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Sunday, September 30, 2012
Happy Birthday Shelby - Garlic Noodles with a Kick!
Katrina of Baking and Boys! reached out to some of us to do a round up of recipes from Shelby's blog to celebrate her birthday and I thought it was a marvelous idea!
Since my house is in disarray with construction work being done - it would have been hard to bake during the week - so I choose to do Garlic Noodles with a Kick! for last Sunday's dinner. I deviated slightly from the original recipe to add some cilantro because I am one of those folks that love it and I doubled the recipe for the most part. These were out of this world good - one pound of pasta and there is only a small container left for Jim's lunch tomorrow. Andrew even gobbled them down - but kept saying "oh these are spicy but good". I served them with some Trader Joe's pot stickers and everyone was happy!
Garlic Noodles with a Kick
One pound of dried pasta, cooked until al dente.
3 scallions, chopped, setting aside the green part of the scallion for garnish
1 teaspoon dried chili pepper flakes (adjust to your preference)
4 garlic cloves, minced
4 tablespoons (dark) brown sugar (I used dark)
1/2 teaspoon fish sauce
1 tablespoon oyster sauce
4 tablespoons butter
Roughly one tablespoon of chopped cilantro
Melt butter over medium heat until bubbly. Add dried chili peppers and cook for about 1 minute (be careful not to burn the butter). Add the minced garlic and scallions and saute about 1 minute, until softened. Mix together brown sugar, fish sauce, and oyster sauce. Add to butter mixture and cook for 1 minute or until sugar is dissolved (this doesn't take long). Add pasta to the sauce and toss to mix. For some color, toss in the green part of the chopped scallions and cilantro Serve and enjoy!
As we sat down to dinner - I told Andrew and Jim that these were made for a special friend's birthday celebration and we toasted you, Shelby. I hope you have a wonderful birthday full of love, happiness and good food!
6 comments:
- Shelby Law Ruttan said...
Thank you so much Jenny! I was very surprised and touched. Those noodles ARE the best thing!
I was talking to Grumpy about you yesterday and told him you probably lived about an hour away from where we were (in Kingston) and was telling him Andrew's story about Dicks the good word, not the bad word. Of course, we were at Gander mountain at the time when I thought of it....so something like Dicks! :) He got a good chuckle out of that! Thank you again...it feels great to have friends like you!
- September 30, 2012 at 10:03 AM
- Katrina said...
The garlic noodles look great! Thanks for "playing" the birthday game with me, Jenny!
- September 30, 2012 at 10:07 AM
- Pam said...
Jenny that looks so yummy I can't wait to try this recipe. Thank you for letting me in on the Birthday surprise
- September 30, 2012 at 11:05 AM
- Suzanne said...
Love food with a KICK! These noodles look perfect. We will be having them at our house this week! This was really a fun birthday party!
- September 30, 2012 at 11:45 AM
- Megans Cookin said...
These noodles sound awesome. And I have some pot stickers in the freezer. Sounds like a dinner plan to me! Thanks for letting me come to the party. It was a good time!
- September 30, 2012 at 12:09 PM
- Shulie Foodwanderings said...
Aww how sweet and this garlic noodles with akick look wonderful!
- October 25, 2012 at 10:16 PM

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Corum Online
UPDATE: This game has been shutdown and is no longer available
Corum Online is a 3D Fantasy MMORPG with an interesting world map feature like those found in single player RPGs. Chose from 6 classes and travel the world in search of new dungeons to conquer. Player run clans can even take control of dungeons but must first defeat rival clans to do so.
Publisher: gPotato
Playerbase: Low
Graphics: Low Quality
Type: MMORPG
EXP Rate: High
PvP: Yes – clans
Filesize: 617 MB
Pros: +Varied class choices (6.) +Unique world map feature. +Clans fight for control of dungeons. +Trial dungeon in town levels players fast.
Cons: -Dated graphics. -Boring dungeon designs. -Limited character customization. -Lack of direction. -Jagged controls.
This game has been SHUT DOWN – It is NO LONGER available. This means the official servers are offline and no one can create new accounts or log in to the game. For all intents and purposes this game is dead. This page will be updated if the game ever re-launches.
Corum Online Overview
Corum Online is aging Korean game that was brought over to North America recently by the popular games portal gPotato. Corum Online is not the most attractive game but does have several redeeming qualities. The first of which is the unique use of a world map reminiscent of old console RPGs like Final Fantasy 7. When players leave town, they find themselves in a large overworld with towns, dungeons, and other zones represented by large icons. Fortunately there are no random encounters in the world map, combat takes place in dungeons or player hosted arenas. There are a total of 6 classes to chose from in Corum but players cannot select their race or gender. The classes are:
Fighter - (male) Fighters excel at close quarter combat. Fighters have the simplest skill tree of all the classes.
Priest - (male) Priests play a support role with healing and buffing spells at their disposal.
Summoner - (male) Summoners can call forth elementals and even take control of monsters and use them as pets.
Ranger - (female) Rangers make speed a priority over brute force. The name is a bit deceiving, Rangers in Corum are similar to Rogues in other games.
Sorceress - (female) Sorceresses are the most powerful spell casters in Corum. They possess area of effect spells that can hit many opponents at once.
Arcus - (female) Arcus on the only non human race in Corum. Dark Elves that have mastered the bow, Arcus fire deadly arrows from a safe distance.
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Corum Online Featured Video
Corum Online Review
By Erhan Altay
Corum Online is a little known MMORPG currently published by gPotato. The game has a few unique features like a world map and player run dungeons but these do not redeem the otherwise archaic feel of the game. Like Cronous, Corum does have that old school action RPG feel to it that some nostalgic gamers may be looking for.
How's My Hair?
There are two live servers for Corum, both of which have at best a moderate population. Character creation is limited to selecting a class and choosing from among several hair styles. Players cannot chose their gender; three of the classes are male and three are female. All but the Arcus (archer) class are humans, the Arcus are Dark Elves. There's no need to worry about stats during character creation so just pick a class and jump right in. For more information on the classes, see the overview.
Now What?
Corum has no tutorial, optional or otherwise. Players start out in town with a help menu open to provide some game tips. Anyone familiar with MMORPGs will be able to get a grasp of the controls and interface fairly quick. Movement is done exclusively with the mouse and the arrow keys and the mouse wheel control the camera. Activated skills such as 'bash' can be assigned to the left or rick mouse button, sort of like the system used in Diablo II. There are several NPCs scattered around town who have quests available but none of these are worth doing. When you have a feel for the controls, its best to leave town and enter the world map. This can be done either by walking through the town gates or by hitting escape and selecting the 'teleport to world map' option.
