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Daily Skin Care Regimen
Begin with a very mild soap, possibly cream based. Since skin can be acidic, the alkaline in soap can easily disturb the delicate pH balance. Also, make sure the soap does not contain harsh chemicals which will also remove the acid mantel and cause further dryness. Choose a toner that soothes and nourishes your skin. It should refresh with a hint of moisture - a low or no alcohol formulation is recommended to prevent over drying the skin.
A daily moisturizing routine is essential to aging skin. After washing skin, pat it dry and begin with a serum to enhance moisture, then apply a day moisturizer. Try to use a day cream with an SPF An evening ritual can include a serum application and a heavier moisturizer. Eye creams and serums are recommended for the delicate area around the eyes that are subject to fine lines and wrinkles.
Weekly Skin Care Routine
Use an extremely mild exfoliator in order to expose fresh skin and allow products to absorb. This will maximize the effectiveness of your skin care products. A moisture-enhancing mask that you put on and wipe off will moisturize and plump skin that may be dry and dehydrated.
Product Recommendations:
Key Ingredients for Aging Skin:
Hyalauronic acid, Manuka Honey, Evening Primrose Oil, Borage Oil, Almond Oil, Apricot Oil, Algae Extract, Caffeine, Green Tea, White Tea, Idebenone, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Grape Seed Extract, Alpha Hydroxy Acids, DMAE, Retinol, Aloe Vera, Borage Seed Oil, Ceramide, Cocoa Butter, Evening Primrose Oil, Glycolic Acid, Jojoba Oil, Lactic Acid, Shea Butter, Pycnogenol Cucumber, Copper Peptide, Coenzyme Q10 (Ubiquinone), Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein
Apply to a clean face and neck in the morning and at night.
Average Days of Supply: 30 days each.
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A steady "The Voice" carried NBC to a win in the key demographic Tuesday, as CBS won in total viewers — even though two of its three shows were repeats — according to preliminary numbers. ABC's new diving competition "Splash," meanwhile, sunk to a new low.
NBC won the 18-49 demo with a 2.4 rating/7 share and landed third in total viewers, averaging 6.8 million. At 8 p.m., "The Voice" scored a 4.5/14, even with last Tuesday's episode and matching its Tuesday season high. It had 13.8 million total viewers, making it the most-watched show of the night. From 9-11, the new reality competition "Ready for Love" had a 1.3/4 and 3.4 million, dragging down NBC's averages. It was down 13 percent in the key demo from last week's premiere.
CBS was second in the demo with a 1.6/5 and first in total viewers with 9.8 million. After reruns of "NCIS: LA" and "NCIS," a new episode of "Golden Boy" at 10 had a 1.5/4 — even with last week — and 8 million total viewers.
ABC, Univision and Fox tied for third in the demo. All had a 1.5/4.
ABC was second in total viewers with 8.9 million. "Splash" at 8 had a 1.1/3 in the demo — its lowest rating so far — and 5.2 million total viewers. "Dancing With the Stars" at 9 was up slightly from last week to a 2.1/6 in the demo. It had 12.5 million total viewers, making it the most-watched show after "The Voice." At 10, "Body of Proof" had a 1.4/4 in the demo and 9 million total viewers.
Univision was fourth in total viewers with 3.6 million.
Fox was fifth in total viewers with 3.4 million. "Hell's Kitchen" at 8 had a 1.9/6 and 4.6 million total viewers. After that the network aired repeats.

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On Dec. 31, I watched "The Wolf of Wall Street." Near the beginning of the movie, Rothschild executive Mark Hanna is sitting with Jordan Belfort, who later founds penny-stock brokerage Stratton Oakmont, at a penthouse restaurant table overlooking Wall Street.
Mr. Hanna: "Nobody knows if a stock is going to go up, down, sideways or in circles. You know what a fugazi is?"
Mr. Belfort: "Fugazi, it's a fake."
Mr. Hanna: "Fugazi, fugazi. It's a wazy. It's a woozie. It's fairy dust."
I could not have said it better, but I have written many columns in which I suggested that the reporting on stock price movements is, at best, misleading. For example, on Dec. 18, I pointed out that while reporting generally tries to link the state of the economy with prospects for the stock market, the connection does not exist.
For example, since March 2009 the S&P 500 has risen an average of 22.5 percent a year while the economy has grown at a 2 percent annual rate producing about 80,000 jobs a month. By contrast, under Bill Clinton, the S&P 500 rose about 17 percent while the economy was much stronger, growing at a 4 percent annual average and generating 230,000 jobs a month.
The thrust of Mr. Hanna's argument is that stocks are bought and sold on fugazi. And the more people believe in fugazi, the easier it is to get them to buy and sell stocks. This, of course, means more commissions for stock brokers. And Mr. Belfort decides to start a penny-stock brokerage because the commissions on each trade are much higher for stocks that trade for pennies a share on the so-called pink sheets than they are for blue chip stocks.
The final scene of "The Wolf of Wall Street" � in which an audience of aspiring salespeople is mesmerized by Mr. Belfort � suggests the idea of fugazi depends on a great salesperson and people who are eager to believe in the power of fairy dust.
A big part of that fairy dust is the idea that some people actually know what stock prices will do and will go on CNBC and talk to reporters, giving hints of that money-making knowledge to the general public for no charge. Have you ever wondered why so-called stock market experts would be willing to share their stock investment strategies with the rest of the world for free? Are these wealthy stock market players more charitable than the rest of humanity?
Odds are good that they are more greedy than anyone else on the planet and that their words are designed to make people buy the very stocks in which they already have an investment. And if not that, they are making claims that encourage people to trade, which generates higher commissions.
And if you had taken Wall Street's advice in 2013, you might not have invested in stocks at all. After all, Bloomberg's tally of bank strategists' predictions last January for the S&P 500 in 2013 yielded an average of 7.3 percent. That does not sound like a very exciting number, but it is much better than the 0.4 percent return that investors earn in the average money market fund.
The actual increase in the S&P 500 in 2013 was 32.4 percent if you include dividends. That is the best performance since 1997. You would have done better following my incorrect prediction from February 2013 � in which I called for a Dow of 17,000 by year-end � than Wall Street's 7.3 percent prediction for stocks.
Since that Feb. 4 column, the Dow has risen 19 percent, closing 423 points short of the 17,000 that I predicted. But I was right about four out of five reasons that I gave for a rise in stock prices in 2013. For example, I thought interest rates would remain low, which they still are; there would be no economic apocalypse as had been repeatedly predicted; uncertainty � another widely repeated Republican buzzword � would not be relevant (and with a budget in place and the Affordable Care Act enacted I am not sure whether Republicans will revitalize this talking point); and corporate profits would be high � they hit a record $2.1 trillion in 2013. I was wrong about my prediction of a big boost in corporate investment in IT; companies invested about $2 trillion in 2013, up a mere 4 percent.
Now I am feeling uncomfortable about those reasons because I am not sure they explain why stocks rose. Another factor to think about is the ratio of stock prices to the earnings of the companies that comprise the S&P 500 index. By that measure, stock prices are a bit elevated, sitting at a P/E of 20, which is well above the mean of 15.5, according to Yale professor Robert Shiller.
