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I was talking to my Gerber on the phone tonight because he's gone working for the week with a team from Canada. He asked, "Are you excited about your birthday?"
I am, I replied.
I could hear him smiling through the phone.
I know he loves me dearly, be he doesn't totally understand why birthdays are a big deal to me. And that's ok. If I have learned anything in my marriage, it's not about convincing the other person to be like you, it's about accepting the other person as they are. And he accepts me. Birthday hoopla and all.
I will be 32 tomorrow. And although I love kind words and little gifts and free things, the truth is I like those things any day of the year. But what makes a birthday significant for me is that it's a marker. A reference point if you will. I can clearly think back and remember where I was or what season of life I was in for each birthday.
5 years ago I was in Santa Barbara. I sat at one of my favorite restaurants and shared a hamburger and beer with two of my best friends. I cried tears of disappointment. Instead of pretending everything was fine, I learned that maybe that was an ok place to be.
4 years ago I wrote a vague blog post about surprises and someone special. I had moved to Guatemala and we were newly dating. He surprised me with chocolate and white twinkle lights and dinner out and then, FIREWORKS. Like real live fireworks.
3 years ago we were engaged and trying to plan a wedding and a honeymoon and get birth certificates notarized and somewhere in the mix I got sick. I spent my birthday curled up on the couch with a fever. Gerber refilled my water bottle and rubbed my feet.
2 years ago I turned 30 and I wrote about What I learned in my 20s. I remember this birthday well because it was also the day I found out we were pregnant. I celebrated my birthday and the new little life inside of me. I carried around our little secret for almost 3 months before we told people my family at Christmas time.
Last year at this time, we had a 4 month old who would only sleep while being carried. I wrote this post and remember that I carried her in the ergo alllll the time. Those were rough months. Gerber bought me an hour message at my favorite salon. He dropped me off and then drove around town for an hour with Elena in the carseat, trying to get her to nap with a bottle and the vibration of the car. He picked me up and we went to Hector's for dinner with Elena. I bounced her in the ergo throughout the whole dinner and we took this picture. We look like tired, happy new parents. Which we were.
And then this year, 2014. The house is quiet, except for the buzzing of the baby monitor. Elena is sleeping upstairs, by herself. I have a cup of tea at my side and my flannel wrapped around me because the cement walls always make me feel cold at night. Tomorrow is my birthday. And in many ways it's an ordinary day. I am going to breakfast with a sweet friend and I'm looking forward to sweet messages and texts from family and dear ones far away. They'll be emails to respond to, diapers to change and probably a stop by the grocery store. Gerber will call in the evening. And I'll be one year older.
And you know what? I couldn't be more excited. Or maybe thankful is the better word. There is something about getting older or maybe it's watching a little one grow and change that makes me thankful. Thankful in new ways for life, for health and for another year.
I think getting older makes you realize just how fragile and precious life is. One thing I love about Guatemalans, is that most people inherently view life a gift, not as a right. Sadly, when you live in a country with increased violence and lack of adequate medical care, it means everyone knows someone who has lost their life too soon. If you ever have the chance to hear a Guatemalan pray, almost always before they get to the amen, they will give "gracias a Dios por darnos otra dia aca."
I like that. I am not sure often I have actually thanked God for giving me another day of life.
But on my 32nd birthday. It seems appropriate. I am grateful for life. For mine, and for my family's and for my sweet little girl's and husband's my and good friends'. These lives make my life richer. And that is worth celebrating.
This is not a "how to get your kid to eat broccoli post" because the truth is, I just don't know. Elena still won't touch it. Just like I don't think there is one way to raise kids, there is definitely not one way to feed kids. I feel fairly confident that usually by 5 years of age most kids can eat by themselves without a bib (can I get an, amen?!) and usually eat a variety of food options. With that being said I think the years between 1-4 can feel like a daily struggle or battle for some.
Just like there are kids who are naturally good sleepers and dream nappers, I think there are kids who are naturally good eaters. If you have one of those, just count your blessings and ignore this post For everyone else here's what I have learned, I tend to think there are three type of kids: 1) those like I said who are naturally good, easy eaters 2) those who are semi-adventurous eaters, but have strong wills and 3) those who are very picky eaters and have strong wills. Elena probably falls into the number 2 category.
So, here's a little background. Elena has always been a good eater. I mean she came out of the womb, rooting her little mouth, looking for something to latch on to She was (is) a good nurser, has always gained weight and was super interested in food around 5-6 months. We tried the whole puree route and to be honest it was just a struggle. She didn't seem to like the consistency and I wasn't too keen about having to prepare something separate from her. By default, we started baby led weaning. We just started giving her bigger pieces of whatever we had to gnaw on starting around 7 months. It just worked for us. She was pretty content to hold and suck on a piece of apple or try and gum a piece of sweet potato and I loved not having to blend and puree baby food. Around 8 months she figured out the pincher-grasp pretty quickly and was quite a happy girl being able to pick up her frijoloes one at a time. We still did some soft foods, but only those that naturally come like that, like avocados or oatmeal. But chicken, carrots, watermelon– all big pieces.
Then right around 12 months she started wanting to do everything ALL.BY.HERSELF. Which is hard, especially when most 12 months old aren't quite coordinated enough to scoop, and spoon and fork things by themselves. She also started refusing certain foods that she had always liked before. She would throw food when she got frustrated or squish it up in her hands. Let's be honest, we were all a little frustrated. Since they say you should choose your battles, I knew I didn't want eating to be a battle.
I would say my motto for baby feeding has been: easy and healthy. It's actually kind of my motto for cooking in general. I also wanted to give Elena food that we ate. Partly because it seemed easier, and partly because it seemed healthier. Win, win no?
And can we just agree that there is nothing about feeding a baby is clean? The floor underneath her high chair and that white wall you see in the pictures is always kiiiiinda dirty. And I feel like one of us is always cleaning off her high chair tray. Thank you, Gerber!
