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->'''Lucas:''' Let see here... we got time and space, every human emotion, every natural element and nature itself, life and death... what do we go for next?\\
'''Dawn:''' Only one place left to go... (''points skyward'') we go for GOD!\\
'''Lucas:''' Uh wait, we got that one too.\\
'''Dawn:''' Oh.
-->-- ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_zCAsSc5l0 $00pah NiN10Doh! - Pokémon: The Fifth Generation]]''
The plot is completed. The hero gets his due reward, the girl, and vanquishes the villain with a series of really cool moves. Everybody lives happily ever after.
But wait. Turns out that fans liked the story so much that [[UnCanceled they want a sequel]]. But the hero's story is essentially done. He's supposed to be content for the rest of his life with what he got at the end.
The solution: Level up the rewards and dangers the hero faces to add that extra ''oomph'' to the sequel while avoiding accusations of plot recycling. Instead of a mere [[TheDon Mafia boss]], the SortingAlgorithmOfEvil delivers a beady-eyed DiabolicalMastermind to deal with, but the hero can look forward to [[MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours niftier powers and legacies]].
This leveling up can get ridiculous if the series continues for long enough, with the producers being forced to [[SerialEscalation one-up themselves with every succeeding installment]]. It might even be carried out to the point that the only way left for the hero to become any ''more'' omnipotent is to make him AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence or [[BagOfSpilling depower him]].
This trope has a unique relationship with videogames, since RuleOfFun and ExcusePlot often allow more leeway when designing sequels.
SoLastSeason plus PostScriptSeason. When it's the same bad guys getting an upgrade, it's a LensmanArmsRace. Closely related to SequelEscalation.
Compare ChangingOfTheGuard.
[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* In ''Manga/{{Dragonball}}'', we go from a military commander who wants to be taller, to an evil demon king, to the proud and arrogant prince of Goku's race that can crush Goku and his friends with ease, to the ruler of the galaxies that ''commanded'' said prince, to a genetic amalgam created from various good and bad guys including said ruler, and the... what can probably be called abomination Majin Buu, who destroys planets and people for the hell of it. SerialEscalation has made it so the series is widely known for parody-level absurd power levels, where you could practically sneeze and destroy a planet, but put it back almost as easily. There was a single reversal in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', however, when it's made clear that said galactic ruler was in fact a greater threat than most of his successors; this is a result of trying to work some sanity back into a franchise riddled with [[PostScriptSeason Post Script Seasons]].
* ''Anime/SailorMoon'' held very tightly to its PlotLeveling with nearly every season's BigBad hunting for some VictimOfTheWeek's trinket. The concept was really stretched in the last season's mangling of the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]] story, where the trinkets are known to belong to any of the superpowered senshi -- leading one to wonder why the BigBad never targets any of ''them'' until near the very end.
* ''OnePiece'' comes with Plot Leveling built in. We start in the East Blue, the weakest of the four main seas. Then move up to the Grand Line, which lives up to its hype of being difficult to sail and survive. Finally, the sailors who travel across the Grand Line's second half, the New World, refer to the first half as "Paradise" out of comparison to the New World. However the author throws a curveball once in a while. For example, right after the Alabasta arc, which Luffy took two defeats to just barely win on his third try against Crocodile, was the Jaya arc, the main antogonist was Bellamy. It took Luffy [[CurbStompBattle one punch]] to put him down, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome without stretching]].
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' was this until a point where it went out of control, the author decided to remove Ichigo's original GameBreaker powers and gave him new ones which require him to start leveling up again.
** For all of 5 minutes until he got stronger verions of his old powers, letting him beat someone who was apparantly as strong as him pre-sacrifice without [[NextTierPowerUp Bankai]] or his [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Hollow Mask]].
* A failure in this department became something of a problem with ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis''. The series ''started out'' with out-of-control [[{{Nanomachines}} Nanotechnology]] and a KillSat. Given the series premise, it was hard to scale ''up'' from an incident involving multiple loose weapons of mass destruction, and as a result things ended up becoming more cartoonish and comical as the franchise went on, with ''2040 AD'' eventually [[JumpingTheShark descending into self-parody]].
* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' hit the power ceiling with ''[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs As]]'', after Nanoha, Fate and the Wolkenritter take care of the Book of Darkness. After that, these people are the strongest mages in the multiverse, and going up from the Book of Darkness required a lateral move; instead of a more powerful adversary, ''[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS StrikerS]]'' went with a conspiracy headed by a MadScientist, brought in some new trainees, and added in office politics that prevented Riot Force 6 from operating at full power. After that, they scaled the plot back down and invoked ChangingOfTheGuard for ''[[Audioplay/StrikerSSoundStageX Sound Stage X]]'' and ''[[Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaViVid ViVid]]'', with less-galactic-level issues dealt with by younger protagonists. Riot Force 6 was reassembled in ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'', but [[ContestedSequel opinion is divided]] on how well that went.
* ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'':
** The series crashed into the ceiling headlong when it went for a PostScriptSeason. They had already killed off the greatest warlord of the Century's End, Kenshiro's big brother and EvilCounterpart Raoh, and Kenshiro was already such an InvincibleHero that there was no way that they could either power him up any more or give him another credible challenge, but they had to try anyway. The Land of Shura arc was the result of their attempt to scale up Raoh; they created an EvilCounterpart ''style'' to Hokuto Shinken based on an evil version of ''[[KiAttacks touki]]'', and had Kaioh be [[spoiler: Kenshiro's ''biological'' older brother instead of his sempai]]. They also [[spoiler: made the Land of Shura be Kenshiro's birthplace]] in an attempt to rebuild the EmotionalTorque of the first series. General fan consensus is that it didn't quite work.
** The post-Shura arcs' [[AvertedTrope aversion]] of this trope demonstrates exactly why it's [[NecessaryWeasel necessary]]. After Kenshiro leaves the Land of Shura, the manga starts using villains who would have been [[MonsterOfTheWeek Punks of the Week]] in the ''first'' series (and in fact, the final villain was retconned into ''having been'' an ordinary GiantMook). While the series tries to [[ChangingOfTheGuard refocus on the younger supporting cast]], such as Ryu and Bat, inevitably Kenshiro is going to get involved in the fight, at which point the villains [[CatchPhrase don't even know that they're already dead]]. Even more than Land of Shura, these arcs are seen as a sign of terminal FranchiseZombie-ism.
[[folder:Comic Books]]
* A fundamental problem in the whole superhero comics industry. Any superhero or superhero team with a few decades of publication history has probably saved the entire multiverse at least once, which makes it hard to do stories about bank robberies. For example, it's a rare Avengers story these days that doesn't involve the fate of the whole planet, at a minimum.
* It seems possible that the writers of ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'' were unprepared for sequels. The heroes went from battling undead pirates and local guardsmen to facing Davy Jones and the East India Company.
* The ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' [[TwoPartTrilogy trilogy]]. The final scene with the [=DeLorean=] flying out to rescue Marty's son at the end of the [[Film/BackToTheFuture first movie]] was a joke scene, and wasn't intended to be taken seriously. High box office earnings and strong positive reaction, however, allowed the creators to follow through with more films. Furthermore, Marty's future is better insured by the end of the [[Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII third film]], as well as Doc Brown, who gets a wife, kids ''and [[CoolTrain a hovering time-traveling train]]''.
* ''Film/NationalTreasure''. The main characters went from committing the one large crime of stealing the Declaration of Independence, to breaking and entering into almost every famous government building ever built. Then, they kidnapped the president. The writers were unprepared for a sequel, they had absolutely no plans for one. In fact, they changed the ending to avoid a SequelHook.
* The original ''Film/{{Highlander}}'' movie suffered from this. The mantra, "There can be only one," seems like a joke when you consider the numerous sequels that dart back and forth through the timeline.
* In ''Film/TheMatrix'', Neo eventually becomes The One, and apparently gains RealityWarping abilities. However, Neo's implied godlike powers are mostly limited in the sequels to what he already showed off: flying and stopping bullets.
