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Skip to comments.Undocumented immigrant to speak at convention
Posted on 09/05/2012 4:12:33 PM PDT by moonshinner_09Edited on 09/05/2012 5:17:27 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Tonight, for the first time, an undocumented immigrant will speak at a national political convention. Benita Veliz, 27, was brought to Texas from Mexico by her parents when she was 8 years old. She was threatened with deportation in 2009 after rolling through a stop sign and getting stopped by police.
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why arent they on their way out of the country..why are the laws of the land not enforced..Democrats openly brakig the law..aiding and abetting.
How did she enter school without a birth certificate or SS#? Does she drive, how did she get a license? How much you want to bet... she's registered to vote too.
obama is going to speak tonight?
That undocumented socialist gets his day in the red sun tomorrow.
From Charlottein2012.com
Local law enforcement and the U.S. Secret Service released a comprehensive security plan, including street closures, pedestrian restrictions, and detailed maps. You can read the plan in its entirety here. The Host Committee worked with our City partners to put together the following as a summary of that plan to make it easier for local residents and businesses to find answers to their questions.
Pedestrians walking to their home or business that falls into a restricted area will be required to provide identification when the road is closed. Passenger (as opposed to commercial) vehicles attempting to enter streets with restricted vehicle access must go through a vehicle checkpoint.
What type of identification is required?
A standard issued government ID is requested
Paging Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Pickup at DNC Convention Center.
*shakes head* What an absolute freakshow. A celebration of abortion, trangenderism, illegal aliens, defiance of God, pandering, and silliness..
Thursday, Obama speaks. This is why we have Football season starting tonight, so ratings will not show more people watched football, than Obama..on Thursday.
She should be arrested on the spot.
Trayvon's dad will speak too??
Is there ANYTHING American about this f**king convention???
Gays, abortion, illegal immigrants, "we all belong to the government",and atheism????
Bring back the Democrats of 80s! They may have been kooky libs, but they were mostly benign yuppies going through the motions and showed at least some indication that they were Americans.
No kidding! At least the 80s Dems went to Fourth of July festivities, said the Pledge of Allegiance. The new ilk has no time for anything American.
They vilify and demonize entire groups of people.
They glorify the government and say the people belong to it.
They openly show hatred for God (theirs is the state)
They openly hate Israel and Jews and free markets
.... oh and they like to call others NAZI's.
Think about it
I do not know how this illegal invader entered school, but all of these illegal invaders were helped along by Bush's "No Child Left Behind" Bull Scat.
This legislation is breaking our schools in Texas and driving our school and property taxes out the roof. More than likely, not only Texas.....
"She should be arrested on the spot."
No...I think it puts on display the selective enforcement policies of this administration for all to see. "Equal protection under the law"...uh...not. No one is protecting me from illegal aliens. I though that was Government Job #0. Not just this government. ANY government.
Note that I'm not complaining about immigration. But I don't think it's unreasonable to be on the TERMS OF THE CITIZENS WHO ALREADY LIVE THERE.
And you know I'd bet 50 pesos that somehow she, her entire family and everyone like her will almost certainly be able to vote for Mr. Obama and the Democrats in November!
hahhahaha ..ya the number on undocumented worker..or should i say golfer.
" And you know Id bet 50 pesos that somehow she, her entire family and everyone like her will almost certainly be able to vote for Mr. Obama and the Democrats in November!"
No takers
Well thereas one up manship for ya...
The Republicans were pushing AMNESTY at their convention...
I bet theyre kicking themselves that they didnt think of having an illegal alien speak...
I would think even Tip O'Neill would have been sickened by this.
In your face you honky American gringos! - The DemocRATS
Sure it's not 'temporary visitor' or 'unregistered inhabitant' or ILLEGAL ALIEN?!!!!!!!
Some animals are more equal than others...
Maybe they'll kick out all the children and she'll do a 'peso show'? I better not see their donkey walk out on stage. LOL
Requiring photo ID is racist, except when its done by the NAACP, Eric Holder, unions, Obama, etc.
another exception for the growing list of super special people...
er no not undocumentated THEY ARE ILLEGAL
yet again theleft play their word game so as to make their agenda look better just like they say gay instead of homosexual
arrest and deport this illegal and send a message that we do have laws.
The immigration , illegals, openly serving homosexuals, food stamps,obamacare and handouts etc all need ot be looked and dealt with in the first week .
Send a message to the illegals and the homosexuals need to be told that one group will not have special laws and the other be told that them here illegaly will be sent home at a cost to their family
Post of the day!
Paging Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Pickup at DNC Convention Center.
It is best he bring an aircraft carrier with all the illegals at the DNC convention.
You can do a lot to change a country just by controlling the training of future school administrators.
Article 33 of the Mexican Constitution prohibits any form of political activity whatsoever by non-citizens in Mexico. Doing so will get you arrested and hustled onto the next flight out of the country, with "no prior legal action."
I guess we know who he will be voting for 2 or 3 times.
Otherwise,is he driving to the convention center w/o a DL or Auto Insurance?
"Undocumented immigrant"?
You mean an "illegal alien"?
There's a federal law that says illegals HAVE to be admitted to public schools, no questions asked....
They really need to have an late term abortion doctor, a shemale, a militant atheist activist from the ACLU (and possibly a Wiccan/Druid/Church of Satan representative) to speak at this convention so they practice what they preach.
We got us a meetin' of God haters, bedbugs, criminals and perverts in Charlotte! Yahoo!
I have tried to not respond to much of you're negativism, because I understand the frustration....but dang, please stop.... Your last 27,000 posts may as well have been from a liberal/Obama worshiper, because all you do is criticize Repubs....geez, at least go after the Dems at least 1/10 times... ;o)
I was at a McDonalds today and listened as one of the managers explained the ice cream machine to a new employee. In Spanish. And I thought of all the unemployed Americans.
Meanwhile, one of my sons has a job, and one of the managers keeps altering sons hours so that he is paid less. The managers do all clocking in and out. They also require all tips to be put in the community cup to be doled out later. There was one day when my son was handed a $50 tip that he was told to put in the group cup. His paycheck reflected that he earned $7 in tips. He had also been handed a $20 tip on the same day. Yes, he needs to find another job. But the scamming managers need to be fired. My point here is that he can't complain because this job is better than no job. But it is sooooooo disappointing to him to expect his paycheck to be a certain amount and then to find that he is missing hours due to dishonest managers.
Guantanameda. Wa'ila Guantanameda.
As I recall, an undocumented immigrant was the keynote speaker in 2004, and the main event in 2008 and 2012.
The Democratic Party — the party of lawlessness, subsversiveness, and anarchy.
Yes I understand this and you would think it would be the other way around.
You would think our Country would make room for the American Citizen's Child in the front of the line in a class room, but that is not the way it is.
It is the other way around. Lowered rates for illegal invaders. Hand out for illegal invaders. Front seats and front rows for illegal invaders.
