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Bright leaf received its name from its curing process. The leaves were hung in the tobacco barns and a fire was started in the center. The heat and smoke from the fire cured the tobacco leaves a bright yellow color.
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Today, you're getting a Fierce Nerditude first, folks. Vijaya's doing a book critique.1. The world building is slapdash and sloppy.
Why? Well, the other day I posted on twitter about not liking the Hunger Games and I was asked by a reader named Cheree whether I might elaborate on the reasons why in blog post form. My answer? "Sure, why not."
Hope you like the post, Cheree. It's nice and long, just like you asked!
So let's start from the beginning; I tend to be very hype averse. I just feel that there is a very strong correlation between a book being popular YA literature and a book being really, really bad. I didn't think that the Hunger Games was going to be bad, though. A friend of mine convinced me that it was well-written, well-thought out and feminist. It's really not any of those things, in my own opinion.
Without further ado, I present to you a list of problems that I have with the Hunger Games.
These issues are arranged in ascending order from the smallest problems to the largest. This isn't a book review, it's a critique. It assumes that you've read it, but I've marked a spoiler for the benefit of the people who have not. It's also written from the perspective of someone who's read the first book but not the second.
Why? Well, the other day I posted on twitter about not liking the Hunger Games and I was asked by a reader named Cheree whether I might elaborate on the reasons why in blog post form. My answer? "Sure, why not."
Hope you like the post, Cheree. It's nice and long, just like you asked!
So let's start from the beginning; I tend to be very hype averse. I just feel that there is a very strong correlation between a book being popular YA literature and a book being really, really bad. I didn't think that the Hunger Games was going to be bad, though. A friend of mine convinced me that it was well-written, well-thought out and feminist. It's really not any of those things, in my own opinion.
Without further ado, I present to you a list of problems that I have with the Hunger Games.
These issues are arranged in ascending order from the smallest problems to the largest. This isn't a book review, it's a critique. It assumes that you've read it, but I've marked a spoiler for the benefit of the people who have not. It's also written from the perspective of someone who's read the first book but not the second.
It really takes a lot of willing suspension of disbelief to figure out how a world can function as it does in the Hunger Games. There are one Capitol and twelve Districts, each District only fulfilling one specific purpose. Perhaps in a more fantastic world, this would be feasible but the things they do all have basis in our reality, like agriculture and coal. Yes, there is only one agricultural district, and apparently they grow everything there... even though not all things can grow all places?
For some reason the people in the Districts are allowed to go to public school. Wow! Free public education for the laborers? That's one heck of an oppressive... wait, what? If you're an avid reader of dystopian fantasy, I know what you're thinking, but no, there's no hint of this education being a farce for brainwashing or indoctrination (in fact, if it were, the book would be more clever--but I'll get to that in number 2). At one point, Katniss even manages to come off as more educated than Effie, a woman educated in the Capitol.
I could go on for pages, folks.
2. The Games make no sense.
Some quick info on the Games: 74 years ago, the Districts tried to break away from the Capitol, and they were defeated. The Hunger Games, to which each District must send two competitors, are 'punishment' for this.
How is this a sensible punishment? You got me.
If anything, murdering two children per year ought to galvanize at least some of the people--survivors of the Games, relatives and friends of children lost in the Games, etc, etc. Suzanne Collins apparently knows very little of human nature, because there is no real force of resistance ever mentioned in the book. Petty rule breaking, sure, but only by the main character and her friend, and even that is only so the author can prove she's a superspeshulawesome hunter.
The Games themselves involve a 24-way death match (two kids from each district go into an established arena to duke it out) and apparently for 74 years, no one has ever tried to stop it. There is some very small compensation; the winning District gets more food for a year, but only that year. It isn't like a District can just win without sacrificing anyone; if that were true, I could see how maybe some people think they can just win and everything will be okay. The Hunger Games are specifically set up so that even when a District wins, at least one of their kids will die.
And people just go with it.
I'm not saying resistances would necessarily be effective, but what the heck would these people have to lose from trying, other than their lives? Surely they've figured out that since the Capitol doesn't produce anything that they can't just squash them all? They may not have weapons, but there are other ways to stick it to the man: C'mon District 11 Agriculture folks, evil oppressors have to eat, too--just stop working and eat what you've grown! They surely can't whip you forever.
I don't even live in this world and it took me all of two minutes of finding out what District 11 does to think of that single simple way of nonviolent resistance. Nevertheless, no small failed attempts at overthrow are mentioned by the character who is supposed to be the exposition for other Districts, Rue. (By the way, I feel like pointing out that the Capitol apparently did destroy all of District 13, the one that produced graphite 74 years ago, but this makes no sense because with no graphite miners where are they getting the graphite that the text says they are turning into diamonds now? It can't be the coal District, as Katniss specifically says that they don't mine graphite in District 12. I'm telling you, Suzanne Collins did not think through her world building.)
In any case, the non-revolting, well-behaved citizenry would make much more sense if they had some reason not to rebel--for example, if most people thought they were living great lives, or if people thought that if they stayed there as quiet, good little citizens under the toe of the boot of ULTIMATE EVIL they might get to live in the Capitol instead. No one thinks this. They're just there, doing as they're told for no reason. The Capitol has a zero percent approval rating in the Districts (even the few who are rich hate them), and I don't know how absolutely no one has tried to overthrow it in 74 years.
Hell, even Katniss is one of the sheeple--I kept waiting for her to do something heroic and subversive, but it never happened. More on this in 7.
The Games are, in short, like a hybrid between Shirley Jackson's The Lottery plus Battle Royale, but the Hunger Games version is a lot less clever (both of the former are worth reading by the way--and please remember that Battle Royale isn't for the faint of heart).
3. Suzanne Collins clearly thinks that research is optional.
Where do I even begin with this one? Firstly, the economy of this fictional world is unsustainable. There's a candy store that no one can afford to buy from in District 12. And a bakery that makes cakes (run by the parents of one of the lead characters, no less).
How? Why? Who is buying from these places? It's stated that the people who own these stores have more money than most folks, but they cannot possibly just be buying from one another--their little businesses would bleed.
I'll rattle off a few problems from the top of my head to make this quick, because (like the first) I could go on for pages.
