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|Bill Berlinksi, owner of Northwest Sporting Goods and Supply, stands with employee Matt Hiller showcasing the firearms they sell. Berlinski and Hiller said the proposed federal assault weapon will do little to prevent tragedy like Sandy Hook. Bruno Matarazzo Jr. Republican-American
HARTFORD — No one is going to convince Newtown Police Chief Michael Kehoe that the Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle used in Sandy Hook massacre is not an assault weapon.
Yet, the .223 Bushmaster rifle that gunman Adam Lanza employed to deadly effect on Dec. 14 is not defined as an assault weapon under state law.
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Below me wrote on Mar 3, 2013 6:27 AM:
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Remember US wrote on Mar 3, 2013 9:10 AM:
Finally! "
American Mom wrote on Mar 3, 2013 9:47 AM:
Xanax, Valium, Oxycodone, mixed with antidepressants kill hundreds of people in CT each year. But I don't see any ban on those weapons of choice or accident. "
Joe Hill wrote on Mar 3, 2013 10:00 AM:
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al.cap wrote on Mar 3, 2013 12:39 PM:
stopbushnow wrote on Mar 3, 2013 12:58 PM:
Hmmmm... Maybe it's not 20%, but it is clearly NOT 50%.
Attributing "ownership" to household members is a big mistake, right? Adam was not the owner of his mom's guns was he?
The bigger point is that gun ownership is clearly falling.
A study published in the Injury Prevention Journal, based on a 2004 National Firearms Survey, found that 20% of the gun owners with the most firearms possessed about 65% of the nation's guns. "
roy wrote on Mar 3, 2013 2:05 PM:
OR, Malloy pulled his puppet strings to say that. I did not know they allow Communists to be police chiefs. Only in Connecticut.
So, after reading the medical examiners report about the grandmother that shot her grandchildren and the 20 children, it is now very clear to me that IT'S NOT THE GUN STUPID!!!
She and Lanza had to be missing parts of their brain to have shot her two grandchilden multiple times and 20 kids, multiple times. If you can't conceive that a 6 month old baby is dead with one shot or a 5 year old is not dead with one shot, then you have to be missing most of your brains.
But "knee-jerk" anti-gunners want to take the quick and easy way out, take our guns and/or ban them.
I think I'll get my State of Connecticut flag, paint a swastika on it and burn it.
BTW, Anti-gun politicians are missing most of their brains too!! "
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Murphy, Esty, Malloy, Larson, Blume, Delauro. All phonies. "
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Mike Leone wrote on Mar 3, 2013 7:50 PM:
Schools are "gun free zones" How could this have happened in there?
If the shooters mother would have had liability iinsurance on the guns how would that have prevented this?
The police are there to protect us, why couldn't they on that day? "
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al.cap wrote on Mar 3, 2013 8:58 PM:
a) Web page: "Firearms Fact Card, 2010." National Rifle Association, January 20, 2010. http://www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?ID=83
"Gun owners in the U.S.: 70-80 million; 40-45 million own handguns"
"American households that have firearms: 40-45%"
- Although the NRA does not state that this data is derived from surveys, Just Facts found that it is consistent with a broad range of surveys.
- Just Facts requested data on firearm ownership from the U.S. Department of Justice on February 17, 2010. The Department of Justice responded that this information is "not maintained by this Agency."
this is a footnote from a graph on the page.
clearly more than 20%.
anyone interested in unbiased statistics should check this site....
@reality check- apparently, as long as we use emotionally charged buzz words, it does matter what we call a modern sporting rifle. if you have some proof of illegal activity, you should report it. otherwise don't insinuate. if i were a manufacturer, i'd sue the pants off you. "
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I was race in the worst neighborhoods in Waterbury
And battle with all kinds of gang members with out a gun ..im living proof ..I made it with out a gun and got my respect ... "
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roy wrote on Mar 4, 2013 9:37 AM:
Then the governments conspiracy plan to confiscate or severely limit our guns will be initiated.
The article title "Guns in the Crosshairs" is the start of their conspiracy. But gun owners will have their gun confiscators in their crosshairs too.
