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My stepdaughter's mother assulted me at my own home. She calls all the time and leaves crazy messages. I stay out of it and let my husband deal with it. But now she came to my house and tried to attack me . I made a police report and they gave me a referal. All I want is for her to stay away from my house. I was told that as long as her daughter is here she has every right to come to my house. The only other option they gave me was a mediation which would be a waste of time because the girl is crazy. If I do press charges on her it will just make it very hard on my stepdaughter. Do I have any other options?
You can definately petition the Court for a Civil Protection Order. I am attaching a copy of the instructions for filing a Civil Protection Order from the Hamilton County Clerk of Courts website for your review. Here's also a copy of the actual paperwork you'll need to file: http://www.courtclerk.org/forms/StalkingProtectionOrder10-03D.pdf
The process first begins with an ex parte hearing (hearing in which only you appear). If the court is conviced based on your application that a civil protection order is permissible and warranted given the law and the facts, it will issue an ex parte temporary order. This order is typically only good for fourteen days. You'll then have to return in about two weeks for a full hearing in which your stepdaughter's mother can appear. Both sides present testimony and evidence as to why a permanent order should or should not be issued.
Just because your spouse's ex has visitation or custodial rights to your stepdaughter does not mean she has a legal right to come to the house to harass, stalk, and assault you. Talk to your spouse about making arrangements to do transfers of custody after visitations at some place other than where you'll be. You can do that even without a restraining order. And if one is granted, that's what will have to happen in order for her to see your stepdaughter anyways.
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Refridgerating Bc Cake W/ Fondant Decorations, Help!
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So, I spent all week making pink and orange flat fondant birds for this cake. The cake is covered in light blue buttercream and MUST be refridgerated because of the filling. Can I put my fondant birdies on the cake and put it all in the fridge? Or will condensation take over and cause the colors to bleed? Anyone have any experience with this?
I've never had a problem putting a buttercream cake with fondant decorations in the fridge. Just make sure you are not using a ton of water to attach the decorations.
I do fondant decorations on buttercream cakes all the time. I have found that you have to cover the cake to keep the condensation off the cake in the refrigerator. I have a large walk-in with pretty low humidity. I still keep every finished and decorated cake covered in a box in the fridge. I bought big cardboard boxes and keep wedding cakes in those.
The cake sounds cute. I love birds on cakes!
I'm having the same issue...I'm making a cake with chocolate ganache filling, and I'm sure it won't be wise to leave it out. My problem is that it will be covered in total black fondant & I can not take a chance with wet spots or other condensation issues.
I've heard that putting the cake in a cardboard box, not cake box, will keep cake refrigerated without damaging the cake.
I appreciate any help with this because I don't want to mess my cake up, but I don't want the filling to go bad. Also, will refrigerating the cake make it stale? thanks again for any help!!!!


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So I'm Mexican but I have hereditary dark circles (from my dad's side) and although I try concealing my dark circles you can kinda still see them. Are guys attracted to that or do they dislike that? The reason I'm asking this is because people often ask me if I'm indian, do guys think Indian/hindu girls are pretty? Please no rude comments, my dark circles are hereditary so trust me if I could do anything to change me it would be my dark circles.
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Jim's Bike Shop sells and repairs bicycles. The owner, Jim Hardy, took several accounting courses in college and has decided to maintain his business's accounting records. Although the shop has been in operation for longer than three months, Hardy has not yet prepared any financial statements for the business. Although several of Hardy's friends who are business owners prepare monthly financial statements for their businesses, Hardy has decided that it is too much of a hassle to prepare monthly financial statements for Jim's Bike Shop.
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Thursday, September 30, 2004
"Something really fun and illegal happened today at school"
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
I'm not always so stupid ...
The moral of this story is: Always remember your stupid PIN number, ya dope! It's only four numbers, for crying in a bucket.
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Those wacky Duke students are at it again! Blocking my driveway with their shiny new cars. It happens several times a year, and it's always the guys who live at the illegal frat house two doors down. Mr. Illinois plate #520-4351 is lucky I don't still drive my old beater Nissan Stanza, because I would have been very tempted to just back it into his cute little bug. Oops! Why what on earth was that l'il ol' car doing at the end of my driveway?
Monday, September 27, 2004
I finally got around to it ...
About three years ago I found this photo (with another one taken the same day) in the street outside of the building where I work. I had always intended to post it somewhere but I never got around to it. At one point I soaked and rinsed it trying to get the dirt off (it's OK! Photos go through a water rinse after they are printed, and they can withstand a certain amout of water) but it only did a little good.
I make up stories about how and why the photos got into the street. Chances are they fell accidentally, but the one I prefer is that a guy came to the US to work and then someone sent him photos of his sweetheart marrying someone else back home. Heartbroken and jealous, he flung the photos into the street because he never wanted to see them again ...
It's no wonder I'm a sucker for those melodramatic Mexican telenovelas.
The story of my life ...
Sunday, September 26, 2004
A (relatively) clean house ...
We went to the Save Our Starlite benefit for a while, but left very early so I could got to WXDU music staff meeting. I brought home seven cds to review, far too many but I don't expect to actually like all of them. I'll be sure to share which ones I think are special.
Saturday, September 25, 2004
Shameless grovelling ...
I'm a loser ...
Anyway, I'm listening to Georg's Mondo Mundo show on WXDU and it's awesome. His show is so hot I had to request some Enrique Iglesias to cool it down a little! (Seriously, I did via the web request form but then I made sure he knew I was kidding because for all I know he really aims to please ... good thing I know for a fact that XDU has absolutely no Enrique Iglesias in its library.)
Friday, September 24, 2004
All about me ...
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
Nothing a tub of alpha hydroxy won't take care of ...
When I got back to my building at least the security guard had the sense to say "Hello, young lady." That's more like it. Of course, he's probably pushing 60 so it doesn't take much to be younger than he is ...
Clues ...
So if anyone (rick!?) wants to keep trying, here are some clues:
1. Related to #15 (in a side-project/later band kind of way)
2. I got to meet the lead singer of this group a few weeks before his tragic and bizarre death in 1985.
3. A #1 hit in the UK in the early '80s ... this band was much less well-known in the US but still beloved by the young college radio/punk/new wave types
4. BWV got this one
5. Oop, this isn't from the 80s--it's from 1979, and I didn't discover it until after this man's third album came out in 1980.
6. rick! got this one
7. We already know this one is Elvis Costello ... come on, is there no one else who obsessed over EC in the 80s the way I did?
8. From the 70s, a defining hit for the artist most famous for singing it ...
9. The group is Irish ... this song was actually released in 1978, and I didn't discover it until after this group's controversial 1979 hit single. I still think of this as "80s music", though ...
10. We know it's Luna ... just need the song title ...
11. Ooops, another "80s song" that actually came out in 1979 ... from a UK group with enduring influence
12. rick! got this one
13. These scruffy midwestern guys were grungy 10 years before the record companies discovered Seattle. They were also known for being incoherently drunk onstage, wearing dresses and spitting beer on their fans. This is from their ass-kicking third album (not counting an EP) released in 1984.
14. See the comments for clues on this one
15. rick! got this one
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
The logic behind "Boss's Day" escapes me. What does a Boss's day card say?
"Thanks for not firing me in a fit of pique?"
"Thanks for not being as much of an asshole as other bosses I've had?"
"Thanks for being clueless and staying out of our way most of the time. Go play a couple rounds of golf?"
"Thanks for not having me killed?" (That last one is a reference to someone I know--the less said the better--whose boss actually threatened some employees by saying he would have them killed. That started a debate in the office over whether he would at least help the NC economy and hire someone local to do the killing or whether he would bring in someone from elsewhere to do it.)
Anyway, the good thing about Boss's Day is that it falls on a Saturday, which means many of us can conveniently ignore it.
Monday, September 20, 2004
Play my meme ...