Whoa, a World Map. I Remember These!
When players leave town for the first time they may be taken back by what they see, I know I was. Movement between zones such as towns and dungeons is done through a world map where each of these zones is represented by an icon. Players are free to move about this world map without fear of attack, so no random encounters like the kind in console RPGs to worry about. Most zones have level requirements so new players are restricted to one of several beginner dungeons. The world map is further broken down into areas. Players have to go through special connecting zones to move from one area to another. A chart can be brought up by hitting 'm' which shows the two continents and the areas each is made up of. Not all areas are yet implemented; grayed out areas are not accessible by players.
Grinding in a Rat Maze
Corum Online has some of the most boring dungeon designs I have ever witnessed. The only thing that comes close in my personal gaming experience are the dungeons in the Dark Cloud series, but those games had other redeeming qualities. Each floor of a dungeon has 2-3 monster types and dull, repetitive segments with bland colors. More often than not you'll be the only one in the entire dungeon, add to this the fact that the dungeon areas are often large with monsters spread thinly and you got a very empty feeling MMORPG. Luckily, you won't have to spend much time in the beginner dungeons, just kill a few cactus people, orcs, and mimics to level a few times than head back to town. Each level, players are given 5 points to distribute among 5 stats; EGO, STR, INT, DEX, and VIT. A single skill point is also earned per level but deciding where to put it isn't a problem during the early levels. Most classes only have 1-2 skills available at level 1 and as they pump those skills, new ones slowly become available. Interestingly, players can eventually learn skills belonging to other classes. With a high level cap, over 160, each character can specialize in many ways.
Trial Dungeon, Here I Come!
The reason early game quests are completely worthless in Corum is the Trial Dungeon located in the starting town. A large red portal teleports players to this special dungeon where they must do battle against a single foe. Defeating this monster rewards at least 4-5 levels and can be repeated up to 10 times. Each time, the monster you face gets stronger so be sure to stock up on potions and put your stat/skill points to good use. When you've beaten the Trial Dungeon all 10 times, you'll be around level 31 and be rewarded 1 million Karz, the game's currency. Most new player won't be able to defeat the first trial boss at level one which is why I recommended you go outside town and level up a few times in the newbie dungeons. If you're fortunate enough to have a powerful weapon, received either from another player or one of your own alternative characters, you can complete the trial dungeon starting at level 1.
Hurry Along to PvP
I suspect this experience / money piñata was added to speed players along the boring early levels and get them ready for the game's PvP faster. Corum Online does have a very interesting PvP system; players can create their own temporary zones on the world map which other players can enter by paying a set fee. Inside this zone, both the host and guests can battle it out arena style. Corum's other major PvP feature is the guild based Dungeon Siege. Guilds can take control of dungeons and receive income from them based on how popular they are. Of course the popular dungeons are heavily contested between the top guilds. While playing, I saw that 20 of the game's 50 or so dungeons were controlled by player run guilds. Besides PvP, Corum has a few standard MMORPG features such as personal shops, equipment enchantment and a friend list. Even with these few unique features, I cannot recommend Corum Online. There are just too many better free games out there, even in the PvP centric genre. The publisher, gPotato, hosts many impressive MMORPGs like Fly For Fun and Rappelz but Corum is one of the weakest games in their lineup.
Final Verdict: Poor
Corum Online is a simple game with jagged, old graphics. Dungeon and monster designs are bland, character customization is limited and empty beginner zones make Corum Online a very difficult game to get into. The only people I see playing this game are those who's friends coax them into it or those who're nostalgic for the early days of the RPG genre.
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Corum Online Hunting Video
Corum Online Sorceress Video
Corum Online Gameplay Footage
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Corum Online System Requirements
Minimum Requirements:
OS: Windows 2000
CPU: Pentium-III 600MHz
HDD: 1.5 GB Free
Graphics Card: 64 MB 3D accelerator VGA card (GeForce2 MX)
Recommended Specifications:
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CPU: Pentium-IV 1.0GHz or better
RAM: 512 MB or more
HDD: 2.0 GB Free
Graphics Card: 128 MB 3D accelerator (GeForce4/FX)


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Osho Quotes - To Turn You Outside In!
Your Heart Is Just a Blood Pumping Station
"Your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions, your sentiments, all are centered in your head. It is just a fallacy to think that your feelings are in the heart. Your heart is just a blood pumping station.
"When we are talking about the empty heart, we are really talking about the empty mind. Buddha has used the word heart instead of mind because mind has become associated with the idea that it is only the process of thinking, and the process of feeling is in the heart, and the heart is deeper.
"These ideas have been created by the poets. But the truth is, you can call it empty mind or you can call it empty heart; it is the same. Emptiness – you are just a watcher and all around there is nothing with which you are identified, there is nothing to which you are clinging. This non-clinging watchfulness is the empty mind, no-mind, or empty heart. These are simply words. The real thing is emptiness – of all thoughts, feelings, sentiments, emotions. Only a single point of witnessing remains."
Osho, The Buddha: The Emptiness of the Heart, Talk #8
Rebellion Is Individual
"I don't preach revolution. I am utterly against revolution. I say unto you that my word for the future, and for those who are intelligent enough in the present, is rebellion. What is the difference?
"Rebellion is individual action; it has nothing to do with the crowd. Rebellion has nothing to do with politics, power, violence. Rebellion has something to do with changing your consciousness, your silence, your being. It is a spiritual metamorphosis.
"And each individual passing through a rebellion is not fighting with anybody else, but is only fighting with his own darkness. Swords are not needed, bombs are not needed. What is needed is more alertness, more meditativeness, more love, more prayerfulness, more gratitude. Surrounded by all these qualities you are born anew."
Osho, Satyam Shivam Sundaram: Truth Godliness Beauty, Talk #26
A Meditator Needs No Personal Guidance
"If you can become just your own self, if you can blossom into your intrinsic nature, then only you will have blissfulness – a peace which cannot be expressed in words, and a certain poetry to your being; a certain dance to your being, because you will be in tune with existence. To be in tune with yourself is the only way to be in tune with existence. Nobody needs personal guidance, because all personal guidance is a beautiful name for dependence on somebody and he is going to distort you."