Ok, so here is what has been working for us (at least for now, the 12-15 month stage):
1) Make Eating Fun
In the long run, I want my daughter to have a healthy sense of eating and food. So if that means for now, we make food sometimes about play I am ok with that. I mean eating should be enjoyable, right? I think they key is having something different or an element of surprise. Sometimes it's this doggie puppet, sometimes a monkey or sometimes just an extra fork For whatever reason, when her doggie helps her eat her carrots it's a hundred times more fun then I when I say, Elena eat your carrots. (Warning: choose something that can be easily washed. She's been pretty good about knowing she can't hold or touch these animals, but every now and then they get smeared with bean juice L
2) The Beauty of the Dip
Have you ever seen your little one try to scoop out their yogurt with a spoon and then by the time they bring it to their mouth it's all dripped off onto their bib. Yes? Like 1000 times, huh? Me too. Solution: Dipping. Again, long run I would love for my daughter to know how to use a spoon. One day she will, but in the mean time we do lots of dipping. Carrot sticks in hummus. Toast in yogurt. Chips in guacamole. You get the idea. Works best when the "dipping item" is cut long and skinny, like the size of your pinky finger. Elena is a pretty indpendant dipper now Also, if I would have know about these earlier I may have gotten one for her. Genius. Pure Genius!
3) Freeze it
ok, so this probably only would work with yogurt. I mean who wants frozen guacamole?! I found in Elena's effort to eat independently she loved when she could hold something and since she loved yogurt, I poured just regular old strawberry yogurt (no mixing, no adding- although you could make your own flavor with plan yogurt and fresh fruit- but remember my motto? Easy and Healthy into ice cube trays, added a popsicle stick cut in half. And voilà yogurt "ice-creams" for days. This is a typical afternoon snack on our house.
4) The Art of Turn Taking
ok, this one is not efficient or quick…so do it when you're not trying to get out the door. Ironically, I have also found it's one of the best! Maybe because so much of our little ones' lives feels out of their control, and this give them some deciding and a sense of control in "feeding someone else." So it started by just taking turns…I would say, "Elena's turn!" and Elena would then feed me whatever she wanted from her tray (another reason to give kids something you would also want to eat). I mean she would literally put it in my mouth. And then I would say, "ok, Mama's turn!" And then I would proceed to put whatever I choose in her little mouth. (this works well 90% of the time with food she already likes). I think she so enjoys the "game" of getting to feed someone else that now sometimes we also include a little Fisher Price person who was hijacked from may parents house. Elena likes to "pretend" to feed this little guy. And you know what, it works. She pretend puts food up to his mouth and then she feeds herself. Sometimes I try to turn the other way in the kitchen so she doesn't catch me looking at her and stop. It's pretty cute. She's eating independantly and the Fisher Price guy is easily washable.
5) Use Real Glass
So I would have never ever thought this would a good idea. But one day will skyping with my sister, who is a Montessori preschool teacher, she saw Elena trying to unefficiently "spoon-up" (is that a word?) her smoothies. She told me, try giving it to her in a clear glass. Not a plastic sippy cup, but a real glass, GLASS. She said they start their toddler class drinking water or juice from real little shot glass so they can learn to use a cup and—this is key– SEE what they are drinking and how much is in the glass. She said kids learn really quickly not to throw it because it will break. I was so hesitant, but decided it was worth a try. To date we have had no broken glasses (although a few close calls and I do stay right by her when she's using them). I now put her smoothie in a clear 4 oz. glass each morning and she just drinks it! It still amazes me. Sometimes we'll do yogurt in the glass as well, because ya know the whole spoon-bib-yogurt mess.
6) Soups
I guess I never really thought of soups as toddler friendly food, but I make a lot of soup so Elena has learned to eat it. And it really is pretty independent eating food. I find soups with chucks of veggies and meat or beans work better than pureed soups, but that's probably cause Elena has never really loved purees. Usually I set one of our cute Anthro mini bowls on her tray with soup in it. Elena pulls out all of the veggies and/or chicken with her fingers and eats those and then drinks the broth! (She must have learned that from the smoothie drinking?!) If you can get your little one to drink the broth then there are so many good nutrients in there depending what vegetable or bone/chicken broth you use. I try to cut up the vegetables into sizes Elena can eat with her fingers or stab with a fork, so usually soft but not mushy works well. I'm usually amazed at what she'll eat in soup, that she would never eat raw. Carrots, celery, zucchini, peppers, onions, kale, etc. Maybe because soup has more flavor than just raw veggies? Makes sense. Our current favorites are this Tortilla Soup Recipe and this other chicken veggie soup that I make.
7) Accept The Mystery
Elena hasn't figured out how to use a straw. She still refuses egg. I've tried it scrambled, hard-boiled, fried…she can even pick it out when we hide it in somewhere and CHEESE! The girl doesn't like cheese. I am not sure why? She has no problem digesting egg when it's in muffins or baked goods and she does fine with dairy as far as I can tell. So it's a mystery to me. But I have learned that part of my job, as a parent is to accept who she is and her preferences. I can keep trying to introduce her to new foods or make her try it, but at some point I've learned it worth repeating "ok, for this season my child doesn't like ____ (and fill in the blank) and then let it go. It's not worth stressing over or trying to figure it out.
So, there you have it 7 tricks that have been working for us. Now go enjoy lunch by yourself… if your little one like mine is napping!
Are you feeding little people at your house? What's your favorite trick? I love to learn from other parents When did you start doing family dinners where kids actually stayed sitting for more than 10 minutes?
{note: please realize I am neither a doctor nor an expert child feeder, just a mom trying feed healthy foods to her kid. If your child has allergies or any kind of food sensitivities please follow whatever advice you've received from your medical professional. Baby feeding can be so stressful and hard especially if you child is not gaining weight or has food sensory issues. Those are separate issues that I am not qualified to address here.}
I posted this picture on Instagram this morning. Sometimes on our morning walks, as the soft light breaks through the trees, I try to imagine our town through MY daughters eyes.
I try to imagine, what does she see?
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This really could be titled, What I've Been Into…oh, March, April, May aaaaannd June. But for the sake of brevity we'll just call it June.