* The villains of ''Film/TheDarkKnightSaga'' seriously up their game with every installment. [[spoiler: [[Film/BatmanBegins Ra's Al Ghul]]]] had lofty plans, but they were foiled in the end by Batman and Gordon, the biggest thing he did that actually ''stuck'' was probably burning down Wayne mansion. [[Film/TheDarkKnight The Joker]] caused mass panic all over Gotham and, though he didn't directly kill very many people, he still managed to [[spoiler: drive Harvey Dent, the hero of Gotham, insane, ending with Batman taking the blame for all of the people Harvey killed as Two-Face]]. [[Film/TheDarkKnightRises Bane]] put Batman out of commision for several months and [[spoiler: completely took over the city while he was gone. He also came very close to detonating a nuclear bomb in the middle of Gotham]].
[[folder: Gamebooks]]
* In ''Literature/LoneWolf'', the first five books are all over the place, but the first twelve books ultimately formed a self-contained series that focused on dealing with the threat of the Darklords, a world-class threat that could conquer all Magnamund if not stopped. After this, the Grand Master series had to scale up from that, so they included [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands a third tier of Kai powers that had never been heard of before]] and made use of [[BiggerBad Naar]], the god of darkness [[TheManBehindTheMan who was behind the Darklords]], using minions who made the Darklords look like chumps and yet hadn't taken any part in the Darklords' ambition. After the Grand Master saga was completed and Lone Wolf became the Supreme Master, the game reversed course. Instead of creating [[SerialEscalation a fourth power tier]], it had [[ChangingOfTheGuard the player take on the role of one of Lone Wolf's apprentices]], who had Grand Master abilities (and a few new ones) but didn't actually deal with stuff on the Supreme Master's level. Forgivable, though, as book 20 has Lone Wolf basically going ToHellAndBack, and if he'd actually killed Naar then any further books would just feel like mopping up the remaining dregs of evil.
* This seems to be the Modus Operandi for the StarWarsExpandedUniverse. Can't think of a plot? Introduce another seemingly forgotten Sith faction from nowhere and build them up to be the greatest threat the galaxy has ever known. Done to such an extreme that the most recent [[FateOfTheJedi main storyline series]] had Luke facing off against an EldritchAbomination that was made out to be stronger than the Emperor. For the record, the Emperor has been used as a benchmark for enemy PowerLevels.
** There was one significant attempt to avert this: the [[Literature/NewJediOrder Yhuuzan Vong]], an invading extra-galactic species with some pretty bizarre philosophy/theology and complete absence from the Force. [[BrokenBase No one agrees on how successful this was]].
* A characteristic of Creator/EEDocSmith:
** Done to extremes in the ''Literature/SkylarkSeries''. The main hero and villain are geniuses at the start. And their brains are enhanced with each new book until they're capable of understanding five-dimensional physics and building spaceships with their brains. In case the earth getting destroyed wasn't a big enough threat, by the end of the series the whole ''universe'' is at stake. Instead of basic science-y weapons, they grab a team of psychic witches to translocate all the planets inhabited by the villainous race to a star system that is set ablaze and burns so fiercely that it'll take millennia to cool down. Or something. The details get a little muddled by the reader's laughter.
** Common in his other works, too, like ''Literature/{{Lensman}}''. If he starts a book with 1km long spaceships fighting, by the end of the book he'll have hundreds of 10km long spaceships fighting. Unfortunately, he kept writing sequels, so each new one starts at the level the previous book stopped at...
* Creator/TerryPratchett's "Witch" books in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' series were accused of this. Granny Weatherwax always had to fight a stronger foe - in this case, stronger meaning "better at mind magic" - until, as of ''Discworld/CarpeJugulum'', the fight didn't seem like it had a point. Terry wisely took the criticism and moved Granny to a supporting role in the Tiffany books afterwards.
* Done by Creator/DavidWeber in ''Literature/HonorHarrington''; Honor gets roughly one promotion per book, and [[LensmanArmsRace there's roughly one revolutionary advance in military technology per book.]] So while the [[StandardStarshipScuffle big space battle]] of the first book is [[StandardSciFiFleet one outgunned cruiser versus a disguised battlecruiser]] in a peacetime skirmish, the most recent books involve battles between hundreds of ships flinging [[MacrossMissileMassacre tens of thousands of nuclear missiles]] at each other in a galactic-level, multi-sided war. Honor has literally reached highest rank possible in ''both'' of the navies in which she currently serves. Weber intended to break the cycle by killing her off and letting her children [[ChangingOfTheGuard pick up where she left off]] about two books back, but co-author Creator/EricFlint [[TakeAThirdOption gave her a literal new lease on life]] by pushing the newest war up about 20 years and shifting the focus to [[CastHerd other groups of characters]] to keep from having to promote Honor so damn much.
* After starting as a low-level CIA analyst in ''Literature/TheHuntForRedOctober'', Creator/TomClancy's main character Jack Ryan has nowhere else to go after serving as President of the United States for two-and-a-half terms and eventually his son and other young protagonists must take over for him as the focus characters.
* ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' ends with Mr. Wonka having found an heir in Charlie and the boy and his family destined to live the good life in the factory, thus leaving the characters without any real ''needs''. So ''Literature/CharlieAndTheGreatGlassElevator'' starts with the titular elevator, which was escorting everyone back to the factory, accidentally ending up in orbit -- where they encounter evil carnivorous aliens and have to rescue the crew of a space hotel from them. Then a HalfwayPlotSwitch reveals that Mr. Wonka has invented a FountainOfYouth pill, and when Charlie's still-bedridden grandparents overdose on them, he and Mr. Wonka have to undo the damage. The book ends on a SequelHook with everyone headed to the White House to be honored for their heroism; Creator/RoaldDahl didn't get past the first chapter on a third book, but one wonders what he might have come up with to top the first two...
[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* ''Franchise/{{Stargate|Verse}}'' falls victim to this, but usually manages to make the upgrade interesting.
** They started by defeating a single Goa'uld (Ra) who had a single ship in TheMovie.
** Then, in the [[Series/StargateSG1 the series]], it turns out that was just one of many Goa'uld with many ships. However, he turned out to have been the leader of all the Goa'uld, and actually commanded many ships, although they hadn't been seen. But now he's been replaced by Apophis, who's very similar in most respects.
** They defeat Apophis, and he gets replaced by Sokar, whose schtick is that he was the inspiration for the devil. [[{{Satan}} Yes, that devil.]] He also has some fancier tricks up his sleeve, and a bigger fleet, that make him a bigger threat to Earth than Apophis was.
** Then Apophis turns out to not have been defeated after all, kills Sokar, takes over his fleet and his armies, and now he's stronger than ever and out for revenge on Earth, rather than just generically desiring conquest.
*** At some point in here, Osiris shows up as a recurring villain, mentioned as so evil the other Goa'uld got together and SealedEvilInACan before the protagonists inadvertently free him.
** Then Apophis gets killed (for good!) by the Replicators, who threaten to implacably devour all matter in the universe and who have been giving Earth's [[AllMythsAreTrue Asgard]] allies trouble since early seasons.
** That threat isn't even dealt with before Anubis, half-[[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Ascended]] Goa'uld with advanced Ancient knowledge and the ability to conquer all the other Goa'uld with ease, appears. He comes up with an army of unstoppable super-soldiers, which take several episodes before the protagonists even figure out how to kill one.
** After Anubis and the Replicators are all defeated at once, and the protagonists have acquired ships that can destroy Goa'uld Ha'taks with ease, in come the Ori [[strike:toilets]] battlecruisers that can destroy the Tau'ri ships with ease.
** The {{spinoff}}s not running for as long, don't suffer quite as much from this problem. The Wraith remain a constant threat from the first episode of ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' to the last, though they get the occasional upgrade (like the ZPM-powered Hive Ship in the finale), and the protagonists also have to deal with a fancier, more powerful kind of Replicators along the line.
