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Occasionally people want to know why they should take a challenge rating one creature as a companion when they can take a challenge rating two creature.
And to some extent, that's a sensible question. Admittedly, lower challenge-rating creatures sometimes have some useful special ability, are often less conspicuous, and may be a better fit with the role you're playing – but if a game gets combat-heavy, having passed up a couple of extra hit dice and more damage can start looking like a really stupid decision.
However, if your game master is feeling generous enough to let you get away with it, there's an easy way to fix that; apply a +1 ECL – or CR – Template. After all, your companion needs to be challenge rating two or less – but nothing says it has to be straight out of the book.
In this case, I'll be applying the Atherian Absolute Command Birthright. That's normally a +0 ECL Race, but – in Eclipse – you can apply racial builds as Templates at +1 ECL.
The Absolute Command Birthright:
Inherent Spells: 4xL1 (6 CP), 4x L2 (12 CP), 4x L3 (11 CP): Specialized and Corrupted: Only usable to power Theurgy, immediate commands only, requires a fortitude save at +4 against the user's own spell to avoid fatigue. Net cost: 10 CP. Caster Level = User's Hit Dice
Reflex Action with +3 Bonus Uses: Specialized in Theurgy (12 Uses/Day, 11 CP)
Mastery x2 (all Theurgy Verb Skills) (8 CP): Specialist for Double Effect (may "Take 20")/immediate commands only; no long-term enchantments, no duration spells, no triggered or waiting effects, etc. Corrupted/requires a Will save against fatigue.
Resist: +2 on saving throws against Mental Effects, Corrupted: Mind Control Only (2 CP).
That last bit is usually redundant, but it might come into play if the Protection from Law effect gets dispelled.
Lerona Sylinthin is a young elvish girl, the daughter of an elven father and a half-elven mother, and is as yet very young – the rough equivalent of seven or eight years old. Her red-blonde hair and freckles are amongst the last traces of her human grandmother – whom she has, sadly, never met, since she died of old age long before Lerona was born.
Lerona is sunny, cheerful, and surprisingly practical in daily life – perhaps a heritage from her father, a carpenter and wood-carver who's only resort to elvish mysticism is to use it to help sell wooden charms and trinkets. She reserves her flights of fantasy for the epic tales of gods and dragons her mother has spun for her, and used to get lost watching the sun shining through the collection of colored bottles in the window, seeing the gods and dragons of her mother's tales in the motes of dust dancing in the colored beams that sparkled gemlike through the glass.
She could see them so clearly that she wasn't too surprised when one of the tiny dragons she envisioned landed on her shoulder and talked to her. She's not so sure that the creature really is a goddess – at least not like the ones the priests talk about – but Queen Yintor is certainly at least a mystical guardian and friend. Who knows? She might really be a minor goddess.
Her parents are more than a little frightened. Minor oddities, such as not being burned picking up a hot pot, could be overlooked – but the things that happened when a group of bandits attacked the trade-fair outside the walls of the town were not so easily dismissed. Hurling away three burly men with a word, shrugging off a shower of arrows, and healing her mother's wound while having her imaginary pet strafe the bandits with lightning bolts until they fled was just a bit conspicuous…
Fortunately, in the confusion, no one outside the family managed to trace the lightning-storm back to Lerona, and the only witnesses to her other tricks were bandits – now dead or fled. Still, sooner or later such abilities will certainly draw the notice of greater powers.
They'd be even more worried if they realized that a small cult is growing amongst their daughter's young friends.
Queen Yintor is a tiny, three-headed, dragoness with multicolored gemlike scales with gold and silver edges, black eyes filled with tiny stars and galaxies, and fringes of twitching, transparent, tendrils around her eyes, mouth, nostrils, and talons (and occasionally slipping out from under her scales). She's about the size of a small cat (with an overlong tail) in her true form, and usually rides on Lerona's shoulder or hides in her hair. When she's off in another dimension, her telltale mark is a modest hair ornament – although it's quality and apparent value varies depending on how much Queen Yintor feels like showing off at the moment (a minor effect of her chameleon powers).
Queen Yintor assumes that – since gods are powerful extradimensional beings, and SHE is a powerful extradimensional being, then she must be a goddess, and her bondmate must be her high priestess, and that it is only proper that she be worshiped – although being worshiped as part of a pantheon is acceptable, at least "until she learns the trick of bestowing clerical magic". Her bondmate, of course, should get all the best of EVERYTHING. Everyone should love and worship Queen Yintor, and love and honor, and bestow wealth and power and influence upon, her bondmate. For those who fail to do so, there is always the Wrath of the Goddess Yintor!
Perhaps fortunately, Queen Yintor is lazy, and is usually willing to take Lenora's word for it as to whether or not someone is being rude enough to punish with a lightning bolt.
Lerona Sylinthin
Level -1 Elven Child, equivalent age eight.
Gains (1+ Con Mod) HP and (2x Int Mod) Skill Points for her level.
Racial bonuses of +2 Dex, -2 Con, Immunity/Sleep Effects, +2 on Saves versus Enchantment Spells and Effects, Low-Light Vision, Proficiency with longsword, rapier, longbow, and shortbow, +2 on Listen, Search, and Spot, speaking Elven as an extra language, and the ability to detect secret doors.
Attribute Age adjustments for Small Child: Str -4, Wis -2, Con +2, Dex +2, and Chr -2.
Rolled Attributes: (4d6, keep 3): Str 13, Int 12, Wis 14, Con 14, Dex 16, Chr 15.
Net Attributes: Str 09 (-1), Int 12 (+1), Wis 12 (+1), Con 14 (16*) (+3), Dex 20 (22*) (+6), and Chr 13 (+1).
Skills (2 SP + 1 CP): Knowledge/Religion +2, Diplomacy +2, Listen +3, Search +3, and Spot +3. Speaks Elven and Common (and is still learning her bonus language). +3 Specialty in Queen Yintor. Note that her Charisma and social skills are often drastically augmented by Queen Yintor's powers. Lerona is entitled to eight memorized minor mystical rituals, but has yet to actually pay attention to that – so they haven't been selected as of yet.
