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Tao-Approved Nicknames: Somehow, we can't stop calling him "Mike Mathis", which is some sort of synaptic misfire that mashes together Jeff Mathis with his former manager Mike Scioscia and beloved catch-and-throw guy Mike Matheny. It has nothing to do with the former NBA referee.
History: Seven MLB seasons and 426 games played, all with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
Contract Status: $1,500,000 for 2012. Free agent following the season.
Career Stats: .194 AVG, .257 OBP, .301 SLG, .557 OPS. 26 homers and 139 RBI in 1360 plate appearances.
2011 Stats: (Contains disturbing numbers. Reader discretion is advised.) .174 AVG, .225 OBP, .259 SLG and a .484 OPS in 281 plate appearances over 93 games. -1.0 WAR (Fangraphs edition.)
Nerd Stats: Fangraphs assessed Mathis at a dollar value of -$4.4 million last year. If the Angels can ever collect on some of that money he owes them, it might help to offset a small portion of the Vernon Wells deal.
Somewhat Surprising Stat: Hit nine home runs in 2008 in 328 plate appearances, and still posted a meagre slugging percentage of .318.
What the what?: His isolated power number in 2011 (.085) was higher than Joe Mauer's (.081).
Looking Back: It can't be easy being Jeff Mathis. On the one hand, your best attributes as a ballplayer are truly intangible, because there are precious few metrics that can fully measure the admiration of his former manager Mike Scioscia. Scioscia's insistence on playing Mathis in recent years over better offensive options like Mike Napoli or Hank Conger became a laugh line for many of the more progressively-minded baseball fans.
It's difficult for us to truly assess the value of a good catch and throw guy who is so inept at the plate, because even the counting stats that are available only tell a small part of the story, or so we're led to believe. Sure, Mathis only allowed six passed balls in 698 innings squatting behind the plate (versus the eight that former back up José Molina gave up in 399 innings). But does that make up for the hole in the lineup that he leaves?
Looking Forward: With just one year left on his contract, Mathis is truly a backup and a stop gap until Travis d'Arnaud is ready to take the next step into the Majors. Moreover, we'd expect for J.P. Arencibia to get a heavy load of work this year, so don't be surprised if Mathis makes only a token weekly start.
Just don't spend too much time thinking about what happens if the Jays need to go to him in an everyday role for an extended period of time this year. Because those are the things of which nightmares are made.
Maybe that's too harsh, because we really do respect the role that Mathis is supposed to play. As a stellar defensive catcher and a man who can whisper into the ears of pitchers to set them straight along their course, we may yet find that thing that made Scioscia so starry-eyed over the past few years. Let's hope so.
2012 Expectations: Even with his deficiencies, the Jays made a point of going out to get Mathis, and we'd expect that by the time the team breaks camp, he'll be designated as the personal catcher for at least one of the starting staff. Aside from that, anything better than terrible at the plate will have to be considered a plus.


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1 plastic water bottle cage, 1 metal cage, Minipump, saddle bag w/tools, tube etc. Had 2 Dinotte headlights and Dinotte tailight attached. Shimano "campus" platform/SPD pedals.
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Dunkin' Donuts is aiming to more than double its U.S. footprint.
The brand has said it wants to open 15,000 stores by 2020. It currently has 7,000 stores.
Dunkin' is nearly ubiquitous in Eastern cities like New York and Boston.
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The characters are collecting the dead victims of the plague. They're about to collect another but the body says "I'm not dead!" and "I feel fine!" I still burst into stitches just thinking of that movie.
Ancestry.com is asking you to bring out your dead as well. But in this case they want you to find death records not dead bodies. Ancestry.com is featuring its death records during the month of October in the hopes that you'll be able to find more records about your ancestors. Better yet, by doing what you love, searching for your ancestors, you'll even have the chance to win an iPad.
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According to McCoullough, the TV star's attack left him with three breaks in his nose, and after turning medical records over to the police, Sutherland turned himself over to the police on Thursday morning.
The actor was charged with misdemeanor assault at the 1st Precinct in lower Manhattan, and is due back in court for arraignment on June 9. Sutherland is currently on probation in Los Angeles for a DUI. If convicted of the assault charges, Sutherland faces $1000 in fines and one year in proson. The LA district attorney will decide if this incident is a violation of his probation. (Jeffrey Harmatz)


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I haven't completely given up on BB creams yet and after reading Kathi's review of SANA's bizarrely named Quzulan Gelo Liquid BB Essence I figured that Shade 02 might actually work (Shade 01 was way too dark for Kathi).
SANA is one of my favourite Japanese brands! I figured I try a Japanese made BB product rather than a Korean one for once:
Quzulan Gelo is supposed to be a 6 in 1 product!
This product is supposed to be:
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Here is the imagery – I think the idea is that your skin will be a smooth as a statue!
The packaging – it's simple but good, although you only get a puny 25ml!
Alas, shade 02 is still a tad too light for me – about a shade and a half I'd say. I think this would work up to a NC30. I really don't like base products that are too light, I hate that ashy effect on my skin.
This liquid BB is quite a nice texture -I find most BB's too thick and oily. This one doesn't have those two problems which is an advantage
The coverage is decent. Here is my skin before:
After – it covers pores and redness quite well! It also conceals nicely under the eyes but I just wish it was a notch darker. I like that it does a lot of different things though – time saving!
Also I didn't have any allergies or reactions to this.
Worth trying out if you want a all in one product and you have light skin.
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Find the peach, lol !! I see her
It almost looks like she was photochopped in too
Quote from: puddin on May 07, 2007, 11:17:51 AMFind the peach, lol !! I see her I see her too, but in only one of the shots. You have to know what she looks like. It's just like playing FIND WALDO.