Up is down and down is up. Only thing I agree with Odumbo on, Time for a Change, a big change. Texas needs to Secede and Secede now. Drive these freeloaders out of our Country.
If you don't do it soon, California is your future. Trust me, I was born here in 1960 and I've seen the entire slide from a great and productive state into pathetic liberal FAIL.
You are going down the same road.
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"a celebraztion of abortion, transgenderism, illegal aliens,
defiance of God, pandering, and silliness..."
———hey, it's a cultural thing.When the Democrats lift one corner up,
everything that's not allready nailed down in a state of stability,
winds up in their enclosure, which is why they're left with their natural constituencies, which you just named.
They used to say the same thing about California, now a flagship state for Democratic party interests.
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This book is simply dynamite! Wick's unorthodox reimagining of these beloved (and often stale) races is a breath of fresh air. The ideas he presents can become your new understanding of each race, or you can do what I did and treat the racial genesis story as a LOCAL genesis. So maybe not ALL orcs are "orks" but on this island, they are.
I haven't been so impressed with a supplement in a long time!
This should be in every GM's collection. Even if you don't use it, you'll wish you could.
I think I prefer the original edition with the planet code-name roles. The graphic design and the layout was definitively better.
But this version work well. It just less sexy.
I don't know where it go wrong but when 7th Sea becames a d20 system all hells break loose. This book is really long to read. No fun at all and everything in it can be found on other better written that this one. I only bought two Swashbuckling supplement for 7th sea and it will be the last, they are both not well written and far better that sleeping pills to put you to sleep
Originally posted at: http://diehardgamefan.com/2014/07/03/tabletop-review--wield/
Wield is one of those Kickstarter successes that just takes you by surprise. Looking for only three thousand dollars, Wield brought in nearly 1,100 backers and raised over twenty-seven grand! Not bad for a little game that could be yours for as low as five dollars. I know I was a backer. I mean, at worst I would be out five dollars and I've been looking for a game similar to Bloodlust, except in English. Hey, I may speak/read/write French, but very few of my friends do, and Bloodlust is only in francais. Wield definitely felts inspired by Bloodlust in terms of the core theme, but it differs greatly in both mechanics and demographics. Bloodlust for example is very dark and filled with mature themes while Wield can be for any age as it's extremely setting-lite. Mechanics-wise…well, I can't say I cared for Wield, and we'll take look why below.
So what is Wield about? Well think of Elric and Stormbringer, Cyric and Godsbane, and other fantasy character wielding an intelligent magical weapon. Wield takes you into such a world, but instead of playing the hero who wields the magical blade or powerful mystic amulet, you will actually be playing as the self-aware item itself! That's such a fun concept. The item can be anything from the usual weapon or armor to something more outlandish like a musical instrument, coin, or pet carrier. The only limit is your imagination.
There are comprehensive and detailed character creation rules for your item, known as a vatcha. Like any protagonists in a tabletop RPG, the vatcha have a goal to accomplish and will go through several thrilling adventures until they meet it or are destroyed. Character creation rules are easy as you choose an item you want to be, a goal to have and a way that your ancient artifact can be destroyed. Then you have to come up with a connection with each other vatcha being played. This creates a shared background and some potential story hooks for the person running the game. You should have a character up and running in ten minutes unless you and your friends are stumped for a connection between the flaming shield of doom and an enchanted mattress cover.
Things start to get a little more complicated when heroes come into play. You see, each vatcha is wielded by a hero, but a player does not play both their vatcha and its hero. No, instead, you play your vatcha and the vatcha of SOMEONE ELSE'S hero. This creates more potential for storytelling as well as conflict. While this is an interesting idea in theory, most people don't like to play more than one character at a time. Sure there are exceptions like Dungeon Crawl Classics where the norm is to start out playing two-three characters per player, but the majority of games feel best when one person plays one character. Wield realizes asking a person to play two very different characters, one human and one a magical item, can be difficult so it suggests using two different voices or to have the hero card in front of your mouth when speaking as the hero, so everyone knows which one is talking/acting. That's totally fine and it works for me. The problem I have is that this can lead to PvP conflict and that rarely turns out well for a gaming party. If player A wants the hero to do something the vatcha does not (or vice versa), which will probably happen more often than not, this can lead to some groups getting catty or spiteful towards each other. It could even lead to the hero trying to destroy the vatcha or the vatcha dispatching with the hero and looking for a new pawn to wield it. This is either going to be a good thing or a very bad thing, depending on the makeup of your group. If one or more player is immature or treats tabletop gaming as SERIOUS BUSINESS, this can turn out poorly indeed. If however, everyone remembers it's just a silly fun game, these kinds of inter-character conflict can become a lot of fun and allow for memorable adventures. Just be sure you know your troupe well before deciding to play Wield.
Another alternative is to let Fate (the GM) play the Heroes as it would any other NPCs. This is a little more traditional and may work better as Fate does create the heroes. Otherwise when the heroes are handed out randomly to the Players, it's like getting a pregenerated character as you would at a convention or starter set. It's harder to become emotionally attached to a pregen, so some people playing Wield might not enjoy playing someone else's creation. At the same time, heroes are actually meant to be disposable in Wield as the vatcha are the main attraction in this game. A Vatcha will go through several heroes as the game goes on, especially if you are playing a series of adventures or a campaign. Of course, a vatcha disposing of its hero may lead to hurt feelings by the person playing the hero, but again, it all comes back to making sure your group has the right mental makeup to play Wield. It's definitely a niche game best left in the hands of a specific audience.
Another interesting aspect of Wield is that neither heroes nor vatcha level up, gain new abilities or advance in the same way one usually thinks of in a role playing game. In fact, both will stay the same from character creation to character death. This is definitely a game about role-playing and not min/maxing, which I like. Of course, people do like to see some sort of change or progression in the game and that's where powers and control come into play.
Each vatcha can have up to three domains of powers. They don't have to have three mind you, and generally having a single domain instead of two or three can be more helpful if you want to specialize in a specific power set instead of being multi-faced. Think of it as extremely skilled or a jack of all trades, master of none. Now the vatchas have these powers but they can't directly use them. That's what the heroes are for. They need a human patsy to channel the powers. However the more power/powers given to the hero, the less control the vatcha has over its would-be patsy. Too much power and the hero can take control, as well as learn the way to truly destroy the vatcha. It's a very interesting give and take to be sure and with the right party makeup, Wield offers some unique and wondrous role-playing opportunities.
Now we come to the mechanics, and it is where the game falls apart in my opinion. You generally roll 2d6 to resolve things, but there are also sorts of ways to get bonus dice such as if your personality, background or vatcha power are relevant to the roll. A couple pages later, it mentions you can get up to two more bonus dice for proper equipment for a task. So your roll can get up to 7d6. That's fine. So is the ladder of command. You have no roll for easy tasks, a target of 6 for a hard tasks, 12 for heroic, 18 for epic and 25 (shouldn't that be 24) for impossible. Again, this is a fine scale as well. The problem is going to be remembering and justifying the bonus dice you get for each roll. I think that you're going to see people forget more often than not all the options for bonus dice until after they have rolled. Challenge will also be highly depending on how Lax or tough Fate is as a GM.
