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The Virginia Tech Hokies were fortunate when Logan Thomas decided to return to school for his senior season, securing the quarterback position for Frank Beamer in 2013. However, VT will have to find a new signal caller to replace Thomas and may have a line on one of the top quarterbacks in the 2014 class. Will the Hokies be able to seal the deal with four-star recruit David Cornwell?
Cornwell is a highly sought recruit rated as the No. 1 pocket passer in the 2014 recruiting class by several recruiting services, holding offers from major programs from all over the country. At 6-foot-5, Cornwell is a big, prototypical drop-back quarterback with a strong arm, quick release and excellent accuracy. He'll be taking his services on the road for some official visits, starting in Blacksburg this weekend.
The Hokies have their work cut out for them to snag Cornwell's services. The Alabama Crimson Tide are rumored to be the early favorites in his recruitment and they will be hosting the quarterback after he leaves Blacksburg. Nick Saban isn't one to let top recruits get away when he has the inside track on a top recruit, but the Hokies can take some hope in the fact they are getting Cornwell into town for a weekend.
Getting Cornwell to commit would be a huge get for the Virginia Tech class. There will be a major need under center when Thomas moves on next season and getting a big, strong-armed quarterback like Cornwell would be a major victory for both the Virginia Tech program and Frank Beamer. Will the Hokies be able to swing Cornwell to Blacksburg?
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Thriving Through Adversity by Mr Edwin Chan
Talk Synopsis
Edwin's childhood was marked by one disappointment after another, the biggest being the sudden death of his parents when he was in secondary school. His neighbours commented that 'It's the end for this family'. But those hurting words lighted the fire in him to achieve success.
He started off his career as a salesman selling Olivetti typewriters. He eventually went on to being a regional manager of Times STP Distributors, selling books and encyclopedias. Finally, in 1997 during the Asian financial crisis, he formed his own business – a sole distributor for a self-study language program that evolved into a language school a year later.
In 2010, Edwin was offered $10 M to part with his company. He refused and, as fate would have it, soon found his company stacked with debts. He informed the Council of Private Education of his intention to put the school on hold to focus on paying off the debts. If all goes as planned, Edwin will be back doing business in 2016.
Edwin will use his personal story to draw out lessons for those who dream of becoming his or her own boss one day. His mantra is: "Tough times never last. Tough people do." Mr BN Balji, previously the editor-in Chief of Today newpaper, said, "You couldn't find a better battled-hardened man to tell you about success and failure."
About the speaker
Edwin Chan is the Founder of Cambridge Educational Group Pte Ltd and the Singapore Entrepreneur Academy Pte Ltd.
He has an MBA from the University of Hull (UK) and is an Associate Meta Coach and a certified practitoner in Neuro-semantics and Neuro-Linguistics programming. Edwin has more than 30 years of experience in the sales and marketing of office equipment, home appliances, chemicals and educational products.
In business, he has gone through the baptism of fire. Edwin will use his personal story to draw out lessons for those who dream of becoming his or her own boss one day. Edwin's mantra is: "Tough times never last. Tough people do." PN Balji, previously the Editor-in-Chief of the TODAY newspaper said "You couldn't find a better battled-hardened man to tell you about successes and failures."
Registration starts at 6:30pm, do join us!
This complimentary business seminar is organized by The Entre Club.
- Venue
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JD Edwards Senior System Analyst (Manufacturing & Distribution)
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Our client is an established global premium brand in the Engineering industry. Due to rapid expansion, they are currently looking for a JD Edwards Senior System Analyst (Manufacturing & Distribution) to join their team.
Job Description
Reporting into the JD Edwards Business Application Manager, you will be responsible for:
- Leading design, implementation and support of the JDE implementation within Manufacturing & Distribution
- Engaging business stakeholder from the supply chain, order management and manufacturing team to improve business operation performance through effective utilization of JD Edwards (JDE).
- Translating business processes into a comprehensive JDE application flow, and ensure that all critical steps in the process are covered during the course of the project
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A Learn to Curl is a great way for anyone, age 14 and up, to get your first exposure to the Olympic sport of curling. Each lesson is approximately 2 1/2-hours in length and is designed to introduce people to the basics of curling. Participants will take part in physical game play, sweeping of the stone, and learn some of the rules and strategy used in curling. Anyone age 14 and above, no matter your physical ability, can Learn to curl. So don't worry if you can't manage the traditional slide delivery due to physical challenges; we will teach you how to deliver the stone using an alternative delivery called the "stick" method. The Westminster Ice facility and the Orange County Curling Club are wheelchair friendly and welcome the opportunity to expose you to one of the fastest growing sports in America.
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I am currently fully immersed in my role as CEO of Artemis Racing. This is the team's first America's Cup Challenge and it happens to be the most complex of the seven Cups I have experienced.
Artemis Racing started off 2013 as the first team to sail with its second AC72 wing. The new wing is a step forward for the team and the performance shows. The team is focusing on getting as many days of sailing on the San Francisco racecourse in as possible. We will be lining up with repaired Oracle AC72 in February. Both Oracle and Artemis suffered set backs last year which deprived them of sailing time. Fortunately, there was limit of 30 days of sailing prior to February 1, 2013 so the cost wasn't as bad as it could have been. Still, Emirates Team New Zealand got the most out of 2012.
Meanwhile, the build of the team's second AC72 is well underway in Sweden. This is the culmination of many months of research by Juan K and his talented design team, which includes input from our sailing in boat 1. We expect to be sailing boat 2 in May in San Francisco.
Foiling has become as big a feature of this America's Cup as the wing. Emirates Team New Zealand has demonstrated good control of their boat while fully foiling downwind. Luna Rossa has a virtual copy of the Kiwi's boat. Oracle is trying a variation on the theme and so far hasn't achieved the same degree of steady flight. Foiling has a cost in term of the amount of drag produced by the dagger-boards. So far, Artemis has not pursued fully foiling. It will be interesting to see which strategy pans out.
It is hard to know what racing AC72s on the Bay in summer will be like. These boats are overpowered, fragile and as we all know, the San Francisco Bay is very windy in July and August. The management of the asset and maintenance and spares planning is going to play a big part. Having the fastest boat is of little use if it can't get around the track. The interesting part of this Cup is being faced with choices that we never had to make before.


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Highlights of the 2014 IF: Festival have just been released, and promise to dazzle the city with the good, the great and the simply unusual.
The biennual event – produced by The Stables and supported by Arts Council England and Milton Keynes Council – will present 10 days of terrific entertainment between July 18 and 27.
Music, comedy, cabaret, free events, family entertainment and large-scale spectaculars all play their part in the monster festival.
Among those so far confirmed are sonic artist Ray Lee, award-winning choreographer Rosemary Lee, who will present a world premiere at The Cathedral of Trees in Newlands, singer-songwriter Seth Lakeman and swing-pop girls The Puppini Sisters.
Puppet State Theatre Company will deliver the multi-sensory adaptation of The Man Who Planted Trees.
The programme is eclectic and caters for all.
"IF: Milton Keynes International Festival has been developed to enrich people's experience of Milton Keynes both by presenting top class events by international artists and also by creating events within the city for the enjoyment of residents and visitors alike," explained festival director Monica Ferguson.
"Central Milton Keynes is animated throughout each of the festival's 10 days with some of the best performances, music, comedy, artists and large-scale events the world has to offer.
"This year we are again working with a range of partners to deliver the festival and enssure a fantastic programme for festival-goers.
"As ever, there are plenty of surprises in unusual places across the city, " she promised.
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ATLANTA — Jeff Teague scored 27 points, Anthony Tolliver added a season-high 21 and the Atlanta Hawks bounced back from a sluggish start for a 107-96 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday night, snapping a three-game losing streak.
Tolliver, averaging just 3.4 points a game, had already surpassed his previous best of 13 points by halftime. The Sixers kept leaving him open beyond the arc, and he kept knocking down 3-pointers, finishing 5 for 7 from long range.
The Hawks missed their first eight shots but quickly pulled themselves together against weary Philadelphia, which was playing its eighth game in 12 days. Atlanta led by 19 before settling for a 59-47 lead at halftime.
After Philadelphia cut it to 66-63, the Hawks finished the third quarter on a 25-7 spurt.
Atlanta's Al Horford also scored 21 points with 12 rebounds, and Josh Smith chipped in with 13 points.
Damien Wilkins led the Sixers with 21 points, while Dorell Wright had 20.
The Hawks, coming off a West Coast road trip, started out like they were still suffering from jet lag. They went nearly 5 minutes before scoring their first points, when Smith laid one in after a series of quick passes. Suddenly, it was a different team. Atlanta dominated the rest of the half, hitting 25 of 36 (69 percent) from the field.
Teague's performance was no surprise. The point guard repeatedly beat the Sixers off the dribble, slicing into the lane for easy layups and thoroughly outplaying Philadelphia's young guard, Jrue Holiday. Teague made 10 of 15, including three beyond the arc, and doled out 11 assists.
