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I have now had two miscarriages. I am by no means an expert on grief, miscarriage or how to help people, but I felt like it was important to write down ways in which you can help someone through a miscarriage whether or not you have had one. All people are different and something that helped me may not work for them, but hopefully you can find one thing that you can do to minister to their grieving heart.
I think that is important to note that miscarriage is death. Thinking through the words that you say to someone who is having a miscarriage should be just as delicate as what you say to someone who has just had a death of a close member of the family. I have included a brief section below on what not to say to someone who has had a miscarriage, and the best thing to say.
Here is my list of practical ways you can help a friend through a miscarriage.
1. Prayer. Pray for them. Don't just say that you are praying for them. Set a reminder, put it in your calendar, download echo prayer for your phone to get daily reminders. Your friend is going through something in which the only thing guaranteed to help them is prayer. Be faithful to pray. Also, don't just pray the week that you find out. Continue praying, miscarriage is a difficult thing because you never know when the grief and sorrow will hit you.
2. Offer to bring a meal, then offer again. When I was going through my first miscarriage it felt weird to me to have someone bring a meal over. A friend was persistent and she brought us a delicious meal. It felt amazing to not have to think of dinner for one night. There is so much that goes through your brain when you are miscarrying, and thinking through what to make for dinner is sometimes paralyzing. If you don't cook, get them a gift card for a meal out. During both my miscarriages we spent more money that we should have on eating out, but I just couldn't pull myself together enough to make something. Gift cards are always appreciated.
3. Send Flowers. I received flowers both times that I miscarried and it was so nice to have something beautiful to look at during such a dark time. It was nice to get a little card from the person each time. I actually cherish those little cards. They are a reminder that someone noticed and cared for the little one that I lost. When you are having a miscarriage you want other people to care for the little one that you lost.
4. Keep texting and calling, even if you don't get a response. I had a few friends during my first miscarriage that constantly were texting me and calling me to let me know that they were thinking of me and available to me if I wanted to talk. I never called or texted back but each message was an encouragement and a help to me. Have extra amounts of grace with the person if they don't respond. Don't take it personally. Just continue to love them and care for them without strings attached. That is authentic love and you can model it here.
5. Send a note. It doesn't have to be long, but getting a note where someone acknowledges your pain and that you lost a member of your family is really nice. Notes are becoming archaic, but this is a really great way to show your care and concern.
There are more things that I could mention, but these are my top five ideas for how to help someone through a miscarriage. Just have a ton of grace, the person will not know how they feel from one minute to the next. Also, this isn't a wound that heals quickly. The person was pregnant and now they are not. That isn't something that someone gets over quickly.
With that said, there are some things that you shouldn't say when talking to a person who has had a miscarriage. Do not give false hope to them. Biblical hope is fine, but false hope is not helpful. Some examples false hope are: "Don't worry, you are young, you will be able to have a child." or "My cousin's friend also had a miscarriage and then went on to have four babies." Now is not the time for that, it is not helpful. False hope gives hope in circumstances and not God. Remind them of who God is. That is what they need to hear, over and over again. God is good. He is loving. He hasn't forgotten you.
With that said, the absolute best thing to say to someone who tells you that they had a miscarriage is, "I'm Sorry." Followed by a hug. You can add that you will be praying and that you love them, but you don't need to say much more than that. They want to know that people love them and care about what happened to them.
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Its so helpful to have feedback from someone who has been through it. Because I just don't know what to do/say sometimes. So thank you for writing this post! Love you!


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The Effects of Dustweed
Author name: Airiviel
Author email: Author's homepage URL: www.airiviel.tk
Category: General/Romance (kind of?)
Keywords: Ginny, Hermione, Dustweed
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Not really any.
Summary: Summaries ruin the fun of ficlets, don't you agree?
DISCLAIMER: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended. Other citations shall be made where necessary.
The Effects of Dustweed
Ginny wasn't sure where she was going. All she was aware of was that she'd woken up from a dream she no longer remembered, uncomfortable and sweaty, and needed to shake off the feeling that something was terribly out of place. She'd crept quietly out of the girls' dormitories, and out of the Gryffindor common room, ignoring the Fat Lady's irritated remarks about being woken up in the middle of the night.
She realized, upon further reflection, that she could not recall what day it was, or what she had done the day before. Strangely, this didn't bother her. Perhaps it was because of the exhaustion that always followed an interrupted and emotionally taxing dream…if only she could remember enough to figure out why it had been so draining.
Now, Ginny's bare feet carried her soundlessly down a long corridor that was too dark for her to recognize. Her eyes were slightly blurred with fatigue, and she'd lost track of how many turns she had taken. There was, oddly, no fear in her mind that she might be caught wandering around in the middle of the night and lose points from Gryffindor. The unsettled feeling in the pit of her stomach came entirely from the sensation that something was not right.
Somewhere along the corridor she must have passed a cracked window; a small breeze bathed her shoulders and arms in a chilled breath of air, and she shivered unpleasantly. Her right foot came down on something spindly that squished as her heel met the ground. She cringed. It felt like a spider. Without looking down, Ginny dragged her heel along as she walked to try and get rid of the crushed form of whatever it was that had stuck to the bottom of her foot. She shivered again as another draft slithered across the back of her neck.
Ginny slipped her hands into the pockets of her robe, which she couldn't remember putting on. Her left hand touched something smooth and cool. She pulled out the object, and squinting through the darkness, realized it was a glass vial. She didn't know where it came from. She could see nothing in it, and when she held it up to her ear and shook it gently, there was no telltale sound to provide evidence of any substance inside. Perplexed, she slipped it back into her pocket.