"A meditator needs no personal guidance. A meditator, on the contrary, needs only one thing: the atmosphere of meditation. He needs other meditators; he needs to be surrounded by other meditators. Because whatever goes on happening within us is not only within us, it affects people who are close by. In this communion people are at different stages of meditation. To meditate with these people, just to sit silently with these people, and you will be pulled more and more towards your own intrinsic potentiality."
Osho, The Invitation, Talk #12
Relaxation Is Only a Beginning
"Relaxation is good, but it is only a beginning; it just prepares the ground for meditation. But meditation is a totally different affair. You have to become aware of your mind stuff. Whatever goes on in your mind you have to become a watcher, and the watcher has to be so deep-rooted that slowly, slowly your mind disappears and only the watcher remains. Then all possibilities of tension, anxiety, anguish, disappear and you will not find even the conflict."
Osho, The New Dawn, Talk #29
Enlightenment Is Not an Experience
"One of the most fundamental things to be remembered – not only by you but by everyone – is that whatever you come across in your inner journey, you are not it.
"You are the one who is witnessing it. It may be nothingness, it may be blissfulness, it may be silence, but one thing has to be remembered: however beautiful and however enchanting an experience you come across, you are not it. You are the one who is experiencing it. And if you go on and on and on, the ultimate in the journey is the point when there is no experience left – neither silence, nor blissfulness, nor nothingness. There is nothing as an object for you, but only your subjectivity.
"The mirror is empty; it is not reflecting anything. It is you.
"Even great travelers of the inner world have got stuck in beautiful experiences, and have become identified with those experiences, thinking, "I have found myself." They have stopped before reaching the final stage where all experiences disappear. Enlightenment is not an experience."
Osho, The Hidden Splendor, Talk #10
The Ego Is a Puzzle
"The ego is a puzzle. It is something like darkness – which you can see, which you can feel, which can obstruct your way but which does not exist. It has no positivity. It is simply an absence, an absence of light. The ego does not exist – how can you surrender it? The ego is only an absence of awareness."
"You cannot surrender ego, because it does not exist. You can bring a little awareness, a little consciousness, a little light. Forget completely about the ego; concentrate totally on bringing alertness into your being. And the moment your consciousness has become a flame, concentrated, you will not be able to find the ego."
Osho, The Osho Upanishad, Talk #28
Nobody Really Wants to Be Free – Because Freedom Brings Responsibility
"Everybody wants freedom as far as talking is concerned, but nobody really is free and nobody really wants to be free, because freedom brings responsibility. It does not come alone. And to be dependent is simple: the responsibility is not on you, the responsibility is on the person you are dependent on.
"So people have made a schizophrenic way of life. They talk about truth, they talk about freedom, and they live in lies, they live in slaveries – slaveries of many kinds, because each slavery frees you from some responsibility. A man who really wants to be free has to accept immense responsibilities. He cannot dump his responsibilities on anybody else. Whatever he does, whatever he is, he is responsible."
Osho, The Path of the Mystic, Talk #16
My Effort Is to Leave You Alone with Meditation
"My effort is to leave you alone with meditation, with no mediator between you and existence. When you are not in meditation you are separated from existence and that is your suffering. It's the same as when you take a fish out of the ocean and throw it on the bank – the misery and the suffering and the tortures he goes through, the hankering and the effort to reach back to the ocean because it is where he belongs. He is part of the ocean and he cannot remain apart."
Osho, The Last Testament, Vol. 5, Talk #16
I Had Always Wanted Not to Be a Master to Anybody
"I had always wanted not to be a master to anybody. But people want a master, they want to be disciples; hence, I played the role. It is time that I should say to you that now many of you are ready to accept me as the friend."
Osho, The Last Testament, Vol. 3, Talk #25
Possessiveness Destroys Love
"In my vision, marriages in the commune should be dissolved. People can live together their whole life if they want, but that is not a legal necessity. People should be moving, having as many experiences of love as possible. They should not be possessive. Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.
"All human beings are worthy of being loved. There is no need to be tethered to one person for your whole life. That is one of the reasons why all the people around the world look so bored. Why can't they laugh like you? Why can't they dance like you? They are chained with invisible chains: marriage, family, husband, wife, children. They are burdened with all kinds of duties, responsibilities, sacrifices. And you want them to smile and laugh and dance and rejoice? You are asking the impossible.
"Make people's love free, make people non-possessive. But this can happen only if in your meditation you discover your being. It is nothing to practice. I am not saying to you, "Tonight you go to some other woman just as a practice." You will not get anything, and you may lose your wife. And in the morning you will look silly. It is not a question of practicing, it is a question of discovering your being.
"With the discovery of being follows the quality of impersonal lovingness. Then you simply love."
Osho, From Death to Deathlessness, Talk #17
I Speak to Help You to Be Silent
"I speak to help you to be silent. I say something so that you can go beyond words. I use words to help you to go into wordlessness. It is just like having a thorn in the foot: with another thorn you pull it out. Your mind is full of words, so many, and so much chattering – yakkety-yak, yakkety-yak – it goes on and on. But then people became intoxicated with my words. That was not my purpose. I continuously insisted, "Don't be concerned with my words. Be concerned with my silences, the gaps between the words, the gaps between the lines."
Osho, The Last Testament, Vol. 1, Talk #20
Doubt Needs Great Courage
"Doubt needs great courage because you will be doubting everything possible. You will be surrounded by all kinds of doubts. All consoling beliefs will be taken away, beliefs which gave you a certain confidence, a certain stability, a certain feeling that you belong to a big tradition, a well-respected religion of holy scriptures, messiahs, representatives of God.
"You had all these things surrounding you. They gave you a cozy feeling that you are not alone. I am trying to do just this: cut away everything that gives you a false, cozy feeling and that keeps you dozing all your life.
"Belief is the opium which all the religions have been giving you in good doses. I am trying to destroy your addiction to the opium. My whole effort is to leave you alone."
Osho, From Personality to Individuality, Talk #13
Tantra Is Possible Only if You Move Deep Into Meditation
"Tantric experience means neither to be repressive nor to be indulgent. Tantric experience is possible only if you move deep into meditation, otherwise not. When you become very, very still, silent, aware, alert, then only is it possible that you will know something of Tantra. Otherwise, Tantra can also become an excuse for indulgence – a new name, a religious name. And you can move into indulgence behind the name of Tantra. Names won't make much change; your being needs change."
