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Items have durability, which is lowered when you take damage or die. Being killed by other players doesn't cause durability damage, however, when players die, they have two choices: either run back to their corpse to resurrect themselves, or resurrect at a graveyard.
If they run back to their corpse and resurrect, they'll suffer no penalties, but will likely just die again. Resurrecting at a graveyard causes 25% (I think) durability damage to all your items, which at higher levels costs quite a bit to repair. You also get resurrection sickness for 10 minutes, which lowers all your stats and damage done by 75%. Then there's the fact that, paying a monthly fee to play the game, time is literally money.
I'm sure these guys had fun doing it, but harmless it wasn't.
A WOW genocide !!!!
Ladies and gentlemen we might just be looking at the end of the world
...of warcraft
I was done with wow when the horde got the hot coffee mod and broke pvp ques utterly.
Blizzard seemed not to give a damn then, so i find this funny now, he should get a medal.
You are not alone, it's like they knew there'd be this guy who'd do this...I wonder if Blizzard is preparing the Sword of 1000 Truths to give to their champion
Indeed. This whole thing reminded me of nothing more than the Hakkar plague. Fond memories...
Man, I heard about this yesterday and was about to log on to join in the dying, but was pretty sure it wasn't on my tiny server, nor would I have gotten there in time. I don't care if I'd have lost cash, it looked funny.
No, they should. It violates the various agreements made with Blizzard that are required to participate in the game.
Meh I've got mixed feelings about this. On one hand that's funny as hell but on the other they did just use a nasty exploit to kill a bunch of people so some sort of action should be taken against them. Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD.
In before cyber-wow terrorism jokes.
People still pay a monthly fee to play this game (for reasons beyond me). By doing this "prank", the hackers wasted other players' time, which means they wasted their money.
Really wish that people knew the difference between hacking and exploiting...
When you write that somebody hacked the game, everyone immediately assumes Blizzard infrastructure has been compromised in some matter. Instead, it's just a bug exploit...something we see in every game and this is not the first time it has happened in WoW.
Skin Cancer peddling is not cool dude.
Plus you weigh less in the dark. I'm just trying to be healthy.
Wastes in game money too, dying at 85 costs between 20-40 gold depending on your gear, that's a substantial hit to folks like me who don't necessarily obsess over the game.
What was "valid" about 'Gold sellers exist' as an excuse?
Yea, how DARE a game have Terms of Service and try to enforce them! The bastards! /sarcasma
Yes because a company can identify a problem, report it, get the programmers in, find the issue, fix it, release a fix and reset the servers and user clients instantly. Asshole, Blizzard doesn't have live feeds of every single thing at the same time, it takes time to fix things saying "they didn't fix it yet" is not a good justification. Also saying that "at least its not as bad as gold farming" does not make your actions any less bad. God, I hate hacker logic its so full of idiocy.
Nope, and it is because of that memory that this incident made me laugh. A lot.
Hell, even if I was part of the killed people, I'd laugh.
I truly hope they are at least suspended from the game for this. They say it was only "inconvenient" to other players, but some players, who have a life, might only get a couple hours each day too play, and causing them too lose 30min of play time is still cutting their time by a quarter.
I feel like I'm reading about that one South Park episode. hahaha
Why didn't anyone log on their Horde alt and just fly to SW and and kill them?
Or why not just tell people on Horde side about this, so that they could come over to SW and kill them 2....jeez not hard
I was soo late to this party that I have never heard of this until this article and a post on kym. I was honestly out and about playing the game, didn't have time to sit around the capitols, get killed, and listen to trade chat about their favorite things before someone comes in with another hilarious mention of Thunderfury.
As for any 'punishment' doled out by blizzard to the exploiters, it is in the ToS that we arn't allowed to abuse exploits unless we are completely unaware of their nature, in essense, when you call yourself part of a 'group' doing the deed or being a 'haxploiter' then you've already outted yourself to the Blizzard 'play nice police.'
Initially this got my hopes up that a hacker had ruined a bunch of accounts, which oddly made me feel a little aroused.
Does that make me a bad person?
It's a good thing they got the Sword of a Thousand Truths in to stop the madness.
I expected to see hundreds of elves running in terror, or people banding together to defend themselves but people were just standing around and watching. I guess mass killings aren't as common in the World of Warcraft as they are in real life. A good thing I think. Let them take out those urges here.
I would say a suspension is just about the right punishment here. A ban would be going too far (they didn't do any real damage, after all), but a suspension would send the message that screwing with other players' experiences is not on.
I might be reading this wrong but did you just compare wasting a couple minutes of someone who is already just hanging out in the center of stormwind's time with assaulting someone?
I think the main part of the whole it's blizzards own fault and we shouldn't be banned stance is the fact that it's part of the game, it's an exploit or a glitch not a genuine hack or hostile take over or something like that and since it didn't cause any permanent damage it shouldn't result in a permanent punishment like being banned.
It's a lot closer to sitting at a street light on a busy street and constantly pushing the cross button so the light changes more often and holds up traffic than it is to something like assault since the only harm it ever really caused or even could cause is wasting a few minutes of someones time and society laid it out right in front of them to use in the first place. it's a prank not a crime and should be treated as such, maybe a couple of weeks suspension or something of the like.
on a side note blizzard themselves did something pretty akin to this during the whole deathwing event, he would randomly swoop down and kill you then mock you about it. the big difference was this was while you were actively DOING stuff meaning you weren't just sitting in the middle of the city waiting for shit to happen. ACTUALLY there was an event planned by blizzard that was even closer to this, right before the release of the burning crusade they had a giant demon attack stormwind and orgrimar that reportdly killed thousands of players.
I admit, I laughed when I saw the video. People are standing around in capital cities doing practically nothing - I fail to see how "time is money" when they're actively and inherently wasting it on a video game.
Unless you want to reinforce the stereotype that WoW is "serious business", this really isn't that big a deal. The image of the skeletons piling up in the towns is hilarious enough to warrant the comparatively minor loss of durability, and it does have roots (as mentioned above) in stunts Blizzard themselves has pulled in the past.
On the flipside, the hacker is an idiot for exposing himself, even on an exploit board. If your justification can't pass muster, don't say anything in the first place.
You always this big of a cunt, or is it only when aunt flow is in town? Seriously, there's zero reason for you to be acting like such a toxic shithead.
I think it's funnier imagining those players with no sense of humor going "OMG this is NOT funny, they seriously hindered my experience and should be punished!!!11"
Okay I was literally online while it was happening, a sea of corpses around my feet.
It WAS funny. Trade chat just about exploded from all the WTF.
But it is bannable. Expect no less.
As you can see above, we had problems too.
Couldn't care less about the game or what happens to the people with the exploit.
But my god, watching that video was pretty damn hilarious.
I can think of a few other things that are inherently worthless, that still require payment by the minute/hour/month/whatnot. You're paying for your time. Someone's wasting it. Someone not you.
You don't have to make it "serious business" to be mad at someone actively trying to ruin your night. And even then, there are ways to grief that don't involve breaking the game, if you're so inclined. Don't get me wrong: had I been there, I probably would've had a laugh about it. But an exploit is an exploit, and I think a ban is completely deserved here. I find it amazing that someone would pull shit like this and not expect it to have repercussions.
Yep and back then it was all the more sweet because rather than everyone just dying you got to see them scatter and run for their lives from the fuck-massive dragon you spent two and a half hours kiting to Ironforge/Orgrimmar. Or the huge-ass Demon Lord that you could kite from near the Dark Portal all the way to Stormwind.
It's kind of like how the Saw movies would be hardly as interesting if the victims had no chance to survive whatsoever. It's just like "Oh everyone dies, the end" and that's not fun.
Speaking of epidemics, I remember that one epidemic when Hunters could infect their pets with the plague from a ZG boss and hearth back to town and watch as it spread. THAT was funny, this would be annoying at best.
EDIT: Annnnd I just read the rest of the thread and wow some of you guys need to chill the fuck out. If there is ANY game where death is inconsequential at all, it is WoW. All you have to do is ask the Spirit Healer to revive you fail being able to run back to your corpse. You don't even lose much gold at all, if you're worried about 20-40g then you haven't done your weekly quests, you make half that off a single 5 minute quest.
Damn, i wish i would have been there
Very nice greifing.
The justification is lame. They should be accepting that they're outright asses and reveling in the attention.
Anyone whining about this, the only ting lost was time. If this had been EQ or an older MMO and not been GM Deathtouch the repeated deaths would have caused massive exp loss totally thousands of man-hours of time lost while setting customer service on fire requiring a server reset.
It would have cause huge harm.... and WoW is so tame that it was completely rendered impossible to accomplish. There's a reason I stopped playing that game after less than six months.
Had it been it would have gone down with Lord British's assassination on UO and the greatest betrayals on Eve.
