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Fransglim (Silene multifida) är en nejlikväxtart som först beskrevs av Johannes Michael Friedrich Adam, och fick sitt nu gällande namn av Paul Rohrbach.

Fransglim ingår i släktet glimmar och familjen nejlikväxter. Arten är reproducerande i Sverige.

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Former county jail in Oklahoma to go on auction block
WAURIKA, Okla. — A southern Oklahoma jail will be put up for auction this week after the state Corrections Department ended its contracts to house state prisoners in county jails.
The Oklahoman reports that the former Jefferson County Detention Center in Waurika will be up for auction starting Wednesday.
The chairman of the county board of commissioners, Ricky Martin, says inmates are now kept in the county courthouse. He says losing the Corrections Department revenue stream in March hurt the county.
The Oklahoma Corrections Department estimates that ending the contracts for Jefferson County and nine other county jails will free up $775,000 for other needs.
Department spokesman Matt Elliott says it's not the "agency's responsibility to pay for county buildings or other local responsibilities."

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There was rather a lot of activity and interest around the cat flap a few minutes ago. Even the old lad got interested (the cat, not my beloved!) It would seem that Cumin has really settled in - her quarry of choice is now the mouse. This exquisite catch was less than 3cm long and hiding between the lenses of my grandpa's field glasses (that would have made him smile). I have always found colendar to be great catchers of mice. We let her sniff and play for a while, following Ms Tittlemouse around the inside of the colendar. Then we evicted one ginger huntress and I managed to get the field glasses away from the field mouse and capture her again under the white dome. Insert a large piece of cardboard, and hey presto, evicted into the garden and under the verandah she ran. One happy mouse, one disgruntled ginger and a black and white with a speech bubble above his head "What happened? Whereditgo?" Post Script two hours later. Poor mouse has been retrieved and brought into the house twice - how on earth she found it in 2 acres, I don't know!


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Q: Help with Shift/Reduce conflict - Trying to model (X A)* (X B)* Im trying to model the EBNF expression
("declare" "namespace" ";")* ("declare" "variable" ";")*

I have built up the yacc (Im using MPPG) grammar, which seems to represent this, but it fails to match my test expression.
The test case i'm trying to match is
declare variable;

The Token stream from the lexer is
KW_Declare
KW_Variable
Separator

The grammar parse says there is a "Shift/Reduce conflict, state 6 on KW_Declare". I have attempted to solve this with "%left PrologHeaderList PrologBodyList", but neither solution works.
Program                     : Prolog;
Prolog                      : PrologHeaderList PrologBodyList;

PrologHeaderList            : /*EMPTY*/
                            | PrologHeaderList PrologHeader;
PrologHeader                : KW_Declare KW_Namespace Separator;

PrologBodyList              : /*EMPTY*/
                            | PrologBodyList PrologBody;
PrologBody                  : KW_Declare KW_Variable Separator;

KW_Declare KW_Namespace KW_Variable Separator are all tokens with values "declare", "naemsapce", "variable", ";".

A: It's been a long time since I've used anything yacc-like, but here are a couple of suggestions that may or may not help.
It seems that you need a 2-token lookahead in this situation. The parser gets to the last PrologHeader, and it has to decide whether the next construct is a PrologHeader or a PrologBody, and it can't tell that from the KW_Declare. If there's a directive to increase lookahead in this situation, it will probably solve the problem.
You could also introduce context into your actions: rather than define PrologHeaderList and PrologBodyList, define PrologRuleList and have the actions throw an error if a header appears after a body. Ugly, but sometimes you have to do it: what appears simple in a grammar may not be simple in the generated parser.
A hackish approach might be to combine the tokens: rather than KW_Declare and KW_Variable, have your lexer recognize the space and use KW_Declare_Variable. Since both are keywords, you're not going to run into namespace collision problems.

A: The grammar at the top is regular so IIRC you can plot it out as a DFA (or a NDA and convert it to a DFA) and then convert the DFA to a grammar. It's bean a while so I'll leave the work as an exercise for the reader.

