of where she lives.
Hancock is one of several U.S. bases where drone operators pilot unmanned aircraft in their search for suspected Muslim militants halfway around the world.
And for the third time in two years, Grady, 50, was arrested for protesting the drones during a nonviolent witness on Ash Wednesday to begin the season of Lent.
She was one of nine people arrested after refusing to leave base property. The group held signs calling for the end of drone warfare in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.
Grady's sister, Mary Ann Grady Flores, was among those arrested.
The Air National Guard had no immediate comment about the arrests.
At the end of January, Grady told Catholic News Service she felt it was important to speak out against the drones, especially because she knows her husband had also been involved in peaceful protests against war throughout his life before he died in an accident on their farm.
"Intellectually I know that the building of these weapons is the modern-day crucifixion of Christ," she said.
"I just feel that it's amazing we have technology and we have no standard on how we are to use them," Grady added.
Her first arrest occurred on Good Friday in 2011, two years after her husband, Peter DeMott, died in an accident. She was one of 37 people taken into custody and released. After both of her arrests, she was sentenced to 15 days in jail. She was released after eight days both times.
She could not be reached Thursday afternoon.
A statement released by the nine said they came to Hancock "to remember the victims of our drone strikes and to ask God's forgiveness for the killing of other human beings, most especially children."
Grady, a member of the Cornell Catholic Community at Cornell University, told CNS she discerned long and hard about risking arrest the first time because she still had a young daughter at home. She said her daughter, Saoirse, now 10, encouraged her to follow her conscience.
"My daughter said 'I don't really want you to do this, Mom. But you know what? We know what it's like to have someone die in our family from an accident. These other people (survivors of innocent drone victims) know what it's like to have someone die when we (the U.S.) do it on purpose,'" Grady explained.
So Grady again showed up at Hancock on Ash Wednesday, prepared to be arrested in the ongoing effort to call attention to drone warfare by the Upstate New York Coalition to Ground the Drones.
"We call it Gandhian ways action," she said upon returning home yesterday. "That the idea of continuing to go back. It's not just a one-time thing. We're coming back and we're coming back and we're coming back."
Others arrested were Jim Clune of Binghampton, N.Y.; Bill Frankel-Streit of Trevilians, Va.; Nancy Gowen of Richmond, Va.; Linda LeTendre of Saratoga Springs, N.Y.; Father Bill Pickard of Scranton, Pa.; Matt Ryan of Ithaca; and Carmen Trotta of New York.
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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Sometimes Fear is Good
Now more than ever we have to make our library programs even more relevant, important, and exciting to students and faculty. We have to make ourselves even more indispensable in our roles at our schools, and we must learn to toot our own horns. Make sure others (adminsitration) know about your great books, lessons, clubs, extra-curricular events, and overall contributions to the intellectual life of the school. The death of the Cushing Academy library has only invigorated me to do my best this year, to take more risks, be visible, and solidify my role and the library's role in student life.
How has it inspired you?
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- Book LoverSeptember 9, 2009 at 5:55 PM
Umm...the Cushing library isn't dead, it is very much alive. Instead of 20,000 books, it will have millions when the overhaul is complete. Book lovers should celebrate!Congratulations to Jim Tracy for his pioneering vision.ReplyDelete
In the traditional sense, the library will be gone, according to the news. It won't be called a library, and the "books" will be only digital. I am not sure the technology is quite up for that challenge. I think the students, although learning some valuable other sources, will miss out on other types of scholarship. I think it is too soon - only time will tell, I suppose! Will the students use the public library more? Perhaps the local public library should get ready..ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 9, 2009 at 6:48 PM
I think your ambition is admirable, but any librarian who fails to embrace the digital age will be out of a job in the not so distant future. Indeed, time will tell, but information technology is rapidly changing, and those who cling to print media will be left in the dust. A complete shift to digital was bound to happen sooner or later. Book lovers who fear what Cushing is doing should, actually, celebrate that a man of James Tracy's ability - a true book lover himself - is leading the way. Check out the man's position and creds. at his school's website: www.cushing.org.ReplyDelete
I am not saying no to the digital age - in fact I work with technology. I just think abandoning the books is a bad idea. Kindles, ebooks, databases - all great - I teach about a lot of tech at my school -but getting rid of all the books is too much too soon. I agree that libraians have to move to digital resources - I don't know of any librarians in fact who disagree with that. I just think there is a balance of different types of media and that traditional books will still be around and useful for some time to come.ReplyDelete
- Sarah LevinSeptember 11, 2009 at 3:21 PM
I agree with you, Elisabeth. As a librarian at a one to one laptop school, we are very tech heavy. That being said, tech (including laptops, databases, smartboards, etc.) are all educational tools. To rely solely on one type of tool may be a mistake. It takes all kinds of information in all types of formats to develop true research skills and adequate scholarship. I am a big fan of a dynamic library collection (no dusty books!) and do a lot of weeding and buying to keep the library breathing. Cutting out all books seems like a misguided move.ReplyDelete
Also, many of my "digital native" students love the feel of a book and often prefer the paper version of encyclopedias and books even when we have the online version available.