People whining about the death penalties, please, this is Wow. Be happy these people didn't have to start looking for their corpse in not only a pile of other peoples corpses but their own.
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Posted on 02/02/2013 7:40:34 PM PST by Alex Murphy
The horror, the sordidness of the awful abuse of children by figures of spiritual authority is not much assuaged by current Archbishop Jose Gomez relieving Cardinal Mahony of "all public duties" after mounting evidence showed he shielded pedophile priests from law enforcement.
So Mahony won't be overseeing the Sacrament of Confirmation at Our Lady of the Angels anytime soon. But he is not only still a priest who can perform Mass - he is still one of the 120 cardinals who form the leadership of a church with more than 1.1 billion adherents worldwide, in a line going back to St. Peter.
Given what we now know about Mahony's active efforts to protect known and suspected sexual abusers in clerical collars, this removal of him from public life is not only not enough - it's no punishment at all.
And this crime deserves punishment. That was made clear by the heartbreaking letters that were made public last week.
Go to any one of over 100 of them posted last week at la-archdiocese.org. The very first one in this alphabetical order was written by a anonymous parishioner molested as a child at a Colorado Roman Catholic Church summer camp by the Rev. Leonard Abercrombie, who later worked in Los Angeles.
Dated July 18, 2003, it begins quite simply:
"Pope John Paul II, The Holy See, Vatican City, Rome, Italy.
"Dear Pope: In July 1993 I wrote a letter to you ..."
That long letter detailing the writer's sexual abuse as a child of 7 by Abercrombie was never answered over the decade, though it was copied to other bishops and to princes of the church, including Los Angeles' own Cardinal Roger Mahony, who oversaw Abercrombie's later pastoral career.
"I informed each of you that the Denver diocese of the Roman Catholic Church had covered up Abercrombie's predation of children making it possible for him to molest me and others that I knew of when I wrote to you. ..."
"I informed each of you that this horror was systemic in your church, and to you, dear pope, I wrote, `Your bishops have known about it and they have been covering it up as a matter of course. Apparently, they haven't informed you of their criminal complicity.' So I did.
"In the ten years that have passed I have never heard a word of apology from any of you" with the exception of a bishop who happened to be a family friend, who said: "I am sure the Holy Father will respond to your letter." He never did.
Joelle Casteix, western regional director of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said the action to remove Mahony from some duties is simply "too little too late."
Most cardinals leave the college in just two ways: by death or by election to the papacy.
Though highly unusual, it is possible to resign. The last to do so was French Cardinal S.J. Louis Billot in 1927. The rub is that the pope has to accept such a resignation, so it's not known if any cardinal has tried to step down during these decades of the church's sexual-abuse scandals or at any other time during the last 85 years.
But, as a small gesture toward acknowledging these enormous crimes against over 500 Angeleno parishioners, Mahony ought to offer his resignation.
And Pope Benedict XVI ought to accept it.
....Most cardinals leave the college in just two ways: by death or by election to the papacy. Though highly unusual, it is possible to resign. The last to do so was French Cardinal S.J. Louis Billot in 1927. The rub is that the pope has to accept such a resignation, so it's not known if any cardinal has tried to step down during these decades of the church's sexual-abuse scandals or at any other time during the last 85 years.
But, as a small gesture toward acknowledging these enormous crimes against over 500 Angeleno parishioners, Mahony ought to offer his resignation. And Pope Benedict XVI ought to accept it.
The files at the Los Angeles Archdiocese site aren't there voluntarely, but are made public only under the court order of Judge Emilie Elias. It took two years, and a court order, to get Gomez to do something about Mahony. But two years ago, Gomez was singing a different tune:
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He has shown us what Christ wants his Church to be a communion of cultures and a communion of saints, one family of God drawn from every country, race, and language. The archbishop said that Cardinal Mahony has helped us open our hearts, to love God and to love our brothers and sisters.
-- from the thread Cardinal Mahony retires, passes leadership in LA to Archbishop Gomez
The priest started out staring at women's breasts and being real touchy with them.
The guy looked like a cross between Elvis and an offensive end. He was also a gifted speaker and when people in the parish like my mother who was head of the prayer community complained everywhere Baker was protected. From Mahony down to the other parishioners. Some parishioners had Baker in their will and he also inherited millions and a couple of houses or so.
The priest started out staring at women's breasts and being real touchy with them.
The guy looked like a cross between Elvis and an offensive end. He was also a gifted speaker and when people in the parish like my mother who was head of the prayer community complained everywhere Baker was protected. From Mahony down to the other parishioners. Some parishioners had Baker in their will and he also inherited millions and a couple of houses or so.
But, as a small gesture toward acknowledging these enormous crimes against over 500 Angeleno parishioners, Mahony ought to offer his resignation.
And Pope Benedict XVI ought to accept it.
And any sane person should never give another dime to the RCC.
Typical anti-Catholic bigotry from the MSM.
The new Archbishop has done as much as he is empowered to do. And he did it fairly soon after assuming office, presumably after first taking the time to examine the facts first-hand, as best he could, as was right and proper.
If, as I suspect but don't know, Cardinal Mahony was criminally guilty of complicity or encouragement in the earlier crimes, then it is up to the justice system to do something about it. But the justice system is conflicted. The liberals who control it in places like L.A. whine and complain about pederast priests from one side of their mouths, even while they excuse similar behavior by public school teachers out of the other side of their mouths, and even as they actually teach it in grade school to innocent children.
Yes, things got badly out of hand in that archdiocese. The Church has been repairing the damage that was done within it, mostly back in the 70s, by dissident bishops and priests, some out of ignorance and a few knowingly complicit in the evil. Yet the justice system that should deal with it is at the same time saying that homosexual marriage, homosexual adoption, and even man-boy love are good things, and it is discriminatory or illegal to suggest otherwise. Church adoption agencies have been forced out of business because they refuse to let homosexual couples adopt children. Not back in the 70s, but right now.
Plenty of evil to go around. So why criticize a new bishop for doing his job as best he can?
"And any sane person should never give another dime to the RCC"
Just what the God-hating leftist have wanted for years. And this is because of the Church's stance against women priests, abortion, and sodomite "marriage". Years ago leftists infiltrated the Church with homosexuals and now is trying to tarnish the whole Church. The way the Church should handle this is to NEVER let a sodomite become a priest. They can no longer just ask a man applying for the simimary does he have strong homosexual desires. Sodomites lie about their sexual urges. Homosexual men can not control their urges. 99% of these cases are queer priests preying on adolescent boys. Get rid of the queers, solve the problem. The Catholic Church is the only organized church in the world and has the money and that's why you never hear a word about Jews and protestant sex abuse. And public schools have a much higher rate of sex abuse among teachers, but the media ignores them. They don't care. The media will also never tell you that the ones doing the sex abuse in the Catholic Church are queers, and that's because they love homosexuals. The media just wants to tar and feather all priests and try to destroy the Catholic Church. Well it's been around for 2,000 years and if the world stands for 2,000 more years it will still be around.
Because it exposes the lie that the Church doesn't care and isn't doing anything.
It's never too late to do what is right. :)
People make mistakes. The Church doesn't.
Another point: Mahoney has his protectors, too, and they are all in the political establishment. Like McCracken, he is a liberal, and apart from the issue of abortion and on traditional marriage, his stands on most political issues sound like they were issued by the DNC. Years ago, he clashed with Mother Angelica, the feisty nun who started EWTN, contrary to the wishes of the Hierarchy, who wanted to establish their own media network. There is little doubt that such a network would have taken its direction from the likes of Mahoney. So Mahoney has friends in low places, one might say. He represents all the things that have gone wrong in the Church since the end of Vatican II.
The churchdoes make mistakes, whether one is talking about the leaders of the Church or the rest of us. The Holy Ghost does not make mistakes, and it props up us poor sinners in the Church and keeps us from putting the ship on the rocks and breaking up in the raging seas. As Paul says, we should not boast of the good that we do, but give all credit to the Lord, and confess our unworthiness.
You are right. I should have said in matters of faith or morals.
let's see now....the RCC is over two thousand years old....it is worldwide....it is the largest charitible organization in the history of the world, is it the oldest organization in the history of the world....and a handful of humans, in the LosAngeles archdiocese turn out to be evil people....you condemn the entire organization.......that's kind of like saying that because Bill Clinton abused an intern under his authority....the U.S. Government is evil.....PATHETIC
Well its been around for 2,000 years and if the world stands for 2,000 more years it will still be around.
You should follow Christ instead. He'll be here forever, world or no world. And your money won't be feeding pimps and pedophiles.
and a handful of humans, in the LosAngeles archdiocese
Have you been living under a rock the last 20 years? A handful in Los Angeles? Thousands of children worldwide should be so lucky.
Have you ever attended a Catholic Mass?