I'm picking this up from Alicia ... I don't know what I was up to last time this meme went around, because Alicia was the first I'd heard of it. No biggie, I'm usually pretty much out of the loop on everything. Anyway, the deal is I list song lyrics and you people tell me where you think they are from. Most of this stuff is from the 80s, a few are from the 90s, two are from the 70s and only one is from this century. I think most of them are pretty easy, but then I made the list, didn't I?
While I was "researching" this by listening to lots of music, I started listening to The Pixies Trompe Le Monde (no Pixies lyrics here, though), and it made me wonder: how many songs can people come up with that contain the sound of a beer bottle falling on the floor? Because "Planet of Sound" features a falling beer bottle, and I'm positive there's a Replacements song that features a bottle as well (I just can't remember which one). Anybody know of any other songs?
Anyway, here's the list:
1. In this age of frozen freaks the only highs we get are low
2. I had a girl, she loved what she saw; she loved me so good, she made her daddy mad (Georg got this one)
3. You choose your leaders and place your trust; As their lies wash you down and their promises rust (Andrew got this one)
4. It may look to the untrained eye, I'm sitting on my arse all day; I'm biding time until I take you all on (BWV got this one--mostly)
5. He sits there drinkin' gin and she sits there drinkin' beer like me
6. Dark party bars, shiny cadillac cars and the people on subways and trains (rick! got this one)
7. Don't you know I got the bully boys out changing someone's facial design,
8. I know I need a small vacation, but it don't look like rain.
9. And Suzie is a jewel, she flashes when she smiles.
10. I can hypnotize a pancake, I can levitate the pope
11. I can't love when anyone loves me, and I can't find the someone to love
12. This was the only kindness and it was accidental too (rick! got this one)
13. Yeah, I know I look like hell; I smoke and I drink and I'm feeling swell
14. To yourself and to your family and friends you're just like a party and the party never ends
15. Dialogue dub, now here's the rub; She's acting her reaction (rick! got this one)
Special bonus extra credit "rock en español" lyric (any kindred spirits out there?):
Por eso ahora tendre que obsequiarte un par de balazos pa que te duela. (Who rocks completely for knowing the provenance of these lyrics? Prentiss, that's who!)
Like I said, if you don't play along Hurricane Lisa will mess you up.
Look at me, I'm a hurricane (well, almost)!
Mark and a few of my friends are making fun of me because I'm a little bitty tropical storm. But I've got plenty of time to draw energy from the warm tropical waters and then I'll show them! And maybe when I'm done around here I'll go say hello to Andrew and Heidi up in Nova Scotia.
In other news, I spent all weekend at the Carolina Sportsplex playing flyball. It was fun but I'm still a bit tired. My teammate Sam took some photos. This is my favorite one.
Friday, September 17, 2004
I wanna play the meme ...
Oh yeah, I also like D.W. Holiday's Techincal Difficulties, Under the Influence and Paul Westerberg's new cd Folker. Not that you asked, or anything ...
As for the meme, maybe I'll indulge Jason and do a bunch of 80s lyrics. First I gotta listen to all these new cds ...
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Chix Pix ...
A messy desk is a sign of ...
I must clean off my desk because it's getting hard to get things done, but I'm too busy to have time to clean my desk. The problem is that people are always giving me all these pieces of paper associated with something they want me to do. Then I'm afraid to just throw away all the paper because what if someone asks for it back? But I'm not the type of person who keeps paper files ... even if I were I have nowhere to file them. So they start piling up, and then the piles sort of slide sideways until everything is all morphed together. Whatever happened to the "paperless office" that was being touted back in the '80s?
Another problem is that people give me all sorts of files on cd, and when I'm done they rarely want the cds back. Again, I'm loath to throw them away for some reason, so they start to stack up.
So it gets to the point where all my toys and personal effects get crowded out by all the work crap, and it's not a happy situation. I think tomorrow I'll throw away everything work related that's on my desk ... not today because I've got to finish up and then drive back to Durham to do my radio show.
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Hostess wedding cake
Here's me blogging someone else's photo again. I like photos of cakes. I especially like this one. That's all.
Plan for Canadian domination ....
Monday, September 13, 2004
Chicks Rock III ....
I'm still in the process of going through my Chicks Rock photos. My problem is that iPhoto is clearly not designed for actual photographers, because it slows to a crawl when you get any quantity of photos in your library. I have 3072, which really isn't that many for a serious hobby photographer. Anyway, at Sarah's suggestion I'm going to have to back them up and get them out of my library--but that sort of defeats the purpose of using iPhoto as an organizing tool ... it's good at organizing nothing, I guess.
But my friend Sam (a flyball teammate) who is seriously into rock 'n' roll photography, put up his galleries. You can see them here: Audubon Park,
Cantwell, Gomez and Jordan, and Gerty.
Gmail demand spikes!!
As for the big Durham Blues Festival noise email list brouhaha, it continues ... The guy who seems to be the tightest pantiewad of them all wrote that none of the blues fest defenders had offered "a valid argument for allowing the festival to break the law" (i.e. the city noise ordinance.) At this point I'm getting sick of the guy, so I had to reply:
How about this: Because we want it to. Because we're not so hung up on controlling absolutely everything and everyone around us, and we want people who come to our city to enjoy the once-a-year blues fest to get what they came for ... blues sound good loud, after all. Because we don't see the point in getting all worked up over one night's sleep and besides, if we just relax our sphincters a little bit we find it's easier to sleep even with a little noise. Because we see beauty and joy in a world that allows a little bit of randomness and disarray, yes, even chaos sometimes, and we know that getting our undies in a bundie over "the rule of law" would just make life overly regimented and awful. Because if we wanted to live in a place where everyone gets uptight over anything out of the ordinary or skirting the sacred rule of law we would have moved to Cary*.I hope the guy takes it personally.
*For those of you who ain't from around here, Cary is a town that many people feel is very soulless and Stepford-like: cookie-cutter housing developments, lots of rules about what color you can paint your house (I heard a rumor that they demanded the Red Roof Inn not put a red roof on their inn in Cary because it wouldn't match everything else ... I don't know if it's really true) and vast shopping centers with national chain stores and national chain restaurants. The locals like to say that CARY stands for "Containment Area for Relocated Yankees."
More neighborhood crap ....
Then I told him I hope his wife runs off with a band of Maoists and his kids grow up to be crackheads. OK, not really, but I thought it.
Sunday, September 12, 2004
Crank up the volume!
Anyway, of course someone in my neighborhood had to write a complaining note to our neighborhood e-mail list about how the noise kept them awake Saturday night and it was in clear violation of the Durham noise ordinance, blah blah blah. That really pissed me off. Here we have a ONCE-A-YEAR event that draws people to our city and celebrates its cool musical heritage, and some uptight asshole wants to shut it down because he lost a little sleep one night. I wanted to post back something like "Take a fucking sleeping pill, asshole," but instead I posted:
I would be mighty irritated if the once-a-year Durham Blues Festival, which draws in people from all over the region, were to be silenced by noise complaints from people who chose to live in this potentially noisy central-city location. I LIKE hearing the blues festival--it's only once a year, after all--because it reminds me that I live in really interesting little city with its own musical heritage of "Piedmont Blues."
In fact, Friday night I sat on my deck for a little while and listend--I was really tickled that by choosing to live in Trinity Park I had entitled myself to a free show.
I don't want to make Trinity Park like some remote, cookie-cutter subdivision by killing all of the city life around it. That life is why we moved here.
A few people e-mailed their support privately or to the list. And a few more haters posted about how they or their precious little spawn were kept awake. One guy wrote that he was going to write a letter of complaint to the organizers. This time Mark waded into the fray:
I will also write to the organizers thanking them for keeping such a great ONCE A YEAR cultural event going strong in Durham. I'll also explain that we as neighbors understand that city life isn't always perfect and never will be. Finally I'll explain that all of the residents of TP don't have a desire to control absolutely everything, and that the entire city doesn't revolve around TP. It was a great show.So then the complainer e-mailed Mark privately and accused him of "getting personal" and being immature. Here's what Mark wrote back:
P.S. It's once a year - get over it.
