Today we are going to explore intuition, what it is, why we would use it and how to follow it. To find out more about the book Radical Remission, go to the post "Being Radical – Introduction" here.
Every day we are subjected to external voices telling us what to do, where to go, what to wear, what to buy, and even who to be. These voices may come from family and friends or even the hundreds of advertisements we see as we go about our daily business. These voices can be loud or quiet, subtly influencing everything we do. Often, we are persuaded to do things. But they don't feel quite right. How often do we listen to that feeling? And where does that feeling come from?
Usually, it comes from within. We've all experienced it. But some are better at listening to it than others and following the direction it suggests.
This feeling is our intuition. We all have it. Instincts and intuition had been a huge part of human evolution. But as the external messages become more frequent and louder, the voice that is our intuition gets drowned out.
As Dr Turner notes in Radical Remission, intuition plays an enormous role in the healing of the radical remission survivors. Throughout my blog posts, I have written that given the right conditions, the body can heal itself. And what's more, the body can tell us what it needs to heal. And it does this through our intuition.
The best place to start, when dealing with an abstract concept like intuition, is the dictionary. One of the definitions of intuition is "the ability to understand or know something immediately, without conscious reasoning" (Compact Oxford English Dictionary). Another, which I prefer, is "direct perception of truths, facts, etc, independently of any reasoning process" (The Macquarie Dictionary).
It is the absence of reasoning process that is really the key. Using our intuition is a limbic function. It comes from the part of our brain that is subconscious, instinctual and feeling.
Many of us understand intuition as coming from our gut. This shouldn't come as a surprise as we have over 100 million neurons in our stomachs. It has been suggested that our gut holds a 'second brain' that can act independently of our brain. So it can be that sudden twinge in the belly that we get when we are about to do something that doesn't serve us. A mentor of mine used to say it's the 'na-a' voice, that also seems to come from the gut.
But intuition can be so much more than just an admonition that we are about to do something that might land us in trouble. We can use it much more constructively than that. We can use it to plan, find answers to difficulties, to connect with ourselves and to understand our values. It can be our inner adviser, inner guide, inner pilot, higher self, spirit, God, sixth sense or the ~ing that Gabrielle Bernstein talks about.
Everybody is different. And just as there are many different meditation techniques, there are many techniques that we can use to tap into this incredible resource. To make the "journey without distance" from the head to the heart.
Techniques include recording dreams, meditation or contemplation, and journaling. There are also inquiry exercises like the one I wrote about in the post Being Friends with Fatigue.
There is something that all these techniques have in common. Taking time for stillness. Silence. A Course in Miracles says "In quietness are all things answered, and is every problem quietly resolved." To hear that inner voice of wisdom, we need to take time to quiet our mind.
And what do we do once we are quiet?
Ask a question. Ask lots of questions. And write down the answers as they come. Or just mull one question over and over in your mind. And then drop it. Just sit in the silence and see what comes.
the loving guidance has always been inside you, so you don't have to fight to find it.
Patience is key. The voice may not arrive on demand. It may pop up through a friend while you are having a cup of coffee. It might be a telephone call. It might be a photo on Facebook. It might be something you read. It might be expressed in a coincidence or synchronicity. Or it might just be a flash of inspiration.
But when it arrives, you will know it. You will be inspired. Doubt will dissolve. It will feel right!
Because usually it knows what is best for us. I can't put it any more simply than that. I've used my intuition on and off for years now but it never spoke to me so loudly as it did as when I did my first Vipassana meditation retreat in 2005. That was the first time in a very long time that I came to understand my core values and how I could live a life that was congruent with them.
Unfortunately, I did not pay attention in the way that I would today, and my health paid the price. However, I have found listening to my intuition incredibly valuable on this healing journey. Whenever I have had to make a decision about treatment, I have taken the time to find out if "the plan" sits comfortably with my body, and me.
The day I told my oncologist I intended to withdraw from maintenance treatment, he gave me a whole lot of numbers and statistics in the hope of changing my mind. I told him that I would consider what he had said, and I did. I came home, sat on my meditation cushion, and allowed it all to resonate within me. When I had finished, I came out and said to Beloved "I'm clear." And I was. I knew exactly what I needed to do. Because it came from the depths of my soul, I have never regretted it. I believe in it.
If we take the time to sit in silence, we can inquire of our inner self the reason for any illness or distress we might be experiencing. We can listen to our symptoms and allow them to present in the form of an image. These symptoms are like warning lights. If we don't suppress them, there is always a chance that they can tell us more about our overall state of health.
For example, in my exercise with fatigue, it came to me as a heavy rubber mat. Once it took form, I asked it questions such as Why are you here? How can you help me? How can I help you? Can we work together? And we could. And we did.
Sometimes nothing might come. Or the symptom might resist. But other times there might be a flood of information that you just haven't had access to before.
In A Return to Love, Marianne Williamson talks about work she did with those affected by AIDS. She had them write letters to their disease, expressing their anger, disappointment and sense of despair. Then she had them step into the shoes of the disease and write back. In this way, a dialogue was opened and many found a way of living with their illness with a peace of mind previously unknown.
Sit quietly and take some time to relax … feet flat on the floor if you are sitting on a chair … take 3 deep breaths … then just settle with an awareness of breath … imagine you are driving a bus … on that bus are all the people who you feel tell you what to do … picture them one by one and observe how each person makes you feel… as you drive the bus, listen to the chatter going on behind you … see whose voices are loudest … drive the bus to a place that seems to be a long way away from where you started … when you reach your destination, stop the bus and open the door … imagine all the passengers getting off the bus, one by one … when the bus is empty, close the door and drive off … you might like to wave to the passengers as you leave … observe how you feel driving the empty bus for a few moments … do you feel empowered? Does it make you sad? Just observe the feelings… then drop the image and sit for a while, just allowing the thoughts to come and go.
When you have finished sitting, record who you saw on the bus, and how you felt once those people got off. Also reflect on the feelings that arose once the bus was empty.
I did this once about my work. I told my higher power that I would make a decision in 6 months time but in the meantime I would show up each day in my current job with the intention to serve as best I could. Almost 6 months to the day, I received a call from a colleague inviting me to apply for the type of job I had been seeking.
YOUR intuition is your best friend on a healing journey. Take the time to get to know it. If this is something that Radical Remission survivors have done, then they are all the evidence we need to know that it is probably the best thing you can do for yourself.
Please feel free to share and let me know your experiences with intuition in the comments section, both here and on Facebook.
Affirm: I sit in silence and listen for the wise voice within.


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Home Physics Technique to see objects hidden around corners
Technique to see objects hidden around corners
A driverless car is making its way through a winding neighborhood street, about to make a sharp turn onto a road where a child's ball has just rolled. Although no person in the car can see that ball, the car stops to avoid it. This is because the car is outfitted with extremely sensitive laser technology that reflects off nearby objects to see around corners.
This scenario is one of many that researchers at Stanford University are imagining for a system that can produce images of objects hidden from view. They are focused on applications for autonomous vehicles, some of which already have similar laser-based systems for detecting objects around the car, but other uses could include seeing through foliage from aerial vehicles or giving rescue teams the ability to find people blocked from view by walls and rubble.
