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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is putting "insufficient" resources towards its lofty goal for a "rebalance" to the Pacific, according to a congressionally mandated report on the region conducted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
The 270 page report, released Tuesday, warneds that "at the current rate of U.S. capability development, the balance of military power in the region is shifting against the United States" and calleds for "robust funding" in order to maintain the US strategic dominance of the Pacific.
The study was ordered under the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act, and is a follow-up to a 2012 congressionally mandated report studying the same issues. That study, also conducted by CSIS, made a series of recommendations; however, the authors write, since then the "international security environment has become significantly more complicated" in the region since then.
Unsurprisingly, the authors identifiedy China as the primary threat to American power in the region, warning: that "If China's economic, military, and geopolitical influence continues to rise at even a modest pace during this period, the world will witness the largest shift in the global distribution of power since the rise of the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."
Whether that growth pattern continues, the authors noted, is up in the air, the authors noted, with the report highlighting how internal challenges may distract China going forward, and also that its aggressive posture over the last two years towards its neighbors has driven many of those nations to align more strongly with the US.
The authors also identifiedy North Korea and Russia as state actors who can destabilize the US goals for the Pacific.
To address concerns about the region, the authors of the study lay laid out four general necessities.
First, they called on the Obama administration to find a cohesive message about the Pacific, noting that while the "administration has issued a series of speeches and documents on the rebalance, there remains no central statement of the US government's rebalance strategy" and warneding that during interviews for the report, leaders from across the government were unclear on what the "rebalance" actually meant.
To meet that challenge, the authors recommended "preparing an Asia-Pacific strategic report; increasing administration outreach to Congress; ensuring alignment between strategy and resources; better coordinating U.S. strategy with allies and partners; and expanding confidence building and crisis management with China."
Secondly, the authors recommended building up "security capability, capacity, resilience, and interoperability" among partners in the region. That has been a focus for the Department of Defense in recent years, including a trip in May when Secretary of Defense Ash Carter visited Singapore, Vietnam and India to encourage ties with those nations, both militarily and industrially.
In addition to general suggestions about supporting partner nations, the authors of the study encourage "forming a standing U.S. joint task force for maritime security" and "encouraging Japan to establish a joint operations command." In 2015, Japan changed its national security rules in a move US officials hope will allow them to take a greater role in regional security.
The third recommendation involveds beefing up the US presence in the region, and in particular not allowing China's growing anti-access/area-denial capabilities to limit what American forces are stationed nearby.
"We recommend continuing to implement and resource key posture initiatives; increasing surface fleet presence; improving undersea capacity; deploying within the theater additional amphibious lift to allow enhanced theater-wide engagement and crisis response; continuing to diversify air operating locations; bolstering regional missile defenses; advancing and adapting the U.S. Army's Regionally Aligned Forces concept; addressing logistical challenges; stockpiling critical precision munitions; and enhancing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance cooperation with allies within the region," the authors write wrote.
Finally, the authors concluded the Pentagon must "pursue innovative capabilities and concepts to address the most challenging military risks" in the region. In particular, the authors encourage the growth of two handfuls of technologies — those needed to protect US forces in the region from the growing ballistic missile threat, and those that are capable of giving the US "an asymmetric, cost-imposing counter to potential regional competitors."
Although the term appears sparingly in the report, that conclusion mirrors those of top Pentagon officials, such as Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work, who have been pushing the "Third Offset" for new technologies that will allow the US to maintain an edge over any near-peer nation.
The CSIS report does specifically calls out the need for developing high-end guided munitions as key in the Pacific, something Work has identified in the past.
In addition to the broad recommendations, CSIS broke down the capabilities of each partner nation in the Pacific region and the importance it plays for US strategy. The study was led by Mike Green, Kath Hicks and Mark Cancian.
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Park School Recognizes Outstanding High School Media Advisors
Four of the nation's leading high school media advisors and teachers were recently honored by the Park School of Communications with the first ever S'Park Media Mentor Award.