If you don't eat well during your body tends to use fewer calories to try and save you--this includes having a low metabolism and growth being stunted if you're in your formative years. THAT IS A REAL LIFE FACT. In the Hunger Games verse? An allegedly starving/emaciated twelve year old is said to have been "70 pounds soaking wet." Emaciation and spending her whole childhood starving would've made her much lighter than just under 70 pounds. There is another kid from District 11 who spent childhood starving and is apparently enormous. How on earth would that work, Suzanne Collins? Katniss loses several pounds in the Hunger Games after only a few days (even becoming lighter than she was before the Games started), despite eating a ridiculously large amount of food for someone who is supposed to be a small, thin girl used to starvation. Makes no sense. Katniss also repeatedly kills animals for food without eating every edible part of it. If you're literally starving and don't object to eating animals, why on earth would you be picky about eating a rabbit's eyes or heart or other organs? They're pretty much all edible.
The biggest one for me, though? After winning the Games Katniss complains about having lost so much weight her curves are diminished (context reveals that she means her breasts have gotten smaller). What. The heck. Firstly, starving people don't tend to be stacked--Katniss shouldn't have been "curvy" in any sense of the word. Breasts are mostly made of fat, which, if you're starving, you have none to spare. And it takes one hell of a privileged idiot to be complaining about a lack of boobage when you're supposed to be starved to emaciation. Apparently, to the author, saying that someone has been starved is the same thing as when you or I go "Hey, what's for dinner? I'm starving!"
More random idiocy: Katniss uses a serrated throwing knife... Uh, no. Katniss is also apparently capable of shooting a squirrel through the eye (and with one-hundred percent accuracy, no less). NONONO. Slingshots are repeatedly mentioned to be useless against big men--for someone so fond of shooting animals through the eye, does she not realize that slingshots can literally put eyes out? Blinding someone is a big advantage.
4. Katniss is not a "survivor," she's a spoiled brat.
Remember the first Harry Potter book? When Hagrid gave Harry that squashed birthday cake, he was so excited just to get something decent to eat?
Katniss? She literally throws cookies out of a train window for no good reason. See, the baker (Peeta's father) gives her a package of cookies just to be supportive. Katniss, being a douche (more on that in 5) tosses them out the window because she thinks that Peeta also being nice to her is just to get in her head.
A person who has nothing does not throw food away. Peeta did not know she did this, the baker didn't know she did this. She did this as a symbolic gesture that no one saw or knew about but her. It was wasteful and made Katniss implausible as a character.
Moreover, in her head she is incredibly snobby toward the residents in the Capitol, which I know is a lofty claim, but please bear with me: Effie is a designated awful person from the beginning--she may have drawn the names and she might happen to be from the Capitol, but she never actually does anything bad. In fact, she's trying to help Peeta or Katniss win the Games from the beginning. When Katniss meets her prep team she's busy thinking condescending things at them, criticizing their looks while they are trying to help her in their way.
On the last count, I will grant that they are all complicit in the Games and possibly worthy of hatred, which is fine. Except then there's Cinna. He's just as complicit except he doesn't have the Capitol accent and doesn't wear a lot of makeup and isn't he just so different and a little mysterious and so she just likes him. So yeah.
Don't get me started about the BS with the Career Tributes. They just come off as the popular kids picking on the geeks--except Katniss is not a sympathetic 'geek' because she's just like them. They're victims, just like her (Hell, they were worse off than her; she's here by bad luck, but them? They were raised as human sacrifices. The implications of this are never explored). They want to win, just like her. They dismiss other competitors as unworthy of notice, just like her. They don't have a huge problem with killing, just like her. More on this last one in 6.
Additionally, her survival skills make me shudder. There is an entire arc where she is searching for water and has an empty bottle with her. She keeps talking about how thirsty she is and it never occurs to her to PEE IN THE BOTTLE AND DRINK IT. It was genuinely painful to read--and it's not that the author is scared to mention urine for fear of offending someone, or something silly like that; Suzanne Collins specifies that Katniss's urine is brown during this section, leaving any reader who's watched a Discovery Channel special screaming at their books in frustration at the allegedly competent heroine's complete idiocy. DRINK YOUR PEE, MORON.
Plus, like I said, she complained about losing a little boob, of all things. Ugh.
5. Katniss is a douche and a horrible judge of character.
Katniss is cruel to Peeta for no reason. If I were put in the Hunger Games, my first thought might be "Hey, other person from my District! I know only one of us can win, but let's team up to try and win it for our families." In the end you might wind up having to kill the other person or you might have to die by their hand, but at least you got something out of it. Katniss thinks it's her against everyone the whole time through. There is no way that's normal. There are two possible outcomes that can benefit her. She doesn't even try to maximize her chances for some form of positive outcome, as we humans mostly tend to do.
Not only is her negative judgment too quick, but she also thinks of people who voluntarily entertain themselves watching the Games as decent people--the interviewer pops to mind. HE'S NOT A GOOD PERSON, KATNISS. Well, he is apparently a good guy in the narrative, but he's complicit in helping people murder kids. I think he's horrid. He even meets and gets to know these kids a little, which might make him one of the most morally horrible people in the story.
One last example of this before I move on: Katniss and Peeta literally have to get into a fight with Haymitch to get him to do his job. Effie was doing her job from the very beginning. Haymitch=sympathetic. Effie=never gets any props. Ever.
6. Goodness, Doctor, is that huge romantic plot tumor operable?
Like most YA, there is a shallow romance that we get beaten over the head with. We have a... we'll call her "strong" for the sake of argument... heroine except she doesn't understand wuv and so a gentler, kinder boy has to teach her to feel. It's like bad fanfic. I swear to you this is literally the romance plot: she has to pretend to be in love with him and then she ambiguously falls for him, but doesn't understand her feeeeeeelings.
Why do they have to pretend to be a couple? For sponsorships, or something. The narrative insists that this makes sense. I assure you, it really does not.
6. Katniss has no problem with murder.
Self explanatory. Even when she's teamed up with the 12 year old girl, the thought of killing her is only worthy of a passing thought. Katniss never reflects on the nature of murder at length. She is emotionally unscathed by the idea of killing. She kills and that's just fine and dandy. Is this supposed to be someone we can relate to?
