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Today's Thing.
For a little over a year now I've been making videos of a page-by-page reading of "14,000 Things to Be Happy About" by Barbara Ann Kipfer. It is a fun and silly book about happy things, and I quite like it.
I uploaded the first video on February 15, 2014. It is now February 22, 2015 and I've only uploaded up to page 25 of the 613 page book (I uploaded a couple videos of the cover, title page, and back cover summary as well). Hopefully I can get myself back into the project and finish it before 2016.
We shall see.
If you patronized me, it might give me the umph I need to get this project done!


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Sunday, February 14, 2016
New Hampton Girls Top Lawrence in a Nail-Biter
Both teams have multiple standout players from NH. Included are University of Miami commit Rebecca Ripley (Stratham, NH), Eva Hodgson (Rindge, NH), Kaitlyn Petrocelli (Merrimack, NH) and Hannah Cuthbertson (Hudson, NH) for New Hampton, and Lawrence Academy's Abby Streeter (Nashua, NH) and Nicolette Arnold (Derry, NH).
It was a highly competitive game, with various ties and lead changes. Lawrence took the lead late, but New Hampton won it with a pair of clutch baskets - one on an assist by Hodgson and the other on a put-back by Ripley (pictured above). Hodgson iced it with a pair of free throws, and the Huskies notch a quality win on the road 53-47.
Hodgson tallied 11 points, 5 assists and just 1 turnover. The sophomore guard helped lead Conant High to an undefeated season and D-III title last year as a freshman. Now she's at New Hampton, and holds scholarship offers from Fordham, Holy Cross and New Hampshire.
Hodgson hit a 3 off the catch from the right wing, as the Huskies extended their lead to 39-32 with 11:16 left in the 2nd half. She has a very smooth release off the catch, fundamentally sound. It was the largest lead either team had all game. Lawrence fought back, as Arnold drove into the lane and hit a floater to cut the New Hampton lead to 39-38 with 8:35 remaining, capping a 6-0 run by the Spartans. Senior guard Emily Pratt drained a pull-up jumper from 18 feet to put Lawrence back on top 47-46.
New Hampton ball, trying to answer back. Hodgson gets the ball in the corner with a defender closing out - she uses an up-fake to get by her defender, drives baseline and makes a nice dish inside to a teammate for what would turn out to be the winning layup. That put the Huskies back on top 48-47 with 2:47 remaining.
New Hampton did a good job of locking down defensively down the stretch, holding Lawrence scoreless for the last 3 minutes of the game. It did help the Huskies cause that Lawrence's star big, 6-foot-3 junior Erin Antosh (who dominated this game at times) fouled out with 2:26 left to play.
Arnold missed a 3-pointer with 1:05 left and Lawrence trailing 49-47. Then Ripley converted a strong put-back to make it 51-47 Huskies with just 35 seconds left in regulation. Hodgson added a pair of foul shots late, and New Hampton wins it 53-47.
Hodgson finished with 11, while Ripley tallied 5 points, Streeter chipped in with 8 and Arnold had 2. Cuthbertson was held scoreless but played solid defense. Petrocelli sat this game out with an ACL injury which was suffered early in the season. She may need surgery. New Hampton could have definitely used Petrocelli in this game so they'd be better able to match up with Antosh. With Petrocelli out, Lawrence had a definite size advantage.
Hodgson scored the game's first bucket when she made a strong drive along the baseline and finish through contact to put the Huskies ahead 2-0. Lawrence played a zone defense all game, which definitely gave New Hampton problems at times. Both teams were cold offensively early on - with 10:40 left in the 1st half it was still just 5-5.
With the score tied 8-8, Hodgson drilled a 3-pointer off the catch from the top of the key with just 1 seconds left on the shot clock. That's right, prep schools have a shot clock, which is the way the game of basketball is meant to be played.
Streeter, a 5-foot-10 wing, connected on a 3-pointer off the catch from the left wing to put Lawrence back on top 15-12. Streeter again showed a smooth stroke from the outside, hitting another 3 off the catch, this one from the left wing to cut the New Hampton lead to 22-20 with 2:35 left in the 1st half. The teams were tied 28-28 at halftime.
Ripley made a nice block coming from the weak side early in the 2nd half. Antosh continued to dominate inside for Lawrence to keep them in the game. Then after a scoreless first half, Ripley finally got on the scoreboard by sinking a 3-pointer from the top of the key off the catch against the Lawrence zone defense. The Spartans kept battling, as Streeter ran the floor for a transition layup.
It was a hard fought game between two good teams, with lots of local talent on display.
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There is a growing recognition that sustainability can have a significant effect on a company's financial performance, and investors are increasingly integrating sustainability factors into their decision-making. So how do you optimise your Sustainability and Investor Relations teams to collaborate and clearly articulate the sustainability performance of your business?
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors relevant to a company's business can provide essential insights into management effectiveness and thus a company's long-term prospects.
This topic was discussed at a recent roundtable hosted by SustainAbility London and Barclays entitled 'Closing the Sustainability-Investor Relations Gap'. The event was attended by a broad range of business leaders from both the Sustainability and Investor Relations space, and the following four key areas emerged from the discussions:
1. Relationships worth working at
Relationships with investors matter. SRI-Connect and Extel's Independent Research in Responsible Investment 2016 survey shows investors crave direct engagement with companies in addition to robust reporting, and some participants echoed that it is one-to-one company-investor engagement where their sustainability narrative is strongest and most impactful.
Participants were interested to learn from each other how they can bridge the internal IR and Sustainability gap from being an ad hoc and transactional relationship to more of an on-going one. A cross-functional integrated reporting working group was one example seen to bring teams closer on a more structured basis.
2. Dedicated roadshows
Holding dedicated ESG investor/SRI roadshows was recommended to ensure that all relevant matters are specifically discussed with analysts and investors. This helps to limit the rhetoric that sustainability factors are of lesser importance because no specific questions were asked. In addition, such roadshows help to meet investor needs for direct interaction.
3. Reporting: "Evolution to a strategic narrative"
ESG is moving from simplistic reporting matrices to being integrated into the corporate narrative presented to investors. Best in class examples see ESG information directly demonstrating how the business is creating long-term sustainable growth.
4. Materiality: One size doesn't fit all
"Materiality" was cited as a problematic term given the myriad of definitions across companies when applied to a financial or sustainability context. Recommendations for solutions currently include a complete overhaul of the terminology; in the meantime, a conscious understanding of both sets of terminology when presenting information to investor audiences is required, differentiating where needed.
With thanks to Barclays, GlaxoSmithKline, JLL, London City Airport, Mitsubishi Corporation, RBS, SRI-Connect, Walgreens Boots Alliance and Whitbread who took part in the discussion.
The event was held under Chatham House Rule and so comments and quotes are unattributed.


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By Lunar Veil, from Halloween at High Noon's Decayed.
Friday, October 14, 2016
Now Playing: The Unseen
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Good stuff as always
Of course always, always good to see the blind.
