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The Jeffco commissioners have adopted a 2009 budget that is nearly $8 million smaller than the one proposed at the end of November, mainly due to uncertainty about election equipment.
The commissioners on Dec. 9 approved a budget of $387 million for Jefferson County in 2009, down from the $394.9 million budget that staffers presented at the end of November. Although the commissioners added $6.5 million in spending, they cut $14.4 million that staffers had recommended for new election equipment.
Police have located the car they believe struck 13-year-old Taylor Hunt on Dec. 12.
Hunt was walking toward a bus stop on her way to Ken Caryl Middle School when a black 1997 Volkswagen Jetta struck her. The driver fled the scene.
Hunt was taken to the hospital and released the same day but did suffer serious injuries, according to the Colorado State Patrol.
The car was found at 8545 S. Wadsworth Blvd., which is believed to be where the owner of the car lives.
The State Patrol is urging anyone with information about the incident to call 303-239-4583.
Two brothers who grew up in Jefferson County and a former resident of Brooklyn, N.Y., have opened an auto-repair shop and car wash that is striving to be friendly — to customers, employees and the environment.
Chris and Mark Shamis and Mike Torres are the owners of Dakota Ridge Complete Automotive. The auto-repair business, at West Bowles Avenue and C-470, opened Oct. 27, and the car wash opened Nov. 23.
Torres, an animated man who moved to Colorado when he was 18, is co-owner and operations manager. He described the shop as "high end."
South Jeffco's state senator says Republicans will push several bills in the upcoming legislative session that will serve as their version of an economic stimulus package.
"No doubt, people are feeling an economic pinch," said Sen. Mike Kopp, R-Littleton, chair of the GOP caucus. "There's a lot of anxiety out there."
Jefferson County District Attorney Scott Storey is asking for $162,000 in salary in 2009, a pay raise of more than 9 percent.
Most county workers have been getting raises in the 3 percent range.
Storey, who was re-elected in November, earned $148,256 in 2008, the second highest for a DA in a five-county comparison that Storey provided the Jefferson County commissioners on Dec. 9. According to Storey, the other four counties' district attorneys are each asking for an average salary increase of 12.7 percent.
Mark Foster didn't realize how good he had it.
"Growing up here, maybe I didn't appreciate how great a place this is," Foster said, sitting in the living room of his Ken-Caryl Ranch home.
Foster has lived all over the world since graduating from Chatfield High School in 1992, but he returned home two months ago to start a family medical practice in South Jeffco. Foster and Dr. Lisa Walker, who had been practicing in Aurora, will open the practice Jan. 7. It is affiliated with Littleton Adventist Hospital.
Sometimes, the best goal in a hockey game is not always the one that is remembered.
The Conifer boys just might be on to something.
A season after graduating an iconic group of talent, the "new" Lobos are on their way to establishing their own identity. Just keep that program handy as you learn their names.
Behind the steady dribble penetration of sophomore guard Gus Womeldorph, the rebounding of Stephen Theiss and C.J. Danks, the hustle of Kalvin Winter and the all around play of the Tadlock brothers, the Lobos rolled Widefield 57-53 in a Class 4A nonleague game Dec. 19.
"She-eh-eh-eh-ry, bay-ay-by, Sherry, Baby." The ear-piercing, spine-tingling falsetto of Frankie Valli fills The Buell Theatre, and you'd swear you're not in Denver anymore. The Tony Award-winning "Jersey Boys" opened on Dec. 11, and it's transporting audiences not only back in time, but to a completely different world.
Depending on whom you ask, the enthusiasm among Columbine's wrestling team members can waiver.
The team did take third place in its own Columbine Invitational, which they hosted on Dec. 13. But, some of the wrestlers' youth does show through when they are questioned individually.


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Erfworld | |
Erfworld Logo
Author(s) | Rob Balder (writer), David Hahn (Artist, current), Xin Ye (Artist, former), and Jamie Noguchi (Artist, former) |
Website | http://www.erfworld.com |
Current status / schedule | Occasional updates |
Launch date | 12-07-2006 |
Genre(s) | fantasy, comedy, parody |
Erfworld is a story-driven fantasy/comedy webcomic about a master strategy gamer stuck in a wargame. The first book, The Battle for Gobwin Knob was written by Rob Balder and illustrated by Jamie Noguchi. It was recognized as one of the top 10 graphic novels of 2007 by Time Magazine.[1] The second book, Love is a Battlefield is instead illustrated by Xin Ye. David Hahn will be the artist for Book 3.[2] Erfworld is also currently being published as a bi-weekly mobile comic by Robot Comics.[3]
Erfworld follows a graphic novel format, with a new page added with each update. The setting is Erfworld, a fantasy world that adheres to the rules of a fictional turn-based strategy wargame. The narrative focuses on a complex story about warring factions within this world, but most installments also contain humor about strategy-fantasy video games, role-playing games, and references to history or popular culture. There are frequent puns and side-gags, as well as letter changes in frequently used names, particularly replacing "r" with "w" (spidews, dwagons and twolls instead of spiders, dragons and trolls). The comic was originally started as an attempt to bring all of author Rob Balder's Fantasy-related strips from his other comic, PartiallyClips, into the same universe and tell a story with them.[4]
Erfworld's plot, setting, and characters are released under a Creative Commons Attribution, Noncommercial, ShareAlike license.[5]
Plot synopsis[edit]
Erfworld's premise is that overlord Stanley the Plaid is conducting a military campaign to quest for the Arkentools - artifacts of ancient power left behind by the Titans who created the Erfworld. Stanley controls one of these tools, the Arkenhammer, but his quest for the others seems to have been costly and unsuccessful; the story opens as his final living warlord is killed in battle. Stanley's chief adviser, Wanda Firebaugh, convinces him to purchase a "Summon Perfect Warlord" spell as a final attempt to prevent defeat. The spell summons Earth gamer Parson Gotti (whose name is an anagram for "Protagonist") into Erfworld, where he is to serve as chief warlord under Stanley.
Meanwhile, Prince Ansom of Jetstone is leading a massive coalition toward Stanley's capital, Gobwin Knob, hoping to destroy Stanley's side forever. Ansom's coalition has many members, but most prominent in the story are Jetstone (Ansom's kingdom), the forces of Transylvito (a vampire-like people) and Archons (hovering female fighters) he has hired from Charlie, a powerful overlord and mercenary.
Early in the comic, one of Ansom's officers, Jillian Zamussels, flies on a scouting mission, but is captured by Stanley's forces and taken to Gobwin Knob. Wanda interrogates Jillian and, having gained magical or emotional control of her, releases her to become an unwitting double agent. During this time, Parson has been learning the battle mechanics of Erfworld and has planned an attack on Ansom's coalition. He sends a force of dwagons to make hit-and-run raids on the coalition's siege units, then draws Ansom into various traps as the coalition pursues the wounded dwagons. Jillian eventually locates the dwagons but is unwilling to attack because she is under Wanda's mind-control spell. Wanda's spell ultimately fails, however, and Jillian leads an attack that destroys the dwagons. Stanley is enraged about Parson and Wanda's unsuccessful plans and decides to take his last stand back into his own hands. He takes the surviving dwagons, then departs his capital to start his side afresh on the uninhabited site of another capital he sacked some years ago. Stanley's departure is a major turning point in the story, as these events leave Parson in sole command of the limited forces remaining at Gobwin Knob, which he must rally in a final stand against Ansom's much larger coalition.
