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INGLEWOOD, Calif. (December 6, 2012)—Home Journey, who has won her first two starts by a combined 9 ¾ lengths, will try to stay perfect in the $200,000 Soviet Problem Stakes Sunday at Betfair Hollywood Park.
Scheduled for seven furlongs over Cushion Track, the inaugural Soviet Problem is part of the Golden State Series for horses bred or sired in California. The ninth of 10 races Sunday, the Soviet Problem is restricted to 2-year-old fillies.
Post time is 12:30 p.m. Track gates at Betfair Hollywood Park will open at 10 a.m. for simulcasts.
Owned by GGG Stables and Russ Sarno and trained by Mike Puype, Home Journey defeated state bred maidens by 1 ½ lengths in her debut Oct. 13 at Santa Anita before winning an allowance against fellow Cal breds by 8 ¼ lengths in her Cushion Track initiation Nov. 9.
A daughter of Good Journey out of the Came Home mare Goodtobehome, Home Journey has earned $58,800.
Tilde will cut back in distance after finishing sixth of seven against open company in the Sharp Cat Stakes Nov. 11. Owned by trainer Mike Harrington, who bred the gray filly with his wife Patricia, Tilde has won four of six and banked $332,560. The daughter of Swiss Yodeler and the Cee's Tizzy mare Self Taught has won three consecutive stakes restricted to California breds. Two of the wins came at Del Mar – the CTBA and the Generous Portion Aug. 29 – and the other was the California Cup Juvenile Fillies Oct. 13 at Santa Anita.
Unusual Way will be aiming for her third stakes win in a row for owners Edward J. Brown, Jr. and Philip Lebherz and trainer Jeff Bonde. The Unusual Heat filly out of the Great Above mare Way Up followed an 11 length score in the Wine Country Debutante Aug. 11 at Santa Rosa with a 3 ½ length victory in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Filly Sprint Preview Nov. 3 at Santa Anita.
Bred by Thomas W. Bachman, Unusual Way has won three of five and banked $145,610.
Runner-up behind Home Journey last month, Akiss Forarose has one win in six starts for a partnership that includes Craig Warren, Templeton Horses LLC and breeder Terry Lovingier. Trained by Gary Sherlock, the daughter of Rio Verde out of the Kissin Kris mare Bold Kiss has banked $74,800. She won by a nostril at 24-1 in her career debut June 2 at Betfair Hollywood Park.
Fourth in the race Home Journey and Akiss Forarose exit, Awe Golly Molly, who was also bred by Lovingier, is 1-for-7 with earnings of $60,080 for trainer Walther Solis.
The Awesome Gambler filly out of the All Gone mare Molly's Gone is owned by a partnership that includes Lovingier, Bill Dolan, Patsy London, John Winters and Templeton Horses LLC.
Doinghardtimeagain, who finished second behind Tilde in the California Cup Juvenile Fillies, earned her maiden victory in her Cushion Track bow Nov. 9. Owned and bred by Tommy Town Thoroughbreds and trained by Hall of Famer Jerry Hollendorfer, the Ministers Wild Cat out of the Conquistador Cielo mare Silver Hawk Lady has earned $88,500 in three starts.
Sacred Delight, who was third behind Home Journey in her first local race, has one victory in four attempts and earnings of $56,960. The Mutakkdim filly out of the Eltish mare Barbara O'Brien is trained by Eric Kruljac for owner-breeders Al and Sandee Kirkwood.
Owned and bred by Pam and Marty Wygod and trained by Marty Jones, Tribal Custom defeated $50,000 maidens by 6 ½ lengths in her Cushion Track debut Nov. 15. The Tribal Rule filly out of the Bertrando mare Villa Marguerite, who finished fifth in her initial try Aug. 24 at Del Mar, has banked $16,840.
From inside out, the field for the Soviet Problem Stakes: Unusual Way, Rafael Bejarano rides, 121 pounds; Tribal Custom, Joe Talamo, 115; Home Journey, Aaron Gryder, 119; Akiss Forarose, Julien Leparoux, 117; Awe Golly Molly, Juan Hernandez, 117; Sacred Delight, Garrett Gomez, 117; Tilde, Corey Nakatani, 123 and Doinghardtimeagain, Martin Garcia, 117.
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The United Sports of America
If each state could have only one sport, what would it be? (Pennsylvania, you get field hockey.)
Click an illustration above or a state below to learn more, or start with Alabama.
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Full List of States and Sports
Alabama (college football)
Alaska (mushing)
Arizona (spring training baseball)
Arkansas (duck hunting)
California (skateboarding)
Colorado (mountain climbing)
Connecticut (squash)
Delaware (pumpkin chunking)
District Of Columbia (kickball)
Florida (jai alai)
Georgia (tennis)
Hawaii (surfing)
Idaho (whitewater kayaking)
Illinois (16-inch softball)
Indiana (high school basketball)
Iowa (wrestling)
Kansas (men's college basketball)
Kentucky (Thoroughbred horse racing)
Louisiana (bass fishing)
Maine (biathlon)
Maryland (lacrosse)
Massachusetts (marathon)
Michigan (pro ice hockey)
Minnesota (high school ice hockey)
Mississippi (deer hunting)
Missouri (pro baseball)
Montana (fly fishing)
Nebraska (college baseball)
Nevada (boxing)
New Hampshire (cross-country skiing)
New Jersey (youth soccer)
New Mexico (hot-air ballooning)
New York (streetball)
North Carolina (stock car racing)
North Dakota (college hockey)
Ohio (cornhole)
Oklahoma (gymnastics)
Oregon (track and field)
Pennsylvania (field hockey)
Rhode Island (sailing)
South Carolina (golf)
South Dakota (rodeo)
Tennessee (women's college basketball)
Texas (high school football)
Utah (church basketball)
Vermont (snowboarding)
Virginia (steeplechase)
Washington (pro soccer)
West Virginia (rock climbing)
Wisconsin (pro football)
Wyoming (downhill skiing)
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If the United States had an official sport, what would it be? Baseball can call itself the national pastime until the sun burns out, but the correct answer is good old American football. Next question: If every state in the union had to choose an official sport, what would they pick? Football, football, lacrosse, football, skiing, football, football … and Alaska gets the one with sled dogs. But what if you had to assign one sport to each state, and could use each of those sports just once? How would you disperse our favorite pastimes among the 50 states and Washington, D.C.?
Now that's a more interesting parlor game. Only 12 states have bothered to name any kind of "official sport," which leaves a lot of room to impose one's sporting will on the American people. Alas, there must be rules, lest this barroom argument descend into anarchy. Here are my four commandants.
1. No two states can have the same sport. The most important rule of them all. If we declare that Calvinball belongs to West Virginia, then it's off the board—no other state can have it.
