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Are you trying to get the most out of your computer setup? Are you looking for a single card configuration that is going to give you those extra frames during your high resolution online game play? How about a few extra points in your favorite benchmark? Well Diamond may just have the perfect solution for you with their HD4870 1GB version. Thats right, there is a total of 1GB of GDDR5 memory installed on this card to give you the extra punch for those demanding games. The card comes clocked in at stock core and memory clock speeds, however where it makes up its score will be in the large amount of memory. I am interested to see exactly how much higher scores I will get with an extra 512MB of memory. So with out any more delay, let's start.
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The packaging for the Diamond HD4870 1GB is a brilliant black box with a picture of beautiful warrior princess(Named Ruby of course) on the right side of the package. The warrior picture signifies the fact that the card is not only a good looking card, but is also going to give you the power and performance that you would expect from a warrior. The top left hand corner is where the Diamond logo is located while the top right hand corner is where the ATI, PCI-E & DDR5, and Customer Support badges are located. In the center of the front is where you are going to find the Radeon HD4870 logo printed with the slogan "Advance to the Next Generation of HD Entertainment" located under it. In large letters there is also a statement letting you know that there is 1 Gigabyte of memory installed on the Diamond HD4870 card. The back is where you are going to find all of the major features of the card and a nice description of them. On one of the sides, you are going to find all of the connections/adapters that are located on the card, which include the PCI-E, Dual DVI, and single S-Video out. The next side is where the key features are located along with the system requirements.
After you open up the black packaging, you are going to find a white box inside, this is where the Diamond HD4870 1GB card and all of the accessories are located, when you open it up, you are going to see that there is a white box at the top, which is going to hold all of the accessories for the card and there is a section with a foam covering that holds the card, to keep it protected from any accidents that may occur from the shipping process. There is also a booklet that holds all of the important documentation for the HD4870.
The Diamond HD4870 1GB video card comes packaged with the main accessories that come with just about every ATI Video card these days. There is a bag of goodies along with a cardboard envelope packed inside of the main packaging. The bag of goodies has a few different connectors inside of it, one of which is the S-Video to RCA cabling to connect your computer to your analog TV; however if you have an HDTV, you are able to use the DVI to HDMI dongle. Speaking of digital to analog connectors there is also a dongle for connecting your analog monitor to your new Diamond card. There is also a Crossfire bridge if you had two or more HD4870s and wanted to get the most performance you can get. Inside the envelope is where you are going to find the drivers installation CD, the user manual incase you need help installing your new card, along with a slip of paper letting you know that you need to contatct customer support before you take the card back to the store you purchased it from.
Now that we have the goodies all unpacked, its time to take a nice look at the Diamond HD4870 1GB and see what she is made of!


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The Badger State is among 20 that have held steady on the prevalence of obesity among children 2 to 4 whose families were enrolled in the federal Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program, which provides food vouchers and other services.
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Monday, December 3, 2007
"Mommy, I need a sleep hat."
"A what?"
"A sleep hat!"
"What's a sleep hat?"
"A hat. For sleep."
"It's triangle. It's long, long, long."
"Ohhhh...a sleep hat (think 19th century style). I don't think you can get those anymore, but maybe we can make one ourselves."
Now. What you need to be aware of, is I do not have knitting skills. Nor do I have sewing skills. My crafty skills remain rooted in scrapbooking and crafts, not functional things. So, we have a problem. I promised Jaysen I would make him a sleep hat. Boy, my mouth gets me in trouble sometimes.
So. I took a knit hat. I found a scarf. I cut the scarf, sewed it around the hat, and created this sort of freakish Frankenstein version of what would hopefully pass off as a sleep hat.
He was not in the least bit amused.
So I am asking any knitters out there...if you are able to make a sleep hat (preferably two!), I would love to buy them! Hopefully my son will start speaking to me again.
In addition, I am so excited to try the new CD from Pickel at My Two Boys!
Thank you so much!
8 comments:
- Marla Fauchier Baltes said...
I think it looks cool. Kids are so hard to please. :)
- December 3, 2007 at 11:01 AM
- Maddy said...
Ooo shame! What a face!
- December 3, 2007 at 11:34 AM
- Kristiem10 said...
lol! That is one funny face!
- December 3, 2007 at 7:41 PM
- Kristiem10 said...
Oh, how about this website?
or this?
- December 3, 2007 at 7:50 PM
- ManagerMom said...
You get an A+ for effort and creativity! Why not get him a Santa hat? You can get them just about any place they sell the red and white Christmas stockings.
- December 3, 2007 at 10:06 PM
- Elissa - Managing Autism said...
The last photo says it all!!
I thought the hat looked pretty cool! Definitely top marks for trying!
- December 4, 2007 at 5:01 AM
- Sabrina said...
OMG the photo of the hat is funny, but his picture is just hilarious!! Sorry no knitting skills here.
- December 4, 2007 at 10:31 AM
- mommy~dearest said...
Haha! Good thought, but a santa hat wouldn't work. It's gotta be knit, and it's gotta be long.
I'm looking for one that trails down to at least my thighs. Jaysen's would be good between his shoulders and waist.
We're so damn picky.
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Rock N' Roll 1 piece Kimono Top
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Mixed print georgette 1 piece Kimono Top with my adaptation of asymmetrical hem line and scarf collar embellishment. pixline created and posted this simple and very adaptable pattern. I used inspiration from a recent trip to the store Anthropologie to get the look of feminine, airy, drippy and layers with mixed prints and my touch: a hint of rock-n-roll edge. Collar was truly serendipity in that I was looking at a scrap of fabric to see if I wanted to finish the neckline with the called for band. The collar is a more refined and finished piece of fabric left over from another project and worked well for me. The "tails" produced three pieces that allow for wearer to wear the blouse versatile. Top can be belted and worn with shorts, skirts, jeans, pants, suits, sweaters, jackets…anything.
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Jan 2, 2014, 04.23 AMby jennyrecorder
Sorry, I added a link to this top from mine by mistake, unfortunately the Burdastyle website won't remove it for some reason :( Apologies again.
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Jan 2, 2014, 04.57 PMby cur-jargon
no problem. All is well.
Sep 26, 2012, 06.54 AMby Mary Athey
fab top. love the fabric x
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Sep 26, 2012, 04.23 PMby cur-jargon
thank you, thank you!
Sep 25, 2012, 10.47 PMby tessi
Yes, it is good! I really enjoy the combination of fabrics and the option of tying the "scarf" in different ways.
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Sep 25, 2012, 10.52 PMby cur-jargon
thanks! I am pleased with the way it turned out. Bitter sweet because I shipped it to my sister this morning as it is her birthday gift! I'll just have to make myself another!
