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LOCATION: Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center
DEPARTMENT:Interventional Radiology
WORK SCHEDULE: Days
WORK TYPE: Full time
Responsible in performing Interventional, Neuro and Endovascular procedures to include technical, procedural and equipment performance, patient care and education, interfacing with other clinical departments, issue resolution, digital imaging quality and efficiency. Responsible for maintaining department relationships with Radiology Services partners, patients and referring physicians.
Responsible for imaging procedure quality in thoracic, visceral, gastrointestinal, neurologic and peripheral intervention for vascular and nonvascular systems.
Performs imaging procedures in area of expertise. Meets the qualifications to provide care for patients in the specific age range of their assigned clinical area. Responsible for participating in regulatory requirements of assigned sections.
Works under the direct supervision of the Neuro Interventionalist, Vascular Surgeon, and Interventional Radiologist.
Directly accountable to the Interventional Radiology Team Leader.
Performs duties to support the goals and objectives of the Geisinger Health System in its efforts to provide quality patient care and patient satisfaction.
Requires good organizational skills and effective communication skills.
Requires technical expertise in Neuro, Vascular and Invasive anatomy.
Requires the ability to work in close cooperation with members of a team of physicians, nurses and other technical staff in an invasive and / or surgical environment.
Demonstrates computer skills including RIS / PACS, Windows, Internet, Infoweb, GroupWise emails, passwords and security.
Demonstrates flexibility, tact, and ability to perform both independently and as a team member.
Demonstrates initiative and the ability to assume multi-task duties and function under significant time pressures.
Graduate of an approved ARRT training program required. BS ARRT preferred.
ARRT registered or registry eligible required. Registered BS ARRT preferred
Two years' experience as a registered Radiology Technologist preferred
Prior Interventional Radiology experience in a Trauma facility preferred
Requires six months on-the-job training.
Work is typically performed in a clinical environment.
The specific statements shown in each section of this description are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job.
OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities. KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves. EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence. LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow. INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.
GEISINGER WYOMING VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER: (GWV), located in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., is an acute care hospital that is licensed for 274 beds, and houses the only Level II Trauma center in Luzerne County. The campus includes the Frank M. and Dorothea Henry Cancer Center, The Richard and Marion Pearsall Heart Hospital, the Janet Weis Children's Hospital Pediatric Unit, a transplant program and the Brain & Spine Tumor Institute. Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre is GWV's ambulatory campus.
ABOUT GEISINGER: Geisinger is a physician-led health system comprised of approximately 30,000 employees, including nearly 1,600 employed physicians, 13 hospital campuses, two research centers, and a 583,000-member health plan Geisinger is nationally recognized for innovative practices and quality care. Geisinger serves more than 3 million people in central, south-central and northeast Pennsylvania and also in southern New Jersey with the addition of National Malcolm Baldridge Award recipient AtlantiCare, A member of Geisinger. In 2017, the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine became the newest member of the Geisinger Family.
We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners.* Perhaps just as important, from senior management on down, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality. For more information, visit www.geisinger.org, or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
** Does not qualify for J-1 waiver. We are an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer Women and Minorities are Encouraged to Apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability or their protected veteran status.
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We are an audiology private practice serving the downriver metro Detroit (Michigan) area. We have been in practice since 1992 and we share space with 2 ENT's. We offer hearing tests, hearing aid sales and service, dizziness evaluations, assistive listening devices, custom earmolds, and noise and musician's earplugs. Our target audience is children to older adults. We have 3 audiologists on staff. Our goal is to give the best, most caring hearing healthcare to our patients, in other words we aim to kill our patients with kindness!
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James E. (Jim) Thompson (1881-1976) was one of Knoxville's pioneer commercial and professional photographers. He captured a rich visual legacy of East Tennessee from 1907 to 1960. This growing digital collection will eventually contain 10,000 images covering the years from the early 1920s to mid-1930s.
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During the celebration of Knox County's two hundredth birthday in 1992, the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection of the Knox County Public Library System copied over 3,000 photographs owned by over 230 Knox County citizens and organizations. The aim of the project was to collect as large a body of photographs as possible documenting …
Women from East Tennessee played a critical role in the women's suffrage movement, especially Lizzie Crozier French, Mrs. Hugh L. White and Abby Crawford Milton. The Harry T. Burn Papers related to his decisive vote in favor of women's suffrage in the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1920 is a key component of this collection.…
The McClung Historical Collection has a large number of small photograph collections, as well as manuscript collections with unusual and interesting photographs included in them. The Selected Photographs digital collection highlights some of these photographs.
These photographs from Hugh Tyler's album include photos of James Agee and his mother's family, some of the few surviving photographs from the time immediately after Agee's father's death. The photograph album has 37 pages and contains mostly family snapshots. Some photographs appear to have been removed from the album …
Our digital collection is an online archive of images from the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection. This website makes it easy and fun to research, view and find compelling digital images and artifacts from our rich East Tennessee history.
