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ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi easily won a confidence vote on Wednesday over his plans to ease rules for companies that hire temporary workers, part of a broader plan to overhaul labor regulations.
The Senate voted 158 to 122 to back Renzi, the 39-year-old former mayor of Florence who took power in February from party rival Enrico Letta.
The confidence vote allows the government to accelerate the passage of the decree that must be approved by the lower house by May 19 to become law.
It will allow businesses to renew temporary contracts for up to 36 months without citing their motives. Currently, companies have to justify each extension beyond 12 months, a law designed to protect permanent contracts.
Because of pressure from a center-right coalition ally, the measure was amended to permit businesses that exceed a limit on temporary contracts to 20 percent of the total workforce to pay a fine rather than hire more permanent employees.
The measure is part of a broader revision to labor rules - called the Jobs Act - that Renzi is putting together as unemployment soars to nearly 13 percent, its highest since the 1970s, after more than two years of recession.
Confidence votes are often used in Italy as a way of truncating debate and hastening the passage of legislation. If the government loses such a vote it is obliged to resign.
The labor measure is one of a series of reforms the media-savvy and popular Renzi is pushing, including tax cuts for 10 million low earners, ahead of elections for the European Parliament on May 25.
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A. FDA strongly recommends that over-the-counter (OTC) cough and cold products should not be used for infants and children under 2 years of age because serious and potentially life-threatening side effects could occur.
Q. What are these side effects?
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Q. What ingredients may cause these effects, and what should I look for on the label to tell if these ingredients are present in an OTC product?
A: OTC cough and cold products include these ingredients: decongestants (for unclogging a stuffy nose), expectorants (for loosening mucus so that it can be coughed up), antihistamines (for sneezing and runny nose), and antitussives (for quieting coughs). The terms on the label include "nasal decongestants", "cough suppressants", "expectorants" and "antihistamines."
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Tako-Tsubo Syndrome
Tako-Tsubo syndrome is a dreadful illness (albeit quite rare) that appears under circumstances of exceptional and extreme stress, at times associated with anger. If this is happening to you, you should try to calm yourself down, if at all possible (although most patients recover completely if supported adequately in a hospital).
Please read one column after the other.
Some comments on Tako-Tsubo Syndrome
About 70-80% of cases of Tako-tsubo Syndrome (TTS) occur in post-menopausal women under some form of extreme, exceptional and prolonged mental stress,... with no good way out, no relief and often feeling deep resentment (such as the loss of a dear one...)
(Note: a word of caution... , in a minority of patients (<20%) the stress is physical (such as massive trauma, surgery or severe pain, or other type of stress. In very rare cases, no "cause" can be found).
Tako-tsubo Cardiomyopathy or Syndrome is also known as:
"Tako-tsubo" is the japanese name for octopus traps that fishermen still use to catch octopus. In this syndrome, the heart (left ventricle) takes the shape of an octopus trap (tako-tsubo). How about that!
NOTE ( très mucho IMPORTANT and before we forget ! ): a diagnosis of tako-tsubo syndrome can only be made after excluding:
And that leads to the good news, Folks!
Suggestion: patients should be send to cardiac rehabilitation and if possible to a stress reduction clinic if the syndrome is complicated by continued stress or by a syndrome similar to "post-traumatic stress syndrome".
What about tako-tsubo syndrome in the animal kingdom? Despite fancy experimental research protocols designed by the meanest animal on the planet (namely: homo "the meanest mammal" sapiens), tako-tsubo syndrome has not been found in any type of animal as far as we know (except a rat model...
Ueyama T. Emotional stress-induced Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy: animal model and molecular mechanismAnn N Y Acad Sci. 2004 Jun;1018:437-44
Rare video clip in a snowy mountain range of an unfortunate stressed, resentful and angry giraffe running after some scrumptious food. Conclusion from this study: Even maximally stressed giraffes don't get tako-tsubo syndrome......
But there is no need for those fancy experiments...... how about studying non-human primates stuck for life in zoos? I would not be surprised that some tako-tsubo cases could be found there....... future will tell....
Shape of the Left Ventricle in Tako-Tsubo Cardiomyopathy
Normal left ventricular contraction
Abnormal contraction of left ventricle taking the shape of a "Tako-Tsubo"
Syndrome named by Sato et al.
Syndrome seen in Worcester Massachusetts for a long time (followed up prospectively for up to 11 years) but named differently. "Massive T wave inversion mainly in women, with prognosis independent of ECG changes".
Multivessel coronary artery spasm is a possibility.
Neurogenic cause is quite likely.
First patient cohort described in the U.S.
ALERT: what some of us expected to see described has just been ...described...
Attention: instead of the characteristic takotsubo shape that the heart takes, some patients have, instead, focal or even completely diffuse wall motion abnormalities and therefore the "tako-tsubo" morphological change is not seen... Future research will sort out whether those cases should also be grouped into tako-tsubo syndrome.
Nevertheless, transient catecholaminergic myocardial stunning could still be the basis for some of those clinical presentations in patients with little or no coronary stenosis
Treatment: Tako-tsubo syndrome is only treated with support measures.
Outcome: Excellent in 95% of cases. Recovery takes place over a few days with full recovery over a few weeks. Recurrence (another surprise) is extremely rare.
Root cause of tako-tsubo syndrome: Stress appears to be the underlying root cause in many cases. Because of this, some have investigated an excessive norepinephrine release over the heart muscle. Because this mechanism is not yet proven scientifically to satisfaction, we are a bit helpless for the treatment of this syndrome (we really only have standard support measures that we give to other patients with standard heart failure). There are some attempts to give a calcium channel blocker to prevent coronary spasm, but there is no solid literature on that. Besides, patients often have low blood pressure, prevent us from giving a vasodilator such as a calcium channel blocker. Like everything else: better prevent and recognize tako-tsubo syndrome rather than wait for the full syndrome.
Now: for a less serious view of this syndrome. The theory of everything given away by a giraffe...
Pathophysiology of Tako-Tsubo syndrome explained --- goofy "theory of everything", using all 6 character actors ... (Japanese researchers have come up with first papers and attempts to explain this syndrome... they should tie up all things under 6 character actors... here it is for the first time... I hope that this gets me 1/2 of their Nobel Prize...ahahahah!)
6 character actors
1. The Octopus is resting in its Tako-Tsubo - Do NOT irk it !
2. The Octopus is unhappy and on a prowl
3. The Octopus has found its target - the heart
4. Oh! No ! -- Big trouble ! -- The Octopus IS the CNS
5. The CNS is stressed and resentful
6. The CNS, through the sympathetic nervous system, discharges unconscionable and irrational amounts of catecholamines (mainly norepinephrine) on the heart and this creates chest pain, myocardial stunning and/or congestive heart failure... or even SHOCK
Now for another odd thing: the "inverted Tako-Tsubo syndrome"("squid syndrome")
This is much rarer than tako-tsubo syndrome ..... even more mind boggling syndrome... This syndrome can also be transient and reversible...
Here is an example of inverted tako-tsubo syndrome in a patient with pheochromocytoma who was admitted to our hospital. (this type of contraction makes me think of a... squid taking off...)
Take a deep breath and relax (but don't breath to fast ,... or you will become dizzy and panicky...)


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01. Columbus (9:33)
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06. Third Ear (6:40)
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In 2004, the Christoph Siegrist Group won the Montreux Jazz Festival Chrysler Award, an international competition with over 200 participating bands. The price included a performance at the following years edition of the Festival at the main Casino Hall where the group had a double bill share with guitarist Al Di Meola.