Lori Oglesbee of McKinney High School in Texas, Clifton Raphael of Jenks High School in Oklahoma, Dharini Rasiah of Berkley High School in California and Mike Zito of Staples High School in Connecticut were the first ever recipients of the award.
The S'Park Media Mentor Award was the brainchild of Diane Gayeski, dean of the Park School of Communications and Matt Fee, director of the Park Scholar Program at Ithaca College.
"The award was designed to recognize outstanding high school teachers and advisors committed to inspiring passion for media in their students," Fee said.
"Personally and professionally the S'Park Media Mentor Award has been one of the highlights of my life," said Rasiah, a filmmaker, media activist and high school teacher who also serves as the faculty advisor for the BHS Jacket newspaper. "K-12 educators are rarely recognized for our work and it was a tremendous honor to be selected along with three other outstanding colleagues."
The honorees spent Oct. 24th and 25th at Ithaca where they met with several professors, student media advisors and Park Scholar alums, attended a live broadcast of Newswatch 16, Ithaca College Television's award-winning news program, took a tour of the Park School and sat in on classes. On Monday night they were honored with a dinner where they were presented with their awards.
"I was enormously impressed with everyone I met at the Park School, from the dean to the professors to the students," said Raphael, a film and television teacher at Jenks High School who has won a regional Emmy Award for best newscast. Raphael, who spent 24 years in broadcast television prior to launching the Film and Television at Jenks, was especially impressed with Newswatch 16's broadcast. "What I witnessed is a testament not just to the students, but to the professors and all the Park School staff who have guided these students throughout their careers."
Zito shared Raphael's sentiment. "There was a palpable feeling of pride in the program and what it was accomplishing," said Zito, a Radio Production, TV Production and Narrative Film teacher and radio station and TV advisor at Staples High School.
"The Park School is doing a unique and wonderful job of giving talented and creative students the opportunity for a hands-on education that will train them beautifully for their futures in media."
One of the main purposes of the award was to establish a bridge between high school media specialists and Ithaca's professors and media advisors, allowing them to share their perspectives and strategies.
"It was a chance for high school teachers and advisors to connect in a more direct way with the work being done in college, so that they could bring that back to their high school students," Fee said. "It also allowed professors to have a greater sense of what's going on in high schools."
"The S'Park Media Mentor Awards really made me reflect on the mentors in my life, and how their influence has led me to the success I've enjoyed today," said Mykal Urbina, a senior Park Scholar and Integrated Marketing Communications major. "I think that Park is once again demonstrating its progressive role in honoring leaders in high school media education."
As Lori Oglesbee, yearbook and newspaper advisor at McKinney High School in McKinney, Texas noted: "Autumn colors weren't the only thing ablaze in Ithaca. I found a hotbed of journalistic endeavors at the Park School. I've never seen better resources and equipment available to students. I see a college that invests in its students, its professors and its community. I'm impressed."

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Carnegie Mellon Receives $23.3 Million from NASA To Establish a High Dependability Computing Program
Wednesday January 16, 2002PITTSBURGH—NASA's Ames Research Center has signed an agreement to award $23.3 million to Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science to develop a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional High-Dependability Computing Program (HDCP) to improve NASA's capability to create dependable software. The incremental, five-year cooperative agreement is part of a broad strategy for dependable computing that links Carnegie Mellon, NASA, corporate partners, and other universities.
MEDIA ADVISORY: Carnegie Mellon and AT&T to Host Robotics Tournament Featuring 300 Pittsburgh-Area Middle School Students
Wednesday November 28, 2001EVENT: More than 300 Pittsburgh-area middle-schoolers from some 20 local educational institutions will compete in the annual FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Lego League robotics competition, Saturday, Dec. 1, at Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Consortium (NREC) in Lawrenceville. Using LEGO MINDSTORMS TM kits, the students have built autonomous robots designed to help researchers studying climate change above the Arctic Circle who are in danger of being trapped in a huge storm.