But Tolliver's play caught Philadelphia totally off guard.
MIAMI — LeBron James scored 26 points, including a go-ahead layup with 3.2 seconds left, and Miami scrambled late to beat Orlando and extend its franchise-record winning streak to 16 games.
Dwyane Wade scored 24 points and Chris Bosh added 17 points and 10 rebounds for the Heat, who blew a 20-point, second-half lead and then rallied from a five-point deficit in the final minutes.
NEW ORLEANS — Kobe Bryant scored 13 of his 42 points during a 20-0 run in the last 6:22 of the fourth quarter, and the Los Angeles Lakers overcame a 25-point deficit to fend off New Orleans.
Dwight Howard had 20 points, 15 rebounds and four blocks for Los Angeles. Bryant also had 12 assists.
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Raymond Felton scored 26 points, and New York pulled away in the fourth quarter to beat Detroit despite Carmelo Anthony's absence. Anthony sat out after injuring his right knee Monday, but New York went on a 16-0 run in the fourth to put away the game. The Pistons were without big man Greg Monroe, and Detroit coach Lawrence Frank missed the game because of a personal matter.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Deron Williams had 20 points and eight assists, Joe Johnson added 22 points, and Brooklyn got a needed win over Charlotte.
CLEVELAND — Kyrie Irving scored 20 points and Cleveland's All-Star guard made all the big plays down the stretch, rallying the Cavaliers to a victory over Utah.
INDIANAPOLIS — Kevin Garnett found Jeff Green all alone under the basket for a layup with 0.5 seconds remaining to finish off a fourth-quarter comeback from 14 points down, and Boston beat Indiana.
MINNEAPOLIS — Ricky Rubio had 15 points, 11 assists, seven rebounds and six steals to lead Minnesota to a victory over the Washington that snapped a six-game losing streak.
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U.S. Rep Mike McNulty is in line for the chairmanship of the Subcommittee on Social Security of the House Ways and Means Committee, one of six such chairs on the powerful panel.
The Green Island Democrat was named for the post by his colleages on the committee. The House Democratic Caucus still has to ratify the selection, but McNulty's office was confident enough of the appointment's being finalized that it issued a release today.
McNulty has been on Ways and means for 14 of his 19 years in Congress. He's also beenon on Armed Services (newcomer Kirsten Gillibrand picked up a seat there) International Relations, and Small Business.


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Farris's build is like Abbott but his facial features are more like Joubert IMO. But as he is just 17 his build could still change, he's awfully thin right now and you wonder if it will stay that way. Anyways Abbott is really good looking too, at least I think so, his constant pukey face just distracts from it . I wonder if Jason got a haircut what he would look like...I think he's potentially really handsome in a crunchy jewish boy way but I can't picture him with a short hair do so it's hard to say.
Chan was once a developing junior skater too you know...at a younger age than Jason is now, but everyone peaks at different ages. I just hope that Jason can get the 3a and a quad so that he doesn't end up having already peaked before he turns 18.
Anyways I'm prepared for the 2014 Olympic team to be Johnny, Evan, and Jeremy regardless of if they earn it or not so I don't want to get my hopes up. Hopefully Farris and Brown can make the team in 2018 but who knows, we have wunderkid Nathan Chen who will grow up one of these years and I'm sure some new young hopeful will emerge between now and then like they always seem to.
silverlake, do you think that the USA is likely to get three spots back next season?
Is there a parallel universe here I am not aware of?
I am not a big fan of Jason or juniors as a rule.
I read so many nice things about Jason's skating in the last year I decided to watch a few of his programs.
I like him.....like the way he skates.
Here is some truth for you - it is too soon to predict how Jason's career will turn out.
Maybe the cleanest short program he ever did in competition? (BIG 3A, 4T+2T, 3Lz): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdcDGJkLpwU
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I remember Adam Rippon was so much hyped as the next best thing for US on this board before he went onto Seniors. I believe he had had 3A but not very consistent.


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During the first day of the Routeburn Track, on the south island of New Zealand, there is a side trail that leads to Key Summit, a 1 km peak nestled in between quite a few larger mountain ranges. It's an easy 400m climb up to the top (thanks to the fact that the Track has been climbing up from the road all day already), and worth the view:
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Anime and Manga
- Dragon Ball: Freeza's army is made up of members of countless different intergalactic races, the Other World is populated by the deceased members of even more races, and then there's all the different races introduced in GT. Finally there's the races the series focuses on the most: humans, Saiyans, Namekians, Freeza's unnamed race, Majins, Kais, Ogres, and the humanoid animals that live on Earth alongside humans.
- Level E has almost every episode dedicated to a different alien infiltrator, though it's often just the recurring prince.
- There's loads of various aliens in Space Dandy, as in addition to unique one-time background characters, it's Dandy's job to find undiscovered aliens.
Card Games
- Duel Masters follows suit after its "parent" game, Magic. This is an unquestionably long list, and still growing. A few (like Starnoid and Pegasus) are exclusive to only one creature.
- Magic: The Gathering is very much this. Aside from Humans there are: Amphin, Angels, Aven, Bird-Maidens, Centaurs, antelope Centaurs, deer Centaurs, Cephalids, Changelings, Cyclopes, Dauthi, Demons, Devils, Djinn, Dragons, Dwarves, Dryads, Efreet, sentient Elementals, Elves, Eumidians, Faeries, Flamekin, Giants, Goblins, sapient Golems, Gorgons, sapient Gorillas, Hags, Homarids, Iquati, Kami and other sentient Spirit races, Kithkin, Kitsune, Kor, Lammasu, Leonin, Loxodon, fishtailed Merfolk, Merfolk with legs, flying Elf-Merfolk, Metathran, Minotaurs, Mistfolk, Mycoids, Myr, Nantuko, Nezumi, Nightstalkers, Noggles, Ogres, Orcs, Orochi, Ouphes, Phyrexians, Puca, Rhox, Sangrazuls, Selkies, Serpent people, Slivers, Soltari, Soratami, Sphinxes, Surrakar, Thalakos, Thrulls, Treefolk, Trolls, Vampires, Vedalken, Viashino, Werewolves, Wolfir, the talking Wolves of Tel-Jilad... since the game pulls creatures from about 50 different planes, it's kind of justified.
And that's not even counting subspecies. Just counting the types of goblins there are common Dominarian Goblins, Kobolds, Rathi Moggs, Mercadian Kyren, the Mirran Krark-Clan, Kamigawan Akki, Lorwyn-Shadowmoor Boggarts, Redcaps, Hobgoblins, and Spriggans and Stream Hoppers, ratlike Jund dragon fodder, and Phyrexian Squealstokes.
- Munchkin has loads of races by now, due to its many expansions and editions which can all be combined:
- The original had humans (the standard-race for every player), dwarfs, elves and halflings
- The expansion packs gave orcs, lizard guys, centaurs and gnomes.
- Munchkin Bites added changelings, vampires, werewolves and, with the Pants Macabre expansion, mummies
- Munchkin Conan added Cimmerians, Stygians, Kushite and Zamorians
- Munchkin Legends had the standard dwarfes, elves and halflings and added fauns
- Star Munchkin added cyborgs, felines, mutants and, with the The Clown Wars expansion, bugs
- And all of those races can be combined with the Half Breed card, so a character can easily be half-dwarf, half-cyborg or half-Cimmerian, half-Faun.
Comic Books
- In Phil Foglio's Buck Godot we find: the Klegdixal (slim humanoids) the Pogs (which look like turtles), Beemahs (which count as bioweapons), Kooblens (traders with some resemblance to Naga/mushus), the Thuxian (a Shout-Out to Alien), the Spug (which can be said a mixture of some frog and something) between others.Some pages show an even greater variety of races.
- Valerian and its anime adaptation both have an enormous variety of aliens.
- The Marvel universe is bursting with races with Humans, Mutants, Inhumans, Atlantians, Lemurians, Deviants, Eternals, Avians, the Zebra-Children, Proto-Cavemen, vampires, sentient plants, genetically uplifted apes, an assortment of gods and a sentient bacterial hive-mind to name a few; and that's before we've even left Earth. The list of Alien races include Skrull, Kree, Shi'ar, Badoon, Brood, Wraiths, Chitauri, Titans, and an unknowable number of other races.
Fan Works
- On the Shoulders of Giants has twelve spacefaring races in the Local Cluster alone. Given that it's technically set in the Mass Effect universe, this is on top of the eleven or so canon races.
- Seems to be the case in The Parselmouth Of Gryffindor, to Hermione's growing dismay, between regular sapient species whom the Ministry of Magic overlooks (goblins, giants, dementors, serpents, etc.) to artifical beings (portraits, gargoyles, the Sorting Hat) to the more confusing creatures that can become sapient, but aren't always, like owls and boggarts.
- The Star Wars series is an extreme example of Loads and Loads of Races, as the galaxy that serves as its setting has over 20 million sentient species. Even the first movie showed loads of races (though not too many non-humans in the main cast), and the Expanded Universe delights in detailing more and more of them, numbering in the hundreds.