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In a nutshell
The AHSN and our Improvement Academy are supporting health and care organisations to build capacity and capability among all staff groups, including frontline clinical staff, managers, IT, HR, administrative staff and executive directors. We have a range of training and resources available that will help health and care organisations.
The Quality Improvement (QI) training programmes help to develop capability for improvement. In 2014/15 a Quality Improvement Training Advisory Group (QITAG) was established from member organisations to steer the development of a regional Framework for QI training. The development and roll out of the QI Training for Yorkshire and Humber has been advocated and supported by the regional QITAG. More information about the QITAG can be found here.
The challenge
Following consultations across Yorkshire and Humber and development of a regional QITAG, a wide variation and gaps in the provision of foundation Quality Improvement training across our NHS organisations in Yorkshire and Humber has been highlighted.
What we are doing about it
In 2015/16 we will provide access for all healthcare staff in Yorkshire and Humber to online 'entry-level' QI training, as well as delivering face-to-face core skills workshops, and highly specialist training, including a 'Train the Trainer' programme. The Improvement Fellows scheme supports those who are already leaders of improvement in their own organisations.
- Dedicated Quality Improvement online training portal
- Entry-level online training accessible to all healthcare staff in Yorkshire and Humber, free of charge
- Quality Improvement Skills training delivered through core skills workshops (20-50 participants)
- Specialist training that will equip organisations to develop and maintain a sustainable improvement culture
- A supported network of 150 Improvement Fellows in Yorkshire and Humber
- Support for the development of "communities of practice" through the Co-Creation Network
Quality Improvement Training
Bronze Training
On-line Bronze level Quality Improvement training is FREE and available for ALL healthcare providers, commissioners across Yorkshire and Humber and others interested in supporting or delivering improvement. Aimed at all staff groups, this foundation training introduces the 'Model for Improvement' and some practical improvement tools followed by a short quiz at the end of each module. It takes approximately two hours to complete and on completing all the modules a certificate of completion can be printed off. For full details of the bronze training, click here.
Access to the Bronze Training can be found here. To discuss how we can support you to spread Quality Improvements in your organisation please contact Angela Green
Silver Training
Silver level training includes a range of in-depth sessions around the practical application of quality improvement methods – from examples of methods, tools and techniques that engage multidisciplinary teams in quality improvement initiatives, to behaviour change. Silver training is divided into two separate 1-day training sessions :
- Silver level for individuals
- Silver level for teams
For further information regarding Silver Quality Improvement Training click here.
Gold Training
At Gold level we will offer a range of training that will support healthcare organisations to maintain and enhance a sustainable improvement culture within their services. Our 'Train the Trainer' programme and associated network is currently supporting 16 gold-level trainers from 10 organisations to deliver face-to-face 'silver for teams' QI training and project support within their own organisations. These trainees were selected by their QITAG organisational representative. Future Gold Training will include "Quality Improvement for Boards". For further information please contact Maureen Mcgeorge


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Shaandaar Review: The latest Bollywood movie starring Shahid Kapoor and Alia Bhatt has been released and well received by the audiences. The early reviews by audiences suggest that it is a very good film and said to be the first destination wedding flick of India. Directed by Vikas Bahl, Shandaar stars Alia Bhatt and Shahid Kapoor as the lead star cast. (watch: badtameez dil.)
Shandaar has been one of the most awaited and much-anticipated film of this year as the buzz increased when the leading star cast was revealed. It pairs Shahid and Alia for the first time ever in their career. Adding to it, it has been directed by the director of Queen. Moreover, Shahid's father and sister are a part of this flick.
Shaandaar Review
The early critics reviews have suggested that it is a must watch at least for one time as it features the love chemistry of Shahid-Alia and Vikas Bahl's directorial magic.
Co-produced by Phantom productions and Dharma productions, it stars Sushma Seth, Sanjay Kapoor, Vikas Verma and Diljit Dosanjh and others. Sushma Seth has impressed many critics with her acting skills.
Read the Shandaar review below:
Deepanjana Pal of Firstpost said: "By the time Shaandaar draws to its close, you can't help but wonder just how much of the heavy-lifting in Queen was done by Kangana Ranaut."
Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express said: "The only one who leaves an impression in this crowded-yet-slack film is Sanah Kapur, the real-life half-sister of Shahid, who plays a bride being used as part of a 'deal' between two business families."
Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV said: "Shaandaar is a fun film that is infused with great charm, which in turn is enhanced by director Bahl's panache for a light touch, an attribute that was on full show in Queen. While it does not live up to its title as a package, it fulfils much of the expectations that the audience might have from a film produced jointly by Karan Johar on the one hand and Vikramaditya Motwane and Anurag Kashyap on the other."
Shaandaar Review – Shandaar review
Moumita Bhattacharjee of BollywoodLife.com said: "Shahid is unbelievably hot! Although his entry scene is similar to Shah Rukh Khan in Jab Tak Hai Jaan with the exception of the backdrop and, of course, the actor, Shahid will leave you smitten. Things are pretty fluffy still without any major conflict happening apart from a passing mention of the wedding being a deal to bail out Pankaj Kapur's family business. And since it's broached so negligently, the audience will easily forget it."
Akshay Kaushal of IBNLive said: "Caution: You won't be able to take your eyes off #ShahidKapoor. He is an debonair. #Shaandaar. There are some amazingly witty sequences in #Shaandaar that tickles your funny bone. The tyrant mummy ji played by #SushmaSeth in #Shaandaar will become your favourite character as you step out after watching the movie."
Pallavi Patra of Zee Digital said: "#Shaandaar opens with a touch of animation. Shahid Kapoor makes a stylish entry. Shaandaar Alia looks ravishing too. #Shaandaar. There are some funny scenes in #Shaandaar."
shandaar review
The Shaandaar movie review by Taran Adarsh, Komal Nahata, Anupam Chopra, and Rajeev Masand will be added soon. Till then, stay tuned with us and keep visiting and sharing too.


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by Jonathan Clatworthy
from Modern Believing Vol 56:1 - January 2015
The Future of Society
The theme of this issue is chosen in view of the forthcoming UK general election. One way to approach such things is to invite theological representations from each of the main political parties. Today, however, this will not do. There is growing disillusionment with the political parties, the political system and the political agenda. It is as though what governments are trying to do have turned out to be the wrong things to do anyway.
So far there is little sign of consensus about what to do instead. This makes it a good time to go back to first principles and reflect on our basic assumptions. What kinds of future does modern society hope for and why? What, if anything, is the purpose of human life? These are questions rarely addressed except by theologians, since without a wider frame of reference that transcends our current engagements we do not know where to start.
One type of answer was provided by the ancient polytheisms. The ancient Greek and Roman gods offered a range of personalities, thus sanctioning a range of permissible lifestyles. In the process they took for granted the conflicts between them; things were as they were and always would be unless the gods intervened. There was good reason why this approach to life died out.
