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WASHINGTON, D.C. (November 2, 2014)— The National Sleep Foundation (NSF) today announced that its annual Drowsy Driving Prevention Week is November 2-9. This year, the NSF encourages all drivers to take a pledge against drowsy driving and urges state legislators to seriously examine drowsy driving in their states.
Drowsy driving is the result of a driver's impaired abilities to focus and stay alert, due to a lack of sleep. The Pledge Against Drowsy Driving is a National Sleep Foundation initiative that raises public awareness about the dangers of drowsy driving, explains its effect on drivers, and advises how it can be avoided. Drivers can take the Pledge at sleepfoundation.org/drowsy-driving.
As part of Drowsy Driving Prevention Week the NSF is also asking state legislators to examine the prevalence of drowsy driving, evaluate current laws, regulations and enforcement, and provide recommendations on road safety. The NSF recently released model legislation, the Drowsy Driving Reduction Act of 2015 , to assist states in their drowsy driving prevention efforts. Individuals can help advance the model legislation in their state by downloading the NSF's drowsy driving advocacy kit.
"Drowsy driving is a public safety issue that needs to be addressed," said David Cloud, CEO of the National Sleep Foundation. "We believe the public can help decrease drowsy driving and improve the safety of our roads by taking the Pledge, contacting local legislators to support drowsy driving prevention efforts, and establishing a routine that fights fatigue and supports a healthy sleep lifestyle."
While the dangers of drinking and driving are widely recognized, drowsy driving is a less known peril with parallel risks. Cognitive impairment after approximately 18 hours awake is similar to that of someone with a blood alcohol content (BAC) of 0.05 percent. Cognitive impairment after 24 hours awake is equivalent to a BAC of 0.10 percent, which is higher than the legal limit in the U.S., according to the National Institutes of Health .
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We've all heard the commercials about duct cleaning and how it improves your indoor air quality, but is it all a bunch of malarkey? Here's the lowdown on duct cleaning, why it's a good idea, and how often it's really necessary.
What Is Duct Cleaning?
Air duct cleaning is done using high-powered duct cleaning equipment that uses negative pressure to pull the dust, dirt, and debris out. A rotating power brush may also be used to loosen the dirt.
What Is the Impact on My Indoor Air Quality?
The most common things that tend to gather in your air ducts include dust mites, dirt, dust, mold, fungi, bacteria, and occasionally rodent droppings. When your heating and cooling system blows air out through your vents to circulate in your home, it's blowing out past all of those pollutants and into the rooms of your house. As the air passes over them, it picks up those pollutants and sends the out with your heated or cooled air.
Duct cleaning removes these elements from your ductwork, which can greatly improve the quality of your indoor air. Not only does this create a healthier environment for everyone in your home, it can make a huge impact on individuals with any types of health issues, respiratory issues, or even common allergies.
How Often Should Ducts Be Cleaned?
The National Air Duct Cleaners Association's recommendation for duct cleaning frequency is every two to five years, although that can vary depending on your home, your health, and what area of the country you live in. If you or a family member has several allergies or a respiratory condition such as asthma, you could benefit from more frequent cleaning, as would households with pets.
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TTTS no laser treatment, one dead, one survived, anyone been through this?(6 Posts)
Long story short, through failings of a terrible scanner and consultant OBS at Chelsea and Westminster we missed our chance to save our miracle identical twin girl, and are just left with her sister. The odds for Brain damage without laser surgery are 35%, if we'd had laser 5%.
So anyone been through this, we are continuing, I've had a scan last week, where the amazing PRof Kypros Nicolaides, who is the best person anyone experiencing TTTS can ever see, anyway, he has said he can't see any brain damage as yet, but I have read that it is never 100% and that things could manifest themselves even after the baby is born, I am worried about Cerabal Palsy, and brain function.
Are there any survivors of TTTS out there that didn't have laser, and your surviving twin has faired ok? I am hoping we will have a normal kid, and I totally trust Kypros, which is one of the only reasons we are still continuing with the pregnancy, but I would just dearly love to hear that someones baby has really been ok, beaten the odds, and got to toddler years with normal development and no issues. Or not I suppose, if you had normal scans, normal MRI and the baby still had problems that would be useful to know. I read the statistics, but its not the same as going through it or making the decisions.
Not sure if anyone will answer this, because I imagine if you have had a healthy survivor your probably not talking about it on forums and you've just got on with life.
Many thanks for your time in advance.
Hi there,
I didn't want to read and run.
I am so terribly sorry to hear of your loss.
My boys did suffer ttts, and we had laser treatment at UCLH at 24 weeks. We were very close to losing out donor twin and there were concerns over the recipient twin possibly having some level if brain damage, due to the surge of fluid and blood pumping through him.
We were very lucky to see on an MRI scan that things looked ok.
Im so sorry that your diagnosis happened this way, and you didn't have the chance of surgery. What is your base hospital?
I cannot comprehend how you must be feeling.
There is a Facebook support group for uk ttts parents. Many on there have one survivor. You need to search for 'ttts support uk parents' but there are nany knowledgeable people in there and lovely people on there. You may find more help or advice there.
Many i ask how many weeks you are now?
So sorry again that you've had to go though this x
Sorry just realised you did say your hospital. I hope thatwhatever the reason was for them failing you with this, will be dealt with properly x,
I'm so sorry for your loss Taplow.
I had successful laser with Prof Nicolaides and he is absolutley the best person you can see in this situation. The CP is a risk of TTTS regardless of the surgery for both the donor and the recipient but particualrley the recipient.
My girls are now two and absolutley fine - there were some queries regarding the recipient's heart and we had to have some extra scans and they did ECGs when they were still in utero but there were ultimatley no problems.
Sorry again that you are having to go through this x
No experience to offer, just wanted to say that I am so very, very sorry for your loss.
Hi I know it's a bit late in the day for me to reply but I was wondering how things are...I have a 10year old daughter who survived ttts in 2005 and she finds it very difficult not having her sister here. X
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Does Your Brain Have Self-Control?
Yesterday I interviewed Dr. Kelly McGonigal, author of "The Willpower Instinct", on Dr. Kiki's Science Hour.
We discussed how willpower and self-control work, how the brain functions with regard to willpower, and tips and techniques to short circuit your habits in order to build self-control. The interview was an hour well-spent with many lessons learned. You can view it below.
