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Badminton School is an independent, boarding and day school for girls aged 3 to 18 years situated in Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, England. The school consistently performs well in the government's league tables, particularly at A Level.[1] In 2008 the school was ranked third in the Financial Times top 1,000 schools.[2]
According to the Good Schools Guide, "The secret of the school's success is in its size and a good deal of individual attention."[3]
School history[edit]
Miriam Badock established a school for girls in 1858 at Badminton House in Clifton.[4] By 1898 it had become known as Miss Bartlett's School for Young Ladies.[5]
Unusually for the time the school developed a broad curriculum, and extracurricular activities, including sport, were encouraged. The school grew steadily in size, and in 1924 moved to the present site, under the headship of Beatrice May Baker (1876–1973). Baker, known as BMB,[6] was fundamental in shaping Badminton's ethos and had a deep personal influence on individual pupils.[7] She encouraged the girls to be aware of world affairs and internationalism.[8] A pioneer in many educational fields, she established Badminton as a much-admired progressive school.[9] She insisted on the rights of young people to freedom of expression and encouraged a questioning approach to learning: "in chapel 'Jesus often had to share the stage with Lenin'".[10] The international outlook she pioneered continues to this day.
In 1958, the school celebrated its centenary with the opening of a new Science Centre by Countess Mountbatten of Burma. Dame Sybil Thorndike was president of the school at that time, and a new cantata called "The Crown of the Year" by Michael Tippett was specially commissioned to mark the event.
By the late 1960s, the progressive aspects of the school had all but vanished (Royston Lambert speech at Exeter University 19 November 1971)[11] and it had become a standard independent academic school.
Old Badmintonians[edit]
Alumnae of the school are known as Old Badmintonians.
- Claire Bloom - actress [12]
- Mary Fedden - artist [13]
- Indira Gandhi - Prime Minister of India (1966–77, 1980–84) [14]
- Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein - daughter of King Hussein I of Jordan [15]
- Princess Fatima Al Shami - daughter of Crown Prince Sajid of Yemen
- Charlotte Leslie - Conservative Party MP
- Phyllida Law - actress [16]
- Dame Iris Murdoch - writer [17]
- Rosamund Pike - actress [18]
- Polly Toynbee - journalist [19]
- Lul Ahmed Mohamed Silanyo - daughter of HE President Ahmed Mohamed Silanyo of Somaliland [20]
- ^ "Badminton School". www.dcsf.gov.uk. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
- ^ "FT.com — In depth — FT top schools". www.ft.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2009. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
- ^ "Badminton School, Bristol — The Good School Guide". www.goodschoolsguide.co.uk. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
- ^ Badminton School: The First 150 Years Nigel Watson
- ^ "Bristol Schools Information". www.bristolinformation.co.uk. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
- ^ Jean Storry, ed. (1982). At Badminton with BMB by Those Who Were There. Badminton School.
- ^ "Literary Encyclopedia: Dame Iris Murdoch". www.litencyc.com. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
- ^ Watkins, Christopher (May 2007). "Inventing International Citizenship: Badminton School and the Progressive Tradition between the Wars". History of Education (Routledge) 36 (3): 315–338. doi:10.1080/00467600500419810. ISSN 1464-5130.
- ^ Child, Hubert Alwyn Thomas (1962). The Independent Progressive School. Hutchinson.
- ^ "Preface to the online release, October 2007". www.oup.com. Retrieved 2009-01-26.
- ^ Lambert, Royston. Alternatives To School. Exeter University Press. ISBN 0-900771-36-4.
- ^ film adaptations of plays on video By Thomas L. Erskine, James Michael Welsh, John C. Tibbetts
- ^ "Tate: Mary Fedden". www.tate.org.uk. Retrieved 2013-02-21.