Sep 25, 2012, 10.38 PMby tessi
Yowza! This is really interesting!
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I hope that's good :)!!! And thank you for letting me know your thoughts!
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1912 T227 Honest Long Cut Ty Cobb
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Graded FAIR 20 by SGC. The key card of Ty Cobb from the 1912 T227 tobacco series, issued by Miners Extra and Honest Long Cut. This is one of Ty Cobb's rarest and most unusual tobacco cards. The T227 Cobb is literally more than one hundred times rarer than the T205 or T206 tobacco cards of Ty Cobb, but its much greater scarcity is far from being fully reflected in its value. This may, in part, be because T227s so rarely survive in technically high grades that they are not a focus of high-grade collectors. It is believed that these cards are found in lower grades than other tobacco cards because cards from this set were packaged in tobacco pouches, without protection from either tobacco or general handling. T227 "Series of Champions" cards are unique in design, and have the look of "giant T206s." There are only twenty-five cards in the set, which features champions from numerous sports, including four ballplayers. This is a very pleasing low-grade example, with a far superior appearance than suggested by its technically accurate assigned grade. In FAIR condition, centered slightly to the bottom, very clean both front and back, with brilliant colors, no stains, and several creases. The reverse of the card features a biography of Cobb and advertising for Honest Long Cut Tobacco. This is a very attractive low-grade example of this rare, uniquely designed, and in our opinion, extremely overlooked tobacco issue. Reserve $300. Estimate $500/$1,000. SOLD FOR $1,880
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The cost to attend is $10 for current members, $15 for future members—all of which will go directly to the GWACC, as all of the complimentary food and wine is being donated by 16 Prospect.
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Eshu Martin has published painful allegations about Mt Baldy Zen Center and Joshu Sasaki's abuse of women students. Rumors about Reverend Sasaki have circulated for decades, but until now, no member of that community has spoken up publicly. What is missing for many observers are the first-hand accounts of women. For a woman to speak up as the object of unwholesome sexual attention is a no-win situation. I was "groped" by a Zen teacher twenty years ago, I still have only told one close friend. I feel ashamed. And I know from experience what can happen when I have come forward.
As a 17 year-old college student, I narrowly escaped a rapist and I got away to call the police. When the police came to interview me, I described my assailant perfectly, recounted all parts of my thought process, impressions and the activity that had occurred with exact details. The comments made by the middle aged adult police officers, recording the attempted rape account from a strong and calm young woman were: "You're not a woman, what is the matter with you, why aren't you crying? He was lucky to get away from you." I was further shamed and blamed and vilified. Even then I knew what they were doing was wrong, but I could find no means to say so. I just had to bear it.
For women to come forward and to report what happened, we need to make deep changes to a global primitive view of women: their need to be both desirable and at the same to be pure. Almost all the women I know, personally and as a psychologist, have experienced one form or another of sexual harassment—ranging from intrusive remarks, being ogled, offers to trade sex for job promotion, brief pats, grabbing, being pinned down, all the way up to violent rape. Women are blamed for men's desire, even in Buddhism (see Diana Paul on Buddha's description of "ensnaring women"). We hear expressions like "She was dressed to kill." Women's beauty is described as aggression towards men. And in short, we learn to live with it—in healthy and unhealthy ways.
I appreciate Eshu's efforts and understand from some of the comments posted in response to his piece that many have had enough of this kind of news. Some protest that we have had enough reporting of this issue, and want it to stop messing with our ideas about Zen. When will it stop? Enni Ben'en (1202-1280) the original founder of Tofukuji, my teacher Fukushima Roshi's temple said: "The Rock of Ages will some day wear away, but when will this suffering end?" Apparently, not any time soon; and while mountains may wear away through natural forces, suffering is only transformed through willing attention. Can we continue to look at this issue, to tolerate our discomfort, and to educate ourselves, our Zen sanghas and even our teachers? Rather than bemoan the outcome, can we lessen our predisposition to be fooled by teachers who act out in this way? Can we prevent rather than protest?
We need to study and understand how people become more susceptible to sexual and other misbehavior in Zen centers when they are supposed to be waking up to reality. There is a variety of reasons. In regard to some of the issues raised in response to Eshu's piece: Yes, we let our defenses down to allow deep change, yes, we develop trust in our teacher, and yes, we are in a different world. Years ago, during a practice period in Japan with eleven other women, I learned just how confusing "foreign context" could be. Standing in the garden of a Zen temple with four other women, a Japanese lay visitor to the temple put both of his hands on my friend's breasts, and squeezed them while muttering some non-recognizable Japanese. We were all momentarily stunned into silence and inaction while he smiled, squeezed and muttered away. Since I was the only one who spoke any Japanese, one woman in the group asked me: "What does it mean?" The question woke me up. I said: "It means the same thing in any language," as I slapped his arms off of her chest and forcibly pushed him away. Not only was there a culture barrier, but we had been instructed to be friendly to lay people since we were considered "nuns of the temple." Was I allowed to do that or had I created an international Zen incident?
How much more confusing would it be to be groped as part of koan practice? A woman would wonder, what does it mean in a private interview with a Zen teacher? Does the groping test my ability to transcend our usual limitations? Does it mean no-self? Is it a koan? I would call this atrocious behavior disguised as Zen practice by another name. In an attempt to respect our sensibilities, I will suggest that this is the same name with which we usually refer to the defecation from a bull's digestive tract which is used to fertilize plants.
Frankly, as some political candidates recently suggested in their distorted views on rape, women have plenty of opportunity to respond to being sexually molested. This can be neither "Special Karma"(as described in Merry White Benezra's novel about practice with a sexually exploitative Zen teacher) nor a koan, not at a Zen center, and not anywhere else. When sexual misconduct occurs, it is actually a crime, not a Zen koan. And it is a cause of suffering that Zen teachers should not inflict on anyone. We have long addressed the potential psychopathology and character flaws of teachers who perpetrate such harm. And we have made statements to address this harm. I will continue to do so. The real work is creating an environment in which women can speak of the incident, and face their suffering with support and wisdom.
I also have some ideas about how women may play enabling roles when it comes to this kind of behavior with Zen teachers, and about the education women may need regarding aspects of their participation in sex and cover-ups within the Zen sangha. Our American practice is the first time men and women have practiced Zen under the same roof. The Zen training brought to America from Japan was designed to address men's tendencies and not women's delusions. Women are practicing a style of Zen that was generally designed to address men's power issues. The Japanese teachers who brought Zen to the West had been trained by other men in all male monasteries. None of them had trained a group of nuns or had to deal with so much and so continuous a stream of sexualized transference from women students. They were unprepared to deal with this issue, nor did they specifically train their successors to deal with it. In many cases, these Japanese and Korean Zen masters and some of their successors seemed to revert to one of the classic privileges of male power—plenty of sex with plenty of women who happened to be their students. And women suffered the sexual intrusions silently.