Combat is where things get pretty weird and this is where the game will either really intrigue you or really turn you off. Unfortunately it did the latter for me. Every Player has to decide to attack or defend. You can't do both. Fate counts to five and then if you are going to attack, you have to point at who you want to attack with one to five fingers outstretched. If you are going to defend, you place an arm across your chest with one to five fingers outstretched. The number of fingers outstretched means the difficulty roll you are willing to make. The five levels are the same for tasks (0, 6, 12, 18, 25). Now everyone has to do this at the exact same time, which can lead to a bit of a cluster. Then after everyone's choices are revealed, you can choose to switch from an attack to a defense roll. Then all the rolling starts. However, there is no initiative in this game, so instead of a carefully laid out turn of events, Wield becomes a little too chaotic for my liking, with everyone rolling and resolving at the same time. It could also be that I didn't care for the examples or descriptive text in this section. Nothing seems to flow well or read smoothly in the mechanics part of the book. I think there are a LOT of easy ways to improve things, and that Wield will be one of those games that lives or dies based on how well a local GM house rules the thing. I think if the team behind Wield had spent a little more time defining the rules (20% of the rulebook is fiction) and devoted some more pages to it, a lot of the potential for mishaps could have been easily avoided. Wield is a very rules lite game, which I enjoy, but this is one of those times where I feel combat could have actually used an overhaul.
So Wield is one of those games where I'm not sure if I really like it or not. I love the concept and character creation aspects of the game, but playing the game can be a real mess and utterly confusing for younger or casual gamers. Because of the high chance for PvP issues, it's also a game that should only be played by people whose feelings don't hurt easily and who can remember that a RPG is something to experience, not something to WIN. I think once the Wield Companion comes out and I have a lot more time with the game under my belt I can give Wield a definitive thumbs up or down. Right now I'll say "thumbs in the middle" as it's a very unique product and if you pick it up and dislike it, you're only out five dollars. Compare that to money spent on Pathfinder or some other game that requires multiple 30-40 dollar rulebook purchases. My advice is give the electronic version of Wield a try and see if it is right for you and your friends. If not, at least you have an interesting curiosity piece in your collection.
This is an amazing game, or should I say the glue for many different games. As one of the reviewers confessed, I to have gaming ADD and I own more games than I will ever play in my lifetime. I have always wanted to have a way to play the different games and settings without having to keep starting up new campaigns. This is a brilliant concept that will allow for some really cool Eternal Champion style play.
It's a pretty simple party game, 12 pages of rules and a character sheet. What it does in such a small space makes for a very dynamic game.
A character is a thumbnail sketch of a personality. It takes all of 5 minutes to set this game up. Generate three true things about your character, and two secrets for a hero and villain each. I love the dynamic.
What is required is a GM / Director that understands scene structure, and a pile of players that understand Ad-lib /narrative style Yes, and.. type of narrative play.
Not for the usual Dungeon bash crowd, there is no combat whatsoever. But I really liked the way this was executed.
Well done and well written. If your looking for a game of intrigue, betrayal, and revenge this game fits the bill.
Great concept, but...
I've been playing this occasionally with friends, and the idea is brilliant - playing as cats (with every stereotype from moggy to inbred pedigree) is brilliant fun. The problem is... Well, the rules kinda suck.
They just about hold together for general gameplay, but you quickly hit situations that make the rules seem unfinished - you can spend magic points, but there's no mention of how you recover them. You can give other characters traits as rewards, but can't gain them otherwise, and so on - there's a few typos as well. If this was a first draft, it'd be understandable, but billing it as 'revised' when there are both rules and basic formatting errors is a bit off.
The setting is great, and I'd love to give the author money for an Actually Really Revised edition, but as it stands you'd be better off nicking the campaign idea and using a rules-light generic system like Fate Accelerated.
Wicked Fantasy is a really bad Pathfinder RPG race book.
What it is instead is a really good fantasy RPG book.
And that's why you should absolutely buy it.
Let's break it down.
(Up front, I've met John and enjoyed playing RPGs with him a few times, interviewed him about Wicked Fantasy and other projects on Out of Character, and I backed this Kickstarter.)
The first Wicked Fantasy "race supplements" came out some time ago. I got copies of them in the DrivethruRPG Featured Reviewer queue, I read them, and didn't review them. The reason why was because I couldn't see how the race described could fit into a Pathfinder game. D&D3 and 3.5 were pretty generic, but not completely so - Pathfinder is much less generic and has a much more clear aesthetic for its "classic fantasy races". In the context of its classes and world (Golarion), it makes sense and is fine. So the best "new elves!" or "new orcs!" supplements for Pathfinder didn't stray too much from the Pathfinder aesthetic, whatever new ground it broke was right next door to Pathfinder, so I could put the "new orcs!" into the game world I bought from a different publisher last week, or in 1986, and it would be fine. To really be a functional product in this sense you need to not to be too different.
The orcs of Wicked Fantasy were so different that I couldn't envision putting them into most of the fantasy worlds I liked. Just try envisioning them in the Forgotten Realms, for example, one of my all-time loves. There are many good things about the Forgotten Realms, but thematic boldness sure as hell isn't one of them. Wicked Fantasy orcs would stand out like a sore thumb in such an environment. Similarly in quasi-modernistic Golarion, faux-noir Eberron, or gloom-and-doom Midnight. It didn't mean Wicked Fantasy orcs were bad, it just meant that to tell if they were good, I'd have to work up a whole fantasy world around them and I'm a broken down old man, not a young, vigorous gamer like the kids today, I don't have time for all that. So I reluctantly set them aside - as really exciting and interesting as they were, I just couldn't fairly review them.
A few months later I got word the Kickstarter was coming out. I lamented this indecision of mine regarding the quality of Wicked Fantasy material to my wife who said I was being stupid, "You just said you really liked it, so put some money in it, what's the issue?" She's always right about these things.
So I dropped enough cash on it to get the hardcopy, shut my eyes and waited. (This is the best way to handle Kickstarters by the way.)
When I finally got the full Wicked Fantasy book, everything changed. Now I could see the orcs in the context of a fully fleshed out world - these orcs make thematic sense next to these humans, these halflings, these gnomes. Indeed, the full Wicked Fantasy collection actually gives you a fully fledged fantasy world that, with the community creation rules already in the D&D and Pathfinder DMGs, is absolutely playable.