Her feet impulsively turned, and she moved into another corridor. There was a door somewhere on the right, her mind dimly reflected, although she still could not identify where she was, exactly. Ginny found the door and pushed it open, hoping that whatever it was she was looking for – she didn't realize she was looking for something until this very moment – could be found behind this door.
She entered a room devoid of furniture, except for a large wooden chest sitting against the eastern wall. There was light in the room only because the sole window in the room had been thrown open, and the full moon glowed brightly.
On the other side of the room, a lofty frame of some sort – taller than she – faced the chest. Some text was engraved or embossed across the top of the frame – she could not tell which, nor could she discern the words. The frame was only that: a frame. It had no back, so that if Ginny wished, she could step through it. Strewn on the ground around the frame were gleaming shards. They appeared to be glass, and vaguely piqued her interest, but she had no wish to bloody herself on broken pieces of glass, and the window was a more pressing matter.
From the moment she'd stepped into the room, the curtainless window had drawn her to it. She didn't know why, and wasn't sure she wanted to find out. But curiosity got the best of her and she took a few cautious steps across the room until she reached the window.
Now, the cold air was harsh and biting, and her teeth chattered as she placed her hands on the windowsill. A light wind blew a few deep red tendrils into her eyes, and she pushed her chin down to get the hair out of her face. Her eyes moved down as she did so, and involuntarily, she let out a small gasp.
Below the open window, a dark figure lay crumpled on the soft grass. Ginny squinted but couldn't tell who it was, until a new breeze swept pass. The gentle wind stirred the figure's hair, and fine wisps of silvery blond fluttered into the moonlight for only a moment. Her heart pounded and a cold dread accompanied the realization that suddenly hit her. Was he dead? she wondered, the dread squeezing her heart. She didn't have time to wonder why she had such concern for someone she believed she despised. It seemed that her lungs had collapsed and all the air was gone. Her mind barely registered that she was fainting before the world turned to black.
"Ginny, wake up," Hermione said, gently shaking her friend by the shoulders.
She opened her eyes and found that she was lying in her bed, back in the girls' dormitories of Gryffindor tower.
"I just realized," Hermione said quickly, "that by mistake I added something wrong to the potion."
Ginny blinked, fighting back fatigue. She pushed herself up, leaning on her elbows. "Potion?"
"For your headache," Hermione said impatiently.
Suddenly, Ginny remembered the vial in the pocket of her robes. She'd been getting strange throbbing headaches in her right temple recently, and when she'd gone to try and get something for it from Madame Pomfrey, the nurse had merely reassured her that the headache would go away by itself. "Oh, right," Ginny said. "What about it?"
"I just realized that I put dustweed leaves in it, instead of ground dustweed roots."
"Oh…" Ginny's head was spinning.
"You haven't taken it yet, have you?" Hermione asked worriedly.
"I…don't remember," she replied groggily.
"Well," Hermione demanded, "do you remember where you put it?"
"Er," Ginny began, and felt the pulsing ache returning.
"Because the potion I gave you is actually a different potion," Hermione told her.
Ginny blinked, ignoring the pain in her temple. "What potion is it?"
Hermione sat down on the bed. "Well, with dustweed leaves mixed in, it's a potion that supposedly shows you what you treasure the most through a vision of your greatest fear or something. I don't know. It's probably just nonsense. Whatever it is, I'm just worried it'll make you feverish when you're supposed to be having a 'vision'. So if you give me that vial I gave you yesterday, I can fix it, and then you can take the potion."
"Oh," was all Ginny could think of saying at the moment. Then she remembered Hermione was waiting for her to pull out the vial. "Well, actually, my headache's mostly gone now. In fact, I think I slept it off entirely. Thanks very much, anyway."
Hermione gave her a strange look. "It just…went away?"
Ginny nodded.
"Well, then. I can still take it back, and modify it in case the headache comes again…?"
"Oh, no," Ginny said hastily, "er, that's alright. I'm pretty sure I can get some dustweed roots and fix it myself, if I need to."
Hermione raised an eyebrow, and then stood up. "Well, I suppose I'll see you later."
"Bye!" Ginny called after her.
When the door had shut behind Hermione, Ginny crawled out of bed and over to the chair where she had left her robes. She fished into the left pocket and found the glass vial, and pulled it out.
There was nothing inside it. The dream came rushing into her mind like a tide on the shore, and she remembered Draco's crumpled body lying beneath the open window, the gentle wind stirring his blond hair.


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Anisotropic gratings are recorded on bacteriorhodopsin films by two parallelly polarized beams, and the effect of the polarization orientation of the reconstructing beam on the diffraction efficiency kinetics is studied. A theoretical model for the diffraction efficiency kinetics of the anisotropic grating is developed by combining Jones-matrix and photochromic two-state theory. It is found that the polarization azimuth of the reconstructing beam produces a cosine modulation on the kinetics of the diffraction efficiency, being positive at the peak efficiency and negative for steady state. By adding auxiliary violet light during grating formation, the saturation of the grating can be restrained. As a result, the negative cosine modulation for the steady-state diffraction efficiency changes to a positive one. In addition, the steady-state diffraction efficiency is increased appreciably for all reconstructing polarization orientations.