Parson quickly puts some defensive plans into action. Parson contacts Charlie, and asks him to switch sides; Charlie declines but agrees to sit the fight out. Also, as Ansom's forces scout the mining tunnels under Gobwin Knob to find weak points, Parson orders Sizemore, Stanley's dirtamancer, to ignore all but the scouts closest to the city, but to strike those with overwhelming force. This ploy tricks Ansom into thinking he has found an unguarded route to the main city garrison.
Meanwhile, Ansom has dispatched a force of air units, led by Jillian, to hunt down Stanley. They eventually rendezvous with forces from Transylvito (but without Charlie's promised Archons) and head Stanley off at a narrow pass. When Stanley and his flight of dwagons arrive at this choke point, an intense fight ensues, leaving him with heavy losses. Stanley escapes under a veil cast by his foolamancer and heads back toward Gobwin knob.
While Stanley is still away, the final battle for Gobwin Knob begins in earnest. Ansom first sends a large force of Jetstone units into the tunnels beneath the city, which are all destroyed by hidden traps and forces. Wanda animates the fallen enemies into an army of uncroaked soldiers, which Parson uses to protect the outer walls of Gobwin Knob. Ansom fails to breach the well-protected outer walls until he re-enlists Charlie's help at a high cost. Once the wall is breached, Ansom pours his units into the city and does a Dance Dance Revolution-style dance led by Charlie's Archons, which gives his forces a massive bonus and leads them to victory.
Parson does not admit defeat though, and uses a perfidy false surrender offer as a ruse to assassinate Ansom. Parson's twoll lackey Bogroll tackles Ansom from the parapet and both fall to their deaths. Parson then collapses his own city, killing most coalition forces within the walls, but even this leaves too many enemy units alive. Parson retreats with the casters into the isolated portal room to plan the desperate final attack that will be the story's climax. Gobwin Knob is built atop an extinct volcano, so Parson orders the casters to make it erupt. The casters use magic to link the minds of Wanda the Croakamancer and Sizemore the Dirtmancer, so that with their combined skill they can uncroak the volcano.
Parson and the casters flee though a portal to escape the resulting eruption, and return to find a ruin. The coalition is erased and the terrain itself changed. Sizemore shows Parson that he has discovered a fortune in gemstones exposed by the volcano, while Wanda finds the Arkenpliers (Ansom's former arkentool) and attunes to them. With the power of the Arkenpliers, Wanda is able to permanently reanimate dead units to their original strength. She uses them to "decrypt" the late Prince Ansom and most of the other fallen coalition forces as powerful new allies.
The first book concludes as Parson (also known as Lord Hamster) asks Maggie, Gobwin Knob's thinkamancer, to what extent his actions are his own doing, and to what extent they were forced by magical loyalty. She tells Parson he is himself mostly responsible for the death and desolation around him. Parson appears to be both disgusted with the actions he had to take, and also empowered by learning that he has control over his own destiny. He walks away and speaks angrily to the "Erfworld". He ends his monologue by shouting "I won't be a gamepiece. I'm a Player. Fuck You!!", apparently breaking the Erfworld's "censorship", and throws his sword into the lava, where it melts.
In the aftermath of this battle, Gobwin Knob is rebuilt. Wanda and Ansom lead the decrypted army on a campaign to conquer the world and convert all to the belief that attunement to the Arkentools, not royal origin, is the true source of divinely ordained rule. Book Two begins as this army confronts the forces of Jetstone, after the off-screen destruction of their ally Unaroyal. The decrypted Ansom attempts to persuade his still-living brothers to accept Toolism. They refuse, and a battle breaks out in which Ansom's brother Ossomer is captured. Ansom then makes another attempt to persuade him, only to watch Wanda order Ossomer cut down so she can decrypt him. The army then marches on Jetstone's capital city with intent to take the city, which according to the rules of Erfworld ends the side and causes the remaining cities to become "neutral." Wanda and Parson agree that they almost certainly have the forces to win, but then Charlie uses the Arkendish (which he controls) to intervene in the battle by ending Stanley's turn.
Parson Gotti[edit]
Also known as Lord Hamster, Parson serves as Chief Warlord or warlord of the side Gobwin Knob throughout the story, and as its protagonist, whisked away from Earth to Erfworld at the beginning of the first book.[6] His name is an anagram of "Protagonist".
Prior to the story, Parson is depicted as having been the author of the webcomic Hamstard[7] (actually created by the authors of Erfworld as a meta-background for Parson's character and as an "easter egg"). He spent months at a time designing strategy games for his own amusement as an escape from an unsatisfying job and life.[8]
Parson questions whether Erfworld is real or just a coma dream of his, if his actions truly are his own (the summoning is supposed to put him under Stanley's command) and the ethics of his situation (his actions makes him responsible for thousands of deaths and he is serving what appears to be the evil side). Still, he chooses to tentatively accept the reality of the situation and the role he has been given. Parson is large by Erfworld standards (and fat by real-world standards), standing roughly twice as tall as Wanda Firebaugh.[9] He does not conform to all the rules of the universe (for example, he doesn't have visible "stats" like the in-world characters). Janice has said that he is a Hippiemancer; whether this is true or not is unknown.
Stanley the Tool[edit]
Overlord of the side "Gobwin Knob" and of the nearly lost Plaid tribe.[10] Stanley serves as the superior of the protagonist throughout the story so far, with whom he is initially at odds.[6]
Originally known as Stanley the Plaid, he started off as a piker unit under King Saline IV and eventually rose to the position of warlord.[11] During his service, he came to possess the Arkenhammer, a mysterious tool of divine origin, setting himself apart as a warlord, and later, ruler.[12][13] King Saline IV later paid to have Stanley promoted to Heir Designate.[11] Thus, when King Saline IV was killed in an attack while Stanley was away, Stanley and his side were not dissolved and retook the city.[11]
At the time of the story, Lord Stanley is involved in an ongoing war in an effort to find the other Arkentools, believing it is the will of the Titans he control them. At the beginning of the first book, this war has reduced his realm from eleven cities to only Gobwin Knob itself.[14] He had Wanda summon "the perfect warlord" in an attempt to win the battle for Gobwin Knob, which yielded Parson Gotti.[8][15] In Stanley's first meeting with Parson, Parson convinced him that "tool" was a term of honor. Drawing a connection between this title and his search for the Arkentools, Stanley declared that he should henceforth be addressed as "Tool".[9] Stanley objects strongly to being called a "bad guy,"[16] and considers himself to be divinely favored by the Titans.[17] Stanley's underlings often suffer from his unchecked ego and limited patience, as well as his limited intelligence. His name (and newly assumed title) is a play on Stanley Tools.
Wanda Firebaugh[edit]
Chief Croakamancer serving Lord Stanley, and a member of the lost Croatan tribe. Wanda is the second named character to appear in the first book.[18] Her name is a play on "wand of fireball."
