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39 ~ Orphan #8 by Kim van Alkemade
I found this book a bit tough to get through. I was intrigued by the historical plot of Jewish Orphans but quickly realized it was in fact quite horrible for the orphans at the Hebrew Infant Asylum (Hebrew Infant Home in the novel). I don't mind learning about history but I found each time the novel had a flashback to Rachel Rabinowitz's life at the Orphan Home I wanted to skim read. Experimentation on children and the lifelong impact on the children's general wellbeing is hard to read about. I remember not thinking much of Rachel's description of her bright red hair until mid book when I realized what that was foreshadowing (the permanent loss of hair due to excessive X-rays). Orphan #8 was also a great deal more historical than cultural, as a reader I wanted a bit more of the Jewish heritage to come through.
On a side note, I agree with other reviewers on the fact that Rachel's love life didn't seem to fit the story. Rachel's history is complex enough with the murder of her mother and Rachel and her brother being sent to the Hebrew Infant Home, therefore, I'm not sure if her being a lesbian really adds to her overall character development. I would have liked to hear more about her relationship with her brother and possibly any other connections from her childhood experiences that she carried with her into adulthood.
Orphan #8 manages to capture a dark time in history and I think because of its uniqueness it is very memorable.
38~ Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
Circling the Sun was a pleasant surprise. I had previously read The Paris Wife also by Paula McLain and not really liked much about it. I gave this novel a try because I love historical fiction and the plot of British ex-pats in colonial Africa really intrigued me. Circling the Sun is a historical novel which bases its plot on the life and events of Beryl Markham in a fictional way.
Beryl Markham was not only the first female to fly solo over the Atlantic from Europe but she was also many other things. Beryl was a farmer, a horse trainer, a wife, a pilot and later in life, an author. She was an independent thinker and very ambitious. Raised on a farm in Kenya by her father, Beryl learned to fend for herself even after consecutive failures. She wrote a memoir about all of her adventures in 1942 but it was not well received at the time. Her memoir West with the Night wouldn't become popular until it was re-released in 1983, 3 years before Beryl's death.
If you are intrigued by the life of Beryl Markham I would highly suggest reading Circling the Sun.
37 ~ The Other Daughter by Lauren Willig
A short and easy read but still an enjoyable novel. The plot was unique for this genre but the romantic interests weren't entirely convincing. Not much to review on this book but the plot could be summaries as:
-Rachel finds out that she is actually the daughter of an Earl and resorts to a disguise to gain herself access to the family.
-She is befriended by Simon who hopes to further his own agenda by helping Rachel confront her father.
-Rachel soon finds herself in the midst of many family secrets as she discovers half siblings and extended family that were previously unbeknownst to her.
-The illusion of a love triangle seems to shatter leaving an opening for Rachel to swoop in and claim her happy ending.


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Players usually participate in co-operational teams, ranging from 4-10 players per team. Depending on the mission, the teams will compete against a variety of artificially intelligent NPCs (see PvE and Defense Raids), opposing players (see PvP and Arena), or against other agencies in a persistent, player-driven world (AvA). A fifth mission type, known as Warzone, has since been abandoned by Hi-Rez and will not be implemented.
There are also a few single-player and open-world segments in the game, which progress the storyline of your indvidual character. The PvE missions list also allows the player to select "Solo" mode, a single player version of the standard PvE co-op modes with less enemies and easier bosses.
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Players are allowed to create their own characters and refine their appearence with considerable detail. Players are required to create at least one character, but may utilize pre-set models or the random character generator. While creating your character, you also select your class and gender. Players may have up to eight characters saved on a single account.
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THE CANADIAN PRESS — OTTAWA - New Democrat MPs have unanimously backed rookie Quebec MP Nycole Turmel as interim leader.
The caucus has wrapped up a special caucus meeting to consider Turmel as a temporary replacement for ailing leader Jack Layton.
"We have overwhelming, unanimous support for the recommendation that Nycole Turmel be our interim leader," said Libby Davies, Layton's deputy.
Layton recommended Turmel for the post on Monday, when he announced he would take a leave of absence while undergoing another round of cancer therapy.
Turmel, a former national union leader who is already chair of the caucus, thanked her fellow MPs for their support, but declined to answer questions until her position is confirmed by the party's national council.
Davies acknowledged that the NDP faces a difficult situation with its best-known figure offstage, but she denied the party will be adrift without Layton.