It's interesting seeing a fantasy world presented through the lens of its races. "Race" isn't the best word for all this stuff, but "species" doesn't work because that's scientific and these worlds aren't, and anyway you can totally get your elf girlfriend pregnant, so IDK. D&D calls it "race" so that's what we ended up calling it. In Wicked Fantasy, the traits of each of the races are intertwined with their origins, their legends, their history and most importantly to play, their cultures. This is a game about cultures, and characters who emerge from these cultures will be EXTREMELY fun to play with each other.
That's really what it comes down to. Wicked Fantasy is still about being adventurers - still about going into dungeons or across wildernesses - still about battling monsters and bandits - but the motivations of the characters become more fleshed out by a choice that normally just adjusts a few ability scores (death to ability scores) and changes your appearance.
The ten races covered are humans, elves, gnomes, dwarves, orcs, ratmen, kobolds, gnolls and goblins.
Here are a couple of examples that should give you some idea of why I see these cultures as so fruitful for actual Pathfinder/D&D3 play:
Humans value philosophy and knowledge - they labored under many tyrannies until they liberated themselves, created city-states and a great elected Senate to rule, along with controlling the money supply and other modernizations. However, human lands now face corruption from without and from within. They need heroes to revitalize or challenge their values. Human clerics and inquisitors may champion philosophy and intellect instead of veneration of the gods.
Halflings (called "haffuns") fled a terrible underground menace two hundred years ago and almost instantly insinuated themselves into surface society as servants and dogsbodies. They value social (and sometimes even physical!) invisibility, secrecy and partnership. When they die their families perform a ritual to keep their ghosts in the home they served. However, many challenge this culture in different ways since they have reached the surface. Their families give them bonuses depending on what sorts of professions their families have (the first time the Profession skills have ever been worth anything in D&D3 history.)
Just these two should show you the wealth of roleplaying opportunities afforded adventurers in the world of Wicked Fantasy - the human who blindly serves a decraying Republic bickering with a halfling who sees too well the injustices of the system....or perhaps a human who prefers the cool intellect of philosophy to the warm emotions of hearth and service advocated by their halfling partner. Put these partners on a quest for glory and virtue and their interactions will be memorable and exciting.
An epub version is also available in this packet, which gets a big reviewer bump up from me.
If there was anything I could list about Wicked Fantasy that could improve it, I would say it would be a section for each of the races focusing on the core, expected elements of a D&D game. Why do people from these cultures become adventurers? Why would they team up with other adventurers? What would drive them to battle monsters and obtain magic and loot? D&D4 did this, to great effect, and I think it should be something everyone is thinking of when supplementing a D&D experience. Given what D&D games are about, what specifically do you bring to that core game experience?
In any event, all together these supplements are much, much greater than the sum of their parts. You absolutely should check out this exciting world through the eyes of its well-detailed inhabitants.
What was John Wick thinking?
Look, I watched a couple youtube videos that Mr. Wick put out - the first recommended to me in a John Four newsletter. And based on the video picked this PDF up.
I am intrigued by some of the concepts presented here, but am a little turned off by what I perceived to be a lack of humility about role-playing in general (in one video Wick wears a shirt that says: "I don't have an anger problem, I have an IDIOT problem!" - yeah, that guy...). I think that being a GM is partially about embracing the role of mentor such that role-playing continues to be a healthy part of our culture for decades to come - a tradition passed generation to generation, not unlike comic books. Mentoring requires patience and kindness, in my opinion.
I think that Mr. Wick has a bucket-load of intelligence, but comes up a bit short on the wisdom end of the spectrum (D&D taught me there is a good reason why these are two distinct stats, neither one dependent on the other). I got a sense that he was very passionate about gaming, but really didn't like/respect his fellow gamers that much. The one dude he described in a positive way was so completely humble, down-to-earth and selfless, that I have to wonder if he had allowed himself to be completely dominated by the situation/GM.
At any rate, once you get past the self-absorbed tone, you get some poignant anecdotes about Wick's gaming group that provide some solid amusement. That being said, I still contend that the number one reason gaming groups break up is because people get mad and frustrated with each other - I would never encourage a GM to fan the flames of discord unless he is trying to not have a gaming group.
In Wick's defense, I also think that allowing for a real sense of danger in your game is a great tool for immersion and getting the players to care about what is going on (Like in Game of Thrones, for example). I think that where I differ with Wick is that I believe in collaborating with the player more, rather than imposing myself on the game, or wounding the player for my own gratification. I don't think I could defend an act of cruelty as glibly as he does.
Bottom line - I say get the book! Join the discussion!
An overall anemic roleplaying game that seems more like a party game than something worth planning a bunch of weekends over. Not horribly broken (like, say, Eldritch High) but nothing to make it stand out.
I love cats, and RPG, mixing them sounds really good.
I have never played with Cat yet, because we didn't have any storyteller who knew the system, and some members of my rpg team criticized it harshly. I owned the previous edition too, and I have really wanted to try it (I had a character and his story).
Technical difficulties:
I can't read it with Stanza on my iPod with "unknown format" error (it has problems with the DRM), so I haven't read it from beginning to the end, I just dipped into it on my pc. I know that the files are okay and the quality is good, because I can open them (also the epub with Calibre), and read them, just it isn't comfortable this way.
Positive changes:
There was some question with the cat magic points and etc, I saw it is solved in this version (but it is funny, because when you sleep, you are in the dreamworld too)
Unchanged difficulties:
A member of my rpg team first question was what if there are more than two participant in a fight? F.e. more cat against a bigger enemy (like in a bad horror movie. I think - but I only think and there is no changes in the gamerules - the side with more participants has some advantage - and with it some advantage dice.
I loved the previous edition. The cover art was simple but suggestive. The inside graphic were childish or dreamlike, I liked them, as I liked the curly font.
The new cover art is... well, do you know the Cat - musical? Because that comes into my mind when I see a dark background with two cat eyes. I don't like the big book - little games text art either. It seems hollow to me.
The inside graphics are correct. The pictures are more uniform, that can be a good thing, but it is easier to find a good idea or feeling from the many different style pictures from the previous edition, some with lighter, dreamish mode, some with darker shades. But in the new edition there are only edited photos, and mostly dark and stern picture.
Tl, dr: It became a more professional in design, but I think with this it lost from its playfulness.
This game is... something I wish I could play as intended. It's so creative and has so much content crammed into just under 40 pages that captures my heart. The premise, the unique card based resolution mechanic, the way that character advancement works. The whole thing is full of great ideas that make me want to give this game a 5 star rating, but I can't and that's for one simple reason. The core elements are poorly realized.
First, the Freshmen Schedule (the mechanic for determining your "stats") has very strict (and unclear) rules on how you're allowed to arrange your Courses that forces you to focus heavily on using Magic and hobbles customization.
Secondly, the Homework method of advancement (gaining certain amounts points to improve your character with as you go through your classes) is horribly unbalanced with the option to Study for Exams being both highly necessary since not passing classes can get you expelled and a total waste because the benefits for passing are either easily replicated by other options for cheaper or have such a high investment threshold that you won't get them without failing other classes.