- Older Than Steam: This happened to chivalric romance in The Renaissance, when Italian romancers like Ariosto and imitators like Richard Johnson and Lord Berners started stirring Greek Mythology into the mix. The non-human cast of medieval romances generally consisted of dwarfs, giants, and fairies; a Scandinavian author might add trolls, a more devout one angels and/or demons, dragons would occasionally be sentient, and there might be the occasional wildman or mermaid, but seldom anything else. Ariosto and Co took this selection and added satyrs, cyclopes, centaurs, nymphs, dryads, harpies, and sometimes even gods (coexisting unexplained with the Christian God on a Rule of Cool basis).
- Animorphs, very much so. You have your main races: the Andalites, Yeerks, Hork-Bajir, Taxxons, Skrit-Na, Helmacrons, Gedds; and your less mentioned but described ones like Arn, Anati, Kelbrid, Nesk, Mercora, Venber, Iskoort, Garatron, Orff, Leerans, Howlers, Ketran (the Ellimist is one), robot Chee, and extinct Pemalites, plus sapient whales and dolphins.
- China Miéville's Bas-Lag Cycle has at least 15 sapient races (and possibly several more whose identity as separate sepcies or merely cultures hasn't been made clear), and that's not counting multiple types of undead, self-aware Dungeon Punk robots, Demons, elementals and Wyrmen who seem to be a borderline case.
- H.P. Lovecraft mentioned or sometimes showed a few dozen aliens and other unpleasant things that want to drive you insane, then eat you in the Cthulhu Mythos. Subsequent authors and co-writer have expanded this greatly. That's not even getting into the godlike deity-aliens. Overall there are at least 30 intelligent races described.
- Discworld started with humans, trolls, and elves — although even this was explained in the context of Rincewind trying to work out why there were still dryads. Then gnomes and dwarfs got added in The Light Fantastic, and gnolls in Equal Rites. Then Reaper Man added zombies, vampires, werewolves, weremen, bogeymen and banshees. Then Lords and Ladies introduced The Fair Folk, so the elves that had been vaguely mentioned previously had to be explained as Half-Human Hybrids. Feet of Clay added golems, and Carpe Jugulum added the Nac Mac Feegle (later explained as a society of gnomes) and the Igors (who may or may not be human, it's not quite clear). Thief of Time included yeti. Unseen Academicals introduced orcs and featured the first mention of goblins, who would go on to play a major role in Snuff (as well as a throwaway reference to a "Medusa" in the Watch). (And Night Watch had a brief mention of kvetches, but never really explained what they were beyond being covered in hair).
In the same vein as the Golems we get Gargoyles. On a stranger front, we get Demons, Things from the Dungeon Dimension, and certain Anthropomorphic Personifications (Time specifically, but maybe each one can be seen as a separate race). Also gods, genies (Sourcery), Auditors of Reality, occasional sentient dragons (The Colour of Magic and Guards! Guards!), "Stupid Lizard Men" (presumed extinct as of The Last Hero) and Furies (Unseen Academicals)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a total of 29 races spanning throughout the entire six-book series.
- J. R. R. Tolkien's Arda (the world of Middle-earth) is inhabited by 16-17 distinct intelligent species or subspecies. First of all it has "Men" (regular humans), Hobbits (little people), Elves, Dwarves, Ents (walking, talking trees), giant Eagles, Hounds of Oromë (sapient giant dogs), Drúedain (Neandertal-like dudes), and talking ravens. Then there are the Ainur (regular and fallen angels) and the various Always Chaotic Evil monsters spawned by demonic corruption and mutation of normal people and animals — Orcs, Dragons, Werewolves, talking giant spiders, Stone-Trolls, and Olog-Hai Trolls.
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Besides the menagerie of beings in Narnia: Dwarfs, Fauns, Dryads (tree nymphs/gods/spirits), Centaurs, Stayrs, Naiads (water nymphs/gods/spirits), Giants, Unicorns, Winged Horses, and Talking Beasts, Other various beings are mentioned in certain books: The monsters and demons in the White Witch's Army (Evil Dwarfs, Evil Giants, Werewolves, Evil trees and plants, Ghouls, Boggles, Ogres, Minotaurs, Cruels, Hags, Spectres, People of the Toadstools, Incubuses, Wraiths, Horrors, Efreets, Sprites, Orknies, Wooses, and Ettins), the Humans from Calormen, Archenland, Telmar, and the Islands, Stars, Merpeople (traditional half human-half fish hybrid), Sea People (aquatic, water-breathing humanoids with purple hair), Duffers/Monopods/Dufflepuds (one-legged Dwarfs), Dragons, Sea Serpents, Giant Squids, Krackens, Birds from the Sun, Marshwiggles, Gnomes(who look a little more like Petting Zoo People or devils with pitchforks than whimsical, diminutive cousins to Dwarfs), and Salamanders.
- The Sector General series by James White, set on a space-station hospital, has so many races, they have a four-letter coding system to classify them rather than just list a few (or a few dozen). Even at that, humans have to share the code "DBDG" with two other (vaguely human-looking) species. There are well over fifteen species with at least minor speaking roles.
- In Alan Dean Foster's Spellsinger series, literally every species of mammal, bird, amphibian, or turtle on Earth has an equivalent intelligent race. An unspecified number of insect (Plated Folk) and spider (Weaver) species likewise come in sentient as well as mundane varieties. Humans are also present, as are numerous other intelligent races, some with a mythological basis (dragons, fairies, unicorns) and others made up from scratch. All told, that's got to be tens of thousands of races at a minimum, possibly over a million.
- Foster's Humanx Commonwealth series has a lot of races, as pretty much every planet with life has sentient natives also. Aside from a few dozen species known to the Commonwealth, the planet Quofum stands out as world-of-origin to perhaps hundreds of sentient races, some still extant and others extinct.
- David Brin's Uplift Universe spans 5 galaxies which are packed with vast numbers of alien species, since they all keep genetically uplifting animal species to create new races. Not only are there thousands or millions of oxygen-breather species grouped in the various Galactic clans, but there are also very exotic retired races, hydrogen-breathers, sentient machines, quantum races, Solarians, and transcendent races. 215 have been named so far, with over 80 encountered or described in detail.
- In the Xanth series there are humans, centaurs, goblins, harpies, merpeople, demons, nagas, elves, werewolves, fauns, nymphs, ogres, giants, zombies, ghosts, and several other regularly-mentioned races.
- Just about every Stock Dinosaur (and even more Non-Stock Dinosaur) species has made an appearance on the island of Dinotopia.
- Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen is brimming with them. In addition to baseline humans, you have the Four Founding Races — the K'Chain Che'Malle, the Forkrul Assail, the Jaghut, and the T'lan Imass who used to be that verses cavemen before becoming collectively undead. There are also the K'Chain Nah'ruk, the K'Chain Che'Malle's Servant Race which rebelled. Then you have the three Tiste races: Tiste Andii, Tiste Edur and Tiste Liosan, who are alien to the planet on which most of the series is set and who are known as the Children of Darkness, Shadow and Light, respectively. Then you have the Tartheno Thelomen Toblakai, who have splintered into various offshoot races, most notably the Teblor, and are themselves descended from the Thel Akai. Then you've got a bunch of nonhumans who are part of the same general family as humans and their actual evolutional predecessors, the Imass, including the Barghast and the Moranth. Then you've got the Great Ravens and the Eleint, both of which are sentient races. Finally, there's a whole plethora of sentient demons. This is justified, however, by the creators of the verse both being archaeologists and anthropologists and knowing exacly what they were doing when they created the setting, and evolution is an important factor in the development of all those different races, despite having a fantastic spin to their origins which includes a bunch of Elder Gods playing creators.
- The Myth Adventures novels have featured such nonhuman sentient races as Pervects, Imps, Deveels, Trolls/Trollops, gargoyles, dragons, gremlins, gnomes, Shutterbugs, Wuhses, vampires, werewolves, raterriers, mall rats, and dozens of others. The roster of Human Aliens is pretty long (Klahds, Jahks, Kewpies, Archers) too.
- In the Hainish 'verse by Ursula K. Le Guin every planet is a Lost Colony populated by Human Aliens descending from the same species. While people from different planets may look radically different, most planets are no more diverse than Earth. The biggest exception is Rokanan from Rocannon's World. As a result of some ancient genetic experiments it has five distinct species of Humanoid Aliens (some of which are also split into subraces, with rampant Fantastic Racism) and lots of species of non-humanoid aliens. Midway through the book the Earthling hero refuses to hunt since he may kill someone who can talk, though locals aren't that picky. Another victim of gene tinkering are indeterminate-gendered Gethenians from The Left Hand of Darkness.