** But now in ''Series/StargateUniverse'', the Ha'taks have caught up, and can kick the asses of the ships that could destroy the ships that can destroy the space toilets. When viewers politely asked "WTF?", the writers responded by saying that the rest of the universe hasn't stayed stagnant as our heroes have grown stronger. Presumably the Lucien Alliance stumbled across and reverse-engineered some lost bit of Ancient technology; that seems to be the source of most technological advancement in the Franchise/StargateVerse.
* ''Series/{{Chuck}}'' used this when, after his father rid him of the Intersect Mark I, Chuck intentionally downloads the Intersect Mark II into his brain which comes with SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat powers in addition to intelligence information.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' went through this in the first five seasons. First season: Vampire (the master). Second season: Three vampires, all especially vicious (Spike, Dru & Angelus). Third season: A "true" demon (the Mayor). Fourth season: A Demonic cyborg (Adam) and a military installation (the Initiative). Fifth season: A god (Glory). Sixth season broke with the formula: its BigBad [[spoiler: was made out to be three rather ineffectual, if evil, nerdy wannabe villains. They were [[BaitAndSwitch switched out]] in favour of Willow in the last few episodes. She]] may have been at about the same power level as Glory by that point, but the seventh season ramps it up again with The First Evil and an army of uber-vamps. Eighth season (in the comic books) has the FlyingBrick Twilight, who may outdo [[spoiler: Willow]] and Glory just with his level of invulnerability.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has been doing this, most obviously since the new series started in 2005. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E12BadWolf Game show controlling]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays Daleks]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E12ArmyOfGhosts Cybermen]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday Daleks]] invading Earth, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia The Master]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums seizing control of Earth]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords decimating the population]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth Daleks again]], this time [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd attempting to destroy the universe]], Time Lords returning and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime attempting to end time]]... then, [[spoiler:not just time ending, but making it so that [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens nothing even existed]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang in the first place]]]]. The sixth season finale features [[spoiler:the (almost) final death of the Doctor, which is arguably ''worse'' than the universe not existing.]]
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' starts with the boys hunting monsters and ghosts, which leads to them hunting demons, which are the strongest foes they face for a while. As the demons they face keep getting more and more powerful, eventually angels enter the mix, and somewhat surprisingly, they're not all friendly. Of course, {{Satan}} is a bit of a pain in the ass later, and most recently, this has all been taken to its logical conclusion with the newest BigBad being somewhere around Death and God's level in terms of power.
* ''Series/{{Haven}}'' ran into this in its later seasons. It originally started out as the story of Audrey Parker, a [[StrangeCopInAStrangeLand cop]] who is stuck in the town of Haven, Maine and helps the [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Troubled]] townspeople, all while trying to piece together the mystery of her past and who exactly the Colorado Kid is. As the seasons go on, Audrey has to deal with [[CosmicEntity cosmic entities]], reincarnation, and TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. More specifically, she finds out [[spoiler: that she is immortal and constantly returns to the town of Haven every 27 years, after which she goes into a magical barn and takes the Troubles with her. Unfortunately, things get messed up and she can no longer do so. Then she finds out actually the reincarnation of Mara, an evil CosmicEntity who created the troubles and who was punished by being forced to help the Troubled. They end up dealing with her lover, William, before having to deal with Mara herself, who unleashes all sorts of Troubles on the town. The final season is Audrey dealing with Mara's father,a SatanicArchetype who cuts Haven off from the rest of the world, wipes everyone's memories of its existence, and almost destroys the world.]]
[[folder:Newspaper Comics]]
* Arguably this is what destroyed the original ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' comic series. While in the 30s Tracy would investigate bank robbers and gangsters using magnifying lenses and fingerprint kits, by the 40s he was stopping Nazi supervillains with his 2-way wrist radio and electronic tracking gadgets. This leveling of threat and technology continued for years; in the 50s he stopped a disembodied voice from taking over the world with an atomic laser, and by the 60s was fighting space aliens on the moon in his antigravity space cruiser. In the 70s the strip was rebooted, with Tracy returning to being a cop investigating criminals, but by that time the strip had lost all social relevance.
* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' was supposed to last for one year, but the sets sold well and the writers saw potential in the story.
** 2001: elemental robo-warriors, the Toa fight wild animals, then tougher animals, their evil selves, and the main villain, the all-powerful Makuta.
** 2002: Toa deal with swarms of all-destroying critters likewise wielding elemental powers.
** 2003: Makuta returns and unleashes his "sons", of whom only six are enough to cause serious damage. Makuta himself is defeated, seemingly for real. Was also meant to be the ending, but LEGO kept extending the line's run.
** 2004: flashback which reveals that most of the menaces the Toa have had to face before are pretty low-tier.
** 2005: ExecutiveMeddling forces the writers to reuse the concept of TheSwarm, this time with GiantSpiders that take over continents and serve the Brotherhood of Makuta. The Dark Hunters, previously represented by two operatives, are shown as an expansive organisation and one of the world's most powerful forces.
** 2006: back in the present, six thugs easily beat the Toa, so a new set of heroes take center stage. Beings more powerful and knowledgeable than ever are revealed, and the world is expanded into a wider universe.
** 2007: these newbie Toa battle ancient warlords and their army of sea creatures while the universe around them literally dies and has to be revived. Makuta is back, though the Toa don't fight him.
** 2008: the original Toa team returns, more powerful than ever. Their foes? A whole team of Makuta.
** 2009: subversion, in this semi-{{retool}}, the bad guys are powerless desert fighters, but the conflict is only a setup for...
** 2010: planet-sized robots duke it out for the fate of the entire universe as LEGO wants [[WrapItUp to be done with the line]].
** PostScriptSeason: all the various characters start looking for the {{precursors}}, one of whom is a loose mass murderer capable of who-knows-what, but [[LeftHanging the story simply stopped there]].
[[folder: Web Original]]
* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole has this, though justified by the show being a ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' campaign so the plot had to level up with the players. We arrive in the middle of it, since the campaign had been running for two years before it was streamed.
** Vox Machina started out fighting various minor threats, with [[Creator/MatthewMercer the Dungeon Master]] house-ruling weaker versions of iconic monsters like Liches and Dragons for the party to fight. Their first major StoryArc involved freeing a [[DemonicPossession demonically-posessed]] [[FakeKing royal family]].
** The first on-stream arc had Vox Machina adventuring through the Underdark, fighting Duergar, masmatched abominations and eventually a powerful Beholder that had taken control of an Illithid colony.
** A minor "filler" story arc occurred after, though it did involve one half of the party fighting an adult White Dragon.
** The third arc saw Vox Machina liberating the hometown of one of its members from an [[UnholyMatrimony evil married couple]] of a powerful vampire and sorceress who sought to revive a GodOfEvil. In doing so, they had to start a full-on revolution among the populace and fight an entire undead army.
** The next arc is where things really stepped up.''Four'' Ancient Chromatic Dragons descend on the world, [[NothingIsTheSameAnymore destroying several major cities entirely]] and each alone posing more of a threat than anything the party has fought before, requiring the party to gather [[InfinityPlusOneSword legendary weapons]] from all across the world.
** WordOfGod says that if the party gets through this, they'll eventually level up from saving the world to saving ''existence''. Only after that would a ChangingOfTheGuard occur.
[[folder:Video Games]]
* The ''{{Pokemon}}'' games get accused of this with [[OlympusMons legendary Pokémon]]. It is true that their effect on the plot got greater in each generation but StatisticallySpeaking, it was not until generation four's [[LightningBruiser Arceus]] that generation one's Mewtwo was surpassed in stat total. On the other hand, the sheer number of legends introduced [[CommonPlaceRare kept going up]] until Generation five, which did not escalate the number, though it more than doubled the number of form shifting legends and another that surpassed Mewtwo in stat total, in two different ways but was still lower than Arceus.
