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LOS ANGELES – Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc., Skilled Healthcare, LLC, and other affiliated companies, will pay up to $450,000 and provide significant remedial relief to a class of Hispanic employees at its nursing homes and assisted living facilities who were subject to harassment, different terms and conditions of employment, promotion, compensation, and treatment through the implementation of an English-only rule that was only enforced against Hispanics, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.
The EEOC filed suit in 2005 against the defendant companies alleging national origin discrimination on behalf of Hispanics under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, which approved the three-year consent decree settling the matter.
"As our country's workforce becomes increasingly diverse, employers must be vigilant in ensuring that if English-only rules are necessary, they are not discriminatory," said EEOC Acting Chairman Stuart J. Ishimaru. "National origin discrimination is an abomination to our country, which was founded by immigrants and has prospered from welcoming immigrants."
The lawsuit arose from a charge of discrimination by a monolingual janitor, Jose Zazueta, who was fired from defendants' Royal wood Care Center in Torrance, Calif., for violating the company's English-only policy. By contrast, other employees at defendants' facilities who spoke Tagalog were not disciplined or terminated for speaking that language at work.
The EEOC identified a total of 53 current and former Hispanic employees at facilities in California and Texas who were subjected to disparate treatment and harassment based on their national origin and shared Spanish language. The EEOC alleged that some workers were prohibited from speaking Spanish to Spanish-speaking residents of the facility, or disciplined for speaking Spanish in the parking lot while on breaks. Additionally, the EEOC alleged that defendants gave Hispanic employees less desirable work than non-Hispanic counterparts, paid them less, and promoted them less often.
"The EEOC commends Skilled Healthcare for cooperating with us to establish meaningful mechanisms to advance equal employment opportunities for all workers," said EEOC Los Angeles Regional Attorney Anna Park. "In the most diverse state in the nation, employers should not single out certain languages or cultures for harsher treatment."As part of the, monetary relief for class members, the consent decree provides for the employers to offer English language classes to the 53 claimants. The three-year consent decree also requires that employees receive annual training regarding national origin discrimination; that defendants educate facility residents and patients regarding the rights of the employees under Title VII; that defendants designate an EEO monitor so that future discrimination complaints are closely monitored; and that defendants report annually to the EEOC regarding their employment practices.
EEOC's Los Angeles District Director Olophius Perry added, "Employees and applicants should never be discriminated against because of their language or country of origin. To single out one language but not another for harsher treatment is old-fashioned discrimination."
According to its web site, Skilled Health Care Group, Inc. operates skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, and other facilities totaling 10,100 licensed beds in California, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, and Nevada, mostly in large urban or suburban markets.
In Fiscal Year 2008, national origin discrimination charge filings with EEOC offices nationwide increased to a record high 10,601, up 13% from the prior year. Of the total national origin cases, 204 involved English-only rules, up from 125 such cases in FY 2006 and 32 cases in FY 1996.
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Jamie Lynn Spears and Casey Aldridge, the father of her child, have called it quits, according to People.
And the 18-year-old star has already moved on – she's reportedly dating businessman James Watson.
The former "Zoey 101" actress and younger sister of Britney Spears has also reportedly moved back in with her mom, Lynne, after living with Aldridge in a Liberty, Miss., home.
"She did a lot of growing up but he didn't," a source told the mag of Aldridge. "I think she put up with more than she cared to put up with. She just got enough of it and was tired of the situation."
Watson, on the other hand, is 28, 10 years older than Jamie Lynn. According to People, he would not comment on the relationship.
Jamie Lynn announced her pregnancy – at age 16 – in December 2007. Her baby, Maddie, was born in June 2008.
The former couple had planned to marry, but in March 2009, OK! reported that the engagement was off.
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Tony, the sauce-slinger and namesake of Tony's Pizza, learned his Italian grandmother's cucina skills by way of his mother. He works from a tiny kitchen on the corner of Tijeras and Seventh Street, where he pushes pies out to diners seated in one of the seven tables that make up his restaurant.
Tony's menu is sized to fit. It's small but satisfying, and nearly everything on it is made from scratch. Garlicky marinara sauce is simmered on the stove, and meatballs are hand-rolled and pan-fried. Every corner of the restaurant is saturated with the telltale aromas of home-cooking.