But a look at a chart displaying the P/E ratio back to 1871 suggests that the current P/E is not likely to mean a stock market collapse in 2014. In the years preceding the most recent crashes � in 2000 and 2008 � P/Es soared to 44 and 67, respectively.
I don't know what stocks will do in 2014, but I do not think they will be up as much as they were in 2013. I am certainly planning to invest my retirement money in an S&P 500 Index fund because I do not think I can beat the market buying and selling individual stocks, and I do not want to enrich any budding Jordan Belforts hoping to profit from fugazi. An index fund will enable me to track the market, pay no trading commissions, and lose only a small amount on expenses.
I think stocks will do better than money market funds in 2014, and I will start to get nervous about stock price valuations once the stock market becomes a topic of national media obsession.
That has been a reliable predictor of impending doom in the past, and I will be inclined to sell stocks once I see signs of that happening.


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Grey Gardens is my home. It's the only place where I feel completely like myself" -Big Edie to Jackie O. in HBO's Grey Gardens
As I sat in front of my TV trying to take decent pictures (oh well) of HBO's Grey Gardens on Monday, I was struck the most by the wallpapers. It's funny; I was looking through images of this year's Kip's Bay Showhouse and somehow it seemed like the movie version of the Grey Gardens estate would have made a perfect showhouse. I wonder if they have ever considered using it as a theme (the 1930's version of the home, obviously!). Back to the wallpapers. I would love to know where the set decorators found them. Check out the girly ribbon and butterfly pattern in Little Edie's girlhood bedroom:
And this lovely Chinoiserie botanical in Big Edie's room. I love the way they were not afraid to mix it with a slew of other prints, like the floral drapes and painted furniture:
Finally, my favorite one was in Little Edie's room at The Barbizon. I could not seem to get a decent shot of this one, at least not one that does it justice, but here's what I did get:
It's a green botanical print, with a loose trellis pattern made up of tiny leaves and flowers, with different flowers featured in the middle of the trellis diamond shapes. It's so sweet, yet still so interesting due to it's geometry and the way the flowers are rendered. And check out that fabulous needlepoint chair on the right side – I would love to get my hands on that chair for my bedroom!
I have a few non-wallpaper shots I'd like to share as well. This is the foyer, according to Little Edie only a student of architecture could appreciate that carved banister. Those mouldings and the telephone tablescape are the cat's meow (bad joke, I know). Also, the periwinkle walls are actually papered but it's hard to see the subtle pattern in this shot:
This was the only shot I could get of that divine dining room. I did spy a set of chairs at my favorite store in Atlanta, Pieces, that are very similar:
Finally, this is the room that screamed "Showhouse!" to me at the highest volume. I mean that in a good way, as the Kip's Bay Showhouse images always fascinate me. Chartreuse sofa, deep purple and gold fringed ottoman, layers and layers of pieces – phenomenal! This year Bunny Williams has created an Albert Hadley-inspired living room I wish I could see in person. I just flipped through and recycled all my magazines; I wish I could remember which one featured the 2009 house – does anyone know?
Oh my gosh, P.S.! I just went over to check out Visual Vamp's Grey Gardens posts and they put mine to shame. They are wonderful and she has fantastic images and great insight. Hop over here to check it all out. Thanks to Mrs. Blandings for the tip-off; Visual Vamp will now be a must-read for me!


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Priest Void Tendrils as controlled root.
I like the controlled roots on priests now that stupid retardiors can't just remove them every 30 sec, the same cooldown as void tendrils, just like psychic scream vs berserker rage. Damn warriors immune to fear I never understood how such an op ability against priests and locks is still in the game, it's like lock vs mage during TBC which they balanced, but whatever this is sooo offtopic.
Oh and priest mind control doesn't exist any more, now it's called Dominate Mind, and I don't know if it remains in the same category but why would they change it?
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Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 4:24 am
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Well, First of all, I picked up a cursed -1 Longsword that cursed me. And when I went to a Priest in a church to get it removed, but because i am of a Chaotic Neutral alignment he charged a rediculous price. Some words were exchanged and he casted an instect swarm at me. I ran away and took some damage and am in need of curse removal spell from you Sergio. It doesnt cost you any reagents or anything. I figured I would wrap the sword in cheap cloth, then put it in a chest with a letter saying that it is cursed. Then have Jordan's mage put a magic lock on it, or just a regular one and bury it in the woods near Ishka. I dont want anyone else to have my misfortune.
Secondly, Chris asked me to synopsis his game. the last battle was pretty epic, except for the fact that i went unconscious early on. So I will have it up soon, with a un known name. i have to think of something cool like my, "Cloudy With A Chance Of Frostwolves" but having to do with 6 or there being multiple pieces. so that will be coming and please get back to me about the curse.
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Sure, I cast that then.
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Tim B
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Thanks. and by the way we made about 2361 gold apiece. We got a +1 Shortsword for me, so now I have 2 +1's. Then Spencer got this rediculous-ly awesome necklace of prayer beads. It gives a +25% chance on spells working, and it has 4 special beads.
A Bead of Atonement, which casts the 5th lvl spell of the same name.
2 Beads of Curing which cures Blindness, Disease, or Serious Wounds.
A Bead of Karma, which increases the stuff that says "per level of priest" by four.
Then we got a Potion of Vampire Control, which is in your backpack.
And a Book of Sucessful Excerise or something like that. It increases your strength by 1, but no one got anything good with +1 strength so we sold it for 5k gold.
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Tim B
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oh, and chris said that you have a complete Thieves Handbook, and i might borrow that sometime to become a better me =P
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We did at one point but I'm not sure where it is, I looked for it but no luck.
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Thats ok. i read that it is mainly about Theives Guild and differant kits which i didnt really understand.
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The best tool you need to be a good theif or any character is to use your creativity and intelligence to come up with new and unusual character abilities. Like the countinus light pebbles and the massmorph spell well sleeping. I think Sergio came up with both of those.
I am thinking of making my on world just for fun but I was planning on doing it in 3 or 4 edition depending on which books I can find. Anybody know were a good spot to find books is?
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4th edition you could find in any big book story, like Barnes and Noble. 3rd edition is out of print now too, so you'd have to look around. The Source, where me and chris went, has books from every edition.
If you wanted to make your world in a new edition I'd suggest 4th since those books are readily available and it's pretty much just an upgraded 3rd edition.
Oh, and unfortunately I did not come up with either of those amazing ideas, I wish I had. Mike L. invented light pebbles, and Andy K. in combination with his group came up with massmorph at night. I did come up with the guild though, I think that's a decent idea
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+1 Sergio
If you want to be inventive, look at a probem, then find a solution. We couldn't sleep on shifts so we used fishhooks in a large wooden box inside the portable hole to warn us when enemies were close in a dungeon. Worked really well, until something flying came and it didn't help outside the dungeons. After reading massmorph, actually reading it, we realized though not offensive, it's incredibly useful.
A keep for inspiration that I've kept in hiding for a long time. Enjoy for ideas.
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The campaign that this adventure took place in had an average amount of gold, magic, and level advancement: 12th level MUs didn't grow on trees, 18th level MUs were very rare. This was also 1st ed, with minor enhancements.
The character who built the castle is Hym, an Elven fighter/MU of 7th and 12th levels (and years of playing invested in him).
