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The Gold Knight: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler to host Golden GlobesWritten by James A. Molnar | The Gold Knight | email@example.com
Two weeks after the Oscars named Seth MacFarlane its host for next year, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is ready to announce its host …
In a surprise, the international organization named Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosts for its 70th Golden Globe Awards.The bacchanalian party of the year has been hosted infamously by comic Ricky Gervais for three years and he said he was done.
Gervais was the first host in 15 years for the show. After each year, where Gervais pulled all the punches on the nominees and stars in the room, many thought the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) would not invite him back. But the organization did — twice — and viewers got to see a smug Gervais beer in hand ready to dish some jokes.
Now Fey and Poehler, known for their comedic touch, will have their turn hosting an evening where celebrities eat and, notably, drink — an awards show without the required gravitas.
The announcement gives the HFPA a little more buzz after the Academy announced its Oscars nominations would be moved up five days — to Jan. 10, three days before the Globes.
"The unparalleled comedic timing of Tina and Amy will surely have viewers wanting to tune-in to see them in action," said HFPA president Aida Takla-O'Reilly, in a news release. "The HFPA is thrilled to have the magnetic duo be a part of the show's 70th anniversary."Fey, the creative force behind NBC's three-time Emmy-winning comedy "30 Rock," has won an Emmy, two Golden Globes, three SAG Awards and a People's Choice Award for the show. She has also won an Emmy and two Writers Guild Awards for her writing on "Saturday Night Live," along with winning in 2009 for guest appearing on SNL as Sarah Palin.
In 2004, Fey wrote "Mean Girls" for the big screen, which earned her a Writers Guild Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Fey has starred opposite Poehler in the film "Baby Mama." In 2011, Fey released her first book, "Bossypants," which also earned her a Grammy nomination for best audio book of the year.
Poehler currently produces and stars in the NBC comedy "Parks and Recreation." Her role as politician Leslie Knope has earned her three Emmy nominations, along with one for writing. She was also nominated for a Golden Globe this year.
Nominations for the 70th Golden Globes will be announced Thursday, Dec. 13, at 8:30 a.m. The Golden Globe Awards air LIVE coast-to-coast on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013, on NBC — locally WNWO — from 8-11 p.m. from the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Fey and Poehler present together at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards.
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Toledo Free Press Lead Designer and Film Editor James A. Molnar blogs about all things Oscar at TheGoldKnight.com. Watch him discuss movies on "WNWO Today" around 5:50 a.m. on Fridays. Also, listen to James discuss movies on "Eye on Your Weekend" on 1370 WSPD every Friday at 6 p.m.
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My husband and I form the ideal couple: he cooks and I bake. You see, he is as comfortable in front of the butcher's counter and at the greengrocer, as happy in front of a cutting board, knife in hand, and in front of the stove as I am with my hands deep inside a soft mound of bread dough or whizzing up egg whites and melting chocolate. He learned to cook when he was a boy, all of those long years ago, preparing blanquette and boeuf au carottes while his mother worked, as I was watching, mesmerized, on the other side of the Atlantic, my father marble chocolate and vanilla cake batters and prepare choux pastry. Over our many years together, he has educated me on the ins and outs of savory cooking, teaching me to make couscous and tagine, potée and moules marinières. Yes, I did the cooking when he was at work and enjoyed it immensely (once the unbearable angst of having to make a decision on what to cook had been conquered), but come weekend or vacation time, he would once again tie on an apron and take over the kitchen. And happy was I to leave him the way.
Now that he is working from home, he cooks and I bake. Mostly. The urge comes upon one or the other swiftly, without warning, the desire for something savory, a warming plate of tender, long-simmered meat, vibrant tomatoes made sweet and meltingly luscious by slow cooking, a casserole gooey with cheese or sweetened with plump raisins or prunes. If it is early enough in the day, we shrug on coats and slip into shoes and, basket in hand, make our way to the neighborhood market. Fruits and vegetables, his preferred butcher or mine, maybe the Italian stand for fresh pasta, Bresaola and Scamorza Affumicata, or the Alsatian stand for choucroute, saucisses de Strasbourg or boudin blanc. Olives, a loaf of fresh bread, a bottle of wine snuggle deep amongst the crinkly brown paper sacks of oranges, endives and tomatoes and we hurry back home, sharing the weight of the basket brimming with fresh ingredients between the two of us. Once home, kitchen duties are divvied up and another savory meal is prepared.
If the weather is lousy, rain spattering against the windowpanes and the sky an unwelcoming leaden and dull, or if it is too close to mealtime, our morning or afternoon having slipped by unnoticed while we work, or if we are simply too lazy to trek out into the wilds of Nantes, cupboards are riffled through, cans and boxes shifted left and right, the refrigerator ransacked, emptied, leftovers, jars and Tupperware containers scrutinized, peered into, poked at and separated into old and fuzzy or perfectly good. A leftover lasagna or Parmentier is reheated or JP turns on the magic and the charm, takes everything that hasn't withered and died of old age and somehow, wondrously concocts a delicious, flavorful meal.
I have traveled quite a long way from that small American town in the shadow of NASA's rockets where fresh seafood straight from the ocean and citrus plucked directly from the tree alternated with frozen dinners, Hamburger Helper and pancake dinners. The most exotic, culturally significant meals in our home involved Borscht, chicken soup with matzo balls and Challah. Moving to France may have opened my eyes to an entirely new culture and cuisine, but it is thanks to my husband that I have discovered all the details and more: he has walked me through the repertoire of classic French home cooking, hearty, traditional and warming, enriching each dish with a tale from his childhood or a colorful episode in France's history; he has introduced me to foods local and regional as well as the cuisines of Morocco and Vietnam, now part of the French national food culture, dishes rich in tradition and, again, history, recounting stories of his time spent in Morocco eating and learning to cook or comedic episodes of his time at university, hours spent eating bowls of Bo Bun in a familiar and much-visited Vietnamese restaurant near the school. Together we have wandered high and low, through France and Italy, spent time in Basque country, discovering food in Budapest or in Florida and New England. We have snapped pictures and tasted local foods and dishes, strolled through markets as if on an educational field trip. We have savored the new and the formerly unknown at the homes of both friends and strangers, asking questions and taking notes, and built up our personal encyclopedia of information, cooking methods, stories and foods. And with his advice, guidance and inspiration, I have learned to cook.
But learning how to make the perfect, traditional Blanquette de Veau, Couscous or Poulet Yassa aside, my living in France and my marriage to a food-passionate man curious about cultures and cuisines and a history buff to boot has been the means of my discovering special ingredients and obscure specialties from preserved lemons to supions and encornets, from salsify to celeriac, turmeric, coriander and cumin, cotechino, harira, stinco, not to forget a dictionary's worth of cheeses. And boeuf cuit. Boeuf Cuit is quite simply cooked beef, but it is not as simple as it sounds. Chunks of tender cooked beef, the same cuts usually selected for a bourguignon, having long simmered in a savory broth are compressed together into a type of terrine with tiny cubes of carrots and bound with aspic or jellied broth and sold in thick slices at the butcher's counter. JP introduced me to this unusual ingredient early in our marriage when he would bring it home, cut it into cubes or crumble it into shreds and toss it together with slices of tender cooked potatoes, plenty of chopped violet shallots and a tangy vinaigrette. Delicious! Wonderful for a light weekend lunch, a casual dinner or packed and tucked inside a basket for a perfect picnic meal.