Carnegie Mellon Launches System to Rate IT-Enabled Outsourcing Service Providers With Support from Satyam Computer Services, Ltd., Accenture and Others
Monday November 19, 2001PITTSBURGH--In response to the growing need for standards to evaluate companies providing information technology (IT) enabled outsourcing services, researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science (SCS) have developed a methodology to rate outsourcing firms and have established a center to certify their capabilities.
Carnegie Mellon to Launch System Rating IT Outsourcing Service Providers With Support from Satyam Computer Services, Ltd. Accenture and Others
Tuesday November 13, 2001PITTSBURGH--In response to the growing need for standards to evaluate companies providing information technology (IT) outsourcing services, researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science (SCS) have developed a system to rate outsourcing firms and have established a center to certify their capabilities.
University Researchers in Pittsburgh Among Those Sharing $10 Million NSF Grant to Develop National Virtual Observatory
Monday October 29, 2001PITTSBURGH- Experts in computer science and astrophysics from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh are among researchers from 17 institutions nationwide who will share a $10-million, five-year Information Technology Research (ITR) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help "put the universe on line" via a National Virtual Observatory (NVO)- http://us-vo.org.
Monday October 29, 2001New Venture Aims to Assist U.S. Homeland Anti-Terrorism InitiativesIn response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, Carnegie Mellon has created an Office for Security Technologies that will work with the federal government to match Carnegie Mellon's capabilities with national security needs. In the aftermath of the national tragedy more than 40 faculty members were identified who have substantive expertise to offer in helping national security efforts.
Carnegie Mellon, Carnegie Museums Awarded State Funding For New Panther Hollow Research Incubator on Carnegie Mellon Campus
Friday October 12, 2001PITTSBURGH-Construction of a new $31.4 million research and office facility in Panther Hollow at the western edge of the Carnegie Mellon University campus is scheduled to begin this spring with expected occupancy by summer 2003.
Tuesday September 18, 2001PITTSBURGH-Carnegie Mellon University will host the region's first Nanotechnology workshop designed to explore theadvantages of creating a computer the size of a library card to store everything a person may see or say in a work day orcreate clothing emeshed with sensors to measure a person's vitalsigns. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute, and Engineeringand Computer Science Departments will discuss the potential payoffsof denser hard drives, smaller computer chips and better medicineas a result of Nanotechnology research.
Carnegie Mellon Robot Will Test New Concept for Continuous Solar-Powered Exploration in Canadian Arctic
Monday June 25, 2001PITTSBURGH: A prototype solar-powered robot with the potential to be self-sufficient for extended periods of time will be tested in the Canadian Arctic by Carnegie Mellon University researchers in July. The researchers will test a concept called Sun-Synchronous Navigation that may enable autonomous robots to obtain continuous solar power for long-term exploration of distant planets and moons. The robot named Hyperion was developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute with support from NASA.
Carnegie Mellon University Robot Will Demonstrate Concept For Continuous Solar-Powered Exploration of Planets and Moons
Tuesday June 19, 2001EVENT: See a demonstration of a prototype, autonomous solar-powered robot developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute with support from NASA. The robot, named Hyperion, has the potential to be self-sufficient for extended periods of time. In July, it will be taken to Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic, where it will test a concept called Sun-Synchronous Navigation, which involves tracking the sun for power while exploring terrain. The robot will travel opposite to Earth's rotation and in synchrony with the sun.