Coupled with a simple décor—blue gingham tablecloths covering wood booths and a smattering of Rat Pack candids—the place is a jewel box of Italian-American homeyness. Behind the counter, resting atop an icebox, is an old turntable that when spun sends Dean Martin dancing through the dining room. It's like being in your uncle's living room.
There's nothing fancy here. No bells and whistles, no fusion cuisine: just uncomplicated pizzas and pastas prepared with simplicity in mind. The pizzas are hand-tossed from homemade dough. And while watching discs of dough fly toward the ceiling is impressive in its own right, nothing can prepare you for the experience of biting into the crust after it's pulled from the oven. The outer shell is crisp and flaky, giving way to a center that's chewy, dense and fruity with good olive oil.
Tony may have learned a lot from his mama, but the tender dough can be credited to a friend from the Fano Bread Company. Twelve years ago, Fano owner Michael Rizzo made Tony an offer he couldn't refuse: He claimed he could make Tony's pizzas better. Rizzo turned Tony on to specially milled flour—a kind of low-gluten bread flour. The end result is a consistent, crackling crust with a thickness that calls to mind grilled focaccia.
Both the pizzas (starting at $5.50 for the smallest) and calzones ($8.95 with salad and drink) are sauced with crushed tomatoes, garlic, oregano, Parmesan cheese and olive oil, then buried in (or, in the case of the calzone, stuffed with) cut-from-the-block mozzarella.
Slightly misshapen, abundantly spiced meatballs show up on spaghetti ($8) and in the bomber-style meatball subs ($6.95). Coupled with Tony's oh-so-special sauce (that can only be described as having a tomato flavor that eludes most tomatoes), these meaty globes are beyond satisfying.
The spaghetti, in contrast, seems targeted at kids, with noodles cooked just past al dente. The ungodly amount of sauce served on it speaks to the American half of Tony's roots.
The only other disappointment is the Caesar salad ($5). Romaine lettuce is tossed with obviously canned dressing that packs more vinegar than a dollar store bottle of wicker-wrapped Chianti. It seems strangely out of place among the more lovingly prepared choices. But, hey, the croutons are crunchy.
Though Tony strives for authenticity in his food, he's also willing to meet people halfway. When he realized most of his customers were holding the ricotta cheese on their orders of lasagna and calzones, he did away with the ingredient altogether.
"Ninety percent of them ordered it without the ricotta—they always thought it was cottage cheese," he told me.
Tony's is an old-school neighborhood joint that's fighting to survive a new world order of corporate pizza chains. Open for nearly 16 years, loyal fans have followed it through three locations, a recent change in ownership and operating hours that defy logic. (Tony's is no longer open on Saturday and Sunday. WTF?) It's beyond ironic, but Tony has started filling the weekend void in his time and pocket by delivering pizza for—brace yourself—Pizza Hut. He says he likes comparing his superior pies to theirs and spilling their dirty little secrets.
It's worth venturing into Downtown's twisting side streets to visit Tony. He'll be in the kitchen wearing a stained apron, slapping tomatoes down on dough, daydreaming about a bigger restaurant and smiling over the teenaged antics of his younger staff as they make off like bandits with the female diners. Above all else, you'll be treated to genuinely friendly service and a meal that lacks slick sophistication—in a good way.
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LONDON — J. K. Rowling's first book for adults, "The Casual Vacancy," is to be adapted by the BBC.
The TV series based on the global best-seller — Rowling's first novel following the seven "Harry Potter" tales — will be produced by an independent production outfit operated by Neil Blair, who represents the author via the Blair Partnership, and Rick Senat.
Deal was struck following talks between Blair and BBC1 controller Danny Cohen.
The BBC said that Rowling will collaborate closely with the project.
The number and length of the episodes will be decided "once the creative adaptation process has formally begun," added the pubcaster.
Skein was greenlit by Cohen and Ben Stephenson, controller of BBC Drama, and is expected to air in the U.K. in 2014.
"The Casual Vacancy," which received mixed reviews, is set in the fictional English town of Pagford, apparently an idyllic community, but is in fact rife with social and economic inequalities.