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Thompson has exhibited and performed his work internationally at venues include the Sheldon Museum of Art, the Taubman Museum of Art, SITE Santa Fe, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, the Jersey City Museum, and the Weisman Art Museum. Recent commissions include Rhizome, Turbulence, and a project on haptic and non-visual videogames from Harvestworks.
Thompson has presented his projects at the CAA, FATE, and SECAC conferences, as well as a talk for TEDx. His visual and written projects have been published by Ugly Duckling Presse, the Parsons Journal for Information Mapping, and Leonardo Electronic Almanac (MIT Press), among others. In addition to his studio practice, Thompson is an active curator, mounting exhibitions with the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art and Art MicroPatronage, as well as through Drift Station, a curatorial collaboration that mounts international, experimental exhibitions.


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Vegan. Despite my own vegan flirtations the word sounds almost militant to my ears. As if this change of diet should be accompanied by a manifesto, too drastic to do 'just 'cause'. Not so. There are many delicious and healthful foods that are 'vegan' and it's worth checking out our wide range of cookbooks just to see all the interesting options available. Whether you are looking for something new or contemplating a change of diet, there are a lot of ways we can help.
The most famous 'surprise' vegan I have come across is former president, Bill Clinton. While he decided to change the way he eats for health reasons, there are many reasons why people consider eating fewer (or no) animal products (maybe you joined a food co-op from the farmer's market and need a way to use all those delicious vegetables). Whatever drives you to explore a vegan diet most people run into the same problem: "What on earth am I going to make for dinner?"
Admittedly, I'm not a vegan though I have flirted with the idea. Experience has taught me that when it comes to changing the way your family eats, small steps are best. Rule number one: avoid all products that are faux meat because you will be unhappy if you are dying for a cheeseburger and you eat a tofuburger with tofu-cheese. It just isn't the same.
For a long time standard dinner fare was 'meat and two veg' and it is often really hard to wrap our heads around a meal that is without the traditional focal point. The good news is that there is a lot of help out there. A great way to start is to come to the library on the 12th of February at 10am to meet vegan chef Erica Elizabeth. Erica has worked for many years as a private chef and will demonstrate some simple recipe staples that are easy to make and delicious for the whole family.
There are so many options to explore that you might not miss the meat. We have a really fantastic selection of vegan cookbooks. Some of my personal favorites are "The Sexy Vegan Cookbook," "Vegan with a Vengeance" and finally, "Vegetarian Times: Everything Vegan." Each of these books have two core elements that are most important to me when I am considering what to cook my family for dinner, practicality and humor. Yes, I could make a fabulous meal for $100, but I need to make dinner seven nights a week. I need to make school lunches. I need this to be practical and affordable people! The recipes in these books tend to be presented in a humorous manner and most of them are forgiving…You should use "perfect recipe ingredient" but this "alternate more common recipe ingredient" is perfectly acceptable too…Thank you. It makes life so much easier if I don't have to run out and buy something new every time I experiment with a recipe.
Finally, you don't have to make a major lifestyle change – you can flirt with a change of diet. The founder of 'treehugger.com', Graham Hill, decided to become a weekday vegetarian. Perhaps you might opt to eat like much of the rest of the world where meat is only a 'taste' of the meal. One of the world's most basic meals, beans and rice is perfectly vegan.
Shake your menu up a little – try something new! Start by joining Erica Elizabeth and me on Tuesday 12 February at 10am.
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"I entered Origins, completely broken and hopeless, quite near death and with little belief that I could be helped. I had been to several drug treatment facilities before (seven in total), and I always relapsed promptly upon discharge. However, there was something quite different about my experience at Origins that made it dissimilar to any other drug rehab I had been to previously. I knew when I left that I had finally attained permanent sobriety. In fact, as of this writing, I just reached 18 months of continuous sobriety, and I could not be happier. I attribute the dedication of the Origins staff and the caring and competent manner in which they took care of me as the largest factors within my ability to recover from a previously hopeless state of being." - Frederick J, from NYC
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A thorough history to evaluate
low back pain includes an assessment of:
Your doctor or nurse may also give you a written
questionnaire to screen for
depression or to assess how low back pain is affecting
your life, to rate your job satisfaction, and to describe your support system
at home and at work.
During the physical exam, your doctor will
ask you to do a series of movements while you stand, sit, and lie down. This
makes it possible to assess muscular and sensory problems contributing to your
low back pain. The physical exam will also include:
The results of these tests will help your doctor see
whether your back pain and other symptoms are related to pressure on a nerve
and which nerve or nerves may be compressed. Your doctor will use this
information to help determine what type of treatment is most likely to be
The history and physical exam
are the first part of the work-up for low back problems. Your doctor may change
or skip some of the tests to avoid further injuring your back.
The history and physical exam for low
back pain may provide these results:
History does not reveal an obvious cause of the low back
A physical exam does not cause the same type of pain, muscle
weakness, or nerve-related symptoms that you have been having.