- ^ Indira Gandhi: Daughter of India By Carol Dommermuth-Costa
- ^ Jordanian Royalty: Jordanian Princes, Jordanian Princesses, Jordanian Royal Consorts, Kings of Jordan, Recipients of Jordanian Royal Pardons
- ^ Notes to My Mother-in-Law — P Law
- ^ Iris Murdoch: A life — Peter J. Conradi
- ^ Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2009 By Roger Ebert
- ^ Rank: picturing social order 1516-2009
- ^ Somaliland Presidential Families Archives
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- Official website
- Profile on the ISC website

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Traffic Reporters in the United States are not likely to strike it rich; they only make around $41K annually on average. Pay ranges from $25K on the low end to $60K per year on the high end. Female Traffic Reporters are more common than men among those who completed the survey; more than half (65 percent) are women. Health benefits are not enjoyed by everyone in this line of work, and slightly less than a third lack any coverage at all. Medical benefits are reported by a majority and dental coverage is claimed by a little less than one-half. Most Traffic Reporters report high levels of job satisfaction. This report is based on answers to PayScale's salary questionnaire.
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Traffic reporters typically work for a local television or radio news team in an area where vehicular traffic is a key concern for commuters. Typically, these are high-population media markets with both urban and suburban sprawl and the heavy traffic of "rush hour" which commuters must face in the mornings and afternoons. Traffic reporters provide information related to patterns and traffic flow and alert motorists of accidents, construction, and other occurrences that may worsen traffic on a given day.Read More...
Most traffic reporters rely on computerized data telemetry and data collection which record traffic throughout busy highways and thoroughfares. The reporter can then analyze the flow of traffic, make determinations for how it is moving and at what speeds, and provide this information at regular intervals either on-camera or over the radio to the media audience. While in the past traffic reporters used helicopters for direct visual reporting, this expensive practice is somewhat on the wane, as visual sensors are considered more cost-effective and provide similar data.
Today, many traffic reporters also heavily monitor police and emergency scanners to convey breaking information related to accidents or car breakdowns and how they may be affecting traffic flow. Even when a vehicular incident does not block traffic, it may hinder movement as motorists slow down to carefully pass the scene. These reporters may also work closely with regional and local transportation departments to advise listeners of any construction or repair work which can also constrict a commute. Whenever possible, the traffic reporter will also attempt to advise the audience of alternate route suggestions when heavily-utilized roadways are too constricted.
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Things are pretty shaky for the Detroit Red Wings as of this moment, but Thursday represents a chance to look back at the not-so-distant past, as they retired Nicklas Lidstrom's No. 5 tonight.
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Originally posted by Torgrim
I would be happy with just the new SA client and Renaissance gameplay. I might even be ready to endure the T2A ganker-era, if the population was healthy.
Alas, it will never happen.
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Originally posted by aylwynn
How exactly is it "over-casualized"? The only real change in that regards is the removal of the chance to screw other people over. They've built the game around having fun with other people instead of at the expense of other people.
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Originally posted by Volkon
You don't have to look for a decent grou setup at all. I've been doing story mode and explorable mode dungeons without even typing one word nor even reading something from my groupmates which just spammed "lfg ta" and so on in the broadchat. I won't give Fractals of the Mist any try.
To be honest ... I like to prepare for a decent groupsetup with coordination. But you cannot because they've taken roles and don't have any replacement. The whole GW2 system is not cosequent, its more like "feel free to do everything without [b]wasting[/b] too much time." I realized at that point that risk for rewards is much more fun.
Even in World vs World the World scaling AND your personal WvW-killcounter for achievements is totally insignificient because once you hit with one of your plenty AoE skills the enemy zerg you'll get plenty killcounts ... While you did nothing. My bank was full of honormarks which I actually didn't really deserve. The whole game focuses on AoE skills thus you don't really have to think about what target you pick. It doesn't even matter if I stun+burst damage a warrior or an elementalist because I cannot expect really hard and class-specific counters. Just the mesmer is pretty dangerous due to confusion stacking. But thats all.
You cannot develop a game where you don't piss off one playerbase. GuildWars 2 is - along with League of Legends and Dota 2 - just one more game for some months which doesn't bind you at all. Most players I've saw on Europe servers just login their solo class, follow the WvW zerg, kill a dragon and logout after one hour.