She is a patient and skilled manager,[10] though she is ruthless in battle and not above using seduction as a means of manipulating others.[19] She is skilled at many types of magic, but has stated that only Croakamancy (which she uses to animate fighters "croaked" in battle as "uncroaked"[20]) holds any interest for her.[21] She has demonstrated some ability with Hat Magic, Dollamancy, and Thinkamancy (which are all Fate magics). By the end of book one, she controls the Arkenpliers, an Arkentool that allows her to perform feats of croakamancy that are normally impossible, such as raising corpses to create lifelike intelligent "decrypted" units.
Prince Ansom[edit]
During the first book, Prince Ansom serves as Chief Warlord to King Slately of the Jetstone[10] and the leader of the Royal Crown Coalition fighting against Stanley, and the primary antagonist.[22] His name is a play on "handsome" (cf. Prince Charming), while his initial outfit resembled the costume worn by Evel Knievel.
He was a skilled leader, warrior, and tactician but lacked modesty and was prone to reckless behavior when his pride was at stake. His crest was a radish. He carried the Arkenpliers, though he was not attuned to them, and thus could not use their full abilities.[23] He had a history of personally riding to Jillian's rescue,[24] and Wanda believes he was in love with her.[25] While he apparently looked down on those not of royal or noble houses—Vinny correctly guessed that he despised Stanley not so much for his attacks on other peoples as for the fact he came to rule by regicide—he did, according to Jillian, honestly believe in the concept of noblesse oblige, and as a result often put himself in unnecessary danger to protect his troops.
He was croaked by Bogroll and decrypted (improved uncroaking) by Wanda at the end of the first book,[26] and serves Gobwin Knob as Chief Warlord at the start of the second,[27] prior to his capture.[28]
Jillian Zamussels[edit]
A female barbarian and warlord, fighting for the army of Prince Ansom. She has been known to engage in combat even when directed to avoid it.[29][30] She has an unrealistically oversized sword.[10] Her personal relationship with Prince Ansom is initially unclear but evolves into a romance; she declined Ansom's invitation to join him in his tent, but later that night approached it, stopped, and walked away.[31] Later, she professes her love for Ansom after breaking Wanda's spell, and it is suggested that they sleep together when she spends a night on his flying carpet. She chats casually with Wanda after being tortured and interrogated by her,[32] but later suddenly breaks down and collapses. It is revealed that Wanda is able to influence her feelings and thoughts.[33] She has stated that she was originally the heir of the kingdom of Faq, an isolated and peaceful Utopian kingdom visually modeled after Japanese feudal society, and the daughter of King Banhammer, a philosopher-king who disliked his heir for her violent and aggressive ways.[34] Her name is an approximation of "jillions of muscles." During the intermission between books 1 and 2, she restores Faq with herself as queen, with assistance from Transylvito.
Sizemore Rockwell[edit]
A Dirtamancer in the army of Gobwin Knob and one of the few remaining members of the Plaid Tribe.[10] In the beginning of the first book, he helped Parson learn how magic works in Erfworld.[35]
He is very curious and loves to study all types of magic, but is unskilled in any beyond his specialty,[21] and knows little about military matters.[36] When forced into combat as the battle reaches Gobwin Knob itself, he is very regretful about taking lives, but reluctantly accepts it as his duty to do so.
A one-eyed twoll who served as a guardsman in Gobwin Knob and lackey to Parson.[37] He was loyal and typically good-natured, although a frequent target of the other guardsmen's pranks.[38] Bogroll was croaked by Coalition forces, having sacrificed himself in a kamikaze attack on Ansom, and cannot be decrypted due to the grievous harm inflicted on his body. Bogroll was a character in the PartiallyClips strip,[39] and is the only crossover between PartiallyClips and Erfworld. His name is a British English colloquialism for toilet paper.
Vinny Doombats[edit]
A count of the Transylvito tribe who fights for the Royal Crown Coalition. Like other Transylvitans, Vinny has the appearance of a vampire, though sunlight apparently does not harm him. Vinny seems to be a close advisor and friend of Prince Ansom, to whom he has few qualms about speaking frankly. He has confronted Ansom with his opinion that Stanley's commoner origins, not his military aggressions against several coalition members, are at the root of Ansom's antipathy toward Stanley, while assuring Ansom that this issue would not affect his personal loyalty.[40] As his name implies, he controls the coalition's bat scouting units. His name is a reference to Vinny Boombatz, a fictional character created by stand-up comedian Rodney Dangerfield.
A Thinkamancer in the employ of Gobwin Knob. She is very skilled in her specialty and amoral in its application. She can send thinkagrams (telepathic messages) and link multiple casters together to combine their powers. She controlled a link with the Foolamancer Jack Snipe and the Lookamancer Misty, then later a link with the Croakamancer Wanda and the Dirtmancer Sizemore. When she broke the first link, she protected herself from the backlash at the expense of the other two. Parson planned to punish her by explicitly ordering her to break the second link and protect Wanda and Sizemore. She would probably have died from the backlash while doing so, but Parson decided against it at the last moment. She bears a passing physical resemblance to Margaret Thatcher.
The Overlord of Charlescomm. Charlie has consistently remained offscreen, interacting with other characters via remote communication. The character of Charlie, his archons, and his penchant for mystery are likely drawn from the titular character of the 1970s television series Charlie's Angels. However, his Eyebook handle, CharlsNChrg, refers to the 80s TV show, Charles in Charge.
Charlie was first contracted by Prince Ansom during the first book to supply a group of Archons to reinforce the expedition sent to rescue Jillian Zamussels. Later, after Ansom broke off the alliance in the expectation that Charlie would make a new alliance with Transylvito, Charlie instead took advantage of his release from his contract to begin dealing with Parson. Charlie shows no real commitment to either side, but does value his reputation as a mercenary who "stays bought".
Prince Ossomer[edit]
Prince Ansom's brother and chief warlord of Jetstone after the Battle for Gobwin Knob. He was captured by Wanda and then killed and 'popped again'; executed and resurrected by the Arkenpliers. However, he appears to have broken the loyalty to the pliers and became a Jetsone unit again. His name is an approximation of "awesomer".
Four Arkentools have appeared in the comic so far, but only three have been drawn.
A hammer resembling a toy croquet mallet. Owned by and attuned to Stanley the Plaid/Tool, the Arkenhammer has the power to control dwagons, glow brightly, levitate itself and its wielder, generate multiple lightning bolts, "rock out" (play heavy rock music to the benefit of combat units) turn approximately 20 percent of walnuts cracked with it into pigeons and turn some bird-like units into walnuts.[41] Stanley claims the Arkenhammer has chosen him for divine reasons, and uses this, and Wanda's beckoning, as rationale for his quest to obtain the other tools.
A sword-sized pair of needle-nose pliers. Previously owned by but not attuned to Prince Ansom, they served as a close combat weapon and had the power in his hands to "turn most Uncroaked to dust". Stanley believed that Ansom's attack on Gobwin Knob was divinely directed to bring the Arkenpliers to him. Seen in the hands of the Unaroyal Warlord Lady Sylvia Lazarus of the Coalition immediately prior to a volcanic eruption, the Arkenpliers were recovered by Wanda from the aftermath of the explosion, and have attuned to her. They give Wanda the ability to "decrypt" corpses, restoring them to life (or at least a close approximation thereof) with nearly intact intellect, memories, and abilities - though their loyalty is to the Croakamancer that raised them rather than their previous side. Wanda can also decrypt units that normally can not be uncroaked. These abilities are unparalleled in the discipline of Croakamancy.