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03 August 2006
3 August 2006
('Lipoxen' or 'the Company')
Development and Manufacturing Agreement with the Serum Institute of India
London, UK, 3rd August 2006 - Lipoxen PLC (AIM: LPX), a biopharmaceutical
company specialising in the development of differentiated biologicals, vaccines
and oncology drugs, today announced that it has entered into a Development and
Manufacturing Agreement ('DMA') with the Serum Institute of India Limited
Pursuant to the DMA, SIIL will develop the technology for the manufacture of
polysialic acid ('PSA') and its derivatives to the US Food and Drug
Administration ('FDA') standards on a commercial scale to meet the demands of
the Company's collaborative partners and for pre-clinical and clinical trials
While the Company has made considerable progress in its pre-clinical lab scale
programmes, it does not have the infrastructure or financial capacity to
initiate a commercial-scale FDA compliant manufacturing facility. Pursuant to
the DMA, SIIL will provide Lipoxen with a unique source of polysialic acid
(biopolymer) according to Good Manufacturing Practices ('GMP') standards and
customized to Lipoxen's specifications which will allow clinical development of
Lipoxen's protein drug pipeline and continuous supply of the biopolymer to the
Company's current and future collaborative partners.
SIIL is widely recognised as a world-class contract manufacturer and is able to
deliver a wide range of products and clinical assistance to the Company on a
market competitive basis. In particular, SIIL has developed a complete process
of fermentation, purification and manufacture of PSA and the DMA provides the
framework for this process to be taken forward to enable production on a
competitive commercial basis.
The terms of the DMA require the Company to make a single capital payment
against which SIIL has contracted to establish a fully functional FDA-compliant
PSA production facility in early 2007 in order to supply suitable quantities of
PSA both to the Company (in support of its ongoing pre-clinical programmes) and
to the Company's collaborative partners as certain product candidates move to
the clinical trials stage. Provision has also been made for the Company to
receive royalty payments from SIIL under certain circumstances. The DMA further
provides for compensation to be payable to the Company in the unlikely case of
SIIL failing to meet its basic obligations under the agreement. The term of the
DMA runs in parallel with that of a licensing agreement dated 16 December 2004
(as amended on 11 October 2005) between SIIL and Lipoxen Technologies Limited
(the wholly owned subsidiary of the Company) being for, effectively, an
indefinite term.
Accordingly, the DMA lies at the heart of the Company's strategy to bring its
(and its collaborative partners') product candidates to market at the earliest
date and the further collaboration with this globally leading producer is
considered pivotal to achieving that goal. The DMA establishes SIIL as the
Company's key contract manufacturing partner and represents a substantial
milestone in the continuing development of PolyXen(R), Lipoxen's patented
protein drug-delivery technology.
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Lipoxen PLC (AIM: LPX) is a biopharmaceutical company specialising in the
development of high value differentiated biologicals, vaccines and oncology
drugs. Potential products, which address markets in excess of US$1 billion,
currently under development include improved formulations of important
biologicals including EPO, G-CSF, insulin and Interferon-alpha based on
Lipoxen's proprietary PolyXen(R) technology. This technology is designed to
improve the stability, biological half-life and immunologic characteristics of
therapeutic proteins naturally. Lipoxen has two further naturally-derived
proprietary delivery technologies ImuXen(R) and a related liposomal technology
for the formulation of cytotoxic oncology drugs, which are being developed to
enhance the efficacy and safety of various vaccines such as Hepatitis B and
pneumococcal vaccines, as well as a number of anti-cancer agents like
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Neroli was a named a recipient for its 8th time as a Top 200 Salon in the USA.
The magazines 14th Annual Salon Today 200 profiled Neroli Salon & Spa in its Jan./Feb. 2011 issue. The 200 salons were selected from applications submitted by Salon Today readers, who represent the 25,000 top-producing salons in the country.
The magazine honored Neroli Salon & Spa in the following categories:
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Jindal scraps tax swap plan
BATON ROUGE — Gov. Bobby Jindal told lawmakers on Monday that he's shelving his tax swap proposal rather than risk an embarrassing defeat of a restructuring plan that drew ire across the political spectrum and from business leaders.
But the Republican governor isn't giving up on his push to eliminate Louisiana's income taxes on individuals and businesses, just the part of the plan that had a specific list of ways to replace the lost revenue, including an unpopular sales tax hike.