Disillusionment and Christian engagement
Instead we have inherited two very different perspectives, a monotheist one and an atheist one. We muddle them up. There is a trend, especially by conservative theologians, to blame 'Enlightenment values' for central features of modern culture which in fact have Christian origins. This is true of both reason and progress, the two most celebrated Enlightenment values. Enlightenment reason reacted against the over-emphasis on divine revelation that characterised the Reformation debates; but earlier scholastics had carefully analysed the potential and limits of human reason as a gift from God designed for specific purposes. Without a basis of this type, reason is no more self-authenticating than our dreams are. Add in evolution, and our minds are merely adaptations of chimpanzee minds, mechanisms not for truth but for bodily survival, as reductionist philosophers argue.[1] It was Christianity (together with Judaism and Islam) that convinced Enlightenment thinkers that our minds have been designed to understand deep truths.
The same is true of progress. The very idea of it presupposes that there is a desirable direction of travel given to humanity as a whole. By whom? By, of course, the Jewish/Christian/Islamic Creator; who else could? This Creator made us for a purpose and calls us towards it. Without this, there is no reason to expect any particular direction of change, let alone change for the better; all that remains is people doing whatever they think will improve their own lives. So argues John Gray, who rejects both progress and Christianity.[2] Again an influential contribution by Christianity is best acknowledged by its opponents.
Why do Christians so underrate Christianity's positive influence? Perhaps the main reason is the privatisation of religion after the religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: to establish peace, it had to be separated from matters of government.[3] Before then, and in other parts of the world, beliefs about the divine had been integrated into public discourse about the physical world and in this way had enabled societies to reflect on who made them, for what purpose, and how therefore they should live. Our current political discourse, by carefully avoiding references to the divine, is left with a default atheism where nobody made us and there are no given purposes. If we were consistent about this and stopped borrowing Christian purposes, it would be clear that the future of society, together with all our values, is a blank page. We could write on it anything we wanted. Or nothing. Those who follow the logic of this soon realise the importance of that small word 'we'. Who makes the decisions? On what basis? Will the future just bring more power struggles between vested interests? Is history to be just a constant struggle for supremacy?
The issues
So we asked theologians to focus on the big issues facing society and reflect on future possibilities. Economics, welfare, the environment, health and war must surely be among them. When theologians apply their insights to these things, their understandings of Christian scriptures, doctrine, worship and ethics rarely correlate neatly with the policies of political parties.
John Gladwin introduces the issues, describing how the UK's churches have a long history of engagement with the political process in support of many different positions. The shock of the Second World War and the prospect of fascism and communism led to the search for a better alternative. Following the lead of William Temple's Christianity and the Social Order, the Welfare State was the result. Today a pressing issue is the public's disengagement from democratic processes; why has public dissatisfaction led to disengagement rather than political opposition through the available channels? What will be the future role of voluntary organisations?
'It's the economy, stupid', originally a slogan for Bill Clinton's election campaign, has become a commonplace of political discourse: of course election prospects are mainly determined by economic competence. Growth brings jobs and jobs bring money. We are so used to government discourse being dominated by this that it seems strange to question its centrality. However the connection is unravelling. Scepticism continues to grow, not just because of the recent financial crash: throughout history, indeed, there has been tension between lovers of wealth and power and lovers of a more equal society where everybody's needs are met.
Malcolm Brown, the Church of England's Director of Mission and Public Affairs, reviews the ideas behind the setting up of the British Welfare State, including the Church's contribution, as the experience of depression and war led to the question of what kind of state is worth fighting for. Brown argues that there is too much dependence on over-simple dualisms of the individual over against the state or the corporation; we need richer, more nuanced accounts of a healthy society, where welfare is reconnected to the prime purposes of government. The churches have a great deal to offer, not only in their social teaching but in their presence in local communities.
Peter Sedgwick, Principal of St Michael's College, Cardiff, focuses on tax avoidance as a major concern for our day. Power has shifted from governments to corporations. Globalisation means companies can easily withdraw when offered more favourable terms elsewhere. Many companies are parts of multinationals, so one part can charge another part, thus transferring pricing to wherever the costs are lowest. Associated with this is the decline of civic virtue, as explored by Michael Sandel, and the decline in political involvement described by Charles Mathewes. A global response is needed. Sedgwick appeals for a new culture, a new Augustinianism which does not allow collusion with norms which are simply about profit.
That theologians concern themselves with these issues should not be surprising. In the passages of Deuteronomy that we read at Harvest festivals there is more than enough food for everyone.[4] As though in response to the recent 'workers and shirkers' rhetoric, it rubs in that the wealth comes from God so nobody can rightly claim that what they have is the result of their own efforts.[5] The pre-exilic prophets agree: Amos, Isaiah and Micah are often quoted on the point. Also significant is the growing interest in the socio-economic conditions of first century Galilee and their relation to the teaching of Jesus. In the continuing debate on what he meant by the Kingdom of God, the pendulum is now swinging against an imminent divine intervention and towards a reapplication of those Hebrew scriptures for communities of Galileans impoverished by Roman taxation policies.[6]
This biblical tradition, knowing nothing of modern economic theory, described wealth as a gift from God. The proper response is gratitude and celebration. Because it is gift, nobody should hog it; everyone should have their share. This philosophy of wealth still comes naturally to country-dwellers who see abundance appearing every year regardless of whether humans engage with it.
When it gets replaced by the view that the world is too mean to meet our needs, the onus is placed on humans; it will be our labour and our economic expertise that produces the wealth. The implication for distribution changes: why should any wealth at all be granted to those without paid employment? Are they not parasites on the rest of us?
Hence the importance of economic growth. Yet its role has been changing. Immediately after the Second World War returning soldiers needed money and jobs. The need was to get people producing what others needed. The measure of success became the size of the economy – that is, the amount of money changing hands. Gradually this measure turned into an end in itself. The economy got reified – or deified.[7] As such it becomes a totem of unity: humanity-as-a-whole, or at least the-nation-as-a-whole, is pitted against the meanness of nature. We are all in it together. Non-human nature, if God's gift at all, is anything but generous. We must struggle to produce more and consume more for the sake of the economy.
Even before the financial crash of 2008 this philosophy of wealth was losing popularity. The competing economic claims of the political parties just made people despise politicians. The crash made it clear that all was not well. 'Lessons' needed to be learned, 'errors' corrected. Yet in most ways we are back where we were before, except that the rich are even richer and the poor even poorer. For the increasing numbers for whom the food bank is an essential supplement, even to a full-time job, an increase in the nation's total wealth is no comfort at all. What matters is not total quantity but distribution.
Concern for the environment struggles for attention in the face of all this. In the past prophets of an imminent End found themselves unpopular with scientists, governments and business leaders alike. In the case of the current environmental degradation – climate change, extinctions, pollution, desertification – the scientific community is on the side of the doomsters. A recent report states that 97% of climate science papers think human actions are accentuating global warming.[8] Yet the small minority who disagree provide space for uncertainty and reason for governments to delay action. There remains a substantial gap between what governments consider politically realistic and what scientists consider essential. To say that we must produce less, consume less, build less, kill less, eat less, drink less, throw away less, expel less, is an exact reversal of dominant government policies of living memory.