Our latest issue of French Saveurs magazine had him back at the butcher's counter ordering a pound or so of Boeuf Cuit. He has been on a Cannelloni streak lately; boxes of cannelloni pasta accumulate joyously in our pantry and he purchased the perfect little stainless steal baking pan just the width of a cannelloni shell and large enough for one meal for a family of four. So, of course, the recipe for Cannellonis au Boeuf Fondant et aux Carottes, cannelloni of meltingly tender beef and carrots, jumped out of the glossy pages of the magazine and into his eager, waiting hands. He followed the recipe as well as someone who cooks au pif, by instinct or feel, can do, adding more carrots, using a tad less beef, flavoring it to his own exquisite taste, and served us this luscious, wonderful, hearty meal. As we only stuffed enough pasta shells to fill our tiny baking pan in one layer, there was enough filling left over to use as the base of a ragout, blended and heated with more homemade tomato sauce, to serve over fresh pasta.
In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.
- Julia Child
* The title of my post? Froid, Brulé, Pas Cuit? It means Cold, Burned, Undercooked; i.e. a culinary disaster. As we are all inclined to expect the worst of everything and anything we cook or bake, JP pulled out this old phrase, coined during his university days by a friend, dusted it off and introduced it into our home. This phrase has become a joke in our kitchen, a way to mock the other when doubts of our cooking or baking prowess take over or our confidence in the results of an all-out culinary effort begin to waver, a way to lighten the mood and make the other laugh. Although I, the Nervous Nellie who doubts myself from beginning to end, am constantly finding fault with my own recipes, JP's method of cooking leaves little room for disaster as he adjusts and corrects along the way.
Don't forget JP's other recipes:
Cauliflower and Potato Gratin
Lasagna Two Ways: Smoked Salmon and Spinach or Veal and Vegetable
On a final note, it is that time of year for Saveur's Best Food Blog Awards and it would be tremendous to be considered for an award from this prestigious magazine. If you enjoy Life's a Feast, if my stories touch you in some way, if you are interested in nominating my blog for one of the categories that you feel is the best fit, I would certainly appreciate your support and the time that it takes to put in the nomination. Just link over to their website. Thank you! It does mean the world to me!
And speaking of From Plate to Page, due to an unexpected cancellation, there are now a couple of spaces open for our exciting Somerset workshop in May. If you are looking for an intimate, hands-on, practical workshop providing you with the tools, instruction and inspiration to define and hone your food writing, styling and photography skills and kick start your creativity all in a convivial, fun- and food-filled weekend then Plate to Page is for you! For details about the workshop, the four instructors (I teach food writing) and registration, please visit out our website! But hurry, spaces are limited to 12 and they are going fast! Questions? Visit our new FAQ page!
From the March 2012 issue of French Saveurs
I will give you the exact recipe as given in the magazine. JP adjusted it to use less cooked beef and more carrots and mildly adjusted the flavorings to his taste. A delicious recipe but one I would actually change the next time we make it by doubling the tomato sauce and blending half the sauce in with the meat mixture to lighten it and add more moisture. As I said above, this is a fabulous filling turned into a ragout to serve over pasta.
12 cannelloni shells
750 g (1 ½ lbs boeuf cuit or cooked beef leftover from a pot au feu, bourguignon or similar)*
200 g (7 oz) carrots, washed, peeled and trimmed **
½ an onion or more if desired
500 ml (2 cups) meat stock (from a cube is fine)
1 Tbs tomato paste
Several tablespoons olive oil, as needed
100 g (3 ½ oz) grated Parmesan cheese
15 g (1 Tbs) butter
Salt and freshly ground pepper
* We used 500 g (1 lb)
** We used 6 carrots
Shred the beef. Cut the cleaned carrots into tiny cubes and finely chop the onion.
Sauté the chopped onion in a few tablespoons olive oil for about 3 minutes or until tender. Add the carrots and the meat. Add enough of the meat stock to just cover the mixture, salt and pepper (taste the stock to verify how salty it already is so you don't oversalt the dish) and allow to gently simmer over low heat for 20 minutes. At the end of the cooking time, allow the meat to cool to room temperature.
In a separate pan, bring the rest of the meat stock and the tomato paste to a boil; pepper and salt only if needed.
Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C) and butter the bottom and sides of a baking dish or pan. Stuff the cannelloni shells with the cooled meat and carrot filling and line the filled shells up snugly in the buttered baking dish in a single layer. Pour the meat stock/tomato paste over and around the shells, sprinkle generously with the grated Parmesan, cover the dish with aluminum foil and bake for 35 to 40 minutes, removing the foil about 10 minutes before the end of cooking.


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Can Education or Information Shortcuts Overcome Political Ignorance?
Ilya Somin
How about just advocating a government limited to those duties specified in the Constitution, simplifying everything by letting everyone live their own lives and teaching old-fashioned Civics in our public schools so students can learn about our country's history and how it's supposed to be run.
The rat's nest of a bureaucracy we've allowed to grow like a cancer needs to be completely dismantled.
"Studies show that voters repeatedly reward and punish political leaders for events they have little control over,particularly short-term economic trends."
This statement is inextricably connected to neoclassical illusion. It is a fundamental attribution error to imply that the troughs and peaks of the business cycle are endogenous to the economy and unrelated to public policy. I admit I am jumping to conclusions but I would prefer that Professor Somin announce at the beginning that his analysis flows but the assumption of competent markets.
Modern society requires some bureaucracy for a society of 300M, so "completely dismantling" sounds impractical to me.
Okay, lets dismantle everything with public sector unions the first to go and then only amend the Constitution when it's deemed necessary for the public weal.
That should eliminate almost all the bureaucracy aka cronyism which is what passes for government in today's world.
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"moving costs can be reduced by decentralizing to lower levels of government or to the private sector, and are in any case declining thanks to modern technology."
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AT&T will loosen its restrictions on FaceTime over LTE. Previously, AT&T had limited use of FaceTime over LTE to those customers with a Mobile Share plan. Now, a customer on any of the carrier's plans will be able to use FaceTime over LTE. AT&T also announced that they would be making special text and data-only packages available to deaf and hard of hearing customers to increase the utility of FaceTime over cellular. In a statment, AT&T said that these initiatives would roll out in eight to ten weeks.
AT&T today announced it will enable FaceTime over Cellular at no extra charge for iOS 6 customers with an LTE device on any tiered data plan. AT&T will also continue to offer FaceTime over Cellular to customers with any AT&T Mobile Share plan, as well as FaceTime over Wi-Fi, which has always been available for all customers. AT&T expects to roll out this functionality to customers over the next eight to ten weeks.