Additionally, I recommend The Willpower Instinct as a great read and tool for anyone searching for insight into the way their brains work.Filed under DKSH, Reads and Watches, Women in Science | Comments (3)
I Am A Scientist…
I think this speaks for itself…
Many thanks to Jeff Steinmetz at Urge Productions for the pictures, Anastassia Babanskaia for the styling, and Kat Steinmetz for the make-up. These pictures were taken last year pre-pregnancy; I'm working to get back into the amazing shape I was in when these pics were taken. Note the intentional lack of a lab coat anywhere.Filed under Esoterica, Women in Science | Comments (8)
Dr. Kiki's Science Hour – Celebrating Women
A few weeks ago, I wrote about Ada Lovelace, and the challenges and successes of women in science. On Ada Lovelace Day, I spoke with … from the Association for Women in Science about, yes, you guessed it… women in science.
It was a fabulous conversation, and I do believe that we did, indeed, celebrate the women in the field. And, really, I think that is the key to continued success these days. People are not responsive to whining about problems. People want to feel hopeful, to see positive role-models, be given next steps they can take themselves, and to know that their actions can make a difference.
If you are a female success in science or technology, get out there! Tell people about yourself, and don't be afraid to do it. People want to know how you got to where you are.
Be a model for future generations of women in science by living successfully yourself.
Anyway, here is the show. Check it out:Filed under DKSH, Science & Politics, Women in Science | Comment (0)
Dr. Kiki's Science Hour – Voyage of Darwin's Beagle
Recently, on Dr. Kiki's Science Hour, I spoke with Karen James of the Natural History Museum in London, UK. She's a biologist working on several interesting and interrelated projects.
First, at the Natural History Museum, she works as a botanist and has been involved in an international effort to develop a genetic bar-coding process for plants. She is also responsible for their Darwin research memorabilia… i.e. specimens that Darwin collected while traveling to the Galapagos and back, like the Floreana mockingbirds, which were massively important in the development of Darwin's great idea.
Additionally, she is the science director for the Beagle Project, whose aim is to build a replica of the HMS Beagle and sail it as a research vessel to the Galapagos.
You can hear all about it here. Or, watch it here…
The world is lucky to have such vibrant scientists as Dr. James.Filed under DKSH, Women in Science | Comment (1)
Thoughts On Ada Lovelace Day
Ada Lovelace was an intellectual woman in an age when women weren't pushed to be intellectual. Her mother made sure she was trained in mathematics rather than literature so that she wouldn't follow in her father's (the poet Lord Byron's) footsteps.
This training as well as her place in society put her in a position to meet and work with an academic named Charles Babbage who hired her to help on his "Analytical Engine." Ada took the project and ran with it, elaborating on the idea in notes that contain the first computer algorithm. She is now considered the world's first computer programmer.
There are many things that made the story of Ada Lovelace possible: her noble birth and marriage, her mother's reactionary nature, her training, the people she met in life, etc. But, central to the story is the passion that Ada had for her academic endeavors.
Had she simply been a translator, that's all she would have done for Charles Babbage… translated an article from Italian that he could then use in developing his ideas. Instead, she dug into the ideas and came up with ideas of her own. She wasn't afraid to write those ideas down and share them.
And, now we celebrate her and what she helped make possible.
Women today have it fairly easy compared to the women of the past (I'm referring to women in first world nations here… I know there are many women around the world who still struggle). We can do what ever we set our minds to. We can take on the historically female held roles of mother, teacher, nurse, secretary, or we can be doctors, lawyers, astronauts… it's up to us.
The doors are open like they never have been. All we have to do is walk through them.
By finding and following our passions, we create new opportunities for the women who will follow. We make it easier for them to do what they dream of doing.
I am lucky in that as a young scientist, I was able to find wonderful female mentors to learn from. I saw that it is possible to be a successful woman in science. I saw that it is possible to have a family at the same time. I saw that I could do it too if I wanted.
Unfortunately, there aren't enough female role models in the sciences. The number of women in academics is growing, but it is still not equal to the number of men. It's not because women don't like science, or aren't studying science. The numbers just drop between graduate school and getting jobs.
That means that most women entering graduate school aren't seeing other women in those positions of responsibility.
And, if seeing is believing, then we still have work to do.
But, that will come with time, and in the meantime, I'd like to thank all the women, like Ada, who toiled in the science or technology that inspired their questions.
Thank you for creating a world where I can ask questions, too.Filed under Women in Science | Comments (3)
Dr. Kiki's Science Hour – Hacking Science
A couple of weeks ago I had the distinct pleasure of talking with Ariel Waldman of Spacehack.org on Dr. Kiki's Science Hour.
We talked a lot about citizen science and the importance of opening up science to the public. She told me about several interesting projects, like GalaxyZoo, which relies on the public to process massive amounts of astronomical data.
Ariel also talked a bit about what got her interested in space and the realm of collaborative science.
You can listen to the interview here.
Or, watch it on ODTV – the On-Demand TWIT Video archive.
You can catch Ariel (and me) at SXSW if you are interested in hearing more. We are speaking on a panel called Open Science: Create, Collaborate, Communicate on Monday, the 15th, at 9:30am.Filed under DKSH, Women in Science | Comments (2)
Michelle Thaller on Science
I met and had the opportunity to spend a lot of time talking about the universe with the fabulous Michelle Thaller at CWA. Michelle is a astronomer, and as far as I know is still the head of education and outreach at the Spitzer Space Telescope (she was considering a new job with NASA last I heard). She initially derived her inspiration for space and communicating its wonders from Carl Sagan and George Lucas' Star Wars.
Here is a brief interview about what keeps her inspired:Filed under The Science Word, Women in Science | Comments (4)
What's Your Story?
I've been invited by the Center for STEM Excellence at Scramento State University to give the Keynote talk at their Expanding Your Horizons conference this October. As a result, I've been thinking about all sorts of topics for my talk. Do I talk about science in general, specific areas of STEM, my personal experiences?
In my thinking and searching I came to realize that as the Keynote speaker it is my job not to inform, but to be inspirational and motivational… to get the girls at the conference fired up and excited about both the day ahead and their own futures. But, how to do that when I have my own struggles with inspiration and motivation on a daily basis?
I think I've come to an answer; lead by example. How do I get past those daily hurdles, and keep moving? How did I find a career that I love? How did you?
I want to hear the stories of real women from real women, especially if you are working in a STEM related career. I want to share our stories.
- What do you do as a career?
- How did you wind up in your career (did you choose it or did it choose you)?
- Do you love what you do?
- What do you love most about what you do?
- How do you stay motivated (are your motivations internal or external)?
- What is your measure of success?
