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They're both! Rain gardens are typically depressed garden beds where rain accumulates and slowly soaks into the ground. By directing downspouts to rain gardens, we can reduce the amount of runoff that reaches the street, then the storm sewer, and ultimately erodes the banks of our local creeks and lakes. More water soaks into the ground, recharging shallow aquifers and capturing sediment and excess nutrients in the soil; the cooler, cleaner water can then recharge the creeks as baseflow.
Many rain gardens are planted with native plants with long root systems that can withstand longer periods of inundation than varieties we typically find at lawn and garden shops. Just like any flower bed or vegetable garden, some maintenance and possibly thinning will be needed throughout the year. A good mix of plants is best; some that like wetter conditions, and some that like to dry out a bit more in between rain events. Blue vervain, cardinal flower, various sedges, black eyed-susans, and more will provide color and texture at different times of the year, creating a landscape feature that is beautiful and functional.
Check out the Chicago Botanic Garden and the University of Wisconsin-Extension for great tips on designing, building, planting, and maintaining rain gardens.
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I was just wondering if anyone had been prescribed Amitriptyline for their fibromyalgia? I had to go to the doctors today as my pain has been really bad and I have been coping with just painkillers. The doctor suggested Amitriptyline but said the side affects can be worse than the illness which at the least was a little disconcerting. So now I am in 2 minds whether or not to take them. I am allergic to a lot of medications so always apprehensive about trying new ones. I must admit it is getting me down not sleeping well having to work and then there's Christmas and to be honest my husband hasn't a clue bless him so its left to me if it was left to him God only knows what people would get..lol Any input from anyone would be great.
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I am a little late to the party, but have been following along mildly for a while. Today I decided to embrace a little Hygge living and make a slow cooker of delicious smelling goodness to infuse the house with the scent of cosy.
Before heading over to playgroup this morning, I filled the slow cooker with Water, Lemons, Cinnamon powdered and sticks, cloves and Vanilla Essence. I then put the slow cooker on and let the house fill up with pure Hygge deliciousness. It has smelt amazing here all day!
Continuing on the Hygge home vibes my good friend gave me a beautiful bunch of Hydrangeas last night straight from her garden, which I promptly placed in the kitchen where I will see them the most, they are such a cosy comforting flower.
While I was at all the cosy, comforting home Hygge living I made some play dough with peppermint essence. There is nothing on earth that makes me feel more Martha Stewart than homemade play dough.
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When you have a pile of work in front of you and you feel like you haven't slept in a week, it's time for some strategies to keep your energy level up. Red Bull and other caffeine-laden energy drinks might be okay once in a while, but they can lead to a cycle. Sometimes you get a jolt of energy, but when it wears off and you're not finished working yet, you need more. This causes a reduction of quality sleep time and then can cause excessive sleepiness the next day. Then what do you do… of course, you take some more caffeine to get you through the day.
I have some more natural ideas:
1. Take a short walk. It's best if you can get outside for a bit. Just walk to the end of the block or even around your own yard. Take five minutes and pull some weeds while you're out there. An occasional change of activity will do wonders for your stamina.
2. Take a short nap. "Short" being the key word here. No less than five minutes and no more than 25 minutes. If it's close to bedtime, keep it short. Set an alarm to make sure you don't nap too long.
3. If your work causes you to be staring at a computer for long periods, give your eyes a break. Rub your hands together for a minute and place your palms over your closed eyes and just rest your head in your hands like that for a bit. While resting there, try taking some deep breaths. Breathe in through your nose into your abdomen rather than your chest. Then breathe out through your mouth. Do that five or six times. If your eyes feel a bit dry, try some soothing eye drops. You'll see a little clearer afterwards and the short rest will do you good.
4. Try a little healthy snack break. Nothing sugary; that will just give you a short lift and a heavy crash. Try something like peanut butter on whole wheat crackers or with apple slices, yogurt and fresh fruit and nuts or fresh cut up veggies with a low fat dip.
5. Try making the room brighter and cooler.
6. Always remember to drink plenty of water. Dehydration will cause fatigue.
7. Last but not least is my personal favorite. I have a small jogging trampoline that I put in front of my TV. When I feel the fatigue getting the best of me, I get on the trampoline, turn on the TV and spend anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes jogging while watching something to take my mind off of my work. It's great for weight loss, cardiovascular health and definitely chases away the cobwebs in my head.
I hope some of these tips are helpful for you. They've worked for me in the past and continue to do so. At least till we can get around to that wonderful vacation cruise or mountain retreat we're dreaming about…
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This vehicle offers seating for seven, so you can bring the whole family along for the ride. The rear seats can split and fold for added convenience. And in addition to that practicality, the RX 350L also offers a sleek, sophisticated style, premium interior materials and a 295-horsepower engine for an excellent driving experience that we think you're going to love. With this vehicle, you can get family-friendly practicality without compromising on the finer things.
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Let's discuss what skills will make you stand out and also make you a more effective Digital Marketer in 2016.
Last year I wrote a post on LinkedIn about Marketing Skills I thought were important in 2015 with resources.
Well...it's a year later and it seemed like the right time to talk about the skills I try to hone on a daily basis and what might be of value to you as a Marketer in 2016.
This isn't the biggest list in the world, nor the most exhaustive, it's definitely from my own perspective, experiences and certainly reflects my own goals for improvement this year.
Before we dive into the skills themselves, it's important to consider the "T-shaped Skill Set" of Digital Marketing. It's not a magical concept, it basically says that as a skilled Digital Marketer, we are competent and knowledgeable in the broad range of elements that go into Digital Marketing.
Emphasis on competent and knowledgeable, rather than specialists or deep experts. This is the "shallow and wide" notion and forms the top of our "T". From that point, you can go "narrow and deep" into your speciality, whatever that might be.
If you choose to remain uninitiated in the "shallow and wide" you'll be serving up an incomplete set of skills that make up a well balanced and effective Digital Marketing Pro.
In The Marketing Drive Episode 14 the digital marketing skills I think we need to foster in 2016 are:
- Code, code, code. This is one of the most powerful skill sets for the modern marketer, at least a working knowledge of
- Knowledge of Mobile capabilities, usage patterns and the importance this is having in the modern marketing landscape.
- Conversion and Conversion Tracking. How you can implement this tracking into your marketing efforts.
- Paid Advertising Platforms. It's becoming ever more important to have an excellent understand of the capabilities, formats and advanced features.
- Design. Effectively beautiful design will increase your conversions and engagement. Canva is a great tool for non-designer marketers.
- Analytics. Having the ability to provide meaning to the data and patterns.