"It sounds like magic but the idea of non-line-of-sight imaging is actually feasible," said Gordon Wetzstein, assistant professor of electrical engineering and senior author of the paper describing this work, published March 5 in Nature.
The Stanford group isn't alone in developing methods for bouncing lasers around corners to capture images of objects. Where this research advances the field is in the extremely efficient and effective algorithm the researchers developed to process the final image.
"A substantial challenge in non-line-of-sight imaging is figuring out an efficient way to recover the 3-D structure of the hidden object from the noisy measurements," said David Lindell, graduate student in the Stanford Computational Imaging Lab and co-author of the paper. "I think the big impact of this method is how computationally efficient it is."
For their system, the researchers set a laser next to a highly sensitive photon detector, which can record even a single particle of light. They shoot pulses of laser light at a wall and, invisible to the human eye, those pulses bounce off objects around the corner and bounce back to the wall and to the detector. Currently, this scan can take from two minutes to an hour, depending on conditions such as lighting and the reflectivity of the hidden object.
Once the scan is finished, the algorithm untangles the paths of the captured photons and, like the mythical image enhancement technology of television crime shows, the blurry blob takes much sharper form. It does all this in less than a second and is so efficient it can run on a regular laptop. Based on how well the algorithm currently works, the researchers think they could speed it up so that it is nearly instantaneous once the scan is complete.
Into the 'wild'
The team is continuing to work on this system, so it can better handle the variability of the real world and complete the scan more quickly. For example, the distance to the object and amount of ambient light can make it difficult for their technology to see the light particles it needs to resolve out-of-sight objects. This technique also depends on analyzing scattered light particles that are intentionally ignored by guidance systems currently in cars — known as LIDAR systems.
"We believe the computation algorithm is already ready for LIDAR systems," said Matthew O'Toole, a postdoctoral scholar in the Stanford Computational Imaging Lab and co-lead author of the paper. "The key question is if the current hardware of LIDAR systems supports this type of imaging."
Before this system is road ready, it will also have to work better in daylight and with objects in motion, like a bouncing ball or running child. The researchers did test their technique successfully outside but they worked only with indirect light. Their technology did perform particularly well picking out retroreflective objects, such as safety apparel or traffic signs. The researchers say that if the technology were placed on a car today, that car could easily detect things like road signs, safety vests or road markers, although it might struggle with a person wearing non-reflective clothing.
"This is a big step forward for our field that will hopefully benefit all of us," said Wetzstein. "In the future, we want to make it even more practical in the 'wild.'"
Matthew O'Toole, David B. Lindell, Gordon Wetzstein. Confocal non-line-of-sight imaging based on the light-cone transform. Nature, 2018; DOI: 10.1038/nature25489
Illustration of the non-line-of-sight imaging system.
Credit: Stanford Computational Imaging Lab
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Planning a project for your business is one of the most stressful things a leader can do. There are so many different elements to keep track of that it seems to never end. The Gantt Chart Project Planner can help you through your project, step-by-step. This spreadsheet is designed to help you first split up the project into separate activities, then plan out how they should be achieved in an easy to read manner. Even better, you can track the progress of your project through the beautifully designed color-coordinated system used throughout the document. Follow the list of instructions below to learn how to use the Project Planner today.
Taking a look at the Project Planner, after downloading the file to your computer, you can see the general setup of the document.
Your individual activities for the project will be listed to the far left and you will continue entering the information for each item listed above.
For example, let's say your project is to increase the sales of a particular product next month. Your first task could be meeting with your team to discuss this goal. You would then click "Activity 1" and write "Plan Introduction Meeting" to change it.
From this point, you would enter the period in which the activity will be implemented/ completed. Since the example is an introduction meeting, it will be listed in the 1st period. Next, you will enter the duration of that activity. The next two columns are where you will list how long your activity actually took to complete.
All your "actual" information will be listed in blue, if it goes beyond what you initially intended.
Finally, you can keep track of the progress percentage, based on the number of days and how well your plan is coming along. You will enter this percentage in the "Percent Complete" column.
If you need to highlight a certain period of your project, just use the navigational arrows in the top-left corner of the page.
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Special Tribunal and Continuous Hullabaloo
Sept. 18, 2010, Afghan parliamentary election was riddled with vagueness and allegations about its legitimacy. And both the Afghan Independent Election Commission (IEC) and Electoral Complaint Commission (ECC) were severely criticized about the claimed inability to deal with electoral fraud and realize justice. But commissions strongly stood and responded that election held was the only possible transparent and democratic under prevalent circumstances. But the controversies have never come to an end, and candidates failed to recline on their self-expected parliamentary seats never came short of pouring fuels to sparked legal and political controversy.
President Hamid Karzai, who was completely inconvenient with the election result, established the 'special tribunal court of law'. This tribunal fuelled further controversies within and outside of government circles. Parliamentarians, since its very establishment, said that the special tribunal court of law was against the constitution and its rulings had not legal justification. Meanwhile, there were others who claimed that special tribunal is based on the constitution. According to this layer's view, both election commissions derive their legitimacy from the President's mandate. Thus the tribunal can be recognized as a legal institution and derives its legitimacy from the same source as that of IEC and ECC.
These two contradictory views are not finalized till present after passing months, and obstacles brought about by this controversy have remained unsolved. While Parliamentarians several times have instantly asked president to dissolve the tribunal court but he turned deaf ears. And while MPs held their posts and continue to discharge the assigned tasks and, meantime, the special court has been busy probing cases linked to electoral fraud. Thus, the most complicated question remained unanswered is what would happen if the investigation found out documents which discredit votes gained by this and that MP. Will he or she be unseated? If so, will MPs accept the ruling and easily stay out?
The recent hearsay about find-out of special court and its likely announcement has tremendously sparked anxiety and anger among MPs. Many MPs have claimed that they had accurate information that more than 80 MPs were going to be unseated on the basis of special tribunal court investigation. The number is confusing large, assuming the allegation true. Almost one third of Parliament Members are going to be unseated. However, far probable, doing so will be unique in its kind. It is understandable that waging such a psycho war in the political realm can assure the political interests of influential individuals but, regretfully, turns out consequential for people of Afghanistan. The presidential election was held in 2009, isn't a shame having left ministry posts' vacant till present, 2011? Rather than doing something real in order to complete the members of his cabinet, he makes some grubby scramble to dishearten his oppositions in Parliament.


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You meet some awesome people. You are inspired. Now what? Keep the energy and momentum and turn ideas and stories into action. Our mission is to put people on the journey toward discovery, learning and action. We use a four part process beginning with you, finding a path, facing obstacles and milestones along the way.
Start with what makes you tick! Why are you on this journey?
We are born with a natural curiosity. Ideas are not linear.
Break it. See what happens. Try again and again. Keep going.
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Keep track of your ideas and goals. Don't lose track of things you care about or things that motivate you. The first step is capturing the idea. Then things start to happen.


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Anthony Holdsworth February 16, 2014
The Mission District Series at Alley Cat Books: April 4 - 28, 2014
Alley Cat Books
Alley Cat Books has a large, well lit, art gallery at the back of the store. I will be showing my Mission District Series here from April 4th - 28th, 2014. To accommodate all the paintings in this Series, the exhibition comprises two shows. There will be two receptions:
1st Reception: Fri, April 4, 6-8 pm. At 7 pm singer, songwriter organizer Francisco Herrera will sing.