Osho, The Dhammapada:The Way of the Buddha, Vol. 10, Talk #12
Is Awareness a Higher Value Than Love?
"You ask: 'Is awareness a higher value than love?' There is nothing higher and nothing lower. In fact, there are not two values at all. These are the two paths from the valley leading to the peak. One path is of awareness, meditation: the path of Zen we have been talking about these days. And the other is the path of love, the path of the devotees, the bhaktas, the Sufis. These two paths are separate when you start the journey; you have to choose. Whichever you choose is going to lead to the same peak. And as you come closer to the peak you will be surprised: the travelers on the other path are coming closer to you. Slowly slowly, the paths start merging into each other. By the time you have reached the ultimate, they are one.
"The person who follows the path of awareness finds love as a consequence of his awareness, as a by-product, as a shadow. And the person who follows the path of love finds awareness as a consequence, as a by-product, as a shadow of love. They are two sides of the same coin.
"And remember: if your awareness lacks love then it is still impure; it has not yet known one hundred percent purity. It is not yet really awareness; it must be mixed with unawareness. It is not pure light; there must be pockets of darkness inside you still working, functioning, influencing you, dominating you. If your love is without awareness, then it is not love yet. It must be something lower, something closer to lust than to prayer.
"So let it be a criterion if you follow the path of awareness, let love be the criterion. When your awareness suddenly blooms into love, know perfectly well that awareness has happened, samadhi has been achieved. If you follow the path of love, then let awareness function as a criterion, as a touchstone. When suddenly, from nowhere, at the very center of your love. a flame of awareness starts arising, know perfectly well…rejoice! You have come home."
Osho, Ah, This!, Talk #8
I Don't Teach You Optimism – I Teach You Transcendence
"I don't teach you optimism. In the West it is very fashionable nowadays; it is called "positive thinking." That is a new name for optimism; the old name has become a little too out of fashion, out-of-date. The new name is positive thinking. I don't teach you positive thinking, because positive thinking carries the negative in its wake.
"I teach you transcendence – neither positive nor negative. Be a watcher: witness both. When there is day, witness the day, and when there is night, witness the night – and don't get identified with either. You are neither the day nor the night; you are the transcendental consciousness. Become more and more centered there in that transcendence.
"True religion is not positive, nor is it negative. It is neither via negativa nor via positiva; it is via transcendence."
Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol. 4, Talk #2
The Cyclone Is the Center
"There is no center to this cyclone, the cyclone is the center. We have a chronic habit of dividing things into two, we have a chronic habit of duality: God and the world, body and soul, the lower and the higher the good and bad. The habit persists. Now it is the center and the cyclone.
"Let me insist on it: the cyclone is the center and there is no other center to it. Once you understand this oneness of life then all tension, anxiety, anguish, disappears. The anxiety is created because you are always dividing. Through division you become split; through division you become schizophrenic. Now you think that you are on the circumference – the cyclone – and the center has been lost, so now the center has to be found.
"It is the old habit of duality. The "center and the cyclone" is a new language, but this habit is very old, the gestalt is very old. It is always that wherever you are you are not right, you should be somewhere else.
"My whole emphasis is that whatsoever is, is right. There is no other right. There is nowhere to go. This is the only life there is, the only dance there is. Only then you can be spontaneous, really spontaneous."
Osho, Tao: The Pathless Path, Vol. 2, Talk #6
The Seeker Is the Sought
"Man is almost mad – mad because he is seeking something which he has already got; mad because he's not aware of who he is; mad because he hopes, desires and then ultimately, feels frustrated. Frustration is bound to be there because you cannot find yourself by seeking; you are already there. The seeking has to stop, the search has to drop: that is the greatest problem to be faced, encountered.
"The problem is that you have something and you are seeking it. Now, how can you find it? You are too occupied with seeking, and you cannot see the thing that you already have. Unless all seeking stops, you will not be able to see it. Seeking makes your mind focus somewhere in the future, and the thing that you are seeking is already here, now, this very moment. That which you are seeking is hidden in the seeker himself: the seeker is the sought; hence, so much neurosis, so much madness."
Osho, Yoga: The Supreme Science, Talk #1
Freedom Is Not License
"Freedom is not license, and does not mean no structure. It simply means flexibility, that one can move from one structure to another easily – from no-structure to structure, from structure to no-structure. If your freedom is afraid of being in a structure, then it is not freedom at all.
"Just try to understand this, and the split will disappear. It is not there in your being, but just in your mind, just an idea. Drop the idea and enjoy freedom, and sometimes discipline.
"Discipline has its own beauty, it is not all slavery. And freedom has its own dangers and is not all beautiful. A real person is always capable of infinite discipline and infinite freedom – he is not a slave or an addict to anything."
Osho, Hammer on the Rock, Talk #26
In the shop you can find: the book
Love Is Dangerous, Sex Is Not Dangerous
"People who are afraid of love are not afraid of sex. Love is dangerous; sex is not dangerous, it can be manipulated. There are now many manuals on how to do it. You can manipulate it – sex can become a technique. Love can never become a technique. If in sex you try to remain in control, then even sex will not help to reach the ultimate. It will go to a certain point and you will drop back, because somewhere it also needs a let-go.
"That's why orgasm is becoming more and more difficult. Ejaculation is not orgasm, to give birth to children is not orgasmic. Orgasm is the involvement of the total body: mind, body, soul, all together. You vibrate, your whole being vibrates, from the toes to the head. You are no longer in control; existence has taken possession of you and you don't know who you are. It is like a madness, it is like a sleep, it is like meditation, it is like death."
Osho, Returning to the Source, Talk #10
Celebration Is Unconditional
"To me, life in its totality is good. And when you understand life in its totality, only then can you celebrate; otherwise not. Celebration means: whatsoever happens is irrelevant – I celebrate. Celebration is not conditional on certain things: "When I am happy then I will celebrate," or, "When I am unhappy I will not celebrate." No. Celebration is unconditional; I celebrate life. It brings unhappiness – good, I celebrate it. It brings happiness – good, I celebrate it. Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings."