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I also had a bit of a problem with Sir Gareth, and fallen paladins in general. How does his fall from grace go undiscovered for so many years when he's active in his order? Ok, so maybe it would be considered "rude" for a fellow paladin to use his aura sight on a companion, especially one who has held a position of high esteem for so many years,
And as for Gareth himself, how delusional does he have to be to not realize he's given himself over to an evil cause?
It's "Detect", not Aura Sight. Except for Dragonbait who came from a very different tradition (which also does not involve special mounts, for one).
Other than that, yes - one have to take an active effort to detect. Gareth worked at their base, and the level of self-righteousness (measured as the average depth to which individual paladins' heads are submerged in their own arses) is directly proportional to factorial of the number of paladins from the same order present at a given location minus one. I believe Danilo Thann mentioned this law once.
Has been years since I read this novel, but wasn't he shielded by Cyric? I am pretty sure that Cyric has replaced Tyr as his patron and was actively shielding him
Aye, and IIRC it repeatedly said that Cyric greatly enjoys the irony in this sort of delusions and likes to string such people along.
But no one tried to stop him, and the elves were completely unaware until the dragon spotted the ships that ANYTHING was happening. An army being mobilized and built up with a huge navy like that would NOT BE A SECRET from anyone;
I agree it stretches credibility, but on the other hand, never underestimate the power of racial "superiority" complex.
Yeah. It would be much harder if the Elves didn't habitually replace competence with arrogance.
And we know it's used to be this bad and worse when they had reasons for overconfidence - see Battle of the Gods' Theater. And most elves on Evermeet seem to have reverted to this state, because out of sight - out of mind.
I would venture that not a single of those gold elf seditionists would describe themselves as evil. They almost undoubtedly believe they are going to restore order to Evermeet and bring about a "golden age" (pardon the pun) by putting those most capable (gold elves) in their rightful position of rulership. I'm certain they view themselves as heroic liberators, not evil invaders.
Aye. Already answered here about Kymil, and the outsiders, obviously, started with his spin on what's going on.
People never wonder How the world goes round -Helloween
And even I make no pretense Of having more than common sense -R.W.Wood
It's not good, Eric. It's a gazebo. -Ed Whitchurch
Posted - 02 Oct 2016 : 03:30:57
I guess I didn't look at it from that angle. In FR1, Waterdeep and the North, Ed paints such a poignant picture of Piergeiron as being so able in his administration and so just to be completely beyond reproach.
I kind of feel that characterization from his parts in City of Splendors which is chronologically later than Thornhold. In Thornhold he just doesn't feel like the paragon that Mirt, Khelban, Laeral and so many others protect such as in Who's Killing the Lords of Waterdeep from Elminster in Hell.
I would be interested to know which parts of City of Splendors were written by Ed or Elaine.
Don't get me wrong, I love Elaine's writing. In fact, I don't know many characters who have so leaped off the page for me in anything I've read more than Danillo, Arilyn and Elaith. I guess Ed just writes Piergeiron better.
Edited by - Sunderstone on 02 Oct 2016 04:08:38
I didn't really enjoy that Gareth was able to live among paladins and NONE of them realized he had fallen for decades or however long it was. It just struck me as nonsense that none of them would ever realize he no longer had any paladin abilities nor could they detect his evil acts and betrayal. I didn't enjoy Thornhold nearly as much as I did the Song and Swords books, probably for the same reason I didn't enjoy Evermeet...I had a problem with a contrivance and couldn't see past it to enjoy the great story being told around it.
To me, a paladin who has fallen would incur a huge wrath from his fellow paladins and his God; and would not be able to hide among them...the God would give signs to make his followers aware of the evil in their midst, even if it would show that he could no longer do any of the things other paladins can do--lay of hands, detect evil, cure disease, cast priest spells, etc.
Even though he had the Veil of Cyric feat in game mechanics he wasn't sufficient in level to have prevented his detection from higher level paladins. Piergeiron, Hronulf, the high priest in the Halls of Justice and other heads of his Order likely could have detected his nature with their aura sight if so inclined. Algorind's hero worship was obvious, Hronulf still considered him his best friend, and he likely was perceived similar by his fellow knights. He was hiding in plain sight because people saw what they expected to see.
Exactly. They knew he was a paladin, he acted paladin-ish, and lived among paladins. They had no reason to think he was evil and thus no reason to look.
Wow, that Gareth thing spurred on a pretty good conversation. I was just throwing it out there, not realizing it would be such a talking point. Feel free to keep discussing, but in the meantime I finished The Shadow Stone a few days ago.