I wonder, too, if there are any studies about information retention when reading on a screen versus reading on paper or E ink.
Sarah - good points! I also have students who prefer doing research with monographs in print form. Sometimes that is where the deeper research is. We tailor our collection to fit the curriculum, so many of the books are used. I think using the books is an important part of their college prep, actually. Students who become university scholars, especially in particular disciplines, will be returning to books again and again.ReplyDelete
(and what about graphic novels!? how do they look on a Kindle?)


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honestly, i'm at this point where i don't know what i want to be when i grow up.
silly for a 36 year old woman, isn't it?
being an entrepreneur opens you open to so many possibilities.
and choosing to work with mom bloggers as your main clients, your niche, opens you up to even more possibilities.
it's rewarding.
at the end of the day, I feel like I've really done something grand.
I've helped a fellow mom.
confusing you?
here's a tiny bit of back story.
I worked in corporate for 12 years as a color specialist in the imaging/advertising industry.
i've always loved anything visually stimulating. color in harmony really made my heart sing.
I'm not an artist, but i can design a wicked advertising piece.
Then i got pregnant again. With my teens entering puberty and a baby on the way at 32yo, i realized i wanted to start something of my own from home.
now...4 years later...
i work from home. (have a 16 yo, 14 yo, 4 yo and almost 3yo)
I'm a website designer
a search engine marketer
I've worked for small businesses and internet marketers.
heck, I was an internet marketer myself for a year.
i'm a blogger.
and the best time I've ever had is blogging and designing blogs for mom bloggers or fixing their seo disasters or just moving their blogs. mom bloggers understand dysfunctional schedules. they get why i work after bedtime and prefer email over phone calls.
as I worked more with mom bloggers and less with internet marketers, i got pretty worked up because i realized mom bloggers could make the kinda money these internet marketers are making. they just needed to understand search engine marketing. I kept planning to write an ebook. But, it never happened. Just because I couldn't pack everything I wanted to into an ebook.
so i decided to start offering an ecourse and i've got to tell you, I am having a blast!
i'm loving it so much i turned down two design gigs this week.
turning down money?
i have no stinking clue.
all i know is that right now, what's foremost on my mind, besides the fact that's it my turn to scrub the bloody tub tonight, is the question "what else can i teach these ladies?"
and really nothing makes me feel more alive and rewarded than when i'm training people. i did it for 5 years when i was in corporate. trained my colleagues, clients and visiting classes from school of visual arts in the techy aspects of our industry that they needed to know.
it's been maybe 3 years since i've trained anyone.
it feels marvelous.
but, i love design.
i am such a flake.
have you ever found yourself lost on your career path?
please share how you worked through it.
i'd appreciate it.
i'd also appreciate it if you told me i wasn't a flake.
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Wow! I loved this post! I am 22 years old and although I am young, I have found myself in the same dilemma. I started out working on my pre-requisites for Nursing when I graduated from high school. When I was 19 My husband and I got pregnant and that is where everything changed. I took time off when my son was born (had pregnancy complications) and when back but now 2 years later I am deciding it may not be the field I want to be in anymore. I honestly feel lost and don't know what I want anymore. I see others my age accomplishing the very thing I wanted to do my entire life, but I guess things change when you get older and especially change when you have a family. I sometimes feel like I let myself down but then I remember I have to do what makes me happy. I love blogging and I love working from home because it means more time with my family. You seem to have a lot of knowledge and experience and that is wonderful. That is more than a lot of people can say. I am sure your heart will tell you what you need to know. By the way you are not a flake! I think it is only normal to want one thing one minute and another the next, it's life. I admire what you do for mom bloggers and I wish there was more women out there that do what you do! It's different when it's coming from a Woman to another Woman. I know I could sure use someone like you to show me the ropes! :)


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Twelve Thousand...and counting
My only wish, Sachin, is that you play through the next World Cup in 2011. The final is in Bombay, and if I'm alive, I'll be there! And this time it will be different from the last time I was at a World Cup elimination game featuring you, sir, in Calcutta in 1996.