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Never grow up under the starlight and remember it all too well because you will be remembered as that little girl in that dress.
(I follow back)
But loving him was red
Over the years your music has made me fearless and has taught me to speak now (I have a huge shyness problem). Red has become my favorite color and my past relationships were ones that I should've said no to and I will remember that all too well but sometimes I feel 22 and I know that some people will cause trouble in my life but at the end of the day I will dance under the starlight in that little dress.
I'm trying to find a place in this world but being on the outside isn't easy and I'm tired of growing up and want to find a love story that suites me. My past relationship has a sad beautiful tragic story of us and I wish to forget it but I'm not the lucky one and can you tell me why? I wish things will change and become less treacherous for me. As I'm 15 life has changed and so have friends but you, Taylor have not and I thank you for that!

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I'm impressed with Ssalarn's design work on the Battlelord for the upcoming Liber Influxus Communis, plus I always liked the idea of Incarnum, so I'm definitely interested in this.
Does purchasing the work in progress entitle the purchaser to a discount on the eventual print compilation, as was the case with Path of War?
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I'll be wrapping up my WotW campaign soon. You're in for a fun ride; my players have had a blast being the villains. Primarily the group is a human antipaladin, her twin brother (think Jamie and Cersei Lannister from Game of Thrones) Inquisitor (Purifier of the Burning Pentagram [Rite Publishing]), elf sorcerer (daemon bloodline), and human talented rogue [Rogue Genius Games] who was tightly focused on lies and deception (no trapfinding).
The campaign, except for a few bits, is really a big sandbox that allows a fair amount of latitude to the players. The Asmodeus as written, can't use any of the Golarion fluff of course, but inserting it is easy; he's still a lawful evil devil-god after all!
Have fun!
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I was hoping I'd be able to get a complete compiled copy of Pact Magic someday :)
I believe Scott from Little Red Goblin Games started a thread in this forum for people to post their dos and don'ts 're Kickstarter campaigns.
I quite like the campaigns that get you in for a PDF and an at-cost print copy of a book via OneBookShelf / Lightning Source. This also has the added benefit of offloading the shipping of books onto people who do it for a living. If I have heard one common complaint from KS project leaders, it's either that shipping is a logistical pain in the bum or that they underestimated the cost of shipping.
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All of them are boring. In previous editions I would be thrilled to have that ogre slaying knife that gave, like, a +10 against ogres, and would never consider selling it. It would likely be the only magic item my character would ever possess regardless of the level they reached.
With wealth by level baked right into the challenge system of 3.5/PFRPG, magic items have become required thus they are common and generally dull in my opinion.
In my games I've adopted Purple Duck Games' Legendary Items series of scaling magic items to ensure that each character has one cool unique item and I eschew other magic items aside from the occasional scroll or potion. I also have not compensated for the loss of the ubiquitous item + x; my players tell me they appreciate the increased challenge and emphasis on tactically smart combat :) Other's mileage may vary of course.
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The Tome of Invention gets my number one vote! Really, I'll be happy with any of the books suggested; campaign settings seem to be a bit of a harder sell through Kickstarter than crunchier player-centric material though. The thought of more print books from Interjection Games itself is pretty thrilling to me.
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Oceanshieldwolf wrote:
Quoted for truth! I got the Thunderscape setting as a Kickstarter backer and quite enjoy it barring a couple of the new classes and races.
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If existing 3pp settings are to be used, my picks are vastly different than they were previously. I would go with:
1. Midgard
I would also use the Collosseum Morpheuon as the hub/staging ground/home base of the PCs.
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LMPjr007 wrote:
Well there you go. I'd definitely take a look at this and toss a few coins in the KS bucket if the writers interest me. It would also be impetus enough to dust off some of those old books and boxed sets and use the real setting info rather than not-Athas, not-Toril, not Midnight, etc...
Given the scope, this will have to be a twelve issue maxi-series like its inspiration :D
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LMPjr007 wrote:
It sounds like Crisis on Infinite Earths the AP, which could be good if done properly.
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Interjection Games wrote:
These both sound very interesting... I've yet to pick up the Brewmaster and the Cartomancer due to lack of funds and time, but I'll get them when I can. Even your work that doesn't tickle my fancy as a high concept (the Herbalist, Truenamer) gives me a lot of inspiration for characters and NPCs upon reading it. It doesn't hurt that, unlike most class write ups, yours infused with wit and humour... [/DERAILMENT]
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Played/Used as an NPC, in no particular order:
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Thanks for the review terraleon!
I think I'll be picking this up once a hard copy or hard copy/pdf bundle is offered. My primary group is reluctant to move away from the Pathfinder rule set for long term gaming, but I've been craving some good post-apocalyptic RPing.
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My post got eaten:(
My copy arrived today, which is impressive. I live in Victoria, British Columbia and any package from the US, including my monthly Paizo order, takes a minimum of 4 weeks to arrive. Keep in mind that the Paizo warehouse is no more than 150 miles from my home. Thanks be to the Kobolds, fulfillment house, USPS, and Canada Post.
The book itself is impressively solid, with a nice layout and absolutely stuffed with gorgeous artwork. I personally prefer the look and feel of the matte pages vs glossy ones. Bravo! If I have any complaints at first blush they are that there is no index and no cloth bookmark (my copies of the Midgard CS and Midgard Tales have a cloth bookmark each; I love the things). I can't wait to dig in and unearth this books treasures!
Now to get the chaos beasts to bed...
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Jason Nelson wrote:
I'm going to need to run that Pirate AP again so I can include all the great pirate/aquatic/age of sail stuff that's come out since I finished it! All of these plug-ins sound great!
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Since we're on the topic of Rite Publishing love, I think we'd be remiss to not link to the Faces of the Tarnished Souk Kickstarter, which has very reasonably priced pledge levels. I don't have any of the individual PDFs, but 21 of the 30 NPCs released have a five star rating on this site.
Edit: Ninja'd by Ruemere!!
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137ben wrote:
Do y'all have recommendations for the Rite things to look at after the 101, 30, and template series?
