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Well, it's been a few days since the big reveal and everyone and their froglok has had their say. Now it's my turn, a little delayed because I was away all weekend. I'm not going to cover what was actually revealed here, that's been done in plenty of other places.
Before the reveal I'd been hearing some worrying things about the game. I'd been told that the only sandbox element was user-created content in the same way as EQII's Player Studio. What we were actually shown is potentially much, much more interesting than that, but there remain so many unanswered questions that I'm still unsure about how sandboxy the game actually will be.
My initial reaction after seeing the reveal was very positive, but since then I've calmed down and realised that SOE didn't actually tell us very much. In fact, they didn't really show any content at all, just a glorified tech demo. So, it's going to be very interesting to see how the game develops over the next year or two.
I have real concerns over the game still. Apart from all the unanswered questions I have concerns over the combat, pvp, how much of the game will be instanced (especially with regards to the "underworld"), how much of the lore I love from the original they are going to "reimagine", how much choice players will really have in shaping the world (the devs have stated that destructible environments will heal and you can't be a villain during the Rallying Call events), and so on.
Another thing was that for all their talk of destructibility we didn't actually see that much of it demonstrated. During all of the combat there were plenty of rocks and stones flying round, but apart from the broken bridge and the hole to the underworld, the floor and walls of the area were left completely unmarked by all the activity.
My biggest concern is that SOE have constantly made bad decisions about their games in the past. From terrible combat updates, to the Star Wars Galaxies debacle, to the move to ProSiebenSat.1 for European players. It's this last part that has me annoyed (still). Even without going into all the myriad of problems ProSiebenSat.1 have brought to the table, it looks like I won't be able to play EQNext with all the friends I made during my time in EQ and EQII, because I won't be able to play on US servers. These are people I have known and player with for years.
There are glimmers of hope. I'm really interested in the work Storybricks are doing with the AI system. It sound really interesting, but I can't help but feel that it won't actually turn out to be anything like as powerful as the hype says. Still, it's this one factor that I feel really has the promise to set EQ Next above the competition.
Despite all my concerns the reveal did it's job in that I am actually interested in following the game now, and will very likely play it come release (I played both EQ and EQII for very extended periods). It's one game I'm not going to get too hyped up about though. There is so much potential, but that could just mean so much more potential disappointment as well.
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Over the weekend, in between wandering through the Motown Museum in Detroit and watching the fantastic Michigan Wolverines beat Ohio State for the first time in eight years, I read this piece in the Wall Street Journal. It made me think that we spend a lot of time talking about what we are reading in terms of subject matter and what we are reading on (i.e., Kindles, tablets, phones, and other electronic devices or actual physical books) but we don't spend a lot of time, though, thinking about where we like to be when we read for pleasure.
For example, I work every night in my home office, editing proposals, answering e-mails, reading query letters. But when I want to read a book for pleasure I immediately gravitate to a big comfortable chair in my living room where I can curl up and really enjoy the whole experience of reading. Oftentimes, one or both of my dogs will join me which makes the experience all the more cozy. I actually find that I cannot read for pleasure anywhere else in my house (except perhaps in bed right before I go to sleep).
Then, of course, there is the beach where we try to go for vacation at least once a year—I can sit under an umbrella and read on the beach for hours at a time. In fact, I'll be on a beach with a good book in just a few weeks when we close our offices for the holidays.
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How many more Grand Slams do you think Wimbledon champion Roger Federer will win?
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The No. 5-seeded Roddick will play in the second week at Wimbledon for the first time.
"You're thankful to still be around," he said. "The first week's always tough. There are a lot of guys with not a lot to lose just gunning. This is a big stage where they want to leave their mark. To survive it is tough."
Long touted as the next great American player, Roddick has a spotty record in Grand Slam events. He's into the fourth round for only the fourth time in the 11 major tournaments he has played. He's seeking his first Grand Slam title.
"The first one is always the toughest to get," said Roddick, 20. "The biggest fear is the fear of the unknown — if you haven't done it before, you don't know yet. But I'm starting to believe in myself, and I'm definitely here to try to win this tournament."
Roddick has yet to lose a set in three matches, and he's 8-0 on grass since Brad Gilbert became his coach earlier this month. He parted with coach Tarik Benhabiles, his coach since 1999, after losing in the first round at the French Open.
"The only thing Tarik and I talked about — I said, 'I just need something fresh, something new, something exciting,' " Roddick said. "Brad was the person. His name most excited me. I thought there was the best potential there."
His fourth-round opponent Monday will be No. 12 Paradorn Srichaphan, who beat promising 17-year-old Spaniard Rafael Nadal 6-4, 6-4, 6-2.
Paradorn, who upset Andre Agassi in the second round at Wimbledon last year, is 1-1 against Roddick. They've never met on grass.
"He hits the ball very hard," Roddick said. "He really goes for his shots, and he's a super athlete, so it's going to be tough."
But Roddick will be wielding the big serve that saved him against Robredo. He hit nine aces and 33 service winners, faced only one break point and topped out at 135 mph.
"Obviously that's my best shot, and I definitely appreciate it," Roddick said.
"Roddick's second serve is like my first," Robredo said.
The No. 25-seeded Spaniard lost serve only twice himself, was the more aggressive player early and kept Roddick off balance with occasional drop shots.
"He played a very smart match tactically," Roddick said. "He didn't let me stay in one spot for too long. He was spot-on with the shots he went for, and that's the best he has served against me. He definitely surprised me."