Your doctor may recommend:
The medical history and physical exam are likely to
distinguish between a low back problem related to a muscle strain or overuse
and one that is caused by pressure on a nerve or another more unusual
Pain can be related to both
physical and emotional causes. When you're stressed, for example, muscle
tightness or spasm can set into your back, causing pain or making it worse.
Similarly, troubling emotions can make pain worse. If you or your doctor have a
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difficult emotions, be sure to plan for specialized treatment.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy and
biofeedback are two types of treatment that can give
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Child Labor
Usha Nayar, Priya Nayar, and Nidhi Mishra
The paper presents a global scenario of child labor by placing the issue in a historical context as well as comparing current work in the field. It specifically explains the psychosocial, political, and economic determinants of child labor and the prevalence of different forms as well as its magnitude in the different regions of the world. It features innovative programs and actions taken against child labor by local governments, civil societies, and United Nations bodies—mainly the International Labor Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund. The paper also highlights multilateral collaborations among the UN and other international agencies that stand against child labor in general and the employment of children in hazardous conditions. It illustrates the cooperation among local governments, civic organizations, and child-rights movements that have brought gradual changes over the decades toward ending child labor. Further, it suggests that social work, relevant professional schools, and associations working in various disciplines should be engaged in research-based advocacy and find innovative solutions to control child labor.
Youth Services
Elizabeth T. Gershoff
Youth services are programs, activities, and services aimed at providing a range of opportunities for school-aged children, including mentoring, recreation, education, training, community service, or supervision in a safe environment. The current thrust of youth services is an emphasis on positive youth development. Best practices in youth services include the provision of safety, appropriate supervision, supportive relationships, opportunities to belong, positive social norms, support for efficacy and skill building, and integration of community, school, and family efforts.


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We are one of the most modern online learning environments in the world. We offer a range of course authoring services and our suite of hosted e-learing products have many advantages over other providers.
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Our hosted learning management system, sets you free from any and all IT issues and lets you upload courseware, track and report learner progress and results, and issue certificates. Most importantly, its web 2.0 extensible and ready for whatever comes next.
Most learning management systems out there use proprietary approaches and legacy programming languages. The result? High costs and a long lead time to change, expand and adapt to your needs and the latest advances and trends in the internet world. Our platform is built in dotNET, a robust, open source programming language specifically designed for web applications now and into the future. Because we host the system for you, any hassles you may have encountered doing database maintenance, administration and so on are all taken care of.
Registered Training Organisations (RTO's) or training providers that currently only deliver in class training who want to offer online training
We are selling them:
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Costs around 40% less than classroom
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Flat not overt 3D
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Logo separate to name as we may want to change the name
Name is currently eLearning Portal
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We want modern, simplistic and stylish
the current website is going to be redesigned but you can check it out
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LONDON (Reuters) - European shares were steady and the euro edged higher on Thursday, as U.S. lawmakers prepared to resume negotiations to avoid a fiscal crunch, while the yen hit a 21-month low on the prospect of drastic monetary easing.
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In a sign that there may be a way to break the deadlock in the U.S. Congress, Republican House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner urged the Democrat-controlled Senate to act to pull back from the cliff and offered to at least consider any bill the upper chamber produced.
President Barack Obama will try to revive budget crisis talks which stalled last week when he returns to Washington on Thursday after cutting short his Christmas holiday in Hawaii.
"There is still hope for a last-minute deal, otherwise we're in for a correction in January. People have already priced in an agreement. Without it, the market can't stay at these levels," a Paris-based trader said.
Economists warn that the "fiscal cliff" of higher taxes and spending cuts worth $600 billion could push the world's largest economy into recession, dragging other countries with it.
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The euro, which is being supported by a better outlook towards the euro zone, climbed 0.4 percent to $1.3266.
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Lucy Liu kills about 500 people by spin-kicking, stabbing, machine-gunning and rocket-launchering in Ballistick: Ecks Vs. Sever. But the movie's most ridiculous kill is when she gives the villain a heart attack with cartoon nanobots.
In Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever, which has the most appropriately nonsensical title of any movie I've ever seen, there's some deadly nanotech, and the bad guy has implanted it into his infant son. But Lucy Liu is not only a kung-fu master, she's also a nanotech genius, and she gets it out of the kid and uses it on the bad guy in the end. This movie plays like a horrendous video game film, except that it's not even based on a video game. It's hard to believe they invented this from scratch. Here's Lucy studying the nanotech:


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with Vandenbroucke's new collection, White Cube, we finally have the perfect response to fine art in comics form — and that response is the visual equivalent of a whoopee cushion.Printers Row
With few words and gorgeous style, a cartoonist takes aim at the hypocrisies of the art world
White Cube is the Belgian cartoonist and illustrator Brecht Vandenbroucke's debut book, a collection of mostly wordless strips that follow a pair of pink-faced twins as they attempt to understand contemporary art and the gallery world. Their reactions to the art they encounter are frequently comedic, as they paint over Pablo Picasso's famous mural Guernica, and re-create a pixelated version of Edvard Munch's The Scream after receiving one too many e-mails.