If Conservative 1 feels that gun owners can overtake the government in 15 minutes, I will be happy to join him at a momments notice. If we synchronize, it could take 15 seconds !! "
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LiberalsAreDumb wrote on Mar 4, 2013 3:18 PM:
" If he Gov has "laser beams that could cut a whole wall of people in half" then what are you going to do with your archaic gun anyway? I'm tired of the irrational fears of people like you dictating this debate. The fact is that there is no reason to own weapons like this. They don't belong on the streets. You really think that the only reason that the government isn't goose stepping all over us is because some people might have some guns? Gun owners are the sole reason that we live in a free civilized society? If that's truly what you think, then you are part of the failings in our mental health system. "
Wow, what a load of jibberish and nonsense. Irrational fears? Learn some history. Go read a book and learn about the US Citizen Internment Program (Japanese Americans) in WW2, Tuskegee, Athens TN revolt, Ruby Ridge and Waco for examples of government intrusion and unConstituional violations. And then go learn World History for countless more examples.
There are indeed reasons for people to own weapons like this. You are just too biased and stubborn to accept the fact, the 2nd Amendment is not meant for hunting, its for protection from tyranny. Whether that tyranny is foreign or domestic, whether its form street criminals or our government, its for our protection, and protection of our Constitutional Rights and property. Ask the Koreans in LA during the riots whether they needed those AR's and AK's. Ask the doctor in Cheshire who had his home invaded by 2 large individuals who raped, murdered and burned alive his wife and 2 daughters and left him for dead.
No one is forcing you to buy or own a gun. YOU are being irrational due to YOUR fears of guns and wanting to disarm us. We have history on our side, and the statistics and facts on our side to prove we are not a threat to you. No gun or weapon is... the individual is the threat. Please get an education and stop posting jibberish and mythology on the net. "
GeorgeK wrote on Mar 4, 2013 4:01 PM:
I don't tell you what you need. Don't tell me what I need. Got it?
Personally, I am really with Roy on this one. Lets see the full, non-redacted police report before making any legislation. I've gotten some information from some relatively reliable sources that say things didn't go down quite the way the media portrayed it. The full report won't be complete until almost the summer time, so lets wait until then. I am in no hurry to ban a gun that might not have even been used in said tragedy. "
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Pearl Harbor was partially facilitated by Japanese people that were living on the Island and spying for the Japanese.
The Japanese planned to split the U.S. with Germany after they won the war. The wanted the West Coast as far as the Rockies, and Herr Schicklgruber would take the rest.
If the Japanese had won the war, would those people who we placed in internment camps be Americans? Or would they be Japanese?
It was a nasty business, but so was the war. (Or rather so were the Japanese) "
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i use the term lemmings because it's appropriate. it's possible that mr jones feels the same. "
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Among those who came to his funeral were President Clinton and four former presidents: Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George Bush. He had no doubt that he was superior to them all. Admittedly, Watergate—"that silly, silly thing"—had been a lapse, but in his opinion, when it came to presidential business that truly mattered, not one of those eminent mourners was in the same league with Richard Nixon.
Monica Crowley thinks so, too. The conviction has prompted her to issue two memoirs creating a portrait of Nixon, as the title of her second book puts it, in the winter of his life. The burden of them is that he was a far more admirable figure than widely supposed, a president who got a dirty deal from powerful forces—"armies of enemies"—who hated him. Hers is not the Nixon of the Watergate tapes, but a genial, complicated, avuncular old fellow in whom most of the bile, not all but most, is spent.
She has nothing new to report on Watergate, but who has? The familiar defenses are mounted again. They all did it, Nixon was the victim of an unfair double standard, and so forth. For historians there is nothing of consequence, either, in what Nixon said to her about the Vietnam War, the Cambodian invasion, or the secretive foreign policy in which he connived with an equally manipulative Henry Kissinger.
What is irresistible, however, is the powerful sense she conveys of Nixon's personality when he was playing the endgame of his long struggle to come back from disgrace. This results from her use of extensive quotations. We often seem to be listening to yet another batch of Nixon tapes or, perhaps, tapes of another Nixon so different from the Watergate tapes that he seems to have undergone a character transformation. It is gossipy, outrageous, comical, fascinating, entertaining, delightful stuff.
