text: The Tree Jay Michaelson email@example.com www.metatronics.net 917-974-9815 version 60607 The Tree Jay Michaelson I invite you to imagine a girl, a young woman, named Yonit. She has recently celebrated her sixteenth birthday in Jerusalem, where her parents immigrated and settled just before she was born. Her family is religious, though Yonit attends one of the more progressive high schools in the city, and still speaks English in their four-room apartment, although they will often switch without thinking into Hebrew when the words of their former language suddenly seem to fail. She calls Jerusalem Yerushalayim. Yonit's closest friends are other children of anglo oleh families. Tamar"s parents came from Chicago, back in the eighties. Rachel"s moved here from England, only ten years ago; she still has memories of foreign foods, Marmite and Hobnobs, and of streets with brick-clad semi- detached houses stretching across North London. All the girls speak Hebrew to one another – they are Israelis now, and blend effortlessly with everyone in school, even some of the Sephardic and Mizrachi girls. But when it is late at night and they want to talk intimately about boys or parents or music, they cleave, as it were, to their own kind. Yonit"s parents were conflicted as to how best to educate their daughter. In Israel, the Jewish school system is segregated between religious and secular, with only a few isolated institutions offering something between the standard Orthodox line and nothing at all. The Friedmans had been liberal American Jews. They kept the mitzvot, the sabbath especially, and knew they wanted their children – Yonit, her younger brother Avi, and her baby sister Margalit – to learn Torah as well as secular studies. But the first religious principal who met with Aharon Friedman to discuss their children winked at him and said that, in his opinion, women who learn talmud grow up to disobey their husbands. So Yonit was sent to as left-leaning a religious school as the Friedmans could find, with the result being that Yonit, at the age of her bat mitzvah, complained that the "real religious kids" were learning more than she was, and couldn"t she switch to the dati school, where even if she couldn"t learn gemara she could at least learn what she did learn... better. Some of the other girls 2 at shul, Yonit said, could already tell her how to comb her hair on shabbat, could recite mishnayot by heart, could, and this seemed most important, claim a personal relationship with God. The Friedmans were ambivalent at first, especially Batsheva, Yonit"s mother, but eventually a suitable religious school was found, and Yonit"s friend Tamar Menashe went there already, and so Yonit went to find her relationship with God the "real" way. The piety of the religious girls – this almost instinctual assumption on their part that God was present in their lives, that God cared what they did, and their careful actions which, one could say, made the assumptions true – this is what Yonit wants. One of her most treasured memories is when, a little over a year ago, just the flowers were beginning to bloom in the Jerusalem hills, she and Tamar and Rachel hiked with some of Tamar"s religious friends to one of the natural springs outside of the city and played guitar and sang songs by Shlomo Carlebach. Yonit loved their effortless spirituality, felt at the spring a sense of naturalness, ease, and comfort – not just with God, but, stemming from that relationship, with all of the world. Tamar and Rachel and their friends seemed to her to be in place, at ease with their context and people and land. Even now, nearly a year later, Yonit feels that they connect with God in a way that she has to strive for, work for, earn. They seem to her to travel not in a world of doubt and questioning, but in a world where the foundations are clear and the building to be built upon them will be firm and secure. "I wonder sometimes about how I relate to Hashem," Yonit tells Rachel (in Hebrew) one lazy shabbat. "What do you mean?" "I feel like I"m always testing Him, as if, I"m always, k'ilu, saying, "Okay, Hashem, if you"ll grant me this one favor, I"ll believe in you and know you exist."" "But if you"re always testing from the outside, you"ll never know. Because you have to know from the inside," Rachel answers. "I know. That"s what I"m saying," Yonit continues. "I have the emunah in Hashem, and I feel it when I daven, or learn. But then other times I wonder if my emunah is real. I wish one 3 time maybe Hashem would test me instead of the other way around." "Don"t wish for such a thing! What are you saying, Yonit? Don"t wish for God to test you in any way. Be happy that God doesn't test you like He tested Avraham or Job. So maybe you would pass, baruch hashem, great for you. But whether you would pass or fail is not the point. The point is that you should never have to suffer in this way." "Still, isn"t it true that when you love someone, you want to prove it?" "If David Pereg wanted me to prove it, he wouldn"t have to test me!" Rachel laughs and throws a piece of chocolate. David Pereg is seventeen, one of the best looking, coolest and most respected boys in the school. All the girls idolize him; even those who don"t idolize him sincerely do so out of a desire to belong. And all the boys follow his lead. One day he came to school with a new kippa, with a kind of multicolored ring design. A week later, half the boys in his class (and most of the ones below it) had similar kippot. Yonit had met David Pereg one time in the street, walking home from a few hours spent reading in a meadow. "Shalom Yonit," David had said. It was the first time they had ever spoken. To be spoken to by David Pereg! "Hi David." "How are you?" "Baruch Hashem. And you?" "Ah, okay, I guess." Yonit did not know how to answer; what was next to say? David had interrupted the flow of the ordinary conversation, which was now supposed to pass to "a lot of work" or "parents." He implied ambivalence; why did he only "guess" he was okay? Was this a new affectation of cool – to be not so sure one was okay? Or did he mean it? Could it be that David Pereg wanted to confide in her, to talk to her in a way that boys never wanted to talk to her? David Pereg? Of all people? He could have answered that he was "fine," that everything was "in order" – why this act of self-revelation? 4 Or rather, Yonit thought, invitation. He hasn"t said anything yet, Yonit thought. He has just said that he might want to say. To tell the truth, Yonit did not and does not share her classmates" enthusiasm for David Pereg. He seems to her too confident – this one episode, which we will soon resolve, notwithstanding. He and his crowd always parade through the school halls as if they own the place. Which they do, from a certain perspective. But Yonit feels that she can see through them. They are petrified of the army, Yonit thinks. Today they are carousing in the schoolyard, calling each other names, but in one or two years they could be in Gaza, in a refugee camp, shooting at people. They act as though their youth is never going to end, because unlike Yonit"s American cousins, they know it will end very definitely and abruptly, and very soon. Yonit wishes that she could connect with the boys on this level. She wants to know them, know them in a real way, without every statement being taken as some sort of innuendo. But with boys like David, the ground rules already seem so established. He knows that every girl wants to kiss him, to be with him; he knows how to behave around the boys; there seems no undoing his personality. The fault, Yonit thinks, lies not with the boys but with the girls, who divide neatly into two distinct camps. The first, the good girls, will not so much as kiss a boy, and everyone knows it. For all Rachel"s boasting, she would never "prove her love" for David Pereg, even if given the chance. She is not shomeret n'giah exactly; she might hold hands, and certainly would shake hands, with a boy. But if David Pereg wanted the kind of "proof" that only a woman could offer him, Rachel would not be amenable. The other girls, of course, are the bad girls. These girls are indistinguishable from the good girls in every way – appearance, speech, attitude – except that somehow word got out that they would do anything, or anything short of that thing, with almost anyone. Shlomit Hazony, for example. No one really knew for sure if she had been with David Pereg himself, but everyone knew for sure that she had been with every other boy in his crowd. David Berger; Itzik Heiligman; Ofer Oz. Everyone knew because she talked. She talked about how Itzik was bigger than Ofer, but Ofer came faster. How one time Mr. Sofer, the math teacher, had a hard-on when 5 he had to talk to her after class, and how she saw him trying to glimpse her cleavage. Shlomit talked, never to a group of more than one or two others, but always to the right people so that word got around, and so that the boys, too, knew, and so that if they saw her alone on the street, after reading in a meadow, they would know what was the score and what was their opportunity. Yonit thinks of herself as neither a good girl nor a bad girl. As a matter of reality, of what she has done and has not done, she is a good girl – but