But then, nobody gets the privilege of being more than just a token target for Katniss. They never become humanized to us the audience, or apparently to moral-center-of-the-universe, Katniss, and Katniss never has to deal with getting her hands dirty by killing someone she genuinely likes--the sympathetic characters get taken out by non-sympathetic characters.
Hell, the narrative is on her side with the 'murder's no big deal thing'. Even Peeta, who wants to die "as himself" says he's sure that he'll kill when it comes down to it, but never even thinks about just... not (When he does kill a person, it doesn't even affect him emotionally). Which brings me into 7.
7. It's a whole world of sheeple and Katniss is one of them.
Passive resistance is never considered by anyone. Granted, not everyone will want to do that, but it was the first thing that popped into my head.
Various options:
Kill yourself instead of letting them make you fight like to the death--they prevent people from jumping off the roof, but there's all sorts of poison in the Hunger Games, and there are mines to blow yourself up right at the beginning. If you're going to die, do it on your terms, right? {SPOILER: Yes, I'm aware of the ending. It was contrived and stupid--what makes her suddenly so willing to die? Not wanting to kill Peeta? She barely knows him. It's not like she comes to the sudden revelation that she's done terrible things and wants it all to stop; she decides Peeta is so superspeshulawesome she can't kill him. Collins makes a vague reference to some kind of moral stand, but it doesn't come off as one--it comes off as a Deus ex Machina so that they can both live. Going back to her sister was more important than morals before, so why not now?}
Refuse to fight. Find as many of the 24 as you can convince, and just sit down and don't fight. And if you can't, simply choose to be killed rather than to kill your fellows for someone else's entertainment. Katniss says over and over she's probably going to die, but it never occurs to her to do it with some freaking dignity. Instead she does just what the Super Evil Empire wants, and tries, not only to win, but to put on a good show. There really is not a single courageous bone in her body.
Let the people of the Capitol know that this is an atrocity. Not a single person in the interviews burst out crying or told the interviewer that they hated it in the Capitol and just wanted their mother, or something like that. These are children. Cinna's apparently the best person ever, but he can't be the only decent person in the Capitol--decent people don't want to see kids suffer. Who knows, the Capitol might start building a resistance in your favor. Why does everyone (especially Katniss) pretend that the Games are just games? You may not want to subvert the government, but what could they do after the fact, kill you extra hard? (Even if the answer is yes, I would like to think that there are some causes worth dying painfully for, wouldn't you?)
When it comes down to it in the end, the Capitol hasn't proven that it can literally take the tributes' free will, only scare them into submission. Every single competitor is a sheep or a coward, including Peeta and Katniss.
I said earlier that this is like a cross between Battle Royale and The Lottery, but not as clever. See, Battle Royale has diverse characters who respond to the situation in different and interesting ways. The Lottery has people competing in a lottery they don't largely seem to believe is wrong.
It also has a dash of The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas thrown in, except that that story is also a million times better. In this entire book, not a single person ever even considers 'walking away.'
8. The characterization is pretty sexist.
Really, it's painful. Katniss is super pretty because she wears very little makeup (she doesn't have to because she's just so darn pretty, gasp!) and Effie and the Capitol's women are horrible because they wear the Capitol's fashions, or whatever.
For some reason Katniss can't look at injuries. This is revealed after she pries a bow out of someone's horrifically disfigured hand, so it's an informed attribute at best and is most likely a way to relegate allegedly masculine traits to characters portrayed as masculine (like Katniss). Which is sexist.
Katniss is good at boy things, so she can't be good at "girl things," too. For contrast we have her feminine sister Prim who is good at healing, but when she's taken hunting insists on trying to heal the animals. Really. She's not a vegetarian who objects to killing animals for food, she's not unaware of where meat comes from, she's just a delicate, idiotic little flower who needs protecting from reality. But she's super tough when it comes to fixing injuries, because everyone must be good at something, right? And she just happens to be girly and do the girl thing meanwhile looking like a dummy with her pacifism (which apparently Collins doesn't like), because girly girls can't be competent. Tomboys are the competent women.
Oh, and everyone loves Prim because she's so sweet and kind.
Katniss is bratty, preoccupied with her appearance, seems to specifically dislike girls more attractive than her... ugh. The treatment of Glimmer by the narrative was outright disgusting--the stylists put her in a sexy, see-through outfit and this is treated like Glimmer using a strategy rather than what it actually is: Glimmer doesn't have a say in what she's wearing, therefore she is being objectified against her will. A feminist narrative should feel for her, not unfairly demonize her.
There are a few fail attempts at feminism that fall horrifically flat. I feel like people suggesting Katniss should get a boob job was one of them, but it's independent, out of left field, and the way the narrative treats women who look less than perfect, the 'message' comes off as weak and hypocritical.
There's more, but I'm scared I'm going to lose you guys with a post this long.
Overall, it was an entertaining read, but there was a lot to criticize. Better than Twilight overall, worse than Harry Potter by a mile. I feel like the story presented so many opportunities for serious moral reflection given Katniss's unique situation, but Katniss is self-centered, spoiled, and cares much less about right and wrong than the average person. She also experiences fewer emotions than the average person. This could have been a very good book, but it was okay. It took less than a day to read, and kept me occupied.
Oh, and there's a shallow romance tacked on. I'm guessing the "Team Peeta/Team Gale" stuff is from later books, because I'm not seeing anything worth being fussed over.
I've also posted about Catching Fire.

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Career Fair a Success!March 22, 2013 at 2:04 PM
On March 21st, 30 potential employers, 4 graduate schools and approximately 55 students participated in the Career Fair in the Student Life Center. This event was preceded by last week's mock interviews for students to prepare them for job searching once they graduate. Simone Davis, Careers Director, planned and executed these events. This event was open to all students and Alumni. These events are very positive activities for networking, getting employer information and practicing interview skills. It will definitely provide an edge for those that participated. Next month there will be a Criminal Justice Career Day for High School students on April 18th.


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Tuesday, August 11, 2015
CANCELLED: Summer Movie Night: Flight of the Navigator (PG)
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8:00 p.m.–10:30 p.m.