After developing a friendship with a very large and powerful community of Elves, he decided to build his abode on the edge of their border - right next to a large and powerful community of orcs. The Orcs numbered in the tens of thousands with leaders of 10HD+ as well as giants, shamans, etc. The Elves agreed to assist Hym.
Hym's goals:
1. Quickly build a defensible position to withstand Orcish attacks while the
rest of the construction continued.
2. Construct a castle that would withstand the assault of an Orcish army
(5000+) before it can be organized to attack him.
3. The finished castle would be his home, and home to his henchmen and
colleagues. It should be able to resist the attack of a party of 15th
level characters.
4. Spend no more than 60,000 gp.
The site that Hym chose was the tip of land that formed a Y in the large river considered to be the boundry line. The river was wide and powerful on either side of this point and the land rose sharply from the river. The river provided a strong barrier to invasion, assisted in the transport of construction materials to the site, and when the project was complete, Hym would control the waterborne traffic. Most castles had wooden palisades 300 feet outside their curtain walls for the first defense. Hym didn't have room for these, but intended to use the rivers for a similar purpose.
Hym contracted with two architects. Neither was aware of the other. The first worked on the site and consulted on all exterior design issues. The second was not aware of Hym's true identity, never actually saw the location, and was only consulted with the interior of the keep. Hym felt that it was very important to work with an architect: he isn't an expert at such things and his structure would need every advantage he could give it if it was to survive earthquakes, horns of blasting, etc!
Hym first covered the site area with Hallucinatory Terrain spells in order to hide the initial phase of construction. Then he and several other Elves cast a number of Walls of Stone to create the curtain walls of the castle. These walls were thin, long, and overlapping (to minimize effect of dispel magic). To this they added a layer of Wall of Iron (to prevent passwall, etc). The orcs were not yet aware of the construction activity, but in order for the next step to begin the hallucinatory terrain had to be dispelled. Contracted stone masons, etc began to build a real stone wall around the magical one. Hym and friends sped up construction with certain spells: enlarge, dig, polymorph, levitate, tensers floating disk, etc. Too bad my friend the bard (with his lyre of building wasn't around!). Also, at this time the full garrison was present along with a significant Elvan detachment (200+), and enough supplies to last for a month.
Next, Hym summoned an Earth elemental to begin digging a short channel between the two branches of the river that were divided by the land the castle was to be located on. When that was complete, and it took several castings, the site was now an island. At this point only a well organized Orcish invasion would stop Hym.
An Earth elemental was again summoned to build up the mound that the keep was rest upon.
The keep was built like the curtain walls: with a magical interior and a stone exterior. However, lead leaf was added as a layer in certain areas of the keep. This was an inexpensive addition since the lead goes an amazingly long way and the labor isn't too costly. Iron bars were added to this construction to provide additional stability, and though I was never able to quantify the benefit, I would have hollared for a bonus in case of earthquake!
Pixie friends of the Elves created a permanent illusion over the curtain walls that made them appear ten feet taller. This allowed the wall defenders to fire missile weapons without being seen - for a while, anyway. ( Hallucianry Terrain )
A palaside was set up to create a defensible pasture land between the curtain wall and the channel.
A very large rope was purchased, a raft was constructed, and a pulley system set up so that the raft normally sat in the channel, but could be pulled to the Elvan side of the river. Either land-based power could be used to pull on the rope, or raft attendants could pull on the rope. When not in use it was below the surface of the river.
1. Hym began guerilla attacks into the Orcish area, with the sole intent of
capturing orcs, and then Polymorph Othering them into:
Elfin Cats, Cooshe (both of which are great guards against invisible
Pegasi (which he encouraged to mate in order to have non-dispellable
Basilisks, Carrion Crawlers, Rust Monsters, etc. (basically any unusual
creature that would often end up as part of a trap.)
More intelligent evil creatures were changed into:
Quickwood trees (absolutely terrific spies)
Giant Owls
Giant Eagles
2. Iron Fire-trap boxes were installed on the walls in vital areas. These boxes
could be opened by guards in the murder holes above by simply pulling a
cable. The plan was to do this after dropping clay pots of oil first.
3. Continual Light spells were cast on the opposite shores of the river, then
along the curtain walls, in the courtyard, in on the keep. The ones around
the courtyard and keep were cast in containers with lead shutters so that
the light could be turned down.
4. Magic Mouths were cast everywhere.
5. A number of rooms in the keep held basilisks. These rooms appeared as any
other, but occupants knew to never enter, food was pushed in through a trap
door. The basilisks were the result of the Polymorph Other spell, they were
also given Stoneskin. This provided protection against unwelcome visitors
scouting via the etherial plane, or just plane wandering in.
6. A number of rooms in the keep held trapped aerial servants. These rooms were
prepared much as the basilisk rooms, except they were 100% sealed.
7. A number of rooms in the keep held trapped rust monsters. These rooms were
prepared much as the basilisk rooms, they were given invisibility, armor,
and stoneskin.
8. A number of rooms in the keep held large colonies of yellow mold. These
rooms were prepared much like the basilisk rooms, and some molds became
9. A number of rooms below the keep held ustilagors. These psionic molds were a
powerful deterent to nearby psionic users.
10. A number of rooms held traps for unwelcome visitors bearing anti-magic
shell. These rooms had magically-held nasties: a false ceiling full of
preserved brown mold held up with walls of stone spells.
11. Fire-traps and wizard locks on all of Hym's private rooms.
12. Sepia snake spell and explosive runes cast in numerous areas.
13. Glyphs in numerous areas.
14. Avoidance was used to trigger mechanical traps. It was also used to assist
trapped missiles in hitting their targets (esp. the thin glass containers of
15. Carrion crawlers (invisible, stoneskin, & armor) were kept in a number of
16. All roof exits were provided with strong iron doors and locks (in case of
aerial attack).
17. A temple to Correllean Larethean was added.
18. A Forbiddence spell was cast on the temple area.
19. Aerial reconnaisance was obtained through the polymorphed aerial creatures.
20. Especially valuable items were kept in small secret compartments (spell
book, gems, jewelry, etc), while imposters, or lesser valued items would be
more easily found.
1. Approx. 75 Elf fighters, MUs, and clerics of levels 1-6.
2. Approx. 36 Elves on loan from the Elvan kingdom
3. Approx. 12 Pegasus (ex-orcs) with 5 colts
4. Approx. 12 Elfin Cats (ex-orcs)
5. Approx. 20 Cooshee (ex-orcs)
6. 2 Quick-Wood trees on orcish side
7. Approx. 80 non-combatants (black smiths, cooks, etc, many of which are
family to others in castle)
8. Frequent powerful visitors
9. The seneschel: Taranto (10th level half-elf ranger)
NOTE: Many garrison members carry the advantage of working for a mage: armor,
stoneskin, invisibility spells; lesser magical items such as potions,
scrolls, anything with Leomunds name on it, etc.
1. The river is too large to fill, prevents a long-term seige, and limits the
space that an invading force can occupy.
2. Any party capable of brute-force muscling their way through these castle
defenses would probably not find anything of value within it (relatively
speaking). That is, if a party of 18th level characters with fifty magical
items each could be found who wanted to attempt it, they might get through
with light to moderate casualties. However, the most valuable magical item
they would find would be Hym's Wand of Polymorphing!