Osho, The Alchemy of Yoga, Talk #10
You Cannot Chose Choicelessness
"Krishnamurti consistently emphasizes not to choose, and to be choiceless – that's the base of innocence. But you can deceive yourself by choosing choicelessness: "Because Krishnamurti says, 'Be choiceless' I will be choiceless." If you decide, the will has entered – and the will is cunning. If you decide to be choiceless, your choicelessness will be part of a morality, not part of purity.
"Just understand, don't choose – don't choose even choiceless-ness."
Osho, No Water, No Moon, Talk #3
At the Center There Is Neither Love Nor Hate
"When one becomes a center, when one becomes crystallized, there is neither repulsion nor attraction to anyone. This creates a deeper problem because it means that you cannot go beyond hate unless you go beyond love.
"Everyone wants to go beyond hate, but no one wants to go beyond love. But that creates an impossible situation for you because hate is a part of the one phenomenon of repulsion and attraction."
Osho, The Great Challenge, Talk #12
You Are the Aloneness
"A single moment of knowing the realization that you are alone – alone to tread the path, alone to create the path, alone to be committed to living, alone to be involved in the moment – can penetrate you and society vanishes. You are alone."
"There is no guru now, there is no one to be followed. There is no leader, there is no guide. You are alone; you are the aloneness. There is no one to adulterate it or contaminate it. It is so pure, innocent and beautiful. This aloneness is the path, this aloneness is meditation, this aloneness is yoga."
Osho, The Great Challenge, Talk #1
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Mountain Communities Wildfire ReLeaf #9
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Mountain Communities Wildfire ReLeaf #9
The mountain district of San Bernardino County, Calif.
Key Activities:
- Planting 25,000 trees across 500-750 acres
- Conducting educational and community outreach with local youth organizations and other community groups
- Reforesting an ecosystem damaged by wildfire and bark beetle infestation
- Restoring wildlife habitat
Project Description:
American Forests and the Mojave Desert Resource Conservation District, with the help of local volunteers, are reforesting up to 750 acres of San Bernardino County, Calif., with 25,000 Jeffrey, sugar, ponderosa and Coulter pines to reforest an area severely affected by drought, a bark beetle infestation and intense wildfires.
Why This Project:
In the early 2000s, six years of severe drought in the San Bernardino Mountains was followed by an unprecedented bark beetle infestation, resulting in the die-off of approximately 12 million conifers. Severe wildfires in 2003 and 2007 added insult to injury.
American Forests first began funding this project in 2005, and each year, hundreds of volunteers join the planting efforts. A recent survey of a site planted three years ago revealed that the 10-inch seedlings have grown into six-foot-tall, healthy trees. Managers have also reported the return of many animal species to the reforested areas.
Why San Bernardino:
East of Los Angeles lie the 60-mile-long San Bernardino Mountains. Formed 11 million years ago, the mountains are home to many headwaters, including those of the Santa Ana River. The Santa Ana is one of the largest river basins in southern California; approximately 4.8 million people live there.
San Bernardino County also provides habitat for dozens of endangered and threatened species, including the California condor, southwestern willow flycatcher and mountain yellow-legged frog.
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Life is about making decisions, and my relationship with David Millar has informed some of the toughest and most critical decisions in my career. Looking back, his experience has also been pivotal in fueling my passionate belief in clean sport.
I first crossed paths with David in 2002 at the World Road Championships in Belgium. I was working as performance director to Team GB, and he was riding for the British team. It was clear from the outset that he was different from any other bike rider I'd met before. Hugely talented, ambitious, and extroverted, Dave was a thoroughbred.
He was intelligent and strong-willed, yet also very vulnerable. It is rare for me to mix personal with professional, but we got on immediately, and he is one of the few riders that I have also become close friends with.
Dave was already clearly frustrated with the "old school" thinking of the European scene. We talked about working together, developing new ways of thinking about racing and equipment, and taking those ideas into Europe. I knew that with the right environment he could go on to great things.
Yet in hindsight, I can look back and see that there were nagging worries. Dave was something of a wild child, living life to the full, lacking the kind of mentoring that he needed at the time. I knew he had doubts about the team that he was on, that he was under a lot of pressure, that some aspects of his lifestyle were extreme, but I didn't know how far that extreme lifestyle had gone, or that there was another side to his life that he couldn't share.
I had just come back to Biarritz with him, after watching him race in the buildup to the Athens Olympics, when it all came tumbling down. I looked on in horror and disbelief as the French police arrested him, just as we settled down to dinner in one of his favorite restaurants in Biarritz. It was a shocking moment, something I never want to experience again. Only then did I begin to understand his secret life and how deeply ashamed he was of betraying his ideals and his family and friends.
Dave's arrest put me in a difficult situation. I was advised, in no uncertain terms, to leave as quickly as possible, to ensure that British Cycling was not tarnished by scandal. Ultimately though, I had nothing to hide and had done nothing wrong. I was warned that it could be damaging to my reputation, but I felt that I had a duty of care to Dave. I decided that the right thing to do was to stay.
He was in custody for seventy-two hours. The French police were brutal and very aggressive. I was interrogated for almost five hours, but they finally completely acknowledged that I had no involvement at all. I waited until Dave was released, exiting through the back door of the police station to avoid the media. Then I told him to tell me everything.
Over the next few days, as we talked openly about what he had done and what he had been through, the murky world of doping—something I had never encountered—became real. It opened my eyes as I learned how the culture of doping had poisoned his life. It was a steep learning curve for me, but his experience has given me valuable insight and helped me to further develop the strong ethical values that are now the foundation for Team GB and Team SKY. I have seen firsthand how doping can almost wreck an athlete's life—I am determined it will not happen to any athlete in my charge.
Dave and I came close to working together a couple of years ago, when Team SKY was being developed. The team would have benefited from his racing knowledge, from his performances, and from his experience as a captain on the road. In the end, however, the premise of Team SKY, emphatically founded on creating a team that exemplifies clean sport and that has a zero tolerance on employing anybody with any doping history, made it impossible for him to join.
I am convinced Dave has learned his lesson. Since his comeback, he's become a reformed character, a voluble contributor to the anti-doping debate through his work with Garmin-Slipstream, UK Sport, and WADA. More remarkably, his passion for cycling is undimmed, despite everything he went through. It's very clear to anybody who knows him that he will always love riding his bike. That alone probably tells you more about who he really is than any number of speeches.