Lushly painted, these irreverent strips poke fun at the staid, often smug art world, offering an absurdist view on the institutions of that world—questioning what constitutes art and what doesn't, as well as how we decide what goes on the walls of the gallery and what doesn't.
Vandenbroucke's distinctive work blends the highbrow with the low, drawing equally from Gordon Matta-Clark's site-specific artwork and the Three Stooges' slapstick timing. With a knowing wink at the reader, Vandenbroucke continuously uncovers something to laugh about in the stuffiness and pretentiousness of the art world.
Praise for White Cube
Vandenbroucke is a wildly imaginative illustrator. His colorful, rude and whimsical book is an anarchic delightRichard Pachter, Miami Herald
White Cube throws "High" Culture & "Low" Culture into a blender and presses pulverize: Picasso, Tom of Finland, The Muppets, and many more get smashed together and mixed like paint. The resulting canvas is a grotesque hyperworld, hilarious and horrifying at the same time.Broken Pencil
Vandenbroucke's colorfully painted strips burst the pretentiousness of the art world without disrespecting the works' validity.Booklist
The art is colorful, humorous, and at times very lush and vibrant…visits to an art museum or gallery won't be the same after reading this.Danica Davidson, AV Club


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This pinned thread is intended to be a safe space for members to share their experiences and feelings when breast feeding hasn't worked for whatever reason.
This could be an ongoing thread in this forum or moved to the EB Buddy Group area?
Perhaps we could see how it goes and take it from there.
It isn't intended for this thread to be a venue for divisive debates on breast feeding or formula feeding and it will be moderated if needed to keep the peace.
Please post in the forum itself if you wish to seek support with breast feeding problems, concerns and questions.
Feel free to contact me via the PM System if you have any queries or feedback.
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The link above is to the ABA website and addresses the topic of "when breast feeding doesn't work out".
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A Single Player RPG By Adon237
Stonesearch is an independent fantasy RPG game by Adon237. It has many classical elements found in other RPGs, and also has a newer blend. Game-play won't be non-linear, featuring a ton of side-quests, along with the main story-line. The RPG might remind of you of the days when you were playing the classics like the early
Final Fantasy
series. And it could remind you of something else! Or it could be a unique experience for you! No matter what it is, Stonesearch will be an enjoyable game.
Now for the part everyone much enjoys,
I am concerned that I am not able to post images for bandwith problems, but:
You can view all of the images there.
Again, involves images, but stripped of those.
Abraxas* Wakeford:
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Class: Dark Knight
Specialty: Swords, Daggers, Axes, Heavier Armory, Shields, Combo-Attacks, and Special Weapon Attacks.
An eager lad from Vicos, a small peaceful village, who starts off his journey by fighting Treants. For a Dark Knight, he is really kind, outgoing, and relaxed.
Physical Description: Light Brown Hair, a serious look on his face, slightly built.
*Abraxas's name was tooken from the modern word that it is today, while not commonly used, the word is of mystical meaning, and it is said to be named after a god of some sort. IT is derived from the ancient word Abrasax. The Abraxas stones, stones of great importance of warship, inspired the idea of this story. Though I did not care for "Stones of God" so I changed it around so we now have Stonesearch, where they look for sacred stones of the elements.
Savyon Galbezto:
Gender: Male
Age: 20
Class: Fighter
Specialty: Claws,Fists,Gloves,Lightweight clothing and armory,Combo-Skills,Melee Based Skills,Elemental Attacks.
Description: The outgoing a sometimes annoying Savyon keeps Abraxas going, just by the mere means of taunting him. Savyon always compares himself to Abraxas, saying that Savyon(himself) is far more talented. As demonstrated shorty after meeting him. Savyon is a "Mercenary", who searches for jobs and wanders around for money.
His experienced often help and save Abraxas's life.
Physical Description: Savyon is at a decent height, with spiky dark brown and blond
(Dirty Blond?) hair. He has a decent and trustworthy look on his face, and he is moderately built.
Justin Scott:
Gender: Male
Age: 12
Class: "Wizard" Pending better name...
Specialty: Rods,Wrenches,Torches,Cloaks,Pointed Hats, Magics, Elemental Magics.
Description: A harmonic and outgoing boy who was found with Storm at Midsel Colluseum.
Physical Description: A short, frail child, with red hair, and a boyish look on his face. His fingers are oddly long, and is always wearing a cloak.
Jade Bankroft:
Gender: Female
Age: 10
Class: "Healer" Pending on better name...
Specialty:"Twigs"(Only one),Healing Rod's,Wands,Canes,Staves,Poles,Cloaks,Pointed Hats, Healing Magic, Minor Elemental Magic,
Description: Jade was discovered in Mysmagic Forest, running from local monsters.
She had been the only Healer left in the village of hers, Mysfor, when it was ransacked by monsters. She was on the run until Abraxas and team shows up, and she
decided to follow them along. She is quiet, and mainly spends her time sightseeing.