Martin Palmer, the Secretary General of the Alliance of Religions and Conservation, describes environmentalism as a missionary movement. It uses the theological concepts of sin, guilt, fall and heresy. However the environmental movement in general is uncomfortable with religion in general because it has less use for redemption, forgiveness, celebration and love. In the other direction there is much suspicion of environmentalists by the faith traditions, who have had their attention drawn to issues which they themselves would otherwise have overlooked. One thing the faith traditions can teach environmentalists is that statistics are not enough. The vast amount of data presented at the 2009 Copenhagen summit failed to inspire. Change comes about through inspiring narratives.
Peter Scott, Samuel Ferguson Professor at Manchester University, explores why the environment proves difficult to discuss in public discourse. Urban environments, engineered to conform to our expectations, give us a distinct experience in the practicalities of living. 'We do not inhabit a town or city—instead, we occupy it.' Nature impinges less. This makes us anthropocentric. We need to develop a sense of being guests as well as hosts in the world. Government reports speak of the environment providing us with 'services'; what sort of society interprets nature as a service-provider? Scott recommends that we should think of human society as being part of a greater society. Because of the questions our present situation raises, the future of such a greater society must be religious.
Again our contributors see theology as having an essential role in facing public concerns. In the past most societies have been acutely aware of their dependence on the natural environment as, in some sense, a divine gift. Biblical scholars have often drawn attention to the texts emphasising the natural order as given by God and therefore to be valued. This was the theme of Modern Church's 2013 annual conference 'The Earth is the Lord's', chaired by Margaret Barker whose works explore it in depth.[9]
However western society has also inherited, originally from the ancient Stoics, a more anthropocentric account: nature is there for human use. 'Pigs, according to Chrysippus, should be reckoned locomotive meals, with souls instead of salt to keep them fresh.'[10] With modern technology the potential of this anthropocentrism increased exponentially. Still, as long as the environment had been created by a god who knew what was good for us, there were limits to how we should adapt it. It was when the physical universe was redescribed as the product of unconscious forces that the brakes came right off. We – who do at least have minds – should be able to improve on this accident which is our natural environment.[11] Maybe we are over-influenced by advertisements but our culture often enthuses about increasingly artificial lifestyles and ever more complex technologies, as though getting further and further away from nature was a virtue in itself. If the gods do not care, or do not exist, why not? As with economics we have secularised, and then redirected, a notion of progress which once made sense as a response to God's benign wisdom.
No policies or hopes for society are benign unless they foster good health. Our bodies have evolved, for the most part, to work well with a hunter-gatherer lifestyle; subsequent changes have potential health effects, some of which we know about. There is debate about how much our concept of good health is a social construct and how much is built into the way we have evolved. We can recognise extremes. When I was born in the late 1940s my mother had all her teeth taken out: the dominant view was that false teeth were a great improvement on natural teeth, as bottled milk was on breast milk. Fortunately the medical profession has subsequently retreated from these fantasies of omniscience. Dental implants and artificial hips attempt to mimic the real thing, not to do better. Female genital mutilation offends us because it damages an otherwise healthy body.
In other ways, though, the tension between good health and freedom of choice remains. It has become standard procedure for doctors to ask patients whether they smoke, drink alcohol or have signs of diabetes; so much illness is caused, or at least accentuated, by an excess of tobacco, alcohol or sugar, but the idea of banning them offends our sense of personal choice.
Claire Foster-Gilbert, Founder-Director of the Westminster Abbey Institute, analyses the ethical implications of trends in the British National Health Service. It is constantly embracing new conditions and treatments. Meanwhile patients increasingly expect their autonomy to be respected. Most of the health budget is spent on the elderly, who are increasing in number. So are chronic conditions related to obesity. Using the traditional classification of ethical systems as based on rights, duties or goals, Foster-Gilbert argues that goal-based and right-based approaches have dominated health care and the role of duty needs to be revived. Our sense of self should be based not on selfish interest but on consideration of others. This can be fostered within a natural law ethics which values and attends to God's creation as presented to us.
In all these issues there is a common theme. Is progress really possible? There have been many changes in history, but they can be interpreted in different ways. Perhaps all that happens is that some benefit at the expense of others. Perhaps the illusion of progress comes from the fact that history is written by the winners. Perhaps there are better and worse societies but no long-term trends. Perhaps the very idea of progress is a myth invented by the ruling classes, a trick to manipulate us into doing what suits them.
We try to make our theories fit our experiences. In practice we are happier in some situations than others. We recognise progress and regress, better and worse times, in our own lives. Extrapolating, we can hope for better times for our villages, our cities, our nations, the world. Are these hopes realistic? History is ambiguous. We can point to a Wilberforce, a Gandhi, who seems to have made the world a better place, but we can also point to people who seem to have made it worse again. If all hopes for a better future are not to be misguided we need more than optimistic interpretations of history; we also need a convincing theory of who we are and what we are capable of. This, surely, is where atheist and monotheist interpretations of humanity diverge most tellingly. For a while godless progress seemed assured by evolution, but now it is better understood that evolution contains nothing of morality or progress; forms of life just change with their environments. If we are nothing but the product of a purposeless evolution we have no reason to suppose humanity capable of anything we have not already done. If, on the other hand, we are in some way or other the creation of an intending mind, we should be capable of whatever that mind intends, even if we are yet to attempt it.


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In computing, a bus error is a fault raised by hardware, notifying an operating system (OS) that a process is trying to access memory that the CPU cannot physically address: an invalid address for the address bus, hence the name. In modern use on most architectures these are much rarer than segmentation faults, which occur primarily due to memory access violations: problems in the logical address or permissions.
On POSIX-compliant platforms, bus errors usually result in the SIGBUS signal being sent to the process that caused the error. SIGBUS can also be caused by any general device fault that the computer detects, though a bus error rarely means that the computer hardware is physically broken—it is normally caused by a bug in a program's source code. Bus errors may also be raised for certain other paging errors; see below.
There are at least three main causes of bus errors:
Software instructs the CPU to read or write a specific physical memory address. Accordingly, the CPU sets this physical address on its address bus and requests all other hardware connected to the CPU to respond with the results, if they answer for this specific address. If no other hardware responds, the CPU raises an exception, stating that the requested physical address is unrecognized by the whole computer system. Note that this only covers physical memory addresses. Trying to access an undefined virtual memory address is generally considered to be a segmentation fault rather than a bus error, though if the MMU is separate, the processor can't tell the difference.
Most CPUs are byte-addressable, where each unique memory address refers to an 8-bit byte. Most CPUs can access individual bytes from each memory address, but they generally cannot access larger units (16 bits, 32 bits, 64 bits and so on) without these units being "aligned" to a specific boundary (the x86 platform being a notable exception).