Most importantly, Dave's story reveals what I have long believed—that, in the wrong environment, under the wrong influences, even people with the greatest integrity can make the wrong decisions. Although the culture of doping in sport is often depicted as black and white, it can be insidious and subtle: on the one hand, it exploits the vulnerable and pressurized athlete; on the other, it enables the cynical to clinically cheat. That's why the David Millar story is so valuable and so instructive to all those who care about ethics in sport.
David Brailsford, CBE
Performance Director,
British Cycling and Principal,
Team SKY
Manchester, May 2011
My Early Years
Even though I was born in Malta—for those who need to know, on January 4, 1977—I have always thought of myself as a Scot.
My parents, Gordon and Avril, left the island when I was eleven months old and returned to Scotland. This was a homecoming, a return from abroad to our brethren. Yet because my father was in the Royal Air Force and subject to their postings, it wasn't really his choice where we ended up.
We lived in Forres. My earliest memories are of a housing estate, a school bus—with a metal bar across the top of the seat in front of me that I'd try to bite but couldn't, because of the bus bumping around—and of my grandma giving me chocolate eclairs.
The RAF housing estate was my playground. I could usually be found playing with my Star Wars figurines and space ships—a quiet little boy by all accounts, living in his own little world.
1977, Malta. Proof that I was born in the seventies under the Maltese sun. Gordon looks like a Starsky & Hutch extra, while Avril looks like she's come straight off the Buck Rogers set.
I've been told a story, by both Mum and Dad, about a birthday party they held for me at home. I disappeared early on and was found playing alone in my room, asking when everybody was going home. I remember being like that when I was young.
I liked drawing. In fact, I drew a lot. There was another toddler whom I was best friends with, but I can't remember his name now. My sister Frances—sometimes "Fran," sometimes "France"; "Fran" to others, "France" to me—arrived a little less than a year after our return to Scotland, and she quickly became my new play partner.
Fran was a quick developer and walked and talked at a freakishly young age. When people learned that I, not Fran, was the older sibling, this confused them. I've never had a problem with it—Fran's propensity for talking, that is. I simply point out that I'm older than her anyway and claim seniority that way.
Dad was stationed at Kinloss, the RAF base not far from Forres. On occasions when he wasn't flying, he'd take me to the base and I'd play on the grass-covered aircraft hangars and run around after him among the aircraft. Even now, it's a vivid memory. Sometimes I'll pass a garage that will have that same smell of warm metal and diesel and I'll be back there, running among those big war machines, with my dad, in the grass-covered hangars. I wish more garages had that smell.
I was too young to understand his job, but I remember his leaving for the Falkland Islands. He just disappeared one day, and we didn't see him again for what seemed like forever. It's the only time I can remember my mum telling my sister and me to pray at night. There was never any news, and it must have been very hard for her.
My godfather, Major Mike Norman, was involved in the Falklands War, too. He and his wife, Thelma, were friends with my parents in Malta. Mike had given my mum a Royal Marine insignia to be flown above the house when she went into labor. She still has the flag.
Mike was something of a war hero, and, years later, while I was living in Hong Kong, I learned what a significant part he had played in the conflict when I saw a BBC film called An Ungentlemanly Act. Mike had been the commanding officer of the Royal Marines unit on the Falklands when the Argentinians invaded.
When it became clear that the Argentines were mounting a full invasion, he was charged with defending the island by Rex Hunt, the island's governor. Although outnumbered, Mike led his men with courage and skill, but after hours of defending Governor's House he was ordered to surrender.
Two months later, when the Argentine army capitulated, he raised the British flag once again. Nonetheless, the war left its mark on him. Many years later, after Mike had retired, my mother spoke to Thelma on the phone and asked how he was.
"Oh, he's fine," she said. "He's out gardening. But you know, Avril, his knees never really recovered from that bloody yomp."
In many ways, growing up as a forces child made us different from other kids. Our dads, whether in the RAF, army, or navy, couldn't just switch off their value systems on coming home and taking off their uniforms. They worked in an environment with hundreds of years of history and standards. It made for a disciplined and regimented childhood.
My sister and I could be taken to any restaurant in the world, and there would be no risk of our behaving badly. Without being too hard on us, my father was a disciplinarian. But he was also incredibly funny and loving when he was relaxed and happy, which was all the funnier because it was impossible to imagine him ever being the same when he was in his uniform.
I remember one flier friend never stopped calling him "sir," even when they were both in civilian clothes.
"Why don't you just call him Gordon?" I asked him once.
"I can't, David," he replied, deadpan. "He's my commanding officer."
Years later, after my dad had left the forces and joined Cathay Pacific, I appreciated what a change it must have been for him going from being a young wing commander in the Royal Air Force to a middle-aged copilot in a commercial airline. It couldn't have been easy for him.
My dad was reckless at times. I remember seeing him, around the time that he was a squadron leader, standing in the dining room looking out of the window, staring at his white Lotus Elite. There was something broken about his expression—he told me that he'd crashed his car and that he felt sad.
I first learned to ride a bike in Scotland. But it was hardly the most auspicious start to my cycling career, as I rode into the back of a parked car on one of those first rides.
In fact, I was a little accident-prone. Playing tag at school, I managed to break my collarbone for the first time. It took my mum, bless her, three days to believe that I'd broken it. I'm not sure if that says more about me, or my mum.
My mum is one of the most intelligent people I know, able to maintain a challenging conversation on almost any subject. She studied engineering at Glasgow University, based on her admiration for her adopted father, yet, forty years on, she is now on her fourth different career. She came from a loving yet unorthodox family, adopted as a baby by a couple already in their mid-forties. Today the only family she has is my sister and me, and her fabulous piano-playing neighbor Terry. Her background probably explains her absolute love for France and me, yet this collarbone incident also showed she was no pushover.
Just before we left Scotland, I did it again. One of my best friends had a hill in his back garden that in winter hardened to a stony mix of frost, ice, and snow. Naturally, we considered it our duty to ride down this. I must have taken it more seriously than him, because I was the one who ended up crumpled at the bottom of the hill, nursing a second broken collarbone.
There's a final memory of our time in Scotland—of leaving in 1984, and Fran and I, cocooned in the bucket seats of my dad's Lotus, singing along to Yazoo. Dad had a new posting. We were moving on again, heading south to our new house in Stone, Buckinghamshire.
It's hard to imagine Frances and me arriving in England as wee Scots, the two of us arguing away with our strong singsong accents. The years since, traveling and living in many different places, have left me with the most neutral of accents.