3. There are very many small traps. Sooner or later they would probably get
even the toughest party: all it takes is a missed saving throw on one of
the over 200 fire-traps and all those precious magical items get to save as
4. Reinforcements from the Elvan nation would be available for a long-term
5. Hym has a good number of high-level friends that would support him in an
attack from other high-level characters.
1. Too small and weak of a garrison to fend off either 5000+ orcs or 6 16th
level characters. The defense would rely too much on the castle leadership -
which is not always there.
2. Difficult to simply ride in and out of this castle. So, if quickly
surrounded, the garrison does not have the option of just riding away. Of
course, they may be able to raft away!
3. Little defense from aerial attack.
1. Unfortunately, Hym's alignment kinda ruled out animating scores of undead to
assist in construction and defense.
2. If Hym was higher in level he would have Symbols.
3. If Hym had really high-level psionic buddies he might have gotten one to use
molecular rearrangement to turn an outer layer of lead leaf to adamantite on
all outside walls.
4. If Hym was higher in level, during a major assault he would have thrown a
out a large anchor connected to the front gate by a 50' chain. This anchor
would have a Sympathy spell on it. Imagine the chaos of hundreds of Orcs
dropping everything to fight for possession of the anchor! Perhaps not the
absolute best use of an eighth level spell, but one of the most
5. The Forbiddence spell was only cast upon the temple area because Hym did not
restrict entrance to his castle to just Chaotic Good.
6. The planned for scenario: The orcs attack with a 5000+ army, including
10HD+ leaders, as well as 7th+ lvl shamons, giants, and more... never
happened. This castle was constructed in the twilight years of a ten year
campaign, and all the players slowly drifted away.
Attack: Masses of scaling troops.
Defense: Tall curtain walls manned by a large number of troops using pole-arms
to push the ladders away.
Or... a good number of magic-users.
Attack: Masses of troops with seige towers.
Defense: Ground that will not support seige towers,
Or... medium-level magic-user.
Attack: Undermining.
Defense: Well, the Romans used to set bronze shields full of water on the
ground. If mining occured nearby the shields would audibly resonate
with the vibrations.
Or... chose a site unsuitable for mining.
Attack: Cleric casts an Earthquake spell.
Defense: Limited Wish,
Or... don't let 16th level enemy clerics so close,
Or... make sure you consulted an architect!
Attack: Horn of blasting.
Defense: None that I am aware of,
Or... see architect note under Earthquake attack.
Attack: Anti-Magic Shell.
Defense: Traps triggered by the dismissal of their magic component. Polymorph
any object is great for this, Wall of stone, iron is pretty good too.
Attack: Flying opponents.
Defense: Stone roof (difficult & expensive),
And... aerial garrison members,
And... layout the castle interior so the upper floor is defended
similarly to any outside door: fall-back positions exist in case of
aerial invasion, secondary barriors (portcullis) can slow down
penetration, valuable interior rooms are located in center of keep
- not at the top!
Attack: Passwall.
Defense: Metal layer in walls.
Attack: Scrying,
Defense: Lead-lined walls.
Attack: Teleport,
Defense: Lead-lined walls.
Attack: Etherial scouting,
Defense: Captive basilisks, gorgons, medusa,
Attack: Control weather.
Defense: Control weather,
Or... stay inside.
Attack: Wish.
Defense: Depends on what they wish for, but a good rule of thumb is that anyone
with a wish in their pocket has you by the soft parts.
Attack: Rock to Mud.
Defense: Use 'unnatural' stone (enchant it).
Attack: Psionic.
Defense: Psionic plant life.
Attack: Invisibility.
Defense: Guards with keen senses of smell, hearing.
Attack: Mirror of the Mental Prowess. Well once I threatened a player by
telling him that I would set up my Mirror far beneath a large lake and
open it up on the top of his keep.
Defense: None that he could think of.
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I just bought the 4 ed. players handbook, monster manual, dungeon masters guide, and sreen for a little under $60 (that includes shipping I bought them cheaper with the shipping then going to the store).
I don't really understand how the castle has to do with anything. But besides the point. It is really cool, well thought out and the best use of 60,000 gold I have ever seen.
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Posts: 343
Location: Minneapolis
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 10:30 pm
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I followed the thread of inventiveness.
Fair, I won't add the other info.
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Posts: 1479
Location: Minneapolis MN
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 10:56 pm
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That castle is amazing, you showed it to me one other time Mike. I don't think we have the right connections to build something quite as magnificent, but building castles isn't out of the question. Pleasantville has shown us that.
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Posts: 145
Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 7:24 pm
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dakota, if you want any help with history or map or world stuff i could help cause i want to some day be as good as sergio at playing and eventually dm-ing.
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Posts: 341
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Are you saying I wasn't good at it Tim?
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i wasnt saying anything about you. you and sergio both know a lot more about dnd than i do, and some day i want to be like you guys. Able to know random stuff about it with out looking at the book and then be really good at dm-ing like you
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Secretary of State Clinton says that indirect talks between Israel and the PA will begin next week. But Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat suggests that the talks are not a done deal. He says that "every effort is being made" to have the talks go forward, but the official decision will be made by the Arab foreign ministers and the PLO executive committee.
You have to believe that the fix is in with the Arab foreign ministers and that the talks, such as they are, will go forward. The key fact here, as I have argued, is not so much that the there will be non-talk talks between Israel and the PA, but that the Arab states are in control of the process.
That, I imagine, is fine with the Obama administration. You can only wonder what promises it made the Arab states in exchange for permitting the talks in order to save Washington's face and preserve the illusion of a peace process.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 3rd Jun 2010 21:42 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
Another mobile Linux consortium? Yup, another mobile Linux consortium. "ARM, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments, today announced the formation of Linaro, a not-for-profit open source software engineering company dedicated to enhancing open source innovation for the next wave of always-connected, always-on computing. Linaro's work will help developers and manufacturers provide consumers with more choice, more responsive devices and more diverse applications on Linux-based systems."
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"Linaro will invest resources in open source projects that can then be used by Linux-based distributions such as Android, LiMo, MeeGo, Ubuntu and webOS."
Anyone know will they invest in stuff related to Maemo Linux?
Anyone know will they invest in stuff related to Maemo Linux?
Well MeeGo is the new Maemo somehow. And you got it wrong. They create software that can help any ARM distro. Those were just giving some examples.
Where they will invest is on software, tools and kernel optimizations for ARM, every distribution that compiles Linux for ARM will be able to use them.
I would say that Maemo is included, but by the time Linaro will have something, development on Maemo should be dead and replaced by MeeGo.


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ISDH Field Epidemiologist, District 1
On January 7, 2008, the Hammond Health Department closed its doors after 118 years of service to public health in Indiana. The services the Department provided have been transferred to the Lake County Health Department. As a way of saying thank you for the many years of dedicated service, a brief synopsis of the Department's public health history has been written. This article provides an excerpt from the Department's early history (1850-1930). The boxed information adds some interesting facts about the city, which may have had an impact on the public health ordinances and actions that followed. The pictures used came from the Department's annual reports.
New Horizons today! The clean man, in the clean home, in the clean
In 1850, the population was estimated at 97. A stagecoach stop opened and that site later became one of the nation's largest railroad freight yards. The city of Hammond became incorporated in 1884. By 1890, the population had grown to 5,248. Fifty daily passenger trains via eight railroads made stops in the city.
