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Friday, April 1, 2011
Open Friday: "Ridiculous" Characters
For example, long ago, I had a recurring NPC in my Gamma World campaign of old who was a mutant chicken called simply The Colonel. He was a military genius and a member of the Ranks of the Fit cryptic alliance, so he terrorized the PCs and indeed the whole area out of which they were operating for some time. But he looked and acted like Foghorn Leghorn from old Warner Brothers cartoons, right down to his Central Virginia accent. The Colonel was a perfectly serious Gamma World character and a dangerous foe of the PCs. To an outsider, though, he'd probably have appeared to be solely a joke. He was humorous in origin, obviously, but I didn't create him just as a gag -- quite the contrary in fact.
So, has anyone else created characters like this? Characters who possess ridiculous elements but aren't themselves ridiculous?
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Not sure if this counts, but I did have a Gully Dwarf character once, with abysmal stats, unable to count above 2, generally all round poor. He was a proper character and all, not played for laughs, but he was hopeless. He would go scouting and come back, reporting he'd seen only two monsters, when of course there were many more.
As far as I can remember, my characters (PC or NPC) are usually played straight.It's not my own characters, but players in my current campaign have created a psionic, hyper-intelligent cat and a flying monkey (as in Wizard of Oz). Both characters are completely serious in the context of the pulp-era dimension-hopping campaign (thanks to lots of adventures in the lands of Faerie).
ReplyDeleteRetoad the Retard - a BECMI magic user with all 3 stats, a mute, and knows only the spell ventriloquism and can only make badly sounding cat meows with it. Me and my DM (in those days) ran him through the Basic adventure in the book and he survived! In fact he survived for a few quickie adventures. We begun to joke about how maybe he'll make it to name level and invented his theme song "If he can't do it, you sure can! He's Retoad... the retard!!". Than he died.
We would later make Retoad II, III, and IV; but all died right away. There could be only one Retoad.Lathargic the Lazy, the self proclaimed petty god of lazy napping.
A recurring NPC who told all he was a real god, the god of laziness. For food and shelter he would share his dogma to all (Why walk when you can be carried, why be carried when you could sleep). Was he a charlatan or a god?
Azmar! A minotaur gladiator champion who talked about himself in 3rd person, "I am Azmar!" He would spend his time flexing his muscles in the arena while the PCs fought the arena monsters and come in at the last moment for the final kill and all the glory. One PC decided his halfling saw Azmar as a real action hero, and would play his PC always starstruck whenever he met up with him, even when he was a level 17 paladin in charge of the South Amn.
Zvarks the merchant kobold (NPC). A kobold who drove around in a wagon selling gear, especially his flying rock - a rock tied on a string. He would "wake up the rock" and begin to spin the string. A flying rock (and the string was *only* there to keep the awaken rock from flying away)!
Captain Jerkoff and the crew of the Rentaprise, like Commander Spook (wind gensai), Dr.Bones (a lich), LT.Woof (werewolf), and the All-star Bard Band (Five 20th lvl bards who played the "fight song , da da da daa da daaa da... you know the one! They never fought, just played the fight song for the crew). Again recurring NPCs who the players would get a ride on their ship.After debating bell curves vs. linear progressions, we decided to play a game with characters created by rolling 1d20 instead of 3d6. Amazingly I managed to roll both a natural 20 and a natural 1, in Strength and Constitution respectively. Trying to find an explanation for these wildly opposed stats I came up with: Gramps the Destroyer! Clinging to the memories of his halcyon youth when he was your typical muscle-bound oiled-up loin clothe wearing barbarian warrior, Gramps manged to maintain his muscle tone and insisted on continuing to go on crazy adventures. However, his bones were brittle and combat would end very quickly for him one way or another. "Behold, the awesome power of... ow, my hip!"
ReplyDeleteConan the Librarian.
He was a Barbarian, per Unearthed Arcana rules, and was actually a pretty serious character with sub-9 INT, and 18/00 STR. He wielded a two-handed barbed sword which per our rules did d12+1 damage. Basically, he was license to produce untold carnage and game imbalance on unsuspecting NPCs and randomly rolled monsters.
But hell, we were 12 years old, so it was way cool.I ran a space opera campaign where the players were aboard an automated starship. Its security drones were called O.D.I.E.'s (Offensive/Defensive Intruder Eradictaors). They looked and spoke like Daleks: ERADICATE!!!
They were quite loyal, except for the Medical O.D.I.E. that spoke in a heavy accent and acted like a mad scientist.I'm not sure if this one fits well with the whole "in context" or not. A friend of mine started up a 4e campaign in the Forgotten Realms, and I noted how the setting had gone through every single edition of D&D within, what, 50 years of the setting's history?
So I made Argyle the Red, an old, senile wizard who wore a musty, moth-eaten orange robe (it used to be red!). His back-story was that he lived through every edition of D&D. When he cast Fireball, he would throw out some bat guano, and then pick it back up when it didn't disappear with the spell. He constantly prefaced his sentences with "Back in my day...". All the other characters just chalked his rants about how "the physics of the universe keep changing!" up to him being senile.A heavy engineering robot struck sentient, who was woefully clumsy but, due to the GURPS advantage "perfect balance" was also able to walk a tightrope.
She (the only sentient robot in the setting, she identified female on a coin toss) was merely eccentric until the night the rest of the party went carousing and she tagged along... and suffered Rientsian carousing fallout that made the collected players wince. After that it became increasingly difficult to play her straight.Not as crazy as a chicken, but an AD&D thief named, Mhee (pronounced, Me). The game centered around a group of cutthroats who were paid to infiltrate the houses of nobles. Due to the characters high charisma (15 whoo!), he was tasked with target distraction. Simply walking up to the house guard and giving his name turned into a Monty Python skit, which ultimately drew a lot of attention due to argument and aggravation. All the while his comrades quietly slipped by.
I really hate absurd names, but for this campaign it made for a really effective character, and great roleplay.Just to show how James M's blog is influencing my playstyle, in our current ADD1 game, I play a 1rst level wizard living in a remote village who deliberately dons a pointy hat and moons-and-stars blue robes , because he thinks it will impress people. Of course nobody takes him seriously because the party also counts two multi-classed elven mages...
ReplyDeleteAdnd2E Planescape. Played a rogue modron. Big box with a single eye. He was unnamed, my necromancer companion simply called him "Box" and thus the necromancer was named "Box Rider" for his habit of riding atop my character, which seemed to please Box.