Rowling said: "I'm thrilled that the BBC has commissioned 'The Casual Vacancy.' I always felt that, if it were to be adapted, this novel was best suited to television, and I think the BBC is the perfect home."
Cohen added: "J.K. Rowling's story-telling is of course peerless in its popularity, and I am looking forward to collaborating with her.
Stephenson said: "We are thrilled to bring J.K. Rowling's extraordinary tapestry of modern Britain to the screen.
"It's a book of such richness that through humour, social commentary and above all fantastic characters, says something insightful and entertaining about the country we live in."


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Fayette school's non-certified staff members have a two-year contract in place following a special board of education meeting June 19.
Board members approved a contract through June 30, 2014, with employees represented by the Ohio Association of Public School Employees.
The two-year pact calls for a $500 wage increase the first year for the 13 employees and a $750 increase the second year, with no step increases. Employee insurance premiums will remain at five percent for the two years and accumulated sick days will increase from 230 to 235 days.
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"Two thumbs-down" reviews are pouring in from all over the world of baseball after Prince Fielder and his Milwaukee Brewers teammates engaged in a planned and choroeographed home run celebration dance after Fielder's walk-off homer against the Giants Sunday.
I'd think you would just expect spazzy, choreographed dances from a guy whose name is Prince.
Fielder hit a solo, walk-off home run in the 12th inning Sunday to give the Milwaukee home fans their only win in this three-game series. As Fielder rounded the bases, things got really cheesy in the Cheese State. In antics still available online at the 3:44 mark of this MLB.com video, the Brewers all gathered standing at home plate and fell down in unison like bowling pins when Fielder did his exaggerated fat-man, arms-out hop onto home plate.
It was clever and funny! And by "clever and funny", I mean "already done six months ago by Shaq and the Phoenix Suns so everyone's already totally seen it before."
The San Francisco Giants were less than amused. "Matt Cain gave a long stare and shook his head," Andrew Baggarly observed on his San Jose Mercury News blog. "(Giants) Bench coach Ron Wotus went to the top step to make sure the Brewers saw his disapproval. Pitching coach Dave Righetti stayed out the longest, staring laser beams in the back of Fielder's head as he did a TV interview."
The rest of the baseball world is booing and hissing as well. "I guess it's a different game," the Angels' Torii Hunter told the Los Angeles Times, while reportedly rolling his eyes and shaking his head with disapproval . "It's all TV, acting, until someone gets hit with a pitch in the chin. I'm old-school. I could never do that."
And in his aftermath Mercury News blog post on the matter, Giants beat writer Andrew Baggarly groused, "If you have any knowledge or appreciation for the culture of baseball, you know Fielder's stunt was over the top. It was disrespectful. And if he's going to pull stuff like that, he's got absolutely no right to take umbrage the next time a pitcher gets revenge with a fastball to the ribs."
The celebration might have been a little entertaining, but what's really fun is hearing all these "integrity of the game" advocates insist that the Giants must now begin chucking high-speed pitches directly at Prince Fielder's body.
Joe Kukura is a freelance writer who gives the performance only two-and-a-half stars because no actual fighting broke out.


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Crew chief Todd Parrott suspended indefinitely
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- He guided Dale Jarrett to the 1999 championship
Todd Parrott, crew chief for the No. 43 Ford driven by Aric Almirola, was suspended indefinitely Thursday after violating NASCAR's substance abuse policy.
Parrott joins drivers Jeremy Mayfield and A.J. Allmendinger as the most high-profile offenders of the random drug testing policy that was implemented by NASCAR before the 2009 season. He has been a crew chief in NASCAR's premier series since 1995, starting his career at Robert Yates Racing and winning the 1999 championship with Dale Jarrett.
Parrott guided Jarrett, now an ESPN commentator, to 27 victories, 118 top fives and 157 top 10s at RYR. Jarrett also won the 1996 and 2000 Daytona 500s with Parrott as his crew chief.
He also was present for Jarrett's Brickyard 400 wins in 1996 and 1999.
Parrott left Yates to join Petty Enterprises in 2006, teaming with another former champion, Bobby Labonte. He also has worked at Roush Fenway Racing, JTG Daugherty Racing and Richard Petty Motorsports.
He started at RPM last year with driver Marcos Ambrose and moved to the famed No. 43 driven by Almirola last fall.