Disadvantages: Visions (sees, and acts on, occasional "visions" – supposedly from the gods), Insane (sees nothing wrong with having Queen Yintor constantly lurking about or with trying to recruit worshipers for her), Obligations (chores, weekly lessons at the local temple, listen to parents), and Hunted (someone has been listening to the surviving bandit's tales. That's one more disadvantage than she can actually get points for, but this will happen). That gives her 10 CP to spend. One has already gone to getting that Speciality noted above, as for the rest…
Companion with two levels of Template, Specialized; Queen Yintor wants to be worshiped, and to have offerings made to her, and to be endlessly fussed over. She does not react well to people who deny her divinity, who don't indulge her, or who are mean to her high priestess (9 CP).
Combat Information:
Initiative: +6 (Dex)
Armor Class: 10 (Base) +6 (Dex) +4 (Armor*) = 20.
Move: 30 + 30* = 60.
Hit Points: 1 (Base) +12 (2d6 Magic) +9 (3x Con Mod) = 22
Damage Reduction 10/Psionics
Energy Resistance 20, 10 versus psionically-generated energies.
Saves: Fort +8, Ref +8, Will +6 (using Queen Yintor's saves).
Punch or Kick: +0 (-1 Str +1 Magic), 1d4 stun (-1 Str, +1 Magic), Crit 20/x2
Small Short Bow: +6 (+6 Dex), 1d4, Crit 20/x3, 60′ range increment.
Special Notes: Need not Eat, Drink, Sleep, or Breathe, effectively immune to poison*, Fast Healing I (up to 20 points/hit die/day)*, Protection from Law*, and True Strike 3/Day*. All use-activated. Effects marked with an "*" are subject to dispelling and antimagic versus caster level one – but will come right back again next round.
Queen Yintor (Pseudodragon Base):
|Hit Dice:
|2d12 +2d6 (12) +16 = 50 HP
|+4 (Dex)
|45, fly 90 (good)
|Armor Class:
|25 (10 Base +2 Size, +4 Dex, +5 Natural +4 Armor)
|Base Attack/Grapple:
|Sting +7 melee (1d3–1 plus poison, magic)
|Full Attack:
|Sting +7 melee (1d3–2 plus poison) and bite +0 melee (2)
|2-1/2 ft./0 ft. (5 ft. with tail)
|Special Attacks:
|Poison (Ex): Fortitude DC 16 (Con based, with +2 racial bonus), initial damage sleep for 1 minute, secondary damage sleep for 1d3 hours.
|Special Qualities:
|Blindsense 60 ft., darkvision 60 ft., immunity to sleep and paralysis, low-light vision, spell resistance 24, telepathy 60 ft. Extraordinary Returning, Unbound, Amorphous, Immune to Sneak Attacks and Critical Hits, Disturbing, Helpful, Need not Eat, Breathe, Drink, or Sleep, DR 10/Psionic, Energy Resistance 20, 10 versus psionicly-generated energies, Immunity to Poison, Fast Healing I, Protection from Law.
|Fort +8, Ref +8, Will +6
|Str 8, Dex 17 (19), Con 17 (19), Int 10, Wis 14, Cha 10
|Diplomacy +2, Hide +22* (Additional +4 in forests, overgrown areas, or when hiding under hair), Listen +8, Search +6, Sense Motive +8, Spot +8, Survival +2 (+4 following tracks), Knowledge/The Planes +1, Speaks Common, Sylvan, and Elvish.
|Weapon Finesse
Unique Powers
As a companion creature, Queen Yintor bestows a six-point power; in her case, that's Blessing, Specialized (for double effect) and Corrupted (for reduced cost)/Only works between her bondmate and Herself, can only be used to bestow the abilities of Blessing, Spell Resistance, Darksight, and the Absolute Command template. In practice, this rules exploit allows Lerona to bestows the Blessing power right back on Queen Yintor. Queen Yintor then bestows her Spell Resistance, Darksight, and Absolute Command powers on Lerona – and, thanks to the double effect, does so without losing them herself for a total cost of 4 CP.
Yes, that is cheesy. Perhaps fortunately, however, Queen Yintor is quite lazy. She hates to risk being fatigued if she can avoid it. Hence this doesn't usually amount to doubling up on her spellcasting; it simply means that her bondmate gets to use it.
It's also a good way to build those "destined companion" characters, where the two together are supposed to be far more effective than the two as individuals. I'd still be careful about letting players take this option; Blessing is almost always better as a game master tool anyway.
Secondarily, Queen Yintor bestows the intuitive knowledge of (2 x [Int Mod +3]) mystical rituals of her bondmate's choice (she doesn't pay any attention to such things; she simply funnels some lore out of the aether into her companions head) – although attempting to use these without the Occult Ritual ability is pretty problematic for all but the most trivial rituals (2 CP).
Inherent Spells (3/Day Each):
Eyes Outside Of Time (L1): Moment of Insight/+20 Insight Bonus to any one skill check. Note that, as a personal spell, this also affects her bondmate.
The Sparkling Scales (L1): Hypnotism.
These two abilities use the option for Inherent Spell as two level one spells twice per day each – three times per day each with splitting the usual two bonus uses between them.
The Talon's Caress (L4): Cure Critical Wounds.
Wrath of the Goddess Yintor (L5): Call Lightning Storm. A momentary apparition of one of Queen Yintor's draconic heads appears momentarily to "breathe the lightning" each time she releases a bolt, adding a certain element of scariness – and a brief aerial glimpse of the field – to each blast, however, attacks against that apparition will affect Queen Yintor if anyone has a held action to use to launch one.
A Vision of Unearthly Delight (L6): Grants the creature touched a +10 Competence Bonus to socially-based skills (Charisma-based skills other than Disguise and Use Magic Device, plus Sense Motive and Speak Language – allowing the user to select ten languages of choice) and a +6 Enhancement Bonus to Charisma for one hour per caster level.