2nd Reception: Fri, April 18, 6-8 pm. At 7 pm Alejandro Murguia, poet laureate of San Francisco, will read excerpts from a work in progress titled 'Mission Noir'
This show is dedicated to the memory of my friend and neighbor, the late, great, underground cartoonist, Spain Rodriguez. / Ten percent of proceeds from sales will be donated to Accion Latina.
MISSION DISTRICT PART 4
It was during the memorial for my friend and neighbor, Spain Rodriguez, at the Brava Theater that I decided to start this Mission District Series. So he was on my mind as I set up to paint this picture of the Brava Theater.
As if on cue, a fight between women erupted inside "Pops" bar next to where I was painting. As the fight reached a crescendo, I saw three Amazons running down York Street towards the bar, long, dark hair streaming behind them. They charged inside. Things got even louder. Then there was an uneasy silence, followed by, "You won't try that again, bitch!"
They were out the door, running back up York when I heard one of them shout, "I hope they don't say nothing about Samoans!" The police arrived a few minutes later. No one seemed to know who these women were.
The whole event was pure Spain Rodriguez.
The homeless hang out on York. It's near their encampment under the freeway. Three of them found their way into this first painting.
The Brava Theater
There's a lot of history on this corner. The Brava used to be the York Theater, many locals still call it that. The St Francis Cafe (founded 1918) attracts a large crowd of young adults. It is where "the Morabito brothers who owned a lumberyard nearby often lunched ... and, as legend goes, hatched the idea there in the late 1940s to buy the franchise forthe Forty-Niners." (Courtesy of Mission Local)
Pops which offers bacon in its Bloody Marys is a popular hipster dive. Improbably, right next door is the excellent and attractive Mexicana Bakery
"Pops"
I did three paintings at this intersection as one short, rainless, winter day followed another. I could have done more. But I decided it was time to move back up 24th.
I returned to La Palma. In this second painting I decided to focus more on the small truck painted with the eagle bearing a Mexican Flag. It parks on this corner every weekend. The owner sets up a long table crowded with used tools and other items. He approved of my painting. "You have painted my truck with a big smile!" he observed.
Sunday at La Palma
In the mornings before working on La Palma, I passed by Rene Yañas' house. Rene, who is a important cultural figure in the Mission (see Mission District Series #3, below), has lived in this house on rent control for 35 years. He is facing eviction under the Ellis Act. The house is set back behind a screen of vegetation. " I used to enjoy caring for this garden." Rene told me, "But since the eviction order I've really lost interest."
He posed for me so I could put him in the painting.
Rene Yañas Leaving his Home
I noticed Mike Ruiz's installation of a skeleton and crosses commemorating the demise of Latino institutions in the Mission, some time ago. I decided to capture this scene before it was removed, especially since Accion Latina is a major force in the Mission. Home to the bilingual newspaper El Tecolote, it also promotes youth and cultural programs including the Encuentro del Canto Popular which takes place early December every year at the Brava Theater.
Accion Latina
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Anthony Holdsworth November 18, 2013
Upcoming Exhibition at Alley Cat Books: April 2014
Alley Cat Books has a large, well lit, art gallery at the back of the store. I will be showing my Mission District Series here from April 4th to April 28th, 2014. Reception April 4th 6-8 pm.
As the days grow shorter and the shadows longer I have been working my way back down 24th Street from Balmy Alley:
Harrison and 24th Streets
La Victoria and St Peter's
Day of the Dead 2014
The November 2nd Day of the Dead Procession and Celebration of the Altars in the Mission was the largest I have ever witnessed. Led by the Aztec Dancers it wound south on Bryant. At Galeria de la Raza where a mural illustrates a funeral parade for 'La Mision' in a casket, it turned up 24th Street proceeding all the way to Mission Street where it moved north. The sheer number of celebrants, easily in excess of 15,000, rivaled Carnaval. City authorities seemed unprepared for these numbers. But the crowd was peaceful, many bearing candles with faces painted to resemble skulls. Elaborate banners declaring "No Evictions in the Mission" set the theme for the evening.
Anti-eviction mural on Galleria de la Raza (Detail)
Among the participants, we spotted Rene Yañez who started this procession in the seventies. Rene, a major cultural figure in the barrio, was a founder of the Mission Cultural Center and the Galeria de la Raza, He is now facing eviction. His eviction proceedings have galvanized the Mission, and were one of the reasons this year's event was so large. Activists I have spoken to in the Mission are insistent that there needs to be a moratorium on further Ellis Act evictions as well as all evictions in the 24th Street corridor. The Latino community has done much more than introduce Latin American traditions to San Francisco. It has adapted them, with the input of both Latino and non Latino artists, until they have entered the City's mainstream. For example, the Day of the Dead, which originates in Mexico as a fusion of indigenous and Catholic culture, morphed in San Francisco during the creative ferment of the seventies into something wonderful and strange. And yet, my friends in Michoacan would still recognize it.
Dia de los Muertos altar in the windows of Studio 24 - Galeria de la Raza
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Uber's food delivery business outshines core rides service
The Associated Press | November 06, 2020
Uber's food delivery business brought in more money during the third quarter than its signature rides business, showing just how much consumer behaviour has changed–and how far the company has adapted–since the pandemic struck.
The San Francisco-based ride-hailing company lost US$1.09 billion in the three months that ended Sept. 30 as many customers were still staying out of shared vehicles.
"Without question, the (pandemic's) impact on the world has been one of the most significant impacts of our lifetimes, and we moved quickly as a company to respond," said Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber, in a conference call with investors Thursday.
Uber brought in $3.13 billion in revenue, down 18% from the same time last year. Its mobility business, which includes ride-hailing, scooters and bikes, accounted for $1.37 billion of that, down 53% from the same time last year. Despite the decline, the rides business showed improvement from the second quarter, when it brought in just $790 million.
The partial recovery in rides was linked to the level of lockdown restrictions in any given city. "When cities start to move, so too does Uber," Khosrowshahi said.
Uber's Eats business generated $1.45 billion in revenue, up 125% from a year ago as restaurants relied on Uber for delivery and the trend of people ordering in instead of dining out during the pandemic continued.
Uber's food delivery business also brought in more revenue than its rides business in the second quarter, when demand for rides was even lower due to the pandemic. However, its rides business was more profitable than delivery.
Uber Eats continued to add restaurants to its app, and its partnerships with restaurants grew by more than 70% compared with last year. It also added a contactless payment feature to allow customers who are dining in restaurants to order or pay using their Uber Eats app.
Uber also expanded its grocery delivery service, which is now operating in 11 countries including Canada. Uber introduced the grocery delivery service to users in Toronto and Montreal last July with thousands of items available from retailers such as Walmart, Metro, Rexall, Costco, Longo's and Pet Valu.
(In Canadian Grocer's November issue, out later this month, managing editor Carol Neshevich chats with Uber Eats Canada GM Lola Kassim about the tech company's foray into grocery delivery.)
Uber has also girded itself against the pandemic's impact by cutting $1 billion in fixed costs, Khosrowshahi said.
Uber's quarterly performance was better than feared given the brutal COVID backdrop for ridesharing, said Dan Ives, managing director of equity research at Wedbush Securities.
"The path to profitability for 2021 is still in the cards for Uber …. This quarter was a step in the right direction," he said.