And to make this Bollywood-related, did you know Sachin was part of the test audience for the greatest film ever made? Chale Chalo ;)
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- Kanan said...
Really? I didn't know about the Lagaan bit. I hope you get to watch the world cup and I dream and hope, I will too. I miss this the most in the US (not being able to watch cricket and not feeling the excitement of it all). I'll have to catch the glimpse of Sachin's victory on a recording somewhere.
- Friday, October 17, 2008
Wow!!! More than 12,000 runs! I also congratulate him.
I didn't know Sachin was a part of Lagaan's test audience. Thanks for reporting!
- Friday, October 17, 2008
- theBollywoodFan said...
Yes, Sachin was asked to provide feedback after the initial editing of Lagaan. I'm sure he had a lot to say about the second half ;)
Also, did you know that the original script by Ashutosh Gowariker had a two-inning match? When they started filming the first innings, they knew right away the second one wasn't going to be feasible at all, so they removed it.
Kanan: That's a great goal. So we got the final this time, and the rest of the games will be spread across India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh! Should be fun!
Here is Sachin breaking the record. Diwali in Mohali, says Ravi Shastri! Here he is getting to 12,000. And here he is at the end of the day.
Saurabh: What an achievement! Sachin also has over 16,000 in one day games. The other current player from India to have scored over 10,000 runs is Rahul Dravid.
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The Clean-Up Crew (Xpost)
(Semi-set off by a thread of commentary at SM-F.)
A number of years ago I was working the local polyamory group's table on Pride Day. Just talking to people, being visible, that sort of thing. I bought a t-shirt (I think it was the one with 'Sharing is a family value' on the back), changed into it in the freedom of the clothing-semioptionality on the Common that day, and just chatted with people.
At one point I went for a walk through the crowds, possibly looking for a drink, as it was reasonably hot; possibly wanting to browse through the vendors. I wound up snagged for conversation by a woman who spotted the shirt and wanted to demand an explanation.
It's been long enough that I don't remember the details of her story precisely and have quite likely replaced them with archetype, but the truth of the matter is that this happens often enough for me to have an archetype to substitute for lost details.
She was a lesbian who had been, briefly, in a relationship with a married bisexual woman. She had been told that the woman's husband expected to be involved in their relationship as a matter of course, at least as a jacking-off observer, and, further, that if said husband was unhappy with the way their relationship was going, she would be dumped without a second thought. She found the interaction understandably disappointing and frustrating, and because she had been told that that was a perfectly normal way of conducting polyamory, widely accepted within the community, was more than a little pissy about the entire thing and, I rather suspect, wanted to know why the assholes were invading her Pride event.
About half the resulting conversation consisted of me assuring her that no, it didn't have to work that way. That everything they'd said about how that's what polyamory means was a lie, in fact, by the simple fact that plenty of people don't do that sort of thing. Much of the rest was talking about what I do, in matter of fact terms, peppered with more assurances: no, I don't expect everyone else to do it that way. No, I don't think that I'm a better person because of this. No, my way isn't What Polyamory Means either, it's just what I do. No, it doesn't bother me that she wants a monogamous relationship, I think that people should have the sorts of relationships that work for them.
I think, though I'm not sure, that we parted with her somewhat baffled by the weirdness of humanity, but at least familiar with the fact that the poly community consists of more than entitled bisexual women and the creepy voyeurs they're married to.
Another time I got into a throw-down fight that I don't think escaped beyond the bottle of the poly community with someone who wanted to create an organisation claiming to speak for the interests of polyamorous people - that was not actually about polyamory at all, but about a certain left-anarchist set of politics that he assumed was the reason people were poly, because who would have multiple relationships who wasn't interested in Breaking Down The System and proving the superiority of their liberationist worldview? I hammered on consent, that he did not speak for me unless I gave him permission and I explicitly denied him permission, and that no, I was not interested in subscribing to his newsletter until he snarled about evil reactionaries who had destroyed his happy fluffy vision of what Polyamory Was All About and were just there to subvert Teh Movement and probably didn't have more than one partner anyway and finally, blissfully, shut the fuck up. I hope he took his sooper-speshulness somewhere pleasant so he could be superior in a more congenial environment.