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By Alan Cooperman
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Ann Druge grew up in a Catholic family with eight children and the haunting knowledge that a ninth was stillborn. Because the baby, named Mary Ellen, had not been baptized, she was denied a Catholic burial.
"When we would go to the cemetery . . . we'd always stop where they threw the dead flowers. That's where the little one was buried," said Druge, 80, of Storrs, Conn. "My mother and father were very upset every time. She was stillborn, so she couldn't be buried in the consecrated ground. We were told she was in limbo."
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After three years of study, a Vatican-appointed panel of theologians has declared that limbo is a "problematic" concept that Catholics are free to reject. The 30-member International Theological Commission said there are good reasons to believe instead that unbaptized babies go to heaven, because God is merciful and "wants all human beings to be saved."
"We emphasize that these are reasons for prayerful hope, rather than grounds for sure knowledge," said the commission's report, published last week with the pope's approval.
Late-night television hosts and Internet satirists have had their yuks over this change, but the idea of limbo was a real anguish to many Catholic parents and grandparents grieving over miscarriages or stillbirths. Its abandonment may say something about the afterlife, but it also says something about the current pope, who is turning out to be more pastoral (read: compassionate) and less rigid than many expected.
For about 750 years, from the beginning of the 13th century until the middle of the 20th, the common Catholic teaching was that babies who died without baptism -- as well as adults who lived holy lives but in ignorance of Jesus -- would spend eternity in limbo, which is neither heaven nor the full fury of hell.
Because babies are guilty of no personal sins (only the taint of original sin), the thinking went, surely God would not consign them to perpetual torment. But because the church teaches that baptism is a necessity, theologians also asserted that unbaptized babies could not enjoy eternal life in God's presence.
To faithful Catholics, the Vatican's pronouncement does not mean that limbo once existed and suddenly is abolished; it means there are grounds for hope that unbaptized babies are in heaven -- and have been all along.
Druge said she felt long ago that her sister was in heaven and sees no need to move the 75-year-old grave.
"Years ago, everything you heard at the church you believed," she said. "But limbo never made sense to me. I always thought that if the baby came from God, it would go right back to God. I think that's what my mother believed, too."
The Vatican commission stressed that there is no mention of limbo in the Bible and that it was never a part of church dogma. Nor, by the way, is the commission's own advisory opinion. But there is little doubt that Pope Benedict XVI agrees with its conclusion. In a 1985 book-length interview, "The Ratzinger Report," then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said limbo was "never a defined truth of faith," and "personally . . . I would abandon it, since it was only a theological hypothesis."
Some Catholics, however, are standing firm on limbo.
"The Vatican is suggesting that salvation is possible without baptism. That is heresy," said Kenneth J. Wolfe, Washington columnist for the Remnant, a traditionalist Catholic newspaper.
He predicted that the 41-page report, titled "The Hope of Salvation for Infants Who Die Without Being Baptized," would undermine the church's advice to parents to make sure that children are baptized within the first 10 days of life. It might also undercut the church's position against abortion, since "one of the reasons for opposing abortion is that the baby's soul is lost," he said.
Although the Catholic Church still adheres to the related idea of purgatory -- a period of punishment and purification before the full joy of heaven -- it has been inching away from limbo for decades. Most Catholic schools gradually stopped teaching children about limbo in the 1960s, '70s and '80s, according to Monsignor Daniel Kutys, director of religious education for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The Baltimore Catechism, an official compendium of Catholic teachings used in the United States until the 1960s, described limbo as the destination of unbaptized babies. But there is no mention of limbo in the new catechism, published in 1992, Kutys said.
In 1969, the Catholic Church introduced a funeral rite for unbaptized babies, doing away with the severe policy that had kept Druge's sister from being buried in consecrated ground.
While the church is often viewed as a top-down organization in which bishops tell ordinary Catholics what to believe, the commission's report suggests that in this case, the process worked partly in reverse.
A commission member, the Rev. Paul McPartlan, a professor of theology at the Catholic University of America, said that in the run-up to the Second Vatican Council, which met from 1962 to 1965, there were proposals to add limbo to the central teachings of the church.
But the senior bishops who prepared the council's agenda rejected those proposals, noting that the idea that unbaptized babies cannot go to heaven simply did not match the "sensus fidelium," Latin for "the sense of the faithful," McPartlan said.
Before becoming pope, Benedict earned a reputation as a fierce defender of traditional teachings as head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Yet he also served as president of the International Theological Commission when it decided a few years ago to revisit the issue of limbo.
"It shows that Benedict is not afraid to look at something that has been taught in the church for centuries and say it is not at the core of Catholic belief," said the Rev. Thomas J. Reese, a senior fellow at Georgetown University's Woodstock Theological Center and a former editor of the Jesuit magazine America.
"This is a critical issue for our time: what is central to our faith, what is peripheral; what can change, what can't."
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A Horrible Place
A great post by Donovan Shaw.
It was a horrible place to be. I was almost constantly anxious, self loathing, jealousy, confusion and a terrible sickness had overcome my heart. I had hurt myself and others. I had forgotten my true self. This is the worst of torments.
Then… I remembered the true me I once knew. I am made in the express image of a perfect God. My creator has never seen me as bad, but I had projected my own self loathing towards myself and acted accordingly.
Now I live in the moment, still occasionally making mistakes but consciously pursuing love, shunning unhelpful magical thinking, meeting every situation and need as it arises with wisdom and understanding. Putting off the religious mindset of separation, knowing that from the perspective of our loving Heavenly Father, the judgment is finished. We are all His offspring. In all things we live, we move and we have our…
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Getting children to read classic books – or not!