As often happens on grass, the match swung on just a handful of points. Robredo made only two mistakes in the tiebreaker — a double fault, and then a forehand error on his final shot — and they cost him the set.
The pivotal game in the second set was the fifth, when Roddick chased down yet another Robredo drop shot to earn the first break of the match. Roddick broke at love for a 2-1 lead in the final set and served it out from there.
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2395 Hamner Ave Ste J, Norco, California
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2822 Hamner Ave, Norco, California
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Q: Why and how does salt affect the boiling point of
A: Adding salt to water raises the temperature at which water boils. The more
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cups (473 milliliters) of water can raise the boiling point from 212 degrees
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When water is about to boil, the water molecules near the surface bop around.
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enough energy to zap past air molecules directly above the water surface.
Suppose we add salt to the water that's about ready to boil. Now the surface
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- I get in some sort of a zone when I'm blogging. Once I start on a blog, it's like I don't stop for anything. I'm really thirsty and my feet are cold. Still blogging!
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What do you use to take off your lip color without it drying the lips or making them chapped?ReplyDeleteReplies
In between trying each of these on, I dabbed the color off on a Kleenex. Sometimes trying on a bunch of lip products makes my lips feel really dry or irritated, but the process was actually pretty comfortable with these! :)Delete
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I've found that using some petroleum jelly really works in taking off all the lipstick and it helps make the lips really moisturized and smooth after! Using it is great if you're doing multiple lip swatches so you don't rub your lips raw by taking off the products. :) also, you won't be left with stained lips after! (Even the deepest colors come off like magic!)
I was turned onto Bite b/c they are one of the few lip product companies that are 100% gluten free. Got one and have been addicted ever since. Not just b/c they fit my gluten free needs, but like you stated...the color payoff and product itself is AMAZING!ReplyDelete
I bought this set during the VIB sale and have one other one like this. I also have ventured into their Lush Fruit Lip Gloss and am in love with those. They are very dense rich coverage. Perfect for MN winter weather. I have them in Rambutan - peachy nude, Apple - candy apple red, and Peach - baby pink. Couldn't be more perfect. I highly recommend trying one. A honey laquer is on it's way now from Sephora and I can update you on this is you want?
Take care and happy holidays. Great review. You were spot on with THIS product. :)Replies
Awesome!! Thanks for the heads up on the glosses. So impressed with this brand. Would love to hear what you think of your latest purchase!Delete
Oh I will have to check these out .. Thank you!ReplyDelete
I went to an Estee Lauder counter at the The Bay department store and was going to purchase the double wear foundation. But the sales consultant advised me to try the double wear LIGHT foundation because my skin didn't need all that foundation. And O...M...G! I love it, I don't see any fading around my t-zone, and I feel so complete with that and my double wear concealer on trouble spots (under inner corner eyes and nose tip). Totally worth the money in my opinion :)ReplyDelete
Do these last on the lips pretty well or will there be alot of reapplying throughout the day?ReplyDelete
Love the blog and channel!!
I've really been wanting to try the Estee Lauder Double Wear, now I will be definitely be trying it out :)ReplyDelete
Retsina and Pomegranate are my favorites on you. Gorgeous!ReplyDelete
I've never really paid much attention to Bite lippies but the formula sounds very impressive and the swatches look nice. Great review!ReplyDelete
I got this kit for my bday in October and I love it too! I think Mulberry may be my favorite as well, but Palomino is totally a close second!ReplyDelete
Oh, I love how many different shades there are! They all look absolutely beautiful.ReplyDelete
You Lucky thing! I haven't gotten anything up for Christmas. Guess what I'm doing this weekend LOLReplyDelete
Wow, these are so gorgeous! Love that beautiful red on you <3ReplyDelete
Hi Emily - I'd love to see a review of the ELDW Light foundation! I like light coverage - are you planning on doing a review of it? Thanks!!!ReplyDelete
Ohmygosh! All of those look fantastic, beautiful & gorgeous on you!!!ReplyDelete
They all look so good on you! I love that mulberry shade!ReplyDelete
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Such beautiful lipstick shades! I've been wanting to try Bite lipsticks but haven't gotten around to doing so! Great post Emily!ReplyDelete
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Oh My!!! im a lipstick junkie... this is something right up my alley! thank you emily you rock! :)ReplyDelete
That last duo is gorgeous on you but again you look amazing in any color lipstick, lucky!!ReplyDelete
Hmmmm... year... so i want!!! GORGEOUS!!!!ReplyDelete
Can't wait for another empties video from you!!ReplyDeleteReplies
me too!!!!!! film it asap emily!Delete
What do these lipsticks smell like?ReplyDeleteReplies
I bought a Bite Beauty lipstick in Fig. It doesn't smell like anything really. It's a good lipstick. =)Delete
Quick question: Can you see the color from the packaging without opening all the caps? I figured if there are 8 of them, I don't want to have to open all 8 of them one by one to find the right color though.ReplyDelete
I love DW light! Too bad that they don't sell the lightest shade in Finland, which I think is crazy!ReplyDelete
can't wait to see your next empties video! would also love to see a video or blog post on your holiday decor!ReplyDelete
Love the rose and palomino shades. Such great contrast with the pink and the red tone :) Great review as always.ReplyDelete
They are all gorgeous and they all look lovely on you!! How do you do it?! xReplyDelete
I love the Bite Beauty crème lipsticks! I recently purchased one in Fig and I absolutely love it. I never wear lipsticks, but these are super smooth & creamy. They wear wonderfully :)ReplyDelete
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On the November 3 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly called for "a full-body search" on his co-host, Lis Wiehl. During a conversation about a recent New York Sun editorial (subscription required) on a lawsuit over New York City's policy of subway bag checks, O'Reilly said: "Would you please -- would you please bring in some security to do a full-body search on ... Lis Wiehl." When Wiehl repeated, "I said my bags, not my body," O'Reilly responded, "Full-body search on Lis Wiehl right this minute. She asked for it." Wiehl is also an author, Harvard-trained law professor, and legal analyst for Fox News.