For example, if multi-byte accesses must be 16 bit-aligned, addresses (given in bytes) at 0, 2, 4, and so on would be considered aligned and therefore accessible, while addresses 1, 3, 5, and so on would be considered unaligned. Similarly, if multi-byte accesses must be 32-bit aligned, addresses 0, 4, 8, 12, and so on would be considered aligned and therefore accessible, and all addresses in between would be considered unaligned. Attempting to access a unit larger than a byte at an unaligned address can cause a bus error.
CPUs generally access data at the full width of their data bus at all times. To address bytes, they access memory at the full width of their data bus, then mask and shift to address the individual byte. Systems tolerate this inefficient algorithm, as it is an essential feature for most software, especially string processing. Unlike bytes, larger units can span two aligned addresses and would thus require more than one fetch on the data bus. It is possible for CPUs to support this, but this functionality is rarely required directly at the machine code level, thus CPU designers normally avoid implementing it and instead issue bus errors for unaligned memory access.
FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris can signal a bus error when virtual memory pages cannot be paged in, e.g. because it has disappeared (e.g. accessing a memory-mapped file or executing a binary image which has been truncated while the program was running),[1] or because a just-created memory mapped file cannot be physically allocated, because the disk is full.
This is an example of unaligned memory access, written in the C programming language with AT&T assembly syntax.
int main(int argc, char **argv)
int *iptr;
char *cptr;
#if defined(__GNUC__)
# if defined(__i386__)
/* Enable Alignment Checking on x86 */
__asm__("pushf\norl $0x40000,(%esp)\npopf");
# elif defined(__x86_64__)
/* Enable Alignment Checking on x86_64 */
__asm__("pushf\norl $0x40000,(%rsp)\npopf");
# endif
/* malloc() always provides aligned memory */
cptr = malloc(sizeof(int) + 1);
/* Increment the pointer by one, making it misaligned */
iptr = (int *) ++cptr;
/* Dereference it as an int pointer, causing an unaligned access */
*iptr = 42;
Following accesses will also result in sigbus error.
short *sptr;
int i;
sptr = (short *)&i;
// For all odd value increments, it will result in sigbus.
sptr = (short *)(((char *)sptr) + 1);
*sptr = 100;
return 0;
Compiling and running the example on a POSIX compliant OS on x86 demonstrates the error:
$ gcc -ansi sigbus.c -o sigbus
$ ./sigbus
Bus error
$ gdb ./sigbus
(gdb) r
Program received signal , Bus error.
0x080483ba in main ()
(gdb) x/i $pc
0x80483ba : mov DWORD PTR [eax],0x2a
(gdb) p/x $eax
$1 = 0x804a009
(gdb) p/t $eax & (sizeof(int) - 1)
$2 = 1
The GDB debugger shows that the immediate value 0x2a is being stored at the location stored in the EAX register, using X86 assembly language. This is an example of register indirect addressing.
Printing the low order bits of the address shows that it is not aligned to a word boundary ("dword" using x86 terminology).
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Linux, Unix, Mac OS, Apple Inc., Nextstep
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How to get to the conference venue (Amphipôle 342):
All sessions (except otherwise noted) will be held in room 342 of the Amphipôle building, on campus. Please find directions below. An interactive map of the campus is also available on the UNIL website.
From the M1 station UNIL-Sorges
To reach room "Amphipôle 342" from the UNIL-Sorges station, the easiest way is to head towards the building "Amphimax" ahead of you, and walk around it by taking the stairs on the right of the building. Once you've passed Amphimax, turn left, and follow the alley until you reach the main entrance of the Amphipôle building, on your left.
Once inside, head straight and climb the short flight of stairs in front of you. Room 342 will be situated in front of you, slightly on the right-hand side.
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The main cafeteria and restaurant on campus are situated in the Unithèque building. To get there, head out of the Amphipôle through its main entrance, take a left, and follow the main path. Keep walking straight, first passing in front of a building on your right (Biophore). At the first cross-section, head straight through the small forest, until you reach a fork. Take the left path, which will lead you directly to the Unithèque building.
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Two men have been jailed for a total of 13 years after admitting carrying out more than 50 burglaries across seven counties including Kent.
Lee Heane and Matthew Bryan from Leicester were jailed for seven years and six years at Ipswich Crown Court.
The men targeted mostly detached properties in Kent including bungalows and they went for high-value jewellery, cash and safes.
Country-wide investigation
An investigation led by Suffolk Police saw teams across the country join forces to track down the offenders.
In Kent "alarms bells started ringing" after a number of burglaries were reported, mainly in the Thanet area, in the autumn of 2016.
Detective constable Sarah Phillips from Kent Police said: "We immediately identified a pattern of offending based around the modus operandi which was quite distinctive.
"The offenders targeted detached properties – often bungalows – while the occupants were either out or away. They forced the locks of rear UPVC doors in a particular way. They ignored electrical items, instead taking high-value jewellery, cash and, on a number of occasions, safes.'
A breakthrough came when one of the offenders left a screwdriver at a property he had burgled in Old Hall Drive, Cliffsend, on November 14 last year.
Around £10,000 worth of jewellery had been stolen from the house, including many items of great sentimental value to the owner.
Detective constable Phillips said: "DNA on the screwdriver matched that of Matthew Bryan, a prolific Leicester criminal, and we began liaising with Leicestershire Police.
"One of their officers recognised Bryan from CCTV footage of a burglary in King Edward Road, Birchington, on 3 November 2016.'"
Heane, a known associate of Bryan, was identified after his Nike trainers were forensically linked to three burglaries in Thanet.
Stolen shotguns
Three shotguns and cartridges were stolen from a property in Hadleigh, Suffolk.
The shotguns were recovered when police found a crashed and abandoned Jaguar in Hastingleigh on December 16 last year.
The car belonged to Bryan and contained his fingerprints and also DNA matching Heane.
Evidence gathered by detectives across the various police forces quickly linked a number of these burglaries, with Heane and Bryan now identified as suspects. Both men had been circulated as wanted prior to their arrests in February this year, with Heane being detained in Newcastle-under-Lyme and Bryan in Leicester.
Guilty pleas
Heane pleaded guilty to 42 burglaries and Bryan to 15 burglaries, encompassing 27 offences in Staffordshire and a further 20 crimes across Kent, Suffolk, Norfolk, Hampshire and Sussex.
Heane also had another 10 offences taken into consideration in Cheshire and one in Suffolk and admitted being in possession of a firearm when prohibited for five years. Bryan had an additional seven burglaries taken into consideration.
Detective constable Mark Hughes of Suffolk Police said: "Lee Heane and Matthew Bryan are prolific criminals who travelled around the country causing untold misery for their numerous victims.
"Although we took the lead for this inquiry in Suffolk, I am grateful for the support given to us by colleagues across the other counties concerned to help bring these men to justice.'"
Career criminals
Detective constable Phillips said: "Lee Heane and Matthew Bryan were career criminals and it soon became very apparent that this was a national issue, not just a Kent one.