OK, for a personal deity, Queen Yintor isn't at all bad.
Personally, I wouldn't normally let anyone get away with designing or taking companion-creatures like these in a normal campaign – but if you really want to play a Digimon or Pokemon campaign, or turn loose a bunch of kids and their pocket monsters, there's no reason not to do so. The kids will be able to take quite a bit of incidental damage, while their creatures do most of the heavy work.
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In the article, "WPI Awarded $3M for Graduate Data Program" the Worcester Business Journal reported on WPI using a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish a unique graduate curriculum to train the next generation of scientists who can apply chemical sciences along with data analytics, mathematics, and computing power to reduce energy usage, waste, and pollution. Elke Rundensteiner, professor of computer science, founding director of the Data Science program, and principal investigator on the grant, is collaborating with Michael Timko and Aaron Deskins, associate professors of chemical engineering, and Randy Paffenroth, associate professor of mathematical and data sciences, among others.
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What Muslims Really Pray at 'Interfaith' Gatherings
In his blog, theologian and scholar of Islam Dr. Mark Durie states:
It is remarkable that the daily prayers of every Muslim, part of the core of Islam, include a rejection of Christians and Jews as misguided and objects of Allah's wrath.
Devout Muslims repeat this Surat al Fatiha (Qur'an, 1:7) at least seventeen times daily during the five calls to prayer – over 5,000 times a year.
On Friday, August 4, 2017, I attended the weekly Jummah prayers at the Chautauqua Institution Hall of Christ. The Abrahamic Program for Young Adults (APYA) leads the service each Friday with full support from the Institution's department of religion. Each summer, the department selects four college-age students to serve for the season as the "face" of interfaith dialogues at Chautauqua: one liberal Jew, one liberal Christian, and two Muslims – one Sunni (male) and one Shia (female).
At the Hall of Philosophy, prior to introducing the various speakers, the department of religion director proudly invites a large audience (anywhere from 1,000 to 2,000) and residents to join the Friday Jummah, ostensibly to show how people of all religions can celebrate together through this Islamic service.
In this instance, some 50 people attended. About 20 actually participated in the prayers – about half of the them non-Muslims. All willingly bowed and prostrated themselves according to Islamic tenets. Roughly 30 spectators sat, listened, and watched the ritual unfold. Texts of the prayers were handed to the entire audience.
The Shia female asked participants to remove their shoes in that "sacred" space, which she called the Hall of the "Prophet," despite its actual name, Hall of Christ. She didn't elucidate which prophet she meant.
The APYA Sunni Muslim, Omar, led the prayers. He completed his undergrad at the Zaytuna College, Calif. – the first Muslim university in the U.S. – and plans to attend the Hartford Institute before enrolling in the U.S. military as a Muslim chaplain.
During prayers, Omar and few other Muslims recited the phrase "Allahu akbar" a few times. It was explained that god is greater than any of us. The event included Quranic chants in Arabic between prostrations. Participants followed Omar's lead, bowing to the floor, then kneeling. They repeated this ritual a few times.
Omar served as the imam, preaching a long sermon. Since nothing in the world is going in the right direction, he stressed, "we need to look into a different direction," be kind to others, to our neighbors, and look inside ourselves and be connected to our spirituality. Until 2010, he told the audience, he was a confused person, but now he feels good. He suggested we can all also turn around our lives.
Omar displayed Da'wa activity in full. His sermon effectively served as an invitation to Islam, albeit indirect. For now, the Chautauqua Institution prohibits official invitations to Islam (or other religions) and requires all denominational leaders to sign statements that they may not proselytize. Yet I wonder how long these APYA Muslims will restrain themselves about their real intention, since Islam requires Muslims to invite all "infidels" to join them and "revert."
Then the female Shia Muslim young adult explained that during the Jummah prayer, she would stand behind Omar; she claimed that in her Shia tradition, she wouldn't have done so, and this was "just" a simple cultural difference. She then explained that this tradition prevents the men from getting looks at the "women's booty." The spectators approvingly laughed. If there were feminists among the audience, they were silent.
Imagine if a conservative Christian said something similar about his religion. All hell would break loose. Muslims, however, get a free ride on most anything they say or do.
The young Shia woman sang a melodic chant in Farsi. Then came the Q and A segment. The Sunni, Omar, said we had only six minutes. I raised my hand, received the microphone from the male Jewish APYA young adult, and calmly stated:
"I am a student of Islam [at which Omar smiled with pleasure] – not the Islam that you are teaching here at Chautauqua, but the real Islam. [All smiles faded.] As such, I learned that Surat al Fatiha verse 1:7 in effect vilifies the Jews and Christians. Those who go astray are the Christians, and those who earned Allah's wrath are the Jews."
Omar and the other Muslims in the room blanched.
I continued: "While the words Jews and Christians are not mentioned in the Sura itself, from my studying, Ibn Kathir referred to them as Jews and Christians. Ibn Kathir quoted the words of Mohammed on this issue. It's Mohammed – not me – who defined that those who went astray are the Christians and those who earned God's wrath are Jews."
I said every devout Muslim knows exactly to whom he refers when he recites that Surat al Fatiha. In essence, I concluded, Muslims at the Chautauqua Jummah prayers invite Jews and Christians to join them. Non-Muslim participants have no idea that they essentially denigrate themselves during the Jummah prayers.
I pointed at Omar and the other Muslims and stated that their prayers amounted to Da'wa. "Yes, Da'wa," I repeated, "and I find it very sad that the Chautauqua administration allows that to take place."
I apparently caught Omar and his Muslim colleagues by total surprise. Omar muttered several statements in reply, which made little sense to me. He said it was out of context and cited this or that Muslim scholar on Surat al Fatiha.
He quickly ran out of explanations. To my utter astonishment, he stated: "But what the lady was saying is correct. ... Yes it is correct."
Omar kept talking. By then, however, I had reached a sort of "circuit overload" – it was too much for me to continue to take. I boldly expressed dismay and told the presenters: "What you are doing here is taqiyya" as I left the room.