Almirola tweeted: "Todd Parrott is a good crew chief, a good person, and a good friend. I'll be a big cheerleader of his to get thru this difficult time."
In a statement, RPM said it fully supported Parrott's suspension. Sammy Johns, RPM's vice president of competition, will be the crew chief on the No. 43 this weekend at Talladega Superspeedway. Johns also will remain crew chief on an interim basis until further notice.
"We have an expectation of all RPM employees to conduct themselves at the highest level of professionalism and within the competitive confines as set forth by NASCAR," Johns said in the release. "We are very disappointed that one of our employees did not meet our expectations, and we completely support NASCAR, their policies and final decisions when it comes to the substance abuse policy."
Parrott's employment status remained unclear with the team saying it would support him as he entered NASCAR's Road to Recovery program. The team said any further steps on Parrott's future would be taken next week.
Brad Parrott, Todd's younger brother who also has worked as a Sprint Cup crew chief, posted on Twitter: "Sometimes you get good news and some time to get bad news. I just hope everyone supports Todd. This is not easy on any of us #ilovemybrother"


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KANSAS CITY, Kan. – After a night of frustration, C.J. Sapong finally found the net – and salvaged a point for Sporting Kansas City.
Sapong's first eight shots either missed the mark or were stopped – twice in spectacular fashion – by Houston's Tally Hall. But in the third minute of stoppage time Friday night, on his ninth try at goal, Sapong buried a header that gave Sporting a 1-1 draw against the Dynamo.
Graham Zusi,who fed Sapong for the late equalizer, moved into a tie for the league lead with his 13th assist, alongside Seattle's Mauro Rosales.
Houston, playing without manager Dominic Kinnear and midfielder Calen Carr, were denied a chance to jump to within two points of the Eastern Conference lead.
Instead, East leaders Sporting (15-7-6) extended their unbeaten streak to six matches and held Houston (12-7-10) without a win for the fifth time in six matches.
The Dynamo thought they had it won on Brad Davis' 58th-minute goal and seven saves from Hall, who came within seconds of what would have been his league-leading 12th clean sheet. But in the third of the four additional minutes, Sapong connected on Graham Zusi's cross, putting the ball just inside the left post and keeping the visitors on 46 points.
Kinnear and Carr – who had a brace in Houston's 2-1 home victory over Sporting on July 18 – were suspended for Friday's match for an ejection in Houston's 1-0 win over Real Salt Lake and yellow card accumulation, respectively.
OPTA Chalkboard: Houston defense resilient in the face of SKC pressure
But for a while, it seemed that wouldn't matter as Hall stoned the home side until the death and Davis put the visitors ahead against the run of play shortly before the hour mark.
He took Boniek Garcia's pass in the middle of the attacking third, worked to his left to get into space, and put his shot past a screened Jimmy Nielsen and inside the far post.
Giles Barnes made his MLS debut for Houston in the 81st minute, when he was subbed on for Macoumba Kandji.
Sporting return to action on Wednesday at New York. The Dynamo will face another busy week with a Thursday night, Champions League match against FAS at home before a Sunday afternoon MLS match at Philadelphia.
Sporting Kansas City (15-7-6) vs. Houston Dynamo (12-7-10)
September 14, 2012 LIVESTRONG Sporting Park
Attendance: 19,887
Scoring Summary:
HOU: Brad Davis 7 (Boniek Garcia 6) 58
SKC: C.J. Sapong 6 (Graham Zusi 13) 90+3
Houston Dynamo: Tally Hall; Kofi Sarkodie, Bobby Boswell, Jermaine Taylor, Corey Ashe (Andre Hainault 74); Luiz Camargo, Ricardo Clark, Brad Davis; Macoumba Kandji (Giles Barnes 81), Will Bruin (Brian Ching 88)
Substitutes not used: Tyler Deric, Warren Creavalle, Colin Clark, Cam Weaver
Sporting Kansas City: Jimmy Nielsen; Chance Myers, Aurelien Collin, Matt Besler, Seth Sinovic; Paulo Nagamura, Julio Cesar; Graham Zusi, Roger Espinoza (Jacob Peterson 74), Kei Kamara; C.J. Sapong
Substitues not used: Eric Kronberg, Dominic Dwyer, Lawrence Olum, Oriol Rosell, Neven Markovic, Michael Harrington
Misconduct Summary:
HOU: Luiz Camargo (caution) 86
Referee: Baldomero Toledo
Referee's Assistants: Ian Anderson, Fabio Tovar
4th Official: Jorge Luna Hernandez


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Coen, Natasha (2016) Implications of habitat type on the hyperbenthos of two morphologically divergent estuaries, and their adjacent nearshore marine waters, along the lower west coast of Australia. PhD thesis, Murdoch University.