How can we prevent this kind of thing from happening in Zen centers? In blunt terms, they can't do this without us–perpetrators can't behave this way without permission, cooperation, and silence from women and sangha members in general! If sanghas say NO, it can be prevented. It's rarely a secret. Someone knows. For women in particular, we need to offer a supportive and kind community, AND we need to offer formal Zen training that addresses a potentially gender specific delusion to be pleasing or even seductive, to want to be desired. Some women seek power through being desired by a powerful man. I address the issue of women's sexual agenda in my book Zen Women. Scott Edelstein addresses the root causes in Sex and the Spiritual Teacher. Peter Rutter describes the psychological dynamics in Sex in the Forbidden Zone. Let's study up and get wise.
Everyone who comes to Zen practice is suffering with some delusion; this is to be expected. Some women may bring a particular delusion with them to Zen centers — that ingratiation and seduction are the only way they will ever matter or have power. Of course they bring their suffering into practice, but a Zen teacher needs to see the behavior as suffering and resist gratifying himself sexually even if she throws her naked body in his direction. This female quest for power through seducing a powerful man is a widely held cultural delusion, in my opinion, and one that we as teachers and sangha members need to notice, acknowledge, and address. Some women mistake this sexualized attention for "love", and may value this imagined love more than they value the truth (or reality) and their own well-being. This response and the underlying needs it serves can be seen as a form of addiction. Women's participation in sex with a teacher as "love" may be in part a cultural learning, and may also be associated with biologically determined factors pertaining to women's heightened emotional relatedness, family learning, earlier sexualized trauma or other factors. This delusion needs to be investigated within Zen practice and addressed.
Another problematic role is that of a sangha's female enablers; they may either participate in sex with the teacher themselves or may place the bulk of the blame on the women who do. These sangha women may have their own motivations, perhaps wishing to maintain an idealized and dependent relationship with the teacher, or to be his "favorite". They may fall into believing the familiar stereotype of the evil seductress who brought down the great man. The woman identified as the seductress is banished and the Zen teacher is excused. We have recently seen some of the press coverage of the female vamp who led the poor Four Star General Petraeus astray leaning in this direction. Really? She tied him down and made him do it? Is it any wonder that women will almost never come forward? A woman who has had sex with a teacher is seen as a "fallen" woman and the cause of the problem.
But for me, immediately at the heart of addressing this ongoing harm, is the question of how sanghas begin to learn to set standards for teachers to "do no harm." Sometimes this is a difficult call, but in the situation of groping, sexual molestation, sexual affairs with students, spreading venereal disease, and even generating children in this way, we are not in a gray area regarding harm. We need to do far more to educate sanghas about their role in creating a healthy process and a healthy environment for Zen practice. Fifteen years ago one of my students voiced his reason for leaving Sasaki and Mt Baldy where he had lived for an extended period. He said "It is one thing for a teacher to make these mistakes; it is a bigger problem for me that the sangha does nothing. I cannot abide with that." And this is the dynamic that perpetuates the problem; those who can't stand it leave (in silence or without public protest), and those who accept this behavior, stay and support the teacher. As others have said, we need to speak out even when there is some risk. I applaud Eshu Martin for doing so at this time and note the extent to which the internet is making it easier for people to speak out and harder for perpetrators to hide.
While teachers who behave this way may technically offer Zen, it is not a wholesome practice and the cumulative effects are unacceptable and incompatible with Zen awakening. As a community, I believe we need to say so, and we need to offer specific education to sanghas and sangha members to prevent and address this unwholesome accompaniment to Zen teaching. We can do more to educate and prevent this harm that has become all too common at Zen centers. I am looking forward to a statement from Rinzaiji that promises to address the harm and begin the healing, but our focus should be on all Zen practice places and our own responsibility to see deeply into our own behavior and delusions.


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It's that time of year again that college administrators both love and hate: the annual ranking of the schools by U.S. News and World Report. Rankings are subjective at best; different organizations have different criteria for choosing who gets the top spot — or the bottom one. Nevertheless, all higher education eyes — and not a few eyes of parents and students — pay close attention.
Catholic colleges and universities did well again. USN&WR sorts its rankings by national schools, national liberal arts schools that mainly concentrate on undergraduate education, and regional schools that draw heavily from their area of the country. The magazine does not rank schools outside of the U.S.
Here are the top ones. You can get the entire listings here.
In the listing for best national colleges and universities, the University of Notre Dame was the top Catholic school at 19th. Georgetown University came in at 21st. Boston College ranked 31st, and Fordham University took 56th. Marquette University ranked 75th, St. Louis University 86th and the University of Dayton 99th. Loyola University of Chicago tied with the University of San Francisco at 117th. The Catholic University of America and Duquense University also tied at 120th. St. Thomas University (St. Paul, Minn.) followed at 124th. DePaul University and Seton Hall University tied at 136th. St. John's University (Jamaica, N.Y.) took the 143rd spot. Immaculata University ranked 176th, and St. Mary's University of Minnesota at 183rd was the final Catholic school in the magazine's tier-one listing. Others were listed among tier-two schools.
Among the best liberal arts schools, the College of Holy Cross ranked first among Catholic colleges at 32nd. St. John's University (Collegeville, Minn.) followed at 62nd. Thomas Aquinas College (Santa Paula, Calif.) ranked 71st. The College of St. Benedict (St. Joseph, Minn.) came in at 81. St. Mary's College (Notre Dame, Ind.) tied with St. Michael's College for 93rd place. Sienna College (Loudonville, N.Y.) took the 114th spot. St. Anselm College was at 122th, St. Norbert College followed at 127th, and St. Vincent College (Latrobe, Pa.) ranked 152nd. The last Catholic school among tier-one schools was Carroll College (Helena, Mont.).
Catholic schools fared even better among regional listing, crowding top spots. I'm only listing the schools that fell in the top 25 here.
In the North of the U.S. the first four spots were held by Villanova University, Providence College, Loyola University Maryland and Fairfield University respectively. Marist University tied with the University of Scranton for 10th place. St. Joseph's University came in 13th, followed by LaSalle University at 19. Canisius College ranked 20th. Mount St. Mary's University (Emmitsburg, Md.) fell in at 22nd, and Nazareth College (Rochester, N.Y.) won 25th.