- The world of The Dagger and the Coin was once ruled by intelligent dragons, who reshaped their human slaves into a wide variety of forms, some of which resemble "standard" fantasy races and some of which... don't. In addition to the Firstbloods (baseline humans), the Cinnae (pale, ethereal, intellectual, and rather snooty, filling the "elf niche") and the Yemmu (big, burly, and tusked, essentially big orcs or small ogres), we have the canine Tralgu, otter-like Kurtadam, aquatic Drowned, glowing-eyed Dartinae, arctic Haaverkin, reptilian Jasuru and Timzinae, eusocial Southlings, and the rarely-seen Raushadam and Haunadam.
- In Catherynne M. Valente's The Orphan's Tales, she uses a wide variety of races, almost all of which are based on legends of our world. There are humans, to start with. There are animals such as hedgehogs, goldfish, cormorants, polar bears, and herons, which talk and have their own societies. Then there are Stars, djinni (made from Star-fire), the Yi, and the Hsien, for races that come from the heavens. Races that come from the sea include Magyrs, mermaids (a brief mention), Lamia, and selkies. On earth there are Arimaspians and other cyclops, giants, Griffins, dragons, Monopods, Cynocepheli, huldras, harpies, manticores, Gaselli, satyrs, kappas, and there are references to more.
- The Four Horsemen Universe: According to exposition there are a few thousand species in the Union. Of those, 37 species work as mercenaries and a few hundred more commonly hire them. The first two books of the main series alone name humans, Besquith, Veetanho, Zuul, MinSha, GenSha, Jivool, Flatars, Tortantulas, Jehas, Cochkala, Pendals, Duplato, and Fey. The short stories add Arezzo (and their subculture Arritim), K'Kng, Oogar, and Avaka.
Live-Action TV
- At least 25 different races have appeared in Andromeda.
- In Babylon 5 the Milky Way has a large number of (usually humanoid) races — the major players near the Babylon 5 station are Minbari, Centauri, Narn, and Humans, plus the two Precursor races, but then there's the League of Non-aligned Worlds, a collection of at least a dozen minor powers, including the Drazi, Markab, Vree, and Pak'ma'ra. And then there're other species that only turn up once or twice like the Dilgar, the Streib, and the Soul Hunters. The Babylon Project wiki lists 77 known intelligent species, and is missing at least 2 more.
- Doctor Who has Time Lords, Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans and their enemies the Rutan Host, Ice Warriors, Zygons, Tereleptils, Silurians and Sea Devils, the Nestene Consciousness, Zarbi, Menoptera, Eternals, Osirans, Usurians, Monoids, Alpha Centaurians, Axons, Argolin, Foamasi, intelligent cacti from Zolfa Thura, Tractators, the Cheetah People, Haemovores and their giant cousins the Great Vampires, Tharils, Macra, Krynoids, and even humans. Then the new series introduced Raxicoricofallapatorians (often mistakenly called the Slitheen), Ood, Judoon, Sycorax, Adipose, Pyrovillians, Saturnynians, Crafayis, Malmooth, Weeping Angels, the Silence, and many other background races and individuals. Don't even get started on the Doctor Who Expanded Universe of which one race, Chelonians, have been mentioned in the new series...
- Star Trek. The humans, the Vulcans (space elves), the Romulans (the Vulcans' nastier cousins [So... Space Drow?]), the Klingons (Proud Warrior Race Guys), the Borg (Bee People), the Cardassians (spies and assassins), and the Ferengi (interstellar merchants) are the most prominent ones. A lot more that turn up only in individual episodes or plot arcs, and others are represented by a main character (Betazoids, Trill, Denobulans...) The Enterprise crew encounters a new alien race not quite Once an Episode. Of course, that's their mission. The result is a galaxy populated by at least hundreds if not thousands of races, of which all but a very few seem to be either Human Aliens, Rubber-Forehead Aliens, or Space Elves.
- The Stargate-verse has around 22 known races, around half of which only appeared in a couple of episodes. Of those that didn't, we have humans, the Goa'uld and their Jaffa mooks, the Asgard, the ascended Ancients and their evil counterparts the Ori, the Wraith, and the Replicators and their Pegasus Galaxy counterparts the Asurans. Then there's the Ursini who menaced the crew of Destiny, and the Berserker Drones who appeared not long before SGU's cancellation. And, naturally, humanity, which is subdivided into Earthlings (called Tau'ri in the Milky Way and Atlanteans in the Pegasus Galaxy) and countless societies of Transplanted Humans.
- There's over a hundred types of Wesen in Grimm, as well as a few oddballs like ghosts, demons and golems.
- The Ultra Series. Along with its numerous Kaiju, it's also had plenty of aliens (referred as Seijin, meaning Star-People) over its nearly 50 year run. While the original Ultraman and the preceding but lesser-known Ultra Q had some, it wasn't until the largely-Kaijuless Ultraseven that the aliens became a regular part of the show. To name the most well-known, we've got Baltan Seijin, Metron Seijin, Zarab Seijin, Gutz Seijin, Knuckle Seijin, Temperor Seijin, Dada Seijin, Mephilas Sejin, Magma Seijin, Babalou Seijin, Hipporito Seijin, and Valky Seijin. Phew!
Mythology and Religion
- Classical Mythology features many "races": Ordinary mortals, gods (including titans and daimones), nymphs, cyclopes, giants, centaurs, satyrs, fauns, and six-armed Gegenees; plus various bizarre Human Subspecies: headless Blemmyes, one-eyed Arimaspians, dog-heads, one-legged Skiapodes, four-legged Artabatitai, hermaphroditic Makhlyes, short-lived Kalingoi, mouthless Astomoi, ageless Makroboi, Golden and Silver Men, and more.
Video Games with loads of non-playable races
- Earth Eternal started beta with 22 PC races. Note that they are mechanically identical; all 22 play the same with nary a stat or ability difference, thus they don't give Massive Race Selection. In-universe, however, they're all entirely separate species (mostly Petting Zoo People, plus Plant People, Clockwork dudes, Cyclopes, Yeti, and Warcraft Orcs with the serial numbers filed off). Then there were the non-playable races in the lore — mushroom people, tree people, vampires, liches, humans, Dor'kana aliens, demons, gods, creepy Dwarf/Mole-Rat guys, the extinct Maar, and more Petting Zoo People. Sadly, the actual game only has 12 PC races, presumably still with no mechanical distinction.
- Guild Wars 2 features Humans, Asura, Charr (Cat Folk), Norn (Norse giants), Sylvari (plant people), Centaurs, Dredge (communist molerat people), Giants (several subraces), Grawl (ape people), Hylek (Mayincatec frog people), Kodan (polar bear people), Krait (snake people), Largos (humanoid manta rays), Ogres, Quaggan (pacifist manatee/whale people), Skritt (hiveminded rat people), Tengu (bird people), and some more familiar fantasy races. Only the first five are playable, disqualifying it for Massive Race Selection.
- Kingdom Hearts not only has all the races from various Disney worlds, but also the Heartless, Nobodies, Unversed, and Dream Eaters, though whether they count is a matter of contention.
- The Legend of Zelda has loads of non-playable races: Across the entire series there have been Humans, Goblins (subdivided into Moblins, Bokoblins, Miniblins, Bulblins, and Big Blins), Fairies, Dragons, Zoras, Gorons, Kokiri, Skull Kids, Sheikah, Gerudo, Deku, Tokay, Koroks, Picori/Minish, Twili, Ooccas, Kikwis, Mogmas, and many more. Humans are further divided by the long-eared Hylians and the round-eared baseline humans, who are considered the same species but separated by magical ability. Gerudo appear to be a similar case, being a group that is most notable for their skin color and unusual gender imbalance.
- Super Mario Bros. has a massive ammount colorful and unique races. The ones with bigger focus on them in the main platformer series alone are Humans, Toads, Koopas, Yoshis, Piantas and Lumas, with many other minor friendly ones here and there. The sentient races that tend to stick to the Mook side of things add Goombas, Koopa Troopas (and their many variations), Lakitus, Shy Guys, Boos, Bob-ombs, and several others to the list. Take into account the races added by the RPG subseries, the many, many spin-offs, and the Shared Universes with the Donkey Kong and Wario series, and the numbers skyrocket faster than you can say "Mamma Mia!".
- To give an idea of just how many there are, the Super Mario Wiki has a category listing every species. It has over five hundred pages in it, though not all of them are sapient.
- Touhou not only has Loads and Loads of Characters but Loads And Loads Of Races as well, with at least one representative from any youkai ZUN wants to add. The first Windows era game only contains humans, vampires, fairies, a Witch Species, and what is heavily suspected to be a Chinese dragon. However, other games introduce animals-turned-youkai, humans-turned-youkai, ghosts, demons, celestials, gods, Lunarians, a shinigami, kappa, tengu, and whatever the hell Yukari is, and the list goes on.