In 1869, a group of businessmen opened the State Line Slaughter House, located on 42 acres along the Grand Calumet River. Rumors state this slaughterhouse might have been one of the reasons public health actions were necessary. By 1885, the slaughterhouse had grown to process a reported 3,000 head of cattle and the company had over 800 refrigerated freight cars. The Hammond Dairy, which was later purchased by Borden, opened in 1898.
In 1885, Alvah Curtis Roebuck opened a watch repair and jewelry shop. He later left the city answering an ad by Richard Sears, who needed a watch repairman. They formed Sears, Roebuck and Company.
On June 10,1889, Ordinance Two of the Common Council of the City of Hammond established a Board of Health. The ordinance required the establishment of a three-member board including at least one practicing physician. "The duty of said board and members thereof is to take most prompt and efficient measures to prevent the introduction and spread of contagious, malignant, dangerous or infectious disease in said city…The board of health shall take such measures as they may from time to time deem necessary, to prevent the spread of smallpox…requiring all persons within the city or any part thereof to be vaccinated within such time as they shall prescribe. All persons refusing or neglecting to obey such requirement shall upon conviction be fined and forfeit to said city any sum not less than $2 and no more than $10."
A large number of ordinances dealt with the control of smallpox and other infectious diseases of the time. One ordinance addressed the issue of quarantine and stated that, during a smallpox outbreak, the Marshal was required to close the building and put up notices to warn all persons approaching the house. Those violating this ordinance were fined a sum not exceeding $100. Another ordinance detailed how the quarantine flag or card looked. For smallpox, it had to be red; for scarlet fever, measles, and diphtheria, it was yellow; and for cholera, a black flag or card was used. Each flag or card had the disease written on it in white letters.
Ordinance 593 stated it was the duty of the Board of Health to examine "…all slaughter houses, soap factories, hide and rag houses and all other buildings…that may become offensive to the public."
Ordinance 598 required the establishment of two books, one called Record of Deaths and the other Record of Births. All physicians, accoucheurs, and midwives were ordered to report all births within five days.
In 1897, an ordinance made it unlawful to bathe in the Grand Calumet River or other public beaches without a swimsuit. Early ordinances passed in 1898 addressed other public health and safety issues. Some of these included:
1) It was unlawful to allow any cow, calf, steer, horse, colt, hog, sheep, goose, duck, or chicken to run at large within corporate limits.
2) It was unlawful to sell food after exposed to dust or unsanitary conditions which render food unwholesome or dangerous.
3) It was unlawful to expectorate or spit any substance, saliva, mucus, or tobacco juice upon any sidewalk, crosswalk, or floor of any public conveyances of travel.
4) It was unlawful for persons afflicted with any contagious or venereal disease to work in or about a fruit store, grocery store, ice cream factory, ice cream parlor, hotel restaurant, eating house, milk wagon, milk dept., saloon, tobacco store, or peddler wagon. Penalty will be no less than $5
5) Every peddler in a wagon, push cart, or those carrying baskets had to keep such articles of food properly covered. Fine was not less than $5.
6) It was unlawful for any teacher or superintendent to admit any person in a public or private school who was infected with any contagious disease or who may have recently been afflicted with smallpox, scarlet fever, whooping cough, diphtheria, membranous croup, measles, cholera, or other diseases.
In 1908,the South Shore Railroad service began and the population of Hammond grew to 20,925 by 1910. Besides the flu pandemic in 1918, the Hagenbeck-Wallace circus train crashed, killing 86 passengers. This was one of the worst circus train accidents in U.S. history.
On a more positive note, in 1924, a group of businessmen formed the "Hammond Professionals," a National Football League franchise that later moved and was renamed "Chicago Bears". By 1928, there were an estimated 115 different industries located in Hammond.
Several new ordinances were passed in 1909. They included:
1) No person shall sell or deliver in the city any ice for domestic use which shall have been taken or gathered from the Little Calumet or the Grand Calumet Rivers…or from any body of water within said city which is stagnant.
2) It is unlawful to sell any fruit or vegetables that may be decayed or partially rotten.
3) Manure, offal, garbage, or any accumulation of any offensive or nauseous substance anywhere within city without written permit is unlawful.
1918 Spanish Influenza
Information from the local newspaper, The Lake County Times, detailed some of the events associated with the 1918 flu pandemic. They are listed chronologically.
Sept 30: "Spanish influenza claimed its first Hammond victim today. He had taken sick with the dread disease en route on a train from Phoenix where he had been bidding his relatives goodbye. He was in good shape and had passed his physical for service abroad."
Oct 2: A serum was discovered by Dr. William H. Parke which showed promise to help prevent Spanish influenza. Vaccine was promised in limited supply within a few days.
Oct 5: 100,000 cases of influenza are reported in army camps. The military has already issued to the Red Cross emergency supplies of cots, blankets, medicines, and influenza masks.
Oct 7: "Flu blighted romance of a Hammond couple. A Hammond man filed for divorce because he was ill for three weeks with the Spanish flu and she refused to get his meals for him, and in addition threw a dish at him and told him if he didn't leave her she would hurl his clothes out on the porch."
On the same day, Dr. J. N. Hurty, the State Health Commissioner, sent a telegram requiring the closing of all schools, churches, and places of public amusement. He forbade all public meetings until further notice. Physicians were required to report all cases to the local health officer. However, despite this telegram and public health concerns, a large parade and breakfast were held—just what public health did not want to happen. A Chicago newspaper had falsely stated that Germany had surrendered. So, between 4 and 9 a.m., whistles blew, bells rang continuously, and a parade was organized. Celebration ended when a bulletin on the local newspaper office stated there was no truth to the report.
Oct 8: "It is estimated about 500 people have the flu in Hammond and West Hammond but many have not called a doctor. Two more deaths were reported today. Schools, billiard parlors, theatres, lodges, were closed yesterday for an indefinite period to stop the spread and the town was never as quiet as last night."
Oct 12: 2000 flu cases are reported in Lake Co. (five days following the parade). Each person was encouraged to bathe in warm water to keep the pores open, spray the throat and nose, and see to their personal hygiene. The public was warned not to visit the sick. Stores and streetcars were to be kept well ventilated. A shortage of doctors was also noted.
Oct 14: Hammond had 1,281 cases and 101 deaths. The Board of Health reminded us that, in connection with these figures, it must be remembered that a good many cases have occurred and passed through to their final stages without the assistance of a physician and consequently are not on record. Practically every physician in the county was working 18- to 24-hour shifts."
Oct 21: Police were asked to assist in enforcing a new funeral order. Attendance at church funerals was limited to immediate family of the deceased.
Oct 22: "Mayor Brown called upon the people of Hammond today to aid in the fight of the epidemic of Spanish influenza. The mayor wants the people to aid in administering to the unfortunate. Nurses are needed and needed very badly. There are many families destitute, with the wage earners ill and unable to work. They are in need of food, clothes and fuel."
Dr. Hurty from the State Board of Health put in a request for volunteer physicians throughout the state of Indiana, offering them the Red Cross pay of $200 per month, traveling expenses, and $4 a day for subsistence. Hammond quickly responded they needed every physician they had available for local patients. The local physicians met and adopted a schedule to assure they could be as efficient as possible in treating patients.