- Writing. Everyone is a writer, you just may not believe it. Pro tip: the only way to improve your writing is to write more frequently. You gotta do the work.
- Emerging Channel Knowledge. The pace of these emerging channels is accelerating, being comfortable with these channels and how you can integrate these into your marketing mix.
- Conversion Optimization. How do we optimize? How do we learn how to improve our performance?
- Conversion Funnel Development. As a marketer you need to be able to develop a strong, clear and funnel. The saddest thing for a marketer is developing a lead list without a plan to convert them into an engaged customer.
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What is ECMO?
ECMO is a very complex lifesaving technology that provides circulatory and respiratory support to very sick patients experiencing some kind of circulatory or respiratory failures due to a range of clinical conditions including premature birth, congenital defects, influenza complications (increasingly), COPD, severe trauma from battlefields or serious accidents. It can also be used to keep donor's organs perfused after death or recondition and preserve them for transplants purposes (a growing concern for transplant doctors).
Elsius's Portable Cardiopulmonary Assist System
- pCAS explanation
- Portable Cardiopulmonary Assist System
Next-generation advanced compact circulatory support system providing enhanced efficiency, usability, portability, and blood compatibility
• Comprised of a disposable, integrated pump-oxygenator driven by a touch-screen based controller console
• Current system may be used as a "partial support" adult system or a "full support" pediatric system
• Leverages Ension surface technologies:
– Ension bioactive surface (EBS)
– Ension infection resistant surface (EIRS)
A principal feature of the pCAS system is the Ension Bioactive Surface (EBS)
It's a proprietary engineered surface developed by Ension specifically for ECMO/ECLS (gas exchange) applications
It's a covalently bonded, highly gas permeable, heparin-based bioactive surface treatment
EBS is designed to mitigate activation of cellular elements in the blood and development of thrombi
All blood contacting surfaces of the pump-oxygenator unit are treated with the EBS
- pCAS system components
- The System Components
– Pump-oxygenator (sealed magnetic drive)
Completely sealed system
Custom pump impeller designed for ECMO/ECLS applications
Custom designed micro-mixing high efficiency oxygenator
Integration of pump and oxygenator affords small priming volume and decreased system complexity
Accommodates a range of cannula sizes and circuit configurations
– Controller console
Touch screen-based user interface and controller hardware designed specifically for ECMO/ECLS applications
Compact size allows easy transportability
Integrated battery for portable operation
System data logging and trend review capabilities
- Physical and operational characteristics
- Overall size and mass sfad
• Pump-oxygenator: 6.75" in length (including inlet barbed fitting), 4.5" (maximum diameter), Approximately 1 lb.
• Controller console: Approximately 14" x 11" x 16", Approximately 14 lbs.
• Priming volume: Less than 100 ml., Blood flow rate range, Up to 6 liters per minute (LPM)
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U.S.&Patent 8,114,465, Process for preparing a substrate coated with a biomolecule.
U.S.&Patent 8,343,567, Process for preparing a substrate coated with a biomolecule.
U.S. Patent Application, Compact integrated blood pump oxygenator with hydrogel impeller packing material and rollover impeller outlet, Serial #13/916,739
- Technical specifications
- Technical specifications
Partial flow adult (full flow pediatric) pump oxygenator: Rated oxygen delivery: 100 ml/min @ 2 lpm @ 1:1 sweep gas flow @ FiO2 = 60%
Fiber bundle surface area: 0.64 m2
Pump-oxygenator total priming volume: ~50 ml
Maximum blood flow: 3 lpm @ 4900 RPM
Rated blood flow: 2 lpm @ 120 mmHg @ 3500 RPM
Rated carbon dioxide removal: 100 ml/min @ 2 lpm @ 1:1 sweep gas flow
Full flow adult pump oxygenator (under development): Rated oxygen delivery: >270 ml/min @ 5 lpm @ 1:1 sweep gas flow @ FiO2 = 60%
Fiber bundle surface area: 0.94 m2
Pump-oxygenator total priming volume: ~100 ml
Maximum blood flow: >8.2 lpm @ 4900 RPM
Rated blood flow: 6 lpm @ 120 mmHg @ 4000 RPM
Rated carbon dioxide removal: >220 ml/min @ 5 lpm @ 1:1 sweep gas flow
- Tecnology validation
- Tecnology validation
About $16M USD of government non dilutive funding in numerous rounds associated with progressive milestones and technological gates passing (if efficacy on a certain aspect was not achieved additional funds would be withdrawn)
EBS certification with the ISO/NAMSA 10993
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10 Ways You Can Make It Through a Football-less Week
Football is back, but unfortunately your favorite team only takes the field once a week. We know the struggle of going through those long, painful, boring days counting down to kickoff, which is why we're here. Through Friday, September 26th, at participating restaurants, Bojangles' wants to help you get from kickoff to kickoff with our limited-time Football-Shaped Bo-Berry Biscuits. You don't need to wait until Thursday night or the weekend for football. Come on in and try a Football-Shaped Bo-Berry Biscuit today.
Here are 10 other ways you can make football season part of every day.
1. Eye black with your business casual
The khakis-and-tie combo is a timeless classic, but everybody's doing it. Change it up and throw on some eye black to support your team. This more intimidating look may get you that raise you've been wanting for so long.
2. Mall shopping with football pads
Are you tired of being cut in line at the mall? Nip that in the bud, bud, by wearing full football pads. Nobody will interfere as you tackle your shopping list.
3. Juking in the hallway
This one should be self-explanatory: "Look! Look here! It's me going to the bathro---NOPE. Getting water from the water fountainooooo I'm not! I'm just going to the elevator and meeting my daughter for lunch! JUKED YA!"
4. Grocery shop with cleats on
The grocery store can be a dangerous place on a Saturday afternoon. Parents are flying around with heavy cart...trying desperately to collect their shopping list items before the kids venture too far. Navigate this treacherous terrain a little easier by wearing football cleats. Traction makes all the difference.
5. Put your kids in TV timeout
Kids these days...with their skinny jeans and Beats headphones. Teach respect by putting your teenager in TV timeout. It's like a regular timeout – only way longer. Don't actually put them in front of a TV, or it won't be much of a timeout.
6. Locker room showers just because
There's nothing like an NFL locker room after a big win. Players chant and cheer as they take showers of victory before speaking with the media. You can do this too at your local gym. Sure, there aren't any other players with you, you didn't just win a nationally televised game, and no media is waiting to speak with you, but you can still chant and cheer like a pro.