If you wanted to find me as a child, all you had to do was look in the nearest corner and I'd be more than likely sat in it with my nose buried in a book.
I had loads of favourites, from Enid to Blyton, to Roald Dahl, to Judy Blume.
Which is why, when on having kids of my own, I suddenly had an excuse to re-buy all my favourites from my childhood. Not for me, you understand.
For the KIDS.
The Tiger Who Came to Tea, and The Very Hungry Caterpillar were added to the already bulging bookcase, among others.
It's easy to introduce the classics when the children are small, and to incorporate them into the bedtime routine so that they become firm favourites of theirs as well.
What about when they become older though, and decide to choose their own books? It's not so easy then.
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Exploits are the intentional abuse of game mechanics in a way unintended by the developers. Baldur's Gate and Infinity Engine games are no exception, having bugs and glitches even in their fully patched versions.
Philosophy Edit
Because Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II have capped stats, there are technical limits to the abilities of individual characters, and tactics can only go so far to compensate for these limits. Additionally, BioWare selectively ignores many of the D&D rules for dramatic effect or to force a certain course of action, while in a tabletop game the Dungeon Master would be obliged to follow the game rules, even as he/she invents scenarios for the players. This serves as a constraint to true roleplay that would take emerge in later generation RPG games.
Players are discouraged from role-playing as evil characters - despite the most powerful NPCs, Viconia, Sarevok, Edwin and Korgan being of evil alignment - by reducing the rewards for evil actions, and increasing the penalties associated with them. By forcing the player to be either good/neutral, the role-playing, open-ended aspect of these early BioWare games is downplayed, so use of emergent gameplay is required to fully embrace different role-playing experiences.
Use of exploits and the related style of power-gaming follows in this vein, allowing the player in-game options for breaking and surpassing the limits set by BioWare, or compensating for unfair advantages or scenarios awarded to or constructed by NPCs. Exploits can be rationalized in-universe as natural or causal phenomenon, not as bugs or glitches, allowing players new venues for opportunity, discovery, and exploration.
Baldur's Gate Edit
Algernon's CloakEdit
Algernon is a portly old man on the second floor of Feldepost's Inn in Beregost. He wears what appears to be a Nymph's Cloak but it has nearly unlimited charges of Charm, which requires a very high Save vs. Breath Weapon to resist. The quest involving Algernon's Cloak does not trigger until the player arrives in Baldur's Gate, but the cloak itself is available as early as Chapter 1. Most parties would not know Algernon has the cloak, as typically only an evil-aligned party would murder Algernon and discover it, and thieves would not know some random man in an inn would possess such a powerful item.
The cloak can be used to charm almost any character in the game, allowing them to reveal information while under the charmed effect (Baldur's Gate II removes these dialogue strings, preventing players from conversing with charmed/dominated characters) and also allowing one to command them in battle. This even applies to characters far beyond the player's level and abilities, allowing some battles to be won fairly easily so long as the target fails the saving throw. Tactical use of Algernon's Cloak can allow players to command such as Taugosz "Tenhammer" Khosann and Ardenor Crush to destroy their own Bandit Camp (as they are the strongest characters in camp) or to take over a Vampiric Wolf (immune to normal weapons) to massacre the wolf pack it is a part of.
An especially useful exploitation of the unlimited-charm aspect of the cloak is in preventing arrest in situations where thieving could be noticed. This essentially replaces the need for one or more mage members forced to expend Level 1 slots to do the same thing.
Another useful exploitation of the cloak is the ability to kill civilians for their money or objects without loss of reputation, if you have paired members. Separate the paired members by leaving one in a building or a room and dismiss the other member from the team. Charm the civilian, attack the dismissed member, and flee. The dismissed member will perceive the civilian as an enemy and attack him/her. After the civilian is killed, use the separated member to invite the dismissed member back onto the team.
Dagger of VenomEdit
The dagger of venom is a unique item in the Baldur's Gate trilogy. While the "venom" is depicted as a form of poison, it isn't affected by poison modifiers and is actually a special form of damage that no NPCs have resistance against. This means that any monster or NPC is stabbed by the dagger and fails the save will incur damage. In the original Baldur's Gate, even monsters that were not intended to be killed (such as the Demon Knight, Ulcaster's Ghost, Duke Eltan, Return to Candlekeep Ulraunt & Tethtoril) can be slain by the dagger. The dagger's ability to induce "poison" also gives it the ability to break scripts, as NPCs who are stabbed by it miss their timing for delivering scripts.
The best weapon to go along with the dagger are ordinary fists, as fist damage can penetrate Otiluke's Resilient Sphere. Monsters or NPCs captured by the sphere have invulnerability but low evasion, allowing a barehanded opponent to easily reduce their HP to zero and knock them out. Once unconscious, their ability to successfully save against the dagger of venom is diminished, and the dagger only needs to do 1 HP worth of damage to kill the enemy.
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Dream Special AbilitiesEdit
Helm of Opposite AlignmentEdit
This powerful helmet was included in the original BG item list but could not be found in game until Tales of the Sword Coast, where the Demon Knight that spawns on the ground floor of Durlag's Tower is wearing it. The Demon Knight in this appearance does not have much in the way of Magic Resistance, but has high HP, suggesting BioWare intended the player to attack it but do little damage. To obtain the Helm, the Demon Knight must be killed quickly before he de-spawns. The most consistent way to do this is cast Otiluke's Resilient Sphere on the Demon Knight, immobilizing him, then using fists aided by Haste to reduce his HP and knock him out. Once knocked out, he can be slain with regular weapons once the sphere dissipates, or be killed through the sphere with the Dagger of Venom.