I'll take your answers as comments here, emails (kirsten at this week in science dot com), video comments on youtube or seesmic, however you see fit to send them.
Hopefully, we'll be able to use these stories to motivate not only the girls at the conference, but everywhere, and of all ages.Filed under Women in Science | Comments (2)
Amazing Female Scientist
I just read a profile of an amazing female scientist, named Susan Greenfield. She's a professor of pharmacology at Oxford University, and the director of the Royal Institution in London. She, being a woman and having reached such a place of distinction within academia, is a rarity in science.
According to statistics from the Association for Women in Science, in 2001 women made up 20.6 percent of those people employed in tenured academic positions for more than 10 years. Career longevity for women in the sciences appears to be something that's lacking.
A more recent report suggests that the reason for the attrition rate (52% of women in sciences leave with the greatest rate being approximately 10 years into the career path, which coincides with the average woman's thirties) may be due in part to hostile work environments that fail to take the female role as mother into account.
A brief look at Susan Greenfield's life suggests that she continues to contend with the male dominated scientific environment, and may have made some compromises to her personal life in order to be so successful.
"It's unfair. I publish three or four papers a year in peer-reviewed journals," she says. She fits it all in by "not doing what other people do: gardening, watching television, sleeping in late. I wake up between four and five. If it's a London day, I get the 6.30 train from central Oxford, where I live. I'll have a working breakfast here with my second in command, then a day of meetings or interviews. In the evening, I may chair an event or go to a reception."
On Oxford days she wears T-shirt and jeans, but is still in the lab by 7.30am, planning experiments, applying for grants, analysing and writing papers. She plays squash three times a week. With a trainer. "He pushes me to improve my skills." At weekends? "I write, read, prepare talks."
Her marriage to Oxford professor of physical chemistry Peter Atkins ended in 2005. Is all this activity a way to escape loneliness? "You can be lonely when you're with someone," she says quickly, "as much as when you're by yourself."
It is somewhat of a chicken and egg question, however. Is it only driven personalities, male or female, who are able to succeed so outstandingly? Or, is it the environment that engenders the sink-or-swim behaviors; people learning, and thus believing that if they do not work 16 hour days they'll never get anywhere, and only those who do so being rewarded. It puts most women in a position of having to choose between family and career.
Usually, family will win.
Yet, I'm among a growing number of women who have put off starting a family in order to pursue my career. Is this a wise choice? I will certainly find out sometime down the road. It's certainly both a blessing and a hazard to be a woman in this century.Filed under Women in Science | Comments (8)
Making Things…
A few weekends ago I went to the Maker Faire in San Mateo, CA. I wasn't sure what to expect, but having been to Burning Man several times I think I was hoping for more fire. Lots more fire. What I did see was surprising and entertaining, but alas I left before dark and missed the fire. There were robots, bartending robots, battlebots, rockets, diy projects galore, a camera obscura tent, steam punk beauty, power tool races, and much, much more.
I went to the faire with a few friends (Colin, Kepi, and Marshall), and ran into many friends while there. It seemed like everyone I know had either brought something to the faire, or was there to see what everyone else had brought. And, I think everyone else who attended had the same idea. The place was packed. The parking lot was full by noon. It seems that the Maker Faire has hit upon a very successful model.
Interestingly, Marshall and I were talking recently about how there aren't many festivals in the US that really make science fun and engaging to the public. Sure, there's the occasional festival for smart kids in which they compete in various contests of engineering, science, or intelligence. But, what about festivals that just make doing things based in science fun for everyone? From what I saw, the Maker Faire does just that, bringing together scientists, engineers, artists, actors, and diy-ers from all walks of life.
My favorite moment had to be when a young girl who couldn't have been more than 9 years old told me about the potential for carbon nanotubes in creating cable for a space elevator (all this while playing with the robot she had built and brought to the faire with her dad). Her dad informed me that she had recently completed a report on nanotubes for school. What school does she go to?!? Or, is just a matter of parental guidance? Either way, that young girl has a brilliant future ahead.
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On Monday, the GOP released its plan to repeal and replace parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Much work lies ahead in navigating the bills through Congress—two House committees will begin work on the legislation to prepare it for consideration. However, with the new GOP health plan eliminating employer mandate penalties and pushing back Cadillac Tax implementation from 2020 to 2025, the bills should be good news for employers because they will have more latitude while investing in their employee benefit plans, especially health savings accounts (and their associated high-deductible health plans), plan designs and flexible spending accounts. While much of the bills focuses on the individual markets and Medicaid reform, we are primarily addressing the effect on employers in this email.
Here are some details employers should take note of:
- The employer mandate penalty would be repealed retroactively to December 31, 2015, though its reporting requirements would remain in place
- The Cadillac Tax would be pushed from a 2020 implementation date to a 2025 implementation date
- Many of the ACA's insurance reforms would be left in place including:
- Coverage of preexisting conditions
- Guaranteed availability and renewability of coverage
- Coverage of adult children up to age 26
- Coverage of essential health benefits
- Prohibitions against annual and lifetime limits
- The actuarial value requirements on plans would be removed, and age-banded rates would expand from the current three-to-one ratio to a five-to-one ratio
- HSA contribution limits would be capped at the same amount as the annual out-of-pocket limit, and HSA expenses incurred up to 60 days prior to beginning HSA coverage would be covered
- The annual limit on contributions to FSAs would be removed, as would the prohibition on using FSA or HSA dollars on over-the-counter medications
The bulk of the proposed legislation deals directly with the individual mandate/markets, tax credits for purchasing coverage, continuous coverage requirements and Medicaid reform. Read House Committees Release ACA Replacement Bills for more information.


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Late 1st grade or early 2nd grade point; was/were and question formation
prior knowledge: time and place words.
This activity requires cooperation with your JTE. Before the class, hide something in the classroom. You can pose as a police officer or an authority figure in the school (make a nametag that says "POLICE" or have some sort of marker). Before this, try to slip out of the classroom without being seen, while your JTE distracts the students. A few minutes later storm in and say "Excuse me!" ____ was stolen from the classroom. I have some questions!" (or something like that)
Then, ask questions in the form of "Where were you at __:00AM/PM?
First, ask your JTE 2-3 questions like this, and he/she answers using "I was...." to model. Then, choose 3-4 higher level students in the classroom (who are more outgoing) and ask them "Where were you at ___?" Help guide them to answer, "I was ______". After this, you can
ask other students, etc.
Finally, students can use this as a model and create their own 'crime scene' skits and alibis. If time, they can present them to the class.
Caution: worked well with my fairly genki 2nd grade class, but if your class is too cool for school you might want to modify the intro a bit.


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Sending out the questionnaire
Before you can send out your survey, please check your inbox - there should be a letter from Upsteem.
When your account is confirmed, you can set the deadline for answering. Click on a pencil sign and it opens the calendar.
The information in square brackets [ ] will be added to the invitation message automatically when sent out.
If you wish, you can add a message to all the participants.
Then send out the study and wait for the answers!
Then send out the study and wait for the answers!


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Former MTV VJ Damien Fahey married Grasie Mercedes on Friday, June 28.
The wedding took place at Maravilla Gardens in Camarillo.
According to Us Magazine.com, the bride wore a strapless wedding dress by Sarah Seven and Valentino heels.
Guests at the wedding included Johnny Knoxville, and "Breaking Bad" actor Matt Jones.
The couple met 10 years ago while working at MTV but didn't start dating until 5 years ago when Fahey contacted Mercedes on My Space.
."I thought he was cute then, but it wasn't until five years later when he contacted me on My Space that we started dating!
On August 1, 28-years-ago a little channel called MTV launched.
And, with it came hot guys known as VJ's and correspondents presenting music videos and music news to teenagers all across this great land known as America.
Over the network's nearly thirty year span, there have been so many interesting personalities - Pauly Shore, Bill Bellamy, Jesse Camp - that you forget that there have been some hotties gracing this network as well.And while we salute some of our current talent like Tim Kash, Sway and Tres' Carlos Santos for keeping the airwaves attractive, but we also are reflecting on some of the fine fellows who have graced the famed Times Square building before them and defined what it meant for us to be teenagers.5) Brian Mc Fayden: We couldn't help but be a little broken-hearted when we found out that this VJ and the network's resident blonde bombshell was dating Nicky Hilton.4) Nick Zano: What we liked about Nick was that he seemed like a guy who could have a good time while hosting his show, "Movie House." 3) Quddus and Damien Fahey: TRL will always have Carson Daly, but Fahey and Quddus made our hearts quiver with excitement at their adorableness day after day.2) Jim Shearer: MTVU will never be the same without Jim and his fun-loving, music-knowing personality. 1) Gideon Yago: We'll always love John Norris and Kurt Loder for being undeniably cool, but he made dorks hot.And he made us all care a lot about politics and indie rock.


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Spring is sunny but still quite COLD and the weather forecast said something about SNOW during the Easter holiday… BUT we will do our best to get a warmer and more spring-like weather before 25th!
It's getting very busy, since we have four days Easter break. Lavinia, Armando and me, our team is working fine and now also a group of other students will start to help with arrangements as volunteers.
We have a great workshop programme, it was published two weeks ago and registration opened last week. Before Easter we will finish the rest of the programme with exhibitions, concerts, game demos and many other interesting, funny, crazy happenings and pedagogical events for The Week.
It is strange to think about the years we have organized this event, with all our colleagues and friends – YOU!
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Rushforth opens his monumental study on Atlantic systems of slavery with two tools that performed the same function. He shows us a set of metal shackles, the instrument used by Europeans to control African slaves, and a leather halter, an object perhaps less familiar. This leather halter, it turns out, was a tool used by indigenous warriors to restrain other Natives taken [End Page 129] during raids. Rushforth asserts that this halter "reminds us that slavery took many forms in the early modern Americas," arguing that the African slave trade has claimed most scholarly attention (8). In fact, European colonies relied on the labor of indigenous slaves to establish footholds in North America. Rushforth notes that between two to four million indigenous peoples were enslaved in North and South America (9). This book focuses on this phenomenon in one specific context: New France between 1660 and 1760. Following on the work of Richard White, historians have viewed the Midwest in the French era, known as Pays d'en Haut or Upper Country, as a space in which the French and indigenous communities formed relationships based on adaptation and cooperation. Rushforth contends that historians have left slavery out of the equation. He asserts: "The slave trade grew from, and indeed offers a strong example of, these intercultural negotiations in the Pays d'en Haut" that were founded on a "shared commitment to violence" (11).
The first two chapters explain the conceptual foundation of slavery for the French and indigenous societies. For Natives, slavery functioned as a "potent symbol" that was "designed to humiliate and control people considered less than fully human by their captors" as well as to exploit labor (8). Indigenous warriors captured slaves from their rivals to balance the taking of life through murder or warfare. Native captors either integrated their slaves into family structures through ritual adoption, in which case the slave replaced dead relatives, or slaves were ritually tortured and executed to exact justice for previous deaths. If allowed to live, indigenous slaves–largely women and children–filled the role and performed the labor of the deceased relatives whom they replaced, but these slaves inhabited a subordinate position in which their new communities could always offer them as gifts in diplomatic rituals.
The French forced slaves to perform labor for their growing capitalistic, transatlantic economy. Rushforth argues that, in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, the French made a critical distinction between the act of enslavement and slave owning. The French accepted slavery as a legal institution according to the law of nations in which slaves were captured in "just wars", opposed to the Aristotelian view that certain peoples were natural slaves. While the French disavowed responsibility for enslavement, they accepted the institution itself, which assumed plural forms that replicated the "baroque patchwork of distinct jurisdictions" that characterized France [End Page 130] (77). With colonies dotting the Atlantic, French slave owners adapted the institution to meet local circumstances.
The book then explains tensions that arose as these two overarching systems became entangled with one another. The colonists of New France sought to build a slave society modeled on Caribbean plantations. The French were prevented from doing so, however, as slavery in New France was enmeshed in the alliance structure that connected the French Empire and indigenous nations upon whom the empire depended. Key events in the history of New France reveal this tension. The Great Peace of Montreal in 1701 signaled a critical moment when French administrators recognized that captive exchanges were central to the calumet ceremony that had spread throughout eastern Algonquian communities. Additionally, the Fox Wars in the eighteenth century emerged partly out of Algonquian attempts to control their relation with the French. Diplomacy failed as the Fox's enemies fed the French a constant stream of Fox slaves, while the French refused to return the Fox slaves to their relations. Similarly, the Sioux killed La Verendrye's son on an island in the Lake of the Woods in 1734 when the Sioux became the victims of a similar dynamic...


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Management Decision Problems
Management Decision Problems
1. Snyders of Hanover, which sells more than 78 million bags of pretzels, snack chips, and organic snack items each year, had its financial department use spreadsheets and manual processes for much of its data gathering and reporting. Hanover's financial analyst would spend the entire final week of every month collecting spreadsheets from the heads of more than 50 departments worldwide. She would then consolidate and re-en ter all the data into another spreadsheet, which would serve as the company's monthly profit-and-loss statement. If a department needed to update its data after submitting the spreadsheet to the main office, the analyst had to return the original spreadsheet and wait for the department to re-submit its data before finally submitting the updated data in the consolidated document. Assess the impact of this situation on business performance and management decision making.
2. Dollar General Corporation operates deep discount stores offering housewares, cleaning supplies, clothing, health and beauty aids, and packaged food, with most items selling for $1. Its business model calls for keeping costs as low as possible. Although the company uses information systems (such as a point-of-sale system to track sales at the register), it deploys them very sparingly to keep expenditures to the minimum. The company has no automated method for keeping track of inventory at each store. Managers know approximately how many cases of a particular product the store is supposed to receive when a delivery truck arrives, but the stores lack technology for scanning the cases or verifying the item count inside the cases. Merchandise losses from theft or other mishaps have been rising and now represent over 3 percent of total sales. What decisions have to be made before investing in an information system solution?
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I had never heard the phrase "artifacts" used to describe design documentation of any type until fairly recently, so clearly now it is my favorite new phrase to drop into conversations. It makes sense that we create physical, tangible documents to describe software development, considering the fluid nature of the web in general. Just thinking about the phrase "design artifacts" made me chuckle. Artifact has the connotation of something old, though more importantly, to me it also suggests discovery of something that was already there. The second feeling is one I hope to invoke when working on solving UX problems, as I am creating a new experience that should conform to and satisfy a user's deepest desires and needs. I like the word artifact for this as we are simply discovering these desires and elevating them to a place of prominence within our design, we are not creating something brand new.
Over the next few weeks I am delving deeper into the world of design artifacts through the Coursera Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society class. Beyond broadening my design horizons, I'm excited about creating a physical artifact, something tangible that can be held in my hands without hitting crtl + p and something that will live on beyond the short lifespan of pixels on a screen.
You can check out the course on Coursera here.
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Evaluating current patterns of assessment for self-harm in emergency departments: a multicenter study
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Department of Emergency Medicine
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Emergency Medicine | Psychiatric and Mental Health | Psychiatry and Psychology
OBJECTIVES: The objective was to describe self-harm assessment practices in U.S. emergency departments (EDs) and to identify predictors of being assessed.
METHODS: This was a prospective observational cohort study of adults presenting to eight U.S. EDs. A convenience sample of adults presenting to the EDs during covered research shifts was entered into a study log. Self-harm assessment was defined as ED documentation of suicide attempt; suicidal ideation; or nonsuicidal self-injury thoughts, behaviors, or both. Institution characteristics were compared relative to percentage assessed. To identify predictive patient characteristics, multivariable generalized linear models were created controlling for weekend presentation, time of presentation, age, sex, and race and ethnicity.
RESULTS: Among 94,354 charts, self-harm assessment ranged from 3.5% to 31%, except for one outlying site at 95%. Overall, 26% were assessed (11% excluding the outlying site). Current self-harm was present in 2.7% of charts. Sites with specific self-harm assessment policies had higher assessment rates. In the complete model, adjusted risk ratios (aRR) for assessment included age >/= 65 years (0.56, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.35 to 0.92) and male sex (1.17, 95% CI = 1.10 to 1.26). There was an interaction between these variables in the smaller model (excluding outlying site), with males < 65 years of age being more likely to be assessed (aRR = 1.14, 95% CI = 1.02 to 1.37).
CONCLUSIONS: Emergency department assessment of self-harm was highly variable among institutions. Presence of specific assessment policies was associated with higher assessment rates. Assessment varied based upon patient characteristics. The identification of self-harm in 2.7% of ED patients indicates that a substantial proportion of current risk of self-harm may go unidentified, particularly in certain patient groups.
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Caterino JM, Sullivan AF, Betz ME, Espinola JA, Miller I, Camargo CA Jr, Boudreaux ED; Emergency Department Safety Assessment and Follow-up Evaluation (ED-SAFE) Investigators. Evaluating current patterns of assessment for self-harm in emergency departments: a multicenter study. Acad Emerg Med. 2013 Aug;20(8):807-15. doi: 10.1111/acem.12188. Link to article on publisher's site
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Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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Caterino, Jeffrey M.; Sullivan, Ashley F.; Betz, Marian E.; Espinola, Janice A.; Miller, Ivan; Camargo, Carlos A. Jr.; Boudreaux, Edwin D.; and Emergency Department Safety Assessment and Follow-up Evaluation (ED-SAFE) Investigators, "Evaluating current patterns of assessment for self-harm in emergency departments: a multicenter study" (2013). Emergency Medicine Publications and Presentations. 79.


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Without a clear, concise strategy there would be no strategic plan. Lately it seems as if organizations are becoming wrapped up in the process of creating a plan for planning purposes and not creating a plan based on strategy. In a recent article from Harvard Business Review titled, Don't Let Strategy Become Planning, Roger Martin writes about how people need to think about strategic planning as strategy and not just creating a written plan. Martin writes that "strategy is not planning." Your strategic plan does not need to be another thing to just cross off the list. It needs to become a daily habit and to make it a daily habit, it needs to have a clear strategy as its foundation.
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Hublot announced its partnership with Chelsea Football Club from the English Premier League. Along with that announcement, they also unveiled the Hublot Classic Fusion Chronograph Chelsea FC Fake watch, which was the first watch made in collaboration with Chelsea and also the official watch of the club. Now, a year later, Hublot and Chelsea have teamed up again for another watch, and here it is, the Hublot Big Bang Chelsea FC.
The new Luxury Hublot Big Bang Copy Watch is based on the popular 44mm Big Bang and features a generous splash of blue, the official color of Chelsea Football Club. It features a 44mm satin-finished stainless steel case and a bright blue bezel made out of carbon fiber and Texalium. The bezel is held in place by Hublot's distinct H-shaped screws, which are made out of polished titanium. The crowns and chronograph pushers are all stainless steel and feature black rubber inserts. Lastly, the watch is water resistant to 100m and comes with a rubber-lined blue alligator strap with white stitching.
Like the bezel, the dial is a bright sunray blue but is satin-finished. At 3 o'clock you have the 30-minute counter for the chronograph, and at 12 o'clock you have the 12-hour counter for the Cheap Hublot Replica Watches chronograph. The subsidiary seconds dial is at 9 o'clock and it features the engraving "SW6" – the postal code where Chelsea's stadium, Stamford Bridge, is located.