This is good news for many AT&T customers who have not moved to a Mobile Share plan. Unfortunately, for many more of AT&T's customers, 3G does not seem to be included in this expansion. Customers with an iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 are out of luck, despite the fact that they are perfectly capable of using FaceTime over cellular. Even most of AT&T's customers that use the iPhone 5 are probably left in the lurch, at least for now. That's because AT&T's LTE network does not cover most of AT&T's service area, and despite the planned expansion of their LTE network, it's not there yet. So their iPhone 5 customers don't even have access to LTE to take advantage of the less restrictive FaceTime requirements. So while this is a nice step in the right direction, it's not nearly a big enough step to matter to most of AT&T's customers.
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AT&T set to expand availability of FaceTime over cellular
Ha! This isn't a surprise considering they had increased prices on their family share plans that made the mobile share plans more appealing. However, I will say an added benefit of the mobile share plan - specifically the 4GB plan and up - is the use of the hotspot feature at no additional cost. That benefit as well as the Facetime on cellular (at the time I switched) sold me on the mobile share plan.
yes! now me and my mom can FaceTime without her changing to a mobile share plan from her unlimited data plan. I'm extra happy about this happening because I actually filed an informal complaint to the FCC about AT&T not allowing this so in a way I feel like I made this happen, your welcome everyone lol
I think people need to read this again: "AT&T today announced it will enable FaceTime over Cellular at no extra charge for iOS 6 customers with an LTE device on any tiered data plan. AT&T will also continue to offer FaceTime over Cellular to customers with any AT&T Mobile Share plan, as well as FaceTime over Wi-Fi, which has always been available for all customers."
Only on tiered and shared mobile plans not for users with unlimited data plans. So we are still shutout. I refuse to pay more for and get less. AT&T needs to open it up for all the iOS users not just some. It's tactics like this that make me second guess continuing to use and iPhone.
What do u mean this makes you second guess using an iPhone? You know there are more than one carrier option for the iPhone right? you can go to Verizon or Sprint but if u want fast LTE i would go to Verizon. This only has to do with AT&T obviously, it has nothing to do with the iPhone itself.
With that said, your right in that this only applies to people with tiered data plans and mobile share plans. People with non-LTE devices are still left in the dark with this. I'm not sure if this means unlimited data plan users will not get Face Time over LTE- does unlimited count as tiered data plan? idk. But, at least the rest of us will have Face Time over cellular now, i have one of the older plans with 3 GB of data per month its a business plan shared with my father and step mother we all run the company together, i think they both have unlimited and i have 3 GB i joined after they stopped the unlimited data deal. They got grandfathered in, but they use hardly 1 GB of data per month, so it makes more sense for us to switch to a mobile share plan and we all share 10 GB which means i get 8 GB per month lol, we will save about $200 per month if we do so.
What i want to know is, when they change this or when i switch to mobile share plan, will Face Time work over all my cellular coverage? i have an iPhone 5 if that helps, it says over LTE but apple says "Face Time over cellular" so I'm wondering if its just LTE or if it will work on 3G as well?


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Author to talk about female genital mutilationWritten by Sarah Ottney | Editor in Chief | firstname.lastname@example.com
Soraya Miré will never forget the sound of scissors, cutting the flesh between her legs as she underwent ritual female genital mutilation (FGM) as a teenager.
"The pain was horrendous," Miré, who was 13 at the time, recalled years later during an appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." "I struggled to get away, but I was held down by three people, including my mother."
Four years later, Miré left her native Somalia to live in France and later the United States, where she is now an author, award-winning documentary filmmaker, recipient of the U.N.'s Humanitarian Award and activist raising awareness of the ritual cultural practice she calls child abuse.
"God will never give you anything you cannot handle, I know for sure right now," Miré told Toledo Free Press Star in a telephone interview. "I was given a chance to go to the Western world, where I saw how other people lived and what it means to be a woman."
Reconstructive surgery and years of therapy helped Miré recover from her physical and emotional wounds, but healing will be a lifelong process.
"Those early years with my doctor were a foundation of the strength I have and the recovery I've made thus far, but as any trauma survivor could tell you, the flashbacks come back without notice," Miré said. "There are times you feel overwhelmed with the pain inside. My job is to stay strong and help others because I've been helped. I've been so lucky to find hope in this world."
Miré will appear in Toledo on Oct. 20, as part of a nationwide book tour to promote her new memoir, "The Girl With Three Legs." The free event is set from 7-9 p.m. at People Called Women bookstore, 6060 Renaissance Place.
The title refers to a belief in some cultures that if a girl's clitoris is not cut it will grow. That belief led to Miré being shunned by her classmates until she had the operation.
An estimated 135 million women and girls, mainly in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, are affected by FGM, which is performed with the purpose of keeping a woman's honor and purity intact until marriage, Miré said.
"No one came and asked our consent. Honestly, we couldn't say 'Stop.' This was a mutilation. We were told this was our destiny," Miré said. "So my job became to never forget, to always be persistent to talk about those young girls that are going through this every day. It's a crime, it's shameful, it needs to be stopped. It's child abuse. This is my life mission. As long as FGM continues, I'm going to be shouting from rooftops, making films and keep writing my story, going to everywhere I can."
Miré hopes her story inspires people going through any kind of struggle.
"Anyone who is feeling like there is no hope, I want to give that hope to them," Miré said. "I think reading about my life and seeing how difficult it was and yet somehow I found these angels who, without their help, I couldn't be here today. I want my readers to know whatever they are facing, they too will find amazing souls who will help them through their problems just as I did."
Before Miré's appearance, from 6:30-7 p.m., local organization Nirvana Now! will host "Sistas Movin' On: SPEAK OUT! Support and Sisterly Love for Women Incest, Child Sexual Abuse and Rape Survivors," an opportunity for survivors and co-survivors — partners, mothers or sisters struggling to know how to support and react to what loved ones have experienced — to speak to other survivors about their experiences.
"It's an opportunity for women to talk privately and yet publically," said Nirvana Now! founder CeCe Norwood, who plans to host SPEAK OUT!s from 6:30-8:30 p.m. each third Thursday of the month at the bookstore. "I have been working in this field for more than 30 years now and one of the things I have learned that's a key component for folks on their journeys to recovery is they have to talk about it publicly. If a person does not do that, they end up stuffing all those feelings and emotions inside, which leads to all kinds of negative effects."
Norwood, herself a survivor of sexual violence, said she hopes the event will be empowering, liberating and show survivors that happiness is possible again.
"In our world, there is this notion that once you are sexually violated that somehow or another your life is over, but it's not," Norwood said. "It was wrong, it was horrible and you're going to go through all kinds of hell for the initial part of it, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel."
Gina Mercurio, owner of People Called Women, said there has been a good response.
"Her [Miré's] focus is violence against women and a lot of the people connected to the store here care very deeply about those issues," Mercurio said. "I think it will be a fabulous event."