I really enjoyed this book. Baker's descriptions of the Weave, shadow magic, and the general underlying mechanics of arcane casting were superb. The characters were interesting and well developed. There was a brief moment, when Aeron first went to the magical university, that I got a bit of an uncomfortable Harry Potter vibe. I've never read any of those books (I think I saw the first movie) but I know enough about them to draw some parallels. Anyway, that quickly passed and I was back to enjoying the story. As a result of reading this book I'd like to delve into Chessenta a bit more. About the only thing I didn't like was the scope of the Shadow Stone's influence. It was implied (but never outright stated) that the stone's corruption of the Weave might not be localized to the region, but might reach all across Faerun or even all of Toril. If that were happening, there's no way Elminster, Blackstaff, The Simbul, even Manshoon and others wouldn't have gotten involved and the story would've been taken away from the local kid. Not every evil plot has to be world-spanning/shattering, sometimes the best and most interesting ones are on a smaller scale. But again, it was never outright stated that the magical malaise had spread beyond the region, just implied - so maybe I'm grasping here.
Really good book overall though. I believe it's the first I've read from this author, and I'm very much looking forward to more in the future. I see from his wiki page he also wrote the Last Mythal trilogy. I'm excited to read that, although it will be quite some time before I get to it.
I've since started in on The Silent Blade and expect to finish it tonight.
I guess to me, a fallen paladin is a big deal and not just something that happens silently and without fallout. Especially for a paladin TRYING TO FOOL EVERYONE AROUND HIM THAT HE'S STILL HOLY WHILE LIVING IN A HOLY TEMPLE.
Sorry for the caps but you get my point. Why would the god not get pissed and tip off his followers for the betrayal? I don't get why gods in one book are ALL up in your face talking to people directly, giving visions out like candy, etc and in others like this just don't do anything at all when their most loyal followers are being duped by Cyric!
This is a huge blasphemy to any lawful god to pretend to be a paladin and live in a holy place among paladins. I would think it would warrant at least a minor tip to the leader of that order "pssst hey go look at Sir Gareth he's not what he seems" in a dream or something? No? Just me?
I get it if a paladin suffered something horrible and moved off to become a hermit (didn't Priam Agrivar become a drunk and go off in anonymity in the comics or what not) but a fallen paladin in my logic is not someone who can just hide out among fellow paladins like nothing happened.
Paladins exude virtue and holiness and goodness and detect evil and can't be around evil without getting a headache at least in other novels like Holly in the Grubb novels...so it's stupid to me that someone would be able to hide it in plain sight. I don't buy it. Others are fine with it. I hold good writers up to higher standards than most, and Elaine is among the best there is.
Edited by - Seravin on 04 Oct 2016 22:53:41
How many cases, in published Realmslore, do we have of deities making it publicly known that a particular person no longer serves them? We've got a lot more cases of false priests operating within temples than we do of deificly-denounced fallen priests or paladins.
We also have the case of a god of lies being involved, here. And again, not the first time that a god has shielded a mortal from the attention of another god.
Also, we have canon heresies in the Realms -- proving that even for their priests, sometimes the gods just sit back and let the mortals sort it all out.
You could also make the argument that aside from letting people think he was a paladin, Gareth really didn't do anything evil while around real paladins.
Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
On the one hand, it could just be chalked up to, "The gods work in mysterious ways" (and you could substitute 'gods' with 'MacGuffins' in novels).
But I'd rather look a little deeper. If I were a god, I'd want competent followers, especially ones like Paladins. Being the jerk I am, I would sit back and see how long it took that pack of idiots to figure out one of them wasn't what he seemed.
And I've seen this type of behavior in the business world, where someone in charge is aware of a problem, but ignores it to see if anyone else is going to do something about it. Thats how you find out who the good workers really are.
In other words, if your paladins aren't smart enough to do random evil-sweeps every so often on their environment, maybe its time to 'clean house'.
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
Another point if I remember the Veil of Cyric feat, the person may now be evil but they think they are still serving their god. In fact, I think for that feat to work you can't worship an evil god, even though you have become evil yourself.
Gareth believed he was still serving Tyr.