Heee...I do look photochopped! I was there honest and have the pictures to prove it but am off to dinner now!Michael--your package will arrive via my personal canadian courier +mail.I tried the megaupload thing but after 45 minutes it froze so will have to try again later. I don't think the hotel DSL is as fast as mine?
oops! sorry Peach! LOL so then I don't know how you look!anyways...who says I didn't go to TARcon? I even met the Beauty Queens!!we danced and danced and then I looked tired, Dustin danced so hard her clothes changed:Aww, the love thread at sucks was moved, now they'll forget about "King Michael!" I'm still shocked they now me!:( So Peach - did you have a great weekend?
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Staples Signs Historic Naming Rights Deal With AEG For Lakers, Kings Venue
October 19, 2009: Sports and entertainment giant AEG said it has signed an historic deal with Staples giving the office supply company naming rights to Staples Center in perpetuity. Staples has had naming rights to the Los Angeles arena since in opened in 1999, when it signed a 20-year deal that reports put at $100 million. Financial terms for the new deal were not disclosed.
As part of Staples' original agreement with AEG, the 10th year of the deal included an option for a naming rights extension. According to AEG, "This arrangement creates the first lifetime naming rights extension for a major-market arena."
Staples Center, which adjacent to AEG's L.A. Live multi-entertainment center, is the home of the NBA defending champion Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers, the NHL's Los Angeles Kings (which is owned by AEG) and the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks. The arena received global attention for the Michael Jackson memorial service, which was watched by more than 2 billion viewers worldwide.
"Staples has been a great partner since Day One," Timothy Leiweke, president and CEO of AEG and Staples Center, said in a statement. "[Staples] had the vision to enter into a groundbreaking agreement 10 years ago, which has certainly paid off with a partnership to create an association with the most widely recognized venue in the world. This lifetime deal, with a leading global brand, will continue to be heralded as a great investment and one that will help secure the future of Staples Center as a world-class sports and entertainment destination."
AEG, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Anschutz Company, owns or controls facilities or teams including:
Staples Center (Los Angeles, CA), Prudential Center (Newark, NJ), Sprint Center (Kansas City, MO), The Rose Garden (Portland, OR), WaMu Theatre (Seattle, WA), XL Center (Hartford, CT), El Rey Theatre (Hollywood, CA), Colosseum at Caesars Palace (Las Vegas, NV), Target Center (Minneapolis, MN), Rentschler Field (Hartford, CT), Nokia Theatre Times Square (NY), Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie, Acer Arena (Sydney, Australia), Color Line Arena (Hamburg), The O2 (London), the Los Angeles Kings (NHL), Los Angeles Riptide (MLL), Manchester Monarchs (AHL), Reading Royals (ECHL) and Houston Dynamo and Los Angeles Galaxy (MLS).


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Robot kits are a great intro to robotics bringing the ever growing field of technology in robotics right into your hands. Some of our most popular are the Toysmith Robot line of robot kits. Perfect for those just getting started and really inexpensive. The Parallax Scribbler and SumoBots are another favorite. For the more advanced you may want to try your hand at our Hexapod or Humanoid Robot Kits.
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There are number of companies producing amazing robotic toys from ˇ to the Tomy I-Sobot Robot and the hugely successful Zhu Zhu Pets. Right now there are two companies ahead of the pack when it comes to producing life-like robotic toys, FurReal Friends, and WowWee.
FurReal Friends line of FurReal Pets include your choice of a FurReal Pup, a FurReal Cat, or even a FurReal Chimp - to name a few.
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Dear Miss Snark,
Last spring I received a hopeful rejection from Publisher #1 in which the editor asked me to resubmit June 2007 as his latest catalog was full. In the meantime, I continued to query and received a strange offer from Publisher #2. He told me he would consider my novel for his spring 2007 catalog but said the MS required a brush-up edit. He then proceeded to give me the name of an affiliated editor ($1000). Now my snark-sense went off, telling me this was a "pay to publish" situation.
So, I have left it alone for about a month now, but my impatience is gnawing at me. I'm nearly finished with a new novel and I guess I just want to get this first one rolling. Plus, even if I wait until June 2007 with Pub #1 there is no guarantee he will accept it.
What should I do?
Thanks for all your help both present and past,
So, you're impatient to spend $1000 to see your novel in print are you?
There's no guarantee that Publisher #2 will publish it either. All he said was it needed a brush up edit for him to consider.
NO legitimate publisher works like that. The Spring 2007 catalogs for every legit publisher I can think of have been filled for months. I sold books for that catalog last winter. We've started pre-publication publicity for those books. They're old news around here.
If you're that desperate to see your work in print, spend less and use CafePress or Lulu.
You'll have a lovely book that you can show off. Bookstores won't stock it and distributors and libraries won't carry it, but they won't with Publisher B most likely either.
Desperation is a very very bad mind set for making business decisions of any kind.


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De Gea has been subjected to enormous criticism throughout his short United career.
Prior to last night's 1-1 draw with Real Madrid, Sir Alex Ferguson likened the 22-year-old's development to a toddler learning how to walk.
Well, he was certainly walking tall in the Bernabeu, making a string of fine saves, including one with his feet, to ensure United grabbed the draw which makes them slight favourites to progress.
But De Gea knows the job is only half done. And he is expecting it to be equally tough in the second leg at Old Trafford on March 5.
''The party is not over,'' he said.
''We are talking about Real Madrid, one of the world's best. They still have to come to us.
''It was a good result for us though, one we deserved.''
Fabio Coentrao had particular reason to curse De Gea's agility.
It was the fullback's curling shot De Gea tipped onto the post in the opening minutes and the Portugal star was also denied in the second half after creeping in at the far post.
On that occasion, De Gea saved with his feet, proving yet again that while a packed Premier League penalty area might not be to his linking, in pure shot-stopping terms he is up there with the very best.
''It all happened so fast,'' he said. ''I got across and was lucky enough to save it with my feet.
''Overall, I am very happy with my performance. I am improving every at Old Trafford and I am very happy.''