* {{Creator/Sierra}} dropped the ball with this one and their ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'' series. After the first one, where you save a small Barony, you jump immediately to saving the entire world from an evil genie. There's not much they can go from there, so you then save the world from an evil demon, followed by saving the world from an evil vampire, and finally saving the world from an evil dragon. Each one plays itself up like it's somehow worse than the one before it, even though the end results are pretty much the same.
** Sierra did try to avoid this though. Originally the Hero was going to essentially go from the second game into what became the fourth game. They inserted the third game when they realized the going from foiling a wizard's plot to summon an evil genie to defeating an eldritch horror was a bit of a jump.
* The ''Franchise/MetalGear'' series of games went to increasingly absurd lengths ([[DeconstructorFleet naturally]]) to justify Solid Snake's continual returns from retirement. ''VideoGame/MetalGear2'' involved a replacement for petroleum and theft of nearly every nuclear weapon in the world. ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' involved genetically engineered super soldiers, a clone brother who took the CainAndAbel trope too much to heart, and ''invisible'' nukes. ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'' involved mass-produced Metal Gears, an anti-Metal Gear, a third clone brother, a kidnapped president, a Metal Gear ''fortress'', and [[GainaxEnding whatever the hell happened at the end]].'' VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'' had to work hard to top that, but it did. ''[[Awesome/MetalGear And it was awesome]]''.
** To give some perspective, ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'', a prequel to the rest of the series, revolved around... destroying a 1st generation superweapon and assassinating a defector. Plus there was something about getting ahold of enought money to take over the world in there...
* Bowser, of ''SuperMarioBros'', has gone from locking a Princess in a castle to cursing her whole castle with creepy dreamworld-doors, to lifting it up into space, to trying to take over galaxies. But, of course, Mario wasn't lazy either. He went from "my only move is to jump on your head" to literal kick-boxer to using the power of the stars. Oh, the number of his power-up-items also increased rapidly.
** And the [=RPGs=]. Take ''VideoGame/PaperMario''. First you had invincible Bowser take over the kingdom, then the Shadow Queen nearly take over the world (and it's an unsealed thousand year old demon with lightning powers too), and then Count Bleck (and [[spoiler:Dimentio]]) try to destroy the entirety of existence (in the former's case for good, latter's case to remake in own image). ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi Mario & Luigi]]'' series too to an extent, the first game had Cackletta steal Peach's voice, second had aliens try to conquer the planet and mass destroy the population and the latter kinda went down a level again with Fawful and the Dark Star.
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Though the creators are doing their best to avoid the trope, ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'''s uber-powerful, all-purpose battle suit, introduced at the GrandFinale, became so all-powerful (it was even powered up during the first episode of the [[UnCancelled new season]]) that the creators had to HandWave the non-use of this battle suit as being in repair for 4/5ths of the fourth season.


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(Above) John Raymond's Cheese at Calistoga Ranch
There has been a lot of chatter out that the Baby Boomers might be the last generation to embrace home ownership. Well, a new study now says what I have long suspected: with Baby Boomers, one is never enough. The Millenials and offspring of the Baby Boomers tend to want smaller homes and fewer of them. This generation is also more likely to rent. But a new survey of Realtors acros the nation by Coldwell Banker tells me exactly what I am seeing happening among Baby Boomer peers: those in the 47 to 64 age bracket are delaying the sale of their large family homes, due to the sputtering market, and investing in second homes that may ultimately become retirement pads or family vacation spots.
Of course, I think many have ulterior motives. I know some couples who find buying a second home a far better investment than a divorce, which financial experts say can wipe out the average or above average couple's retirement savings.
Rather than divorce, the better option at this age, says Lisa Marie Vari, a divorce attorney with offices in Pittsburgh and Miami, is to live in separate houses and come up with a separation agreement. It's not as catastrophic on the finances, she says.
Far smarter to lead separate lives in two separate homes and save on costly attorneys fees, not to mention forced sales of properties and dividing assets.
There is, however, a well-known couple in Dallas who sold their Colorado vacation home lickety split (and at a loss) when the wife found out that while she was in Colorado with the children, her husband was doing some "extra-curricular work" at home with a neighbor. God bless the sophisticated housekeeper who had a i-phone!
Coldwell Banker found 87 percent of Realtor respondents said they have Baby Boomer clients who already own or are looking to own an investment property. Twenty-two ( 22) percent of agents report that at least half (50 percent) of their boomer clients either already own or are looking to own such properties.
In Calistoga, CA this weekend I met a delightful gourmet cheesemaker (John Raymond Cheese Company — the man actually looks into the eyes of the cows that produce his cheese) who tells me second homes are the bane of his existence: it is very difficult to ship perishables to clients who constantly move from one home to another. John Raymond told me that 90% of his clients have second homes.
Here's what Baby Boomers say they want in second homes:
-More than one-third of Boomers aged 47 to 55 to want to purchase second homes.
-22 percent say older baby boomers (ages 56-64) are interested in purchasing a second home
– Homes getting smaller? That will be the day I quit bleaching my hair and waxing. 31 percent of respondents say that younger baby boomer clients are selling their current home and looking for a larger one.
-80 percent of agents say that older baby boomers are more likely to want to downsize than younger baby boomers (52 percent). Although the economy has impacted boomers, the reason for downsizing is not only about the desire to save money. According to the survey, 49 percent of agents say the primary reason boomers want to downsize is because they desire a simpler lifestyle (AMEN!), while only 28 percent said the leading reason boomers are downsizing is to save money.
-Younger baby boomers are much more likely to prefer a single family home than older baby boomers (82 vs. 47 percent of agents agree). I know from my research they want these homes to enjoy family experiences, whereas older Boomers may want a retirement pad.
-For the older baby boomers, agents say about half are (47 percent) are looking for a townhome or condo. 27 percent of agents say their older boomer clients prefer an active adult community. And when I say active, I mean active: my husband's aunt told her children the only way she'd go to a retirement home is if she could have overnight guests — male overnight guests — and a do not disturb sign.

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Aarzoo (1999) DVD
Genre : Musical , Drama , Action
Starcast : Akshay Kumar, Saif Ali Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Paresh Rawal
Description : Dayashankar has planned the marriage of his daughter, Pooja, with Amar, however, Pooja falls in love with pilot, Vijay Khanna, and after convincing Amar, Dayashankar, and her mother, all agree to the marriage of Pooja and Vijay. Before the marriage Vijay has an accident while flying and is presumed dead and Pooja is married to Amar. And then Vijay returns to find out that the accident was actually planned so that Pooja could marry Amar.
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May I Introduce to You . . . Genealogy Jen
Genealogy Do-Over – Month 5 – May 2017
Going Beyond Ethnicity – A DNA Journey
Big Announcement About GeneaBloggers on May 1st
Genealogy Blogging Beat – Friday, 28 April 2017
Photo: Mutiny on the Bounty: On 28 April 1789, the most famous of all naval mutinies occurred on board HMS Bounty. Captain of the Bounty was Lieutenant William Bligh, an able seaman and a mean-tempered disciplinarian. The ship, with a load of breadfruit tree plants from Tahiti, was bound for Jamaica. Fletcher Christian, leader of the mutiny, put Bligh and 18 of his loyal followers adrift in a 23-foot open boat. Miraculously Bligh and all of his supporters survived a 47-day voyage of more than 3,600 miles, before landing on the island of Timor, June 14, 1789. In the meantime, Christian had put all of the remaining crew (excepting 8 men and himself) ashore at Tahiti, where he picked up 18 Tahitians (6 men and 12 women) and set sail again. Landing at Pitcairn Island in 1790 (probably uninhabited at the time), they burned the Bounty and remained undiscovered for 18 years, when an American whaler, the Topaz, called at the island (1808) and found only one member of the mutinous crew surviving. However, the little colony had thrived and, when counted by the British in 1856, numbered 194 persons.