In the South, Loyola University New Orleans was the top ranking Catholic school at 7th. Bellarmine College was 12th, Spring Hill College was 17th and Christian Brothers University was 21st. Wheeling Jesuit University and Xavier University of Louisiana tied for 22nd.
In the Midwest, Creighton University took first place. Xavier University (Cincinnati) came in 3rd. John Carroll University ranked 7th. The College of St. Catherine was 17th, followed by Dominican College (River Forest, Ill.) at 19th. The College of St. Scholastica tied with Rockhurst University for 24th place.
In the vast West, Santa Clara University, Loyola Marymount University and Gonzaga University respectively took the 2nd, 3rd and 4th spots. Seattle University closely followed in 6th place, with the University of Portland at 9th. St. Mary's College of California ranked 12th. The University of Dallas came in 15th. St. Mary's University of San Antonio ranked 19th with St. Edward's University at 21. Mount St. Mary College (Los Angeles) came in at 25.
You either hate or love rankings, and the criteria change from organization to organization and from year to year. But most reasonable people would agree that the best college or university in the country is the one where a student thrives.


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Elizabeth Kaufmann
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Vienna, Austria
Elizabeth's father was a journalist who covered financial and political subjects. In 1930, because of the economic crisis in Austria, her father relocated his family from Vienna to Berlin.
1933-39: In 1933 the Nazis blacklisted Father as an anti-fascist writer, so we returned to Vienna. With fascism rising there, Father left, eventually making it to Paris. We were to join him, but the Reich's borders were closed to Jews. Finally, Mother used her jewelry to get French visas. In November 1938 we reached Paris. When war broke out in September 1939, the French interned German males as "enemy aliens," including my father and brother.
1940-44: In June 1940 the German army advanced towards Paris, and Mother and I had to flee again. We joined the flow of refugees heading south on the day before the Germans invaded Paris. She hitched rides; I traveled by bicycle. We agreed to meet each day at the city hall of whatever town the ride took her to. While I was waiting for her in Vendome, German planes bombed the city and strafed the highway. I was evacuated before we could meet. I was distraught I'd lost Mother, but I had to ride on.
Elizabeth's father was one of 1,000 intellectuals granted special U.S. visas. The family fled in 1942 on one of the last passenger boats to cross the Atlantic during the war.


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Andy Warhol: Aretha Franklin, circa 1986Acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas101.6 x 101.6 cmThe Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. Founding CollectionContribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, IncPhoto courtesy of Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
This show focuses on the role of music and dance in Andy Warhol's work and life from the film music Warhol discovered in his youth to the disco scene at Studio 54, the legendary nightclub that opened in 1977, where he was one of the most famous regulars. The exhibition brings together some 640 works and objects, paintings, silkscreens, photographs, works on paper, installations, films, videos, album covers, as well as objects and documents from the artist�s personal archives. It juxtaposes Warhol�s major emblematic works (Elvis, Marilyn, Liza Minnelli, Grace Jones, Mick Jagger, Debbie Harry, the Self-portraits and the Campbell's Soup Cans) with other, lesser-known works (album covers, illustrations, photos and Polaroids). There are also the artist�s films, including Sleep and Empire, as well as the Screen Tests of the musicians of the famous Velvet Underground, Andy Warhol�s TV and video clips produced for groups like The Cars and Curiosity Killed the Cat. The exhibition Warhol Live is produced by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in partnership with The Andy Warhol Museum, one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.
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Adrienne Opdyke, child advocate with the Children's Advocacy and Protection Center of Catawba County, has been named one of three "Stewards of Children Stars" in the nation for the month of January.
This award recognizes her for training 158 adults in the "Darkness to Light" program in January. She has trained a total of 1,681 local adults.
"Darkness to Light" is a proven method of preventing and responding to child sexual abuse.
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Food writers can't stop bragging about their meals at the famous Spanish restaurant El Bulli.
If you read your newspaper's dining section, you've probably already heard that El Bulli, the famous avant-garde restaurant helmed by molecular gastronomist Ferran Adria since 1987, will stop serving customers in July. The closure of El Bulli marks the end of a culinary era defined by radically creative dishes like parmesan marshmallows, cod foam, and melon caviar. It also marks the end of a journalistic era: The restaurant was responsible for a specific genre of food writing far less original than the cuisine upon which it was based, the "I Ate at El Bulli" piece.
It's impossible to pinpoint the exact beginnings of the IAAEBP, thanks to the shoddiness of the digital archives at many publications. According to Ferran: The Inside Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food, the first American profile of Adria was in 1997, in a magazine called Food Arts. But the New York Times was the Patient Zero of the IAAEBP, at least for a truly mass audience: In 1999—two years after the restaurant had received its third Michelin star—Amanda Hesser wrote a shortish story about the El Bulli experience for the Times and walked readers through the basics:
He takes classic dishes and deconstructs them, disregarding familiar contexts in an effort to form new ones. His tortilla de patata, which in every other Spanish restaurant is a potato and onion omelet, is served in a martini glass and is liquid and foam. You are handed a spoon and told to dip it all the way to the bottom with each bite. You plunge through a white potato foam into a soft pudding of egg and caramelized onion. In his chicken curry, the curry is the solid, the chicken is liquid. His cooking follows no patterns.
Before the turn of the millennium, casual Dining & Wine readers probably didn't know about Adria's deconstructive abilities, and so Hesser's piece was a genuine service. By 2003, when the Times again tackled El Bulli—devoting a lengthy magazine cover story to the restaurant—word was very much out. The previous year, more than 200,000 people had vied for a reservation. In 2010, 2 million tried to snag one of 8,000 total annual spots—a 0.4-percent admit rate—and yet glossy magazines, newspapers, and food blogs continue to churn out IAAEBPs. * Take, for instance, Richard Vines' March 21 IAAEBP for Bloomberg, or just this week, Anthony Bourdain's Twitter account of his 52-courser. Even non-food-writers can't help themselves—last fall, economic and domestic policy blogger Ezra Klein wrote about his meal there. Rather than his usual health care or budget analysis, he posted pictures from his vacation alongside sentences like, "It tastes like what would've happened if a coconut fell in love with a cloud." These days, writing about a meal at El Bulli no longer qualifies as service journalism. And there's little chance that an IAAEBP will provide illuminating cultural insight about the place—it's all been said! Instead, the IAAEBP is something akin to a profile about bright new thing Angelina Jolie and her most compelling pair of lips. Viewed charitably, the IAAEBP is a service in the religious-celebrant sense of the word; it's an offering left by the faithful at the "temple of avant-garde dining." Viewed less kindly, it's public masturbation.