not of ideology. She "dated" for a few weeks a good boy named Itzhak Paz, who she thought might reach over and kiss her one time because his family was Sephardi and usually the Sephardim were more liberal about these things. But Itzhak never made a move, and Yonit quickly grew to find him boring. And because she has a reputation of being a good girl, few of the less-good boys regard her with any interest. Yonit is an attactive girl, with light brown hair that just reaches the bottom of her neck (many of the girls, with shoulder-length or longer hair, tease her and call her a lesbian because of her relatively short hair, but Yonit likes it this length, especially in summertime), and a slim build and neat breasts that are definitely a presence, definitely something to look at, unlike some of the girls", but not overbearing either. She has a pretty laugh, if such a thing can really be described. But Yonit could be a supermodel for all it mattered – as a good girl, she would not draw much interest. And yet why this dichotomy between being a virgin and a whore? It"s not natural, Yonit thinks. Surely there must be some boys at school like her, boys who would like to... explore, neither remaining so chaste that nothing would ever happen and also not be so sex-crazed that everything happens at once. Yonit fantasizes mostly about the quiet boys in her class, not the David Peregs of the world, but the young scholar who writes poetry, the sensitive boy, the shy one. She imagines intimate conversations on the telephone, at first, followed by discreet meetings in fields – always outdoors, not in cafes. The first kiss happens on a warm day in the park. Later, days later, they meet again, but this time it is somewhere private, and Yonit reaches her hand under his shirt, the scholar"s, and feels his nipples hard under his tzitzis. He is emboldened, reaches out his hand which usually brings pleasure only to himself, and, with a gasp, touches her breast. They kiss again. Yonit reaches down her hand to feel him through his 6 jeans, and he gasps again. No one has ever touched him there. He kisses her neck. All is gentle, slow, and quiet. So when this one time David Pereg stopped on the street – stopped on the street, Yonit realized; they are not even walking anymore; they are definitely stopped and talking – Yonit did not know what to do. David had confessed to being okay, he guessed, in such a tone as to invite the obvious next question. And Yonit, after a moment"s thought, decided to ask it: "Why only "you guess"?" I invite you to imagine, for a moment, which answer you would most like to hear. Would it be that David Pereg is a sensitive boy after all, that under his arrestingly beautiful looks there is a soul that recognizes in Yonit a fellow traveler, a fellow poet under the stars? Shall he confess, then, to his fears or anxieties? Or would you like to have him use some kind of line, not a corny line but something just sincere enough, like "I"ve been feeling lonely," to entice Yonit back to his apartment – his parents are gone for the day to visit relatives in Netanya – where in the end he will show her a passion that is missing even from her dreams? Or another option: perhaps to disabuse yourself of all such illusions, would you like him, perhaps, to say something banal ("I failed my driver"s test") that reassures Yonit that she is right to shun boys like David and favor the quiet, anonymous scholar? In reality, his answer is inconsequential; this encounter happened almost a year before Yonit"s theological conversation with Rachel, and by now, Yonit has forgotten the details, forgotten the moment she grew close to David Pereg. She was flustered, that is what she remembers; she thinks, I was only fifteen then. The moment was not repeated; her encounter with David Pereg did not lead to erotic passion or emotional connection. Whatever David"s answer, Yonit now remembers shrugging it off entirely – "That"s too bad. It"ll get better."-- which is, I confess, a bit of a disappointment for me. I want Yonit to realize her dreams, because they seem to me noble, if not original. Who knows what might have happened, which David Pereg would have appeared, if she had dared to expose herself to risk and love and pain? Now Yonit finds Rachel"s invocation of David Pereg annoying. She says so. "We"re not talking about David Pereg, we"re talking about Hashem." 7 "Is there a difference?" Rachel continues to joke. "Seriously!" "Yonit: let me tell you something. Stop thinking so much. I don"t mean you should be an idiot. I mean, about God, stop thinking so much and you"ll feel Him. I don"t think about my relationship with God all the time. It is part of life, that is all. Do you think of your relationship to the air all the time? What is important is to breathe. Do you understand?" "But air is proven. We know it is there, because we breathe it every day." "Faith means that God is proven too, and you know it, because you are with Hashem every day also." "I– " "Look at this plant, for example, Yonit. See how it is breathing? Because God created it this way. See how the breeze blows? Because God wants it to. This is it." "But it also can be said that the plant evolved this way and the wind is because of whatever scientific cause there is for the wind." "Yes, but there is no difference, Yonit. Only how we understand it. It"s not something you can think. You feel it, you understand it. You have to stop thinking so much," Rachel concludes. Yonit is dissatisfied with this answer, but this time she does not tell Rachel so. What the conversation has most revealed is not anything about God but something about the gap growing between Yonit and Rachel. * * * As a religious, non-haredi girl growing up in Israel, Yonit has taken dozens, if not hundreds, of hikes throughout the country. Her regime is part of the Israeli educational system, left over from the pioneering days when knowing the land was part of what every chalutz should know. With both her original, more liberal school and her new school, Yonit has visited wadis, springs, canyons, mountains, caves, lakes, forests, deserts, seas, rivers, foothills, ruins, villages, 8 archeological digs, cisterns, churches, synagogues, fortresses, graves, tombs, and monasteries. She knows the difference between Mamaluk and Crusader architecture, between the Syrian- African rift and the Carmel, between the Judean desert and the Negev. And Yonit loves these trips, loves learning about almond trees and hyssop and which flowers can make good tea. While many of her friends complain about marching over the Judean hills in long skirts and sneakers, Yonit feels at one with the natural world, even in such a state. Particularly in such a state – her very body dressed in a way that relates to God, her soul singing songs in the world God created. Yonit has long enjoyed these trips so much that she has yearned to take them on her own. If there is one thing she does not like about the field trips around Israel, it is that everyone always insists on talking, endlessly, about nothing. Once, her class was climbing Mount Meron, in the Galilee, where Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai is buried and where the Kabbalah was born, and her friends were talking about television shows! About their favorite episodes of Seinfeld and Friends! In the shadow of the grave of the tzaddik! Rather than puritanically hush them and demand respect for the holiness of the sacred site, Yonit simply hung back, trudging along with the slow kids in the back who were usually too exhausted, huffing and puffing, to speak. This tactic usually worked, although frequently Tamar or Rachel or some other friend would ask "where is Yonit?" and call after her, and tease her for walking slowly, in the back. Yonit wishes she could venture into nature by herself, without these annoying social conventions, yet she knows this is an impossibility. Her parents would never allow it – at the very least she would have to take a friend or two, but even then, the chances of approval are dim. Unescorted girls, with no security guard, wandering through mountains? Impossible to conceive. Maybe when you are older, maybe. But even then, only crazy people wander through the desert alone. Yet it is the desert that most attracts Yonit. The quiet, and the space – it seemed to Yonit on her class trip to the Negev, which lasted almost a full week, that God"s voice could be heard there more clearly than anywhere else. Upon her return from the Negev, Yonit had to cover her ears from the constant noise, the traffic, the refrigerator humming, the toilets flushing, the sirens 9 blaring as police cars raced across Jerusalem. How she wished she was back among the silent, tan mountains, with nothing but the occasional jet plane overhead and not even the chirping of birds to shatter the silence. And yet, every day of Yonit"s life is watched, planned, supervised. If she is not in school, she is with her family. There is no such thing as free time, really – not beyond the boundaries of a few hours" time and a few kilometers of distance from home. To break free! In the months after that trip to the desert, the walls of Jerusalem increasingly grew to look like those of a prison. What previously delighted Yonit – walks in the park, playing with