I don't think so from your post, for you do not seem to realize that the Catholic Church and the Catholic Mass are totally focused on Jesus Christ. Are you getting this misinformation from someone who hates the Catholic Church? Or from a pamplet?
If you had attended a Catholic Mass you would have realized that almost all the prayers come from the Bible.
Liturgy of the Word includes the greeting, the Collect sometimes from the Bible with added words, the OT readings, a NT reading, usually from St. Paul, and the Gospel from one of the four Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke or John. Then the priest will give a homily or explanation, usually of the Gospel and apply it to those days, then to our present life in this modern world.
Then the Mass moves to the Litrugy of the Eucharist where the memorial of Christ's Body and Blood is celebrated and the people receive the REAL Body and Blood of Christ, and then we have the closing prayers and final blessing.
I think you will be amazed at how much is straight from the Bible. That's what converted Scott Hahn.
It's also about record keeping. Many other denominations don't keep the detailed records that the Catholic Church does. If schools and other institutions had their personnel and administrative files searched for decades past there would no doubt be some findings there too.
That is a bit extreme, but you certainly have a point. Much of the history of the RCC in the past 30 years is shameful.
So many innocent children have been damaged, forever. And beyond that, there is now a battle going on, a critical battle. It is a battle between Western civilization and radical islam.
The RCC should be a great asset to the West in this battle. But instead they are essentially a liability.
And I say that with great sadness.
Just curious, do you feel this way about Baptists and their sex abuse coverup?
We are all members of the Body of Christ, are we not? Abuse in ANY denomination is a wound on the Body of Christ, is it not? Wouldn't our kids be better off if we circled the wagons and did our best to make EVERY Christian environment a safe setting for them instead of throwing stones and pitting one denomination vs another?
Also, please bear in mind that in 2003, the State of California changed the statute of limitations regarding child abuse claims against the Catholic Church, only, opening the door for very old claims to be filed (after memories have faded, witnesses passed away, and exculpatory evidence lost— placing a tremendous burden on the defendants to prove innocence) and leading the way to the $650,000,000.00 settlement in 2007. In contrast, child abuse claims against public institutions must be brought within 6 months of the incident, regardless of the age of the victim. As to all others, the statute is six years after the victim's 18th birthday. Why the difference?
Child abuse is rampant in the the foster care and public school systems, and happens in other denominations and private institutions as well. Apparently "Equal protection under the law" doesn't mean what it used to mean.
Thanks for posting this. It's sickening. The entire hierarchy needs to be flushed down the toilet and replaced by decent men.
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- Hague in 1997 (over Ken Clarke);
- and Duncan Smith in 2001 (over Michael Portillo, and Ken again).
Like a nervous batsman looking for the winning runs, the Tories are quite prepared to pick a leader with an outside edge if they think it will help them nick a victory. Even if it means they run the risk of getting caught out.
Perhaps even more intriguing, is the reputation of the four who assumed leadership comfortably – Balfour (1902), Neville Chamberlain (1937), Eden (1955) and Howard (2003). Stout defences could doubtless be proffered by their respective supporters that they discharged the duties of the office they held as well as could be expected (except for Eden). But it would require a large blind spot genuinely to believe that, if this quartet were emblematic of the Tories, they would have dominated the twentieth-century with such conspicuous electoral success. Better, it seems, to have been tested by fire when winning the leadership, than to appear to be able to walk on water – then sink.
Which brings us, as it was intended to do, to David Cameron. It will be easy for any Tories reading what I am about to write to dismiss it as the politics of mis-direction: that, as a Lib Dem, I am so worried by the putative threat Mr Cameron represents – especially to Lib Dem MPs in the south of England – that I am eager for anyone but "that nice young man" to win. Well, perhaps. There is no doubt that, as even his supporters acknowledge, Mr Cameron would be another Tory gamble on an unknown. He might be brilliant; he might crash and burn. It now seems likely that time will tell. But that is not why I think Tories would be quite, quite wrong to elect him.
Mr Cameron has, of course, got what George H Dubya Bush called "the Big Mo" after his 'look, mum, no notes' speech at Blackpool this week. (This followed on from Sir Malcolm Rifkind's 'look, mum, no votes' turn.) This display impressed, even mesmerised, those who witnessed it, and it would be churlish not to congratulate Mr Cameron on remembering his lines under duress, and delivering them with the pained, angsty sincerity of an adolescent wooing his first love. And yet, and yet…
His performance reminded me (as it did the Tories' advertising guru, Lord Bell) of a Chinese meal: satisfying at the time, but half an hour later you feel empty. For me, its vacuousness was epitomised by this line (which I promise I have not invented): "Let's dream a new generation of Conservative dreams." Initially, I thought I was unfair to zero in on that vapid utterance. Anyone who has engaged in public speaking, especially when taking the risk not to stick to a script, occasionally lapses into ludicrous clichés which, recalled later, induce a cringe. But, no, this was one of the sentences proudly repeated on the Conservative website reporting Mr Cameron's speech. If the Tories really are looking for their Tony Blair – complete with verbless platitudes devoid of meaning – then they may have found their man.
Indeed, it is Mr Cameron's self-conscious aping of Mr Blair which leads me to believe he is the right guy for the Tories, standing at the wrong time.
I voted enthusiastically for Mr Blair in the Labour leadership contest of 1994. He was, indisputably, the right choice to lead the party to a crushing election victory in 1997. His wasted two terms as a landslide Prime Minister also prove how unfit he was for that office when he won it. Only now, eight years later, does he seem comfortable in the role; and that is because he knows he will never again have to face the electorate. How might history have been different – Mr Blair's own personal history, as well as the Labour Party's – if John Smith had lived, and Mr Blair had been able to gain ministerial experience before assuming the mantle of primus inter pares? Instead, the 52 year-old Mr Blair is winding down his premiership just at an age when he would be best placed to assume it.
Too much, too young: a long retirement of regrets to nurse.
The Blackpool conference, Tory spokesmen have been keen to tell us, marked the beginning of the party's road back to government. Maybe it did. Certainly they have re-discovered an appetite for office, which has been lacking for too long in a party that is supposed to provide HM's Opposition. It is less clear that they have a hunger to provide good government. Mr Cameron will, I suspect, help the Tories to achieve power; I am more doubtful that he is equipped to govern. If Mr Blair proved out of his depth in 1997 after 14 years as an MP, seven of them in the shadow cabinet, how much more true will this be of Mr Cameron in 2009, after eight years in Parliament, and four years leading his party?
Yet the Tory Party, throughout its history, has shown itself to be more keen to select the blank canvas over the Old Master, so that their conflicting hopes, aspirations, prejudices and judgements can be projected onto it without any distracting background. The question is this: will Mr Cameron's canvas be that of a Jack Vettriano, an homage to a tired, well-thumbed manual which dates badly?


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One proposal is for passports to be required in order to cross from one EU country to another.
Would such a drastic move spell the beginning of the end for the Eurozone as a viable entity?
And if so what will happen to the piles of sovereign debt that's been issued by the economically vulnerable EU PIIGS, and to the investors who have been pouring money into them at what appear to be ridiculously low yields?
Read the story and check out the historical yield chart at the article 'EU PIIGS: Are These 10-Year Sovereign Bond Yields Either Warranted Or Sustainable?' here.
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On President Obama's Bow to the Japanese Emperor, An Academic Friend Writes That Both the Left and the Right Are Wrong
November 15, 2009 2:53 PM
An old friend -- an academic with expertise about the Japanese Empire, and in general a supporter of President Obama -- sends me the following note, relating to photographs of President Obama bowing to Emperor Akihito of Japan.
"This picture shows two things," my friend writes.
"1) The 'right' is wrong about Obama's bow.
"2) The 'left' is wrong about Obama's bow.
"His bow is neither (1) unprecedented nor (2) a sign of cultural understanding.
"Obama's handshake/forward lurch was so jarring and inappropriate it recalls Bush's back-rub of Merkel.
"Kyodo News is running his appropriate and reciprocated nod and shake with the Empress, certainly to show the president as dignified, and not in the form of a first year English teacher trying to impress with Karate Kid-level knowledge of Japanese customs.
"The bow as he performed did not just display weakness in Red State terms, but evoked weakness in Japanese terms....The last thing the Japanese want or need is a weak looking American president and, again, in all ways, he unintentionally played that part.
"BTW, Obama's bow at Suntory Hall was much better. Correct angle, slight bow. His hands were wrong but the physical tone was correct and appropriate.
It sounds to me as though he was attempting to show an appreciation for the culture but was not well informed on how to do it. I'm no Obama fan but it just sounds to me as though he just botched it, not that he was intentionally showing weakness or submission. I'd liken it to a batter without timing or adequate hand-eye coordination. He knows what he's supposed to do(Swing the bat and hit the ball) but it doesn't turn out the way he expects it to when his time comes.