I'm with Seravin 100% on this one. I simply don't buy that Tyr would refrain from making it known that Gareth fell as a test to see if his followers can ferret out the traitor. Think of a faith as a corporation, where the god is the CEO and the high priests are his upper management. If I'm the big cheese in charge of a billion dollar company and I know one of my high ranking employees is a rat, I'm just going to sit back and see who can figure it out? In the meantime this corrupt employee is siphoning money, selling trade secrets to our rivals, mismanaging funds, etc. No chance.
I get that Cyric has Lies in his portfolio, and I'm fine with this Veil of Cyric being powerful enough to fool mortals, but it simply could not work with a god and here's why: Tyr is the one who "fell" Gareth. Ok, I'm sure that's not a verb, but godsdammit, I'm using it anyway. Tyr is the one who determines an underling's conviction is not pure enough and cuts off contact in the form of communion, spells granted, prayers answered, etc. If Cyric acted first and placed this veil over Gareth, sensing he might be a good candidate for corruption, Tyr isn't going to notice? If the veil simply acts as a blocker for true intent, and Tyr was indeed fooled by it, then he and Gareth would still be communing freely and Tyr would be granting him his divine powers. So it has to be one or the other - either Cyric's veil is so powerful it can fool gods, and Gareth and Tyr would still be BFFs with all the attendant clerical benefits, or Gareth is truly fallen and there's simply no way Tyr isn't aware of this. Again, I don't buy that he would sit on his hands and let Gareth corrupt his church.
As far as the "gods move in mysterious ways" angle - no, in the Realms they really don't. They're actually quite accessible, even predictable in their dedication to advancing their specific portfolios/spheres of interest. And if one buys into some author's works, they aren't really all that high and mighty, but really quite buffoonish - tripping over housecats and so on.
Anyway, I've since finished The Silent Blade. In the last RAS review (Passage to Dawn) I mentioned it was probably my least enjoyed installment of the Drizzt and Friends tales. This one got me firmly back on the bandwagon. He did an excellent job of really taking some of the characters apart and showing us what makes them tick - particularly Wulfgar and Artemis. It's funny, in my teen years I would've ranked this among the more boring books in the series, but at 40 I found it to be one of the most engaging and introspective.
Without going into any detail, 2016 has been the crappiest year of my life and there isn't a remotely close 2nd place. I say that not to garner sympathy, just as a context for my point. Reading about Artemis and Wulfgar's life crises was very powerful and resonating. Especially Wulfgar, who pushes those who are trying to help him the most away out of feelings of shame, anger, embarrassment, etc. This book did an amazing job getting into his head and showing the process of him dealing with his pain. There were several times I just put the book down and thought things over for a bit. Ok, so maybe I didn't get my chest caved in by a yochlol and dragged to the Abyss to be tortured by a demon lord for several years, but still I think anyone who's gone through a rough patch can identify with Wulfgar's journey. This was a very strong book overall.
I've since started in on Troy Denning's Faces of Deception.
Edited by - VikingLegion on 07 Oct 2016 19:14:41
I think you have to account for the fact that Gareth actually thought he was still finding favor from Tyr and any abilities were a manifestation of his continued oaths. He was unaware that Cyric was now his benefactor instead of Tyr. He was so caught up in his own self deceit and self denial he fully believed he was acting in full support of his god and oaths. It seemed to me from the book he was repulsed by Malchior and Dag and would have been equally repulsed by the notion he served Cyric.
Any behavior he may have been engaged in that was duplicitous he rationalized as necessary and Cyric was leading him to believe it was condoned by Tyr. Through the relationship with Cyric he had become adroit at presenting a false image and self-rationalized and probably never overthought it because he believed he was serving the interests of Tyr.
In that capacity and because of his once esteemed reputation he was able to act in ways that presented the image that others expected to see.
My only gripe was not in that he was able to do this, because it seemed consistent with his actions and the way in which he had fallen to be able to present this facade. It was how other wiser Paladins accepted his advice or counsel.
Piergeiron may have believed Gareth to be earnest in presenting an opinion on Bronwyn, Danillo, and Alice but in other stories he has been shown as a much more thoughtful and considerate in his view of individuals. I believe he would have accepted Gareth's counsel for what it was but still would have reserved his own judgements and equally or more highly weighed Khelban's. After all he had a many decade relationship protecting Waterdeep and sharing in her guardianship with Khelban.
I finished a couple books since my last visit to this site, I'll start with Faces of Deception. While reading this story I remember thinking at times I was going to blast it in my review, while other times thinking I would give a generally favorable review - so I guess the reading experience was very up-and-down - every point I make will have a corresponding counterpoint.