I'm sorry if you have taken my comments personally. The get over it comment was only part of my email. Everyone is within their legal right to pursue whatever legal action they see fit. Just understand that your desire to pursue legal action because you experience the least bit of inconvenience, while hundreds of others have a good time is selfish. Also understand that there are those who will resist efforts to turn this city into a suburb. You can take that personally. As far as your legal action is concerned, I hope you will be ignored. Finally, I hope to never be as mature as you. I really do dread the thought. Enjoy.Mark rocks.
Now I'm thinking that maybe we should organize some kind of letter-writing campaign along the lines of: "Crank Up The Volume, Blues Festival!"
iPhoto is slow ...
get-the-spinning-beachball-for-about-60-seconds-just-to-select-a-photo slow. Unacceptably slow. Slow, slow, slow.
Thanks, I just had to say that.
Dogs rock!
I'm still in the process of going through my Chicks Rock photos. Because it's a low-light situation and I hate to use flash, I always take way too many photos in the hopes of getting a handful of good ones. So it takes a long time to get through them.
Friday, September 10, 2004
I saw this on Flickr. Brilliant.
That's another cool thing about Flickr--you can blog someone else's photos.
Completely unrelated: I got everything correct in this quiz: How well do you know your rights? (US citizens only, subject to change with political climate.)
Thanks to frograbbitmonkey for the link.
Bummer ....
Lucy the Wonderdog!
spread jump, weave poles (with her handler in a WXDU T-shirt!), jump, jump, A-frame, tunnel, table (lie down already, Lucy!) and tunnel.
Meanwhile, I keep checking Towndock.net every so often because they're supposed to put up the new Pet of the Month this morning: Mr. Gomez (we think!).
Darn ...
But he said he's ready to leave Key West, and if he weren't so disorganized he'd leave for the hurricane and just never go back. He's also not sure where he wants to go ... I said DURHAM!
Thursday, September 09, 2004
Something Ivan has done for me ...
Poor Grenada ....
Ignoring the destruction, Ivan is a really beautiful storm:
Unfortunately, he won't look that way to the people in Jamaica, Cuba and probably Florida ...
A heroic pup ...
It would seem more like justice if the man had actually died ...
Tuesday, September 07, 2004
A new wrinkle in Gmail invitations ....
Save Our Starlite ...
Monday, September 06, 2004
As threatened ....
OK, I've decided to torture folks with more talk of agility. The photo above is of my friend Judy, who is begging her dog Jackson to lie down on the pause table (he never did). It's sort of funny because when you've never done agility, you think "My dog knows the 'down' command ... how hard could that obstacle really be?" But the thing is that your dog has just been running, jumping, etc., and is probably really keyed up. Now you want her to stop and be still for the count of five? I failed to qualify (or "Q," as the lingo goes) in my standard course run on Saturday because it took too long for me to get Lucy into the down. We had a perfect run but it was about 30 seconds over time.
Because every agility course is different and you have no idea what it's going to look like until the day of the trial, they give everyone about 10 minutes to walk each course without dogs before competition begins. You have a little map and each obstacle is numbered, but you really need to memorize it because are so many other things to think about that you'll never make it through if you have to try and figure out which obstacle is next. But most people don't just walk the course, we do a slo-mo version of all the movements we'll be doing when we're running the course with our dogs. That's because our dogs mostly use our body language to know which obstacle we want them to take next (we've tried to work it all out in advance with them in classes and practice time), and we have to figure out in the walk-through what our bodies need to do at every point along the way. So the sight of all these people doing their bizarre ballet dances out in the field at the same time is really quite amusing to watch. My friend Geoff, who came to watch for a while yesterday, said it looked like the kind of thing you'd expect to see at a mental institution. I wish I had taken a photo.
Sunday, September 05, 2004
Agility ...
This is my friend Marty and her border collie Link, running the standard course at the USDAA trial I was at all weekend.
I'm exhausted. I had a great time and I could bore the pants off of all three of you about it all, but I don't have the energy right now. Except to quickly brag: we took two third place finishes, but more importantly we Q'd in Starters Jumpers! (Q? What does that mean? You don't care unless you're an agility person, so just trust me that it's a very good thing and not too many people Q at their first trial.) But the best thing of all was that the judge told me it didn't look like it was only my first trial. I rock!!
Maybe I'll bore everyone more later with the details, maybe not ...
Friday, September 03, 2004
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NAZI GERMANY'S -vs- NeoCon America's WAR ON TERRORISM
Hitler used the 1933 burning of the Reichstag (Parliament) building by a deranged Dutchman to declare a "war on terrorism," establish his legitimacy as a leader. (even though he hadn't won a majority in the previous election much like George W. Bush).
"You are now witnessing the beginning of a great epoch in history," Hitler proclaimed, standing in front of the burned-out building, surrounded by national media. "This fire," he said, his voice trembling with emotion, "is the beginning." He used the occasion – "a sign from God," he called it – to declare an all-out war on terrorism and its ideological sponsors, a people, he said, who traced their origins to the Middle East and found motivation for their "evil" deeds in their religion.
Two weeks later, the first prison for terrorists was built in Oranianberg, holding the first suspected allies of the infamous terrorist. In a national outburst of patriotism, the nation's flag was everywhere, even printed in newspapers suitable for display.
Within four weeks of the terrorist attack, the nation's now-popular leader had pushed through legislation, in the name of combating terrorism and fighting the philosophy he said spawned it, that suspended constitutional guarantees of free speech, privacy, and habeas corpus. Police could now intercept mail and wiretap phones; suspected terrorists could be imprisoned without specific charges (Like GITMO?) and without access to their lawyers; police could sneak into people's homes without warrants if the cases involved terrorism.
To get his patriotic "Decree on the Protection of People and State" passed over the objections of concerned legislators and civil libertarians, he agreed to put a 4-year sunset provision on it: if the national emergency provoked by the terrorist attack on the Reichstag building was over by then, the freedoms and rights would be returned to the people, and the police agencies would be re-restrained.
Within the first months after that terrorist attack, at the suggestion of a political advisor, he brought a formerly obscure word into common usage. Instead of referring to the nation by its name, he began to refer to it as The fatherland. As hoped, people's hearts swelled with pride, and the beginning of an us-versus-them mentality was sewn. Our land was "the" homeland, citizens thought: all others were simply foreign lands.
Within a year of the terrorist attack, Hitler's advisors determined that the various local police and federal agencies around the nation were lacking the clear communication and overall coordinated administration necessary to deal with the terrorist threat facing the nation, including those citizens who were of Middle Eastern ancestry and thus probably terrorist sympathizers. He proposed a single new national agency to protect the security of the Fatherland, (Homeland Security?) consolidating the actions of dozens of previously independent police, border, and investigative agencies under a single powerful leader.
Most Americans remember his Office of Fatherland Security, known as the Reichssicherheitshauptamt and Schutzstaffel, simply by its most famous agency's initials: the (Herr Ashcrofts Gestapo?) SS.
And, perhaps most important, he invited his supporters in industry into the halls of government to help build his new detention camps, his new military, and his new empire which was to herald a thousand years of peace. Industry and government worked hand-in-glove, in a new type of pseudo-democracy first proposed by Mussolini and sustained by war.
What's that old saying: "There's nothing new under the sun?"
I think I should forward this one to my mother.
Thursday, September 02, 2004
Just great ...
Raining cats & dogs ...
He's one of the animals still homeless after Charley. Now Frances is heading toward them and the building they are in may not be able to weather the storm safely.
Not that I want Frances to come our way, of course, it just makes me sad to see all these animals ...