Event sponsors include People Called Women, Nirvana Now!, the University of Toledo Sexual Assault Education and Prevention Program and UT Women's and Gender Studies Department.
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One day slides into the next, a long, tranquil river, as the French say. Rain to sun to fog to fine mist. And back to sun. We work and play to the same rhythm as one day melts into the next and so on and so forth, our son's school schedule and the tv program our only indication of the passing of time, the only indication as to what day of the week it is. I've taken to jotting down words, phrases and thoughts in pencil in one of the several notebooks scattered around my desk. I have become reacquainted with my own handwriting. I am working on our Plated Stories workshop, putting together sessions and creating exercises as my mind wanders to Tuscany and the amazing group of students that is starting to pull together. I dig out my notes, from two bygone speaking events, and begin to rearrange the words for two public presentations, one online and one at a conference…very excited!
I am often out of the loop, buried, as I am, in my own affairs, my own home life, weaving, sometimes staggering between articles I am researching and husband's and sons' demands for attention. I discover what is going on in the world via social media if not the television news, and once in a while a headline, a rumor or a buzz grabs my attention and I hop from website to website reading up on the topic. Recently, it was Chef Grant Achatz's tweet – he of 3-star Alinea fame – complaining of a crying baby in his restaurant. This fascinated me and I rushed to read his thoughts on the topic, which he had made very public.
I thought back to our own sons who we have been bringing to restaurants and museums since their first hours. Contrary to what many American friends of mine think, the French do not dine out often with children in tow. Our sons have been, more often than not, the only children in a restaurant, and we always wondered why this was so. Our boys, used to going out with us, rarely were less than exemplary and always fun dining companions, but then again, we made a huge effort to teach them as well as to really share the experience with them as equals, including them in all table conversation, regaling them with stories about the food, etc. It was all just a part of their life.
So needless to say, when I saw the hubbub, I had to write what was on my mind. You can find my piece on Huffington Post about bringing small children to restaurants, a response to the mild uproar and less-than-mild discussion caused by Chef Grant Achatz' tweet about the crying baby (and unconcerned parents) at his Michelin 3-starred restaurant Alinea. As a mother and as one half of a couple who has been bringing our sons to dine out with us since they were born, I definitely have a few insights and a couple of things to say on the matter. Feel free to add your view of the topic as a comment to the piece on HP.
And in between the writing, I bake. He cooks… and I bake. With a man in the house who is not only a better cook than I am but who is also more than happy and willing to prepare the meals, the stews and tagines, why should I worry? It allows me more time to write and more time to bake.
We have a set of friends – a fascinating and fun couple we met through our son who was best friends with their son – whom we spend the occasional evening with, not often enough. They spend half the year down south and when they are back in Nantes we try and grab an evening or two with them. And, as the French do, we take turns preparing the meal. This time it was their turn, but I offered to bring dessert. Actually, JP told them that I would bring dessert. I wanted to bring something light to eat, something that could easily be picked up and popped into the mouth, something that would go well with a big bowl of fresh fruit. I decided upon choux.
It had been quite some time since I last made choux and pastry cream. As Zoë of the marvelous Zoë Bakes reminded us on her recent post about éclairs, choux is French for cabbages, as these tiny, lovely, ethereal gems look like little cabbages. A rather inelegant, unappetizing name. I prefer to think of the very French "mon petit chou", "my little cabbage", a loving term of endearment. Choux, the pastry, is a beautiful, elegant, sweet little nothing, airy and light, a bland yet perfect backdrop to any filling at all, whether savory or sweet. Choux are the perfect carrying case to a gorgeous cream filling, whipped, ice or pastry. Pick one up… pop it in your mouth. Savor.
Both choux and pastry cream are fiddly and time consuming, but really quite simple to make and such a pleasure. I use my father's recipe, the one he used for years and years to make saucer-sized puffs that he would fill with pudding, vanilla, chocolate, pistachio. He made so many things from boxed mixes; granted, he made them with the attention and precision of the engineer that he was and he made them with love, often adding something special to personalize whatever he would be serving to his family or carry proudly to some Brotherhood Club event or Bingo Night at the synagogue. But certain things he made from scratch and these choux were part of his repertoire.
I chose to make simple, unglazed, unfrosted choux filled with pastry cream, half vanilla rum and half chocolate rum, dusted with a light shower of cocoa powder and icing sugar. Both the choux puffs and the pastry cream, although demanding careful attention, were quick and simple to make. This is such a perfect dessert to make when you want to impress family, friends and guests!
And my two sons and their lifetime of dining out with us?
The older one, Clem, goes wild for éclairs. These are filled with a just sweet frangipane whipped cream.
The younger one, Simon, only eats profiterole, his preferred dessert.
Husband and I went wild for these choux filled with a cool, light orange pastry cream and topped with an orange glaze.
Make about 40 small choux; each half batch pastry cream fills half the choux
Vanilla Rum Pastry Cream (Half batch):
1 cup (225 ml.) whole milk (I used low fat)
2 Tbsp. cornstarch
6 Tbs (100 g) sugar
1 large egg
2 large egg yolks
2 Tbs (30 g.) unsalted butter (at room temperature makes it easier)
1 tsp vanilla or half a vanilla bean, split lengthwise, seeds scraped out *
1 Tbs rum or to taste, optional
* If using a half vanilla bean/pod, split the pod down the center and scrape out the seeds. Add both the pod and the seeds to the milk in the pot. Remove the pod once the pastry cream is made and before pouring it into a bowl to chill in the refrigerator.
Dissolve cornstarch in ¼ cup of milk; whisk until smooth and there are no lumps. Combine the remaining milk with the sugar in a saucepan.Bring to a boil; remove from heat. Beat the whole egg, then the yolks into the cornstarch mixture. Pour 1/3 of boiling milk into the egg mixture in a slow stream, whisking constantly so that the eggs do not begin to cook.
Add the rest of the hot milk to the egg mixture then return all of it back into the casserole and return to the heat. Continue whisking (this is important – you do not want the eggs to solidify/cook) until the cream thickens and comes just to a boil. Remove from heat and beat in the butter, vanilla and rum.
Pour the pastry cream into a heatproof pyrex or stainless steel bowl. Press plastic wrap firmly against the surface. Chill immediately and until ready to use.
For Chocolate Pastry Cream (Half Batch):
Ingredients as for Vanilla Rum Pastry Cream
¼ cup (50 ml) milk
3 oz (80 g) finely chopped semisweet chocolate
Follow the recipe above for the Vanilla Rum Pastry Cream but begin by bringing the ¼ cup (about 50 ml) milk to a boil in a small pan; remove from heat and stir in the 3 ounces (about 80 g) finely chopped semisweet chocolate; mix until smooth.
Prepare the pastry cream as above (leaving out the rum if you want plain Chocolate Pastry Cream) and whisk the melted chocolate into the pastry cream when you add the butter and vanilla.
Pour the pastry cream into a heatproof pyrex or stainless steel bowl. Press plastic wrap firmly against the surface. Chill immediately and until ready to use.