Dr. Durie concludes:
That devout Muslims are daily declaring before Allah that Christians have gone astray and Jews are objects of divine wrath, must be considered a matter of central importance for interfaith relations. This is all the more so because the interpretation of verse 7 which relates it to Christians and Jews is soundly based upon the words of Muhammad himself. As Al-Fatihah is the daily worship of Muslims, and represents the very essence of Islam itself, the meaning of these words cannot be ignored or glossed over.
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The Paris-based group, known by its French acronym MSF, said it had received 146 complaints or alerts last year, of which 24 were for sexual harassment or sexual assault.
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Are the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer? Stories about inequality typically talk about how the rich, especially the top 1%, are seeing their incomes grow rapidly while people at the bottom are seeing their incomes stagnate and drop. A gap is widening between the top and the bottom. Is that true?
The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis has just published an interesting report that studies the relative income performance of households from 1967-2012. It compares households at the 95th, 50th, and 20th percentiles of the income distribution. The reports distinction between two types of income is revealing: Market income and disposable income.
Market income (pre-tax and pre-transfer income) is what we typically see reported. But when we adjust for taxes (which substantially decreases the income of the wealthy) and add in transfer income like social security, unemployment, and welfare payments (which substantially increases the income of people in poverty) we get disposable income. Disposable income paints a much different picture than market income. Let's look at two important graphs:
The top line in the chart is the ratio of market income (pre-taxes and transfers) of households at the 95th percentile as ratio to households at the 50th percentile. For example, it appears the households at the 95th percentile made 2.7 times as much as those the households at 50th percentile in 1967. By 2012, they were making about 3.6 times as much. The bottom line tells a different story.
Disposable income (after taxes and transfers) follows a similar pattern until about 2000 when the ratio leveled out at just below 3.0, and has remained between 2.9-3.0 ever since. That means that despite market income having risen faster for the 95th percentile compared to the 50th percentile, inequality in terms of what people have to spend at the end of the day hasn't really changed for almost fifteen years.
Then there is this chart:
This chart shows the ratio of the 50th percentile to the 20th percentile. Note the ratio of market income continues to widen with each business cycle. The recessions, shaded gray, result in spikes of unemployment. That expands the ratio and then the ratio contracts a little as employment improves. The sharp jump at the end correlates with very high unemployment and underemployment.
But the striking thing is the disposable income line. It is flat from 1983 onward (until a slight increase since the 2008 financial meltdown.) There has been virtually no change in inequality between the 50th percentile and the 20th percentile for thirty years!
Some observations:
1. The debate raging around inequality typically points to the widening gap in market income between the top and bottom. More transfer of wealth is proposed to balance out the income people receive. Market income and disposable income are conflated. If a household with a market income of $15,000 gets transfers of an additional $15,000, for a total of $30,000 in disposable income, they still have a market income of $15,000! Pointing to market income statistics as an indicator that distribution of income is insufficient is erroneous. By this reasoning, a $15,000 household could get $1,000,000 in transfers but they would still be "living in poverty" because transferred income is not being considered in the income calculation.
2. This analysis focuses only on households at the top 5%, not the top 1%, where so much of the debate has been. For reasons reported in the article, the data did not lend itself to a study of the very top 1% or 0.1%. The ratio of disposable income of the very top to lower percentiles may be increasing. But it is certain that the ratio of disposable income is much lower than market income.
3. This study seems to suggest that public policy has been doing a very good job of preserving disposable income ratios for many years. We may want to debate if these ratios are just but they are not widening.
4. The fact the market income ratio continues to widen, meaning it takes evermore transfers to keep disposable income constant, suggests that low wages and unemployment, not insufficient transfers, are becoming the problem. Left leaning figures like Robert Reich argue that decline of union bargaining and failure to raise the minimum wage are the culprits. Companies aren't paying employees relative to their economic contribution. That leaves taxpayers to subsidize the work that these companies get from low wage workers. Other economists suggest the labor market is more efficient then that and that most employees are being compensated relative to their economic contribution. While very modest minimum wage increases are likely without much impact on the total labor market, substantial jumps in the minimum wage are likely to lead to automation and off-shoring, thus more unemployment and even more need for transfers than the alleged subsidization of low-wage workers today. Who knows exactly where the truth lies.
We do know that technology and the economy is rapidly changing. That means we need a workforce with the human and social capital to take advantage of such changes. Strong families and educational systems are central to developing that capital and we know these institutions have been weakening for some time. That doesn't help the market income challenge.
Bottom line, disposable income inequality is not getting worse for the bottom 95%, and it seems likely that whatever inequality is growing between the top 1% and the rest is substantially less than the market income widely reported. Maybe present distributions of disposable income are unjust. That is worthy of debate. But that is different from saying inequality is growing. Market income inequality continues to rise and what is unclear is if there is a policy fix for this or if this is market income inequality is inherent in a post-industrial and digital economy.


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It consisted of simply orange juice and shredded cucumbers. This unlikely pairing, a combination I'd ordinarily skip over in a cookbook, made a sublime cold soup, the beginning of a superb three-course dinner at Riad Boussa in Marrakech.
In keeping with Moroccan tradition of having it on Fridays, the next course was a couscous. The riad's was served in a tajine. Its talented young cook presented hers fringed with carrot, squash, eggplant, zucchini, turnip and fava beans (pictured above). Tucked underneath a compote of sultanas and onions were chicken and lamb that together with the vegetables flavored the incredible sauce, served separately in a bowl to spoon over everything. Real couscous takes time to make that requires triple-steaming; it doesn't come in a box with 15-minute instructions. The grains were fluffy and tender. I've had couscous at home many times but I never imagined it could be this wonderful.
Dessert was another unexpected combination. Shaped as a five-sided rosette (which intentionally or not conjures up the star of Islam's five pillars), sliced avocado crescents sprinkled with sugar were filled in the middle with strawberries. The dish changed how I now look at avocados—as a healthful way with a touch of sugar to satisfy a sweet tooth.