2. Sports can be atomized. An immediate exception to Rule No. 1. Some states prefer college football to pro, some prefer high school basketball to college. Allowing different states to own different flavors of the same sport reflects the reality of the American landscape. It also makes it possible to create a map without stooping to include "sports" like pinochle and punch buggy.
3. A sport can be anything that is plausibly a sport. Yeah, punch buggy and high-speed multiplication probably shouldn't count, but I'm no stickler. Competition is a necessity, but sticks and balls are not required. Wife-carrying, chess boxing, noodling—you're all welcome (at least theoretically) in these United Sports of America. But I draw the line at metaphors. However fitting it may seem, politics is not and will not be the official sport of Washington, D.C.
4. Official state sports will be honored if possible. But it's not always possible. South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming all chose rodeo as an official sport, but only one state can be America's true rodeo king. (Rodeo fight!)
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Official state sport(s): none
Our choice: college football
Also considered: none
Lots of states would love to claim college football, but this one isn't much of a contest. Yes, the Alabama Crimson Tide (three) and Auburn Tigers (one) have claimed the last four BCS titles. But the deciding factor here is spring football attendance: What state turns out when the games don't count in the standings? In 2013, Auburn had 83,401 fans at its spring game and Alabama packed in 78,315. The next three contenders for the pointless-crowd crown: Tennessee (61,076), Nebraska (60,174), and Arkansas (51,088). If you want to take down the Heart of Dixie, you've got to do a much more convincing job embracing meaninglessness.
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Official state sport(s): mushing
Our choice: mushing
Also considered: none
The easiest of our 51 selections. The state sport is mushing. Nobody much cares about it anywhere else. It's all yours, Alaska. Stay warm.
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Our choice: spring training baseball
Also considered: golf
Is this choice lame? Possibly. Is it defensible? Absolutely. Arizona's Cactus League hosts 15 major-league teams each February and March, drawing a record 1.7 million fans in 2013. Spring training baseball is an ingrained part of the state's culture, with ballclubs coming to train in the desert since 1929. (You can learn more by taking a walk on the Cactus League legacy trail.) Though Florida's Grapefruit League has an even longer history, it doesn't make sense to grant spring training baseball to the Sunshine State. To build a sensible map, we need a comprehensive strategy. Florida, everyone would surely acknowledge, could reasonably be granted any number of sports, while the Grand Canyon State is relatively sports-poor. Spring training baseball needs Arizona, and Arizona surely needs spring training baseball.
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Our choice: duck hunting
Also considered: duck calling, trout fishing, deer hunting, greyhound racing
How do you solve a problem like Arkansas? The flagship university's football and men's basketball teams are the state's most popular athletic institutions, but Razorback fandom doesn't rate nationally. Arkansas is one of the few states where greyhound racing is still legal, but Southland Park's slot machines are far more popular than its canine athletes. Sports Illustrated's 50th anniversary sports across America project—an invaluable resource for this whole enterprise—notes that Stuttgart, Ark., hosts "the world's most resounding duck calling contest." After many minutes of deliberations, I concluded with some regret that duck calling is not a sport. But duck hunting? Sure. If there's any doubt, consider the existence of Greenhead, "the Arkansas duck hunting magazine." The Natural State has its pick.
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Official state sport(s): none
Our choice: skateboarding
Also considered: water polo, beach volleyball, surfing, swimming
A hulking, populous landmass that's overstuffed with sun- and chlorine-drenched pursuits. Beach volleyball—which was birthed in Santa Monica in the 1920s and 1930s—is a strong contender but ultimately falls short on account of its relative dearth of competitors. Skateboarding has similarly local origins and is arguably the state's most enduring cultural export. Fast-forward 50 years, and I guarantee that the state flag will feature a bear doing an ollie.
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Official state sport(s): skiing and snowboarding
Our choice: mountain climbing
Also considered: skiing, snowboarding, Olympic sports
In 2008, the Colorado state legislature named skiing and snowboarding as "the official state winter recreational sports." The will of the people must be defied here, because: 1) It's just plain greedy to claim skiing and snowboarding. 2) Naming them the "official state winter recreational sports" betrays a disturbing lack of decisiveness. (Should we anticipate that the legislature will soon name Colorado's official state autumn competitive sports?) Our choice: mountain climbing. Colorado has 53 fourteeners—that is, 14,000-foot peaks that also have at least 300 feet of "topographic prominence"—far more than any other state. Is mountain climbing a sport? I say yes—there's a goal, it requires great skill, it's a physical challenge, and there's an international federation that's guided by the Olympic charter.
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Our choice: squash
Also considered: women's college basketball
Nutmeg State residents will argue that Geno Auriemma's Huskies, the winners of eight national titles since 1995, are the center of the state's sporting universe. That's true and all, but Connecticut isn't the only state that loves women's basketball—and UConn, it must be said, hasn't led the nation in women's basketball attendance since 2003. The Trinity Bantams men's squash team is an even bigger dynasty than UConn women's hoops. And who broke Trinity's 252-match winning streak, the longest in intercollegiate sports history? New Haven's Yale Bulldogs. The Trinity-Yale rivalry has spawned some memorable squash trash talk. (I'm guessing that the phrase "squash trash talk" has never been uttered in any other state.) There are 17 Connecticut schools in the New England Interscholastic Squash Association, the most of any state. And Connecticut also recently hosted the junior nationals and the high school team championships, the world's biggest squash tournament. Want to defy the hoity-toity New England stereotype, Connecticut? Take off the protective eyewear and the Boast polo and we can talk.
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Our choice: pumpkin chunking
Also considered: cycling
Hi, we're in Delaware. Not so much to see here. Wilmington hosts an annual grand prix cycling race, but I don't get the sense that the First State loves bicycles. The southern part of the state is, however, the home base for the annual Punkin Chunkin World Championship, a competition to catapult a pumpkin as far as it will go. (The current record distance at the world championships is 4,483.51 feet.) This is Delaware culture at its finest. It also may be Delaware culture in its entirety.
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District of Columbia
Official state sport(s): none
Our choice: kickball
Also considered: soccer, softball
In 1998, a group of friends started the World Adult Kickball Association in Washington, D.C. Seven years later, a new league called DCKickball rolled out its own set of bouncy balls. Then, in what might be the most D.C. thing that's ever happened, WAKA sued DCKickball for copyright infringement, alleging that the newcomer had stolen its rules. The case was dismissed in 2008, and both leagues continue to abet the drunken recreation of young professionals. Take a walk in Northwest D.C. on a summer evening, and chances are you'll see a guy with his work ID on a lanyard flapping his limbs in the direction of a large red ball.