7. Obnoxious touchdown celebrations as you complete trivial tasks
Next time you take out the trash – spike the bag into the dumpster. Next time you clean out your car – crank some tunes and give your neighbors some freestyle dance moves. Next time you throw out expired food – flex those biceps and tell your pet you're un-guardable.
8. Football Pants Tuesday
So you call yourself a fan? Would you do anything for your team? Perfect. Start wearing skin-tight football pants every Tuesday to support the cause of victory. Sure, "athletes" may make a few sacrifices here and there, but real teammates sacrifice their reputation at work.
9. Drink sports drink without exercising first
The electrolytes found in sports drinks are necessary for the body to perform optimally...or something like that. You may not be tackling 230 lb. running backs or 40-yard-dashing to intercept a Hail Mary pass, but you still need nutrients to make it through the work day. Eight hours is longer than one. Professional athletes don't know that kind of fatigue.
10. Tailgate the break room coffee line
We all know the person that takes their sweet time in the break room coffee line. Fill cup. Cream. Sugar. Stir. Done. What are they possibly doing? Pass the time by tailgating the whole process. Except instead of heading into the game to scream for your team, you head back to your cubicle in silence. In fact, you can tailgate everything. Find out more at TailgateEverything.com.


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Yoga pants printed with original flower of life artwork using eco-friendly inks.
Our slate blue and gold high waisted yoga leggings are the perfect addition to a conscious wardrobe! The flower of life is found in many cultures all over the world. It is made up of 64 overlapping circles and is the blueprint for our universe and entire existence. What a beautiful and empowering pattern to adorn your body with!
I create my artwork with the deep intention of uplifting vibrations and reminding people of who they really are. As an earth spirit I hope to ground people's energies through the combination of these sacred patterns and yoga.
This pattern is also available in yoga shorts, crop top and mini shorts.
(Actual colours may vary slightly as every computer monitor has a different capability of displaying colour and everyone perceives colour differently. I try to edit my photos to show the samples as life-like as possible).
• Leggings are made of performance knit fabric (88% polyester, 12% spandex)
• Compression fit that suits all body types
• Ethically produced in a sweatshop free environment using eco-friendly processes
• Vivid print of original artwork that won't fade after washing
• Versatility in wear as the waistband can be worn high, or folded down to hug your hips
• Made with positive intentions and the belief of raising the wearer's vibration
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Matt Skuta decided to shoot his life every day, 1-sec at a time, for a year. Here's what his 2013 looked like.
Friday, December 20, 2013
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Junior Achievement is a non-profit group whose goal is to build young people's capacity to spur economic development and contribute to America's global competiveness. Junior Achievement helps prepare young people for the real world by showing them how to generate and effectively manage wealth, how to create jobs which make their communities more robust, and how to apply entrepreneurial thinking to the workplace.
Junior Achievement of the National Capital Area offers one day programs at their Fairfax VA facility for students.
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The on-site activities are designed to allow students the opportunity to "put into action" what they have learned in the classroom and to understand the basic steps of maintaining a realistic personal budget. Two weeks of classroom follow-up allows students to use their new financial knowledge to explore career options and to set future goals.
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Azimuthal equidistant projection
The azimuthal equidistant projection is an azimuthal map projection. It has the useful properties that all points on the map are at proportionally correct distances from the center point, and that all points on the map are at the correct azimuth (direction) from the center point. A useful application for this type of projection is a polar projection which shows all meridians (lines of longitude) as straight, with distances from the pole represented correctly. The flag of the United Nations contains an example of a polar azimuthal equidistant projection.
While it may have been used by ancient Egyptians for star maps in some holy books,[1] the earliest text describing the azimuthal equidistant projection is an 11th-century work by al-Biruni.[2]
The projection appears in many Renaissance maps, and Gerardus Mercator used it for an inset of the north polar regions in sheet 13 and legend 6 of his well-known 1569 map. In France and Russia this projection is named "Postel projection" after Guillaume Postel, who used it for a map in 1581.[3] Many modern star chart planispheres use the polar azimuthal equidistant projection.
Mathematical definition[edit]
A point on the globe is chosen to be special in the sense that mapped distances and azimuths from that point to any other point will be correct. That point, (φ1, λ0), will project to the center of a circular projection, with φ referring to latitude and λ referring to longitude. All points along a given azimuth will project along a straight line from the center, and the angle θ that the line subtends from the vertical is the azimuth angle. The distance from the center point to another projected point is given as ρ. By this description, then, the point on the plane specified by (θ,ρ) will be projected to Cartesian coordinates:
The relationship between the coordinates (θ,ρ) of the point on the globe, and its latitude and longitude coordinates (φ, λ) is found as follows. The great circle distance ρ between two points (φ1, λ0) and (φ, λ) on the sphere is given by: [4]
The azimuth from the first to the second point is given by:
When the center point is the north pole, these formulas greatly simplify to:
In the case of radio, this projection allows for directional antenna aiming, especially in the case of HF communications. An operator can point the antenna, usually by an electric rotator, simply locating the target in the map and rotating the antenna to the angle indicated by the map. The map should be centered as nearly as possible to the actual antenna location.[citation needed]
See also[edit]
- ^ SNYDER, John P. (1997). Flattening the earth: two thousand years of map projections. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-76747-7., p.29
- ^ David A. KING (1996), "Astronomy and Islamic society: Qibla, gnomics and timekeeping", in Roshdi Rashed, ed., Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science, Vol. 1, p. 128–184 [153]. Routledge, London and New York.
- ^ Snyder 1997, p. 29
- ^ Snyder, John P.; Voxland, Philip M. (1989). An Album of Map Projections. Professional Paper 1453. Denver: USGS. p. 228. ISBN 978-0160033681. Retrieved 2018-03-29.
External links[edit]
- Table of examples and properties of all common projections, from radicalcartography.net
- Online Azimuthal Equidistant Map Generator
- An interactive Java Applet to study the metric deformations of the Azimuthal Equidistant Projection.
- GeographicLib provides a class for performing azimuthal equidistant projections centered at any point on the ellipsoid.
- Animated US National Weather Service Wind Data for Azimuthal equidistant projection.
- Generate an Azimuthal equidistant projection from any point on Earth from ns6t.net.


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"[The popular] conception of social justice [is] associated with the work of John Rawls. Rawls suggested that we should gauge social justice with reference to the social arrangements which individuals would agree upon were they all in an 'original position' in which none of them knew what their personal attributes would be and all were ignorant of the place which they would occupy in society. Operating behind such a 'veil of ignorance,' Rawls argued ... that we would all agree that resources should be shared out equally, except in those situations where an unequal distribution could be shown to produce greater benefits for those who are least well-off than they could possibly enjoy under any other social arrangement (what he called the 'difference principle')...