Box wielded a two-handed sword that he never saw fit to sharpen and which he drug along the ground behind him.
His signature attack was to run into an enemy, knocking them over, then proceed to dance on them, crushing them with his immense weight. Dance of Death, 2d12 for as long as it is maintained.
Box also had a bad habit of crashing through the walls of Tanari bars, which frightened the necromancer immensely, and equally amused the tanari.In my Star Wars campaigns, one of the players ran a Tusken Shaman who later became a Jedi. The player was unable to come up with a name for his character right away, so one of the others just called him "Bob"- and the name stuck. "Bob" the Tusken Jedi is, on its surface, a rather silly concept, but he has since turned out to be one of the most interesting characters in the campaign, and has truly become (with a few exceptions) a paragon of the Jedi ideal...even if he is still a barbarian at heart.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite is from my current game. Diego Silverclaw, blackbear vampire, right hand of Strahd. Silly, isn't it?
Now for the background. We're playing 3E Expedition to Ravenloft at work. New guy joined our group and as a first time player, he started off as a first level human rogue named Diego. He was quite a bit below the rest of the group, you have to learn the ropes, you know. So he got to 4th level, and died. So the Druid of the group used reincarnation...and he came back as a black bear.
With this new body, he became REALLY effective. Especially after he had his claws dipped in silver so that he could effect the werewolves they were fighting at the time. So he decided to take a few levels of barbarian. So he was a 3rd level rogue/3rd level barbarian, named Diego Silverclaw.
Then woe happened, the player got fired. Oops. So what happened to the character? Strahd bit him and he became a vampire. With the varied bonuses from the black bear and the vampire template, he ended up with something like a 27 dex. The rest of the group lives in mortal terror of him.
I love this type of thing because it is sooo unusual and it could only have happened due to the random dice rolls that happen in play.The most recent Big Bad for my current 3E campaign featured an eighteen-inch tall, thoroughly deranged and genetically degenerate (and evil) gnome called The Infallible Alchemist.
He wore pink and purple silk outfits, overlong capes and tall hats to make himself more imposing. He would respond with any perceived slight against his ability with rage and a long rant.
At first, everyone thought that he was just silly and eccentric. Then, when he summoned a devil out of the depths of the earth, stole hundreds of souls of innocent bystanders, changed one of the party into a guinea pig, and started killing people with sheets of lightning, they took him a bit more seriously.
The Infallible Alchemist's best line, in my opinion: (handing his business card to a PC, consisting only of a black circle on a white background) "Here's my card, share it with your friends."
PC: "But why is it just a circle?"
(one of the players actually saw the next line coming, and spoke it along with him...almost)
IA: "Because it's the perfect number!"
PC: "Umm...a circle isn't a number. You know that, right?"
IA: (snatching the business card away) "Give it back, and get out of my shop!"2E, Forgotten Realms
El Capitan, a fighting man with true 18/00 strength (I actually rolled it in front of several witnesses!) who specialized in darts, wore a custom made bandolier, a massive sombrero and was obsessively compulsive about maintaining a 5 o'clock shadow. Gamey as hell but he was a hard man extraordinaire.
Unbeknownst to me at the time, my DM would often insert him into some of his other campaigns as the Mysterious Stranger who arrived on the scene to help out a party in dire straights. In one of his unrulier campaigns filled with unrepentant power-gamers he was one of many NPC's the DM used to reign in out-of-control PC's. Dispenser of justice and retribution etc.- AnonymousApril 1, 2011 at 12:50 PM
It might be more suitable for the"cheating stats" thread, but one of my favorite characters of all time was a magic user I dubbed "Gek, the Incompetent". The only one of his stats higher than 10 was his 14 Intelligence. He was 4th level before ANYTHING failed a save against one of his spells. I expected him to promptly die, but nothing could kill that guy.
Gek's first encounter was a giant spider. It chewed its way through the entire party before reaching Gek (who was wisely cowering behind the others). He then proceeded to club the AC: 3 arachnid to death with his staff, rolling three consecutive Nat 20s. One of the NPCs that my players confronted once was a very muscular bald man, extremely deadly with his magic composite long bow, but he didn't have legs at all. As a compensation, he had a belt of flying, which allowed him to move and the funny thing of this is that he was able to fly over his companions and shoot at the players in a corridor while the other NPCs (as deadly as him) were slashing at the PCs in melee!
In this group (named the Chaos Team, a well earned nickname for this party whose goal was to rival with the PCs party during a deadly competition) there was also a very muscular "giant dwarf" (he was 6 feet tall) completely naked except for his loincloth and, as a weapon, he was wielding a deadly club made with the femur of a former demon prince (so it was an evil relic).
And another member of the Chaos Team (they were six at all) was a high level chaotic evil halfling assassin with a wand of wonder and a compulsive urge to use it as often as possible...
We laughed so much during this game...Hey folks,
Two come to mind. 1) a Dark Cleric had a Troll warrior as a companion. For some odd reason, someone nicknamed him "Fluffy." So he was forever Fluff the War Troll, upon which players would reply, "Awwwwww... "
2) I had lots of fun playing an R2 unit in a Star Wars game. Pretty silly concept but played seriously. He kept wanting everyone to add cybernetics to be more like him.
AndrewMy campaign has a very strong Law/Balance/Chaos theme from Moorcock. Many of the adventures stem from the fact that a bored Chaos Lord, Balo the Jester, has taken an interest in the PC's who are 'always toddling about the wilderness sticking their noses in to the business of others..." He also takes delight in complicating the plots of one of his rivals, Dartilla, normally by inserting the PC's in harms way in direct opposition to her agents.
Balo's tool in Quindia, Pincoch the Leo, is a capering Champion of Chaos who dresses in the classic garb of a court jester, including bells on his hat. He acts as a patron or foil, helping or hindering in equal measure. An ever present prop is a hand puppet that he holds one sided conversations with - seeking advice, information, or insults. Recently the appearance of the puppet has changed to a caricature of one of the PC's who more actively seeks a path toward becoming a Chaos Champion himself.
My players are delighted and wary every time they hear the jingling bells and tittering babble that normally precedes the appearance of the Chaos Champion...Quindia is actually full of ridiculous things... Captain Ron (as brought to life by Kurt Russel in the movie) with a gnome mate called 'Swab' in coke-bottle glasses is frequently encountered when the PC's are in a port city...