An object resembling a satellite dish. Owned by and attuned to Charlie, it gives him a mastery of Thinkamancy, allowing him to hack into Stanley's communications systems and communicate with Parson via his Eyebook. Parson uses the fact that Charlie is not a Royal but still attuned to it to further provoke Ansom. Parson later learns from Wanda's Decrypted Archons that the Arkendish grants Charlie many additional abilities, some of which are unknown even to them: he can handle an unlimited number of Thinkagrams, and extend some of his abilities to his personal guard of Archons. With the dish, Thinkamancer links can exist over distances, and appear to be able to be broken with little repercussion. Any commander in the world is able to contact those Archons by concentrating hard enough and long enough - this allows Charlie to contact and hire out to any side in the world. The Arkendish may also be the reason Charlie can produce Archon units.
A pair of red slippers, they give an attuned wearer unlimited move. The other mentioned ability is that they can send their wearer "home", depending on what home means to the one wearing them. As Overlady Judy's use of them in Book 0 has shown, can send you to a place where the concept of ruler does not apply (as that position was passed to Dame Branch)
The World[edit]
Game rules[edit]
The laws of nature governing Erfworld are similar to the rules of a turn-based strategy game. Forces are divided into "sides" each of which is controlled by an overlord or monarch; overlords and monarchs have powers over their units that are similar to those of a player in a strategy game.
Turns and movement[edit]
Battle takes place in turns; each side is able only to attack on its own turn, and no turns occur during the night. Each unit (a term that encompasses both various creatures and sapient beings) has a certain amount of "Move," which governs the maximum distance it may travel during its side's turn. Thus, units may only travel to other locations during their turn, but at other times, they may move around within the bounds of the hexagonal region, or "hex," where they ended up after their own turn.
Units and stats[edit]
All people in Erfworld appear fully formed as adults. Any side is able to "pop" new units each turn at each of its city sites. Units can learn new skills and gain promotion at a cost of time and money, or these abilities and ranks can simply be "popped" along with the unit. Each unit has an "upkeep" cost, paid by the overlord of its side out of the treasury. At the start of their side's turn, each unit receives rations, heals back to full health, and experiences minor maintenance such as personal cleanup.
Units have various battle stats associated with them. Each has a "level" as would a unit in a strategy game. Level determines power in battle and increases with successive victories. Certain units can also offer bonuses (temporary boosts in level) to the forces they are leading; warlords give a bonus to the troops they lead, as do certain casters. One of the stranger bonuses available is "dance fighting," a bonus earned by dancing while fighting.
One of the more unusual features of the Erfworld universe is that it appears to be censored. When Parson is summoned to the world, he discovers almost immediately that whenever he attempts to use a word that could be considered a profanity it comes out as "Boop". Parson's reaction shows that this is an in-universe mechanic.[42]
The natives of Erfworld apparently understand that the word represents profanity, but it is unclear whether they understand each boop as the word Parson had intended to use. Sizemore and Wanda are the only characters to have responded appropriately to a word that was "booped out," but it is possible they determine the word's meaning from the context.[43]
There is one notable exception to the general censorship. "Crap" has been used by the natives of Erfworld, both before and after Parson is summoned there.[44][45][46] Only Jillian Zamussels' use of the word has been other than literal, though the earliest use by Lady Firebaugh could have been taken as both a literal observation and a curse word. Artist Jamie Noguchi has stated that he does not believe the word "crap" to be profanity.[47]
On the second night after Stanley the Tool leaves Gobwin Knob, Parson overhears the Gobwin troops singing drinking songs which work around the restriction by alluding to—rather than explicitly describing—deficiencies in manhood among the Jetstone and Transylvito factions.[48] For instance, he is surprised to learn that Erfworlders can use the word "testes". Other characters seem to have figured out their own loopholes; for example, one of Ansom's allies remarks that "the Sofa King is Sofa-King finished here" on page 117.
Artist Jamie Noguchi once stated that Boop was originally supposed to be "meep".[49]
In the final page of book one, in an act of defiance and anger Parson yells an uncensored "Fuck you!!" directed at Erfworld itself. Since then, none of Parson's swearing has been censored by Erfworld. The authors explained[50] the page as pointing up the difference between censoring words (harming nobody) while simultaneously depicting or glorifying acts of mass violence (harming many).
Magic can be performed in Erfworld by units called casters. Each caster has a specialty in one of twenty-four magical disciplines, but can theoretically cast in any discipline. These specialties can be combined by mentally linking casters together using the magical discipline of "thinkamancy"- a process that increases magical power but sometimes harms the casters involved when their link is broken.
It is explained in the second Parson's Klog,[51] that three fundamental elements (Life, Motion, and Matter) are combined in all possible combinations to get eight major classes of magic. Magic within each class can be further aligned to any of three axes (Erf, Fate and Numbers), thus dividing each class into three disciplines. This gives a total of twenty-four disciplines, which are described - along with any known details - in the tables below:
Life | Motion | Matter | Class |
X | Hocus Pocus | ||
X | Spookism | ||
X | Stuffamancy | ||
X | X | Eyemancy | |
X | X | Hippiemancy | |
X | X | Naughtymancy | |
X | X | X | Stagemancy |
Clevermancy |
Erf | Fate | Numbers | Notes | |
Hocus Pocus | Findamancy | Predictamancy | Mathamancy | Findamancy and Predictamancy were used to summon Parson; Predictamancers have been indicated to be akin to seers.[52] Mathamancy is described as: "Analyzing probabilities... predicting outcomes" and "the raw calculations of that work".[53] Mathamancy's primary use is to determine battle odds. |
Spookism | Turnamancy | Dollamancy | Weirdomancy | Turnamancy can increase the rate cities produce new units, turn captured enemy units to your side, and (when linked with another unknown magic class) even force the end of another side's turn. Dollamancy creates Moll and Doll units, and can be used to create magic items. Twolls also have the 'fabrication' special, which is a form of natural Dollamancy, as is the formation of livery emblems. Weirdomancy can grant or remove special abilities to units. |