You don't have to invest much time to max-out your character like in DAoC, Warhammer Online or even World of Warcraft. Its really easy to get your exotic armor and some runes. I want more risk and thus more challange in MMORPG like in the past.
Originally posted by aylwynn
There is one tenet that they strove for when creating the game, and I feel they nailed it pretty well... easy to learn, difficult to master. Like Fractals... the first few levels are fairly easy... get your feet wet. But once the levels begin to climb you notice the difficulty begin to shoot up. Get into Team Speak or the like, chat with others and face challenging content... yeah, it's fun. You're right that you don't need to look for a specific group make up, but you do need a good group of people that know their profession and aren't mashing buttons. But as you say, it won't appeal to everyone. No game will.
Oh, role btw have been replaced. Look at your skills, the primary, secondary and even for some tertiary effects. Learning to use the right skills at the right time replaces the archaic roles system. Everyone takes a bigger part in the combat instead of being simply a tank, a healer or a dps type.
Originally posted by Volkon
Challenge is there, what isnt there are uber rewards in a model some games in the past conditioned people.
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Originally posted by Volkon
It was really hard-core sitting on the bank of the hill whatching a chanter pull the fin's for 5 straight hours ....between three or four rums and the boredom I'd fall of my chair a couple of times a night
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The game just need one major change in WvWvW and some small changes for PvE and we'll see all of that this year.
It's a new game and like every new game just need time to take a direction. Everybody who spam and hate this game to know even the worst advertisement is ad and stop flame all forums. I see the new generations of MMO players are just haters, they hate all new games and style - GW2 sux , TERA /TSW,SWTOR/ sux and alot more. Before realese everybody says: "The game ll be the best ever made!!!", after that "The games is crap"..
In future we'll see that point with TESO cuz this game is overhyped allready...
Originally posted by Bad.dog
Yah, epicness of endless camping of the same spot with same mindnumbing pulls for week(s) just to gain one level cant be put in words.
Cant believe that some people want that back.
To put it in perspective: imagine that you have to farm grubs in GW2 on same spot few hours a day for a week just to get a level. It certanly can be done, just give miniscule xp per kill. Suddenly GW2 would be this "deep awesome game" ....not lol
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put it like this...got the game at launch...played till maybe mid october. started back on the winterday event. quit again about 3 weeks ago. logged in last week after reading a new story in the wayfarer (snowarea). went there and put together some signs and collected some dog tags or something. i was like where the story i dont know wtf im really doing. then they said its a prelude only...thought a prelude suppose to ya know have some story to it to get me interested. but ohhh well..as long as they dont release an expansion ill log in from time to time to see whats up...
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Originally posted by shingoukieh
I wasn't too impressed with the preluge either. However, it does hint (not so subtley) at the story that is to come, if you bother to read the text.
Unfortunately, unless you really wanted the title, there was no real reason to login for the prelude itself. The bulk of the update was more to fix bugs, modify some of the UI, fix problems with fractals, and implement a first pass of the culling fix.
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Originally posted by snapfusion
Okay, please point to another themepark MMO that feels more like a "gameworld". Seriously please, because I sure can't.
The immersion factor in GW2 is bigger than any themepark MMO to date and even most sandbox ones too, simply because of the detail that has been put into everything from a stream's trickle to the inscriptions on NPC tombstones to weather naffecting mob spawns.
If you don't see it then you are just not paying close enough attention. Just a small anecdote to illustrate:
I was killing elementals when I noticed that some veterans were dropping green-quality trophies worth a few silver each. I was on my way to vendoring them when I bumped into some interactable boiling lava; next thing I know my hearts had been thrown in the lava and a Champion Elemental burst out and started a group event. I called out to the zone and 3 other players ended up helping me beat this champion which I had basically summoned unknowingly, it was awesome.
This was followed by an event to protect an Asuran krewe while they simultaniously operated three lasers to stabilize a volcano, which actually caused a Champion Destroyer to emerge from the lava that gathered about 15 players total. The whole series of events and real NPC actions made the world feel alive.