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Our choice: jai alai
Also considered: tennis, sport fishing, swimming, golf
Jai alai isn't the most popular sport in Florida, but it is the most Florida of sports: exotic, peculiar, and terrifying to outsiders. The fastest sport in the world may be barely clinging to life, but near-death experiences are the essence of the Sunshine State. Besides, consider this thought experiment: You call a friend and tell him you're at a jai alai fronton—what does he say? There's just one right answer: "What the hell are you doing in Florida?"
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Our choice: tennis
Also considered: high school baseball
Florida plays host to a major international tennis tournament. It's the home of the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy, where Andre Agassi and Monica Seles were molded into No. 1 players. Even foreign stars like Andy Murray relocate to Florida to train. So why does Georgia get tennis? Because every state needs a sport, and Georgia—though perhaps lacking its Southern neighbor's racket pedigree—is home to the Atlanta Lawn Tennis Association, an 80,000-member strong organization that claims to be "the largest community-based tennis organization in the U.S." Atlanta also has the highest number of USTA members per capita in the United States. And it doesn't hurt that the No. 1 American man, John Isner, knocked the fuzzy yellow ball around for the University of Georgia. That's good enough for me.
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Official state sport(s): surfing and outrigger canoe paddling
Our choice: surfing
Also considered: outrigger canoe paddling, golf
Hawaii's official team sport is outrigger canoe paddling, while its official individual sport is surfing. While I considered giving the state outrigger canoeing—because, hey, why not—surfing is synonymous with the archipelago, and for good reason. The sport was practiced in ancient Hawaii and popularized worldwide by Hawaiians. The state is also home to the world's most legendary waves. Care to argue that point California, Tahiti, South Africa, and Australia? Give me five minutes and I'll round up a couple of thousand dudes in board shorts who'll set you straight.
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Our choice: whitewater kayaking
Also considered: none
According to the Gem State's tourism site, Idaho has "more whitewater river miles than anywhere in the lower 48 states." Way to go, Idaho!
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Our choice: 16-inch softball
Also considered: pro basketball, pro baseball, pro hockey
You wouldn't think the Land of Lincoln would be so tough to pin down, but Illinois is an Arkansas-esque conundrum. Everyone loves the Bulls, but would the state swoon over basketball if the Trail Blazers had drafted Michael Jordan instead of Sam Bowie? The Cubs, too are a local institution, not to mention that the White Sox are also a team that exists. But consider that, owing to the power of radio waves, large swaths of the state root for the St. Louis Cardinals, a fact that I find confusing and frankly disqualifying. And though the Blackhawks have been quite successful in recent years, the team ranked second-to-last in the NHL in attendance as recently as 2007. That leaves us with 16-inch softball, a pastime unique to Chicago. Also known as mushball or cabbageball, the gloveless game was the beloved sport of columnist Mike Royko. There is no better choice.
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Our choice: high school basketball
Also considered: IndyCar racing
It's a two-sport race in the Hoosier State. You can make a very strong case for IndyCar racing, which includes a reference to Indianapolis in its name, for heaven's sake. But despite the enduring allure of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the IndyCar series as a whole is an afterthought even in Indiana. The only way high school basketball will be an afterthought here is if an asteroid obliterates the entire state, and even then I'm guessing some kid in French Lick will emerge from the crater and try to dribble what's left of the asteroid. This is the home of Damon Bailey and enormous high school gyms. And Hoosiers. Don't you dare forget Hoosiers.
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Our choice: wrestling
Also considered: none
Iowa is home to a branch of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, the greatest college wrestling program of all time (the Iowa Hawkeyes, winners of 23 titles since 1975), the greatest college wrestler ever (Cael Sanderson, who went 159-0 at Iowa State), and the sport's most commanding figure (Dan Gable, who wrestled for Iowa State and built the Iowa dynasty as a coach). With the sport under siege by the International Olympic Committee, Rep. Bruce Braley (D-Iowa) told the Wall Street Journal that Iowa without wrestling is like "eggs without bacon." Thank goodness wrestling stayed in the Olympics—Iowa's bacon has been saved.
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Official state sport(s): none
Our choice: men's college basketball
Also considered: none
The Sunflower State loves its college hoops—James Naismith, Phog Allen, "Rock Chalk, Jayhawk," Danny Manning, etc. Kansas Jayhawks supporters will see this and crow that they've been anointed the best fans in all the land. That's not what's going on here. Kansas gets the nod because, as opposed to Kentucky and North Carolina, it's otherwise a sports wasteland. It's college basketball or bust here, and this is a parlor game where everybody gets a trophy. Rock Chalk, Jayhawk.
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Our choice: Thoroughbred horse racing
Also considered: men's college basketball
The Kentucky Derby and Calumet Farm outrace John Calipari and his team of semi-professional Wildcats. With college hoops' possession arrow necessarily pointing toward Kansas, this is a Secretariat-esque rout.
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Our choice: bass fishing
Also considered: college baseball
Louisianans like me take pride in the fact that we've got the most NFL players per capita of any state. LSU's Tiger Stadium, too, is often cited as the best place in the country to watch a game, not to mention the best place to eat in the parking lot before a game. But such is my intellectual honesty that I can admit that the Pelican State does not deserve a slice of the football pie. It says Sportsman's Paradise on the license plates here, at least until it gets replaced by some quote from Duck Dynasty. With duck hunting a better fit for Arkansas, I'll go with bass fishing, as the state has hosted the Bassmaster Classic—"the Super Bowl of bass fishing"—in three of the last five years.
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Our choice: biathlon
Also considered: college hockey, snowmobiling, kayaking
Maine would love to get college hockey, sure, but I'm going to go off the board here and honor a strange state initiative. As the New York Times noted in 2010, the nonprofit Maine Winter Sports Center is hoping to turn the state into a biathlon mecca. That's a weird thing to hope for, but cold weather makes you do weird things. Perhaps because there's not much competition to become America's cross-country-skiing-and-shooting hotbed, it seems to be working: Maine now hosts major international biathlon competitions and the majority of the 2010 Olympic team lived and trained in the state.
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Official state sport(s): lacrosse, jousting
Our choice: lacrosse
Also considered: jousting
An obvious choice made slightly more difficult by the fact that the Free State was the first in the nation to name an official sport, in 1962—and it was jousting. (Lacrosse was named Maryland's official team sport in 2004.) Considering that the National Jousting Hall of Fame is in Virginia, it's only fair for the governors of those two states to joust for custody of jousting. In the meantime, Maryland can keep its other official sport. The Lacrosse Hall of Fame and Museum is in Baltimore, the NCAA championships are often held in the city's M&T Bank Stadium, and Johns Hopkins, Maryland, and Loyola have won a combined 12 national titles since 1973. Also, these socks are available for purchase.