Meelfus Zeeblirock is the master of the Tower of Sometimes which changes location. It is actually mounted on the back of a giant tortoise which may be commanded to carry the tower to it's new destination. When in motion, powerful illusions hide the procession and when arriving at it's new location, the monster becomes semi-ethereal and sinks, rather than burrows into the ground (thus leaving no trace of the pit when it moves on again).
Dr Who (the Tom Baker version) met the characters briefly as well, though this was on a jaunt through the planes, not on Quindia.
Melf the Mushroom Mage, a myconoid magic-user with a wand of fireballs, joined the PCs for one adventure in the underdark.
Humor is always part of my campaign and seems normal in Quindia. My players always embrace these strange characters and events...The Tease, a teenage raver endowed with the ability to copy others' skills and superpowers and armed with a bag of joker-style gag weapons. She rescued her uncle, the mayor (and secretly the Freedom Eagle), and decided it would be fun to humiliate villains in her spare time... plus hopefully get her points with her crush, the local Batman expy.
ReplyDeleteJoke in real life/dead serious within the context of the game describes most of my characters really. Off the top of my head, there's...
- My half-orc paladin princess (whose claim to the throne is somewhat hampered by the absent King's regents cover-up of his secret "husky and tusky" fetish).
- The wandering monk who believed they had committed the greatest sin imaginable by spilling a glass of wine in what was actually a low key ritual whose main purpose was letting everyone see toddlers in cute outfits bringing things to a priest, leading to a lifetime of searching for new forms of atonement.
- Princeton Whimplethorpe, the scrawny fair-haired promising acting student who spontaneously became a (Shadowrun) troll in his late teens, ruining his career.
-I was once in a campaign where everyone was using a random fantasy name generator which, immediately after I declared I was making an aquatic elf, spit out "Navy" and "Blue." The fact that I was making an aquatic elf for a landlocked campaign is probably worth noting as well.Elvish, the 12th level Elven Minstrel, King of Rock n' Roll, and hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love. He was a bard/Elvis impersonator who preferred sequined jumpsuits over armor and always wore a pair of stylish shades. He was my ridiculous, though still quite effective, character during the latter days of D&D 2nd edition.
You can see Elvish's character sheet and illustration here:
http://rpggeek.com/image/940189/personal-character-shrineFor the one session of a Stormbringer game that I ever played in, I created a character who had the lowest possible Size rating. So, a midget. And I wanted him to have a mount to ride, but even the donkeys and ponies available were too big for him. So he bought an animal that was not only smaller than a donkey or pony, but also smarter and cheaper too. A pig. But the GM so couldn't stand the idea of a midget riding a pig around in his oh-so-serious Stormbringer game that he decided there just happened to be a powerful sorcerer around who took a hating to him and killed him -- and his pig too.
ReplyDelete- AnonymousApril 1, 2011 at 4:00 PM
The 200+ year old character in Ringworld. Because the rest of the players had rolled more in line with the expected curve of characters, the GM felt this guy would dominate. So he was suffering from PTSD from the Man-Kzin wars and couldn't remember most of his past or skills. In a crisis, or at random (I had to remind the GM at regular intervals to let me throw D% so he could check his own random effects table), things would come back to him. Sometimes useful, sometimes not.
ReplyDelete Haven't see Boot Hill mentioned here yet - but Dettlinger was the coward to end all cowards. He fought the Gunfight in the OK Corral's Outhouse and once, when an NPC asked "You a man or a yeller-bellied SOB?" fell to the ground barking and complaining that someone had painted his belly yellow...
ReplyDelete- AnonymousApril 1, 2011 at 5:17 PM
The A-Team: three warriors and my dwarf: they were totally badass, and I had the pleasure to be B.A. Baracus, a black dwarf with a mohawk, wearing a chainmail overall and a big number of necklaces made of ears picked from dead enemies.
Oh, he was very afraid of ride on a chariot, since there were no planes... Hard to decide, as I've always had an attraction to the outre. However the latest one was Squeek, a monkeysquid that was a powerful magician (in Swashbucklers of the 7 Seas). Surprisingly workable and fun character.
Although my favourite would have to be Fred and Ernie. A rather friendly two-headed Dragonsnail who constantly argued with itself and could only breathe fire by accident (or when made to giggle). A surprisingly likeable (and rather lonely) Chaos monstrosity. [Runequest]
Sometimes the outre characters worked (in context of the overall game); other times they didn't, in which case I soon retired them (usually well before the GM requested that I do so, which is how I got to keep trying strange juxtapositions of characters).The Mighty Thanatos: an aging, punch drunk gladiator in an all to brief Xena & Hercules game. He carried no weapons and wore only the tiniest of tiny loincloths. He could barely remember how to speak - the only words anyone ever heard him say were "I am the Mighty Thanatos!" in an outrageous Arnie-esque Austrian accent.
He didn't even deign to carry weapons: he would simply pick up some random mook by the ankles and swing him around like a club. He was originally played for laughs but came to be something of a tragic figure when the other characters finally figured out that he really was a simple, gentle soul, who truly could not figure out why people always seemed to want to hurt him. The mini-campaign ended up changing direction altogether when the other players worked out he had been cursed by his father Ares for being a bit of a wimp. In the end, Thanatos died before the curse could be lifted, but not before he found the simple pleasures of finger painting and paddling in puddles.
He was, you might have guessed, rather strongly based on a certain character from the Goonies.- AnonymousApril 1, 2011 at 8:18 PM
We all must have had a "Conan the Librarian". Ours was in charge of the archives of the local Magic Users guild. Things got ugly when one of our party borrowed something but couldn't get it back on time
Party member - "Conan the Librarian, I beg your forgiveness! This tome is 3 days overdue".
DM as Conan, leaps from his chair and in his best "Arnie" voice, "Eat cold steel scum!".
Needless say, the party brawling with their librarian was not the best way to ingratiate ourselves with the local MU guild. In a Vampire - The Masquerade, I had an NPC human named 'Kowalski' who was a taxi driver. Kowalski was a stereotypical Brooklyner (although the game was set in Washington DC).
Whenever the PCs took a cab, regardless of the situation, it was always Kowalski who picked them up. He also spoke in stereotypical catch phrases ('youse guys', 'fuggitaboudit', 'buncha mooks') and complained about the tip ('buncha cheepskates').