"Kent Police worked closely with Suffolk Police and the other forces involved to ensure that these two men were brought to justice.
"Their actions had a massive impact on their victims. Burglary is a vile and intrusive offence and I hope the fact that Heane and Bryan are behind bars for a long time will provide some closure for their victims.
"This investigation shows that no matter how far flung the crimes, police forces will always work together to make sure the net closes in on offenders.'"


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Happy Memorial Day aka the unofficial start of Summer! Summer brings to mind barbecues and grilling and outdoor dining. Living in an apartment in NYC means I have no outdoor space to call my own so I do all I can to celebrate summer from my kitchen. Then, we pack up our goodies and walk over to Central Park for a picnic. This recipe for BBQ sauce is the best I've ever had. It's great on ribs, pulled pork sandwiches, grilled chicken, burgers and adds fantastic flavor to baked beans.
Barbecue Sauce
2 Tbsp. liquid smoke
1 cup ketchup
2 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. chili powder
1/2 tsp. celery seed
1/4 tsp. black pepper
1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
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Earlier this year, PRX received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to fund public radio stories about STEM topics: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. One of PRX's strategic goals is to massively increase listening to public radio works of all kinds. (We do pretty well!) This partnership with Sloan was an opportunity to add to the pool of stories about an often-underrepresented genre in public radio.
Our prime directive (as Spock would say) with the STEM Story Project was to:
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We received over 100 proposals that covered a remarkable range of the STEM spectrum — from hacker space to outer space, the physics of rhythm to algorithms, evolution to technological revolution, drones to prime numbers.
Here are the proposals that will receive funding for the STEM Story Project. We look forward to hearing the final products as much as you do! They'll be coming July 15.
Forensics in Flames, Michael May — Hundreds may sit behind bars because of faulty forensic science. What engineers are doing to change that.
52Hz, Craig Shank and George Drake, Jr. of Everything Sounds — The world's loneliest whale can't be heard by others. Learn about this creature that fascinates and confounds ocean scientists.
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Space Crafty, Julie Sabatier — Fearless do-it-yourselfers are engineering their own rockets & space suits. How do their efforts fit into a growing private space industry?
Seeing with Sound: The Science Behind Human Echolocation, Meg Cramer — Echolocation isn't just for bats. With practice, people can echolocate too. What's it like to see with sound & how does your brain do it?
The Elusive Digital Stradivarius, David Schulman — Apps copy the guitar sounds of Hendrix and Santana. So why not the digital Stradivarius?
The Poison Squad: A Chemist's Quest for Pure Food, Sruthi Pinnamaneni — How one chemist fed his men poison to win public sympathy against the food industry and laid the grounds for the FDA.
Mime-Matics, Ari Daniel Shapiro — Tim Chartier has found a way to fuse his two great loves: math and mime. (It's a fusion that's almost as unlikely as wanting to do a radio story about it.) He and his wife strive to have their audiences become a part of the world that they're creating on stage, and in so doing, the math becomes at once understandable and unforgettable.
Magicicada Misunderstood, Louisa Jonas — "It's lonely down here." Cicadas emerge from the dark for raucous party.
Scout-Like Groups Focused on STEM and Making Form Around the U.S., Jon Kalish — The Bay Area as a hotbed of DIY culture that yields an incubator of cutting edge fabrication.
Fighting Crime With Math, Aaron Mendelson — What if an equation could put police officers at the scene of a crime, before it happened? For eight years, a team of academics in Southern California has worked to make this science-fiction a reality.
Engineering Gotham From Below, Bishop Sand — How does Manhattan stay moving? Find out the engineering creativity that lurks underneath the city.
The Secret Life of Particles, Reid Frazier — The secret life of dust–how particles pick up toxic hitchhikers in the air before you breathe them in.
Sailing the High Seas 2.0, Jason Albert — Wings flutter in nature, help planes fly, and oddly make sailboats fast and efficient. America's Cup wing sail technology may revolutionize trans-ocean shipping.
Following in Darwin's Footsteps, Veronique La Capra — Two young women scientists in the Galapagos. One—Ecuadorian—hopes to stay, the other to take what she learns back home to Papua New Guinea.
The same heuristic processes motivate storytellers and scientists alike: curiosity, skepticism, and a hunger for higher truths about the world. We're hopeful that these stories help uncover just that.
Follow #PRXSTEM on Twitter for updates and to get a first listen to projects as they're uploaded!
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The Pilot's Wife
A NovelBook - 1999 | First Back Bay paperback edition.
As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone, but nothing has prepared her for a late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash.
Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious, independent-minded fifteen-year-old daughter; and a happy marriage whose occasional dull passages she attributes to the unavoidable deadening of time.
As Kathryn struggles with her grief, she descends into a maelstrom of publicity stirred up by the modern hunger for the details of tragedy. Even before the plane is located in waters off the Irish coast, the relentless scrutiny of her husband's life begins to bring a bizarre personal mystery into focus. Could there be any truth to the increasingly disturbing rumors that he had a secret life?
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Excellent writing! Anita can tell a story without adding many significant details, but leaving it instead up to the reader to figure out what happened. Good to the last paragraph!
I love this booK! It is very well written and the subject matter is very interesting. I feel that it is more of a "chick" book, but nothing wrong with that! I would recommend this read!
I hated this book. I was very annoyed that the other woman was in the know and the poor wife was blindsided. I felt like the pilot got what he deserved, wish the other woman had been with him.
I missed this when it first came out in the 90's so when I came across it in a review I was reading for something else, I was happy to find it was still available. Anita Shreve never disappoints.
This book was ok. I felt like the pacing was uneven and ended with a race through the plot to the finish. It also ended quite abruptly.
Anita Sherve seems to have a golden touch with her books. Each one is better then the previous story. emotional , sad, and devastating.
Interesting book, as all of Anita Shreve's are. I have all of her titles on my for later shelf, and look forward to reading more.
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A pilot's wife is taught to be prepared for the late-night knock at the door. But when Kathryn Lyons receives word that a plan flown by her husband, Jack, has exploded near the coast of Ireland, she confronts the unfathomable-one startling revelation at a time. Soon drawn into a maelstrom of publicity fueled by rumors that Jack led a secret life, Kathryn sets out to learn who her husband really was, whatever that knowledge might cost. Her search propels this taut, impassioned novel as it movingly explores the question, How well can we ever really know another person?
a pilot dies in a plane crash as his wife is greiving she uncovers some intresting facts about him and his "family life"
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The Military and Competitive Sports
I missed my last post, but thankfully I'm on top of this week's edition. Kyleanne Hunter and Oliver Kaplan have a piece at Political Violence @ a Glance discussing some of the military roots of the biathlon. I've never known much about the sport's history, but it certainly makes sense that its origins are so closely tied to the kinds of security needs that Hunter and Kaplan cite. This was particularly interesting to me as both my wife and I grew up close to Lake Placid, New York. Lake Placid hosted the winter Olympics twice—once in 1932 and again in 1980—and continues Continue reading The Military and Competitive Sports


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BMJ tablet appBMJ 2012; 345 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e4877 (Published 18 July 2012) Cite this as: BMJ 2012;345:e4877
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The tablet app is being launched as a beta version. It allows personal and institutional subscribers to browse and read the BMJ journal, just as they would the weekly print journal but with added interactivity. It includes the same selection of research, education, and comment chosen for each week's print issue, along with a prominent link to bmj.com for the latest news and online articles that have not yet appeared in print. Each article contains clickable graphics, embedded video and audio (where available), as well as links to key related articles from the BMJ archive. You can also submit responses by clicking on the "Submit response" button on all articles. Research articles follow the same abridged "pico" format as they do in print, but with links to the full text on bmj.com.