To evaluate Crowley's Nixon, it helps to know something about Crowley herself. She worked for him for the last four years of his life, and her devotion clearly bordered on adoration. She was twenty-one when she started: Nixon was seventy-seven, old enough to have been her grandfather. She was born in 1968, the year he was elected president. Her first memory of him was of watching his televised announcement that he was resigning the presidency. She was then five years old.
He had been out of office some fifteen years when they first met. He had spent every one of those years laboring to rebuild a reputation shattered by Watergate. These labors included a tireless book-writing program. The books presented him as a sage elder statesman whose knowledge and experience of great events could be invaluable to the nation, if Washington would only bring him out of exile and heed his messages. Discussing a work-in-progress with Crowley, he told her, "I'm writing this book not because I need to do it for myself but because the country needs to hear this kind of realism from me." Years had passed with no one who counted listening to his realism.
Still, he went to the end without giving up. During Crowley's brief time with him, he traveled to Russia and China, no idle journeys for a man teetering at the edge of eighty. Comically, in Russia he infuriated Boris Yeltsin by meeting with Yeltsin's political opponents. Yeltsin reacted by cutting off Nixon's transportation and security privileges and canceling his appointments with government people. Afterward, at 5 AM in Moscow, Nixon phoned Crowley in America, telling her, "Yeltsin, of course, had had a few when he erupted at me. That's well-known."
Crowley is miffed about the Watergate affair. Such a fuss! And why? Because "armies of enemies" made a "relentless attack on him, even as others commit crimes as egregious and are allowed to survive." Yes, "he helped with his own hanging," but "we claimed his political scalp as a prize to show that those wrenching years [the 1960s] produced at least one ostensibly righteous result. In him, we found a receptacle for all of our self-hatred and misguided upheaval. In his wrongdoing, we found shelter from our own."
Nixon died for our sins?
Well, Crowley is unhampered by experience of the many Nixons who thrived between the Murray Chotiner "pink-slip" campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas and the "smoking gun." Then, too, given a chance for long, close-up study of an aging historical figure, it would be a strange scholar indeed who spoiled it all by applying a gimlet eye to the old man, and Crowley seems to have been a precocious scholar. In her junior year at Colgate, she wrote Nixon a long, analytical, occasionally critical letter about his book 1999: Victory Without War. He invited her to visit, was impressed, and hired her to help in his writings on foreign affairs. She thinks he fancied her as a useful instrument for improving his reputation in history:
I believe he trusted me because he saw me as a liaison between himself and future generations, someone to whom he could tell his story one last time and upon whom he could rely to relate that story to others…. With the end of life coming ever closer, he felt an inescapable need to have his final say before a new generation, to cement the comeback….
Although she must have gussied up Nixon's grammar to eliminate natural conversational stutters, her Nixon sounds like the genuine article. He blusters, fumes, feels sorry for himself, worries about the nation's moral decay, talks trenchantly about politics and foreign affairs, reminisces about old triumphs, repeatedly declares he will not "wallow in Watergate," complains incessantly about the unjust media, and goes on and on about his "enemies," those beloved, hateful, indispensable "enemies" so essential to his view of politics as a blood sport.
"Why do you think people hate me?" he asked Crowley out of the blue one day. Then: "The problem with [then President] Bush is that no one hates him. An effective leader needs enemies because then you know you're doing something right."
Nixon had a positive lust for enemies. One of the more absurd moments of his presidency was the drawing up of the famous "enemies list" of persons who, in the lexicon of the Watergate Nixon, would be "screwed." The person who should have been at the top of the list wasn't even on it. He was, of course, Richard Nixon. As Watergate demonstrated, he was clearly the most deadly enemy he had.
The considerable pleasures of Crowley's book come from the guilty sense that we are eavesdropping while he talks, and talks, and talks to what he believes to be an audience of one. Crowley is not troubled about reporting these confidential conversations. She believes he wanted her to speak to posterity in his behalf, but there is a great deal here that seems delightfully indiscreet for such a secretive man. Did Nixon really want his contempt for President Bush widely broadcast? Poor Bush. As Crowley tells it, he could do nothing to suit Nixon. The old master of foreign policy was outraged by Bush's handling of foreign affairs, and especially about his 1990 friendliness toward the Communist reformer Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union.