Thirdly, the card based resolution is based off of achieving a static target number with no accounting for difficulty and how many cards you draw is largely based on a combination of your Grade Level and your ranks in different Courses (which is also based off of your Grade Level). Since this is based so much on one thing and scales so rapidly, this means that Freshmen are grossly underpowered and higher grade levels are grossly overpowered with no happy medium anywhere.
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Skip to comments.CROWLEY'S FALSE FACT CHECK SAVES PRESIDENT, DERAILS DEBATE
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What is the difference between Aleister Crowley and Candy Crowley?
Exactly - it's almost like it was pre-planned right?
That Obama knew, of course, Libya would come up - so they strategized this false narrative to throw Romney and everyone else off.
I think, in a way, Candy may have been duped.
I suspect they sent her an out of context quote from that speech and she probably accepted it at face value without reviewing the entire footage.
She is a hag but now Libya will be that talking point and help Romney. The media and barry cannot square a circle
There was one point in the debate that 0bama referred to the terrorists as "FOLKS." It was like he could not even bear to say the word terrorist. He said we are going to go after these FOLKS. If someone can find that quote in the transcript...I think it says it all!
I am, first of all, appalled that anyone would set rules for a "town hall" in which the moderator gets to choose the questions.
There is absolutely no reason the "undecideds" couldn't be numbered, and then numbers pulled randomly out of a bowl.
Instead, we get a question: "How are you different from President Bush?"
Besides being an absolutely stupid question, it is such a partisan question that if defies reason.
Moreover, that became Obama's question, too. So, we have a question designed completely to put one side on the defensive, and then the other side gets to deal with it at the outset from the offensive. It is an unconscionable, extremely biased approach to a "neutral" debate.
At a minimum, Obama should have been asked "How are you different from Jimmy Carter's presidency?"
Instead we have the referee forcing the Packers to kick off from the end zone, and then that same referee awards the ball to the Bengals first and goal from the one.
If any one question demonstrated extreme unfairness in the setting itself, it was that one.
She was definitely an Obot plant. Trying desperately to put Romney in a box.
If this wasn't evidence of a mostly rigged debate I don't know what was.
I would like to know who vetted these "undecideds"
What questions where asked of them, who did they vote for in the previous election, what is their party affiliation, do they work for the government, are they on the dole, etc,etc,etc.
Someone needs to investigate the woman that asked the questions about Bush. She was so far in the tank for the socialists/democRats it was oozing from her pores. Nothing but a sham in my opinion. Just pathetic.
Or was she provided with a transcript by the Obama campaign in advance of the debate.
Was this a set up?
Obama planned to say that he called it a terrorist attack on the 12th and Crowley was "prepped" to support that lie?
In fact, didn't Obama point at Crowley and say, "read the transcript?"
This is the last thing they wanted.....
You are both SO CORRECT!
"Im glad to see my warning Crowley would ADVOCATE for Obama was on target. Id have preferred to have been surprised."
A comment of mine from yesterday;
"She gets to pick which pre-screened questions will be asked,
So,,,, she and her team have been working frantically to figure out follow-up questions to slam Romney. Great."
I think all of us knew this would happen. I didn't watch.
Kind of odd, real odd.
Crowley, during her explanation about the Libya "fact check" said that she anticipated the Libya question (obviously, since she got to choose the questions that were used— it would be hard NOT to anticiate the question) and so she boned up on the topic. However, she didn't come close to getting the quote of Obama at the Rose Garden statement on 9/12 right. She needs to bone up on her boning up.
I smell 'COLLUSION', as in 'PRE-PLANNED' and 'COORDINATED' collusion!!!!
Think about it...... - She 'picks' LIBYA question
- Obama already knows that Romney is going to bring the Bhengazi attack up, so he has (pre-Debate) PREPARED to DOUBLE-DOWN and answer emphatically that he called it an "act of terror" in the Rose Garden (when everyone knows he did not do so till 14 days later).
- Obama (and Crowley) HAVE TO ASSUME that Romney will be 'shocked' to hear that, and Romney will claim that Obama DID NOT SAY THAT!
- Crowley then (on cue) THROWS UP THE 'TRANSCRIPT' that OBAMA did say "terror" in the transcript, without even bothering to show the audience that she in fact READ IT right then and there!
Why is it that there is never a Republican moderator? 4 out of 4 liberal moderators is absurd.
Mitt still won big in my opinion.
Interesting that all those posters saying how great a job Cowley did in the second debate thread are absent from this thread...
He was so smug wasn't he?
"Could you say that louder Candy?"
That was absolutely pre-planned
I agree that Romney won, if the measure is (as it should be) who gained more votes because of the debate. One can argue that as Krauthammer said, "on points" Obama may have won (not conceding that point, just noting it). But the ultimate goal of any debate is to sway voters to your side. I don't think anyone who was undecided before last night will vote for Obama because of his performance, but many will vote for Romney because of his.
Obama laid out no new plans for a proposed 2nd term. He was wrong on Libya. His attacks on Romney largely fell flat. True, he was awake for this debate and thus his performance was greatly improved. Pretty low threshold for claiming a win, I'd say.
That is a great point.. Obama commanded, "Get the text." A microsecond later the "nonpartisan" moderator announced that the text proved that Romney was mistaken -- the "terror" was in like the 16th paragraph, the "nonpartisan" moderator must have had it already high-lighted.
It will be interesting to see if any "talking heads" in the MSM say anything about that.
What ever became of EXCELLENCE in American choices/decisions?
More accurately, she should be fired. A journalist's first job is to be accurate. It's not like Libya hasn't been in the news, despite the liberal media's attempt to hide it. It is not unreasonable to expect the moderator of a Presidential debate to have the known facts of the matter in hand when the issue arises in debate.
If we had a press in this country that was the least bit interested in neutral reporting, Crowley's resignation would be on the news director's desk this morning.
Ask why the most popular man in mass media is never considered as a moderator? Rush Limbaugh would keep the focus on the real issues and hold the feet to the fire.
It's coming back to haunt them. Romney and Ryan have done a great job turning this to our advantage and in the process exposing the MSM for thy lying propagandists they are.
"Take my wife... please!"
They are all earth-whores and pimps of the lowest commonalities.
Some do with bits and pieces, but not like how they reported Watergate, Abu-Grapes.
I know! I was saying the same thing today! She was obviously extremely biased and this was known well before the debate. Why is this allowed?! Isn't there anybody around that can be trusted to be fair? Why is it always a lefty moderating these debates!
Watching it unfold on live TV it did not seem right. It was awkwardly and comfortably scripted, and too smooth in execution. But watching it on replay the agenda filled manipulation was obvious. It appears Candy Crowley and CNN together with the Obama Administration scripted the Libyan injection into the Presidential Debate.Im not just talking about Candy Crowley interjecting on behalf of President Obama, and interrupting Mitt Romney, I mean the whole segment was a set up. So we did a little research:
Candy Crowley told Erin Burnett on CNNs show Out Front, Monday Night 10/15, that she had collected the questions from the invited and vetted debate audience at Hofstra University and was reviewing them. This was Monday on the 7pm broadcast of Erin Burnett.