Genealogy Blogging Beat – Thursday, 27 April 2017
Photo: Sultana Disaster – On 27 April 1865, early in the morning on this day, America's worst steamship disaster occurred. The Sultana, heavily overloaded with an estimated 2,300 passengers, exploded in the Mississippi River, just north of Memphis, TN, en route to Cairo, IL. Most of the passengers were Union soldiers who had been prisoners of war and were eagerly returning to their homes. Although there was never an accurate accounting of the dead, estimates range from 1,450 to nearly 2,000. Cause of the explosion was not determined, but the little-known event is unparalleled in US history.
Genealogy Blogging Beat – Wednesday, 26 April 2017
Photo: Guernica Massacre – 26 April 1937. Late in the afternoon, the ancient Basque town of Guernica, in northern Spain, was attacked without warning by German-made airplanes. Three hours of intensive bombing left the town in flames, and citizens who fled to the fields and ditches around Guernica were machine-gunned from the air. This atrocity inspired Pablo Picasso's mural Guernica. Responsibility for the bombing was never officially established, but the suffering and anger of the victims and their survivors are still evident at anniversary demonstrations. Intervention by Nazi Germany in the Spanish Civil War has been described as practice for WWII.


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Most women you approach should become attracted to you. Really. Read that sentence again. Is this the case in your life?
If not, we have to talk. First, we need to define terms:
By "women," I mean women in whom you are interested. As you should already know, it doesn't help you to make her friends intensely interested in you, since they might get jealous and poison the atmosphere. A little bit of attraction from her friends is okay, but not too much.
By "you," I mean someone who has studied the teachings of Love Systems a fair bit.
By "attracted," I mean that a woman is interested in or curious about you as a man. It DOES NOT mean that she will sleep with you, date you, or even give you her phone number. Women are attracted to men all the time. Social pressure and evolutionary biology make it so that women hardly ever act on their attraction. [Advanced note: some women get scared when they feel "too attracted" to someone and break off contact with him. So, the qualification and comfort phases taught by Love Systems serve the purpose of, among other things, helping women act on the attraction that it's so easy to create.]
Now that we agree on what attraction is, the next important thing is to be able to know when you have achieved it. There are specific clues that many women will give when they are attracted; we call these Indicators of Interest (IOIs). Magic Bullets lists many of these; here are some of the most important ones:
She is laughing, smiling, and/or holding eye contact with you.
She touches you.
She asks you personal questions about yourself (e.g., your name, your age, whether you have a girlfriend).
She reinitiates conversation when you stop talking.
She compliments you.
She plays with her hair while talking to you.
None of these are hard and fast rules. A woman can engage in some or even all of these behaviors without being attracted to you, or she can engage in none of them and still be attracted. These are guides, not laws of physics. There's only one true way to tell if a woman is attracted to you, and that's to qualify her. You put on the frame that you are screening her.
Qualifying is a subtle, playful process. If you have trouble qualifying, get a copy of Magic Bullets and read it twice. We don't have time to cover it here again, but qualification is an absolutely vital process that most people miss. It's also one of the key inventions taught by Love Systems, and not much of the teachings will work properly if you can't qualify effectively.
We've reviewed what attraction is, what it isn't, and how to know when you're doing it right and doing it wrong. Now, let's address some common sticking points.
If you are not getting attraction most of the time, here are some tips that may help:
Get rid of the fluff: Quick – what is a DHV? What is teasing? What's a false time constraint? What are the major types of DHVs? If you don't know this stuff off the top of your head, you are NOT going to attract most women. These are the fundamental building blocks of attraction, and anything else you are saying after the opener is just fluff. If you don't know this stuff, go read up on attraction in Magic Bullets. The rest of this will just confuse you. I can't say this strongly enough – if you don't know what types of things really attract a woman, you can't possibly hope for success. It would be like trying to play soccer without knowing the rules.
Let your body language telegraph confidence, not neediness: It is hard to teach this outside of a bootcamp, but if you think you have this problem, get your wingman to watch you. Do you lean in to hear what women are saying, or do you stand up straight? Do you open at an angle, or do you walk directly up to a woman? Are you clutching a drink in front of your chest, as a kind of protection mechanism? Do you fidget and move around a lot while talking to women, or do you have a calm, relaxed posture? Watch successful men or Love Systems instructors approach women – it's vastly different from 90% of the rest of the population.
Dial up the volume: A commanding, confident voice is an extremely powerful tool. In loud venues, she has to be able to hear you clearly, and, in any venue, a quiet or timid voice is as unattractive to women as a limp-wristed handshake. If a woman ever has to strain to hear you during attraction or ask you to repeat what you said, that's unacceptable. Make sure this never happens. Hint: almost every man is too quiet instead of too loud.
False time constraint: You must give a time constraint – at least once - within the first minute or so of your interaction with a woman. Ideally within the first few seconds. "I can only stay for a minute; my friends are here, but..." makes a great preface for whatever it is you want to say early in the interaction.
Don't fluff the opener: As I've said before, problems in one phase are often attributable to problems in a previous phase. For example, qualification is very difficult if you didn't attract properly. Comfort can go awry several hours later because of mistakes you made during qualification. And, relevant here, attraction is much more difficult if you don't open and transition smoothly. Every set should open. Opening is not difficult.
Remember the 90-10 rule: In the first few minutes of an interaction with a woman, you will need to be doing about 90% of the talking. Often, attraction dies because a woman needs to work too hard to keep the conversation going. Given that A) she doesn't know you, B) that you approached her, and C) that there are 10 other guys waiting to talk to her who won't make her work so hard, she IS in a position of being able to make you do most of the work. Deal with it. Keep it fun and exciting, without being the "dancing monkey." Until you are sure you have attraction, be prepared to talk 90% of the time. If she contributes more than 10% of the conversation, great... but don't expect her to.
Don't overdo it: As men become proficient in the use of DHVs and teasing, it is easy to get addicted to the reactions they create from women. It's natural for this to happen. It's a lot of fun to be able to approach women (especially the type of women who wouldn't have been attracted to you before studying the methods taught by Love Systems) and get them laughing, touching you, and showing interest in you. However, too much of this is counterproductive, and it gets boring for women. Once you've attracted the woman you want, move on to qualification. The end result is far more exciting than her touching your arm again.
Practice your storytelling: Telling stories is one of the effective ways to build attraction and comfort.
It matters what you do before you approach: If you are staring around like a shark, looking for women to approach, women will notice and will be instantly defensive (i.e., not open to being attracted). What you do before you approach is as important as what you do when you approach.
Pace your delivery: Many men speak too quickly when first meeting a woman. This suggests nervousness, as if you have to get everything out quickly before your listeners stop paying attention. Adopt the attitude that you are interesting, that what you have to say is interesting, and that you are accustomed to people listening to what you have to say. Even if you don't think you talk too quickly, try slowing it down in your next few approaches. You may well be quite surprised.
Watch the teasing: Teasing too much, especially to women who don't feel self-confident at that moment or who are very "nice" can be taken the wrong way and destroy attraction. On the other hand, teasing too little or too late on very attractive women could lead them to dismiss you. If what you're doing now isn't consistently generating attraction, try this system: If she's friendly and responding positively, and not among the most attractive women in the room, try going without teasing. If she's not especially friendly, tease her. To the most beautiful women in the room, tease during the opener and transition. There's nothing special about this system, but it's a rule of thumb and using it might reveal opportunities to improve what you'd been doing previously.
Have you gotten too good? Women often try to regulate their attraction emotions. If they feel too attracted too quickly, they will sometimes pull back. There are two solutions to this. 1) As you get better, start testing for qualification earlier and earlier. I was surprised when I realized that, on a good day, I could move straight into qualification within 2-5 minutes instead of the 10-15 minutes it always used to take. 2) Watch for "passive IOIs." A passive IOI is when a woman doesn't necessarily do something that conveys that she is attracted to you, but by NOT doing something that she might otherwise have been expected to do shows that she might be attracted. For example, at a busy, exciting nightclub, if a woman spends 20 minutes talking to you, she is probably attracted to you whether she gives you IOIs or not. Or if she doesn't go to the bathroom or to the dance floor with her friends. Or if it's at a coffee shop, and she's there talking to you long after her coffee is done. You get the idea...