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So Obama botched something as simple as a bow, when millions of visitors does it right, and you STILL TRUST this man to lead a NATION?
What makes you think he won't botch the health care reform, the foreign policy, and the whole she-bang?
He botched it all right, all of it.
The Japanese themselves are embarrassed and refuse to watch this clip, I AM embarrassed and had to turn away every time it's played. Again, those of you who think it's just a sign of respect, well, I guess now I know whey Japanese thinks foreigners are crude and rude, because you have ZERO idea about the subtlety and nuance of asian culture.
Obaka, a new term for the tool of a prez, embarrasses his host country, and even perceived as mocking the culture when he does things like this.
Incompetent study even at such matter, he proved once again, he is just an empty suit.
Get this clown and his draq-queen-wife out of USA and to where they belong; Cuba, China, or Kenya. IF those countries even want them there ruining and apologizing on behalf of citizens there to the rest of the world.
I leave you with a chinese proverb: "The most dangerous person is a naive person with the best intention."
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Ojigi (bowing) is an essential part of Japanese daily life. People bow when saying hello, thanking someone, apologizing, saying good-bye and introducing themselves. Although shaking hands (akushu) has become accepted as a form of greeting, many Japanese still are not used to it.
Originally posted by 317258186
Respect can be shown in simple and DIGNIFIED way without the possibility of being misconstrued as GROVELLING by, yes a shallow bow or a handshake. But that's not what he has done is it?
Next time you greet a Japanese, why don't you give him a deep bow, practice what you preach, hypocrites.
you are completely right.
Obama is this and that blah,blah, but he has manners. and i respect him gor that.
first US president that isn't hillbilly after long time
Originally posted by Max_TO
Does this matter ? Does this bother anyone to have there leader bowing to Royalty ? Is this , the bowing president , the only president that has bowed to royalty while holding office , or were there others that have done so but nothing was made of it ?
I could be wrong but I think I can remember Presidents bowing to the Pope on occasion , no ?
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Comparing the poems 'Neutral Tones' and 'Absence'
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Comparing the poems 'Neutral Tones' and 'Absence' Both the poems 'Neutral Tones' by Thomas Hardy and 'Absence' by Elizabeth Jennings mention and describe the poets' feelings about losing their partners. Even though the general theme, the loss of love, is the same, many features such as tone, imagery, language and rhyme scheme differ from each other. Hardy emphasises more on his feelings towards his break up. He doesn't actually mention how he feels, but instead, the imagery he uses and the way he describes his ex-girlfriend shows that he feels broken and angry. The tone in this poem is very solemn and dull, though it is quite strong in some areas like "The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing" and "your face, and the God-curst sun... grayish leaves". Hardy also got more vigorous and frustrated towards the end of the poem. In Jennings's poem, the tone is much different. Unlike Hardy, she describes her surroundings and loneliness, not how her partner looks like. Jennings's poem builds up from a calm tone to an irritated one. The first stanza of 'Absence' describes her surroundings, the second, how she is alone and in the third, how her loneliness affects her. ...read more.
Hardy uses her face as the conveyance of all his disputes with her and all the resentment inside him. This makes the poem effective to show how strongly Hardy feels about his break up. Jennings's poem is somewhat the opposite. She has set her poem in a beautiful garden where everything seems fine, "well-tended" and "steady" - exactly the way it was before she broke up. This shows that she feels everything was against her. She wants everything to be gloomy like her feelings but was annoyed when she saw that "nothing was changed" to suit her feelings. She says, "It was because the place was just the same that made your absence seem a savage force", and this line shows that it was because of the normalcy of the landscape that made her lonelier. The line "there was no sign that anything had ended" proves that she wants life to continue as normal for her but it can't, because she is shattered due to her break up. Her use of more joyful images like the "birds... singing an ecstasy" and the "fountains" which "sprayed their usual steady jet" are also effective, like Hardy's images. ...read more.
Even so, she is only thinking of his name. This difference shows me that Hardy emphasises more on how his relationship has been broken and how his partner didn't feel his distress, but Jennings emphasises more on her anguish that the things around her aren't gloomy and how she can't share their delight. I personally prefer Hardy's poem 'Neutral Tones' because he uses imagery very effectively. Hardy uses the landscape, colours, and facial features to convey his heart brokenness. I liked the way Hardy chose an aggravated tone for his poem and how he has developed it towards the end to describe his girlfriend's face. From his poem, I could actually feel Hardy's devastation because he even brought in the bitter side of nature to enhance his feelings. Hardy also had a dramatic ending where he used the alliteration "wrings with wrongs". I also liked the way Hardy had combined all his anger and problems and merged them into his ex-girlfriend's face. I think Hardy was successful in using imagery by describing the surroundings in the beginning of the poem and concluding with the surroundings as well. Hardy's choice of language was also appropriate to describe his emotions. All in all, I think Hardy was very successful in using vivid imagery to portray his feelings. ...read more.
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Ingredients1 1⁄2 sticks butter
4 small shallots, finely chopped
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 cup chopped onion
3 teaspoons fresh thyme leaves
1 pound portobello, shiitake, or a combination of wild mushrooms, stems removed, cut into 1/2-inch chunks
1⁄2 cup white wine
1 cup chicken stock
Sea salt and freshly ground white pepper
8 cups cubed, dried brioche, crusts removed (country bread can be substituted)
1⁄4 cup chopped parsley leaves
3 sage leaves, chopped
3⁄4 cup hazelnuts, halved and lightly toasted
3 extra-large eggs, beaten
2 cups heavy cream
1 teaspoon hazelnut oil (optional)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Melt 10 tablespoons butter in a large skillet, add shallots, garlic, and onion, and sweat until translucent. Add 1 teaspoon thyme and the mushrooms. Cook until the mushrooms are light brown. Add the wine, and cook until the liquid evaporates, then repeat with the stock. Season with salt and pepper. Place the mushrooms in a bowl.
Generously butter a 9-by-13-inch baking pan or 3-quart casserole.
Put bread, parsley, sage, hazelnuts, remaining thyme, and mushroom mixture in a large bowl. Stir in eggs, cream, and hazelnut oil until combined, and season with 1 teaspoon salt and 1⁄2 teaspoon pepper. Spread the stuffing in the casserole, then cover with foil and bake 45 minutes. Remove foil, and bake another 30 minutes, until golden.(Published 2004)
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Ben is a senior on the Warriors' football team.
What are your hobbies?
I like to hunt and fish and do pretty much anything outdoors-related.
What about non-school activities?
Church of the Annunciation Youth Group, Henry County Youth Coalition.
How about school clubs?
Beta, Ag Club, FCA, Spanish Club, Academic Team.
What's your favorite school subject?
What's your favorite music style/artist?
Krista is a senior on the Wildcats' volleyball and softball teams.
What are your hobbies?
Just hanging out with friends and going to the movies.
How about school clubs?
Beta, National Honor Society, FCA, Love-a-Child mentoring program.
What is your favorite school subject?
Anatomy. I want to go into the medical field.
What is your favorite music style/artist?
Anything but "screamo" music. Adele
Who are your favorite sports teams/athletes?
U of L/ Angel McCoughtry.
Shayna Jeffries couldn't imagine not living on a farm.
From her rural upbringing and officer positions in FFA, Jeffries, a once shy student, stands confidently with only a handful of Henry Countians who have earned the American FFA Degree.
Jeffries started showing cattle at 9. She now owns 28 heads of Angus and Gelviah cattle on her family's farm off of Fallen Timber Road. Jeffries was a cheerleader until her junior year at Henry County High School and decided to quit and do something different.
It was déjà vu all over again for the Lady Cats.
In the first round of the 31st District soccer tournament, Henry County's girls' soccer team beat Carroll County on penalty kicks, a performance nearly identical to an early season match-up between the two.
Then, last week, it happened again against Owen County.
The Lady Rebels once again came from behind to defeat the Lady Cats 3-2 in double overtime with just 3:00 remaining before a penalty kick shootout would have decided the game.
The Henry County Lady Cats volleyball team shook off a season ending losing streak to play some of their best volleyball of the season downing the Owen County Lady Rebels 3-1 last week in the 31st District tournament at Carroll County.
That set up a tournament championship match against the tournament hosts. But the Lady Panthers would not be denied the tournament championship, and bested the Lady Cats 3-0, in closely contested games.
The Henry County football team hosted the Central Yellowjackets — ranked No. 2 in Class 3A — Friday night and gave the athletic team fits during a first half in which they played almost perfectly.
The Wildcats came in with a ball control, run it for "three yards and a cloud of dust" philosophy on offense and a "stop the run and beat us with the pass" defensive scheme that worked for most of the first half.
Early in the second half of their game against Paris, the Eminence Warriors were down 22-0.
Then Eminence outpaced Paris 38-26. But a buzzer-beating touchdown pass foiled the Warriors, and Paris won the game 42-38.