It's also an extremely predictable form: There are a few crucial tropes that often show up in an IAAEBP. One must, of course, describe the treacherous path to reach the restaurant, the "hairpin curves on a pitted, single-lane mountain road northeast of Barcelona," with its "Dizzying drops, unimpeded by guardrails" alongside "houses falling away, the stunted Johannesburg trees bent like old, shadowy men." Maybe it even involves passing an "accident scene, two police cars with flashing lights perched at the edge of the road, a banged-up Audi at the bottom of the hill 50 yards below." It may then help to compare Adria to a certain Catalonian abstract painter, as both Mark Bittman ("a kind of wild Dalí-like creativity") and Amanda Hesser ("a Dali in the kitchen") did in the Times, Jay McInerney did in Vanity Fair ("True to his Catalonian roots—like Dalí, Casals, and Miró he's created a new way to work with the raw materials"), Wine News did in a headline, and Gourmet did in an oft-quoted epigraph ("the Salvador Dali of the kitchen"). (Adria: "I am a chef and nothing like Dalí.")
Next, the IAAEBP author touches upon the history of the restaurant—from nitrous oxide foams to jellies—before perhaps filling us in on the way he obtained his reservation. * Most journalists will do quite a bit of modest throat-clearing on the subject ("I was there almost by mistake, invited before anyone knew quite how little I know about food"); this blogger is admirably blunt on the source of his personal tour: "Because I'm crazy lucky (and because I have well-connected friends)"—two qualities many IAAEBP writers probably share.
Sometimes, the author acknowledges that he or she was leery of certain combinations: "At lunch," Amanda Hesser wrote, "a dish of frozen polenta illustrated just how his experiments, his risk taking, sometimes fall short. It was salty, grainy, cold and simply unpleasant to eat." One can also imply, as Hesser did, that making it through the whole program is an achievement: "My husband reaches his limit after the 22nd dish, but I hold out until the end."
Of course, an IAAEBP author will want to make a dramatic statement about his near-transcendent state after the meal, with sex and drugs being the most common references. Perhaps it leaves him in a "gustatory trance," as "if I'd ingested some short-acting THC or psilocybin," (McInerney). British journalist Cassandra Jardine, for her part, was "high on the strangeness of it all." (Jardine, an admitted nongourmand, is one of the only writers to comment on the abdominal effects of the meal: "Maybe it was the booze, but umpteen courses of intensely flavoured airy nothings, without the ballast of so much as a bread roll, turned out to be a recipe for indigestion.") Or maybe a more intimate metaphor might come to mind. New York's Jerry Saltz, another culinary nonexpert offered an assignment simply on the grounds of having scored the dining slot in 2008, wrote that "All I know is I was ravished: When the chef appeared afterward, I felt embarrassed when he looked at me, and jealous because he had done the same thing with other people."
Specifics on the actual meal described in the IAAEBP will vary, of course, but it's customaryto mention the things Adria does to olives. Or if describing the actual dishes is too dull, there's always the comparison to "the black stone of Mecca. Mona Lisa's smile. The nucleus of the atom, the bank vault. The oval office of the White House. Love and sex. ..." which one Spanish journalist invoked. Messianic references never hurt an IAAEBP, either. Take this classic one, from an early example of the genre, a 2001 Esquire piece: "It came down to a question of faith. And I suddenly felt the presence of this man, Ferran Adria, somewhere in the shadows, holding the fork in my hand, guiding it to the plate, impaling a mound of caramel-covered, sweet-smelling tenderness that had been introduced as 'rabbit apple.' " But even the Adria worship pales in comparison to the self-congratulation the genre draws out. Bard-of-excess McInerney begins his IAAEBP with his signature second-person narration ("It begins with a glistening, olive-colored sphere, wobbling on a spoon as you raise it toward your lips, exploding in the mouth to unleash a bath of intense olive-flavored liquid") and then, as if compelled by the inherent egotism and bedpost-notching of the IAAEBP, reverts to using a more personal pronoun to crow about "the best miso soup I've ever eaten."
IAAEBPs, naturally, involve a great deal of one-upmanship. Oh, so you ate the regular meal at El Bulli? That's cute. I ate the staff meal. And it was "very, very good." You've only been there once? Poor thing, how little context you must have. Oh, you wrote an article about eating at El Bulli? Try a little. I cartooned my experience. Or, even better, I wrote a 29-minute electro-orchestral musical work inspired by my 35-course meal there. Oh, you ate a 35-course meal there? I ate a 37-course meal, and managed to work it into my New York Times wedding announcement. (Perhaps then, in those famously status-obsessed pages, scoring a meal at El Bulli is akin to a Yale law degree or an ancestor who came over on the Mayflower.) A mere 37? When you've had a 38-courser—and picked out extensive hypothetical wine pairings for it—then maybe we can talk. You just ate there? I ate there WITH Adria. Oh, you ate with him at the restaurant? I had him cook me a meal in my own kitchen.
Frank Bruni, writing in the Times (who elsewhere called his dinner at El Bulli the best meal he'd ever eaten), encapsulated the problem with the IAAEBP: El Bulli represents a "strain of merciless competition that split food lovers into two camps: those with the economic means and single-minded focus (or professional affiliation) to gain access to experiences as exclusive and rarefied as El Bulli, and those who had to listen to the rapturous accounts, nod appreciatively and cop to envy, which they were absolutely supposed to feel." It's also worth keeping in mind that a "rapturous account" might not evoke envy so much as confusion. The Washington Post's Andreas Viestad summed up the chasm between the uninitiated and the proselytizers nicely: "This food tastes wonderful, but it is hard to find words to describe it … How can you convince someone who has never tasted tuna marrow that it is delicious?" It's a problem inherent to writing about any kind of sensory experience, of course, but at least with less experimental food, critics can assume their readership has a baseline familiarity with most of the flavors they're writing about.
I'll close with a note to journalists eager to publish an IAAEBP before El Bulli shuts its doors: Unless you can get Adria to button you into a bib, deconstruct and foam-ify some sweet potatoes, and spoon feed them to you himself while making airplane zooming noises, your account will not surprise me, and will not satisfy me. I've read piece after piece and am still unfulfilled; the words, I fear, were all just so much foam.
Correction, April 15, 2011: The piece originally misstated the percentage of diners who were successful in their attempt to get a reservation at El Bulli. Return to the corrected sentence. It also referred to nitrous oxides as noxious oxides, which may have been a Freudian slip on the part of the author, but is not strictly correct. Return to the corrected sentence.