A second exploit available through use of the Helm is to permanently alter a character's alignment. When a character is wearing the helm, apply the Girdle of Masculinity/Femininity, which will invert the character's sex while also reverting their alignment back to what it was before donning the helm. Once the curses are removed, the player will be permanently of the opposite alignment, and will behave just as an evil character would.
This alignment exploit applies in both Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II, and also alters the behavior of characters with the new alignment. For example, paladins with Lawful Evil alignment will not fall if a party's reputation plummets, and rather will complain, leave or fight the player if the party's reputation climbs too high. Use of this odd interaction with cursed items can allow players to (somewhat) legally expand the number of good, evil characters they want to party with in both games.
Ghoul TouchEdit
Ghoul Touch is a Level 2 Necromancy Spell that gives a Wizard (or Priest) the ability to paralyze with a touch, but do nothing else. It is not a routinely used spell because it's rather useless and situational. However, Flaming Fist Battle Wizards often use it as a last resort, and killing them after they've cast Ghoul Touch reveals that the Ghoul Touch hand was accidentally flagged as a drop-able item in Baldur's Gate, so it is almost like being able to equip the rigid hand of the deceased Flaming Fist. Party members who die while using Ghoul Touch will also exhibit this phenomenon.
Although interesting, Ghoul Touch is not a useful weapon even if it can be equipped, as it is treated as a mace and Wizards do not have any proficiency in it. However, if the character is exported to Baldur's Gate II and allowed to bypass the inventory wipe in the Irenicus Dungeon (only available in multiplayer), they will retain the Ghoul Touch in one of their primary weapon slots where it is an effective weapon, capable of dealing damage alongside paralyzing an opponent without time limit. However, it is easily dispelled and is less potent as the game increases in difficulty.
Flame ArrowEdit
Only arcane spell that bypasses magic resistance. This allows wizards to damage Drizzt, Sarevok, and Mustard Jellies, who are otherwise not fun to fight against in a magic-centric party.
Most enemies have spells encoded on items that have limited timers, so by not pausing the game in places like the Temple of Bhaal or the Northern Island, bosses becoming much weaker in time due to their protection spells running out.
Killing Powerful NPCs Edit
Drizzt Do'UrdenEdit
If Drizzt can be surrounded by NPC party members (it will take a full party of CHARNAME plus the 5 NPCs and can be a bit tricky to accomplish as he wanders hasted) and then Reform until all former members become neutral, his attack will be limited to close-range melee. In that situation, Drizzt can be killed with either a ranged or long-range melee weapon with total safety for the CHARNAME. Only natural 20 rolls will hit him and none of those will register as critical hits since Drizzt is immune to those. A sizable reputation loss will result from his death.
It is also possible to play tag with Drizzt around the lake, using the Boots of Speed to evade his strikes. Drizzt's pathfinding in Baldur's Gate is not that great and he can get stuck in the middle of the lake, with the player on the other side. For wizards, using Dimension Door to cross the lake is advised. The player can then pepper him with arrows or ranged spells with impunity until he dies.
Ultaunt is very killable but has high physical resistance to weapons and a high magic resistance, like a human Kangaxx. Players will have to attack him for a long, long time (or get lucky with the Dagger of Venom) but he will eventually die by normal means.
Gorion (Prologue) Edit
He casts a number of Level 3 spells but autokills any enemy he targets with the spell once it is cast. Stay out of his line of sight and use spells like Cloudkill or Stinking Cloud to pacify him from a distance, then awaken him with offensive spells, arrows or melee. The best option possible is to bounce a lightning bolt off the stairs so it hits him multiple times.
Tethtoril (Prologue) Edit
Possesses Deity Kill, which is as unstoppable as Gorion's instant-kill command, but Diety Kill has a weakness: it is lower than Level 3, and is blocked by Minor Globe of Invulnerability. Use a globed Wizard to soak up Tethtoril's attention while attacking him with whatever other weapons (preferably the Dagger of Venom) are at hand.
Single most powerful NPC/boss in Tales of the Sword Coast, in terms of difficulty and experience given (24,000 EXP). He casts a number of Level 5/6 spells with Improved Alacrity after casting Globe of Invulnerability on himself, eventually teleporting away when he's out of ammo. Attack him from a distance using area spells, Cloudkill, Stinking Cloud or wands, casting Otiluke's Resilient Sphere on him and punching him out with fists, finishing him off with melee or the Dagger of Venom. Can also be paralyzed with a wand, it might take a lot of reloads.
Watchers (Prologue)Edit
Killing them gives immediate access to plate armor, so even for players of good alignment, killing one can be valuable as plate armor is difficult to find early in the game.
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn Edit
Find Familiar Edit
Hell Trial Rewards Edit
All of the Hell Trial rewards stack, so having a player go through them multiple times can lead to 127% magic resistance and 127% resistance to fire, cold and electricity, which have the in-game effect of immunity. Going through the evil trials is not recommended because due to a negative bug, the player's alignment will be altered to Neutral Evil (even if they are a different form of Evil).