Wednesday, September 01, 2004
Hello, Frances
Back in the fall of 1998 we booked a vacation to Belize for the following February. Then this huge, powerful hurricane--Mitch--looked as if it could be heading straight for Belize. I really didn't want a hurricane to hit Belize, thinking selfishly of my own vacation plans. Turns out, not only did Mitch turn south and miss Belize, but he just about took out the entire country of Honduras, dumping rain for days and days until everything that could collapse into a mudslide did and thousands of people were dead, some completely washed away never to be heard from again. What little infrastructure they had in some areas was completely destroyed. I felt like a jerk for having thought of my dumb vacation in the face of a category 5 hurricane. (Turns out, we never did get to Belize that year. American Airlines pilots had a sick-out and all their flights to just about anywhere were cancelled the day before we left. We ended up buying a package thing to a resort in the Dominican Republic, where there were armed guards on the beaches hassling Mark because they assumed he was Dominican.)
Anyway, so with Frances, I'm hoping that a giant from another planet gets out a huge vacuum cleaner and just sucks her right out of our atmosphere.


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Hoboken police and fire blotter: 2/6/2011
Hoboken crime and fire action: February 6, 2011
Various noteworthy incidents, crimes and fire-calls throughout the day for Sunday, February 6, 2011. This post may be updated and "bumped" periodically.
- 1:00am (2/7): Foot Pursuit (i.e., "free workout")
HPD was recently involved in a foot pursuit near 6th and Marshall Drive… and apprehended some kind of suspect. They were either wanted for something nefarious – or were caught in the act. Either way – good job HPD!
- 12:47am (2/7): Man Down!
Reports of a "Man Down" downtown (near the Chock Full of Nuts). Anyone wanna take bets on whether booze was involved?
- 11:07pm: Pit Bull Dog Bite!
Just reported – a Pit Bull bit two "mammals." One man and his dog, were attacked by a Pit Bull near 801 Madison Street. Oh boy, more bad PR for Pit Bulls – when in fact it's the owners that are usually the problem…
- 10:55pm: "Falling coolers above!"
Reports that someone threw a cooler off the Skyline Condo Building downtown… Wonder if it was an angry bi-polar ex-councilperson?
- 10:20pm: Street Fight
518 Washington Street – "Street fight, headed towards 6th Street…"
- 8:30pm: Wandering Drunk
In the area of 2nd and Jackson – reports of a drunk walking in and out of traffic. Me thinks he bet Steelers and the under for the first half…
- 4:20pm: Warm weather + idiots = ?
Reports of kids throwing snowballs at the intersection of Newark and Harrison. Luckily it's not convertible weather yet.
- 3:45pm: Learn to cook
Another false alarm of fire at 800 Madison. HFD still has a tough time navigating city streets due to snow – and drivers still block hydrants. Thank God it wasn't a real fire.
- 12:40pm: More snow cleanup
River St. between 1st & 2nd to be closed in both directions while more icy, dog poop-filled mounds of snow are cleared away. Wonder if the city will shut thoroughfares down in the summer, if a kid drops a snow cone on the street…
- 12:30pm: Leaky Car
12th & Washington – reports of gasoline leaking from a parked vehicle. HFD responded, and rectified the situation. Washington St. was closed for about 10 minutes.
- 8:40am: Pedestrian vs. Car
At the corner of 2nd & Jackson – initial reports that a NYC taxi cab struck a pedestrian. However, after details became clearer – it was a drunk that "fell on the hood of the taxi."
More updates to come…


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French Chicken in a Pot (America's Test Kitchen)
Recipe by blucoat
Roasting a whole chicken in a covered pot is a classic French technique where the meat turns out juicy, intensely flavourful, and especially tender and also creates a rich jus top serve with the chicken. This recipe is from America's Test Kitchen and was published in "Cook's Illustrated Magazine" (Jan. 2008). The cooking times in the recipe are for a 4 1/2- to 5-pound bird. A 3 1/2- to 4 1/2-pound chicken will take about an hour to cook, and a 5- to 6-pound bird will take close to 2 hours. If you choose not to serve the skin with the chicken, simply remove it before carving. The amount of jus will vary depending on the size of the chicken; season it with about 1/4 teaspoon lemon juice for every 1/4 cup.
Top Review by AmerAussie
I love this chicken recipe! It was exactly what I was looking for, and ATK is so reliable. One word of caution about rosemary: just use a small sprig, about 3 inches long. I found out the hard way that it easily overpowers the other flavors in the dish. In fact, the first time I made this I didn't use any rosemary and preferred it to the taste with the herb.
This is one easy dish that will make you look like a gourmet French cook!
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 (4 1/2-5 lb) whole roasting chickens, giblets removed and discarded, wings tucked under back
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt (use 1/2 the salt for a kosher chicken) or 1 teaspoon table salt (use 1/2 the salt for a kosher chicken)
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 small onion, chopped medium (about 1/2 cup)
- 1 small celery rib, chopped medium (about 1/4 cup)
- 6 medium garlic cloves, peeled and trimmed
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 medium fresh rosemary sprig (optional)
- 1⁄2-1 teaspoon lemon juice
Directions See How It's Made
- Adjust oven rack to lowest position and heat oven to 250 degrees. Pat chicken dry with paper towels and season with salt and pepper.
- Heat oil in large (5- to 8-quart) Dutch oven over medium heat until just smoking. Add chicken breast-side down; scatter onion, celery, garlic, bay leaf, and rosemary (if using) around chicken. Cook until breast is lightly browned, about 5 minutes. Using a wooden spoon inserted into cavity of bird, flip chicken breast-side up and cook until chicken and vegetables are well browned, 6 to 8 minutes.
- Remove Dutch oven from heat; place large sheet of foil over pot and cover tightly with lid. Transfer pot to oven and cook until instant-read thermometer registers 160 degrees when inserted in thickest part of breast and 175 degrees in thickest part of thigh, 80 to 110 minutes.
- Transfer chicken to carving board, tent with foil, and rest 20 minutes. Meanwhile, strain chicken juices from pot through fine-mesh strainer into fat separator, pressing on solids to extract liquid; discard solids (you should have about 3/4 cup juices). Allow liquid to settle 5 minutes, then pour into saucepan and set over low heat.
- Carve chicken, adding any accumulated juices to saucepan. Stir lemon juice into jus to taste. Serve chicken, passing jus at table.


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Figurative Language
Metaphors - Describe one thing as if it were something else.
Personification - Gives human characteristics to something that is not human.
Similes - Use like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things.
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intellectually or morally ignorant;
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Giving Up On Cakin' For Friends Of Friends
Decorating By dynee Updated 13 Nov 2010 , 1:28pm by dynee
After the last cancelled cake, I've given up doing cakes for anyone that I don't know face to face. The last one was for a girl who was a friend of a girl who works with my SIL. The first friend wanted me to do a Twilight cake in black fondant with a single red and white parrot tulip. I quoted her a price and she said "would you just do the tulip" I told her yes, and sold her the tulip for $10. I should have known when HER friend e-mailed me and said she wanted a 2 tier zebra stripe and pink cake with stars shooting out the top. I quoted her a range of prices and she went for one or the other of the highest prices. She thought she needed it either the first or second week of October. After e-mailing her back and forth for several times over the space of a couple of weeks, I tried to pin her down on which cake config. and which day. She never answered me back.....
SOOOO! I went down to a craft studio run by my son's college and who knew someone from the general public could join by the semester. I decided to try my hand at making cakes and cupcakes out of clay. It was so much fun. I think I'll get the hang of it. I was going to attach some pics, but I see I still can't do that. I tried on another post in Sept. and couldn't do it then either.
What kind of clay did you use?
That's what I've been thinking for a long time--I should get a different medium. But use them as gifts--I mean marketing them might zap the joy out of it y'know?
And then there's the learning curve too. But I could do it.
K8, Right now I'm using the craft studio cone 6 porcelain clay. I actually have a degree in Art Education and 35 years ago could throw pots on a potters wheel. This time I'm doing all hand building. I have shoulder issues now and don't think I could handle the wheel now.