Adventure Quarterly is a fantastic resource if you're looking for short adventures, side quests, or the like. On the player front, my players love Secrets of Adventuring; there are numerous archetypes, feats, and options in there as well as the Divine Channeler, Luckbringer, and Taskshaper base classes.
I use 101 New Skill Uses, 101 Mystic Site Qualities, 101 Not So Simple Templates, and 101 Variant Monsters very frequently... I'm a big fan of the 101 series I think...
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As someone that would love for my players to use your classes, I would buy POD copies of most if not all of them. PDFs are great when I'm at home building NPCs and encounters for my campaign, but, as the GM for generally cheap/poor players, I buy pretty much everything we use in the game and a physical copy of something at the table will get looked at and used far more frequently than any of my PDFs will.
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Tinkergoth wrote:
It's interesting to hear your comments about Numenera; reading through the core book, it seems like a game that could be more fun to run as a GM than to be a player in. I'm leaning more towards Iron Kingdoms because the book has been unused on my shelf longer, but I have fun ideas for both so I'll go along with whatever the players decide.
I didn't know there even was a The Laundry RPG until I saw a banner for it on DriveThruRPG recently. I picked it up immediately and am very impressed with it. My CoC group will probably go for a Laundry campaign once the current campaign wraps up... eventually.
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Between "chapters" in my weekly PFRPG game, I've been running one shot sessions of 13th Age and Dungeon World, which have been well received by that group. My biweekly PF group is going to change gears soon and switch to either Numenera or Iron Kingdoms. I also run a monthly Call of Cthulhu game and play in a monthly Hunter: The Vigil game.
Waiting in the wings, I'd like to play:
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Guy Ladouceur wrote:
Is Paizo going to sell this product or should I go elsewhere to buy it. This looks like something something are group must have and I have trusted Endzeitgeist on a couple of products to date, and he hasn't let me down.
Hi Guy, I can't speak for Paizo, but I picked up the hardcover + PDF from Drivethrurpg for $22.99 + shipping (under $32 total shipped to Canada - super cheap!). The PDF only is also currently on sale on the d20PFSRD store for $6.99 I believe.
Drivethrurpg also has a huge sample of the book available so you can make a very informed decision before you buy. I know I'm eagerly awaiting my hard copy!
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@Ssalarn: I'm still watching the Magic of Incarna playtest, don't worry! I think a noble Vizier will be bedeviling (be-angeling in this case?)our villains in my Way of the Wicked campaign this weekend. Hopefully I'll have some useful playtest data for you.
@Prince of Knives: I don't envy ErrantX his work on the Path of War or yours on the project you've been hired for. The Tome of Battle is both reviled and beloved; working to keep fans of the Bo9S happy as well as drawing in new fans is more stress than I would want to take on. In it's current incarnation, PoW isn't working for me, but hopefully I'm in the minority. I generally remain silent about things I don't like, but I really want to like the PoW. The author clearly loves the subject. The concept is great. The writing is tight. Some of the maneuvers are awesome and evocative. It addresses the caster/non-caster disparity and gives martial characters some much needed fun stuff to do. But... I want a rules module to work relatively seamlessly within the PFRPG core rules without having to either convert the rules module to fit my game table or explain to my players why we're rolling opposing rolls to cause an opponent to fall prone, as a general example, rather than using CMB vs CMD as we usually would. I don't want to belabor my point, I can concede that this nitpick may just be me, so I won't clutter the thread further about this particular subject.
@Anguish: I will respond to your PM. I thought it was sweet that someone that goes by "Anguish" was concerned about my distress :-)
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@Endzeitgeist: I'm looking forward to your review of Ultimate Psionics!
I haven't given up on, Path of War either; Dreamscarred Press seems really good at revising their products based on the feedback they receive. My hope is that many of the 3.0/3.5isms in this material can be massaged out and that it meets success with a wide audience. I'd love to eventually have a nice fat Ultimate Path of War hardback on my shelf.
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Prince of Knives wrote:
Flawed or not, the CMB/CMD rules are core rules from the Core Rulebook. Rather than establishing a throwback to 3.0/3.5, this material could have worked within the PFRPG framework, perhaps by having maneuvers grant a bonus to CMB rather than using opposed skill checks or skill checks vs CMD.
In my opinion, by choosing to work outside the resolution system established for such actions, the designers of this system are being disingenuous about its PFRPG compatibility. I realize I can houserule the system to fall more within PFRPG's design paradigm as I see it, but if I wished to do that, I'd just pull my Bo9S off my shelf, do the conversion work, and not spend the money on the Path of War subscription.
As it stands, I won't use this material at my table because I don't want multiple competing rules in my game. The real loser here, at least in my case, is Dreamscarred Press. I can swallow the $15 I spent on the subscription, but I now no longer trust that Ultimate Psionics or the upcoming update to Incarnum (both of which I'm very interested in) are/will be truly PFRPG compatible, and am wary to spend more money on books I don't feel I can use. If this was my first foray into 3PP for Pathfinder, it very well could have scared me away for good...
I don't post a lot, and I prefer to only post positvely, but these are my thoughts on the Path of War thus far. I really love the concept behind this and the Bo9S; Iwant this to be something I can use at my table.
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I think this is a great idea. It would be even greater if this proposed material was combined with all the existing tinker material in print! I'd pay cash money for that.
As a slight threadjack, I picked up the Holiday Class bundle, which was a great value btw, and though I've yet to see one of your classes in play (one of my players will play a tinker or a gadgeteer in my next campaign, henceforth dubbed Third Party Mayhem, as everyone will be playing a 3PP class in a 3PP setting)the writing is fun and engaging which is appreciated in crunch heavy documents. Thank you.
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ericthecleric wrote:
So how many people have actually used this class in their games? Did you have fun?
One of my players is playing a Medium; she just reached level 10 in my Way of the Wicked campaign. She's having a blast with the class, though it did take a level or two for her to get the hang of it as it is rather more complex than she was used to.