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Coastkeeper Announces Members of First Community Advisory Council – But Lacks OBcean
by Staff on October 11, 2012 · 6 comments
in Environment, History, Ocean Beach, San Diego
Coastkeeper Council Without OB Rep Despite Annual "CleanWater" Paddle and Strong History of Eco-Awareness
San Diego Coastkeeper is today – Oct. 11th – announcing the members of its first Community Advisory Council. Yet the list lacks any OBcean – despite the community being the site of the annual "Clean Water" Paddle, a strong Surfrider Foundation chapter, and years of ecological awareness. (Why OB even has its own Green Store.)
Now, perhaps this lack of any representative from OB is all fine and dandy, maybe there's been plenty of OB voices on the advisory council over the years … but wait just a sec! This is the very "first" council and it's supposed to be a "community" council as well.
Not only that, Coastkeeper announced that as the very first and "inaugural" council, "these members get to create the structure and goals of the council". OBceans may lose out there too. To their credit, Coastkeeper stated that they did receive "a wave" of applications after they announced the launching of the council in early August. They said that "out of the nearly 30 applicants, Coastkeeper selected ten individuals after a series of application reviews and interviews." Oh well.
At any rate, not to take our friends at Coastkeeper to task all that much, they announce that:
This new entity includes community members who bring individual perspectives on how water pollution impacts different neighborhoods throughout the region. Members of the group will help Coastkeeper find and fix water quality issues that the communities in San Diego County face.
"San Diego Coastkeeper's Community Advisory Council will work with us to help us identify and solve the critical issues affecting water quality in our county," said Micah Mitrosky, the Coastkeeper board member who coordinates the council. "By connecting with these volunteers through this collaborative committee, we're ensuring the organization has direct involvement with the community to solve everyday water pollution problems and empower the community as part of those solutions."
The members of the new and first Community Advisory Council include:
Brent Alspach, Oceanside
Margarita Diaz, Tijuana
Jenny Kressel , Mission Hills
Taya Lazootin, College Area
Harry Orgovan, Chula Vista
Allison Price, Mission Valley
Craig Sherman, Carmel Valley
Jessica Toth, Cardiff-by-the-Sea
Hector Valtierra, La Mesa and El Cajon
Alberto Vasquez, Encanto
The first Community Advisory Council will be publicly introduced to Coastkeeper's supporters and donors at the Seaside Soiree on November 15 at Del Mar Powerhouse Community Center. Tickets are $200 and can be purchased through Coastkeeper's website at www.sdcoastkeeper.org.
liveinob October 11, 2012 at 2:31 pm
I guees none of us obceans could afford to pay to be on the special council?
OB is the outlet of the river they can't have anyone that smells like that at any $200 dinner can they? maybe they could address the thousands of gallons of raw sewage that ends up in the flood control channel from the pump house between Ingram st. bridge and the PCH everytime we get a decent sized rain.
Derek October 11, 2012 at 7:06 pm
Communities such as La Mesa and El Cajon have a representative and yet they are not a coastal community but OB is not represented!? Sounds fishy! (pun intended)
JEC October 11, 2012 at 9:21 pm
OB is not represented – neither are PB, MB, La Jolla, Imperial Beach or Coronado. Seems Coastkeeper has missed the entire City of San Diego coast – the entire San Diego Bay save for the CV rep Harry who owns a kayak business which I think is good – at least we know something about Harry while we know nothing of the others. Curious – we are told where some were "born and raised" but no nothing of what Coastkeeper sees as qualifications – aka resumes.
Seth October 11, 2012 at 10:34 pm
A couple of minutes of googling demonstrates that it seems to be a pretty diverse and qualified group of civic-minded people, with experience in pretty much everything Coastkeeper needs to be thinking about. What's the problem?
JEC October 12, 2012 at 9:02 am
No problem – really – Coastkeeper is free to engage any process they choose and to keep that process under wraps. Did you know before Coastkeeper was Coastkeeper it was Baykeeper with a mission more focused on the bays. But no more – issues concerning San Diego Bay have been deferred by Coastkeeper to the Environmental Health Coalition – an organization that is not focused on specifics concerning the bay. The result, one, perhaps, is the ugly industrial salt ponds; the original lease required Western Salt to return the site to it's original condition but they were relieved of this obligation with the help of EHC and Coastkeeper who supported turning those ponds into a historically monument. Yes, the pond berms are protected structures – maintained to celebrate San Diego's industrial past. Makes for a beautiful nature reserve don't you think? Well it's the best we can do.
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Deluxe Edition of The Beatles Self-Titled 1968 Album Information Teased!
by HW Reynolds
Can you take me back?
Today on the official twitter page for The Beatles the account teased further details of the upcoming "White Album" Deluxe re-release, which was confirmed earlier this year by former Beatle Paul McCartney.
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— The Beatles (@thebeatles) September 21, 2018
Sources have confirmed that media listening parties are to take place in New York City on 26th September. The information being shared on the different editions for set are as follows:
There will be:
-A 4-LP set (2 discs of the new stereo remix + 2 discs of Esher demos)
-A 3-CD set (same material as above) (Allegedly two of the CDs are the new remix and the third CD is the Esher demos.)
-A Super Deluxe CD Box (3 CDs as above + 3 CDs of outtakes). Plus the box will include a Blu-ray disc that will be audio only. There will be no video.
There are also outtakes included and amongst these are "Hey Jude," "Revolution," "Inner Light," "Across the Universe," "Lady Madonna," and non-album tracks/jams/improvisations and some rehearsals too. An expected release date for all these editions is 9th November.
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Lots of action is packed into this Signature Series Football Shield Awards. The football players in the award are raised providing a 3-dimensional look. A quarterback with his arm back and ready to throw the ball is at the center of the award while two other players are shown running for a touchdown and leaping high in the air to catch the winning pass. This shield award measures 8" X 8 1/2". A large area at the bottom of the award can accommodate your personalization needs while the gold and pewter finish complement the look of the award. This item can either be hung on a wall or placed on a desk using the included stand.


Hotel Grand Shoba is a tasteful modern hotel with bright and cosy rooms, in Mahipalpur Extension, in Delhi. IGI main road is just a 2-minute walk from the property. The hotel is also close to Mahipalpur Bus Stop and Delhi Aero City Metro Station. The hotel has a stylish reception and lobby with trendy false ceiling and plush furniture. The rooms are spacious, and while some are done up in warm tones, others are light and bright. Paintings and chic beds add to the appeal. The bathrooms have contemporary tiles and fixtures. All the rooms of Hotel Grand Shoba hotel feature an air conditioner and television. The bathrooms feature geysers. The hotel offers power backup, free Wi-Fi, CCTV security, and laundry service. Saraswati Restaurant and Akira Back are food joints that are closest to the property. You will also find Bella Italia - Holiday Inn, Pluck - Pullman New Delhi Aerocity, JW Lounge - JW Marriott New Delhi.


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We all LOVED our first trip to Carsland a few weeks ago. My oldest is very into cars right now and loved the nostalgic Rout 66 feel. The soft colors in the photos went well with all the fun colors this month just loved mixing and matching them!


Jump Around – With Love Island's Sam Gowland!
Well, well, Jump Around is the place to be every Thursday, with all drinks just £1.50 all night!