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Official state sport(s): basketball
Our choice: marathon
Also considered: pro basketball, pro baseball
Massachusetts' official state sport is basketball, which makes some sense considering the game was invented here. The Boston Celtics are also pro basketball's greatest franchise, claiming the most championships in NBA history. James Naismith, though, was born in Canada and spent much of his life in Lawrence, Kan.—let's not give all of basketball to the Bay State just because some Canadian PE teacher happened to be at a YMCA in Springfield, Mass., when he hung up his peach baskets. And though the Celtics are a hot ticket, the Red Sox are clearly a more significant cultural force: There is no Celtics Nation. With pro basketball and pro baseball canceling each other out, I choose to honor the world's oldest and most prestigious annual marathon. The Boston Marathon is New England's largest spectator sport, hosted the fastest marathon ever run, and has taken on even greater significance after 2013's terrorist attack. The marathon is our only choice.
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Our choice: pro ice hockey
Also considered: deer hunting
According to HuntStats.com, Michigan leads the nation with an average season harvest of 495,303 whitetail deer. Ted Nugent also has a ranch here, which would be worth a billion bonus points if we were playing Big Buck Hunter right now. But, alas, this complex puzzle demands that the deer must be shot elsewhere. Thankfully, we've got a backup plan. Detroit, like lots of other cities, calls itself Hockeytown. In this case, the name fits. The Red Wings are one of the NHL's Original Six teams and are always near the top of the league's attendance ledger. Michigan might not be America's hockey mecca, but when it comes to the pro game, it is our octopus-flinging king.
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Official state sport(s): ice hockey
Our choice: high school ice hockey
Also considered: none
Now this is America's ice hockey mecca. It would be reasonable to bestow the entire sport upon Minnesota, but splitting the puck is essential if we want to complete this vexing project. The Land of 10,000 Lakes gets the high school game, which transfixes the state each March with a tournament that draws more than 100,000 fans.
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Our choice: deer hunting
Also considered: none
Ted Nugent has a ranch in Michigan, not Mississippi. But the latter state's Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks is proud to report that Outdoor Life magazine recently rated the Magnolia State seventh in the nation on its "whitetail scale," which factors in the size of the local bucks, hunter density, cost of outfitted hunts, and "hunter friendliness." As an expert in sadeermetrics, I'd argue that Mississippi should be even higher. The HuntStats.com top 10 rankings for whitetail kills place Mississippi at No. 7, but based on my calculations the state is No. 1 in whitetails bagged per capita. Come on down here, Motor City Madman—the deer are just waiting to be shot!
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Our choice: pro baseball
Also considered: none
Cardinals backers love to laud themselves as the country's greatest, most knowledgeable baseball fans. Though I hate to reward such pridefulness, it's undeniable that—as compared to promiscuous Bay Staters, who love the Sox, but also the Pats, the Celts, and the Bruins—the Show Me State's relationship with the national pastime is a monogamous one. The Kansas City Royals also play here, and as noted in the Illinois entry, Missouri has even succeeded in recruiting much of that state to join its baseball militia. Brainwashing of that order must be rewarded.
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Our choice: fly fishing
Also considered: six-man football
I went to Montana once, and a hotel clerk told me they used to keep copies of Norman Maclean's fly-fishing novel A River Runs Through It for guests to peruse. They had to stop, though, because visitors kept stealing them as souvenirs. Montana is also one of the few states that plays six-man football. Brad Pitt never starred in a movie about it, though, so it doesn't really rate.
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Our choice: college baseball
Also considered: college football, six-man football
Nebraska worships the Cornhuskers football team, but Alabama's gridiron fandom is objectively more terrifying. Six-man football was invented here, but there are only around a dozen teams in the entire state. And then there's college baseball, a sport that's ragingly unpopular most everywhere else but flourishes in Omaha. The city has hosted the College World Series since 1950 and has a deal in place with the NCAA to keep it until at least 2035. Omaha opened a new ballpark for the CWS in 2011, and the event keeps on setting attendance records. Those non-wood bats are all yours, Nebraska.
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Official state sport(s): none
Our choice: boxing
Also considered: poker, drag racing
Americans may not be as sweet on the sweet science as they used to be, but Vegas is still the place to see people punch each other in the face. Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield's ear in Nevada, and this is where "fan man" parachuted into the ring during Holyfield's title fight with Riddick Bowe. Boxing is weird.
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New Hampshire
Official state sport(s): skiing
Our choice: cross-country skiing
Also considered: downhill skiing
The official state sport is skiing. Please be more specific, New Hampshire—you're going to need to share with the other cold states. The Granite State features some of the country's best cross-country skiing trails and resorts, and cross-country skiing is generally regarded as the flintiest of winter sports. Be warned, visitors: If you cross into Maine, the cross-country skiers over there have rifles.
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New Jersey
Official state sport(s): none
Our choice: youth soccer
Also considered: fencing, field hockey
There's a long, proud soccer tradition in the Garden State. The first intercollegiate match, between Princeton and Rutgers, was played here in 1876, and the sport's first domestic governing body, the American Football Association, was founded in Newark in 1884. More recently, Pele and the New York Cosmos actually called New Jersey home, playing their home games at the Meadowlands. Rather than give New Jersey every last piece of the beautiful game, let's salute the state's preeminence youth soccer. The men's national team's rebirth in the early 1990s was fueled by three fellows reared in New Jersey: Tab Ramos, John Harkes, and Tony Meola. The current women's national player pool includes six players from the state, more than any place else save California. Enjoy those orange slices, New Jersey—you've earned them.
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New Mexico
Official state sport(s): none
Our choice: hot-air ballooning
Also considered: none
Is hot-air ballooning a sport? Not really. Is New Mexico a state? All signs point to yes. Does the Land of Enchantment have a thing for ginormous balloons? It certainly does. Are there any better options? Nope.
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New York
Official state sport(s): none
Our choice: streetball
Also considered: handball
Handball is a more uniquely New York phenomenon and New York City basketball isn't what it used to be. But Dyckman is still Dyckman and Rucker Park is still Rucker Park, the place where NBA champs go to prove themselves against the local talent. When Kobe Bryant heads to Tulsa to test his mettle, then we can talk about demoting New York. Until then, NYC rules the blacktop.
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North Carolina
Official state sport(s): stock car racing
Our choice: stock car racing
Also considered: women's soccer, men's college basketball
A bunch of schoolchildren lobbied the state to make stock car racing North Carolina's official sport, and the legislature acceded to their wishes in 2011. (This was a vindication for the kids' teacher, who told the Charlotte Observer that a previous class "wanted to make the apple the state fruit, but before they had the chance to pursue it, the General Assembly went with the scuppernong grape instead.") The kids got this one right: The NASCAR Hall of Fame is in Charlotte, the vast majority of NASCAR teams are based here, and racing icons Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt were born in the Tar Heel State.