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So why did the moment feel so small?
At his victory scold in the State Dining Room on Thursday, the president who yearned to be transformational stood beneath an oil portrait of Abraham Lincoln and demanded . . . a farm bill. He also couldn't resist taking a holier-than-thou tone toward his tail-between-their-legs Tea Party foes. He assumed his favorite role of the shining knight hectoring the benighted: Sir Lecturealot.
"All of us need to stop focusing on the lobbyists and the bloggers and the talking heads on radio and the professional activists who profit from conflict," he sermonized. (We have met the enemy and they are . . . bloggers?)
Certainly, the House Republicans who held their breath until the country turned blue acted like foolhardy children on what John McCain called "a fool's errand."
The country agreed. So it probably wasn't necessary for papa to preach, overacting the role of weary parent watching the irresponsible kids make their mistakes.
Sir Lecturealot, who hates selling and explaining and negotiating and cajoling and knocking noggins, always manages to convey tedium at the idea that he actually has to persuade people to come along with him, given the fact that he feels he's doing what's right.
Obama says he will now work for an immigration bill and a budget deal with deficit cuts. But as Peter Nicholas and Carol E. Lee pointed out in The Wall Street Journal, the president did not mention his more ambitious goals: hiking the minimum wage, widening access to preschool education, and shoring up bridges and roads.
"Those efforts require bipartisan consensus that may be even more elusive amid the ill will carried over from the budget fight," they wrote.
Senator McCain, who excoriated the Tea Party zanies and voted with the president, indicated to The Journal that the president had poisoned the well. "A lot of us are resentful that he didn't negotiate as hard as we think he could have or should have," he said. He told CNN that if Obama does not "engage" with his adversaries, "obviously you're not going to be a successful president."
Democrats, too, chided the president for being the diffident debutante.
"This is a town where it's not enough to feel you have the right answers," Leon Panetta, the former congressman, Clinton chief of staff, C.I.A. director and defense chief, pointedly told Washington reporters. "You've got to roll up your sleeves, and you've got to really engage in the process."
Senator Dianne Feinstein also urged presidential leadership, noting that Obama "stepped back" partly because he felt "burned" by all the scabrous budget fights. But as Mark Twain said, "We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore."
And if Obama is anything, he's a cold cat on a hot stove.
Washington is surpassingly nutty right now, but the founding fathers did build a system designed for factional warfare. When sweet reasonableness doesn't work, Obama's default position is didactic disdain. He underuses the fear and charm cards. When he first saw the White House movie theater, he was surprised there were so many seats beyond what the first family would need. Bill Clinton, on the other hand, probably would have built a balcony and auctioned off seats, if he could have.
As Valerie Jarrett told David Remnick in "The Bridge," Obama's "uncanny" abilities need to be properly engaged, or he disengages. "He's been bored to death his whole life," she said. "He's just too talented to do what ordinary people do."
Matt Viser wrote in The Boston Globe that, while Obama soared talking about getting past blue-and-red slicing and dicing, the blue states are getting bluer and the red states redder. In his stateside travel schedule, political meetings, staffing and legislative accomplishments, Obama has cleaved to the blue side more than he has tried to reach out to the red side, Viser wrote.
After Sir Lecturealot admonished both parties on their divisiveness in his 2010 State of the Union address, Viser said, the president did not have his first one-on-one with John Boehner for another year and a half, and has only met individually with Mitch McConnell twice.
When the president says "we've all got a lot of work to do," he means Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. Obamacare should really be called Pelosicare, as the historian Niall Ferguson noted. And an unyielding Reid made sure Obama didn't cave as in the past, which had emboldened Republicans to challenge the president this time. Obama is the anti-Lyndon Johnson.
