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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. review tk This book is so much more than a fantasy tale about dragons. Think inter-marriages between dragons and humans, their children, treatment of "other" in their own societies--there is a lot for discussion here! Review originally published on my blog: AWordsWorth.blogspot.com Dragons and people. Not exactly a match made in heaven. Something about the whole "big-as-a-building" and "fire-breathing" aspects of dragonhood makes them fairly scary - or at least a major security threat. But the kingdom of Goredd has made peace of sorts with the dragons, many of whom now live among them in human form (marked by silver bells worn at the shoulder). It's a relationship that works, but is not without tension - especially as the anniversary of the treaty approaches, and with it the (dragon) General's state visit. Among all the intrigue and drama surrounding the upcoming visit, there's another level of mystery: Seraphina. Seraphina is an amazingly talented musician, with a mysterious, secretive past. Despite trying to maintain a very low profile and avoid attention - even positive attention - that might draw inquiring minds to questions best left unexplored, Seraphina finds herself in the heart of the investigation surrounding the suspicious murder of one of the royal family. Working closely with the Queen's Guard, Prince Lucian, Seraphina begins to walk a fine line between providing much needed assistance and insight and telling too much of her truth. It's a complicated dance, and one that only increases in tension and danger. Soon, Seraphina's secret becomes known - as everything else also becomes clear, and the Queen (and the rest of the royal family) find that things are so very different from what they appeared. An engrossing and complex read, Seraphina is a stunning debut. I loved the handling of the dragons, and their ability to shift in and out of human form. In spite of dragons being "emotionless," they add a delightfully snarky touch at times - and, some at least, have a stunningly golden heart. There's depth and mystery. I for one had no idea who the culprit was until the end. There's all sorts of tension - but the good kind, that keeps you reading, and makes you pick sides and start cheering for characters. And then there's Seraphina, who goes through so much on a personal level, before emerging a much stronger and more complete character. I'm definitely looking forward to the next installment, seeing where this wild story goes - there's certainly much potential for excitement and drama! I consume books. I just kept gnawing on this one like a piece of tough meat. No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't care about the characters. I even skipped to about 20 pages from the end, thinking I might be intrigued enough by what happened to go back and read it all from the beginning, but I fell asleep. I feel bad to leave a negative review, but this was beyond boring to me. Maybe I'm prejudiced against dragons. Fantastical moments, dragons, music and mystery. A marvellous story! Insights into acceptance and belonging, racial tensions, hope and love. All set in a world where Dragons and Humans are trying to co-exist. Seemingly a long hard road to tread. After a dreadful war a peace has been made. The rules of behaviour for dragons amongst humans are fiercely controlled by the dragon's Excision Censors and are controlled amongst humans by fear and tradition. It is near to the advent of the dragon leader's state visit by General Comonot Ardmagar of All Dragonkind. The designated visit to the city Lavondaville, the capital of Goredd is to celebrate forty years of the treaty's existence. Into this comes Seraphina Dombegh, a half dragon young woman who is hidden in plain sight. An abomination to her human kindred. A dangerous plight but even more dangerous would be the acknowledgement to the world at large of her ancestry. A gifted intelligent musician, she has inherited her mothers musical ability. But wait, how strange, because dragons are known to not be musical and unable to express emotions! And yet Seraphina's mother was a dragon. Mmm! Adhered to beliefs will be sundered and all will have their prejudices revealed. Some will accept change other will turn even more fiercely to protect their particular version of truth. Prince Rupert had been murdered--apparently by a dragon. The city factions are in uproar. Through circumstances Seraphina joins Prince Lucian Kiggs, captain of the guard, and illegitimate royal offspring, in the hunt for the killer. As they investigate an intrigue is uncovered. A cabal of dragon generals may be trying to have fractue the hard won peace and provoke both sides once again into war. Seraphina not only discovers herself but her worth. Most importantly she who has felt so alone discovers that she is not. As Seraphina so eloquently says as she closes this chapter of her life, 'The future would come, full of war and uncertainty, but I would not be facing it alone...I had a place to stand.' A NetGalley ARC no reviews | add a review
References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in EnglishNone Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0375866566, Hardcover)Amazon Best Teen Book of the Month, July 2012: In Seraphina, dragons and humans maintain an uneasy peace and for a woman who is both there is nowhere to turn for acceptance--not even within herself. Seraphina has spent her young life concealing the truth of her parentage and authentic nature, a task that proves ever more difficult when she is thrust into the spotlight of the royal court. Author Rachel Hartman's dragons take human form but shun the messiness of human emotion by remaining "in ard" (a highly rational state of mind), while their counterparts cling to a dangerous assumption of species superiority. As the anniversary of the treaty between the two sides approaches, court intrigue reaches a fever pitch and hard-won truths, betrayals, and intricacies of the heart are laid bare. Seraphina is a beautifully complex fantasy that delves into the most basic of desires—to be loved, to belong, and to find peace in self-acceptance. --Seira