Watch a film under the NYC sky! Complimentary hot popcorn will be provided.
Category: Film, Best for Kids, Free Summer Movies
Movies in the Parks: Annie (2014)
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8:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Join NYC Parks for free, family-friendly movies in our city's parks! In this contemporary version of Annie, an orphan lives a tough life in New York City under the supervision of…
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Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Sunrise Tai Chi
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6:30 a.m.–7:30 a.m.
Start your day out right; come enjoy sunrise tai chi classes with certified tai chi instructor Robert Martinez, on the beautiful David Rockefeller Linden Terrace.
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NYC Parks is pleased to host Oh Sit! 14 Sculptors Consider the Chair will be on view through November 8, 2015 in Highbridge Park located in northern Manhattan.
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Take free fitness classes outside this summer, brought to you by the staff of the new Ocean Breeze Track & Field Athletic Complex!
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8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
The Women in Comics NYC Collective International is proud to present their second exhibition, 'Women in Comics II' at the Poe Park Visitors Center.
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8:30 a.m.–9:30 a.m.
This yoga class is led by Sacred Sounds Yoga and is suitable for all levels. Drop-ins are welcome. Join us!
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Kids play fun activities that focus on the history of those who lived and worked here during the Colonial and Revolutionary War era.
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This weekend, Saturday, July 24th, Madrona will transform into an indoor/outdoor promenade of delectable and artistic delights. The restaurants in the neighborhood will each feature light bites to nab while strolling the tree lined streets, ultimately landing at glassybaby, where our talented artists will display and sell a variety of their masterpieces (see photo above for examples.) The timing is noon to six...the currency is cash...we hope that you can join us.
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> TIMES the motor just turns over and acts like it "will not fire; or
> flooded" leaving me in the "lonely side of the Detroit I-94
> construction two-lanes only, stuck in the left lane and very dangerous"
> stranded mode.
The dying is the EGR/gas recovery system - it's clogged or dead.
The not starting is likely the coil packs or the MAF.
> I just replaced the manifold sensor from the computer code information
> being returned. Two codes were returned the manifold sensor bad and the
> crank sensor bad. RESET computer and now only the manifold sesnsor was
> indicating still bad - so I replaced it.
Good. Half the problem solved - they only last 50-75K at best, so
the smart thing to do is replace the MAF when you replace the water
pump and insepct the chain/timing gear.
> I'm still having the same intermittent stalling problem seems after the
> motor is warmed up. I was going to test the "crank sensor" by pulling
> the plug on it (cleaning it from corrosion, and reseating it).
EGR valve(or the equivalent). Pretty simple to fix, thankfully.
Now, you do have a major gremlin looming - the timing gear. The
engine's main cog is synthetic! Also the chains stretch and the
end of the camshaft rotates on a little spring-loaded teflon
assembly. It's usually the reason half of the Buicks are in
the junkyard - the timing goes south and it won't run - at
about 150K miles or 15 years or so.
$400 fix to replace everything with steel and bearings
if the cover isn't ground into by the failing spring assembly.
Most people also replace the two sensors at the same time as
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KIRK: Duty? Did McCoy release you from Sickbay?
JOHNSON: I released myself.
Kirk: Then get back to Sickbay!
JOHNSON: Not on your life, sir. I'm fit and ready for action. The Klingons almost did me in once. I'm out to even the score.
Kirk: I order you...
JOHNSON: I've got my orders. I'm obeying orders! Kill the Klingons! It's them or us, isn't it?
KIRK: Johnson!
(They cross swords, but Spock neck-pinches Johnson. The light becomes yellow.)
SPOCK: Fascinating. During Lieutenant Johnson's emotional outburst, his expression of hatred and lust for vengeance, the alien's life energy level increased. When the Lieutenant became unconscious, the alien lost energy.
KIRK: It subsists on the emotions of others.
SPOCK: This one appears to be strengthened by mental irradiations of hostility, violent intentions.
KIRK: It exists on the hate of others.
SPOCK: To put it simply.
And it has acted as a catalyst; creating this situation in order to satisfy that need. It has brought together opposing forces & provided crude instruments in an effort to promote the most violent mode of conflict.
KIRK: And kept numbers and resources balanced, so that it can maintain a constant state of violence. It's got to have a vulnerable area. We've got to get rid of it.
SPOCK: Then all hostile attitudes on board must be eliminated. The fighting must end and soon.
KIRK: Or we're a doomed ship, travelling forever between galaxies, filled with eternal bloodlust, eternal warfare. Kang has got to listen. We've got to pool our knowledge and get rid of this thing. (goes to intercom) Kang. Kang, this is Captain Kirk.
KIRK [OC]: Kang, do you read me?
MARA: Commander, it's a trick!
KIRK: Kang. (switches off intercom) He won't answer.
Spock: The alien is affecting his mind, Captain. Soon, it will become so powerful that none of us will be able to resist it.
SCOTT [OC]: Scotty, sir.
SCOTT: The ship's dilithium crystals are deteriorating. We can't stop the process.
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Romance Sonambulo
by Federico Garcia Lorca
Stanza 5 Summary
Get out the microscope, because we're going through this poem line-by-line.
Lines 60-61
Green, how I want you green,
green wind, green branches.
- Here's that refrain again.
- How does the climb that's being undertaken by the speaker and his friend change it this time? It seems like the speaker is repeating his goal, even as he moves toward the object of his desire as he climbs.
Lines 62-65
The two friends climbed up.
The stiff wind left
in their mouths, a strange taste
of bile, of mint, and of basil
- Hmm. Well, it's not all high-fives around here.
- As they climb, the speaker and his friend encounter a strange taste. It kind of reminds us of that time in gym class, when we had to climb the rope, but only got halfway up before we got scared and swallowed our gum. But we digress…
- This is a very specific taste: bile (you know, that bitter taste that you get if you're sick or nauseous), mint (which seems refreshing), and basil (which is just… odd, but not unyummy).
- On the one hand, these tastes seem a mixed bag for our climbers, in the way that the pursuit of one's desire is almost always a mixed bag: exhilarating (mint-tasting), frustrating (bile-tasting), and sometimes neither of those things (basil?). The basil taste strikes us as an odd choice, but, like mint, it is a green leaf that's got a very specific flavor to it. Why do you think the speaker mentions it here?