He thinks he can come down from above, de haut en bas, and play the great reconciler, but you can't reconcile in absentia. You have to be there. You've got to be all over these people.
The paradox of Obama is that he believes in his own magical powers, but then he doesn't turn up to use them.
There's nothing wrong with a president breaking a sweat somewhere beyond the basketball court.


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Blame Matticus
Joy Hidden
Mallet to Ginger
versify healing aha
Ten visit Medivh
Flags cry out for attention
Ignored as gatherers summoned
Rudeness compounded
yet nobly transmuted as
Absent host all enter
Flashes and tones as candles burn
unacceptable green spreads
Past horses and grooms
Ancient love in need redeemed
Weren't you on main tank?
Ethereal beauty so cold
laughter settles the traces
The huntsman remounts
and charges through nine ignored
All my world is bear
Harpsichord trips counterpoint
Ashes smudge a living mage
Shining chains of light
a prayer wafts over the din
rare clumsiness shames
Vices of virtue allayed
Holiness must be removed
Old age is lethal
and stopping young love can kill
red's not my color
Never stopped to admire the view
only one's life will save us all
A shadowy fiend
released when rest is sought and earned
ignore the bear, cure all
No need to keep control as
Madness takes its toll – who moved
Flashing zinging ball
and constantly renewed life
Water formed ignored
Cruel bond that swaps death and life
while we must save the darkdelver
The colors so pure
those most favored ignored
while we ebb and flow
a refreshing interlude
the flashing flurry surreal.
an afternoon game
no cherry blossoms drifting
simple joyous play
Here we stand or else we run
Focus, then answer what's axed.
the tallest tower
echoes brightly shouts of joy
sun on cusp of day
A breath of hubris whispers
shall the ten go chastise gods?
Spousal call unheard
by all but one brings dawning
sleep and dream beckon
questing minds are satisfied
cloth and steel redeemed for gold
doorways fill the air
opening on lands far away
home, home for a day
The home of Medivh set right
Zingiber uncrushed still heals
OK, what the heck was that? Matticus got this Bright Idea for a 'let's all do' idea for various blogazeroth contributors. "Hey, put your healing in a haiku," he says. Now, you all have been reading me for a while and know short posts are not my thing. Still… wtf?
The preceding was a false renga. Renga? While the best answer is to have you go to the links and read, the short version is: Semiformal multiple author (more than 2, I means) poem of verses alternating 5-7-5 and 7-7 lines, with the current two popular lengths having the 'classic' 36 and 'new' 20 verses. OK, everything I just said is right like saying "A paladin is an armored priest" is right. Ponder that… yeah. As to false?
The biggest reason the above is a false renga is I am the sole author. Alts, multiple personalities, id-ego-superego, none of that counts. If Matticus ever springs something like this on me again, I'm going to demand he grab at least two other people and we do it right. Yes, I still blame Matticus. Anyway, this is what it is.
The major second flaw is that I'm not good, and have 'skipped' several of the 'rules' in construction. I just killed several hundred words that are better said at the two links I gave – if you're interested, go there. If you KNOW rengu/renga – mea culpa.
Though it should be obvious, the haiku is the ultimately abbreviation of the form. It's just the hokku – the first (and last, and whole) verse. Which connects the circle, which is why you too can blame Matticus.
Aaaand, a few footnotes.
Kara means joy.
Zhan is mostly a given name, but in a few places it means hidden.
If you haven't figured out yet, this is a walk through Karazhan, mostly from the priest point of view. No loot discussed, though it was tempting.
And yes, annoying as it was, I had fun putting it together. Violation of rules and all.
Go have fun
[additional edit. It dawns on me most of you won't catch the first part as it's a bit of an inside joke. One of Matticus's characters is Mallet. My main healer is Zingiber – latin for Ginger. Yes, there are a few more bits like that. These things are SUPPOSED to be filled with puns and twists – I didn't do near enough.]
5 Responses to "Blame Matticus"
*whistles* Kirk, I never knew you had it in you! =D
can't resist asking though:
Rogue free dragon heals,
Is this tacit admission
BGs are too hard?
(subscription on pause
Gives more time to bombard blogs
And level Haiku)
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