WilsonGuest Review by Tamora PierceTamora Pierce is a best-selling author of fantasy books for teenagers. Her books, known for their teenaged girl warriors and wizards, have received critical acclaim and a strong fanbase. Her newest book, Mastiff, is the third book in The Legend of Beka Cooper series. In Seraphina's world, coldly intellectual dragons can take on the shapes--and feelings--of human beings. Sometimes this results in a surprise. Seraphina's father married a beautiful musician, and discovered too late that she was a dragon. She died, leaving him with a daughter who confuses him and his new wife and children. Now the half-dragon Seraphina is the assistant to the cranky royal music master. She is in charge of Princess Glisselda's music lessons; she books performers for the 40-year celebration of the peace treaty between dragons and humans, and she rehearses the rowdy court musicians. She has to hide the scales on her arm and around her waist, and she can never let anyone find out that Orma, her music teacher, is actually a dragon. When she plays the solo for the funeral of the realm's murdered prince, Seraphina is suddenly raised into entirely new, visible levels of peril. People she always avoided are noticing her. She has to attend social functions, where she is caught up in court politics, between those who support the treaty and those who want to destroy it. She runs afoul of conspirators who want to start the war again--one of them may be her own grandfather. She even discovers that Prince Lucian, who is betrothed to Princess Glisselda, is not only very sharp-eyed but also very agreeable to be around. He appreciates her insights on intrigue at court and in the city and uses her as an unofficial investigator into the ongoing unrest. The plot thickens. A new religious order plots riots and revolution. Exiled knights return to report an unregulated dragon flying near where the old prince was murdered. The dragons are trying to send Orma for corrective surgery--they think he's gotten too human and they want to cut those parts out of his brain. Seraphina fears that if she tells the prince and the princess what she is, they'll hate her forever, but their work to preserve the treaty celebrations is bringing them closer together. And all of them are terrified that the dragons will decide that humans are not worth the trouble, and will destroy them at last. I loved this book even more the second time I read it than I did the first. The characters are interesting and engaging, and I love the new look at dragons. For all that she's half-dragon, Seraphina is a very believable human being, caught between different loyalties and just trying to keep everyone she loves alive. But don't take my word for it--read it yourself! (retrieved from Amazon Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:39:33 -0400) In a world where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce and dragons can assume human form, Seraphina, whose mother died giving birth to her, grapples with her own identity amid magical secrets and royal scandals, while she struggles to accept and develop her extraordinary musical talents.… (more) (summary from another edition) |
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The LinnDrum was the second machine from Linn Electronics. It's basically an upgraded version of the original LM-1 with added crash and ride cymbals to the kit. The LinnDrum uses samples of acoustic drum sounds. At the time, they sounded great and much more realistic and they were a fresh alternative to the analog drum sounds of the '80's drum machines. The LinnDrum also had a handy upgrade option, a well designed layout and interface, and live drum trigger inputs.
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Siamese Kitten brothers
I'm hoping people can help me figure out some names for my new siamese kitties and they are brothers, ones a chocolate point and the other is a lilac point. The chocolate point is protective over his brother and likes to stay by his side. While the other is playful and likes to explore.
So far I like these names, but I'm not sure which ones would work well together or if there are names that would work with some of the names I've listed here
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What I like to do when picking names for my animals, is find something I'm interested in at the time I get that animal. When I got my first cat, I was studying Shakespeare in college (Othello, specifically) and named her Desdemona after one of the characters. My next two cats are Hera and Hades after studying mythology.
I just feel their names mean more to me that way. Maybe try something like that?
If not, how about Ganache and Shrub? As a nod to their chocolate and lilac points?TTC #1!
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Made in jars.
Frozen to create individual freshly baked pies when you want them.
What could be more adorable?
Step 1: Ingredients
But in this case, the ingredients are up to you!
Have a big dinner party coming up with many different tastes?
Make your pies in different flavors! Identify them with cute tiny shapes cut out on top!
I made my own pie crusts for these, but you can use store-bought as well.
I made apple-blackberry filling (the recipe as follows) but you can use something from a can! It's that easy.
Mostly, what you need are tiny adorable jars.
Or big ones, whatever. I don't judge.
Step 2: Apple-Blackberry Filling
- Peel, core and slice 4 Granny Smith apples
- Dice 1/2 cup blackberries
- Melt 1/4 cup unsalted butter in a saucepan.
- Stir in 1 1/2 tablespoons of flour to form a paste.
- Add 1/8 cup water, 1/4 cup white sugar and 1/4 cup brown sugar, and bring to a boil.
- Reduce temperature and let simmer.
Step 3: Prepare jars
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Step 4: Fill Jars
I rolled out the crust to make it pretty thin (so it's not just a jar of crust in the end - though I did make one of those too and sprinkled cinnamon on it and it was delicious), but in the end, you just have to take chunks of it and squish it all around inside the jar to make sure it's covered.
Add your pie filling and top it off with a crust. Use the lid ring to cut out the perfect size!