Former United goalkeeper Mark Bosnich knows exactly what it is like to be under the severest scrutiny with the Red Devils.
And, speaking in his native Australia, Bosnich feels the criticism of De Gea has been harsh in the extreme.
''He has been criticised time again in United's goal,'' said Bosnich.
''It has been very harsh and has come from people who don't really know.
''When you're in goal at the Bernabeu you can feel Madrid's momentum. The roar becomes deafening.
''I speak from experience. I was fortunate enough to stand in those very shoes when United played against Real Madrid in 2000 quarter-final. It's some experience.
''So well done to David De Gea.
''He has been linked with a move back to Madrid – possibly as Iker Casillas' replacement at Real – but I hope he stays in the Premier League and continues to prove his value.''
Although there were minor gripes with United's display; Robin van Persie did not have his best night, missing a clear opportunity that would have given United victory, and the edge was taken off Wayne Rooney's attacking intentions in order to limit the space offered to Real in midfield, the overall outcome was a satisfactory one.
That away goal provides a safety net which did not exist in that match Bosnich refers to 13 years ago when United settled for a goalless draw, only to get swamped in the home leg as Real raced into a three-goal lead before easing through 3-2.
And the value of that victory over Everton last weekend now becomes evident as, with an FA Cup tie against Reading, a trip to basement boys QPR and a home game against out-of-form Norwich prior to the second leg, Ferguson has the breathing space required to rest key men.
That is likely to mean a central role for Javier Hernandez, an unused substitute last night, against Reading on Monday, in addition to Nani and Ashley Young, who were not even amongst the substitutes.
''I explained to Javier that Robin van Persie is our main striker and that we want someone to join in from a deeper position,'' said Ferguson.
''But whenever Javier plays, he delivers. He has 14 goals already, will get ample opportunity and will score more than 20.
''There were a lot of disappointed players.
''Nani and Ashley Young are two international footballers. I find it hard to explain that I have left them out.''


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Let $X$ be a proper metric space and consider its isometry group $\mathrm{ISO}(X)$ endowed with the compact-open topology. Let $G$ be a subgroup of $\mathrm{ISO}(X)$.
Consider the following conditions on $G$:
(1) $G$ acts properly on $X$, i.e. any two points $x$ and $y$ in $X$ have neighborhoods $U_x$ and $U_y$ such that there are only a finite number of group elements $g \in G$ with $g(U_x)$ meeting $U_y$.
(2) $G$ is a discrete subgroup of $\mathrm{ISO}(X)$.
(3) The orbit $Gx$ is a discrete subset of $X$ for all $x \in X$.
My question: Is (1) equivalent with (2) or is (2) equivalent with (3), or neither? Does anything change if one assumes also that $X$ is CAT(0) and/or $G$ acts cocompactly.


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Strayer Education Earnings: Here's Why Investors are Not Happy Now
Strayer Education Inc. (NASDAQ:STRA) delivered a profit and beat Wall Street's expectations, AND beat the revenue expectation. The revenue beat is a positive sign to shareholders seeking high growth out of the company. Shares are down 10.68%.
Strayer Education Inc. Earnings Cheat Sheet
Results: Adjusted Earnings Per Share decreased 23.24% to $1.42 in the quarter versus EPS of $1.85 in the year-earlier quarter.
Revenue: Decreased 9.74% to $132 million from the year-earlier quarter.
Actual vs. Wall St. Expectations: Strayer Education Inc. reported adjusted EPS income of $1.42 per share. By that measure, the company beat the mean analyst estimate of $1.38. It beat the average revenue estimate of $130.41 million.
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Revenue decreased 4.01% from $137.51 million in the previous quarter. EPS decreased 10.69% from $1.59 in the previous quarter.
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Obama's Birthday Weekend: Golf, Terror Updates and Camp David
(WASHINGTON) -- President Obama, who turns 52 on Sunday, spent Saturday playing golf with friends at Joint Base Andrews, but before he hit the links, he was briefed on the terrorist threat that will cause 21 U.S. embassies to close Sunday.
"Before departing this morning, the president was updated on the potential threat occurring in or emanating from the Arabian Peninsula by Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Lisa Monaco. He will continue to be updated through the weekend," a White House official told reporters.
The State Department has ordered all U.S. embassies to close Sunday. Most are closed anyway on Sundays, except those in Muslim countries, meaning the closures affect 21 embassies in the Muslim world. The State Department also issued a worldwide travel alert for Americans on Friday.
After the briefing, the president's motorcade left the White House with golf clubs and at least one cooler in tow. Later, he planned to head to Camp David.
Three groups teed off at Andrews, according to a White House official, including a smattering of old friends and former colleagues. Among them were two Chicago friends, Marty Nesbitt and Eric Whitaker. Whitaker attended graduate school with Obama at Harvard. High school friends Mike Ramos and Bobby Titcomb, who was arrested in 2011 in Honolulu on suspicion of soliciting a prostitute, were also there. Obama has played golf with him at least twice since the arrest.
Former aide Reggie Love and Chicago chef Sam Kass, who has also served as a White House chef, senior policy adviser on nutrition, and executive director of Michelle Obama's Let's Move! campaign, also played.
Obama was expected to depart for Camp David in the afternoon, returning Sunday.
The presidential golf outing got cool-for-August morning temperatures accompanied by some intermittent, light drizzling rain.
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Bryanna Clark Grogan's Vegan Feast Kitchen/ 21st Century Table: The kitchen journal of a vegan food writer.. I'm on Facebook and Twitter (see links in sidebar at right).
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This was our bi-weekly day to head off the island (to the "Big Island"-- Vancouver Island) and do our shopping and "town" errands, visit my mother, and go out for lunch with her and some friends. "Town" is Courtenay, BC, which has, I believe, a population of about 30,000. We try to go off island with the car only once every two weeks, because of gas and ferry costs, as well as in the interests of conserving energy. (When I go to work two days a week, I "walk on" the ferry and either get a ride with someone on the ferry, or take the bus.)