Margalit, good books – came to feel like the gilding on a cage. Now Yonit contemplates her imprisonment, and as she comes to consider it, despairs. Next after this will come the army, and then college, and then marriage – when will she ever be able to be alone, herself, with as much time and space as she wants? Eventually, over months of consideration, a strategem is developed. It is a risky plan. When her parents are back in the States for a wedding, and her siblings are staying with friends, Yonit will volunteer for, and enroll in, a service project in a development town in the Negev. None of her friends will do it; it will be an unpleasant project in an unpleasant town, and even if Rachel might be interested in accompanying her, Yonit knows that Rachel"s brother"s bar mitzvah is right after Shavuot, when school will be out and she will make her escape. So Yonit will be alone. She will go to the program, and then feign a call from home: someone is sick. She must return. The people in the development town won"t know anything, and the only number they"ll have is Yonit"s family"s, and they won"t be home, and Yonit can erase the voicemail when she gets back. It will not be anything serious – just a week, just some time in the desert to hike and think and enjoy. If at any time the plan begins to fail, she can abort it. Most of all, it is not a sin. She is going to be closer to God, to listen to God in the desert, to hear Him the way Rachel says she hears Him all the time. Except Yonit thinks, Rachel only thinks she hears him: I want to know. It surprises Yonit as the strategem, mulled over in hours of math class and idle time on 10 Friday nights, actually begins to work. Rachel ruefully complains that she would like to come on the program, but her brother"s bar mitzvah makes it impossible. Yonit"s parents approve of the idea, because Yonit is a privileged Ashkenazi girl and the development town is filled with underprivileged Sephardi kids for her to tutor. Meanwhile, Yonit sneaks over to the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel shop, covertly buys trail maps and guides to hiking in the Negev, reads all she will need to do to prepare. She becomes versed in what one needs to survive in the desert, where the feasible hikes are, what to do and what she needs. She tells no one. It is like she is plotting a sort of coup. As the days of the Omer tick by and Shavuot approaches, Yonit becomes inflamed with excitement, and nervousness, and doubt. Will someone find out? She has covered every track. Is it right to deceive her friends and her family in this way? Otherwise she will never do it. It would be better, yes, to go with a guide, but her parents would never allow it. Maybe she can hire a guide in Eilat. But that will mean more talking, about geological formations and ancient civilizations, and likely small talk also. Yonit does not want this. She wants the quiet. Just to walk freely in the open space where there is no one! Remarkably, Yonit finds herself on a bus to Beersheva, where she will switch for a bus to the development town. No one knows that inside her backpack are maps and hiking boots; she insists on going to the central bus station herself, since she does not want anyone to catch a glimpse of her pack when the security guard opens it for inspection. She has thought even of that. And so she is alone on the bus, in a sort of prelude, she imagines, to the sweet solitude to come. Yonit has never wished to be secular, ever. She sees the hilonim"s lives as spiritually empty, and sees their culture as constantly compensating for this void with shopping malls and fashion and loud, cheap music. But on the bus to Beersheva, Yonit looks at a woman two rows ahead, with short cropped hair and a sense of security emanating from her, and begins to think, What would it be like? To be so free? To have no sense of obligation, no limits? Yonit has had to plan her secret journey around shabbat, has had to consider what to wear (she has taken some shorts with her, reasoning that modesty is not required when one is not expecting to see anyone, 11 but she thinks she still will prefer the skirt) and how to eat. This woman – she seems very composed, she, at least, is not distracted by bells and whistles and stupidity. She is calm, Yonit thinks. I am masquerading on this short vacation, but for her, is life always this free? All continues to go according to plan. The second day at the town, Yonit tells of her phone call. The program counselors have no reason not to trust her – she is a good, honest girl – and her parents are away, which explains why they can"t get an answer on the phone. And back she goes to Beersheva (it is out of the way, but Yonit cannot risk being discovered heading in the opposite direction from Jerusalem), and then to Eilat, which Yonit has decided will be her base for exploring the mountains in the desert. She has already selected a youth hostel, and checked in. She has realized that in order not to attract attention, she will need a disguise. And so the skirt goes into the backpack. She speaks English, as most people seem to in Eilat. Amid the tackiness and vulgarity and pleasure palaces of Eilat, Yonit appears to be a random American tourist, invisible, a person with no identity at all. Her first hike, Yonit has decided, will be along a long wadi about twenty kilometers north of Eilat. Nothing too challenging, but a long, good, and quiet walk, essentially from the Western border of the country to the East, all across empty desert. It is exactly what she wants: nothing that would be considered overly challenging, but a considerable day nonetheless, and plenty of time to listen, simply, to the way the wind swirls in the wilderness. At night in Eilat, while other people are dancing in the discotheques of vast ziggurats of glass and steel, Yonit checks over her day pack, methodically, several times. Three liters of water, lunch, warm clothes in case something happens and she needs to spend the night, map, hat, sunblock, her only luxury item a notepad to jot down ideas. She eats a large meal at a cheap restaurant near her hostel in Eilat. Most of the city she avoids as some sort of antithesis of the quiet she sought. She goes to bed early. In the morning she rises ahead of her alarm, quickly davens shacharit in the courtyard of the hostel, and eats a simple breakfast at a bakery on the main street. Even though the bus station is only two blocks from her hostel, Yonit allows plenty of time, excited about the bright, open day ahead; elated that she has succeeded so far; partially amazed that her plan appears to be 12 working; and overwhelmed by the joy that, even more than the current day"s walk, there exists the possibility of more like this. The future becomes for her altogether brighter, though dotted by little stars of deception, little motes of freedom reflecting the sunlight amid the dust. With her index finger, Yonit traces the route of the bus as it carries her and a dozen or so soldiers into the desert heat. Here is the bend in the road; soon there will be another one, to the left... yes. Yonit told the driver where she wanted to get off, so she would not have to signal in the unfamiliar territory. She wondered what he thought of her – did he see through her American disguise for who she actually was? And if so, what was that? Yonit had imagined, in the instant that the driver took her tickets and punched them through, that the driver in fact had a totally wrong idea of who she was – that she was, say, one of those frivolous American tourists going off on a little hike in between sunbathing on the beach; or that she was some goyish European backpacker sandwiching a look at "Israel" in between Jordan and Egypt. Could she pass for one of them, even? Was her disguise so impermeable that nothing of the self she was, the self she was forced to be in school and at home day after day, could be perceived? Already, Yonit thought, the desert was beginning to cleanse her. And now she is here, suddenly. The bus driver calls out the name of the wadi before Yonit expects it. She has to take a moment to fold up her map. The soldiers look at her. Her face flushes with embarrassment. She rushes off the bus, which pulls away in a cloud of noise. Yonit looks around for the trailhead, and finds it. And then, gradually, as her heart stops pounding – silence. I want you to understand, now, that but for a chance accident two hours into the hike, all might have gone very well for Yonit. Even with the accident, which I will shortly describe and which is not necessarily serious, things may go well for her. But you will have to decide; it will not be entirely clear. I bring up this point merely to underscore that there is no such thing as fate, really; our choices are our choices, and I don"t want to suggest that there are hidden consequences of our actions – or even less, that we can anticipate such things and read their meanings backwards into our histories. 