If you're planning on eating them right away, just fill them to the top and the crust can crown over the edges.
If you're planning on freezing them, make sure to only fill them part way so there's enough room to sink in a top crust and close the jar lid.
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I made strawberry-rhubarb pie (my favorite!) in little jars.
Here's a tip though: these things rose wayyy higher than I expected them to. If you plan on baking and then putting tops on to throw them in the fridge for later, then fill it up at least 3/4-inch from the top.
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Kvetch — Sat, 02/16/2008 - 15:35
We've all played on other muds - well.. maybe not all of us, but most of us - and we've seen things we like and things we've disliked, I'm sure. I'd like to know what things - either from other muds or from your own devious minds - you'd like to see 4D incorporate. Or maybe changes you'd like to see.
Kvetch — Sat, 02/16/2008 - 15:53
I thought I should start this topic out since I started it. One of the changes I'd like is a change to the remort system. I know this was highly discussed on the other website and I'm hoping that we can talk about it here without flamewars.
I'm not a big fan of being level 50 and then remorting to level 1 and losing most (if not all) of the skills/spells I used to know. It really doesn't make sense to me at all. Personally, what I'd like is to see options being created at level 50 which would add to the current class/race/whatever. Then increase the levels so instead of 50 levels you have.. what? 100? 200? (Shoot if we took all the times you remort.. that's 8 classes x 50 levels... 400 levels? *eek*) If we have choices every 50 levels or so, at the end each character would pretty much be unique.
For example (and please do not think this is even partly set in stone - it's more like water):
At level 1, you create a human (gringo for our example) warrior. Level them up to 50. When you would hit level 50, you would be given a choice to add a class (thief, priest, mage) or a subrace (Vampyre, Werewolf.... other humanoid hybrid) which would have their own benefits (blood-drain, shapeshift, something else). At level 100, depending on what you chose at 50, you'd have different choices. But all of this would add too your character and not take anything away.
I know, this would probably be a coding nightmare, but I'd enjoy that a lot better than what we currently have. Though, it's a lot easier to live with what we have as an IMM... *heh*
Virisin — Sat, 02/16/2008 - 20:57
This sounds a lot like my idea for a new remort/tier/levels system:
I also hate the fact that we spend so much time levelling only to constantly knock ourselves back by remorting and losing everything we had. It seems pointless, all for the sake of GM, so we can suddenly become uber.
I would much prefer 200 levels system in which we could either specialise in a class, or multiclass. This could be done as a classless system, or with classes:
Classless = There is no remorting, and very limited practices, just lots of skills/spells, and all the higher level skills/spells have lots of pre-requisites, so you either learn lots of lower skills across a range of classes (multiclassing), or learn only a few lower skills that relate to one class so you still have practices to spend to specialise as you level up more.
With Classes = Choose a class, when you get to level 50 you can either remort to another class, and carry on from level 51, or remort into the same class and carry on from level 51. Either you collect a range of different class skills/spells, or specialise by getting all of one class done.
I visualise a system like this taking not quite as long as mastering all the classes, but still a long time. And it means each character is a lot more unique. Rather than everyone trying to get to GM like currently, and automatically having all the same skills/spells.
Interactive mobs
Erwin — Sun, 02/17/2008 - 06:24
Well, I've an idea, but I'm not sure whether it can be easily implemented. This comes from playing adventure games, rather than muds.
A dialogue system with mobs, which gives options on how to respond, with a set of choices, removed when a player selects it to talk (added in again when talking to the mob again), and new options added after certain choices are selected.
Eg maybe 'talk to pirate'
You engage in conversation with a scruffy pirate.
[1]Can I borrow your pieces of eight?
[2]Arr, is that eyepatch for real?
[3]Do you do pirate performances for little kiddies?
[4]My name is Guybrush Threepwood and I'm a mighty pirate.
[5]Look, a three-headed monkey!
[6]You have the sex-appeal of a Shar Pei
[7]It's been nice meeting you.
Player: Arr, is that eyepatch for real?
Scruffy Pirate: Why yes, my eyepatch is an inheritance passed to me by my father, who was a famous pirate in the Southern Seas. Nowadays, no one really keeps up the tradition. Who goes around now dressed in a red coat, wielding a rusty cutlass, and having a pegleg for a foot? I'd have to admit, that was a painful decision, but it's all in the interests of culture and promoting piracy.
But as to whether my eye is still there beneath the eyepatch, why it still is. I use both my eyes to read "The Annals of Piracy, Volume XII at night".
You engage in conversation with a scruffy pirate.
[1]Can I borrow your pieces of eight?
[2]Do you do pirate performances for little kiddies?
[3]My name is Guybrush Threepwood and I'm a mighty pirate.
[4]Look, a three-headed monkey!
[5]You have the sex-appeal of a Shar Pei
[6]Can I borrow your book?
[7]It's been nice meeting you.
Player: Can I borrow your book?
Scruffy Pirate: No. It's on loan from the Pirates International Secret Society Of Fearless Felons, and it's already overdue. And please do so as well.