Irenicus Dungeon PauseEdit
When a new game is started in Shadows of Amn, a cutscene begins with Irenicus where the player character has no items. Items imported from Baldur's Gate are removed by a script at the start of this cutscene. However, there is a brief period where the player has control right before cutscene mode goes into effect. The screen is dark and because the character starts out in a cage, he/she cannot move. A quick player can pause the game during this period of freedom, and dump all items on his/her person. This avoids having the items wiped by the script and allows them to be requipped after freedom is restored. However, the Double Rings of Wizardry won't work if this method is applied.
No Portrait Import Edit
When importing a character from Baldur's Gate or Tales of the Sword Coast, Baldur's Gate II has the player reassign their stats on their character sheet, then wipes their inventory before dropping the character in the Irenicus Dungeon. However, if the player is using a custom portrait but doesn't carry that portrait over from the BG1 director to BG2, all of this reassignment is skipped and the player is automatically forwarded through the character creation right to assigning appearance and name.
Level Up TwiceEdit
As a side effect of skipping the character creation stat reassignment, the player character is reduced to Level 1 but retains all their Experience, allowing them to repeat the level up process up through Level 7 or 9. This can double a player's HP, although ultimately it has no effect on total weapon proficiencies or spell level acquisition.
Double Ring of WizardryEdit
Some items like the Rings of Wizardry are disallowed on both fingers in Baldur's Gate II, but if one is wearing double rings going in, they're still able to gain the effects of both in BG2, they just cannot swap between items and must wear the double rings at all times.
Because the Ring of Wizardry worked differently in Baldur's Gate, granting double the Level 1 spells instead of a Level 5,6,7 spell, if the player has memorized the maximum number of spells allowed by two rings in BG1 (20) they'll retain that memory in BG2 and go overslot with the spells. As with modifying the Rings of Wizardy themselves, this means the Level 1 spells can no longer be adjusted, but it also means the player effectively has 20 Magic Missile, Chromatic Orb, etc. instead of just 5.
Being able to spam Magic Missile in Throne of Bhaal becomes extremely powerful, when combined with items that reduce casting time, alacrity and time stop, it can be cast instantaneously, disrupting all moves an opponent will attempt (even walking) while inflicting upwards of 200 damage if there is no immunity or Magic Resistance.ny
Dimension Door Edit
Dimension Door is a cool if impractical spell in Baldur's Gate, as the player's version is limited to line-of-site (the NPC version is like a long-distance teleport). The spell was removed from Baldur's Gate II because it broke scripts in play testing, but it can be retained via the No Portrait Exploit where the player can teleport to line-of-site areas that are inaccessible by walking (such as the goblin pillars in Spellhold). The spell's value truly shines in the final battle at the Mana Forge, where a wizard is capable of teleporting onto any of the platforms around the forge and avoid the hordes of melee-only baatezu Melissan is constantly gating in.
The spell can still break scripts, possibly Yoshimo's (allowing him to remain with the party into Throne of Bhaal).
Summon Cacodemon, Summon Demon, Gate Edit
Gated demons provide experience, so they can be summoned and farmed for experience in a safe environment by players who know those spells.
Nishruu Infinite ChargesEdit
Be attacked by a Nishruu while possessing a weapon with a finite number of used charges, and the Nishruu warps the item to have near-infinite charges and allowing those weapons to be sold for millions of Gold. Especially useful with items like the Staff of Power, which are not once-per-day (which wipes the excess charges).
Stacking Bard Songs Edit
Equip Vhailor's Helm and Mislead scrolls on quick item slots, cast Simulacrum from Vhailor's Helm, cast Mislead scrolls from the Simulacrum image. When all sing bard songs together, the effects stack. Using this method, Enhanced Bard Song and Skald song are capable of granting 4 x the number of singers bonus to THAC0 and damage per hit for the entire party. (eg. 24 bonus if the number of singers is 6)
This exploit no longer works in Enhanced Editions.
Immune to physical damage Edit
Gain multiple Hardiness, each lowers damage from blunt, slashing and piercing damage from melee weapons and piercing damage from projectiles by 40% for one round for every two levels of the warrior. Hardiness stacks with itself, allowing warrior classes to gain 120% physical resistance or more, making them immune to physical damage and instead gain health from being attacked by physical attacks.
This exploit no longer works in Enhanced Editions.
Fire Seeds + Poison Weapon/Wizard Slayer Edit
The spreading effect of fire seeds bypasses the targets' immunities, when combined with Assassin's poison weapon or being thrown by Wizard Slayers, the corresponding status is much easier to penetrate the targets, especially useful when encountering mages.
Enhanced Editions nerfed Poison Weapon's lasting poison effect (from no-save to saving-throwable), making this method less effective.


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46th Annual Thanksgiving Tournament
Blue Devil Fans,
The Quincy High School Blue Devil basketball program would like to welcome you
to the 46th Annual Thanksgiving Tournament. It is always a great time of year as the
excitement of basketball season is at a high. This year's tournament will be no different.
This Thanksgiving we welcome two teams out of the city of Chicago in Carver and
Sullivan. We also welcome back Urbana to the tournament. All teams are looking to
get their seasons off on the right foot and we appreciate them joining us here in Quincy.
We bring back a handful of players that played important roles last season. Our inside
presence returns in Garrett Gadeke, Parker Bland and Devin Smith. Aaron Shoot returns
as one of the only guards with experience at the varsity level. These guys will be
looked to, to provide leadership to the young group of players we have on the roster.
While we have some experience, I am looking forward to seeing how this group comes
together during the process.