Bring women into your reality: This is connected to frame control, but slightly different. If you have an air of excitement, an energy level slightly greater than hers, and a genuine passion for what you are doing, you will get much better results. Enthusiasm is contagious. How do you do that? Go out with confident, high-energy wingmen. Reward yourself for a successful night out – where success is defined as practicing and learning so meeting women is fun rather than work. Personalize your openers, stories, and routines to things that you are genuinely passionate about. Someone with excitement and enthusiasm in his eyes talking about a model train set he built for his nephew (on the surface, not that fascinating to women) will get far better results than someone walking through the motions of talking about his career as a race car driver. If you go out at night, go to places where they play music you like. If you're practicing Day Game, go to venues that make you feel good.
Practice all of these. Study the resources that are available to you. Everyone should be able to open 100% of the time and gain attraction at least 50% of the time (or significantly more). I don't mind if you guys lose a potential relationship during the comfort stage once in a while, but there's no excuse for losing often early on.
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USC Aiken pitching coach Nolan Belcher, a former Greenbrier and South Carolina standout, pitched against weaker bats and in a spacious College World Series stadium during his time with the Gamecocks, earning two national titles.
But Belcher, along with many coaches and players, is welcoming a change that will boost offense in college baseball.
In an attempt to create a more balanced game, the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee recently voted in favor of changing its baseball for the 2015 postseason, and coaches and players are largely in agreement with the move.
The committee voted unanimously Nov. 5 to use a baseball with flatter seams to lessen the drag on the ball as it travels through the air. The flatter-seamed ball travels further than the raised-seam ball when hit with the same force.
"(Lower-seamed balls) go further if you hit them, but you can also make them move more and throw them harder because of the lower seam, so I like it. I think it's a good move," Belcher said.
College baseball universally changed to bats with weaker sweet spots in 2011, meaning a slower exit velocity when balls travel off the bat. A key reason was player safety.
The new baseball has the same core as the previous ball, meaning exit velocity won't change. It will have a similar effect to hitting with wooden bats, meaning hitters will have to make solid contact to see the change in distance.
Many are pushing for a livelier core similar to the ball used in Minor League Baseball, but that won't be discussed for another year.
With the Division I committee's changes, Division II and III will likely follow. Baseball America's Aaron Fitt said they are in the process of surveying coaches and there is currently no timetable for discussing the issue in the lower levels.
USC Aiken coach Kenny Thomas said he expects the change to be made in Division II. Belcher said as soon as the change is made, his pitchers will switch to the new balls for practice.
First-year Georgia Regents baseball coach Jason Eller, who spent the previous 11 seasons as an assistant at Georgia, also agrees with the move Division I is making.
"It should bring another level of excitement to the game that's been missing," he said. "Hopefully, it'll maintain balance and things will become more uniform in the game. I'm glad they weren't reluctant to change."
A concern raised by some coaches is the adjustment period for college pitchers. Throwing a ball with lower seams often creates more movement, but it can also be a challenge to throw a breaking ball with the same effectiveness.
"The balls move in different ways," USC Aiken senior left-hander Derek Beasley said. "I can throw a way better breaking ball with the high seam, because you can get a grip on it. The high seam, I feel, you can spot up more because it doesn't move as much. For a pitcher, that's huge."
Eller said that similar to hitters adjusting to weaker bats, pitchers will adjust to lower seams. While it wouldn't have the exact specifications of the minor league ball, having the same seams could help development and shorten the adjustment period after a player begins his professional career.
If Division II makes the move to lower seams, area programs could see a slight jump in offense. Eller said he wants the move for the sake of the game and players.
"When a kid squares up a ball, and he's strong and has been working in the weight room, and the ball dies at the warning track, that's a defeating feeling," he said. "When a pitcher leaves a pitch over the plate and it gets hit hard but dies at the warning track, that reinforces things that shouldn't be taught. I think it's the right move for the game."


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Welcome to the 14th edition of "Standing in the Shadows" for Guatemala. For those of you unfamiliar with the shadows, each season our writers and mods "stand in the shadow" of a Survivor until their torch is snuffed. You get to read what we believe is really going on in the mind of each player. Without further ado. . .
I knew I had my chance when Stephenie ask me to translate for the Mayan Priest. She want me to ask if we can eat the chicken, but instead I ask him why have chicken when you can have cow? Bigger sacrifice. I point to Steph but he say Nooo. She too big, Gods do not like for stuff themselves so much. Pah. I try to help myself. I say to others I've not win anything, I've no threat for you. Stephenie tell me she will take me to final 3 but they vote Li-dee-aa out, and they din't even tell me they was gonna do it! I would have voted for me too, uni.. unan.. same vote! *sigh* No million dollar money, no Lydia House O'Fish and Survivor Crap, no new car. Why am I here? No one understand my language, my vision. I ask Steph why she not take me to final three and she say I no competition. I still vote for her but Judd, he say we all vote for Danni, so I do it, and I'm glad. Stephenie look like a hooker with her big hair and big eyebrows and big boots. Hahaha you no win girl and what you do now? At first I sad, but then I get a letter and guess what? Someone else say they need my vote and now I'm happy, so I say okay now, and I will vote for you! Hilary Clinton! But first I ask Stephenie if it's okay.
Woooooooo!!! And whew!!! I made it to the final four!! I can't believe it! I've played a pretty clean game, putting ideas in people's heads, and letting them make the moves. Steph keeps saying how we've played the game exactly the same—it's more like I've told her what to do or what move to make, and she's done it. Yeah, just don't go there girlfriend! I know, I should be at peace now that some local Maya showed up and blessed us and the land and the water and then choked a chicken in a sacrifice to the gods for us. Those silly girls just had to go messing with sacrifices and all that. I may be a Mormon, but even this silly boy from Utah knows you don't mess with that stuff. You just don't. So, why, you may ask, am I sittin' on the bench with the jury? Yeah, I'da figured Steph would be here instead of me with Danni's freakishly long legs winning her the final immunity, and what with eating the sacrificed chicken and all. But nooooo, I had to go and open my stupid mouth in a moment of emotion, and told Danni she could forget our deal to go to the final 2 together. Yeah, even Danni could figure out that everyone wins against Steph. Remember how Steph's been doing everything I told her to? Yeah, she's been under my spell for quite some time. I've been grooming her for that number two spot. She's stabbed more boys from behind than, well…let's just say more than I'll ever hope to. I'll still vote for Steph, though I know it'll be a pity vote. She did everything I told her to, so she must have played a good game. I'll give it up for Danni, too. She beat me, although I'll just keep sayin' that I beat myself!
Riddle me this: everyone on the Tribal Council at one point or another confessed that they would lie, cheat and take candy from a baby in order to win the game. Yet suddenly the game is about who morals?! Oh yeah, Mr. Judd himself. Suddenly the pinnacle of morality. Give me a break. They are sore losers. Nothing against Danni, but I backed stabbed half of those freakin players just to get to the final two. Now does that take balls or what? They had their chance to get rid of me for 39 days but I'm like dry skin- I keep coming back no matter how much lotion you apply. And while I'm on a rant, I should admit that I faked the whole crying act at the final immunity challenge. Pretty sneaky, huh? It worked and Mr. Guilty Conscience felt pity for me. Danni secretly had the hots for me so it worked as smooth as softened butter on a roll. No worries, however. I'll make my millions the easy way…Playboy.