Scruffy pirate initiates end of conversation.
Conversation Ends.
Kvetch — Sun, 02/17/2008 - 06:46
If I did that, you realize I would never create a quest that needed you to interact with that particular mob. While I do understand that sometimes you feel like you're playing a "guess the word game" with some of the mobs, it shouldn't be handed to you on a silver platter - which is what this is. In real life, you don't talk to someone and have them give you options on what they're willing to talk about - neither should it be that way in the game. I really wish we could do more with the mobs so they can be more like real people and you can talk to them about almost anything - but as a builder to put all the possible things you could talk about - and all the possible ways to say it - in without them just blabbing about whenever someone happens to say anything in the room - it's just a bet crazy.
Though I do try to give some mobs knowledge of their surrounding areas and you can ask them about things "to the north" or "in the cave" or things like that, things that you really wouldn't have any reason to ask other than you were "making conversation" with the mob.
I just don't want players to get all the information they need/want just because they choose the right number... eventually.
So, while I appreciate having the choices in games like Baulder's Gate, I think it would detract from the immense possibilities and imagination of the builders (and players) on 4D.
Erwin — Sun, 02/17/2008 - 07:53
Nod, I realize that.
Just that the mobs now are a bit too predictable. I have an alias to say hello, hi, greetings, howdy, hail, may the force be with you, help, please, thanks, as well as the mob desc and room desc.
About 95% of mobs respond to that, and then it isn't too hard to start a quest. Completing the quest however, doesn't involve much interaction with the mob (apart from giving it the quest items required or doing something it asks.)
But to be honest, I wasn't really thinking of questmobs when I posted that, but more of ordinary mobs. Shopkeepers, the odd unique mob like head guard, etc.
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I currently dont mind the remort system we have. Only thing that has ever aggravated me was losing skills that I have already previously trained in another class, and then having to retrain it in another class. Such as losing retreat in Hunter then having to retrain it when I am a ranger. And what happened to the idea of getting rid of the guild master and everyone having to go seek out people to train them in that skill. I see nothing wrong with keeping the current remort system and just tinkering with what we already have. break up the skills and scatter them and add a few more spells and skills for each class. Making a more wide variety of skills/spells available for each class. That way not everyone has the same thing. I also thought of making it so you can chose your elemental strengths and then you can base skills and spells you want off that.
Back to remorting into gypsy and being level 51, I mean why should you be uber straight into remorting into class. Keep all existing spells skills from previous classes. You shouldn't, you should have to earn your way up to it. Maybe add something such as in example: You get tier 4 Warrior and you remort into hunter. As long as you remort into the same class group you can maybe use the tier 1 and 2 skills from Warrior as a tier 1 Hunter. Also i think cha should be raised from 100 to maybe 200. Change some current cha items around and add some new ones. getting 100 cha is just too easy as it now. You dont even have to kill big hard mobs to get it. Its nothing like getting melee equipment.
Then you need to split up where you learn skills at. Put better skills such as snare, trap aware cleave ,behead, encircle, retreat, heal, and etc in hard to reach areas or have them given out as quest rewards. Theres quite a few zones that could do with a make over or have a few quests put in them. Star Wars zones for one, Elven City, Mother Goose. Just to name a few.
I mean with what your talking about would for one be a PWIPE and its already been said that no PWIPE would happen. Your asking for a huge code change and a huge change to the mud itself. Its something that would completely change 4d. This mud just isint about leveling. Ive spent more time questing then Ive put into levels. This mud is based off questing. Yes you can hack and slash your way around this mud but if you do the quests leveling becomes so much more easier with the better equipment.
All in all theres no reason that you cant make the current remort system better and use it. Its a good system just needs tinkered. I just think its too big of a change and time would be put better if we fixed what you had now.
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In addition
You could also make skills such as brace, dodge, and phase effected by the the % you have in that skill. And not just the higher the % of the skill you have the better chance you have of innating the skill on you.
You can lower the amount of practices you get also. I mean you get a crap load of practices You should not get practices based off Wisdom and Intellect. It should be a set variable that doesn't increase or decrease Reduce the amount of practices add more variety or skills your gonna be forced to pick and choose skills.
There is a lot of things you can do to tinker and improve the current system rather then just ditching it.
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I would like you guys to think about how a change in the system, adding new skills, or changing the way in which you get skills would affect existing players and what they have collected up already.
Including existing GM and such.
Adding races, classes, and individual skills, and skill prerequisite's is relatively easy.
The hard part is making the changes in a way that positively affects as many people as possible.
I have found over the years, that if you add or change something in the structure of how something is done in the game, such as, the gains from remorting, or skills gained, you get a lot of disappointed people.
So, if with your suggestions you make, you can help me and the other coders find an easier way to apply something to the game, we would be greatful, and your ideas will be put in the game a lot faster.
An example of what i am talking about.
If we add to the game 60 player levels instead of 50.