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So what do you do before bed? Just dinner then? Maybe some milk or water with dinner?
So what do you do before bed? Just dinner then? Maybe some milk or water with dinner?
Well, I'm still nursing before bedtime (though interestingly, my baby, who's the same age as yours, has stopped nursing to sleep, so we nurse, then cuddle, then I put her in her crib and she falls asleep). But in the absence of nursing, yes, I would give her dinner with a cup of water or milk, then do the bedtime routine (PJs, brush teeth, story, cuddle time - this is the routine for my older kids). We have dinner late due to our work schedule so our kids go to bed shortly after dinner time. If we had dinner earlier I might consider a cup of milk before bedtime (and sometimes my older kids do want that cup of milk) but that should be before brushing teeth. A benefit of breastfeeding is that the milk doesn't pool in the mouth so less of a concern about cavities.
Thanks. This is really helpful. I guess actually my son is doing the same thing as your baby. He doesn't typically fall asleep at the breast before bed anymore. He likes to nurse and he's usually very sleepy before I put him in his crib but he's not entirely asleep most of the time.


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The Heritage of Shannara
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- TERRY BROOKS THE HERITAGE OF SHANNARA The Complete Series AfterNew York Timesbestselling author Terry Brooks completed The Sword of Shannara trilogy, millions of fans around the world clamored to immerse themselves again in his dazzling world. Brooks answered with a quartet of beloved novels—The Heritage of Shannara. Now, for the first time in one handsome collector's edition hardcover, here are:The Scions of Shannara,The Druid of Shannara,The Elf Queen of Shannara, andThe Talismans of Shannara—the thrilling continuation of the saga that has become one of the most enduring fantasy epics of all time. The Scions of ShannaraSince the death of the Druid Allanon, magic has been strictly forbidden in the Four Lands. Yet Par still has limited use of the Wishsong. Then a dire message from Allanon sends Par and his brother Coll on an impossible task: to recover the long-lost Sword of Shannara—or all life in the Four Lands will be destroyed. The Druid of ShannaraEvil forces remain in control of the Four Lands. To restore the Keep of the Druid Allanon, Walker Boh sets out on a journey to find the black Elfstone. He must venture into perilous, unknown lands with a strange band of fellow travelers—one of whom is hatching his own sinister plot. The Elf Queen of ShannaraOrdered by the Druid Allanon to find the Elves and return them to the world of Men, Wren is carried away to an island where Elvesmightstill exist. Even if by some miracle she locates the Elves, can she convince them to follow her back through a demon-haunted jungle to the safety of the shore? The Talismans of ShannaraThe Shadowen still swarm over the Four Lands, poisoning everything with their dark magic. Their leader is determined to destroy all the Scions of Shannara. With traps cleverly laid, the charges are doomed to failure—unless Par can discover a way to harness the power of the Sword of Shannara. So continues Terry Brooks's enthralling Heritage of Shannara epic, a spellbinding saga that chronicles the ultimate battle of good vs. evil. From the Hardcover edition.
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Maxie Forster is a binman who carries out ashes from the coal fires of North Shields the holes in his leather soled boots are letting in water from the rain and he cannot afford to go and take the boots to the cobbler shop in Billy Mill. He tries repairing them with some old lino and cuts the shape out with a stanley knife and glues them with some evo stick then places cardboard in the insides. Looking over the road on his round he spots a family being evicted by the bailiffs - the wagon is loaded with furniture and the woman and her five children stand in the rain as the barrow with everything she owns is pushed down the street.
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Go into the hospital (remember -- wield no weapons), and swing right to go down a new hallway into the ER rooms. You'll overhear some humorous, inappropriate conversations as you go down the hallway. You should be able to go down this hallway without any problems until you approach Anthony's room. The two cops guarding it will draw weapons and tell you to stand down, but they won't fire unless you continue to approach them or draw a weapon of your own. The best technique to employ here is, once you encounter the cops, back up and head into a nearby room. Draw your weapon of choice, and then burst back out and take the cops out. There are more cops in Anthony's room -- make sure to kill them all, and to take out Anthony as well (a little sad shooting an unconscious dude in a hospital bed, I know). Then, begin running out of there. You've no doubt caught police attention with your heinous act of killing.
Cops are gonna burst into the hospital from everywhere, so have your gun drawn and ready to fire. Naturally, the quicker you get out of the thin corridor leading to Anthony's room, the better your chances of survival are, simply because once out of that corridor, you can go back outside, jack a car, and get out of dodge. You'll have a three star wanted level or so (depending on how many lives you took inside the hospital, especially those of police officers), so run around wildly on the streets of Alderney (and beyond) until you lose your wanted level. Once you do, the mission ends in success. Anthony won't be able to rat you out, after all.
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City Councilmembers-elect Jim Sanders and Lori Acton shared their visions of the city Saturday at the Democrats of the High Desert meeting.
City Councilmembers-elect Jim Sanders and Lori Acton shared their visions of the city Saturday at the Democrats of the High Desert meeting.
"It's such a wonderful community," he said. "I served on the Planning Commission for two years, and that was a treat for me. I wanted to be involved with our government. I wanted to be involved in the community, and the opportunity presented itself."
He said Ridgecrest is a very faith-based community.
"Everywhere you look, there is a church or some religious institution," Sanders said. "That means so much to me. When I think of what our government should be, I like to think of a quote of James Madison and what he saw for the country. He talked about how the key of liberty and freedom is personal to the morality of the people. That gave me great courage and great hope for the city of Ridgecrest. The more faith-based our community is, the greater the chance we have to obtain the goals of liberty and freedom in this community."
He said Ridgecrest is a safe community with a very low crime rate.
"I think that's attributed to the great character of our citizens," he said. "We have very great schools. We've been very impressed with the schools our children have been able to attend. That's very important to the community."
Sanders said the city also has challenges.
"We have a serious budget shortfall in our city due to unfortunate events with the state and how funding has been pulled away from us and left us in a real hole," he said. "Our infrastructure is in dire need of repair. We have a threat of rising crime due to the actions of the state releasing prisoners from the prison system. There's a lot of challenges for us."
He said it is going to take real leadership to overcome these challenges.
"I know we can pull through it," Sanders said. "Looking at the character of this community, I know that we're going to be tough. I think we can have a lot more partnerships with our community to enhance and support our Parks and Recreation Department and make it more affordable for our city."
He said it is important for the city to be smarter with tax dollars and make them go as far as possible.
"That means especially honoring the Measure L pledge to spend that money only on police and streets," said Sanders. "That money must be spent on what was pledged, because this community really went out on a limb to trust our government with your money."
Acton said there are challenges.