Lines 66-67
My friend, where is she--tell me--
where is your bitter girl?
- It seems to us here that the speaker's friend is now talking to him, perhaps as they climb.
- There's still no sight of the "bitter girl."
- Will they ever reach her? And since she's bitter, should they even want to?
Lines 68-71
How many times she waited for you!
How many times would she wait for you,
cool face, black hair,
on this green balcony!
- Well, the friend is confident. This green girl has waited for our speaker many times before, and it seems like she'll keep on waiting for him.
- That's nice… or is it? Think about it: if this girl is so unattainable, yet so constant, in the speaker's life, is she not just kind of torturing him? Or do you think the speaker sees her as a comfort?
- On another note, her hair has gone from green to black. The balcony is still green, though, so even though she's now more recognizably human, she's still very much associated with green.
- But why the hair dye?
Lines 72-75
Over the mouth of the cistern
the gypsy girl was swinging,
green flesh, her hair green,
with eyes of cold silver.
- Wheee! That old swing-over-the-cistern game again. We played it all the time back on the farm. A cistern is basically a really (really)big receptacle for water. It seems like it would be dangerous to swing over it, but then again, this is a gypsy girl—she's game. Remember from line 10 that Lorca saw the gypsies as a free-spirited, passionate people. It seems like swinging over a cistern is a pretty gypsy thing to do.
- Also, though now her hair has gone back to green from black, her eyes are still silver. This is for sure the same girl that that speaker has been longing for throughout the poem.
Lines 76-77
An icicle of moon
holds her up above the water.
- Okay, that sounds even less safe. We're not sure that anyone should be swinging from an icicle, let alone a moon icicle.
- Though the gypsy girl is in a precarious way, though, she seems also otherworldly in this visual image. As she swings from the moon, she's both impossibly high, and delicately balanced. One false move, we feel, might send her into the water below.
Lines 78-79
he night became intimate
like a little plaza.
- Hmm. So now that speaker seems to be nearing this gypsy girl, the night seems to shrink around him, like a "little plaza."
- This simile suggests that the speaker is paying attention only to her, and the rest of reality is blocked out. It's just her and him together in the night. Perhaps his long-frustrated pursuit is finally at an end.
Lines 80-81
Drunken "Guardias Civiles"
were pounding on the door.
- Nope. We spoke too soon. Sorry, speaker. We interrupt this magical, intimate moment to bring you some drunken guards pounding on your door.
- History note: The Guardias Civiles, or Civil Guards, were a part of the Spanish Army, basically like the Spanish military police.
- It seems like the speaker just won't ever reach his goal, as here he's interrupted by brutish, drunken louts, pulling him rudely out of his dream. The intimacy is cut short by this ominous arrival.
Lines 82-85
Green, how I want you green.
Green wind. Green branches.
The ship out on the sea.
And the horse on the mountain.
- And now, a final refrain. Here, at the poem's end, the speaker's parting apostrophe reminds us of the thing he most desired, but was never able to attain. As well, we get the lonely ship and the isolated horse. After seeing the speaker nearly climb up to the balcony of his beloved, we're left with these two sad images, and it seems that we're invited to see the speaker in that same way: a tiny speck of consciousness, surrounded by an unfeeling vastness.
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Hey guys,
I just wanted to know if you are going to upgrade your t2 weapon first or if you are going to buy missing pvp items first?
Upgrade weapon or buy items?
Started by RobbieW, Nov 30 2012 04:46 PM
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Upgrade the weapon first and then buy full conquest gear
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mr mirion why are you typing on aj and not responding on skype....suspicious much
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"OOOOHHHHH!!! Down goes Wolak!!! Down goes Wolak!!! I've been hearing that Pawel Wolak wants a piece of 'The Dog,'" said Bundrage, whose ring nickname is "K9."
"People are saying that he is interested in a fight with me from what I've been hearing. I've been hearing that Pawel Wolak wants to fight me on Dec.3."
The 38-year-old Bundrage (31-4, 18 knockouts) was referring to Wolak's recent interview with RingTV.com, when he expressed the desire to meet Bundrage on the Cotto-Margarito PPV undercard.
"Cornelius Bundrage has been coming up as a possible name for me," said Wolak. "I think that coming back on the Cotto card is probably the best thing for me."
Bundrage was encouraged, to say the least.
"I was so happy and excited that I tried to call [his promoter] Don King and [his manager] Emanuel Steward, but I mis-dialed and wound up calling 911," said Bundrage. "When I finally talked to Emanuel, he basically said, 'Let's do it.' I'm the world champion, and I'm not mandatory to fight Pawel Wolak, but I think that I'd give him the opportunity."
Nicknamed "The Raging Bull," the 29-year-old Wolak (29-1-1, 19 KOs) has an 8-0-1 unbeaten streak that includes five stoppages in his past nine fights.
The New Jersey-based Pole, known for his in-your-face style of fighting, is coming off of a majority draw against Dominican Republic-born Delvin Rodriguez (25-5-3, 14 KO) on July 15.
"It would be a good fight because he's one of those guys who is going to be right there, and he's a fan-pleaser. But I'm also a fan-pleaser, so I'm going to be right there with him," said Bundrage. "I think they're going to let the dog off the chain for this one, and I'm ready for it. I'm ready for this type of a fight."
Bundrage is coming off of last month's unanimous decision over Sechew Powell (26-3, 15 KOs) that avenged his first-round knockout loss from May of 2005.
Prior to facing Powell, Bundrage dethroned Cory Spinks for the belt, winning by fifth-round knockout in August of nearly a year ago.
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The Foreman-Bundrage bout was stopped after Foreman was cut by an accidental head butt. Bundrage trailed, 29-28, on two judges' cards, and, 30-27, on that of the third at the time the bout's end.
"Wolak beat Yuri Foreman, but I was the blueprint to beating Yuri Foreman," said Bundrage. "If you go back to that fight, I was getting ready to stop Yuri Foreman when he got cut."
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"Manny already told me that he wouldn't stop me from eating," said Bundrage. "He told me that he would eat some popcorn, have a Coke and a smile and sit back and watch the fight."