"But no sooner had Rawls established this argument for equality than Robert Nozick offered an equally compelling refutation. He likened Rawls's 'original position' to the situation of a group of students being asked to agree on the distribution of examination grades before starting their course. Having no way of knowing how well they are likely to perform, Nozick accepts that they would probably all agree to share the same marks. But in reality, they do not have to make such decisions in ignorance of their own vices and virtues. Some work hard and revise while others are lazy, and this would make it grossly unfair to insist they should all be graded the same. Nozick therefore proposed that we should gauge a just distribution simply by asking whether people have established a legitimate right to what they have. If they have worked for what they've got, or if they have received it from somebody else as a result of a voluntary gift or exchange, then they are entitled to keep it, end of story."
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In response to Washington's indecency crackdown, Fox is running its V-chip/ratings public-service announcement more frequently.
Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who pushed for the adoption of the system, has been calling on the networks to increase their educational efforts.
The Fox PSA is a retro-looking slide show that explains the ratings system and V-chip channel-blocking technology. One slide assures it's "easy to use." That characterization may clash with the V-chip's pages-long instructions in new TV-set manuals. Still, Fox stands by its claim.
The spot was written in-house, and we're told the network's head of creative marketing, who oversaw the spot's creation, has used the device. The Fox exec insists that setting the V-chip isn't difficult–no harder than setting the parental controls on AOL.


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Quin Hillyer: Telecoms face double risk on FISA
WASHINGTON -Did the House Democratic leadership really sell out national security just to kowtow to rich plaintiffs' lawyers who fill their campaign coffers?
Prompted by groundbreaking reporting by Townhall's Amanda Carpenter and columns by Robert Novak and others, the notion that congressional liberals are letting torts trump anti-terrorism is firmly taking hold.
With good reason. Telecommunications companies clearly have much to fear in a major legal and moral catch-22 now that Congress has allowed a key intelligence surveillance law approved in the wake of 9/11 to expire.
The key sticking point in the proposed Protect America Act, which House Democratic leaders blocked last week, is a provision giving the telecoms immunity from lawsuits for helping the surveillance program without specific court orders.
The companies received written assurances from the Justice Department of the program's legality, but now they face dozens of lawsuits seeking damages (for alleged invasion of privacy) that could run into hundreds of billions of dollars.
Carpenter's report showed that, while only 29 of 100 senators voted against the bill, 24 of those 29 received campaign cash from one or more of the plaintiffs attorneys in suits already filed against the telecoms. In all, 66 of these lawyers have given some $1.5 million to Democrats. Republicans received just $4,250.
Without immunity, the companies are unlikely to participate in this program that experts of both parties consider vital to anti-terrorism efforts — and would thus hobble the program drastically.
After all, as The Wall Street Journal noted this week, without immunity, the telecoms face double legal jeopardy. If they lose money through the wiretap suits, they become vulnerable to a second round of suits — this time from shareholders for putting the companies at risk.
The diabolical trick is that the same attorneys could seek jackpots both ways. Consider Eric Isaacson, himself a donor of $32,860 in the past six years to Democrats, who has made a career with controversial firms known for just the sort of class-action shareholder suits that The Journal warned about. He worked for 15 years for Milberg Weiss, three of whose top partners have pleaded guilty to a vast criminal kickback scheme that operated while Isaacson was there. The firm and a fourth partner are also under indictment and face trial later this year.
Isaacson joined now-convicted former Milberg Weiss lawyer William Lerach — with whom he has co-authored an academic paper on securities lawsuits — when Lerach split from the firm to form Lerach Coughlin (now Coughlin Stoia), the lead plaintiffs' firm in the wiretap case Hepting v. AT&T. Attorneys for the two firms have donated millions of dollars to Democratic committees and/or current House and Senate members, almost all Democrats.
Isaacson was not implicated in the Milberg Weiss kickback scheme. The point is he comes from exactly the sort of cutthroat milieu that makes telecoms balk (absent immunity) when asked for an emergency foreign-intelligence wiretap.
Just imagine how Coughlin Stoia could take information gleaned from "discovery" motions in the wiretap suit and use it to try to nail the phone company in a subsequent investors' suit that is the firm's stock in trade.
Remember the modus operandi of Milberg Weiss, tactics that Isaacson specializes in defending on appeal. As former partners described in their guilty pleas, the firm would troll for clients with stock in big corporations and then file suit almost any time the share-price dropped, without specific evidence of wrongdoing but based merely on what Lerach called his internal "X-ray vision."
These tactics are advocated at conferences at posh resorts for judges and law professors sponsored by the Institute for Law and Economic Policy, for which Isaacson is a vice president and Lerach is the former director. They are bullying tactics, the moral equivalent of a shakedown.
Without immunity from such shakedowns, the companies surely would be forced to decline even the most urgent of future government requests. Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte has sworn under oath that the end result "reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the United States."
The real losers, then, will be the American people whose lives these lawsuits, and the Democratic House leaders, have put at risk.


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90-year-old woman escapes mobile home fire
A mobile home fire on Dan Walker Road Sunday resulted in 90-year-old Georgia Cox Williams escaping, but losing everything in the fire.
"She has the clothes on her back, that is all," Darlene Cox, daughter-in-law of Williams, said. "We Thank God that she is still here with us, but she has lost everything. She is currently staying at a hotel."
The 90-year-old Williams lived alone but was already out of the home when the fire truck arrived on the scene, according to EMA Director Torrey Williams.
The mobile home was a total loss. A neighbor called 911 to report the fire.
Williams suffered some minor burns to her hands while trying to put out the fire when it started.
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This is a 4-week clinic introducing the game of volleyball to 3rd grade participants AND their parents. Parents/guardians will have the opportunity to learn the skills needed to play and coach volleyball alongside their 3rd grade participant. The parent/guardian will participate in the drills with their child as the instructor leads the group in drills to improve volleyball skills such as learning to serve, bump, set and spike along with learning the fundamentals of volleyball, basic techniques, rules and play.
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Program dates: March 2-23
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This is an introduction to a competitive league for youth volleyball players in 4th and 5th grades. Players will sign up individually and be placed on teams made up of players from the same school, neighborhood or that have previously played together to promote a team spirit.
This league is coached by parent volunteers. Teams will practice at the YMCA one night a week for 1 hour.
Season: Practices begin the first full week of March. Games are March 9-April 6, 2019. Games will be played at the YMCA on Thursday evenings or Saturday mornings.
Registration is now open and continues until February 25 or all teams fill.