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North Dakota
Official state sport(s): none
Our choice: college hockey
Also considered: curling
People like curling here, but they're way, way more into UND ice hockey. And who can blame them, considering that the Ralph Engelstad Arena—known as the "Taj Mahal of Hockey"—features leather seats for each spectator. During the 2012–13 season, an average of 11,592 fans per game nestled into leather to watch the team formerly known as the Fighting Sioux. That figure led the nation, outpacing allegedly hockey-mad Minnesota by more than 1,500 fans per contest. The Gophers clearly need more comfortable seats.
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Official state sport(s): none
Our choice: cornhole
Also considered: soap box derby, high school football
A controversial selection but one that's backed by unimpeachable logic. Ohio has one of the nation's finest high school football traditions, and everyone should please let me know as soon as that tradition is highlighted in a hit book, movie, and TV show in which everyone is always saying "Ohio forever." Cornhole, by contrast, is ascendant. The beanbag-tossing game, which some believe arced into existence in Cincinnati, has softly descended into bars, frat houses, picnic areas, tailgates, and backyards nationwide. The Ohio-based American Cornhole Organization holds an annual world championship, which drew players from around the country to the greater Cincinnati area this July. In 10 years, I'd guess, cornhole will be a multibillion dollar industry, and Ohio's beanbag-based economy will lead an American industrial resurgence.
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Official state sport(s): none
Our choice: gymnastics
Also considered: noodling, wrestling
Noodling—also known as hillbilly handfishing, cat-daddling, tickling—is a thing that some Oklahomans do. To learn more about the people who like to grab enormous fish with their bare hands, check out the documentary Okie Noodling. But there's more to the Sooner State than catfisting. (That's another, grosser name for noodling. Other names for the sport include grabbling, hogging …) Oklahoma also happens to be, as Sports Illustrated has pointed out, a gymnastics stronghold. The University of Oklahoma men's team has won eight national titles, and two-time world champion and Olympic gold medalist Shannon Miller grew up and trained in Edmond. The magazine International Gymnast is also published here, and its offices are located on a street named after 1984 gold medalist Bart Conner. Conner has a gymnastics academy in Norman, where he lives with his wife Nadia Comăneci, the first woman to score a perfect 10 in the Olympics. The importation of Romania's best vaults gymnastics to the top. Sorry, catfisting.
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Official state sport(s): none
Our choice: track and field
Also considered: pro soccer, pro basketball
Portland calls itself "Soccer City USA," and the Trail Blazers sold out every game from 1977 to 1995, the second-longest streak in major North American pro sports. But Oregon does not belong to MLS or the NBA. Steve Prefontaine was born here and ran at Hayward Field, far and away the best venue for track and field in the United States. The shaggy-haired hero helped popularize the running shoes made by Nike, the local footwear concern founded by University of Oregon track coach Bill Bowerman and a one-time Oregon runner named Phil Knight. More recently, ex-Duck Ashton Eaton was propelled by the Hayward crowd to set a decathlon world record. "This is a magical place," he said afterward. Nike is now trying to bottle that magic with its Oregon Project, a push to return the United States to distance running preeminence.
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Official state sport(s): none
Our choice: field hockey
Also considered: Little League baseball
An upset victory for a sport that nobody in America plays after high school. There are more high school field hockey players in the Keystone State than anywhere else, and 12 of the top 25 teams in the 2012 high school rankings were Pennsylvania schools. At the senior level—yes, there is a senior level—14 of the 30 women on the U.S. national team hail from Pennsylvania. If you're a woman and you want to run all hunched over while carrying a stick, it's clear which state is right for you.
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Rhode Island
Official state sport(s): none
Our choice: sailing
Also considered: tennis
This adorable little state is the home of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, which is odd considering that nobody in Rhode Island cares about tennis. People come here to sail, and Newport hosts a whole bunch of races if you're into that sort of thing. The Laser New England Masters sounds amazing. Actually, never mind—it's that other kind of Laser.
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South Carolina
Official state sport(s): none
Our choice: golf
Also considered: none
Golf Digest ranks South Carolina as the country's No. 2 golf state (behind only Hawaii) based on "top public courses per capita." The Myrtle Beach area alone has more than 100 courses, which seems like a massive waste of space. Then again, I don't play golf. Please feel free to play through.
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South Dakota
Official state sport(s): rodeo
Our choice: rodeo
Also considered: none
South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming have all chosen rodeo as an official sport. Which state deserves to lasso the rodeo crown? I have no idea. What I do know is that there are absolutely no other options for South Dakota. So congratulations, people of Sioux Falls and Pierre—you are the winners by default. Yee-haw!
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Official state sport(s): none
Our choice: women's college basketball
Also considered: none
On the court, Connecticut leads its all-time series with the Tennessee Lady Volunteers 13–9. In the stands, though, the Vols are a dominant force. In 2013, Tennessee averaged 11,390 fans per game, beating out Iowa State, Louisville, Baylor, and Notre Dame for the NCAA women's basketball crowd-size championship. UConn, which won yet another NCAA title in 2013, came in sixth. And this isn't an aberration. Tennessee has had better fan support than UConn every year since 2004, and that's despite the fact that the Huskies have typically put better teams on the floor. Connecticut women's hoops fans are complacent. Tennessee fans are loyal.
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Official state sport(s): rodeo and football
Our choice: high school football
Also considered: rodeo, six-man football
Let's be real: The home of Friday Night Lights was never getting rodeo.
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Official state sport(s): none
Our choice: church basketball
Also considered: mountain biking
The city of Moab's tourism site claims that it's the spot for "the greatest mountain biking on the planet," which is pretty impressive considering that Earth is the top mountain biking planet. Despite that intergalactic dominance, church ball is the pick here. The Deseret News reports that there were an estimated 180,000 players in LDS church leagues in 2009. The site Stuff Mormons Like notes that "in any given ward, there is an unspoken hierarchy of individuals who are revered: the Bishop and Bishopric, the Relief Society and Elders Quorum President, and the guy with the keys to the chapel who opens it for late night/early morning church ball." Be careful out there—missionaries can jump.
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Official state sport(s): skiing and snowboarding
Our choice: snowboarding
Also considered: downhill skiing, cross-country skiing
Another grabby state claims two official sports, forcing us to choose which one it truly deserves. The correct answer is snowboarding, which was popularized in the Green Mountain State in the late 1970s and 1980s. As Sports Illustrated's E.M. Swift laid out, Jake Burton Carpenter launched his eponymous snowboard company in Londonderry in 1977, and the first U.S. Open snowboarding championships were held near Woodstock, Vt., in 1982. Vermont's Stratton resort was also the first place to allow snowboards on ski lifts, a decision that made America totally awesome.