O'Reilly settled a sexual harassment suit filed against him in October 2004. The November 3 comments were not the first he has made to Wiehl about her appearance. As Media Matters for America has documented, on the October 26 broadcast of his radio show, O'Reilly claimed he was "outraged" about a recent CBS poll on border control and asked Wiehl to protest the network while wearing a bikini. In response to her resistance, he asked her, "Don't you love your country?" and, "Don't you want fairness in the media?" In another instance, on the June 21, 2004, broadcast of The Radio Factor, O'Reilly called Wiehl "eye candy" and told her, "You're here because you're good-looking, so I got somebody to look over."
From the November 3 broadcast of Westwood One's The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly:
WIEHL: I want my bags searched. I want it. When I'm in the subway, I want it.
O'REILLY: Would you please -- would you please bring in some security to do a full-body search on --
WIEHL: [laughing] No --
O'REILLY: -- on Lis Wiehl.
WIEHL: I said my bags, not my body.
O'REILLY: Come on, call security.
WIEHL: My bags, not my body.
O'REILLY: No, no, no, no, we have security right out there. Full-body search on Lis Wiehl right this minute. She asked for it.
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Questions from December 23rd, 2003 - April 20th, 2004
Week 1 Question: Was the Horn of Valere known and used in the Age of Legends? Or did it only appear in the Third Age?
Robert Jordan Answers: The Horn of Valere was known in the Age of Legends, though it was an artifact of an earlier age, but it was never used in the Age of Legends. In part, this was because there wasn't any need in an Age that knew universal peace, but also it was because what it could do was considered a sort of myth by most people in that Age. No one who is serious spends time trying to test out whether a myth might be real. (Seen anybody sacrificing a white bull to Jupiter lately?) And once the Dark One touched the world, before the War of the Shadow actually began, the Horn was among the items lost, and thought destroyed, in the first rush of mob violence, terrorism etc. So it wasn't available for use then even had someone wanted to try. It was later recovered and sealed up with the Dragon Banner because along with the Foretellings that made up the Prophecies of the Dragon was one saying that it must be.
In any case, the story of the Horn was carried on through the Age of Legends in the same way that myths are today, and magnified thereafter though the twisting that occurs in the telling and retelling of a story. And believe me, stories about the Dragon Reborn and the Prophecies and everything concerned with them were rife during the Breaking. When everything is going to hell around them, people cling to anything and everything that might offer hope. That is how the Breaking could end with tales of the Dragon Reborn and the Prophecies already on many peoples' lips.
Week 2 Question: Once all three prequel novels are written, is there any particular order you would recommend new readers read the prequels/books? Should they start off with the prequel novels, or finish with them, or read each one at certain points throughout the series?
Robert Jordan Answers: I intend to write each of the prequel novels just as I did New Spring: The Novel, in such a way that someone could pick any one of them up and begin there with no other exposure to The Wheel of Time, but for best effect, I suggest reading them in the order that they will be published. If you read the second one first, you might find a few surprises spoiled in New Spring: The Novel. And if you read the third one first, you would certainly find spoilers for the first book and some for the second. As for whether to begin with the prequel novels or with the main sequence books, you can do either.
Week 3 Question: There are many theories that attempt to create a connection of time duration to the transmigration of the dead Forsaken. Are there time and/or power constraints on the Dark One's ability to transmigrate souls?
Robert Jordan Answers: There are definitely time constraints on the Dark One's power to transmigrate a soul. The soul doesn't have to be secured immediately - that is, the Dark One doesn't have to be ready to snatch the soul at the instant of death - but the longer that passes after the death, the less chance that the Dark One will be able to secure the soul. Someone who has been killed with balefire in actuality died before the apparent time of his or her death, and thus the window of opportunity for the Dark One to secure that soul for transmigration is gone before the Dark One can know that the soul must be secured unless the amount of balefire used is very small. Remember that the more balefire is used, the further back the target's thread is burned out of the pattern.
After the soul is secured, then a suitable body must be acquired and stripped of the (former) owner's memory and soul to make way for the favored one. By the way, what constitutes a suitable body from the Dark One's perspective is not that of the recipient. Certainly Aginor would never have chosen to be reincarnated in his, shall we say, less than imposing body, nor would the womanizing Balthamel have chosen to be reincarnated as a beautiful woman. It was only chance that Moridin ended up in a body that is young, fairly good looking and physically imposing. Those things simply don't matter to the Dark One. But the body has to be basically healthy and sound, and neither too young nor too old. After all, the Dark One wants his servants to be effective, and a body that meets those basic requirements is more desirable than one that doesn't. Since there is no stockpile of such bodies, the only way for someone to die and immediately be reincarnated would be a matter of pure chance. That is, the death occurred when a suitable body was on hand for some other reason.
There are a few other limits and constraints, but I won't go into them here, since I may want to use them in the books, and I would rather they come as a surprise if I do.