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Key Points
- The ACC/AHA endorses the concept that the intensity of preventive intervention should be matched to the patient's level of absolute risk. Hence, quantitative risk assessment is a critical step in efforts to prevent ASCVD.
- This guideline focuses on the large proportion of the adult population without clinical signs or symptoms of ASCVD who merit evaluation for the primary prevention of ASCVD. It does not apply to those with clinically manifest ASCVD, who require secondary prevention approaches, or to highly selected patient subgroups, such as those with symptoms suggestive of CVD, who require diagnostic strategies rather than risk assessment.
- Furthermore, these recommendations were not developed for use in specific subgroups of asymptomatic individuals at unusually high risk, such as those with genetically determined extreme values of traditional risk factors (eg, patients with familial hypercholesterolemia).
- Tools enabling estimation of 10-year and lifetime risk for ASCVD and a web-based calculator are available at http://www.cardiosource.org/en/Science-And-Quality/Practice-Guidelines-and-Quality-Standards/2013-Prevention-Guideline-Tools.aspx or http://my.americanheart.org/cvriskcalculator.
Table 1. Expert Opinion Thresholds for Use of Optional Screening Tests When Risk-Based Decisions Regarding Initiation of Pharmacological Therapy Are Uncertain Following Quantitative Risk Assessment
|Supports Revising Risk Assessment Upward
|Does Not Support Revising Risk Assessment
|Family history of
premature CVD
|Male <55 years of age
Female <65 years of age
(1st degree relative)
|Occurrences at older
ages only (if any)
|≥2 mg/L
|<2 mg/L
|CAC score
|≥300 Agatston units or
≥75th percentile for age, sex, and ethnicitya
|<300 Agatston units and
<75th percentile for age,
sex, and ethnicitya
|aFor additional information, see http://www.mesa-nhlbi.org/CACReference.aspx.
Table 2. Recommendations for Risk Assessment
|The race- and sex-specific Pooled Cohort Equationsa to predict 10-year risk for a first hard ASCVD event should be used in non-Hispanic African Americans and non-Hispanic Whites, 40-79 years of age.
|Use of the sex-specific Pooled Cohort Equations for non-Hispanic Whites may be considered when estimating risk in patients from populations other than African Americans and non-Hispanic Whites.
|If, after quantitative risk assessment, a risk-based treatment decision is uncertain, assessment of 1 or more of the following— family history, hs-CRP, CAC score, or ABI—may be considered to inform treatment decision making. (See Table 2)
|The contribution of ApoB, CKD, albuminuria, and cardiorespiratory fitness to risk assessment for a first ASCVD event is uncertain at present.
|Routine measurement of CIMT is not recommended in clinical practice for risk assessment for a first ASCVD event.
|III: No Benefit b
|It is reasonable to assess traditional ASCVD risk factorsc every 4-6 years in adults 20-79 years of age who are free from ASCVD and to estimate 10-year ASCVD risk every 4-6 years in adults
40-79 years of age who are free from ASCVD.
|Assessing 30-year or lifetime ASCVD risk based on traditional risk factorsc may be considered in adults 20-59 years of age
who are free from ASCVD and are not at high short-term risk.
a Derived from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study, Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS), Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study, Framingham original and offspring cohorts.
b Based on new evidence reviewed during ACC/AHA update of evidence.
c Age, sex, total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, systolic BP, use of antihypertensive therapy, diabetes, and current smoking.
Applying Classification of Recommendations and Level of Evidence
|Estimate of Certainty (Precision) of Treatment Effect
Class I
Procedure/ Treatment SHOULD be performed/ administered
Class IIa
Additional studies with focused objectives needed.
IT IS REASONABLE to perform procedure/ administer treatment
Class IIb
Additional studies with broad objectives needed; additional registry data would be helpful.
Procedure/ Treatment MAY BE CONSIDERED
Class III
No Benefit: procedure/test not helpful; treatment has no proven benefit
Harm: procedure/test has excess cost without benefit, or is harmful; treatment harmful to patients
Multiple populations evaluateda
Data derived from multiple randomized clinical trials or meta-analyses
Limited populations evaluateda
Data derived from a single randomized trial or nonrandomized studies
Very limited populations evaluateda
Only consensus opinion of experts, case studies, or standards of care
|Suggested phrases for writing recommendations:
is recommended
is indicated
is useful/effective/beneficial
is reasonable
can be useful/effective/beneficial
is probably recommended or indicated
may/might be considered
may/might be reasonable
usefulness/effectiveness is unknown/unclear/uncertain or not well established
No Benefit:
is not recommended
is not indicated
should not be performed/adminstered/other
is not useful/beneficial/effective
potentially harmful
causes harm
associated with excess morbidity/mortality
should not be performed/administered/other
|Comparative effectiveness phrasesb:
treatment/strategy A is recommended/indicated in preference to treatment B
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- Data available from clinical trials or registries about the usefulness/efficacy in different subpopulations, such as sex, age, history of diabetes, history of prior MI, history of HF, and prior aspirin use.
- For comparative effectiveness recommendations (Class I and IIa; Level of Evidence A and B only), studies that support the use of comparator verbs should involve direct comparisons of the treatments or strategies being evaluated.
ABI, ankle-brachial index; ACC,American College of Cardiology; AHA, American Heart Association; ApoB, apolipoprotein B; ASCVD, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease; CAC, coronary artery calcium; CIMT, carotid intima-media thickness; CKD, chronic kidney disease; COR, class of recommendation; CV, cardiovascular; CVD, cardiovascular disease; ES, evidence statement; HDL-C, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; HF, heart failure; hs-CRP, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein; LOE, Level of Evidence; MI, myocardial infarction; NHLBI, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute ; SBP, systolic blood pressure
Goff DC Jr, Lloyd-Jones DM, Bennett G, Coady S, D'Agostino RB Sr, Gibbons R, Greenland P, Lackland DT, Levy D, O'Donnell CJ, Robinson JG, Schwartz JS, Shero ST, Smith SC Jr, Sorlie P, Stone NJ, Wilson PWF. 2013 ACC/AHA guideline on the assessment of cardiovascular risk: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. Published online before print November 12, 2013, J Am Coll Cardiol: doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.11.005. and Circulation: 10.1161/01.cir.0000437741.48606.98.
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In the last decade alone, the number of Americans who play video games has nearly doubled. With more than 150 million playing just in 2011 - from children downloading Flappy Bird on their smartphones, to teenagers competing in Halo 3, or families playing Mario Kart on the Wii console - gaming has become among one of the fastest growing industries in entertainment. But the public consensus on gaming and gamers is largely a negative one. "Gamers" to the average person tend to be synonymous with "lazy", "reclusive", or even related to violence. With some of the industry's most popular sellers, such as Grand Theft Auto or Call of Duty, being well-known for having content strongly consisting of gore, violence, foul language, and explicit sexual references, it becomes an easy association for non-gamers to make.
Gaming, to most people, appears to be counter-productive; a virtual waste of time. Yet, of those 150 million gaming people just in the United States alone, the average young American spends "more than ten thousand hours playing computer and video games." As Jane McGonigal writes in her book, Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World, "to put that number in perspective, ten thousand hours is almost exactly the same amount of time an average American student spends in the classroom from the moment they start fifth grade all the way through high school graduation… And unlike their formal education, which diffuses their attention across myriad different subjects and skills, every single gaming hour is concentrated on improving at just one thing: becoming a better gamer."
With ten thousand hours of "expertise" - the rough equivalent of an American public education - what is it, exactly, that gamers are getting "good" at? If gaming is an activity that is counter-productive, unusable, or even worse, injurious to the people who participate in it, then why do so many people sink so many hours into playing video games?
This is precisely the question that McGonigal poses. Her answer - "reality is broken". In other words, video games have become a better way at meeting our emotional needs than our own "real world" environments. For a lot of people, on the scale of Maslow's "Hierarchy of Needs", while the basics might be being met, their "psychological needs" are not - intimate relationships, feelings of accomplishment, confidence, a sense of connection. Because of the setup of video games, achieving some of these needs becomes intrinsically possible.
The principles of what makes a "good game" naturally work in that favor. According to McGonigal, any good game should have a goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation. This is a pretty standard setup, so how do these tenants equate to an improvement in happiness, or overall achievement of emotional needs? McGonigal poses that if we have intrinsic rewards in our life such as satisfying work, the experience of being successful, social connection, or meaning, we become more intrinsically motivated; a source of motivation that is internally generated, not externally, and so naturally proves to be a more sustainable mode to motivate people over a longer period of time.
By this principle, gamers who put so many hours into becoming a virtual "expert" on gaming are also practicing skills such as collaboration, blissful productivity, and connectivity. Despite the gamer stereotype of the lone couch potato, the most played games today - League of Legends, World of Warcraft, or DOTA 2 - are all multiplayer games. Even casual "Facebook" games like Farmville and Words With Friends are played with the average person's real life friends and acquaintances, reconnecting or strengthening old bonds, perhaps even over massive real world distances. Though people tend to think of this sort of "social play" as distraction, this kind of gaming in fact tends to be a part of the essential building blocks to community.
"Social play," writes psychologist Peter Gray, in a section of his Freedom to Learn essay, How Hunter-Gatherers Maintained Their Egalitarian Ways, "that is, play involving more than one player--is necessarily egalitarian. It always requires a suspension of aggression and dominance along with a heightened sensitivity to the needs and desires of the other players. Players may recognize that one playmate is better at the played activity than are others, but that recognition must not lead the one who is better to lord it over the others."
Gray based this theory largely off of evidence provided by "anthropological literature", citing that playfulness was an integral factor in many hunter-gatherer societies, and key to controlling the drive for dominance within a populace. Even today, in competitive games like League of Legends or Call of Duty - games known for bringing out the worst in players - people display a willingness not only to cooperate with their teammates in the spirit in competition, but to suppress their drive to dominate their adversaries, even if it's only by a small degree. If games require voluntary participation, after all, it would be impossible to continue playing a good game if you were feeling thoroughly "dominated" by your competitor, utterly de-motivating you from continuing the game - why continue playing at all, if it's not going to be fun? All good gamers know how to maintain a spirit of sportsmanship among their fellow players, even in the "heat of battle".
Similar to Gray, in her book, McGonigal refers to a tale from Herodotus, a contemporary of Socrates, who accounted a story about the ancient country of Lydia which suffered from an eighteen-year famine. The Lydians' solution to this plight, Herodotus wrote, was to organize a series of dice games which would occur every other day. On the "resting days" which occurred in between the festivities, the Lydians would eat; when they were "gaming", they would not. And so, allegedly through this process of distraction, the Lydians were able to extend their scarce resources for several more years.
If you take these accounts at face value, it is easy now to see some of the societal benefits of distraction or even competition, and how they can be manipulated to sustain an egalitarian society. But it may be a bit of a stretch to say that games like World of Warcraft or Farmville still have similar effects on our society today.
This is where "gammification" and "alternate reality games" come into play.
Gammification is a relatively new technique, developed to apply "game-design elements and game principles in non-game contexts". It's used in a myriad of applications, from education to marketing, but well-known for being applied through "alternate reality games", games which seek to engage and motivate people to achieve "real life" goals. The belief is that when we employ principles which motivate us to participate and win "good games", to our real life pursuits, we can similarly increase our motivation to achieve real goals, and produce tangible results.
Take a look at the massive non-profit, National Novel Writing Month, or "NaNoWriMo" for short. Organized by the Office of Letters and Light, and founded by writer Chris Baty back in 1999, NaNoWriMo today is one of the largest internet-based creative writing projects to have ever surfaced. NaNoWriMo isn't advertised as a game - or even an alternate reality game, or ARG - but the gammification that the organization employs to its platform is what enables all of the writers who participate to meet their goal: to finish a novel.
How does it work? Every year, NaNoWriMo challenges all of its participants to voluntarily sign up their novel for the month of November. Their goal is to write the first 50,000 words of their novel. The rules? They have to do it in thirty days. Participants are kept motivated through the entire process by flow charts which keep track of their "word count" stats, pep talks sent to their inboxes from famous authors such as John Green or Neil Gaiman, as well as a substantial community forum with hundreds of threads full of tips, feedback, instructional posts, and just chat with other writers and plan meet-ups. In other words, a feedback system.
These mechanics might seem a little trivial or random, but it's with this structure that NaNoWriMo has enabled 42,221 people to "win" their novel just in 2013 alone - that's 3,520,123,164 total words that year - not even to include the Young Writer's Program, an offshoot of NaNo made up of 12 to 18 year-olds, who separately clocked in 18,670 winners that same year. Many other NaNoers - as the tend to be called - went on the publish their novels, of now acclaimed authors such as Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl, and many, many more.
Organizations aren't the only one to have utilized gammifcation to improve the success rate of their participants; applications have as well, such as the app Zombies, Run!. Though the title may be misleading, Zombies, Run! isn't a zombie fighting game. It's a fitness app. You can download it for free and receive weekly episodes or "missions", or you can subscribe to download missions whenever you please. Like Endomondo and other running/fitness apps downloadable to your phone, when you turn on Zombies, Run!, it'll keep track of running stats - your pace, time, and a GPS locator to measure how far you've run. But the goal of this fitness app isn't just to get in shape - it's to save the world. From zombies, of course. Every time you download a "mission" from the app, and plug in your headphones to go for a run, an audio narration begins - a radio controller, in the nearby town of town of Abel, is contacting you through your "headset". You're stranded, miles out from civilization, in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. You're only hope of survival - "run!".
It can come across as a laughable premise, but in the thick of it, listening to other characters in this story address you - as one of their fellow "runners" out in the field - it creates a sense of meaning and epic scale that isn't normally attributed with exercise. For many, one of the biggest obstacles to overcome with running isn't the literal miles, it's the push to get out and do it in the first place. Jogging in place on a treadmill, or around a circle on a track, can start to feel a little aimless. Especially since the physical "results" of getting fit can take so long to actually manifest. In gaming terms, exercise isn't actually very engaging - it's feedback system is flawed. But with apps like Zombies, Run!, running becomes more than just fitness, it becomes fun. If you allow yourself to be taken in by the interactive storyline, you begin to feel empowered. As you keep running, an automated voice will tell you when you pick up virtual "supplies", which you can use later in the app, and apply to a virtual map of "Abel Township", trading in those supplies to "build up your base" - rebuilding playgrounds, setting up farms, and even fortifying the town walls. The visuals of the town map change as you upgrade, and the more you improve, the higher your town's "defense" and "morale" increases, giving the player tangible power in this virtual world - and power for good. The more you run, and the further you progress in the story, the more established you become as an essential member of this surviving community. A virtual hero.
For the ambitious runner, there is an optional "chase mode" that can be activated for any mission. If it's enabled, at a random interval along your route, a radar will begin to "beep", and an automated voice will alert you to a zombie in the area, chasing you, giving you second by second updates as to how close it's getting. If the player doesn't put on a burst of speed, the zombie's moans grow louder, and it will "catch" you. Whenever this happens, the player is "forced" to drop some of the supplies they picked up on their run in order to distract the zombie and get away. Which means less supplies which can be put to use in this virtual township whose safety who've been made to feel responsible for in the world of the game.
Currently, the app has over one million people playing. For a project that started out as only a Kickstarter, that is a monumental success.
Even educational apps have gotten in on the gammification track. DuoLingo is a free language-learning app that can be accessed online through their website or from your smartphone. There are 23 language courses available - including Spanish, French, German, and even Gaelic - crowdsourced from "experts" such as teachers or specialists in any given language. Players can add as many courses as they wish, in whatever language they please. They begin with lessons in the "basics", such as "phrases" or "foods", and the player must complete a certain amount of tasks - translating or completing sentences, or speaking translations into their device's microphone - in order to reach the lessons end, and receive their "XP", or experience points, for the day. Players can compare experience points with other friends, if they link their account up with Facebook, and level up, becoming a certain "percent" fluent in any language. What's more, once you have completed a lesson, you've "strengthened" that subject, but if the lessons are left alone for long enough, your "strength bar" decreases, and you're prompted to take a refresher course. This way, not only are learners encouraged to learn the new material, but also to keep it fresh in their minds.
When gameful principles are introduced to real world applications like this, people become more motivated to participate in the betterment of their own lives. They're encouraged to learn new things, tackle new challenges, and meet substantial goals - completely voluntarily. This is the vein that video games are starting to follow in; improvement of self-acceptance and self-actualization on a global scale.
If video games can continue to do more than just improve people's moods and emotional needs within virtual worlds, but in our real lives, people will be more inclined to provide for others as well. Although many of the alternate reality games mentioned here focus on personal betterment, people who are self-actualized are well-known to be more concerned with solving problems outside of themselves. If video games are to evolve even further in order to sustain an egalitarian society - just as the ancient Lydians and hunter-gatherers evolved their games - then this is the next step in the right direction. Video games have been shown to increase personal happiness, and in a world that is developing more collaborative, connected, socially playing gamers than any other generation, we are well on our way to evolving into an era with more "expertise" in self-actualization than any other before it.
With millions of people actualized, and motivated to collaborate for a better world, you can bet that in the next couple of decades, we will begin to see a whole new crop of ARGs which go beyond simply enabling people to accomplish personal goals. These gamers will become the designers of a new genre of gaming to focus on finding the solutions to problems in our external world; to use the rewarding mechanics of games which have pulled in so many, and apply them as fixes that can be employed on a global scale. A generation of people who are more empathetic, more empowered, and more intrinsically motivated to achieve something greater than just epic wins in virtual online worlds, but to save the one we call our own.
Video games are bringing us closer to a utopia today than we ever have been before.


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Seiko Recordable Alarm Clock Record Your Own Voice QHE081K
This alarm clock features a recording feature, allwing you to record 20 seconds of audio to replay as the alarm tone, or a standard beep. The hands have lumibrite, as well as having a light for backup.
- Volume Control
- AA ( Alkaline ) x 3
- Movement: Quartz
Size : 11cm x 11cm x 5.5 cm
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This post is going to be a work in progress, since I want to get back to doing incremental design on this blog, rather than in InDesign or on a forum. It is going to be a super-short, super-light hack of Apocalypse World, no longer than 2 pages in length, to handle the "outbreak of dragons" concept I posted earlier. Here goes:
Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a basilisk, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. — Isaiah 14:29
It is currently after the Second Crusade but before the Fall of Jerusalem to Saladin. The draconic plague has come, spreading through the Levant from some mysterious source. No black wings yet fill the skies, but it is only a matter of time. Baldwin the Leper is King of Jerusalem, but he is growing more and more enfeebled from the plague that has kept him wrapped in bandages and largely concealed from public view. Rumors have it that he is molting off swaths of scaly skin and that his insides are writhing and transforming. It will not be long now. But the king is hardly the only one infected and, if a quarantine is not enacted soon, we may all very well perish in the fire that is coming. The red dragon has been loosed from the bottomless put, and this is surely the Apocalypse.
Add to Character Creation
- English, French, German, Spanish, Byzantine, Born in the Holy Land, Persian, Egyptian, Arabian, etc.
- Jewish, Christian, Muslim, other (Zoroastrian, etc.), or choose a more specific patron (i.e. the Archangel Michael).
- Infected Human (choose 1 move from the Plaguebook), Uninfected Human (choose 1 additional move from any playbook), Djinn (choose 1 move from the Book of Flame; cannot become infected), Half-Djinn (choose 1 move from the Book of Flame; can become infected, but do not start play that way), or Redeemed (former plaguebearer who had the plague burned out of them by djinn-fire; cannot become infected; starts with a special move I haven't written yet; based on Apoc from Wormwood)
- Dragonslaying heritage (replace 1 move with a move from the Book of Slaughter) or no Dragonslaying heritage (take Hx+2 or Hx-2 with an old slayer family).
- Make a list of slayer family names as options to pick from the name list
Special Playbooks
- The Plaguebook: moves for the infected; once you start taking moves from this book, you can't stop (though you can still take other moves too), and once you've taken 3 moves, you must switch to the book entirely; and the final XP option is turning into a dragon, becoming one of the GM's threats, and making a new character
- The Book of Slaughter: ancient techniques passed down by the slayer families for killing and quarantining dragons; must be learned from the families but can be taught to those outside the lineage
- The Book of Flame: techniques for djinn and half-djinn, made as they are from smokeless fire; one can discover their djinn heritage during play, but these techniques cannot normally be taught to outsiders; however, those with highly advanced cases of the plague begin to spontaneously manifest fiery magicks.
- The Book of Life: advanced techniques for those of extreme faith, drawing on their connection to God, the Prophets, and the angels; clergy may or may not have these gifts; see, for an example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleportation_in_Islam
Normal Playbooks (all of these will simply use renamed existing moves from AW)
- Knight: Templar/Hospitaller(first aid kit, like Gunlugger)/of Saladin
- Warrior/Crusading Grunt
- Assassin
- Clergy
- Noble
The great beasts simply count as gangs of various sizes depending on the potency of a given dragon. They also generally work like threats and have special threat moves of their own.
The Plague
Each major NPC in the game that becomes infected has their own countdown clock. You can guess what it counts down to. Non-named characters are simply treated as part of larger threats, which have countdown clocks that represent the spread of the plague in certain regions. There are, of course, plenty of threats that are not directly related to the plague, such as infighting and bureaucratic nonsense and people with the best intentions.


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The following article was written for our monthly PSP newsletter. With permission from our principal, we are sharing this with you; praying you are blessed by the heart of his message. Enjoy!
"Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." (Philippians 4:6-7).
We have probably all heard those verses many times before. I know I definitely have; but as we approach the holiday season, two words stand out to me. The verses would flow together without the phrase, and so grammatically, it is not necessary to insert the phrase with thanksgiving; but if we really stop to think about it, the promise of peace found at the end would probably not be true without giving thanks.
The word thanks is found some 72 times throughout Scripture, not to mention variations like thankful, thankfulness, thanksgiving, and more. The sheer volume of times it is mentioned ought to give us an indication of the importance of being thankful.
Human nature is to always desire more, and, while tempered correctly, it can be a good thing, in the context of these verses, it is decidedly not. Striving to do more, to be better, to reach one's full potential, within the confines of godly behavior, is far better than stagnation to be sure, but thankfulness becomes key in maintaining the right attitude, and a right heart before God.
I am reminded of a story I once read, in which one of the characters was struggling to achieve a level of study that was beyond his abilities. When it was mentioned repeatedly by another that he still had far to go, his response was profound, and true: "Please stop poisoning what I have already achieved by throwing up before me what may be forever beyond my grasp." Though not a biblical story, the concept is quite true. Lack of thankfulness, because of a desire to have more, do better, or be recognized, can and will poison our hearts toward that which we do have.
When we look at the Philippians passage, it tells us to present our requests to God. Note that it does not say "needs" but "requests. " There is nothing wrong with asking for the desires of our heart, provided, of course, that what we desire is not something which He could not, as a loving and responsible Father, give us in the first place. Thankfulness for what we do have will keep us from becoming bitter if His answer is "no." Remember, we are coming before the One who knows our needs and promises to provide for us.
Psalm 100 verses 4 and 5 read, "Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name. For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting, and His truth endures to all generations."
If we stop to consider all the blessings that He has provided for us, we have to stop in awe. He has given me salvation, a relationship with Him (and that on a far more personal and intimate basis than a servant has any right to hope for from his King), my wife, our kids, and so much more. I have been blessed with His truth, a barometer that does not change, and so I am able to chart my way through a world that is far too difficult to navigate on my own.
We have been granted access to His very throne, that our needs, pleas for mercy and grace, and petitions might reach the One who has everything, and can do anything, and He says to come boldly.
So as we approach Thanksgiving, take the time, personally, and even as a family, to sit down and actually list out the things that God has provided for you, done for you, and blessed you with, and as you do so, see how your hearts settle before Him. What is the biggest gift of all? He has given us…Himself.
Happy Thanksgiving


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Leslie Morris is Associate Professor of German and has served as the Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Minnesota for a number of years. She has published widely on the poetics of memory, trauma, and the Holocaust, and has co-edited three volumes of essays that explore contemporary Jewish culture in Germany (Contemporary Jewish Writing in Germany; Unlikely History: The Changing German-Jewish Symbiosis; and Three-Way Street: Jews, Germans, and the Transnational (which recently came out with the University of Michigan Press). Her most recent book is forthcoming with Northwestern Universtiy Press in 2018 : The Translated Jew: Reimagining German-Jewish Culture Outside the Margins. As part of her current project, a hybrid memoir that is experimental in form, she is participating in the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis New Directions program.
Madelon Sprengnether is Regents Professor in the Department of English at the University of Minnesota, where she teaches literature and creative writing. She has published widely in the field of feminism and psychoanalysis, most notably as co-editor of The (M)other Tongue: Essays in Feminist Psychoanalytic Interpretation (1985) and as author of The Spectral Mother: Freud, Feminism and Psychoanalysis (1995). She has also published three memoirs, Rivers, Stories, Houses, Dreams (1983), Crying at the Movies: A Film Memoir (2002), and Great River Road: Memoir and Memory (2015), three collections of poems, The Normal Heart (1981), The Angelof Duluth (2006), and Near Solstice: Prose Poems (2015), and a co-edited collectionof travel writing by women, The House on Via Gombito (1985). Her book titled Mourning Freud is forthcoming from Bloomsbury Press in 2018.
Margie Newman writes primarily nonfiction with occasional forays into other genres. She grew up in Brooklyn, and has made Minnesota her home for the past almost 25 years. Margie holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota. Margie's work has appeared in Outlook magazine, Dislocate, the Forward, and other publications. Her work has beenrecognized with a Minnesota State Arts Board grant and a Jerome Foundation grant. Margie participated in the Loft Mentorship Program in Creative Nonfiction.
*Margie Newman is a fiscal year 2017 recipient of an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board thanks to a legislative appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature; and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.*
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