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Official state sport(s): none
Our choice: steeplechase
Also considered: lacrosse, field hockey, youth soccer, polo, jousting
The Old Dominion is hard to grapple with. Pending the outcome of a Maryland vs. Virginia joust-off—jousting is one of Maryland's official sports, but Virginia has the National Jousting Hall of Fame—it seems most reasonable to honor the state's horsemanship. The Virginia Gold Cup is one of the country's oldest steeplechase races, the steeplechase being an event in which jockeys and their equine companions tromp through what appears to be an enormous garden full of fences and hedges while rich people in big hats mostly ignore what's going on. Now that's a sport.
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Official state sport(s): none
Our choice: pro soccer
Also considered: rowing
The University of Washington crew team has a long list of triumphs, tops among them an epic beatdown of a bunch of Nazis at the 1936 Olympics. But in recent decades, as the UW crew failed to thrash even a single Nazi, professional soccer has surged to the fore in the Evergreen State. If Portland is Soccer City USA, then Seattle is Soccer Megalopolis. Major League Soccer's Sounders average more than 40,000 fans per game, nearly double the attendance of any other MLS team—and that was before Seattle spent big to secure the services of Clint Dempsey. Now they just need to install some real grass at CenturyLink Field. If that doesn't happen in the next few years, then Soccer Megalopolis is getting busted back down to Soccer Hamlet.
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West Virginia
Official state sport(s): none
Our choice: rock climbing
Also considered: none
The Mountain State is an outdoorsy place, a great locale for caving and rafting and rock climbing. The latter of those activities is the only one that's even sort of a sport, so that's what we're going with. Go to New River Gorge and climb all day. If you don't fall to your death, give yourself a trophy.
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Official state sport(s): none
Our choice: pro football
Also considered: speed skating, bowling, timbersports
When I first conceived of this project, I was convinced that the NFL belonged to the entire nation rather than any particular state—that it's Football Night in America, not Football Night in Wisconsin. Upon further review, I've decided I got it wrong: The United States loves pro football, but the cheeseheads deserve to slather themselves in pigskin. The community-owned Packers have long operated as something of a public trust, and the team's 13 league titles show that the public's trust in the franchise has been well placed. What pushed me over the edge, though, was a Wall Street Journal article with the subhead "Green Bay Is Running Out of Roads to Name After Packer Legends." Wisconsin has made its sports priority clear. Until the rest of the country names 100 percent of its major thoroughfares after coaches, quarterbacks, and linemen, America's Dairyland has pro football wrapped up.
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Official state sport(s): rodeo
Our choice: downhill skiing
Also considered: rodeo
Sorry, Cowboy State, we gave away rodeo to a place that needed it more desperately. Wyoming may not be your first choice for a ski vacation, but it's got slopes in abundance. The Wyoming Office of Tourism has a video titled "Jackson Hole Mountain Resort: It's where the snow is!" Take note, other states: All the snow is in Wyoming. There is no other snow.
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With those ground rules established, I got to choosing, with some help from colleagues. (Slate is still recovering from an all-staff email debate that destroyed an entire afternoon of workplace productivity and led one aggrieved Ohio resident to insist that grievous harm had been done to the Buckeye State.) Browse through the map above, illustrated beautifully by the amazing Jess Fink with interactive design by Chris Kirk, to see what we decided. Surprisingly, we had a bunch of respectable sports left over: pro basketball, swimming, indoor and beach volleyball, softball, bowling, table tennis, water polo, figure skating, fencing, badminton, diving, windsurfing, shooting, mixed martial arts. Want to pop any of those sports in or switch other ones around? Leave your best alternative arrangements in the comments.
Correction, Oct. 8, 2013: Due to a production error, Connecticut's sport was originally displayed as women's college basketball in the full list of states below the illustrated map. Connecticut's sport is squash. The interactive also misstated that Ted Nugent lives in Michigan. He has a ranch in Michigan but lives in Texas.
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Tuesday, 13th April, 2010, 04:46 PM #1
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[Adventure] A Boy and His Dog (DM: stonegod; Judge: r1)
A Boy and His Dog (Completed)
- Vikmak Stonecarver, goliath runpriest (Walking Dad)
- Sapo Toa, bullywug monk (Voda Vosa)
- Elkrysn, drow sorcerer (Goldendice)
- Johanna Wolfkiller, human barbarian|warden (pathfinderq1)
- Lhavarr Sporrano, half-elf ardent|bard (EvolutionKB)
- Torqua Debu, human sorcerer (Goldhammer)
Game Stats
- Major: Rescue Bryan
- Minor: Find Bryan's Sewer
- Minor: Free Bryan
- Find the Right Sewer: 100 (All)
- Fight in the Muck: 250 (All)
- Something Odd is Going on Here: 233 (All)
- Defend Bryan!: 275 (All)
- Destroy It!: 133 (All)
- The Stone Breaks: 400 (All but Elkrysn)
- Quests: 350 (All)
- Time XP: 582 (Elkrysn), 749 (Lhavarr), 916 (Sapo), 1147 (Johanna, Torqua), 1601 (Vimak)
- Vikmak Stonecarver: 3342
- Sapo Toa: 2675
- Elkrysn: 2323
- Johanna Wolfkiller: 2888
- Lhavarr Sporrano: 2490
- Torqua Debu: 2888
- A ruby with a divine rune of protection (worth 840gp)
- A rough wooden figure of a sitting man with a forked tongue (Cobra Strike Ki Focus +1)
- A worn set of chain armor, but sturdy (Defensive Chainmail +1)
- A dagger whose blade easily reflect's light (Wild Flare Dagger +1)
- A hefty greatspear of Northron make (Whirlwind Greatspear +1)
- A plain dagger that warms to the touch (Dragonscale Dagger +1)
- Time Gold: 441 (Elkrysn), 567 (Lhavarr), 693 (Sapo), 979 (Johanna, Torqua), 1925 (Vimak)
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RulesWelcome to the game! Action can begin now. Please put a summary of your character with a link to the character thread in your first posts and any combat post like so:TondrekTondrek—Male Half-orc Artificer 6
Initiative: +7, Low-Light, Passive Perception: 19, Passive Insight: 14
AC: 22, Fort: 19, Reflex: 19, Will: 17 — Speed: 6, 8 when charging
HP: 53/53, Bloodied: 26, Surge: 13, Surges left: 9/10; Half-orc Resilience
Action Points: 1, Second Wind: Not Used
Powers -
Magic Weapon
Static Shock
Scouring Weapon
Repulsion Strike
Icebound Sigil
Flameheart Defender
Healing Infusion x2
Swift Mender
Furious Assault
Regeneration Infusion
Battle Staff +1 (daily)
Targeting Crossbow +2 (daily)
Point Blank Repeating Crossbow +1 (encounter)
Skald's Leather Armor +2 (daily)
Onyx Dog (daily)
2 Clockwork Bombs
2 Woundpatches
2 Alchemist's Acids
Doggie—Construct 4
Initiative +7; Low-light, Passive Perception 17
AC: 16, Fort: 15, Reflex: 14, Will: 13 — Speed: 8
HP: 22/9; Bloodied 4
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The group gathers in front of the Hanged Man, the wounded dog barking at them for them to follow.