Week 4 Question: At recent book signing following the release of Crossroads of Twilight, it was reported that you confirmed that the Forsaken Demandred has never posed as the man known as Mazrim Taim, who was introduced to Rand at the beginning of Lord of Chaos. Have you confirmed that Demandred has never posed as the man known as Mazrim Taim, leader of the Black Tower?
Robert Jordan Answers: Yes. Demandred has never posed as Mazrim Taim. All right, those of who fell over from the shock of a simple, straightforward answer can get up off the floor now. Sometimes, simple and straightforward can be the most devious of all, as any student of Aes Sedai will tell you. <Maniacal laughter from the shadows!>
Week 5 Question: How much do you expect your work on the prequels will delay the completion of the regular Wheel of Time series?
Robert Jordan Answers: Very little, I hope. The prequels are all to be much smaller books and considerably less complex than the main sequence titles, so I expect to finish each of them relatively quickly.
Week 6 Question: How do the Aes Sedai of the Red Ajah "find" men who can channel?
Robert Jordan Answers: We're told throughout the books that the male channelers get goose bumps whenever the females are channeling or embracing the source. However, it is continuously mentioned that the women don't know if the male Asha'man and Rand are embracing or channeling Saidin. So how does the Red Ajah and Cadsuane, find Male Channelers and then gentle them?
There are various ways that the effects of male channeling can be found, weaves that find the resonance of the residues of saidin. Check in Crossroads of Twilight. They do not detect the actual weaves, though, only the residues left after the weave is released. After that, it becomes a matter of detective work. Though perhaps stalking a leopard might be a better metaphor. As for Cadsuane, she has a few more tools at her disposal than other Aes Sedai, the reason for her extremely high success rate. Check Winter's Heart, and a few earlier mentions, for this one.
Week 7 Question: I would like to ask about knotting a weave. Does a channeler determine how long it will last when she knots it or is it dependent on her strength? If a channeler who knotted a weave died, would the weave dissipate immediately?
Robert Jordan Answers: The length of time the knot lasts is the choice of whoever makes the knot. It is not strength dependent. And the knot would continue in existence if the channeler died, at least if the channeler had not set it to unravel in a certain time. Remember, tying off a weave is a way to keep the weave in existence without having to actually channel to maintain it, so once it is tied off, there is really no need for the channeler to continue living for the weave to be maintained.
Week 8 Question: Is the top of the White Tower steepled or flat? If it's flat, what is on the roof?
Robert Jordan Answers: The top of the White Tower (that is, the top of the main tower, since the wings of the Tower along with their much smaller towers must be considered part of the White Tower also) is flat, and surrounded by a solid wall about waist-high on a woman. There is nothing there except a door flat in the surface for getting onto the top of the Tower. Aes Sedai of the present day occasionally use it for observation of events in the vicinity of Tar Valon, such as the progress of the Blood Snow, but it isn't used now on any regular basis. At various times in the past, there has been a garden there, but the sisters inevitably found ground-level gardens more convenient and much more easily maintained.
Week 9 Question: Is it possible to bond a Myrddraal like a Warder? For one of the Black Ajah or a Forsaken, for example? What happens then to such a person?
Robert Jordan Answers: It would be possible, but hardly wise because of the sharing of emotions. It is exceedingly likely that anyone who had a knot of Myrddraal emotions in his or her head, even to the small degree caused by the Warder bond, would very soon go insane. Myrddraal may contain human stock, but they are definitely not human. I don't think even Padan Fain could survive that without going madder than he already is.
Week 10 Question: What did Lanfear do to Rand at the end of The Great Hunt, when she drew the Dragon's Fang on his forehead?
Robert Jordan Answers: She drew the Dragon Fang on his forehead. For exactly the reason you would think.
Week 11 Question: I just started The Great Hunt and I find the religious and political aspects very interesting. I notice the dedication for The Great Hunt says, "They came to my aid when God walked across the water, and the true Eye of the World passed over my house." Has your own religion in any way helped to shape the book?
Robert Jordan Answers: Only in the sense that it helped to shape my moral and ethical beliefs. My work certainly is not religious in even the sense that J.R.R. Tolkien's was, much less the work of C.S. Lewis. That inscription, by the way, referred to Hurricane Hugo striking Charleston, where I live. The word hurricane comes from the name of a god of the Caribe Indians, who believed that the storm was that god walking across the water. Anyone who has ridden out a hurricane, and I have ridden out several, can well believe that it is. And if a hurricane isn't the Eye of the World, it's as close as we will come in this world.
Week 12 Question: You stated in another interview that Mat's memories came from adventurers who traveled through the ter'angreal. However several of Mat's memories end with the adventurer dying. Since adventurers probably didn't go through the ter'angreal after they died, how could the 'Finns have obtained these memories?
Robert Jordan Answers: A good question. I was wondering when someone would ask that. I expected it as soon as Mat started revealing those old memories. At least a partial answer will be coming up in the next main sequence book, so I guess you could say this is a RAFO. But I will say that if I said those adventurers all entered through the two ter'angreal, I misspoke. A good many entered through the Tower of Ghenjei, which was more widely known in earlier years, if never exactly a household name.
Week 13 Question: Is the White Tower currently aware of any way to completely dissolve/undo the bond between an Aes Sedai and her Warder so that the link no longer exists and all the positive and negative effects of the bond are removed?