13 You are free to hold such beliefs if you wish, of course. But it is not my intention to suggest that Yonit"s misfortunes result from her decision to take the trip to the desert, or that such consequences were inevitable or ordained. Even if there is such a correlation between our actions and unrelated consequences, even if there exists a causal machinery that we do not understand, it is so hidden that it is not the sort of thing that can be predicted or conveyed in stories. I would not want you to take away the idea that Yonit was destined to fall off of a boulder – not even a large boulder, really only a few feet tall, and she had just happened to lose her footing, none of this being destiny or fate – and that, somehow, this was determined from the beginning. Now, if I simply related this turn of the story – I was about to say "twist of fate," but of course, that is precisely the point I do not wish to impose on you – if I simply told you about the hike, and the fall, and most importantly the almost freak occurrence of Yonit"s full plastic water bottle breaking on the fall, you might reasonably suppose that I wanted to convey that it was, indeed, the will of the Most High that this should happen. It would be reasonable to infer the point that such things do not simply "just happen," in stories or in life; everything may be interpreted. Yet at the same time, everything may be left uninterpreted as well. It may be more accurate to say that, contrary to a "twist of fate," Yonit"s accident has, in itself, no meaning at all. Indeed, all that has meaning, we might say instead, are our choices themselves. Later, when we reflect on what comes after, we might well impose upon the accident all sorts of layers of meaning and significance. But I leave to you whether such exegesis is imposition or understanding. The facts, then, only. It is three hours into the hike, which has been pleasant and delightfully uneventful, although not entirely as serene as Yonit had hoped, if only because she is so excited about it. Her mind has been racing, darting from plan to thought to idea. She has had to make a special effort to slow down, relax, and listen to the ambient sounds in the desert. From her map, Yonit can tell that she is making better time than expected; she is walking quickly and taking few breaks. She has finished almost all of her first bottle of water, which is a bit ahead of schedule, so she has slowed down her drinking to better ration the remainder. And she has 14 begun to slow down her pace as well, to listen to the birdless quiet of the desert. At one point, she sees a small herd of hyraxes, little badger-like creatures that hop among the rocks, and regrets that she is unable to take any photographs, since they might later become evidence of her transgressive independence. It is shortly after these thoughts and regrets that the accident to which I have referred takes place. Yonit had concluded that she needed to slow her pace, look around more, stop thinking like the organized girl who had everything planned out, enjoy the experience more in the moment itself. This is not an itinerary, Yonit says to herself: this is the trip itself. This is what you had planned for – this actually is happening – this is the wide, open place – but of course the wadi is narrow, the straits – and stop thinking "this actually is happening," stop constantly thinking about this in terms of your plans and your success and you and your noise – shhhh – don"t think of each plant like Rachel does, as something put there by design and part of her world of God and mitzvot and responsibility, because that"s what you are doing when you think its importance is to you, and your experience that you wanted to have – stop thinking and let the place be the place. So Yonit decides to stray a bit from the path, just to get a view of a particular byway of the wadi, as if this purposeful detour, this overtly inefficient and out-of-the-way jaunt would usefully derail her, take her out of the realm of schedules. She walks for a couple of minutes, then becomes tired of clambering over the rocks and between the delicate plants she is afraid of crushing underfoot. So she climbs up a small boulder to get a look at this odd little side-canyon of the wadi, intending to turn back after taking in the view. After all, a detour is well and good, but not if it is uncomfortable. And it has gotten very hot. Yonit is thirsty. She stands in the sun, unshaded for a few moments at the mouth of the narrow inlet. She reaches into her pack to take a drink of water, only now realizing how dizzy she has become, and she knows it – she knows it before it happens, at the moment her balance is shifted improperly, maybe it was the lack of water that caused her balance to be off, or maybe just bad luck – she can feel herself beginning to fall; and she, in that moment before she does fall, begins to hope and to calculate the odds and to think about how to minimize any damage. Her instinct is to protect her head, of course, and she 15 picks up her arms reflexively, which seems to make her lose her balance even more, and Yonit falls off of the boulder, letting out only a tiny, barely audible cry as she does. The backpack breaks her fall, which Yonit immediately thinks is good luck. It could have been her head. God is watching out for her after all, even here in these narrow places. Yonit thanks God even before she feels the pain of her as-yet-unformed bruises. All these thoughts before she looks to inspect the damage. Yonit begins the inspection. She is scraped up, but nothing the bandaids can"t handle. It will be okay, she thinks, just -- far. Yonit realizes that she is scared, her heart pounding and her body flushed with adrenaline. What is she doing out here? Who does she think she is, hiking alone in the desert? Who does such a stupid thing? I"m trying to prove something to myself, Yonit thinks, and being foolish as a result. There is a difference between taking a vacation and being a fool. It is only as Yonit stands up, with a sigh of ache, that she realizes her backpack is soaking wet. For a brief, pre-rational moment, she fears it is blood. She is hurt! But then, she realizes this cannot be – this cannot really be an injury so grave she didn"t even feel it -- so what is it? She takes off the pack, the backpack which had been the cause of this whole problem, and sees what has happened. Somehow the bottle – the full one – has cracked, split. Against the rocks, no doubt. But it didn"t just crack – it really shattered, almost, into a few pieces. The water! Yonit hurriedly takes out the empty bottle, and tries to rescue as much water as she can. But she only manages to save a cupful, at most. The rest is already soaked into the material of the pack, and into the sweatshirt that she brought in case of emergency. Quickly Yonit extracts the map, still mostly dry, from the front pocket of the backpack. The thing to do now is get out. The vacation part is over. At least for today. Tomorrow, we can try again. But, Yonit realizes, she has no water, and she is in virtually the dead center of the walk. What"s more, she has descended with the wadi these last few hours, to the point that to retrace her steps, which might be a bit wiser in terms of knowing the terrain she is to face, would be much harder going: all uphill, all of it. The way the hike was planned, there was meant to be more descent than ascent. So the best way to proceed is probably to go on. But to go on into 16 unknown territory? Is that wise? And she has begun to feel faint. So much for rationing the water, Yonit thinks. I need more water. Where am I likely to meet someone? I am shaken up, that is all; but not all, because I am injured, a little, and because I am thirsty, very thirsty, and now tired, and dizzy, from the heat. The heat which now seems unrelenting, because I"ve lost my weapon against it. Yonit decides to press forward, after much consideration. She admits to herself that part of the reason may be that she wants to go forward, wants to at least see the remainder of the day"s walk. Not to let it all go waste, not after all this planning and all this success. Yonit scolds herself for still thinking of recreation, despite it all. But really, she realizes, the logic is there – not only is the walk ahead likely to be easier than the walk back (one can"t be sure, but one has probabilities), but in under an hour the path crosses the Trans-Israel Trail, which runs all the way along the country and which is likely to have other hikers on it, people from whom Yonit could ask, beg, a little water. So, forward. The walk is hard going. Yonit is stretching the last cup of water as best she can, but it is already half gone within an hour; one can only drink so little at a time. And where is the intersection with the Trail? Back in Jerusalem, Yonit had chosen her route according to what she thought would be the least-traveled path; solitude is what she had wanted. But now, anything for another person, a person with just a little water, and maybe some help, or just words. Anything to wake her up a little, remove the tired semi-consciousness creeping over her. I cannot pass out, Yonit thinks, not here in the desert. I have to stay awake. The wet pack mocks her as it presses up against her back, making her uncomfortably damp even as she hopes that, somehow, her body is absorbing some of the water from the pack. The bruises have begun to form, and the pain adds to Yonit"s dizziness, alternately waking her from her inner near-sleep and further isolating her within her mind, as the stimulus of pain grows stronger than any perceptions from the outside world. Finally, Yonit reaches the Trans-Israel Trail, after almost ninety minutes of what she had hoped would be a forty-five minute distance. She waits at the crossroads for almost a full hour more, certain that someone will be coming up or down the Trail, but no one comes. Impossible! 