Refrigerate both pastry creams covered in plastic wrap while you prepare the choux.
1 cup (250 ml) water
1/2 cup (8 Tbs, 115 g) unsalted butter
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup (140 g) flour
4 eggs
Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°). Grease a large cookie sheet or line it with oven-safe parchment paper.
In a large saucepan, over medium heat, heat the water, butter and salt until butter melts and the mixture comes to a boil. Remove from the heat and add the flour all at once. With a wooden spoon, stir vigorously until the mixture forms a ball and pulls away from the sides of the pot.
Scrape this ball into a large pyrex mixing bowl and, stirring, allow to cool for a minute or two. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition (here I switched to a whisk as it worked better than a wooden spoon), until mixture is smooth and creamy.
Using a teaspoon (or tablespoon for larger puffs), scoop up mounds of the dough and carefully push the dough off onto the prepared cookie sheet, using your finger or a rubber spatula. They will rise and almost double in size, so leave a bit of space between puffs.
Bake for 35 minutes (for the small puffs) until risen and golden. Working very quickly, open the oven and, with a sharp knife, make a small slit in the side of each puff to allow steam to escape - I also use this opportunity to turn my cookie sheets around back to front, as my oven heats quicker in the back - then bake them for about 5 more minutes until golden brown.
Remove the sheet from the oven, replacing this batch for the next in the oven, and allow to cool on a rack (as I bake my puffs on sheets of parchment or oven paper, I slide the paper off of the hot cookie sheet onto the cooling rack).
To fill the choux with pastry cream, simply pierce a small hole in the bottom or side of each puff. Fit a pastry bag with a small plain tip, fill the bag with cream, gently nuzzle the tip into one choux after the next and fill.


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Coburn: Obama 'absolutely' exaggerating on sequester
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) says the Obama administration is "absolutely" exaggerating the effects of the sequester – just days before the automatic budget cuts are set to hit government coffers.
"There's easy ways to cut this money that the American people will never feel … not cutting spending is going to be disastrous for our country," Coburn said on "Fox News Sunday."
President Barack Obama and his administration has launched an offensive in recent days to warn the public about the consequences of the impending sequestration, such as clogged air travel and reduced numbers of first responders on the scene.
Coburn added that he believes the sequester, which he called "terrible" and "stupid," will go into effect on Friday. Speaking on the same show, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) agreed that the budget cuts will kick in, "unless the Republicans are willing to compromise and do a balanced approach."
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Number-one New York Times best-selling author Charlaine Harris has won numerous awards for her Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire series, which has been adapted into the hit HBO show True Blood. In this 13th and final book, a murder rocks the town of Bon Temps and Sookie is arrested for the crime. After making bail, she sets out to clear her name - but her investigation only leads to more deaths.
©2013 Charlaine Harris, Inc. (P)2013 Recorded Books
"The Sookie Stackhouse series seamlessly mixes sensuality, violence, and humor." (Boulder Weekly)
"Harris's creation offers a magical and mysterious twist on traditional vampire stories." (Houston Chronicle)
"What sucked me in? Definitely the books' oddly charming, often funny mix of the mundane and the absurd. And the chills and thrills in boudoirs and various locales around the South aren't too bad either." (The Seattle Times)
"Bitter ending? Cleanse your palate."
I re-listened to everything previously written in this series to prepare for this book. I agree with the reviewers who believe Ms. Harris lost her heart for this series, I have seen this with other authors like in the Anita Blake series.
I was so disheartened that I went through my audio library looking for an old friend to re-visit.
Instead, I stumbled onto a new gem. Like the Sookie series, this series has an odd, gifted and very loveable heroine. Like Sookie's home, this is set in a world all its own. While it lacks vampires and werewolves, it has lots of chemistry.
Have a listen to Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley. Follow the adventures of Flavia. Listening is good again.
"It's not about the Beau. It's about the writing."
(No spoilers.) I honestly don't believe Charlaine Harris wrote this book. I suspect she either supervised a ghost writer who needed a firmer editing hand, or she did write it and it's just an early draft that she either didn't care to improve or couldn't because of other commitments. The plot is ridiculous, contrived, crammed full of details in places and outright boring in others. The supernatural abilities of characters are inconsistent with our previous experience of them, with no explanation for why they can not do something they have done before or they can suddenly do something that was impossible. There are characters who step in for meaningless cameos, as if there was some casting obligation, but no actual plot point to give them. And for the first time in thirteen books and as many stories as I've read, except for a tag on one short story, the author has departed from her first person narrator perspective.
Some reviewers are rating the book low because they think she ended up with the wrong man. That's not my issue. This is the last book in the series. I expected the quality of story telling that kept me reading all these years and made me fall in love with these characters. This book did not have that quality. It's disappointing, and its a sad end to the Sookie series.
"Welp, At Least She Didn't Do An Anita Blake"
No but this has spoiled the series for me.
I love her
the trailer. *shivers*
I feel cheated out of a true happily ever after, for the fans and for the protagonist. Instead, Sookie ends up with a "we'll take it slow" with her bff. What a tragedy. It sullied the entire series that was filled so much promise. I've read better fan fiction that was more devoted to the continuity of characters and had a greater love and reverence for the overall Sookieverse. Charlaine needs a do over, beginning with book 10 or maybe even 9.
Just turned me off from this series
I felt let down and disappointed with this story
After 13 books this final instalment felt completely out of place, as if the writer just went through the motions to conclude a story that she didn't enjoy anymore. The characters were shadows of their former selves, none exhibiting their usual characteristics that made me fall in love with them.It was also boring, the mundane details of Sookie's life were on the forefront and took up most of the time pushing the relationships and plot on the sidelines. I forgot what the story was about, so caught up with her checking her messages and emails. Her relationships as well were incredibly odd, her motivations, her love, it was as if none of the experiences she had in the past 12 books existed. What a pathetic end to this series. I wish I had never listened to it.
"SERIOUSLY? That's it?"
The story. Maybe Ms.Harris could of put forth a little more effort into the plot.
How could it? It's the last book of the series, which I adored for the most part.
Sookie of course. I always loved Pam.
Yes. It wasn't horrific.
I believe we, the fans who have come to love and cherish these books deserve more of a story. This book seemed like Harris just threw some ideas out there and settled. No great creativity seemed to go into it. I get it after 13 books Sookie's "been there and done that", and no new characters could really be introduced. But the characters she chosen to bring back were well, dumb, .Amelia was written out of the book as far as I'm concerned, as was her father, Bob, and the others I won't mention due to spoiling the story. I wish it could of been more focused on the core characters. But it went in so many different directions that the story didn't seem to be concrete.