After doing some shopping at two of the local supermarkets, and doing other errands, we picked up my mom (bringing her a load of books from the library I manage-- about 2 weeks from her 91st birthday, she's still an avid reader) and headed to the nearby town of Comox, only about 5 minutes away from Courtenay. There, we met a couple of friends at The Blackfin Pub and had a congenial lunch.
The Blackfin, overlooking the Comox Harbour
We're lucky in our area to have many restaurants where we can actually have a pleasant vegan entree. We really like the Veggie Burgers at the Blackfin because they have a veggie patty AND a grilled Portobello mushroom together, with lots of veggies, on a wholegrain bun. It's filling and satisfying and juicy! That's what DH had, as usual:
I usually have the burger, too, but opted to try the Cashew Veggie Stir-Fry this time:
I got the "small" size, which was huge! It was pleasantly full of noodles, veggies, cashews and sesame seeds, in a sweetish sauce, which wasn't bad, but there was too much sauce. However, kudos for having a vegan option! And, in a pub at that!
I would say that in almost every restaurant in our area (aside from fast food joints), you can find something vegan that is actually good to eat. Even one of the pizza places has a wholegrain pizza crust and you can get veggie pepperoni on it! For a small city, that's pretty good!
We are also lucky to have good shopping here. There are only a very few items that I have to either order online, or get in Nanaimo or Vancouver.
After lunch, we did our last shopping at the local natural foods store, Edible Island Whole Foods Market on 6th St.
This store has been around for over 20 years and is well-stocked with organic produce (local whenever possible) and many vegan products, in a pleasant atmosphere. We always bump into friends and neighbors in Edible Island!
The refrigerator and freezer section
Looking at the section with cheeses, including vegan cheese like "Sheese"
The "meat subs" section
Some of the large bulk foods section
The produce section
Something more to be thankful for!
Posted by Bryanna Clark Grogan at 5:12 PM
Labels: Comox BC, Courtenay BC, Edible Island, the Blackfin Pub, vegan dining, Vegan MoFo, vegan shopping
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I would LOVE the chance to shop there. My local SDA shop was sold and the majority of the store space has given way to "vitamins" and organic beef - ironically enough, in a freezer right beside the vegetarian cookbooks.
- Wed Oct 15, 06:12:00 PM PDT
- rhonda said...
Wow. I moved away from one of my favorite natural food stores, and I haven't found one as cute as that one in the gigantic NYC. Your photos make me homesick... I miss the bulk section!
- Thu Oct 16, 10:26:00 AM PDT
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Re: [TSOY] Giant species design
Reply #15 on:
March 13, 2008, 08:34:12 AM »
Thanks for the clarification around the Secret of the Temper. Your explanation makes more sense now.
I do like your fluffy-crunchy Secret combinations, though they do sometimes get wordy. Still, when we're writing like
, with free-flowing brainstorming, it makes perfect sense to do it that way. Sometimes the ideas develop simultaneously, and its good to make people clear what you're trying to convey with the mechanics of the Secret, as well.
For instance, fluff explanations like "giants don't heal slowly because they're brittle, but because they are by nature huge, slow-moving, and their injuries are epic in scope" makes it all make sense for me. I'm sure it helps other people, as well.
Quote from: Eero Tuovinen on March 10, 2008, 04:55:47 PM
Secret of the Slow Conversation
Nice, although a bit mystical and therefore not everybody's cup of tea. I'd have this require
Secret of the One-Eye
myself, as they have special affinity with unliving things. Having performing this take a week is a nice touch, although I'd also require 1 Reason point; we should always remember to have anything and everything cost Pool, otherwise the pool mechanics don't work so well...
I understand it won't be everyone's cup of tea, but I want the option there for people who are doing something a bit more quirky with the species. In our games we've seen elven naturalists (trees are about the only thing as long-lived as elves) and complete stone-cold killers, just as we've had goblins who are zealots and mendicants about their addictions, breaking the trope of addiction-addled comic relief. So, I'd like there to be options for giants who do more than just rage or fall to slumber, though to stay true to the bent of the species, I included the whole "you can fight nature if you'd like, if sitting around for a week is too dull for you rampage-y types" aspect.
I'd always meant for it to have a Reason cost, so we're totally in agreement there. I missed it when I got busy writing the fluff for it, actually.
Secret of Death-Throes
Good, although highly situational and might be a bit too expensive. I like how this interacts with the
Secret of Bulk
. I suggest that the character should be able to use the points as Vigor as well; being broken is a bit hard on the guy as it is, after all, and it's a bit anticlimatic if he can't spend these points because he runs out of Vigor.
That's a great call, re: providing dice which can be used as Vigor. Its intent was always to help you still be dangerous at the end of a conflict, which I think is a classic giant trope. Watch out for his final stumble--it might just crush something important.
Secret of Primordial Chaos
At first a bit too easy, but the Harm penalty balances it nicely. Personally, I would add that this is done as a refreshment scene and the SG is within his pregorative to act on his usual vulpine instincts accordingly. Allowing refreshes without the accompanying plot complications / openings is not a good idea, after all, and it's always nice if some miners find the giant when he goes about bashing a mountain to pieces.
I think thats a good idea in general, for Storyguides to act on their instincts on this one. It isn't supposed to be an option for unlimited refresh certainly, so the Harm might help with it. Do you think that it should be balanced by actually inflicting a Harm Level equal to the pool points gained? That could be harsh in some conditions (i.e. if that Harm Level is already filled, you'd actually end up taking an even higher one), but it'd also be clear that this was about destroying things to have power at your disposal, and NOT to make it easy to heal (because you'd be guaranteed at least as much Harm as you could otherwise heal, making it a draw at best, and possibly worse).