Jindal told lawmakers on the opening day of the annual legislative session that he wants a plan to get rid of the income tax, suggesting he'd support a phase-out approach offered by several lawmakers — without offering any further parameters.
"Even if we park our plan, I'm calling on you, let's work together, let's pass a bill this session. Let's get rid of the income tax," the governor told a joint meeting of the House and Senate.
Jindal's decision to scrap a tax package he announced nearly three months ago was a surprising acknowledgement of trouble for a governor who has regularly found success for his legislative agenda. However, Jindal's poll numbers have plummeted, and his relationships even with Republican lawmakers have grown rocky, so a shift in tactic could give him a victory to claim when the two-month legislative session ends on June 6.
Jindal had proposed to get rid of the income tax immediately. In exchange, he proposed increased sales taxes charged on more items, boosted tobacco taxes and removal of some tax breaks.


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About the Book
an anthology for grieving
About the Creator
Sally simonetti is an illustrator/author who holds a degree in Fine Arts from Drake University. Her work has appeared in Mademoiselle magazine, Womens Wear Daily, Angel Times magazine and has been shown by the Los Angeles Society of Illustrators. Sally enjoyed a successful career as a fashion illustrator for 25 years, and for 5 years taught senior students at the Parsons School of Design. Her paintings and cards have been exhibited and sold in galleries in Seattle, Santa Fe, San Clemente, Des Moines, Dallas, and Los Angeles. Sally lives in Santa Fe, New mexico with her husband, Matt, where she studies piano, raises canaries, and produces anthologies.
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anyone been to Aukland and can recommend a hostel there?
So far seen the Ponsonby Backpackers, Bamber House & KR City Travellers there.
I will be there during the Rugby World cup, so thought i best get some accommodation sorted soon!
Havent quite made my mind up yet either whether i should be staying in Aukland until the WC is over or move around. Where do you reckon the hotspot will be??
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NAPLES, Fla. — Food safety was the focus of the opening day of this year's Joint Tomato Conference.
During a Sept. 6 workshop on food safety training and good agricultural and best management practices, researchers and food safety leaders updated the industry on safe tomato handling and food safety rules.
Discussing his study of strategies to reduce bacterial contamination on tomatoes in the packinghouse, Keith Schneider, an associate professor with the Gainesville-based University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, said it wasn't too long ago that produce wasn't a major concern of regulators.
"Just seven years ago, 50% of funds went to shellfish," Schneider said. "Produce wasn't on their radar. Most research wasn't geared to produce. It's a huge push now. We are a beneficiary of those research dollars."
Martha Roberts, University of Florida consultant and former deputy commissioner of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, said the industry is working to ensure science supports safety rules.
"Regrettably, you're only one step away from a disaster," she said. "You know what happened with Salmonella Saintpaul, when it was really peppers. You know what happened with the European outbreak. It was sprouts but it destroyed the Spanish tomato and cucumber industries. You can't get away from the disasters and accusations but what we can focus on is what we can control."
Reggie Brown, manager of the Maitland-based Florida Tomato Committee and executive vice president of the Florida Tomato Exchange, the conference's sponsors, thanked growers for participating.
"We appreciate your everyday contribution in the process because food safety is an everyday responsibility," he said. "Not just when you come to a workshop or when the auditor shows up.
"It is a state of mind and a method of looking at risks and producing safe tomatoes," Brown said. "As we know from experience, it's absolutely essential that everyone in this business makes that effort so we can all stay in business and not have that experience we had in 2008."
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Paul Ricard and Magny-Cours mount official bids to stage a relaunched French Grand Prix - but could they end up working together?
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While there is little secret about France's desire to return to the F1 world championship from next season, the path to resolving how and where the race will take place continues to be full of twists and turns.
Initial reports suggested that France would enter into a date share agreement with the popular Belgian Grand Prix, with each country taking turns to play host to the F1 circus, but that latter's new multi-year deal [see separate story] finally put that idea to rest last month. Other 'partners' had also been, tentatively, mentioned in connection with similar plans, but now France has effectively been left to go it alone.