17 True, it is a weekday, and approaching the heat of the day, but still - no one for an hour? Now she has to move on, because it is getting late, and she is not prepared for the night. She ponders turning onto the Trail on the theory that there will be more people on it, but if she fails to encounter anyone, it could add hours to this miserable walk ahead. No: move forward, through the empty land. Someone, eventually, will have to turn up. It is hot – very hot, Yonit thinks. I would take off my shirt if I wouldn"t burn underneath. I don"t care here about being embarrassed, or modest. I wish I could be like those boys who, when they are hot, simply take off more and more clothes. Yonit remembers one time hiking with her school in the Ramon crater, on a day almost as hot as this one, and how all the boys complained about the heat even though they had nothing left on their bodies but shorts and sandals. Whereas Yonit and her friends were still wearing heavy shirts, bras, skirts. To be as free as they are, so free they no longer remember to be grateful! Yonit wonders at the crossroads if she should yell for help, but thinks better of it. Really, would anyone hear? And the embarrassment if someone did. It"s amazing that no one has come along! But, it is only a few more hours of walking; people go three times as long with nothing to drink. Let"s be rational. And I"ve already had almost two liters today; it"s not like that has disappeared from history. It is in me. I"ll be fine. I just wish I weren"t so... dizzy. So Yonit walks on, still amazed that she has seen no one, although now back on one of the less-traveled byways. Now it has been five hours since the start of the hike, three hours since she has had anything to drink, and, looking at the map, likely three more hours, at least, until she will reach the road. The distances seem longer than expected. What should take one hour seems to take one and a half. Yonit curses the plastic bottle which broke so easily on the fall. Plastic isn"t supposed to break like that! she repeats, almost aloud. I planned properly! Yonit"s legs have grown tired and her head is spinning. She needs a rest; a short rest, and then she can continue. Just a short rest. Yonit looks around. Although there is no real shade, there are acacia trees everywhere. They invite her, it seems, to sit underneath them. They beckon, Come here, and rest, and be happy underneath me. Yonit ponders this other voice, apart from the voice of the wind, that seems to be speaking to her in the quiet desert. Are these the 18 trees the idolaters worshiped in Canaan, centuries ago? Avodah zara, she hears Rachel"s voice say in her head. Talking to the trees -- devoting oneself to them! Idolatry. But, Yonit answers, these are acacia, shittim – the wood of the ohel moed, the mishkan itself! Out of these trees the Israelites constructed the holy mishkan, which they dedicated to Hashem. These trees, if they are pagan trees, are also our trees, our holy trees; they are the trees with which we devote ourselves to God. So what I hear from the trees are not other voices, Yonit thinks, but God"s voice at last. Offering shelter like the kikayon for Yonah, my namesake. Rest. Yonit finds as large a tree as is in sight, and drops underneath it what is left of her backpack. She mops her forehead with her wet sweatshirt, hoping to squeeze another drop of water from it into her mouth. It is hot. The Bedouins, Yonit had read, sleep now, in the heat of the day, and continue in the late afternoon. I will do the same. I will sleep now, under this tree, under the shade of this friendly tree whose branches whistle and crackle in the slight breeze. In the shade of the tree, Yonit takes off her shirt after all, since there is no one around and it is covered in sweat and uncomfortable dampness from the pack. No more modesty now; now, comfort. It is my turn, Yonit thinks, and my right. Anyway, even if someone did come by, they would make noise first, and so what if they saw her without a shirt? This is a matter of life and death! Let them see me! Not that it is a matter of life and death – humans can go days without water. I only need to rest for an hour, to sleep through the heat of the day, and then I will continue like a Bedouin in the late afternoon. I am not entirely sure why Yonit removes her bra as well as her shirt. She tells herself it is because the bra, too, is soaked in sweat and feels to her disgusting. The bra feels to her, also, as a ridiculous token of civilization, somehow inappropriate for lying under an acacia tree, surrounded by nothing, to escape the heat of the desert. So she takes it off, hearing mostly the voice of reason, that if she is going to try to become cooler and more comfortable, this makes sense. But also, Yonit admits, there arises in her mind arises the idea that this voice of God in the tree, its crackling sound like an insect whenever the wind blows, is calling out to her in the same way the freedom of the woman on the bus called out to her and in the same way she herself 19 wants to call to the scholar boy who sits quietly in the corner, hiding his dreams. The breeze feels delicious on her breasts. She is delighted by the notion of her friends seeing her now and being shocked. And yet, not because this is the good girl gone bad, not because of that at all – this is the good girl gone good, at home at last, with the quiet, not among the m'patpet and chatter of silly schoolgirls, but under the rustling of these branches. Yonit sits upright under the tree, takes off her hiking boots and her socks. If only I had water, she thinks, this would be Gan Eden. This is freedom: a vast empty space, dotted with trees like this one, offering shelter. The sun beats down, but the tree protects. What would it be like... Yonit wonders, of course. Just for a minute. The clothes are not her own – these shorts say that she is someone she is not – she is not the woman on the bus. This is a disguise. What would it be like to be free of all such pretension? Half in a dream, Yonit imagines the scholar boy as before, only this time he is naked, his penis pointing toward heaven, stepping to within an inch of her. "Holy," he says. And now she too is naked, taller than he, feeling his hardness in her pubic hair. There are no secrets. She reaches to touch him, and touches his face, unshaven but smooth, and looks in his eyes. He is still wearing his kippa. The Canaanites, Yonit knows, performed sexual rites under these trees. For them, there was no responsibility, only chance and the power of eros. Today, we are not entirely sure what rites they performed and with which trees, but we know that the Bible prohibited a range of activities in and around trees, out of fear of this "strange fire," And yet at the same time, the Israelite religion makes great use of the same acacia tree worshiped by the Canaanites, which the Israelites used in the tabernacle. Yonit wonders if there is a difference, between the acacias of the mishkan and the ilanot of the witches. She is grateful to the tree, giving her shade, allowing her to rest amid its branches, whispering to her. She can understand why ancients, in a world before ice and air conditioning, could worship the creatures that bring such relief from the unrelenting sun. There is only this: this pleasure, devoid of moral significance. Yonit lies back down under the tree. The breeze that rustles its branches caresses her pubic hair and blows gently into her while her feet nuzzle into the sand. Half in a dream, Yonit imagines the cultic images of the Canaanites: masks, idols, gods 20 with huge phalluses and goddesses with enormous breasts. She feels fire. Yonit does not know much about the Canaanites or their tree-worship, so her vision is made up of images she has seen in movies or imagines based on shiurim at school. The fire grows hotter, and she is thirsty. The scholar boy enters her, and breaks her, and her image of his gentleness is broken too, as he becomes an animal, pumping in and out of her, his face distorted by lust, his chest tensed and flexed. Yonit has a suddenly lucid thought that, of course, this is true – has she really imagined, all this time, that scholar boys and shy boys are scholarly and shy when they screw? They take off their glasses and their shirts and watches and they are men like everyone else. And when Yonit looks into the boy"s face she sees for a moment David Pereg, grimacing as he drives into her, but presently his face is replaced by that of Shlomit Hazony, the temptress, the whore, Shlomit on top of her, and Yonit is the scholar boy underneath, and it is Shlomit, Asherah, tree- goddess, Lilith, pushing into her, in the desert, under the hot sun. Yonit imagines at this moment that she wants this consummation – she wants only to leave behind the tidy world of uncertain, distant gods and replace it with this certainty, this immediacy that she feels now. This is a goddess who is known, naked, not