The Hammond Health Department survived the 1918 influenza pandemic and adopted new ordinances in the 1930s. The history of the Hammond Health Department is probably very similar to many of our local health departments in Indiana. The early history demonstrates the concerns of public health at that time and the many challenges, e.g., smallpox, diphtheria, and cholera, which were overcome. A review of the 1918 influenza pandemic helps us as we prepare for the next pandemic.
Thank you to the Department's employees (listed below) for their combined 149 years of service and for always making whomever walked through the door at 649 Conkey Street feel welcome. Thank you for sharing your history and experiences with us.
|Current Employee
|Years of Service
|Rodrigo Panares, M.D.
|Health Officer/Administrator
|Sue Pyrzynski
|Secretarial Supervisor
|Louella Finch
|Maria Hernandez
|Rita J. Landers
|Vital Records
|Joanna C. Holland
|Vital Records
|Muriel F. Lennstrum
|Vital Records
|Karen Siegfried, R.N.
|Nursing Supervisor
|Celeste Rapchak, R.N.
|Sandra Rincon, R.N.
|Gloria Esquivel, R.N.
|1 1/2
|Camille Medina, B.S.
|Environmental Health, Chief
|Sarah B. Anderson, B.S.
|Environmental Health
|6 1/2
|John Weidner, B.A.
|Environmental Health
|Margaretrose Hlinsky, B.S.
|Health Coordinator
|Marilyn Kozak, R.N.
|Part-time Tuberculosis Nurse
1. http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h2275.html
2. Hammond City Directories, published by Polk
3. Hammond Health Department Annual Reports
4. 1889 and 1909 Hammond City Ordinances
5. Lake County Times, October 1918
6. Hammond Health Dept. personnel


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EU, science and gender: The BBC's chatter ill serves its listeners
BBC science interviewers sometimes do get over-excited when the person on the other microphone is a woman. Indeed "expert" interviewees from the "other" gender are a rare sight on BBC programmes more generally. In four years worth of programmes on BBC Question Time, only 98 of the 362 panellists were women.
When you combine a woman who is also a senior scientist with that other legendary beast, the EU, it makes for cringeworthy listening. This was the case with University of Surrey professor Jim al-Khalili's interview on The Life Scientific with Anne Glover, chief scientific adviser to the president of the European Commission—José Manuel Barroso. Though I wonder why Barroso's name was never mentioned in the programme.
Glover has occupied this high profile and controversial post for four years, so you would think the interviewer would have plenty of material to talk about: how Europe struggles to create a joined-up scientific community; how Glover assesses her ability to influence EU politicians and her tireless efforts to create a network of national advisers, which is slowly starting to take off. Glover is also a vocal and passionate advocate of genetically modified technology.
The Life Scientific is meant to be as much about the person as his or her work, but Glover's deep-rooted passion for science could have been well explored by asking these questions. The fact that she won't be continuing this role after May's European elections could have provided space to ask these and other critical questions about her work. Has she really increased the profile of European science? Is there any lasting legacy, considering that the post may not be renewed under the next president?
But if you were looking for sharp insights, The Life Scientific was the wrong place. Instead the programme's production team treats listeners to patronising anecdotes of Glover's childhood ("Your parents must have supported you, right?"), interspersed with phone-ins from Glover's colleagues, who gush over how fantastic she is, doing sciencey things that have to do with sparkly molecules.
al-Khalili calls Glover "the most influential scientist in Europe", which even Glover would probably contest. "How do you get anything done in Europe," he wonders, and the listener wonders, too. He was referring to the EU, of course and not "Europe", which is a continent of 750 million people, and not the 500 million that we heard. In the same vein, al-Khalili asked Glover about how she copes with different stances on nuclear power in Germany and France. He ought to have known (or been briefed) that national policies are not her remit, nor are they the EU's.
Barely troubled by al-Khalili's questions, Glover sailed through it all. It was an easy interview for her, an occasion to repeat her well-worn, but still important, arguments for science, without having to justify or explain too much.
Underlying this interview was a whiff of disbelief that Glover had gone to work for the EU at all. Her continuous record of laboratory work at the University of Aberdeen was mentioned as if it were some sort of insurance for Glover to, one day, return to the safety of home, and not the perfectly normal arrangement for a scientific adviser, which is what it is.
The BBC might think that being lightweight about the EU and its work is en vogue in these increasingly Eurosceptic times for the UK. But in this instance it turned what could have otherwise been an engaging and insightful interview into shallow chatter.
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Steelie Neelie stares down telcos over fibre sharing
Euro digital queen will make them ditch copper
Opinion Telco operators have a wonderful habit of neither listening nor being rational when local loop unbundling is ever mentioned. The reactions, spread across the European press, to the two consultations announced by Neelie Kroes, European Commission Vice President for the Digital Agenda, mostly accuse her of being mad and her ideas unworkable.
But if anyone actually goes to the European Commission website and looks them up, they will see that these ideas are quite straightforward. The essence is that European incumbents, and in particular those which used to be telco monopolies, will not get a break from opening their networks to rivals just because they install fibre, as she has laid out details of how regulators should go about the transition from copper to fibre.
We burst out laughing when she pointedly addressed the issue of how new fibre services should be made available, especially when it meant tearing up copper, or switching over copper backhaul to support fibre. She described a scenario where incumbents would deliberately fail to complete negotiations for sharing fibre, and then blithely cut off the customers of wholesale or unbundling partners who are on copper by supporting only fibre in the area. The fact that Kroes feels she has to address this so precisely implies that telcos really thought that was going to be a fair way to compete.
No sole rights for entrenched telcos
It also says that the entrenched telcos still feel like they have a right to have sole access to customer homes, approach ducts and exchanges, ahead of the new generation of rival suppliers who are making broadband so competitive in the modern era.
The other issue that Kroes has addressed is merely the reiteration of just how existing copper access should be shared. She is worried that many EU regulators have not approached it accurately and that it is still difficult in some parts of the EU to provide unbundled ISP lines.
Now we know that US readers will be appalled at unbundling, since it was killed by US courts for their incumbents – and this is seen as right and proper by all right-thinking Americans – but it has worked in Europe and is working in many parts of the Asia Pacific - in fact anywhere but the US, where not doing it has not worked. These countries have better, more widespread broadband than the US – and more fibre direct to homes. Interestingly in the US there was also a moratorium on piggybacking on fibre, where it goes within 500 feet of a home, and that's what triggered, back in 2004, the fairly aggressive US fibre expansions in the biggest case of corporate blackmail we have ever witnessed.
Europe need not follow US model
Now incumbents here are talking openly of the EU approach being crazy, suggesting that it means that any fibre that it invests in will benefit rivals, and will immediately be under price pressure. At the same time it has been suggested that where existing unbundling principles are said to adhered to in Europe, it's really just boiled down to a cut in copper attachment prices - however, this is not the case in the established unbundled economies, such as France and the UK.
This involves taking a detailed look at the costs of the copper in the ground, the cost of maintaining that copper, the cost of adding new backhaul and new access lines, and adding a premium so the telco can make a margin.
In the US the incumbents convinced a court that the FCC could not do this, by proving as far as the court was concerned that the price the FCC had tried to impose was below cost. It's unlikely that it was. Net result is that the US has a monopolistic fixed line network, and European telcos are jealous of the privileges of Verizon and AT&T.
The bleating seems to say: "Either give us freedom from connection (like the US) for our fibre, so we can make back our investment or let us continue to charge excessive amounts for copper broadband, to fund the laying of fibre."
Either way consumers will continue to pay high prices for broadband (though nothing like as high as the US). What's laughable is that the telcos who are making money hand over fist on slow copper broadband are still saying that even with all that profit, they don't have enough money to invest in fibre.
Over the past few months Vivendi, Deutsche Telekom, and Alcatel have pushed a strategy for accelerating faster deployment of high-speed networks but this included "investment incentives" like the US, where there would be a limit to some regulation. They had thought they were about to get their way, so the arrival of yet another consultation process which seems to point to an identical regime for fibre as was put in place for copper, was something of a surprise.
The statement from the EU said that the consultations are part of commission efforts to boost the single market for telecoms services by ensuring consistent and coherent approaches to regulating telephone and broadband networks in all member states.
The first consultation is about non-discriminatory access for alternative operators and the second is about the way national regulators calculate prices operators have to pay for wholesale access. The results will help the Commission draft recommendations which it can later enforce through local regulators.
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The Chicago Cubs hired former SP Ted Lilly as a front office special assistant Tuesday, March 4.
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Free-agent SP Ted Lilly (neck) is preparing to play winter ball in Venezuela in hopes of continuing his career next season. He underwent surgery on his neck to cauterize the nerve endings on the right side of his neck after meeting with specialists, and the procedure has been working to give him relief. Lilly is planning to start roughly six games and pitch 35 to 40 innings in Venezuela this winter. He had a 5.09 ERA in five starts for the Los Angeles Dodgers last season.
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|Dodgers | Ted Lilly thought he was ready to pitch
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The Los Angeles Dodgers wanted SP Ted Lilly (neck) to go on another rehab assignment so he could transition from a starting pitcher to a reliever, but Lilly thought he was healthy enough to pitch for the Dodgers.
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Los Angeles Dodgers SP Ted Lilly will pitch out of the team's bullpen.
Fantasy Tip: What little value Lilly has left in fantasy baseball is tied to him eating up innings as a starter. Ignore him.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers placed OF Matt Kemp (ankle) on the 15-day disabled list Wednesday, July 24, and activated SP Ted Lilly (neck) from the DL in a corresponding move.
Fantasy Tip: Well, that didn't take long. Kemp's disappointing 2013 campaign continues with his third trip to the DL this year. Andre Ethier is expected to man center field with Kemp out, allowing Yasiel Puig to remain in right field. Ethier regains some value in deep mixed leagues.
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On Senate floor, Ayotte pleads to save military from sequestrationBy JOHN DiSTASO
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February 28. 2013 12:58PM
U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte on Thursday urged the Senate to consider her alternative bill that she said would achieve the same overall cuts as the looming sequestration but save the military from the budget axe.
On the eve of automatic spending cuts known as sequestration kicking in, the Senate rejected competing Democratic and Republican alternatives.
Before the votes, Ayotte said those upcoming votes would be a "charade."
"I put pen to paper," she said on the Senate floor, explaining that her amendment "comes out to $250 billion in savings over 10 years" to avoid the sequester and save the military from massive cuts.
She said the idea of a sequester was a "kick-the-can-down-the-road" approach that should have been avoided by "us doing our job" and working through what is supposed to be the normal budgeting process."
She said the military "has already taken $487 billion in reductions to our defense," and, military leaders have warned that sequestration would "hollow out our defense."
She said she realized her alternative would not be up for a vote Thursday but she offered it as a starting point for discussion.
Ayotte was supported by her two partners in the new so-called "three amigos" triad -- Republicans John McCain and Lindsey Graham.
But she also won praise for her "energy" and work on the measure from powerful Maryland Democrat Barbara Mikulski, chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Ayotte spokesman Jeff Grappone said her plan "finds alternative savings that would be used to replace the Fiscal Year 2013 sequester for defense and non-defense discretionary spending."
A statement from Ayotte's office said her plan included cuts "based on recommendations by the Simpson-Bowles Fiscal Commission, the Government Accountability Office, and from the president's budget. This includes reducing duplication in federal programs and agencies, extending the current pay freeze for federal workers and members of Congress, and reforming federal worker and member of Congress retirement programs. The bill also reduces abuse of the additional child tax credit, which the U.S. Treasury Department's Inspector General found billions in fraudulent claims."
Ayotte's plan also would eliminate federal funds for unemployment benefits for millionaires and would close a loophole exploited by some states to make otherwise ineligible households eligible for certain welfare benefits.
Ayotte "has worked for over a year to find alternative savings to replace indiscriminate sequestration cuts," her office said.


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Emerging-market stocks fell the most in seven months, erasing 2013 gains after Federal Reserve minutes sparked concern the U.S. may curtail stimulus and declining commodity prices dragged producers lower.
United Co. Rusal, the world's biggest aluminum producer, slumped to a 3 1/2-month low in Moscow. New World Resources Plc, the largest Czech coking-coal producer, dropped the most in three weeks after its net loss was more than analysts estimated. Belle International Holdings Ltd., a women's footwear maker, plunged the most on record in Hong Kong after saying profit will be at the lower end of analysts' estimates.
The MSCI Emerging Markets Index slid 1.4% to 1,053.21 at 2:10 p.m. in London, the most since July 23. Several Federal Reserve policy makers said the central bank should be ready to vary the pace of its $85 billion in monthly bond purchases, according to minutes of a meeting released yesterday. A report today showed euro-area services and factory output contracted. The Standard & Poor's GSCI Index of 24 raw materials fell to a one-month low.
"Easing the U.S. stimulus will siphon away some of the liquidity and that's affecting investors' sentiment because it's this liquidity that fueled the rally in emerging stocks," Allan Yu, who helps manage about $11 billion at Metropolitan Bank & Trust Co., said by phone from Manila.
The 21 countries in the developing-nations gauge send about 17% of their exports to the U.S. and 26% to the European Union on average, data compiled by the World Trade Organization show.
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Emerging-market stocks may enter a more "significant correction" after underperforming developed-nation shares this year, according to JPMorgan & Chase Co.
"Fundamentals and technicals are weakening," JPMorgan strategists led by Adrian Mowat wrote in a report yesterday.
Materials, telecom services and energy stocks led declines this year among 10 industry groups in the MSCI gauge, retreating at least 3.1%, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Telekomunikacja Polska SA, Poland's largest phone company and the worst-performer in the emerging-markets gauge, fell 45% in 2013 after the company cut its dividend proposal as fourth-quarter revenue slumped.
Russia's Micex Index fell 1.2% today, heading for the lowest close this year. Rusal slid 3.2% and OAO Mechel, billionaire Igor Zyuzin's mining company, lost 2.9%. OAO Gazprom, the country's biggest natural gas producer, lost 1%.
Oil slid 1.3% in New York, while nickel, copper and zinc led industrial metals lower in London.
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A late-January ice storm that caused much destruction in the Midwest began with stunning beauty, as the landscape was transformed into a lovely glass statue of itself, glinting in the dying light of evening. In the darkness, however, the glass began to shatter. I lay awake, hearing the eerie and sickening sound of crack upon crash in the woodlot of our farm.