When the question on Libya was asked by audience member Kerry Ladka, he prefaced the question by saying:
.this question actually comes from my, err, um, a brain trust of my friends at Global Telecom Supply in Mineola yesterday, we were sitting around talking about Libya
If Candy Crowley already had the audience questions assembled the day before, how could Kerry Ladka and his brain trust friends have been writing one?
Yes, Romney held his ground when he was out numbered 3-1 ...
They both take orders from the same Boss.
How was last nights debate like Halloween?
They both feature Candy & Creepy Crowleys...
Romney was in the process of setting Obama up on the terror call on Lybia. He was making sure he had it down that Obama was on record as calling it terrorism initially, by his own admission, and then was going to absolutely ream him on the following two weeks of a changed story when the UN Ambassador went out, when Obama himself went out, when Hillary went out, Jake Harney and so many others and insisted that it was because of that video...and then ask him simply, why?
Why did you change your story, Mr. President? Why did you mislead and lie to the American people for two weeks? Could it have been political? It sure looks like it to the rest of us.
It would have been a great stroke...but the moderator derailed it. That's what really happened there. But it will all come out now as people are talking about it everywhere and they cannot hide from it. Monday will set it straight again.
The most disrespectful VP Debate in History
How about a polished turd bounce ?
I watched some of the CNN coverage after the debate to see how the libs were going to distort this as a win for Obama. I was not dissappointed they were have a collective orgasim.
I know this post does nothing to add to the conversation but I just need to vent: THAT PISSED ME OFF! I am so disgusted by the media this go around. She lied and gave the debate to O. Even we Romney backers knew it was an ugly moment when it happened and it turned it Obama's way...with clapping led by Michelle. Damnit!
Ok, done.
I didn't miss it. I heard her say it on CNN after the debate when she was sitting around talking to the other liberal liars discussing her performance last night.
Take off the blinders libs. Candy Crowley was Barack's substitute teleprompter.... Regardless, even the MSM/Liberal media has the debate going to Romney or at worst a draw.
- My "GUESS" graphic could - or should - change the social interactions and futures of all young sane Americans.....
Yes, she's there to be a moderator and not debtor. Audience cheered - proofed they chose their audience. Her actions plus the audience cheering exposed the socialist agenda. Romney was in enemy territory when it should be impartial. The GOP must speak of this!
" Romneys broader point is accurate that it took the administration days to concede that the assault on the U.S. mission in Benghazi was an act of terrorism that appears unrelated to initial reports of anger at a video that defamed the prophet Muhammad. (The reporting is contradictory on whether there was indeed a demonstration outside the mission.) By our count, it took eight days for an administration official to concede that the deaths in Libya were the result of a terrorist attack. " http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/fact-checking-the-second-presidential-debate/2012/10/17/d6d3a7b4-17a3-11e2-a55c-39408fbe6a4b_blog.html
I thought it was a set-up at the time, they knew it would come up, and were prepared. She was quick to stop Romney in his tracks, and whipped out the transcript as he spoke while at the same time obama was saying - Candy show the transcript. She held it up and then proceeded to lie with Obama saying at the same time - show it again Candy and at that time - Michelle started clapping.
Romney was railroaded for sure!
I should have added that when Michelle started clapping, the "undecideds" joined in...who chose the townhall people? Luntz would have done a much better job!
Yeah. Romney had to debate both Jabba, The Hut and the Odongo at the same time with one hand tied behind his back. At the worst, it came out a tie, maybe even a win.
The Herald is a right of center newspaper, owned(or was owned) by Rupert. I read it daily in high school, and college.
Ted Kennedy actually passed a law that would force Murdoch to sell either this paper, or a TV station he owned in Boston.
The next morning, the front page of the Herald stated in HUGE bold print.
" Was it something I said, FAT BOY ? "
I agree with your comment about why Republican candidates agree to engage in debates where a clearly biased advocate for the Dems is selected as the moderator. The selection of moderator should be an absolute pre-condition to agree to any debate. If the other side won't agree, then don't debate. I'd frankly prefer the format that was used on Crossfire, where you'd get a partisan journalist on each side who would question the candidates. Romney's got to stop playing by the marquis de queens bury rules. He didn't hesitate to get into the dirt in the Republican primaries but he's been a wuss in the presidential campaign.
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- Representative, Arkansas State House of Representatives, District 96, 2008-2014
- Candidate, Arkansas State Treasurer, 2014
- Candidate, Arkansas State House of Representatives, District 100, 2002
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FB booted me off - they say I have an "inauthentic account" - apparently my political (but legal within their own rules) views have become too much for them...
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- Applied Systems Intelligence
- Defense Intelligence Agency
- Army Intelligence and Security Command
- Airforce Special Activities Center
Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer is a senior operations officer and Military Operations Training Course (MOTC) graduate with over 23 years of field experience. He has held numerous leadership positions, including as commander of Operating Base (OB) Alpha (Defense Intelligence) and as directing Task Force STRATUS IVY – a unit that conducted cutting edge technology and information operations from the mid 90s through the turn of the century. He has played key roles in multiple interagency operations that were conducted with the NSA, CIA and FBI.
Lt. Col. Shaffer has lead operations from the tactical level, such as defense source operations to protect REFORGER exercises in the 1980s to strategic level, such as STRATUS IVY's direct support mission for Operation ABLE DANGER in the late 1990s. Prior to the consolidation of all Department of Defense (DoD) Human Intelligence resources and operations under DIA in 1995, he was the chief of Army's controlled HUMINT program – overseeing Army Intelligence and Security Command's global controlled HUMINT efforts. He was responsible for combining cutting-edge technology with traditional military operations and intelligence collection to maximize the Department of Defense's ability to detect, monitor and neutralize emerging threats.
Lt. Col. Shaffer has appeared on Fox News, CNN, and other major TV and radio programs, and has been interviewed by The New York Times and other publications on pre-9/11 operations focused on Al Qaeda. He has testified before Congress on issues relating to 9/11 intelligence and operational failures.
Lt. Col. Shaffer was awarded the Bronze Star for the first of his two combat tours to Afghanistan. He was credited for conducting highly complex operational support to NSA, and for playing a critical role in breaking the back of a Taliban counteroffensive in the fall of 2003. In addition, he was called back to active duty for DESERT STORM/DESTERT SHIELD in 1991 to perform special support to Army Intelligence. He has been deployed to Thailand, Germany and New Zealand to support DoD efforts as an active duty member of the Army in addition to his Afghanistan experience.
Lt. Col. Shaffer is a 1986 graduate of Wright State University, where he was awarded a BA in Political Science and Environmental Studies.