Stuffamancy | Dirtamancy | Changemancy | Dittomancy | The Dirtamancer, Sizemore Rockwell, has been shown to be able to animate different types of rock into golems,[54] to be able to dig through solid rock,[55] and to deal with Gobwin Knob's night soil in ways up to and including animating it into "crap golems". Dirtomancers can upgrade cities cheaper than normal. Dittomancy can multiply combat bonuses, and the number of creatures and objects. Dittomancy has been shown quadrupling a volley of arrows and even duplicating an overlord. |
Eyemancy | Lookamancy | Thinkamancy | Foolamancy | Lookamancy has only been shown as a form of scrying. Thinkamancy has been shown to deal with telepathy, including creating a mind link with other casters that allows spells that normal casters cannot even comprehend,[53] Thinkagrams, and suggestion spells. Foolamancy creates illusions, to disguise troops. The Eyebooks used by the main characters in Chapter 1 are made through a combination of all three disciplines of Eyemancy.[56] |
Hippiemancy | Flower Power | Signamancy | Date-a-mancy | Flower Power creates plant units, poisons, and can prevent units from engaging. Time perception crumbles in the presence of Flower Power.[57] It can also be used to "quiet" a battle,[58] though the precise meaning of "quiet" has not been revealed. Natural Signamancy affects a character's appearance, matching their roles and nature. Date-a-mancy deals with interpersonal relationships. |
Naughtymancy | Shockmancy | Croakamancy | Retconjuration |
Shockmancy includes the aggressive use of shock images and stunning spells, while Croakamancy includes the raising of the dead, or "uncroaking." Deletionism was a jab at Wikipedia; following a continuity snag, Retconjuration is now a theoretical discipline reserved for the Titans alone.[59] |
Stagemancy | Hat Magic | Carnymancy | Rhyme-o-mancy | The hat employed by Jillian for sending messages to Ansom is likely a product of Hat Magic.[60] Carnymancy is the ability to "rig the game". Singing is considered Rhyme-o-mancy, though the actual abilities of Rhyme-o-mancy have not been revealed. |
Clevermancy | Luckamancy | Healomancy | Moneymancy | Clevermancy consists of none of the Elements, and is described by author Rob Balder as "raw magic dealing with raw magical forces".[61] Luckamancy is used for the purpose of increasing the odds of a desirable outcome in the user's favor,[62] but does so by lowering the odds of future desirable outcomes. Healomancy deals with healing units. Moneymancy creates shmuckers and gems for use in trade and upkeep. |
Webcomics authors such as Howard Tayler of Schlock Mercenary[63] and Mohammad "Hawk" Haque of Applegeeks[64] have posted reviews and comments about Erfworld, and it has been cited on the webcomic site Fleen,[65] by authors outside the webcomic field such as Time-Blog and Time author/journalist Lev Grossman in his articles "Webcomics are the New Blogs"[66] and "Erfworld: It's a Boopin' Good Webcomic!"[67] Grossman also listed Erfworld as one of the Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2007.[68] The addition of Erfworld to GiantITP was noted in "First Watch," Dragon Magazine's monthly section on new developments in gaming and entertainment.[69] Additionally, Erfworld was reviewed by Webcomic Overlook, receiving four stars out of five,[6] and had an online article about it published by NPR.[70]
Following on the success of the Order of the Stick Kickstarter project, in February 2012, author Rob Balder launched the Erfworld "Year of the Dwagon" Kickstarter, seeking funding for a motion comic project. The Kickstarter was extremely successful, resulting in funding of almost $85,000, making it the fourth-largest comics category Kickstarter project as of May 2012.[71]
Update Controversy and Recurring Tardiness[edit]
Shortly after the successful funding of the Erfworld "Year of the Dwagon" Kickstarter project in March 2012, author Rob Balder announced a hiatus on updates for the text-only prequel story, Book 0: "Inner Peace (Through Superior Firepower)" until June 6, 2012, as well as the return of the Erfworld Book 2 comic updates on the same date.[72] This announcement caused significant controversy among his fans, especially since Balder had indicated during the Kickstarter that any hiatus was unintentional, and that "Inner Peace" updates would be continuing shortly.[73] After several days of back-and-forth among fans on the Erfworld forums, and among fans and Balder on the Erfworld Facebook page, all discussion regarding the issue of Erfworld updates was deleted from both places.[74] These deletions were confirmed as policy by Balder shortly thereafter.[75]
Starting with the return of comic updates on June 6, 2012, Erfworld updated regularly, with one comic page and one text update per week, for almost six months. Unfortunately, due to illness on the part of the artist, Xin Ye, there were only two comic page updates for the month of December 2012, along with five text updates by Balder, while January 2013 has also been sporadic. There have not been any formal announcements regarding a revised regular update schedule.
The current delays come as part of recurring tardiness issues for Erfworld, a problem which is not uncommon to webcomics. For example, Issue 2 of Book 2, "It's Raining Men," was announced for pre-order in October 2011, for release prior to Christmas 2011.[76] As of May 13, 2012, Issue 2 of Book 2 still has not shipped, although a new "guarantee" date of June 6 appears to have been promised.[77] Issue 1 of Book 2, "Meet the Jetstones," was announced for pre-order in May 2010, for release in September or October 2010.[78] After numerous delays, "Meet the Jetstones" was finally shipped in May 2011. Book 1, "The Battle for Gobwin Knob," was announced for pre-order in November 2011, for "guaranteed" release by March 1, 2011.[79] After numerous delays, "The Battle for Gobwin Knob" was finally shipped in May 2011, although due to apparent customer service representative issues for which Balder apologized, some customers still had not received their orders as of October 2011 and January 2012.[80]
Book 3: "Hamsterdance vs. the Charlie Foxtrot" launched on July 24, 2014 with regular updates posted on Mondays and Fridays along with backerstory updates on some Wednesdays. Update irregularity in 2015 seems be an issue once again with no new update to the comic since December 22, 2014. However, backerstories continue to be posted once or twice weekly.
- ^ Time Magazine "Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2007."
- ^ "'David Hahn is the new artist for Erfworld'". Retrieved August 20, 2013.
- ^ Robot Comics "Ohio Geek Gamer Transported To Fantasy World Inside iPhone and Android Mobiles!"
- ^ Balder, R; Swordsman: Commentary, PartiallyClips, 06-02-2009, Retrieved June 21, 2009.
- ^ Balder, R; Fan Content Guidelines, GiantITP Forums, 7 December 2006. Retrieved 29 June 2007.
- ^ a b c "The Webcomic Overlook #52: Erfworld " The Webcomic Overlook". Retrieved 2009-11-09.
- ^ Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (page 14)
- ^ a b Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (page 16)
- ^ a b Stanley: I have a higher calling! I am a Tool! / Wanda: I see, Lord. / Stanley: Not Lord. Tool. From now on, everyone addresses me as "Tool!" Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (page 20)
- ^ a b c d e Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld cast of characters, GiantITP. Retrieved June 29, 2007.