One of my other players is planning to play an Unseelie Court influenced Medium in my next campaign, a homebrew with the characters as part of an organisation based on the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense from Hellboy.
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I think that on "Table: The Ethermancer" It should have "Genesis etherheart" where it says "Bestow etherheart" for level 8.
I've only had a chance to take a quick glance at this, but I have to say that I love the cosmic fluff! I never really liked the 3.5 Warlock, though several of my players do, but the Ethermancer looks very interesting to me.


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The Tale of the Tape is a rock album by Billy Squier that was released in 1980. It was his first solo album, following two albums with the band Piper. Although no song from the album reached the charts, the song "The Big Beat" has been notably sampled by hip hop artists, including Run-D.M.C.'s "Here We Go", Big Daddy Kane's "Ain't No Half Steppin'", Jay-Z's "99 Problems", Dizzee Rascal's "Fix Up, Look Sharp" and U.T.F.O's "Roxanne, Roxanne". From Wikipedia
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Release Date: 06/01/1980
Tracks in Tale Of The Tape: Big Beat, Calley Oh, Rich Kid, Like I'm Lovin' You, Who Knows What A Love Can Do, You Should Be High, Love, Who's Your Boyfriend, Music's All Right, Young Girls
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Logical to primary, with a twist
First off, I'm fairly equally skilled with Windows (especially the NT kernel family), Mac OS (from System 7, c. 1991, to OS X Snow Leopard), and Ubuntu Linux (8.04 to 11.04). That said, I prefer Mac OS X, as it doesn't have issues like these.
I'm trying to repartition my hard drive into two equally sized partitions: one for an existing Windows 7 install, and the other for a pending Ubuntu 11.04 install. My computer originally came with Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit, but the computer (an HP Pavilion a6400f) has a 64-bit CPU, so I decided to upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. I performed a clean install rather than an upgrade install, so there are two partitions: one for Windows Vista (Primary) and Windows 7 (Logical). Why it installed like this is beyond me, and it's giving me some trouble. I want to delete the Vista partition to make room for Ubuntu, but it's an active primary partition, so I can't delete it.
Is there any way I can transfer the files from (just) Windows 7 to an external hard drive, format and partition the internal hard drive, then transfer Windows 7 back into a primary partition on the internal, and make it bootable? I don't think I can just reinstall Windows 7, since it's an upgrade disk.
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Even though you prefer mac, I'll still help you; have a look through this info below.
It would be best to do a complete wipe of the Hard Disk Drive / Solid State Drive and then start the installation process again, have a look at Step One of the Optimize tutorial below; after you have copied out or made back-ups of the data you need to save to external media, then boot the Windows 7 installation media to do the wipe secure erase to the HDD / SSD and be sure to post back with any further questions you may have and to keep us informed.
Whether you use diskpart to run either the clean all command to completely wipe a HDD / SSD or just the clean command to remove the format configuration data and don't use diskpart to create at least a single partition to do the installation to, letting the Windows installer do the format, the new Windows 7 System Reserved partition will be automatically issued, if you want to make your own decision whether this partition is added, study these two (2) options below.
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Even though you're a PC, I'll still thank you ^_^
I'm starting the backup process right now and will try the reformat and reinstallation tomorrow.
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And God bless you too!
Windows can't boot independently from an Extended/Logical drive, the "System" boot files must be stored on a Primary partition to execute; if the Primary is the first partition on the HDD you could do something like this but it would be far more trouble than it's worth.
System Reserved : Create for Dual Boot
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So, if I don't create the "system reserved" partition, will the one I create for Windows 7 be a primary partition?
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If you do the clean all Step One then use Step Two #2 or #3 to create the partition(s) yes they will.
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OK, all my data has been backed up, and I'm creating the system repair disc. I've got a 500 GB hard drive (well, it adds up to around 465 or so, but anyway), and I'd like to give Windows 7 about 300 GB of that. Just to double-check, if I don't want to create a system reserved partition, does the partition I create have to be 100 GB, or is anything above that OK? I'm assuming it'd be the latter, but just want to be safe.
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Hello again mate.
After the clean all you can use Step Two #2 to create any size partition you need and using that method it will be a Primary.
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Gotcha. I elected to use a 200 MB System Reserved partition and a 300 GB Windows 7 partition. I should be able to put Ubuntu into the unallocated space after Windows 7.
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Well done, have a look at this tutorial.
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Pictures by six Singaporean students were selected for an award at an art exhibition and competition held every year in the Czech Republic. The successful young artists of Singapore received their awards from Ambassador Tomáš Smetánka at the Czech National Day celebration on 30th October.
The young artists sent their artwork to the contest and exhibition featuring the theme Traditions and Heritage of My Country's People. The international jury assigned to six of them an honourable mention and the Si Ling Secondary School in Singapore has been awarded a medal for the collection of graphic art.
The annual Lidice competition and exhibition, named after a village razed during World War II, has been organized since the end of the 1960s. This year, altogether 24 593 pieces of children's art from 68 countries have been presented to the jury and 1,343 of them won prizes. The 41st edition of Lidice exhibited artworks featuring traditional crafts, ceremonies, customs and folk creativity. The pictures brought to life individual figures as well as whole parades, masks, national and regional myths and legends, historical and fairy-tale characters.
Students and art schools in Singapore are invited to participate in the upcoming 42nd International Children's Exhibition of Fine Art Lidice 2014. Its theme is Family Farming, or Our Garden and Field, as 2014 has been declared the International Year of Family Farming by the United Nations. Detailed information for young artists and their teachers can be found at the web page of the Lidice Exhibition.
The Lidice competition and exhibition is supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Education and the Czech Commission for UNESCO. It was established to commemorate child victims from the village of Lidice near Prague and all other children who have died or suffered in wars.
Award winners from Singapore in 2013:
Honourable mention:
Kelving Jong (7 years) - Pibilotti Art Studio
Khazel Manlulu Dizon (15 years) – Si Ling Secondary School
Nurul Jannah Mohd Sharin (15 years) - Si Ling Secondary School
Nur Nazirah (15 years) - Si Ling Secondary School
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Baked Egg Bell Pepper Tarts
- Yield 8 servings
The sautéed veggies make a delightful nest for an egg, baked sunny side up in the oven.