This week we've got Love Island, and now Geordie Shore's newest recruit, Sam Gowland here for a meet and greet, he's 100% our type on paper!


In an era in which email and, especially, instant messaging applications are capitalizing written communications, it seems that there still are people that don't resign themselves to losing all the essence of hand-written letters. This is proven by lettrs, the app that combines classic post mail with new technologies and their social uses.
lettrs doesn't intend to revolutionize communications on the Internet, but does want to invite users to make the most of a warmer and more personal messaging system. For such purpose it provides them with a wide range of tools that will allow users to write texts with different font styles, use themes to customize them and even include their own personal signatures.
Add themes, attached files, tags or geolocation.
Deliver the letters through the application or by email or other services such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.
Possibility to dictate the content of the letters.
Leave your personal signatures on your letters.
Access your letters that have been shared publicly.
Real-time translation to over eighty languages to communicate with people from all over the world.
The other main asset of lettrs can be found in its social function. With this app you can communicate with other users, making the content of your letters public and being able to check at any moment all the content you shared.
Make new friends with lettrs and make your letters more appealing, giving them your personal touch.


The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) offered a webinar Thursday on what Indian Country's votes did in last week's election, and those results were fascinating. One of the speakers on the webinar was Oklahoma attorney Arvo Mikkanen (Kiowa/Comanche). Mikkanen is president of the Oklahoma Indian Bar Association, who ran a voter call in help line on election day. Mikkanen talks about the Oklahoma Indian Bar Association (OIBA) and how Native Americans are getting out the vote. For more information on the OIBA, go to their Facebook page. To find information on the NCAI go to www.ncai.org.
This week the Supreme Court declined to hear Kimberly Craven's appeal of the $4.3 billion dollar settlement won by the late Elouise Cobell for Native American Land Trust beneficiaries. The other three people with appeals agree to drop them if their attorney's fees and expenses were paid, the plaintiff's attorneys agreed to do so. The Cobell Settlement is closer to being dispersed. To find more information on this go to www.indiantrust.com.


An actress who has been seriously dedicated to her craft, Renee Zellweger has become known for many of her film roles throughout her career. Whether playing a lovable Brit looking for love or a murderous wife pleading innocence, this actress owns her character in the moment and completely charms her audience every time.
A native of Texas, Zellweger has kept that southern charm through the years, not needing fame to keep her happy. She has endured harsh rumors and managed to stand up for herself, while at the same time maintaining the privacy that she has made a priority in her life. While she has maintained a sense of herself, here's how this star has developed and transformed throughout the years.
Zellweger was born in Katy, Texas in 1969. As she described during an interview with Vogue, she grew up as a "conservative child," and didn't truly find her passion for acting until she was older, attending college in Austin.
And she wasn't a snob to one genre — she liked all sorts of music. Zellweger explained, "I had older cousins in Norway who would bring records for me and my brother Drew to listen to when they visited…. The Beatles, Abba, the Stones…. Quite a mix!" This interest would later come in handy for Zellweger when she found herself in more musical roles on the big screen.
While Zellweger's acting career began in the 1990s with Dazed and Confused a few other small roles, one of her biggest roles to date came in 1996 in the film Jerry Maguire.
From the very beginning, Zellweger saw past the glitz and glam of fame. She reflected on the night of the Jerry Maguire premiere, sharing her memories on Chelsea Handler's Netflix show, Chelsea (via Us Magazine). She wanted her parents to be at her big premiere night, but it wasn't the magical event she originally imagined.
She explained how hard that was, continuing: "They're left there, and you're moving around, shaking hands and taking pictures, signing things and saying hello. You have responsibilities that don't include them. It's like a distancing that they feel like they're losing you in some way." She called the shift to fame a "difficult transition," and said that event made her "hyper-aware" in the future.
As reported in a profile piece by Marie Claire, Zellweger has been in some well-known romantic relationships. She dated Jim Carrey after working with him on the film Me, Myself & Irene in 2000 when the actress was 31 years old.
Then in 2005, she met country singer Kenny Chesney at the Concert of Hope tsunami benefit. Romance swept up the couple, who married just five months later. Just four months after that, the 36-year-old had her marriage annulled, claiming fraud. As the magazine shared, this is a relationship Zellweger will not speak of, keeping that part of her life private.
And although Zellweger has always liked to keep her life private, she has definitely been open when it comes to discussing age and growing older.
In 2010, at age 41, Zellweger did something almost unheard of by an A-list actor in Hollywood — she took a break from the industry.
So what did she spend that time off accomplishing? She wanted to to do it all.
She also caught the travel bug during her break. She told with Vogue that she made her way through Asia with a friend — specifically mentioning her travels through Vietnam and Cambodia as special times away from the spotlight.
In 2016, the 47-year-old made her way back to Hollywood and back in the familiar shoes of her character, Bridget Jones. While the star's time away was what she wanted it to be, she came back still feeling the same way about her privacy. She didn't want to share all of the moments of her life with the world.
She received very little privacy when it came to her changing looks over the years. Rumors of plastic surgery spread. And for a celebrity who wanted to keep her private life as private as possible, she was put in a tough position.
The Huffington Post piece is one clear example that shows this actress has a way with words. Writing is, in fact, one of the things Zellweger focused on most during her Hollywood hiatus — she took screenwriting classes at UCLA, and even co-wrote a pilot that got picked up by Lifetime.


The Gantrisch Circular Route is the ideal opportunity to enjoy a wide variety of landscapes with minimal effort. Electric bike users can try out a selection of the many different delicacies for which the Nature Park Gantrisch is renowned – such as the world-famous Belper Knolle cheese or bread made from golden cornflour ground at the Dittlig mill – by following some of the many enjoyable detours. The route also offers panoramic views of the Gantrisch chain and the four-thousanders of the Bernese Alps.


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Saving Faces – The Facial Surgery Research Foundation is the only charity in the UK solely dedicated to reducing the incidence of facial injuries, disorders and diseases including oral cancer worldwide. Our mission is to improve treatment for these conditions and the psychological outcomes by leading research into these conditions.
With over 20 years of experience leading research of the highest quality, we pursue our mission by delivering ground-breaking research projects, clinical audits and outreach programmes with real-life improvements for patients in the UK and across the globe:
NFORC – The National Facial, Oral and Oculoplastic Research Centre
Saving Faces has partnered with a number of national surgical organisations including the British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (BAOMS), in running and funding the world's only National Facial, Oral and Oculoplastic Research Centre (NFORC). Through NFORC we carry out clinical trials to show which treatment is best for any disease or injury affecting the mouth or face. We do this by collecting accurate data on the results of every treatment and operation carried out by the surgeons with several years of follow-up with the patients. For example, we have run a clinical trial with Cancer Research UK for early mouth cancer in parallel with developing screening and diagnostic tests. The results of these trials have helped improve treatment for patients.
The Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSEng) has selected NFORC as its head and neck cancer trials centre. This collaborative approach enables our researchers to answer vital questions more rapidly than even the most famous of single institutions.