I retired 5 years ago and have been trying to deal with a creative "JONES". Cakes did it for me for a while. On the gifts thing, I have 7 brothers and sisters and guess what they are ALL getting for Christmas LOL!
OOOooooh can I pick your brain about this stuff? I mean I would like to carve and build--Y'know like for example rice krispie treats--where I whirl the dry cereal in the food processor--then I make them-- then I fashion in the general shape of what I want then I carve. I could even add some more from a fresh batch if necessary.
Is there any type of medium I could do that with? Ceramical or clayfacal or sculpyfical??? That's asking a lot out of a product huh. But I know basically zip about this.
I'm not sure what you are wanting to know. The rice krispies threw me. I can tell you a lot about ceramics but not the krispies. All the years I taught, I had a ceramic program. One of the frustrations I've had with the craft studio is that I know more about it than they do. Also I've had some trouble there with mis-labeled jars and over-firing. My DH is in the process of getting me a kiln of my own.
I have been making "cupcakes" two ways. I have been using the standard size silicone wrappers for one size. They end up the size of a mini-cuppie. The other size, I bought the Wilton jumbo pan with the swirl tops. They come out the size of the standard. I'm thinking about getting the large single cupcake to make things like teapots. And I have used my round cake pans to make boxes to look like layer cakes. For the cupcakes, it is a simple matter of taking a ball of clay and making a pinch pot and pushing it down into the hole of the pan. For some, I let it "spill" over to make a muffin top and then the icing is seperate for the lid. On the cakes, I roll a slab about 1/4 inch thick and cut long strips to lay vertically against the inside edge of the pan until it sets up. I wish I could post a pic. but I know it is against the rules to do non cake items. Would it help to e-mail some pics?


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Letter of Expectations
Introduction to Special Education - Spring 2015
1. What do you think this class is all about?
I think this class is about introducing the vast and diverse needs of students that are identified as benefiting from a "special education".
2. What do you hope to learn during this class?
I hope to learn to recognize and assess students that have special education needs. I also hope to understand how to optimize these students' learning and be able to work in cooperation with their family and other professionals that can aid these challenged learners.
3. Do you have preconceived notions about Special Needs Learners?
I think that special needs students are defined by their limitations. Special needs are commonly measured by what the student cannot do, rather then directing them towards enhancing the skills they do have.
4. What do you plan to do to be successful in this course?
Beyond staying on schedule and organized, I plan to experience as many special needs learning situations as I can, I plan to absorb as much personal knowledge from experienced Special Needs Teachers, and I plan to learn protocol and procedures related to special needs students' learning environment.
5. What are your expectations for yourself as a student? As a future teacher?
As a student, I expect to be educated on the multiple classifications of special needs learners and I expect to learn how to properly conduct myself when involved with a special needs students education.
As a future teacher, I expect to understand the appropriate short and long term goals of a variety of special needs diagnoses for the different learning levels or ages. I expect to be able to know how to help special needs students directly and by being able to offer or identify the services available to that student.
6. Will the kind of student you are now reflect on the type of teacher you might become? Why or why not?
Yes, I do believe and hope that the kind of student I am now will be relfected in the kind of teacher I become. I value organization, planning, and thoroughness for the things I work on, as well as appreciation, compassion, and achievement for the people I work with. I hope all of these attributes carry over into my professional career in education.
7. What issues will you face in your journey to become a teacher? How can this class help you overcome these issues?
I will face the issue of being overwhelmed with the vast number of programs, services, mandates, protocols, procedures and laws that are applicable in the classroom, school and community concerning students. I feel there is so much to learn and so much to experience that I am nervous that I will not be able to effectively manage all the responsibilities that today's teacher has. I hope this class can ease some of my anxiety by providing me with a solid foundation in the understanding of the special needs students.


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ISTANBUL – For almost seven decades, NATO has amply demonstrated its ability to fulfill its core mission of deterring a conventional attack against its member countries. But the threat landscape on NATO's southern flank is changing, pushing the Alliance toward uncharted waters. This week's NATO summit in Warsaw will amount to a litmus test of the Alliance's ability to adapt to the new more complex security challenges that it faces.
Since the Cold War, when it was positioned as a bulwark against Soviet expansionism, NATO has proved adept at developing responses to conventional threats posed by state actors. When the threat of ballistic missiles from Iran became potent, it built a missile-defense architecture to deter provocation. When a resurgent Russia began to generate concerns among the Alliance's eastern members, it revised its forward posture to reassure them.
NATO's approach to non-state actors, however, is less well developed. Indeed, no such approach really existed until the September 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States, when the notion that terrorist groups could pose a real threat to the West's security penetrated official thinking for the first time. That moment became a turning point for NATO, not only because it spurred the first invocation of the collective-defense clause, Article 5, but also because the clause was invoked against an amorphous non-state entity in the mountains of Afghanistan.
Since 2001, NATO has been moving to create a more robust framework to defend its members against non-state actors and asymmetric threats. Soon after the September 11 attacks, NATO established a "terrorism threat intelligence unit" to bolster its intelligence pooling and analysis efforts. In 2002, it launched its first-ever "partnership action plan against terrorism," which was re-branded in 2015 as "counter-terrorism policy guidelines." These efforts will culminate at the Warsaw Summit, where NATO should establish a new strategic outlook that accounts for the complex and diffuse security challenges affecting its southern flank.


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Pas a pas (2000) (Performance Score)-BSN/ACCORDION
Composer: Mochizuki, Misato
Publisher: Breitkopf und Haertel (Germany)
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Pas a pas (2000) for bassoon and acoordion
by Misato Mochizuki (b. 1969)
This title comes as a single performance score. It is a facsimile reprint of a handwritten manuscript. Legible, but barely. The score is in loose-leaf format.


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OMB Receives HCBS Pending Final Rule from CMS
On November 5, The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) received for review CMS-2249-F, a pending final rule (the Rule) from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that will simplify the ability of states to administer their home and community-based services (HCBS) programs. The Rule was first published as a proposed rule in April 2008, and then published as a second proposed rule in May 2012.
To see the regulatory history, please click here.
To see the May 2012 proposed rule, please click here.
The Rule had not been previously finalized as CMS deemed it non-compliant with the Affordable Care Act. Upon completion of OMB's present review, CMS will publish the Rule as a final rule in the Federal Register.
First, the Rule clarifies the ability of states to furnish HCBS through the 1915(i) State Plan Option, which allows states to provide HCBS without needing a waiver or demonstration program.
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2014 NAHC Annual Meeting & Exposition: Call for Presentations
Deadline for Presentations is Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Have you ever thought of being a presenter for NAHC conferences? Have you or members of a team at your agency or hospice developed a unique program that helps to improve care and increase efficiency? You have an opportunity to share your knowledge with your peers. Learn more about NAHC's presenter submission process by visiting here.
NAHC's 2014 Annual Meeting & Exposition will build off the success of 2013's meeting that just concluded in Washington, DC, and is being held Sunday, October 19 – Wednesday, October 22, 2014 at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, AZ.
The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, December 18, 2013.
NAHC's proposal submission process is online, and you must complete it to be eligible for review and consideration at future educational sessions. Please be sure to read the instructions and submission policies carefully when you go online to submit your presentation proposal. The Annual Meeting will offer more than 125 educational sessions to address the needs of home health, hospice, and private duty providers, as well as clinical professionals including nurses, therapists, and physicians.
Proposal topics should fall in one of the following nine (9) categories:
For each presentation selected, two (2) presenters will receive complimentary registration for the meeting. This registration includes the opportunity to attend educational session series, the exposition, and general sessions.