Robert Jordan Answers: Yes, they are. It is called releasing a Warder, and an Aes Sedai who is very old or injured so badly that she knows she is going to die will, if she has the strength, release him so he doesn't suffer from her death. This does require the two of them to be together, and a little more time that laying on the bond. If they are physically apart, or she doesn't have enough time or strength remaining, touch on him.
It has also been used to get rid of a Warder who proved to be unsuitable in some way, such as a man who is discovered to be a thief or who takes reckless chances, a fighter of duels who won't stop without the bond being used to force him. No sister is going to want a Warder who will risk getting himself killed, with all the attendant results to her, for no very good reason.
Although use of the bond in that way (controlling) was not unknown in the past, it came to be regarded as a form of Compulsion to use it so except in the slightest forms. Besides, using the bond to control a Warder all the time is a lot of work. An Aes Sedai wants somebody who can watch her back and keep it safe, not somebody she has to work on all the time. (Which is one of the reasons Aes Sedai stopped bonding men against their will. Not ethical concerns or ethical growth, I'm afraid; it was just not very practical really) Better simply to release the fellow who can't measure up and find another who will.
By the by, releasing a Warder except for cause (the Aes Sedai's imminent death, his own unsuitability) or because he has asked for release is something that JUST IS NOT DONE! It would gain the sister considerable opprobrium from other sisters. A sister certainly would be looked at askance if she released a Warder who was dying, for example, just to avoid the effects on her of his death. When an Aes Sedai bonds a Warder, she is expected to buy in for the full ride. For that matter, releasing him for unsuitability is considered to reflect on the sister's judgement. She should have known better about him from the start.
Week 14 Question: In the middle books in the series, we see that a Roofmistress is typically the clan chief's wife. What happens if the clan chief is not married? Or what status does the roofmistress have if she runs a Hold that is not the home of a clan chief?
Robert Jordan Answers: The roofmistress of a clan hold is always the wife of the clan chief, if he is married. If he is unmarried, his eldest first-sister would be the roofmistress until he did marry. If he didn't have a first-sister, then it would be his eldest living sister-mother, his mother's sister, who is considered more closely related to him than his father's sisters are. After that, there is a whole set of complexities involving blood-relationships that make sure that the woman is who is both the eldest and the most closely related to the clan chief has the position. This is a situation that seldom develops, however, and seldom lasts long if it does. The Wise Ones believe that a clan chief should be married, as a stabilizing influence if for no other reason, and they will arrange the matter one way or another if he himself does not. And since Aiel women in general also believe that a clan chief should be married, in most cases the woman who is temporarily roofmistress will work toward the same end as well.
The roofmistress of a hold that is not the home of a clan chief or a sept chief has the same status as the roofmistress of a clan chief or sept chief, at least inside her own hold. She would gain that position by being the wife of the man who leads the algai'd'siswai of that hold, though her authority in some ways outstrips his inside the hold, just as the authority of clan or sept roofmistresses in some ways outstrips that of the clan or sept chiefs inside the hold. There are certain decisions that are hers alone and in which he has no say at all.
There is a hierarchy of roofmistresses within a clan, with the roofmistress of the clan chief at the top, roofmistress of sept chiefs next, and other roofmistresses ranked below according to the size of the holds of which they are roofmistresses. Roofmistresses of other clans are considered to have comparable status in any inter-clan dealings, though without the authority in any clan save their own.
Week 15 Question: What does the Dark One view as the worst punishment he can inflict on his minions: Killing them as painfully as possible? Balefire? Mindtrap? Being continually resurrected to suffer at his hand for eternity? Something we haven't seen yet?
Robert Jordan Answers: The Dark One doesn't care about his minions sufficiently to invest much time in their punishment except as it serves to correct their behavior or as object lesson to others, nor is there much in the way of gradation. Simple failure and outright betrayal might be punished equally, or one might result in death and the other in becoming an object lesson or in something else. (The mindtrap, by the way, could be called an object lesson only to the one so trapped; remember, none of the Forsaken know who is mindtrapped except Moridin and those who are trapped.) The decision, death or object lesson or something else, normally would be simply a matter of whether or not he believed there was any point to an object lesson and/or whether or not he felt there was really any further use in the individual. Or, for that matter, made for reasons unknowable to a human mind. Remember, the Dark One is NOT human and thinking of him in human terms just doesn't work.
But he also operates under a constraint that did not exist in the Age of Legends. At that time, about 3% of the population could learn to channel to some extent, though not all chose to -- the training program took time, and being able to channel carried with it certain obligations that not everyone wanted to undertake -- but that still meant there were, at a minimum, hundreds of thousands of people in the world who could channel, and more likely millions. A large pool of possible recruits. Break a tool or decide it isn't working right and throw it out, because there is an endless supply of similar tools waiting on the shelf. That might be said to have been his attitude. In the here-and-now of the books, that figure is about 1%, and of that 1%, very, very few have any idea that they could learn to channel, much less have any training at all. Here-and-now, the pool of possible recruits is tiny.
Also, while the Forsaken themselves have realized that these primitives have discovered how to do things with the Power that they themselves cannot, or perhaps can once they learn how but never dreamed of doing until they found that the weaves existed here-and-now, they still think of people in the here-and-now as primitives, and their attitudes filter through to the Dark One, who believes that his people from the age of Legends are in all practical ways better -- for which read better trained, more capable, and thus better able to serve him efficiently and effectively -- than the people of the present time. And he is right. In a way. They are certainly better trained, with a much wider knowledge, at least in some areas. Some of their skills are absolutely useless in the society they are forced to live in. Aginor was a genius in biology and genetics, but in this world, he had no way to make the tools to make the tools to make the tools…. Well, you get the idea. Pity the poor chip designer dropped into the seventeenth century.