Only two nights previously, the kitchen produced the best tajine I had on the trip, chicken with dried apricots and walnuts, and a trio of cold vegetable salads among which was to-die-for zaalouk (made with eggplant and tomato).
Dessert was poached pear with a cinnamon-infused syrup.
My tour operator (Experience It Tours) believes that the best meals in Morocco are served in riads. After having spent 17 days throughout the country, eating in many dining establishments, I agree. My wife and I ate our finest meals in riads. As a bonus, they have the most pleasant ambience.
And so it was during our journey, a completely vegan dinner at Riad the Repose in Rabat and organic dinner at Dar Jnan Tiouria in Skoura where the proprietor is his own chef. And I'll not soon forget the chicken pastilla at Dar Hatim in Fes. They were all gems.
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(Atlanta, Ga. – April 15, 2009) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced up to $5 million in new funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for the Woolfolk Superfund site near Fort Valley, Ga. The money will accelerate the hazardous waste clean-up already underway at the site. It will also jumpstart the local economy by creating jobs in the Fort Valley area. This Recovery Act funding is part of the $600 million that Congress appropriated to the Federal Superfund remedial program.
"EPA has an answer to these challenging economic times," said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. "Under the Recovery Act, we're getting harmful pollutants and dangerous chemicals out of these communities and putting jobs and investment back in."
Woolfolk Chemical is a former pesticide formulation facility in an Environmental Justice area of central Georgia. ARRA funds will be used to accelerate completion of the soil cleanup.
"These funds will allow EPA to continue its aggressive cleanup at the site," said Stan Meiburg, EPA Acting Regional Administrator. "As a result, the environment will be made cleaner and safer while providing a much-needed boost to the local economy through the creation of green jobs during cleanup and by returning the site productive use."
The Federal Superfund program was created in 1980 to clean up uncontrolled hazardous waste sites that pose unacceptable risks to human health and the environment. Superfund sites are often found in industrial areas hardest hit by the recession. Superfund cleanups are major construction projects which employ thousands of workers nationwide. The Superfund program is implementing new or expanded cleanup actions at 50 sites around the country and since it began, the program has completed construction of remedies at more than 1,060 of the 1.596 sites on its National Priorities List.
By starting or speeding up cleanup at Superfund sites, Recovery Act funding is also increasing the speed with which these sites are returned to productive use. When a Superfund site is redeveloped, it can offer significant economic benefits to local communities including future job creation.
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The agreement calls for a sale of the /*Dodgers*/, including television rights to games starting in 2013 and Dodgers stadium.
A two-day hearing is set to get under way Wednesday in a Delaware /*bankruptcy*/ court.
At issue is whether the new owner of the Dodgers will inherit the team's contract with Fox Sports.
Fox objects to the proposed media rights sale, saying it would violate its rights under an existing contract.
/*Major League Baseball*/ is staying neutral in the fight.
The team and the league said they hope to have initial bids by Jan. 13, and the sale completed by April 20.
The agreement prohibits Dodgers owner Frank McCourt from having any interest in the team after the sale.
Meantime, a federal bankruptcy judge granted a six-month extension for the Dodgers to file a bankruptcy reorganization plan Wednesday. The Delaware judge gave the team until April 25 to file a plan and until June 25 to solicit votes on the plan from creditors.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Lin Nan
Gerald Lyles Rising Star Professor of Accounting
Senior Associate Dean
Department Head in Management
Journal Articles
- Mingcherng Deng, Lin Nan, and Xiaoyan Wen. (2021). Seniority Orders between Inside Debts and External Debts. Journal of Management Accounting Research, vol. 33 (2), 43-73.
- Carlos Corona, Lin Nan, and Ran Zhao. (2020). Imitation in Product-Market Competition and Accounting Reporting. Journal of Management Accounting Research, vol. 32 (3), 93-115.
- Mingcherng Deng, Lin Nan, and Xiaoyan Wen (2019). Information Quality and Endogenous Project Outcomes. Contemporary Accounting Research, vol. 36 (2), 732-757.
- Carlos Corona, Lin Nan, and Gaoqing Zhang (2019). Banks' Asset Reporting Frequency and Capital Regulation: An Analysis of Discretionary Use of Fair-Value Accounting. The Accounting Review, vol. 94 (2), 157-178.
- Lin Nan and Xiaoyan Wen (2019). Penalties, Manipulation, and Investment Efficiency. Management Science, vol. 65 (10), 4878-4900.
- Carlos Corona, Lin Nan, and Gaoqing Zhang (2019). The Coordination Role of Stress Tests in Bank Risk Taking.. Journal of Accounting Research, vol. 57 (5), 1161-1200.
- Jing Li, Lin Nan, and Ran Zhao. (2018). Corporate Governance Roles of Information Quality and Corporate Takeovers. Review of Accounting Studies, vol. 23 (3), 1207-1240.
- Carlos Corona, Lin Nan, and Gaoqing Zhang (2015). Accounting Information Quality, Interbank Competition, and Bank Risk-Taking. The Accounting Review, vol. 90 (3), 967-985.
- Pierre Liang and Lin Nan (2014). Endogenous Precision of Performance Measures and Limited Managerial Attention. European Accounting Review, vol. 23 (4), 693-727.
- Lin Nan and Xiaoyan Wen (2014). Financing and Investment Efficiency, Information Quality, and Accounting Biases. Management Science, vol. 60 (9), 2308-2323.
- Carlos Corona and Lin Nan (2013). Preannouncing Competitive Decisions in Oligopoly Markets. Journal of Accounting and Economics, vol. 56 (1), 73-90.
- Guoming Lai, Laurens Debo, and Lin Nan (2011). Channel Stuffing with Short-Term Interest in Market Value. Management Science, vol. 57 (2), 332-346.
- Lin Nan (2011). An Unintended Consequence of SFAS 133: Promoting Speculation. Journal of Management Accounting Research, vol. 23 305-329.
- Lin Nan (2008). The Agency Problems of Hedging and Earnings Management. Contemporary Accounting Research, vol. 25 (3), 859-890.
Fouling Up: Can higher penalties encourage good companies to manipulate their financial reports?
In September 2018, Orlando-based SeaWorld Entertainment and its former CEO agreed to pay a penalty of more than $5 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission for misleading investors about the impact of the documentary film Blackfish on the company's reputation and business. A study by accounting professors at Purdue's Krannert School of Management and TCU's Neeley School of Business finds that while penalties on companies for misconduct in financial reporting help to improve investment efficiency, increasing such penalties may induce entrepreneurs with good projects to offer rosier pictures of their prospects.
Full story: Fouling Up: Can higher penalties encourage good companies to manipulate their financial reports?
Downside of High Information Quality
Professor Lin Nan discusses her research on the downside of high information quality in accounting
Advancing Accounting
The Krannert School of Management presented the fourth annual Purdue Accounting Theory Conference in May with a program that included distinguished guest speakers from across the country as well as rising scholars in the field. Accounting professors Mark Bagnoli, the Olson Chair in Management, and Susan Watts, the Emanuel T. Weiler Chair in Management, served as coordinators of the conference along with Associate Professor Lin Nan.
Quality, Competition, and Risk-Taking
Accounting Information Quality, Interbank Competition, and Bank Risk-Taking.
Phone: (765) 496-0551
Office: RAWL 4031
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When it comes to wedding planning, one concept is universal: your wedding should be unique and memorable. Seasonal choices for a wedding date can make all the difference. If you are exploring spring as an option for an outdoor wedding, here are some things to consider:
Pros:• You will have a natural backdrop of spring flowers and song birds to make for a beautiful setting on your wedding day. • If the weather is sunny on your big day, you won't need to work around extra lighting. The sun serves as the ideal lighting for your photos. • Spring weddings allow for a variety of options available to you. Venues may even be booked at discounted prices. • Many fruits and vegetables come into season in the spring time. You will surely have a fresh and fantastic dinner served at your wedding for a reasonable price. • Venues are difficult to book in a jam-packed summer schedule but a spring wedding may be easier to reserve. Avoid the busy season wedding rush, and book your wedding in the spring time where you can still enjoy the beautiful scenery and landscape of the venue.
Cons: • During the spring months, the weather may be unpredictable. A bride and groom's worst nightmare is a rainy wedding. This is difficult to avoid, especially when your date is already set. • The outdoors can be dreadful for people with allergies. Spring time in particular is hay fever season. You won't be able to control the outdoor pollen or other allergens floating around. This may lead to some unhappy guests.• If you have friends or family who don't live nearby, some may not be able to take time off of work or school to attend your wedding in the spring. Most people typically take vacation days in the summer. • While the spring is not high season for a wedding, it is still considered an ideal time to tie the knot. Therefore, discounts are not always available. • Depending on the weather, additional parts like tents and umbrellas may add on to your expenses.
A spring wedding can either be a stunning and cherished memory, or it may not be as glorious as one would imagine. If you are considering a spring wedding, contact a professional and discuss the options available to you. A wedding planner will be able to work with you to insure that the above risks will not affect your wedding.
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A Romanian magazine has let the cat out of the bag by claiming that Iulia and Salman have been in constant touch ever since they met.
Iulia is a great lover of the book 'Eat Pray Love' and while tracing the journey of the book's protagonist, she first landed in Mumbai with her boyfriend Marius Moga, who, being a musician, knew a couple of Bollywood producers. It's through them that Iulia first met Salman.
During this trip, Iulia was smitten by India and she visited a lot of holy places.
Iulia's second trip to India, in the summers this year, came after she broke up with her boyfriend. This time she stayed for about a month and a half and became quite close to Salman.


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2 Feb 2017
Dandelion Dreams
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Dandelion dreams... Beautiful! Absolutely loved it!😊ReplyDelete
That's so beautiful!ReplyDelete
Beautiful... :-)ReplyDelete
delicate breeze
dandelions nod their heads
in love with it
Hello! I love your blog so much; you have a really beautiful design! I haven't written a haiku in four years so i'm not going to attempt it now, but I write a lot of poetry on my blog! This was a beautiful post literarily, I loved it. I have followed your blog because I think it's so good!!! I would love it if you had a look at my blog; I'm a very passionate teenage blogger but I'm quite new and really need the support! Thank you so much // Jeani xxx www.jeanithoughts.blogspot.co.ukReplyDelete
Lovely introduction to your beautiful haiku! Well done.ReplyDelete
Absolutely loved the haiku ...a perfect poetic form!!ReplyDelete
The dandelion fluff is so similar to dreams when they fly away... love itReplyDelete
- Anonymous12 February 2017 at 21:45
pretty haiku..ReplyDelete
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Dandelion dreams...that's so nice. Very thoughtful!ReplyDelete
My dandelion dreams
Light as feather, Deep like thoughts
Take a yearning flight.
Yes!! For some reason, there is definitely something magical about dandelions.ReplyDelete
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words exude a kind of soft fluffiness like beautiful dreams....ReplyDelete
Blowing dandelions, gathering bluebells and holding buttercups under chins are all part of children discovering the world and interacting with it. What beautiful recollections this brought back for me.ReplyDelete
You've written a beautiful haibun.ReplyDelete
I also have many childhood memories with the dandelions. I am very much fond of them. And this is a beautiful haiku.ReplyDelete
Be free like the dandelion. Soar high like the sky.ReplyDelete
I used to play with them too as a child. 😊ReplyDelete
Dandelions ... my first encounter was in the cartoon movie Beauty and the Beast when Belle sings in the field and picks a dandelion. It looked beautiful then ... but the fairytale has long ended and seeing one in my garden now means I need to call weed control LOLReplyDelete
Lovely haiku. ^_^ I love the photo as well. The simplicity of the composition and neutral palette work well to give it impact and at the same time a feeling of nostalgia. The dandelion itself seems a thing of whimsy and dreams. Brief, fleeting yet powerful and beautiful. Looking forward to more of your works. :)ReplyDelete
Even I love dandelions. They have this amazing charm to them, dont they ??ReplyDelete


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The Wild Gods
by Malene Engelund
'Tonight, I'll walk through that fire.'