On the downside: the setting of The Utter East. Yuck. In my chronological (mostly) by publish date reading order, I've had quite a bit of recent exposure to this region - from the mostly bad Double Diamond saga, to a short story in one of the recent anthologies, and now this book, I feel like they really made a strong push to develop this area. I'm not sure what the decision makers were feeling in late 1998, maybe it was determined that Faerun and other areas of Toril were already a bit oversaturated at the time? I really don't dig the Utter East, the lore, the regions, the whole bloodforge angle, none of it does much for me. On the other hand, this specific region of the Utter East felt nothing like the rest of it, in fact the story could've just as easily been set in the Hordelands/Tabot and made as much sense.
The first 150 pages read like a car chase scene. Only the "cars" (yaks) were limited to about 10mph. Oh and the "scenery" was a bleak, featureless bog with nothing remotely interesting. No trucks filled with produce or those huge refillable water cooler jugs. No guys carrying a huge pane of glass across the street. No explosions - just an incredibly dull "chase" that persisted for half of the book.
As for characters - I applaud Denning for going with a very unusual protagonist. He's hideously ugly, and more than a bit rough around the edges due to his upbringing among ogrekind. His fighting style was fun to read too, brutal, almost wrestler-like moves (head butts, body-slams, etc.) made for rough-n-tumble fight scenes as opposed to the deadly precise swordsmen we see so frequently. His bodyguard, Yago, was also a lot of fun. Rishi was.... well a bit of a caricature of the stereotypical sneaky, conniving foreigner.. Throw me the idol, I throw you the whip... but he was also entertaining at times.
However, Seema, the pacifist monk, I simply couldn't stand. Her stance that murder is a taint on the soul is fair enough. But when she goes out of her way to save the devil Tarch, going so far as to warn him when her companions tumbled boulders down the mountain to crash into him, was just absurd. I get it, she wants a clear conscience - but when I said Tarch is a devil I mean just that - an actual baatezu. Evil incarnate. Not just evil, but Evil made flesh. Allowing this slaver to live is going to bring untold misery down on how many more families? He may live 500, 1000+ years. His specialty is abducting beautiful young girls, often requiring the slaughter of their parents in the process, and then bringing said girls to the Nine Hells to sell off to the highest bidding devil princes and lords, who will then use the girls in whatever fashion they choose. Seema is apparently ok with this, as long as her personal honor isn't dirtied. I would argue that standing pat, doing nothing while Evil flourishes, is the greater sin. And it's not like anyone was asking Seema to fight Tarch, simply to stop aiding him when the heroes had him down for the count. But... Seema is a healer by nature, so she has to keep assisting Tarch, even though he is monstrous and irredeemable and causes nothing but pain and suffering. Seems selfish to me, but at least Seema will sleep better knowing she hasn't betrayed her code, so good for her.
This book had a shockingly abrupt ending. I guess there was only one way it could end, so good job by Denning to not pull any punches and have some Deus-Ex-Machina swoop in at the last second to deliver the happy Disney ending. On the other hand, no real progress was made anywhere. I generally favor bleak and grim, but in this case it made me think "What was the point?"
So there it is - a very up and down experience. Some good stuff, some bad. They all just sort of canceled each other out and made for an average story that I wouldn't necessarily recommend, nor would I condemn.
I'm guessing not a lot of folks have read Faces of Deception and it won't engender a lot of (if any) conversation, so I'll just skip ahead to the other book I finished last week: The Temptation of Elminster. The last Greenwood book I did a write up for, I mentioned I have enjoyed his last several offerings and thought I'd turned a corner with him. This book felt like a backwards step, as I didn't much care for it.
The best parts of it were some of the lore on the fall of Myth Drannor, but even those were teasingly sparse.
The rest read as less a coherent novel and more a series of vignettes to illustrate just how awesome Elminster is - outwitting everyone, saving all the oppressed, toppling every tyrant, and mandatorily sleeping with every pretty young maiden in Faerun. Even with out of practice swordsmanship he is still easily able to take out multiple heavily armed guardsmen.
So... Dasumia was Mystra all along and was merely testing El? I think that's what happened, though to be honest I was in skim mode at that point and not carefully reading everything. They sure do have an odd relationship. She likes to throw strange tests at him - like telling him to try to get by with as little magic as possible. I get it, not being over-reliant on a spell to get him by when conventional means would work will make him stronger in the end. But then 10 pages later he's involved in a gigantic spell-duel with this stag-headed beast where every high-level spell in the PHB is launched back and forth. I still don't know what that thing was, how it got there, why it attacked Elminster, etc.