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This is my first attempt on writing something like this so keep with me for at least some lines.
Some of you may know of me, others have likely never heard of me.
What i will do in this thread is to explain on some things that have bugged me for a few months and that i want to share with the public.
Ill start from day zero, they day i got my Xbox...
Time warp around 2 years back in time:
I got this big bulky box and know this much: I was in need of a chip.
A x2lite was ordered within the hour and three days later it arrived. Three days i spent on mIRC reading up and on xbox-scenes pages with tutorials and on alot of forums.
Evo-X got installed as for most of us, but i soon found that i only used XBMP. (2.1 Or 2.2 i think it was)
I liked it so much so i started to write tutorials for it and uploaded them to my ISP web space.
I soon found myself spending most of my free time in various xbmp related mIRC channels giving support and testing new builds that came out.
After a few months i was asked if i wanted to join the @´s in #XBMP. We where a close gang, 5 or so active people, all spending more time then is healthy on this little app.
We must have gotten the attention of the development team because they invited us in as testers and support/techhelpers.
Of course we joined, we where delighted of this, but at the same time our roles changed abit as we where now part of something bigger.
As XBMP, and XBMC, are open source projects and fully legal rule changes in the mIRC channel came.
No piracy, No XDK files.
In short: No illegal stuff at all!
Before this, xbmp builds was often found in the chan by people hosting ftps or dccing them around.
But as said, in one stroke all of this was changed.
We enforce this policy, and we do it often and hard.
This have gotten me, and some of the other team members, reputations of being stiff morons that kick, ban and blacklist people just for the fun of it.
This is further from the truth then anything!
Just some examples so you see it from our perspective:
(I will use XBMC as examples as it is the thing closest to my situation and how i look on things but this goes for the majority of homebrew apps)
A guy joins the mIRC channel and asks for a new build.
He gets a kick.
He rejoins and asks again.
This time he gets a ban.
Now he starts to pm the @ that banned him with threats and questions why he was banned.
The sad thing is if he had taken the time to just read the channel topic he would have known what rules applied.
The first kick should have been a clue too you would think.
This happens daily: We get harassed by people that think they can do as they please...
Example 2:
A guy starts a thread on how-to install XBMC.
Topic gets locked with the explanation and instructions to read the pinned topics.
Some do read them, others send you a pm and call you an asshole for closing their thread and claim the answer isnt there.
The sad thing this time is that the guy wants to be spoon-feed the information and do not want to take five minutes reading up on it himself.
The topics, and especially the manual, are there for a reason.
We do not owe anyone anything. Time and effort has been put into making tutorials and organising threads.
Is it our fault that they do not read the rules or the manual?
These people tend to have their vcr´s clocks blink 00:00.
They have the manual but do not bother to read it but take it to the store where they got it to fix it.
What takes more effort?
Reading the manual for 5 minutes or unhooking the vcr, drive to the store, have the employee tell you that the info is in the manual, drive back home and hook it all up and then read?
So what about this you now think. Is this so hard to deal with?
A guy asking a question in a mIRC channel and a guy posting a thread on a forum.
Hell, anyone can deal with this!
The answer: Maybe.
The examples above happens several times EACH day.
And instead of TRYING they cry out for help as it is our job to do the work for them!
One thing i can tell you is that you will get pissed on a lot. Infact it will happen every day by these kinds of people.
We try to keep it as civil as we can, but sometimes the bucket WILL overflow.
Are we, or any mod, admin, developer or person in question, morons, imbeciles, stupid or all of the above because people do not read the material given them?
This we get each day...
Each day for the better part of 1½ years!
Yes, we can be rude at times giving people the very simple RTFM (Read The Fucking Manual).
And yes, we may have short fuses when it comes to abuse on the team when it is a user error causing the problem and the thing missing is the will to read!
We, and a lot of people, spend the better part of their spare time giving support, writing tutorials and adding to the online manual.
We get no $$$ for this, at best some sample modchips to test new additions on. Thats it.
We rely totally on goodwill from people. Our official site was donated to us and a lot of files people get are hosted by us personally. I host a codec pack for xbmc and some scripts that total more GB of traffic then ever would have thought possible, ~150-250Gb each month, from a shell i got because my ISP web space was too little.
Others in the team do the same, and we pay with our own hard earned cash.
Same goes for the mIRC-bots used for the channels, time and money goes into setting them up and make them play nice...
We provide help for free. Infact we actually pay money to help YOU.
Just because we love the joy this app brought us and a lot of others around the world.
But still we get harassed and called idiots by people that do not want to read or do not care about the rules WE have set.
It is easy to say "Do not listen to them", but i promise you that you will reach for the +b as often as us.
On the other hand we have a huge fan base.
People that help out a lot on these forums and in our mIRC channel, they get to little credit for the work they do. (If you feel that you are one of them when you read this know this: We rely on your help with support and general questions. Keep doing what you are doing, you take some of the burden from us, and in doing so makes us less grumpy)
They do not have the "power" to kick someone behaving badly or to send out a warning so they often drop of after a few months abuse by newbies or flamers.
I do not want to think about the amount of knowledge "lost" from the forums because of this...
This, along with the bitch thread by HSDemonz, is a reminder that ALL apps in the homebrew scene are FREE!.
Bitching on something you got for free (look at the price for a MediaCenter OS for the PC, though MediaPortal is both great and free, and maybe you will like XBMC even more.) and that is open source WILL earn you the title of moron.
We do not think we are better then anyone, but we do think people should think and use the tools at hand before saying something they likely will regret.
But you can not force people to read you will think!
True, but they forfit their right to get helped at the same time. Spoon-feeding is NOT a right you can lean back on!
Of +6000 different people joining the channel #xbmc the last 200 days over 3000 kicks have been served.
Q: Is it our fault that people do not want to follow the rules set? A: No
Q: Are we power-hungry kiddies with @? A: No, must of us are over 25, some close to 40.
Q: Should we be nice when threatened and belittled by someone that think he is gods gift to Xboxs? A: Hell no!
But the scariest part about this is the fact that some developers do not read forums, or join public channels, as they just get pissed of by people acting like spoiled brats!