In any event, the Dark One tries to conserve his resources, using and reusing those he might have killed himself, or ordered killed, in a time where there were thousands to equal them.
Week 16 Question: Can you give us any updates on the next book series you plan to write? (Besides what you have told us before)
Robert Jordan Answers: Sorry, that is very much a work in progress, with nothing at all on paper yet. As such, details change frequently. Also, the more I tell you of what doesn't change, the fewer surprises there will be when the books come out. You'll start reading and say, "I knew that. And I knew that. And I knew THAT! God, Jordan is getting predictable in his old age. I think I'll go read somebody else." And you'll probably be upset about what did change, too, for that matter. I know that when I expect a book or movie to be a certain way and it isn't, quite often the shifting of gears detracts from my enjoyment until it is complete.
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I have no real reason for writing this. I just kept getting this picture of Poo diligently taking care of a sick "Master Ness" and getting carried away, and for some reason needed to throw Mr. Saturn in. I loves me some Mr. Saturn.
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In a dry, homey little cave just outside of Saturn Valley, two boys sat intertwined, one's head in the lap of the other.
Their names were Ness and Poo, respectively, and Ness was very, very sick. Physically, that is.
What had started out as a cold contracted from some enemy or another had grown into a full-fledged bout of pneumonia, and the already exhausted group was out of supplies. The four companions—Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo—had been in the area because Ness had wanted to stop by Saturn Valley to have a chat with the Mr. Saturn who liked to hang around the hotsprings.
Ness had reached his limit before they had even gotten close to the habitation of the Mr. Saturns, though—his temperature had shot up, and his coughing had advanced to hacking--so Poo had relegated Jeff and Paula to go into Saturn Valley proper and get something to hold Ness over until they could get him to Dr. Saturn.
When Poo had been drawn to the group, he had declared Ness his master and had followed him humbly. At first he had been amazed by Ness's leadership skills and strength of heart, and had thought him invincible. Now, though, running his fingers through his master's hair, Poo understood an important lesson: even the strongest people have moments of weakness. Ness was certainly strong, but he was strong not just because of himself, but because he had friends to help him along the way.
Now if Paula and Jeff would just hurry up with the medicine, they could continue with their journey and everything would be alright. He would keep a closer eye on Ness from now on, and he wouldn't get sick again.
Paula shifted her feet in agitation. She knew Jeff was too shy and uncomfortable with the Mr. Saturns to be much help here, and wished Ness or Poo were around to help. It was so frustrating to try to communicate with the Saturn people…
"I need some nose spray, please." she said politely at the counter of the Saturn Valley drugstore.
"Hi Hi Hi. You come buying? i Mr. Saturn can do all for you."
"Yes, I come buying. I need some nose spray."
"You want buying the peanut cheesebar?"
"No, I want buying the nose spray."
"Oh, ZOINK! You want buying some piggy jelly."
Paula took a deep breath. "No. I want some nose spray."
"Piggy jelly."
"Nose spray."
"Piggy jelly."
"I need some nose spray!"
"Zoomer! i Mr. Saturn can do all for you. Have your piggy jelly and nice day." Then, as Paula finally gave in with a huff, gave him the money and snatched up the piggy jelly, "You Thank!"
Jeff jumped at the unexpected farewell as Paula practically dragged him out of the drugstore.
By the time they made it back to the cave that Poo and Ness were resting in, Poo had gone a little overboard—Ness, barely conscious, was covered in three blankets and was being hand-fed noodles by Poo, who was at the same time telling him some sort of mythological tale from the land of Dalaam.
"Master Ness was pining." Poo greeted them.
Paula and Jeff shared a look. "Um," started Jeff, "I don't think 'pining' is the word you're looking for…"
"Yes, it was. He was pining for something warm in his throat and something soft to cover him." then, with an aristocratic sniff, "I can sense these sorts of things."
"Well," said Paula with only a small amount of exasperation, "we brought him some, uh, piggy jelly."
Poo gave her a blank stare.
"Mr. Saturn said it would help." offered Jeff, even though the little nose-man hadn't said anything of the sort.
"Alright then." Poo said after a long awkward silence. "Bring this 'piggy jelly' here, then."
Paula traded him the jar of gelatinous substance for the half-empty bowl of noodles.
The three healthy people in the room watched in fascination as Ness slowly perked up. Every little spoonful of piggy jelly seemed to chase some of the misery out of his face, until finally the jar was empty and Ness was leaning on Poo's shoulder, smiling happily.
The normally quiet boy flashed them all a bright grin.
"Thanks, guys!" he said, startling them by speaking. "Piggy jelly is my favorite! How did you know?"
At that moment in Saturn Valley, a Mr. Saturn grinned and nodded his body once. "zoink! Mr. Saturn did all for you."


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Spiral galaxies are the glitter of the universe. These systems of stars, dust, gas and plasma are held together by gravity but seem to pinwheel across the darkness of space. They have fascinated nighthawks for hundreds of years and dazzled scientists who use increasingly sophisticated tools to study them.
Now, for the first time, astronomers from the University of Georgia have discovered a startling absence of hot gas being given off by the "disk" of a spiral galaxy first cataloged more than 225 years ago. The galaxy, now called NGC 1068, is younger than the Milky Way and could thus offer insights into the formation of our own spiral galaxy.