After studying two years at the Swiss Jazz School Bern, Christoph Siegrist received a scholarship from the New School in New York where he has been living since 2007. There, he played in ensembles led by Reggie Workman, Billy Harper, and was featured as Solo trumpet in the New School Jazz Orchestra under direction of Charles Tolliver, performing at Dizzys Club at Lincoln Center among other venues. Completing his BFA (Bachelor) Degree in 2009, he is currently working on his Master Degree at New York University.
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In the past 30 years, magnetic research has been dominated by the question of how surfaces and interfaces influence the magnetic and transport properties of nanostructures, thin films and multilayers. The research has been particularly important in the magnetic recording industry where the giant magnetoresistance effect led to a new generation of storage devices including hand-held memories such as those found in the ipod. More recently, transfer of spin angular momentum across interfaces has opened a new field for high frequency applications. This book gives a comprehensive view of research at the forefront of these fields. The frontier is expanding through dynamic exchange between theory and experiment. Contributions have been chosen to reflect this, giving the reader a unified overview of the topic. Addresses both theory and experiment that are vital for gaining an essential understanding of topics at the interface between magnetism and materials science Chapters written by experts provide great insights into complex material Discusses fundamental background material and state-of-the-art applications, serving as an indispensable guide for students and professionals at all levels of expertise Stresses interdisciplinary aspects of the field, including physics, chemistry, nanocharacterization, and materials science Combines basic materials with applications, thus widening the scope of the book and its readershipMore recently, transfer of spin angular momentum across interfaces has opened a new field for high frequency applications. This book gives a comprehensive view of research at the forefront of these fields.
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Miley Cyrus: 40 Million Views for 'Wrecking Ball' Video!
Miley Cyrus waves as she exits her hotel on Wednesday (September 11) in London, England.
"39 MILLION VIEWS IN LESS THAN 2 DAYS =]]]] I LOVE YALL SO MUCH," the 20-year-old actress/singer recently tweeted about her new "Wrecking Ball" music video. Well now, the video has surpassed 40 million!
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Super-set 1: DB Squat, followed by a Jump Squat and followed by Bulgarian Squat.
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Jump Squat: From a squat position, jump and land softly with your knees slightly bent. Repeat right away for the number of reps set. Use the arms to get momentum.
Barbell Bulgarian Squat: When flexing the leg, bring the hips back, keep the back straight, and put all the effort in the leg that is on the floor. Chest up, core tight, and make sure that the knee doesn't go beyond the toes.
Super-set 2: Front Squat to Lateral Squat.
Lateral Squat: When doing this exercise sit back on the leg while keeping the other leg straight with the toes pointed out.
Super-set 3: Overhead Squats followed by Barbell Squat Holds.
Overhead Squats: Keep the arms straight, chest up, core tight, and bend the hips backward at 90 degree while keeping the body erect. This exercise will be limited by your own upper body flexibility and core strength, so go down until the point you can keep the right technique. Hold the position at the bottom for five seconds before going up.
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Update: Another record high temperature was reached today, with a reading of 79 degrees at 3:43 p.m.
Syracuse, NY – The first day of spring brought more temperatures worthy of summer to the Syracuse area – warm enough to set a record high for the third day in a row.
The National Weather Service forecast calls for a high temperature today of 76 degrees. If reached, that would break the record of 75 degrees for a March 20 set in 1976.
The forecast follows a last day of winter that saw a record high temperature of 79 degrees, breaking the old mark of 76 set 109 years ago. Sunday's high of 80 set a record for March 18.
Today, patchy early-morning fog could cut visibility during the rush hour drive, especially in valley areas. Otherwise, it should be mostly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers, mainly after 2 p.m. It should be clear tonight with a low around 56 degrees.
Drier air is expected Wednesday with a high near 79 – seven degrees higher than the current record high for March 21. It should remain clear overnight with a low around 56.
Thursday promises to be sunny with a slight chance of afternoon showers and a high in the mid 70s, not quite high enough to threaten the record 82 degree high for March 22. It's expected to drop to around 50 degrees overnight under a continued chance of showers.
The weekend should see a return toward temperatures that still will be above average for the last few days of March, but cooler than the region has been experiencing.
The forecast for Friday is for sunshine with a high near 67 degrees. It should be partly sunny Saturday with a high near 60. A jacket probably will be in order Sunday under a chance of showers and a high around 56.
Monday should be mostly sunny with a high near 54 degrees. The average high for the date is 47.4 degrees.
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Cape Town Archbishop Thabo Makgoba visited Pretoria's Mediclinic Heart Hospital late on Tuesday to pray with wife Graca Machel "at this hard time of watching and waiting".
Mr Mandela, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, who spent 27 years behind bars for his struggle under white minority rule and went on to become South Africa's first black president, was admitted on June 8 with a recurrent lung infection.
During a 19-day vigil, his family, and the world, have watched as the 94-year-old slipped from a stable to a critical condition.
Many now fear for the man who, in defeating apartheid, changed the course of history and inspired millions across the world.
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The archbishop's prayer seemed to echo a growing feeling of inevitability about Mandela's condition that is increasingly voiced by South Africans, to whom he remains a moral giant, even though he stepped back from public life a decade ago.
"May (we) be filled with gratitude for all the good that he has done for us and for our nation, and may (we) honour his legacy through our lives," the prayer read.
"Grant Madiba eternal healing and relief from pain and suffering," it said, referring to Mr Mandela by his clan name.
"Grant him, we pray, a quiet night and a peaceful, perfect, end."
According to local media, elders from Mr Mandela's Thembu clan were due to visit him in hospital on Wednesday to decide what to do.
"They want to visit Tata (father) himself and discuss what should be done," an unnamed local chief told The Times newspaper.
The police presence in the neighbourhood of Mr Mandela's home was bigger early on Wednesday, compared to previous nights.
As South Africans have become resigned to Mr Mandela's mortality, his role in shaping their nation has come into sharper focus.
"Mr. Mandela set the example," said Rosemarie van Staden, who was handing out muffins to well-wishers. "He wanted us to be a rainbow nation and we really must carry on."
President Jacob Zuma called on South Africans to respect the Mandela family's "dignity and privacy".
Meanwhile messages of goodwill flooded in from overseas.
Mr Mandela – who is due to celebrate his 95th birthday on July 18 – has been admitted to hospital four times since December.
Upon his release from jail in 1990 in one of the defining moments of the 20th century, Mandela negotiated an end to apartheid and won the country's first fully democratic elections.
He served a single term as president, guiding the country away from internecine racial and tribal violence, before taking up a new role as a roving elder statesman and leading Aids campaigner.
He stepped back from public life in 2004.
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Jewish World Review Dec. 2, 2011 6 Kislev, 5772
Politicians Are Receding From View
By Roger Simon
We used to get close, I tell them. So close, we could talk to the candidates. So close, we could touch them. In 1980, in a mad throng of deliriously happy supporters in Serb Hall in Milwaukee, I was crushed up against Ronald Reagan so tightly that some of his make-up rubbed off on me. He grinned. That same year, George H.W. Bush would invite reporters to his motel room for "seances" in which there was beer on ice in the wastebasket, and he would joke and tell stories, and he didn't need to say it was off the record because we all played the game in those days.
In 1984, following Gary Hart, a New Hampshire factory owner tried to keep the press out as Hart toured a crowded assembly-line floor. "Look out," a reporter growled, pushing past the owner. "Somebody sticks a knife in the guy, we gotta be there." I am pretty sure that reporter was from New York.