What repercussions would that have on the code and the game?
every script in the game that checks if a player is a mortal, or a low level, or a high level player would be wrong suddenly, and need updating to fit with the new scale.
All the skills and spells that you gain at different levels would need updating too.
The points gains you get when you level up would need to be adjusted to fit the new scale too.
The level restriction on any objects that have level restriction in place would need updating.
All help files and display screens in the game and the website would need updating.
Our website profile on vote sites would need changing to show the new levels
And so on...
What repercussions would that have on existing players and future players?
How would it be handled for people who were just about to Remort and were level 50, who now suddenly they have 10 more levels to go?
Would the level exp needed to get to level 60 be retroactively applied to reduce the total remorts a person has to make everyone even, or just left as it is, if we made it retroactive how would that affect GM's and Masteries?
People just gain exp easy enough, why not make it so you have to get 5 of your levels by grouping with others, 5 of them from quest exp?
and so on...
Is the total gain to the mud by this change MORE than the expense of all the Admin and Coders time to implement the change?
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February 25, 2008, 05:56:00 pm »
Thanks, Mord, that was exactly what I wanted to say myself.
It's easy to suggest a total upheaval of the existing system, if you are not the one being stuck with doing all the grunt work with adapting loads of things in the Mud to it. Everything in 4D is so intertwined, that every changes affects scores of other things in the code, the zones and the Webpage. That's our main quality, but also our main curse.
So when you suggest changes, please be a bit realistic and suggest things that can be added on TOP of our current system, not things that basically mean a totally different Mud.
For instance I think we are stuck with our basic 8 Classes and 8 Races, since they are mentioned in so many places in the zones and quests that it would be next to hopeless to dig them all up and change them. But it would be quite possible to add some extra Classes or Races strictly as Remort choices.
Personally I'd like to see a Class system that offers an alternative to the GM option, by specializing in one of the existing Classes. Thieves could develop into Assassins, Rangers into BountyHunters, warriors into Bladedancers, Mages into MoonMages, etc. Each of the Specialist Classes could get a number of individual and powerful skills/spells (or subskills, if that is easier to code), designed to make them equally good as a GM, but much more individual. Many of the ideas Tocharaeh had in a post on the old Forum could easily be adapted to such a system, and so could Virisin's idea about specialized Trainers.
Likewise we might offer Vampirism and Lycantropism, or advanced Races like Dragon or Sphinx as remort options.
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For instance I think we are stuck with our basic 8 Classes and 8 Races, since they are mentioned in so many places in the zones and quests that it would be next to hopeless to dig them all up and change them.
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Rental release: | 14 Nov 2011 |
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I enjoyed this film although it was a little slow to start with once it got going i liked it , considering there are only 3 actors in 1 house throughout the whole film it kept me interested right to the end , it also kept me guessing as to what was actually happenning outside , i would recommend this film , its different to anything i've seen before- Was this review helpful to you?
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By hookedonfilm (10 reviews) , 20 Oct 2013Couldn't work out what was so wrong about this film. Great location, decent actors, interesting storyline. My best guess is it was the appalling script and the bizarre jumps in the story which made suspending disbelief impossible. Please let there be a decent British thriller one day.........- Was this review helpful to you?
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Mr. Kamp complains about the opposition voting against a bill. Is it because it is lumped in with 400 pages of questionable pieces of law?
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This Red Rover™ game from Fisher-Price is a fun memory matching game combined with run around play.
The Red Rover™ game features an adorable, red electronic dog and 12 bones with colour and number, shape or letter. You then have to place the bones around the play area before the game starts.
Press Rover's nose and he calls out which bone he wants. Run to find the correct bone and feed it to Red Rover™. If you bring the wrong bone Rover encourages you to go back and find the right bone. Whoever helps Rover the fastest, wins the game.
This game can be played by 2 to 4 players, and requires 3x AA batteries.
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Type | Matching game |
Age Range | 3-4 years |
Colour | Red |
Appropriate Age Warning | Not suitable for children under 36 months |
Suitable Age From | Suitable from 3 years |
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Battery Type | AA |
Batteries Included | N |
Number Of Batteries Required | 3 |
Battery Type 2 | None |
Number Of Batteries Required 2 | 0 |
Number Of Battery Types | 1 |
Power Source | Battery only |
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Electronic Features | Sounds |
Toy Category | Board games |
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What"s in the Box | Red Rover & 12 coloured bone |
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Resolution 1441
Resolution 1441
With the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1441, the US has removed another obstacle in its path to an escalated war against Iraq.
Those countries who had been holdouts in the Security Council claim that they went along because their fears were allayed. Syria's UN ambassador said that they were assured that 'this resolution would not be used as a pretext to strike Iraq'. The Russian ambassador said 'this resolution deflects the direct threat of war [it] does not contain any provision about the automatic use of force.' France's ambassador showed less interest in the resolution's war-preventing properties: 'The rules of the game set by the Security Council are clear and demanding. If Iraq wishes to avoid confrontation, it must understand that the opportunity it has been given is the last.'