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The Hydra is a vicious nine-headed monster that can grow back its heads.
The Lernaean Hydra was born to Typhon and Echidna. While not the most powerful of its siblings, the Hydra was a fearsome and vicious monsters with nine heads (at birth). The monster terrorized the Kingdom of Lernea, chasing all of the inhabitants away with the toxic acid and fumes that it spewed at them. When one of the Hydra's heads was decapitated, two more snake-heads would grow in its place.
Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes
As the second of his Twelve labors, Hercules was tasked by King Eurystheus to kill the Lernaean Hydra. The hero eventually defeated the monster by having his nephew Iolaus cauterize each stump after he had cut it, then tearing off the immortal head with his bare hands and crushing it under a giant rock. After defeating the monster, Hercules dipped the tips of his arrows in the Hydra's bile, rendering the weapons extremely venomous.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
The Sea of Monsters
When Percy Jackson sent Tyson to look for powdered doughnuts so he could talk to Annabeth, Tyson went out and came upon a Monster Donut store. Tyson, being a monster, was somehow able to summon the outlet bringing the Hydra with it. It was large and lizard-like, with long necks and nine heads to match. It had many rows of razor-sharp teeth, its hands were clawed, had a tail, and spat acid. According to Annabeth, another Monster Doughnut shop popped up every time it grew another head. She says that Hermes' children found a way to use the hydra's life-force to make a new chain of stores. Percy initially tries to defeat it by slicing off its heads, but succeeded only in making more. Percy, Annabeth, and Tyson were saved by Clarisse when the Hydra's heads were lit aflame and burnt off by cannon fire from the CSS Birmingham.
The Heroes of Olympus
The Mark of Athena
Percy fights the Hydra again when he, Piper McLean, and Jason Grace arrive to rescue Nico di Angelo from the giants Ephialtes and Otis.
The Hydra is described in The Sea of Monsters to be a huge and scaly lizard-like monster with nine heads, each one diamond-shaped with a mouth lined with razor-sharp teeth. Each mouth spits toxic acid. If one of its heads is severed, the hydra grows two heads in the place of the lost one.
Spoil of War
In the attic of the Big House in Camp Half Blood, the original Hydra head was left as a spoil of war. This incarnation of the monster was defeated in Woodstock, New York in 1969.
Powers and Abilities
- It can spew acid from its mouth.
- Some heads have the ability to breath fire.
- It has multiple heads
- Two heads will grow back for each head that is cut off.
- The monster as a whole possesses incredible superhuman strength
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Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, and Grover Underwood encounter the Hydra in the form of five Security Guards at the replica of the Parthenon in Tennessee, after Percy Jackson takes Persephone's Pearl (originally Poseidon's in the book) from Athena's statue. Ignoring Annabeth's warning, Percy cuts off each of the Hydra's Heads with Riptide, causing ten heads to regrow. Grover managed to defeat the Hydra using Medusa's head - a possible reference to some accounts of Perseus slaying Cetus. It should be noted that the Hydra is depicted as breathing fire in the film instead of acid. After Percy cuts its middle head, two of the Hydra's head breathe fire.
- Hydra, the largest of the modern star constellations, is named after the monster.
- Hydra is also the name of a satellite of Pluto.
- Hydra, a species of simple fresh-water animal, is named after the monster.
- Hydra is also a name for a small problem.
- In Greek Mythology, the Hydra terrorized the Kingdom of Lernea, so it is fully called the Lernean Hydra.
- In one version of Hercules' labors, Hera's first choice of monster to make Hercules fight was the Hydra, but Iris tricked her into making the Nemean Lion the first labor, and told Hercules to use the pelt of the lion as armor against the poisonous Hydra.
- The Hydra is the only monster which reforms in The Heroes of Olympus series after being defeated in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.
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Katobleps | Laistrygonian Giant | Lycanthrope | Merpeople | Nikai | Nymphs | Pegasus | Satyr | Skolopendra | Stymphalian Birds | Telekhine | Blemmyae
|Friendly Monsters:
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|Enemy Monsters:
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|Jan 13
|Jim McGuire
|Numbers That come from Nowhere
|Jan 27
|Maurizio Giannotti
|Astrophysical Anomalies and Axions: the physics potential of the International Axion Observatory
|Mar 10
|J. B. Sokoloff
|Theory of the Thermal Diffusion of Microgel Particles in Highly Compressed Suspensions
|Mar 13
|Lingzhen Guo
|The giant acoustic atom --- a single quantum system with a deterministic time delay
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|Waseem Asghar
|Micro and Nanoscale Devices for Disease Management
|Mar 31
|Antonia Zipfel
|How to derive predictions from LQG
|Apr 7
|G. M. Pastor
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|Janet Hung
|Tensor Network and the AdS/CFT correspondence
James McGuire (FAU), Jan 13
In QED Feynman wrote: "There is a most profound and beautiful question associated with the observed coupling constant, e, the amplitude for a real electron to emit or absorb a real photon. It is a simple number that has been experimentally determined to be close to 0.08542455. (My physicist friends won't recognize this number, because they like to remember it as the inverse of its square: about 137.03597 with about an uncertainty of about 2 in the last decimal place. It has been a mystery ever since it was discovered more than fifty years ago, and all good theoretical physicists put this number up on their wall and worry about it.)" I have never seen it written on anvone's wall except Feynman's. This talk will be a discussion of this and other numbers that come from nowhere,
Maurizio Giannotti (Barry U.), Jan 27
Iwill give an update on the anomalies observed in the cooling of several stellar systems and on the interpretation in terms of axions and axion like particles (ALPs). I will show that the relevant region in the axion and ALP parameter space hinted by these anomalies can be probed by the next generation of axion detectors, in particular by the International Axion Observatory (IAXO).