Physical Description: A girl with gorgeous long silky Jade Green hair. She is short,(Though she's only 10) and wear's an older styled dress.
Gender: Female
Age: 15
Class: Huntress
Specialty: Bows of all sorts, guns, slingshots, spears.
Description: Rose is Jade's older best friend, and has a short temper. She enjoys nature and shooting her bow at helpless animals.
Physical Description: She has pink hair, and wears a cowgirl hat. On her back are a quiver of arrows. She is built, and agile.
Gender: Female
Age: 25
Class: Witch
Specialty: Wands, Rods, Staves, Knives, and animals.
Description: Vesta is a witch, and since she is a witch, nearly everyone hates her. She has a spunky, random, and odd personality, and is often helpful to the party, healing Sis's total paralysis.
Physical Description: She has grey-white hair, (natural colors) wears a witches hat, and has a slim and fragile body. Her eyes are sort of cross-eyed.
Gender: Female
Age: 11
Class: Girl
Specialty: Wands, Rods, Staves, Knives, and animals.(Same as vesta)
Description: Sis is Abraxas's little sister, and she is full of energy. She dislikes Savyon for his attitude, and often pulls pranks on him when he least expects it.
Physical Description: She wears a red cap, with a red dress/robe, and has blonde hair. She is small, and agile. Her eyes are wide and big, with dark blue eyes that pierce you with impatience.
Gender: Male
Age: 14
Class: Stealth
Specialty: Slingshots, Knives, Samurai Swords,
Description: Landon is a stealth unit from the small and illustrious kingdom of Chala. He is speedy and not talkative.
Physical Description: He is short with spiky black hair, he is built, and has a serious look on his face.
Gender: N/A
Class: N/A
Description: Bleu is Justin's pet. Bleu is related to slimes, but he is domesticated, and as far as Justin knows, he is the only of his kind.
Bleu is a hyperactive creature, and often drives Justin crazy. He is helpful though, he searches for things as he moves, and often finds items that are helpful
to the party.
Physical Description: Bleu is a slime, a gelatinous mass of goo, that moves around
and interacts with the environment. Bleu of course is Blue, (indicated by his name).
(No Image Ready for Storm)
(This character is playable for a portion of the game.)
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Class: Magus
Specialty: Same as Justin.
Description: Storm is the intellectual yet slightly insane 'brother' Justin follows. After his orphanage closed, he took Justin along with him to find a better place to live. After a long stay at the Library, he began to have a new goal. To get the stones, and crush them.
Physical Description: Average height. He has spiky blue hair and wears blue robes.
He is very frail and sickly.
NOTE: All of these were made by Kaduki, and the people on his website.
I do not claim any of these as mine of my creation. I am trying to get my own character sprites, and etc. The face preview things, and the full body portrait is not of my making.
There are 25 parts to this story with an estimated game-play time of 20-30 hours.
Abraxas and his team must search for the eight elemental stones and return them to Stonesearch Tower before the world collapses without their power. There are others trying to find the stones too. There is Storm and his group of powerful spirits and fiends who are out to crush the stones to absorb their ultimate elemental powers. The kingdom of Lobradia is out to find all of the stones to use their power for their own purposes. They are constantly running into danger to save the world. Besides the stones, the characters begin to know each other better,
and deeper relationships form. Justin is abandoned by his foster-brother Storm and Justin must learn to cope with Savyon's attitude against magick users, and his ever growing love triangle between him, Jade, and Abraxas. Abraxas needs to deal with his past before he can build the courage to save the world, by reliving his deepest fear. Jade is leaving home early with adult responsibilities, and doesn't want to leave her quiet life at home. Savyon's life is ruined once he returns home to his isolated town of Terrapy, to find it destroyed, and his attitude and emotions spike up for the goodbyes he never got to say. Rose seems to be the only one without a problem, but dealing with moodiness and trying to get the mission moving is a tough deal. Sis has ten years of energy to release from just being recently cured from total paralysis, and Vesta must face persecution from almost anyone she meets, for she is a witch, and they are completely misunderstood.
Begin the story by downloading the STONESEARCH DEMO V.2!
As I was going through my game doing a quick backup check, I thought as I was looking through the story-line, "I wonder how many RPG-Cliches I have in my game?"
Then I thought that would be cool to know, so here it is! Any rpg cliches will be listed here from now on(!)(For my game.
) So here we go:
Logan's Run Rule:
RPG characters are young. Very young. The average age seems to be 15, unless the character is a decorated
and battle-hardened soldier, in which case he might even be as old as 18. Such teenagers often have skills with multiple weapons
and magic, years of experience, and never ever worry about their parents telling them to come home from adventuring before bedtime.
By contrast, characters more than twenty-two years old will cheerfully refer to themselves as washed-up old fogies
and be eager to make room for the younger generation.
Yes, this rule is so much for my game. Maybe besides Savyon. He is the oldest playable character in the game. (20 Years Old)
Garrett's Principle:
Let's not mince words: you're a thief. You can walk into just about anybody's house like the door wasn't even locked.
You just barge right in and start looking for stuff. Anything you can find that's not nailed down is yours to keep.
You will often walk into perfect strangers' houses, lift their precious artifacts, and then chat with them like you were old neighbors as you head back out with their family heirlooms under your arm.
Unfortunately, this never works in stores.
Aeris's Corollary
Just as the main male character will always use a sword or a variant of a sword, the main female character will always use a rod or a staff of some sort.
Capitalism Is A Harsh Mistress
Once you sell something to a shopkeeper, he instantly sells it to somebody else and you will never see the item again no matter what. (Though if you sell something purchasable like a potion, you can not buy that specific potion for half price, you will just have to buy a completely new potion for normal price.)
Nostradamus Rule
All legends are 100% accurate. All rumors are entirely factual. All prophecies will come true, and not just someday but almost immediately.
The basic ammunition for any firearms your characters have is either unlimited or very, very easy to obtain.
This will apply even if firearms are extremely rare.
Indestructible Weapon Rule
No matter how many times you use that sword to strike armored targets or fire that gun on full auto mode it will never break, jam or need any form of maintenance unless it is critical to the story that the weapon breaks, jams or needs maintenance.
Selective Paralysis
Your characters must always keep both feet on the ground and will be unable to climb over low rock ledges, railings, chairs, cats, slightly differently-colored ground, or any other trivial objects which may happen to be in their way. Note that this condition will not prevent your characters from jumping from railroad car to railroad car later in the game.
Bed Bed Bed
A good night's sleep will cure all wounds, diseases, and disabilities, up to and including death in battle.
Zelda's Axiom
Whenever somebody tells you about "the five ancient talismans" or "the nine legendary crystals" or whatever, you can be quite confident that Saving the World will require you to go out and find every last one of them.
Law of Cartographical Elegance
The world map always cleanly fits into a rectangular shape with no land masses that cross an edge.
¿Quien Es Mas Macho? (Fargo Rule)
Every powerful character you attempt to seek aid from will first insist upon "testing your strength" in a battle to the death.
Short Attention Span Principle
All bookshelves contain exactly one book, which only has enough text on it to fill up half a page.
Apathy Principle
Your group is the only bunch of people trying to save the world. All other would-be heroes will either join your party or else turn out to be cowards and/or con men.
Second Law of Travel
There will be only one of any non-trivial type of vehicle in the entire world. Thus, only one ocean-capable steamboat, only one airship, and so forth. Massive facilities will have been constructed all over the world to service this one vehicle.
Fifth Law of Travel
All vehicles can be driven or piloted by anyone. The main character just needs to find out where the bridge or steering wheel is, as he already knows all of the controls.
Puddin' Tame Rule
The average passer-by will always say the same thing no matter how many times you talk to them, and they certainly won't clarify any of the vaguely worded warnings or cryptic half-sentences they threw at you the previous time.
Franklin Covey Was Wrong, Wrong, Wrong
Sticking to the task at hand and going directly from place to place and goal to goal is always a bad idea, and may even prevent you from being able to finish the game. It's by dawdling around, completing side quests and giving money to derelicts that you come into your real power.
Near-Death Epiphany (Fei Rule)
If the party is not dealing damage to a boss character, then there's a better-than-even chance that someone in the party will suddenly become enlightened and instantly acquire the offensive skill that can blow the creature away in a matter of seconds.
First Law of Fashion
All characters wear a single costume which does not change over the course of the game. The only exception is when characters dress up in enemy uniforms to infiltrate their base.
Second Law of Fashion
Any character's costume, no matter how skimpy, complicated, or simply outlandish, is always completely suitable to wear when climbing around in caves, hiking across the desert, and slogging through the sewers. It will continue to be completely suitable right afterwards when said character goes to meet the King.
Flow of Goods Rule
The quality of goods in the world is dependent upon the shop's distance from the final dungeon. It doesn't matter if the town you start in has a huge thriving economy and is the center of world trade, it will always have the game's worst equipment; and even if that village near the end is isolated and has only three people in it, it will have the game's best equipment.
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Elon Musk doesn't just want to send a person to Mars – he wants to send 80,000. According to Space.com, the billionaire founder and CEO of the private spaceflight company SpaceX spilled details about his hopes for a future Mars colony during a talk at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London on Nov. 16.
Earlier this year, SpaceX became the first private U.S. company to deliver cargo to the International Space Station. Musk has never been shy about his ambitions to take human colonists to another planet, mentioning in the past that he wants to provide flights to Mars for about $500,000 a person. But now he's talking about building a small-city-sized settlement on the Red Planet, starting with a 10-person crew in the coming decades to begin establishing and building infrastructure.
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DENVER The Colorado Rockies slumbering bats finally showed some life with Troy Tulowitzki, Carlos Gonzalez and Seth Smith all going deep off right-hander Mike Pelfrey.