Rock Chalk Jayhawk! THIS is the way a final four appearance should turn out. I knew all that parade training would come in handy again some day. I can't decide whether to go with the traditional, yet classy, elbow, elbow, wrist, wrist, wrist wave or the slightly more out there wash the window for my hometown parade. Decisions, decisions. It's almost as difficult as it would have been to choose whether to go back on my promise to Rafe and take Steph to the finals instead. Bless that boy for making it easy for me to stay the nice All-American girl I strive to be. I was a little worried Rafe and Steph would be smart enough to boot my almost non-existent ass when Rafe won immunity. I figured it was time to play him again and managed to keep a straight face when I told Rafe I couldn't win the final immunity. I thought about batting my eyelashes but decided that might be a little bit much. How sweet was it when we all end up with our backs propped against the poles? Having long legs isn't only a blessing when wearing a mini-skirt. The Mayas may have sacrificed a chicken, but I made a bigger sacrifice. My Chiefs' hat looks like a lineman sat on it. Oh well, it was for a good cause. The hardest part of that challenge once I got propped against the pole was deciding whether to paint my nails a deep red or a light pink for the reunion show. Well, that and deciding whether to get collagen injections in my lips first. I did briefly think about what my seven brothers would do to me if I took Rafe to the final two but quickly went back to chillin'. I felt so bad for Steph when she finally slid to the ground. Not THAT bad though. That final tribal council was brutal. I had pageant brain. When the first question wasn't "if you could have one wish, what would it be?" I completely lost it. I must have managed to let the jurors know that I was a stealth bomber who took off my cloaking device at just the right moment while Steph was a B-52 bomber with the brain of a Cessna though. When Jeffy revealed the third vote for me, I knew I had it in the bag. I really should get the jurors and Steph something for Christmas. I wonder if Steph would prefer a gift certificate from Popeye's Chicken or one from KFC?
So- just who were those wacky, zany and hilarious writers who brought your favorite Survivor to life every week? It is time to pull back the curtain and reveal. We hope you enjoyed and we'll see you all again real soon...
Amy- Roseskid
Blake- Suncat7
Brandon- mrdobolina
Brian- Burntcrow
Brianna- Shazzer
Brooke- Mariner
Cindy- onetvslave
Danni- Mariner
Gary- Bill/ Burntcrow
Jamie- totoro
Jim- mrdobolina
Judd- Lucy
Lydia- Dinahann
Margaret- Wolf
Morgan- speedbump
Rafe- Suncat7/ mrdobolina
Stephenie- speedbump
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- White House spokesman Jay Carney said Tuesday the United States is determined to keep Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons but there is still time for diplomacy.
"Concerns about Iran's rogue behavior, its pursuit of nuclear weapons technology and nuclear weapons is not limited to the United States, Europe or Israel," Carney told reporters at the White House. "It's shared by countries around the world, and countries within the region. The threat that Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons technology presents is clear to Israel, it's clear to the United States and its allies, but it's also clear to the countries in the regions for whom the beginning of a nuclear arms race would have terrible and unpredictable effects on those countries."
Carney said international inspectors in Iran have some access to monitor nuclear activities, providing diplomatic breathing room among sanctions and other possible military measures to prevent the Islamic republic from developing nuclear weapons.
"There are IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] inspectors in Iran who monitor nuclear facilities there. We do have, therefore, vision into Iran's nuclear programs and … monitor their activity and have certain insight into their activity. For that reason and others, we believe there is time and space to pursue a diplomatic path, a path that intensifies the sanctions, intensifies the isolation, and attempts, through unified international action, to get the Iranian regime to change its behavior.
However, diplomacy "does not mean that we are removing other options from the table," Carney said.
"All options remain on the table with regards to the way that we will deal with and we are dealing with Iran, even as we pursue a diplomatic path because we believe there is time and space to do that."


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"Best 2K I Ever Spent!" Disney Characters And Doppelgangers At Gallery Bar
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Figure 1
Flowchart for the comparative analysis of normalization procedures.
Arrows in the chart show the flow of the data sets (blue: data set with
replicate samples, green: randomized data set, red: B-cell data set).
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Figure 2
Comparison of Spearman rank correlation between arrays. Each box plot
represents a distribution of 45 points of correlation coefficients in (a) replicate data set, and (b) randomized data set. RMA and GCRMA are both significantly deviate from zero in (b), with P-values 3 x 10–17 and 0 (below MATLAB computational precision), respectively.
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Figure 3
Histogram of the correlation coefficients between gene expression
profiles in the data sets produced by four different normalization
procedures. X-axis corresponds to the Spearman correlation coefficient of 20 equal-size bins and y-axis corresponds to the count of each bin as a fraction of the total number of all possible pairs.
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Figure 4
Fitting of the networks connectivity to a power-law distribution.
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Figure 5
Fraction of the highly correlated gene pairs sharing the same GO
biological process. Gene pairs are ranked by mutual information.
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Figure 6
Likelihood ratio of PPI for various ranges of the gene-pair correlation.
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Figure 7
A hypothetical case explaining the cause of spurious correlation in GCRMA-normalized data set. (A) Intensity profiles, and (B)
intensity ranks, for three probes before (left) and after (right) GSB
adjustment. Before GSB adjustment, probe 1 and 2 have the lowest
intensities, m = 1, and the lowest ranks in the data set. If
probe 1 and 2 were adjusted for the same value due to their similarity
in probe affinity, and probe 3 was adjusted for a different value such
that the intensity profile crosses over the other two profiles, the
expression ranks of p1 and p2 change over the samples. Pairwise rank
correlation between p1 and p2 is then tremendously increased. The
effect of probe 3 is overly simplified in this hypothetical case and
the actual data should contain a combinatorial effect of many other
possible probes in the array.
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Figure 8
Comparison of the GCRMA default (def) normalization procedure, GCRMA alternative (alt) implementation and MAS5 in terms of (A) fitness of network connectivity to a power-law distribution, (B) fraction of gene pairs sharing a common GO biological process annotation and (C) likelihood ratio of PPI.
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Charles Chaim Wax
Roaming The Rolling Hills - Poem by Charles Chaim Wax
of Western New York State
with my big 8x10 Toyo view camera
I poked around for beauty.
One day by a small river
I lifted a rotting black walnut
from the ground
white worms wiggled inside
the dark brown nut-meat
and I cradled this minute universe
in the palm of my hand
meant nothing to them
jiggled as before
not faster or slower
but steadily going about
the business of eating:
white star worms in the blackness of space.
Later driving along Route 15
in the dim twilight
the stars happened again
when an insect
smacked into my windshield and exploded
into a phosphorescent green point.
I drove on.
A second green illumination
then another
soon the glass pulsated
with infinite green lit up specks
well, not really,
but more than I could count
then pulled to the shoulder of the road.
Insects no longer alive
glowed with residual chemistry:
the gentle radiance of green stars.
Finally authentic darkness descended
and I headed to the Anais Dairy in Avon
for a cup of cinnamon ice-cream
store still open
ordered two scoops
sat by the side of that country road
and scanned the expanse of heaven:
stars without metaphor.
Comments about Roaming The Rolling Hills by Charles Chaim Wax
Hugh Cobb (12/13/2005 9:40:00 PM)
Charles, this is an excellent piece. I was along for the ride all the way. I get how the pictures add up moment to moment like the images in this poem. The last lines are wonderful and complete the piece. A solid 10.
Wishing you well for the holidays,
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Ashka Pandya (12/13/2005 6:36:00 PM)
hi..wats up? i do agree with ur each line..this such a great poem..gets all the way 10..good job
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Uriah Hamilton (12/13/2005 11:43:00 AM)
I think I just enjoyed the flow of your movement and story telling, impressive write. (Report) Reply
Tara very irritated with PH injustice (12/13/2005 9:17:00 AM)
Scary, touching, appropriate and thought-provoking juxtaposition as ever. When are your poems going to be studied for A-levels (or would that be an insult! ! ! ! !) (Report) Reply
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The 5 Love Languages – Just in Time for Valentine's Day
By Audrey van Petegem, Senior Editor
With Valentine's Day around the corner and references to the celebration of love and romance to be seen everywhere, I thought that it was timely to finally read this book that has been – repeatedly – recommended over the years. Before I had my two youngest daughters, a girlfriend mentioned the "must read" book "The 5 Love Languages" by Gary Chapman. I must say that even though the book title kept popping up, I never paid much attention until I recently received a copy. I read it mainly to learn more about the relationship with my children – okay truth be told, for my teenage son – but also found it invaluable for my relationship with my husband.