Secret of Disaster
Most excellent! I would require
Secret of Chaos
Secret of Colossal Size
, though; I like how something epic like this is only doable if you're really of epic size. After all, the giant without that Secret might be off-scale for humans, but breaking the earth's crust is still off-scale for
. Also, consider upping the cost to 5 Vigor.
Also good calls. I should keep city-destroying disasters at the appropriate high scale they should be at, which is truly monstrous things like the Colossal Size giants.
Secret of Biomass
Again, require
Secret of Colossal Size
for this really off-scale stuff, I'd say... then again, it's not unreasonable to have a smaller giant also carry some biomass. Also, I love the refresh mechanic. Perhaps something like this:
Secret of Soil
Secret of the Grove
I removed the healing bonus mostly because colossal giants might not heal naturally. Not opposed to it per se, although I frown upon alleviating assigned weaknesses with more Secrets.
These are both great. Thanks for showing me how to run with that one. I knew I was on the cusp of a fun idea, but couldn't quite get my head around it. I like that the Grove option is clearly for Colossal giants, but that the Soil option works well for giants of "standard" size.
Was your suggestion that those are second-order Secrets after taking something like Secret of Biomass, or that they replace it? I'm almost tempted to say they replace it, but I know you expressed liking the refresh mechanic therein.
Secret of Greatness
This is a bit weird in that it completely redefines the giant, metaphysically. The human-becoming bit is especially worrysome. I'm not opposed to reinterpretation (and I like the idea), but perhaps something a bit more societal would be appropriate:
Secret of the Titan (Ability)
Much better. Thanks. That's a great integration of Troels' idea.
I still think even this redesigned version could be interesting to include the whole lose-Stature aspect in it, and the potential of human transformation. There's probably an argument which could be made that its not narratively satisfying to have a mechanic occur which could drive you into another species without your consent, but even the Secret of the Sleep of Rebirth does something similar. I don't know. I'll let the issue settle for a bit, and see where I stand when it comes to actual play.
Secret of the Speaking Sleep
I kinda like this, although it also cheapens the remoteness of the giant when he as a character communicates directly with others. Definitely not a Secret that I'd allow a character to have without struggle. Well balanced, though, so no complaints. I'd suggest considering some form of symbolic communication, perhaps: it'd be much cooler if the giant's sleep visage only spoke in riddles or hummed, or perhaps spoke not at all. I like the idea that the giant himself is not a volitional being while in the sleeping state, as his volition is concerned with the marvelous dreams he's having. Which reminds me, a non-volitional alternative:
Secret of Heavy Dreaming
The giant's dream is so heavy that it affects the general area where he is sleeping. After each scene of the dream, the player describes shortly how the dream slowly seeps into the environment of his sleep. Thus new springs may open up, trees wilt, women bear triplets, skies grow dark as the giant's slow thoughts shape the landscape. If something pertinent is happening in the environs at the time, the SG discourses upon that shortly as well. (Normally the giant is not aware of his environs and the player is only aware of them if some other character's scene takes place nearby.)
1 Instinct
Secret of the Encompassing Dream
Both of those suggestion threads are great. I can definitely see the
Speaking Sleep
being a more omen-tastic kind of thing, where a giant's player describes some non-verbal message he tries to send in symbolic form, or conveyed through expressions only (I'm a big fan of the silent character in a role-playing game, for the dramatic challenges it imposes and the ways it forces us to express ourselves in other ways
Also, I find it surprising that you don't discourse upon the obvious synergy this stuff has with the earlier dream shaman material. I would kinda assume that a giant intent on wielding his volition in the world once more would turn his dreams towards methods that allow him to control them and even pull others into his dreams. We should remember that the giant actually has quite a bit of opportunity in his hands, as the giant dream is so real in so many ways. Learning dream shamanism during the long sleep is far from impossible for the giant trapped in his own mind.
Oh, I wanted that to be a real possibility (and I'll comment on it in "Giants on Near" in the species fluff I write), but I was mostly letting species be species and culture be culture. Invariably, someone's going to play a Vulflander giant at some point, and be able to integrate the two, but I want the ideas to be able to work independently of each other, as well. As you can see from oliof's post, there are people who are going to use the giant ideas in Qek, Khale, and anywhere else, and they may not be keen on all the Vulfland stuff posted here, or may have their own versions of those places or magics. So I was leaving viability there without explicit cultural crunch being required, though I know it sacrifices some of the "integration" feel that some people are looking for. At the moment, as I'm posting stuff online, I want it to be modular and have utility for people who are interested in some threads but not all of them, but that's a personal design choice, and won't suit everyone's philosophies.
Interesting One-Eye stuff. They're starting to appeal to me more.
It's probably true that I'm like oliof in that I have pre-defined splat ideas to help guide players in new directions, because it helps some of them explore new avenues on the fly. I think it takes a special kind of madness (which I certainly appreciate) to be able to pave bold new roads for your character development, including inventing new Secrets and mechanics on the fly when you need them, though some people have definitely got the spark. Indeed, if they didn't, we wouldn't be having these conversations at all.
As is, I think the giant stuff has really shaped up excellently, and I'm not super worried about the One Eyes at the moment. Even as you suggest, its a destination for a giant character, or Storyguide characters to interact with. It might be the case that actual play is going to help me determine my love for them, so I'll let that rest for a bit.
Glad you're grooving on the ideas. That sort of thing had always been my intent; much like the dwarves, I didn't want giants to just be a one-region phenomenon, so you and I are thinking along the same lines there. Imagine a giant in Khale wandering around with tress growing out of his back (via the
Secret of the Grove
), and how that would lead human Khaleans to treat him. Isn't there a legend about Old King Khale himself, being a gnarled old tree-like giant somewhere?
Giants might well be slumbering in the hills and swamps of Zaru, where an enterprising group of escaped slaves or ratkin could use them to their advantage in dealing with Ammenite oppressors. And woe to the enemies of the Maldorite lord who manages to shackle one of these titans and turn him into a living siege weapon... though what giant would stand for this for long without seeking every opportunity to turn his fury on his captors?