Eventually, the PCs started using their vampiric powers... not to dominate Kowalski, but to rob a bank of 1 million dollars in which to tip Kowalski.
His response: "Nice tip... buncha cheapskates."
Clearly the most illogical character I've ever incorporated into a game.
Several years later, I ran a Trek game and had a helmsman based identially off of Kowalski (except I changed his name to 'Sparks').
What was I thinking?- AnonymousApril 2, 2011 at 12:04 AM
I'm late to this, but here is my most ridiculous character, Yukiko Akizuki, a schoolgirl Yamanba Shinto priestess I played in Feng Shui.
Feng Shui is a shit system but that campaign really brought out the imaginative best of all of the players. As I am going to post in my second A-Z blog post today....
I ran a Drow in a friend's campaign, named Cevek (which I pronounced as suh-VEEK). He wasn't very good with common, so he pronounced everything phonetically. He ended up sounding like an escapee from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He annoyed the rest of the party to the point where they just started calling him Honda (figure it out ;).Thadeus, a Malkavian Vampire played in a WoD game. A Vampire who thought he was a Civil War sniper who was an anachronist to the point that modern technology would fail when he got near or he might frenzy b/c it clashed with his derangement.
Ended up using the character for an entire school year. By the end he had the insane ghost of Abraham Lincoln as his spirit mentor and it was proved that he was turned into a vampire during the civil war.Sir Francis the Pink, a flamboyant swashbuckling NPC pirate inspired by Zorro: The Gay Blade, the Erol Otus PC in the Rogues Gallery, and the original logo of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (winking, with a pimp hat and a dagger in his teeth).
When the party first saw him in a tavern, Francis was minding his own business, but one PC--Thorkon, a half-orc warrior--challenged the pirate to a duel, motivated by simple homophobia. Thorkon was a battle-axe wielding brute with 18/something strength, but Francis swiftly cut the half-orc into ribbons with a two-fisted cutlass and dirk routine, fueled by his 18 dexterity. The party's cleric managed to save Thorkon's life, but the half-orc's dignity suffered irreparable damage.
Of course, I couldn't resist bringing Francis back into the campaign. On a subsequent seagoing adventure, the party's vessel encountered the pirate's fleet of seven pink-sailed ships. The PCs carried the day, sinking six vessels and forcing Francis to flee in his flagship.
However, that night, Francis returned to mount a devastating counterattack: his flagship rammed the party's anchored ship, boarded it, and perpetrated a TPK. The party's watchmen didn't see it coming, because the pirate flagship was sailing without light under Silence spells, piloted by the captain's half-elf fighter/mage lover, who then cast Haste upon Sir Francis and the rest of the flagship's best fighters. The battle claimed the half-elf's life, making it a Pyrrhic victory for Sir Francis.
I don't generally delight in TPKs, but this was my finest strategic moment as a DM: taking the remnants of a force the PCs had just defeated and then besting them with it.
My players have never forgiven me. Twenty years later, they still yearn for a chance to kill the legendary pirate.
I've also used joke names occasionally for otherwise serious NPCs:
A double-classed monk/mage named Hu Wen Hao.
A belligerent Celtic pubcrawler named Hamish McHaggis.- AnonymousApril 2, 2011 at 1:39 AM
Brian, your gay zorro reminds me that once I played a single adventure of that Gygax spin off (was it Fantastic Journeys? I can't even remember the name) in which my character was a eunuch monk. He was absolutely deadly, and flamboyantly neutered.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousApril 2, 2011 at 4:01 AM
I'm afraid all my characters wind up ridiculous. It must be some sort of radiation.
Orble Littlefang (e.g. Horrible Little Thing): Half-Orc foundling raised by clerics. Wise, ugly, strong, terrible temper.. used a table leg as his weapon of choice.
Set marKesh: 374th in the line of the marKesh family. Also, a necromancer. With the shtick that all of his undead were the previous 374 generations of marKesh family members...
There are quite a few others, I'm afraid. I once played a food processor in a Star Wars game. That might be the low point. - AnonymousApril 2, 2011 at 9:47 PM
I like the food processor, Jared. Did it have any attacks?
Brian, my "flamboyantly neutered" character was straight out of Arabian Nights central casting - fat, eye make up, a lot of gauzy layers of shirt, and pantaloons. He used the poncy manner to hide the fact that he was absolutely deadly in close combat (unless you had no arms - he was a wrestler).
He was, of course, a harem guard before taking up his adventuring life. So a hit with the ladies, too (not that it was any use to him...)


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God's Word Restores Jerusalem
How good to sing praise to our God;
how pleasant to give fitting praise.a
2The LORD rebuilds Jerusalem,
and gathers the dispersed of Israel,b
3Healing the brokenhearted,
and binding up their wounds.c
4He numbers the stars,
and gives to all of them their names.d
5Great is our Lord, vast in power,
with wisdom beyond measure.e
6The LORD gives aid to the poor,
but casts the wicked to the ground.f
7Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving;
with the lyre make music to our God,g
8*Who covers the heavens with clouds,
provides rain for the earth,
makes grass sprout on the mountains,h
9Who gives animals their food
and young ravens what they cry for.i
10*He takes no delight in the strength of horses,
no pleasure in the runner's stride.j
11Rather the LORD takes pleasure in those who fear him,
those who put their hope in his mercy.
12Glorify the LORD, Jerusalem;
Zion, offer praise to your God,
13For he has strengthened the bars of your gates,
blessed your children within you.k
14He brings peace to your borders,
and satisfies you with finest wheat.l
15*He sends his command to earth;
his word runs swiftly!m
16Thus he makes the snow like wool,
and spreads the frost like ash;n
17He disperses hail like crumbs.
Who can withstand his cold?
18Yet when again he issues his command, it melts them;
he raises his winds and the waters flow.
19He proclaims his word to Jacob,
his statutes and laws to Israel.o
20He has not done this for any other nation;
of such laws they know nothing.
* [Psalm 147] The hymn is divided into three sections by the calls to praise in Ps 147:1, 7, 12. The first section praises the powerful creator who restores exiled Judah (Ps 147:1–6); the second section, the creator who provides food to animals and human beings; the third and climactic section exhorts the holy city to recognize it has been re-created and made the place of disclosure for God's word, a word as life-giving as water.
* [147:8–9] God clothes the fields and feeds the birds, cf. Mt 6:26, 30.
* [147:10–11] Acknowledging one's dependence upon God rather than claiming self-sufficiency pleases God, cf. Ps 20:8; 33:16–19.