"First of all, there is great strength in the caucus, there is a great sense of solidarity, there's tremendous experience," she said
The popular Layton has long polled ahead of his party in public support and New Democrats rode his personal appeal to a historic breakthrough on May 2, capturing 103 seats and official Opposition status.
In Quebec in particular, voters swung massively to the NDP largely because of Layton, not his party, his policies or his candidates. Indeed, some of the 59 New Democrats elected in Quebec were complete unknowns in their ridings, in some cases never having even visited the regions they now represent.
Thomas Mulcair, the party's Quebec lieutenant, said the NDP will carry on.
"The road that we've travelled is a good one and we're going to continue with Nycole with the same energy, the same fire on our belly, the same enthusiasm," he said.
The caucus decision must still be ratified by the national council, which is to meet tomorrow.


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James Dean in an ironic PSA (public service announcement) for driving safety with gig young. A disinterested Dean tells young kids to drive safely and that the life you might save, could be his. (Dean was killed in a terrible car wreck in his Porsche 550 Spyder, which was a convertible sports car. He had already received a ticket for speeding that same day!) I believe this was made for the California Highway Patrol - probably as part of a plea bargain to get out of another speeding ticket. Dean was killed by a fellow named Turnipseed - see the James Dean Story, a documentary on LikeTelevision, for more on the story.
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Lagafors have been supplying the Australian market through independent distributors for some time.
Late 2012 Lagafors started supply SKG directly, as it had become apparent significant sales volumes were the result of aggressive marketing through SKG's existing customer base, as well as new business opportunities.
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Analysis: Mathematics: Matrix Surface Area
Calculate matrix surface area
This feature is for OriginPro only, 8.1 SR0 or later versions.
marea im:=[mbook1] missing:=1 area:=area;
This X-Function is used to calculate the area of the matrix surface. You can specify a variable for the result area as well as whether or not to interpolate for the missing value. Also, the result area will be always put to the Results Log Window automatically.
This example is going to calculate the area of the active matrix.
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In three dimensions Cartesian space, the area of a general triangle is
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text: Don't you mean Saturday Night, Sunday Morning? Great film, and if you were a Nottingham person like myself (and is old enough to remember Nottingham in the 1950s unlike Yours Truly who was born 20 years later), you will feel as if you have been sucked into a time machine back to people did say "duck" rather than words which rhyme with it, and also when Raleigh and Players were two prominent Nottingham workforces back then. John "Nottingham North Communist candidate" Peck also makes a cameo as well, medals and all. Friday Night, Saturday Morning was that BBC 2 chat show on Friday nights between 1979 and 1982 which gave Harold "a week is a long time" Wilson his big break as the titan of chat show hosts.


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PowerPoint introduced many new changes with the release of PowerPoint 97. Prior to PowerPoint 97, presentations were linear, always proceeding from one slide to the next. PowerPoint 97 incorporated the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) language, underlying all macro generation in Office 97, which allowed users to invoke pre-defined transitions and effects in a non-linear movie-like style without having to learn programming.
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As of 2012, various versions of PowerPoint claim ~95% of the presentation software market share, with installations on at least 1 billion computers. Among presenters world-wide, this program is used at an estimated frequency of 350 times per second.
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Well, from my side, but some good-sized reads on the other.
First - Mike Shedlock covers the shortfall states are seeing. This is where it starts to hit home for people. Next comes the municipal level.
Second - Frank Shostak has a great article about the difference between "good" and "bad" credit (hint - the bailout is bad credit, which is being used to help people who were giving out the bad credit that created this mess)
Third - It's made the rounds in the news, and the blogs, and wherever else they cover this stuff. Warren Buffett's article on "buying American" provides a silver lining and positive outlook.
All worthwhile reading if you care about this sort of thing.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Economic Quickie
Well, from my side, but some good-sized reads on the other.
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After initial sketches were approved, I designed the main stylistic and transitional elements of the animation in Illustrator for approval. Once this was approved, I looked at what the flow of the video was (literally) and plotted this into a grid with one 1920×1080 rectangle in between each element so that I could have all of the different stops in the animation flow smoothly together. This file was then easily imported into After Effects where the bulk of the animation and composition was done.