"Has Bush lost his mind?" Nixon asked Crowley when Bush did not try to shake Lithuania out of the Soviet bloc. "…He isn't moving an inch on Lithuania. He just keeps letting his friend Gorbachev roll over the poor place."
Another time: "The guy's got no guts. He just doesn't have it."
And: "I think it's nauseating that the media have proclaimed Bush a newly strong leader." Bush had been "seduced by Gorbachev." He was "too soft on Gorbachev."
Nixon despised Bush's secretary of state, James A. Baker: "Bad news," he called him. "There is no vision there with Bush and certainly not with Baker. Baker was overrated as a strategist, and now he's in totally over his head with foreign policy. He just looks like an amateur out there with [Soviet foreign minister Eduard] Shevardnadze, holding his hand and sounding like he has no backbone. And Bush isn't much better. There is no grand thinking going on over there, no vision. They call it crisis management; I call it lack of leadership."
Even Bush's haberdashery irked Nixon: "I wish Bush wouldn't talk about serious issues looking like he does. They catch him coming off the golf course, no tie, baseball cap—my God! Put on a tie! He should be dressed formally when discussing something as important as this [Soviet relations]. I always wore a suit—perhaps too much. I know it, but I was comfortable in it, and it was appropriate."
Nixon, who made "expletive deleted" a household phrase, was offended by Bush's locker-room talk about Saddam Hussein: "I cannot believe that Bush said 'We'll kick Saddam Hussein's ass.' Can you picture Gorbachev saying 'We'll kick ass in the republics'?"
It would be entertaining to hear him speak with equal candor about Ronald Reagan. It might have been poisonous. Soft as Bush was on Gorbachev, he told Crowley, Reagan would have "gone even farther." This, however, is the only judgment Crowley quotes on the Gipper.
Gerald Ford, his pardoner, receives a brief commendation: "And poor Ford. The pardon was the kiss of death politically, and he still did it. You've got to admire his guts on that score."
Exiled, shamed, and ignored through the Carter, Reagan, and Bush administrations, he was astonished to find the Democrat Clinton extending a friendly hand. Shortly after taking office, Clinton phoned for a forty-minute chat. Crowley suggests Nixon was euphoric.
…Most surprising—he confided in me; he said things that he absolutely would not want made public. I wonder if his wiretaps are working!
He was very respectful but with no sickening bullshit…. It was the best conversation with a president I've had since I was president…. It was never a dialogue with the others. I used to have to force things into the conversation with Reagan and Bush. This was a different cup of tea…. This guy does a lot of thinking.
Nixon seized the occasion to preach the importance of foreign policy, the area in which he considered himself a foremost authority. Did he immediately fancy himself becoming Clinton's wise man in foreign policy? "As long as he is talking to me, he'll be OK," he told Crowley. "If he relies on his Carter-type advisers, he will run into trouble."
Clinton invited him to the White House. It was a milestone in the long journey back toward respectability. Reagan and Bush had never done him this symbolic honor.
Eavesdropping, courtesy of Crowley, we learn what he thought of Robert McNamara ("typical elite intellectual type—cold and mean"); of Ted Koppel ("anti-Nixon all the way"); of foreign service officers ("the pits," "all bad," "all liberals, Democrats," but "usually they don't do too much damage"); of United Nations speeches ("worthless, but the media love that fluff"); of domestic economic problems ("let's face it, very boring").


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|Kevin Bacon
I will definitely check those out when I move! If I live in Ravenswood that would be a nice quick commute to class.
I don't live in Chicago (yet), but I learned tons about the neighborhoods and the average pricing/safety/culture/vibes/etc from the city data forum. It's invaluable, really.
|Sean Penn
Hey guys,
I'm thinking of moving closer to Chicago (I live in Rockford at the moment) to pursue classes and auditions a little bit closer to the city. What 'burbs are reccomended for ease of commute? I don't mind driving in, I really don't want to live IN the city.