* [147:15–19] God speaks through the thunder of nature and the word of revealed law, cf. Is 55:10–11. The weather phenomena are well known in Jerusalem: a blizzard of snow and hail followed by a thunderstorm that melts the ice.
b. [147:2] Is 11:12; 56:8; Jer 31:10.
c. [147:3] Jb 5:18; Is 30:26; 61:1; Jer 33:6.
e. [147:5] Jdt 16:13; Jer 51:15.
f. [147:6] Ps 146:9; 1 Sm 2:7–8.
h. [147:8] Ps 104:13f; Jb 5:10; Jer 14:22; Jl 2:23.
j. [147:10] Ps 20:8; 33:16–18.
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The CoolKASE is a soft cooler that that is mountable to the front or rear rack of a bicycle, ATV's, scooters, kayaks, and other forms of transportation. This portable cooler is a great way to store drinks and food for a picnic, a day of fun in the sun or when you go camping! You pick the adventure, the CoolKASE is always ready to GO!
Product Features:
- Mountable to any type of rack on a bicycle, ATV, scooter, moped, kayak, or any other form of transportation
- Tiny but mighty! Holds up to twelve 16-ounce bottles and up to 5 pounds of ice (800 cubic inches)
- Inside dimensions 8" x 11" x 9"
- Waterproof liner
- Puncture resistant outer shell (made with reinforced scrim material)
- Multi-use straps and hooks
- Easy to clean
- Light to carry
- Simple to store
- Overall construction is RF welded to make it extra durable and watertight when upright
- Includes a very useful bottle opener!
- Reflective accents for safety when traveling at night
Part Numbers
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Black / 800cm³ | 859402006321 | 2041 |
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Collar model: Paint
100% handmade.
This collar is handcrafted with 100% cotton fabric, with interlining to provide firmness as well as very resistant materials. Sewn with double seams for reinforcement. Adjustable and with a side-release curved buckle for comfort.
Please specify the size you want when making your purchase.
Available Width:
5/8" · (1.5cm) with silver or gold buckle
1" · (2.5cm) with silver or gold buckle
1,5" · (4cm) with silver metal or black plastic buckle
Available sizes:
XS: 7 - 11" (18 - 28cm) · only available in 5/8" width (1.5cm)
S: 10- 15" · (25 - 38cm)
M: 12 - 19" · (30 - 48cm)
L: 15 - 24" · (38 - 60cm)
XL: 17 - 29" · (43 - 73cm)
CUSTOM: If you're not sure which size will fit your dog and want us to make a personalized collar, you only need to measure your pup's neck and head as shown on the last image, and we will make it especially for them.
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Our clients' satisfaction and that of their fourlegged friends is our priority, and therefore we hope you love every item that you purchase from our store. But if there is any problem with your purchase, don't hesitate to contact us to resolve it.
Our collars are available in different sizes. To know which size to choose, it is best that you measure your pet's neck before buying. If none of the available sizes fit them, contact us to make a personalized one for your pet.
Even though we do our best to provide great quality products for pets, our furry friends are often unpredictable.
We use 100% cotton fabrics for the exterior of our products, because it is softer on the dog's skin, leaving the most resistant materials (interlining and nylon webbing) on the inside to make it a safe item. For these reasons, we don't use other materials. But since we use 100% cotton, it is inevitable that is suffers from wear. How it can deteriorate depends on many factors, such as how much the dog pulls, how active he or she is and how long the item is exposed to the elements.
Therefore we cannot be held responsible for the deterioration that may occur from use, as well as any harm resulting from neglect, misuse, or abuse of our products.
If upon receiving an item you wish to return it or exchange it, you have 15 days to do so, as long as it hasn't been used. Shipping fees both of returning the item and shipping the new one fall on the customer.
If you have any special request (size, color, design) don't hesitate to contact us. It will be a pleasure to answer your questions.
Wholesale orders are welcome, don't hesitate to contact us with the details.
Our collars and leashes are handmade and reinforced with 4 seams, interlining and webbing, but still, any collar or leash, however durable, will eventually wear out. Please be safe and change your pet's collar and leash when they start showing signs of wear.
All our products are made in a smoke free / multi-species environment.
Jun 2, 2022
Collare molto bello, dai colori brillanti come in foto. Titolari gentilissimi e pronti e consegna velocissima. Comprerò di sicuro nuovamente nel negozio
Apr 7, 2021
There is a reason that we keep returning to Wakakan for their collars. They are so well made and colorful! Thanks again!
May 9, 2020
Absolutely gorgeous collar - Teddy needed a nice new summer one and thought this was a lovely nod to the rainbows being shown all around the UK for our NHS. Fits well and seems sturdy - even has a cute little charm attached. The seller was really helpful and delivery from them in Spain was fast, too. Muchas gracias! 🌈
Jul 15, 2019
Todo ok. Collar muy bonito
Apr 30, 2019
The quality is great and it's really a beautiful collar, fabric is super soft, and I love the metal hardware. Shipping was super fast. The only issue I have had is the metal buckle unbuckling itself twice. But I have another collar my dog walks on so that's not too big of a deal.


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We realize that this may be the first time you have ever considered meeting a woman by using a service such as ours. This section is intended to allow you to benefit from the experience of others. By interviewing numerous men and researching volumes of material, we have compiled a top-ten list of hints that will prove beneficial in your research for a foreign woman. Even if you are an old hand at this, it's never too late to learn something new.
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1. Do Not Send Money!!! Just like anywhere, there are honest people and there are dishonest people. The point of your correspondence is to develop a special relationship with a foreign woman, not to purchase one. We want you to be aware that you may contact women who will ask you for money for one reason or another. If you are asked for money it should immediately set off alarms and you should proceed very cautiously. There are instances where there may be a valid reason to send money to someone with whom you have been corresponding for some time. In that instance it is recommended that you send it via wire (Western Union).To view previous newsletters addressing this topic please click here:
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How Can I Avoid Fraud in my Search for a Foreign Wife?
How to Waste Time and Lose Money While Searching for a Foreign Bride
2. Do include a photo of yourself, and not just any photo. Take some time and put some thought into it. For example, if you are the outdoors type you may want to take it while hiking or biking. The point is to give the women the best possible representation of yourself. In order to keep the costs of the photos to a minimum, you should consider choosing two or three of your best photos and have color copies made instead of developing a new picture for each reply.