Only trouble was, the bases were empty each time, and they lost to the New York Mets 4-3 on Pelfreys two-run double off Jason Hammel on Tuesday night.
Pelfreys a good pitcher, Tulowitzki said. We put some good swings on him. That was encouraging. But the double by him, really, I think is one of those plays where momentum really swings the other direction. Youre not expecting the pitcher to put a double in the gap, let alone two RBIs in a big situation.
Its like a great defensive play, something that puts momentum in the other dugout, and I think as a team we went downhill right from there.
Hammel said he wanted to throw a fastball right down the middle and get ahead in the count with two outs and two men on in the fourth inning, and Pelfrey said he went up to the plate intent on hacking away at the first pitch.
Fastball down the middle just to get ahead, and he ambushed me, said Hammel, who had just been hit in his left calf by Ronny Paulinos infield single that preceded a walk to Jason Pridie.
He said it was impossible to put the injury out of his mind because it was to his landing leg. He said the pain didnt really intensify, however, until he left the game and his adrenaline wore off.
What really bothered him was giving up the double to Pelfrey.
Its got to be a better pitch than that, Hammel said.
Im terrible at the plate, Pelfrey said. I went up there and I thought, Hey, Im going to swing at the first pitch. I thought I might pull the ball (foul), but it was up, and I couldnt get around in time, and luckily it found a gap.
And the Rockies know they have to do a better job at the plate if they want to maintain their lead atop the NL West, which theyve held by themselves since April 6.
As a team, theyre hitting .232, and four players arent even hitting .200. One of them, Ian Stewart, is batting .064 as hes off to a 3-for-47 start that might soon spell the end of the line for him in Denver.
Dexter Fowler took solace in the three long balls: I mean, its a start, I guess.
Despite the trio of long balls he served up, Pelfrey (3-3), who allowed six hits over 6 2/3 innings, improved to 6-2 lifetime against the Rockies, who have lost seven of nine. Pelfreys outing was cut short by a nearly hour-long rain delay in the seventh inning.
Hammel (3-2) entered the game with a 13-inning scoreless streak, and the Mets promptly ended that, scoring two runs in the first inning on Ike Davis two-run single.
The Rockies tied it in the second when Tulowitzki and Smith hit homers to right field.
Hammel was cruising along until Paulinos comebacker richocheted off his left calf for a two-out single in the fourth inning.
It was all calf, Im lucky Im such a muscular guy, I was able to absorb the blow, the rain-thin right-hander cracked. But once I came out of the game and the adrenaline wore off, it hurts. It hurts a lot.
What hurt more, however, was the belt-high fastball he threw to Pelfrey, who laced it to right-center for a two-run double that gave the Mets the lead for good.
Hammel allowed four earned runs on seven hits in seven innings.
He said he didnt think his bruised calf was a big deal.
Im not looking forward to waking up (today), but if Im able to go back out after it happened, Im pretty sure Im not going to miss a start, he said.
Gonzalez made it 4-3 in the sixth when he sent Pelfreys fastball into the rock pile in straightaway center for his third homer of the year and first at home.
I have the best seat in the house, and this is the first time Ive seen glimpses of CarGo from last year, so thats encouraging, Tulowitzki said.
Isringhausen and Tim Byrdak combined for a 1-2-3 eighth inning, and Francisco Rodriguez pitched a perfect ninth for his 10th save in 11 chances.
Good to finally get a win against these guys and hopefully win the series (today), Wright said. Its a very good team, and when Tulo and Gonzalez get going, theyre going to be that much more dangerous.


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President Barack Obama called for a discussion in the wake of the 2011 Tucson shootings and again on Wednesday following the Colorado movie theater rampage. But Mr. Carney did not offer any specifics about his plans for pursuing the matter…
White House officials have said they have no plans to get behind gun-control legislation, citing the difficult politics of the subject.
Obama is no stranger to dipping deep into the murky waters of executive powers and finding ways to achieve policy goals that Congress has thwarted. Proponents of gun control say that the president has crystal clear and uncontested powers—some used by an NRA card-carrying GOP president (Bush resigned from the group in 1995)—to deal with assault weapons.
Yet the White House remains stonily silent on Obama's intentions even to reevaluate whether to exercise these powers. In the Big Easy, he made it sound as if gun control is always hard. It most definitely can be. But there are actions Obama can easily take, and what's hard for Democrats and gun-control advocates to figure out is why he won't.
[T]he vast majority of voters who dislike gun control have so many other reasons to oppose Obama that they are unlikely to switch just because he holsters this one issue. Congressional Democrats face the same dynamic. One reason Democrats abandoned gun control is because they concluded that it bled them rural- and blue-collar seats during the 1994 GOP landslide. But after slowly recapturing some of those seats, Democrats saw almost all of them wash away again in a 2010 GOP torrent swelled not by guns but the broader recoil from Obama's activism.