There was also a strange "magic-vampire" like creature that had Elminster on the ropes. Ilbryn Starym, who wants nothing in all the world more than Elminster's demise, comes across the scene and does what? Saves Elminster by plunging a blade into the creature from behind. Of course the argument is he wants the satisfaction of ending El's life with his own hands, but man was that an epic backfire on his part.
The priests of Shar read more like Loviatar worshippers to me. All their rituals seemed to involve whips and chains and flagellation (both self inflicted and on others). Admittedly, I don't know a whole lot about Shar's clergy, but this depiction seemed a bit off. Then again, this is the creator of the Realms, so I guess his word is the final say.
This book wasn't without some good moments, they were just a bit too few and far between for me, so overall it was a miss. Up next is Rising Tide which I've gotten quite a ways through and should finish in the next night or two.
I finished Rising Tide several nights ago and enjoyed it quite a bit. The story was solid, the characters were very interesting and well developed. I was particularly fond of Jherek. He has this kind of easy, humble likeability to him, he's skilled but not arrogant, principled but not righteous or holier-than-thou. If any of you have read the Odd Thomas novels, Jherek reminds me quite a bit of him.
There's a really epic battle on the docks of Waterdeep, an old bard with a destiny unfolding in front of him, and some solid intrigue brewing in the underwater sahuagin kingdom to look forward to in the next book. About the only misstep for me was the author naming one of the ship commanders Captain Tynnel (ugghh, say it ain't so!) Other than that bit of silliness, it was an extremely well done story and I hope it continues in the rest of the trilogy. I thought about skipping ahead to continue this story, but instead stuck to my publishing date reading order and am now reading The Star of Cursrah.
Finished Star of Cursrah last night. I was a little wary going into this one, after the disappointing Netheril Trilogy. The author continues his bizarre oddities - strange verb usage, an infatuation with butts, and the strange rhyme schemes that pop up in nearly every chapter, just a few examples of which:
- the gold coins chinged and pinged
- pebbles clittered and sandals skittered
- the companions sneezed and wheezed
- the friends were tattered and battered
Those are just the ones I retained. He does this every ten pages or so, to the point of distraction.
On the plus side, the story itself was way better than the Netheril plotline, so despite the author's peculiarities, I did enjoy the book overall. The book was actually two different tales, set ~7,000 years apart, with sets of characters that are counterparts of each other, the latter ones being reincarnated versions of the former. It jumped back and forth each chapter, so you get to follow the progress of both groups throughout. I'm not saying it's a totally original concept or anything, but it worked really well for this story.
There's a funny Indiana Jones parallel to be drawn from this book, but I'll only elaborate on that if this post sparks any conversation. I'm guessing not many people read this book, so I'm mainly talking to myself.
Up next is Monte Cook's The Glass Prison.
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The major players may have had difficulty figuring out what was happening and how in a timely fashion even if the effect had reached them. Shadow Stone was the first introduction of that type of magic and Madryoch had been around long enough to potentially be good at hiding his work. I'm sure Mystra knew but if she already had a counter in play with Aeran (he made a good tool for the divination master whose name escapes me, Mystra may have come to the same conclusion as that professor) then she may not have deployed any of her larger weapons. This is especially possible given that while El could probably flatten Madryoch any day of the week and twice on Sunday, none of the Chosen had exposure to Shadow Magic so all of them would be at a disadvatage dealing with the stone.
I finished The Glass Prison a couple nights ago. It was an ok story, not particularly good or bad. I think Cook was really trying to make the next superstar/franchise/Drizzt character. Vheod's struggle to gain acceptance with a world that fears and distrusts him is one that has worked very successfully before. Vheod has all the prerequisite Rule of Cool boxes checked - dark origin (tanar'ri bloodline), spiked armour, odd coloration, a sentient tattoo, lethal swordsmanship *and* spellcasting ability, etc. But for whatever reason, it just didn't all come together. The plot of the demonic grandfather maneuvering all the pieces around to free himself was pretty good. The supporting characters were fairly bland and unmemorable. It all summed up to an average read, entertaining enough while it lasted, but not one that will leave a long impression.
I've since started in on The Dream Spheres. I could tell by page 4 I was going to like this one. Not to denigrate the other authors in TSR/WotC's stable, but Elaine's writing just seems to be on a different plane.
Have you read Evermeet: Island of the elves yet?
I need to skip back and read this whole thread :)
yes, Dream Spheres is a goodie and sadly, the last book in the series she put out, although she gave us some teaser chapters of "The serpents daughter". For reasons we know, reclamation was cancelled and for reasons we do not know, the Serpents daughter was cancelled.