- The Mass Effect setting qualifies since the only race available for single-player characters is human, though Mass Effect 3 multiplayer falls under Massive Race Selection instead. In just the races of the current cycle, we have humans, turians, asari, salarians, quarians, geth, batarians, elcor, volus, krogan, hanar, drell, vorcha, rachni, and yahg. Also known are the protheans (the dominant race of the preceding cycle), the thorian (a mind-controlling plant creature predating the current cycle), the Inusannon (the race dominating the cycle prior to the protheans), the Reapers (the Big Bad, a race of cybernetic Eldritch Abominations that harvest spacefaring peoples every 50,000 years or so), and the Leviathans (a roughly 1 billion-year-old species of building-sized squid whose ill-advised attempt to protect their vassal races from themselves caused the Reapers' creation).
- Supplementary materials mention a race that used Brain Uploading to escape their world, the raloi (birdlike aliens), and the Kirik, a race of biotic insects with signs of intelligence.
- Mass Effect: Andromeda continues the tradition by adding two new major races and allowing at least one of them in multiplayer. The single player protagonist is still always human.
- Might and Magic VI has a single playable race (humans), and takes place in a setting with elves (at least three variants, though only two were known at the time), dwarves (at least two variants, though the second wasn't revealed until two games later), goblins, orchs, centaurs, demons-that-are-really-aliens, demons-that-are-not-aliens, angels, genies, efreet, minotaurs, gremlins, halflings, robots, dragons, lizardfolk, gnolls, treants, naga, cyclops, trolls, ogres, several elemental beings (four known at the time)... admittedly, many of those don't actually show up in that game, but they had been established to exist by previous games and a concurrently released game that took place on the same world. The following RPG games also count, as the only one that arguably reaches 6 playable races is VIII, and that depends on if you count vampires that explicitly reproduce by infecting others with vampirism as a 'race' for the purposes of the Massive Race Selection trope.
- The Starfleet Adventures mod for Escape Velocity Nova has at least fifteen governments controlling territory on the map, and that's when you count the United Federation of Planets as a single species to save time. The number tops thirty easily when you don't. Your Player Character is human, though there are nonhuman command crew available.
- In addition to the 10 playable races of The Elder Scrolls series, the setting also has numerous other non-playable races seen or mentioned in the lore. To note:
- Non-playable/historical Races of Men include the Nedes (ancestors of most modern races of Men in Tamriel with a pre-Columbian Meso-American culture), the Atmorans (a hardy Proud Warrior Race with Barbarian Tribe traits who may be the ancestors of most of the races of Men, and definitely are the ancestors of the Nords), the Yokudans (ancestors of the Scary Black Man Master Swordsman Redguards), the Kothringi (an extinct human tribe formerly native to the Black Marsh), the Reachmen (an offshoot of the Bretons native to "The Reach" region between Skyrim and High Rock who have many Druidic elements), and the Skaal (a Noble Savage offshoot of the Nords who live in harmony with nature in Solstheim).
- Non-playable/historical Races of Mer (Elves) include the Ayleids (extinct "Wild Elves" of Cyrodiil who formed the first Empire in Tamriellic history and enslaved the aforementioned Nedes), the Dwemer (extinct "Deep Elves or Dwarves" who were masters of Magitek and Steam Punk technology, who could bend the laws that govern the world), the Falmer ("Snow Elves" who were nearly wiped out by aforementioned Atmorans with most of the survivors fleeing the the Dwemer, who twisted them into the Morlock-like monsters they are today), the Left-Handed Elves (or "Sinestral Mer" who were driven to extinction by the aforementioned Yokudans), and the Maormer ("Sea Elves" native to Pyandonea, a tropical archipelago to the south of Tamriel, who have "Chameleon" and are ancient enemies of the Altmer (High Elves)).
- Non-playable/historical Beast Races include the Bird Men (extinct Bird People native to ancient Cyrodiil who were hunted to extinction by the Khajiit), Dreugh (humanoid octopi who once possessed far greater intelligence and were said to have ruled the world at one point during the Dawn Era, the Imga (Altmer-loving intelligent great apes native to Valenwood), Lilmothiit (extinct "fox folk" formerly native to the Black Marsh), Minotaurs (half-human half-bulls who trace their ancestry to the offspring produced by the first human Empress of Tamriel and her bull demi-god lover), and the Sload (emotionless, isolationist, "slug-men" native to the Thras archipelago to the southwest of Tamriel).
- Other non-playable/historical races who do not neatly fit into one of the above classifications include the Giants, Goblins, Hist, Ogres, Rieklings, and Spriggans.
- The continent of Akavir, far to the east of Tamriel, has four (known) races of it's own: the Ka Po' Tun "Tiger Folk", the Tsaesci "Snake Vampires", the Tang Mo "Monkey Folk", and the Kamal "Snow Demons".
- For additional details on these (and the playable) races, see The Elder Scrolls: Races sub-pages.
- Drowtales may qualify, largely as the result of curses, transformation spells that couldn't be reversed, and genetic engineering experiments. Specifically, you've got: elven races (dokkalfar, drowolath, drowussu, vanir, ver'drowendar, and xule'solen), dwarven races (duergar and gnomes), goblins (embari, halmes, rift halmes, hemoines, kotorcs, and noz), ferals (normal cat, squashed - face cat, and racoon variants), nagas, driders (waeliniders, streekaiders, and ne'kalsaiders), dryads, and locust faeries.
- The Mansion of E has numerous species living in the vast underground complex beneath the Mansion; their ancestors were gathered there as exhibits in a zoo by another now-vanished species. They include Humans, Gnolls, Nomes, Ghasts, Oozes, Wyrms (large and small), Troglodytes, Saurs, Motihauls, Ichyoids, Helipaths, Gobules, Pales, Jibjibs, Spyders, Robots, Killer Trees, and Talking Rocks.
- The Order of the Stick has plenty, based as it is on D&D, but it also has a surprisingly broad distribution among the actual characters. Even discounting random monsters, there have been at least three named characters for each of the following: human (Roy, Haley, Elan), elf/dark elf (Vaarsuvius, Lirian, Zz'dtri), dwarf (Durkon, Hilgya, Kraagor), halfling (Belkar, Serini, Hank), half-orc (Thog, Therkla, Bozzok), kobold (Yikyik, Kilkil, the Oracle), lizardfolk (Gannji, Enor, Malack), goblinoid (Redcloak, Jirix, Right-Eye)plus the occasional sylph (Celia), gnome (Leeky), catfolk, weird frog person, ogre, etc.
- In Rice Boy's homeworld, Overside, there tend to be well-defined civilisation-races like the Frog-Men of Spatch, the Fin-Folk of Tenshells, the Machine-Men of the Iron Teeth, the Horned of the Stone Palm... and then there are people like Arctaur, with four closely-packed legs and a head like a cross between a broken donut and a power adapter. Many oneshot body types seem to once have been part of their own race, but estranged in space or the Last of His Kind. Beyond the above, the wiki names and describes Blackbirds, Dimmons, Fluters, Gaundts, Gorrkans, Hornèds, Ice-Striders, Machine Men, Rhed, Sahtans, Shade-Kin, Sirpah, Trills, and War-Men. There are also the unnamed inhabitants of Seen and Taragi, and the mysterious White Formless.
- Schlock Mercenary features humans, neophants, primates, amorphs, F'Sherl-Ganni, Pa'anuri, Frellenti, Fobott'r, Vhorwed, Uniocs, Uklakk, Schuul, O'Benn, Kssthrata, Daehremmah, Ystreben, Kreelies, Bradicor, and Enireth. Members of each of these have been prominent protagonists or antagonists of at least one story arc.
- One strip suggests that even these are just the tip of the iceberg.
- In the El Goonish Shive storyline "Dan in the MUD" this is lampshaded when the jinn lists countless races to choose from to play as.
- In Platinum Black, there are humans, satyrs, Regenerators which come in all shapes, dark skinned people with mouse ears, medusa... slug... people? and just about every kind of beastman you can imagine.
- Tower of God: Besides normal humans there are the Red Witches and Silver-Haired Dwarves, the Da'an tribe, which are a docile tribe of giants with eight eyeballs around their head, at least 3 kinds of Horned Humanoids, 3 kinds of Winged Humanoids, 3 kinds of Lizard Folk, several races with eggheads and varying numbers of eyes, shape shifters, shrimp people, all kinds of Amazing Technicolour Population, giant slimes, dog people and many more.
- Homestuck: Including Humans, Trolls, the patron races of each players Sburb world and whatever Always Chaotic Evil monsters lurk in them, the many races inhabiting both Prospit and Derse, the many races that make up the semi-sentient Familiar lusus of Alternia, the Felt, Cherubs, the cosmic Horrorterrors, and whatever Bec and Doc Scratch are, Andrew Hussies universe is filled with innumerable sentient species, and they're all as crazy as he is.
Web Original
- Fabled Hearts stories tend to have a lot of races, with at least one new race being introduced in each of the larger stories. An inter-dimensional train will do that for you.
- The Orion's Arm setting contains millions of different "clades." Most of these are terragen (descended from Earth life) and include Human Subspecies (some of which look more like Starfish Aliens) and provolved animals. There're also AIs, cyborgs, robots, sentient vehicles, and at least 17 extant xenosophont species that have been identified, and only about a 10,000 light-year radius sphere of the galaxy has been explored.