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Tuesday, 13th April, 2010, 07:33 PM #2
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Vimak follows the dog as fast as he can: "Wait for us we are coming!"
He calls after the dog as he leaves the tavern.
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Perception: 15 Insight: 19 Normal Vision
AC 21 Fortitude 17 Reflex 16 Will 18
Initiative: +4
Hit Points: 44 / 44 Bloodied: 22
Temporary Hit Points: 0
Resist: -
Saving Throw:
Action Points: 1 Second Wind: 1
Healing Surge:11 Surges per day: 10 / 10
At-Will Powers: Word of Diminishment, Word of Binding, Lightning Damage
Encounter Powers: Rune of Mending 2/2, Stones Endurance, Flames of Purity, Symbol of Wrath Reversed
Daily Powers: Rune of Endless Fire, Shield of Sacrifice, Deny CA Bonus, Extra Lightning Damage.
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Tuesday, 13th April, 2010, 07:45 PM #3
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A cat sits on a windowsill, but at the sight of the dog, hisses and runs away.
I can judge this stonegod.
Tuesday, 13th April, 2010, 07:59 PM #4
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The toad jumps behind the goliath. Although she's small and even smaller when she is crouched, Sapot Toa keeps the peace of the strong and long legs of Vimak, and apparently, effortlessly; with the same peace and parsimony that seems to characterise this strange creature.
Sapo Toa
Full sheet
Name:Sapo Toa
Level:1 XP: 0
Race: Bullywug Class:Monk
Passive Insight: 12
Passive Perception: 17
Senses: Normal
Hit Points: 28 ,Bloodied: 14 , Surge Value: 7 , Surges/Day: 8
AC:16 , Fortitude: 14 , Reflex: 14 , Will: 13 , Speed: 6
Skills: Acrobatics 8 Arcana 0 Athletics 4 Bluff -1 Diplomacy -1 Dungeoneering 2 Endurance 8 Heal 2
History 0 Insight 2 Intimidate 2 Nature 3 Perception 7 Religion 0 Stealth 3 Streetwise -1 Thievery 3
Feats: Staff fighting
Class Features:
Racial Features: Rancid air
At-Will: Five Storms, Dragon's tail, Centered flury of blows
Encounter: Open the gates of battle
Daily: Maserful spiral
Item Powers: Healing potion
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Tuesday, 13th April, 2010, 11:13 PM #5
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Elkrysn lightly bolts out of the door after realizing that some of the group had already left the tavern.
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ElkrysnElkrysn - Male Drow Sorceror 1
Initiative: +4, Darkvision, Passive Perception: 9, Passive Insight: 9
AC: 14, Fort: 10, Reflex: 14, Will: 17 — Speed: 6; Chaos Burst
HP: 22/22, Bloodied: 11, Surge: 5, Surges left: 6/6, Resist 5 Thunder; Wild Soul
Skills: Arcana +5, Bluff +12 (+14 to make disguises), Diplomacy +10, Intimidate +12, Stealth +11 (+12 to move silently)
Languages: Allarian, Drow (Elven)
Action Points: 1, Second Wind: Not Used
Powers -
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Burning Spray
Dazzling Ray
Cloud of Darkness or Darkfire
Assassin's Shroud x2
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The woman in the wolfskin cloak followed the others out of the tavern. She shifted her pack to a more comfortable position, then hefted her massive spear, and then she was ready to follow the dog. "Are any of us keen of eye? In case this dog gets too anxious and bolts ahead..."
JohannaJohanna Wolfkiller- Human hybrid Barbarian/Warden 2
Initiative: +1, Passive Perception 15, Passive Insight 10
AC: 18/FORT: 18/REF: 14/WILL: 16; Speed 6
HP: 38/38, Bloodied 19, Surge: 9; Surges left 11/11
Action points 1; Second Wind: not used
Howling Strike
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Wednesday, 14th April, 2010, 06:30 AM #7
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Further down the street, a man approaches the dog and the group. As he passes by, a pair of lovers embrace and kiss. As he passes the alleyway next to the tavern, a pair of arguing drunks erupt in a fistfight. The subtle points of his ears reveal him as a half-elf; he nods to the group, and they can make out his features. His dark is is slicked back and he wears a suit of form-fitting chainmail. A greatsword is strapped over his back and a dagger is tucked into his belt.
"I'm Lhavarr, this yur dog?"
LhavarrMale Half-elf Ardent|Bard 1
Initiative: +0, Low-Light, Passive Perception: 12, Passive Insight: 19
Bluff +9; Diplomacy +13; Intimidate +13; Insight +9
AC: 16, Fort: 14, Reflex: 10, Will: 16 Speed: 5
HP: 30/30, Bloodied: 15, Surge: 7, Surges left: 11/11;
Action Points: 1, Second Wind: Not Used, PP: 2/2
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Wednesday, 14th April, 2010, 01:33 PM #8
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Perception: 15 Insight: 19 Normal Vision
AC 21 Fortitude 17 Reflex 16 Will 18
Initiative: +4
Hit Points: 44 / 44 Bloodied: 22
Temporary Hit Points: 0
Resist: -
Saving Throw:
Action Points: 1 Second Wind: 1
Healing Surge:11 Surges per day: 10 / 10
At-Will Powers: Word of Diminishment, Word of Binding, Lightning Damage
Encounter Powers: Rune of Mending 2/2, Stones Endurance, Flames of Purity, Symbol of Wrath Reversed
Daily Powers: Rune of Endless Fire, Shield of Sacrifice, Deny CA Bonus, Extra Lightning Damage.
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Wednesday, 14th April, 2010, 02:14 PM #9
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One of the leaps takes Sapo Toa next to the half elf, as she lands, she speaks "Not mine, not theirs, not yours. Whose? Investigating that is what we are doing" and then leaps away following the gliath.