"Dissatisfied with the parade of old characters"
This book did not read like a SVM story. I felt like I was reading fan fiction story ideas. There was a very weak plot and uninteresting side stories. Ms. Harris seems to have wanted the readers to have one last visit from many old characters even if it was forcing a contrived story line. ****Spoiler****. It was ridiculous that Copley, Marley, Steve N and more were all murderously angry with Sookie. I don't mind that Sookie ends up with Sam, but the complete dismissal of Eric's character was disappointing. He was developed as a love interest for Sookie since book 2, growing even more important to each other after the summit. The characters in Book 13 had stark differences from the rest if the series. It was as if someone else wrote the book or that Ms Harris was sick of writing these stories and just wanted to end it. I would have been happier if she had stopped at 12 or maybe even earlier.
She developed Eric and then threw the character away without at realistic break up and good bye.
Diantha! Her fast talk makes me laugh.
Frustrated and disappointed.
"What's lower than 1 star? Answer: THIS BOOK"
Even though Charlaine Harris says she hired an editor to help with continuity, it didn't work. If I hadn't bought audiobooks, I could have sent her my 12 books so she could look up what happened in the previous books. For example, Sookie says she only met Copley Carmichael once before. WRONG! Also, why include characters that have no purpose in the book just because they were in prior books? I felt like it was a final episode of a bad show where everyone who ever had a part had to take a final bow.
Probably not. Johanna Parker should have reviewed her voices and pronunciation of names from previous recordings. Also, could Sookie have sounded more whiney?
Quinn. What was he there for? His part could have been performed by any other animal. Harris included him just so she could wrap up any possibility of Quinn and Sookie. Talk about playing to her audience.
Charlaine Harris started with a great concept and character in her first book but by book 10 it was clear she was bored with the storyline. This book was nothing more than a contractual obligation for her - she promised 13 books and no matter what the quality, she was going to provide 13 books. I didn't care who Sookie ended up with although Sam is definitely the easy, vanilla way of ending the book. Oh wait, there's another book due out in October that will tell the future. As if I care anymore. And another thing. A DEVIL??!!! COME ON!!!
I solemnly swear upon my Audible account that I will never, ever, ever spend one more cent on a Charlaine Harris book. So help me God.
I'm 30 years old, from the east coast of America, and my favorite books are realistic, but stretch the truth and the laws of physics.
"A rushed and contrived ending for a good series."
The motivations of the bad guys out to get the main character were total garbage, and so were all the convenient inconsistencies that helped the story along. There have been some inconsistencies in the writing of these books before, but it's never been a big enough road block for me to begin to dismiss the story completely. This addition felt rushed and poorly thought out.
The narrator does a good job with the voice and accent of the main character, bringing the sultry and traditional elements of the south out in full color, though the voices and mannerisms she used for many of the other characters sounded unrealistic and stereotypical. Sam always sounded like a goofy little boy with a crush on the main character, not a grown man from Louisiana.
"Ms Harris seemed burned out on her series"
I really wish Ms Harris would have ended this series with 8 books instead of dragging it out. It steadily got worse, as the books went on. (kinda like Anita Blake). Some of these authors need to learn when to end a series, before they get totally burned out, and write crap in order to pick up their paycheck. Where are the editors anyway?
I know I'm not writing the books, but I do think when an author has created a huge following, those readers should be considered and listened to. Someone needs to look where their paycheck came from.
That being said......this book was rushed, with stupid cameos all the way through it from just about every character ever introduced. Things that made Sookie, Sookie in other books, all of a sudden are different in this book. Doesn't the author use cliff notes to remind herself what abilities and history her characters have?
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Spolier Alert!!!
I really feel the whole series should have been Sookie's dream (Like Bobby in Dallas) cause Sookie didn't achieve anything in the end. She ended up right where she started out, working in a diner with Sam, not really sold on wanting Sam, so she'll have to think about it for awhile. (oh yes, that's cause Ms Harris wants to sell us another book in a few months.Fat chance on me buying that one.) Sookie went through all kinds of horrible experiences, only to be jilted by the one man that she truly ever loved. All these books, making Eric always being there to rescue her, and he becomes a slave to another vampire in the end. (Oh yes, that's how he started out too)
So basically, Ms Harris sees ones life going full circle, ending up just where you started and no HEA for her main characters. She should have killed them off, dying in each others arms. I think it would have been easier to deal with, than to totally alter their characters. Neither one of them would have just given up and settled, in earlier books, but that's what Ms Harris seemed to forget again. Shame on her.
"Great listen"
All of it
To all the True Blood books, they are all good. You can't compare it to many other vampire books as True blood is completely different in so many ways, maybe to Vampire Diaries with humans and vamps cohabiting.
She did a really good job, adding all the different accent was a great addition.
It made me smile all the way through
Would definitely recommend as a great listen.
"Fantastic Finale"
I felt obliged to mention my views on this because of all the negativity surrounding this release. I was rather dreading this finale to be honest, until it was finally released and my ears were overjoyed to listen to it at last.
The story nicely wraps things up in my opinion, I was always rooting for the particular romantic outcome that transpires so maybe I'm biased but there is no absolutely no decrease in writing skill nor lack of care in any aspect of this story as has been implied in many reviews on other websites. I love this finale and my only complaint is that there will be no more Sookie:(
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So, as the subject indicates, I'm a veteran FFXI player who started back on day 1 of the U.S. PC launch. I played more or less non-stop (some breaks along the way, etc) up through WoTG and the 3 mini-adventure packs (Shantotto, Moogle, Prophecy) but more or less stopped with Abyssea.
Along with many others, I left XI in disgust at how Abyssea changed the game (or at least the way it was played) so drastically. I hated it, to be blunt.
I came back a few times and tried to give it a go. However, most everyone I knew had left the game, or had become rather uninterested in helping out at all. I'd heard many horror stories of people who weren't already familiar with Abyssea being kicked from groups - even if they were new to it and couldn't realistically be expected to know all what was going on yet (as usual, many people tend to forget they were once in that position themselves, and become elitist pricks about it). So, feeling completely lost at sea, just sorta gave up and left.
After a while now, I feel like maybe it'd be a good time to come back, as a new proper expansion seems to be on the horizon and it looks like things have at least become more interesting to me again.
So! Here's what I'm left with...
I have two jobs at 75: MNK and DRG. I have various other jobs at 37 and other levels of progress. I was never one to "play everything", so I focused only on the jobs I enjoyed and/or that would be beneficial to my playstyle (as subs, etc). I'm not an "end-game loot chaser". I find raiding fun as something to do once in a while, but I have no interest in making it a full-time endeavor.
I've read that you can get thorugh the levels now without doing Abyssea, however, that Abyssea also provides gear that is pretty good at level and - so far as I've seen - there's very little that quite matches it outside Abyssea. So it seems at some point, I'll *have* to go back and get it, at least if I understand it.
If I can realistically avoid doing Abyssea without missing out on anything that's too important or irreplaceable, that'd be great. I tried it a few times and hated it every single one. It just felt to me like an uncoordinated zerg-fest with xp coming way faster than it should. No coordination, no strategy, no communication. Just people everywhere killing stuff and opening treasure chests. Not my thing at all. It's weird because I loved Campaign Battles and I enjoy Besieged. Each of those, though, feel different to me. It's like organized chaos. Abyssea, to me, feels like random disorganized chaos.