If anything, what I have now is an expat Brit accent that morphs itself spontaneously to mimic those around me. It's not something I'm proud of; I would much prefer to have held on to the Scottish accent that I had as a child, because I remain very proud of being a Scot.
At times, I have to admit that, listening to my English accent while calling myself Scottish, I've felt like a fraud. But then I suppose our nomadic lifestyle made it important that we were good at "fitting in."
When I started school in Buckinghamshire, I would always play lunchtime football in Scottish national team kit. Looking back, I think losing my accent was a pivotal moment. Even so, I feel most at home when surrounded by Scots, and it was among Scots that I spent most of my time during my doping ban.
I didn't enjoy school that much, but out of the classroom, I had a blast, particularly after I discovered BMX and became the proud owner of a Raleigh Super Tuff Burner. Dad would take me along to the BMX race leagues in High Wycombe every other weekend. I was eight years old, and it was the perfect introduction to racing.
The BMX boom was at its height, and movies such as ET and BMX Bandits were big box office. I still haven't seen ET, even though, a few years later while on a family holiday in California, I was chosen out of a throng of children to ride the ET BMX against a blue screen at Universal Studios. I couldn't bring myself to tell them I hadn't actually seen the film.
I loved the rush of BMX racing. The start gate would come crashing down, and the ten riders in the field would hurtle with childish abandon toward the first ramps and left-hand banked turn, or "burn." There was very little skill involved. It was more dependent on a lot of youthful courage and blind luck.
I was still on my trusty Raleigh, competing against kids on special racing BMXs. This had never bothered me, until one day, when, after finishing in the top three and while pushing my Raleigh back up the hill for the next race, I heard the commentator remark on my less-than-special bike. I was upset to say the least.
Despite that, in my first season I finished fourth in the county for my age group. This entitled me to a number 4 handlebar plate for the next season, but I clearly remember thinking that fourth in the county wasn't really that good.
I don't know why I would have such high expectations or put such pressure on myself at such a young age. I was competing against boys who were clearly taking it much more seriously than I was. For my dad and me, it was simply a Sunday out together. He didn't allow himself to get mixed up in overcompetitive dad syndrome. Any pressure or desire I had to perform came from me and me alone.
1986, Stone primary school. Frances and I rocking the uniform. I get the impression there was a lot of giggling pre- and post-photograph.
But that number 4 plate was never used because my beloved Super Tuff Burner was stolen that winter, effectively ending my BMX career. I spent years looking in ditches and scouring bike racks searching for that bike, and it took me a very long time to accept that it was never coming back.
As well as BMX, I'd taken to roller-skating much of the time, usually at roller discos. I can't remember how often the roller discos were, but they were never regular enough for me. I was a roller-disco king—Thame Leisure Centre was my kingdom.
France, in true younger sibling fashion, had taken to copying everything I did, be it BMX or roller-skating. It was never long before France was, like me, fully equipped, tagging along. Most irritatingly, everybody still thought she was my older sister, which was not cool for an already quiet, shy, introspective boy. I'm ashamed to say that I did my best to make sure that skating was the last hobby of mine that Frances copied. At the time, I didn't see the love, only the burden of a little sister.
France was so confident, so able to talk to people. She would talk to anybody at any time on any subject. We—my parents and I—would hang back and send her forward to ask all sorts of things of all sorts of people. We didn't need local knowledge or a tour guide when we were on holiday, because we had our own little search engine on legs. Frances was our Google.
My mum and dad made a significant effort to improve us both. We were both given extra tuition outside of school, and I was learning to play the trombone and the piano. I was trombonist in the school jazz band, and now it amazes me that I pretended to enjoy it and persevered for so long.
But there were problems at home. It became impossible to ignore the troubles between my parents. At first, it had been subtle, but now there were things that I couldn't ignore. It became harder to pretend that the fights weren't happening. I suppose it had been going on for a long while, but children choose not to see such things.
Eventually, things reached a crisis point. I was woken up in the middle of the night, my tearful mum and dad sitting on my bed, telling me that they were splitting up, that it wasn't my fault and that I should look after my sister.
I don't think I cried. I certainly don't remember being tearful, but I remember being incredibly fucking angry. My childhood had come to an abrupt end. I was eleven.
The next morning, I walked to school as usual, through grass covered in morning dew, my feet leaving a trail behind me.
Crash. Burn. Coming Clean. Coming Back.
Racing Through the Dark
Crash. Burn. Coming Clean. Coming Back.
As a young Scottish expat living in Hong Kong with his father after his parents' divorce, Millar showed early promise with mountain biking and BMX. Two wise local cyclists took him under their wings, encouraging him to concentrate on road racing. Millar proved a ready convert. Racing Through the Dark offers the winning account of his climb through the ranks—first as an amateur and then as a pro, riding for the French team Cofidis. Among his early triumphs were several stage wins in the Tour de France.
From the moment Millar turned pro, he began to see hints of the unethical measures that many— maybe most—of the other pros were taking in order to race at the very tops of their games . . . and beyond. At first, he felt that he was immune to temptation, that he could win clean. But the ugly pervasiveness of performance-enhancing drugs and the seemingly universal attitude that condoned it began to corrode his willpower. Racing Through the Dark details his eventual capitulation, his subsequent arrest and two-year ban from cycling, and his remarkable comeback as a clean cyclist who is now doing his utmost to keep performance-enhancing drugs out of the sport he so loves.
Filled with thrilling descriptions of the world's most spectacular courses, Racing Through the Dark captures the pure joy of cycling and includes some of the most vivid accounts of racing ever written by a true insider.
- Touchstone |
- 368 pages |
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June 3rd, 2011, 08:02 AM #47
I always think authors are setting themselves a bit of a challenge by writing little poignant snippets and poems at the start of chapters. Unless they are geniuses they will always be a bit hit and miss. Erikson's are more consistent and relevant than most though.
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June 5th, 2011, 12:29 AM #49
About to start Book Two.
GoM didn't really come into it's own until it seemed they were ready to attack Djuristan(sp). Then once the Tyrant was released the book got really good I thought. Not sure how big of a fan I am of how it ended, but it's a huge series so the ending of each book isn't THAT important. Really the only thing they left you to keep on reading is: What will Rallik turn out to be? And what's up with this Seer? Is he powerful enough to fight against Brood and Rake? Is anyone? geez.