I get aggravated by the whole thing. I write about pretty much this thing when I wrote about the word 'lifestyle', pointing out that some people hook into Gor Is The Way What I Want Is Okay and try to universalise it, as well as, from the flip side of that particular kink perspective, the people who have an ideology of universal female superiority and abuse any woman who doesn't agree. Hell, I explicitly drew attention to someone making up just-so stories about an anti-BDSMer once upon a time, because someone claiming to be on my side being a fucking hypocrite does me no favors.
And this is the thing. My polyamory, my kink, my religion, my whatever else, these do not make me sooper-speshul. To the extent that I may be sooper-speshul, it's because sooper-speshulness is my birthright as a human being, and expecting everyone to bow down before it is unrealistic; if we were all bobbing and genuflecting to the sooper-speshul all the time we'd never get anything done 'cos there just isn't the time. Yeah yeah yeah namaste but the onions still need hoeing.
A couple of weekends ago I got into a long conversation about sex and power and individual choice and similar matters, and among the things that came up was using kinkspace to recreate and reprogram a trauma. And there was a story of someone who did this on a second date, which horrified all of the kinksters (and everyone else for that matter) in the room, even (perhaps especially) those of us who had done some sort of work of that sort in a controlled environment with trusted partners. There were discussions with people who had been interested in BDSM until they ran into someone who used it abusively, who wanted assurance that their perspectives on the existence of abuse was justified. There was exploration of what it meant to do power exchange sex in the context of an ethic that does not tolerate the bending of the head to accept shackles from the outside. (And I did not talk about the time, in a similar context, that I said I refused to submit my life-force to an ethic that required me not to do d/s, that I was too settled and secure in my power to put up with being lesser like that.)
There are no cure-alls and panaceas; there are only people working out what works for them. I can scream my story into the void all I want, but I have to take care to not drown out the stories of others, the people who do it differently. Monocultures die in plagues.
I've spent too long cleaning up spaces that have been damaged by people selling their social and sexual snake oil. "Take this, and your problems will be solved!" "This is the way the best people do it!" "This is just the way things are!"
In the memory of that confused and hurt woman at Pride, who went away maybe a bit more confused but also maybe a bit less hurt, I will always strive to be part of the cleanup crew.
5 comments:
- Trinity said...
Thanks a lot for xposting it, Kiya. :)
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For the third year in a row, a bunch of buses filled with tech nerds are en route to Austin, Texas, for the annual South by Southwest interactive/film/music festival. Startup Bus, a now-international program conceptualized by founder Elias Bizannes as something of a drunken joke in 2010 is this year bringing 300 people to Texas. On their way, participants, who go through a fairly extensive interview process to win their spots, divide up into teams to come up with startups and compete against each other for the grand prize -- described as "nerd glory: there's no greater prize" -- in Austin. It's not just an startup competition, it's a networking and business-building experience, not unlike camp, but for people who can't bear to be deprived of an Internet connection. Mike Caprio, an entrepreneur and former team winner for startup idea TripMedi, is now the NYC bus conductor; he describes himself as a "combination of cheer leader, drill sergeant, mommy and daddy." He says, of Startup bus, "We saw the success in building networks in Silicon Valley, and we thought, let's create our own network."
There are 11 buses on the road en route from 11 different start points, including Boston, New York City, Florida, L.A., and Mexico. In the parlance of Startup Bus, they are called "tribes." Each bus has about 30 people aboard; the New York bus includes "an embedded reporter" as well as two drivers, and even some folks who've come aboard from the Florida bus (they are called "buspreneurs").
The buses and their riders converge at various points on the way. Thursday night they were scheduled to meet up in San Antonio for a big party -- overnight, participants stay in hotel rooms in towns including Nashville and Baton Rouge. (There was also a key stop at Graceland.) Buses with shorter distances to the ultimate destination take a more "scenic" course to get there, so everyone has the same amount of time for startup building.