Hopefully, for those who are interested in them, there's a couple of places where they fit in nicely in the world of Near. Let me know if you end up having fun with them in game. Much like the dwarves, I'm eager to hear if there's been successful field-tests, and the story ideas that have come out of them.
Thanks for all the input, everyone. The ideas have been stupendous.
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Re: [TSOY] Giant species design
Reply #16 on:
March 19, 2008, 11:18:55 AM »
So, the more I think about the giants, the more I worry that we went directly to crunch on them without fully concepting what their narrative niche is all about. I like the elemental and rage stuff which has come out of them, and they definitely feel mechanically primal and powerful, but I still think about some of what Troels said about their emotional place.
While I was originally tempted to do something about their "huge emotions", and then to push them towards the same ego issues that are tied up with the elf, both of those seemed either too abstract (after all intense huge emotions could just as easily be intense love or intense desire or anything else, which trods too heavily on the human, goblin, and other motifs) or already spoken for (I don't want to wreck the id/ego/superego triangle of the goblin/human/elf trifecta, even if we complicate it some by inculding dwarves and/or giants in that).
As we've defined dwarves in terms of Family, Mission, and Tradition, and pointed the vulfen towards concepts of Predator/Prey and Dominance, I'm tempted to push the giant rampage stuff towards the idea, very specifically, of Suffering. So, here's an idea to bounce off the assembled crowd, and see what people think of it:
Consider giants as inmically connected to the idea of being marked by some form of emotional agony or hurt. This plays to some of the "only feeling huge emotions" nicely, but keeps us squarely within the genre of things that would be rampage-worthy. Effectively, the implication is that giants live a life of suffering, reminded (however dimly or abstractly) of the emotional scars that shaped and created them. Some players might try playing giant characters who have some inkling of what these original scars were: just as some elves have the Key of the Bloodline, these giants could be the product of a long-standing feud or injury done in the distant past, or a crime which was never brought to justice. They can easily vent their fury on a human community, a line of nobles, an organization, or just people who remind them of their past. Great crimes, cruelty, barbarism, and horror are the triggers which caused these giants to become what they are. They have become as chaotic and merciless as raw nature in its destructive form; while they embody the storm, flood, fire, and rockslide, it is those things which serve as an emotional metaphor for our own brutality and hurt.
Not every giant has to go this route, of course, just as not every elf character will be connected to a human past and (by extension) have a sense that some transformation occurred which brought them to this new state of life. But it might make for an interesting element to play with. It also makes the giant less likely to forgive a sleight, which is a personality trait which isn't currently spoken for among any of Near's other species at the moment. It allows their rage to be more than one note, frothing at the mouth craziness. If we can imagine the giant is a towering physical monster with a soft emotional underbelly, it seems like a clear motivation as to why they're rampaging all the time. If we extend that idea into the fact that they're towering monsters precisely BECAUSE of that soft emotional underbelly, well, there might be something which is narratively interesting in that "pumpkin fiction" kind of sense which TSOY embodies when it really hums.
I'm worried, in essence, that the giant feels very static at the moment, which seems a bad thing. His portfolio of Secrets and the narrative thrust of the ideas so far push him to be alone, and I'd like to come up with some interesting antidotes to that tendency, some built-in character drives which push giants towards interacting more (and thereby triggering all of their troubles). Great stories aren't told about characters who want to be hermits and succeed in being them for the rest of their lives, after all; its kind of a dull tale. The Species Keys for elves, when carefully examined, almost always drive more interaction with other people. That Eternal Question isn't going to answer itself in the void; you've got to interact with your Bloodline to hit the Key (however secretly), and even the Key of the Self mandates that you've got to be around other people specifically so you can *refuse* their requests. Its remoteness, yes, but of the most social kind.
If we make the giants remote creatures, I think they need things which bring them back to the narrative, and serve as motivators for them, in the same fashion.
Any thoughts?
-shadowcourt (aka josh)
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This new twist seems more appropriate to the undead, with a 'Crow' style vibe. To be honest, I'm surprised someone hasn't produced an undead supplement yet. It's a natural development of the story arc.
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Quote from: shadowcourt on March 19, 2008, 11:18:55 AM
Consider giants as inmically connected to the idea of being marked by some form of emotional agony or hurt....
If we can imagine the giant is a towering physical monster with a soft emotional underbelly, it seems like a clear motivation as to why they're rampaging all the time. If we extend that idea into the fact that they're towering monsters precisely BECAUSE of that soft emotional underbelly, well, there might be something which is narratively interesting in that "pumpkin fiction" kind of sense which TSOY embodies when it really hums.
Yes! I love it. It makes it very easy to tie giants into stuff about relationships, which is where the real fun of TSOY lies, because so much hurt is the consequence of relationships AND so much relief from hurt can be found in relationships. Plus, the crunchy bits making it harder for giants to recover or relate make even more sense now, if giant life is pain.
So, transformations. Goblins transform by conquering their addictions through relationships with other people. Elves transform by acknowledging the existence and importance of other people. Giants transform by dealing with their grief and pain through relationships with other people. Those are the nice, uplifting transformation stories on offer, and they're good.
Of course, being an elf fan-boy, what I'm itching to play here is a magician-giant, say a qek walozi, or a goren warlock for some true ugliness, who seeks to conquer pain by expanding his mind, realizing that pain is an illusion, like everything else, going for elfhood. Now throw in a source of pain driving a need for relations with other people and a number of such people (other PCs) with common interests making their doom undesirable, tempting him towards a less bleak solution, and we have something I'd play.
And there's considerable room for human-to-giant stories too.
Good stuff, Josh!
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The playwright's "In the Forest, Dark and Deep" inaugurated Profiles' new, larger second stage April 23, after the play had been produced in London's West End but before a New York run. But given the troupe's history with LaBute and reputation for purposefully provocative work in its ultra-intimate 60-seat space, the choice of venue may not have been such a surprise at that.