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 small onion, diced
- 1 red bell pepper, diced
- 1 cup spinach, Swiss chard or kale, chopped
- 2 ounces white cheddar cheese, grated
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper sauce
- 8 pre-baked mini tart shells, 3 to 4 inches in diameter
- 8 eggs
- Preheat the oven to 425F.
- Place the oil a skillet over medium high heat. Sauté the onion for 2 to 3 minutes, or until the onion is just beginning to soften. Add the bell pepper and greens of choice. Cook another 2 to 3 minutes, or until all the vegetables have softened. If using the swiss chard or kale instead of spinach, cook an additional 2 to 3 minutes.
- Remove the skillet from heat and let cool slightly. Stir in the cheese, salt, pepper and cayenne pepper sauce.
- Divide mixture evenly into the mini tart shells. Crack one egg onto top of each tart. Place the filled tart shells on a baking sheet.
- Bake for 5 minutes for eggs with soft yolks. If you like the egg yolks more solid, then leave in oven and check every minute or two until eggs have been cooked to preference. Serve immediately.
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I can make it at home for nothing!
Should restaurants be penalised for hiking up the prices of bottled water for more than 1000 percent of the supermarket sale price? Kipp doesn't think so.
August 12, 2011 12:01 by Eva Fernandes
There was a character on BBC's excellent sketch show Goodness Gracious Me who was famous for her catch line: "I could make it at home for nothing."
The line first emerged in a skit that had an old Indian mother and housewife going out to a restaurant with her family. On seeing the extensive and expensive menu, she begins to dismiss every recommendation with the claim that she can "make it at home for nothing."
"How about some pasta" her daughter proposes helpfully.
"Pasta? I can make it at home for nothing."
Her husband and son follow shortly with their recommendations. The mother is unmoved: "I can make it at home for nothing."
That skit was the first thing Kipp thought of when we read this interesting article from The National concerning the sale of bottled water in restaurants. Out of the 60 restaurants The National surveyed, 30 were found to serve only imported water and not its cheaper local counterparts. Of those that did serve local water, it wasn't unusual to find that restaurants increased the price of water bottles by almost 1000 to 2000 percent. The National found that the average cost for local water was Dh18.6 – "almost 1,300 per cent more than the average supermarket price."
Now it really isn't breaking news that bottled water is severely marked up at local restaurants, but we were pleasantly surprised by the Minister of Economy who said the practise was illegal. Dr Hashim Al Nuaimi, the ministry's head of consumer protection, said "I am OK with a restaurant selling larger bottles of water for Dh2 or Dh3, but when they charge Dh5 for a bottle that originally costs Dh1.5, then that is completely wrong and unacceptable and actually illegal."
Now anything that cuts down the price is a welcomed change for Kipp, but if you are asking us, marked up bottled water comes with the terrain of going out to eat. Dining out is an extravagance that we all knowingly take on, despite the inflated prices. Would an espresso shot really set us back by Dh15? No, we probably could 'make it home for nothing.' Would a herbal tea really cost Dh18? Most definitely not. Give us some free hot water, a tea bag and presto: we would have 'made it at home for nothing.'
What do you think? Should restaurants be penalised for hiking up the prices more than 1000 percent of the supermarket sale price? Kipp doesn't think so. If we went down this road, what implications does this have for soft drinks, tea, and there we say, the rest of the meal?
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My blog is designed to be a source of inspiration, knowledge and entertainment for Father's and Men worldwide. The purpose of the site is to empower males in becoming better Fathers and even greater Men with the vision of breaking the moulds surrounding both of these stereotypes. One Dad stands for individualism yet unity around this goal.
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Planning for Distributions
The rules for distributions are complex and should all be factored in during the planning phase for retirement. There are a couple of key components to remember: there are required minimum distributions when you're 70 ½ years old, and what happens to IRA / 401(k) funds upon death.
Naming Beneficiaries
When you name a beneficiary, you do so in a little box on the paperwork. Many people don't give this a second thought, but this document has complete control and authority over who gets what regardless of what is in your will. One of the problems: you can unintentionally disinherit your grandchildren, especially if people don't pass away in the typical order. It is critical to have copies of beneficiary designations because of the complete control given to the beneficiary.
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According to the IRS office, over 90 percent of all IRA's are cashed in at the death of the second spouse. This triggers income and estate taxes that, depending on your state of residence, could trigger as much as 70 cents tax on every dollar. So, how do you disinherit Uncle Sam? The first thing is to name beneficiaries.
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We strive to feature trucks that will inspire and impress our readership. There are those that will argue that to be included the trucks must have all the latest products offered by our advertisers or be built by a well-known shop. The truth is, none of that really matters to us. We're just looking for trucks that catch our eyes. Most of these trucks have been taken to a few professional shops, though, because as talented as some people are, it's hard to find someone that can truly do it all.
Recently, we found someone that comes as close to doing everything as we have seen. Looking at the '50 Ford on these pages, there's no question that it belongs here. But the fact that Hank Nevitt built it himself is really impressive. We have a question on our tech sheets that we give the owners to fill out that asks who helped built the truck. It's not real uncommon for someone to put "no one." But, when we take a closer look, we see that the interior, engine, etc. had been farmed out. When we saw this on Hank's tech sheet, we expected the same. After reading over it, we did in fact determine that it was a lie; he had someone else do the transmission. But we'll overlook that because he did the bodywork, paint, interior, engine machining and assembly, chassis mods, wiring, rearend assembly, etc.
Hank searched for about a year and found a lot of overpriced junk until one day, while at a junkyard, he asked the owner if he knew where he could find a '48-50 Ford pickup. Luckily, the owner did have a number for a guy that might have something. Hank called the guy and went over and found exactly what he had been searching for. It was all-original '50 F-1 with 80,000 miles that had been sitting in his garage for 11 years. The fact that it had not already been cut up sealed the deal.