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NetBackup supports several transport modes for sending snapshot data between the VMware datastore and the VMware backup host during a backup or restore. One of those transport modes (hotadd) is used when the VMware backup host is installed in a virtual machine.
Note the following about the hotadd transport mode:
For a list of VMware restrictions on the hotadd transport mode, refer to VMware's documentation. For example:
The VMware backup host must be installed in a virtual machine.
The following is a VMware requirement: The virtual machine to back up and the virtual machine that contains the hotadd backup host must reside in the same VMware datacenter. The same VMware requirement applies to virtual machine restore: The virtual machine to restore and the virtual machine that contains the hotadd restore host must reside in the same VMware datacenter.
For hotadd backup, Symantec recommends at least one hotadd backup host for each datacenter.
NetBackup does not support IDE disks on the virtual machine.
On the virtual machine to back up, no two disks should have the same name. (Identical names can occur if the disks reside on different datastores.)
The ESX server (where the backup-host virtual machine resides) must have access to the datastore of the virtual machines that you want to back up.
The datastore for the backup-host virtual machine must have some free space before the hotadd backup begins. Otherwise, the backup may fail.
Theoption does not work with the hotadd transport mode in the following case: The virtual machine that contains the backup host is a clone of the virtual machine that is backed up (or vice versa). In this case, a backup that uses the hotadd transfer mode may appear to succeed. However, some of the virtual machine volumes may be incorrectly mapped and cannot be restored.
The converse is also true. The virtual machine that you back up with the hotadd transport mode cannot be a clone of the virtual machine that contains the backup host. Furthermore, the two virtual machines must not be clones of the same parent.
VMware has identified this issue as software defect SR#1442259141. To use the hotadd transport mode with your backup, do the following: Make sure the virtual machine that contains the VMware backup host and the virtual machine you back up are not clones of each other.
On a Windows Server 2008 or later backup host (proxy) with the hotadd transport mode, set the Windows SAN policy to onlineAll.
For more information on this issue and on other VMware hotadd issues, see the following VMware Knowledge Base article:
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Simplifying Writing Workflow
From time immemorial, I've been using OpenOffice.org Writer and then LibreOffice Writer as my writing tool of choice. I even wrote several custom macros and the Writer's Tools extension to make my writing workflow more efficient. But all these years, I've been using only a fraction of Writer's functionality 90% of the time. So I finally decided to leave the comfort of LibreOffice Writer and simplify my writing workflow by moving to a different tool set. After trying several text editors, I settled for Sublime Text. This text editor is not free, but it offers a slew of useful features like customizable keyboard shortcuts, code highlighting schemes, snippets, the ability to manage multiple documents, and spell checker. Oddly, the editor doesn't have a native word count feature, but the WordCount plugin fills the void quite nicely. The nano text editor now serves as a writing tool when I don't feel like using the mouse or a graphical desktop environment.
In Writer, I heavily rely on the Changes feature to keep track of changes made to documents. In my new workflow, this functionality has been replaced with flashbake, a versioning solution based on Git (I wrote an in-depth article on using flashbake and Git in general for the upcoming issue of Linux Magazine).
Finally, to replace the functionality provided by the macros, I use the excellent AutoKey utility with a handful of simple scripts.
Of course, I don't plan to abandon LibreOffice just yet: it can still come in handy in many situations like when working with long documents containing complex formatting.comments powered by Disqus
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Translation of inquire in Spanish:
transitive verb
- inquirir [formal]she inquired what the matter was/how to get to the cathedralpreguntó qué pasaba/cómo se llegaba a la catedralto inquire something
fromor (British) ofsomebody [formal]preguntarle algo aalguienExample sentences
- Even when going about their business, Ugandans will take the time to stop and greet people properly, inquiring after their health and their family - a far cry from the Western culture of 'no time to chat'.
- But a month later, a letter from the same Stepping Hill unit arrived at her home in Bramhall asking why she missed a date at Manchester Royal Infirmary and inquiring if there was 'a difficulty'.
- This was overlooked by the Greeks who started inquiring into the reasons for the 'dignified postures' of Egyptian statues (already Plato commented on this).
intransitive verb
- preguntarinquire at the reception desk
informarsepregunte or infórmese en recepcióninquire withininfórmese aquíto inquire
aboutsomethinginformarse or preguntarI'm inquiring about the job advertised in The Globe acerca deor sobrealgollamo para informarme or para preguntar sobre el trabajo que anuncian en The Globeto inquire aftersomebody/something [formal]preguntarshe inquired after your health poralguien/algopreguntó or se interesó por tu saludto inquire intosomethinginvestigar algoto inquire forsomebodypreguntarsomeone was inquiring for you poralguienalguien preguntó por ti
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Maybe it's the fact that in another six months or so, the regime change here in the Land of the Free will lead many of the the current crop of enforcers in D.C. out the revolving door and into the loving arms of Big Law, where those wet behind the ears begin the learning curve with 15 grand a month of pocket money. Maybe it's the fact that they knew all along that they were pushing the envelope and, when called on it, they simply shrugged, smiled, and said "Ya' got me!" Whatever the reason, the U.S. Justice Department appears to be throwing in the towel several years earlier than my initial expectation, as a result of the US Second Court of Appeals decision that squashed the Justice Department's fraud claims against Bank of America that arose out of the former Countrywide Mortgage's so-called "Hustle" subprime loan program.
According to The Wall Street Journal, this week, the Justice Department sent letters to various former officers of Countrywide, including the infamous Angelo Mozilo (aka "The Tan Man"), that told them that Justice would do some justice by not filing any civil law suits against them.
Government lawyers sent letters within the past week to Mr. Mozilo and other Countrywide executives advising that the investigations against them were closed, and thanking them for their cooperation, these people said.
"We are pleased to see this investigation concluded without any further claim against Mr. Mozilo," said his lawyer David Siegel.
I'll bet they are pleased. Mr. Siegel was sufficiently courteous to refrain from thanking the Justice Department back for providing years of legal work for defense counsel that has now resulted in the close of the investigation without criminal charges or civil lawsuits being pursued. For litigation attorneys, this is called "stroking the long ball." And, as ESPN's Sport Center loved to tell us, "Chicks dig the long ball."
To the "Occupy [Insert Venue Here]" crowd, this latest outrage will be further proof that the system is rigged in favor of fat cats and the bureaucrats who stroke them. On the other hand, those of us with actual experience in this area saw this coming years ago. From a September 22, 2009 blog post that discussed the outlook for folks like Angelo ever doing the perp walk:
Unlike the last round, when the savings and loan industry went into a tailspin, proving that CEOs and other senior executives knew about and encouraged, much less actively participated in, the fraud is tougher to prove in connection with the subprime mortgage mess. I recall a number of instances involving failed Texas thrifts in the late 1980s where there was ample evidence that thrift owners and senior executives were swapping dead horses for dead cows, making stock loans to an owner of another thrift to purchase 100% of the stock in his own S&L in return for the borrower causing his S&L to purchase a bunch of participation interests in the lender's portfolio of exquisitely ripe carcasses known as acquisition and development loans (in which the lender funded 100% of the acquisition and developments costs AND all of the interest reserve, leaving the borrower with as much equity in the collateral as a US congressperson's integrity). This time around, the CEO's and Chairman's muddy paw prints aren't stamped all over the lender's records.