So anyway... I'm kinda wondering what my options would be in coming back now? What would be a good path to follow in order to progress my character and get it ready for the new expansion coming out, as well as just playing and (ideally) enjoying the game again?
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So anyway... I'm kinda wondering what my options would be in coming back now? What would be a good path to follow in order to progress my character and get it ready for the new expansion coming out, as well as just playing and (ideally) enjoying the game again?
This may sound a little odd, but I recommend signing up for the Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn Alpha Test. FFXI has lost a lot of it's meaning now that you can level to 99 in a just a week. Since the first FFXIV was a failure, they've been trying to making FFXIV more like FFXI.
Originally posted by TemperHoof
I am actually signed up for the XIV Alpha, and played XIV quite a bit, right up to the end.
I really don't like the direction Yoshi's taking XIV with some of the decisions he's made, and some of what I've read and seen.
But anyway, that's an entirely different discussion.
I'm specifically interested in what I asked about XI. So, if folks have feedback/advice on that, that would be great. Thanks!
I you don't like where FFXIV is going, then I highly doubt you'll enjoy Final Fantasy XI the way it is now. You like Campaign Battles and Besieged, well so did I. Guess what, no one plays that anymore.
Originally posted by TemperHoof
I mentioned those two things only because they would appear to be similar to Abyssea on some level. So if I enjoyed them, it might be assumed I would enjoy Abyssea as well. I mentioned them only for the sake of explaining that Abyssea didn't appeal to me. Nothing more.
This is your second reply so far, and you've yet to actually address/answer my actual questions/concerns.
Do you have anything to offer that's relevant to what I requested? Anything that doesn't involve you trying to talk me out of playing XI? If so, please share it. If not, please move on and stop being rude.
I'm not rude. I just hoped you'd do your homework and read my thread which already stated why I feel FFXI has lost its way and it's fun anymore.
Originally posted by TemperHoof
I did not ask for reasons why I shouldn't go back. I didn't ask for opinions on "why people feel XI has lost its way and isn't fun anymore". I didn't ask to be "talked out of it". My request was very specific. You have completely ignored it in 3 posts now.
I asked for very specific advice/information to help me out getting back into the game, as I've been away from the game for a time.
So, yes, you are being rude. Further, you've pushed it to the point of trolling as you clearly have no interest in responding to what I've requested, have not provided one iota of info I've asked about, and are now going farther by pimping one of your own threads.
Nothing you have offered or are trying to offer is at all relevant to what I'm asking for.
I'll ask nicely one more time. Please stop derailing my thread and go elsewhere.
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There is a Thread on the FFXI forums on mmorpg.com about a group of folks going back and making it a point to NOT do abyssea, please inquire in there about coming back and maybe joining them, they seemed friendly and helpful, and had your interests in mind from the sound of it . Hope that helps abit
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Wait you can lvl in a week? I played FF11 for 5 years, but i finally ended with my linkshell ended. I wouldnt mind coming back. Just to see how it is, but my account was deleted and i dont remember any of the passwords or info.
Originally posted by TangentPoint
Originally posted by TemperHoof
I don't want you to repeat yourself. In fact, I'd love for you not to. I was requesting for people to provide some helpful feedback to my specific request. Now, I just want you to go away and stop derailing/spamming/trolling my thread with irrelevant, self-promoting nonsense.
I have read your post in the past. It's a good post on its own merits, as an opinion piece. It does not, however, address what I'm asking for in my post. The closest you come to providing an answer in your post is: "you can either do Abyssea, or play it "vanilla" (your term). I'm aware of that, but it doesn't answer my question of specifically what gameplay options are there now. Are people doing old-school style xp parties still? Is it all solo-grinding through FoV/GoV? Is it still being PL'd with things like Astral-Burn parties? Etc. I'm trying to see what methods are effective and "feasible", so I can determine how I'll go about it.
My question was "Hey, I'm coming back to FFXI but haven't played since Abyssea started. I'm not sure what would be my options to get through the game, preferably without Abyssea. Any suggestions?"
Your response has been, "Don't play XI. Try FFXIV Alpha instead. Oh, and read my thread on why FFXI has lost its way and isn't fun anymore".
It would be like you starting a thread looking for feedback on the best type of apple for an apple pie. I come in and respond with, "I suggest you don't make an apple pie, and make a cherry pie instead. Oh, and read my post on why apple pies aren't the ideal dessert anymore". Do you see the problem there? I'm giving you "advice" that you didn't ask for.
Anyway... I've asked politely, but you keep persisting. So, now I'll just say it: Go away and stop spamming/derailing my thread. Last time I'm saying it.
Originally posted by Toxia
Hmm.. I'll try and find that thread. Didn't see anything about that when I scanned the threads, so maybe its subject just isn't really "specific" in that way. If they're playing on my server, then that might be a great option to look into.
I don't suppose you happen to remember who started the thread, or what the subject might be (a guestimate, etc) do you? lol
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Originally posted by TangentPoint
Think he's referring to that.
Originally posted by Draron
Ahh okay yeah. I saw that, but it seemed to be specifically about "starting over" which I'm not so much interested in. I'm looking to pick up where I left off. Also they're on Phoenix and I'm on Asura, so that wouldn't be the most ideal scenario either.
Thanks for linking it though!
Anyhoo... I did manage to chat with a few friends who have been back in XI for some time now and they've given me a good run-down of options I have for leveling up, making money and generally playing the game without getting sucked into the mindless black hole of PL'ing through Abyssea, etc.
Some of it will require me to change up my "traditional" playstyle a bit and solo more stuff than I'd really wanted to... but I do get to play and enjoy the actual game again, which was my goal. So, that's a bonus!
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Originally posted by TangentPoint
Yea, the linkshell I'm in offered to level me in Abyssea but they were helpful enough to trio with me through some levels instead. I may try it on my second run to max level, but it's nice to take the other route to experience the game.
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Originally posted by TangentPoint
No they are not specifically about starting over. The LS is large and there a lot of members who chose to start over so they can go through all the missions and level the traditional way rather than abuse the Aby sytem for fast leveling. I was on a different server and switched and it was worth it. I am not currently subbed due to family/school demands, but these guys made it hard to not have fun since there was always exp parties and such going on. To be honest, your options open up when you are a part of an active LS so I would say give them a holler and see if you are interested in what they are doing. Here is their actual site http://returnersffxi.enjin.com/home. The core members all have high level jobs as well, but they are also always leveling lower level jobs with LS people so there was hardly a time when there wasn't something to do.
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Originally posted by FlawSGI
Fair enough. When I read it, it seemed like the gist was "starting from scratch and doing the game old-school". I did see people wanting to bring in existing characters, though. I have a number of friends acquaintances on Asura, several of whom I've known going back to the NA PC launch, when our server was still called Pandemonium (RIP).