The matter of a host circuit has also been 'up in the air' since the return was first mooted and, since moving on from speculative plans to either construct a new venue or run the race through the streets of Paris in a bid to take the grand prix closer to a major population centre, has focused largely on the last two venues to stage France's round - Magny-Cours and Paul Ricard. While the latter appeared to be the frontrunner in talks with Bernie Ecclestone, Magny-Cours - considered a challenging driver's circuit in the middle of nowhere - refused to bow out without a fight.
It perhaps comes as no great surprise, therefore, to discover that the two circuits could now combine to provide a united front in a bid to relaunch the French Grand Prix, with suggestions that the event alternate between them, thereby keeping the race on the schedule every year.
Magny-Cours - which this week plays host to a three-day 'young driver' test involving Ferrari, Force India and Mercedes - lodged its bid with the national motorsport body FFSA a week ago, while, according to lepopulaire, Paul Ricard followed suit this week, and the matter of choosing one or both will now be considered by FFSA president Nicolas Deschaux and his team. While both circuits are understood to be insisting that there needs to be negotiation on the price of staging the race, and have proposed to share their date with another country, the belief is that they would be willing to alternate between themselves in order to bring one of the original world championship nations back to the table. If the FFSA decides to choose between the two, reports suggest that Paul Ricard may be the favourite as its EUR30m proposal budget is thought to be one-third supported by local government funding. Formula One Management is estimated to want EUR20m in exchange for the rights to the race.
According to respected F1 journalist Joe Saward, Ecclestone is thought to be considering swelling the F1 calendar to 22 events from next season, with Valencia dropping out to make way for races in New Jersey, France and Turkey, the latter having been omitted from the 2012 schedule having failed to attract big enough crowds to make it financially viable.
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- 3/4 cup oil and vinegar salad dressing
- 1/2 cup honey
- 3 tablespoons lime juice
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 8 boneless skinless chicken breast halves (6 ounces each)
- In a small bowl, combine the first five ingredients. Pour 1 cup marinade into a large resealable plastic bag; add the chicken. Seal bag and turn to coat; refrigerate for 2 hours. Cover and refrigerate remaining marinade.
- Drain and discard marinade. Lightly oil the grill rack. Grill chicken, covered, over medium heat or broil 4 in. from the heat for 4-5 minutes on each side, or until a thermometer reads 170°, basting occasionally with reserved marinade. Yield: 8 servings.
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Barry Bonds and the Three True Outcomes
This week's question was sent in by Andrea Trento:
We all saw Barry Bonds's ridiculous weekend, but lost in his home-run barrage has been the fact that he has seven singles so far this year. That's 22 home runs, 10 doubles, and seven singles. His isolated slugging is .593, thanks to an .898 slugging percentage and a "pedestrian" .305 batting average. As far as I know, the highest in history was Ruth in 1920: .847 slugging and .376 BA, giving him a .471 isolated slugging.
Thanks for writing, Andrea.
Andrea actually raised a couple of questions, first about isolated slugging and how Bonds's amazing start measures up, and second about the leaders in the tongue-in-cheek "Three True Outcomes" category.
Let's start with the isolated slugging question. Bonds is off to a truly otherworldly start, posting an isolated slugging more than 100 points beyond the all-time record for a single season. In fact, only two players have ever posted more than a .400 ISO: Babe Ruth and Mark McGwire combined to do it seven times. Bonds is topping Ruth's all time ISO mark by more than 25% so far this season. Here's a list of the top seasons by isolated slugging (300 at-bat minimum):
Year Player Team AB H TB AVG SLG ISO
Another way to look at the uniqueness of Bonds's season thus far is to look at his ISO/AVG ratio, which is equivalent to looking at how many extra bases he's averaging per hit. Bonds's 1.944 is 28% higher than the all-time best performance in this category. Bonds's past two seasons are also among the top seasons by this measure, including the best ever by someone not named McGwire.