The eighteen poems that comprise Malene Engelund's debut pamphlet, The Wild Gods, reveal a distinctly Nordic imagination, punctured with rich colour, shadows and light.
Here are letters, portraits and prayers, composed with an almost painterly precision. Searching and clear-eyed, each poem a compact saga that revives folklore and extends it into the present, Engelund's wild gods take their places between borders: of home and belonging, darkness and dawn, the silenced and the lost.
"Malene Engelund has a lovely liquid way with verbs. Her phrase 'DNA of flight' applies not only to the birds who preside over these poems but to language itself as it flows through them, creating a haunted, Northern Lights habitat where snow, sea and night trace the inner bones of the relationship between every I and every you."
— Ruth Padel
"Malene Engelund's arresting debut leads us into a landscape of snow and silence, of characters submerged and on the brink of madness; 'I write in black.' But against the darkness we find the colours of a painter's palette, of birds making for the sky, of voices refusing to be muted and claiming for themselves a new language."
— Lorraine Mariner
Edition: Paperback
Date Published: 2016-03-10
Catalogue Number: VP0079
Number of Pages: 36
Cover design by Jamie McGarry
Cover artwork by Polly Morgan, image by Tessa Angus
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By Paul Harrison, Kerry Allen and Tae-jun Kang BBC News and BBC Monitoring
Social media users in China are debating whether a male South Korean reporter being kissed by female fans during the World Cup is "sexual harassment".
The video clip shows Jeon Gwang-ryeol, a MBN (a South Korean TV channel) reporter broadcasting in Russia on 28 June, being kissed on the cheek twice by female Russian fans.
The reporter tried to laugh the kisses off but looked embarrassed after the incident which occurred days after other supporters were criticised for trying to kiss a female reporter live on TV.
A debate about the incident emerged on Weibo, China's largest social networking site, with Weibo users asking why the actions of some Russian female fans were not being criticised in the same way as their male counterparts.
"It is a very sharp contrast with the previous news," one Weibo user said.
"Why is this not sexual harassment?" asked another, whose comment received hundreds of likes.
"If it's a good looking person (kissing), it's not called sexual harassment," one person wrote sarcastically.
Other users "called for equality between men and women" and said that the response to this incident shows that inequalities still exist.
Some users also had a problem with the media using the term "beauties" when referring to the women.
While the kiss was a subject of debate in China, it failed to draw much attention in South Korea where only MBN and its affiliated media outlets covered the story.
However one South Korean Twitter did join the discussion posting: "Regardless of your gender, you get sexually harassed. An MBN journalist went to Russia to cover the World Cup and he was sexually harassed by two women."
In the last few months stories about sexual assault have been widely discussed on Weibo with many people accusing the authorities of not taking it seriously.
Last week a video, stressing that "men and women, young and old" can all be subjected to sexual assault, went viral and sparked another debate on social media.


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{Revised 19-Mar-2002}
by Jym Dyer
This is a bibliography of English language books which
reprint Charles Schulz's "Peanuts" comic strip. Any additional
information, corrections, etc., can be sent to Jym Dyer
jym©econet.org), and would be much appreciated.
I compiled this bibliography because of my love for the strip. I am not a speculative collector (I actually read and reread my books), so I really can't answer questions about the cash value of certain editions of the books, or anything along those lines.
There are six primary formats for the reprint books:
The original reprint books were published by Rinehart & Company (which later became Holt, Rinehart & Winston) in a series of 5x8"-sized books. At first the books reprinting Sunday strips were printed in 8x5" horizontal format, but eventually the publisher started including the daily and Sunday strips in the same 5x8" books, and later editions of the horizontal Sunday books were resized to 5x8".
Most of these HRWs were followed by paperback Fawcett Crest pocketsized paperbacks (FCs), usually two per HRW book. Those FCs are included in the list of HRWs. The list of HRWs also provides cross-references to the OB reprints. In the UK the Fawcett Crest titles are printed by Coronet, who numbers them. I've put the Coronet numbers in curly braces.
a "" prefixes an HRW book. A "" prefixes the FC volumes of the HRW book. A "Sundays" in the date means the book collects Sunday strips only. A "Themed" in the date means it's some kind of themed book (e.g., they're all strips about Snoopy), and will typically contain some strips that are also found in the other books.
A "Storybook" in the date means this is a book-length cartoon story written by Schulz -- what would be called a "graphic novel" these days. These usually string together a number of the strips (or gags from the strips) into one long narrative.
This list is in chronological order of the first printings, which are for the most part the order the strips appeared in.
In the mid 1970s the reprints were being done as large-format 7x10" "Peanuts Parade" (PP) editions, typically collecting one HRW book and half of another. Strips dating from 1974 to 1984 were originally released in this format.
At some point the publisher's name changed again: from Holt, Rinehart & Winston to Henry Holt and Company.
Henry Holt and Company is currently printing "Owl Books", which are the same size as the original HRWs (5x8"). Most of them have the same titles as PPs, though some have the same titles as HRWs. The relationship between all these titles can be confusing, and may best explained with an example:
Got that? There's more! The PPs which contain strips from 1974 to 1984 weren't derived from 5x8"-sized HRWs, so they each have too much material to fit into a single 5x8"-sized OB. So, an OB from this era has only 2/3rds of the material of the PP that has the same title. To make up for this, some OBs are being released with new titles, to reprint the remaining strips.
In the list below, the PPs/OBs that reprint HRWs will provide cross-references to those HRWs. The PPs that were printing new material (starting with 1974-1975 strips) were accompanied by FCs, three volumes per PP book. Those FCs are included in the list of OBs/PPs.