3. Try including a little something extra to let her know she is special. This could consist of a pressed flower, or a picture of you as an infant or a toddler, or maybe a poem written in her native language. The idea is to try and distinguish your response from others.
4. Remember when writing your letter that this woman's native language is not English. That doesn't mean she will not be able to understand your letter, but by keeping it simple you will have a much better chance of successfully communicating with her. Try to avoid using four- or five- syllable words; instead of impressing her, you will probably just confuse her. Make sure you neatly print your letter as opposed to writing in cursive. If your handwriting is difficult to read, you may consider typing it.
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7. You may find it useful to do some independent research on the country of origin of the woman you are interested in. Not only will it impress the woman, but it may save you from committing a gaffe. You must always remember that this woman was raised in a totally different culture than our own. Obviously, it is in your best interest to know as much as possible about that culture.
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Rising riches: 1 in 5 in US reaches affluence
The Associated Press
| Tuesday, December 10, 2013, 10:06 a.m.
WASHINGTON — Fully 20 percent of U.S. adults become rich for parts of their lives, wielding extensive influence over America's economy and politics, according to new survey data.
These "new rich," made up largely of older professionals, working married couples and more educated singles, are becoming politically influential, and economists say their capacity to spend is key to the U.S. economic recovery. But their rise is also a sign of the nation's continuing economic polarization.
They extend well beyond the wealthiest 1 percent, a traditional group of super-rich millionaires and billionaires with long-held family assets. The new rich have household income of $250,000 or more at some point during their working lives, putting them — if sometimes temporarily — in the top 2 percent of earners.
The new survey data on the affluent are being published in an upcoming book, and an analysis by The AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research provided additional information on the views of the group.
In a country where poverty is at a record high, today's new rich are notable for their sense of economic fragility. They rely on income from their work to maintain their social position and pay for things such as private tutoring for their children. That makes them much more fiscally conservative than other Americans, polling suggests, and less likely to support public programs, such as food stamps or early public education, to help the disadvantaged.
Last week, President Barack Obama asserted that growing inequality is "the defining challenge of our time," signaling that it will be a major theme for Democrats in next year's elections.
"In this country, you don't get anywhere without working hard," said James Lott, 28, a pharmacist in Renton, Wash., who adds to his six-figure salary by day-trading stocks. The son of Nigerian immigrants, Lott says he was able to get ahead by earning an advanced pharmacy degree. He makes nearly $200,000 a year.
After growing up on food stamps, Lott now splurges occasionally on nicer restaurants, Hugo Boss shoes and extended vacations to New Orleans, Atlanta and parts of Latin America. He believes government should play a role in helping the disadvantaged. But he says the poor should be encouraged to support themselves, explaining that his single mother rose out of hardship by starting a daycare business in their home.
The new research suggests that affluent Americans are more numerous than government data depict, encompassing 21 percent of working-age adults for at least a year by the time they turn 60. That proportion has more than doubled since 1979.
Even outside periods of unusual wealth, members of this group generally hover in the $100,000-plus income range, keeping them in the top 20 percent of earners.
At the same time, an increasing polarization of low-wage work and high-skill jobs has left middle-income careers depleted.
"For many in this group, the American dream is not dead. They have reached affluence for parts of their lives and see it as very attainable, even if the dream has become more elusive for everyone else," said Mark Rank, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, who calculated numbers on the affluent for a forthcoming book, "Chasing the American Dream," to be published by the Oxford University Press.
As the fastest-growing group based on take-home pay, the new rich tend to enjoy better schools, employment and gated communities, making it easier to pass on their privilege to their children.
Because their rising status comes at a time when upward mobility in the U.S. ranks lowest among wealthy industrialized counties, the spending attitudes of the new rich have implications for politics and policy. It's now become even harder for people at the bottom to move up.
The group is more liberal than lower-income groups on issues such as abortion and gay marriage, according to an analysis of General Social Survey data by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. But when it comes to money, their views aren't so open. They're wary of any government role in closing the income gap.
In Gallup polling in October, 60 percent of people making $90,000 or more said average Americans already had "plenty of opportunity" to get ahead. Among those making less than $48,000, the share was 48 percent
Sometimes referred to by marketers as the "mass affluent," the new rich make up roughly 25 million U.S. households and account for nearly 40 percent of total U.S. consumer spending.
While paychecks shrank for most Americans after the 2007-2009 recession, theirs held steady or edged higher. In 2012, the top 20 percent of U.S. households took home a record 51 percent of the nation's income. The median income of this group is more than $150,000.
Once concentrated in the old-money enclaves of the Northeast, the new rich are now spread across the U.S., mostly in bigger cities and their suburbs. They include Washington, D.C.; Boston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Seattle. By race, whites are three times more likely to reach affluence than nonwhites.
Paul F. Nunes, managing director at Accenture's Institute for High Performance and Research, calls this group "the new power brokers of consumption." Because they spend just 60 percent of their before-tax income, often setting the rest aside for retirement or investing, he says their capacity to spend more will be important to a U.S. economic recovery.
In Miami, developers are betting on a growing luxury market, building higher-end malls featuring Cartier, Armani and Louis Vuitton and hoping to expand on South Florida's Bal Harbour, a favored hideaway of the rich.
"It's not that I don't have money. It's more like I don't have time," said Deborah Sponder, 57, walking her dog Ava recently along Miami's blossoming Design District. She was headed to one of her two art galleries — this one between the Emilio Pucci and Cartier stores and close to the Louis Vuitton and Hermes storefronts.
But Sponder said she doesn't consider her income of $250,000 as upper class, noting that she is paying college tuition for her three children. "Between rent, schooling and everything — it comes in and goes out."
The new rich's influence will only grow as middle-class families below them struggle. The Federal Reserve said Monday that the nation's wealth rose 2.6 percent from July through September to $77.3 trillion, a record high, boosted in part by a surging stock market. But the gains haven't been equally distributed; the wealthiest 10 percent of U.S. households own about 80 percent of stocks.
Both Democrats and Republicans are awakening to the political realities presented by this new demographic bubble.
Traditionally Republican, the group makes up more than 1 in 4 voters and is now more politically divided, better educated and less white and male than in the past, according to Election Day exit polls dating to the 1970s.
Sixty-nine percent of upper-income voters backed Republican Ronald Reagan and his supply-side economics of tax cuts in 1984. By 2008, Democrat Barack Obama had split their vote evenly, 49-49.