SEND – Selective Elective Neck Dissection
Our game-changing SEND study was the first nationwide randomised surgical trial on early mouth cancer. It compared 2 different treatments for mouth cancer and showed emphatically which treatment cured more patients. These findings will save 30,000 more people with mouth cancer worldwide every year. Our study was singled out for exceptional praise by the President of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) in Geneva. The worldwide impact of our research puts it in the top 5% of all medical research papers. We succeeded because we collaborated with 68 surgeons at 27 hospitals to revolutionise the treatment of this most socially disabling cancer.
HANA – The National Head and Neck Audit
Saving Faces also now manages its biggest project to date, the National Head and Neck Audit for England and Wales (HANA). The audit focuses on patients who have cancer of the head and neck, of which there are 9,000 cases each year. The findings from HANA will contribute to changes in clinical practice and ensure that patients receive the best care possible and experience an improved quality of life.
GRAD – Genomics Radiotherapy and Dysphagia Study
This study is comparing the genomic profiles of patients with and without severe swallowing difficulties following radiotherapy for head and neck cancer, and is identifying genetic factors associated with a higher risk of developing severe complications. We aim to establish the prevalence of patients suffering from complications after having radiotherapy, and to determine if genetic tests can be performed on DNA obtained from a simple saliva test on this group of patients.
The National Wisdom Tooth Study
The National Wisdom Tooth Study is collecting data on the surgical treatment given and its outcome for every UK patient undergoing lower third molar (wisdom tooth) treatment, over a 3-month period in 2022. This is the first national study examining the incidence of problems from third molars, the treatment decisions made and the long-term outcomes of those decisions.
QOMS – Quality outcomes in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Saving Faces and NFORC are working with BAOMS and have developed and are running a national, specialty-wide quality improvement, clinical audit and effectiveness programme, called the Quality and Outcomes in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (QOMS) project. QOMS comprises of several clinical registries, the aims of which are to measure and improve quality of care for patients undergoing oral and maxillofacial surgery in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. The QOMS project is managed by the QOMS Project Team with representatives from Saving Faces and BAOMS.
We have funded many PhD students and clinical fellowships to research better investigation and treatment for cancer, facial injury, jaw joint disorder and facial disfigurement. This includes psychological PhDs studying better management for patients with all these conditions and basic science PhDs studying molecular biology of cancer and stem cells behaviour.
SFDADS – The Saving Faces Diagnostic Advice Service
Early detection of mouth cancers improves the chance of survival from 50% to 90%. Our rapid telemedicine diagnostic service (SFDADS) has been a life saver giving specialist diagnostic advice to GPs and Dentists within 3 days of receiving photos and a few facts about their patients. We have sped cancer patients to the right surgeon whilst those with benign problems have been rapidly reassured without going to hospital.
Expert Patient Helpline
During COVID, a surge of patients around the world contacted our Expert Patient helpline. If they had facial injuries, infections or cancer we immediately put them in touch with their nearest, best surgeon, even when they were abroad. Saving Faces also links new patients with former patients who can provide advice and support.
The research we conduct is partly funded by institutional donors but relies heavily on the support of individuals who want to see progress in this much-neglected area of medical research. Many of these donors have themselves experienced the devastating effect of oral cancer or facial injury. With their help and the support of the public we will make a difference to the lives of thousands of people.
At Saving Faces we keep our administrative costs to a minimum so donors can feel secure in the knowledge that their money goes towards important medical research and the support of patients.
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The Tip – New Single: "STRUTTIN'" Out On 28th June 2019
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Single: "STRUTTIN'"
Release date: 28THJune 2019
European dates Including Camden Rocks Festival 2019
Following the hugely successful release Planet Rock playlist The Tip's debut single in the UK, "Can You Smell The Money", released in April 2019, the band return with a new single and a full European tour dates.
The USA four-piece play Camden Rocks Festival in 2019 (a hotbed of new talent) in addition to a host of headline dates. The bands new single "Struttin'" has all the hallmarks of The Tip sound – dirty, driving riffs overlaid with bar-soaked vocals.
The Tip European Tour Dates May/June 2019
Thu 30thMay 2019 – Big Red, London, UK
Fri 31stMay 2019 – Waterloo, Blackpool, UK
Sat 1stJune 2019 – Camden Rocks Festival, London, UK
Tue 4thJune 2019 – Subside, Birmingham, UK
Thu 6thJune 2019 – The Albion, Liskeard, UK
Fri 7thJune 2019 – Golden Lion, Bristol, UK
Sat 8thJune 2019 – Opium, Edinburgh, UK
Sun 9thJune 2019 – Trillians, Newcastle
Tue 11thJune 2019 – Cowboys und Indianer, Hamburgh, Germany
Wed 12thJune 2019 – Lygtens Kro, Copenhagen, Denmark
Tue 13thJune 2019 –Cafê Vinyl , Halmstad, Sweden
Wed 14thJune – Carla's Bar, Öland, Sweden
Thu 15thJune 2019 – Garage Bar, Höganäs-Sweden
For all dates see www.thetipband.comfor further information.
With the hunger and desire to play full on, high-energy, Rock and Roll, the members of The Tip founded the band in Nashville, Tennessee in the summer of 2014. The band hit the road and released their full-length self-titled debut album in the USA in 2015. Persistent touring activity around the United States, countless home town shows and the 2016 album release of the album "Sailor's Grave" led to opening spots for The Darkness, Buckcherry, Sebastian Bach, Geoff Tate's Operation Mindcrime, The Last Vegas and back to back festival appearances at Rocklahoma.
In 2017 the band continued to work the road in the U.S. and released "Sailor's Grave" in selected European territories on German label SAOL, which caught the attention of local and other European rock media resulting in many positive reviews in publications such as Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Rock It! Magazine (Germany).
In 2018, the band appeared at the annual Kid Rock Cruise after being hand picked by Kid Rock himself during a Nashville encounter, toured the North and South East and opened for L.A. Guns in Nashville.
In 2019, The Tip is looking forward to release new music and bring its wild and dynamic Blues and Rock'n'Roll show for the first time to the European continent and hopefully also soon to Japan and South America. The band are delighted to be releasing it's second single and touring the UK and Europe in May and June 2019.
The band's music is a manifest to its no-nonsense, adrenaline fueled, hard-rocking attitude.
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I first went to a gig in 1981, Gillan at Leeds University. I've been a regular gig goer ever since. I haven't kept count of how many gigs I've been to over the intervening years, but it's a lot! My favourite bands are AC/DC then, in no particular order, Anti-Nowhere League, Slaughter and the Dogs, Towers of London and Dirt Box Disco. I tend to like Glam/Punk and rude offensive lyrics, not sure what that says about me but as Animal would say 'So What!' The question was recently put to me - did I write for any online publications? My reply - No, but I'd like to! Planetmosh was suggested and I found myself offering to review Aces High Festival. Easy peasy I thought! Well not quite, if a jobs worth doing it's worth doing well! I had sixteen bands to research. I found I actually enjoyed that and it kept me too busy to be making lunatic comments on Facebook! ;) Then I felt a bit inadequately qualified. I mean, who am I to comment on others, when my musical expertise extends to being able to play a mean Greensleeves on the recorder and a passable Annie's song on the flute! Haven't picked up either instrument for years! What I do have, however, is over 30 years of experience as a gig goer, so I can comment on what I like and what I don't! It's only my opinion and, if I don't like a band it doesn't mean they are bad, just not to my own liking. I admire anyone who has the guts to get up on that stage and have a go!