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Our heroes found themselves in the dark area they had previously explored. This time they could feel the end of this horror draw near. They first came across a room with an odd man from the Fae, he was interested in playing a game. The heroes easily defeated the man in the game (due to some slight cheating) and the man became very angry. A battle broke out and after the heroes began to win, the man disappeared (assumedly back to the Fae.) The God's Chosen carried on and found themselves in a frightening room with a large skull painted on the ground. There was a place on the ground for 6 gems, in which Lomian began to place the gems he had acquired in the slots. Two Aspects of Vecna appeared and began making things difficult. While Lomian was placing the gems, one Aspect got in a killing blow and put Lomian down. The heroes were not phased though, they still had Three and knew he was talented in ritual casting. A few minutes later, Three fell and it was up to Stelian, Shadow, and Aeitius to finish the job. Once the Aspects were dead, the three remaining members gathered up all they needed. Stelian and Aeitius grabbed armor and potions, while Shadow grabbed Ruinblade from Three's limp hand. Once all of the gems were placed, a portal shot from the ground, and the weakened party was ready to step forth. Once inside the portal, they could see a large figure, constructed out of many dead gods' flesh. The mammoth object, then came to life. With no healer and a weakened party, this would be a fight to remember. The battle raged on and eventually Aeitius broke a large power gem over the monster's head, doing massive damage to the creature. The fight was not over yet. Stelian was then struck by a mighty blow and fell unconscious. Shadow was then knocked down, but though he felt like collapsing, he battled on. Stelian (who was believed to have been finished off) then woke back up, and began to fight again. All three were tired and worn, but then a final leaping blow from Shadow brought the creature to his back. Once the creature was dead, Shadow collapsed with the falling body. The heroes then dragged their fallen companions out of the tomb and back to a safe haven. There Stelian bartered away some of the goods the heroes had left over, then brought Three and Lomian back to life. The party then agreed to split into two, Lomian went back to New Haven, Three, Shadow, Stelian, and Aeitius remained where they were. War is coming.
Upon arriving in the Astral Sea, the party suddenly hears a scuffle happening on the deck of the pirate ship they occupy. Coming up to the deck, the party sees the pirates that had been manning their ship slain by a small group of black cloaked strangers. The strangers lead the party to a man who had taken over the duty of flying the ship. When asked of his intentions by Three, the man explained where they were headed and stated that soon they would "understand everything". Soon the ship docked and the party was taken to a fortress built into a mountain where the Shardmind Ilnedra was waiting. She explained that though the party had undertaken many quests, all were secondary to slowing the progress of Starfire, who was working in the Astral Sea at present, collecting artifacts and acting as the de facto servant of the goddess Erathis. However it was believed that his servitude was more out of convenience of gaining power and resources rather than for the greater good. The party was then sent to the island of 1,000 spires to find the next artifact of importance to Starfire, a crystal that once belonged to a great and terrible wizard. After hours of searching they found the spire belonging to the wizard and entered to search for the crystal. The party then began collecting gems within the spire, falling prey to the traps that each of the gems required to collect them, as well as battles with the servants of the evil god Bane, and devils as well. Once the gems were collected and used to unlock the magic seal on the wizard's crystal the party was teleported to the top and forced to battle the newly freed wizard who owned the crystal and had been sealed for the good of the people living on the island. After a brief but nearly costly battle the party vanquished the wizard causing an explosion that forced them all off the spire to the ground far below. As the party raced to regroup and help the badly injured Three, several Mind Flayer's appeared and immediately attacked the group. When all seemed lost, a huge axe flew forth from the blowing sand and cleaved the largest Mind Flayer in half. When the two others fled, Baurus stepped forward and introduced himself to the shocked party.
After days of battling the disease infesting his body Thalion's will finally gave way and he succumbed to the Mummy's Rot. The remaining members of the party remained in the sanctuary of the Skullbreakers as Three sent a message to Quinn and Widgeon hastening their return to the island. Upon their arrival the group returned to the tomb and descended into a recently discovered trapdoor in the floor. Traveling further into the tomb and battling horrors along the way, the party discovers a seemingly harmless room with a jewel adorned skull sitting on a pedestal in the center of it. Quinn took the skull and triggered a trap opening the floor below him into the darkness of the inner temple. The party traveled down into the depths leading to a large circular room. However, as the entered, the cackling wraith of the mad priest Moghadam. Though victory seemed distant for a greater part of the battle, Three made a desperate final strike against the wraith and slew it. As it turned to shadow and disintegrated its magical sword dropped to the ground. Three approached the sword and when he stooped to pick it up, a voice was heard in his head asking if he would swear an oath to see the Demilich Acerak destroyed. Three took up the oath in the name of Haramathur and thus Ruinblade was his.
The brave party enters the tomb crafted by a mad priest and accolade of the Demilich Acerak, and finds it to be a treacherous labyrinth testing their bodies as well as minds. Each of the encounters in the mazelike Tomb leaves its mark on the adventurers in one way or another. The first being the least taxing, though still leaving the party fatigued and confused. The second encounter took place in a horrible mockery of a burial chamber wherein the party encountered two mummies, and managed to lay three more to rest. However this encounter was not without its dangers, as Thalion was struck a deadly blow by one of the mummies, causing him to contract the mummy's rot plague. The final encounter found the party fighting a bewitched eladrin woman, as well as each other due to a dangerous spell being cast by a hallway coated in runes. After surviving the encounter and helping the save the woman from the mists of madness caused by the runes the party returned to the Skullbreakers' haven. Unfortunately, during the rest that the party took in this place Thalion's condition worsened requiring Quinn and Widgeon to be sent to mainland in an attempt to find a cure. The party's only option now is to return to a newfound passage in the Tomb and pray that help arrives before it is too late for Thalion…
Joined by Quinn the adventurers leave Algoria and Argawane behind once more as they approach the true Tomb of Horrors. They receive word from a contact of Quinn's that their next destination is Skull Island. Upon reaching the beach to set out to the island they are accosted by a gnome who bears the symbol of Algoria. The gnome reveals himself to be a bard, and good friend of the king of Algoria known as Widgeon. Utilizing an enchanted feather found earlier on the quest, the newly expanded group of adventurers set out for Skull Island. Once on the island they head toward a great skull shaped rock in the center of a city. This leads to several encounters with undead as well as the three warring factions on the island. Finally defeated in combat with several powerful warriors, the adventurers find themselves guests of the Skullbreakers, a group of adventurers who have previously braved the Tomb of Horrors and failed in their quests leaving them scarred either mentally or physically. After bestowing upon the party a few gifts, they stand ready to enter the Tomb and face whatever terrors lie inside.
The group heads to Hammerfast to find details about the whereabouts of Quinn Morlin. Quinn had previously stolen their Bag of Holding. They want it back. They gain the knowledge that he is in the trading town of Nenlast. A dwarf named Jarel Hammerthorn agrees to show them the way if they will guard his caravan that he is taking there. They agree.
They meet Rendar the half-orc fighter who also has agreed to see that the caravan makes its journey safely. The journey is a day and a half. They endure a harsh lightning storm and an attack from ogres and orcs. Three also finds and heals a hurt dire wolf. He decides to bring it along.
In the town of Nenlast, the characters hit the Hawk Tavern. "The best Ale in the Nentir Vale!" the sign outside reads. Jarel ends up sending them to the sewers to look for Jaerys Foxstone. He is a famed adventurer and surely he can locate Quinn. They battle through the sewers fighting aboleths until the reach Jaerys' lair. They retrieve a special item by fighting more aboleths, cyclops, and a golem. Finally, they endure a combat encounter with Jaerys who turns out to be Quinn. He gives them treasures and asks to join their quest. They agree and get their Bag of Holding back. Finally!
You feel the darkness enclosing around you. Within seconds, all is dark.
You can see your friends are with you in the darkness with the exception of Thalion. Suddenly, there is a flash that cuts through the darkness, temporarily blinding you. When you can see again, your vision is blurred. It appears a long hallway stands before you. Two doors stand on either side.
Door 1 – You can see Brightkeep, in the Feywild. A group of wizards sit around a large table with grim looks upon their faces. You recognize a few of them. Their sadness reaches out to you.