- ^ a b c Per Sizemore's narration of past events. Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (page 79)
- ^ Wanda: You're using the Arkenhammer to crack walnuts? / Stanley: Yeah. / Wanda: But it's divine. A tool of the Titans. Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (page 4)
- ^ Supercoolstuff.com; Squeaky Hammer - #NV680 (Internet Archive link)
- ^ Wanda: Since you began questing for the Arkentools we have not won a battle. We once held 11 cities. Now, we hold only the capital. Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (page 5)
- ^ Wanda: I thought we agreed I was looking for the perfect military mind. [...] / Stanley: I want that too! Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (page 17)
- ^ Parson: [...] I always did like playing the bad guys, which we obviously are. [...] / Stanley: (menacingly) I'm curious, Hamster... What makes you think we're the "bad guys?" Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (page 31)
- ^ Stanley: The Titans left [The Arkenhammer] here for a reason. It chose me for a divine reason. Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (page 32)
- ^ Narrator: [...] And that made a bad day considerably worse...for Lord Stanley's Chief Croakamancer: Wanda Firebaugh. Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (page 2)
- ^ Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (page 54)
- ^ Stanley: Uncroaked. They each fell in battle and Wanda... whatchacallit... / Parson: Animated them? / Stanley: Animated them. Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (page 27)
- ^ a b Sizemore: [...] I'm good at nothing beyond my specialty. But I do love to study everything. / Wanda: [...] I can manage quite a number of magicks outside Croakamancy, but I have little interest in them. Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (page 13)
- ^ Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (page 21)
- ^ Ansom: I wield the Arkenpliers. But I am not attuned to them, as Stanley is to his artifact. Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (page 22)
- ^ Wanda: [...] "Ansom, with his long history of personally riding to [Jillian's] rescue, flies his air units out to escort her back to the column." Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (page 45)
- ^ Wanda: I know [Ansom's] entire battle plan. [...] As for his weaknesses, he is in love with our prisoner. And I control her mind. Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (page 43)
- ^ http://www.giantitp.com/comics/erf0145.html
- ^ http://www.erfworld.com/book-2-archive/?px=%2F2009-10-31.jpg
- ^ http://www.erfworld.com/book-2-archive/?px=%2F2010-04-21.jpg
- ^ Ansom: AVOID any engagements if you can! / Jillian: Oh, I am. Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (page 9)
- ^ Ansom: [...] She's not just scouting; she's apparently hitting targets of opportunity. Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (page 10)
- ^ Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (page 8)
- ^ Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (page 36)
- ^ Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (page 39)
- ^ Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (page 82)
- ^ Klog: Sizemore and I have been talking magic theory. [...] He's about as knowledgable a guy as I could want for a teacher. Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (Parson's Klog #2)
- ^ Klog: It's harder to get information about this stuff that it was about magic. Sizemore barely knows the basics. Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (Parson's Klog #4)
- ^ Bogroll: My Lords! I am reporting as Lackey retainer to Lord Hamster, by the order of my Lady Firebaugh. Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (page 29)
- ^ Bogroll: Mung, why do the other henchmen pick on me? / Mung: Because it's fun. Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (page 28)
- ^ Balder, R; Bogroll the Cyclops, PartiallyClips, 09-08-2002. Retrieved June 29, 2007.
- ^ Vinny: You know I gotcher back no matter what. But what I can't figure out is, why are you leading this fight? [...] / Ansom: Can't it just be that I want to end a great evil? / Vinny: It could be. [...] But your beef is he's not royal, right? Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (page 34)
- ^ Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (page 126)
- ^ Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (page 18)
- ^ Sizemore: This...is called a "chamber pot." / Parson: Magic item? / Sizemore: You wish. / Parson: Boop. / Sizemore: Exactly! Balder, R; Noguchi, J; Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob (page 35)
- ^ Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob page 6 (Lady Firebraugh)
- ^ Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob page 13 (Sizemore)
- ^ Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob page 95 (Jillian Zamessels)
- ^ Post in Erfworld forums by Jamie Noguchi.
- ^ Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob page 101
- ^ Post in Erfworld forums by Jamie Noguchi.
- ^ Post in Erfworld forums
- ^ http://www.giantitp.com/comics/erf0040.html
- ^ http://www.giantitp.com/comics/erf0091.html Erfworld, chapter 1: The Battle for Gobwin Knob page 82. Jillian: "His [Banhammer's] Predictamancer told him that his precious toy kingdom would fall someday."
- ^ a b Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob page 54
- ^ Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Knob page 53
- ^ Page 84, Parson's Klog 7
- ^ Erfworld: The Battle for Gobwin Know page 35
- ^ http://www.giantitp.com/comics/erf0011.html
- ^ http://www.giantitp.com/comics/erf0013.html
- ^ http://www.erfworld.com/2009/08/the-ultimate-naughtymancy/
- ^ http://www.erfworld.com/book-1-archive/?px=%2F010.jpg
- ^ post by Rob Balder in the Erfworld Forums
- ^ http://www.giantitp.com/comics/erf0060.html
- ^ "What, exactly, is an "Erf?"", Howard Tayler, Schlock Mercenary blog, January 14, 2007. Retrieved June 29, 2007.
- ^ "Erfworld Launched", Mohammed Hoque, Applegeeks blog, December 7, 2006. Retrieved June 29, 2007.
- ^ "What on Erf do you mean, "My Language"?" Gary Tyrrell, Fleen, January 19, 2007. Retrieved June 29, 2007.
- ^ "Webcomics Are the New Blogs: The Order of the Stick", Lev Grossman, TIME.com, January 31, 2007. Retrieved June 29, 2007.
- ^ "Erfworld: It's a Boopin' Good Webcomic!", Lev Grossman, TIME.com, April 10, 2007 Retrieved June 29, 2007.
- ^ "Top 10 Graphic Novels (#6: Erfworld)", Lev Grossman, TIME.com, December 10, 2007. Retrieved December 11, 2007.
- ^ "First Watch." Dragon Magazine, Issue #354 March 2007: 16.
- ^ "NPR - Intern Edition » Blog Archive » An Award-Winning Graphic Novel… On the Web". Retrieved 2009-11-09.
- ^ Kickstarter Most-Funded Projects in the Comics Category
- ^ http://www.erfworld.com/category/site-news/page/6/ Return Date for Book 2 Set
- ^ http://www.erfworld.com/category/site-news/page/13/ Hiatus Unintentional, Part 2 Soon
- ^ http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=13163316&postcount=771 Giant in the Playground forum post
- ^ http://www.erfworld.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6225 Erfworld forum post
- ^ http://www.erfworld.com/category/site-news/page/24/ Free the Decrypted Red Dwagons!
- ^ http://www.erfworld.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6206 Erfworld forum post
- ^ http://www.erfworld.com/category/site-news/page/66/ Book 2 Issue 1
- ^ http://www.erfworld.com/category/site-news/page/53/ Update on Books
- ^ http://www.erfworld.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5099 Erfworld forum post

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Brenda Boykin performs regularly at the annual Monterey Jazz Festival and the Monterey Bay Blues Festival; almost every weekend, she's singing somewhere at clubs in the Bay Area with Home Cookin', her small combo. She is the featured singer on two CDs with the Johnny Nocturne Band: Wailin' Daddy (1992) and Shake 'Em Up (1994).
Chris Cain calls his singing/guitar-playing style "Memphis Blues," which is appropriate, since Cain's father is from Memphis. He performs regularly in the South Bay when he's not on tour--catch him at the Agenda in San Jose or Moe's Alley in Santa Cruz. His latest CD is Somewhere Along the Way. Lowell Fulson plays live gigs "less frequently these days" than he used to. He's a treat if you can catch him, a bridge to the originators of the Blues genre.
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There are countless CD collections of Blues songs and artists. Among my favorites are Chess Blues, a four-CD collection of Chess artists from 1947 to 1967, and Legends of the Blues, Volume One (CBS Records), which includes cuts from such legendary singers as Blind Lemon Jefferson, Peetie Wheatstraw, Memphis Minnie and Robert Johnson. One for the ages is Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton's original "Hound Dog" on Volume Three of the Blues Masters Essential Blues Collection (Rhino Records).
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To 'smoke weed'. Derived from the acronym SW used in the World of Warcraft for the human city Stormwind. Used by gamers/non gamers alike as a way to evade suspicion.
Lets go to the forest and Stormwind.
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Someone awesome kited Kazzack to Stormwind so all who reside there would get epic pwnd! Sadly...they probably got permabanned.
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Issue of Edward III of England
Edward III of England is the ancestor of many European monarchs (as well as the issue of many English Dukes, Earls and Viscounts) through his sons John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster; Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence; Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York and Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester. All of Edward's legitimate children were by Philippa of Hainault.