Eminence took the lead in the game late on Brandon Mitchell's third touchdown reception of the night with 1:01 left in the game.
In the fourth game between Eminence and Carroll County in last week's 31st District Tournament, it seemed as though the Warriors were headed for a district championship match.
But their hopes were dashed. Carroll County fought back from a 2-0 deficit to defeat the Warriors 16-25, 22-25, 25-20, 26-24, 15-10.
Renee is a sophomore on the Warriors' volleyball team
What are your hobbies?
I have a photography business called Renee & Co.
What about non-school activities?
I am a member of the Eminence Baptist Church Youth Group.
How about school clubs?
Senior Beta, Student Voice Team, Pep Club, Youth Coalition. I am also one of five sophomores involved in the Bellarmine Program. I take English 101 and Human Geography.
What's your favorite school subject?
Eddie is a junior on the Cats' soccer, cross country and track teams.
What are your hobbies?
Bike riding and hunting.
How about school clubs?
Technology Student Association, Pep Club.
What is your favorite school subject?
What is your favorite music style/artist?
Pop I guess. Bob Marley.
Who are your favorite sports teams/athletes?
In track and cross country I like the Oregon Ducks. In the NFL it's the Denver Broncos. My favorite athlete is Pre (Steve Prefontaine).
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At Democrat Tom Strickland's campaign headquarters, there's a sign that reads simply: 579,855. It's not the amount of money the Colorado Senate hopeful has raised, or the number of seconds until the election. Rather, it's the number of new voters that have moved to the state since Mr. Strickland's previous, unsuccessful challenge to now-incumbent Sen. Wayne Allard (R) six years ago.
Of the many forces shaping this year's closest contests, one of the most fundamental may be demographics. Rapid population growth throughout the Sunbelt and the Rocky Mountain West from rising Hispanic populations in Texas and Florida to the Northern transplants filling suburban North Carolina and Georgia are altering the political landscapes, creating new opportunities for political parties, and contributing to overall voter volatility.
But nowhere, perhaps, is it more dramatic than in Colorado, where the recent population explosion means that one-sixth of the electorate may be seeing the candidates' names on the ballot for the first time. As polls show the race essentially tied, both campaigns are scrambling to identify new pockets of support, and shoring up once-reliable areas.
The candidates "can't take anything for granted," says Colorado pollster Floyd Ciruli. "They are either seeing opportunities to play offense or are being forced to play defense" in areas that once seemed secure.
But Colorado isn't the only state where demographic shifts have caught the political establishment off guard. In Texas, observers have long recognized that the growing number of Hispanics might one day make the largely Republican state more Democratic but few thought it would happen in time for this year's elections. Yet with a Hispanic candidate running for governor and an African-American in a close battle for the Senate, Texas Democrats are poised to make a strong showing next week, and may pull off an upset.
Similarly, in Florida, the changing Latino community "has even caught Floridians by surprise," says pollster John Zogby. Long dominated by Cubans, whose politics lean Republican, the Florida Hispanic population is now equally made up of Argentines, Venezuelans, and others, says Mr. Zogby: "It is South America." This, along with a rising African-American population, may push the state in a more Democratic direction, boosting the challenger for governor, Bill McBride (D), in his tight race with Gov. Jeb Bush (R).
Even the traditionally Republican South has seen significant changes. Rising minority populations, as well as the migration of many Northerners, is altering the leanings of states such as North Carolina, where the Senate race between Elizabeth Dole (R) and Erskine Bowles (D) has grown surprisingly close.
"A lot of the growing suburbs around Charlotte, Raleigh, and Atlanta don't behave like Southern suburbs because, well, they're not," says Jennifer Duffy, a Senate analyst for the Cook Political Report in Washington. "We've certainly seen Democrats being more competitive in North Carolina."
The trend in the fast-growing Rocky Mountain states, on the other hand, seems to favor Republicans. Since 1992, the GOP has gone from holding three Western governorships to eight. Their advantage in Senate and House seats has grown from 23-17 to 31-9. In Colorado, their advantage among voters has more than tripled, to just under 200,000. "We have seen a general [Republican] shift in terms of registration ... over the past decade," says Colorado pollster Paul Talmey.
Yet local Democrats argue that many of the newcomers are up for grabs. "They're like a lot of the people who have lived here for years in that they'll do a lot of ticket splitting, voting for the candidates they like rather than the party," says state Sen. Penfield Tate (D).
Demographer William Frey of the University of Michigan points out that much Colorado's growth has come from California, particularly from "would-be suburbanites that have felt they're not living in suburbs anymore in places like Orange County or Riverside County or the suburbs outside San Francisco." Many of these residents came to work in Colorado's burgeoning technology industry, and while they're often economically conservative, he says, they may be more liberal socially: "After all, they've lived in California." The white-suburbanite influx has also created more jobs for lower-skilled workers, Mr. Frey adds, adding to a Hispanic population that tends to vote Democratic.
Perhaps the best indication of Colorado's potential to become more of a swing state is the fact that the current Senate race is one of the tightest in the nation. Both candidates have tacked toward the center on issues: Strickland has emphasized his support for President Bush on Iraq, while Allard has been touting his actions on environmental issues.
Certainly, the influx of newcomers has taken away some advantages of incumbency for Allard, a former veterinarian who served three terms in the House before being elected to the Senate in 1996. Although Allard has made it his trademark to hold annual town meetings in each of Colorado's 64 counties, campaign manager Dick Wadhams admits that the senator has essentially had to reintroduce himself to many voters.
For his part, challenger Strickland argues that population growth has created new opportunities, by broadening the playing field. "We're competing for votes in every single part of the state," says the former US Attorney.
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Rabbit Flea is the common name for Spilopsyllus cuniculi. These parasites are found most commonly on rabbits and hares in the wild although what with more people having pet rabbits nowadays, they can also infest house pets. The Rabbit Flea is slightly different in shape to the more common fleas (human, cat, dog) that infest us and as they are found in the wild, they are known to bite walkers, ramblers and hunters. They are around a millimeter in length and dark brown in color and feed of the blood of a host (bunny/hare).
These parasites are carriers of Myxomatosis, which is a viral infection fatal to rabbits. If your bunny has fleas, it is important to have them removed as soon as possible - as early detection could save their life. The parasites are known to assemble around the ears and neck and cause discomfort. Signs of fleas could be itching and damaging the skin around the ears. It is always worth regularly checking their fur for flea dirt, left behind by the pests. If you have a house rabbit, it may be that the pet has contracted fleas from your cat, so ensure a thorough search of all pets in the home and yard.
Rabbit flea control - Spilopsyllus cuniculi reproduce in a different way to the human (Pulex Irritans), cat (Ctenocephalides felis) or dog flea (Ctenocephalides canis). Their life cycle is similar to the Ctenocephalides but the female rabbit flea must feed off a pregnant bunny before being able to lay eggs! The rabbit flea is more likely to mate when around pregnant female hares or new born bunnies. You may therefore be better off in this sense if you only have one pet rabbit, and it's a non-pregnant male?
Always consult your veterinarian for which Rabbit flea treatment is best to use on your pet. There are several treatments you could buy for kittens, puppies, cats and dogs but these are very unlikely to be suitable for bunnies. You will always have to control any parasites in the area where your pet lives and sleeps, as fleas will lay eggs and reproduce at rapid rates. Always look for products that will kill both the adult flees as well as the eggs and larvae. However, be sure that they don't include pennyroyal (which can kill bunnies). The most common treatments for rabbit fleas are powders, combing and sprays. It's recommended that you try at least two of these methods (if not all) as combing alone will not completely rid the bunny of parasites. Use the spray for the area where the pet lives (but be sure to remove your bunny while you spray - always read the instructions). As for powders, there are many insecticides on line, but you will want one that's rabbit-friendly.
With any parasitic problem, prevention and control are key factors when it comes to your pets. None of us want our pets to get fleas, as they are uncomfortable, damaging to their health and possibly fatal in some cases. Ensure you visit our pages on prevention and control, along with flea season so you can be prepared before you (and your pet) have a problem on your hands. Use powders, vacuum and clean regularly. Don't let wild rabbits like those in the video below bring parasites into your yard!
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New this week: The Rugs of WarBy
From finely-woven traditional heirloom carpets to inexpensive "war rugs" that can resemble blown-up post cards, Afghanistan rug weavers make it all. Then how come no one associates Afghanistan with oriental rugs?
In this two-part analysis of Afghanistan's carpet industry Jared Nolan investigates the past history and future challenges facing the country's rug trad
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Tilion the Wayward was nearly through his great leap from the Mountains of Shadow to the White Mountains. He shone to his fullness, brightly illuminating the stone pathway, leading a Man on horseback to the great city. Even at the dead of night, this Man needed neither torch nor lamp to light his way, for the road was straight and he had traveled it many times over the years. Long ago it seemed when he first looked upon the city and the wonder of its white walls and tall glimmering towers. It was in his youth that his father Baldîn relinquished the lordship of Pelargir; a desire had awoken within his father to look upon the rebuilt Kingdom of Arnor. And like many men before him, he never returned from those beautiful lands.