Door 2 – You see an underground dwarven city, trapped between the very planes of existence. The cries of the dwarves strike terror into your soul.
Door 3 – A familiar kingdom lies before your eyes. Algoria. But it looks nothing like it did. Flames engulf the countryside and cities are in ruins. You can hear the cries of women and children.
Door 4 – You can see Greyhawk. Suddenly, a large army, covered in darkness storms across it. The lands are filled with the darkness as it continues to grow. It strikes fear into your soul.
The next room is strange. Through the glass floor, you can see the world. Familiar faces reach up to you with a look of terror on their faces. You can see King Heroldi, the dwarves of Hammerfast, Oaklord, the elves of the forest all reaching out to you. Yet they cannot reach you. Petendithas Oaklord holds a scroll in one hand that comes close to the surface beneath your feet, yet does not cross into the room. King Heroldi holds his hand out with a small statuette of a unicorn. It does not cross into the room either.
The PCs acquired the scroll (planar portal ritual) and the unicorn statuette (a unicorn summons).
Perception DC 25 – The ceiling has images of the gods. Their eyes lie not on the people below, but rather on the doorway ahead. A look of slight worry, unusual for the gods, is upon their faces.
The next room resembles the last in shape. But that's about it. This room has all its energy focused upon a single chest at the far end of it. The chest is the most elaborate you have ever seen. It radiates a golden light from it. Three dark figures in hoods stand guarding it. Their gaze has been upon you since you entered the room.
If the PCs move forward, the drow attack.
When you open the chest, its as if you begin flying through the sky. Clouds begin passing you at tremendous speeds. You can see a large city in the sky ahead. As you approach it, you see a castle. Next thing you know, you are in the castle staring at a large window overlooking the city. A strange figure stands in front of it staring at the stars in wonderment. He turns and says, "The Gaze is coming."
The players land back in the Shadow Tomb. Thalion is waiting. They fill him in on what just happened. The group next attempts to cross the bone bridge in the ossuary. Two phantoms manifest with an army of skeletal beings. The PCs, luckily, identify the undead as more than mindless. They are warriors protecting their resting place. Through a skill challenge, the PCs are able to earn the trust and respect of the undead and cross safely.
Next they find the remains of the shader-kai who entered the tomb before them. They find a journal that speaks of Acerak and his phylactery. Finally, the find the shadow engine room. This room is channeling all of the energy from this place to some unknown location. An aspect of Acerak, in the form of a floating skull, attacks as the PCs try and disable the engine. They make quick work of the engine, but Acerak takes a little more time. Thalion is able to fly thanks to his boots and Shadow is able to invoke the wrath of the gods with is new rod implement. In a moment of desperation, Shadow summons a fire angel. He rides on the wings of the angel to Acerak, who is floating high above the battlefield with no need for melee combat. With a leap of faith, Shadow drives his blade into the skull and it explodes with arcane energy. The Shadow Tomb has been defeated.
Using their newly acquired portal ritual, the PCs return to Algoria so Argarwane can rule. He equips them all with special gear before they next set out to find the man who stole their Bag of Holding.
As we started to leave, Aranil met with us and told us that Starfire had indeed been to Brightkeep. But it had been a number of years since he had seen him. Aranil then offered to take us to the last known place Starfire had been. Aranil then magically teleported us to the city of Fallcrest. After talking with several townfolk, we decided the best place to ask around for information would be the local taphouses and inns. We first went to the Netter Inn where we met a noble tiefling. Who told us about the Markelhay family and the power they have. Next we ventured to the the Blue Moon Ale House where we met Sergeant Murgeddin the head of the Guards. He told us about Old Man Markelhay who during the Great War took the family heirloom, a sword, and hid it in the Guardmore Abbey and was not seen again. Upon hearing this we decided to visit the Lucky Gnome Taphouse to see if there was anymore information available. Upon entering we started talking with Kelson who talked about the gang problem in Low Town. Upon venturing into Low Town we talk to an individual and they tell us about the River Rats, which is the gang that plagues this part of town at night. We then decide that it would be in the best interest to venture to the Abbey and retrive this sword of power. Upon leaving town we were stopped by a messenger of Armos Kamroth who was summoning us to his estate to discuss something. Upon entering Armos Kamroth's estate we were given a very well prepared meal and asked to retrive the Markelhay heirloom from the Abbey. Kamroth being a collector has an artifact that would enhance the sword and is willing to give us the artifact and the sword on the completion of the job. We then took our leave to find Moonbane, the family heirloom sword. Upon arriving at the Abbey we notice we are not alone. There are many Orcs and other creatures that have taken refuge here. After defeating the Orcs, Drake, and solving the riddle to gain entrance to a sanctuary where we find an alter with a void of what appears to be something with wings which has been taken. We search for the sword but at first glance there is nothing to find but an empty sack, but upon Boris sticking his hand into the bag he finds it! Upon completing the quest we immediately head back to Armos Kamroth's estate only to find no one. We enter cautiously trying to find him, in the basement we do find a secret door which reveals a staircase and we proceed. We then take the left and go down a hallway into a study where we find a sheet of paper titled Incoming Goods which has our names on it and Moonbane, Kelson with Incoming Supplies next to his name, Bartstorman Strongbeard. Kelson's and Strongbeards names are crossed off. And finally on the list Starfire with the Wings of Bahamet next to his name. Downs the other study we find a map of with Teldorthian Arms circled. We then listen to the double doors in the middle of the landing and the foot of the stairs to the conversations inside where we find out that someone thinks that Starfire has ran with his item. We then enter and preceed to lie to Kamroth about not finding the sword but leave the two shortswords we did find with him for him to inspect. We then try to figure someway we could stop the corruption that Kamroth is causing on this town.
Every campaign gets an Adventure Log, a blog for your adventures!
While the wiki is great for organizing your campaign world, it's not the best way to chronicle your adventures. For that purpose, you need a blog!
The Adventure Log will allow you to chronologically order the happenings of your campaign. It serves as the record of what has passed. After each gaming session, come to the Adventure Log and write up what happened. In time, it will grow into a great story!
Best of all, each Adventure Log post is also a wiki page! You can link back and forth with your wiki, characters, and so forth as you wish.
One final tip: Before you jump in and try to write up the entire history for your campaign, take a deep breath. Rather than spending days writing and getting exhausted, I would suggest writing a quick "Story So Far" with only a summary. Then, get back to gaming! Grow your Adventure Log over time, rather than all at once.
Our adventurers set out for the Realm of the Vines seeking the city of Grennal and an elf named Rolen. On the way out of the city, Boris the dwarf met them. He was an old friend of Chigaru's and seeks treasure so he joined the group. They fought their way through panthers and spiders and discovered the Axe of Terror. They swiftly defeated two demons guarding the treasure and Boris obtained it.
Once in Grennal, they wasted no time finding Rolen and getting out. The tiefling and the dwarf did not feel comfortable in the presence of elves. Rolen led them to a crossing point to the Feywild and they were able to cross over. They defeated three Eladrin knights to gain access to Brightkeep.
Inside Brightkeep, they discovered new clues to the mystery of Starfire and new information on the past of Argarwane. Vengeance was able to locate the head wizard and obtain information on where to travel next. Will they travel there? Will they stay at Brightkeep and continue searching through the knowledge within?
After our adventurers gathered their wits from a rest, they made their way through the mountain being led by dwarves they had just met. They made it through the mountain and to the Misty Kingdom. In the city of Asalia, they met King Antoban Heroldi who had a favor to ask. They were to rid Mt. Promontor of Kalarel and his evil sorcery.
Chigaru visited the the scholar at the castle and studied the mountains and the history. He also got more information regarding the strange text he found in the mountain. But the information was limited. To gain more he must travel to Brightkeep in the Feywild. King Heroldi can help him get there.