The Wars of the Roses were fought between the different factions of Edward III's descendants. The following list outlines the genealogy supporting male heirs ascendant to the throne during the conflict, and the roles of their cousins. However to mobilise arms and wealth, significant major protagonists were the Neville (The Kingmaker), Beaufort and Percy families. A less powerful but determining role was also played by members of the Stafford and Woodville families.
The sons[edit]
The Wars of the Roses were a civil war over the throne of the Kingdom of England fought among the descendants of King Edward III through his five surviving adult sons.[1] Each branch of the family had competing claims through seniority, legitimacy, and/or the sex of their ancestors.
(1) Edward, the Black Prince (15 June 1330 – 8 June 1376), Duke of Cornwall, Prince of Wales
- The eldest son of Edward III predeceased his father and never became king. Edward's only surviving child was Richard II who ascended to the throne but produced no heirs. Richard II designated as his heir presumptive his cousin Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, senior heir of the female line, the grandson of Lionel of Antwerp, but this succession never took place as Richard II was eventually deposed and succeeded by another of Richard's cousins, Henry Bolingbroke (who ascended as Henry IV), who was senior heir of the male line.
(2) William of Hatfield (16 February 1337 – 8 July 1337), buried at York Minster.
(3) Lionel of Antwerp (29 November 1338 – 7 October 1368), Duke of Clarence
- Lionel also predeceased his father. Lionel's only child, Philippa, married into the powerful Mortimer family, which as noted above had exerted enormous influence during the reigns of Edward II and Edward III. Philippa's son Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March was the designated heir of Richard II (but predeceased him, leaving his young son Edmund as heir presumptive). Anne Mortimer, Edmund's eldest sister, Lionel of Antwerp's great-granddaughter, married Richard, Earl of Cambridge of the House of York, merging the Lionel/Mortimer line into the York line.
(4) John of Gaunt (6 March 1340 – 3 February 1399), Duke of Lancaster.
- From John of Gaunt descended legitimate male heirs, the Lancasters (Henry IV, who deposed Richard II, and then Henry V and Henry VI). This line ended when Henry VI was successfully deposed by Edward IV of the York faction and Henry's son Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales was killed at the Battle of Tewkesbury.
- The Lancaster kings derived their ancestry also (through Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John Gaunt) from Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster, who was the second son of Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence. A legend without foundation was developed claiming that Edmund was older than his brother Edward I of England but passed over in the succession because of physical infirmity.[2]
- John of Gaunt's legitimized heirs were the Beauforts, his descendants through his mistress (later, his wife) Katherine Swynford. A daughter of the house, Gaunt's great-granddaughter Margaret Beaufort, married into the House of Tudor, producing a single child who would become Henry VII. While the Beaufort offspring had been legitimized after Gaunt's eventual marriage to Swynford, this was on the condition that they be barred from ascending the throne. Undeterred by this, upon the failure of the primary Lancastrian line, the Tudors claimed precedence to the Yorks and eventually succeeded them, after the last Yorkist King Richard III was killed in battle with Henry.
- The Dukes of Beaufort are his direct male line descendants and thus the lone surviving male line descendants of the House of Plantagenet.
(5) Edmund of Langley (5 June 1341 – 1 August 1402), Duke of York.
- His descendants were the Yorks. He had two sons: Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York, killed fighting alongside Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt, and Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, executed by Henry V for treason (involving a plot to place heir presumptive Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, Cambridge's brother-in-law and cousin, on the throne). As noted above, Richard had married Anne de Mortimer, this giving their son (and the House of York), through Lionel of Antwerp, a more senior claim than that of both the House of Lancaster, which descended from a younger son than Lionel, and the House of Tudor, whose legitimized Beaufort ancestors had been debarred from the throne. In 1460 Richard, 3rd Duke of York claimed the throne on this basis, but an Act of Accord meant he instead became heir. However he was killed later that year, causing his son Edward to take over.
(6) Thomas of Windsor (1347 – 1348)
(7) William of Windsor (24 June 1348 – 5 September 1348). Died of plague.
(8) Thomas of Woodstock (7 January 1355 – 8/9 September 1397), Duke of Gloucester.
- Thomas, who was one of the Lords Appellant influential under Richard II, was murdered or executed for treason, likely by the order of Richard II; his eventual heir was his daughter Anne, who married into the Stafford family, whose heirs became the Dukes of Buckingham. Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, descended on his father's side from Thomas of Woodstock, and on his mother's side from John Beaufort.
Thus, the senior Plantagenet line was ended with the death of Richard II, but not before the execution of Thomas of Woodstock for treason. The heirs presumptive through Lionel of Antwerp were passed over in favour of the powerful Henry IV, descendant of Edward III through John of Gaunt. These Lancaster kings initially survived the treason of their Edmund of Langley (York) cousins but eventually were deposed by the merged Lionel/Edmund line in the person of Edward IV. Internecine killing among the Yorks left Richard III as king, supported and then betrayed by his cousin Buckingham, the descendant of Thomas of Woodstock. Finally, the Yorks were dislodged by the remaining Lancastrian candidate, Henry VII of the House of Tudor, another descendant of John of Gaunt, who married the eldest daughter of Yorkist King Edward IV.
The daughters[edit]
- Isabella of England (16 June 1332 – 1382), married Enguerrand VII de Coucy, 1st Earl of Bedford. Had issue. Their oldest daughter, Marie de Coucy, is the ancestress of many European Royal Houses.[citation needed]
- Joan of England (February 1334 – 2 September 1348) died of the plague in Bayonne, on her way to marry Peter of Castile. No issue.
- Blanche (1342), died young.
- Mary of Waltham (10 October 1344 – 1362), married John V, Duke of Brittany. No issue.
- Margaret (20 July 1346 – 1361), married John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke. No issue.
- Joan (born 1351)
- ^ Burke's Presidential Families of the USA, 1981
- ^ John of Gaunt also had legitimate descendants through his daughters Philippa of Lancaster, Queen of Portugal, the mother of Edward, King of Portugal; Elizabeth of England, Duchess of Exeter, the mother of John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter; and Catherine of Lancaster, Queen of Castile, a granddaughter of King Peter and the mother of King John II of Castile, but these Castilians engaged in their own wars over the Spanish succession and did not assert any claims to the English throne in the Wars of the Roses — and they all were of the female line, something the Lancaster claim avoided because they were originally secondary to certain senior female descents such as the Mortimers.


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Great Ocean Road part 2
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Nov 24, 2008
Trip End
Oct 21, 2009
The weather was perfect and the rock formations were pretty impressive. We saw them all including the Twelve Apostles, London Bridge, Thunder Cave, the razorback and many others. After that we got some lunch and headed towards the Otway national park to check out a lighthouse. As we were driving through the park we saw a group of cars randomly parked up at the side of the road. As we slowed down we saw a few people stood around looking up at something in the trees. Immediately we parked up the car and joined the crowd. It was our first glimpse of Koala Bears and in the wild too! Then we noticed there was actually loads of them around and even a little baby Koala Bear clinging onto it's mothers back. After much 'ooing' and 'awing' we followed the rest of the road along the park toward the lighthouse. Soon we arrived at a car park at the entrance to a walkway which apparently led to the lighthouse. We couldn't actually see the lighthouse and when we realised that they wanted €10 each for the privilege of seeing this lighthouse we decided we weren't bothered and headed back along the park to the main road and headed for Apollo Bay.