It came to be that Balanthir was sworn in as Lord of Pelargir, and King Eldarion appeared to bear witness. Like many men before him, Balanthir loved his King since first he beheld him. And as the new Lord of Pelargir, he declared that a ship was to be built, worthy of the splendour and majesty of their King. From every part of the kingdom he summoned the most skilled workers and shipwrights from Dol Amroth joined the gifted craftsmen of Pelargir in constructing a staunch hull.
Sturdy blanks they were, though most fair, coming from the beloved lebethron trees of the White Mountains. Maidens gathered the finest silks from across the lands, sewing them together for sails worthy of great kings of old. Within a year's time, the great vessel was complete; Balanthir personally set forth up the Great River to deliver the majestic ship. And in two days time, mariners of Harlond, as if caught in some type of enchantment, beheld masts of such grandeur and beauty that they thought the long lost kings of old, of Númenor, had returned from their ocean depths. No Númenoréan king was Balanthir, though upon the stern of such a vessel he held himself just as highly. Trumpets echoed through the harbour, banners with livery of the heirs of Elendil were unfurled, and in the waning light of the afternoon sun of Midsummer, the Lord of Pelargir had presented the Cair Lûtha to the King, pledging his eternal love and loyalty.
Thereafter, Balanthir would often journey to Minas Tirith, and though he never resided within its circle, it always felt like a homecoming. And yet this time, as he rode within the walls of the Rammas Echor, it did not. The moon's face was full and bright and the stars were unveiled to their fullest, but their light only seemed to accentuate the emptiness of the road, the road which marked the centre of travel from Arnor to Dale, and even to the city of Umbar, where all their peoples might gather to trade with the prosperous city of Minas Tirith. Never was such a road utterly barren as this. And yet, glancing here and there, Balanthir could see no life, not even in any of the many homes which had arisen over the years. Not lamps nor candles nor any movement at all could be seen in any of the homesteads or orchards. And so an ill-feeling began to weigh upon his chest.
No less than a mile away, he could see the Great Gate, forged by the Dwarves of Aglarond, its mithril coating shimmering in the moonlight. He struggled to reassure himself, he was in the very heart of the great kingdom of Gondor, a small distance away from the most impregnable fortress of all of Middle-Earth; no danger need dwell in his mind. Yet his fears were not soothed. As he edged on his steed, his heart began to pound, now eagerly wishing only to be within the safety of the City, surrounded by cheerful men and fair maidens, resting near a warm fire, with a glass of the finest wine from Dorwinion. Thus it was that part of his wish was granted, his solitude ended.
'Hail Balanthir! Lord of Pelargir!' cried out an unseen voice. Out from the shadows stepped a tall man, stopping in the middle of an open clearing, where there was neither house nor barn, nor crop grew. As Balanthir's steed approached the man, the shadows seemed to lessen and he could discern more details of the man. Long black robes flowed across his body, foreign red runes traced its trim. A dark hood masked his face, but the moonlight shining on the road illuminated the man's mouth. It was ill to look upon, and its foulness sent a cold shiver through Balanthir. He tried to dismiss the feeling, for not everything in the world was fair and few men had such privileged lives as he. 'Greetings, stranger. Long has it been since I've ridden beneath the shadows of Minas Tirith; little did I know that my face was known in these lands. Yet it pleases me to see another being, for this night has me restless, and the emptiness of the road is queer.'
'I have indeed seen thee before, and have heard of the many great deeds thou hast accomplished in the ancient harbour of the Exiles. For in these dull days, I entertain myself with the gathering of news and tales from all over the kingdom of Númenaranië.'
'Dull these days may seem to some men, but they should be slow to wish for exciting times, for they may often lead to peril and foul deeds.'
The cloaked mouth smirked. 'Thy words are wise, lord,' the man said, bowing low.
'Wise you say?' the Lord of Pelargir questioned. 'Perhaps. But at the very least I am wise enough to know that your tongue is not native to these lands. Tell me stranger, where you hail from?'
'Wise I say again, lord. For I come from the cape of Umbar, though it be many a year since I dwelt there.'
'Ah, Umbar!' Balanthir pleasantly acknowledged. 'Pelargir's sister city of old. It comforts me to see how the ancient hostilities between our two cities have finally passed. The people of my city value the merchants of Umbar greatly, and though they bring many fabrics and plants and trinkets that are strange to our land, we accept them with eagerness.'
'Trinketsss? Trinkets you say my lord?' the man hissed. 'I do indeed have many trinkets. I have one such that may interest thee. Though it comes not from Umbar; this little thing comes from the ruined wasteland of Mordor! Long did I search the ruined site of the Tower of the Dark Lord. Though it be many a year since his destruction, wild wolves still roam his land, if thou search hard enough, my lord, deep in the cracks and caves of the wall of the Ered Lithui, thou will even find Orcs. Many survived the Dark Lord's fall, and many still yet survived the great hunt from the returned King. Deep in their caves they lurk, hiding from the hunters of the West, hiding from the bright eyes of the Sun. What wits they once have had left them and I easily eluded the now mindless animals of Mordor. I was rewarded with this.'
From his cloak he drew out a red ring, the likes of which Balanthir had never seen before.
'May I see it, Sir? Much history lies within this gem. I wonder if the loremasters of the City might be able to tell us more.'
'You may keep it, my Lord!' The man smiled, humbly presenting the ring to the Lord of Pelargir.
'I could not my good Sir. At least let me pay you. This is surely a valuable item, I dare not to cheat you of profit.'
'No, no, my Lord. Take it, take it. I have kept that in my possession for many years and it has served me well. But now I give it to thee. Put it on, put it on!' the man keenly encouraged.
As Balanthir slipped on the ring, a strange numbness swept through his hand. Quickly, he dismissed it as soreness from the journey. His attention instead was focused on the ring as he held his hand aloft, studying the great jewel within the centre. It appeared to be some type of ruby, though lacking the typical glimmer. It was as if made of blood as absurd as that sounded. It mattered not, for it was an entrancing jewel nonetheless. For a moment, he thought that he would accept the ring for his own, but the man of Umbar broke the enchantment.
'What a transformation thou hast taken, Lord! I am sure thou would resemble one of the Nine Kings or warriors of old with their Rings of Power!'
Balanthir's face went deathly white at the stranger's words.
'Do not say such things!' Balanthir yelled, and he aimed to rip the ring from his finger and throw it into the Anduin if he could reach it. He pulled and tugged and tore at the ring, wanting nothing but to get the accursed filth from him. Yet he could not. Legends of old raced through his mind, and he deemed that the ring, of its own will, clenched down upon his finger, ensnaring him, when in fact it might have been just that his hand had swelled and he was too anxious to think clearly. And though the ring had no power of its own, its designs were dark and fully known to the man of Umbar, whose head was still covered with the dark hood. Amidst his struggles Balanthir could still see the man's hideous mouth, smiling a ghastly smile.
It was then that the man of Umbar finally revealed himself and cast back his hood. Balanthir recoiled at the man's face and his hand went for his sword. The man's speech hinted of his age, yet Balanthir did not expect the man to look so decrepit. Yet it was not the man's appearance that brought him to action. Indeed he knew not why his hand was at his sword. Perhaps a dormant trait of foresight was finally kindled, or perhaps not. But this much he knew, this man before him was evil.
'What devilry have you beset upon me?' Balanthir yelled. And yet the man answered not. Instead he began to speak in some foreign and yet dark language that Balanthir knew not. The light from the road seemed to fade about him, though the moon shone just the same.
Gimb-agh thrak-u-i burzum-i gûl
Balanthir's horse reared back, for the words were menacing and powerful, inducing such a madness that his master barely could control it. The longer the man of Umbar spoke, the stronger was growing the horse's madness. The ring upon Balanthir's finger grew tight, the pain was great.
Krimp-i Durb-Nazgûl-u-i glob tark
'Nazgûl?' Balanthir gasped. The language he knew not, but that dark word he recognized. Every child knew the word, for in Gondor the tales of the War of the Ring were told round the fires many a night. They all knew too well of the Dark Lord's servants, the Ring-wraiths, their winged steeds and their Black Captain, the only enemy to pass under the gates of Minas Tirith.
'Why do you speak that foul language in our kingdom?' Balanthir shouted with such fury burning within his eyes that the man of Umbar almost submitted. Yet no answer was given, for at last Balanthir's horse could no long contain its madness and fell back, collapsing to the ground. Balanthir fell with his beast, narrowly missed by its crushing body.