Soon after the storm, I hiked through the woods, anxious about what I might find. The damage was appalling. When I bought the property a decade ago, the woodlot had just been cut over, heavily and carelessly, but by now it was beginning to recover. The poplars, black walnuts, hickories, maples and oaks that were spared by the timber cutter had grown back to a respectable size. The ice storm, however, had been almost as merciless as that earlier logging. Large limbs and entire tops of trees had come down, and the denuded trunks looked like sloppily sharpened spears. Several large trees had snapped at their base. Others had toppled over along with their entire root ball. These stood throughout the woods like 10-foot-tall earthen tombstones.
A Different Storm
The current economic crisis also had an auspicious beginning. The booming housing market heralded a rising tide of prosperity, and it brought profit and the privilege of home ownership to millions. When subprime mortgage holders began to default, however, many over-leveraged investment banks that held supposedly rock-solid mortgage-backed securities discovered themselves to be as fragile as glass, burdened with bad assets. In a crash heard around the world, they collapsed into insolvency, froze credit markets and brought down much of the domestic and global economy with them.
It seems that destructive events, from within and without, are inevitable in both natural systems and the world of human economics. I have been thinking about how differently damage and recovery play out in both these arenas: in the tangible economy of my woodlot, for example, compared with the current economic downturn.
Giants have fallen in both the economy and my woodlot, but with vastly different effects. The failure of behemoth financial firms like Lehman Brothers set off a chain reaction of destruction. While most high-level executives in failing companies have retained plenty of cushion—and in many cases, even their bonuses—the domestic and global poor are suffering the most, despite having little or no responsibility for the financial wreckage.
In the woodlot, however, the reverse was true. The older, larger trees buckled under the weight of accumulated ice, and they had no golden parachutes. The younger, smaller, suppler trees withstood the storm, except for the unfortunate few in the path of the falling elders.
Recovery has begun, and it too looks vastly different in the two realms. I marvel at the boldness of our president and the obvious intelligence of the experts he assembled to put the United States on the path of economic recovery. Not being one of those brilliant economic experts myself, I have no idea whether the government's economic stimulus is too much, as most conservative Republicans believe, or not enough, as the liberal economist Paul Krugman warns. Regardless, I am astounded at the incomprehensible sums of borrowed capital the government is committing to it. Judging from the wildly varying opinions and predictions about the stimulus, I also suspect that no one really knows to what extent it will work. I think that one reason the government is acting so dramatically is that we all have a psychological need for something to be done so that we can reassure ourselves that we have some measure of control over the unpredictable animal our economy has become.
Woodlot Resurrection
I too wanted to take charge and to make order out of our woodlot chaos. Since the storm I have been at work with a chainsaw. I am sectioning and splitting the limbs and tops for many years' worth of firewood and hauling the butt logs to a local mill, where they will be sawn into lumber for my various woodworking projects. But as glad as I am to put the fallen trees to good use as fuel and to resurrect some as furniture, I still can't help but feel a bit rueful about my clean-up efforts. I have filled the quiet with the noisy snarl of my saw, polluted the air with the stink of its exhaust and rutted the soft ground with my tractor. As I have done so, it is never far from my mind that in time, the woods would have recovered just fine on their own, patiently turning the downed trees and limbs into soil-enriching humus (providing shelter and food for innumerable creatures in the process) and repopulating the sunny canopy openings with new saplings—all with no expenditure of human energy or effort.
President Obama has framed our country's radical deficit spending as an investment in future growth and security: putting a new foundation under the economy. I hope he is right, although I cannot help but worry that we are mortgaging our future simply to ensure the least possible disruption to our present. In natural systems, on the other hand, the present always ensures the future, even amid damage and destruction. Nature does not borrow; nature builds. Nature does not use "leverage" or "spread" or, God forbid, engage in "naked short selling." Its slow but steady rate of return is the expanding girth of the trees, the gradual accretion of soil, the sunlight and rain that become grass in the field, grain in the ear, flesh on the bone.
What might the human economy look like if it adhered more closely to nature's principles, so that instead of using up and degrading the natural world, we continually improved and enriched it? So that the inevitable destructive periods would not cause so much suffering? So that recovery would not risk, borrow from and burden the future? What might it look like if the little economy of human artifice fit harmoniously within what Wendell Berry termed the great economy of the natural world, which is shaped by God's hands and within whose rules and bounds all human economies must exist? Discovering this would be a true economic recovery, far more profound than the mere reinflation of the Dow and the Standard & Poor's calculations. The need for it is urgent, as human activity displaces and disturbs more and more of the natural world, from which we so desperately need to learn.
A World Without Waste
Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and Hunter Lovins have tried to imagine a better melding of human and natural economies in their fine book, Natural Capitalism. They build their ideas on three fundamental principles of natural systems, which Hawken introduced in his earlier work, The Ecology of Commerce, and which, if followed, would make for a more sustainable human economy.
First, in the natural world, there is essentially no waste. Even amid damage and destruction, natural capital is always recycled. If our human economy truly recognized that we live on a finite planet and that there is ultimately no "away" place to throw our garbage, we would follow suit. Manufacturing would take a cradle-to-cradle approach, making durable goods that at the end of their useful service could be transformed into new products with minimal energy input.
Second, nature runs on current solar income. Mimicking this, a more sustainable human economy would wean itself from the ancient, stored solar energy of fossil fuels and meet its energy needs through photovoltaic cells, solar thermal, wind power and other renewable systems that ultimately depend on the sun.
Finally, natural systems are complex and diverse in a way that increases their resilience and durability. Sustainable human economies would avoid oversimplification (as with monocrop agriculture) and impenetrable complexity (like financial derivatives)—both of which make them vulnerable to the vagaries of weather and human weakness.
Instead, they would be smaller in scale, with more decentralized and diverse networks of production and consumption. This would demand intimate and detailed knowledge of particular locales, since one size never fits all. It would also recognize the limits of human knowledge (and virtue), and therefore act with greater caution and humility in order to avoid large-scale ecological or financial destruction.
I am neither clever enough to imagine exactly how such economies might evolve, nor influential enough to implement a vision even if I had one. What does a man in the field like me do?
First, I pray. Only by God's grace will the human family overcome the greatest communal challenge it has yet faced: learning (quickly!) to survive and thrive peaceably within the limits of the divinely designed great economy. Only God's grace can help and heal our inevitable failures and mistakes—especially as natural systems become more volatile and less predictable because of climate change. Only God's grace can keep us from despairing at the difficulties these challenges entail.
Then I work. Faith without works is dead, and practice is both a means and a measure of prayer. The sphere of direct influence for most of us is near at hand, where we can rediscover the sacred, satisfying task of reshaping our own household and community economies to emulate better the economy of the natural world. On our farm, I face a lifetime of challenge to make my efforts in the fields echo the elegant work of nature in the damaged but recovering woodlot. Wherever we might live, there is work to do.
All of us can begin to take small steps in our homes and local communities to meet our needs for food, water, shelter, energy, transportation and livelihood in a way that learns from and cooperates with nature. These steps toward genuine sustainability are signs of a true recovery, not just of our economy but of our sanity, safety and security. Then we, by will and knowledge, as the rest of creation is by instinct, shall truly be orthodox, giving right praise and glory to the Creator.
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