The movement within is the caliber HUB4100, which is actually based on an ETA 2894 or Sellita equivalent and fitted with a chronograph module. Obviously, an in-house Hublot Unico movement would have been preferred and would have made the watch more desirable, but the HUB4100 Fake Watches China is a reliable combination and it does help keep the price down, if only a little. The caliber HUB4100 beats at 4Hz and has a power reserve of 42 hours. The movement is visible through the watch's sapphire display caseback on which a logo of the crest of the club is printed.
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The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder invites applications for a fungal biologist with an emphasis on ecology and/or evolution at the Assistant Professor (tenure track) level. We seek an individual with a strong background in fungal biology/mycology familiar with the range of approaches (including molecular methods) used to study fungi living in aquatic, terrestrial, or host-associated environments. Expertise could include, but is not limited to: fungal interactions with plant or animal hosts/symbionts, fungal disease ecology, fungal ecophysiology, fungal controls on ecosystem functioning, or fungal biodiversity and conservation.
The successful candidate will mentor and teach at graduate and undergraduate levels and develop an externally funded research program. We offer a collaborative, intellectually stimulating, and supportive environment in which a new professor can thrive. For further information about the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology seehttp://ebio.colorado.edu To apply, please collate the following into a single pdf file: cover letter, curriculum vitae, a list of at least three references and their contact information, and no more than five pages total on research, mentoring, and teaching.
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The boys and I had Christmas with Granny Jane and Pop Jerry and some extended family on Friday. Yesterday afternoon Trevor came in from Weatherford and he, I, Tanner, and Cearra all had our Christmas lunch and exchanged gifts. Then last night I went out for a drink and a few laughs and unwound from the day.
Today I'm cooking and preparing for one more Christmas tonight and then things should settle down and I can start focusing on the new year.
Now then, on to the news... Tanner has moved out and is living with his girlfriend's family. Their home is just about five miles from my house but his leaving is an adjustment for me - some good and some bad - but an adjustment all the same.
See, Tanner is a good "kid" but he's 19, going on 20, and it's not all easy being his mom - as it's not easy, I'm sure, for him to live and deal with his issues either.
Having and raising children is not something to be taken lightly. The capacity for a child to hurt his parents is overwhelming - and me and my boys have been through just about everything. When you lay down your rules, as a parent, you have to abide by the consequences when your rules aren't respected. So, with that said, it's been decided that Tanner is going to live with his girlfriend and her mom for a while and we'll see how things go.
He's been gone since last week and I'm getting used to being on my own. He came over for our family Christmas yesterday and told me he noticed that I had candles on the tub and I told him that yes, I've reclaimed my bathtub. I'm actually reclaiming my life.
When the boys dad and I divorced 12 years ago, it really threw my boys for a loop. Trevor struggled tremendously and our family went through one overwhelming issue after another with him for many years. Tanner saw it all and it was so hard on him and I always prayed that he wouldn't make the same mistakes, but, over time, he seemed to slip into some of the same bad behavior.. Then cancer... cancer.. cancer... entered his life and we endured that journey too - and are still fighting the battle for him to remain in remisison - but he's still a teenage boy with all the issues that entails.
As Dr. Albritton told me, there is no one more at risk than the young adult with cancer. They have cancer and then they also have all the same issues as other young adults - and very, very often they fall through the cracks. We are doing our best to make sure Tanner doesn't fall through the cracks.
Next Thursday we have one last visit with Dr. A at Cook's Oncology and then he's being transitioned over to the adult practice at Texas Oncology.
As much as I love Cook's and Dr. Albritton, I think it's going to be a good thing to move Tanner to the adult practice. They have never treated a patient with Multiple Myeloma at Cook's and, quite often, don't seem to understand what Tanner is dealing with much of the time in regards to the spasms he has in his back and hip.
After Christmas at Granny Jane and Pop Jerry's on Friday, Tanner went to the mall with Cearra and her mom and later he texted me that he was going to stay in (at their house - I guess his new home right now) because his back was hurting. Yesterday after we had our lunch and had opened our gifts, Cearra told me that while they were at the mall Tanner's back started spasming so badly he started crying and could hardly stand straight. She said that it scared her to death.
Dr. A is so focused on Tanner not falling back into his pattern of addiction to the pain medications, sometimes his pain isn't dealt with at all. She once told me, "He's going to have to deal with it because I'm not going to prescribe him pain medications". I'm hoping at an adult practice, a treatment can be settled on that will ease his pain - while controling the chance of falling back into a pattern of addiction.
Like I said, it's not easy being being a parent. Being a parent of a young adult with cancer is a far cry from "easy"... but I'm dealing.
He's texted or called every day since he's moved out and I'm becoming used to him not being here. I'm slowly working on building a life for myself outside of taking care of my sons.
I can only do the best I can do - but I can't control anyone... Sometimes not even myself. I'm working on accepting that things are the way they are and simply enjoy the moments that are good - and not worry about the bad until they actually arrive.
Life is life... good and bad... Enjoy the good while you can and try not to worry about the bad before it actually occurs.
So... Merry Christmas to us all. Here comes a new year.
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return you will receive untold peace and happiness... Robert Muller


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As a highly skilled SA 8000 Lead Auditor Europe (f/m) you will perform CSR Audits in the whole European region and actively support the CSR business development in Europe.
This includes ensuring that all CSR audit requests are performed in time in the whole European area and support of European operations in implementing CSR audit services in their local markets. Your responsibilities are:
- Close cooperation with the Senior CSR Manager Europe to develop the European market
- Successful completion of international projects (time, quality and budget)
- Maintain and expand the capability to deliver CSR audits in Europe
- Maintenance of the relevant documents and information for the country / region
- Cooperation with internal and external colleagues f from participating regions and countries
- Support the processing of international tender
- Support trainings to auditors for specific technical requirement of client and exchange meeting in the region
Please note: Due to our international infrastructure, the final place of employment can be discussed (Europe-wide).
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- Qualification Lead Auditor SA 8000, Qualification HSE Lead Auditor preferable
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Wastes with superior humidity content or which obtain artificial irrigation, rainwater, area or groundwater infiltration create leachate and methane gas at a superior charge. It has been shown, from a person examine that the moment a dump is saturated, yearly precipitation of 36 inches for each 12 months which exists in certain elements of the earth can percolate one million gallons of contaminated water for each acre every year.