J. B. Sokoloff (Northeastern U.), Mar 10
One amazing property of microgel colloids is the ability of the particles to thermally diffuse, even when they are compressed to a volume well below their swollen state volume, despite the fact that they are surrounded by other particles. A glass transition is expected to occur when the colloid is sufficiently compressed for microgel diffusion to cease. It is proposed that the diffusion is due to the ability of the highly compressed microgel particles to change shape with little cost in free energy. It will be shown that most of the free energy required to compress both polyelectolyte and neutral microgel particles is due to osmotic pressure resulting from either counterions or monomers inside of the gel, which depends on the particle's volume. There is still, however, a cost in free energy due to polymer elasticity when microgel particles undergo the distortions necessary for them to move around each other as they diffuse through the compressed colloid, even if it occurs at constant volume. Using a scaling theory based on simple models for the linking of microgel particles, we examine the conditions under which the cost in free energy needed for a particle to diffuse is smaller than thermal energy, which is a necessary condition for microgel particle diffusion. Based on our scaling theory, we predict that thermally activated diffusion should be possible when the mean number of links along the axis along which a distortion occurs is much larger than N 1/5, where N is the mean number of monomers in a polymer chain connecting two links in the gel. We have also performed simulations based on this model to demonstrate how such diffusion comes about.
Lingzhen Guo (TFP, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany), Mar 13
We investigate the quantum dynamics of a single two-level artificial atom (transmon qubit) coupled to surface acoustic waves (SAWs) via two distant connection points. Since the acoustic speed is five orders of magnitude slower than the speed of light, the travelling time between the two connection points needs to be taken into account. Therefore, we treat the transmon qubit as a giant atom with a deterministic time delay. We find that the spontaneous emission of the system, formed by the giant atom and the SAWs between its connection points, initially follows a polynomial decay law instead of an exponential one, as would be the case for a small atom. We obtain exact analytical results for the scattering properties of the giant atom up to two-phonon processes by using a diagrammatic approach. The time delay gives rise to novel features in the reflection, transmission, power spectra, and second-order correlation functions of the system.
Waseem Asghar (FAU), Mar 24
The integration of medicine and technology at nano- and micro-scales offers tremendous opportunities for solving important problems in bioengineering, and enables a wide range of applications in diagnostics, therapeutics, and tissue engineering. Recently, a number of disease diagnostic assays have entered into the production phase. In this talk, I will cover the challenges and approaches to design smart biosensors with potentials applications in HIV disease management, cancer diagnostics, in vitro fertilization and infectious disease diagnostics. Novel cell phone based point-of-care (POC) devices and flexible microfluidic platforms will be discussed. Such platforms are used to explore optical, electrical, biophysical, and mechanical properties of biological targets.
Antonia Zipfel (FAU), Mar 31
Quantizing gravity is one of the most challenging tasks of modern day physics and a prerequisite for understanding our fascinating universe. A promising candidate for a theory of quantum gravity is Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG), which has experienced a tremendous development in recent years. By now, the foundations of the theory are well-understood and many magnificent predictions, e.g. the replacement of the big bang by a big bounce, have been made. Due to the complexity of the theory, most of these results have, however, been derived from simplified toy models, whose relation to the full theory is not sufficiently understood. I will discuss some ideas how to overcome this situation and make LQG more predictive and thus falsifiable. Hereby, I will focus especially on the following two aspects: a) How can we build explicit physical states in canonical LQG? and b) How can we identify the physically interesting subsectors?
G. M. Pastor (University of Kassel), Apr 7
The collective properties of two-dimensional ensembles of dipole-coupled magnetic nanoparticles (NPs) are investigated theoretically. Extended nanostructures are modeled by considering various distributions of the NPs in finite square unit cells with periodic boundary conditions. The elementary relaxation processes connecting neighboring metastable states across first-order saddle points are determined, together with the corresponding energy barriers and Hamming distances between the critical points. Results are given for the statistical distributions of these properties as a function of particle density, size dispersion, and degree of disorder. The changes in the magnetic configuration of the nanostructure along the elementary transitions are analyzed from a local perspective. The relaxation region, in which the orientations of the local magnetic moments change significantly, is found to rapidly localize as a result of disorder. Thus, the minimum distance between independent bits of information is significantly reduced, which should be relevant for high-density data storage media. The topology of the ergodic network of critical points is characterized from both local and energy perspectives by using connectivity and disconnectivity graphs. One observes that increasing the degree of disorder changes the nature of the energy landscape in a very profound way. Weakly disordered ensembles are good folders, which are funneled towards the global minima, whereas strongly disordered systems show very rough landscapes with complex relaxation pathways. Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations demonstrate that when disorder is weak the evolution towards equilibrium is fast, exponential-like, with a single time scale. In contrast, if disorder is strong, the relaxation involves multiple time scales, so that the dynamics is significantly slowed down as time goes by, which is reminiscent of spin glasses. Finally, we conclude with a brief perspective on current open problems.
Janet Hung (Fudan Univ.), Apr 24
We will give a review of the journey that unites tensor network and the AdS/CFT correspondence. We will discuss new insights into the program of understanding the AdS/CFT, and more generally a (quantum) gravity theory inspired by the tensor network.


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