- In The Gamer's Alliance, several fleshed out races exist in the world:
- Humans. The most populous race in the world, they have many societies ranging from nomadic horse lords to sophisticated magocracies.
- Elves. Graceful people who often live in forests but can just as easily be seen in cities as well. They have great knowledge of nature and its remedies.
- Dwarves. Short and passionate people best known for their prodigious skills with the forge, many of them live under mountains although some have settled into human cities.
- Gods. The immortals who live in the High Plane, they follow their own agendas and scheme against one another while using the mortal races for their own ends.
- Faerfolc. Mysterious protectors of the forests, they and elves have a connection. They possess fey magick which can be beneficial or dangerous to anyone who comes across them depending on circumstances.
- Dragons. Massive creatures who can fly and breathe fire and decimate armies. They've chosen not to interfere in mortal affairs, however, and merely observe events from their home mountains nicknamed the Roost.
- Demons. Winged beings who originate from the Demon Realm and who have recently begun settling into the Land of the Living. They can shapeshift into many forms and are rather chaotic, seeing other races than themselves as lesser beings.
- Lefein. Look deceptively like humans yet live for thousands of years. They're collectors of wisdom and are at home with various machines which they keep inventing.
- Nymphs. A curious all-female race which lives deep in the forests. They often end up having sexual encounters with travellers which is why rangers call a nymph their fondest conquest. Under their gentle and curious exterior is something far more troubled, however.
- Itica. Humanoid cat people who live a wandering lifestyle althouh other races rarely see them due to their preference to stay out of people's businesses. They have sharp senses.
- Kitsune. Shapeshifting magical foxes who are often confused for demons. Guardians of lost knowledge and bardic songs, they're a musical and mischievous race who can just as easily be benevolent or malevolent depending on the circumstances.
- Sirithai. Desert-dwelling lizardfolk who are ruthless but
- Trolls. Hairy and seemingly dumb creatures although they are good at operating machinery of various kinds. They have invented a pastime referred to as trolling which includes having jokes on other people's expense.
- Merrows. Merpeople who govern the oceans.
- Pixies. Tiny winged humanoids who can channel magic more easily than other races.
- Undead. Unnatural beings whose souls haven't settled into the Land of the Dead for various reasons and who thus exist between life and death. Several variants exist such as zombies, ghosts, liches, revenants.
- The Kingdoms Saga has this. Although in recent years the number of races has been cut down substantially, there have been as many as 27 races, including humans, dwarves, elves, Sidhe, drow, goblins, avians, gnolls, orcs, demons, angels, golems, elementals, metalborn, minotaurs, pixies, shapeshifters, werewolves, and vampires. Then you get into the weird ones- Xheertekk, avani, skytails, nalleons, the valkoor, Asarians, lunasols, and Emissaries.
Western Animation
- The original My Little Pony cartoon. Earth Ponies, Pegasus Ponies, Unicorn Ponies, Sea Ponies, Flutter Ponies, Bushwoolies, Grundles, Furbobs, Stonebacks, Flories, Crab Nasties, and more.
- As of Season 4 of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, we have the first three of those as the most common races of equine, plus Crystal Ponies, Breezies, Changelings, Saddle Arabians, Zebras, Donkeys, Mules, and Alicorns. When you extend it to non-equine races, you also have Dragons, Griffons, Diamond Dogs, Centaurs, Minotaurs, Buffalo, at least three sapient farm animals (two of which are taken care of by Applejack's family for some reason), Humans, Sea Serpents, Draconequii, and Ahuizotls. If you dip into the books and comics, you add to the bundle Seaponies and Merponies, Trolls, Giant Spiders, Demons of varying sorts, Moonbeasts, and a plethora of intelligent underwater denizens
- According to South Park, each species and race on Earth—from deer and elephants to Asian and Jewish humans—is actually a separate species which came to Earth countless years ago for an intergalactic reality TV show. Every other planet has only one species each.
- The Kung Fu Panda film series (and especially the TV show) utilizes pretty much the entire Chinese animal kingdom, including some species that you've probably never heard of.
- The Ben 10 franchise revolves around a boy who can transform into several distinct superpowered alien species, starting with 10 and going up from there. Each species is fleshed out, either through screen-time, being All There in the Manual, or both. The image above is but a handful of the species revealed by the third series, and we're not even talking about the alien species established by other characters and villains.
- Wakfu is this at first glance, though in fact it is a subversion of this trope. The "races" in Dofus (and by extension Wakfu) are more along the line of classes or religions. The characters may change in appearance to match that of their gods, but all are still basically "humans" (and there are un-classed, baseline human NPCs too). Which explains why interbreeding — like with Kabrok (an Osamodas) and Miranda (an Ecaflip), or with Sadlygrove (a Iop) and Evangelyne (a Crâ) — is perfectly possible.
- Oban Star Racers has both loads of alien races (including humans) who also race vehicles as part of a galaxy-wide Wacky Racing contest.
Real Life
- Even if the taxonomy is in a state of constant flux and their status as a species fluctuates, fossil evidence points towards several different lineages of human cohabiting as recently as 50,000 years ago. Although their degree of sapience would vary quite a bit, all members of the genus Homo are known to be able to manufacture tools, and the latter lineages, such as Neanderthals, have been shown to be capable of elaborating art. There is also genetic evidence of two of those extinct lineages (the Neanderthals and the poorly known Denisovans) having mated with modern humans.
- Chimpanzees have been sighted manufacturing stone tools, so they have officially entered the stone age. Corvids (crows and ravens) do one better, as they sometimes bend metal into useful shapes and then use these metal tools to various tasks. They also remember where they put them for later re-use.
- There are several groups of animals who show telltale signs of sapience and culture as we understand it, but not to the degree of complexity we humans exhibit. Those include the rest of the great apes, dolphins, elephants, and, surprisingly enough, parrots, crows and ravens, and octopi.


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He soon realised as he got closer just how big Benandonnar really was and that there was no way he would ever win a fight. Luckily Finn was a very fast runner so he turned around and ran as fast as he could back to his castle in Ulster when he thought Benandonner was no longer going to come he went to bed. BUT Benandonner had arrived at the castle and he watched Finn go to bed. He silently broke the window and crept into the castle and up the stairs to Finn's bedroom.
Just as he was about to assassinate Finn a lion pounced out of nowhere and with a single swipe of his paw cut off Benadonners head. Finn leapt out of bed and before anyone in Scotland realised what had happened to Benadonner and tried to take revenge, he rushed across the causeway and grabbed all Benandonners gold before beating a hasty retreat.
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Industry Profile: GoPro Production Artist Abe Kislevitz
02 Aug, 2011
Job Title: Production Artist
Employer: GoPro
Years on snow: 10
Days on snow: 100/yr
Currently Riding: …skis? 4FRNTs of all types!
Currently I am: In the office, editing GoPro commercials
Shay: Tell us a little bit about yourself
Abe: I'm 24 years old, grew up near Portland, Oregon skiing Hood through high school. Always had a passion for the arts growing up which took a turn into technology pretty early on. I had a lot of rad software to play with, with help from my older brother who was the computer whiz. Spent a lot of nights and weekends learning to write code, playing with editing software, learning Photoshop, Dreamweaver, 3D modeling, etc. Eventually went to USC and studied mechanical engineering, but continued to dabble in the arts through my own endeavors.
Shay: How has skiing changed your life?
Abe: Every major decision past 8th grade I feel like has been influenced by skiing in some way or another. It dictated what friends I had through school, what girlfriends I ended up dating, what school I went to, what hobbies I got into, and eventually now what career path I've chosen. I can't even begin to imagine where or what I might be had I not gotten into skiing. I helped run the USC Ski & Snowboard Team all through school, stepped in after my brother was president – that pretty much shaped every part of my college experience and beyond.
Shay: How did you get your start in the industry, who or what opened up more opportunities for you?
Abe: Kind of a funny story, and slightly two-folded – I've jumped into the industry from two sides – largely completely separate. Senior year in high school I was in 'Advanced Art' where you pretty much run wild creating pieces of art however you want. I figured I'd give painting a try for the first time, so I painted a series of ski works – going for the photo-realism paintings of mountains, skiers off jumps, rails, etc. I ended up posting pictures of the paintings on Newschoolers.com (popular social skiing website) a long time ago and they got pretty popular. One painting was the top rated/top commented photo on the entire site for a few months. Anyway, got a call out of the blue from the owner of 4FRNT Skis asking if I'd want to design his pro-model line of skis for the following year. Bewildered, scared, and psyched I jumped into it and went to town. Continued this to this day, having designed 43 different pairs of skis over the past 7 years. That's the ski industry side of things, got into the other side a little differently.