It has even been said as a joke that developers are prohibited to join and read forums. A joke that is not the least bit funny, but very close to true.
Saying that the devs should just shrug it of is also plain dumb, they do not have do to jackshit when abused, flamed or rideculed!
So instead of giving technical help on some issues that we, the techsupport guys, might not master they might rather keep away from forums and/or public channels then running the risk to be flamed by a kid. (That often tend to be more close to 20 years then 12 and that should know better!)
We in the team and the people that try and read-up on things are not really affected by this, as we tend to overcome the problems we encounter, but all this will do is to make your own problems worse and alienate the developers from the public.
And to be 100% honest with you all, i personally do not care one bit about these people, nor do i help them with their problems anymore.
Do not shoot yourself in the foot by attacking and blaming someone.
You do not know what this person can do for you, or rather, maybe WONT do for you!
This rant was made to put how we act, and why, in a view most do not think of: Namely ours.
You are all welcome to join us in #xbmc , and i promise you that as long as you play by the rules and behave like you would if you sat with us in a normal room you will find out that we are really a very cool gang of people that like to hangout and help people and just chat.
All of this is written from my point of view as op in #xbmc and as a moderator here on xbox-scene and the official XBMC forum.
These views are MINE and can not be said or used to implie other team members thoughts on matters addressed.
I do not know what any other teams or people think of this rant, but i do think many agree with the core of the above said things.
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FDA held a meeting in November to open the PDUFA 4 debate. Acting Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach termed PDUFA reauthorization "critical" to FDA's ability to make "biomedical innovation a reality." Deputy Commissioner Janet Woodcock described how user fees have been expanded twice since 1992 to support a broad range of FDA activities, from early discovery to post-market surveillance, including improvements in agency information systems.
MORE FOR SAFETYNow FDA wants to use fee revenues to further extend drug safety oversight and to review direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising before it goes public. The agency also would like to devote some of its added resources to improving the increasingly complex drug development process, as part of its Critical Path Initiative. An FDA white paper describes the agency's case for increas-ing appropriated funds, in addition to user fees, to support the agency's expanding public health responsibilities. [For more information, see the white paper, available at http://www.fda.gov/oc/pdufa.]
FDA cites an expanded workload to justify fee revisions: while new drug applications (NDAs) and biologics license applications (BLAs) have been fairly flat, efficacy and manufacturing supplements continue to rise. FDA struggled last year to schedule and plan for more than 2,000 industry-requested meetings and to assess nearly 350 special research protocols, many involving new carcinogenicity and stability test methods.
FDA has launched similar discussions involving reauthorization of user fees for medical device manufacturers, which also expire in 2007. Officials at FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health also seek to use more of the fees collected under the Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act of 2002 for postmarket surveillance, a proposal gaining momentum following recent safety crises involving pacemakers and defibrillators.
Pharma and biotech companies want to renew PDUFA but limit fee increases and the use of fee revenues for activities unrelated to drug development and market approval. Sponsors now pay almost $800,000 to file an NDA or BLA, which spurs proposals for more waivers and reduced fees for small companies and orphan drug developers.
The broader goal is to prevent a PDUFA reauthorization bill from becoming a "Christ-mas tree" loaded with legislation peripheral to the drug approval process. Measures to encourage development of follow-on biologics, to establish new drug safety oversight arrangements, to mandate completion of post-approval studies, and to boost oversight of DTC advertising are just some of the popular proposals circulating on Capitol Hill.
However, manufacturers do support efforts to link PDUFA reauthorization to legislation that renews incentives for studying drugs in pediatric populations, which also is up for reauthorization in 2007. The six-month patent extensions have been a boon for pharma companies, while also generating important pediatric labeling information.
Before talking about more fees, Abbott Senior Vice President Bruce Burlington, representing Pharma-ceutical Research and Manufacturers of America at the November meeting, urged further discussion about whether current user fee revenues are wisely spent. Industry experts expressed support for continued development of FDA computer information systems; however, Alison Lawton of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) questioned whether FDA's continuous market application pilot programs have been successful.


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A Pune-based support group has found a unique model to assist people infected with HIV/AIDS in the Asia-Pacific.
Here the helping hand extended to the AIDS-inflicted is neither by a foundation nor an NGO which we are familiar with but those hit by the deadly virus themselves!
In other words it is run by people living with HIV/AIDS for people living with HIV/AIDS.
Named Taal Center & Pharmacy, the forum was established by Network of Positive People Living with HIV/AIDS (INP+), Network of Maharashtra by People Living with HIV/AIDS (NMP+, NNP+) in association with Emcure.
When we realize that Emcure Pharmaceuticals Ltd, is one of India's leading pharmaceutical companies, Taal will also qualify to be a distinctive example of much needed corporate and public partnerships in expanding the HIV prevention and care efforts.
While Emcure ensures the pharmacies through the steady supply of a range of ARV drugs at subsidized prices apart from supporting the infrastructure requirements, as part of this corporate social responsibility initiative, NMP+, NNP+ and INP+ will manage the programme.
Those HIV+ people registered with NNP+ will avail of the benefits of the pharmacy. Apart from medicines Taal will provide consultation on treatment, counselling and advocacy to PLWHA.
"Despite initiatives by organisations like WHO & NACO there are still many numbers of PLWHA who are not receiving medication, complicated eligibility criteria, non-availability of required testing are also roadblocks. With this initiative, we are hoping to bridge a part of this gap, while ensuring that the social stigma of the illness does not pose a further barrier," opined Shivaji Barge, VP, NMP+.
In an effort to make Taal services accessible to more number of PLWHA, the second in the series of Taal centre & pharmacy is established at Nagpur. This centre will have a pharmacy, which will dispense ARV & other drugs at substantially subsidized cost for people living with HIV/AIDS and will also have counselling services and will facilitate access to medical advice regarding treatment for HIV positive people.
In the coming months the concept will be replicated in many other cities in India with high prevalence of HIV/AIDS, the organizers said.
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PUNE: Having lost almost half its estimated urad and moong dal production, Maharashtra's agriculture department is now focusing on tur. It has launched a special campaign to save the crop of tur and get maximum yield from it.