"We're going to meet them head-on. We're going to put them out there, and we're going to find solutions," she said. "We have to move forward. We can't change the past. We know what our shortfalls are."
She said there are challenges with the budget.
"We have challenges with AB 109 and the criminal activity that is coming to our city," Acton said.
She said there are also positives.
"My favorite is that people care. Without having people coming and being a part of and wanting to be involved, we're going to get stuck," she said. "I'm a boardmember of the Boys and Girls Club. I get to see all of you kids growing, changing, and becoming involved. They're our future. It is that feeling of community and togetherness that we have here that is so incredibly special and unique to Ridgecrest."
Acton said while she is not nervous about the challenges ahead, she is concerned.
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Camden-based Campbell Soup Co. announced today it is in final and exclusive negotiations for the potential sale of its business in Europe to global private equity firm CVC Capital Partners.
In fiscal 2012, the Campbell businesses included in the proposed transaction generated annual net sales of approximately $530 million.
CVC has made a firm offer to purchase the business, the terms of which were not disclosed. The proposed transaction includes Campbell's national brands of soups, sauces and simple meals, as well as four plants in Belgium, France, Germany and Sweden.
Campbell anticipates that the proposed sale would be completed in the first quarter of its fiscal 2014. The deal does not include Kelsen Group, which will continue its operations in Denmark and the export of its products to countries in Europe and throughout the world. Campbell acquired Kelsen earlier this month.
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Is It Time To Hit The Panic Button?
Wow….I am with Joe D on this one. The 2008 Dallas Cowboys seem to be in a fiery tail spin after a loss to the Arizona Cardinals. Wade Phillips will say everything is fine, he sugar coats losses, and Tony Romo will simply say they were outplayed. The only thing that bothers me is that teams have been outplaying the Cowboys for the past 3 weeks now and there is no signs of impending improvment. Terrell Owens has been diminished into a 8 million dollar complimentary player to Marion Barber and Felix Jones. Jason Witten was close to non-existent today. So what's going on in the heart of Cowboys land? I have no absolute clue. None whatsoever! And thats the scary part. No one seems to know why they can't perform to thier level. Absolutely no one. Not Tony Romo, not Terrell Owens, not Marion Barber, not Bradie James, not Demarcus Ware, no one. So where are the leaders of this team? Who is getting in people's faces for sub-par performances everywhere? Anybody, anyone?
Many players on this team are passive by nature. Many players on this team believe that they are men and don't need to be yelled at or called out on their performances. Thats where they are wrong. The defense played great the first half holding Arizona. The second half came and they turned into swiss cheese. The secondary is horrid and Demarcus Ware always seems to be a step too late. Pacman Jones looked like a 12 year old boy trying to cover a man out there versus Fitzgerald and Brian Stewart would be better off calling a womens softball game than the Cowboys defensive scheme. Tony Romo at times has looked like a 1st year rookie over the past few weeks than the gun slinging burner we all know he is. Jason's Garrett's playing calling at times as well has looked overly conservative as well. This Dallas Cowboy team looks absolutely nothing like the team that beat both Cleveland and Philadelphia a few weeks ago. I am scraed to say that what would happen if we played someone actually good like the Broncos or the Chargers. We would get our butts kicked. Sorry to play the pessimist but you can't blame me for watching 3 quarters of horrid football by a team that was supposed to be built to win now. Jerry Jones must be having many a sleepless nights nowadays.
The game of football is all about execution. Do your assignment and the play will work to perfection. Today Romo was running for his life. The Dallas Cowboys offensive line was completely dominated. I say DOMINATED. The were outplayed physically and emotionally. I think thats where the problem lies. Too many players on this team arent executing. They are not prepared. They are not motivated. So how do we fix this? Didn't I already ask this question before……… Hey Mr. Phillips, you need to deliver a really good and long ass chewing. I know it isn't your style. You prefer men to be men but come on Wade. 3 weeks of sloppy football in a row? You need to call out players on their missed assignments. You need to call out the whole offensive line for almost getting Romo killed today and you need to give another ass chewing to your defense and special teams for playing sub-par. Thats another thing, how many of you out there are now wishing Joe Avezanno was still our special teams coach, This Bruce Reed guy absolutley Sucks! The game started with a busted special teams play and ended with one. If I was Jerry Jones I would of fired the guy on the spot. No questions asked. That is unacceptable.
So overall there is alot of blame to go around for today's loss. Don't get me wrong people, I LOVE the Cowboys but their play is utterly unacceptable. This team has gone from the juggernauts of the NFL to it's joke and I for one as a fan and as loyal follower have to stand up and say something. I know it's harsh but if this team plays to it's potential, there isn't anyone in the league that can compare. And I am not saying that just because I love the Boys. Someone in this team has to stand up and demand accountability and no one does. Patrick Crayton tried to play this role after the loss today but he didn't go into details. Just stating that people on this team need to start being held accountable and that they needed an ass chewing after the way they played. Good start, now follow through. Something you guys havent been doing lately.


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Utah Agriculture in the Classroom Has New Director
Tuesday, Jul. 30, 2013
Denise Stewardson did not take the most traditional path to the field of agriculture, but said her diverse background has prepared her well for her new position with Utah Agriculture in the Classroom. Starting in August, Stewardson, who hails from the Midwest and has a background in teaching, will assume the role as director of Utah AITC.
Utah AITC, founded in 1994, is part of a national program managed by the United States Department of Agriculture. Utah's program operates through Utah State University Extension and aims to educate K-12 students about agriculture.
"Our mission is to teach people about where their food, clothing and shelter come from," Stewardson said. "We use agriculture as a vehicle to teach science, technology, engineering, math, nutrition and social studies."
Stewardson has held several titles at USU. She began her work on campus in the Conference Services division and, after taking time off to raise her two children, returned as an outreach coordinator for Utah AITC in 2005. Though she never worked in the field of agriculture before, Stewardson said her background in teaching and the confidence that former director Debra Spielmaker, now the national director of AITC, had in her helped make the transition into Utah AITC a smooth one.
"I got to know the Utah AITC program quite well and was able to get acquainted with the whole system [Spielmaker] had put together," Stewardson said.
In 2009 Stewardson was given an opportunity to teach full time for the Agriculture Systems Technology and Education Department in the College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences.
"I jumped on that opportunity because I love to teach," Stewardson said.
Stewardson feels that the agricultural background Utah AITC gave her was a real asset in teaching courses, including "the science of food preparation" and "science, technology, and modern society."
Though her teaching career has been very fulfilling, Stewardson said she is excited to return to Utah AITC and begin her role as director.