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
|Morgan Freeman
Question: Do rehearsels generally happen at night or during the day?
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up everytime we do." Confucius
|Kevin Bacon
@jasonresno: This does not pertain to your actual question, sorry. Is there a specific reason that you don't want to live in the city? I struggle as well with the city vs. suburb decision. Well I DID anyway, until I visited last Saturday. Now I think I've finally committed to the city. But I remember you posting somewhere that you have taken classes at Second City already. Did you actually drive all the way in from Rockford every week? That's dedication!
Though I suppose if I lived within a couple hours of the city, I'd be too impatient to not take classes too. I live 5 hours away, sadly. I went down last weekend for the beginners orientation at Act One, which was great. It is so depressing knowing that I can't sign up for anything until I move.
|Sean Penn
Yup I got pretty good at getting to class and back pretty darn quick. I've been a small town guy my entire life. I hate the hustle and bustle of the city. I don't mind goign through it to get things done (like work or school) but I definitely don't want to live in "it".
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Hey guys! It's super great to see some Chicago actors Or, potential Chicago actors on this board. I just wanted to let you in on something super big in Chicago. If you're in Chicago actively taking classes, you are probably familiar with the, once a week for three hour scene study, improv, cold reading, audition technique or on camera structured classes. Personally, I have found this style training to be helpful but as for as artistic growth goes, a very slow stagnating process because you're only "working your craft" 10 hours a week at most. Fortunately, Kathryn Gately and Richard Poole are opening up their own studio in Chicago in which classes are up to 5 hours each time you go an 3 days a week. Kathryn is first generation Meisner. She teaches just like him. She was also trained by William Esper and Taught at Rutgers mason of the arts before going to NIU to be their master MFA teachers. She's "Down to earth, no fooling around kind of teacher," but a very brilliant teacher! So if you're not good with constructive criticism then it may not be the class for you. In my humble opinion growth doesn't happen in comfortable style training. Rick comes from a very similar background but with his passion geared towards film. Their website is gatelypoole.com this website is geared towards the conservatory training but they have decided to start an on- going style training. Email Rick at firstname.lastname@example.com if you're interested in classes. Other wise I may be able to help out with answering some of your questions. Hope to see you in class some day!!
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I'm not familiar enough with print modeling in Chicago to answer your question, but in the past I've researched agents by asking headshot/comp card photographers who the reputable agents are in town. The photographers always seem to be plugged in. And it's easy to find the good photographers, because their work is on the web.
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You don't have to win them all, you just need a winning attitude!
I definitely agree with this. They have an application on their website you can fill out www.GatelyPoole.com
|Kevin Bacon
Are the intensives geared toward people who already have had plenty of previous training?
if youre in chicago and not at black box then youre doing it wrong.
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Just got my first headshots EVER done by Ryan Roberts (http://www.ryanrobertstudios.com) through a recommendation. Loved everything about the shoot and will be posting them soon for critique, just thought I'd pass the name along for my other Chicago actors.
Outside of that question for all you active Chicago people. What websites are you registered on? I am on ActorsAccess and NowCasting, I was toying with the idea of signing up on Backstage but is it worth it for our market?
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So I'm non union and unrepresented right now but I'm still working my butt off to find work and be the best actor I can be. I'm registered at the big casting websites and I'm roaming craigslist every morning/night. I'm just getting frustrated, it's so hard to find work in this town that isn't doing poorly written student films. I've got nothing against doing student projects, but when I get the sides and they are almost unreadable.. I don't want to do that work. Am I wrong?
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I don't think you're wrong. If it's a sucky project, then it's not going to do anything for you. My views are:
1. Stay in training continuously. Second City, Acting Studio Chicago, and The Green Room are highly regarded. In addition to becoming a better actor, you make great connections -- people who can refer you to their agents and who are producing their own content. The industry is about networking. (But I think the best part of making these connections is spending time and making friends with people who get you.)
2. Learn how to make your own content. Take classes in writing and producing.
3. Act on stage. Start anywhere and work your way up.
Not that I'm an expert. My kid is still struggling too. But this is what I've come to believe over the years.