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Physicians now have the opportunity to coordinate their charity care through one resource – Jefferson County Project Access. Specialists participating in Project Access can focus on providing their expertise knowing that they are caring for genuine charity patients who have been carefully screened and that other health care concerns are being addressed by the patient's primary care physician. Additionally, Project Access staff provide care navigation services, reminding patients to keep appointments, undergo necessary tests and adhere to recommended treatment plans.
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Kindo
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Space Bears
Available on: iOS
There are already plenty of classic abstract games on the app store. Versions of Chess, Go and many others abound, each of which is, in theory, deep enough to last a lifetime.
Yet developer Space Bears thinks we need another. It thinks we need Kindo.
It could be right. All the typical abstract games arose out of people playing face to face hundreds of years ago. Kindo, by contrast, feels tailor made for the mobile age.
It's short and snappy - pass and play games last just a few minutes. Yet it's also got a decent amount of depth and challenge.
The game is played on a grid of squares. Each player's "king" tile sits on opposite corners. On your turn you can take control of two tiles on the grid adjacent to squares you already own.
But all your tiles need to connect back to the king somehow. If they're cut off by an enemy move, your opponent claims all the stranded tiles for themselves.
There's a few other rules on top of this simple framework. Instead of placing a tile you can fortify an existing one from one direction to stop your opponent from taking it.
If you cut off any opposing tiles you get an extra move next turn. If you play over a freshly-laid tile, your opponent gets an extra move. That's it.
Although straightforward, it's not that intuitive. Still, it won't be long before you're confidently thinking several moves ahead. It helps that the interface makes up for a lot of that lost intuition by being smooth, stylish and easy to use.
Quadratic
Games of Kindo play like a quickfire joust in a cramped pen. Each player darts forward at first, then tries to consolidate their position, while seeking for weak points to exploit.
When a player finds one, games quickly collapse toward victory. Sometimes one move claims all the opposing tiles. Other times managing to get the maximum of four moves in a turn makes it easy to rush in and grab the king square.
It almost feels like tic-tac-toe, if that game were to be re-invented with enough depth to make you pause and think and worry about your chosen move after it's done.
With its limited play field, Kindo can be ruthless like that. One mistake that leaves a route open to your king and bang! It's game over.
The first two levels of AI should prove easy for most people, and are best for exploring initial strategies. The hard level is more challenging and it'll take a bit of practice before you can beat it regularly.
After that there's pass and play or a super-accessible asynchronous option. But by this time, minor flaws in Kindo may well have become apparent.
The problem is that in stripping the abstract framework down for easy mobile play, eveything's a bit too simple. It's not so much a lack of depth, although Kindo is perhaps a little less challenging than it first appears, but lack of variety.
Other abstracts tend to either have more rules, or a greater variety of board positions. By reducing both to a minimum, there's less to explore.
After playing for a while, games start to look the same and interest begins to wane, even with the diversity offered by limitless human opponents online.
However, there's currently nothing else like this around. Having such a quickfire, brutal strategy game at your fingertips is addictive and demanding.
It's so easy to start game after game as the hours slip away. It's just that after, you may find each of those hours looked and felt very much like the last.
A fine little abstract for the mobile age, which trades a bit of depth and variety in exchange of accessibility
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Supers: Cracking the Nut
Often in the past I've lamented the lack of a supers FATE hack that appeals to me. While I've seen some totally workable supers rules for FATE in the past -- in that I can say "Yes, I see how this would work well for other people who aren't me" -- they've all been either too hand-wavey (all superpowers basically work like the Theory in Practice stunt) or too crunchy (lengthy, pigeon-holing stunt chains) for my tastes. No offense intended to anyone involved in their creation, of course. We just have different tastes.
But! I've been giving it more thought lately for some reason (I've actually made periodic stabs at this one for a couple years, at least) and I think I'm on to something. It's a pretty radical departure from the way I normally handle these conversions, but the superhero genre presents some unique challenges -- consider, for example, that Capes and Champions are both basically trying to do the same thing, albeit in radically different ways.
The first big departure: Skills are bought with points, not merely slotted into a pyramid. Starblazer Adventures does this, and while I'm not usually keen on it (I really dig the simplicity and implicit philosophy of the pyramid), it's the way to go here. So let's say characters start with 35 skill points. That's enough to give you a pyramid that peaks at Superb. Maybe that's too much, but it's not important right now.
These skills are in three broad tiers, which for now we'll call Normal, Enhanced, and Superhuman. Each tier has its own ladder, so you could have Great Athletics (Normal) or Great Athletics (Enhanced) or Great Athletics (Superhuman). As might be expected, Normal covers the normal range of skills in SotC. It's the realm of what normal people (albeit heroic ones) can do. Enhanced is better than that -- Wolverine's speed and olfactory sense, or Wonder Woman's or Luke Cage's strength. Beyond what a human could normally do, but not Earth-shattering. Superhuman is Earth-shattering: Superman's or the Hulk's super-strength, the Flash's super-speed, Daredevil's super-senses. That kinda thing.
Skill ratings are only relevant if you're dealing with an opposing skill that's in the same tier as yours. Otherwise, Enhanced always beats Normal, and Superhuman always beats Enhanced. Go ahead and roll, but it's just for effect. If you have Fists (Enhanced) and your opponent has only has Normal skills for his defense, you defeat him. End of line. I know that seems harsh, but there's a way of mitigating it -- I'll get to it in a bit.
Skills cost a number of skill points equal to their quality (e.g., 3 skill points for a Good skill), plus 5 skill points per tier above Normal (+5 for Enhanced, +10 for Superhuman). So Superb Might (Normal) costs 5 skill points, but Superb Might (Superhuman) costs 15.
That can eat up skill points pretty quickly, but you can "sell back" Refresh to get more. Players can trade Refresh for skill points on a 1:5 basis. Refresh starts at 10. Something that often gets bandied about is lowering Refresh in exchange for superpowers; this is obviously similar, but without the arbitrary factor.
However, no skill list is going to cover everything that superheroes do -- nor would you want a huge skill list for a FATE game anyway. It's antithetical to the system. I'm solving this with super-skills, as so many have doubtless done before me.
There's a generic stunt called Super-Powered (or something) that lets you take an Enhanced or Superhuman skill, or a super-skill. These are player-defined, and can be as specific as Flight or Ice Bolt or as general as Utility Belt or Man of Steel. Super-skills are characterized by their trappings, so... we're going to need a list of skill trappings. When created, a super-skill begins with two trappings for free. Each trapping added on top of that costs skill points equal to the skill's quality.
So you can see the dilemma there: Do you get a cheaper, narrowly focused super-skill, or a more-expensive super-skill with broader application?
For example, that Man of Steel super-skill I mentioned earlier could start with the Physical Force (lifting/breaking) and Toughness (additional physical consequence slots) trappings. Great Man of Steel (Superhuman) with those two trappings would cost 14 skill points. (Of course, it's much funnier as "Average Man of Steel.") Adding the Unarmed Combat trapping would cost another 4 skill points, because its quality is Great, for a total of 18 skill points.
Let's do Utility Belt. There should be a lot of trappings here, if you're making the God-Damned Batman -- stuff like Ranged Combat (batarangs), Climbing (grappling line), Locks, Security, Lab Work, and more. Even with just those five, a Good Utility Belt (Normal) would cost 12 skill points. An Enhanced version of same would be 17 skill points -- nearly half your starting allotment. Better trade in some Refresh.