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Originally posted by fundayz
world of warcraft feels more like a gameworld lol......and the monsters are spread out better too...started out as human and the immersion was definetly there...to me it feels like the people of divinity reach got there damn heads in the clouds and the rest of the world is struggling to survive.
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Originally posted by shingoukieh
Yeah, nothing like to read "we are under attack by the orcs" and everyone is standing, including the orcs.
Currently playing: GW2
Originally posted by shingoukieh
If by gameworld you mean "dead, static world where nothing happens at all, even when players are there" then you're spot on. I prefer though a gameworld where the world is going on with or without you. Events trigger and process without interaction from people. Simply passing through an area, or disturbing something you shouldn't, or a myriad of things can trigger events as well and bring zones to life.
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Originally posted by shingoukieh
I be trying to figure out why do people get drunk then come post on the forums, I don't digg that kind of stuff at all.
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OP, you shouldn't have mentioned WoW in your post. GW2 fanbois are most obnoxius players around.
Well, GW2 is no different that any other title out there. Hype at first, people buy it, see it's nothing different, quit either GW2 or genre allthogether. Genre as a whole is in decline because it lacks inovation (please don't start what GW2 does is revolutionary because anyone that played anything else knows it really is not. People tend to forget what that word, revolutionary, actually means, but that's another topic to discuss). Game gets hyped to hell, fails at delivering, people quit. It is same old story since the beginning of MMOs. Except the hype is a lot worse nowadays.
As I said i my previous posts, GW2 devs should've really picked their words more carefully, as they said a while ago they are gunning for the WoWs place. If you are in that kind of thing, competition, WoW has more subs than GW1 and GW2 together have players, so it didn't only beat one B2P title, but two. But then again, if you are enjoying your game why the hell would you care about that. It goes without saying if GW2 had 15$ subscription or if WoW went F2P that would be just unfair.
With 2.2mil copies sold (now probably slightly more), which was the only thing that was announce since the beginning of GW2, and with average retention rate of a MMO of 30-35%, I believe it's safe to say GW2 has plenty of players.
Edit: Just to clarify, GW2 was not fastest selling anything, MoP sold 3mil copies in the 1st week, which was the last week of fiscal quarter, number probably got a bit higher, and just dissapointment when people claim GW2 is more of a world because it for more adventureous teleporting all over the place and not having mounts. IN MY HUMBLE OPINION.
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Originally posted by iamthekiller
Its seems to me like GW2 just wasn't for you, sure the hype of this game was HUGE and many people thought it would crush WOW. This didn't happend and I never thought it would.
I don't think anything can crush WOW but blizzard it self, many people have put so much time into the game and it's characters that they don't want to give that up and who can blame them. Although everybody is saying now that GW2 is crap and that no one is playing it well thats not true.
I took a break from GW2 and played alot of counter strike which I also love but logged on GW2 again and there are lots of players I had fun, really fun.
GW2 is a game for me now like WOW was a long time ago for me. I love GW2, I can never go back to kill 10 rats and return to me questing cause I think thats boring but thats just me. The only thing that will kill WOW is WOW2 if it ever should come.
For me WOW is to old, I don't lke the graphics anymore but I must say still sometimes I just have to logon and play for a hour or so but no more then I am sick of it.
The hardcore group of WOW will never leave the game and why should they, they are good at the game, they have a good guild and friends there. If all my friends still played WOW I would still play it aswell but they dont and neither do I.
I don't know why all of us so desperatly are waiting for a game to kill WOW, can't we all just find our own game and enjoy it?
It doesn't matter if there are 100 servers online with 20000 people on every server or if you play I game with only 1 server and 20000 on that server you still play with the same amount of people.
I end with this, if WOW would never have been released until now do any of you think there would be 10 million players on the game?
Originally posted by fixif
Just to clarify your clarification, GW2 is the fastest MMO to reach 3 million copies sold. MoP, an expansion of WoW, may have sold 3 million or so copies, but that was to a captive audience of an alleged 10 million or so players. If there's anything resembling truth to that number of players, only around 30% bought the expansion? OK.