Tur has come into the limelight since the retail price of lentil touched Rs 100 per kg mark. Hence, the urgency for the campaign especially in Maharashtra which goes to the polls next month. State agriculture commissioner Prabhakar Deshmukh said: "The sowing of kharif pulses in 2009 has been less by 23% as compared to the average area of pulses. The stress in rain-affected the vegetative growth of whatever urad and moong we could sow, thus further affecting its production as these are short duration crops."


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In hindsight Nov. 12 was the day to "fill 'er up" with the price of regular gas selling for a statewide average of $3.18 a gallon, according to gasbuddy.com. That was the lowest price in the past 12 months.
The average price for regular in the Sunshine State on Wednesday was $3.449 a gallon, with the national average at $3.264.
Robert Stuart of Sebring wondered about the fluctuating gas prices on Wednesday as he stopped for gas.
"I can't understand how come they've gone up so fast in a few days," he said. "It went up like 35 cents in two days."
He doesn't travel too much, but when he does, such as on trips to Washington, D.C., he takes the train when possible, Stuart said.
Andy Stoner of Sebring stopped to fill-up his pickup truck Wednesday as he was headed to Tallahassee with a large travel trailer in tow.
He said there wasn't much that he could do about the gas prices, but pay whatever it cost.
Stoner said his mobile repair trucks use about $75 in gas a day.
The major breakthrough with Iran over the weekend could cause the recent uptick in prices to reverse course completely, gasbuddy.com reports.
Oil prices opened the week notably lower, as traders reacted to the news that perhaps Iran's oil will be back on the table in the future, pending agreements to curb the serious sanctions plaguing Iran, resulting in a crippling grip on its oil program.
Black Friday consumers had about $1.93-billion more to spend on items other than fuel this November thanks to savings seen so far this month, according to gasbuddy. The savings versus 2011 is an equally compelling $1.5-billion, but November fuel costs project to about $2-billion more than in the same month of 2010.


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Pettersson says, "I've experienced a lot of different cultures and as a young kid moving place to place, you're not really afraid of going to different places, so it's a good experience."
A Masters rookie, Pettersson played his college golf at N.C. State, one of the best conferences around.
"N.C. State is in the ACC, and the ACC is one of the best conferences for golf...a lot of good schools. I've played a lot of good college tournaments," Pettersson says.
Pettersson still keeps up with his Wolfpack and writes blogs for the program every now and then...and when he's home, a trip to a football or basketball game isn't out of the question.
"I try to keep up with N.C. State and see how they're doing and stuff like that, and try to go to a few football games when I'm home," he says.
Last year was his best on tour. He won the Chrysler Classic by a shot. That victory took a lot of pressure off his shoulders.
"A lot of hard work...I'm glad I managed to get it done, and it was a tough course and a lot of pressure, but it was a relief, really. I've had a few chances before and hadn't pulled it off so it was nice knowing I could do it," Pettersson says.
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The next day they said farewell to Gothia Castle and to Benoic and began the journey to Albion, the great Capital of Avalonia. There they met William in an old pub, a huge man with arms likes Quinn´s waist. He told them that in the Mystic Islands there were secrets and treasures all over the place. Quinn didn´t want treasures or secrets, she just wanted to fnd the one. The one Earth element that would bring glory for her, for her uncle and for the whole of Benoic. William mutterd and came back with an old script. -Look, he said. -On one of these three islands the Earth element should be located. But no one have ever been there. Tales of something evil have haunted the islands for centuries. - We must go there! Quinn was excited and jumped up and down. -Calm down girl! William was annoyed that her excitment drawed attention from the other guests in the pub. -We will go, but my payment is not cheap...
The three companions had now beceame four. Fahkr was annoyed, Quinn seemed to be intrested in William. In Williams mind the only thing was glory and gold, much gold! Quinn had promised him gold for a life time if he only led them right in the dangerous waters around the mystic islands. They searched all of the islands but it was not until they reached the third island that things became intresting. This island was also the smallest of the three and didn´t looked like it would hold the great Earth element. In the middle of the island a large temple was located. The temple was covered in dense vegetation. William began to clean up what looked like the entrance.
We are not alone, Fahkr wispered in Quinn´s ear. There is someone or something watching us. I can feel it in my body. - Let´s hope that they are friendly, Quinn said, trying to ease the tension but deep in her self she knewed Fahkr was right. From the moment their feets landed on the island she felt uncomfortable. -I found a door!, William sounded happy and showed them his work. In front of them was a large door, made of old wood. The door was easy to open and they stepped into the temple. In front of them was a large crypt covered in the same vegetation as outside. -Look, said William, the Eye of Avalonia! We are here! We are in the right place! To the right of them a large window was located. Known as the Eye of Avlonia.
The compainons walked downed the stair. All except for Quinn, her eyes was stucked on the little shiny stone in the middle.
-I don´t like this plant, Fahkr said, and poked with his sword on the dense green vegetaion that covered the wall.
Do not touch anything! William was angry and let Fahkr knew it.
Quinn stepped down the stair, Fahkr guared the door as he was sure someone or something was watching them. William and Sealgair looked across the tomb waiting for someone or something to attack them. Quinn was close to the element now.
Just a little more now, she thought and reached up at the pillar.
With a large crash the pillar felt in to the floor. Quinn quickly picked up the Earth Element and was stunned. Inside she saw..
-What is this!? William looked down at a large pool of something sticky and watery. -Looks like saliva, Sealgair replied. But from what?
Little did they know that the Guardian of the temple was the plant itself. And it was not ready to give up the Element!
I choose to let my challenge end like this... The earth element was brought back to Benoic but how and by who will follow in my free builds!
C&C Much welcome! Thanks to Z for ideas and thoughts, SoT as always for interior designs. The idea for the Guardians is from
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Principles Quotes in A Game of Thrones
How we cite our quotes: (Absolute Chapter, Character Name, Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
"Honor set you on the kingsroad... and honor brought you back."
"My friends brought me back," Jon said.
"Did I say it was your honor?" (71 Jon 9.94-6)
Aw snap. Nice one, Mormont. There's a way in which principles in this book aren't just personal; in Jon's case, the oath was a social bond – and his friends aren't about to let him run out on this society.