'Fool!' the man said, returning to the Common Speech. 'I do not answer to thee! For I am the Mouth of Sauron and I come from a far greater power than thy pitiable King!'
Balanthir did not bother to search his mind for any tales about the man's title; an insult to his beloved King was enough. He rose from the ground, appearing to have grown in stature, and drew his sword. A fire shone from his eyes that would have brought a lesser man to his knees.
'I do not know what evil you have placed upon my finger, nor do I know what your intentions are. But you have defiled our fair streets with that filth speech of Mordor, and for that you should be imprisoned. Worst of all, you have insulted my King, whom I hold dearer than any treasure in all the lands. And for that you deserve death!'
A blind rage overtook the Lord of Pelargir, and he charged forward, aiming to dispatch his enemy in one blow. Yet it was not to be. For the Mouth was not as defenseless as he seemed, and out from the dark robes he drew his own blade. Of such length it was, that Balanthir knew not how such a sword could be hidden. Dark magic he deemed it to be. The sword, however, was anything but dark and the steel shone brighter than the blade of Gondor.
Not since the Battle of the Pelennor Fields had swords met in combat within the walls of the Rammas Echor, but in the coming days it would not be the last. Great were both, in their skill in battle, yet greater was the Mouth's skill but his age and strength, however, were not. So the great clash was evenly matched for a time. As if two mating eels their shimmering swords appear, dancing back and forth in a ballet of love. Yet no mates were these and no love was given to the other. Death filled their minds.
Evenly matched they were for a moment, but it was the Mouth who made the first error. Overly eager he swung his sword down, missed Balanthir and struck the dirt. A useless clang echoed in Balanthir's ears. For his foe was now exposed, and Balanthir raised his own sword, ready to deal the death blow. Again it was not meant to be. The Mouth lifted his hand, and Balanthir's sword leapt from his grasp, falling to the ground beside him. Amazement and fear came upon him, for never before had he met such a sorcerer and indeed thought none were left, if they every truly existed. Unarmed, but far from defeated, the Gondorian stood erect and proud before his grotesque enemy. He would fight to the end if need be, and would gladly give his life to rid his kingdom of this plague. Three times did the Mouth of Sauron swing his blade, and three times did Balanthir dodge his attacker. On the third, Balanthir lunged forward, catching his enemy unawares, disarming him. There, upon a barren piece of land the two did wrestle, and charred black dust sprang up, choking the very air Balanthir gasped for. The sky darkened, as from nowhere a single cloud appeared in this clearest of nights, passed over the moon, plunging the land into a black abyss.
This was no darkness of that he had known. The land that Balanthir knew better than his own homeland had now changed. A swirling mist ripped through the streets, and the sound of a wretched wind deafened his ears. The hazy world seemed but a pale shadow of the bright road to Minas Tirith. He could hear the shuffling of his enemy's feet, but as Balanthir stumbled about, he could not find his target, for his sight was dim and he could see little beyond his own feet.
Yet another noise grabbed Balanthir's attention. A shrill cry rang out; far off from the East it seemed, and yet also right before him. So horrible and harsh was the voice that it pierced the proud Gondorian, straight to the marrow. The voice repeated something that he could not hear, but over and over again did it chant in a low moan.
It was from the East that his vision became terribly clear. A bodiless form streaked across the heavens and back down to the Pelennor. Balanthir held his sword up in defence of this wight, the edges of the steel flickering red. What was a faint whisper was now growing louder and louder as it grew closer.
It was then, just as the wight was almost on top of him, that the Mouth, almost forgotten, renewed his assault upon Balanthir. Amidst their struggles, and amidst the darkness, a pain of utter cold pierced Balanthir's chest. Almost as if its task were complete, the cloud continued on, revealing the moonlight, and much to Balanthir's horror, the source of the bitter cold enflaming his chest. A long, thin knife was buried within his flesh. The ring upon his finger, which he had all but forgotten, shone forth with a brilliant red flame. The Mouth's eyes captured the light and reveled in its meaning.
Balanthir could feel his life flowing from the wound, and with his strength pulled the blade out and cast it to the ground, where it shattered. It was the last he ever saw. He collapsed to the ground, whispering over and over again, the chant that which the dreadful wight had imprinted onto his soul.
This is my hour, this is my hour, this is my hour.
So passed Balanthir, son of Baldîn, Lord of Pelargir.
Yet for grief as yet unbeknownst to the free peoples of Middle Earth, his body did not die. There would be no tomb, nor grave, nor pyre for Balanthir. For a dark and ancient power now dwelt within the body of the Gondorian, intent on wreaking terror on the world once more.


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This evening, I am posting information on the Machrie Moor prehistoric site on the Isle of Arran in S.W.Scotland. This is one of the most important such sites in Western Europe.
Location is 2.25 miles NNE of Blackwaterfoot on the west of the island. To reach the site entails a walk across farmland for about 1 mile.
The site comprises ruins of chambered tombs, hut circles and megalithic rings all sited on a low-lying triangle of flat, sandy land or 'machair'.
Prior to construction of the stone structures and monuments the site had been farmed (by Neolithic peoples) with pottery evidence dating back to 3900 BC. Wooden circles were replaced by stone.
The stones comprise granite and sandstone with oldest circle dating to 2900 BC.
All six circles are aligned with the summer equinox via a 'notch' on the skyline to N.E.
A dynamic site which was in use for about three thousand years through to around 1000 BC.


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About Bizu
Bizu is a premier French patisserie offering signature Parisian-stye pastries and desserts. It is also a bistro serving European comfort food attuned to to the Filipino palate.
Bizu's Menu
- Ten Hour Roast Beef Belly
- Slow cooked asparagus, beef belly, potato garden, grilled vegetables, horseradish and mushroom gravy895.00
- Salmon Pommery
- Batter Poached Norwegian salmon with parmesan pea risotto, lemon wedges, asparagus and pommery mustard sauce895.00
- Wild Mushroom Carbonara
- Good for 6-8 persons395.00
Breakfast Sets
- Beef Angus Sirloin Tapa
- Beef angus sirloin tapa served with garlic rice, tomato provencal and sunny eggs395.00
- Chorizo Fresca Longganisa
- Chorizo fresca longganisa served with garlic rice, tomato provencal and sunny eggs395.00
- Eggs Benedict
- Poached egg and Italian prosciutto on croissant toast topped with wilted spinach and Hollandaise sauce395.00
- Fried Bangus
- Fried daing na bangus served with garlic rice, tomato provencal and sunny eggs395.00
- Grand Filipino Breakfast
- Tapa, tocino, longganisa and bangus served with garlic rice, tomato provencal and sunny eggs695.00
- Kielbasa Sausage Breakfast
- Kielbasa sausage, smoked bacon lardons, sunny eggs, roasted tomatoes, grilled asparagus and sweet grain mustard495.00
- Lobster Tartine
- Fresh Maine lobster pan-fried in garlic butter with our silky scrambled eggs with sourdough bread and roasted tomatoes895.00
- Pork Belly Tocino
- Pork belly tocino served with garlic rice, tomato provencal and sunny eggs395.00
- Prosciutto Tartine
- Thinly sliced prosciutto ham on a sunny egg with grilled asparagus, roasted tomatoes, Swiss emmental cheese and sourdough bread495.00
- Salmon Benedict
- Poached egg and smoked salmon on our buttery croissant toast topped with grilled asparagus and Hollandaise sauce495.00
- Wagyu Salpicao
- Incredibly soft Japanese Saikoro beef topped with sunny egg and fried garlic. Served with garlic rice855.00
- All items come with a choice of: 1 cup of Cafe Americain / 1 cup of Hot Chocolate / 1 pot of Loose Leaf Tea. Available in selected outlets only
French Toasts
- Upside Down French Toast
- A must try! Croissant roll with creme surprise, whipped butter and roasted almonds with creme anglaise395.00
French Omelette Set
- Omelette du Fromage
- Light and fluffy omelette topped with freshly melted Raclette cheese at your table side395.00
- Omelette with Smoked Salmon
- Light and fluffy omelette topped with smoked Atlantic salmon455.00
- Omelette with Wild Mushrooms & Emmental Cheese
- Light and fluffy omelette with fresh wild mushrooms and Swiss emmental cheese365.00
- Light and fluffy souffle-style omelette served with buttery croissant. Available in selected outlets only.