I still get a kick out of the "see nothing different" lie, even though the stench of desperation gets cloying after a while.
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Originally posted by fixif
Thwy announced 3 million.
Fastest selling NEW MMO.
Also biggest new MMO release in the West.
GW2 is exactly the same except where it is different.
Projectiles that actually have a trajectory that can and will be blocked, the ability to use the large majority of skills with no target or out of range, distance in melee actually matter as does positioning since melee weapons have the ability to deal damage to all targets the weapon touch, "quests" that are more than just text and fixed mobs, no ninja looting, the entire server is your party, no mob tagging, instance resource nodes, a variety of quality of life improvements related to crafting (store materials straight from your bags from everywhere, increased speed when crafting multiples of the same item, etc).
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King Chao Cheng of Ch'in imposed order on the Warring States and selected his imperial name, Shih Huang Ti (Zhuangdi), "First Sovereign Emperor." Although his Ch'in Dynasty lasted only fifteen years (221-206 B.C.), his imperial style purportedly survived him two thousand years, until the 1911 Revolution. Therefore we might believe he was a revolutionary innovator, a great man albeit one infamous for his methods. Yet he does not appear to be so unique when we examine our august emperor in his circumstantial and historical context. The self-declared First Sovereign Emperor was not the first emperor; his revolution revolved to a distant past replete with emperors cloaked by legend and myth. It is impossible to escape from history and remain civilized. King Cheng wanted a novel empire for himself, but his novel was rooted in experience.
King Cheng was two thousand years closer to his origins than we are. We sift through the old texts and dragon-bone inscriptions and dig up the graves with a curiosity almost morbid but enlivening nevertheless. After we examine the historical remains and archeological evidence, we are faced with a riddle, and use our imagination to flesh out the bones in hopes that the past will provide future guidance. In some respects we have a great deal more to work with than King Cheng did in his day; yet, when he sought guidance on this same but more proximate subject of ours, he too was confronted with the riddle of the past, with the mystery of the meaning of what had happened two thousand years or more before his own birth. His councilors presented him with old legends and myths, symbolic riddles upon which all pondered and made various proposals until he arrived at an enduring imperial synthesis.
King Cheng was naturally interested in the Immortals and their herb of immortality; he was so obsessed with becoming immortal himself that he went to absurd lengths searching for the most desirable health medicine of all. Of course he examined the ancient myth of China's immortal 'Three Primordial Emperors.' The historical record expressly states his interest in that obscure triune and how he chose the title of one primordial personage, "Huang Ti", for his imperial name, with its double-meaning of "August" Emperor and "Yellow" Emperor.
He was also fascinated by Yu, who controlled the devastating flood with the help of his dragon and turtle; having thus saved the land and proven his abilities, Yu became an emperor in his own right. Remember, Yu was the Water Controller. Whosoever controls the water rules China—King Cheng chose Water as his dynasty's element. The natural order including the social order has its irregularities upon which order must be imposed if humankind would be civilized. An emperor who fails to control the water will fall from grace just as legendary Yu's father had failed and was executed. Floods and droughts have always been associated with rebellion and revolution in China. Indeed, Emperors and the waters rise and fall in accord with the Heavenly Mandate. A massive undertaking to control water with its attendant perils is underway in China as we speak.
Once the sovereign order is imposed, it may be convenient to bury the scholars who protest that order, and to burn the books they interpret as their authority for dissent, or at least to establish a monopoly over textual interpretation. Revolutionaries who succeed often become arch-conservatives just as intellectuals sometimes become anti-intellectuals. Li Ssu, Shih Huang Ti's Grand Councilor, was an eminent scholar who reportedly had so many scholars buried that melons flourished over their graves.