Which brings me to one of my points, which I said after the first few pages. They are still using the words "Ascendants" and "Gods" interchangeably. In the text I read. Rake, Brood, The Rope, Shadowthrone, any many others were listed as Ascendants. Rake can obviously challenge any one of the Gods. And as powerful as Raest was, they said it would be an even fight once he got his finnest. Tells me the awesome power Rake has. And that is either a plot hole, or Rake is really modest. As he says there are many of his people who could challenge him. Somewhere it said his head Mage/Assassin was his 2nd or almost as powerful as he. ?? She got beat up by Vorcan, who was knocked out by a brick! Either way.... Raest fought off, how many, 5 dragons? With out his Finnest. And you're telling me he would only be a match for Rake WITH IT? And that Mage Assassin that was getting beat up all book could challenge Rake? I'm really confused. I HAVE to side with Rake is just modest. Maybe Brood really could challenge him. But I can see nobody else in this world besides an Ascendant or God that could.
I just saw a Malazan Power Ranking thread. Can't wait until I have read enough to check that out.
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yeah, you'll find yourself going in circles alot when trying to figure out who is the most powerful.
Is Tayschreen the most powerful sorcerer or Quick Ben, or Rake or Kruppe etc
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The hardest part is done. DG is much more accessible and much, much, much more interesting IMO. And the absolute best part - it has a plot!!!!!
You could argue that Gardens had some sort of story going on, but to me it seemed like convuluted worldbuilding with a whole bunch of "who gives a crap" events going on. But DG is somewhat the opposite, its more focused on the story and less on the worldbuilding.
Sure, there are sinkholes where you become overwhelmed with info and you just want to cry, but the story is damn good. Also, it has one of the best endings I have ever read (in and out of fantasy).
Enjoy friend!
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I'd definitely like to hear people's thoughts on DeadHouse Gates
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very nicely done
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just curious too.
after reading the book and looking back which parts did you guys enjoy most?
For me it had to be the rooftop battles with the assassins
and the demon that is unleashed to fight Rake
June 6th, 2011, 02:18 PM #54
I find the vast power explinations confusing at times. As I mentioned before, with Rake how powerful is he really? And this Raest was a God. Fought 5 dragons, and would have killed them. But didn't they say this Demon Lord was stronger than Raest? Yet, this Demon Lord wasn't powerful enough to track how fast Adjunt Lorn is? But then she got her butt whooped by a Crimson Guard member who wasn't using any type of power, just pure skill? Confusing.
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June 14th, 2011, 09:30 PM #55
I just finished GotM today, after several attempts. And I still don't really know what the heck happened. What was the Jaghut Tyrant? Who was Brood (a warlord but was he ever actually in the book?)? Double question marks?! Madness!
I really had a hard time getting into this book. After several attempts at reading it I finally got an audio copy and powered through it. So part of my confusion may be a result of missing chunks when my attention wandered. I dunno. It really threw new characters and settings at the reader way to fast, IMO. It was hard to keep track of, and each new character that was introduced was quickly left behind, without any real time to get to know them. And then they popped back up a hundred pages later and I couldn't remember who they were or why I was supposed to care about them. There's something to be said for a nice slow intro to an alt world.
But, that said, all the good stuff I've heard about the next books has got me a little hyped. Starting Deadhouse Gates soon.
How are you doing on it, Chris?
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Van, you felt the same why I did. In retrospect after reading DG, I absolute hate GotM but when I actually finished reading it, it was more a relief than anything else.
Deadhouse Gates is fantastic. Yes there are parts where you are thinking "What is going on?" but alot of it follows the plot without swaying too much. There still will be a lot you dont understand, but soldier on right to the end, its worth it.
June 15th, 2011, 07:35 AM #57
I have been slacking. I'm 1/3 through book 2. It's hard to, AGAIN, push through mountains of world building. Things are just now starting to happen. Though I am glad we are getting a lot of ICARIUM! Who thinks Icarium, The Hulk, and Logen NineFingers are very much the same? Almost the same exact affliction. Just exaggerated a little differently.
Since some people haven't finished or started DG yet I'm going to ask this in a spoiler.
I am very confused about the Shadow Warren. Aren't these Warrens really old? When Rake spoke to Shadow Throne he acted like he has been a god for a long time and wondered why he was poking his head in mortal business. When people talked about him and his Warren...they talked like it's been around forever. Then now we find out that Shadowthrone is the Emperor? And Cottilion/The Rope is Dancer? When you Ascend do you take someone's place? Cause "The Rope" and "ShadowThrone" are names that seem to be legend. Gods talked about for thousands of years. Not some newly Ascended persons who just showed up. Am I wrong?
I like it so far though!
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I just started book 4 but so far a general theme of the series seems to be checks and balances of power. Pretty much all of the truly powerful beings I've read about so far have learned to work behind the scenes. The ones who blatantly display their powers are usually dealt with.
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Spoiler:The Warrens are old, Shadowthrone and Cotillion I always understood to be essentially God roles currently inhabited by Ammanas and Dancer, Shadow has a unique history with the warrens that you will learn about if you continue with the series. As for the Rake conversation, he does but inaccuracies like that in GotM I tend to ignore because of the time taken between writing the first and second books. Fwiw
June 16th, 2011, 09:53 AM #60
Here's another thing that just struck me! Paran is a normal mortal. He spoke with Wiskeyjack or Dujek? in the prologue. He was a boy then, he is now a man. Let's say 20years. At that time the Emperor and Dancer were alive. Tattersail and Tayschren were still practicing their arts correct? And she is a master of this Deck Reading magic. Shadowthrone and TheRope are cards in this deck that is supposed to have been around for centuries. Tattersail is I believe 300years old. So how could Shadowthrone and TheRope only exist for less than 20years, yet this deck exist? Do the cards change themselves? I believe it was called "The Deck of Dragons"? If Oponn dies, and a new Ascendant emerges, would this Deck update itself? That is the only explanation I can think of. Then again, don't the bridge burners play normal card games w/it? Sot it can be just a normal deck of cards? Confusing.
And just because Book 2 was written years after Book 1 is not an adequate reason to disregard plot holes. Was ShadowThrone being The Emperor not always the plan? Or something he threw in at the last second, hoping we would dismiss these inaccuracies as just confusing facts?
Then again, it could have been the plan and I'm just not piecing it together appropriately. ? =)
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