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Robin, his wife, thought he was crazy when he cut the frame in two. It wasn't too long before the new clip was welded back on and the truck was rolling again. Engine and trans mounts were built to set the 351 Windsor small-block Ford and C6 trans in place. The truck was then assembled and disassembled several times while he was doing the bodywork. Once it was straight, everything came off again down to the bare frame to get it ready for paint. Up to this point, everything was going relatively smoothly until the truck was completely painted and put back together. It seems that the used engine wasn't going to cooperate and refused to fire. Hank rebuilt another 351 and then had to rely on someone else to rebuild the trans. He finished with the interior by keeping it as simple as the rest of the buildup.
Hank would be the first to admit that doing it all himself wasn't always the easiest way to go. "Every chance I had to fabricate versus buying new parts, I would do so since I had the tools. For instance, instead of paying $100 for a new dash bezel, I took a piece of aluminum and parts from my original one and made one." We can't argue with the results.


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I was cruising around Voicebok a few days ago and found an entire group of ABC's of me posts. I thought it was really neat so i made a post too.
A – Absolutely amazed – From what i see around me in this world & the people in it.
B – Banana nut bread – OMG I love it!
C – Carnation good start breakfast – I'm addicted to it! It keeps me full into the afternoon.
D – Daughter – I'm my mother's only daughter. I'm actually the only girl on both sides of the fam.
E – Excited – Every day brings a new beginning.
F – Fall is my favorite season.
G – God – I love him.
H – Happy – I'm always in a good mood and nothing usually ruins it.
I – Italian food – nom nom nom, i love it!
J – Jumping in – I usually jump into anything head first without thinking.
K – Kevin – My twin brother's name.
L – Loving – I love everyone. At first..
M – Marbles – I've totally lost them…all.
N – Nikki – That's my name don't wear it out I couldn't help it.
O – Open minded – I try to see the good in everything until im proved wrong.
P – Pink – This is my favorite color. I use to hate it when i was little though.
Q – Queen – I'm the queen of my domain. Or at least in my head i am.
R – Ruppert – He's my chinchilla. I LOVE my furbaby.
S – School – Pastry Arts graduate & thinking about Culinary Arts.
T – Twin – I have a twin brother {aka my womb mate}, he's also my best friend.
U – Understanding – I understand life is different for everyone and i try to understand everyone.
V – Voice – I have one..and i use it..a lot
W – Winter – This is my 2nd favorite season. I love snow.
X – Xtreme – I love snowboarding & sky diving!
Y – Yesterday – I try to learn something from all my yesterday's.
Z – Zzzz – i love to sleep. I sometimes wake up thinking about being able to go back to sleep.


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Blog Post
God Willing and the Bits Don't Rot
Johanna Drucker's Pixel Dust: Illusions of Innovation in Scholarly Publishing at the Los Angeles Review of Books notes that "the fate of the humanities is being influenced by a campaign of misinformation." Turns out, she's participating.
There's plenty to challenge in Drucker's piece, but I want to focus on one part that was pointed out by my friend Bob Stein, who posted it on Facebook asking about the veracity of this specific claim by Drucker:
the fact is that every use of a file degrades and changes it, that "bit rot" sets in as soon as a file is made, and that no two copies of any file are ever precisely the same as another.
What follows is an expanded version of what I posted in response to Bob on Facebook:
Drucker misunderstands the nature of digital representation (as well as internet jokes; I'll get to the latter in a moment). The actual bits that make up a file—take something like a text file in 8-bit ASCII—do not spontaneously rot or change from routine access and therefore become somehow different from one copy to the next. A file can be corrupted, for sure, but it does not simply "rot." And there are checks against corruption, which I discuss below.
You can download hex editors that will allow you to see the actual
0s and
1s that make up something like an ASCII text file (eight
0s and
1s per character, or byte, in 8-bit ASCII). And with painstaking work, you can compare those actual bit representations and will see no difference, file to file or copy to copy over time. You can also compute a checksum on files, which are mathematical formulas that help ensure a file's integrity in a transfer from Point A to Point B, or as a quick means to ensure that a file has not been tampered with. Authors of open-source software typically publish the computed hash for a given file or set of files, so that users of the software or fellow hackers can check its integrity. If spontaneous bit rot were possible, then something like a checksum would be useless for anything other than saying, "Yes, that's probably a copy of the file. Probably. Maybe."
What "bit rot" probably refers to, as Drucker is using it, is the physical degradation of storage media. But it's not really the "bits" that rot, but the media itself (the electromagnetic surface of a hard disk; the polycarbonate and foil material of a CD-ROM). And because of course the density of bits is so extreme, when media fails, its far more than the individual bit here or there that gets lost—but whole huge swaths of data. Thus your garden-variety hard disk failure, etc.
But as far as a files bits changing upon access and Drucker's claim that "no two copies of any file are ever precisely the same": that's simply not true (at least in binary computing; quantum computing is a different matter). Files may get moved from place to place over the course of their lives on a single drive (especially in the old days of defragmenting drives), but there's nothing in regular read/write ops to change a
0 to a
1 or vice-versa under normal usage. A miswritten bit is a read/write error—but not "rot" in any organic/material sense.
The problem of ensuring the integrity of digital data—that is, checking against read/write errors—is practically as old as digital computing itself. One of the earliest forms of checksum computation was the parity bit.
Fun fact: the 1963 ASCII specification was for a 7-bit character set. It would have been theoretically possible for an 8-bit set at that time, but for one problem: transmission of digital data often took place on paper tape. And paper tape machines were engineered to support things like the simpler 5-bit Baudot codes (Google it).
To ensure the integrity of transmitted data, the tape machines actually supported 6 bits: the 5-bits of data, plus a parity bit. The parity bit was a rudimentary form of data checking on the number of 1s transmitted/holes punched for each byte (line of holes) in the data. If someone were checking for even parity, then the parity bit would be punched on all lines with an odd number of
1s (and remain unpunched on lines with an even number of ones). If the line/byte added up to an odd number, then the machine operator knew immediately that there was corruption in the data.