The resolution itself is full of timelines and deadlines for Iraq:
-Iraq has until November 15 to pledge that it will comply; -Iraq has until December 8 to declare all aspects of its weapons programs to the security council; -Inspectors have until December 23 to resume their work, with an advance team in Iraq by November 18 -Inspectors are to report to the security council no later than 60 days after their work-either January 17 or February 21.
This means that the last two hurdles in the US's path are 1) that inspectors have to actually find something, even if that something is just Iraqi 'interference', 'obstruction', 'false statements', or 'omissions' and 2) a second meeting of the security council after the inspectors report.
These hurdles will not be difficult to clear. It's unlikely that Iraq has any weapons of mass destruction, but it is highly likely that inspectors could find evidence of 'interference' or 'omission' from the Iraqi regime, if they were looking for such evidence. And the resolution's 'early test' is designed to produce exactly such evidence: 'United Nations weapons inspectors plan to force an early test of Saddam Hussein's intentions by demanding a comprehensive list of weapons sites and checking whether it matches a list of more than 100 priority sites derived from the findings of previous weapons inspections and the latest intelligence culled from defectors and other sources by American and other intelligence experts.' (NYT, Nov 10, 2002). As for the outcome the US is looking for, that, too, is no secret: 'Many administration officials say they would far prefer a bold rebuff by Mr. Hussein, rather than have him seem to cooperate but actually try to run out the clock with evasions and confusing tactics in the hope that support for war will subside.'
It has been clear from the moment the focus of attention in the War on Terror shifted from Osama bin Laden to Saddam Hussein that inspections for weapons of mass destruction, in this context and at this time, had only one purpose: to provide a pretext for the US to attack Iraq. The idea of inspecting countries for weapons of mass destruction and disarming them is of course a good one, and no one could oppose such inspections on principle. But the timing of these inspections, the fact that the US would 'far prefer a bold rebuff by Mr. Hussein' to cooperation, shows what the inspections are really about. Serious approaches to disarmament of countries with weapons of mass destruction would have to include many more countries than just Iraq, and should probably start with the country most heavily armed with such weapons: the United States. Such an approach is nowhere near the US, or the UN, agenda. The purpose of these inspections is to find a reason to attack Iraq.
After the inspectors do their job of finding 'omission' or 'interference', the next step, obtaining authorization from the Security Council for the use of force, will not be any more difficult than obtaining resolution 1441 was: a matter of bribing, promising, and threatening the members into line. This time around France's cooperation was probably bought with assurances that France wouldn't lose out when Iraq's oil concessions are handed out after the war, Russia with promises of diplomatic support for its own war on terror against the Chechens. To learn how the US wins the consent of smaller, weaker countries than France or Russia, a look at preparations for the 1990/91 wars is instructive. Back then, the US offered carrots:
'Egypt was the most indebted country in Africa. Baker bribed President Mubarak with $14bn in "debt forgiveness" and all opposition to the attack on Iraq faded away. Syria's bribe was different; Washington gave President Hafez al-Assad the green light to wipe out all opposition to Syria's rule in Lebanon. To help him achieve this, a billion dollars' worth of arms was made available through a variety of back doors, mostly Gulf states.'
And sticks:
'Minutes after Yemen voted against the resolution to attack Iraq, a senior American diplomat told the Yemeni ambassador: "That was the most expensive 'no' vote you ever cast." Within three days, a US aid programme of $70m to one of the world's poorest countries was stopped. Yemen suddenly had problems with the World Bank and the IMF; and 800,000 Yemeni workers were expelled from Saudi Arabia.' (see John Pilger, 'Diplomacy?') http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=2361
The activities of the US military, meanwhile, suggest that the US interprets resolution 1441 as a green light to go to war.
The US is proceeding to build up its attack forces in the most deliberate and methodical way. There are the 10,000 troops in Afghanistan; 16,000 on carriers in the Gulf area; 11,000 in Kuwait; 5,000 in Saudi Arabia; 4,500 in Bahrain; 4,000 in Qatar; 2,500 in Uzbekistan, and smaller numbers elsewhere. 63,000 troops at last count, and building. These troops, meanwhile, pose a 'dilemma' for the US:
"On the one hand, they must avoid rushing too many invasion forces to the Persian Gulf region, where troops could end up sitting and waiting while inspections play out, risking losses in efficiency and morale and straining relations with Arab host countries. On the other hand, they must ensure that enough forces are in place to keep the pressure on the Iraqi government and to respond rapidly should inspections fail or should Iraqi President Saddam Hussein provoke a conflict." (Washington Post, November 9, 2002).
In other words, the US is worried that its soldiers might get bored sitting around waiting for the green light to destroy a helpless country. But, a senior Army officer sees a silver lining to the resolution: "This delay might help to get some equipment in place".