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Yes! I read Evermeet just a little while ago. It sparked some very good conversation, starting on page 10 of this scroll. Elaine herself joined the fray to discuss a few items, so it's been one of the more engaging portions thus far.
That said, I've finished two more books, the first of which was The Dream Spheres. I liked this book a lot, but didn't love it as much as I thought I was going to. The plot meandered just a bit for me - The Marakuru....Kobiyashi Maru... whatever crystal thing seemed to come out of nowhere - though that could very well be chalked up to distracted reading - as I tend to do the bulk of my reading while at work. Also, I try to adhere to a breakneck pace of 1 book every 5 days or so. Someday, when this vast project is completed, I can see myself going back and cherry-picking certain books for a more careful re-read. Elaine's works, in order, would certainly make that list.
Her dialogue is just so masterful at times. Danillo and Arilyn's quips back and forth are just wonderful. I really like how Elaine has built up this formidable stable of characters over several books, and now has them intersecting. She's really carved out a nice little corner of the Realms to call her own. And speaking of characters, she does an amazing job of breathing life and believability into even the most minor roles. Peg, the barmaid friend of Lilly, had about 10 seconds of relative screen time, but I still really felt for her when her friend was murdered. How does Mrs. Cunningham do that?
The Thann family has a lot more dirt and intrigue to them than I thought. Dan had some serious growing up to do in this book. I liked the anti-elf racism of the Waterdeep nobility. We always see elves as the haughty, superior types, so it was interesting to see the table turned, with humans looking down on the "pointy-eared scum". I'm not condoning xenophobia or anything :) Just thought it was an interesting take.
I liked Bronwyn's... well it was a little too big a part to call a cameo, but not really big enough to call a co-starring role. I was worried that her and Craulnober were going to have some kind of cheesy and meaningless one-night-stand, I was glad to see that didn't happen. In a related note, I just found out tonight that Elaith is a Greenwood creation. I figured it a slam dunk that Elaine created him, as their names are so similar. You learn something new every day I guess.
Ok, I'm just rambling now. Good book. Not her greatest, but still head and shoulders above the typical fare.
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I'm trying to read all the Forgotten Realms books still - now read 253. Unfortunately Seravin, in my view Once Around The Realms is the worst by quite a way...
Guess you haven't read the novelization of the baldurs gate games yet ;)
Well... Baldur's Gate is the other book I finished this week. I have no idea what I just read. There were words like Gorion, Sarevok, and Jaheira that gave me a flash of nostalgiac pleasure, as I recalled the excellent video game of the late 90s. But that was the only joy to be found in this book. Abdel was neither interesting nor sympathetic. Introducing a character named Xan just pages after losing one named Xzar was annoying. The dialogue was abysmal, Jaheira would spend entire combat scenes just standing there, shouting "Abdel!" every 10 lines or so, and doing nothing else. Sarevok, the big bad, diabolical, ultra-powerful fighter/mage, was dispatched with almost comical ease. Very little about this book made any sense.
The farting half-orc, about midway through, made me check out completely. I pretty much just skim-read from that point on.
This book still wasn't even half as awful as Once Around the Realms. So, it's got that going for it.
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Just thought I'd pitch in here and say I really enjoy reading your reviews. I look forward to the next one and I'm sure a lot of others on here do too - so don't ever think you're just talking to yourself!
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Oh god, I haven't read Baldur's Gate in forever. I remember it was horrible though. I guess I should. There's a half=orc that does THAT in the book? Okay I don't know if I could get through it either.
For Dreamspheres, I should have probably liked it the most of all the books, as it takes Danilo and Arilyn as a mature couple and has them adventuring together after we've grown to know them separately in Elfsong and Silver Shadows...and YET...I don't know why, I just feel fatigued reading it relative to Elfshadow and Elfsong. It's maybe too dense or has too many subplots or characters or something; but I just don't take to it the way I did with her other books. I think I agree with your review...good book, way ahead of most, but not my fave :) That would be Elfshadow.
I must say too VikingLegion that I too very much look forward to your posts.
I'm still aiming to read all 291 (I think) Forgotten Realms novels and I've just finished my 270th. I've just started reading the Sapphire Crescent which is the first of the Scions of Arrabar trilogy and enjoying it so far.
Also, must agree completely that out of the 270 FR novels I've read so far, Once Around The Realms is the worst by a country mile.