This is a good deal of contaminated water – also recognized as leachate or rubbish juice! This contaminated water is 10 to one,000 times a lot more contaminated and harmful to the regional area and groundwater than sewage, even though it incorporates couple human sickness organisms (pathogens) and a lot fewer than sewage.
All nations also create big portions of scrap tires. Waste scrap tires current landfill difficulties. They are tough to compact, may well rise to the area around time in improperly compacted squander and offer harmful breeding grounds for mosquitoes and rats, in the water which collects in them. They also regretably do not disintegrate to minimize their quantity in stockpiling.
Also if industrial dangerous wastes are landfilled the squander products that will generally be found in the web-site will be these types of that the web pages will later on be classed as contaminated land and do not fulfill the contaminated soil criteria. This is to be predicted wherever regulatory command is inadequate but the price to the neighborhood is vastly larger than paying for good regulation in the to start with put.
It is not understood by quite a few in the neighborhood at big that squander prevention and recycling are important to lowering or halting local weather modify. Waste-to-vitality (WTE) plants produce heat and electric power from burning mixed reliable squander. Mainly because of superior corrosion in the boilers, the steam temperature in WTE plants may well conclusion up currently being a lot less than four hundred levels Celsius. This has to be averted mainly because at these temperatures of combustion quite a few dangerous by-products of incomplete combustion will be current which are extremely dangerous to the regional setting and the wellbeing of long run occupants, if not cleaned up.
But, the adoption of big scale squander prevention and recycling will help address world-wide local weather modify by decreasing the amount of money of greenhouse gas emissions and conserving vitality (US Environmental Protection Agency).
The fact is that world-wide warming, also recognized as the greenhouse gas impact, remains controversial in quite a few quarters. Quite a few still dilemma the foundation of the prediction of local weather modify. Nonetheless, Less than the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the United States agreed in principle to minimize its emissions of greenhouse gases to to some degree beneath 1990 amounts by the period 2008-2012.
In 1997 world-wide cooling was a big environmental fret and an difficulty back then, but couple paid out consideration to that both, and the fears ended up quickly found to be unfounded. The viewpoint in world-wide cooling is comparable to the way folks see world-wide warming now.
Landfill methane is an outstanding and frequently untapped source. Most times gases are basically flared or burned in the environment, which is a lot a lot less contributory to the greenhouse gas build-up which anxieties us all, than just allowing the methane (landfill gas) escape with no flaring. Landfill methane is ordinarily flared in the formulated nations, and just about in no way flared in the developing world's nations.
Thoughts about landfill gas as an emissions trouble, and even the producer of significant greenhouse gas emissions vary across the US. We have been designed conscious that point out regulators consider methane to be a slight trouble in New Mexico, due to the dry local weather. Nonetheless, Albuquerque is managing at minimum a person really serious methane trouble with a superior priority. Condition-by-point out analyses yet, do present a big and untapped likely for biomass-fired electric power era. A extremely different dilemma, of course, is how a lot of this likely can make money, environmental, or political perception.
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Invited Keynote - 2nd Arab Conference on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
I was very honoured to be invited to give the opening keynote at the 2nd Arab Conference on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, held in Amman, Jordan on December 14-16th.
My keynote was titled "Robotics Today and How we are preparing Students for a Robot Filled Future" and I touched on topics such as the current state of robotics, changes in Robotics Education around the world and how Australia is currently approaching a new 'Technologies' curriculum. Critical Thinking and its interrelation with all curriculum areas was also discussed.
The talk was well received and I had plenty of great conversations with the participants throughout the three days. In addition to my Keynote, I also ran three EV3 workshops for the delegates. We did two identical workshops on the basics of EV3 and how it differs from the NXT and one advanced workshop where we dived into more of the complexities of the software. This advanced workshop concentrated on the new Array feature of the software and I'll do a separate post on that activity shortly.
The only real downside to the whole trip was the sudden and unexpected snowstorm. Apparently it was the most snow they have experienced in the region in memory and quite a few people (including the Prince of Jordan) were unable to make it on the first day.
A special note of thanks to Sami Alzein who looked after me and took me around on the last day once the snow had melted enough for traffic to get through!


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Teaching Commitments: In-sessional bespoke courses (School of Design, School of Media & Communication); FLAs
Areas of responsibility
Since 2008 I have been responsible for the team of staff who deliver the language discovery modules offered by Languages for All.
From 2010-2013 I was the Theme Leader for Language and Intercultural Understanding, one of 10 discovery themes which represent the breadth of the University's discovery modules as part of the Leeds Curriculum.
From January - December 2017 (0.1 FTE) I will be co-leading a Teaching Enhancement Project with my colleague, Dr Karen Llewellyn, awarded by the Leeds Institute of Teaching and Excellence (LITE). The project is a student-staff collaborative evaluation of the value of Broadening and specifically the case for language learning as part of the Leeds Curriculum.
Areas of professional interest
Teaching academic skills to international students; independent learning; curriculum design and assessment; teacher development; leadership and management; UKPSF mentoring
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I have been actively engaged in language learning since graduating from the University of Aberdeen with an MA in French and completing a PGCE at the University of Warwick. I taught French and German in a secondary school in North Yorkshire before moving to Japan to teach English. In my spare time I studied Japanese and passed Level 2 of the Japanese Proficiency Test. My first contact with the Language Centre was as a teaching fellow (1994-2000) when I taught EAP on a variety of courses. I left to take up the post of Senior Tutor with the International Foundation Programme at the University of Reading (2000-2003). I was largely responsible for the design and delivery of the Academic Skills module.
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External Examiner - IWLP (Institution Wide Language Programme), University of Newcastle (2014 - present)
External Advisor - Internal Quality Audit, Language Learning Unit, Keele University (Sept 2015)
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In 2017, the Vertical Measures team focused on providing the best results to our clients, no matter how ghoulish or scary they were. To show their gratitude, six spooky clients were just dying to provide testimonials explaining how VM turned their digital marketing campaigns around. Take a look at how they went from websites full of spider webs and skeletons to a full-on monster mash.
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In addition, there weren't any leads signing up for my spell creation classes. This was a huge disappointment, as I thought the site would encourage witches to learn more about spells. It wasn't until I started using Google Analytics to see that while people were coming to the site, they were not staying or returning. I attempted to cast a few spells on my cursed site but nothing seemed to do the trick. I also wondered how my biggest competitor had such an astounding following – with their only content being a spell to put the toilet seat down. Knowing something had to be done, I sought help.