Caprio, now in his second year with the group, says his first experience on the bus was life-changing. "It's not about the companies [being created]," he said. "It's more about the journey. The company is a means to an end, to get strangers to work together on a project." Hence, he's devoted much of his time in the last two months on a volunteer basis to finding, grooming, and selecting people who would come along for the bus ride.
Of the process aboard, Robinett explains, "You get on the bus, and everybody does a pitch, an idea you'd like to build on the bus. Teams organize around the ideas. We had five teams. When we get [to Austin] there will be a winner from the New York bus, and that person will go to the finals, with a championship happening on Sunday. The idea is really trying to do something with people you've never worked with before."
Caprio tells us that there's a bit more drama this year -- he explained this is because people are really committed to their startup concepts: "It does have the character of a reality show sometimes," he said. "But it's not like The Real World. It has to do with the people and team dynamics; people choosing to go one way or the other. One two-person scrappy team split off and started a day after everyone else, because they were so passionate about their idea."
What about other passions, though? Ricky Robinett, aboard the New York bus, referred our question to the participants, shouting, "I don't know -- has anyone on the bus hooked up?" No one admitted it, but someone quipped back, "Someone's building an app for that!" Perhaps the bus is not conducive to romance. Robinett told us, laughing, "On Tuesday, we went to the hotel, slept, and got back on the bus on Wednesday...and there's already a smell to the bus."
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Once upon a time, the Dutch "anti-piracy" group BREIN seemed invincible, winning a number of copyright infringement cases. But recently, its winning streak has come to an end. Last week we reported on how BREIN's attempt to block access to The Pirate Bay had been thrown out, and now we have the following case, as reported by TorrentFreak:
A Dutch man who admitted uploading more than 5,000 e-books to The Pirate Bay has had his case dismissed on appeal. The court ruled that the man can't be prosecuted criminally as copyright infringement cases belong in a civil court. Anti-piracy group BREIN is disappointed, but still has the option to pursue the uploader in a civil action.
Even if BREIN wins that action, the appeal court's decision is a serious defeat for the organization. It means BREIN has failed in its attempt to extend the use of criminal courts to cases that do not involve a criminal organization and where the infringements are not carried out as business activities. Had BREIN been successful, that widening of scope would have had a major impact on the Dutch copyright enforcement landscape.
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While many area legislators, city leaders and community development officials have heralded the proposed South Coast Rail project as an economic boon for the region, a local activist group said it would be an environmental disaster.
North Easton's Kyla Bennett, director of the the New England office of the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said that a commuter rail train via the so-called Stoughton route will result in "habitat fragmentation" in the Hockomock Swamp, which has been designated by the state as an area of critical concern. Bennett said that not only would important wetlands be fragmented, it would threaten local water supplies and wildlife that is already struggling to survive.
"Its footprint is so large," said Bennett, pointing out that the Stoughton route would take a commuter rail 3.2 miles through the Hockomock. "It's hideous. Ugly. … You are talking about putting it through a pristine habitat like the Hockomock Swamp, an area of environmental concern. I'd imagine you'd have to have some kind of access roads as well, in case something happens to the train or there is an emergency."
Bennett claimed that the Stoughton route was pushed through, saying that everyone knew the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers environmental review released on Monday would support Gov. Deval Patrick's plans to bring the commuter rail to Taunton, Fall River and New Bedford.
"It's distressing but not surprising," said Bennett, who has been involved with the South Coast Rail issue for 12 years and has been active with the Southeastern Massachusetts Commuter Rail Task Force. "I have tried so hard for decades to steer them away from this particular alternative. But they dug their heels in. Frankly, it's the most environmentally damaging and fiscally irresponsible project I have ever seen in New England."
Bennett said that the Hockomock Swamp is home to the Blanding's turtle, which is classified as a threatened species by the state, along with the blue-spotted salamander and insects that live in the rare Atlantic white cedar swamp.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers report also stated that using electrically powered train cars on the line, rather than diesel power, would be less damaging to the environment. Bennett said it's important to note that while diesel has obvious environmental drawbacks, such as potential for oil spills and greater emissions, the electrically powered train would have a very lage footprint because of the wires that would have to be installed.
"They will have to cut a huge swath of trees down," said Bennett, who also noted that Stoughton has a big problem with the electrical option. "The impact is going to be phenomenally larger. Not that I think diesel is the way to go. I think it's an antiquated technology, but electric has its own issues with the amount of land it takes up."