Healthy Breakfast
- Yogurt Muesli Trifle
- Granola and chia seeds with fresh yogurt and fruits in season (Available in selected outlets only)395.00
- Caviar & Smoked Salmon Terrine
- Smoked salmon with cream cheese, dill and black caviar. Served with crostini bread675.00
- Chorizo Gratinee with Papadums
- Chorizo gratinee with stewed tomatoes and rosemary topped with Emmental cheese, sunny egg and fried papadums635.00
- Truffle Mushroom Tartine
- Sauteed wild mushrooms with garlic, red onion jam and Swiss Emmental cheese on sourdough bread495.00
- Warm Brie with Caramelized Pear
- Baked brie cheese topped with caramelized pear. Served with crostini bread635.00
- Available in selected outlets only
- Bizu Clam Chowder
- White baby clams, potato, carrots, celery and cream in our sourdough bread bowl395.00
- French Onion Soup
- Slow-cooked onions with beef broth topped with Swiss Emmental cheese355.00
- Lobster Bisque with Sweet Pear Ravioli
- Stewed Maine lobster heads with heavy cream, sweet pear and ricotta ravioli, buttered shrimps, croutons and dill485.00
- Pumpkin Soup
- Slow-roasted pumpkin with nutmeg, paprika and cream265.00
- Available in selected outlets only
Fresh Salads
- Bizu Caesar Salad
- Sliced prosciutto, caviar on soft-boiled egg, romaine, herb croutons, Pecorino cheese and aioli dressing545.00
- Burrata with Berries
- Fresh burrata from Latteria d'Ischia dairy with fresh strawberries, dark cherries, balsamic cream, fresh basil and virgin olive oil675.00
- Peach Waldorf Salad
- Peach brulee with mango and cucumber julienne, grapes, romaine, candied walnuts, grilled herb chicken breast, croutons and orange-yogurt dressing495.00
- Smoked Salmon Salad
- Smoked Atlantic salmon, lemon wedge, romaine, herb croutons and aioli dressing595.00
- Soft Shell Crab & Pomelo
- Soft shell crab tempura with pomelo, cucumber, romaine, fresh shrimps and raspberry vinaigrette675.00
- Summer Watermelon Salad
- A refreshing salad with marinated Feta cheese, olives, arugula, cucumber, candied walnuts and raspberry vinaigrette495.00
- Truffle Autumn Salad
- Truffle and roasted wild mushrooms with lardons, croutons, soft-boiled egg, grilled asparagus, Pecorino cheese, Hollandaise sauce and lemon vinaigrette545.00
- Beef Cheeks
- Slow-braised Angus beef cheeks in red wine with wild mushroom risotto, grilled asparagus and fresh chorizo795.00
- Chicken Cordon Bleu
- Fried chicken roulade with Raclette cheese and wild mushroom carbonara695.00
- Crispy Lengua
- Pan-fried beef lengua topped with pommery cream sauce served with grilled sweet pumpkin895.00
- Halibut en Papillote
- Baked Halibut fillet in paper. Served with Chardonnay cream and Pecorino risotto595.00
- Salmon Pommery
- Butter poached salmon fillet with pommery mustard sauce and Pecorino risotto895.00
- Ten Hour Roast Beef Belly
- Our signature slow-roasted Angus beef belly with potato gratin, grilled vegetables, horseradish and mushroom espagnole895.00
- Available in selected outlets only
- Angus Prime Rib-eye
- 1 Inch thick-cut grilled Angus prime beef rib-eye with garlic and rosemary burnt butter1,950.00
- Grilled Lamb Rack
- Australian lamb rack with red wine au jus and mint jelly995.00
- Porchetta
- Try out our very own porchetta, a slow-roasted pork belly marinated in garlic and fresh rosemary with crispy crackling skin in a duo of arugula pesto and apple-mango chutney sauces6,500.00
- Roast Herb Free Range Chicken
- Roasted free-range chicken with rosemary and garlic, Chardonnay cream and grilled sweet pumpkin695.00
- Whole Roast Turkey
- Traditional whole roast turkey served with our signature stuffing made with crunchy apples, chestnuts, and sausages. Sauces include a duo of cranberry and pan gravy to accompany this Christmas feast8,500.00
- Available in selected outlets only
- Beef & Chorizo Bolognese
- Beef and chorizo bolognese braised in red wine and tomato sauce and Pecorino cheese455.00
- Caramelized Pear Ravioli
- Handmade fresh egg ravioli in sweet pear and ricotta filling sauteed in butter, garlic, rosemary and Pecorino cheese485.00
- Chicken Pesto Pasta
- Homemade basil pesto and cream, roast chicken and Pecorino cheese395.00
- Handmade Spinach & Ricotta Ravioli
- Fresh spinach ravioli filled with fresh spinach and ricotta filling, pomodoro sauce, basil and Pecorino cheese455.00
- Lobster Mac & Cheese
- Fresh Maine lobster sauteed in garlic-butter, lobster jus, Somerdale English cheddar cheese and rigatoni pasta895.00
- Marinara
- Fresh shrimp with Manila clams, pomodoro sauce, basil and Pecorino cheese395.00
- Spaghettini Alle Clam Vongole
- Fresh clams with clam jus, spaghettini, garlic and butter455.00
- Truffle Cream Pasta
- Ground pork sausage, truffle cream with wild mushrooms and Pecorino cheese495.00
- Wild Mushroom Carbonara
- Bacon lardons, wild mushrooms, egg yolk, black pepper and Pecorino cheese395.00
- All served with Garlic Bread. Available in selected outlets only
For Kids
- Celeste
- Cheese sticks with marinara sauce and wild mushroom carbonara295.00
- Babar
- Chicken fingers, honey mustard sauce and mac and cheese365.00
- Available in selected outlets only
- Bizu Angus Burger
- Angus beef brisket patty with Raclette cheese, caramelized onion jam, bacon lardons, romaine and aioli in our milk bread buns685.00
- Cheesesteak Sandwich
- Angus sirloin with caramelized onion jam, Somerdale English cheddar and brioche595.00
- Croque Madame
- Buttered brioche with dijon mustard, aioli, bechamel and Emmental cheese topped with a sunny egg and fresh prosciutto slices495.00
- Lobster Roll
- Fresh Boston lobsters sauteed in garlic-butter with lemon aioli and buttery brioche bread895.00
- Roast Herb Chicken Panini
- A grilled ciabatta sandwich with roasted free-range chicken, sundried tomato-basil aioli and Emmental cheese395.00
- All sandwiches come with a choice of French Fries or Side Salad. Available in selected outlets only
- French Fries
- 100.00
- Garlic Rice
- 50.00
- Grilled Vegetables
- 100.00
- Mashed Potato
- 150.00
- Pecorino Cheese Risotto
- 180.00
- Potato Gratin
- 150.00
- Wild Mushroom Risotto
- 180.00
Afternoon Tea Set
- Afternoon Tea Set
- Servings995.00 Per Set (Good for sharing)CanapesPetit Croque MonsieurSmoked Salmon TartareRoast Herb Chicken on CrostiniShrimp and Mango CrouteWatermelon and FetaChorizo CroquetteEarl Grey SconesClotted Cream and Dark Cherry JamSweetsChocolate TrufflesOpera GateauxMacaron de Paris
- Served with your choice of loose leaf tea. Good for sharing. Available in selected outlets only
Desserts Ala Minute
- Bizu Halo Halo
- Our creative version of the classic Filipino dessert. Shaved ice with ube macaron, leche flan, red bean paste, langka, almond flakes and ube ice cream355.00
- Chocolate Almond Profiteroles
- Warm cream puffs filled with vanilla ice cream topped with our Valrhona dark chocolate sauce and roasted almond slices355.00
- Mango Creme Brulee Crepe
- Warm crepe with fresh mangoes and torched creme brulee385.00
- Valrhona Molten Chocolate Souffle
- 66% Valrhona Alpaco molten dark chocolate souffle with vanilla ice cream. For dark chocolate lovers!395.00
- Chef crafted desserts made only as you order. Available in selected outlets only.
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Deer Talk Now answers your questions and in this episode we'll have some great archery and bowhunting tips that will improve your accuracy.
Deer hunters often love to work on their bows so they know the ins and outs of each part. It's an enjoyable process but also quite helpful to build confidence in your bow. Then, if there's a problem when you're practicing or on a hunt, you may be able to repair it yourself and keep right on shooting.
It's not hard to learn how to make in-the-field adjustments to your bow. In this latest episode of Deer Talk Now, host Dan Schmidt explains what happened when he started shooting with a string loop. Then, Brad Rucks of Deer & Deer Hunting explains how to tie in a string loop, and also how to install your own peep sight for better shot-to-accuracy.
Get the best bowhunting tips and shoot more cleanly and accurately.
Put More Venison in Your Freezer by Understanding the Rut
In Deer & Deer Hunting's Guide to Hunting the Rut, you'll discover how to understand the three phases of the rut — pre-rut, rut, and post-rut — and how understanding each of these phases can help you become a better hunter.
Expand your understanding of the rut and corresponding deer behavior with contributions from experts like John Ozoga, Jeremy Flinn, Charles Alsheimer and many more. Discover how to maximize your time in the field in order to realize more success killing big bucks, and get top tactics from top names like Patrick Meitin, Bill Vaznis, John Eberhart and more.