In college I started making videos for our ski team to give us a little more exposure. I designed the website and I wanted content to put on it. My good buddy Alex Clarey was an officer on the team a few years ago and met up with GoPro at the ASR convention in San Diego. This was before GoPro was…GoPro. I hadn't even heard of it, but we got a camera in the mail (standard def) and I was so psyched someone believed in us, I wanted to really give back. I started making weekly videos and posting them to YouTube and our website. I guess GoPro picked up on what we did and were really stoked – they saw something valuable in what we were creating. I was asked to come out to Hood in the summer about 6 months before the HD model was released to test out their new cameras and film/edit a ski promo for the launch. I grabbed USC Ski Team star Chris Farro and met with GoPro athlete Tucker Perkins and we filmed 'The Ski Movie' for GoPro's channel. From there they had me come out to a few events that fall while I was finishing school and offered me a full time job as soon as I was ready to jump into the real world after a few months of playing in Mammoth.
Shay: How has your previous education or work experience helped you in your current job?
Abe: I'm sure everything I've done previously and up until now have helped me in ways I can't or won't ever comprehend or come to realize. I never really enjoyed engineering classes necessarily, not to mention being horribly bad at it, but when asked why I did it I can say it's not about what you study in school that determines what you do or who you are. Getting through engineering worked and developed my mind in ways I would have never done or wanted to do, but it's something that's trained me to work hard and follow through. In school I held a job on campus all 4 years doing web development and graphic design, did video stuff for the USC Ski & Snowboard team, and studied music in high school. Toss those all in a blender and I'm sure some sort of comprehensible ability of video editing comes out.
Shay: Tell us about your role at GoPro and a description of the work you do?
Abe: Production Artist is the title that's printed on my business card. I'm part of the media group which is made up of 5 of us all similar in age, sense of humor, office arrival time, and technical savviness. We basically create all of the videos you might see on the GoPro YouTube channel, in stores on display TV's, or at half-time during the SuperBowl on your TV. About a quarter of our time is spent on the road at different events facilitating the filming of athletes.
Shay: What's an average day like at work for you?
Abe: At events it's always a little different but we'll usually wake up, get kits of cameras ready for the day – which can range from anywhere between 10 and 60 cameras – go out and mount some athletes up, set up some time lapses, and film some stuff. Around evening time we'll pop back to the hotel and start the endless SD card copy, brainstorm and map out our video, and edit until late in the night.
In the office things are a little more controlled and we've been hiring more people to make it so more time is spent editing and less time dealing with the clutter of distractions that comes with being in the office. The media group handles all of the footage coming in from athletes and people out in the world and a LOT of people have GoPros, so it gets pretty nuts pretty fast answering emails & dealing with the day-to-day without some help.
Shay: What are some memorable experiences from working in the industry?
Abe: Through the ski side of things I always enjoyed being a part of the 4FRNT Team. I used to spend a week every summer up in Whistler at Camp of Champions. Had great summer days & nights with Matt Sterbenz, Eric Hjorleifson, CR Johnson, and some of the other cats from 4FRNT BBQing, hanging out, and skiing. Got introduced to most of the major great freestyle skiers of our time at one point or another, which is cool because it's a tight group and fun to see them shredding in Mammoth in the spring, Hood in the summer, or just around at events.
Through GoPro it's been a whirlwind of amazing adventures. Obviously Dew Tour, X Games, Mammoth trips have been at the top of the list. GoPro has been amazing in letting me continue the USC Ski & Snowboard team videos by helping me get to Mammoth on the weekends. Most of all it's just been amazing to be a part of the incredible team that makes up GoPro as a whole. The company is growing so fast and everyone puts in their part to make it what it is.
Shay: Education vs Experience…which do you think is more important?
Abe: They can go hand in hand but ultimately passion will drive experience, and true natural experience will help dictate what you can do job-wise. Plus, it's way easier to get a job with something to show of previous experience. I also can't speak highly enough of education – perhaps not because of the material, but simply the opportunities you're given and the amazing individuals you get to be exposed to.
Shay: What advice would you give to people wanting to work in the industry?
Abe: Find what you love to do, pursue it, work hard for it and eventually something will come around. If you're going into the arts I can't stress how important it is to just create for creating's sake. Do it as much as you can, find as many little jobs you can do that are right up your alley, and build your portfolio. Nothing speaks more about your abilities than your actual work. Lastly – be creative and do something different.
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Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/abekislevitz
Website: http://www.abekislevitz.com
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/abekislevitz
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August 06, 2011
Great article. So grateful to have read this
August 06, 2011
And people say skiers are bad??? I have nothing against the freeskiers, newschoolers, whatever they wish to call themselves…they really aren't that different from us. As you can see, some of them are very talented. I would hope to do something like that except with snowboard graphics. Good job in including everyone in the industry (even skiers) here!


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Create Your Own Diet...Quickly & Easily:
If you are like most people, you've tried dieting before. This newsletter is NOT about dieting, but instead about making long-term changes in the foods you choose and eat, WITHOUT sacrificing good taste.
Let's take a look at protein. Did you know the large majority of your body is protein? That's right. If all the water were removed from your body, 80% of what remained would be comprised of protein. Your hair and nails have protein in them, as do your brain, bones, heart, kidneys, even your skin. You must derive the adequate amount of protein from your diet or you will suffer from lowered energy, weakened immune response, high cholesterol, hair loss at an early age, hormonal imbalances, liver toxicity, premature aging?The list goes on and on.
When there is not enough protein in your diet, your body actually uses protein from its own tissues, breaking down your hard-earned muscles, organs, ligaments, tendons, etc. This is catastrophic to anyone working hard to get more fit because muscle is needed to burn calories, make us strong, shapely and energetic. When you lose muscle, you loose the ability to burn calories, and dramatically slow down your metabolism, wrecking even the best diet efforts!
Now, what about fats? Contrary to belief, fats are not the enemy of dieters. In fact, although fat has twice as many calories as other some other food types, fat does not stimulate significant production of insulin, which is the body's fat-making hormone, which is a major benefit when used in conjunction with a proper diet like that described in the book Maximize Your Metabolism.
Your body needs some fat. Eating fat-free foods is not the answer. Most fat-free food is laden with sugar or harmful chemicals.
Furthermore, unsaturated fats are essential for human survival. Fat helps the nervous system function. Fat holds the organs of the body in correct places. Fat insulates the body. Fat is performs a wide array of vital body functions.
There are many different sources of fat in the diet, making it nearly impossible to avoid fat, as at least a small amount is in nearly all foods. Foods such as oil, nuts, full fat cheeses, avocados, olives, certain cuts of meats, are considered high in fat. Foods such as fruits, vegetables, most grains, potatoes, and others are very low in fat.
There are different types of fats, too. There are good fats and bad fats. Good fats, or unsaturated fats, are beneficial to the body in a number of ways, and should be implemented into your daily diet (but don't go crazy here - I'm talking about only 2 - 3 tablespoons per day). These good fats are found in such foods as olives, avocados, extra-virgin olive oil, safflower oil, flax oil, nuts, etc. Bad fats, or saturated fats, are the kinds of fats that clog the arteries, make cholesterol levels rise, and raise blood pressure. Bad fats are found in meats, cheeses, butter, lard, and cream. Stay away from ALL saturated fats!
Now, for carbohydrates. Carbohydrate balance is critical to achieving weight loss. Carbohydrates should never be called carbohydrates. They are, in fact, SUGAR! No matter how complex, carbohydrates are broken down to their lowest common denominator, which is glucose. Glucose is sugar.
Regardless, carbohydrates are your body's primary fuel source. Your brain requires carbohydrates every second of its life. Carbohydrates, in the form of blood sugar, are pumping through your veins every minute of the day. And while they are essential to your survival, they can be your worst enemy.
Carbohydrates in the diet can be found in many places, including fruit, flour, bread, yams, potatoes, rice, pasta, oatmeal, beans, etc. There are different types of carbohydrates, including simple, medium and complex carbohydrates. Simple carbohydrates are very easy for the body to break down and absorb, because their chemical structure is simple. But that does not make them good for you - in fact the simple carbohydrates are the worst kind to eat. Medium-chain carbohydrates are slightly more detailed in their structure, and will take longer for the body to digest and absorb, leading to a longer-lasting release of energy. Complex carbohydrates take the longest to break down and to be utilized by the body, resulting in a longer-lasting release of energy.
Carbohydrates second only to fat in being the most fattening of all the food types because they have the highest potential to cause imbalances in the body's sugar levels and the body's hormones, stopping fat loss cold in it's tracts! This is why regulation of carbohydrates, and eating the right carbohydrates, is essential to getting healthy, and to losing any unwanted body fat.
Picking protein, fats and carbohydrates for weight-loss. In short, to see the quickest, most dramatic fat-loss results, you will need to add more protein to your diet, eat a few tablespoons of the right fats, and eliminate all of the wrong fats, as well as all white-flour carbohydrates and sugars from your diet. While this sounds like a challenge, you will quickly find it is not. And, by making these easy, highly-beneficial changes, you will see dramatic results quickly, looking and feeling better within the first week.