Michael Verseckes, a spokesman for the state's Department of Transportation, said it's "still early" in the design stage, "but there are plans to construct a trestle through the Hockmock Swamp that will help mitigate some of the potential environmental impacts."
PEER has previously released an analysis claiming that the South Coast Rail would only generate 1,000 new commuter rail customers. The South Coast Rail project predicted about 6,300 riders in a 2009 study, including half who otherwise would have driven to Boston.
Bennett said, ideally, the long-term transportation plan should be to cut down the length of the commute for all workers, that they should live near their work. But she said that if, indeed, transportation is needed from Taunton, Fall River and New Bedford, that high-end buses should be used. Bennett said special lanes for buses would be helpful to make the commute faster.
South Coast Rail supporter state Sen. Marc Pacheco, D-Taunton, who is chairman of the state's Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture, along with a Senate committee on global warming, said that environmentalists who are against the Stoughton alternative should take the time to look at the extensive work the Army Corps of Engineers has done over the past five years to produce its findings.
"The Stoughton route is the best option because it takes more cars off the road," Pacheco said. "With buses, the tailpipes that are being utilized are spewing CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. One forgets … in the span of the age of our country, it wasn't that long ago that we had rail coming through the Hockomock that needed to have technicians go out and be able to work on rail cars. All of those issues were dealt with in another generation and they can be dealt with again, and we can do it with good balance."
Bennett said, from a practical standpoint, she doesn't see many people wanting to make long commutes from southeastern Massachusetts on a train, only to have to get off in Boston to catch another train to get to work. Bennett said people aren't drawn to communities by such transportation options; instead they are drawn by education, public safety and proximity to work.
PEER said that it plans to file a joint lawsuit, with other like-minded parties, to stop the South Coast Rail project from going through the Hockomock Swamp. Bennett said that just because the Army Corps of Engineers deemed the Stoughton route as the least damaging alternative, that does not mean that it is permissible under the Clean Water Act.


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As the state's deer population changes, so must the techniques to manage them, so believes a state wildlife biologist.
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With aid from DNR grants and community volunteers, students are developing natural learning areas at their school site.
The Bear Necessities: How Wild Foods Affect Bear Numbers, Harvests and Behavior
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Draping some mardi gras beads over a ficus tree . . . that was our Christmas decor last year. This year I'm determined not to be such a grinchy slacker. The floggings will continue until the boat is decorated!I picked up Moomin from dance practice and we went to pick out a live tree in a pot from the cheap plant nursery, MMM Plants. For 40 bucks we got a three foot high fir tree. Not bad! Our neighbor carried it into the boat and I set it up on deck on a table. Moomin and I draped it with sparkly red fabric that I got free somewhere earlier in the year and had stashed away.
When I went to plug in the xmas lights in my bedroom and run the cord out the window, the power went out! The extension cord I was using had fallen into the water, and I guess its innards rusted. The three electrical outlets in my cabin still don't work, so I'm running my bedroom heater (and the tree) off our neighbor Roy's extension cord hooked up to an outlet in the main cabin.
Anyway, after some messing about with flashlights and the boat's control panel. which you have to see! It's so complicated looking! Our neighbor came to look at it and had no more clue than we did. He had clearly been splicing the mainbrace a bit hard that evening. We flipped a lot of switches!Read more at http://badgermama.com/houseboat-christmas/
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Now we're going to treat our A minor pentatonic and blues scales to two expressive techniques: bends and slides. In the examples below, we're going to be bending the D note on the seventh fret, third string up a whole step to the note E. Using your third finger on the note with the first and second fingers behind it for support, bend the string up until the pitch matches the note E. You can test this by bending the note and then checking the pitch against the E on the second string, fifth fret. For the remaining E and A notes on the fifth frets, use your first finger and "roll" the pressure from the second string to the first string. You could also barre the first two strings and let the notes ring together; these licks are commonly played using both methods.
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I was running errands on Bettie yesterday, dropped off more Clip-n-Seals, then to REI for an order, and rolling through the Stadium District, I passed another Sport Utility Bike.
It was a moment.
He waived, I waived all excitedly, blinged the bell, both smiled, and went about our day on our bikes.