concealed. This is a god who is known when he fucks, as in the Torah itself: the same word for knowledge and sex. The images and sensations of sensuality recede, as Yonit opens her eyes and glimpses some brambles of the tree branch. She breathes heavily. She is not wet. But she wants it to be real. She does not want her God to be chaste, and sex to be reserved only for the bad girls; she is ready now. And she is not sure whether it is real or in a dream, but in front of the brambles, Yonit thinks she sees, for a moment, a boy"s curious, puzzled face. Now I want you to imagine for a moment Yaniv, a sixteen year old boy who lives in Eilat. His family is what is called in Israel "traditional," which means that the old religious folkways play a role, but perhaps not the dominant role, in the family"s sense of self. Yonit has not imagined a boy looking at her under tree -- it is Yaniv who has come upon her. His friends are eating lunch not far away; he decided to explore this byway on his own. It is not unusual for him to be here; the four of them – Yaniv, Gal, Yotam, Ehud – regularly go for tiyulim in the desert, getting some exercise, talking about girls. The desert is their park. 21 Yaniv is a virgin, although as he looks at the naked girl"s breasts, he remembers how Anat let him touch hers last year, one Saturday night, and how she touched him down there, for only a moment. All the guys talk about who they"ve been with and who they"ve screwed, but Yaniv doesn"t believe them for the simple reason that he talks this way too. When they go into the army, they"ll get laid then no problem. It"s only that in Eilat there aren"t that many girls who aren"t tourists. But never in his life has he seen something like this – a beautiful, pale girl, naked, lying spread-eagled in the middle of the desert! It seems to him like a porn story, something you would download from the Internet and jerk off to on a boring school night. What is she doing here? Yonit has imagined herself wanting consummation; she may want to surrender. Or she may no longer know what she wants. But, of course, Yaniv does not know that, and many of us would say that to have sex with a dehydrated and fainting girl is ipso facto taking advantage. So is the right thing for Yaniv to wake Yonit, clothe her, and bring her water? Or is this "right thing" precisely that in which Yonit no longer wishes to be constrained? And Yaniv has desires too – as long as he keeps this secret concealed from his friends a few hundred meters away, is it not the stuff of poetry to make love to a mysterious woman who he finds naked in the desert? Perhaps you are someone who believes that when circumstances are so aligned as to leave no mistake, that the moment is there to be seized. Yaniv hesitates, looks down at the girl, and again at the empty desert. He holds Yonit"s life in his hands. Canaanite or Israelite, lust or virtue -- which shall he choose, and why? Perhaps a story, about how Yaniv"s mother caught him stealing candy once, when he was six, and forced him to apologize directly to the store"s owner – perhaps that would help us predict his behavior now. Or maybe we would to know much more about religion, television, economics. Maybe there is no end to what we would need to know. Yonit may be where she is only because of a slippery rock, or maybe she is here because of a thousand past choices. She looks up through the bramble at the handsome boy, wavering and uncertain. She wants to say something – but she is not sure what. What will she choose now? And is it even her choice at all? 22


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Since its inception in 1947, Holland & Hart has grown into a firm of more than 400 lawyers in 15 United States offices in Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and the District of Columbia. In 2007 and 2008, Holland & Hart was named the best corporate law firm in Denver according to a survey of corporate directors in Corporate Board Member magazine.
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Our Rating: :: GEM MATCHING MONSTER BASHING :: Read Our Full Review >>Those in-app purchases might prove a bit pesky, but Spellfall is a mostly fun Match-3 puzzle game.
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Awarded Apple's "iPhone Game of August 2014"!!!Match Tiles. Cast Spells. Conquer Evil.
Spellfall'ĄĘ is a unique tile-matching puzzle game where you cast magical spells to defeat evil monsters. Along the way, you'll master new spells, grow more powerful and acquire new equipment to aid in your fight.
Evil has met its match!
'ÄĘ Match 3+ Spell Tiles
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Each monster match-up includes an increasingly challenging tile puzzle board. Match three fire tiles to cast a fire spell. Match three water tiles to conjure a water spell. Line up four or more matching tiles to inflict even mightier damage.
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Co-Worker selected this place for a birthday celebration lunch. One of my peers who has a nephew who is also celiac called ahead to ask for me if there were any GF options and they stated NO, that they even add things to their beans and dust their corn tortillas with flour. I really didn't believe it so I called again on a totally different day and received the same answer from a different person. Since it wasn't my birthday hence not my pick ( and I don't fuss about places not having something) I went and had some water :-) Just to see I asked again at the table and the waitress confirmed again there were no options for me.
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An open tape storage standard developed by HP, IBM, and Seagate. The standard consists of two formats: Accelis and Ultrium. Accelis is designed for faster access speed and uses a two-reel 8 mm tape to store up to 25 GB of data natively. Ultrium uses 1/2″ tape on a single reel to offer 100 GB of native storage capacity for the initial format, with roadmaps scaling up to 1.6 TB per tape. DDS and DLT are competing standards.


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The Swiss franc is the strongest performer against a weaker greenback with an advance of 0.65% ahead of the European close. Market sentiment is well supported with equities and Treasury yields rallying on stronger than expected German confidence data and 'robust' earnings reports from the likes of Microsoft and GE. The dollar is weaker against all its major counterparts save the yen as traders jettisoned the low yielders in favor of risk. The USDCHF is now approaching soft trendline support dating back to October 27th with a break below daily RSI support (on a close basis) risking further losses for the greenback. Such a scenario eyes daily targets lower at trendline support dating back to the February lows and the February low itself at 8930. Key topside resistance stands at the confluence of trendline resistance and the 23.6% Fibonacci extension taken from the October 27th and February 24th troughs at 9175 and the April high at 9250.
The scalp chart shows the swissie trading within the confines of a descending channel formation with the pair holding just below the confluence of the S2 daily pivot and the 23.6% Fibonacci extension taken form the February and April lows at 9095.Stronger support rests just lower at 9070 and is backed by channel support and 9040. Interim resistance now stands at 9130 and the 38.2% extension at 9155. Look for the pair to remain heavy into the close with only a break above the 92-handle negating our bias.
Key Levels/Indicators
Level/Indicator |
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200-Day SMA |
0.8895 |
100-Day SMA |
0.9220 |
50-Day SMA |
0.9124 |
0.8930 |
The Japanese yen is the weakest performer with a fractional loss of just 0.05% on the session after moving a meager 35% of its daily ATR. The USDJPY now stands just below channel resistance dating back to the March 21st high backed by the 23.6% Fibonacci retracement at the 82-figure. Look for RSI Resistance to hold into the close with interim daily support seen at the 38.2% retracement at 80.80.
The scalp chart shows the pair continuing to straddle the 78.6% Fibonacci extension taken from the March 21st and April 1st crests at 81.63. A breach above channel resistance at 81.80 eyes subsequent topside targets at the 61.8% Fibonacci extension (82.00) and the 50% extension at 82.25. Interim support rests at 81.40 backed by the 100% extension at 81.20. A break below this level puts a bearish tone on the dollar with such a scenario eying targets at 80.67 and the 138.2% extension at 80.37. Our medium-term bias on the pair remains weighted to the topside with only a break below 81.20 putting us on the sidelines.
Key Levels/Indicators
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78.25 |
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79.35 |
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4.15 / 5.00 4,493 ViewsThis is the story of the last of the dashkin. The people are all gone and in a world of innocent animals, the solitude, the sadness and bitterness have corrupted his view of life. What does the future hold for such a tragic creature? Will he wander the planet, forever alone until his death? Will he always be the wild King of Brackenwood?