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"Wait for me, fellows!" Calls a voice a down the street. The ground seems to shake as the massive woman comes running down the street, holding a mug of ale. "Sorry, figured I'd might as well grab one last ale for the road." She says, taking a drink of the said ale. She takes a moment to look over the half-elf then holds out her hand in greetings. "I don't believe we've meet. I'm Torqua Debu, the Great Sorceress, the Fatromancer, the Wide Witch, The Bellychanter, the Massive Mage, the Bloated Beauty, the Inflated Illusionist, the Fat Firebreather, the Colossal Conjuer, the new hero of Asamadar and the Mistress of Magical Thunder Thighs." Torqua says for the 3rd or 4th time today.
Torqua stat blockTorqua Debu- Female Human Sorceress 2
Passive Perception: 16, Passive Insight: 16
AC:16, Fort:16, Reflex:12, Will:17 -- Speed:6
HP: 37/37, Bloodied:18, Surge Value:9, Surges left:8/8
Initiative 0
Action Points: 1, Second Wind: not used
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The "food industry" has got to wake up to the fact that consumer preference ultimately rules. Nearly 6 million people voted for Prop 37. The fact that Monsanto and partners paid $45 million to scare voters to kill it, is actually an unsustainable position. Overriding consumer sentiment with massive propaganda does not work in the long run. You can try and brand these folks as anti-science, but we both know that's a fallacy as well. The Prop 37 experience has actually massively expanded and galvanized the food movement in ways the industry is only beginning to realize. Witness the massive anti-gmo sentiment being leveled at Cheerios on Facebook. http://organicconnectmag.com/wp/gmo-labeling-proposition-37-the-final-score/
Nine out of ten Americans want labeling. In a democracy uncorrupted by powerful multi-national corporations, labeling would already be the law. What the biotech and pesticide companies have been doing is hurting people, hurting farmers, and hurting our land. We are on the side of transparency and openness. Citizens, farmers, health advocates, and others are now working in 32 states to do what the federal government has failed to do: let us know what's in the food we're eating. We're all busy people with work, families, volunteer commitments--we don't want to have to fight for this right. Get on the right side of history and start labeling and save us all this trouble! : )
We deserve to know what's in our food! Monsanto's 3 month studies of GMOs are a joke. All real research points to major health risks and environmental problems with GMOs. 60 countries label, including China and Russia. The EPA and FDA and past presidencies have been owned by Monsanto, in that major decision makers were past Monsanto employees ala Michael Taylor, the food czar. The only think GMOs do now, is make money for Monsanto. They hurt everyone and everything else. All polls state 90% of Americans want labeling, but the CA Prop37 failed, because of untruthful advertising that scared voters it would be expensive, which is nonsense. This issue won't go away, because a monoculture of GMOs puts the food security of the planet in jeopardy--who would sit still for that?!
Everyday that goes by with Monsanto developing and releasing more of these GMOs is another dollar in their pocket and a nail in the coffin of the people that eat this stuff. We do not know the long term ramifications that these genes will have on man, animals or nature. Just suppose, for example, that the terminator gene migrates to other wild plants or to something like alfalfa. We just do not know because the kind of long term science that should have been done has not happened and will not happen if it is left up to Monsanto. It really seems ironic to me that Russia and China, and many other countries, are more progressive on this issue than the United States.
We should be joined in this fight for labeling by all of the health care providers in the nation. The ongoing cost of people consuming GMO food becomes clearer everyday. If it isn't labeling, consumers just don't know how much they are taking in at every meal of the day. Insurance companies should also be supporting this effort - they have a great deal to gain. We have a premature birth rate in the US that is alike to Africa, not Europe. Why isn't anyone looking at this and the connections to GMO's.
Election fraud in California Right now the votes for Prop 37 to label genetically engineered foods are still being counted. On Tuesday morning, Dec 4th, Prop 37 hit 6,004,628 votes on the California Secretary of State's website, but this tally was quickly reversed within an hour of being publicized by Food Democracy Now! Since November 6th, the vote count in California has been updated daily until December 4th, when the vote count hit 6 million for the first time. When contacted, the Secretary of State's office stated there would be no further updates to the vote totals until Dec 14th when state law requires the election results to be certified. County elected officials only have until COB Dec 7th to submit final results. At the same time, Food Democracy Now! has learned that a team of independent statisticians have detected "statistical anomalies" in the largest precincts of 9 counties, including Orange, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Alameda and San Diego counties. If this troubles you as it does me, please call the Secretary of State's Elections Division staff at (916) 657-2166 to tell them you expect Secretary Debra Bowen to continue to update the vote count until the election is certified on Dec 14th. Source: Food Deomcracy Now! http://fdn.actionkit.com/cms/sign/prop_37_demand_transparency? referring_akid=686.313022.qyz1we&source=taf
Possible Revote on Prop 37 http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/category/yeson37/ Prop 37 opponents published fraudulent statements in the Voter's Guide, which is a felony and committed fraud in their ads, misappropriating the FDA seal. They raised widespread fear of higher food prices if Prop 37 were to win. If the election is overturned, there will be a revote. Contact Secretary of State Debra Bowen: Elections Division (916) 657-2166 Voter Hotline (800) 345-8683 Online message form: http://www.sos.ca.gov/webcontact/ (Choose Elections)
To disregard millions of people as "activists" is ridiculous, as is the editorialist's call to the industry to "not let down its guard." Why is the industry so afraid of GMO labeling? I, like many others, want to make educated choices about the food I eat. I do not want biotech companies to make that decision for me. GMO labeling will happen and eventually no amount of millions of dollars spent by Monsanto and their like will prevent it.
It's only natural that the food companies lobbied so hard to defeat the Prop. 37 initiative. The population keeps increasing, we are more and more crowded and we are more and more "rats in a laboratory." Industry and the food companies care about sales, not about the health of individuals. Fighting against big business, along with the cooperation of stupid voters, I fear for the future. The right wing nuts on radio often say "Why would business do anything to harm their customers?" Wake up! They're in bed with big business, as they all have pretty much the same agenda. Money flows from big business to those who already have money but know how to get onto a corporate teat to nurse from. The right wing nuts start from their biblical admonition to "be fruitful and multiply." BB starts from the drive for more profits. I had some direct experience of this at my former workplace. When I found out we had been dumping dangerous chemicals down the drain, knowing we had our own well and our own on-site septic system I asked management to test the well water. "Why, is anyone getting sick?" Was the first reply, followed by a half hour of arguments as to why these chemicals (trichloroethylene was one of them) weren't harmful. They finally agreed to test the water. Results were just under those which would have required public posting of warning signs and posters. They fought testing because, compared to costs and profits, they didn't care.
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(Brussels, 3rd March 2014) The new results of the cost study carried out by the German Office for Agriculture and Agricultural Sociology BAL show that the average price paid to dairy farmers in Germany in October 2013, i.e. 41,92 cents/kg, does not cover production costs. For the same period, production costs amounted to 44,12...
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