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In general, the market conditions fluctuate frequently. As a result, we do publish a basic pricelist on a weekly basis that serves as a pricing guideline for that time period. Please contact your Amato Wholesale Florist representative for any specific items and pricing you might need. If you don't currently have an active account, you can visit our website at www.amatodenver.com to acquire the proper paperwork necessary to open an account. Once we have received your application we will review it and contact you once your account has been accepted.
We will ship to our current customers, and also customers who have applied for an account with Amato Wholesale Florist. We use a range of local third party Floral Cargo carriers, as well as UPS and FEDEX. If you have a one- time only shipping need outside of the state of Colorado, we would suggest using a local vendor in your area.
Our warehouse is open Monday through Thursday 7:00am to 3:30pm ; Friday from 7:00am to 2:00pm; and Saturday 7:00am to 11:00am (no deliveries on Saturday); Our warehouse is closed on Sunday.
We are always looking for fun, enthusiastic, vibrant individuals with passion and a drive for success in all of our departments. Please visit our website at www.amatodenver.com to find an application. If you have a resume in hand, you can send that information via email to firstname.lastname@example.com. We are always happy to see new people wanting to join our industry.
We are always looking for fun, enthusiastic, vibrant individuals with passion and a drive for success in all of our departments. Please visit our website at www.amatodenver.com to find an application. If you have a resume in hand, you can send that information via email to firstname.lastname@example.com. We are always happy to see new people wanting to join our industry.
Yes, we do deliver. We currently run into the Denver Metro Area at least one time per day. We run into Cheyenne and Laramie two times per week. We go into Colorado Springs and Pueblo three times per week. We also run three overnight runs into Aspen three times per week, Grand Junction and Western Kansas one time per week, Northeastern Colorado two times per week, and Nebraska two times per week. We also do ship to our regular customers outside of these areas. Please see "Do You Ship" question above.
While Fresh Cuts are our mainstay, and our specialty, we also offer a full range of floral supplies, plants, bouquets, and dishgardens.
We have been in business since 1974. We started as a Colorado Carnation wholesale house with a staff of four. Since then we have evolved into a full-service wholesale house offering fresh cut flowers from all over the world. Not to mention, a full-service supply department that is second to none in our market, a blossoming plant department, and so much more. At Amato's we are one in a million, not like a million others.
Absolutely yes we do. We offer specials and discounts on fresh cut products weekly. We also offer a "Mega Mini" promotion each month that are small box quantities that you, the customer get to pick and choose from for each week in that month. Take as many or as few as you like and watch the savings on your bottom line.
Our Flower Gallery is your best guide to finding just the right shade for your event. Because color is so subjective, and in the eye of the beholder, we recommend that you take a look at the flower gallery to find the shade that is right for you.
We are a wholesale florist. As such, we require a retail sales license in a floral related industry to purchase from our warehouse.
We created some great Care and Handling tips on our website at www.amatodenver.com/care/
I am not a florist or in a floral related trade, but I have a resale tax license, can I buy from you?
No, we do our best to protect the integrity of our floral customers. Therefore, we do not sell to customers who are not in a floral business, or in a floral related industry.
As a Wholesale Florist, we do not arrange and deliver in this manner. We can, however, recommend some wonderful retail florists that would be more than happy to take care of your needs. For a retail florist referral, please contact email@example.com.
No, at this time we only sell our products within the United States of America.
We would love to hear from you. Please send your resume including the product you offer, your history, and a variety list, along with anything else to introduce yourself. You can email that information to email@example.com
Our Flower Gallery is an innovative tool that allows our customers to see the newest varieties out there. Sometimes you will see varieties with a description of "New". Many times that can mean that a variety is just breaking into the market, meaning that there is little to no production in saleable quantities. It might also mean that a breeder is showcasing new and upcoming varieties that will be sold to farms for production. In cases like this, those varieties may not even be planted yet. Our goal is to keep our customers up to date with the latest and newest varieties to hit the marketplace.
This area of our site is brand new to us. We are still experimenting with it to determine what makes it both effective and efficient for our customers. To protect the integrity of our retail florists, we do not allow anonymous checkout, nor do we allow an account to be created on our site. All current customers will need to obtain a user login, to apply for it, please see our website at www.amatodenver.com. You will be contacted with login information as soon as it has been created for you. This process should not take longer than 48 hours.
Yes we can, however, we strongly recommend a second choice. Combo is a variety of rose grown by only a few growers in the world. That vendor does not have enough production to meet the demand for this particular rose. While we will do our very best to get this variety for you, we would strongly recommend a second choice, just in case the farm cannot honor our request.
Yes, we do!
New and existing customers who give us valid email addresses will be added to our mailing lists. These lists will allow customers to see our weekly pricelists, special offers, and general information.
New and existing customers who give us valid email addresses will be added to our mailing lists. These lists will allow customers to see our weekly pricelists, special offers, and general information.
Our warehouse is located at the following address:
6601 Downing Street, Denver, CO 80229
6601 Downing Street, Denver, CO 80229
We accept all major credit cards, cash, and business checks. Returned checks are subject to a fee of $35.00 per returned check.
Yes, we charge Sales Tax on all accounts until the proper state Sales Tax license has been received in our offices. When the Colorado Sales Tax license has been received, Sales Tax will no longer be charged on the account.
Please note, that a Sales Tax license differs from a Federal EIN number. In order to process and open an account, we need a copy of both licenses.
Please note, that a Sales Tax license differs from a Federal EIN number. In order to process and open an account, we need a copy of both licenses.
Yes, in fact, we encourage pre-book orders. Please check with your salesperson when you place your order. For new customers, we may request payment up front prior to accepting the order, but we are here to serve you to make sure all of your needs are met to your satisfaction.
We recommend a two to three week window prior to the day you would like to ship from our warehouses. That allows our growers adequate time to harvest the product and ship it to us. Late orders can most likely still be sourced, but if overnight transportation methods need to be used, we may need to offset these additional expenses to our customers.
While we encourage advance notice for special orders, sometimes product simply cannot be sourced. While it is rare, sometimes weather conditions or conditions beyond our control make sourcing product difficult. While we may pre-book product ourselves, sometimes our pre-books get cut too because the farms simply don't have enough production to fill our orders. Even though we always do our best to be proactive and source product in high demand during certain seasons, we cannot control the way the farms fill those orders.
For Fresh Cuts and Plants:
Amato's has a 24 hour window for credits. We ask that within 24 hours of receipt of your product, that you please email email@example.com with the information regarding your credit. We will be happy to pick up any sub quality product and issue credit to you for all returned product within that time frame, or such time frame established between an Amato representative and our customer.
For Hardgoods:
Hardgood returns will only be honored up to 60 days after purchase. Amato's reserves the right to impose a 15% restocking fee on all returned Hardgoods. Seasonal/Holiday hardgood sales are final and cannot be returned after said season/holiday.


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Welcome to KLstudio15!
Founded in 2015, KLstudio15 is owned and operated by Lisa and Ken Hsu who make their home in beautiful Boise, Idaho.
Ken graduated from National Taiwan University in 1977 and has worked in art industry ever since. His experience includes work as a creative director, animation specialist, cinematographer, water-colorist, photographer and colorist.
Lisa graduated from Taipei Design School in 1983 and worked for more than 20 years as a director of home decor and design for major department stores throughout the World.
Ken and Lisa launched KLstudio15 as an opportunity to share their love of art and the beauty of nature with others. The studio offers a large selection of fine art photography, wall art and canvases.
We hope you find something you love on this site or on our Etsy shop!
Thank you,
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Birchbox Beauty Deals Sale – 40% Off + $5 Gift Card
Birchbox is having a Beauty Deals sale! Aces save 40% off all items in the Beauty Deals section! (Everyone else saves 30%). Discount will appear in cart. FYI – you can't combine discount coupon codes with this deal, but coupon code 5GIFTCARD will get you a bonus $5 gift card when you spend $35 or more!
And don't forget to add your free mystery sample pack!