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We initially decided to launch the tablet app on the iPad because currently that is where most of our mobile traffic comes from. In May 2012, for example, there were 101 218 visits to bmj.com from mobile phones and tablet computers. Of that figure, 39 918 were from the iPad. In comparison, 17 631 came from all mobile devices using the Android operating system. Interestingly, since December more people have accessed bmj.com from the iPad than from an iPhone (31 915 in May 2012) (figure⇓).
A high proportion of our visits from mobile devices were from readers outside the United Kingdom. Most, therefore, will probably not have seen a recent print issue. We hope the tablet app is another way of delivering on a pledge to give all our readers the benefit of a weekly bundle of content as well as a sense of our print issue, including the front cover. Many non-UK readers asked for this in our 2010 online survey.
Some consumer publications (such as the Financial Times) have discontinued their iTunes app after launching a web based app of the kind described here, but we have decided to keep our iTunes app. This is because we think it is good to have a presence on the Apple Newsstand, a high profile online store for people with an iTunes account who want to buy a single issue or monthly subscription. We have also made the iTunes app freely available to BMA members (who can also access the tablet app for free). Between January and April 2012, there were 39 816 downloads from BMA members.
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2014 goal is La Marmotte (both Petra and I have signed up) - anyone else heading over to France for a 5K vertical day incl. Col du Glandon, Col du Galibier, and Alpe d'Huez fun ride???…Continue
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Hello fellow BCC'ers,
You might have heard the World's biggest bike festival comes to Blue Mountain July 4-7th - they are btw taking their beer VERY serious and have a massive Expo with food-trucks and craft-beers :)
As we are a OCA bike-club, the organizers offer 15% discount on all registrations for the many events (Road, MTB and Gravel) - use the code: 'OCA' at www.seaottercanada.com
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Next week I'm among 12 riders who will embark on an epic 5 day, 800km ride journey from Toronto to New York City on Sept. 26th in support of Camp Ooch.
With the R2//NYC SEND-OFF FONDO we have created an opportunity for those of you who could not join us on the entire 5-day journey, to still take part, joining us on the first leg of the ride; 162km from Toronto to Buffalo, NY.
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Dear BCC friends,
As most of you know, my road back from a potentially fatal cycling accident 3 years ago has been a long one. I know all too well how life can change in an instant and how important it is to try and live a 'normal' life as you stare down medical challenges.
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If you are missing a good and very worthy idea for doing some serious good 'secret santa' work this season look no further - we're fundraising for donating bikes to youth in Regent Park... and in that process also funding the athletic programs provided to those youth groups in the challenging hours of 3 to 6 each day between school's end and parents arriving home.
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A large amber eye tops a swollen head, surrounded evenly by four mouths loaded with needle-sharp teeth. This enormously long, yet slender creature stretches the length of five men and appears to be composed of twisted strands of pallid flesh and veiny musculature. The tentacle-like thing moves with the awkward, alien speed of a hunting insect, unnaturally still one moment and darting forth with incredible speed the next.
Rorkoun CR 6
NE Huge aberration (aquatic)
Init +2; Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +13
AC 18, touch 10, flat-footed 16 (+2 Dex, +8 natural, –2 size)
hp 76 (9d8+36)
Fort +9, Ref +5, Will +7
Weaknesses vulnerability to acid
Speed 30 ft., swim 40 ft.
Melee bite +11 (2d6+7 plus grab), tail slap +6 (2d6+3 plus grab)
Ranged gob +6 (1d6 plus stuck)
Space 15 ft.; Reach 15 ft.
Special Attacks constrict (2d8+7), gob
Str 25, Dex 14, Con 18, Int 9, Wis 12, Cha 10
Base Atk +6; CMB +15; CMD 27
Feats Blind-Fight, Great Fortitude, Greater Grapple, Improved Grapple, Stealthy
Skills Escape Artist +11, Perception +13, Stealth +8, Swim +23
Languages Common, Goblin (does not speak)
SQ deathwatch, squeeze
Aquatic Dependency (Ex)
A rorkoun violently dehydrates as soon as its body is wholly removed from water. Every round that part of a rorkoun's space does not occupy the same square as a significant body of water (50 gallons or more), the creature takes damage equal to the number of rounds it has been outside water. The rorkoun stops taking damage as soon as it reenters the water.
Deathwatch (Su)
A rorkoun can sense life and death, as if under the effects of a deathwatch spell at all times.
Gob (Ex)
A rorkoun can spit a wad of viscous slaver at its prey. As a standard action, the rorkoun can make a ranged touch attack at a single creature up to 30 feet away. Creatures of Large size or smaller that are struck by the attack must succeed on a DC 18 Reflex save or become entangled. Flying creatures that fail their Reflex save fall to the ground. An entangled creature can escape by making a DC 18 Escape Artist or Strength check. Should an entangled target take any amount of acid damage, the sticky saliva is instantly dissolved. The save, skill, and ability check DCs are Constitution-based.
Squeeze (Ex)
Able to manipulate the shape of its highly malleable body, a rorkoun can easily slip through spaces not normally accessible to a creature of its size. For the purposes of determining how small a space a rorkoun can squeeze through, treat it as one size category smaller. A rorkoun can move into even smaller spaces by contracting, allowing it to treat its size as two size categories smaller.
Environment temperate marshes and underground
Organization solitary
Treasure incidental
Little-known denizens, rorkouns prey upon the unwary from lairs amid the deepest pools and waterways. These disgusting abominations writhe through flooded pits and crevices, feeding upon nearly all they encounter and occasionally breaking forth from the depths into the world of light to glut themselves upon the plump, tender creatures found there.
Rorkouns measure over 25 feet in length, and beneath the strange secretions that provide them with a false, apparent bulk, the creatures possess a ribbon-thin body only a foot wide. A typical rorkoun weighs a mere 200 pounds.
Little is known of the anatomy and life processes of rorkouns because of both their rarity and their fundamental dependency on water. As soon as a rorkoun leaves the water—which none ever do willingly, even to pursue the most tempting prey—it begins dehydrating at a deadly rate. Most that are ripped from their native pools wither to long strips of jerky-like flesh in a few short minutes. Thus, much of what is known of the beasts comes from direct observation, a methodology that proves dangerous for most researchers.