My wife Linda and I hope you have a great Thanksgiving weekend as you enjoy all of
the festivities. We can't say enough how blessed we are to be involved in such a great
community and program here at Quincy High. Congratulations to all of this year's Hall
of Fame nominees. What a great accomplishment. Happy Thanksgiving and thank
you for your continued support.
Coach Andy Douglas
Schuck's Clipboard
Thanksgiving in Quincy Means a Hoops Celebration at Blue Devil Gym
By Matt Schuckman Herald-Whig
Posted: Nov. 30, 2015 5:45 am
In the days leading up to the 45th annual QHS Thanksgiving Tournament and my 18th season covering the Quincy High School boys basketball team, I had two questions thrown at me.
One, who were the best teams I've seen come through Blue Devil Gym at Thanksgiving while covering the team?
And two, what makes this tournament so special?
The answer to the first question made me sift through my archives, but the best teams I saw came to mind quickly. The 2001 Centralia team led by tournament MVP Lance Marcum was quite salty. The Orphans finished third in the Class AA state tournament that winter. The 2000 Chicago Crane and 2008 Bartonville Limestone teams which won tournament titles in Quincy also stack up favorably high.
As for an answer to the second question, I turned to some of the Quincy High School greats from years past to help explain what this tournament means to those who grew up in Quincy, who longed to be a Blue Devil, who understand the commitment it takes to be a part of the program and who have experienced the thrill of running out of the locker room and into Blue Devil Gym on Thanksgiving night.
These are their words and no one could say it any better.
Michael Payne, Class of 1981
"I think what made playing in the tournament so special to me is the tradition. I remember being very young listening to the games on the radio. With the Blue Devil teams in the early to mid '70s being so good with Coach Hanks, there were standing room-only crowds. Then when Coach Leggett came to town the style of play changed to a pressing, up-tempo style which suited our size and speed and athleticism. Every kid who played basketball dreamed of suiting up for the Blue Devils and playing on that court.
"The Thanksgiving Tournament starts the season every year. It is one of the best holiday tournaments in the state. It means everything to a player to represent our city and to win that tournament. I remember wanting to not only win it but wanting to have at least two or three of our teammates on the all-tourney team. I remember the toughest game of my career at Quincy being the championship game vs Chicago Phillips. What a way to start off such a memorable season."
Bruce Douglas, Class of 1982
"Growing up in Quincy and attending the QHS Thanksgiving Tournament from the time I was a young boy made it a part of our family tradition. Two things happened every Thanksgiving. First, I went to my grandmother's for a great turkey dinner, and secondly, we went to the QHS Thanksgiving Tournament to see the Devils win. The tournament took precedent over the dinner, so many times that the real meal didn't come until after the first game on Thanksgiving day. I grew up watching all of the great teams, great players, great shots, great plays, great games, great wins, great fans, great coaches and of course nothing made it more special then watching the most special people in my life, my big brothers.
"Playing in the QHS Thanksgiving Tournament was a dream that was placed in my heart from the day I was born. There is nothing I look more forward to then playing in front of the Quincy fans screaming, the pre-game ritual with the Devil leading and nothing more fulfilling then defeating the greatest competition in the greatest tournament in the state of Illinois every year. The tournament was in a class all by itself.
"I have some of the greatest memories from all of my days of playing basketball from the QHS Thanksgiving tournament. The privilege of meeting the players from different teams, attending the pre-tournament banquets and most importantly winning the tournament along with the special awards in the greatest high School tradition and environment in the country is what made the QHS Thanksgiving Tournament something special. Anyone who participated or spectated was impacted for life, including myself. The QHS Thanksgiving Tournament will always be very special to me.
Jason Gay, Class of 1987
"Playing in the Thanksgiving Tournament is one of the best tournaments I have ever been apart of in QHS history. It was a privilege to play against some of the top teams in the state of Illinois. Chicago Leo, Chicago Julian and East St. Louis. This tournament prepared us for the competition that we were gonna face in the tough Western Big 6 Conference. Run Devils Run!!"
Kevin Bybee, Class of 1990
"The QHS Thanksgiving Tournament is special in many ways. The tournament was always the first games of the season and to me it represented what I had been working toward from the age of 9, which was to play varsity basketball and to be a Quincy Blue Devil. The tournament was the first glimpse of what our team was going to be like that season and always paired us immediately against very good competition. My senior year we played the #1 ranked team in the country, Chicago King, and had a shot at the buzzer to win the Thanksgiving tournament championship. Magical experiences and games like that seem to always happen during the Tournament. But more than anything, the tournament epitomized what QHS basketball is all about: pride in our school and city, hard work, tradition, a desire to win and the city coming together to show their support of every single player and coach. Anyone who has played in the QHS Thanksgiving Tournament will tell you that it is a very special experience, and one they will always remember."
Tim Johnson, Class of 1990
"First of all, it's an absolute privilege to be a part of it. My memories are deeply embedded in my mind. A packed house (an undeniable sixth man if you will), screaming children, the anticipation of a great season, faces in the crowd that you only recognize but they know everything about you, the pre-game dunks you could perform because Coach Leggett would lock the refs in their locker room, the devil bringing the crowd to a feverish pitch, and the smell of popcorn in the gym, then the first tip with a preset play and we're up 2-0 and it's on!
"Of course, my fondest memory is playing Chicago King. National Champs in 1990! Yes, we lost and could have won on a last second shot, but it was confirmation that we were good enough to make it to Champaign. I've played in state championships, a legion World Series, Division I conference championships, pro baseball, and nothing compares to the time I spent in Blue Devil Gym with my teammates, a great coach and a city oozing pride and bleeding blue!"