The adventurers set out to the mountain and entered. They destroyed charmed statues and escaped traps before finally meeting Kalarel in his sanctuary. He was attempting to summon a portal for the demon lord Orcus to enter the world from the Shadowfell. After a trying battle and near-death, our adventurers destroyed Kalarel and took his body back to the king. Misty Kingdom was released from the grip of evil and returned to its beautiful and good state. Would King Heroldi now uphold the promises he made for payment? Would he lead them to the Feywild?
Chigaru, Agarwane, and Vengeance awoke at the inn. They were told to meet an old man in Stallcroft. The old wizard known as Petendithas Oaklord told the players that they have a much bigger future than they realize. They were instructed to travel to the Misty Kingdom with the "sun-up rider," Graster Arroway. They took Widgeon the gnome along. They fought through the Western Woods and entered a dungeon beneath the northern mountains. Here they found a secret study with an interesting journal entry.
The dungeon began growing colder and they noticed ice covering the pillars and walls. Moments later they were face to face with a young white dragon. This was where he was making his lair and his ice cold stare made it known that visitors were not allowed. An EPIC battle ensued. Agarwane was knocked unconscious. Vengeance met the shadow of death but a true friend stepped in and brought him back to life. Widgeon, giving all he had, sang a song of resurrection on his lute. This pulled Vengeance away from death's cold hands. Widgeon fell unconscious with exhaustion. And it would be the war-pick of Chigaru that brought the dragon to its end. The adventurers took a much needed rest.
Three strangers met in the wilderness during a violent electrical storm. They ran into each other while looking for cover from the hail and lightning. They found it in an old tor built into a mountainside. Introductions and backgrounds were given. Chigaru the assassin Deva remained mostly quiet and mysterious. Vengeance the warden Tiefling took it upon himself to find out more about the others. Agarwane the rogue Human was quite reserved.
Chigaru has lived thousands of lifetimes being reborn into new bodies after each. Vengeance once led a famed group of warriors into battle many times before being imprisoned. Agarwane remembers nothing. His past has been lost.
The strangers fight their way through the tor finding treasures and defeating villains. After defeating the zombie bugbear knight that the tomb was created for, Vengeance found himself with a magic weapon forged in the fires of the very blade he'd always carried with him. The adventurers then left the tor as the storm had calmed a bit and headed into the woods. There they met Widgeon, a bard gnome whose home had been taken from him. They defeated the kobolds responsible and let Widgeon take them to the nearest town. There they met a strange rider who knows Agarwane by name. Chigaru saw visions of this shadowy figure riding from the Misty Kingdom. The rider agreed to meet them at the inn at sun-up to talk more.


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While kicking around on my ancestry website the other day, I noticed that my Aunt Liz, my mother's oldest sibling, will be turning 94 in two weeks. The most recent photo I saw of her was on her Christmas card last year, which showed her riding a camel near the pyramids on the trip she took, by herself, to Egypt.
There was a time, in fact most of my last several decades, when I could easily say I expected to follow in her footsteps; that her spirit, as well as her good genes, had been passed on to me, and I could take for granted the prospect of generativity into old age. Something has happened lately, in my 49th year of living, that I did not see coming. I think it's what they call a midlife crisis.
I never thought I would be the person to have one. At every earlier age, I've resolved not to fight the changes the years bring: I cropped my hair close to my head when baldness made it clear that denial was unseemly; I changed the colors in my wardrobe when I was no longer a blonde who could wear olive and gold, and the grey in my beard was flattered only by blue and white; I started watching carbs when the scale started reading 10 pounds higher than I was accustomed to. I did not think I was allowing any confrontations with age to sneak up and catch me unaware.
Then it seems one did.
I have spent months now trying to put a finger on it. It's not as though I have many regrets about the direction I have taken my life. I can point to all the major decisions of my last decade and say I'd happily make the same ones over again. I am not ready to renege on any of the commitments I have made, to parenthood, to marriage, to career. If anything, my funk seems to stem from an unwelcome realization that I have reached my limits in a way that I never have before. In the course of a week I struggle to find the energy it takes to follow through with current plans, to wake the child and supervise the science projects, to keep the dog in kibbles and keep clean socks in the drawer (or at least in the dryer) on a weekday morning, to return the phone calls that can't be postponed and to move the work projects forward that are coming due, to think at least occasionally about the need to creatively advance what is done at the agency that employs me (where my ordinary responsibilities are piled high and the exigent needs of patients are always pressing down) and I hit an existential moment where I think, "Is this all there's going to be, then?" I entertain the thought that I might burn out my last ounces of energy following through on my current commitments, only to discover that something really important got overlooked, postponed too long, left on the shelf past its expiration date-—or past mine—-because time and energy and devotion were never spared to undertake it. I worry that the friends I have will drift off and eventually die off, and suddenly I dread finding myself stranded, alone, without the capacity to make any new ones.
Don't get me wrong. I love my life. I love my husband and my child and my work. But heading toward the benchmark of 50-—less than 20 months off, now-—there is something afoot that I quite possibly think-—or feel-—that I hate. Something that can cast a dark pall over the whole, quite against my will.
I am put in mind of the ending of the movie "Amadeus," when Antonio Salieri in his wheelchair describes himself as the patron saint of the mediocre. He turns and addresses the audience directly. "Mediocrities everywhere...I absolve you...I absolve you...I absolve you..I absolve you all," he says. I think my dark pall these days may be the internal judge who does hate, in fact, the mediocrity of my life. Who disdains my failures and my limits and my isolation, disdains the tree-falling-in-a-forest anonymity of my cumulative efforts in the course of a day, the course of a year, the course of a lifetime.
I wonder what motivates me to spend the time I do researching lost ancestors over the internet, and gives me such pleasure to find their gravestones in Willow Island, Nebraska, or Adrian, Michigan when their names but not their ultimate fates have been known to me throughout my life. Is it just a vain effort to fight my own encroaching sense that my life is one of anonymous toil, misspent devotion, and ultimate unimportance?
I left my saints in childhood, in the way that Elizabeth Barrett Browning referenced when she professed "I love thee with a love I seemed to lose with my lost saints." I do not believe they are in the sky, able to intercede for me with the Almighty. But there was another idea of saints that I had when I was little, one of saints being spiritual role models, and that is one I may still need now and then. I may need it now, especially, at midlife.
Antonio Salieri was not a saintly man, at least not in his movie version, but I think of him, all these years after F. Murray Abraham and the crew put away their props and ceased their efforts on "Amadeus." I think of his offer of absolution for mediocrity, and how dear that suddenly seems. I need absolution for what is being left undone, for the traits I have not evidenced, my omissions as a parent, the friends I have not cultivated, the affection I have squandered because I have chosen something else, chosen my job, chosen my patients, chosen perhaps the vain significance of work over the more important significance of something else, all the while not knowing, blind, foolhardy-—and yet moving inexorably into tomorrow still not knowing, just living with the choices I have made and hoping I am not judged too harshly for how sadly I stack up to the next person, whose more admirable human qualities will make his or her time here on Earth a better, more praiseworthy journey.
Is this what it means to look at life and realize you're well beyond halfway, and your energies are only declining from here on out? Your focus becomes drawn away from what is, to what is not, with regret? With judgment? With encroaching sadness? If it's too late for me to get a new superego, then maybe I can have back one of my saints-—the one who promised to be my patron. Saint Antonio Salieri, I beseech thee, absolve me of my mediocrity. Soon, if that can be arranged. By my 50s, I want to get back to just living life, without any dark cloud overhead. I want to wake up and start the day with lightness in my step.
(P.S. I hope, Antonio, that you are not actually in hell.)
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Concerning Hell, Private or Otherwise
Posted by R. S. Hoffman at 3:14 PM
Labels: doctoring, gay marriage, gay parenthood, midlife crisis
1 comment:
Great entry, and great photo, Ray. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
"Is this all there's going to be, then?" makes me think of characters in a lot of other movies too, like Steiner and Marcello in La Dolce Vita. The last scene on the beach with the girl is so beautiful:
Wishing you brighter tomorrows,
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