Rorkouns possess lengthy bodies similar to tapeworms, with simple, decentralized bodily systems. Their flat, oblong heads branch into four split mouthparts set on throat-like stalks. At the top of the head, a single, bulging eye scans the creature's surroundings with uncanny sensitivity. Their heads are the thickest parts of their bodies, which taper gradually to a powerful tail. The strangest quality of these creatures is that their body exudes a rubbery, glue-like substance that swiftly hardens into a flexible, putty-like mass. Rorkouns use these secretions to better protect their bodies, seal off their chosen lairs (to prevent water from seeping out), and capture their prey.
Several explorers who have encountered rorkouns have spread unnerving stories regarding the beasts, suggesting that rorkouns are not individual creatures but rather the impossibly long appendages of some unknown aberrant body. Their hesitance to leave the water is thus claimed to be because they are incapable of separating themselves from their greater body; the frantic thrashing of rorkoun that are forcibly removed from the water as they struggle to return is compared to the final desperate twitches of an amputated limb.
Habitat & Society
Solitary creatures, rorkoun rarely share hunting grounds. Most, upon encountering another of their kind, attempt to leave the vicinity, avoiding any sort of confrontation and often ridding the area of both creatures. This aversion proves baffling, especially considering the extreme rarity of the beasts, though some suggest that the abominations might prove more receptive toward others of their kind when far below the surface.
Those scholars who study rorkouns claim the strange beasts understand both the Common language and that of goblins, though most believe the creatures also have a silent language used among their own kind—despite the creatures' tendency to avoid contact with one another. They frequently live near goblin and mite communities. While these species share an ecological niche as scavengers and occasional hunters, the connection is a bit more complex. Rorkouns never hunt goblins or mites as they find the taste of their flesh repulsive. The creatures do, however, find the savory flavor of greater humanoids succulent; they appreciate the zeal with which those races seek to exterminate goblinkind, as it brings prey close to their lairs for them to feast on. Cowardly and secretive, rorkouns lurk in murky pools or bogs near such creatures' camps, hoping to provoke a fight. Once the battle begins, rorkouns strike, picking off the weakest creatures in the fray before slinking off to digest the meal in the privacy of their dens or some other location where their prey's allies might find it difficult to follow. A rorkoun's benefactors rarely understand the reason for this strange kind of cooperation. While mites tend to fear and flee the aberrations—just as they do most creatures— goblins often concoct more elaborate reasons for why these alien horrors might aid them. Typically, a particularly imaginative goblin convinces his tribe that the rorkoun is in fact a god and that they are its chosen people. All too often this inspires the community to new heights of crazed zealotry and the invention of bizarre forms of sacrifice and adoration.
Occasionally rorkouns find their way into the dilapidated or abandoned sewer systems of ruined or declining cities where the shattered remains of such networks have collapsed. There rorkouns crawl and swim their way through the slick tunnels and drainpipes, feeding on refuse, vermin, and the occasional sewer dweller or rat catcher. Such unusual beasts rarely prove significant threats, emerging to menace the surface only through what abandoned tunnels and drainage ditches they might happen upon.


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HUNTINGTON, W. Va. -- The Ohio men's golf team finished in a tie for 11th place with Youngstown State at the 2018 Joe Feaganes Marshall Invitational with a combined team score of 571 (+3), with final-round action taking place today at the Guyan Golf and Country Club.
The Bobcats followed up a first-round 282 (-2) on Monday (Sept. 10) with a final-round 289 (+5). The tournament was shortened from 54 holes to 36 holes due to run impacting course conditions on Monday.
Wichita State won the event with a 549 (-19) after the Shockers combined to total team round scores of 267 (-17) and 282 (-2). Sophomore Zac Owens of Wichita State took home medalist honors after carding a 134 (-8) thanks to rounds of 66 (-5) and 68 (-3).
Senior Ben Sattler (Liberty Township, Ohio) was the top finisher for Ohio, tying for 14th with a 140 (-2), which marked the best 36-hole tournament score of his collegiate career. He delivered an ace on the par 3 sixth hole en route to a 68 (-3) in the first round on Monday, matching the best round score of his collegiate career. Sattler followed it up with a final-round 72 (+1).
Sophomore Tanner Johnson (Venetia, Pa.) finished in a tie for 30th after tallying a 142 (E). He fired rounds of 70 (-1) and 72 (+1), with his first-round score marking the best of his collegiate career to date.
Sophomore Zach Mandry (Solon, Ohio) and sophomore Zach Crawford (Vandalia, Ohio) tied for 48th with a 145 (+3). Mandry shot a final-round 73 (+2) after shooting a carer-best 72 (+1) in the first round on Monday. Crawford improved on his first-round 72 (+1) with a 73 (+2) in the final round.
Sophomore Austin Dyson (Dublin, Ohio) tied for 53rd for the Bobcats. After shooting a career-best round of 72 (+1) on Monday, he tallied a 74 (+3) in the final round.
Competing as an individual, redshirt sophomore Adam Stephens (Dublin, Ohio) tied for 86th with a 154 (+12). He improved on his first-round 78 (+7) with a 76 (+5) in the final round.
Ohio has a short turnaround after the 2018 Joe Feaganes Marshall Invitational, competing in the EKU Raising Canes Intercollegiate this weekend (Sept. 15-16) in Richmond, Ky.


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Morampudi is a small village in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. It belongs to the Duggirala Mandal. The cities nearest to Morampudi are Tenali (11 km), Mangalagiri (14 km), and Guntur (28 km). Morampudi is a progressive village with an agrarian economy. Cotton, chillies, and tobacco are the major crops grown here. It has a predominantly Hindu population.
Places to Stay
Although there no hotels in Morampudi, there are a few budget hotels in nearby Mangalagiri. These include The Mamata Hotel (Tariff – Rs. 1000), Haritha Berm Park (Tariff – Rs. 500), and Brundavan Lodge (Tariff – Rs. 500).
The official language of Morampudi is Telugu. No other languages are spoken here.
The important festivals celebrated in Morampudi are Subramanyeswara Swamy Shashti during Margasira Shuddha Shashti Day and the Vinayaka Chaviti which falls on Bhadra Pada Sudda Chaviti.
Places of Interest
There are several places of tourist attraction in and around Morampudi. A temple dedicated to Lord Shiva has a beautiful and unique Sivalayam. A coffee factory (0.9 km) is also nearby for those wishing to know more about the exciting of manufacturing it from beans. The Buckingham Canal (2 km) is a popular picnic spot here.
How to Get There
The nearest airport to Morampudi is Vijayawada. The airport is located 38 km away from Morampudi.
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When it comes to public transport, I have the worst anxiety. I get so worked up on getting the time, platform, place, everything, on point. I get so worried about ending up somewhere I am not familiar. This will be my first time going through the airport alone, and I am really nervous of getting the right plane and not
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