We arrived into Apollo Bay in the early evening and decided to stay there for the night as it is a good idea to get off the roads here before dusk. The kangaroos tend to come out at that time and are attracted to the headlights of cars. If you hit a roo you can seriously damage your car and even be killed yourself. Apollo Bay was a nice little sea side town and after a stroll along the shops and some dinner we sat outside our hostel with some beers looking out over the bay as the sun set.
The following morning we made for Melbourne along the last stretch of Great Ocean Road. The first stop on route was in Lorne where we took a stroll along the beach and watched some children having a surfing lesson. It was then on to Torquay which is a well known surfers town. We stopped at the tourist info centre and checked out the surfer's museum next door. It was pretty cool but since neither of us surf we kinda flew through it. After some lunch we hit the road and made for a Wildlife sanctuary where we met Andy the Koala along with Kangaroos, Wallabies, Wombats, Emus and many other animals indigenous to Australia. Finally it was time to head for the big city, Melbourne.
At about 5.30pm after some seriously scary driving through the crazy Melbourne streets where the drivers think they are in Go Karts we arrived at my cousin Aine's apartment. We had a quick catch up with my aunt who was over visiting we hit the local for some pizza and beer and met Aine's mates and room mate Sean. It was a late night and we crawled into bed at about 2am.
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T. B. Larsen, A. P. Ahlstrm, and M. L. Andersen: Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Copenhagen, Denmark;
P. Elsegui and J. de Juan: Institute for Space Sciences, CSIC/IEEC, Barcelona, Spain;
G. S. Hamilton and L. A. Stearns, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, U.S.A.;
J. L. Davis: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.;
S. A. Khan, L. Stenseng, and R. Forsberg: Danish National Space Center, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Source: Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) paper 10.1029/2008GL036127, 2008; http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2008GL036127
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Since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; about 21,000 years ago) sea level has risen by 130 meters (430 feet), resulting in continental shelf submergence and a massive expansion of the surface area of shelf seas. Although shelf seas only account for 7 percent of the oceanic surface area, recent observations demonstrate that they host significant fluxes of carbon dioxide (CO2) between the ocean and atmosphere. Further, dissolved and particulate carbon are thought to be transported from shelf areas into sinks in the deep ocean through a mechanism called the "continental shelf pump." Through reconstructions of shelf geography stretching to the LGM, Rippeth et al. analyze the effect of sea level rise and consequent flooding of continental shelves on the growth of the continental shelf pump. Combining these reconstructions with contemporary estimates of carbon flux between the ocean and atmosphere allows the authors to conclude that expanding shelf seas have significantly influenced the global carbon cycle via the continental shelf pump, w
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This thread is to discuss the quiz question in the 4/6/2004 CodeGuru newsletter.
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This thread is to discuss the quiz question in the 4/6/2004 CodeGuru newsletter.
these 3 are legal
const char * myPtr = "A";
char * const myPtr = "A";
const char * const myPtr = "A";
these 3 are NOT legal
const char * myPtr = 'A';
char * const myPtr = 'A';
const char * const myPtr = 'A';
reason: 'A' is a constant int.
I will give you that all three are legal and correct.
They are, however, each forcing something different.
The single quotes should not be an issue as these are character pointer definitions (not strings).
The differences between each of these three are..... part of the quiz question :)
1. const char * myPtr = "A";
myPtr is not a const, but contents pointed to by myPtr is const
2. char * const myPtr = "A";
myPtr is const, but contents pointed by myPtr aren't
3. const char * const myPtr = "A";
Both myPtr and contents pointed to by myPtr are consts.
One way to know is, as I read somewhere, draw an imaginary line thru *.
If there is a const to it's left, the contents is const
If there is a const to it's right, the var is a const
- const char * myPtr = "A";
declares a pointer to a constant string. This means that you can later change myPtr to point to something different, but you cannot change the string's contents.
I.e. ++myPtr is legal, but myPtr[0] = 'B' is illegal.- char * const myPtr = "A";
Declares a constant pointer to a string. It's sort of the opposite from above. This means that you cannot change the value of myPtr, but you can change the contents of the string.
I.e. ++myPtr is illegal, but myPtr[0] = 'B' is legal;- const char * const myPtr = "A";
You can neither change the pointer nor the value pointed to.
P.S. Is there a way to access the newsletter from the site?
I'm going to try to start posting the newsletters to the site in the news and announcements section; however, this will generally be a few days after the newsletter goes out. (I will be posting last week's tomorrow....-- I'm behind).
You can also get the newsletter by going to:
I get the newletters by email already but I cannot access the email folder where it gets put from home, that's why I asked ;) No big deal, sorry to be off-topic.
Once at these forums, there was a thread, where one member put a question, then the one who gives the correct answer, get his turn to ask any other question and in this way the thread moved on.
Isn't it cool, if we have a thread like there. Like Brad asked first question and kirants answered correctly, now kirants asked and the one who'll answer correctly can ask the next question. (Just a suggestion :) )
Without even looking at the newsletter yet...I would think that the following might be part of the answer... :DQuote:
Originally posted by Brad Jones
The differences between each of these three are..... part of the quiz question :)
1. Reference - Can change the referenced object
2. Const-Reference - Can not change the referenced object
3. Const-Pointer - Can change the adress it is pointing to but not the object
4. Pointer-Const - Can change the object but no the address it is pointing to
5. Const-Pointer-Const - Can neither change the address nor the object
Code:CFoo Instance;
CFoo &ReferenceToInstance = Instance; // 1.
const CFoo &ConstReferenceToInstance = Instance; // 2.
const CFoo *pConstPointer = &Instance; // 3.
CFoo *const pPointerConst = &Instance; // 4.
const CFoo *const pConstPointerConst = &Instance // 5.


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The Bhagavad Gita : a new translation / Gavin Flood and Charles Martin.
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- ISBN: 9780393081657 (hardcover) :
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- Description: xxx, 167 p. ; 22 cm
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2012.
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- 4 copies at NOBLE (All Libraries).
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Summary: | The Bhagavad Gita, the Song of the Lord, is an ancient Hindu scripture about virtue presented as a dialogue between Krishna, an incarnation of God, and the warrior Arjuna on the eve of a great battle over succession to the throne. Their discourse takes place on a field between two armies of warring cousins. Arjuna, realizing that if he fights, he will be forced to kill his friends, relatives, and teachers, casts down his bow and arrow and refuses to engage in combat. The Gita unfolds as a discussion of Arjuna's moral dilemma, with Krishna as the wise interlocutor explaining to Arjuna that he must overcome his instinctual revulsion and convincing him that he must attend to his duties as a warrior, while Krishna reveals himself as an incarnation of God in human form. This poem, written in Sanskrit is composed of 700 numbered stanzas, divided into 18 chapters. It deals with common human issues such as how we should act, how we should perform virtue, and it's universal themes of life and death, war and peace and sacrifice resonate in a West increasingly interested in Eastern religious experience and the Hindu diaspora. |
Language Note: | Translated from Sanskrit. |
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