It's a massive honour to be nominated for a 2nd Tank Award, thanks NG! Thank you for front page, all the great reviews and the incredible score for Daily Feature.
Thanks to Brackenwood fans and donors for all the support not only during the 4 weeks I spent making this, but also in the 2 years since I submitted Waterlollies.
Since then I've been working on the Brackenwood feature film outline with my good friend Ryan O'Loughlin. With no plans for a new web episode in the meantime it occurred to me that Brackenwood fans could be waiting years for the feature. I didn't want to abandon them altogether, so this new movie is my way of staying in touch with them and the NG audience.
This is the first Brackenwood short to break away from the "character introduction" style movies that had little or no character motivation and plot. This is a story, not only answering a lot of questions, but asking just as many new ones.
I used Flash CS3, the .fla is over 300MB (half of that is audio) and it took me 4 weeks.
Don't worry I won't be leaving it another 2 years. I plan on starting storyboards on the conclusion in jan-feb 2010.
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This is a good way to expend time, you could even do a book about bitey and the forest of Brackenwood!
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Yeah I think they are a little out of touch with character progression and the times they gave are unrealistic unless you are spending a decent amount of time(5+hrs a day) playing or you spend almost all of your time doing boring grinding.
I'm 7 months in casually(12-15hrs/week) with a 1 month break and I have ~310 natural HP but that's because I spent a large amount of my game time gathering wood/iron and crafting.
I'd like to see stat gains up to 50-60 increased and post 50 slowed down so that the total time is the same for max level but at least allow players to reach the 50 stat requirements for many skills/abilities within 1-2 months of 3hrs/day play without making them grind and take the fun of the game.
Kimoshu Grakenshalmn - NA
Players who play more should be rewarded with better characters than those who do not play as much.
However, players who play more should not be given grossly huge advantages over players who play less (such as have 80-100 more hit points than their competition).
Hopefully "diminishing" returns will address this.
Power characters can already heavily out-dps their opponents. They don't need a large pool of extra health to secure their advantage, but they should have more health because of their time investment.
I have faith that AV will address this in a fair, reasonable way.
I agree.
I just hope diminishing returns just recalculates everybody's HP. I can't see how it could do anything other than recalc hp and still achieve the stated objective.
I think it's pretty lame that most of the guys I fight have 50-100 more hp than me. I think access to high end gear is enough of an advantage for vets like myself and we souldn't need to have 100 more hp than the newbies.
- Sarphus.
I just wanted to say, I think adding a way to tell how powerful someone is would help newbies like myself alot...
Wouldn't it be awesome to just look at someone and be like... "ITS OVER 9000!"
I love the fact that you can't see someone's 'level'.
Mostly you can figure it out based on how they move. Some move like oiled ferrets, and then its time to run.
Others run into trees, turn around and changes direction..
You are a fucking idiot. Macroing a self buff 20 thousand fucking times to level it up is NOT hardcore. There is NOTHING hardcore about grinding mobs for hours upon hours spamming left mouse button. There is NOTHING hardcore about AFK macroing. There is NOTHING hardcore at all about an insane grind.
You know what IS hardcore?
Full loot is hardcore.
Free for all PvP is hardcore.
Competitive first person PvP is hardcore.
Sieging and destroying someone's city is hardcore.
Winning a battle against uneven odds is hardcore.
LOL. find a different game, you fucking scrub. you live in your own little made up fantasy world. i don't have any character skill advantage over anyone, i lose way more 1vx encounters than i win. but i am able to see how across the board skill and stat gains will fuck this game and not address the true problem.
the game needs balance and content and it could also use a skill cap (better) or prestige classes (worse) to provide some diversity and limitations to character advancement. what it doesn't need, is to be made into a shallow pvp arena-like game with dumbed-down character progression by dull-witted, adhd kiddies like yourself. tasos has pretty much said so in the op.
you "i-want-pointless-arena-combat" clowns are fucking done. get over this and get over yourselves. you aren't getting guild wars or uo2. find a different game to cry about.
No I didn't misread it, I understand that they see HP as the biggest factor with stats/viability and I agree 100% that this change so long as it's done properly(I assume it will be) will really help in closing the gap and the unfair advantage that vets have on newer characters. Squishing paper-like newbies with little offense is not my idea of a challenge and therefor not fun.
I was saying that the times they gave and the vague "mediocre" time that was stated makes me see that their version of mediocre is a lot different than my own. Skill progressions are fine with the exception of buffs/spell chanting could use a minor reduction in skill-up time but the beginning stats are a bit slow to get without forcing people to grind harvesting to raise them like Str/Vit. That's the only reason I have a decent amount of health(~310 natural) because I spent a good chunk of time investing in crafting and subsequently gathering.
The way the gathering is set up in the game right now is that it pushes people to do it strictly for statgains when they aren't crafters. I'd like to see lower str/vit gains from mining/woodcutting and increase the wisdom gains, then increase str/vit gains from combat so that people don't just mine for the stats. Crafters want wisdom so reward them with more wisdom for gathering/crafting and dial back on other stat gains from crafting/gathering. Melee and archery users shouldn't have to gather/craft to gain their relevant stats in an efficient manner.
Kimoshu Grakenshalmn - NA
lol. i love the self-delusion from you grind whiners. we are fine with the time it takes to progress as-is and you are all crying to have it remade into instant gratification with a side of easy-mode. yet, somehow in your fucked up little bizarro world, the people who are just fine (for the most part) with the status quo are the whiners and the babies. that's some world class projection, right there.
p.s. the game needs caps, skill decay, and server wipes. the game doesn't need 2-weeks to a maxed out character. you aren't getting shadowbane2 or uo2. time to end the waterworks and get on with your lives.
p.s. the game needs caps, skill decay, and server wipes..QUOTE]
Wow.... pretty Fail. I hope you were joking.


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Developer(s) | Qualcomm |
Stable release | Eudora OSE 1.0 (requires Rosetta on Mac OS X), 7.1 (Windows Paid/Sponsored/Light version) 6.2.4 (Mac OS X Paid/Sponsored/Light version) 6.1.1 (Mac OS 9 version) 1.0 (OSE) / 2004-05-18 (Mac OS 9) 2006-10-11 (Paid/Sponsored/Light version for Windows/Mac OS X) 2010-09-13 (OSE) |
Operating system | Windows, Mac OS, Mac OS X, Linux[1] |
Type | |
License | Free software (Eudora OSE); earlier: Adware, payware, Light |
Website | https://wiki.mozilla.org/Eudora_Releases , http://www.eudora.com |
Developer(s) | Qualcomm |
Stable release | Eudora OSE 1.0 (requires Rosetta on Mac OS X), 7.1 (Windows Paid/Sponsored/Light version) 6.2.4 (Mac OS X Paid/Sponsored/Light version) 6.1.1 (Mac OS 9 version) 1.0 (OSE) / 2004-05-18 (Mac OS 9) 2006-10-11 (Paid/Sponsored/Light version for Windows/Mac OS X) 2010-09-13 (OSE) |
Operating system | Windows, Mac OS, Mac OS X, Linux[1] |
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License | Free software (Eudora OSE); earlier: Adware, payware, Light |
Website | https://wiki.mozilla.org/Eudora_Releases , http://www.eudora.com |
Eudora /juːˈdɔərə/ is a defunct email client that was used on the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It also supported several palmtop computing platforms, including Newton and the Palm OS.