Todd Wemhoener, Class of 1990
"Thanksgiving in Quincy, Ill., consisted of spending time with your family, having some turkey and going to the QHS Thanksgiving Tournament. As a boy growing up in Quincy, it was exciting to imagine myself playing in the tournament someday. As a boy, I did not understand how special our community was by coming to support you and your team Thanksgiving night and throughout the weekend. As a player, I would wake up the morning of Thanksgiving realizing that I just invested a month worth of Dirty 30s and other drills to prepare myself for Thanksgiving night. As a player, knowing that I am going to walk out of that tunnel to a community that sacrificed some family time to pack the house. Yes, the gym was packed.
"Quincy basketball is summed up in one word in my opinion and that word is tradition. Everything about Quincy High School basketball bleeds that word. The Thanksgiving Tournament is a Quincy Basketball tradition and that tradition should not change. Every player, cheerleader, coach, media personnel and member of the community came and supported the tournament in their own way because of that tradition. I can only speak for myself, but as a kid growing up in Quincy and a former Blue Devil basketball player, I could not wait for Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving meant I got to go to the gym, the Blue Devil Gym."
Kyle Cartmill, Class of 1995
"What made the Thanksgiving Tournament special to me was the history and tradition of the tournament. The Thanksgiving tourney was always an opportunity to start the season with some of the best competition you would see all year. The atmosphere was electric, the excitement for the new season was high and it was a great opportunity to see what our team was made of right out of the gate. The support from the Blue Devils fans and the way they made Blue Devil Gym the absolute best place that I have ever played at is something that I will always remember and hold dear."
Jared Summers, Class of 2007
"All the teams coming here from different places, the atmosphere for the first tournament of the year, you get so hyped because of it. You're ready for Blue Devil basketball to start and you finally get here and get things started. It makes it so exciting and something to look forward to because you play here in Blue Devil Gym for your first three games of the year.
"What makes it fun to be a Blue Devil basketball player is playing at home. You see the teams that come here who have never been here before and you watch their reaction and realize it pumps them up. Now that I don't play and I watch the other teams' reactions, it makes playing here so much better. The Blue Devil comes out, the music is playing and I still get the same chills I did when I was playing."


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ICE! exhibit brings chilly cheer to holiday season
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
The shepherds are shrinking. Their hands have gotten bony-looking and weird as the ice they're made from passes from solid to gas despite the frigid temperature. Mary's fingers will go next -- her knuckles are already knobby -- and Baby Jesus, even Baby Jesus's swaddling clothes will eventually need a touch-up. He'll be sprayed with mist to restore him to holiness.
The ice is essential to the celebration of Christmas at National Harbor in Prince George's County. There are 2 million pounds of it, carved into 10 massive tableaux in a climate-controlled tent held steady at a merry 9 degrees. There are also two-story ice slides, a crystalline Santa's Workshop, a penguin village and every other holiday tradition and trope, scooched up right next to one another.
Think of it all as an EpiPen filled with Christmas spirit, a jolt to the system after an autumn of doldrums. Witness Victorian Christmas, Polar Christmas, Religious Christmas -- all at this explosion of holiday festivity known as ICE! As many as 8,000 people have been shivering their way through the exhibit every day since it opened in late November.
To tend the ice, which is American Big, you need carvers with American know-how, except that it turns out Americans don't know how to deal with ice of this magnitude, so in very American fashion, carvers have been imported from China. A small colony of artisans from the northern Chinese city of Harbin works in shifts to keep the ice crisp. .
Early on a recent Saturday, before ICE! opens to the public for the day, master carver Guo Bai Wei deftly amputates the hands of a shepherd, replacing them with ones he spent the morning fashioning.
He is replacing the hands, his translator explains helpfully.
When you think about Christmas, you think North Pole, maybe? You think 34th Street, or Rockefeller Center and ice skates and hot chocolate?
The Gaylord National Hotel and Convention Center, sponsor of ICE!, wants you to think "Christmas" and then think "Gaylord National Hotel and Convention Center." They have been trying on a slogan: "The New Capital of Christmas."
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Let us make a pilgrimage into the frigid 15,000-square-foot refrigerator that is ICE!


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Designed to be the newest track-star under the luxury Japanese-American automaker's fleet, the all-new Lexus RC-F boasts of a high-performance package, which combines the legendary Lexus LFA's top-level wild and wicked nature, with the accessibility found in most of the brand's current line-up of sports coupes and sedans. Launched in the Philippines last November 18, 2014, this "Baby LFA"'s front fascia, spindle grille, and side profile possesses the LFA's raging aura, while still being uniquely designed. Moving behind, the RC-F's killer quad-exhausts, divided in twos, dominate the left and right side of the lower bumper. Slated under the brand's performance line via the F on its name, the interior of the RC-F also evokes an aura of track-readiness with comfort, making the driver feel one with it.
Under the hood is a 5.0L 450+ horsepower 32-valve V8-Engine, connected to an 8-Speed Sports-Direct Shift transmission, driving the rear wheels, and enabling endless amounts of drifting exhilaration and spirited driving. Combined with its 3-mode Torque Vectoring System, it can behave in comfort and in raw track-day action in no time. Bold and uncompromised, the Lexus RC-F continues the awesome legacy the LFA has left behind. And yes, it sounds wicked too."
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