So I'm going to give that a go first, for a while, and see how it goes. If it doesn't pan out, then I'll consider switching to Phoenix. I'd rather stick with my own server and make a go of it, though, rather than just dropping $25 on a server transfer that could well prove to be unnecessary.
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Originally posted by FlawSGI
Man i miss those xp burn parties. I had a RDM and i was always invited to these parties. Spent hours upon hours playing this game. Those were the good ole days!!!!!!! Then Abessya ruined everything. People were just level leaching.
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It appears that even after all these posts you didn't really get your questions answered so I'll give it a go.
If you want to avoid abyssea for xp purposes you can do that fairly easily. There have been many posts explaining the FoV burns in gusgen mines, crawlers nests, and finally bostinouxe oubliette. Though if you hate the way abyssea xp is I find this to be extremely similiar but takes 5x as long. Nobody really xps like we used to back in the day, no more crabs, no more birds etc.
That said, even though you can avoid it for xp reasons you can't realistically avoid abyssea altogether when it comes to gearing your character. The new AF from abyssea is very powerful and honestly in order to get anything past that from neo nyzul, Voidwatch, or Legion you will be expected and needed to have the stuff from abyssea already. Not to mention for your monk the empyrean weapon is pretty much a must have and you get that from abyssea farming as well.
Luckily the gear aquiring isn't as mindless as the xping in abyssea is. You need to work together and communicate to get things done quickly. Nothing is really that difficult now that cap is 99 but if you're brand new to it you will need to learn about the different types of procs and what they are for. Also the great thing is you don't need a full alliance for the best gear you can get pretty much anything in abyssea with 4 people or less if you have the correct setup. Hell I know a guy who completely soloed his empyrean great katana it just took him forever.
Sadly, if you're set on sticking with monk and dragoon it is probably going to be extremely difficult for you to join events past abyssea like Voidwatch. Neo Nyzul would be outta the question and Legion even more so unless you are premo dd with great gear already. Most DDs now are geared to the T and if you're not people will want you to either not come or come as something else. Its not like it used to be and if you're not one of those into gearing your character as perfectly as possible doing anyting besides abyssea or going back and doing old content low man style will probably be extremely hard or you just won't do it at all.
That doesn't mean don't try though. I've seen some horribly geared people in Voidwatch before but after a while if people know that's how you role they probably won't invite you to their shouts. (just being brutally honest)


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"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."
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Results of a bullying study showed that victims of bullying at school, including bullies themselves, are not only more likely to experience psychiatric problems in their childhood, but can have lingering issues into their adulthood as well. To date, this has been the most comprehensive effort to establish the long-term consequences of childhood bullying, according to experts.
The study followed 1,420 subjects from Western North Carolina who were assessed four to six times between the ages of 9 and 16. Researchers asked both the children and their primary caregivers if they had been bullied or had bullied others in the three months before each assessment. Participants were divided into four groups: bullies, victims, bullies who also were victims and children who were not exposed to bullying at all.
Participants were then assessed again in their adulthood and researchers found that victims of bullying in childhood were 4.3 times more likely to have an anxiety disorder as adults, compared to those with no history of bullying or being bullied.
Bullies who were also victims were particularly troubled: they were 14.5 times more likely to develop panic disorder as adults, compared to those who did not experience bullying, and 4.8 times more likely to experience depression. Men who were both bullies and victims were 18.5 times more likely to have had suicidal thoughts in adulthood, compared to the participants who had not been bullied or were perpetrators. Their female counterparts were 26.7 times more likely to have developed agoraphobia, compared to children not exposed to bullying.
In the news article, William E. Copeland, lead author of the study and an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University Medical Center says, "Bullying is not a harmless rite of passage, but inflicts lasting psychiatric damage on a par with certain family dysfunctions. The pattern we are seeing is similar to patterns we see when a child is abused or maltreated or treated very harshly within the family setting."
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She was born on March 21, 1917, in Berlin, Germany, during World War I, to Maria (Becher) Kremin and Dr. Gustav Kremin. In 1936, she married Dr. Victor Laskowski, a World War I veteran. She and her husband lived in Berlin until the closing days of World War II, when they fled west, ahead of advancing Russian troops. They made it to the Elbe River, where they lost each other while crossing under heavy fire. They found one another three months later. Shortly thereafter, their daughter Vivian was born.
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Eva lived in Racine for the next 20 years and traveled frequently all over the globe. After the death of her husband, she relocated to Sebastian, Florida, and then Vero Beach, Florida. She also lived at Evergreen Place in Waitsfield during 2002 to 2003.
Survivors include her son, Peter Laskowski and his wife Blaine and their children, Dr. Kristina McElhinney and her husband Dr. Brian McElhinney, Alexander Laskovski, Nicholas Laskovski and Hadley Laskowski; and Eva's daughter's children, Albert and Alexandra Eckart of Connecticut. She is also survived by two great-grandchildren, Dylan and Nora McElhinney. Eva's daughter Vivian predeceased her earlier this year.
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He is a very cute lil boy...all the young girls like him. It sorta reminds me of being a teeny bopper again.
This is going to dredge up the Jake thread again. I just know it.
I never dreamt (nightmaret?) there'd be so many threads about Justin Beiber on a Stephen King forum - I think I've stumbled upon four. Which isn't a huge number but four too many surely? Is Canada really so short on celebrities? Where's the thread about Stewart Francis - a Canadian worth talking about, because he's some sort of comedy genius or whatever is a few rungs down from genius.
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�Thank you all very much,� he said, his voice cracking. �Thank you.�
His defense attorney, Reginald W. Bours III, said Cornell declined to make a comment to the press.
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�It was conflicting evidence. It was illogical that a man with 25 years in the school system is waiting for this kid to groom him for abuse,� Bours said of his client�s acquittal after hearing the verdict.
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Bours was unable to provide details on the impact Cornell�s acquittal may have on his career with Montgomery County Public Schools.
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A:The bubbleroons shouldn't leave a sticky residue on your skin, they actually leave quite a silky feeling due to the coconut oil!Answered on 4/14/2015 by Melissa S from LUSH Direct
A:Not sticky! My skin usually feels softer. I am obsessed with these. Even if
they don't compliment the bath I've put together, I have to put in at least
a piece. Highly recommend this product if you would like skin that feels
softer and moisturized.Answered on 4/14/2015 by Chrissie from New York
Q:is it best to use this product in the morning or at night?Asked on 4/14/2015 by Bathing Beautie from Elk Grove,CA
1 answer
A:It's totally up to you! It's always a good time to use Green Bubbleroon.Answered on 4/15/2015 by Kels from LUSH Direct
Q:is this product safe for people with sensitive skin?Asked on 4/14/2015 by Bathing Beautie from Elk Grove,CA
1 answer
A:If you have ever noticed sensitivities to citrus oils then you might want to look at a more soothing Bubbleroon like the Rose Jam Bubbleroon. Otherwise, the extra virgin Coconut Oil and fair trade Shea Butter are great for nourishing sensitive skin.Answered on 4/15/2015 by Kels from LUSH Direct