The plan is to go from 63,000 to 250,000 troops before the war starts. The New York Times described the war plan in loving detail. "Under the plan, the air campaign would be less than the 43 days of the first gulf war, and probably under a month, military officials said. In the opening hours of the air campaign, Navy and Air Force jets, including B-2 bombers carrying 16 one-ton satellite-guided bombs and B-1 bombers carrying 24 of the same weapons, would attack a range of targets from military headquarters to air defenses." (NYT, Nov 9, 2002).
The NYT also assured its readers that any civilians killed in the war would be blamed on Iraq, with the following amazing line: 'Mr. Bush hinted at another concern, that the Iraqi government would purposefully sacrifice its population to stain an American military victory with civilian blood.' The US is afraid of Iraqi 'volunteers [who] would hope to slow the American-led offensive by acting as suicide bombers or fighting in neighborhood defense squads, but their true strategic goal would be to generate anti-American feelings in the region.'
Notice that it isn't the civilian blood itself that is of concern, but that it might be used to 'stain an American military victory'. Notice too that there is no fear of Iraq's military might, only fear that the US war might be such a massacre that it will lead to 'anti-American feelings in the region.'
Civilian blood is of no consequence to those who are planning this war and ruling this world. The million Iraqis who have died so far in the Gulf War that started in 1990 and never really ended are proof of their depravity. The unanimous vote for Resolution 1441 is proof of their power. The only hope for stopping the war resides in those for whom civilian blood matters for reasons more than it being a 'stain on American military victory'.
Resolution 1441 shows that the US has the diplomatic support it needs to go to war. But diplomatic support from governments and elites will not be enough if there is enough resistance and protest from ordinary people. In September 2002, George W Bush threatened the United Nations with 'irrelevance' if it didn't support his war. The reverse is true: the UN demonstrates its irrelevance when it takes decisions that the people of the world are against. Whatever the UN Security Council does, the people of the world are not irrelevant.
People who cannot be persuaded to trade human lives for oil concessions, who won't accept a slaughter of civilians simply because the elites of the states who vote in the United Nations were bribed and threatened into signing off on the war, can mobilize to stop the war. If US war plans have been slowed at all, it has been because of them-the tens of thousands mobilizing in the US, the hundreds of thousands mobilizing in Europe and all over the world.


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Lets say, for example, you were to make a MG that can rotate separate from the turret of a tank. Could you model/configure that MG to actually "touch" the ground (invisibly), and thus be able to "roll" with the tank? The idea would then be, you have a constant setdir/setvelocity loop that just "rolls" the turret wherever the tank goes. Thus, when the tank rolls up a slope, the turret also tilts, since the turret is "rolling" as well.
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Remembering Yitzhak Rabin as Intolerance and Violence Grow |
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More than 150 people packed into the Yitzhak Rabin synagogue in Rehovot last week to commemorate the 16th anniversary of the assassination of the Prime Minister. The annual memorial ceremony in the country's only Orthodox synagogue named for Rabin was organized by NIF grantee 12 Heshvan: Promoting Tolerance in an Orthodox Context. Omer Levi taught from the Mishna that sins between people are not forgiven by God until people forgive each other. The event was attended by many notables across Israel's political spectrum including Minister for Home Front Defense Matan Vilnai, MK Zevulun Orlev (Jewish Home), Rehovot Mayor Rahamim Malul and Rehovot Chief Rabbi Simcha Kook. "The notables all made their speeches," recalls Sherman Rosenfeld, a 12 Heshvan (the Hebrew date of Rabin's assassination) activist and veteran at the Yitzhak Rabin Synagogue, "But what really touched me was the speeches by members of the different youth groups who spoke so eloquently about the need for tolerance and to work against violence." He added, "Remembering Rabin becomes more important as each year passes. It is more important because many of the young people who spoke at the ceremony were babies or not even alive when Rabin was murdered. We must remind them about Rabin's strength and commitment to defending Israel, striving for peace and protecting democracy." Rosenfeld also stressed that remembering Rabin this year took on a new significance in light of the spate of anti-democratic legislation being introduced in the Knesset as well as the "price tag" terror attacks directed at Arabs in Israel and the West Bank. Chillingly, the memorial to Yitzhak Rabin in Tel Aviv on the spot where he was murdered was daubed with "price tag" terror graffiti several weeks ago. And graffiti scrawled at the home of Peace Now Settlement Watch director Hagit Ofran threatened: "Rabin is waiting for you." Rosenfeld, who sits on the board of directors of the NIF-supported coalition Banish the Darkness, which fights religious racism, was a member of the solidarity delegation which visited the burned-out mosque in the Galilee village of Tuba Zangaria last month following the "price tag" terror arson there. He said, "There is a direct connection of violence and intolerance between the murder of Yitzhak Rabin and the burned books I saw in the Galilee mosque." |