Maybe it's not so surprising that Bonds, of all players in the game today, is setting such a phenomenal pace. Perhaps more interestingly, well over half the top seasons ever have occurred since 1990, giving another indication of how much the offensive game has changed in recent years. Here's the list (300+ AB minimum)
Year Name Team AB H TB AVG SLG ISO XB/H
The Three True Outcome questions was addressed by Rany Jazayerli during his brief abduction by the Russ Branyan Fan Club last year, so let me summarize by saying that Bonds's .537 TTO% would be the third highest ever by a batting qualifier.
To take a slightly different look on things, Bonds currently has a pretty small differential between his HR total (23) and his strikeout total (31). If Bonds were to continue popping homers like he has been doing lately, and were to finish with more home runs than strikeouts, then he'd almost certainly set a new TTO% record for a batter with more HR than SO. Only four batters have ever managed a .250 TTO% with more HR than SO (300+ PA minimum), and Bonds would be in pretty elite company if he were to join them:
Year Name Team PA HR BB SO TTO TTO%
Bonds would also have a shot at the highest TTO% of any player whose lowest TTO total wasn't home runs (either BB or SO). There have been several free swingers who homered more often than they walked, and still managed a .350 TTO% or higher. They're not quite as impressive as the group above, but there are at least a couple of MVP winners in the crowd.
Year Name Team PA HR BB SO TTO TTO_R
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Wow, very well done, I see you put a lot of time into this and I'm going to put one in my campaign. Not enough thoughtout, balanced races on this wiki.
is the permanant negitive level in addition to the one you normally get? its worded kinda murky --NameViolation 12:57, October 6, 2009 (UTC)
- Ah a discussion on Wounded Soul, a rather lousy (from game flow standards) drawback. First, I'll post the original here:
- Wounded Soul (Ex): Granlings brought back from the dead additionally suffer from a permanent negative level, which can be restored with an atonement, limited wish, wish, or miracle.
- Now, I'll explain it and then explain why it's lousy. Well, the permanent negative level in the ability is different from say, using raise dead, which doesn't actually cause a permanent negative level. Spells like raise dead and resurrection cause actual level loss, not negative levels. This should help clear it up: SRD:Energy Drain, Negative Levels, and Level Loss. So, regardless of the spell or whatever that brought the granling back into the world of the living, he suffers from this permanent negative level.
- Now, why it's lousy. This ability wasn't made as an ability that was going to see a lot of play-time function. It's based off of flavor from the source material I adapted it from. As such, it's there for flavor purposes. However, dropping such a penalty on a character hurts, hurts a lot. Rare as it may be, it's upsetting for the game.
- Fixes:
- Make it a temporary negative level that goes away after 24 hours.
- Make it some other kind of penalty that doesn't slow down the game any more than the death of a character already does.
- Explain the source flavor and hope someone else has some input.
- Source flavor:
- Granlings and aroghin come from some crappy fantasy genre fiction I wrote a while back as a test to myself just to see if I could manage it. The world was very un-DnD. Rather limited magical interference, several worlds, mostly unexplored, vast natural wilds, no ability to return the dead to life, no undead, distant yet influential deities. Granlings and aroghin were cursed. They never had ghosts. When they died, their souls just like, slept or something, were trapped, didn't pass on to any afterlife.
- Any input is welcome, of course. I would very much like to swap this ability out for something more inline with playability as well as being interesting. --Ganteka Future 05:36, January 25, 2010 (UTC)


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Who Is Poly Styrene? is a quality BBC production from 1979 that captures the charming personality of the late Marianne Elliot-Said, better known by the stage name she gave herself as the singer/songwriter for the top-notch British punk group X-Ray Spex. The candid, 40-minute documentary depicts Poly as a level-headed and thoughtful young artist (with braces) pining for normalcy as she and the band blow up, trying her best to deal with new-found celebrity ("It isn't normal for people to be surrounded by people telling them they're great").