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Olive oil
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Water, water, water (this is #1 and really should be the only drink you consume other than some decaf herbal tea's)
Cut out all fruit juices as they are high in sugar
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The makers of Bumble Bee Tuna generated some buzz today by announcing they will be producing a fish oil supplement with their Tuna's name on the bottle. None of the reports mention if they are using an particular standization and quality processes or what methods they are using to ensure that environmental toxins are not being concentrated into their supplement.
Antioxidants - Add a Lean, Muscular Body to the List of Benefits!
I'm sure by now you've heard all about the amazing health benefits of antioxidant rich foods in your diet. Not only do these free-radical fighting antioxidants help you look and feel younger by slowing down the aging process, but they also help to prevent cancer, heart disease, and loads of other degenerative diseases.
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What Everybody Ought to Know About Food Additives
Every day we are bombarded with information about food products that are healthy, all natural, have no artificial ingredients, no preservatives, low fat, no fat, no cholesterol, sugar free, vitamin fortified and provide 100% of your daily vitamin requirements. Are these foods as healthy as the advertising tries to make us believe they are?Let's look at the facts.
A Background to Dietary Fiber
Fiber is the part of the plant that is resistant to hydrolysis (A chemical decomposition in which a substance is split into simpler compounds by the addition or the taking up of the elements of water) by human digestive enzymes and, with the exception of lignin, fibers are complex carbohydrates. These include pectin, gums, mucilages, hemicellulose, polysaccharides cellulose, and nonpolysaccharide lignins.
Building Better Bones
"It is a bone-deep change you are going into, my beloved," counsels Grandmother Growth. "You must open to your very marrow for this transformation.
Nutrition For Your Young Athlete
Nutrition is extremely important for any young person,especially an athletic one, and even more so during thedevelopmental years of their life. Whether your child isinvolved in soccer or football, gymnastics or swimming orLittle League, he or she needs a good nutritive balance inorder to be successful in any endeavor.
Guerilla Health Tactics: 5 Snappy Rules For a Healthier, Happier You
The subject of health care itself often seems plagued with conflicting advice, or even heated controversy. Witness the recent Cruise-Shields incident, which will doubtless occupy several chapters in future health and nutrition texts.
Dietary Sources of Glutathione
DIETARY SOURCES OF GLUTATHIONE: Glutathione (GSH) is an antioxidant and detoxifying agent whose protective role has been demonstrated in numerous clinical studies. GSH is synthesized rapidly in the liver, kidneys, and other tissues of the body, including the gastrointestinal tract.
The Omega Zone Diet and Fish Oil
The Omega Zone Diet and specialists' opinion"Omega RX Zone - The Miracle of High-dose Fish Oil" is considered the best contribution that Dr. Barry Sears has yet made to a healthy diet.
Food for Healthy Nails
Nails are a protective horn at the end of our most sensitive extremities: fingers and toes. They can often become injured from accidents or crushing weight such as heavy walking or running.
An Apple a Day, Does Keep the Doctor Away
Increasing the fiber in your diet has been shown to: reduce your cholesterol, reduce your hunger, lower your fat absorption, reduce surges in insulin levels, help with weight loss, lower the risk of colon cancer, and lower your risk of heart disease. WOW! Sounds like a miracle cure - where can I get this stuff? The answer: At your grocery store.
Four Important Nutrients - Vitamin E, Selenium, Sodium and Potassium - For Good Health
Vitamin EThere has been a lot of controversy about vitamin E lately. In the news last month, the news media was pushing a story that "Vitamin E can cause you to die.
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Water is the single most important element for human existence, yet many people do not know much about water. Water comprises 60% of a human's body weight, counts for 80% of our blood, and comprises over 65% of our brain and muscles.
5 Tips for Dining Out and Eating Healthily
Here's food for thought! Did you know the average restaurant mealhas over 1,000 calories? That's enough to blow any healthy eatingplan. Fortunately, by following a few simple guidelines, you candine out without having to sacrifice good taste and nutrition.
The Minefield Of Eating Out On A Gluten Free Diet
Eating out when you are on a restricted diet always has the potential for difficulty. Only yesterday I was reminded of this when we went out for a late Sunday meal.
Policosinol and Cholesterol Reduction
The word cholesterol has become synonymous with poor health. Indeed, one does not typically hear the word used, or see it printed, unless it points to yet another distressing fact -- that high cholesterol is the number one factor for coronary heart disease, and the number one cause of heart attacks[i].
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How Thinking of Failure Can Help You Succeed
I know the title of this post sounds strange and may even be impossible to believe. However, recent research shows it's true – thoughts of failure can help you succeed. And more surprisingly thoughts of success can help you fail. It all depends on how many successes or failures you are thinking about.
In one study conducted by Leila Selimbegovica, Isabelle Régnerb, Rasyid Bo Sanitiosoc and Pascal Huguetd participants were divided into four groups.
Members of each group were asked to think about math memories before taking a math test.
One group was asked to think of one time they succeeded in math.
Another group was asked to think of one time they failed in math
A third group was asked to think of several math successes.
A fourth group was asked to think of several math failures.
Which groups did best on the test?
The group that thought of several successes in math AND the group that thought of only one failure in math did better than the other groups.
But why?
Researchers explain that when a person thinks of just one failure or one success they think that the event was produced by external factors. So the failure or success was caused by something other than the person's traits. This means that thinking of one success makes you think that you are not responsible for the success which lowers your confidence and performance. And thinking of just one failure makes you feel you are not responsible for that failure which surprisingly raises your confidence and performance.
However, when you think of several successes or failures, the only thing in common with all those experiences is that they happened to you. And your mind infers from this that something about you produced those successes or failures. As a result, thinking of many successes makes you confident and thinking of many failures makes you lose confidence (no surprise there).
So how do you use this information to better your life?
Before an important meeting or performance, think of the many times in the past you have succeeded or if you don't have any past successes, think of one and only one time you failed.
You'll give yourself a confidence boost that will increase your chances of success.
Influence of general and specific autobiographical recall on subsequent behavior: The case of cognitive performance.
Leila Selimbegovica, Isabelle Régnerb, Rasyid Bo Sanitiosoc and Pascal Huguetd.


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Obesity Threat for a Generation
In this section of Seattle Organic Restaurants I'm going to talk about the obesity era. If you go with the flow in America you end up overweight or obese as two thirds of Americans are. Obesity maps of different states in America over years prove that obesity rate has increased drastically.
- MORE THAN 36% of adults in America have CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
- 25% of Americans have excessive amount of FAT in their LIVER
- More than 40% of leading CAUSES OF DEATH in America today is DIABETES. - 20% of CHILDREN today have PLAQUES (fat deposits) in their arteries, these children are often times diagnosed with HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE and HIGH LEVEL OF CHOLESTEROL
Obesity is more of a national issue than a personal issue and it's very much related to our environment like the way our cities are designed or the way our food policies are. Tennessee and Alabama are marked as the states with highest rate of obesity in America. A recent study shows that obesity and overweight rate in neighborhoods that do not have any supermarkets that sells fresh products is much higher than others. Obesity is affected by many factors in the environment such as our lack of physical activity, stress and food supply.
More than 95% of adults in America do not meet the physical activity guideline because they aren't active enough. Having access to green zones and walkways increases the physical activity a lot. In the last century infectious diseases were the number one cause of death and in the last few decades they were replaced by chronic diseases caused by obesity.
The obesity epidemic started in the early 1980s and as we can see the signs of obesity have exploded in the last few decades. 5 out of 10 deaths in America are related to obesity. Obesity can cause a wave of chronic diseases such as cancer, stroke, diabetes, kidney problems and heart failures. Obesity is the biggest threat to the health of people in America. Statistics show that if the obesity increases as the current rate by 2030 between 35% and 55% of adults in America are going to be obese. Obesity is also a major deriving force for insulin resistance.
MORE THAN 36% of adults in America have CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE. 25% of Americans have excessive amount of FAT in their LIVER. More than 40% of leading CAUSES OF DEATH in America today is DIABETES. 20% of CHILDREN today have PLAQUES (fat deposits) in their arteries, these children are often times diagnosed with high blood pressure and high level of cholesterol.
This was the very first scientific evidence that proves plaques can exist in kids. 150 billion dollars a year is spent on the health consequences of obesity. If the obesity increases as the current rate the costs of health care by 2018 will increase to 300 billion dollars. Every year Obesity costs American businesses over 70 billion dollars and the productivity and utilization of work places also decreases as a result of obesity.
Excessive EatingExcessive eating is one of the factors contributing to obesity. Our genetics wouldn't let us turn down calories when they are in front of us. Our bodies are designed for a certain life style and that is consuming low calories and staying physically active. Scarcity is the other factor that is contributing to obesity. Back in the day when there wasn't a lot of food available for all of us and we could kill a large animal we had to consume as much as we could over a short period of time. Our brains couldn't digest the idea that after a few bites we are full and we don't need to eat that much. The excessive fat and sugar blocks our senses to stop eating when we are actually full. The excessive amount of fat and sugar also condition us to overeat and that conditioning is extremely POWERFUL and INDISPENSABLE for SURVIVAL.