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On Gnomes
When it was announced Gnomes were not to be one of the "original" races of D&D 4e, the gnome-haters came out in droves. "Good riddance!" and "Worthless" were the cries of the day.
I freely admit to you that Gnomes have a difficult path in fantasy gaming. Not the stout, proud warriors that are Dwarves, or the cute, mischievous Hobbits-turned-Vietnamese Boat People that are Halflings, Gnomes have long held more than a single identity.
The problem with many races outside of Mankind is that we wish to assign them a basic identity, while reserving the "Sooooo Adapatable!" moniker for Humans (a little bit of home cooking, perhaps?). In fantasy gaming Gnomes were originally a more magical race, by turns subterranean and sylvan. They later morphed into the fast-talking crazy inventors of Dragonlance and other settings. By the time of D&D 3.5, their favored class turned from Illusionist to Bard. In my current RPG of choice, Castles & Crusades, they're back to being largely portrayed as wilderness-dwelling Illusionists.
All this means is that we do not agree on what Gnomes should be; they are too small and wizened to be the graceful poster children for the forest that Wood Elves are. And so, left in limbo, Gnomes were endlessly divided; Rock Gnomes, Forest Gnomes, Tinker Gnomes, Deep Gnomes, Sky Gnomes, and several others to boot. Each highlights a different portion of what we want gnomes to be. Personally, I have a race of gnomes in the East of my setting that love trickery, (bad) humor, inventions, explosions, and discovery. In the West, a sylvan race of Gnomes barely survived a technological catastrophe, and became a Luddite society. A "lost tribe" in the High North lives underground and serves dragon overlords by mining and earth magic. I don't know if any will meet or not in my current campaign, but it will be a blast if they do.
I think, in order to really get the most use out of gnomes, they need to be played not unlike we play humankind--with infinite varieties in the gene pool, and interesting, clashing cultures. I am not saying make the cultures humanlike--that seems boring--but emphasize the cultural and philosophical differences between the different types of Gnomes. We have no problems doing this with Elves or Humans--why should Gnomes be different?
Like Elves or Humans, you're going to find something to hate in Gnomes. But there should also be something you like. Their niche is that they can fill whatever niche you choose--there's a treatment of it out there, or you can make your own. Don't lightly consign a race with this much potential to the dustbin.
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- BlUsKrEEm said...
I feel your pain. I'm a Halfling enthusiast. While 3.x-ers are usually accepting of the man halfling union, the OSR mob which I usually hang with laugh at the idea of a halfling in the party. I still maintain that Halflings are not only the funnest race to RP , but in BX / BECMI the class is one of the optimal options.
I'd say my one real problem with 4th ed is the "halflngs." Don't even get me started.
- December 29, 2009 at 11:23 AM
- Rob Conley said...
The portrayal of Gnomes in Elisabeth Moon's Surrender None as bad asses for Law inspired me to make sure Gnomes were a interesting race in the Majestic Wilderlands
- December 29, 2009 at 11:28 AM
- Zzarchov said...
I've never liked mono-cultures and have always ensured that every race has multiple cultures, often starkly different. Gnomes are no different, with the technological gnomish republic, the forest gnomes, the deep gnomes and the enslaved domovoi.
- December 29, 2009 at 11:43 AM
- Zachary The First said...
@BIU: Yeah, I like my Halflings a little chubby than the dreadlocked river people they've morphed into. I never cared for Kender, and they seem to have obtained a dose of Kender in their DNA over the years.
@Rob: Haven't read that. Is it a series or single book you'd recommend?
@Zzarchov: I quite agree. Actually, I plan on expanding on this a bit in tomorrow's article. My thanks!
- December 29, 2009 at 12:30 PM
- Ryan said...
In my nearly two decades of DMing, I have had only two gnome player characters, one in AD&D2 and one in 3.5. Personally I like underground gnomes, but as you pointed out, it's possible to have both subterrainean and sylvan gnomes in the same world.
...of course, deep in my heart, gnomes will always look like David the Gnome and his ilk!
- December 29, 2009 at 1:04 PM
- Tim Shorts said...