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Shannon was gracious and outed us about farm decor. In the interest of full disclosure, the inside of my house is tidier than my back porch. Even if I do have a latex IV set-up hanging from the suncatcher over my kitchen sink. (It needed to dry completely after it was last used!) This was taken last year (the BBQ is gone!) and it is much tidier (sort of) now. We built this house and I had the idea that we would enjoy the porch on warm summer evenings.
Instead we have to battle for space with boots, recycling and camping gear. The garage where most of this will go hasn't gotten built and so rather than clutter up the (unfinished) basement further it lives on the porch. The little freezer on the porch has 200# of veal in it, and during the summer it is handy for chilling fryers. There are two more freezers in the basement…along with the canning pantry. The garbage can isn't full of garbage – it just happens to be convenient to store the chicken feed in a garbage pan near the porch because the layers live in a coop not far from the porch. And, unlike Martha Stewart's architecturally designed coop at Turkey Hill, mine is covered with a blue tarp. Did you honestly expect anything else?


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Mrbrightside wrote:Just wondering who Ye all think of as a worthy successor to Eamonn Kelly? Gonna throw out a few names and see what everyone else makes:
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private joker wrote:Just shows how pissed of kelly was with offaly set up. Players too hard to deal with. Don't know what he is thinking going to laois.
kingscounty wrote:Give the man a chance anyway , in all honesty we can't be expecting much from anyone , it's years of neglect at underage that's the problem. I certainly wouldn't be judging a person before a sliothar is even hit.
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Former Husker Jordan Burroughs added to his international wrestling legacy on Wednesday by winning the 74-kg freestyle gold medal at the 2013 FILA World Championships. Burroughs captured his third consecutive world title with win, which includes the 2012 Olympic Gold Medal in London, England, and the 2011 FILA World Championship. His crown marks the third FILA freestyle title won by a former Husker as Bill Scherr won at 90 kg in 1985.
In the gold medal match, Burroughs defeated Iran's Essadollah Akbari by a 4-0 decision. Burroughs took a 1-0 lead late in the first period following a push out and extended the lead to 2-0 in the second period with an additional push out. With time winding down in the match, the Sicklerville, N.J. native took down Akbari to close out the match.
Burroughs opened the tournament with a 9-2 technical fall over Gamid Dzhalilov of Tajikistan before winning 7-0 over India's Narsingh Yadav in the second round.
After the first round of the quarterfinals, Burroughs managed a 1-0 lead over Jabrayil Hassanov of Azerbaijan. The American struck quickly in the second period, however, and extended his lead to 7-0, which stood as the final score.
Burroughs faced Ali Shabanau of Belarus in the semifinals and trailed 0-1 before a double at the end of the first period gave him the lead. Burroughs expanded his lead as Shabanau received penalties for hitting Burroughs in the face. Burroughs held on to a 6-1 lead at the five-minute mark but Shabanau received his third caution and was ultimately disqualified.
Burroughs extends his international winning streak to 65 consecutive matches with his performance in Hungary. He was a two-time NCAA champion at Nebraska and won the Hodge Trophy in 2011.
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While I was thinking about the Erdős discrepancy problem, the following random walk model arose rather naturally. You fix a positive integer k, and you take a random step of 1 or -1 at each stage, except if that stage is a multiple of k, in which case you get to choose. Your object is to keep the walk as close to the origin as you can.
An obvious strategy is a greedy one: each time you have the choice, if the walk is currently positive you choose -1 and if it's currently negative you choose +1. (Clearly it makes no difference to the outcome what you do if it is zero.) This is like giving your random walk a drift term of size 1/k, but the drift is always directed towards the origin.
A slightly different question would be if you are presented with the entire walk up to kN-1 and you then choose the signs at k, 2k, 3k, ... , Nk, attempting to minimize the maximum distance it ever goes from the origin.
It is not hard to see that it must go at least logarithmically far, since by the time you get to M you will probably have had a run of log M 1s in the random walk, which you can do almost nothing about. I have thought about the problem in a non-rigorous way and it feels to me as though it shouldn't be too hard to prove that by the time you get to M you won't have gone further than $(\log M)^2$ or $(\log M)^3$ or something like that. (The rough argument is that if you look at a run of $k^2$ steps, it won't tend to drift more than about k, and you'll have k steps that you can choose so as to cancel out the drift. That is what usually happens, and the exceptions ought to be exponentially rare, so to speak.)
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