Probably wouldn't happen today. Probably couldn't happen today. With the explosion of media covering the candidates, with the high-risk nature of the 24/7 news cycle (any slip can mean political death), access is tightly controlled. In 2007, Hillary Clinton announced her candidacy in a video, the most controllable medium of all, in which every frame can be reviewed, re-thought and re-shot.
At every event, at every interview, at every moment, candidates today must be "staffed up," meaning a staff person must be with them. I used to wonder why. Could a staffer slap his hand over the candidate's mouth or grab the candidate by the throat before dangerous words came out or news was committed? But I learned that wasn't it. Candidates behave differently with staffers around. They are more controlled, more circumspect, less candid, because the presence of staffers at their elbow is a constant reminder to keep on message. And the press buys into this game, too: We praise candidates who have the "discipline" to stay on message and criticize those who foolishly go off.
Minor or struggling candidates still provide access, of course. Without press attention, their campaigns will wither and die. But if they manage to get the nomination, the ropes go up, and the press will view them from so far away, they are the size of postage stamps. The bigger you get, the smaller you are.
It is mid-January 1976, and I am covering my first presidential campaign. I have not eaten all day because Jimmy Carter, a virtual unknown, starts his days very, very early and campaigns very, very hard. No staffer has the job of feeding the press because there is hardly ever any press.
I am with Carter because I have been shanghaied, dragooned, kidnapped. I was at a candidate forum in Davenport, Iowa, when a blond-haired, soft-talking Southerner comes up to me and asks, "Who you covering?" Fred Harris, I tell him. He laughs. "He's not going to win. Come with us." I tell him I can't, that all my stuff is in Des Moines, where I will return that night. "What do you need?" the Southerner says. "Toothbrush? Razor? Hell, that's nothing." After the forum, I am stuffed into the back seat of a car. The Southerner, Jody Powell, who will become White House press secretary, sits next to me, and Hamilton Jordan, who will become White House chief of staff, drives. We manage to find a drugstore that is still open, and I buy a razor, shaving cream and deodorant. You can turn your underwear inside out and get an extra day out of it, I am advised.
Now it is the next day, and I am hungry. Jimmy Carter, who sits in the co-pilot seat of the tiny plane in which we are flying, is unfolding the foil from a cheeseburger. I sit behind him. He turns. "You want half?" he asks. Without waiting for an answer, he tears the cheeseburger raggedly in half and hands me a portion. I wolf it down. Anybody smart enough to feed a hungry reporter could be president, I figure.
The rest of the press corps, riding in another tiny plane, numbers but three: Robert Novak, the famous columnist; R.W. Apple, the famous New York Times reporter (whose later very astute article on Carter will help legitimize his campaign); and a reporter whose name refuses to come to my memory, except I think he was from the Boston Globe. They await their turn to rotate to Carter's plane to sit with him. Access is not a problem.
So we fly around and fly around, and we get to Ottumwa, Iowa, and after Carter's speech, Apple says: "I've seen enough. I'm going to charter a plane back to Des Moines. Anybody want to come?" We all decide to come. But somebody has to tell Powell that Carter's entire press corps is leaving. He takes it well. "Y'all be back," he drawls. "Y'all be back."
He is right. In August 1976, I am in Atlanta interviewing Gerald Rafshoon, an advertising executive, who will become Carter's White House communications director, the first ad man to hold a staff position in the White House. He is 42 and refers to himself as Carter's "born-again Jew." He has run a very smart ad campaign for Carter: Eschewing the 30-second TV spots that have become standard, he creates leisurely two-minute and even five-minute spots of Carter walking around his peanut fields or sitting on his patio and talking.
The test comes in Florida. Carter must beat George Wallace there to show that Carter is the Democrat who can carry the South in the general election. It will not be easy. Wallace not only won the Florida primary four years before, he won every county. But Rafshoon buys TV time during "Hee Haw" and "The Lawrence Welk Show," and Carter beats Wallace by 4 percentage points. Now, Carter cannot be stopped. And for the Democratic Convention, Rafshoon produces a 15-minute film on Carter to be shown before Carter takes the podium to accept the nomination.
I have my 1976 column in my hand. Yes, it is on paper, and, yes, it is yellowed with age.
"As the film played in the darkened convention hall, you could hear the typewriters of a thousand print reporters go silent as they witnessed the death of journalism," I wrote. "The film was so effective that no reporter in the hall could hope to compete with its ability to render Jimmy Carter to a mass audience. It was so good, in fact, that it made Carter's real speech an anticlimax."
And so it began. The electronic image, carefully controlled, surpassed the power of the candidate in the flesh. Someday candidates will not campaign in the flesh at all. It will all be electronic or whatever replaces electronic. It will be faster, cheaper and without the chance of mistakes. Will anybody care? Will anybody notice?
But before that day comes, if you are somebody in journalism, try to look past the image. Try to eke out the truth. It is there, lurking, waiting to be delivered.
And if you are somebody in politics and you see a hungry reporter, tear your lunch in half and give it up. It is very presidential.
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Someone brought up wild wasteland recently and I think this is as good a time as any to open public discussion.
Go ahead and throw any ideas you have in here!
Someone brought up wild wasteland recently and I think this is as good a time as any to open public discussion.
Go ahead and throw any ideas you have in here!
I'm assuming it would be out of the question to make Mothership Zeta Wild Wasteland only?
Personally, I would suggest we take some ideas from the original Fallout and Fallout 2. There are some random encounters and certain unique things that we could integrate into FO3. An example is the pariah dog: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Pariah
or even say a talking Deathclaw, near the base of the supermutants, in FO2 there was a talking deathclaw companion called Goris: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Goris
There are a lot of little things that you can take from the originals into FO3. Least that's my opinion.
I agree with Computerrock1 about getting some ideas from older fallout games.
I can see for example a brotherhood outcast with his rusted armor begging for some oil: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Tin_Man (or maybe a dead outcast with his hand trying to reach a nearby oil can.) we could get a useless unique item from this encounter (oil can, just like fallout 2).
Even though fallout tactics is considered semi-canon I liked some of the special encounters there, for example:
And for those who played Planescape torment:
There are so many fun things that could be added from the original series.
Also, I really like the tin man one.
Here a couple that I really think we ought to do:
This one involves a community of forum posters fighting a notorious spammer of said forum board, now I don't believe we have any spammers on this board but it would be cool to add some of the more active forum posters in TTW Wild Wasteland in a similar scenario.
Instead of a conversation with the "Chosen One" we can have the original vault dweller arguing with the lone wanderer.
We can place him/her over where Agatha lives, at least I think there is a bridge over to her house, I may be wrong.
The only problem I thought about making wild wasteland special encounters is that they would have to have no voices, because it would be all non vanilla dialogues.
I am quite fine with that, but other users might not feel attracted to the idea as much.
Also love that bridge keeper one any Monty Python references are good and welcome in my opinion.
Just thinking of Monty Python, in "The life of Brian" movie there is a part where the main character (Brian) falls and get a ride on a UFO that passes by, maybe we could make a male body near the ufo crash in DC called Brian or something as a wild wasteland feature.
The Bridgekeeper was my favorite random encounter from Fallout 2. The obscenely overpowered robes were awesome as well (if I remember correctly, the Bridgekeepers Robes had comparable armor value to combat armor. I remember using them until late in the game before upgrading to advanced power armor). And while the bridge to Agathas house is a little too heavily used for a Wild Wasteland site, there are a couple bridges near the Deathclaw Sanctuary that I think would work well.
Thinking about the mod I am currently working on at the moment I am not really glad about the idea to include Fallout 1 random Encounter in TTW. Would be boring to get the same encounter twice.
I am inclined to agree with you sesom, I would prefer not to reuse old encounters and instead try to come up with brand new wild wasteland encounters.
Just an idea here, I don´t mind if you think that it is bad :)
I just thought that FO:3 already has some content, which is more "wacky" in relation to F:NV without wild wasteland. Would it be a possibility to change this trait for FO:3 to work exactly opposite, like "serious wasteland"? This way everyone still could have the classic "wacky" experience but you could also have the more serious one. Otherwise we would have the classic "wacky" and the "even more wacky" version.
To give an example you could change the Nukalurks to mirelurks with the "serious wasteland" trait.
If this is a bad idea please don´t shoot me, this was just me thinking :)
Ok then I guess I will have to use my brain more and come up with new stuff instead of just remember old stuff .
I think you should just be able to select wild wasteland while starting in DC. It doesn't take effect until you reach Vegas.
And that's it. Anything else is kinda non-vanilla.
I would love to see "The Guardian of Forever" Star Trek reference from FO2, my personal favorite, and maybe a Twilight Zone reference, possible from "Time Enough at Last" the iconic ending scene....ah I could go on and on lol.
Maybe just converting some of FO3's wackier encounters to only show up with the wild wasteland trait activated.
That was something I thought too at first, but I´m more for keeping as much vanilla experience as possible.
How about putting a non-aggressive giant rat called "Mickey" between the steering wheel and the chair in the riverboat to point lookout? Sounds easy and wouldn't break immersion in my opinion (could be a pet for the captain, after all people have yao guai, giant ants and others have molerats as pets).
Just to give you a picture:
That is a great idea.
The 3rd Type wrote:
Maybe just converting some of FO3's wackier encounters to only show up with the wild wasteland trait activated.
My thought as well. FO3 has plenty of random encounters. Just convert a couple of the really weird ones to WW and maybe add some static stuff around too.
How many WW locations are even in FNV? I don't think that FO3 needs that many. The random encounters are pretty good as is, and the game has enough of the "wacky" stuff. Plunger sewer anyone?
Delphi wrote:
Just an idea here, I don´t mind if you think that it is bad :)
I just thought that FO:3 already has some content, which is more "wacky" in relation to F:NV without wild wasteland. Would it be a possibility to change this trait for FO:3 to work exactly opposite, like "serious wasteland"? This way everyone still could have the classic "wacky" experience but you could also have the more serious one. Otherwise we would have the classic "wacky" and the "even more wacky" version.
To give an example you could change the Nukalurks to mirelurks with the "serious wasteland" trait.
If this is a bad idea please don´t shoot me, this was just me thinking :)
im for this as well as adding some new encounters not just some copy pasta from old fallout but some would be fine more then fine actually i would endorse it im heading off to school soon so ill be back with more ideals for this after that
Big Empty vs Aliens?
Can you imagine fighting between aliens and lobotomies? Wierdest stuff ever. I think this should be something like traditional random encounter. You could just give those men broken teleport pistols.
On the other hand why we couldn't give more respect to Bethesda & Obsidian and create their teams as ghouls. Avellone had apprience in fallout 1 so this isn't that strange. We still got Bethesda ruins and we could make a little vault in Vegas for Obsidian.
No big Ideas about "serious wasteland" except name: "Hell is my home". I don't think that player shouldn't be able to pick only one. Wild Wasteland give us some laugh but fallout 3 and Vegas already have the dark tone (Ok CW looks darker but Legion is more cruel than any faction in DC). I think both traits should work on both areas. We could give some NPCs in Mojave strange meat. Show NCR soldiers shooting innocent people?
I got one just now while looking through the forums to poison them with my ideas mwahaha
There could be a reference to COD Zombies using the train method, one of the stops could have a bunch of ghouls and have an ammo box that once activated has the script of the OA ammo dispensers, and says MAX AMMO
When you are talking to Vance about the family being vampires, if wild wasteland is active, you say you'd call me crazy if you all sparkle in sunlight. LOL that's so win I quit if it doesn't go in.
^^Ditto XD
What about a trap room that has a hallway leading to it with the Graffiti "Cake ->", then in the room "The cake is a lie", with landmines, or tripwires, etc.
I'm really iffy on adding brand new content when there's plenty of Wacky Encounters in Vanilla FO3 that could be put on the WW system.
Such as? Off the top of my head, I can only think of the plunger room, though I am sure there are more. Make up a list and you might be right, we might not need any new ones.
For what it's worth, my memory of Fallout 3's content is that there's a TON of "wacky" content that could be folded into Wild Wasteland. I was actually considering doing it way back in the early days of RFCW, but there were more pressing issues at the time.
A lot of it is random dialog and comments, like Brian Wilks saying he knows what a TV dinner feels like when he's in the Preservation Shelter (Die Hard reference). There's several other things like the Plunger Room, though I'd be hard pressed to remember them now. Fortunately, wandering through the CW is a great way to find those things.
Regardless, if you total up all the pop culture references and oddball placements of things, there's WAY more WW-qualifying stuff in FO3 than there is in FNV. We don't need to add anything to make the perk have an impact.
One of the first things I see in this thread is bout talking Deathclaws, which is awesome.
If you guys had the time you could just add a small group in due to the way the Enclave experiments are described in Fo2. The intelligence part of their genetics are forcibly dominant, and there is at least one intelligent Deathclaw that makes it away alive, so it isn't unlikely that they could pass on that particular gene. Just a thought.
I still stand by whatever is added to wild wasteland should be part of an optional esp or something. Something that really makes Fallout 3 a good game for me is finding funny things. If someone can't deal with humor in a game they shouldn't be playing a fallout game.
Ok guys, i have done quite a bit of research and i have come up with an idea that links the two games. An elderly NCR Veteran in a makeshift house who decided one day to leave the NCR and travel to Washington D.C. I just looked on google maps and walking non-stop from the strip to the white house, passing through Denver, Kansas City, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Cincinnati before finally reaching the capitol wasteland would take 35 days. So we could make the journey about a year or so. He was one of the first troops dispatched to the Mojave region in 2253, so could say he was born in 2225, and deserted from the NCR in 2255 or retired from service in 2260. Someone could voice act him, give the script to a group of volunteers and the best sounding one gets put in. Now for his dialogue, he could say about some of the events of fallout 2, since that happened 2241-42 and he would have been a teenager at the time and heard about the Chosen one's adventures. He could also say he signed up at the age of 18 and fought in the NCR-Enclave war and how the radio on the eyebots reminds him of back west. He could say about the death of president Tandi. He would also have to describe any notable places he traveled through. There isn't much information on the wiki regarding the NCR-BOS war so he can say he doesn't know much about it. Basically, this man is an insight into the events of Fallout 2 and major events up to when he left the west. He can also say about the high presence of BOS in the midwest due to the events of Fallout: Tactics. Mainly, all this encounter would need is to dress the guy up appropriately and someone to voice act and lip-sync. You could stick him in underworld since that's a neutral settlement, and requires some travelling. Maybe he could be a part of the mod without Wild Wasteland?
Anyone can PM me if you're interested in my idea.
I think it would be kind of fun to bring back the Cafe of Broken Dreams. Maybe even have an optional companion that you can meet there, perhaps one named Ian in honor of the Vault Dweller's first companion in original Fallout. Maybe we could even have someone voice act him, and throw in some random dialogue about the original game. Personally, I love the kooky elements of the game, and wouldn't get rid of them for the world. I say making a set of Wild Wasteland encounters for the D.C. wastes is a fine idea, and I'd be more than happy to come up with some.
Here's another idea. There could be a room where you find a lamp, a vaccume, a radio, a blanket, and a toaster all sitting together, and if you pick up the toaster, a message appears that says "You can't explain it, but you're suddenly feeling a bit more brave.", and the toaster gives you a permanent +5 to damage resistance and +1 to endurance when you hold it. It's a nod to the movie and book The Brave Little Toaster. I think its cute. I was going to make it a mod myself, but I think it fits well in the spirit of Wild Wasteland.
I got a stupid one! Gives the Victory Rifle the Grunt Birthday Party effect from Halo. AKA, in Halo, when it's on, if you shoot somebody in the head, their blood is instead confetti, but for our purposes we could change the impact effect to an altered Gauss Rifle effect to look like exploding confetti. Fun!
What about making a random android NPC to refer back to the Railroad. You could put notes on terminals saying there's an android on the loose. When you see him the Wild Wasteland icon could pop up indicating that he is the android.
stvb95 wrote:
What about making a random android NPC to refer back to the Railroad. You could put notes on terminals saying there's an android on the loose. When you see him the Wild Wasteland icon could pop up indicating that he is the android.
Isn't the Railroad in FO3? And wouldn't the android be Harkness?
Just some silly ideas; mostly around popular movies.
Shrine to Barack Obama (location: Arlington House): Because he's the first black president, it fits Fo3 theme. His shrine can be found next to Lincoln's, with the photo of that supreme smiling face.
NCR-Legion fight in Capital Wasteland (location: Random Capital Waste): It's a big mystery why and how NCR and Legion came to DC and died over a struggle for a refrigerator filled with purified water. (hint: there is no dam in Fo3)
Bruce Wilkins (location: one of Pulowski Preservation shelters): Fo3 already has Die Hard trivia that Bryan of Grayditch says "Now I know what a TV dinner feels like", so why not we actually get either Bruce Wilkins' corpse in a PP shelter, or a TV dinner named of it?
The Seventh Seal (location: shore-like scenic place, best in Point Lookout): A chessboard on a table. Two chairs facing each other. One is empty and the other is owned by a skeleton named Max or somewhat referencing the movie. Chesspices(bottle caps) are showing that he's checkmated.
Evildead (location: Dunwich Building): A chainsaw, next to 'Ash' pile, trivia to the necronomicon .
Green Lantern (location: the brass lantern): A green lighted lantern can be found inside The Brass Lantern. A note has inscribed their famous oath.
Blade Runner (location: River City): Just like in Honest Heart, right after the forced encounter meeting the Harkness at Rivet City, a man Rick Deckard armed with .223 pistol & trench coat comes out. He stays at the common room in the boat, disappears when the Commonwealth quest finished.
Saving Private Ryan (location: Operation Anchorage): The one of captured American soldiers is named Private Ryan.
Change Jingwei's speech success for closed captions to say the translation is "Kill me? You can't! I'm an officer!" as a reference to the movie 'Deathwatch'
May I chime in?
The Office- simple enough, find an Office Building in DC, place a few skeletons, give them names; Dwight, Jim, Pam, Oscar, Andy, etc,. You could even have Dwight holding a unique weapon. The revolver he fired in the office when he became manager.
Transformer- pick a random vehicle, give it a name; Optimus, Ironhide, Ratchet, etc,. Blowing up said named vehicle will turn the vehicle into robot remains carrying a unique lazer weapon.
National Treasure- Just put the Declaration of Independence in the hands of a skeleton named Nicolas Cage, whose body is placed right in front of where the document would usually be.
Adam West Batman- In Fallout 3, you might run into a wastelander strapped with a bomb. Well if you have seen the old Batman with Adam West, you might remember a seen where Batman is running around holding a bomb with a lit fuse and says, "Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb." You could make the wastelander strapped with explosives say that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsJA1C19AyE Here's a link the the humorous clip.
Men in Black- After completing Mothership Zeta, two black suited fellows will approach you and try to kill you. One of them will have a unique item, the neuralizer. A one use item that resets your karma.
The problem I see with using old fo3 stuff is that the WW stuff in NV appears only if you have the perk. I'd rather then see a few WW encounters added in then turn the old stuff off without the perk.
A kid carrying a hunting rifle and a dog in front of the corpse of a woman. The boy could be using the animation from the Cannibal perk to show he's eating the girl. This is a reference from a post-apocalyptic movie called A Boy and His Dog.
An African-American man carrying a bladed melee weapon and holding an Unique Pre-War book, either dead or alive, roaming the Wasteland. Refernce to Book of Eli.
So far, out of what I have read above, these are the ones I like the best:
Plunger Room and Die Hard reference - both of these vanilla items are perfect for a WW encounter, as mentioned above.
Cafe of Broken Dreams - This should really go in. It's a great reference to earlier Fallout titles, and as mentioned, it gives the opportunity for contact with named NPCs and companions from those games. If this doesn't make it into TTW as a Wild Wasteland event, it is definitely worthy of a mod.
Steamboat Willie - Risewild posted the picture of the mouse. I just wanted to point out that it isn't Mickey, but Mickey's predecessor, Steamboat Willie (1928). The idea is still awesome, though. This one is perfect for a WW reference.
Tin Man - This is another old Fallout reference that I think would be perfect for WW. While I understand that re-using old Fallout encounters may not be for everyone, there are a lot of us who would look at them as easter eggs and who have a feeling of nostalgia for the older games. If we keep it to a few old ones, with some new ones, I think it would be received well.
The Guardian of Forever - Again, this has been referenced in a previous Fallout game, but c'mon...it's probably one of the most iconic things in sci-fi, and it's a cool Star Trek reference that a lot of people would dig.
Time Enough at Last - Wow, this one is an awesome idea. Probably in my top 5 for most memorable Twilight Zones, and it fits a post-apocolyptic enviroment perfectly. Just add a corpse/skeleton with some broken glasses and a note reading "There was time now!!" in the Library of Congress...done. Queue Wild Wasteland sound.
Twilight Sparkles - OMG, this is so funny! Let's face it, no longer are vampires cool like they were in Blade or From Dusk Til Dawn. Now they are angsty sparkly constipated douchebags. Girls will laugh casually, guys will girlfriends will laugh profusely, and guys without girlfriends...well, all they got is gaming, so they'll keep playing anyways.
Evildead - This is pure win. Satanabusjones has a great Dunwich Expansion mod that adds stuff from Evil Dead and H.P Lovecraft, but just dropping a chainsaw and a double-barrel shotgun nearby an "Ash" pile is awesome, and a great WW reference.
Blade Runner - The whole android quest is pretty much based off of Blade Runner, so adding in Rick Deckard works perfectly. Especially since NV includes his gun.
Saving Private Ryan - I also like this one for OA. Great idea!
National Treasure - I like this idea as well, but I would use the name Benjamin Gates instead of Nic Cage, lol.
Men in Black - This one is another great idea for tying in WW to FO3 DLC's, although I am not sure about the neurolizer resetting karma. Just an encounter with the MIB after returning from Zeta would be good enough. (In fact, that is three out of the four DLCs that have a great idea...just need one for the Pitt.)
A Boy and his Dog - Probably some of Don Johnson's finest work, this was a great post-apocolyptic movie from 1975. This one should make it in for sure.
Book of Eli - Again, a great post-apocolyptic movie that deserves a WW reference. Good choice!
OK, here are my few suggestions:
The Road - A man and boy pushing a shopping cart along the road. The man has only a single shot in his gun, and they will wither flee or attack, depending on how the player reacts.
Six-String Samurai - This should really be for NV, but I'm sure we could snatch something from the movie to put in DC. Perhaps the Red Elvises are on tour or the player could encounter a warning about the spinach monster.
Hubris Comics - What comic book location would be complete without a Stan Lee reference? Toss old Smiling Stan's corpse into the Hubris Building with a message scrawled above him on the wall...."Excelsior!" (Be sure to include Stan's signature glasses on the corpse.)
Fear and Loathing in New Vegas - This one again should be in New vegas, unless we can figure out a reason ole Hunter S. Thompson would be covering a story in DC. He could be either a skeleton or a copse, but a drugged out ghoul would be perfect. Be sure to make a reference to bat country, and include a colorful suit and the trademark hat.
The above list is pretty extensive, with at nearly 20 possible encounters. It has something for three of the four DLCs, and it is a mix of vanilla encounters, old Fallout 1 and 2 stuff, and new ideas. I think there is a lot to work with here. If any of these are chosen, I have some additional ideas on how each encounter could work, but I'll save further feedback for now.
Those Sound perfect, now for the team to start adding them :/
I've got one, a reference to the movie "Gladiator", one of the generic Pitt slaves that you fight in the arena is named Gladiator and has a necklace version of the Mark of Caesar or some Legion Danarius or something
The thing about FO1 and FO2 encounters is that Sesom and his team are remaking those games, once they are finished they will be added to TTW so has he pointed out before then there would be duplicated or very similar encounters while the player is exploring .
Hey, Jax, do you still want that list of all the strange vanilla FO:3 encounters?
I started doing such things a while back for my own purposes, but if you really want it I'll go ahead and finish it.
I can't guarantee that anything will come of it at the moment, but it would be very useful to have on hand.
Risewild wrote:
The thing about FO1 and FO2 encounters is that Sesom and his team are remaking those games, once they are finished they will be added to TTW so has he pointed out before then there would be duplicated or very similar encounters while the player is exploring .
Befo wrote:
WHAT?!? FO1 and 2 in TTW? Where can I read more about this?
It's FO1 at the moment:
Look here: http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/mods/48095 the video has a lot of information too. A WIP thread is coming here soon.
Yeah, that is a frightening prospect, to integrate large mods like these.
It would make this a whole new ball game, I see bright flashes in the future... :)
Lets get back to the topic: wild wasteland. You could add a random encouter wwhere a entirly blue guy walks up to you as in a avatar reference.
Or you could add a dead lady, in a lake, holding some sort of sword, as in aexcalibur refrence (king arthur)
I like the Lady in the Lake idea, nice encounter!
The problem is finding a lake .


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Today's post is all about the gear and tech for Indie Van Game Jam.
Here's the complete list of gear we used for Season 1:
- Canon EOS 5D Mk. III
- Canon EOS 25-105mm. f/4.0 lens
- Canon EOS 100mm. f/1.8 lens
- Canon 5D Mk. III batteries (5)
- Canon 5D Mk. III chargers (2)
- Kingston 266 x 32 GB CF cards (5)
- Manfrotto MA561BHDV1 Fluid Video Monopod and Head
- Shoulder Rig Support
- Flashpoint LED light with bracket
- Zacuto Zwiss Cage
- GoPro Hero 3
- GoPro Suction Cup Mount
- GoPro Hero 3 batteries (2)
- SanDisk Class 10 x 32GB microSD cards (2)
- CF/SD Card Reader USB
- ElGato HD Capture Device
- Zoom H4n
- Rode VideoMic Pro
- Rode NTG-3 Shotgun Mic
- Shotgun Mic accessories
- Mic stand
- Sennheiser Wireless Transmitter/Receiver Packs (2)
- Skullcandy Headphones
- Rycote Lavalier Undercovers
- Photoflex 5-in-1 22'' Multidisc Reflector
- Seagate Backup Plus 4TB 3.0 USB External Hard Drive
- 500 GB external hard drives (3)
- HDMI cables (2)
- PortaBrace travel case
- Tons of AA/AAA batteries
- Gaffer Tape
- 50' extension cord
- Pens
- Notepads
- Clipboard
- Release forms
- Bandana
I'm borrowing heavily from the gear list posted by the filmmakers of Indie Game: The Movie here: http://www.indiegamethemovie.com/news/2010/9/18/gear-games-james.html
My experience with filming run-and-gun short documentaries has taught me that it's imperative to pack as light and as efficiently as possible. I wouldn't have the space in the van to store lighting equipment, we wouldn't have the production crew/manpower to stage and clear the equipment quickly in the indie studios, and finally we would be driving during winter, which of course meant direwolves and traveling on foot through snow and ice — not so good when you're carrying around expensive candy.
TL;dr Make sure you pack light and can move quickly with equipment in order to keep up with the team.
When choosing a camera for any production, there are a couple of important deciding factors for me that go into renting or purchasing one: (a) weight, (b) dynamic range, and (c) environment.
A. Weight
Will the camera's weight slow you down? If you like to move with subjects by using a shoulder mount, if you need to fit through tight spaces, you probably won't be carrying Red Epic around with you.
The cost of energy expended from putting the camera down and setting it back onto your shoulder means that your ability to press record in time to capture spontaneous moments is that much slower. One of the primary objectives of a good cinematographer IMO is to minimize his chances at missing moments that typically happen in the blink of an eye (and thus can't be repeated without some degree of acting and inauthenticity).
B. Dynamic Range
What is your lighting situation going to be? With documentaries, it's hard to predict where your subjects will move and how to light them properly and persistently over time. This means that I must be able to punch in my ISO as fast as possible.
When the team returned home to Austin from Chicago in episode one for example, they had a post-mortem on the game jam process inside the van. It was 2AM and pitch black out. So we strung a couple of Diego's camping lights up onto the side panels to give everyone some light, and I bumped up the ISO on the Mk3 to maybe 10,000. It's hella grainy, but you make out their silhouettes and it gets the job done.
C. Environment
How well will the camera withstand traveling and weather conditions? Fortunately the 5D's batteries never froze, but a better choice may have been a Sony or Panasonic HDV cam.
Tl;dr There are many factors that go into choosing a camera and its support, such as weight, dynamic range, environment, S-Logs, stability, etc. Don't let the analysis paralyze you from going out into the field and experimenting with one or the other.
Most of the gear fit into a single PortaBrace that I slung over my shoulder and one Osprey backpack!
(War mode + epic beard ftw)
Editing happens on a Macbook Pro using PluralEyes to sync sound, Premiere Pro to edit, Photoshop and After Effects for designing stuff (mostly tweaking Diego's awesome animations he's shipped me!), Audition for sound editing. We use the El Gato Capture HD device hooked up to 2 laptops and 1 TV to record various development stages and Screenflow to capture a plethora of other things: missing gameplay footage, scrolling code, character animations in Unity, etc.
In case you're interested in learning more about what goes into choosing a camera, check out this awesome post over at No Film School with thoughts from Still Motion:
Feel free to ask any questions about the gear!
This is Part I of IV of a series about the making of Indie Van Game Jam. Read on to Part II about the Pre-Production phase, Part III about filming, or Part IV about editing.
Indie Van Game Jam is currently in the middle of their Steam Greenlight campaign. To help them Vote Yes on the Steam Greenlight campaign and by sending out a tweet, facebook message, or tumbl!


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Perkins House is located on Hillcrest Rd. behind the tennis courts and next to the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs. There are ten singles that house nine students plus a Teaching Assistant. This year's T.A. is Carolina Menendez Ferreira from Spain. Students pledge to speak only Spanish in the house, and host a number of activities and gatherings. Rising sophomores, juniors and seniors are welcome to apply here. Application deadline is February 19.
The Portuguese House
The Portuguese House has room for four students and a Teaching Assistant. This year's T.A. is Fabiola Stein from Brasíl. Residents pledge to only speak Portuguese in the house. The Portuguese House hosts numerous activities throughout the year, including screenings, cafezinhos, presentations, dinners, and parties. Rising sophomores, juniors and seniors are welcome to apply by contacting Mario Higa, email@example.com.
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While working in the emergency room I was taking care of a 90 year old lady who came in by wheelchair from a local rest home. Her complaint was right leg swelling and we found an obvious deformity of... Read More
Nov 10, '10I'm a nursing student and it was my first day caring for a patient on the Tele unit. She was very ill and had been waiting for a liver for quite some time. She was admitted a month before, and the staff nurse and I were telling her she was getting a new liver =)
So it's me, staff nurse and ancillary in the room and she starts crying and laughing and said, "I have to call him. No I have to call her first. I just have to tell everyone!"
The staff nurse says, "OK, but first we have to run some tests..."
Patient: "No, no, no. The first thing you have to do is get me the h*ll off of this bed pan!"
Nov 10, '10just recently I had a cute one. I had set a patient up with a bowl of water and some toiletries to wash. I asked her "Can you manage?" and she looked at funny and said "I'm 82 dear!".
Nov 10, '10Quote from TaraCO2010Holy cow! Tears running down my face! Stomach ache! Nearly peed my pants! Thanks so much for posting. I haven't laughed this hard since...well, since yesterday, actually, but thanks!I went into the patients room and began to explain to him that I was going to remove his catheter. At this point he lost all of his color and became quite nervous. I asked him if he was feeling okay and he wanted to know if it would hurt. I explained to him that it might burn a little but that the discomfort wouldn't last long. He let out a deep breath and seemed to brace himself for the procedure. I gloved up and unwrapped the syringe so I could deflate the balloon. As soon as he saw the syringe he let out a HUGE sigh of relief. He then said, "Oh thank God you are going to deflate the balloon." It turns out that he worked in a funeral home and when he receives bodies that have foley's in place he just yanks them out inflated balloon and all. It never occurred to him to deflate the balloon so he thought that we would do the same for him. I have never seen a patient so relieved.
Nov 10, '10My grandfather just turned 90 in September. I asked him what he had been doing to keep busy,his reply was "Well, I go visit old people.". He still drives and visits my 92 y/o great aunt and her 94 y/o "friend".So I guess he means them since he is only 90!
I worked for 6 yrs. on med/surg in a local hospital and heard a few good ones there also. One morning I was setting up a wash basin,soap etc. and my patient was an elderly woman in her late 80's. I asked her if she needed help and if she had everything she needed. Her reply was," Well, I guess I'm ok. But I want to make sure my "downstairs" gets washed good so I might need help a little later."I had to laugh -!!
Nov 12, '10Our patients are primarily psych, with a few of the requisite LOLs thrown in for added excitement. One woman has recently become fascinated with hanging out in my office door and talking to me/staring while I work. She basically speaks in neologisms and/or sounds, but the other day in the middle of one of her monologues, she stopped and said "But you don't want to put too much in the pancreas; if you do, it'll burst, and then you'll need glasses!" It was totally random. I lol'd hard.
Nov 12, '10One of the aides asked me to check on a patient. When I went into the patients room she said, "I'm feeling short of breath and I didn't even get to the passion part yet (of her romance novel.)
Nov 13, '10One pt (in a long term mental health facility) was complaining about the state of things and how no one loves her or appreciates her. A staff member asked her what would help. "Sex with a handsome sailor man, him on top, me on the bottom" was the immediate reply
Nov 17, '10when i was working in a LTC facility over the summer, one of the residents i worked with was quite the smarty...she had a IDC but would ask about every 15 minutes to go to the bathroom. so i would get her up and take her...every 15 minutes...finally i asked her why she always had to go the bathroom when she had an IDC. she told me that she had to pass gas. when i tried to explain that she could do that in her chair and no one would know, she explained to me that she "couldn't sit on the bubble"!!!!!
Dec 8, '10While in the stepdown one of my patient's IV pumps started beeping & displaying a "BAG NEAR EMPTY" warning.
My patient said, "'Bag near empy.' What does that mean?"
I replied, "That the bag is near empty."
We both looked at each other like the other one had 3 heads. I still chuckle when I think about that.
Dec 8, '10I work in a dementia facility, and one of my residents asked "How much older than me are you?" (I'm 28, she's in her eighties). I answered that I wasn't sure, but I'm 28 now, how about you? She replied that she's 13 and 28 is really old. Very cute!
Dec 9, '10An older guy that tends to yell at all the staff and refuses to eat and take his meds constantly... decided he likes me.. So when I feed him he eats his whole meal..except one thing...his ensure milkshake...when I told him hes "sooo close to finishing everything except his milkshake" his response was, "I dont like that shi*, it gives me the runs". I couldnt help but laugh...I said, "Yah... I dont like that either"
Dec 15, '10I work in an Assisted Living Facility, and was giving meds to one particularly sweet and gracious older lady. She wanted to know what pills I was giving her. She correctly ID'ed one by herself and pointed to the other one. "Now that one, I can never remember what it's for."
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Tara Reid and her new husband Zack Kehayov have still not decided where they will set up home following their whirlwind wedding earlier this month (Aug11).
The American Pie star married Kehayov on 13 August (11) during a vacation on the Greek island of Santorini after dating him for just two months.
She has since entered Britain's Celebrity Big Brother show, and has admitted to her fellow contestants in the reality TV house she hasn't thought through her new living arrangements with her businessman partner.
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Friday, May 27, 2016
Bird Watching at Barb's
So, here are a few of our Michigan birds. The redwinged blackbird is always seems to mark the arrival of spring, as much as a robin does.
Barb must have blackbird friendly food because these colorful little guys were everywhere!
They're feisty fellows, too! We witnessed more than one scrap among these fellows!
My favorite, and one of the fastest moving, was the red bellied woodpecker.
I don't know why they call these the red-bellied woodpecker. As far as I could see the had tummies white as snow.
But their heads were spectacular! That's a little sparrow next to him.
And of course the cardinal. We see cardinals year round here.
And year round, they are a favorite.
Of course, it all comes back to the new life. Pretty soon I'm thinking there will be a few more robins in Barb's neck of the woods!
The tea post will be coming up! Meanwhile, I may be spottier than usual visiting your blogs and commenting. Real life appears to be getting into the way of Cyber Life! A combination of travel, internet issues and a few other things are placing time at a premium. I'll do my best to keep up but might be slower than usual with comment replies!
29 comments:
- Mae Travels said...
Hi Jeanie,
I love those vivid blue eggs in your photos!
The reddish tinge on the red-bellied woodpecker's mostly white belly is only visible at just the right angle. We can sometimes see it when one of them is at our suet feeder because they sort of hang in an awkward position to pick and choose from the seeds in the suet. Like many birds, the r-b-w was named by early ornithologists who worked from skins of dead birds, where the red might have been more obvious. The fact that they worked from skins often caused the names to be a bit confusing, as the skins might look different from the live birds.
Some natural history museums retain their 19th century bird-skin collections -- at the one in New York I was startled at a whole display case of passenger pigeon skins, for example. I think the University of MI Natural History museum has very extensive collections that are still used for some research purposes.
best... mae at maefood.blogspot.com
- Friday, May 27, 2016
I had the same thought abut the red belly. I was glad to read Mae's info. Relax and enjoy the things in life that get in the way of cyber stuff. It will keep, but life will not - as I recall you mentioned in one of your blogs. Love to you and Rick
- Friday, May 27, 2016
- Joanne Huffman said...
Great bird photos. I really enjoy your new camera.
- Friday, May 27, 2016
- Joyful said...
Beautiful bird captures and the colour of the eggs is superb!
We had our long weekend last weekend in Canada. It's called Victoria Day. I hope you have a great long weekend :-)
- Friday, May 27, 2016
- Bleubeard and Elizabeth said...
I'm also having internet issues, so I can empathize and totally understand.
I have a love affair with cardinals. They are my favorite bird, and I see them here, but not nearly as much as I did when I lived in Southwest Missouri. Sure loved your photos, though. They were excellent.
- Saturday, May 28, 2016
- BeachGypsy said...
Oh my!! What beautiful pictures you got!! So pretty aren't they?--the little birds scurrying and fluttering about taking care of their little homes and families. Love the photo of the eggs...my goodness....that shade of blue is just so gorgeous isn't it?? Definetly not man made!
- Saturday, May 28, 2016
- Daniela said...
What stunning photographs about a wonderful nature and wildlife you've made, my lovely, I'm so amazed by all birds, but the woodpeckers are always my favorites, I love them so much !
Enjoy your Saturday and your Sunday ahead, Dearest Lady, sending much love and many dear hugs to you
- Saturday, May 28, 2016
- ~*~Patty S said...
Thank you for sharing your wonderful birds eye view of these gorgeous birdies ;-)
Really great shots and those Robin's eggs are just so perfect.
We have Cardinals nesting in our garden this year.
They've had to brave weeks of rain and now scorching heat.
Fingers crossed.
Take care Jeanie ♥
- Saturday, May 28, 2016
- My name is Erika. said...
Loving these bird photos. Your friend has some great species that show up at her feeder. Happy memorial day weekend. Hugs-Erika
- Saturday, May 28, 2016
- Victoria Zigler said...
I'm glad you found time to sit and watch the birds.
Don't worry about not being around as much. Real life is always more important than cyber life, and internet issues can't be helped.
- Saturday, May 28, 2016
- Arti said...
Lovely! The red-winged black bird we have but the cardinal, that I don't see in our hood. Even your woodpecker is different. So thanks for posting them. Never knew eggs can come in blue colour naturally.
- Saturday, May 28, 2016
- Esme said...
Those birds are just gorgeous and the eggs look like you painted them. I have had a blue bird in my yard recently that I enjoy watching.
- Saturday, May 28, 2016
- Sue Silva said...
Love the nest pictures!
- Saturday, May 28, 2016
- Barb said...
Wow - I love Barb's paradise for birds. You're so lucky to have Cardinals. I love them but rarely see them - none at altitude. Have fun and stay relaxed in whatever you do, Jeanie. Real life is the most important!
- Saturday, May 28, 2016
- anno said...
It sounds -- and looks! -- like a perfectly lovely day! Great captures of subjects that don't always like to pose. Those shots of the woodpecker are amazing!
Wishing you a wonderful and restorative holiday weekend,
- Saturday, May 28, 2016
- Sandra Cox said...
I love birds. So many favorites in this post.
Enjoy your time away.
- Saturday, May 28, 2016
- Roses, Lace and Brocante said...
The Robin's eggs are sooo beautiful - I thought they weren't real at first and so perfectly formed.
You have some colourful birds in the States, I'm fascinated by the Red Cardinals!
I'm always on the back foot with my blog visiting, as Im still a working gal, time is my enemy but I try to do my best!
Always love catching up with you dear Jeanie!
Shane x
- Sunday, May 29, 2016
- Maggie said...
Wonderful captures, Jeanie. Our blackbirds come in plain black, no fancy wing colours for us.
I adore the blue of those robins eggs!
- Sunday, May 29, 2016
- Chrys Fey said...
I've never seen a redwinged blackbird before. Stunning!
Thank you for visiting my guest post on Sandra Cox's blog. :)
- Sunday, May 29, 2016
- Castles Crowns and Cottages said...
LOVE LOVE LOVE. We have been enjoying seeing so many blue jays, wrens and EAGLES! YES! Unfortunately however, we have had a boom in the hawk population but we do have red winged blackbirds and even WILD TURKEYS! teeehehehee
- Sunday, May 29, 2016
- Jennifer Richardson said...
oh, those turquoise eggs:) So bitty and full of promise.
And big wow for all the feathers and flutters you found, too.
I love redwing blackbirds...they hold a special place in my heart.
I get excited when they return.
Thanks for the bird love.
Big joy to your bright feathers,
- Sunday, May 29, 2016
- shoreacres said...
Robin's egg blue! I'd forgotten what the color actually looks like. One of our egrets lays eggs that are blue, and I've called them Robin's egg blue, but they aren't. They're much paler, and not quite so stunning. Love the pics!
- Monday, May 30, 2016
- The French Hutch said...
When we sit out back the birds keep us entertained. The mockingbirds love to get into fights, very protective of the nest. Loved your pics, especially the eggs.
Hope your day was glorious today………..
- Monday, May 30, 2016
- Marilyn Miller said...
Love all the birds, but I must say I am so jealous you have cardinals. It is a favorite bird of mine and they just don't come to Portland.
- Monday, May 30, 2016
- Lisa from Lisa's Yarns said...
Those pictures make it easy to see why they came up with the term 'robin's egg blue'! Those eggs are so pretty, as are all of the other bird photos. Cardinals are so pretty! We have them year round in these parts, too! We see lots of birds at my parents lake home. They've had a lot of orioles and finches lately, which are so pretty!
- Tuesday, May 31, 2016
- Red Rose Alley said...
Oh Jeanie, you got a picture of the red cardinal! It is a dream of mine to one day see the red cardinal. We don't see them around here where I live in California. These are awesome pictures of all the different Michigan birds. Love that woodpecker - we call it the red headed woodpecker here. And that blackbird is so interesting to look at. Bird watching is one of my favorite things to do. We must be kindred spirits. :)
- Tuesday, May 31, 2016
- Red Rose Alley said...
ps I was looking at some google pictures of this bird, and I noticed that the belly has a bit of red. Most of the woodpeckers I see here are a bit different. Their heads are all red, and that's why they are called the red headed woodpecker. I have seen a few of the red-bellied ones too. Oh, this is so interesting to me. :)
- Tuesday, May 31, 2016
- Wandering Wren said...
Incredible eggs, I always love to see the birds. I meant to say before, I think you mentioned you had a new camera, the photos are wonderful.Love the one with the sparrow just waiting just in case!
Gotta dash - I know all about real life getting in the way of Cyber Life, but that's the fun of blogging isn't it, it's always there!
Have a great day
Wren x
- Friday, June 03, 2016
- Jenny Woolf said...
Those eggs are a really spectacular blue. I don't think any British birds have eggs of that colour, so at first glance I thought your post would be about a sugar egg hunt! :)
There are some very pretty birds in your neck of the wood. The blackbird with those flashes of colour is particularly striking.
I hope that whatever is keeping you busy is good. I have been blogging (and visiting) very sporadically lately, and I don't really know why.
- Saturday, June 04, 2016
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