So why did paper tape force a 7-bit ASCII set (and thus marginalize even other Western alphabets with more than 26 letters)? The answer is forehead-slappingly funny: paper-tape engineers determined that the paper tape could accommodate 7 bits plus a parity bit, for a total of 8 bits. But to try and cram 8 bits and a parity bit onto paper tape would result in the paper tearing. So seven bits reigned supreme
As data transmission and storage have grown more sophisticated, so too have the specifications for data checking. For some light beach reading, check out the IETF's RFC for computing Internet checksums on TCP/IP and other protocols.
Again: bits don't rot. They can become corrupted, typically to the loss of the entire file (and more), but individual bits do not spontaneously change state from
0 to
Drucker's Wikipedia page lists her various positions and honors, including various prestigious digital humanities fellowships. Her faculty page at UCLA notes her expertise in a single word: Preservation.
The word "digital" refers to a mode of representation. In binary computing, it refers to representation as
0s and
1s. Whether those
0s and
1s are stored in an old-school punch card or in the cloud or on an M-DISC (the latter promises data storage lasting up to a thousand years), bits don't rot. Someone with Drucker's caliber of expertise in DH and preservation should know this.
But don't take my word for it: the US Library of Congress maintains an entire website on digital preservation at digitalpreservation.gov/. Had Professor Drucker run a simple Google search for "bit rot" limited to the digitalpreservation.gov domain, she would have found numerous white papers and PDF'd presentation slides discounting the notion of "bit rot." There's this presentation by Cory Snavely, Library IT Core Services manager at the University of Michigan, who describes "bit rot" as a "non-issue."
There is even a white paper authored by none other than Clay Shirky, who observes even more directly that "In Internet lore, [there is a] problem…called 'bit rot,' a humorous and notional condition in which digital data is said to decay with time."
Humorous and notional. "Bit rot" is actually a joke—one used by software developers and programmers to pass off blame for old, no longer functioning software on a phenomenon that's a fiction. The digital equivalent of "My dog ate it."


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The Oregon Women's Volleyball team went on the road over the weekend and won both games against Utah and Colorado, both 3 game to 1 victories. The season comes to a close this weekend as the Ducks take on Oregon State in the Civil War at Matthew Knight Arena. On Friday night Oregon had a team high 17 blocks with 11 coming off the hands of Arianna Williams. She also had 13 kills, 9 which came in the final two sets. Oregon was hitting on all cylinders against the Utes. Junior Liz Bremmer added 25 kills along with 18 digs and 5 blocks on the night.
Oregon continued with momentum on their second game of the weekend, a Saturday morning match in Colorado. Brenner and Martenne Bettendorf led the Ducks to their third straight win with 37 combined kills on the day. Brenner was again impressive with 20 kills and 13 digs on the match that went Oregon's way 3-1.
The Ducks continue with a road trip Wednesday to Washington State before concluding the season on Senior Day at home vs Oregon State on Friday at 8pm on the Pac 12 Networks. Oregon now stands at 10-8 in Conference on the season. Two more wins would boost the Ducks for the postseason. Hosting the first two rounds is not out of the question, but victories and a winning streak could help make that happen.
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Pope Francis Versus the Vatican. By Damon Linker.
Pope Francis Versus the Vatican. By Damon Linker.
What did Pope Benedict get wrong in Cuba?
"Thus, while in Cuba—one of the most repressive nations on earth—Pope Benedict spoke only obliquely of freedom and respect for human rights. He also met privately for a half-hour with the ailing Fidel Castro and several of his progeny, while claiming that his schedule was too tight for a one-minute meeting with the dissident Ladies in White. When a Cuban was savagely beaten by government thugs at the papal Mass in Santiago and hauled away, simply for shouting "down with communism," Pope Benedict said nothing. When thirteen dissidents who had sought asylum in a Havana church were also assaulted and dragged away by police—at the express orders of Cardinal Jaime Ortega, the archbishop of Havana—Pope Benedict said nothing. He also said nothing about Cardinal Ortega's willingness to turn the Catholic Church in Cuba into an arm of the state. But he did manage to scold the United States for its so-called embargo, and thereby please his hosts."
- Carlos Eire, What Pope Benedict Got Wrong in Cuba
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Does the controversy over the Catholic Church and health care go beyond birth control?
"But sometimes the dual mandates of these institutions—to heal the body and to nurture the spirit, to perform public functions but maintain private identities—are difficult to reconcile. That was the issue with the recent contraception controversy. The whole point of the new health care law is to make insurance a public good to which every citizen is entitled regardless of where he or she works. And, because employers have traditionally been the source of insurance for most working Americans, the law effectively deputizes employers to provide this public good. In some cases, that means forcing religious institutions to pay for benefits—such as birth control—that violate the terms of their faith."
—Jonathan Cohn, "Unholy Alliance: The controversy over the Catholic Church and health care goes beyond birth control."
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With prose as graceful and effortless as a seductive float down the Nile, Mary Doria Russell illuminates the long, rich history of the Middle East with a story that brilliantly elucidates todays headlines.
Agnes Shanklin, a forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio, has come into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel just as the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference convenes, she is freed for the first time from her mothers withering influence and finds herself being wooed by a handsome, mysterious German. At the same time, Agnes-with her plainspoken American opinions-is drawn into the company of Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell, who will, in the space of a few days, redraw the world map to create the modern Middle East. As they change history, Agnes too will find her own life transformed forever.
Russell illuminates the long, rich history of the Middle East with a story that brilliantly elucidates modern headlines. As enlightening as it is entertaining, "Dreamers of the Day" is a memorable, passionately written novel.
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Mary Doria Russell is the author of The Sparrow, Children of God, and A Thread of Grace. Her novels have won nine national and international literary awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the James Tiptree Award, and the American Library Association Readers Choice Award. The Sparrow was selected as one of Entertainment Weeklys ten best books of the year, and A Thread of Grace was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Russell lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Contact her at www.MaryDoriaRussell.info.
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