"[Teaching is] a really difficult part of my career to give up," Stewardson said. "I've really enjoyed teaching at the university level, but I'm ready to take on the challenge of the new role."
As director, Stewardson will continue the organization's mission to reach out to school-aged students about the role of agriculture in their lives.
"All of the resources that Utah AITC puts together are based on Utah Core Standards, so teachers can use those resources in the classroom," Stewardson said.
Outside the classroom, Utah AITC reaches out to children through 4H, Future Farmers of America and farm field days.
Stewardson, who describes her return to Utah AITC as an exciting, big challenge, hopes to continue the program's past success.
"My role will be to maintain the program that has been put together for the last 18 years," she said. "I really strive to maintain that level of professionalism and access to useful resources for teachers."
Stewardson officially begins her duties as director of Utah AITC Aug. 1 and hopes to continue teaching a course for CAAS.
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Misstic wrote:bump, please help, about to cancel my account between this and the chess event. Not to mention PVP pet battle which I dont do.
Chrth wrote:Misstic wrote:bump, please help, about to cancel my account between this and the chess event. Not to mention PVP pet battle which I dont do.
Chess Event has been nerfed per today's hotfix list. Also see the strat I posted in the Quick and Dirty Primer thread.
Exel wrote:For aquatics Vampiric Batling or anything else with Reckless Strike. Basically, you can almost solo them like that. Add Brilliant Kaliri or some other similar pet to finish them off.
NathKnave wrote:They are a bit more difficult now. If you're wondering what's changed with them, it seems like they all had their health reduced by about half, BUT, they now have a buff (Elite) that reduces all damage they take by half. My guess is this was their response to the Life Exchange strategy. Their power has been buffed as well.
The first one I came up against was Dos-Ryga (the fish in Kun-Lai Summit). The normal team I use here got completely dominated here, and it really surprised me. I knew they were getting buffed, but I didn't expect it to actually be that much harder. The combination this one has with the half-damage buff and his heal is brutal. I switched up my team just a bit and went with a Gilnean Raven with his combination of Call Darkness for the healing debuff and a heavy hit with Nocturnal Strike. I was able to take him down with that and a couple moths with some heavy hits.
Going up against Nitun, I kind of knew what to expect. Even so, he opened with a Prowl + Ravage combo that nearly one-shot my first pet, then the second hit from his Ravage finished it off and the heal completely voided all the damage I had done. Luckily, my first pet here has always been an Alpine Fox Kit, and I was able to put out a Howl which let my Flayer Youngling take a huge chunk out of his health. Then when he was about to use Ravage to finish off the Flayer and heal again, I used Reflect and was able to finish him off.
Ka'wi the Gorger didn't pose too much of a problem.My Alpine Fox Kit got in a couple Howl-buffed Bites to start out and when he died my Widow Spiderling hit it with Brittle Webbing, which is pretty good against the Moth Balls, followed by Spiderling Swarm. Flayer Youngling was able to clean up no problem.
I thought Lucky Yi was going to be more of a problem than he was, with his heal. I used the same team here as with Ka'wi, Alpine Fox Kit, Widow Spiderling, and Flayer Youngling. Flayer Youngling is really good here, since he takes less damage from the only attack and heals a bit on top of that.
I took Greyhoof down using the same strategy I always have. Tranquil Mechanical Yeti hits him with a Supercharged Call Lightning then beats him with his Metal Fist until he dies. Then my Clockwork Gnome picks it up with Build Turret, it's gimped by the Elite buff, but still seems worth it. I didn't even have to use a third pet here.
Skitterer Xi'a wasn't that bad either. Flyers seem to be my most shallow pool of 25's, but I have a couple moths I like to use. Moth Dust hits really hard when it actually lands, and they can soak up some damage with Cocoon Strike.
For Gorespine I had to change up my whole strategy here. I used to use my Tranquil Mechanical Yeti's Lightning Storm here. The extra damage Gorespine would get from his bleed plust the storm damage was more than made up for by the huge hits my mechanicals would dish out. With the increased damage I'd seen thus far though, I didn't think this would be the case any more. I still used the Yeti here, but skipped the Lightning Storm, Supercharging his Metal Fist instead. This was able to soften him up enough that my Darkmoon Tonk was able to finish him off with Ion Cannon.
No-No was another I had no problem with. Using my Yellow Moth I was able to hit him right away with Moth Dust followed by No-No putting up his dam followed by Dive. I just passed the turns waiting for him to break his own dam which brought Moth Dust off cooldown and actually put him to sleep. I admit I probably got lucky here.
Ti'un the Wanderer was one I was actually dreading. The Elite buff coupled with his Shell Shield was not something I was looking forward to. For this I just tried to power through it as best I could with two moths throwing Moth Dust around for (I hoped) enough damage to outlast him. When he gets a Pump off, it's goodnight for whatever pet you have out. Brute force is what I recommend here. Powerful moths and try to get the Cocoon Strike up for the Pump. I finished him off with my Gilnean Raven's Call Darkness + Nocturnal Strike.
I could see Kafi being a real problem sometimes. If he manages to get a stun, that's probably game over. He didn't manage it against me, luckily, and I took him out with just my Tranquil Mechanical Yeti and Clockwork Gnome.
I've always just taken a brute force approach to the Beasts of Fable, and that still works, mostly. The ones you have to watch for are the ones that can heal (Dos-Ryga, Nitun, and Lucky Yi), Ti'un (even your large hits seem pathetic with his damage reduction, and his pump is LETHAL), and Kafi (if he manages a stun).
Sorry, this ended up pretty long. I hope it can help someone.
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If you have never smelled the rich, luscious scent of a gardenia you must find a way! A gardenia is a beautiful white flower that grows on a decently hardy bush. It is nice to look at, but smell is what makes this flower incredible.
I grew up thinking it only grew in tropical islands. My mother's love of Hawaii is why I discovered them. She stops dead in her tracks every time she comes across one. To my surprise, gardenias grow right in my back yard… literally (well, as literally as you could consider the grounds of my flat's village a yard).
After a long rainy, cold winter (one of the worst in a long time according to the local news) spring is welcomed with open arms. The sun and warmth is beginning to come out every few days between the storms, and along with it are the flowers and blossoming trees. These are the things that somehow always make me seem to forget the hard winters and enjoy the beauty that is ahead.
In light of the springtime (and of course my birthday week) I decided to buy myself a bouquet of flowers at the market. Coming up with something to put them in was a bit of a challenge, but I got creative and managed. And of course I had to pick one of the gardenias to put in a glass of water in my room. It is the most beautiful smell I just couldn't help but surround myself with it.


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