Blind faith in the latest imperial order is required, notwithstanding its arbitrary character under a sole arbiter, because people tend to forget the terrible causes that made the current legal order necessary in the first place; they are therefore prone to repeat the same old mistakes leading to chaos. The new order, however, is not as new as one might suppose. The linear order of progressive history, the very idea of perpetual innovation, was anathema to China as an agrarian civilization; wherefore the continuous change of the Book of Changes is regular i.e. seasonable.
For traditional China, progress meant a return to the original Golden Age of the naturally cultivated garden, where plants, animals and humans once got along so famously. In the traditional Chinese Paradise, not only mutual bliss but bare survival depends on cooperation with the spatial ordering and regular cycling of nature. Thus the large political order will necessarily correspond to the natural order spelled out more clearly by the stars in Heaven than by the complex shifting of sands on Earth. Naturally, the overarching political scheme may become overbearing in its Heavenly symmetry unless it is somehow in keeping with the mystical way of the private Chinese gardener who finds repose in his secret garden.
King Cheng wanted to establish an empire as stable and enduring as that supported by Yu's famous turtle, an empire of at least one-thousand years. The primordial turtle had carried the Growing Soil used by Yu to make the mountains that helped save humankind from the flood. A map of the Nine Regions including the Nine Rivers appeared on the turtle's shell, as well as the blueprint for human language by which the future can be known or determined. The birds would use their feet to write that language in the mud.
Basing civilization on the back of a turtle might seem strange to us today, but someone must start somewhere with something and ask questions. The deliberate application of heat to the shell of a turtle in order to trick out its internal order in the form of a riddle, and the conscious presumption behind the question—that there is an answer to the riddle—was critical to the development of human will and intelligence. In fact, riddles were posed everywhere civilization evolved; in Greece, for example, where the Sophists loved the logical play of riddle games; in India, if the loser did not volunteer to become the disciple of the winner of the riddle contest, he was beheaded.
Myths evolved from the divination process, and questions were asked of the myths. For instance, the famous poet C'hu Yuan (c. 340-278 B.C.) posed "Heavenly Questions" or "Riddles" about mythology; for instance: 'If Gun was not fit to control the flood, why was he entrusted with this task? They all said, "Do not fear! Try him and see if he can accomplish it." Lord Yu issued from Gun's belly. How did he metamorphose? Yu inherited his legacy and continued the work of his father. Why was his plan different, even though the work was in progress? How did he dam the flood waters at their deepest? How did he demarcate the Nine Lands of the earth? Over the rivers and seas what did the Responding Dragon achieve, and where did he pass? What plan did Kun devise? What did Yu succeed in doing?'
Good questions. King Cheng pondered on them before he selected his imperial name. C'hu Yuan, in addition to his 170 questions, complained about the politics of the Warring States period in which he lived a century before King Cheng appeared on the scene with his final solution to the complaints. C'hu Yuan was a nobleman, an important minister of C'hu, a state south of Ch'in, who raised too many questions and urged embarrassingly patriotic answers thereto at court; he was consequently banished. He traveled about, pondered on politics, asked Heaven questions about the mythological pictures on the shrines, where he stopped to rest and composed his poetry. Made miserable by the chaos of his times, and bemoaning the plight of his home state of C'hu in its conflict with the rising state of Ch'in, he tied a rock to his body, jumped into a river and drowned himself. To this very day the Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated in his honor; the boats commemorate the search for his body—it was never found. Rice dumplings are thrown into the water to appease the dragons, or perhaps to feed his spirit. Riddle contests are included for the edification of everyone participating.
Following suit, we gaze in wonder upon the grand totemic conglomeration arising from the yellow soil, the Oriental Dragon, the Yellow Sphinx who guards the Great Wall. We are pleased to discover that the Oriental Dragon is friendlier and more beneficial than the Occidental Dragon. That is, if we do not fight it. Reflections on the Dragon gives us cause to entertain the proposition that King Chao Cheng's premature death after becoming Shih Huang Ti was not due to overwork and insanity, but to his spearing of a great sea-dragon; Captain Ahab made a similar fatal mistake with Moby Dick, the Great White Whale of the West. Let us retire to our secret gardens now, and pause for a moment in eternity to privately reconsider the riddle of existence. Those who answer rightly may don the imperial robe of gold and jade and continue on The Way.