The company, founded in 1988, has been on an upswing, prodding its leaders to expand into a new, second space. The move comes after the experience of producing multiple plays at a time: Due to ongoing demand, the org moved its world premiere of Ellen Fairey's "Graceland" (which went on to be produced by Lincoln Center), transferred the revival of Tracy Letts' "Killer Joe" to a commercial house, and earlier this year produced another big local hit, the new play "Assisted Living" by Deirdre O'Connor, at a separate location from the start.
The company's artistic directors, Joe Jahraus and Darrell W. Cox, have been developing a relationship with LaBute since 2006, when they produced his play "Autobahn." That was quickly followed by the playwright's "Fat Pig," which was extended extensively. LaBute saw that production and was impressed. He also liked that during rehearsals, they'd call with questions, even requesting to make changes to established scenes.
"When they have questions, they ask them," LaBute says. "When they have opinions, they state them. That said, it's never defensive or self-serving; it's really about the work and striving to make it better, and that's an atmosphere that I thrive in."
Profiles soon dedicated its entire 2007-08 season to LaBute's work, and subsequently reserved a spot each year for one of his plays. "In the Forest" will be the ninth LaBute play it has done, and the theater is already scheduled a 10th. "His writing suits us," Jahraus says. "He doesn't pull punches."
LaBute does seem a natural fit for a theater that has nimbly managed to build a reputation for being genuinely edgy — for taking a step into the uncomfortable.
"A lot of agents are aware of us now," says Cox, who plays one of the leads in "In the Forest." "They'll say something like, 'This has been too dark for other theaters, but I thought it would work for you guys.'?"
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April 19, 2013
The ENACTUS Wayland Baptist University team recently claimed regional championship honors at the ENACTUS United States Regional Competition in Dallas. The regional competition is one of 10 which are being held throughout the United States in March and April.
According to Dr. Sammy Van Hoose, an associate professor of business at Wayland and the group's faculty sponsor, the 10 regions are not named and teams are free to compete in any region they choose. Wayland's team competed against 33 other teams from Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas, and by winning the regional championship, earned the right to advance to the national competition later in the year.
According to its Website, www.enactus.org, the organization is "a community of student, academic and business leaders committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to transform lives and shape a better more sustainable world."
ENACTUS comes from the words "entrepreneurial," "action" and "us."
Wayland team members are: Charles Carr (president), Christine Borges, Maria Carrillo, Rosaura Luevano, Celia Juarez and Phoung Voung.
Van Hoose said the organization did a number of fundraisers through the course of the year to raise money to attend the competition and put in a total of approximately 13,000 volunteer hours in service to Plainview and the surrounding communities. In the process, they worked with small businesses, the Plainview Chamber of Commerce and other municipal and business organizations.
Van Hoose said that as part of the competition, the team highlighted three of its projects from the current year.
The first was a series of computer competency courses in which students tutored area residents in needs ranging from computer basics to more advanced computer operations.
The second project involved team members working with a family farm in rural Hale County, helping them upgrade their computer and Internet system. As part of the process, the farmers purchased some agricultural software and the students installed it and helped implement it. Van Hoose said that in addition to saving the farmers approximately $100,000 in their farming operation, it also allowed them to save approximately 3 million gallons of water a month.
Finally, Van Hoose said the team highlighted its drug drop-off program. Through that program, area residents are allowed to bring any type of medication or pharmaceutical to a collection point and leave it, no questions asked. The process is overseen by Wayland Baptist University police who then work with the Plainview Police Department to destroy the material in a way that is EPA approved. The sponsor explained that by taking advantage of the drop-off program, drugs can be disposed of in a way that prevents them from leaching into the water system or in other ways damaging the environment. While the program started out slowly a few years ago, Van Hoose said over the past year ENACTUS has taken in more than 900 pounds of drugs and medication.
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Both New York teams are on the road this week—the Giants play the Falcons in Atlanta at 1:00 p.m. today and the Jets play the Tennessee Titans tomorrow night.
The New England Patriots will wear the above decal featuring the town seal of Newtown, CT. They will also send up 26 flares before the game tonight against the San Francisco 49ers. All other home teams have been asked by the league to observe a moment of silence.
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On the following pages we present ten different lines of evidence supporting the identification of the bird in the Luneau video as an Ivory-billed Woodpecker:
comparisons with pileated flight
flight comparisons with other species
ivory-bill flight descriptions
Underwing Pattern
We begin by comparing the underwing patterns of Pileated Woodpecker and Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Both species have white wing linings, but the amount and position of white in the underwings differs substantially between them.
| Ivory-billed Woodpecker
M. John Schmitt
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| Pileated Woodpecker
M. John Schmitt
© Cornell Lab
The anterior white wing-linings of the Pileated Woodpecker are extended somewhat by white bases of the primary and outer secondary flight feathers. This combined white area is broadly surrounded along the distal and trailing edges by a black band that is 8–10 cm wide. The dark trailing edge is almost as wide as the white wing lining, and of the entire under-surface of the wing, more than two thirds (68% in the specimen below, right) is black.
Pileated Woodpecker wing, Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates, specimen #49236. The red bar measures 9.0 cm long.
Ivory-billed: Mostly white; black tip
In most Ivory-billed Woodpecker specimens the white wing linings are extended distally by white bases of the outermost primaries. In addition, the trailing edge of the entire wing is broadly white, leaving only a narrow, wedge-shaped black stripe down the central part of the wing. This wedge is highly variable among individual specimens. In some specimens, for example, the inner web of many outer primaries is largely white, while in others the outermost six primaries are virtually all black. In the photo of the specimen shown below, the wedge disappears entirely near the body, and broadens to 2.3 cm near the tip of the wing linings. Therefore, most of the underwing surface would appear white in an outstretched wing. Compare the underwing surfaces depicted in artwork by N. John Schmitt (below left) and in the photo by Allen and Tanner (below, right), in which only 28% is black.