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Physical marks can cause a ton of psychological tension. There are actually many people who desire to choose techniques like laser surgical procedure and also plastic surgery etc. These methods are costly and may lead to adverse effects. Dermefface FX7, a brand-new scar extraction cream from Skinception guarantees that your scars will definitely fade away properly, effectively as well as at low costs. Carries out Dermefface FX7 work? Is that far better than Revitol mark lowering cream? Know the response.
Just as of late possess over the counter scar therapy items have actually come, however a big portion of them are certainly not approximately as realistic as they state to become. Considering the end target to lessen the perceivability of significant scars as those coming from injuries, surgeries, or even skin inflammation, an effective object is actually called for. Dermefface FX7 consists of the 7 scientifically illustrated compelling mendings that can recuperate your marks, remove the indicators of distressing and give back your skin layer to a much more normal look as well as surface.
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Additionally, look at Pentavitin that can easily make sure split second as well as deep hydration of your skin. That can, in fact, generate a reservoir of humidity for your skin layer that could last for around 72 hours. Still, this testimonial advises you browse through the formal web site to obtain even more info about the product that can help you choose.
Returning to that Pro-Coll-One+, our team shouldn't fail to remember that this's medically shown to stimulate collagen manufacturing by as much as 1,190 %. Mix that with the Symglucan, Pentavitin and numerous other energetic substances and Dermefface FX7 scar lotion has the goods to induce well-balanced individual collagen fibroblasts, slough off dead skin cells as well as urge usual, far healthier skin cells to have their place.
Dermefface FX7 is an exceptional healthy skin care treatment that has been actually considered that can help both guys as well as ladies that survive coming from different skin problems to recuperate the quality and also effectiveness of their skin layer. This mark reducing therapy has actually been actually shown to be helpful on marks, acne, get rid of, and accidents that may be shown up on the body and skin.
Thus, for those seeking one thing safe products that actually functions might be drawn to find out about a scar decreasing product that is getting extraordinary outcomes for some people: Dermefface FX7. This product is among the most efficient mark decrease items offered on the market place nowadays and the one that could transform the way that you think of your skin layer.
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The skinception dermefface fx7 mark decrease treatment (yep this is what some individuals call it to give a more severe look …) definitely received our interest along with those advertisements that assert this could really work wonders on marks. Our team desired to provide this a try. Our company are going to tell you if this was actually definitely that magic as well as if that could help reduce the appearance and emotion of your mark.
Thankfully, Dermefface FX7 has the Skinception i.d. connected to its tag, and as Together with the considerable majority of products Skinception, Dermefface does exactly what that proposes, because it lowers marks, as discussed along with the clients we have actually assessed with. And favorable, that appears to be efficient after as very little as 4 full weeks.
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Spectrum Communications Server automates the delivery of messages to your clients. The Fax Server supports multiple concurrent channels of faxing using standard COM ports and industry standard fax modems.
Real-time visibility is provided for every pending, active, or completed request.
The Alpha Server, like the Fax Server, can handle multiple lines concurrently using standard COM ports and modems. In addition to the industry standard TAP protocol, the Alpha Server,also supports Internet pagin using SNPP.
The Email Server allows you to send email messages to and receive email acknowledgments from your clients using the industry standard SMTP and POP3 protocols. The Email Server handles both high-speed cable/DSLas well as dial-up connections to the internet. Additional capabilities include the definition of groups, SMTPauthentication, file attachments, and data encryption.
Spectrum Communications Server gives you:
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Modular design for load-balancing in large installations or consolidation when used in small services
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My BodyBoard Complete Puberty Professional Set (UK)
Made in UK!
Perfect for the classroom, this comprehensive puberty teaching pack features one professional-size, 60-cm x 90-cm My BodyBoard that depicts an outline of a body, a Boys Magnetic Pack, and a Girls Magnetic Pack. Each magnetic pack contains approximately 40 picture magnets, extra blank magnets, and text descriptor magnets, allowing pupils to match images and descriptions and place them on the My BodyBoard. Magnets illustrate many aspects of the physical, emotional, and social aspects of puberty for boys and girls, including:
- Male Reproductive Organ Development
- Increased Body Hair
- Body Odour
- Male Broadening of Shoulders
- Male Adam's Apple
- Female Breast Development
- Female Reproductive System Development
- Female Widening of Hips
- Confusing Emotions
- Distance From Parents
- Romantic Relationships
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A great teaching tool to tackle a sensitive topic. Magnetic packs include lesson plans.


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"Rocking Mantle"Group
JGR paper: Magma-magma interaction in the mantle beneath eastern China
In addition to magma-rock and rock-rock reaction, magma-magma interaction at mantle depth has recently been proposed as an alternative mechanism to produce the compositional diversity of intraplate basalts. However, up to now no compelling geochemical evidence supports this novel hypothesis. Here, we present geochemistry for the Longhai basalts from Fujian Province, southeastern China, which demonstrates the interaction between two types of magma at mantle depth. At Longhai, the basalts form two groups, low-Ti basalts (TiO2/MgO < 0.25) and high-Ti basalts (TiO2/MgO > 0.25). Calculated primary compositions of the low-Ti basalts have compositions close to L+Opx+Cpx+Grt cotectic, and they also have low CaO contents (7.1–8.1 wt.%), suggesting a mainly pyroxenite source. Correlations of Ti/Gd and Zr/Hf with the Sm/Yb ratios, however, record binary mixing between the pyroxenite-derived melt and a second, subordinate source-derived melt. Melts from this second source component have low Ti/Gd, and high Zr/Hf and Ca/Al ratios, thus likely representing a carbonated component. The Sr, Nd, Hf and Pb isotopic compositions of the high-Ti basalts are close to the low-Ti basalts. The Sm/Yb ratios of the high-Ti basalts, however, is markedly elevated and characterized by crossing REE patterns at Ho, suggesting that they have source components comparable to the low-Ti basalts, but that they have experienced garnet and clinopyroxene fractionation. We posit that mingling of SiO2-saturated tholeiitic magma with SiO2-undersaturated alkaline magma might trigger such fractionation:
SiO2-saturated tholeiitic magma + SiO2-undersaturated alkaline magma → SiO2-saturated alkaline magma + garnet + clinopyroxene
Therefore, the model of magma-magma interaction and associated deep evolution of magma in the mantle is proposed to explain the formation of Longhai basalts. It may moreover serve as a conceptual model for the formation of tholeiitic to alkaline intraplate basalts worldwide. The related paper titled "Magma-magma interaction in the mantle beneath eastern China" was recently published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth (JGR). (122, doi:10.1002/2017JB014023)
Variation in Ti/Gd versus Sm/Yb for the Longhai basalts, their various source components, and invoked mixing relations
(Zeng, G., Chen, L.-H., Yu, X., Liu, J.-Q., Xu, X.-S., and Erdmann, S. (2017), Magma-magma interaction in the mantle beneath eastern China, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 122, doi:10.1002/ 2017JB014023.)


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|Treasure Coast, Florida.
Great opportunity to buy an established FUN BUS franchise in the Treasure Coast
Fun Fitness on Wheels is a great business opportunity for someone who is passionate about the fitness, health and well-being of children between the ages of 18 months and 8 years old. Sale price includes both Bus plus all equipment and supplies used on them. All training and support will be provided.
This Fun Bus franchise is perfect for someone who wants to own a multimarket business with low capital investment and opportunity for growth.
Current owner is selling as they have a full time postion and cannot dedicate the time required to Fun Bus.
This is a low overhead business with only a couple of staff needed per bus. NO SPECIAL DRIVERS LICENCE REQUIRED!
Part financing may be available for qualified candidates.
About FUN BUS
The FUN BUS is a full sized school bus whose seats have all been removed and walls and floor carpeted and padded. The FUN BUS philosophy is to enhance learning going on inside the classroom and home, using a hands-on approach to FITNESS and making it FUN for the young child, boy or girl, rain or shine!
Our structured yet fun filled programs, along with the use of our professional and safe equipment each bus is fitted with, provide the perfect environment for the strengthening of the gross motor skills that are so important in the development of young children. The business uses established and themed lesson plans that support the competence of these required skills. The possibilities for creativity and skill development are endless on the Fun Bus.??In addition to Childcare Centers and Schools, the Fun Bus has additional revenue streams that include Birthday Parties, Special Events, Celebrations and more.
It's more than a bus…. It's an experience! FUN BUS Fitness FUN on Wheels® is THE Children's "FUN Fitness Program", with a low-cost, multiple revenue streams, and profitable operating system offering a FUN time, FUN talk and a FUN experience for everyone. The Company's foundation is solid and based on our experienced and dedicated people. We are the first to make this type of business affordable, the ONLY franchise doing this, and for that reason, our group of Franchisees will be at the forefront of an industry that just now is coming into its own!!
The Fun Bus has brought to life the philosophy to enhance children's lives by using FUN as a tool to their learning while providing a structured environment to teach FITNESS to the young child. At the same time, we are focusing on providing a positive environment, building self-esteem, perfecting coordination and motor skills, physical fitness, and social interaction.
To find out more about this exciting FUN BUS franchise business, please fill in the request information form below:


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The ABMS Research and Education Foundation's programs and partnerships draw upon a wide range of intellectual resources from specialty organizations and institutions across the nation and even internationally. Our collaborations with many of the world's preeminent physicians, educators, and researchers contribute significantly to our service offerings and activities, including:
The ABMS Research and Education Foundation is committed to the highest standards of professionalism and maintaining medical integrity, objectivity, and academic independence. Our aim is to provide the highest value to the profession in accomplishing the following purposes:
We work with organizations that share a common interest in helping assure patient care is of the highest quality and that medical services are available to everyone. Together, we are motivated to pursue excellence in how health care is delivered and how physicians are trained and continue to grow in their professional knowledge. Partnerships may include:
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You may not remember this, but the Scott Foil made quite a splash at last years Paris-Roubaix, snagging victory by half a bike length to become the first "aero" road bike to win the prestigious one-day classic.
It was an important moment.
The common belief was that an aero bike would be too unforgiving, too stiff, too aggressive to handle the cobbled farm roads that comprise the Paris-Roubaix course. And If we're being honest, we thought the same thing. At Bicycle World, we tend to be suspicious of road bikes that flout their aerodynamics over everything else. Luckily, with the Foil, Scott engineers have managed to walk that thin line between aerodynamics and ride quality. It's an impressive feat.


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A great resource for anyone looking for a job in the legal profession
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Are you looking for your very first law job in the legal profession and need some advice? Or are you in a fairly junior role, and feel that it is time to move onwards and upwards? Perhaps you've seen the legal vacancy of your dreams advertised on our website. Possibly your circumstances have changed and you are contemplating updating your CV for the first time in twenty years.
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The annual Dance Maui Festival will take place at the Keopuolani Regional Park Amphitheater in Wailuku this Saturday, Nov. 12. It will be a family-friendly outdoor festival featuring some of the island's culturally diverse dance organizations. In fact, 15 professional groups will showcase back-to-back performances in classical Indian Odissi, hula, hip hop, ballet and Egyptian folkloric dance. $12. 2pm. Keopuolani Regional Park Amphitheater, (700 Halia Nakoa St., Wailuku); Adaptationsdancetheater.com/dance-maui
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Star Wars Customizable Card Game
Card backs to Star Wars Customizable Card Game
|Tom Braunlich, Rollie Tesh, and Jerry Darcy
|Decipher, Inc.
|Setup time
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|Playing time
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|Random chance
|Skill(s) required
|Deck manipulation,
deck optimization,
critical decisions,
Star Wars: Customizable Card Game (SW:CCG) is an out-of-print customizable card game based on the Star Wars fictional universe.[1] It was created by Decipher, Inc., which also produced the Star Trek Customizable Card Game and The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game. The game was produced from December 1995 until December 2001.[2] Operation and oversight of the game was then taken over by a Decipher-created volunteer group called the Star Wars Customizable Card Game Players Committee. To date, the Players Committee, or PC, still runs the game and creates new cards known as "virtual cards" that are released online in PDF format, and can then be printed and played with. SW:CCG can also be played online: Holotable.com is the official Player Committee platform. [3]
Star Wars CCG was first released in December 1995 after game play rights were purchased from a game designer. Over the years, Decipher added 11 full expansions to the original card base, as well as numerous smaller expansions, special purpose sets, and promotional releases. The last set, Theed Palace, was offered in the fall of 2001. The game spanned all of the classic Star Wars trilogy (A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi) as well as The Phantom Menace. During several years of the game's run, between 1995 and 1998, it was a top-selling CCG, second only to Magic: The Gathering and occasionally surpassing Magic, according to both InQuest and Scrye magazines.
At the end of 2001, after much negotiation, Lucasfilm chose not to renew Decipher's license to use the Star Wars intellectual property. The license was granted to Wizards of the Coast, which used it to create their own game, the Star Wars Trading Card Game. Decipher can no longer legally create new expansions to SWCCG; many cards that were in development can never be released to the public.
As of 2019, SWCCG still has an active playing community. The game is administered by a Players' Committee, which interprets rules, organizes tournaments, and releases "virtual expansions" which give alternate game text for existing cards. The new "virtual cards" function as entirely new cards and keep the game environment constantly evolving. The "virtual card" overlays are available for free on the Players' Committee website, though players must have the original card to use its "virtual" version. To date, the Players' Committee has produced 12 virtual sets. SWCCG is also available online on Holotable and GEMP-swccg.
Each game requires one player to play the light side of the Force while the other plays the dark side. In friendly play, a player can specialize in one side or the other, but for tournaments, players need both Dark and Light decks. This two-sided aspect is rare in customizable card games (Star Wars: The Card Game and Netrunner being the other notable examples). The action of the game occurs at various "Location" cards (both interstellar and planet-bound) familiar from the Star Wars Universe. Locations can be deployed as the game progresses; furthermore, most locations come in both Dark and Light-side flavors, and an on-the-table location can be "converted" (changed to the other side) at any time. Most locations affect game play in some way; all also provide "Force icons," which represent the amount of "Force" a player can activate per turn.
Force is the game's resource, similar to "mana" from Magic: the Gathering; however, it is executed quite differently and is the game's defining trait. Each unit of "Force" is simply a card from the top of a player's deck, placed off to one side in the "Force Pile." When used to deploy something, each unit of Force is placed on another pile, the "Used Pile," which then cycles back to the bottom of the deck. Unused Force remains in the Force Pile, and can be conserved for the next turn or drawn into hand. The objective of the game is to force the opponent to discard all of their Life Force (consisting of Reserve Deck, Force pile and Used pile). This is accomplished via "Force Drains" (forcing the opponent to discard cards by controlling, unopposed, a location with their Force Icons on it), battling opposing characters, and resolving certain climactic situations (for instance, freezing a character in carbonite, winning a pod race, dueling a Jedi).
The game system also features "Destiny draws," which represents the elements of chance, uncertainty, luck, random chance and the Force. Each card has a destiny number, from 0 to 7, at the top-right corner (except locations, which count as destiny 0), and rather than using dice for generating random numbers, players "draw destiny" from the top of their deck, revealing the top card and using its destiny number as the result. This is used for a variety of purposes, from determining weapon hits to mandatory losses your opponent incurred to resolving whether a character passes a Jedi Test. The drawn Destiny card goes to the Used Pile and is recycled into the deck. Through this system, a skillful player can legally count cards, remembering where the high-destiny cards are in the deck. Finally, the stronger (or rarer) cards generally had lower Destiny values (though there were exceptions); as a result, less-experienced (or economically challenged) players are more likely to find that "The Force is with [them]."
While Decipher oversaw the game, no card was ever banned from tournament play. Instead, when a card or strategy was deemed abusive or too powerful, Decipher chose to release "magic bullets," new cards which were specifically designed to counter the offending strategy. In some cases, Decipher also used errata, modifications to game text of a card that supersede the actual printed version. The use of errata also contributes to a steep learning curve, since players need to be aware of the current meta-game at all times. Finally, the game was known for its quirky humor and inside jokes: one card, depicting Luke's protracted hand-stand during The Empire Strikes Back, was printed with all text upside-down. Another described a character as being "twin brother of a famous mercenary" since the character's actor, Jeremy Bulloch, also portrayed Boba Fett.
Full expansion sets[edit]
The following full sets were created by Decipher:
- Premiere (1995) - This was the first set for the Star Wars CCG and included the characters of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Leia Organa, C-3PO, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Darth Vader as well as many other very useful cards that formed the core of the game. Perhaps the most potent strategies was to pair Vader and Grand Moff Tarkin at an important location. Acting in concert, they can cancel an opponent's destiny draw (unless Vader is targeted by Uncontrollable Fury, which was released in the Cloud City expansion). All of the images from this set were taken from A New Hope. This set, along with A New Hope and Hoth, were sold in packs of 15 cards that retailed for US$3.00.[4]
- A New Hope (1996) - This set featured additional cards taken from the first Star Wars movie. Important debuts in this set included Chewbacca and R2-D2. Also of note were the introduction of the Death Star as a system card, the introduction of creatures, and a new mechanic that allowed for the destruction of entire planets.[4]
- Hoth (1996) - This was the first set to include images from The Empire Strikes Back. It was also the first set to introduce the mechanic of a "persona," a version of a main character with alternate abilities (e.g., Commander Luke Skywalker vs. Luke Skywalker). Also included in this set were the immense AT-AT walkers. Another new rule was the "Hoth Energy Shield Rules" which prevents the Dark Side player from deploying his cards on the first four "marker" Hoth sites, and all interior Hoth sites; unless the Main Power Generators is "blown away".[5]
- Dagobah (Wed April 23, 1997) - This set featured cards from the middle part of The Empire Strikes Back. Significant cards included Yoda, another new version of Luke (Son of Skywalker) and all of the bounty hunters, their ships, and weapons (except Boba Fett). This set was also the first to be sold in packs of 9 cards with an original retail price of US$2.50 per pack, where the last card in the pack would always be the rare. This was to ensure that players and collectors could acquire more rares and fewer commons and uncommons. When originally released, this set developed a bad reputation among players because of the introduction of many new strategies that focused the game on deck manipulation at the expense of the intense battling that had originally made the game so popular.[6]
- Cloud City (1997) - This set included new versions of Han and Leia and also introduced Lando Calrissian as a character card in the game. He was also unique in that he had both Light Side and Dark Side personas. It also finally added Boba Fett to the game (although he had been available as a preview card in the First Anthology released earlier in the year.) This set also introduced "dueling" as a major strategic mechanic for the Dark Side and provided for the possibility that Luke could be turned to the Dark Side. Cloud City also attempted to correct the abusive "numbers" strategies prevalent since the release of Dagobah. Due to a large print run, this set, as of 2009, is still very easy to acquire.[7] Willrow Hood, a previously unknown character who made a two-second cameo in The Empire Strikes Back acquired a short backstory in this deck.[8]
- Jabba's Palace (1998) - This was the first set to feature cards from Return of the Jedi and focused on the opening scenes of the film where the heroes tried to rescue Han from Jabba the Hutt. Jabba himself was an important card, as was the new version of R2-D2 (Artoo), but on the whole this set was seen as being fairly weak, especially from a tournament perspective, by players who complained that there were simply too many aliens that had little or no competitive use. This is, as of 2009, the cheapest and easiest set to purchase.[9]
- Special Edition (1998) - This was the largest set since Premiere and the first to introduce new starter decks (which included many cards that could only be found in them). This set was seen as something of an overhaul of the game since it changed some game terms and attempted to make the entire play experience more streamlined through the release of a comprehensive rulebook and glossary. The most notable addition in this set was the introduction of the "objective" mechanic. These cards allowed a player to start many more cards and provided a movie-based goal for a player's deck. Many players praised this addition, arguing that it made little-used strategies (like freezing people in carbonite) useful. Others argued that it limited creativity and led to cookie-cutter decks based around various objectives that all looked and played the same. This set introduced the widely popular "Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith" persona.
- Endor (1999) - This was the first of two sets to focus on the latter two-thirds of Return of the Jedi. It included a vast number of characters and vehicles that were designed to be useful in battles. Upon release, this set garnered a poor reputation because of the sheer number of ostensibly new but seemingly redundant characters and vehicles contained therein. However, its reputation has improved since then, as later expansions have allowed for new decks featuring large amounts of Endor cards, and it is, as of 2009, one of the more valuable and expensive sets to purchase.
- Death Star II (2000) - This set was the second to focus on the end of Return of the Jedi and along with Endor forms a stand-alone environment, in which all of the cards from those two expansions can be played independently of the other sets. This was also the first set to feature ultra-rare cards (Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight and Emperor Palpatine). The inclusion of these two very powerful and iconic characters, in addition to many useful supplementary cards, coupled with general praise for its elegant design, has given the set lasting appeal and led to it being, as of 2009, one of the more expensive sets to purchase. This set, and all after it, were sold in 11-card packs for a retail price of US$3.29.
- Tatooine (2001) - Tatooine was originally scheduled to be a set based on the Skywalker family; this idea, however, was abandoned when Decipher decided to allow for elements of the film Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, the first of the prequels, to mix with the "Classic Trilogy" cards, at Lucasfilm's request. Thus, this set includes Qui-Gon Jinn, Darth Maul, Padmé Naberrie, as well as a younger version of Obi-Wan, and was heavily focused on "pod racing." Anakin Skywalker was not included either in this set or the following ones to avoid problems with having both him and Darth Vader in the game (ultimately, no Anakin card was ever printed). This set, which contained fewer total cards than previous expansions, seems to have had a relatively large print run, and thus it is relatively easy and inexpensive to acquire.
- Coruscant (2001) - Coruscant focuses on events from the middle of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, especially Senatorial conflict. A very limited print run along with powerful strategies has made it by far the most expensive set and hardest to acquire. There are a number of notable cards in this set, including new versions of Queen Amidala, Qui-Gon, and Darth Maul as well as the introduction of Mace Windu.
- Theed Palace (2001) - This was the last set produced for Star Wars CCG. The most popular and notable card in this set is Darth Sidious who was, at that time, not considered by Decipher to be the same person as Emperor Palpatine or Senator Palpatine in the "game universe." For gameplay reasons, these three cards have still not been combined into one persona. This set is also somewhat difficult to acquire.
Decipher also reprinted four sets (Premiere, A New Hope, Hoth, and Dagobah). These reprinted cards sometimes had slightly different game text (or other parts of the card) to reflect errata that had been issued, and all of them had white borders which indicated an unlimited edition. Also, packs of revised A New Hope and Hoth were sold in 9-card packs rather than the original 15.
Premium and additional sets[edit]
Decipher also created several smaller sets and premium products which included additional cards:
- Premiere Two-Player Game (1995) - This set included two preconstructed decks and a Premiere booster pack. The decks included six unique cards available only in this set. Included beginners' versions of Luke and Vader as well as the card Vader's Obsession which would later become very powerful with the introduction of dueling. The entire set was packaged in a board game style box and was, indeed, often sold alongside board games at many retail stores.
- Jedi Pack (1996) - This 11-card pack was released as a thank you to players and was distributed for free via an email offer. It contained versions of Han, Leia, Tarkin, and Motti with very limited functionality, but nonetheless allowed players to play with the, at the time, difficult to acquire "main characters." The general consensus is that there are few truly powerful cards in this set, with the possible exception of "Gravity Shadow" (although "virtual" versions of some of the Jedi Pack characters have since become useful).
- The Empire Strikes Back Two-Player Game (1996) - Like the Premiere Two-Player Game, this set included a light and dark side deck which included well as seven premium cards as well as a Premiere booster pack. There were limited functionality versions of Chewie and Veers, but the true star of this set were the Imperial Walkers and the card Walker Garrison. The Imperial Walkers were low-deploy cost versions of AT-ATs that facilitated the use of Walker Garrison, an extremely powerful card which increased force drains on Hoth for the dark side to devastating levels. This is the centerpiece of several decks and continues to be very powerful.
- Rebel Leaders pack (1997) - This was a two card set that featured Red Leader in Red 1 and Gold Leader in Gold 1. These ships were originally very powerful, but their utility has decreased somewhat over time. The cards were given out free at many major conventions where Decipher had a presence. Also Decipher had a mail-in offer on their website so that players could obtain these cards.
- Official Tournament Sealed Deck (1998) - This set included 18 premium cards, four Premiere packs, and one A New Hope pack. As the name implies, this set was used in tournaments. Each player would be assigned a Side and would open their packs. They would keep their Side's cards and pass the rest to the next player, who would be the opposite Side. Once all of the cards were sorted, the players would create a deck with the cards they had.
- Enhanced Premiere (1998) - This set featured six new cards: versions of Luke, Han, Leia, Obi-Wan, Vader, and Boba Fett with their personal weapons built into the character card. These six cards were incredibly powerful at the time of release, and indeed, many of them eclipsed the power of the original character cards. Several of these EPPs (so called because they are found in Enhanced Premiere Packs) are still very useful in competitive play. Each character came with four Premiere booster packs. You could tell which character you were getting through the die-cut box face.
- Enhanced Cloud City (1999) - This set featured 12 new cards, three per box (which came with four Cloud City packs). The highlight of this set was the introduction of bounty hunter character cards wielding their signature weapons. Like Enhanced Premiere before, these new characters were generally more powerful than their original versions. Also of note, were the two Cloud City objectives in this set, one of which would dominate the tournament play for many years.
- Enhanced Jabba's Palace (1999) - This set also included 12 new cards. The "face cards" were versions of Luke, Leia, and C-3PO from the Jabba's Palace scenes in Return of the Jedi as well as the first ever character card of Mara Jade, a very popular character from Timothy Zahn's series of novels. "Mara Jade, The Emperor's Hand" easily became the most popular card in this set and for a while was arguably the most popular card of any set.
- Jabba's Palace Sealed Deck (2000) - This was new version of the Tournament Sealed Deck themed around Jabba's Palace. The set included several Jabba's Palace packs and 20 premium cards (10 Light Side and 10 Dark Side). These were used in the same format tournaments as the Tournament Sealed Deck.
- Reflections II (2000) - 52 new cards were featured in this set. Each Reflections II pack came with two of these new cards (along with a foil version of a popular card from a previous expansion set as well as a random assortment of other old cards). Many of these premium cards were characters, ships, and objects from the Star Wars expanded universe. As with Mara Jade, models were used for these characters which included the likes of Talon Karrde, Corran Horn, Dash Rendar, and Prince Xizor. This set also introduced "combo" versions of past interrupts, effects, and characters which combined two different cards into one. These combo cards were very popular and made the individual versions of the cards see less gameplay.
- Third Anthology (2000) - This boxed set included six new cards, including two new objectives based around the Death Star. The most popular card in this set is Artoo in Red-Five. It is unique and very useful for having a destiny number of 0 or 7, making it the card with the absolute best destiny number in the game.
- Reflections III (2001) - Included with the foils and random cards from previous expansions found in all Reflections sets were 104 new cards (including "Boba Fett, Bounty Hunter," "Leia, Rebel Princess," and "Han, Chewie, And The Falcon"). Among the new cards were characters, a vehicle, and a starship with "maintenance cost". These cards were extremely powerful (some fans would argue "broken" in their power level) but you had to pay each turn to keep them on the table. The other notable addition in this set were defensive shields, cards that were separate from your 60-card deck and were designed to counter abusive strategies. This set had a limited print run and is now the most expensive to purchase on the secondary market.
Other products[edit]
Several other products were released that did not include any cards unique to the set or were otherwise introductory game products:
- Premiere Starter Deck (1995) - Random 60-card decks containing cards from the Premiere set.
- First Anthology (1997) - This set featured six preview cards that, while at the time were unique, were later found in the Special Edition card set. The most popular one, at the time, was the first appearance of Boba Fett.
- Second Anthology (1998) - This product also featured six preview cards, one from Special Edition, two from Endor, and three from Death Star II. It also included eight packs of Unlimited Premiere, two of Dagobah and two of Cloud City.
- Special Edition Starter Deck (1998) - 60-card deck made of cards from the Special Edition set, made up of "Fixed" rarity cards, unique to this product, and randomized Commons, Uncommons, and Rares. The product also came with an updated glossary containing rule erratas and special rulings.
- Reflections (1999) - Each 18-card pack of Reflections contained one rare card from a previous set that was deemed to be a fan favorite after a poll on Decipher.com was taken. These cards were overlaid with foil that made them shine in the light. The remaining 17 cards were a random mixture of past cards, thus making it possible to find packs with multiple rares. Some have even found packs containing only rares.
- Death Star II Starter Deck (2000) - Preconstructed 60-card decks made of cards primarily from the Death Star II and Endor sets (although it contained a few cards from previous sets). Unique to these decks were the Admiral Piett and Admiral Ackbar cards.
Decipher's prize support for sanctioned tournaments initially consisted of unique T-shirts with card images printed on them along with some product (premiere packs). As time went on, these were replaced with the more economical but still appreciated FOIL versions of popular cards. State championships were also held annually, and Decipher supported these events with prizes including exclusive carrying cases and binders, which have become tough-to-find collectors items.
Canceled expansions[edit]
Despite the release of The Phantom Menace in 1999, Decipher planned to continue to release expansions based on the original trilogy. This decision was changed following the success of the Death Star II expansion and urging from both fans and LucasFilm. Three expansions and one mini-expansion were planned for release through to the end of their license agreement with LucasFilm at the end of 2001.[10]
- Shadows of the Empire (August 2000) - Mini-expansion of around 20 cards based on the book, Shadows of the Empire by Steve Perry. This was meant as an intermediate expansion to test the grounds of expanded universe material. This expansion merged with "Reflections II" in the form of 16 premium cards. The set was reported to have been canceled as early as 1997 according to The Duelist.[6]
- Skywalkers (November 2000) - The first full expansion following "Death Star II" based on a character group found in the card game, Skywalkers was designed around Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, and Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker. It was to be the first expansion to use the "Lichtenstein" game mechanic which was to use new cards to add new capabilities to character cards and promised to allow them to be used in new and 'intriguing' ways. The ultimate fate of this mechanic is unknown. Some elements of this expansion were merged with the "Tatooine" expansion based primarily on The Phantom Menace.
- Jedi Masters (February 2001) - The second full expansion based on characters, this on Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, and Emperor Palpatine. Following the failure to implement the "Lichtenstein" mechanic and the shift toward more prequel expansions, this expansion was canceled.
- Scoundrels (September 2001) - This was the last expansion planned by Decipher and suffered the same fate as its predecessor. It was designed to focus on Han Solo, Lando Calrissian, Jabba the Hutt, and the bounty hunters. This expansion never entered into the design phase.
- Reflections Gold (December 2001) - Decipher lost their license to print SW cards to Wizards of the Coast in January 2002, and these cards were not produced in time before production on them had to cease. Scans of Reflections Gold cards can be found online.
Virtual Sets[edit]
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Current Virtual Sets[11][edit]
- Set 0
- Set 1
- Set 2
- Set 3
- Set 4
- Set 5
- Set 6
- Set 7
- Set 8
- Set 9
- Set 10
- Set 11
- NARP Premium Set
Legacy Virtual Set Blocks[edit]
Initially, the Player's Committee released virtual cards in numerically identified sets. These sets were numbered as Virtual Sets 1-18. In August 2009, the existing 18 sets were reorganized thematically into 5 virtual blocks. What were to have been Virtual Sets 19-21 became known as Virtual Block 6 instead. Subsequent Virtual Sets were released using the block numbering system. In July 2014, the virtual card pool was reset, and replaced with the current virtual sets. The blocks are no longer part of tournament play, but can still be downloaded.[12]
- Virtual Block 1: A New Hope
- Virtual Block 2: The Empire Strikes Back
- Virtual Block 3: Return of the Jedi
- Virtual Block 4: Expanded Universe
- Virtual Block 5: The Old Republic
- Virtual Block 6: Reflections IV
- Virtual Block 7: Darkness Rising
- Virtual Block 8: Scoundrels
- Virtual Block 9
Sets Within Blocks[edit]
Virtual Block 6:
- Virtual Set 6.1 -
- Virtual Set 6.2 - Domain of Evil
- Virtual Set 6.3 - Mercenaries
Virtual Block 7:
- Virtual Set 7.1 - Ultimate Power
- Virtual Set 7.2 - Ultimate Freedom
- Virtual Set 7.3 - Ultimate Conflict
- Virtual Set 7.4 - Ultimate Legacy
Virtual Block 8:
- Virtual Set 8.1 - Scoundrels (May, 2012)
- Virtual Set 8.2 - Agents For Hire (September, 2012)
Previous Virtual Sets[edit]
- Virtual Set 1: Legacy
- Virtual Set 2: Our Most Desperate Hour
- Virtual Set 3: Revolution
- Virtual Set 4: Battle of Hoth
- Virtual Set 5: A Dark Time
- Virtual Set 6: A City in the Clouds
- Virtual Set 7: Shadows of the Empire
- Virtual Set 8: Jabba's Court
- Virtual Set 9: Sanctuary Moon
- Virtual Set 10: Fourth Anthology
- Virtual Set 11: A Gathering Storm
- Virtual Set 12: Magistrates & Martyrs
- Virtual Set 13: Remote Outpost
- First set to be able to change card titles/names.
- Virtual Set 14: Armed & Operational
- Virtual Set 15: Galactic Frontier
- Virtual Set 16: Revenge of the Sith
- Virtual Set 17: The Force Unleashed
- First set to feature new card images.
- Virtual Set 18: Fifth Anthology
Mass erratas and changes[edit]
- Redux 1.0 (2007)
- Re-Edit (2007)
- CBT Erratas (2008)
- "Non-Redux" (December 2008)
- Revolution (August 2009)
- V-Card reset (October 2014)[13]
Tournament formats[edit]
There are two major constructed formats for tournament play — Open and Classic, which differ only in deck construction rules.
In the Open format, every card is legal. The only deck restrictions are that each deck must contain 60 cards from the same side of the Force and no more than 1 Objective card.
Classic format is intended to recreate the environment of the game before the Episode I sets (Tatooine, Theed Palace, Coruscant, and Reflections III), which many players viewed to have unbalanced game mechanics and broken continuity. The Classic format has the same deck construction rules as the Open format, but includes the following list of banned cards:
- Any card with the Episode I icon
- Any card with a Maintenance Cost
Another type of tournament was a sealed deck tournament. This would consist of players purchasing a Sealed Deck box (see above) and using its contents to construct a deck.
Past World Championship winners[edit]
The World Championships and most events in the World Tournament Circuit are played in the Open format. Below is a list of all Open format World Champions and Runner-up finalists.
|Worlds Location
|Day 2 Participants
|Bastian Winkelhaus (3)
|Bryan Mischke
|United States
|Bochum, Germany
|Bastian Winkelhaus (2)
|Tom Kelly
|United States
|Morristown, New Jersey, USA
|Phillip Aasen
|United States
|Jonathan Chu
|United States
|Bloomington, Minnesota, USA
|Tom Haid
|United States
|Reid Smith
|United States
|Princeton, New Jersey, USA
|Justin Desai (2)
|United States
|Jonathan Chu
|United States
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
|Emil Wallin (2)
|Brian Terwilliger
|United States
|Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|Justin Desai
|United States
|Reid Smith
|United States
|Boston, Massachusetts, USA
|Emil Wallin
|Angelo Consoli
|Bochum, Germany
|Kevin Shannon (2)
|United States
|Brian Herold
|United States
|Washington, D.C., USA
|Dan Kim
|United States
|Kyle Krueger
|United States
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
|Brian Hunter
|United States
|Justin Desai
|United States
|Princeton, New Jersey, USA
|Kevin Shannon
|United States
|Kyle Krueger
|United States
|Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
|Jonathan Chu (2)
|United States
|Justin Desai
|United States
|Chicago, Illinois, USA
|Nate Meeker
|United States
|Brian Hunter
|United States
|Chicago, Illinois, USA
|Drew Scott
|United States
|James Booker
|United States
|GenCon, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
|Brandon Schele
|United States
|Reid Smith
|United States
|GenCon, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
|Jonathan Chu
|United States
|Greg Shaw
|United States
|DragonCon, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
|Angelo Consoli
|Greg Shaw
|United States
|DecipherCon, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
|Bastian Winkelhaus
|Martin Akesson
|FreedomCon, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
|Matt Sokol
|United States
|Yannick Lapointe
|DecipherCon, Kissimmee, Florida, USA
|Gary Carman
|United Kingdom
|Steven Lewis
|United States
|Virginia, USA
|Matt Potter
|United States
|Michael Riboulet
|United Kingdom
|Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
|Philipp Jacobs
|Michael Riboulet
|United Kingdom
|Norfolk, Virginia, USA
|Raphael Asselin
|Bjørn Sørgjerd
|Vail, Colorado, USA
World Championship Statistics[edit]
- Nationalities of World Champions:
- United States: 13
- Germany: 4
- Sweden: 2
- United Kingdom: 1
- Canada: 1
- Nationalities of Runners-Up:
- United States: 14
- United Kingdom: 2
- Germany: 1
- Canada: 1
- Sweden: 1
- Norway: 1
- Total Number of Champions:
- There has been a total number of 17 champions (out of 20 World Championships).
- Total Number of Runners-Up:
- There has been a total number of 14 runners-up (out of 20 World Championships).
- Multiple-Time World Champions:
- Kevin Shannon (2)
- Jonny Chu (2)
- Emil Wallin (2)
- Justin Desai (2)
- Bastian Winkelhaus (3)
- Multiple-Time Runners-Up:
- Reid Smith (3)
- Greg Shaw (2)
- Justin Desai (2)
- Kyle Krueger (2)
- Michael Riboulet (2)
- Jonny Chu (2)
- Runner-Up and World Champion:
- Brian Hunter
- Justin Desai
- Angelo Consoli
- Jonny Chu
- Locations:
- All but 2 of the 20 World Championships were held in the United States, with the other World Championships being held in Germany and Canada.
Starting in 2009 the first Official Sealed Deck World Championship Tournament took place in Princeton, New Jersey and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2010. It has not been confirmed officially as to whether or not these tournaments continued from 2011–present, thus only the first 2 recorded Sealed Deck champions are listed:
| 2010 || Greg Shaw || United States |- | 2009 || Nick Jones || United States
Design-A-Card contest[edit]
In February 1997, Decipher launched the "Design-A-Card" contest. People from all over the world would have an opportunity to design the card they always wished were a part of the Star Wars Customizable Card Game. Decipher said the winner of the contest would win a display box of the "Special Edition" expansion set, and the winning card design would actually be printed and included in the "Special Edition" expansion set. On May 23, 1997, Guy Kargl was announced as the contest winner, with his S-Foils card design. In November 1998, Decipher released the Special Edition expansion set.
Related games[edit]
Decipher produced two other TCGs based on the Star Wars universe: Young Jedi, based on the second Star Wars trilogy, and Jedi Knights. Neither of these games matched the popularity of SW:CCG. Both were discontinued when Decipher lost the Star Wars license.
In April 2004, Decipher announced a new game, Wars TCG, based on the game mechanics of SW:CCG. Wars TCG is set in a proprietary science fiction universe created specially for the game and owned by Decipher. Despite initial sales and critical success, the game failed to catch on with players and set two sales were lackluster. After the second set, the game was placed on "indefinite hiatus" by Decipher at the beginning of May 2005, and was officially canceled in September 2005. There are still ebooks by Michael A. Stackpole and Chuck Kallenbach on the Decipher website.
In the April 1996 edition of Arcane (Issue 5), Andy Butcher admired the game, although he commented that "Star Wars is let down by two things: its rulebook and the distribution of the cards." Despite this, Butcher gave the game a top rating of 10 out of 10.[14]
In the June 1996 edition of Dragon (Issue 230), Rick Swan liked the "first-rate presentation" of the cards. But he was disappointed with gameplay, saying "if only Star Wars played as good as it looked. But alas, it is merely okay." He found the rules "a bit clunky". The game "loses steam toward the end, when the outcome becomes all but inevitable." And he felt that the starter packs of only 60 cards made for a limited game, stating "You'll need a much larger pool — I'd guess at least 100 Dark Side cards and 100 Light Siders — to make Star Wars come alive." He concluded by giving it an average rating of 3 out of 6, saying, "In today's deck-drenched market... it's just another card game, eminently playable but nothing to squander the rent money on."[15]
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- ^ Varney, Allen (October 1997), "Inside the Industry", The Duelist (#19), p. 78
- ^ "Tibanna Gas Miner", Star Wars Customizable Card Game Database
- ^ "Game News & Updates", The Duelist (#21), p. 87, January 1998
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Just one correction. The Santuary in Atotonilco is dedicated to Jesus of Nazareth and not Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. It is also a World Heritage Site.
Dolores Hidalgo and Atotonilco, Tiny Mexican Towns with Big Histories
The City of Guanajuato may be the birthplace of Mexico's Independence, but the sign stretched across the road proclaimed the town of Dolores Hidalgo to be the cradle of its independence. My visit to this tiny village was serendipitous. Wondering whether I really wanted to keep San Miguel de Allende on my travel itinerary, I'd taken a day tour from Guanajuato to check it out, and the towns of Dolores Hidalgo and neighboring Atotonilco were on the itinerary as well. Since both figured prominently in the Mexican struggle for Independence, and since 2010 is the Bicentennial of Mexico's Independence, these two historic pueblos turned out to be the highlight of the tour.
On September 16, 1810, Catholic priest Miguel Hidalgo stepped up to the pulpit in the town of Dolores and delivered an impassioned appeal for revolt against the Spanish rulers of Mexico. His timing was perfect; anti-Spanish sentiments had long been simmering and his "Grito de Dolores" (scream of Dolores) brought discontent to a boiling point.
After the passionate sermon, Hidalgo marched to the town jail and freed all Mexican prisoners and before long an army of 800 had amassed. Bent on revenging three centuries of oppressive and exploitative rule by Gachupines (native Spaniards), this mob of Indians and mestizos began the long march toward Mexico City. One of their first stops was at the Sanctuary of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe in Atotonilco, where Hidalgo affixed an image of the Holy Mother of Guadalupe to a lance as his banner.
On September 28, Hidalgo and his army of insurgents marched into Guanajuato and massacred Spanish officials, soldiers, and residents in the first recorded conflict of the war. After Mexico achieved Independence in 1821, the town was renamed Dolores Hidalgo to honor the man all Mexicans consider the "Father of Independence."
Today, Dolores Hidalgo plays an important part in Independence celebrations across Mexico. On the evening of September 15th, the Mexican President stands on a balcony overlooking the Zocalo in Mexico City – one of the largest plazas of its kind in the world – and screams out the "Grito de Dolores." On the last year of each president's term, it is customary for the President to reenact the Grito in the town of Dolores Hidalgo. Every September, people from across the country flock to Dolores Hidalgo to celebrate the holiday in the footsteps of the insurgents, but these days the reenactment is a lighthearted event that incorporates vendors on the Plaza who hawk colorful handmade Talavera ceramics and unique flavors of handmade ice-cream such as corn, shrimp, cheese, avocado, fried pork rind, and mole (the chocolate kind, not the animal). Yet even here, Hidalgo had a hand; it was he who encouraged the indigenous residents to develop and market the ceramics for which the town is today so famous.
10 Comments on "Dolores Hidalgo and Atotonilco, Tiny Mexican Towns with Big Histories"
Gabino Cue que horror con este video tiene mucho parecido a la realidad! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyvbVZvVsJM
Dolores Hidalgo looks like a gorgeous town with a fascinating history. I will have to make sure I get there one day! 🙂
Where are the people who write history textbooks? They need to take lessons from you!
I love how you summarized the history,then described how it is relevant today. To truly appreciate history, one has to understand why the historical information continues to matter so many years after the events took place. You did just that.
For Mexicans, the past is very much relevant to the present, and it makes me happy to know that you were able to present some of our traditions to the world in such an engaging format.
– Anis Salvesen
I have never had the desire to travel to Mexico, but your pictures are changing my mind. Although pork rind ice cream does not. Thanks for your stories.
Reading your blogs about Mexico is like taking a course in its history. I am learning so much from reading them. And you excellent pictures transport me right there.
I'm trying to imagine what it would be like if President Obama dressed up and re-enacted the Boston Tea Party!
I love the history and how the Mexicans celebrate it!
As I spend my winter in Mexico, Puerto Escondido, Iam really enjoying your blogg. Hope you get to San Miguel,
I know there are too many expats, but it is beautifull.
And if you are in town and have time find out where Jack and Francis are playing their Mexican ballads.
In addition to the Mexican history in Dolores Hidalgo, the town looks like a pleasant place to spend time from the looks of your photos.


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Kerala launches new programme to increase enrollment of migrant children
A survey conducted by Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan indicated that over 2,500 migrant children had been enrolled in the schools
A project was being implemented to make children of migrant population enrol themselves in schools and also check the dropout rate among the most backward sections in Ernakulam district of Kerala, Collector of the district K Mohammed Y Safirulla said here Thursday.
The project 'Roshni' has support from the district panchayat, education department, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, which is a programme aimed at universalisation of elementary education, and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), he told PTI.
There were around 2,500 migrant children in over 18 schools in the district and their school dropout rate was high, the Collector said.
The pilot project was successfully implemented from October 2017 to February 2018 in four selected schools in which the highest number of migrant children study and it was extended to 14 more schools this academic year, he said.
A survey conducted by Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan indicated that over 2,500 migrant children mostly from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Bihar, West Bengal, Odisha, Assam, and Nepal had been enrolled in the schools, he said.
Also, studies showed that the children were not regular to classes and many of the students dropped out even in the middle of the academic years, the Collector said.
Belonging to different linguistic communities and being in a classroom with Malayalam as the instructional language, the children found it difficult to adapt to the environment in schools, he said.
To end this problem, the district administration arranged for extra classes in the mornings for about 90 minutes to teach Malayalam, English and Hindi, Safirulla said.
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You won't find it in the dictionary yet, but the word "placemaking" is sliding off more tongues every day. PPS has promoted the term for years in describing its work, and now, in a sign of the term's growing use, Wordspy.com, a popular website that practices "the sleuthing of new words and phrases," recently added "placemaking" to its lexicon.
"We use 'placemaking' to describe our work because we help communities turn their lifeless and unwelcoming spaces into great places where people want to be."
Wordspy.com defines placemaking as "Designing a building or area to make it more attractive to and compatible with the people who use it." The website names PPS in its first citation of how the word is used.
"We use 'placemaking' to describe our work because we help communities turn their lifeless and unwelcoming spaces into great places where people want to be," said PPS President Fred Kent. "The term captures our belief that people gravitate to public spaces that convey a sense of place, and that the people who use a place are the ones best-suited to shape its design, uses, and activities."
In much the same way that "environmentalism" entered the language in the '60s, referring to new streams of thought about the relationship between people and nature, "placemaking" is poised to signify a fresh way of thinking about how people design and use public places.
Placemaking represents the next logical step, making public input an integral part of the design process from the very beginning.
Other organizations have recently embraced the term as PPS has defined it, including the Minnesota-based McKnight Foundation, which launched a "Transportation and Placemaking" awareness campaign this July, and the City Repair Project, a non-profit from Portland, Oregon that uses placemaking techniques to involve local communities in urban design decisions. The New York Times quoted a public official in southern California using the term as recently as July 14.
PPS first used the word in the 1997 publication, The Role of Transit in Creating Livable Metropolitan Communities. Since then PPS has applied the term to describe improvements to every aspect of the public realm, from street corners to playgrounds. No other group has so consistently used the term over such a long period of time.
The term implies a distinct evolution from the prevailing "project-based" approach to planning and development. The project-based approach usually involves a small cadre of developers, designers, engineers, and public officials who determine the parameters of a new building, park, or street, then solicit feedback on their design in a process of public review. The inclusion of public review grew out of the preservationist and environmentalist battles of the 1960s. Placemaking represents the next logical step, making public input an integral part of the design process from the very beginning.
"What comes out of the collaboration between users and designers is consistently quite wonderful and surprising."
"The problem with the project-based approach is that it inevitably leads to the handful of real decision-makers trying to ram their project down people's throats, so you end up with confrontation, NIMBYism, and a mediocre result," said Kent. "But when you have 'place' in mind from the beginning, at every step of the way you get ideas from the people who know the area's needs best--the people who will actually use what's being built. What comes out of the collaboration between users and designers is consistently quite wonderful and surprising."
Asked for examples of placemaking in American towns and cities, Kent cited Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland, a former parking lot that is now among the most widely-used civic squares in the nation, and Bryant Park in New York, which became one of the city's most beloved places following its restoration in the early '80s. "These are the types of places that you can expect much more of in the future, as the economic and social desirability of placemaking becomes widely apparent," said Kent.


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(CNN) — Vice President Joe Biden and Republican challenger Paul Ryan hit the campaign trail on Friday after a combative debate in which they challenged each other's facts and claims while offering starkly different visions for the direction the country should follow.
In the lone debate between the vice presidential contenders, Biden achieved his goal of bringing the fight to his GOP foe in battling Ryan to a draw, boosting the spirits of Democrats disheartened by President Barack Obama's lackluster performance in the first presidential debate last week.
Ryan, meanwhile, made a positive impression with his command of both domestic and foreign policy issues that showed him to be a formidable national candidate after a career of local congressional races in his native Wisconsin.
A snap CNN-ORC International poll showed voters who watched Thursday's debate narrowly favored Ryan over Biden by 48%-44%, a statistically even result after GOP presidential challenger Mitt Romney scored a clear victory over Obama last week in their first of three debates.
Martha Raddatz of ABC News aggressively moderated the debate, challenging both candidates on some claims and moving on to various topics covering both domestic and foreign policy.
Ryan repeatedly said the Obama administration has taken the nation in the wrong direction, asserting it has hindered economic recovery and weakened U.S. influence around the world.
"The choice is clear: a stagnant economy that promotes more government dependency or a dynamic, growing economy that promotes opportunity and jobs," Ryan said. "Mitt Romney and I will not duck the tough issues, and we will not blame others for the next four years."
He also repeated several times, in reference to the recent terrorist attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya and other anti-American protests, that "what we are watching on our TV screens is the unraveling of the Obama foreign policy."
Biden called several of Ryan's remarks "malarkey" and challenged Americans to trust their common sense when judging proposals by the Republican challengers.
The tax and entitlement reforms proposed by Romney and Ryan would harm the middle class and favor the wealthy, Biden said in seeking to depict Republicans as protectors of the privileged.
"You think these guys are going to go out there and cut those loopholes?" Biden asked about unspecified moves promised by Romney and Ryan to balance broad tax cuts they propose.
On the topic of reforming the Medicare program for senior citizens, which Romney and Ryan seek to partially privatize, Biden referred to a Ryan proposal to provide partial government payment for seniors in the future to buy private health care.
"Folks, use your common sense. Who do you trust on this?" Biden asked, saying Ryan's plan would increase Medicare costs to recipients by $6,000 a year. Ryan disputed the claim, which was based on a proposal that he has since altered.
The lone vice-presidential debate before the November 6 election pitted Biden, 69, and his almost four decades of experience in national politics against the 42-year-old Ryan, a 14-year congressional veteran who rose to the chairmanship of the powerful House Budget Committee.
Privately, senior Democrats told CNN they believed a strong showing by Biden could help the Democratic ticket, but wouldn't be enough to erase problems created by Obama's self-admitted bad debate performance against Romney.
Obama and Romney will square off again Tuesday in New York and October 22 in Florida.
Polling after the first presidential debate showed Romney tightening the race nationally and in some of the nine battleground states considered vital to either candidate's chances of garnering the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House.
"I do think Joe Biden did his boss a lot of good tonight," CNN Senior Political Analyst David Gergen said after Thursday's debate. CNN Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger said Biden's job "was to right the ship, and he did it."
Both analysts criticized Biden for his tendency to smile and roll his eyes in response to some of Ryan's comments, especially early in the debate, with Gergen saying Ryan won on style but the debate was even with regard to substance.
Biden also was more aggressive in his demeanor, repeatedly cutting off Ryan and sometimes talking at the same time as his rival to challenge specific comments.
At one point, Ryan told Biden that "I know you're under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground, but I think people would be better served if we don't keep interrupting each other."
Biden responded: "Well, don't take all the four minutes then" in reference to how much time the candidates had to respond to a particular question. Overall, Biden spoke for about a minute more than Ryan during the 90-minute-debate.
Republican strategist Alex Castellanos, a CNN contributor, said Biden "had to buy his boss a week until the next debate, and he did that tonight."
"He wasn't charming Joe Biden tonight, that wasn't his mission," Castellanos said.
Ryan repeatedly sought to focus the debate on the Obama-Biden record of the last four years, arguing the administration's policies hindered economic recovery and weakened the nation's standing and influence in the world.
For his part, Biden tried to frame the election as a choice between differing directions for the country by contending policies of the Romney-Ryan ticket would hurt the middle class and move the nation backward on social issues such as gay rights and abortion.
Unlike Obama last week, Biden made sure to mention Romney's controversial comments secretly recorded at a May fundraiser in which the former Massachusetts governor spoke dismissively of 47% of Americans who he said depend on government benefits and don't pay taxes.
In one of his most effective moments, he gave a passionate defense of Americans who participate in the social safety net of entitlement programs and other benefits.
"These people are my mom and dad — the people I grew up with, my neighbors." Biden said. "They pay more effective tax than Governor Romney pays in his federal income tax. They are elderly people who in fact are living off of Social Security. They are veterans and people fighting in Afghanistan right now who are, quote, 'not paying any tax.'"
In the biggest laugh line of the night, Ryan conceded Romney didn't express the thought exactly as he wanted at the fundraiser, then needled the gaffe-prone Biden by saying: "I think the vice president very well knows that sometimes the words don't come out of your mouth the right way."
Biden immediately responded "but I always say what I mean."
Ryan, a staunch conservative congressman, criticized Obama's administration for its failure to protect four Americans killed in the Libya attack last month, and for mixed messages about what transpired.
"This Benghazi issue would be a tragedy in and of itself. But unfortunately it's indicative of a larger problem," Ryan said, adding that illustrated an unraveling of the administration's foreign policy.
Biden smiled and shook his head as Ryan delivered his criticism, then responded that "not a single thing he said was accurate."
However, Biden then claimed that the administration received no requests to increase security at the Benghazi compound, which contradicted testimony from State Department officials at a congressional hearing this week.
The Romney campaign hammered Biden for the remark after the debate, releasing a statement listing a string of media reports pointing out Biden's mistake.
On Iran, widely backed international sanctions pushed by Obama have devastated that country's economy, Biden said. He rejected assertions that Obama failed to work closely with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and that the United States lacked commitment to a possible military strike to prevent Iran from becoming capable of developing a nuclear weapon.
"This president doesn't bluff," Biden said.
Ryan, however, insisted that Iran was closer now to having a nuclear weapon than it was four years ago, blaming the administration for allowing that to happen. He bluntly said that Tehran must not be allowed to become a nuclear power.
"This is the world's largest sponsor of terrorism," he said. "And if they get nuclear weapons, other people in the neighborhood will pursue nuclear weapons as well. We can't live with that."
Last week, Obama was chided for being passive, and polls conducted after the debate indicate the White House race is now extremely tight ahead of the election.
Key surveys indicate that Obama and Romney are knotted up in the battleground states of Virginia, Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin and Colorado. Most experts believe that nine swing states will determine the next president.
On Friday, Ryan joins Romney at a campaign event in Ohio after Romney attends an earlier event in Virginia. Biden will campaign in Wisconsin while Obama spends the day at the White House.


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