Don't think you have to buy everything in advance, though. Every character has a special aspect -- his Concept aspect. This is exactly what it sounds like: a brief description of the character's shtick, like Last Son of Krypton, Super-Soldier, World's Greatest Detective, or Fastest Man Alive. Pay a Fate Point to invoke it for effect and get an additional trapping for that super-skill, probably for the length of the scene.
Now then. In addition to the stunt, taking a super-skill also means taking another special aspect, either a Weakness or a Complication. I think we all know what those mean, so I'm not going to dwell on it too much, other than saying that a Weakness is something that's harmful to the character, or something against which his powers are especially weak (kryptonite, the color yellow, "strong magnetic fields" -- always a classic), while a Complication is basically an Aunt May, a Mary-Jane Watson, or a mild-mannered secret ID. You need one of these two for each super-skill you take. There's some more possible motivation to consolidate your superpowers into a small set of super-skills.
A brief word about Will. This is a character resource (as opposed to Fate Points, which are a player resource) that can be tapped when a character wants to put extra effort into something. Spend a point of Will to replace a Fudge die with a d6. But here, you can do something else with it: You can spend a point of Will to bump a skill up one tier for one roll, but only if targeting or defending against a higher-tier skill. For example, if someone's coming at you with Fists (Enhanced), you can spend a point of Will to improve your Athletics from Normal to Enhanced for your defense. But you can't spend Will to get Fists (Enhanced) just to punch out a mook.
How do you get Will? Every time you obtain spin on a roll, you earn a point of Will. Like I said, it's a character resource -- performing well boosts your confidence, and etc.
Will goes by many names -- Chi in "Spirit of the Fist," Elan in "Spirit of the 17th Century," Grit in "Spirit of the West," and so on -- so I'm inclined to call it something different here, too. Whether that's something warm and fuzzy, like Heart, or something more tied to the medium, like Pow!, I really don't know. Whatever it's called, it lets you bridge the gap between skill tiers.
Anyway, this is just the beginning of an idea, I know -- there are a lot of details to iron out -- but I really think it has legs. I haven't been this satisfied with FATE supers since... well, ever.
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Robert Stehwien said...
A FATE supers hack is my holy grail too. I have a few comments about your current write-up.
Different scales - in general I dislike scales where someone just doesn't get to play unless they bought into that scale. Allowing the expenditure of Will mitigates that a little but still I prefer to have everyone on the same rating system. As it stands you could have a normal with Superb Fists pay 2 will points and suddenly be better than the person who purchased Great Superheroic Might. I'd rather just rework the scale to keep all the important characters in the same range - in a normal pulp game Conan might be Superb Might but in a Supers game the Hulk has a Superb Might. Never liked scale in Fudge either... felt it was a hack just to keep using adjectives rather than numbers.
Will - Why add will when there is already Fate points? Seems like an extra bit As written a point of will is on average better than a fate point and up to 3 times better (when replacing a fudge die with a d6... which also seems like a strange dice complication)
Mike Olson said...
Heya Robert! Thanks for the feedback.
I've been using the Will resource for a while now, and it's never been a problem. Asking why it should exist when there are Fate Points lying around is a fair question, though. Here's how I see it.
Fate Points are a player resource. They're totally outside the realm of the character. The player spends them after a roll to retroactively be better at something, thanks to a metagame justification, but they don't exist for the character. "But I'm Master of the Eight Forms of the Lotus! Surely I hit him harder than that." In addition, you earn them through more metagaming, by deliberately making suboptimal choices for the character. It's a narrativist thing.
Will, in contrast, is a character resource. There's nothing you, as a player, can do to earn Will -- your character earns it by doing well. When your character wants to dip into his Will reserves, it's a conscious choice he's making. The retroactive metagaming of Fate Points isn't present here -- you have to decide before the roll if you're using Will.
In a way, Fate Points are kind of a server-side affair; Will is a client-side thing. And I'm fully aware the concept of replacing Fudge dice with d6s looks wacky when you first hear it, but in play it works very, very well. It sounds like it'd be totally unbalancing, I know, but again, in play I haven't found that to be the case.
I'm all for a guy with Superb Fists spending 2 Will to clock a guy with Fair Fists (Superhuman). All it's doing it putting them on equal footing for one roll. I think I'd probably like to have some justification for that in most cases (cf. The Dark Knight Returns), but that's a detail. It's the mechanical side of things I'm interested in right now, and to me, that's a fair trade off. Obviously it needs playtesting, but in concept it seems pretty sound to me. (I've gone through plenty iterations of FATE supers that seemed great at first, but ended up about as sound as a termite-ridden floorboard.)
The thing I don't like with most high-power FATE applications I've seen is an ever-increasing ladder, where characters have a +8 in something. That's kinda nonsense to me, because it makes the dice almost irrelevant. The idea behind the Normal/Enhanced/Superhuman split is to categorize characters in a way that lets them be meaningfully engage others in their category while being assured of superiority over those in lower categories, barring something extraordinary. The three categories essentially give me 15 degrees of variation without anyone literally have a double-digit bonus. That bugs me.
In other words, I'm really not interested in whether or not Iron Man can punch out a mook. Of course he can. I'm only interested in how he compares to opponents of equal power or above.
The thing it needs, IMO, is some equipment-based way of letting a mook with a rocket launcher pose a danger to Iron Man.
Thought I'd respond to your response ;)
At a high level I understand your addition of will - you see it as a character resource and fate points as a metagame resource. I see both fate and will as both a character and metagame resource.... mostly as a metagame resource - I doubt that any real person has ever said to themself "I think I'll spend a little will here". To me fate points are a mix of what you see as fate and will. A matter of perspective and both are cool.
For scale, I don't actually raise the numbers of the ladder that much.
Somtimes I put things on a scale of 1 to 10 (most people in our culture totally get that; more so than fair, good, great, or negative numbers). Normal humans are around 1-3, pulp/enhanced characters from 3-6, and superheroes from 6-9.
Often I don't even use a range of 1-10, I just use the normal Fate range of players having up to 5. Normal non threats are a -1/0/1, dangerous mooks up to a 3 and real threats up to a 5 like the players, and a cosmic threat 6+. I just redefine what that scale means - in a pulp game a +5 might can lift a motorcycle over their head and throw it but in a superhero game a +5 can throw a train and lift a mountain.
My concern isn't if Iron Man can take out the minion - of course he can with an apex skill of +5 vs the minions apex of 1 to 3 (the guy with the 3 might be carrying a bazooka).
With different scales as you have proposed where you either need to buy into the scale or spend will to temporarily act on that scale. My concern is more that Iron Man forgetting to take his Resolve to the super scale and Psychic Blast dude with a Fair super scale mental attack being able to casually mop the floor with Iron Man.
First thing I'd buy under your system is a super defense in every conflict category (probably Endurance and Resolve). And when everyone needs to do something like that to "feel playable" then IMHO something is wrong.
Typically in the superhero genre all the heroes have some defense - sure they may more easily taken out by one thing than another, but they are always able to play on that field. For example Batman and Superman work together and Batman isn't a smear on the concrete.
By having one scale, players know where they stand more easily. Having 3 scales is a real problem in my mind.
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