In 2012, Obama lost the group, with 54 percent backing Republican Mitt Romney.
"For the Democrats' part, traditional economic populism is poorly suited for affluent professionals," said Alan Abramowitz, an Emory University professor who specializes in political polarization.
The new rich includes Robert Kane, 39, of Colorado Springs, Colo.
A former stockbroker who once owned three houses and voted steadfastly Republican, Kane said he was humbled after the 2008 financial meltdown, which he says exposed Wall Street's excesses. Now a senior vice president for a private equity firm specializing in the marijuana business, Kane said he's concerned about upward mobility for the poor and calls wealthy politicians such as Romney "out of touch."
But Kane, now a registered independent, draws the line when it comes to higher taxes. "A dollar is best in your hand rather than the government's," he said.


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Wet pour is an impact absorbing safety surface found in schools, nurseries and local parks in July 2024 around Ascot Berkshire. Also known as 'rubber crumb' surfacing or 'soft tarmac', wet pour requires skilled teams to install.
Our wet pour installers in Ascot are trained to the highest standards and site managers have at least five years' experience.
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We offer a number of great Wetpour Contractor services in Berkshire and are more than happy in assisting you on anything from price, to dimensions, to specification.
Wetpour has two layers system including a base shock pad and a coloured top bonded together by polyurethane binder resin. This is often referred to as 'rubber tarmac' or 'soft tarmac'.
The top epdm layer wearing course has a layer of rubber granules on surfaces that make it hard to slip. In addition, the top epdm rubber crumb layer has a base layer that has an impact absorbing surfacing thus a cushion effect.
A base layer installation varies depending on the critical fall height of play equipment.
Wetpour rubber playground safety surfacing is a common feature in schools and public playgrounds.
The installation of rubber playground flooring in playgrounds in Ascot is ideal for play surfaces and available in various bright colours with different designs.
Wet Pour Rubber Crumb Surfacing and safe playground surfacing are tested to bs en 1177 safety standards to meet Critical Fall Heights safety requirements.
The wet pour safety flooring is installed under playground equipment, including swings and climbing frames, as an impact-absorbing safe surface specification.
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If you need a wetpour safety surface installation process or repairs, it is good to hire a suitable expert.
A wetpour expert can deal with the repairing and maintenance work that can be required around Ascot.
Wetpour repair is a common problem that wetpour contractors offer solutions for. If there are any cracks or holes, they'll fix them and make sure your installation will last as long as possible without more maintenance.
When does wet pour repair come in handy? When there is an incorrectly installed Wetpour or an issue with water flow on your wet pour surfacing. You need to hire a wet pour contractor and expert for quality repair services when these types of problems arise.
You should do wet pour jobs in Ascot right the first time. Repairs can be time-consuming and costly. It's best to make sure you hire a wet pour contractor and expert to prevent incurring future costs.
Wet pour maintenance is an excellent investment that can pay off with some of the best wet pour surfacing installations available today. The service usually takes about a day to finish, and wet pour contractors in Ascot will take care of all the installation. Rubber surface requires minimal maintenance compared to other soft surfaces.
Wetpour maintenance is a simple process that our wet pour contractors can help you with. They'll make sure the wet pour is in good shape, and it's not going to need any repairs.
First, wet pour contractors will inspect installation for any damages and fix things like broken rubber tiles, missing concrete, or lost aggregate, so your installation looks its best for a long time.
Keep up with any necessary sealants so water, dust, or other substances won't get inside the wet pour surfacing. For example, wet pour concrete sealant protects Wetpour if done on year-round use, so you'll know that the installation will be in good condition.
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Wet pour surfaces are usually installed on a play area in Ascot because they offer safety to children, and rubber granules make the playground flooring non-slippery to play on. Also, they can be coloured with different colours so that children will feel stimulated by the variety of bright colours.
A Multi-Use Games Area(MUGA) is a wet pour installation used for more than one purpose. Usually, you need concrete sealant because MUGA's are mainly outside and can get wet if it rains or snows, which would create slippery conditions on the surface of the wet pour.
Playground safety surface markings in Ascot include: lines, circles, squares, and other shapes, wet pour installations is a great surface to use for the different types of markings because it can be used wet or dry without being slippery.
A wet pour athletics track can be resurfaced in a fraction of the time it would take to lay and finish with traditional methods. This method is also less expensive and has high durability.
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The playground flooring specification to meet bs en 1177 is a great two layered system to install under safer play equipment.
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Wetpour can be installed onto a concrete sub-base, and wet pour surfacing will provide an excellent anti-slip surface.
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Wet pour is applied on an MOT surface depending on the contractors' wet pour surface specification or the required depth.
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The prices vary depending on what you require. However, they are typically between £14 and £20 per square metre for wet pour surface installation.
Wet pour contractors also charge an additional fee for new installation over hard standing. They'll need to excavate and then fill in again afterwards with hardcore or a sub-base before laying the best playground surfacing materials.
Doing it yourself is a cheaper option than a wet pour contractor installing for you. You can also do wet pour surface installation on your domestic gardens or driveway if you're handy with a shovel and Wetpour supplies.
In conclusion, safety surfacing materials have been tested in-depth and been found suitable to install on any surfacing you may need. We invite you to wet pour contractors in Uk around Ascot and wet pour surfacing materials to learn more about the many benefits of wet pouring.
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In this project-centered course*, you will create a content-rich infographic on a topic of your choice using Adobe Illustrator (which you can download for a free, 30-day trial). You might choose to create a visual representation of data from the world of sports, entertainment, politics, or science, to explain a business trend or environmental issue, or even to present a theme or development from your personal life. Your finished infographic will engage your target audience and convey information clearly through effective use of design elements such as typography, color, and structure.
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This project-based course is aimed at anyone interested in understanding, designing, and using infographics – from students and hobbyists to professional graphic designers.
We'll use Adobe Illustrator for some components of the project. If you don't have access to the full version of Illustrator,you can download a free version at www.Adobe.com/Illustrator. If the free 30-day trial runs out, you can "purchase" it for a month for about $20.
*About Project-Centered Courses: Project centered courses are designed specifically to help you complete a personally meaningful real-world project, with your instructor and a community of like-minded learners providing guidance and suggestions along the way. By actively applying new concepts as you learn, you'll master the course content more efficiently; you'll also get a head start on using the skills you gain to make positive changes in your life and career. When you complete the course, you'll have a finished project that you'll be proud to use and share. When you enroll in certain courses, you'll be asked to pay a small fee to share your work with others for peer review.