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Lupita Nyong'o is making money moves in the entertainment industry. She's still riding a wave of positive press reviews after the critical acclaim her recent movie Black Panther received. The movie has not only been a fan favourite but has also shuttered Box Office records with astounding numbers for a superhero movie with a black ensemble cast.
And if you thought that was the only good news for the Kenyan Oscar winner then think again. She will be starring and producing Trevor Noah's feature film adaptation of his famous book "Born a crime."
Announcing the news to millions of followers on her Instagram page, she said:
"When I read Trevor Noah's "Born A Crime," I could not put the book down. Excited to announce that I will be starring in and producing its feature film adaptation! #BornACrime."
Trevor could not keep the excitement to himself either as he revealed shortly after with additional news, revealing she will take the leading role of his mother in the book. Trevor wrote:
"My mom is a powerful woman who could easily be one of the beautiful soldiers in Wakanda. So it's beyond a perfect fit that she would be portrayed on the big screen by the radiant and regal Lupita Nyong'o. I'm beyond excited."
Born a crime is an autobiographical comedy book by America based South African comedian Trevor Noah which details Trevor's growing up in Post-apartheid South Africa.
The title of the book stems from being born a mixed kid in a time where whites and blacks were not allowed to mix let alone date or mate!
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I looked through the games on my shelf, and thought about the games that had appealed past and present, and I think I have to go with Margaret Weis Productions. Despite my lack of enthusiasm for most of the Cortex Plus lines, I've been using Cortex classic since Serenity came out, then locked in on the Battlestar Galactica/Supernatural/Cortex Core version once it was released. It's easily my favorite set of mechanics. Funnily, even though I don't particularly like most versions of Cortex Plus — from the odious Smallville to the meh Leverage, I am somewhat fond of Firefly and think it would handle both Star Wars and Star Trek better than it does the 'Verse.
10 August, 2015
Day 10, RPGaDay 2015: Favorite RPG PublisherPosted by blackcampbell under Roleplaying Games | Tags: #rpgaday2015, cortex rpg, firefly rpg, margaret weis production |
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1 March, 2015
Hacking the Firefly RPGPosted by blackcampbell under Roleplaying Games | Tags: cortex plus, cortex rpg, firefly rpg |
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One of the few complaints that we had when we tested Firefly against Serenity was the monolithic quality of the attributes — Physical, Mental, and Social. We felt that this didn't allow the characters to be unique enough in some ways. So here's my "fix" for the attributes in Firefly…use the attributes from Serenity.
When making a character, use Agility, Strength, Vitality, Alertness, Intelligence, and Willpower, and build the character for 48 points — that gives you the same d6, d8, and d10 (x2) dispersion of Firefly. You can use these more varied attributes to customize your characters even more. Some maybe your character is very strong, but can't walk through an empty room without tripping. In Firefly, you might have chosen a d8 to balance these traits, or gone with d10 to model the big bruiser you wanted to build. With this you can give the character a d6 Agility and d10 strength.
What about Social? Here the old attribute would be Willpower.
Otherwise, you roll the same way as you do with unadulterated Firefly.
17 July, 2014
Alternate Damage Rules: Battlestar GalacticaPosted by blackcampbell under Roleplaying Games | Tags: battlestar galactica rpg, cortex rpg, gamemaster tips, serenity rpg, supernatural rpg |
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One thing I noted in the Battlestar Galactica campaign we've been running is that the system doesn't quite allow for the toaster splashing antics of Starbuck and Apollo, nor are the toasters as deadly as they could be. One reason for that is the Cortex Classic mechanic for damage in a fight. As mentioned in the Discussions on Damage post from today, the idea for these possible house rules catalyzed out of a Facebook group post that caught my attention. So without further ado:
Suggestion 1: Tying the damage die to success. You need a 7 to hit the target and get a 12. That's 5 points basic damage plus the d8W for your rifle (or viper.) At this point, anything under 5…is a 5. That means when you roll the d8W, you get between 5 and 8 as a result, so a 3 stun and 7-10 wound. This makes you a ton more effective against the toasters…and vice versa.
Suggestion 2: A static damage number that is tagged to the basic damage. As per the last example — you've done 3 stun and 2 wound basic damage. Now your rifle does 8 wound. This seems a lot more dangerous, and isn't the one I would recommend.
Suggestion 3: This is one I suggest separate from the above ideas, and is one I use in my Cortex games: characters always roll an Endurance (Vitality+Willpower) versus damage taken. If they succeed, no penalty is rendered; if they fail, they are stunned for the number of rounds they missed by. This can be bought out with a plot point, or if they have Cool under Fire or some such asset. If they are hit with an extraordinary success and the character misses the roll, they suffer the effects as per the normal rules (pg 94 in the Cortex core book.)
Suggestion 4: This has also been one I've used in our campaigns — an extraordinary success on an injury leads to some kind of lasting effect — a broken arm, or the like — that gives the character a temporary Chronic Injury complication equal to the wound, round down. So say you take 9 wound and 3 stun, but live…you have a d8 Chronic Injury, Broken Whatever that takes that many weeks of game time to heal.
As usual, feel free to completely ignore any or all of this.
2 June, 2014
Alternate Damage Mechanic: Classic CortexPosted by blackcampbell under Roleplaying Games | Tags: battlestar galactica rpg, cortex rpg, serenity rpg, supernatural rpg |
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One of the things that I've always liked about the old James Bond RPG rules set, and to a lesser extent Cortex, is that the quality of the success translates into how well damage is rendered on an opponent. In the JB:007 game, the quality result is checked against the damage class of the weapon and there's the damage done. In Cortex, the quality of the result gives you basic damage — 1/2 in stun and 1/2 in wound, but then there's the additional roll of the weapon's damage — this can give anything from a disappointing 1 up to the max of the die in wound.
It's the one issue in Cortex's combat mechanics that has always bugged me. Bang! I do 3S and 3W on my .45 pistol with a d6W and….oh. One. The second bit of random chance just seems to fly against the point of the basic damage based on quality. Granted, an extraordinary success lends the attacker certain benefits if the target doesn't make their endurance test (or in the case of mooks, I just call it an incapacitate.)
I have two suggestions to improve the way combat is handled in Cortex:
1) Weapons and damage — In the case of damage, I suggest the player be allowed to "take the average" — if a pistol has a d6W (and most do), the weapon normally does three. With an extraordinary success, it does the max for the die, in this example six. (Ex. Ted (d6 Agility+d4 Guns with a result of 10) shoots Steve (dodging with a d6 Agility and d6 Athletics with a disappointing 7 result.) He does 1 stun from basic damage, and 4 wound. Had he gotten an extraordinary (say, Steve only got a 3), it would have been 4 stun, 9 wound.
This should speed combat and reduce some of the chance of combat. I would still allow them to roll damage if they were feeling lucky, but it might be a good option for the GM running a big, complex fight to cut down on rolling and paperwork.
2) Always roll Endurance when taking a hit. Sometimes, you get hit and while it doesn't do any real physical damage, it knocks the snot out of you. I like to have the players test against Endurance equal to an injury they sustain in combat. They took 2 stun, 2 wound? Beat a 4, otherwise be stunned for a number of rounds equal to how much to missed. On an extraordinary success, stick to the rules on pg. 94 of the Cortex core book — wounds start d2 Bleeding per turn of strenuous activity or 10 minutes otherwise; stun and you're knocked out; basic damage, you've taken some kind of debilitating injury.
As always, feel free to completely ignore these suggestions.
30 May, 2014
Next Up: A/B Test of Firefly RPGPosted by blackcampbell under Roleplaying Games | Tags: cortex plus, cortex rpg, firefly rpg, serenity rpg |
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I've got an e-copy of the Firefly RPG from Margaret Weiss Productions, and next week I'm planning to run a one-shot with the system. After that, we're going to run the same adventure and characters in the old Serenity rules (with a slight modification — we're using what I'll call Cortex 1.1, using the Assets and Complications rules from Battlestar Galactica and Supernatural.)
However, I can give an initial report on the character creation for both systems, having put together six pre-gens for the one-shot.
1) Speed of character creation: I've been using Cortex 1.1 for six years of so for various games, so I've reached the point I can slap together a pretty nuanced character in about 10 minutes, tops. After getting used to how the writers laid out the character creation in the Firefly corebook, I was able to put together a reasonable version of the Cortex 1.1 characters in about the same time. It'd give the slight edge to the Cortex+ version here.
2) Closeness to concept: One of the reasons classic Cortex has become my favorite system is the ability to really craft a characters mechanics to match the concept. There's six attributes — the physical: agility, strength, vitality; and the mental: alertness, intelligence, and willpower. Assets and complications give a die to the character or the GM, respectively, when they come into play. Usually, if I bring a complication into play, the player gets a plot point. Skills and their specializations are well-defined. These all are defined from d2 (weak!) to as high as 2d12 — but usually you will be between d4 and d12.
Firefly's Cortex+ has three attributes: physical, mental, and social and the characters get to assign a d6, d8, or d10 to the attributes. You can even them out to d8s across the boards, if you like. Assets and complications are replaced by the Fate-inspired Distinctions. You get three at d8, and may add up to two triggers (ex., a Veteran of the Unification War distinction might allow you Fightin' Type or War Stories with certain mechanical benefits.) All characters have the same skill list and at least a d4 in all of them. Each of the distinctions gives you a linked skill that you gain a die step.
For instance: Colonel Atticus Wynn is a veteran of the Alliance military who has fallen on hard times. He crossed the wrong politician or military figure during the war and has found himself unable to capitalize on his service. In the Serenity rules, he's got the Branded, Deadly Enemy, and Things Don't Go Smooth complications, with Fightin' Type, Friends in High Places, Natural Leader, Military Rank, and Tough as Nails for assets. He's well defined.
In the Cortex+ version, I had to really work to balance the distinctions in a way that emulated the complications and assets. I created one called Mercenary Leader based on Ship Captain. He has a Lead from the Front trigger that allows him to spend plot points on his subordinates. He's a Veteran of the Unification War with the War Stories trigger allowing him to step up assets or complications from the war. He's got Smooth Talker, as well, since he was build in Cortex 1.1 with good influence and social skills. The three distinctions left him with good Fight and Shoot skills, and lesser Influence, Knowledge, Move, and Survival skills that were improved with the nine points given to tweak the skills. He added two specializations and took two d8 Signature Assets — a stealth suit and an Alliance assault rifle.
The difference between the character builds was subtle in this character. I had to create distinctions or signature assets to get close to the classic Cortex build on a few characters, but overall I was able to get close to a match, mechanically, for the characters. A few of the character templates were close enough to tweak and make them work — there's quite a few of these templates to use to get yourself into play quickly. However, there's a lack of detail to the Cortex+ assets, it can be hard to get distinctions to model the detail of the asset/complications, and the specializations are a bit free-form. If the players want the character design to help them play the character, I lean slightly toward classic Cortex for the ability to tailor a character in detail.
So for speed of character creation, there's almost no difference in how quick you can put together a character (unless you choose to tweak a template — then Firefly is the clear winner here.) As to creating a detailed character, classic Cortex does a better job, but not by much.
18 March, 2013
House Rule for Cortex: Rapid FirePosted by blackcampbell under Roleplaying Games | Tags: battlestar galactica rpg, cortex rpg, serenity rpg, supernatural rpg |
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(Or "the John Maclane" rule…)
I've been a shooter for a long time, in civilian, military, and other capacities. One thing that most RPGs don't model well, more for game balance than anything else, is multiple shots from a handgun. This rule is presented for those GMs that want their Cortex-based game to have a more modern, gun-fu sort of flavor to it.
Much like burst fire, rapid fire lets the character blast off multiple rounds with a single die test. But whereas a burst fire/automatic weapon doesn't require the character to pull the trigger multiple times, a semi-automatic or revolver does. When using RAPID FIRE, the character trades a skill step for a damage step — this represents multiple rounds fired at a single target. Additionally, any other actions taken that round — like, say, during rapid fire on a second target, suffer from the usual multiple actions step down from whatever number of steps were used on the initial attack.
Example: SGT Snuffy of the Metro Dade County Police is up against a pair of baddies who are heavily armed. He's gotten initiative and doesn't want to get stredded with their MP5 sub-guns. He pops off three rounds from his Bren Ten in rapid succession against the first target. The 10mm has a d6W damage (he's using substandard ammo), so he wants to crank his damage +2 steps. He has a d10 Agility, so he rolls his agility as a d6 plus his excellent pistol skill of d8. He gets lucky and maxes the roll for 16. He now rolls a d10W for damage on the guy. Still worried about the next bad guy, he turns his attention to him and rapid fires again — he can only do a single step, since his second action starts with a d4 — so he rolls a d2+d8 on the next guy and gets lucky, just hitting, and rolls a d8W damage.
Had he chosen to roll for cover after the first rapid fire, he would have rolled a d4 agility plus his athletics…
This should give you the appropriate magazine-draining action that has been the norm in action movies since the '80s.
15 November, 2011
Campaign Idea: Ghost in the ShellPosted by blackcampbell under Roleplaying Games | Tags: cortex rpg, ghost in the shell |
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I've been toying with a Ghost in the Shell style campaign for some time, now. It's an interesting universe, especially the TV show, and I thought it might work well for my group. (One of the players is desperate to play a Tachikoma…I told him that I might, if this comes to fruition, let him play all the Tackikomas in the squad. It'll annoy the hell out of one of the other players because he can do the cutesy voice.)
First consideration: which mechanics to use? I quickly threw out OGL d20 — I hate the mechanics and the class-based character rules. Savage Worlds was a possibility, but there's certain aspects of the mechanics I just don't like. Ubiquity just didn't have the feel I wanted, so I turned to Cortex…but which one: Cortex Classic or the FATEified Cortex Plus? I won't touch Smallville with a ten-foot pole; it's a hot damned mess.Leverage had some things to recommend it here — the more fast and loose skill sets, the discriptor abilities, and the fact the characters wind up being uber-competent.
In the end I decided for Cortex Classic (a shock to any regular reader, I know…) Character creation is fairly straightforward, using the house rules that allow for the swapping of creation points between Attributes, SKills, and Traits/Complications — as with first generation Serenity rules. I do use the 2nd Edition (or Battlestar Galactica) trait rules, where they are ranked as a die, rather than the more confusing die step. No fixed experience costs for stuff, as per BSG and afterward — I use a hybrid experience based on the Serenity rules: skills cost XPs equal to the die you're buying (raising a skill from d6 to a speciality d8, for instance, costs eight), attributes 4x the die you're seeking (raising to a d8 Strength from d6 would cost 24 points), and Traits get raised at 2x the die/Complications are bought down at the cost of the current Complication die (lowering a combat paralysis flaw from d4 to d2 would cost 4XP. this makes buying off major complications hard — as it should be, but you can get that mild phobia under control in a few adventures.)
There are existing cybernetics rules in the core Cortex book that with a bit of tweaking mirror the cyberbrains and other tech from GitS…cyberbrains automatically give an Enhanced Communication trait, as well as a benefit to finding information. I'm stuck between whether this should be an Intelligence die step or a die bonus (example: a D Class Cyberbrain is a d4 Trait and gives Enhanced Communications d4 — wifi access with a d4 reliability and a d4 Knowledge or Expertise skill so long as they are online [or a 2 step on intelligence, haven't decided].) These skills are essentially "book knowledge" and wouldn't aid someone in, say, doing surgery. You might know what to look for, but you're not going to be skilled with the scalpel…you could research karate techniques, but you don't have the training and muscle memory to use it effectively.
Full body cyborgs would most likely have to be done as packages, especially the bad ass combat models with hidden weapons, etc. I had considered building them more as vehicles with full stat packages to mirror their being tougher, faster, etc…but then tough about the show and the portrayal of the cyborgs — bullets tear them up pretty effectively; even Kusanagi wears armor (when she's not appealing to fanboys and otaku by being skimpily dressed.) So they're human-scaled — just stronger, faster, etc.
Weapons and vehicles are have fairly similar real-life analogues and are easy enough to put together. Here's my first pas at a Tachikoma:
AGL d6, STR d12, VIT d 10, ALE d6, INT d6, WIL d4 (pre-sentience) d6 (post-sentience)
TRAITS: Personality Backup d4 (mind state can be retrieved up to last back up); Thermoptic Camouflage d8
FLAWS: Curiosity d4, Duty d10
SKILLS: Athletics d4, Heavy Weapons d6, Perception d6, Tech Engineering d4
WEAPONRY: 2 7.62mm machineguns in their "arms", 1 nose-mounted 50mm grenade launcher (or 12.7mm gatling gun.)
My next issue: do I run the game in Japan, with the characters as part of Section 9, or do I set it in another locale on the planet? I can see the first option being appealing, but I suspect the characters from the show would start creeping into the plotlines too often.
Right now, I'm leaning toward setting it either in Rio de Janerio or Sao Paolo, Brazil — an up and coming world power, with loads of black market issues, crime, etc. etc. The other option was to set it in a more futuristic India. Right now, I'm leaning toward Brazil, with a lead in adventure that would take them to Japan — I'm thinking they stumble onto a think tank smuggling ring and have to trace it back to Japan with Section 9's aid. confiscated Tachikomas would wind up in their ESWAT (or whatever I call it) division.
That was the last point: Are they cops/military like the GitS characters, or maybe criminals..? I'm leaning toward the former.


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|Seed-assisted synthesis of highly ordered TiO2@α-Fe2O3 core/shell arrays on carbon textiles for lithium-ion battery applications
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Zi Zi plant
We were given a Zi Zi plant several years ago. We thought it died but when I tried to get rid of it, I found its roots were ok and it was still alive. We put it in water and it started to do great. We've tried to replant it multiple times, but it dies (there were several starts originally) or starts looking terrible after extended periods of being in the water. I'm afraid I'm going to kill it whether I keep it in water or plant it in dirt! What can I do to make it live? Please help!:)
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I am going to refer you to the following article, please look at the section "what to do when only the roots are alive" section. Give the advice in this section a go and see what happens.
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The Passion and the Cross returns for our third season April 3 - 10 of 2020 in Crossroads, in East Hartford, Connecticut.
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Yes indeed I am going on sabbatical to a classic Canadian winter location!
So those of you who know Canadians can narrow it down quickly! Is it ASU, UA, FSU, or UF??????
And the winner is University of Florida in Gainesville! Looking forward to working with Robert and the folks there in the new year!
I am hoping to come to the European Accounting Association in Glasgow in late April! Looking for a place to hang my hat before that for a few days! Takers???
My sabbatical's lack of progress
Allegedly I have been on sabbatical since July 1!! Since that time I finished two courses in process at July 1, did half of a doctoral seminar, filled in for the month of September the MCS classes for an ill colleague, lead the hiring for a new program assistant at the CPA Governance Centre that I am the director of, . . . . . . . .
But all that is coming to an end very soon. an interim director for the centre has been appointed, hiring for the program assistant is nearing completion AND best of all I have my invite letter to visit a more southern university for the winter term!!
Where will I spent the winter??? Coming soon . . . . . .
Miami AAA accounting rookie camp and "other"
Vestiges of the original emphasis of the university of Miami's narrow view of accounting ( recall in the first year it was really an archival financial accounting camp with space for others only on an "as available" basis) still linger. When registering for the camp candidates face a choice Under research methods of: archival, analytical, experimental and "OTHER"!!
Well maybe that is the old version of accounting diversity US style but what about field studies? Surveys? History? Other qualitative methods???
Given there are no substantive space constraints on a computerized form – surely it is not too much to ask to be a little more expansive about relevant research methods – even if only a small minority of US institutions currently support them. They are much more common in the ROW ( rest of the world) and if the AAA wants to promote this as more than a US centric event then it should be recognized!
Institutional barriers to research diversity have to fall in order for the broad domain of social science research to be fully incorporated into accounting.
Replication editorial finally reproduced
Well, well, well!! At long last CAR has published my mini- forum on replication research in accounting!! For a while it looked like the editorial was going to be "lost" in the system but luckily I have a few friends and many allies on the current list of editors and consulting editors that did not flinch to stand up for publication.
The replication theme is particularly relevant in that the December issue is in the issue where CAR finally retracted one of the articles by Hunton published in CAR. Mind you there are two other articles, identified in my editorial just published, that warrant retraction.
But unfortunately things are moving at a very slow pace at CAR these days ( as could have been fully predicted ex ante – see careditorsteve blog for frequent predictions of this occurring based on past track record of the EIC). however I continue to hear how some CAR editors are performing GREAT service to the academic community, but the issue of slowness comes down to the person at the top. So who knows when these articles will be retracted!?!?!
So if you think you understand to what extent we do or do not do replication research in accounting, read my editorial in the December issue of CAR!!!!! It may well change how you think about this issue!


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When it comes to injuries, Landon Dickerson simply can't buy a break.
In early November of last year, the Florida State offensive lineman suffered a torn ACL in his right knee that cost him the remainder of the year. Fast-forward nearly a year, and Dickerson has met a similar fate as a right-ankle injury will knock him out for the rest of the 2017 season.
Dickerson suffered the injury in last Saturday's loss to Miami, with the damage being surgically repaired Friday.
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