Ivory-billed Woodpecker in flight, Singer Tract, Louisiana, 1935. Enhanced photo by A.A. Allen and J.T. Tanner.
Specimen of Ivory-billed Woodpecker showing the narrow black underwing stripe. AMNH specimen #429894.
Analysis of fields from the reenactment video
The reenactment video revealed that the diagnostic features of the underwing patterns of both species are clearly visible in blurry video fields, taken under conditions similar to those of the Luneau video. In the Pileated Woodpecker (below, left), the broad black rim on the underwing is present in every field. In contrast, the underwing of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker model (below, right) appears mostly white with a black tip. The latter pattern is strikingly similar to the bird in the Luneau video.
In the reenactment video, the Pileated Woodpecker underwing is half black and in all video fields clearly shows a broad black trailing edge, despite the obvious blurring. Also note the white underwing patch is small compared to the size and diameter of the body.
In the reenactment video, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker underwing appears almost entirely white in all fields. The narrow, black strip down the middle is lost owing to the poor resolution and blur of the video. Also note the white underwing area is large compared to the size and diameter of the body.
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Reenactment with Ivory-billed Woodpecker model (l) and reenactment with Pileated Woodpecker model (r). In both images the model is facing away from the viewer and angled slightly to the left.
In all fields of the Luneau video, the underwing is predominantly white and the size of the white underwing area is large compared to the diameter of the body. In none of the fields of the Luneau video can we detect a broad black trailing edge as shown by the Pileated Woodpecker model and by all our videos of live Pileated Woodpeckers in flight. In contrast, all fields of Pileated Woodpecker in flight show a smaller white underwing area concentrated along the leading edge of the wing, a significant rim of black making up half the underwing surface, and a diagnostic black trailing edge along the entire length of the wing, from the tip all the way to the body.
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Following talks with the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over the weekend, Iran has agreed to answer remaining questions about its nuclear program within four weeks, the UN watchdog announced Sunday.
The announcement comes in the wake of an apparent confrontation between Iranian patrols and US warships in the Strait of Hormuz, and in the midst of US President George Bush's tour of the Middle East.
IAEA head Mohammed El Baradei, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who met Friday and Saturday in Tehran, "agreed that a "work plan" on ending the Iran nuclear standoff should be completed in that window, reported Agence France-Presse.
The deputy chief of Iran's atomic energy agency, Mohammed Saidi, confirmed the timeframe, the country's state news agency IRNA reported.
"Iran will respond within the space of four weeks to the remaining questions so that the IAEA can make a transparent report on the Iranian nuclear programme," said Saidi.
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However, diplomats in Vienna, where the IAEA is based, expressed scepticism that Iran would come clean about its nuclear activities within the new timeframe.
And the United States said the agreement does not go far enough, insisting the Islamic republic suspend uranium enrichment.
The setting of a timetable follows Iran's promise late last year to resolve all issues concerning its nuclear program.
Iran is already under UN Security Council sanctions over its controversial nuclear program, which Western nations suspect is being used as a cover for weapons development. Now, the US is advocating additional penalties, despite a recent US intelligence report that said Iran had stopped its weapons program as of 2003, reports the Associated Press.
ElBaradei also was given new information on Iran's "new generation of centrifuges" during weekend talks with Iranian leaders, said his spokeswoman, Melissa Fleming. That issue is a priority for the agency as it tries to establish how far advanced Iran is in developing the technology.
Announcing the deadline, Fleming spoke only in general terms, without mentioning what was being now probed by agency experts under a plan agreed to last summer. But diplomats said that investigation was now in its final stage, focusing on programs with possible weapons applications.
... Separately, however, a senior diplomat expressed doubt ElBaradei was able to persuade the Iranians to freeze enrichment and noted Western efforts for additional U.N. sanctions against the Islamic republic would continue unless that condition was met. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly on the issue.
Following the talks, Iran wants the Security Council to hand its nuclear case back to the IAEA, reports Iranian Press TV.
While Iran has addressed queries about its nuclear activities in the past, including explanations for its plutonium experiments, it has yet to address questions about its current activities, reports Reuters. "The IAEA wants Iran to observe its additional protocol, which permits short-notice inspections at locations beyond declared nuclear sites.... Without it, the IAEA cannot verify that Iran's nuclear work is wholly peaceful."
The New York Times reports that Iran's promise is the latest of many such pledges.
The announcement essentially delayed for another month what had been an end-of-the-year deadline to disclose all of its nuclear work, including any covert or undeclared military research.
Over the past year and a half the Iranians have repeatedly made declarations that they would answer outstanding questions within a week, but each of those deadlines has passed with only partial answers offered.
Meanwhile, President Bush continued to criticize Iran about its purported nuclear ambitions, saying on Sunday from Abu Dhabi that Tehran "defies the UN and destabilises the region by refusing to be open and transparent about its nuclear programs and ambitions," reports Al Jazeera.
Calling Iran the "world's leading state sponsor of terror", he urged Arab states to join with the US to confront the danger "before it's too late".
Israel's prime minister Ehud Olmert said Monday that Israel would reject " 'no options' to block Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons." That may be the clearest indication yet that Mr. Olmert is willing to use military force against Iran, reports the Associated Press.
Just before President Bush arrived in Saudi Arabia, a leading Saudi newspaper "ruled out any attempt by the United States to use the oil-rich Gulf kingdom as a launchpad for a possible war on Iran over Tehran's disputed nuclear programme," reports Agence France-Presse.
"This issue can be solved through diplomatic means and through dialogue," said the paper, which reflects the views of the Saudi authorities.
Bush on Friday began a four-nation Gulf tour as part of a Middle East trip to push for a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians and to rally the support of his allies in the Sunni Muslim oil monarchies against the "threat" he says is posed by Shiite Muslim Iran.


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