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The Maroon V0L.73 ORIENTATION SPECIAL Loyola University New Orleans FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1994 ESTABLISHED 1922 Finding your way around campus can be tough if you're new, but the finer points of life at Loyola are as easy as ABC... Career Counseling /*^w C°me tO mCCt Prospcctivc cmp"oayccT.PlOyCrsK£^s/ Campus Not all editions are on campus. AuauDOn Park Peek through theSL Charles oL two ta.U! *"" Di"o'S If the towcnng oaks across the street from frOmMarquette Hall and you'll see the signa- Pizza, nght off Broadway and Freret..s where campus haven t lured you to Audubon Park ba q{ Broad Cams you can grab a quick slice of pepperoni until yet, be sure to visit. The park is the prime =spot Greenville Ha]l Us dai whUe majest/can 3 a.m. Oiher places to d.ne when you're pullforstudenuwhoenjoyrunn.ng.Rollerblading 30^^seema worldaway,buth,oparide mg an al-n,ghter are Rick s Pancake House or studying on a blanket in the sun. The Qn cam shuU]e b d on Carrollton Avenue, open 24 hours on the AudubonZoo.bchindUicpark.hasbeencallcd youcancxplorelhcLoyolaLawScbhool cabra weekends, and Camellia Grill on Carrollton. one of the best in the nauon. Hall and the P.ne Street Cafe. The all-female /^OSW Dominican College sold the campus to Loyola (J reeks . in 1984. (iff Loyola's Greek system is small enough to not Exams VI U overwhelm campus life, but large enough to Exam week .s a metaphor for the good and bad v\v offer those interested a chance to find the soror- -L"' _ aboutcollcge. The good is that they are the first ity or fraternity that best suits them. Loyola has and second week of December, which is early %%J @37(L s.x soront.es: Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Kappa I enough to irritate friends still in high school. C Alpha' De"a Gamma, Sigma The,a' The bad is that they're...well, exams. The De- #¥x2D/---C' Gamma Phi Beta and Theta Phi Alpha. There cemberexam schedule can be found in the back F,y are four fraternities: Alpha Delta Gamma, Alpha of the course registration booklet. %A Students flock to this beautiful park on the Kappa Alpha, Phi Kappa Psi and Sigma Phi banks of the Mississippi to lunch, chat and to Epsilon. Freshmen rush in the spring, and in_ . . _ . . watch Loyola Wolfpack baseball in action at formal rush is held in the fall. Holy Spirit, Mass Of the Riverview Field. To get there, take Magazme Classes may start Aug. 24, but the school year \. + / Slreetand turn near theentrance to the Audubon ytfk Kenner isn'tofficially kicked off-orblesscd- until the \ / Tr it , . MassoftheHolySpiritinHolyNameofJesus \[ Z°°' I ""f I°^ ChurchonSept 1 The colorful Mass is co- I Baton Rouge, you'll see the signs for Loyola ivjuuDi nn w ■ 71 NUN Avenue. The university is the street s namecelebrated by the Rev. James C. Carter, uni- J V \&\ . j^ .' . . . ~.. {S \ Jesuits \l\ sake, as Loyola once considered constructing versity president, and other members of the e jwuim j & Jesuit community Loyola is one of many schools owned by the VA a campus in the New Orleans suburb. Though y' W Ignatius Chapel Society of Jesus, known as the Jesuits. Other M the plans didn't quite pan out, Loyola still 1 IV Mass during the school year is a special affair universities in the Jesuit family include Geor- Mf owns land in Kenner, a chunk of which was \ at Chapel on the first floor of Bobet getown University in Washington, D.C., sold last year. __ Hall. Masses are said daily, and the most popu- LoyolaUniversityChicagoandMarquetteUni- f \ ,aris the Sunday 9 p.m. service, where students versity in Milwaukee, Wis. At Loyola, many | 'l?' \ xN\ vSn\ take a break from ,ate-n'Bnt studying to pray. Jesuits reside at Thomas Hall, located on St. I '$&/' vDA \ Students read and serve communion at the Charles Avenue next to the Communications/ DV\ \ Mass. Music Complex. Jesuits serve the campus in ' spiritual roles, and as teachers and administra- I \^ tors. '—'
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Restaurant - 50m
Supermarkets - 3 km
Sleeping :➊ master suite with double bed, TV, bath with tub and 2 balconies➋ bedroom with double bed, TV, bath, balcony➌ bedroom with twin beds, TV, bath, balcony➍ bedroom with twin beds, TV, bath➎ bedroom with an extensible sofa bed and TV+ 2 comfortable extra beds available+ 1 baby cot
All the balconies have great mountain views !
01.08.2011 - 31.08.2011 800 EUR per object per week01.09.2011 - 30.09.2011 700 EUR per object per week01.10.2011 - 30.11.2011 600 EUR per object per week01.12.2011 - 19.12.2011 800 EUR per object per week20.12.2011 - 28.12.2011 240 EUR per object per day29.12.2011 - 04.01.2012 300 EUR per object per day05.01.2012 - 31.01.2012 800 EUR per object per week01.02.2012 - 29.02.2012 700 EUR per object per week01.03.2012 - 31.05.2012 600 EUR per object per week01.06.2012 - 30.06.2012 700 EUR per object per week01.07.2012 - 31.08.2012 800 EUR per object per week