"The problem is finding the executives' fingerprints on the consumer files," said Peter Henning, a law professor at Wayne State University. "Angelo Mozilo may have set the tone at Countrywide, but there is no way you're going to find his fingerprints on any of those mortgages."
Even Marg Helgenberger of CSI couldn't find enough CEO DNA in these files to make a case. I'd like to watch her try, though.
If you want to become completely bent out of shape about the relative lack of suffering inflicted on Wall Street and its cronies over their role in the meltdown, consider the fact that no one in Congress has had their wrists slapped, either. Barney Frank and Friend-of-Angelo Chris Dodd even managed to get their names emblazoned on a piece of "financial reform" legislation for all eternity, masking for future generations (who seem to have short memories in any event) the major roles those two actors played in the drama. When it comes to skating, it seems to me that most of the culprits had their blades finely honed.
Let's hope that the late British physician, Havelock Ellis, was wrong when he said "Every society has the criminals that it deserves."


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City Arts Tours & Walks
Regional, city and neighborhood arts tours and walks featured throughout the year in AmericanStyle magazine guide art lovers through selected destinations brimming with not-to-be-missed art, galleries and architecture.
- Albuquerque, N.M.
- Alexandria, Va.
- Annapolis, Md.
- Asheville, N.C.
- Bainbridge and Vashon Islands, Wash.
- The Berkshires, Mass.
- Charleston, S.C.
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- Park City, Utah
- Quebec City, QC, Canada
- San Antonio, Texas
- San Francisco, Calif.
- Saugatuck and Douglas, Mich.
Top 25 Arts Destinations Winners
Each year, AmericanStyle magazine conducts a reader poll where cities spanning the country compete to be included in the annual Top 25 Arts Destinations edition. The results of each poll are published in the Summer issue with reader comments and editors' highlights of what to see and do.
- Top 25 Arts Destinations 2011
- Top 25 Arts Destinations 2010
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Exhibit inspired by Wendell Berry opens Oct. 24 at St. Catharine College
The St. Catharine College Berry Farming Program and Fine Arts Program are hosting "These Thy Gifts: Textile Art Inspired by Wendell Berry," an exhibit of works by Louisville artist Joanne Weis, on Oct. 24 from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m. at the Emily W. Hundley Library at St. Catharine. The public is invited to attend.
Weis crafted a collection of six stunning fiber panels in honor of the Berry Farming Program's undergraduate degree launch. Each panel focuses on an element of sustainable agriculture, and each is paired with an excerpt from the poetry and prose of Kentucky farmer, writer, and activist Wendell Berry.
To celebrate this collection, SCC is hosting an opening reception on Thursday, Oct. 24 from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m. and a gallery talk on Sunday, Nov. 3 from 3 p.m. until 5 p.m. in the Emily W. Hundley Library. Please join us for both of these events, open to the campus and community. The exhibit will be on display until early Spring 2014.
Founded in the Dominican tradition in 1931 and sponsored by the Dominican Sisters of Peace, St. Catharine College, a Catholic Dominican college inspired by its founders, welcomes all to the challenging pursuit of truth, preparing them to become critical thinkers, ethical leaders and engaged citizens.


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Troy Brown was all smiles as he donned his red jacket and took his place among the biggest names in Patriots history.
In his time with the Patriots, Brown was a jack of all trades, famously filling in at corner when the defense was short-handed.
Troy Brown was all smiles as he donned his red jacket and took his place among the biggest names in Patriots history.
In his time with the Patriots, Brown was a jack of all trades, famously filling in at corner when the defense was short-handed.
Three things we learned from the Red Sox' 2-1 loss to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
Quotes, notes and stars from the Red Sox' 2-1 loss to the Los Angeles Angels ofAnaheim
"I tried to get two (outs) before I got one. That can't happen." - Hanley Ramirez on his throwing error which cost the Red Sox the game.
"Executing pitches - that's the name of the game." - David Price on improvement he showed from his last start.
"Fourth time through the order, middle of the lineup. . . Price had done his job. In a one-run game, we felt it was best to start a clean inning with a reliever." - John Farrell after lifting David Price after eight innings and 108 pitches.
* Reliever Brad Ziegler was charged with the loss for the second straight game.
* Each of the last seven Red Sox losses has been by one or two runs.
* Dustin Pedroia has reached base in 31 consecutive games.
* The Red Sox four-game losing streak is their longest of the season.
* The Sox are now 9-23 in their last 32 meetings with the Angels.
* David Price did not allow a run for the second time this season.
1) David Price
After a stretch of shaky outings, Price did his job with eight scoreless innings, getting 14 outs on groundouts while walking just one.
2) Jered Weaver
At times, the radar gun made Weaver's pitches look like softball offerings. But mixing junk, he held the Sox to a single run over 5 1/3 innings
3) Mookie Betts
He had just one hit - single in the eighth - but his sacrifice fly in the third produced the only run of the night.
First impressions from the Red Sox' 2-1 loss to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
1) David Price pitched in the truest sense
Price wasn't necessarily overpowering with only six strikeouts in eight innings, but he succeeded in keeping the ball down in the zone, resulting in a ton of groundouts.
In eight innings, the Angels produced just two fly outs to the outfield, both of them routine.
Otherwise, Price deftly mixed his changeup, slider and two-seamer to produce ground balls. His location was more precise and he induced weak contact in at-bat after at-bat.
2) The danger of a closer like Brad Ziegler was on display
The throwing error by Hanley Ramirez resulted in two runs scoring but Ziegler allowed three base hits to set the stage.
Ziegler doesn't get a lot of swing-and-miss with his sinker; what he gets is a lot of balls put in play. When things are going well, that results in groundouts; when they're not, it means baserunners and strange things happening.
As inconsistent as Craig Kimbrel has been in some non-save situations, he at least has the ability to record strikeouts and keep balls out of play. That's not the case with Zieger, as the Red Sox learned the hard way in Anaheim Thursday night.
3) The Red Sox wisely took advantage of Jered Weaver on the bases
Weaver's high leg kick and reliance on off-speed pitches make for a slow delivery time to the plate. Dustin Pedroia would have easily stole second in the first but made the mistake of going into his slide too far ahead of the bag, and though initially ruled safe, was deemed out after a replay challenge.
In the sixth, Xander Bogaerts, was more successful in his stolen base. Neither steal led to a run, but the Sox did put some additional pressure on Weaver