I have a problem with finding places for halflings and gnomes in my past campaigns. My own personal bias. But lately I have been trying to rework them. To make them more interesting for my world. What got me started to think they could be cool was reading over old HackMaster stuff and read about the Gnome Titans. I got excited about playing one. Anyways, this new year will see me being more tolerant and accepting of the short people.....as long as they don't start singing. Then they get exterminated by a short person plague.
- December 29, 2009 at 1:28 PM
- seaofstarsrpg said...
I have nothing against gnomes as such, but they never really seemed to have a place to fill in the D&D world. But I highly respect anyone who can play an interesting gnome as they are inventing much of the gnome culture for themselves and the campaign.
- December 29, 2009 at 1:29 PM
- Rob Conley said...
Oh yeah I recommend this.
First read the Deed of Paksenarrion
Then the Legacy of Gird both are trade paperbacks that collect the two series.
They are set in a D&Dish world. The first is the story of Paksenarrion a potential paladin. And the second is about Gird her patron saint.
Some of the middle part takes place in a very familiar places.
- December 29, 2009 at 2:02 PM
- Doug Wall said...
Nomes are indeed awesome.
- December 29, 2009 at 2:20 PM
- Maroon said...
I've always adored gnomes. They're everything elves and dwarves were supposed to be: Wise, bearded and magical, and not a little covetous. They wear pointy red caps and mine for gems and do the gardening. They can be everything you want them to be. They can be short bearded miners and sylvan wizards and sneaky gardeners and still all of them are recognizably gnomes. I think they're one of the core archetypes of fantasy, even though most people can't see past the red cap and the toadstools.
In my world, they're the reason wizards wear pointy hats. In ancient times they were servants to the Atlanteans/Lemurians (elves), and took care of gardening, farming, fishing, mining, accounting, entertaining, tailoring, tinkering, cooking, brewing, housekeeping, butlering, did magical research and alchemical work, and were there when you needed them and invisible when you didn't. Just before Atlantis/Lemuria sank beneath the sea, the gnomes escaped and left their ungrateful masters to their folly, and were dispersed over the continents. Some continued their elven masters' sorcerous practices (rock/tinker gnomes), others returned to their shamanic roots (forest gnomes), and yet others swore off magic altogether and focused on mining and smithing (dwarf analogs) or farming and gardening (halfling analogs). But in the end humanity learned their magic from the gnomes, not the elves, which is why wizards wear pointy hats.
You might recognize part of this (but likely not) as the back story of The Gnole by Alan Aldridge. It's a really cool book, one which I recommend reading if you like subtly moralistic fantasy in the vein of Tolkien with a dash of Jim Henson magic. Oh, and mole people.
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Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino offers a large outdoor pool with an adjacent 25-person spa tub. The resort also features 6 hard-surface tennis courts (surcharge), 4 of which are lighted for night play. Private tennis lessons and clinic are available for a surcharge. Guests can enjoy the fitness center for a surcharge, which covers use of fitness equipment, spa tubs, steam rooms, robes, towels, sandals, lockers, and safe-deposit boxes, as well as bottled water, juices, fruit, and other amenities. The admission fee is waived with the purchase of any spa treatment (some exclusions apply). Access to the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino cardio room is included in the resort fee.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
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The full-service spa offers a wide array of relaxing and revitalizing treatments. Popular choices include Swedish and therapeutic massage, the Pomegranate Body Polish, the Ultimate Foot Relief, and the Desert Oasis Facial.
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When you arrive
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
When you leave
Check-out time is noon
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Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
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- Resort fee: USD 19.99 per accommodation, per night
- Fitness center access
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- Refrigerator fee: USD 10.00 per day
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Judging by the spy shots we saw last week for the 2014 Buick LaCrosse and 2014 Buick Regal, we knew it wouldn't be much longer until we saw both sedans receive a grand debut. Today, Buick confirmed to Autoblog both cars will be introduced at the New York Auto Show next month, but no further information has yet been released about either model. Having been on the market for an extra couple years, the changes to the LaCrosse appear to be more significant than those coming for the Regal, but both will be getting refreshed exterior designs as well as updated interiors. The Regal's new face... Read More