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…into to the saloon looking like you just rode in from the Wild West in this manly Gunfighter adult mens plus size costume that would do Wyatt Earp proud. Tip your hat to the ladies and belly up to the bar, it's drinking time. This mens plus size Gunfighter costume makes a statement, so wear it well.
Do you have the guts to do this? This costume idea calls for some acting - the fake guts are covered with blood so you can position it to look like you've been eaten alive or worse. Are you hungry enough?
Be the big, cuddly bear that everyone will love when you wear the Panda Costume. This black and white, faux fur panda suit comes complete with a rubber latex mask.
Be bold and be bad on Halloween when you wear this Convict boys costume. The short sleeve shirt of this convict costume comes complete with matching pants and a striped hat. Break out and find yourself some candy!
Step into the ring of Rome ready to battle in this Gladiator boys costume. The body armor of this gladiator costume features an attached cape and comes complete with a tunic, arm bands, cuffs, leg guards and a matching headpiece.
Beware of the morning sun when you stay up all night on Halloween in this Vampire boys costume. The black and dark red, 100% polyester vest of this vampire costume features an attached poet-sleeved shirt and comes complete with a jet-black, red lined cape.
Don't get caught with your hand in the cookie jar when you wear this Convict Boy child costume. The black and white, polyester shirt of this convict costume comes complete with matching pants and a hat.
Gobble up some Thanksgiving fun amongst the falling leaves in this cozy Turkey Fleece child costume. The tan, orange, red and yellow jumpsuit of this turkey costume comes complete with a headpiece and shoe covers.
Rise up and feast on the living when you wear this Zombie Classic boys costume. The top and pants of this zombie costume features sewn-in body parts and comes complete with a mask and attached wig along with a pair of gloves.
He "vants" to suck your blood in this Vampire classic child costume. The white shirt of this vampire costume comes complete with a cape and attached collar, a vest and pants. They'll cover up their necks when you come around!
Find wisdom when you wear this authentic ancient-looking Burgundy Wiseman child costume. The Burgundy robe of this Wiseman costume comes complete with a matching headpiece and a sash. It's perfect for your school plays and pageants.
Everyone will believe in dragons when your little one sports this Anime Dragon toddler costume. The green and tan, polar fleece hooded jumpsuit of this dragon costume features a button closure.
Amaze them with your wisdom and your authentic ancient-looking ensemble in this Purple Wiseman costume. The royal purple robe of this Wiseman costume comes complete with a matching headpiece and sash.
Amaze them with your wisdom and your authentic ancient-looking ensemble in this Blue Wiseman child costume. The bright blue robe of this Wiseman costume comes complete with a headpiece and – it's perfect for your school plays and pageants.
Whether you love or hate math and science, this Classic Nerd boys costume is scientifically proven to be very funny. Crack up the crowd when you show up in this jumpsuit styled to look like high-rise plaid pants, complete with an attached bow tie and belt.


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Someone in the Reds organization is severely confused. After making a point all offseason that Aroldis Chapman would be given a chance in the starting rotation, it has officially been announced the Chapman will be back in the closer's role for 2013, according to the Cincinnati Inquirer. That might just be the best place for him, as he's clearly proven to be dominant in that role. But it makes no sense, right now, for several reasons. First, as mentioned above, the front office wanted him to start. Dusty Baker expressed a desire to keep Aroldis in the bullpen, a feeling that Chapman himself also expressed. The story since last season has been that Chapman will work all winter and spring on "stretching out" so that he can work out of the rotation for 2013. Second, Chapman makes a lot of money. He was given a huge bonus when he signed out of Cuba. A bonus that makes sense for a guy who gives you 200+ innings as a front end starter. Not the type of bonus a reliever working 70 innings ever receives. Third, the Reds paid Jonathan Broxton 21 million dollars this offseason to be the team's closer. Now, [...]
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