Fortunately for me, I came across Vertical Measures..@VerticalMeasure convinced me that I needed to put aside magical arts if I wanted to fix my #SEO problems. Click To Tweet
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Within a year, our content marketing efforts were seeing an increased amount of organic traffic, leads, and my classes were full of eager students."
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After a year of posting 2-3 times per week, I was about to give up and join the family blood bank business..@VerticalMeasure walked me through their process and gave me some great #marketing ideas I can really sink my teeth into. Click To Tweet
But fortune favored me, and I happened to see Arnie Kuenn speak at a content marketing conference in Transylvania. He talked about optimizing content so Google can crawl your blog and help you rank higher in the SERPs. When I went back and looked at my blog, I realized that I wasn't using H-tags and no one was searching for the titles of my posts.
I gave VM a call and they walked me through their process and gave me some great ideas I can really sink my teeth into. Best of all, I now rank first when people search 'wooden stakes' in Google."
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I was haunting a conference center when I heard Arnie Kuenn speak about content marketing – I was struggling at the time with visibility in search results – it was as if my site was totally invisible to Google.
I'm happy to say that VM helped me to create and publish content about my industry consistently, which has doubled my organic website traffic. We've had clients tell us that they're dying to get our newsletter every week and see what we've created next. Thank you Vertical Measures!"
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My last paid media agency just didn't understand the advanced targeting needed to reach such segment. But, since Vertical Measures started working on my Google Adwords and paid social efforts I've seen my business growl… I mean grow."
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I know I'm probably going to get a lot of downvotes for this, but PLEASE LISTEN
AP Talon is actually VIABLE. Here's how it works:
Noxian Diplomacy is on a really short cooldown, so you can constantly proc Lich Bane.
Mercy scales well off attack speed, and slightly off CDR since you can spam Noxian Diplomacy more, which is an auto-attack reset.
And finally, cutthroat gives you a ton of free daage amplification so that you don't even need to buy AD to do damage! Awesome!
Since Talon doesn't do magic damage until he gets items, don't run any magic penetration runes.
Instead, run flat AD so you can be stronger early game and bully around your enemy laner.
Flat Armor is for in case you're against an AD assassin mid, but otherwise it's still good for mitigating auto-attack harass. Talon is prone to this because of his short range.
You can switch out the Quints for Move Speed quints if you think you can abuse your mobility to bully certain lane opponents, like Syndra or Nidalee.
Run 21/0/9.
Take hybrid penetration in the offensive tree. Taking Spellsword is a MUST.
Anything else is up to you, really.
Start with:
Boots of Speed and 4 Health Potions. These let you bully around those noobs who dare fight you in mid lane because you have the mobility advantage.
Doran's Blade is good too, but you're AP Talon and you don't need AD.
Doran's Ring is stupid because Talon has no problems and no ap scaling.
Next, you want to rush a Sheen. It synergizes very well off Noxian Diplomacy, and it's good for harass since it basically doubles your AD for one attack.
Your next item is Berserker's Greaves, because it gives Attack Speed and Talon doesn't benefit off Spell Penetration. With increased movespeed and attack speed, you're able to bully the other laner with mercy and cutthroat more easily.
The first big item is Nashor's Tooth. Not only does it give attack speed so you can pull off more Mercy procs, BUT the passive that converts 15% of your AP into bonus on-hit damage is OP. I mean, if you do the math, 2000 AP gives you 300 damage! Who needs AD when you can go AP?
Next items: Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Rabadon's Deathcap.
Lich Bane first, because you can constantly proc it with Noxian Diplomacy for a lot of damage. Also, with the S3 change, it has a base value, so you don't need to stack 1000000 AP before it starts doing damage.
Zhonya's Hourglass next, because you can Ult > Noxian Diplomacy > Invis > Hourglass > Noxian Diplomacy > Invis for a super trolly 5 second untargetability against people without Vision Wards or Oracle's Elixirs. Talk about unkillable!
Rabadon's Deathcap is last, so your Lich Bane and Nashor's Tooth procs will start to hurt a lot!
Liandry's Torment - If the other team is stupid and they keep letting you pin their tanks into the wall, then buy this so while they're stunned you can shred their health really really fast :D
Twin Shadows - Are people still getting away from you? [strikeout]Then uninstall[/strikeout] Have no fear, Twin Shadows makes you a complete chasing monster! The targetted 30% slow + cutthroat + increased movespeed makes you literally impossible to escape.
Tear of the Goddess/ Archangel's Staff/ Seraph's Embrace - If there's a lot of burst on the other team, consider buying an early Tear and charging it so that you have an available shield to protect you from burst. Talon also charges it quickly because of the short cooldown and mana cost of Noxian Diplomacy!
Iceborn Gauntlet - I don't like this item, yeah the stats are nice but IMO it's better on tanks and Talon has enough chasing power already. I guess this can replace Lich Bane if the other team is 5 AD.
Guinsoo's Rageblade/ Hextech Gunblade - These aren't good because they're hybrid items, but buy Guinsoos if you want more AS and Gunblade for more chasing power + damage + lifesteal/survivability.
Deathfire Grasp - You don't really do magic damage but the stats are nice. 120 AP is a sizable amount, and CDR to be an annoying stealthing ***** is nice too.
In mid, make sure you're against a champion who
1) Can't gapclose very well,
2) Has a lot of skillshots, or
3) Is controlled by an unskilled summoner (preferably Bronze or unranked)
Talon's main strength is her mobility, so if you're against an Nidalee you can just cutthroat away from her Spears then counterattack.
If you're against someone with all targetted abilities like Ryze, you're ****ed you might as well bend over and ask your jungler to camp.
Which he won't do, because you're AP Talon.
You want to play passively because you aren't that strong early on, but if you see them commit to CS, cutthroat towards them, resetting your AA timer, and you're able to get a free hit on them.
At level 6/7, your power spikes tremendously because you have obtained your ultimate. If you see them out of position, you want to Shadow Assault > cutthroat > Rake to scare them into a wall, then keep auto-attacking them while trying to avoid their skillshots, and hopefully you force them out of lane via death or them being low on health.
Late game, remember that you're AP Talon and your only real strength is being annoying with stealth + mobility, slight damage, and tank shredding Noxian Diplomacy. Use Rake to peel for your ADC, or you can use it to scare priority targets into walls and hopefully you can finish them off with your team.
This is just a quick guide on the unconventional. I'm sorry if I didn't go too in-depth with stuff, but I only had about half an hour :/


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