Eudora was developed in 1988 by Steve Dorner, who worked at the Computer Services Organization of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[2] The software was named after American author Eudora Welty, because of her short story "Why I Live at the P.O.";[3][4] Dorner rearranged the title to form the slogan "Bringing the P.O. to Where You Live" for his software. Although he regretted naming it after the still-living author because he thought doing so was "presumptuous", Welty reportedly was "pleased and amused" by Dorner's tribute.[5]
Eudora was acquired by Qualcomm in 1991. Originally distributed for free, Eudora was commercialized and offered in a Light (freeware) and Pro (commercial) product. Between 2003 and 2006, the full-featured Pro version was also available as a "Sponsored mode" (adware) distribution. In 2006 Qualcomm stopped development of the commercial version, and sponsored the creation of a new open-source version based on Mozilla Thunderbird, code-named Penelope. Development of the open-source version was discontinued as of 2010.[citation needed]
Eudora (6.0.1) added support for Bayesian filtering of spam with a feature called SpamWatch. Eudora (6.2) added a scam watch feature that flags suspicious links within emails in an attempt to thwart phishing. Eudora (7.0) added Ultra-Fast Search, which finds any emails using single or multiple criteria in seconds.
Eudora has support for 'Stationery', a standard message or reply prepared ahead of time to a common question. Eudora stores emails in a modified mbox format, which uses plain text files instead of a database as Microsoft Outlook does. This allows the user to back up portions of their email correspondence without backing up the entire database.
Eudora supports the POP3, IMAP and SMTP protocols. Eudora also has support for SSL and, in Windows, S/MIME authentication, allowing users to sign or encrypt email communications for greatest security.
Eudora is noteworthy for its extensive variety of settings to customize its behavior, many of which are not available in the user interface but are accessed using numbered "x-eudora-setting" URIs that must be pasted into a message and clicked.[6]
At one time, Eudora also offered a webmail version at eudoramail.com. This service was run by Lycos as part of Mailcity, later renamed Lycos Mail. In 2006, Eudoramail addresses for users were still working (and were redirected to Lycos Mail accounts), but new users could no longer sign up for the service.
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On October 11, 2006, QUALCOMM Incorporated and the Mozilla Foundation announced that future versions of Eudora would be based on the Mozilla Thunderbird platform and be open source.[7][8] The codename for this project is "Penelope".[9] Penelope is developed by the Mozilla Foundation, and the project is being led by the former Qualcomm team, including original developer Steve Dorner. Eudora, although based on Open Source Thunderbird software, is not wholly open source.
Penelope is available as an extension to Mozilla Thunderbird. The Paid mode commercial version of Eudora was no longer available from May 1, 2007. The Light/Sponsored mode versions of Eudora continue to be available for download.
On July 2, 2010, the name was changed to Eudora OSE (Open Source Edition) and the version number was reset to 1.0 when it was released.[10] From the beta 1.0 release candidate 1 readme.txt:
Beta versions of Eudora OSE were originally named just Eudora with a version number of 8.0. This caused some confusion in that some users expected the new version to be a regular update to Classic Eudora. Since Eudora OSE uses an entirely different code base from Classic Eudora, in an effort to reduce the confusion the application was renamed to Eudora OSE (Open Source Edition). The version number was also reset to 1.0, which has the added benefit that it is synchronized with the Penelope version number.
The first release version of Eudora OSE 1.0 became available on September 13, 2010. Since that time, all activity and development has ceased and developers continue to ignore queries about future updates much less the future of Eudora.
Eudora OSE does not retain the original mbox data structure, which stores all attachments as individual files together in one folder. It uses the same modern mbox file used by Apple Mail and others. No software is currently developed/supported that can access old Eudora mail archives directly, without import/conversion.[citation needed]
Many Eudora users disliked[11] the direction Penelope took. Similarly, reception to Eudora OSE continues to be lukewarm months after the release. As it stands, the intended updates,[12] to be released in parallel with new Thunderbird releases, have not materialized and continue to lead to frustration and disappointment in the Eudora community.
This does not constitute a classic OSE scenario for an expired product. (i.e. Eudora 7's complete and actual code being made available for GPL or OSE development by a community of users). This is however identical to the Netscape Gecko transition, eventually resulting in Firefox.
Instead Thunderbird is given a Eudora skin, leaving the entire back-end to be Thunderbird/Mozilla. Part of Eudora's popularity was arguably the ease with which utilities could be built for it. This encouraged users and businesses to adapt it to a variety of integrated solutions. Thunderbird's backend is incompatible with these utilities, but has a well-documented, non-proprietary API of its own for creating plugins and utilities.


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Penn State Scandal
NCAA loses bid to toss law over $60 million Penn State fine
Pennsylvania law requiring a $60 million fine Penn State has been paying over the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal be spent to address child abuse within the state. Middle District Judge Yvette
Penn St. gets wins restored, Paterno again winningest coach
AP) -- Penn State 's football ..... Sandusky child molestation scandal and ..... to address child abuse be spent ..... Williams. The Penn State approved ..... called for Penn State to provide ..... to fight child abuse and combat ..... improvements on Penn State 's campus ..... of child sexual abuse ." The 2012
Penn St. president: Freeh report painted 'absurd' picture of school
Pa. -- Penn State 's president ..... handled child molestation complaints ..... child sex abuse to avoid ..... and said Penn State was permeated ..... in 2012, Penn State and the NCAA ..... to funding child abuse prevention ..... of child sexual abuse , though ..... from the Penn State campus
NCAA asks court to end Penn State legal battle
over the 2012 consent decree with Penn State over the school's handling of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal. Pennlive.com reported ..... coach, is in prison, convicted of sexual abuse of 10 boys. --- Information
Penn State added as defendant in Paterno v. NCAA
levied against Penn State for the Jerry ..... Sandusky child molestation scandal added ..... another former Penn State assistant ..... to punish Penn State , Paterno ..... because Penn State signed on ..... child sex abuse charges in ..... required Penn State 's participation ..... of child sexual abuse . He maintains
Penn State names FSU's Barron its new president
and dean at Penn State University ..... from sex- abuse scandals ..... football. Penn State trustees ..... worked at Penn State for 20 years ..... Erickson, Penn State 's former ..... following child molestation accusations ..... counts for the sexual abuse of 10 boys
Court seeks to examine legality of Penn St.-NCAA agreement
examine whether Penn State and the NCAA ..... Sandusky molestation scandal ..... ordered that Penn State be made a ..... fighting child abuse in Pennsylvania ..... said. A Penn State spokesman ..... decades at Penn State as an assistant ..... of child sexual abuse and is serving ..... deal between Penn State and the NCAA
Penn State to play in Pinstripe Bowl, first bowl since Sandusky scandal
Penn State is back in a bowl ..... Stadium on Dec. 27. Penn State (6-6) originally ..... Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal in 2012 ..... very important to Penn State and always will ..... Hackenberg, kept Penn State competitive for
Penn State trustees get access to Freeh documents
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Nine Penn State trustees elected by alumni ..... administrators handled sex abuse complaints against former ..... coach Jerry Sandusky. Penn State board chairman Keith Masser ..... of 45 counts of child sexual abuse in 2012 and is serving
Franklin talks Penn State Assistants
only dealing with abuse thought played ..... plays and CEO of Penn State all it's a lot ..... the best fit for Penn State . But that's ..... ball with. Child sexual abuse organization ..... been looking at Penn State 's program and
Change her and -- didn't -- spill. For the ball with. Child sexual abuse organization. Did a dose of good work -- -- -- Yeah he's on the court we -- discussions. Continue that our whole program was a part of that you can see you're just real quickly community service is huge thing for us. It has been looking at Penn State's program and path. Welcome TV that let it grow even more. But you'll you'll see not only our players our coaches involved