The premise of the book is that we all feel and know that we are loved by how people relate to us. There are five "languages" that we can fall under that make us feel truly loved. They are: Words of Affirmation, Quality Time, Receiving Gifts, Acts of Service and Personal Touch. We, of course, will fall into more than one category but one will resonate more than the others. Finding the right language is the key to helping a person feel loved.
Words of Affirmation
This is really as simple as "to love me is to talk to me". My youngest daughter, who is only four, falls under this category. Although we may be baking, reading or playing a game together, it is the verbal communication that she enjoys the most. The key is to give her your undivided attention, plus be aware of the tone of your voice and the words that you use. This really goes for anyone, but what is different with people who resonate with this love language is that they take words personally. When I reprimand Adanna I have to be careful with my tone and words. Where I would need to give her siblings a strong tone in my voice and/or a time out, for her I just need to tell her what she did that was not okay. She gets it. We used to say she was so sensitive but after reading this book it is more that she hears the words I say and how I say it more clearly than her siblings. To her, when I say "I love you" she knows I mean it. One day she told me that she loved me to her heart. How can you beat that.
Quality Time
This is "to love them is to spend time with them". For my seven year old daughter Thea, to give her my complete attention is how she knows I love her. She is the one who always wants to play games or go for a bike ride together. It is important for her to be with the people that love her. As a busy family of five, we seldom eat dinner together, but Thea is always the one to pull us all to the dinner table. I also fall under this category. For me, I need those date nights with my husband. I need to have that first cup of coffee in the morning with him. It is not that we need to be with a person all the time. Quite the opposite actually. We are happy with just 20 minutes at a time, if that is all we can get, but it has to be a time where we really connect with each other.
Receiving Gifts
We all love receiving gifts (a little bling now and again can NEVER hurt a relationship), but for a person whose language is "to love me is to buy me things", receiving a gift is a demonstration of love. It gives them a tangible symbol that they can hold onto. When they look at the gift they think, "this person thinks of me and loves me". Even as a very young child, my oldest, Chase loved and cherished gifts that were given to him from the people who love him. These gifts had nothing to do with monetary value, it could be a shell found on a beach or something one of his grandparents found in their home that they thought he would like. It is important for Chase to "see" that he is loved (especially now that he is a teenager). So, I still buy him a pack of gum or a little treat, which I place on his desk for him to find when he comes home.
Acts of Service
For this person "to love them is to do things for them". It is doing things for that person that you know that they would like. Although no one in my immediate family needs this language to feel loved, I do know friends that do. For them, it is important that certain things are done for them. This does not mean being taken advantage of. It is of loving them in their language by knowing what they like. It could be as simple as knowing she likes the toilet seat down or he likes not to have any clutter around.
Physical Touch
Touching has always been a way to communicate that you love someone. We all need to be hugged, kissed and held for our physical and emotional well being, but with the person whose language is "to love them is to touch them", it goes one step further. Without it they feel completely unloved. My husband Scott falls under this language. When we started dating we always spooned on the couch together, snuggling as we talked or watched TV. Now that couches are smaller (ahem) we can no longer do this but we still touch, even if it is just our toes. After 25 years of marriage we still hold hands. I anticipate we will be one of those cute couples in our 90's when we will still hold hands and kiss in public. At least I hope so.
Understanding the primary language of the people you love and choosing to speak it makes a tremendous difference in the relationships you have with them. 5 Love Languages has an online quiz for you to take to discover your own love language. I suggest that your significant other take it also. 5 Languages of Love can be purchased on Amazon as well as other books that Gary Chapman has written. I would love to hear how this new discovery has changed your relationships with the ones you love.
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I loved this book. Once you know the love languages, it is easy to pinpoint the language in others' lives. I have two children in which physical touch is their language, and one child with gifts. My husband's love language is words of affirmation.
I definitely recommend the book.
I have many of Gary Chapman's books, including the Love Languages for Teenagers, Love Languages for Singles, and the original. All of these are good read and are specifically applicable to that phase in your life.


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However, a surprise awaits the gardener seeking to extend iris' blooming season repeat blooming bearded iris, or fall-blooming iris. Although certainly not new to the garden, recent advances have made reblooming iris easier to obtain in myriad colors. New varieties rapidly entering the market make an iris aficionado's heart swoon with joy.
What Is a Reblooming Iris?
It's easiest to think about reblooming iris as 'repeat' blooming iris. Unlike traditional bearded iris, repeat blooming irises have been hybridized to produce plants that have the propensity, when given the right circumstances, to bloom again. The "right" circumstances vary, but generally speaking, all irises need bright, full sunlight (six or more hours a day), well-drained soil, and a temperate climate. Most reblooming iris fare well from gardening zone five and up, with little to no repeat blooms in gardening zones 3 to 4. The exception is the fragrant white-petal bearded iris known as 'Immortality', which has been known to produce repeat shows in colder climates.
Planting Repeat Blooming Iris
Like other types of iris, repeat blooming irises are generally planted in the late summer through the fall months. They may be sold in pots or as rhizomes. Always plant iris with the rhizome at or slightly above soil-level. The rhizome should be visible above the soil line. In very warm climates, you can sprinkle a little mulch or soil over the rhizome, but do not plant it too deeply. Space plants at least 20 inches apart.
Soil pH for repeat blooming iris is the same as for other types of iris, just slightly acidic or around 6.8. It's a good idea to have your soil tested at your local County Cooperative Extension office before planting any type of plants so you can add nutrients or adjust the pH accordingly.
Irises prefer rich, well-drained soil, but they can survive in almost any conditions. They do need full sun in order to bloom. If planted in dappled shade or full shade, they may grow foliage but fail to flower.
Keep iris well-watered until their roots are established. Mature plants shouldn't be watered too frequently; too much water can rot the rhizome. Wait to water mature iris plants until the top three inches or soil of soil are completely dried out.
Fertilizing Reblooming Iris
Because repeat or reblooming irises are investing a great deal of energy into a second blooming period, they benefit from added fertilizer. Fertilize them with a 5-20-10 or 5-10-10 fertilizer according to the package directions. Low nitrogen, high phosphorous fertilizer boosts blooms.
Dividing Iris
Repeat bloomers should be divided when the clumps reach maturity. You'll know when it's time to divide the clumps when the blooms dwindle. Sometimes this happens after three years, but depending on the variety and location, you may need to divide them every three, four or even five years.
Iris should be divided while dormant. Dormant period may be shorter for repeat blooming iris than for other types. You can thin repeat blooming iris in July, or after the fall blooming period. Replant rhizomes immediately and water the newly planted iris well until it established its roots.
Iris are named after the Greek goddess of the rainbow, and like the goddess, they come in a wide range of vivid hues. Repeat blooming irises are now available in bicolor varieties as well as single-color types. Some are more fragrant than others.
Varieties to consider include:
- 'Immortality' - perhaps the best- known repeat blooming iris, 'Immortality' features white ruffled petals. It blooms in mid-spring, and produces blooms again around September.
- 'Clarence' - a tall variety offering a light fragrance from flowers of creamy-white centers with violet-blue beards.
- 'Baby Blessed'- a dwarf bearded iris with creamy-golden yellow petals stippled with white. This one is great for borders and small spaces.
Using Reblooming Iris in the Garden
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For those who crave the hues and scents of iris each spring, repeat blooming iris satisfy the craving for beauty, color and fragrance throughout the growing season.
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