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Kris Kobach and His 5,313 Fraudulent Voters
The voter-fraud crusaders who run President Trump's electoral-integrity commission have found their holy grail: evidence that large-scale illegal voting swung a pivotal Senate election in 2016.
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In his latest column for Breitbart News, Kris Kobach, the commission's vice chairman, called it "highly likely" that the election of Maggie Hassan, New Hampshire's Democratic candidate for the Senate, was "stolen through voter fraud." He said it was "possible" that Hillary Clinton's narrow victory in the state was the result of illegal voting, too.
Mr. Kobach's evidence for these explosive claims? "Proof," he says, that 5,313 people who voted in New Hampshire in 2016 do not actually reside in the state. The theory, which has been hawked by Mr. Trump himself, is that these voters sneaked over the border — or were even bussed in! — from neighboring Democratic strongholds like Massachusetts or Vermont, in a huge conspiracy to swing the election.
That scheme had national implications, Mr. Kobach wrote — the Senate failed to repeal Obamacare by one vote.
And he wonders why serious people don't take him seriously.
In his day job as Kansas' secretary of state, where he plays the "Javert of voter fraud," Mr. Kobach complains that the media's response to his efforts to safeguard America's elections is a dismissive, "Move along, there's nothing to see here." So let's stop and take a closer look.
True, New Hampshire had some very close races. Mrs. Clinton won by 2,736 votes, or 0.3 percentage points. Ms. Hassan's margin was slimmer — 1,017 votes out of nearly three-quarters of a million cast.
Also apparently true: Data given to the commission by the speaker of the state's House showed that 6,540 people registered to vote there on Election Day using an out-of-state ID.
Under state law, new residents have 60 days to get a New Hampshire driver's license. Yet of those 6,540 people, Mr. Kobach said, 5,526 have not done so. Of those, only 213 have registered a vehicle in the state, leaving 5,313 voters who are not, as Mr. Kobach put it, "bona fide residents of the state."
Busted, right? Not quite. In his hunger to expose fraudulent voters, Mr. Kobach omitted a few important details. New Hampshire law does not require people to be "residents" to register and vote. They must only be "domiciled" in the state, meaning that New Hampshire is where they currently live and spend most of their time — a description that applies, incidentally, to many college students. In 2016, the towns with the highest rates of voters who registered using out-of-state IDs were all home to college campuses.
Mr. Kobach didn't say whether he had attempted to contact any of the supposed scofflaws, but The Washington Post did. The first four it reached identified themselves as college students who lived in New Hampshire last November.
Vice President Mike Pence, the commission's chairman, said in July that the commission had "no preconceived notions or preordained results." That was never credible. It's laughable now, as Mr. Kobach spouts his latest, wildly irresponsible accusations based on an inaccurate reading of the data and the law.
Rather than admit his obvious biases, Mr. Kobach carps that "the mainstream media has ignored the problem of voter fraud and belittled those of us who are trying to do something about it." The truth is that Mr. Kobach and his band of vote suppressors belittle themselves, and threaten voting rights nationwide, with their dishonesty.
In a convenient stroke of timing, the commission will hold its second public hearing in New Hampshire on Tuesday. The topic is voter confidence in electoral integrity — amusing coming from the people who've done their utmost to undermine that confidence with baseless allegations.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/opinion/kris-kobach-fraudulent-voters.html
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Karreman, Herman F.
Herman F. Karreman
June 21, 1913 – January 9, 1999
Born in the Netherlands, Herman F. Karreman was a Frederick W. Lanchester Prize recipient. As a child, he spent some time in Indonesia, returning there to work for the Dutch Royal Packaging Company as a young adult. At the start of the Second World War, Karreman served in the Dutch Armed Forces but was soon made a prisoner of war by the Japanese, forced to build railroads and bridges for his captors. He was poorly treated and nearly escaped death a number of times, one time being stranded in the ocean for three days after his prisoner ship was torpedoed. Karreman returned to Holland at the war's end and, after a period of recovery, went back to school to receive his doctorate in econometrics from the University of Rotterdam. His supervisor was Nobel-laureate Nikolaas Tinbergen.
Karreman and his family eventually immigrated to the United States where he began his US academic career at Princeton University in 1954. Nine years later, he joined the Mathematics Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, eventually earning tenure in the university's School of Business and Department of Industrial Engineering. He remained at Wisconsin until his retirement in 1988.
In 1960, Karreman published in article in Naval Research Logistics Quarterly on programming the supply of a strategic material using a nonstochastic model. The paper was awarded that year's Frederick W. Lanchester Prize for best publication in operations research and was lauded for its considerable originality and insight as a "careful translation of an original situation into precise mathematical form." The following year, he authored a report with the National Bureau of Economic Research in Washington on methods for improving world transportation. Karreman continued his work in stochastic optimization and programming through his career, helping the University of Wisconsin become a leading institution on the topic.
After his retirement, Karreman continued to lead an active lifestyle, hiking and studying nature. His sizable collection of books related to operations research was donated to the School of Business after he passed away at eighty-five years old.
Non-Academic Affiliations
Dutch Armed Forces
Time series methods
Military OR
Supply Chain Management / Logistics
Hickman J. & Morris J. (2002) Memorial Resolution of the Faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison on the Death of Emeritus Professor Herman F. Karreman. Faculty Document 1679. University of Wisconsin: Madison, WI. (link)
Karreman H. F. (1960) Programming the supply of strategic material - part I, a nonstochastic model. Naval Research Logistics Quartlery, 7(2): 261-279.
Karreman H. F. (1961) Methods for Improving World Transportation Accounts, Applied to 1950-1953. National Bureau of Economic Research: Washington, DC.
Karreman H. F. (1963) Computer Programs for Spectral Analysis of Economic Time Series. National Bureau of Economic Research: Washington, DC.
Godfrey M. D. & Karreman H. F. (1964) A Spectrum Analysis of Seasonal Adjustment. Princeton University Pres: Princeton, NJ.
Harris B., Karreman H. F., & Rosser J. B. (1967) The probability of survival of a subterranean target under mtensive attack. Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, 14(4): 435-451.
Karreman H. F., ed. (1968) Stochastic Optimization and Control; Conference Proceedings. University of Wisconsin: Madison, WI.
Karreman H. F. (1980) Duality in stochastic programming applied to the design and operation of reservoirs. Kall D. & Prekopa A., eds. in Recent Results in Stochastic Programming, 163-178. Springer: Berlin.


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