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Royals - 000 001 000 000 02 - 3 12 1 Red Sox - 010 000 000 000 00 - 1 13 0Boston had (at least) two golden opportunities to win this game. In the bottom of the ninth, the Red Sox had runners at first and third with one out, but Carl Crawford (who has three walk-off hits this year) struck out and Josh Reddick flied to right.
In the 12th, Reddick singled and, after Jarrod Saltalamacchia flew out to left, raced to third on Royals pitcher Louis Coleman's errant pickoff throw. Marco Scutaro missed the squeeze sign on his first pitch and Reddick was easily tagged out 2-5. Scutaro singled to left, but was cut down trying to stretch his single into a double. So Boston sent only three men to the plate in the inning and scored no runs and left no one on base, but had two singles and a two-base error.
Unlike Boston's recent 16-inning game against the Rays, in which Terry Francona was able to save his best pitchers to pitch deep into the marathon, the Sox used their best arms (Matt Albers, Daniel Bard, Jonathan Papelbon) in the 7th-9th innings, and were forced to rely on Franklin Morales, Dan Wheeler, and Randy Williams in extra frames.
It was only a matter of time before one of them wilted. Kansas City scored two runs against Williams (in his second inning of work) and the Red Sox came up empty against Joakim Soria. Reddick doubled with one out, but Salty and Scutaro both struck out.
John Lackey had gone down to the pen in the 14th and was getting loose, and would likely have pitched in relief if the game had continued.
Kyle Davies / Jon Lester
Lester returns from the DL (strained left latissimus) to make his first start since July 5. In that start, he threw four no-hit innings before being pulled. Lester will likely be limited to 80-90 pitches.
Terry Francona:
Now it's about building up endurance ... You try to balance winning the game and bringing him along where he can get on a roll. ... He's going to go out there and fire and try to win. And that's good, but we've got to keep an eye on him.How did Tito celebrate his 1,000th win as a manager on Saturday night? "Had a grilled cheese sandwich."
John Autin, Baseball Reference Blog:
Through Saturday 7/23, Red Sox hold 4 of the AL's top 5 spots in Wins Above Replacement [BRef version] for position players:The 1902 Pirates had Honus Wagner (8.1), Tommy Leach (6.4), Ginger Beaumont (6.2), and Fred Clarke (6.2).
#2 - Dustin Pedroia, 5.3All 4 hitters are on pace for at least 6.4 WAR. No team has had 4 position players at that level.
#3 (tie) - Jacoby Ellsbury and Adrian Gonzalez, 4.8
#5 (tie) - Kevin Youkilis and Adrian Beltre (Texas), 3.9
Only one team ever had 4 position players with 6 Wins Above Replacement (often called the threshold of "MVP level"): the 1902 Pirates, who went 103-36, a .741 W% that's 2nd best in modern history.
Dropping the threshold a bit, here are the nine teams with 4 position players >= 5.5 WAR ...
SoSHer redoctober3829 posted some stats:
Looking at some other stats among AL players, it boggles my mind just how good this lineup is.MFY: Mariners/Yankees at 7 PM.
OBP - Red Sox players are 3rd, 4th, and 5th BA - 2 Red Sox in top 10 SLG - 2 Red Sox in top 5 OPS - 5 Red Sox in top 11 Hits - 3 Red Sox in top 10 Total Bases - 2 Red Sox in top 5 OPS+ - 3 Red Sox in top 10 wRC - 5 Red Sox in top 11 wRAA - 4 Red Sox in top 10 wRC+ - 4 Red Sox in top 10 wOBA - 5 Red Sox in top 10 WPA - 4 Red Sox in top 10Looking position-by-position, here is how the starters rank by OPS in the AL. We'll ignore Reddick because of his lack of ABs but we all know he's on fire right now. 5 of the 8 are ranked in the top 2 in their position and all but Crawford are in the top 10.
Salty - 6th Gonzalez - 2nd Pedroia - 1st Scutaro - 8th Youkilis - 1st Crawford - 29th Ellsbury - 2nd Reddick - [too few AB; 1.030 OPS] Ortiz - 1stWith Crawford starting to swing the bat well since returning from the DL, it's scary to think the lineup could get even better.


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In the heyday of the 1960s, artists in the United States turned an eye on the wonderful—and sometimes wild—images of American consumer culture. Pop artists reveled in the vibrancy of the urban landscape and in the bounty of the post-World War II economic boom. They adopted images from mass media, billboards, cartoons, tabloid magazines and advertisements. Pop Art glorified and parodied the "things"of everyday life.
Bold and outrageous, Pop art embodied the optimism and the energy of the times. The 1960s was the era of the Civil Rights Movement, the sexual revolution, psychedelics, student activism—and the proliferation of television sets in American homes. Pop artists looked aesthetically at the mundane imagery of middle-class consumer culture, and then transposed it with traditional fine art techniques. As artist and critic Max Kozloff said, "Anything goes, just as anything goes on the street."
Pop art is extroverted. It rejected the emotional angst and the romanticism of Abstract Expressionism, the revered style of an elder generation. Lucy Lippard summarized Pop artists' radical attitude: Pop chose to depict everything previously considered unworthy of notice, let alone of art; every level of advertising, Times Square jokes, tasteless bric-a-brac and gaudy furnishings, ordinary clothes and food, film stars, pin-ups, cartoons. Nothing was sacred, and the cheaper and more despicable the better.
At first, the established art world despised Pop art. It was considered trendy and facile. Critics mockingly called Pop artists "new vulgarians," "American sign painters," "urban folk artists" and "new Regionalists." However, their familiar, often amusing images were an instant hit with the public.
Not unlike Regionalist artists, such as Thomas Hart Benton, Pop artists adopted a thoroughly democratic platform. Although anti-academic, Pop art is strongly ironic and is, inherently, a form of cultural critique. While these rowdy and fun-loving images amuse us, they also examine the authority of materialism in American.
Although critics predicted that Pop art would die a quick death, it has in fact paved the way for a generation of artists who explore our relationship with the media and the symbols of our everyday landscape.
This exhibition wil be on view May 4-September 8, 2013.
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image: John Baeder, Yankee Clipper Diner, 1980, serigraph, gift of Joseph Schuster, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder.