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World No.1 Wang Yihan Too Good For Saina
London: Saina Nehwal's dream of an Olympic gold was shattered Friday when she lost to a superior Wang Yihan of China in the women's singles semifinals. The Indian will now play another Chinese Wang Xin for the bronze medal Saturday.
Saina, the first Indian shuttler to play in an Olympic semifinal, could not match the class of the reigning world champion. The 13-21, 13-21 defeat was her sixth straight loss to Wang, who remains the only Chinese the Hyderabadi has never beaten.
Saina's opponent for bronze Wang Xin, who has a 4-2 head-to-head record against the Indian, lost to compatriot Li Xuerui 20-22, 18-21 in the other semifinal.
Saina tried her best against the World No.1, who moved better on the court and was relentless in her attack during the 39-minute contest. A slew of unforced errors by Saina, especially towards the end, contributed to her downfall.
Saina took time to get her feet moving while the Chinese covered the court like a gazelle.
From 4-4 in the first game, Wang raced to an 11-6 lead by the first break with some power-packed smashes. She won most of the long rallies through her flawless court coverage and commendable retrieving. Her soft smashes left the Indian despairingly lunging to reach.
Saina managed a minor recovery from 9-18 to take the next four points, but that was not enough to trouble the champion. Wang went a game up with a forehand smash which Saina got late on.
The World No.5 had to try something different in the second game to make an impact and that is what she did.
Saina went on the offensive, moving much faster on the court. She used the high toss to advantage, though she also went over the baseline a couple of times. The approach helped her recover from a 3-6 deficit to take a slender lead at 11-10.
With the scoreline reading 13-13, Wang went on the overdrive, reeling off the next eight points to close out the match. To go with the errors, dodgy judgment on the lines also cost the Indian the game and the match.
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The White Hart Hotel is one of Exeters most historic inns, thought to have originally been a resting place for monks only later to become a coaching inn. Today, the hotel retains much of its traditional hotel heritage and charm and yet offers the business or leisure visitor all the facilities and amenities of modern living. The White Hart boasts fifty five en-suite rooms, forty of which are situated in our extension and the remainder are in the old part of the building. Located in a central position within the old city walls, the White Hart Hotel is ideally situated to enjoy all the city has to offer, from the famous Gothic charm of Exeter Cathedral to the newly revamped Princesshay shopping centre. With a choice of areas to dine, an extensive selection of freshly cooked pub food and a comprehensive wine list, all tastes are catered for. . Location: 66 South Street Exeter Category: Pub Restaurants
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The perfect location for all your entertainment needs from business lunches or dinners to office parties, family celebrations and any other event large or small.The Blue Ball is a beautiful thatched pub & restaurant located on the outskirts of Exeter, set in large gardens with a superb children play area. Great for enjoying a drink in the sunshine, or for larger events, we can provide a heated marquee and complete planning service to ensure you have a memorable party.. Location: Sandygate, Exeter, Devon Category: Pub Restaurants
Sensational starters, tasty grills, freshly prepared unlimited salad, tempting desserts, there s something for everyone at Harvester...Its the ideal place for those that seek genuine value, whether for a family meal, a relaxing drink and a bite to eat with friends.Famous for our spit roast chicken, which is farm assured and freshly prepared on the rotisserie our menu includes a range of burgers, steaks and dishes to share, all served with unlimited visits to our signature salad cart.. Location: 7 Haven Road Exeter Category: Pub Restaurants
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The Twisted Oak is located in the village of Ide, Near Exeter. With a large beer garden, childrens play area, skittle alley and conservatory the Twisted Oak is perfect for all the family. We have a great stage, perfect for live music and quizzes, the atmosphere is friendly and unpretentious with a relaxed team of bar staff making your experience a thoroughly enjoyable one. . Location: Little Johns Cross Hills, Ide, Nr Exeter Category: Pub Restaurants
The Poachers Inn is a delightful village inn, on the outskirts of sunny Exeter. The pub has a great reputation for superb food, all prepared and cooked on the premises and using, wherever possible, local ingredients. The venison is from Haldon, and all other meats are sourced from Oinkers Farm Shop. There is a separate dining room for more intimate entertaining and reservations are advisable. . Location: 55 High Street Ide Exeter Devon Category: Pub Restaurants
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May 6, 2013
Alleged attacks "open the door to all possibilities", Syria's information minister says, as Arab League urges UN action.
May 5, 2013
Israel's military deploy a rocket defense system to the north of the country following reported Israeli airstrikes in neighboring Syria, reports say.
Iran reassures its support to the Assad regime, saying it is ready to train Syria's army if there is a need but without any involvement in the operations.
Syrian state TV says Israeli rockets have hit an army research center near Damascus, as huge explosions shake the outskirts of the capital.
May 4, 2013
Residents of the Sunni districts in the city of Banias in Syria on Saturday were fleeing their homes, amid fears of a massacre that occurred in a nearby village.
Israeli airplanes have allegedly launched an airstrike inside Syria, targeting Hezbollah-linked chemical weapon delivery systems
May 3, 2013
Syrian regime forces engaged in fierce fighting with the rebels in the coastal town of Baida on Thursday, amid reports of a death toll in excess of 100 and executions.
May 2, 2013
Jamal Suleiman plays the womanizer in his latest greatest Ramadan drama "Nuqtat Daef" (Weak Spot), directed by Ahmad Shafiq.
On Wednesday 8 May, a concert featuring classical pieces and traditional Syrian music will be put on at the Cairo Opera House.
May 1, 2013
Samer Al Masri's life is reportedly under threat following the much-loved Syrian actor's public declaration of support for the Syrian opposition.
The Syrian National Coalition (SNC) denounces remarks made by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as "nothing but threats," warning against the Lebanese Shia group's intervention in the Syrian conflict.
U.S. President Barack Obama is gearing up to send lethal weapons to the Syrian opposition, according to senior administration officials speaking to The Washington Post on Wednesday.
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said Tuesday President Bashar Assad's government could not be toppled military and his allies would prevent such an outcome from ever happening.
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U.S. President Barack Obama said Tuesday the United States has not been standing by idly as the Syrian situation unfolded as he described the use of chemical weapons as a "game changer".
What started as school children spray painting anti-Assad messages on a wall in Syria's southern city of Daraa has entered its third year of violent conflict. The UN estimates that over 70,000 have been killed in the fighting, with over 1.4 million fleeing to neighboring countries.


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CCNY Plans Public Art Exhibit in St. Nicholas Park
As a predecessor to the creation of a public art exhibit in St. Nicholas Park next spring, The City College of New York (CCNY) hosts a reception and panel discussion on public art and its impact on New York City 4 – 8 p.m. Tuesday, December 1.
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For about 35 years, Dr. Joseph L. Birman, '47, Distinguished Professor of Physics at The City College of New York (CCNY) has advocated for the rights of repressed scientists, first in the former Soviet Union and later in China, Cuba, Iraq, Iran and the United States. Now he is to be honored for "his tireless and effective personal leadership in defense of human rights of scientists throughout the world" as one of three recipients of the American Physical Society's (APS) Andrei Sakharov Prize for 2010.
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Professor Andrzej Krakowski's feature film, "Looking for Palladin," will make its U.S. theatrical debut October 30, when it begins a two-week exclusive East Coast engagement at New York's Cinema Village, located at 22 E. 12th Street in Manhattan. One week later, it will open at Leammle's Music Hall Cinema in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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NEW YORK, July 10, 2009 – Dr. Doris Cintron has been appointed Acting Dean of City College's School of Education. She will hold that position, which she assumed June 1, while the College conducts a search for a permanent successor to Dr. Alfred Posamentier, who has retired. Dean Cintron had been Assistant Dean of Education since 1998.
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Camps said that his support Blasco is "absolute and total".
The President of the Generalitat, Francisco Camps, said in full of the Valencian Corts support for Solidarity and Minister for Citizenship and PP spokesman, Rafael Blasco, is "absolute and total, or warm or anything it may seem ".
Camps has ruled this way in the control session in response to PSPV spokesman, Angel Luna, who has noted the "warm support" the head of the Consell to Blasco, darkfall gold, and asked him if he assumes "the judicial outcome of the investigation that have been initiated in relation to certain cases "of the Department of Solidarity on grants to NGOs in the field of international cooperation and if he would act accordingly.
Luna has indicated that Blasco "is installed in the forgery," "manipulate" reality and "focuses, star trek online credits, on false justifications." He cited an "alleged document that has come from Nicaragua" provided by the Department where there are four notes for a total of 1,082,000 euros, two of 439,000 euros and 586,000 euros "have not gone through a checking account." ? As have led to Nicaragua, in briefcases? "He inquired.
He indicated that in 2009 "the Guertel demantelaron judges" and, final fantasy xiv gil, that same year Blasco "mounts its network of NGOs, led by the Solidarity Between Peoples Foundation and five NGOs so far" had had two projects for a total of 50,000 euros "while between 2009 and 2010 are 12 projects for 3.5 million euros.
In this regard, said that from 1997 to 2007 the average, ffxiv gil, amount of cooperation projects Valencia amounted to 75,000 euros, while the average of these NGOs is 300,000 euros per project, of which 30 percent "will supposedly stop service companies that rode the NGO Solidarity between Peoples. "
The Catalan Socialist Camps inquired if not concerned about the "image" of the Comunitat Valenciana outside when "half the Consell is involved in operations and awards all kinds of strange and corrupt", while has indicated that the Consell chief is an "economy of clientelism, corruption and debt" only "serves" on "to continue embezzling public money and build an image of clay that is falling apart."
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The President of the Government responded that the only thing you try to build a "distorted" image of the Region's Moon and has stressed that his government "during these years has been managing much of the economic resources of the regional administration to tasks of development cooperation "and for this work," we have been recognized by international bodies. "
Has stressed that "the possibility of talking to many people, aid workers or managers of foundations that are working in Africa, Latin America or India, which recognize the good job, good sense and responsibility of the regional administration in the work of development cooperation. "
He stressed that support for the Minister for Solidarity is "absolute and total, or warm or anything it may seem," stated Camps, and added that gives the feeling that the backup "you yourself start be sadly very warm. "
Has criticized the Socialist spokesman that "there is no limit" and "attack" any "tasklaunch the Comunitat Valenciana "because the fact that this autonomy" work "and" be an international benchmark of prosperity "is" bad news for you. "He pointed out that the trustee socialist will" make history "as the person she has tried to "discredit" political action.
The Consell boss remarked that while Moon photocopies are watching, reading records and talking to some reports that have happened ", he travels the Comunitat Valenciana" talking to people "of" Monday to Sunday. "
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Pointed out that the 'popular' "will continue our commitment to continue making our country a land of prosperity and welfare" and for this autonomous community "in which work every day and dream that it remains a land of promise and prosperity" despite the "inventive, snares and insults" from Luna, while the Consell is concentrated "in the work that really matters to our citizens."
Camps has remarked that his government is working for the economy of the Valencian "this much better." "You can not tell you the same," Luna has told, "your personal economy is a healthy economy, and you explain to us some time as it may be as sound exactly like me dedicating" a political task. He has also indicated that still does not account for the previous PSPV spokesman, Joan Ignasi Pla, "for something much smaller, and today is not what you are."
He underlined that his government "is that more has appeared in Parliament, which has answered more questions and more documentation that has been issued" and remarked that the number of control efforts is served three times as the last Socialist government Joan Lerma.


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We purchased two iPads with 3G connectivity to allow the students to conduct real-time research about astronomy while they were at the JWSO observing site with their instructors and classmates. Being able to confirm visually what was in the sky and to compare that with claims on various websites, the students were able differentiate reliable from unreliable websites and other sources of information on the internet. Everything from the visibility of eclipses to the apparent size of Mars in the night sky was erroneously reported in a variety of places during the semester, and by using direct observation and astronomy software on the iPad, the students were able to discover accurate information about these and other events in the night sky.
We administered a pre- and post-course test about basic astronomy knowledge to estimate the effects of the course and found a dramatic increase in basic competence over the semester. The Information Literacy aspect of the course facilitated by the Illuminate Grant played a large role in this success.
SLO1—A Using the iPads, students will identify specific questions needing further investigation, such as why some stars seem to move through a greater distance in one hour than others. Key terms and phrases such as "angular distance", and "declination" will guide the investigation, and lead, through further research, to a more refined inquiry into the equatorial coordinate system, and students will thereby come to an understanding of the apparent motion of celestial bodies due to the rotation of the Earth.
SLO 2A—Students will explore a variety of information sources both in the form of apps and websites,
SLO 2B—Students will compare the efficacy of diagrammatic vs. verbal accounts of such phenomena as the causes of the seasons, the timing of the solstices and equinoxes and the phases of the moon.
SLO 3B—Students will compare a variety of sources with canonical sources such as the course textbook, Sky & Telescope magazine and Scientific American magazine and notice the differences. To pick a recent discrepancy, the Birmingham media, including all TV outlets and the Birmingham News all reported that the recent lunar eclipse (December 10, 2011) would be visible to Alabamians. This was true of most popular news outlets in eastern part of the US. Facebook users reposted these articles and recommended that people arise early on Saturday to witness the eclipse. Reliable correctly reported both that the eclipse would not be visible from our longitude and that the eclipse would be long over by Saturday morning.
SLO4A, B, C—Students will discern the trustworthy from the untrustworthy information and will endeavor to dispel the false beliefs they are likely to have had based on the consumption of popular but false claims about celestial events from eclipses to the causes of the seasons.
Test of Basic Astronomical Knowledge
Spring Semester, 2012
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AAJ: The spirit of the music you can hear in all those different eras. I think you can also hear it in your music. It seems to me that today, a lot of music is the same. It seems like it's still you and Wayne and Herbie, and Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette and Keith Jarrett, the people from those Miles bands, who are the ones now making the exciting music.
CC: There's something amongst the group you just listed that is what I grew up in and what I love and what I'll always be in, which is a spirit of freedom. A spirit of creative freedom and the willingness to actually do anything with music. If you analyze any of the musical careers of all of those guys that you've listed, you'll come up with an incredible eclecticness and an incredible breadth of investigation into different ways of making music. To me, that's the real fun and statement of the art of music. As far as whether music should have a groove or should not have a groove is all personal taste. It's hard to make any kind of judgment about musical styles because the style itself is not music, it's some kind of an arbitrary designation placed - also arbitrarily - on some area of music, which is arbitrarily selected.
It's an interesting subject though. Which way the music goes culturally is one thing to look at, and how individual musical tastes are involved in that is another look at it. Definitely that freedom spirit that I was talking about is much less prevalent in the music world today. One of the basic reasons for that is not anything to do with the potentials and musicality and creativity and desires of musicians and artists. That's a factor affected by the society itself and the culture around us and what is possible and not possible to achieve as a working musician in the world today. It's a cultural problem. It's a governmental problem. It's society's problem.
AAJ: When it comes to live music, electric versus acoustic, do you have a preference? Is it a feeling, deciding which way you're going to go? What plays into that?
CC: You can think about electric instruments and acoustic instruments as just tools of the trade. It's like whether you're writing a poem or a short story or a novel or a promo blurb or a report, different kinds of writings. Different kinds of techniques are needed. Different kinds of effects are produced by the use of these techniques. Same thing. Electric instruments and the sound of music is all surrounded in the subject of the style of music and the clothing that you put on a message. You can deliver a message of gentleness, for instance, with an acoustic piano solo. You can deliver a message of gentleness with a 100-piece symphony orchestra playing gently. Electric instruments have their use and they have an effect they create on the listener. That's how I use them.
I like them for certain effects. I'm bringing the Elektric Band back together again for touring and a recording, enjoying very much playing with the electric instruments and creating a certain sound that communicates a certain way to audiences.
AAJ: It doesn't bother you that some people might say, 'He's not playing jazz,' when you go electric and get a little funkier?
CC: That's a pretty simple subject. A critic is a critic. Anyone has the freedom to be critical about whatever they want to be critical about. Everyone is free to their own opinions. Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that's all it is about is opinions. If you think about the old adage that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is absolutely true, then what one considers art or beautiful or valid or pure or correct or whatever you want to call it, is pure opinion. The only problem is when a critic tries to place himself in some position of authority, which is just some marked up authority, and it starts to look like law, what he says. This is when it gets a little silly. That kind of thing stopped bothering me a long, long time ago. I think that the world is made up of a lot of people and they all think differently, and they're welcome to it.
AAJ: How about a musician like Wynton Marsalis, who has a certain status and the media seems to hang on what he says. He's on TV a lot. Does it bother you that he is a bit dogmatic about what he thinks is jazz?
CC: I have a personal policy to not ever enter an arena like that. It's negative. I have one opinion on Wynton Marsalis. He's one of the most incredible trumpet players of the century. And that's it. Cause that's true. He's an incredible musician. I heard something by him the other day, in fact I decided I wanted to get this piece. Gayle [his wife] and I were listening to it on the radio. It's a piece of classical music that sounds like "Flight of the Bumble Bee" but it's not. It's some incredibly technical piece, but so beautifully rendered. It sounds like it's done in one breath. It sounds like part of the piece is circular breathing. It put my hair up on the back of my neck, and we said, 'We've got to find out who that is.' And at the end the announcer said it was Wynton Marsalis. And I said 'Good on you, Wynton, man, that's incredible.' I stay out of that other stuff. All it leads to is more of that other stuff.


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When I was a little boy, I loved professional wrestling. Whenever my dad would let me, I'd hijack the TV, pop my worn and weathered copy of "WWF Wrestlemania IV" into the VCR and watch Hulk Hogan and Randy "Macho Man" Savage battle for the belt.
I even had a box full of the action figures complete with accompanying plastic wrestling ring, all of which supplied endless fun.
Until one of the ring's four posts snapped, rendering it a useless pile of plastic and elastic string.
Panicked, I carried the mess into my dad's office; he knew how to fix anything. My dad always has had a curious way of peering both into and above his glasses. After examining my broken toy, he reached into his drawer full of tools, fasteners, wires and who knows what else and pulled out a screw, a drill and some super glue. He drilled the screw through the bottom of the ring and into the broken post and smoothed the crack with the glue. In minutes, my beloved wrestling ring not only was repaired but also stronger than it was before it broke.
This Father's Day, I'll call my dad and remind him of this story. And although it always has carried power and weight for me, I'm almost positive he won't remember. Growing up, I must have come to him with hundreds of broken toys, shoelaces and scraped knees. And every time, he knew just how to fix them.
That's just what dads do. And maybe that's why Sears has been bombarding me with e-mail blasts full of Craftsman tools "just for Dad." He's the default fix-it man with the plan. And yes, he needs another screwdriver set.
Hardly. My dad is the most difficult person on Earth for whom to buy gifts. He has everything he needs crammed into that drawer: rechargeable batteries, fuses, light bulbs and hundreds more unrecognizable pieces of metal and plastic. He even seemed to have all the answers tucked somewhere in there.
And now, with two children of my own (but with significantly less ingenuity than my dad), I am trying to fill those enormous shoes in Lyric's and Aria's lives.
Luckily for me, their problems, so far, have been well within my capabilities. At 2, Lyric sometimes needs help putting the two halves of his plastic Easter eggs together. Don't worry. Daddy's got this one. Puffing my chest out and proudly taking the egg, I snap the egg together and hand it back to my beaming son.
Other times, he'll accidentally break one of his crayons in half. I'll take the pieces and peer at them both above and into my glasses. Then, I'll tear a tiny piece of the paper wrapper away from the end and hand them back.
"Now you have two!" I'll tell him.
I know. Sometimes, I even amaze myself.
And at 5 months old, Aria's problems mostly involve eating, sleeping and burping. Don't worry, little girl. Daddy is a master at all three.
But I know things will get harder. Someday, Lyric will realize those two broken pieces really aren't two crayons. Aria may come to me not with two halves of an Easter egg but two halves of a broken heart.
And then what? I'm not finding anything in the Sears ad for those. And I don't have a drawer with any answers but rather a tiny toolbox stocked with a variety of contraptions — most of which I do not know how to use.
But I do have a dad of my own and a phone. And I can rest easy knowing he's there.
And for that, I thank you, Dad. Happy Father's Day.
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Saturday, April 2nd, 2011I am not sure that I have mentioned this on the blog yet, so I thought today would be the perfect time to do so. As most of you know, I am involved in a lot of really great projects and a couple awesome companies. What you may not know, is that I also created a networking group for wedding and event pros in Michigan. This is by far one of my favorite projects and I think all of you might like it, too. The group is called Michigan Wedding & Event Professionals, but we call it MWEP for short.
MWEP is great for professionals, but it is also a really great resource if you are planning your wedding. The website lists out all of our members in an easy to read format, complete with contact names, email addresses and websites. All of the businesses listed are pretty awesome and are really helping our local community flourish. If you are in need of some awesome vendors, please check it out. We are even working on the launch of our blog, Mitten Smitten, which will feature real Michigan weddings, local vendor spotlights, advice and tips for planning wedding here in the Mitten State.
If you are a local business, and want more information on becoming a member, please visit the website and read all about how you can join. We have many different chapters where we host mixers every two to three months. These mixers are normally free to attend and are way more than a stuffy networking event. They are actually a lot of fun and offer a very easy, pain-free, casual way to build relationships with people in your local wedding community. Currently, we host mixers in Southeast Michigan, West Michigan, Mid-Michigan, Lakeshore, and Kalamazoo. We are currently working on adding in a Traverse City/Northern Michigan chapter and a Saginaw/Tri-Cities chapter. I am loving how MWEP brings the unity throughout the whole state, rather than just in one small area. There are so many creative and outstanding people out there and we are working to bring you all together, in a casual and relaxed way.
While we already have a really great base of 200+ people associated with MWEP, we are hoping to get this list to grow and include every vendor, of every type, in every area of Michigan. To do that, we need your help. Become a member, attend our free events, participate in the forums, get your business listed on the website and really celebrate the people around you. Membership gets you all of these things for a VERY affordable, low cost. Michigan is an awesome place to live and work and it is time we celebrate that! I believe this group has worked some major magic over the past year and really want you to experience it. We are only as good as our members. :)
You can also find MWEP on Twitter. Below is a collage from some of our local mixers!


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The song Bruce Springsteen is streaming today off his new album, Wrecking Ball, features the last saxophone solo Clarence Clemons recorded for his Boss. Springsteen says when he hears the solo in "Land of Hope and Dreams" "it's a lovely moment." Clemons died last June at 69 following a massive stroke. To hear the song, log onto BruceSpringsteen.net. Tomorrow's final stream is "We Are Alive." Wrecking Ball will be out Tuesday. Elvis Costello will be tonight's guest paying tribute to Springsteen on NBC's Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. He'll play "Brilliant Disguise" from Tunnel of Love. Springsteen will wrap up the tribute week tomorrow night as the only guest for the entire hour. |


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Posted this on the Geek, but thought I'd get responses from the folks here as well.
We've been trying to come up with elegant solutions for the "rich getting richer" syndrome, and reducing the swingy nature of some fatal PVP encounters.
There are alternative rules in the game that enable the replacement character directly inherit the items of the killed character, but this would kill the incentive of the domineering player to land the crushing blow on near-death opponents.
What we've come up with:
Any character who lands the killing blow on another character may only take one item /follower of his choice or one bag of gold from the "corpse".
The rest of the loot is transported immediately to the killed character's starting location.
Any character who lands on that location may then claim the loot, (provided he wasn't forced to miss or end his turn from encountering the space, losing to an Enemy or due to a spell effect.).
This only accounts for PVP encounters. Any character that was killed in an Enemy encounter or due to a fatal spell, card or board effect, leaves his loot behind on the space where he was killed.
Exception: when playing with the Dragon expansion, regardless of how a character was killed, all his accumulated Dragon scales are inherited by the replacement character.
These rules will help minimize the power gap between the domineering and starting characters.
What are your thoughts on this?
Share your own houserules for remedying these issues.
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As an aside, we are thinking of implementing this rule late in the game, when the replacement character has no chance of catching up to the leader.
I think there has been some misinterpretation here. The character landing on the space chooses to encounter the space or another character there. It gets its normal reward for defeating that other character, but if it chooses to kill the character, that is all it gets. The stuff left behind becomes part of a "space" encounter. That other character must somehow re-encounter the space later to touch any of that stuff… including any gold left behind.
It is just as nonsensical as many mechanics in this game, but this is the way we play it. It accomplishes the same thing as what you are after by interpreting the rules by the letter.
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If you defeat another character and force him to lose his last life, you may claim all of his possessions. Any items not claimed are then placed faceup on the space!
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talismanamsilat said:
If you defeat another character and force him to lose his last life, you may claim all of his possessions. Any items not claimed are then placed faceup on the space!
Yes, and though it makes prefect sense… it is contradictory by the sense of some of the other rules. Then again, I'm not really into rules lawyering as much as making the game fun for all involved by the way individual groups want to play it. What I suggest, though nonsensical, is a much simpler way to solve the OP stated problem. If you want to kill off another character, so be it, and then that's your big gain. If you want their stuff, defeat them and take a reward from them by the other rules… not both. Simple.
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It's a tough question. We've all had situations where a character is killed, and the player starts over as a new character. Depending on the stage of the game, the new player may have no chance whatsoever of ever catching up to the leader, which clearly impacts the fun factor for that player.
I do sympathize - been there myself. It can be a drag, going through the motions knowing you have no real chance of victory.
But their character was defeated, and forced out of the game. In many other games, that would be it - you lost, now go away.
Talisman offers a second chance (or third, fourth, etc) for those who wish to continue playing, and strive for victory even though the odds may be against them. I understand that it can be tough on the returning player, but that's the price for losing. You re-enter the game hoping the lead character will meet with some misfortune allowing you to regain ground. I have no interest in softening the rules so that players returning with 2nd or 3th characters have a better chance to catch up.
If playing with the Reaper expansion, then having a new character is better than being out as you can always try to roll a 1 on movement so that you can try to send Death after the various players in the lead.
Yea, we always play with the Reaper. It's fun. Although all our games are 2-player sessions, but still, the Grim One has managed to get his share of instant kills.
I think the OP's question was more about hoarding after a kill. That is a separate problem from (thought connected to) a kill. Being knocked out of the game is a big bummer, and certainly with the effort it takes to take someone else out (especially without demigod mechanics like the Reaper), is it acceptable for the one victor to suddenly hoard everything left on that space when in normal combat the choice is between taking a life and taking something else? If there's a limit in normal combat, why isn't there a limit when you have already chosen to take a Life instead of something else? Seems the choice has been made and shouldn't change after the fact simply because a last life is taken. But of course, for those playing officially, that is the case… even if there's a conceptual contradiction in those rules.
Hence we play that the choice has been made. Encountering the other character is the end of the turn. Anything that falls on the space is left there, and even the player re-entering has a chance to get to the pile of goodies. We consider that as well to be better in the balance than any "inheritance" rule. And it works whether using the Reaper or not. It is also simpler.
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That's exactly it. Hoarding after a kill just feels wrong in some way, especially if you're already powerful.
Well, we still haven't implemented this rule, just thinking about it as the last couple of sessions have been devoid of mid-game PVP kills.
Though the one you proposed is obviously simpler, but with your rule, the loot will be less accessible to a starting character if the kill occurred in the Middle Region(unless the substitute is one of the few who also starts in that Region, like the Chivalric Knight or the Warlock)
I think nothing is wrong with hoarding after killing a character in 4th edition
You just kill the character and grab as much goodies as you can.
But this rule is different in the third edition version.
If a character is killed, then all objects, followers are put aside the board.
When you begin with a new character, you get the objects, and followers from the previous character.
I think that hoarding after killing a character is just a 4th edition and 2th edition rule?
In third edition, nothing is said about that. You just win the battle or psychic combat vs a character, and you can choose to take one gold or a object.
No extra gains by killing it..
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