A "" prefixes an OB or PP book. A "" prefixes the FC volumes of the PP book (starting with the 1974-1975 strips). In the cross-referencing, the "=" means that both the OB and PP book includes all of the named HRW book. The "+ (some of)" means that the PP book (only) contains some of that HRW book.
This list follows the same chronological order as the HRW books up to 1974, and afterwards follows the chronological order of the new books, which for the most part are, again, the order the strips appeared in. The PPs are numbered, but the numbers are not chronological. I've include the numbers in square brackets.
Starting in the 1980s, the strips were reprinted by Topper Books, an imprint of Pharos Books, (and unrelated to Holt, Rinehart, or even Winston. They are in various sizes (8.5x5", 10x7", and 11x8.5"), all horizontal.
These books are numbered, and the numbering is chronological.
There are FCs printed for these books, but they're not being done as carefully as the older FC titles. Their covers indicate that these books are "selections from" a Topper Book, and inside the strips may be Volume 1 or Volume 2 of a completely different Topper Book!
Andrews and McMeel publish a lot of comic book reprint books, but they only published a this short list of Peanuts books.
The early 1990s were reprinted by Harper Collins, with one year's strips per book, minus some Sunday strips.
The rest of the 1990s are being printed by Ballantine, with one year's strips per book. The strips from 1997 on have been colorized.
Starting in 1962, Determined Productions started putting out little square hardback gift books. The earliest ones are essentially original one-panel cartoons by Charles Schulz (usually an illustrated epigram), printed on high-quality color paper. After 1967, there wasn't much original art, just reprints of strips and other filler, such as recipes.
Holt, Rinehart & Winston later put out similar books, but in black and white.
Copyright 1994-2002 Jym Dyer
I'd like to thank my mother and grandmother for buying me all
those FCs way back when I was learning how to read. Thanks to
Zed (
for finding me a copy of Peanuts Revisited. I am
indebted to nhoJ
for the information on Cornet editions. Kudos to Timothy Chow
for helping me straighten out the some of the Fawcett Crest
titles from the Topper Books era. Boundless gratitude to
Charles Schulz for creating Peanuts.
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Getting enough quality sleep can not only eliminate those nasty bags under your eyes, but also improve your overall physical and mental health. However, even after knowing all the benefits of a good night's sleep, we still tend to neglect our Zs. So, today, it's time to set our priorities straight and turn our bedrooms into healthy and organic spaces perfect for relaxation and sleep.
Remove the Carpets
In order to create an organic and healthy space, you must start from the bottom. Remove your old carpets that are not just ugly and worn-out, but also serve as a breeding ground for all sorts of nasty critters like dust mites and germs. Replace your carpets with natural and hypoallergenic cork, natural wood flooring or recycled linoleum. These materials are easy to clean and don't provide a home for allergens. For some warmth, use small area rugs you can regularly wash.
Opt for Organic Bedding
We spend almost a third of our lives in bed, so making it comfortable and healthy is the least we can do. Replacing bedding made of artificial and treated materials with all-natural and organic bedding will do miracles for your well-being and comfort during sleep. You can also opt for pillows made of natural and untreated cotton and natural latex. There are also buckwheat hull pillows that offer great neck support and wool ones with moisture-wicking properties perfect for hot climates.
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Replace Your Old Mattress
Another way to make your bedroom more organic and healthy is to get rid of your old mattress. This might be a costly investment, but when you consider the number of chemicals used in the production of old-fashioned mattresses and all the allergens contained in them, you'll see the importance of this step. The best and healthiest option is to choose a natural latex mattress that offers great back support and is naturally anti-microbial, anti-bacterial and resistant to dust mites. Just make sure your pick carries a Good Environmental Choice label which makes it safer for you and the environment.
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Boost Your Air Quality
The best way to make the air in your bedroom cleaner and fresher is to invest in an air purifier, preferably one with HEPA filtration. These filters can eliminate almost all particles larger than 2 microns from the air and provide you with a clean and allergen-free bedroom, which is crucial for good sleep, especially for people with allergies. Additionally, if you have mold or mildew issues, make sure to take care of it with bleach or call the pros to expertly remove it.
Eliminate VOCs
Volatile Organic Compounds or VOCs are gases emitted from certain solids or liquids that can be found in an average bedroom and can have various health consequences. Longer exposure to VOCs can cause headaches, nausea, skin, eye and throat irritation, fatigue and many other unpleasant health issues. VOCs are usually present in paints, sealants, aerosol sprays, cleaners, disinfectants and adhesives, all of which can be found in your place of sleep. However, today, there are many alternatives you can use that contain low or zero VOCs. There are zero-VOC paints, upholstery that uses no adhesives, and homemade organic cleaners all of which have the same aesthetic or cleaning effect but without all the air pollution.
Welcome Nature
If you want to have a truly organic bedroom, what better way to achieve that than with greenery. Plants help create a relaxing vibe, clean out the air and serve as a pop of color! Additionally, they are cheap and most indoor types require very little maintenance. For instance, succulents and snake plants need minimal space to thrive.
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Candles and Essential Oils
In order to create a relaxing and peaceful atmosphere in your bedroom, the smell should never be neglected. Some scents have a very beneficial effect on human mood and sleep cycle, which is especially great for those that have trouble sleeping. However, make sure to avoid using traditional air fresheners or big box stores. Handmade soy candles and natural essential oils from your local producer are always a better and healthier choice for your organic bedroom.
A bedroom that follows these tips will not only be healthy and safe, but have a much better general vibe that will simply invite you to jump into your bed and get some quality sleep.


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Sandals Grande Resort, Antigua
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Sandals Grande Antigua is a couples only, adults only, all-inclusive resort that is ideal for an all inclusive Antigua honeymoon, Antigua wedding or a romantic getaway. The romantic ambiance here is created by a perfect beach, a full European Spa, 9 restaurants, and 5 freshwater pools. The resort can be totally full, and no one place ever feels crowded. The new Mediterranean Village side is all suites and the original Caribbean Grove side is classic Caribbean with beautiful gardens.
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