If there is a road back to a Democratic congressional majority, it almost certainly will not run through such downscale districts; rather, it will go through the leafy suburban seats where gun control retains more backing. Likewise, if Obama survives in November, it will largely be because he maintained support among minorities and upscale women—not because he recaptured the blue-collar whites stampeding away from him.
Gun control is a high-risk issue because half of the electorate passionately opposes it. Yet it is the half that Democrats have little chance of reaching. Since Clinton's era, almost all Republicans, even those from upscale places still open to restrictions, have bowed to the majority position on guns among their core supporters. However, on gun control, almost uniquely for a social issue, the president and most congressional Democrats have elevated the priorities of voters outside of their coalition over the preferences of those within it. In politics, as in combat, it isn't much of a fight when one side unilaterally disarms.
The assault-weapons ban in place from 1994 to 2004, however, was not particularly successful. In prohibiting 19 brands of weapons (along with copycats), the law's judgments seemed arbitrary. A gun that resembles a military rifle is not inherently more lethal than an aesthetically innocuous weapon. But the law's prohibition of high-capacity magazines — capped at 10 rounds — strikes me as prudent. A 100-round, drum-style magazine — the kind that police say the Aurora suspect had in his AR-15 — is highly useful to someone intent on mass murder. It is less useful for an average citizen intent on self-defense, unless he fears home invasion by a foreign army.
Such laws are always a balance. In this case, the gain in public safety would be relatively small — restricting access to a destructive technology used by killers at Aurora, Tucson, Fort Hood and Virginia Tech. But the burden on gun rights would be minimal. Defenders of high-capacity magazines argue that they are more convenient at the gun range, since you can fill up a large magazine before leaving home. There is a constitutional difference between the argument "I need to defend myself from aggression" and "I'd prefer to reload less at the range."
I am open to the idea that other measures — particularly improving the capacity of the mental health system to identify people with emotional problems — should have a higher national priority. Reasonable gun laws are not a panacea. But neither are they a threat to the Constitution. They merit a debate — driven not by ideology but by prudential judgments on public safety.
The temptation at times like these is to "do something" about guns. Australia and Britain passed tougher gun laws after mass shootings, and haven't suffered another since. I would respectfully submit that Australia and Britain are full of Australians and Britons, not Americans. Moreover, neither country is home to an estimated 180 million privately owned guns, as ours is. Guns last forever. The one with which I hunt was made in 1900 and functions as well today as it did then. If tomorrow President Obama signed the ultimate gun-control law—a total ban on the sale, manufacture, and import of guns—we would still be awash in firearms for generations to come. Madmen like the murderer in Aurora would find a way to kill. Witness Timothy McVeigh…
[Forty] percent of Americans own guns, and like it or not, they identify with them, personally. Guns stand in for a whole range of values—individualism, strength, American exceptionalism—that many gun owners hold dear. Tell a gun owner that he cannot be trusted to own a firearm—particularly if you are an urban pundit with no experience around guns—and what he hears is an insult. Add to this that the bulk of the gun-buying public is made up of middle-aged white men with less than a college degree, and now you're insulting a population already rubbed raw by decades of stagnant wages.
The harm we've done by messing with law-abiding Americans' guns is significant. In 2010, I drove 11,000 miles around the United States talking to gun guys (for a book, to be published in the spring, that grew out of an article I wrote for this magazine), and I met many working guys, including plumbers, parks workers, nurses—natural Democrats in any other age—who wouldn't listen to anything the Democratic party has to say because of its institutional hostility to guns. I'd argue that we've sacrificed generations of progress on health care, women's and workers' rights, and climate change by reflexively returning, at times like these, to an ill-informed call to ban firearms, and we haven't gotten anything tangible in return. Aside from what it does to the progressive agenda, needlessly vilifying guns—and by extension, their owners—adds to the rancor that has us so politically frozen and culturally inflamed. Enough.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. – The San Jose Earthquakes may have waited until after MLS' midseason transfer window had closed before filling their final roster spot, but the addition of Brazilian midfielder Geovanni as the franchise's first Designated Player might be just the thing to push the Quakes' postseason plans wide open.
Since being re-established in 2008, the Quakes have signed plenty of players they hoped would provide a DP-level of performance without actually invoking the Designated Player clause. Yet they always came with one caveat or another – usually related to their age or injury problems.
In Geovanni, the Quakes bring in a player with an impressive résumé. His services were bought in his 20s for millions of euros by Barcelona and then Benfica, most recently a bright spot on an otherwise desultory (and, as of last spring, relegated) Hull City side. At 30 years old, the Brazilian – who was available even after the transfer window because the relegated Tigers terminated his deal early – should still have plenty of soccer left in him.
In summary, if Quakes fans are dissatisfied with this move, maybe nothing short of kidnapping Lionel Messi will make them happy.
Four other snap judgments on Geovanni coming to Buck Shaw Stadium:
1) Geovanni is the right man at the right time for San Jose. The Quakes have hovered around the .500 mark for much of the season, hoping that their grit would overcome a paucity of class up front. General manager John Doyle knew his team badly needed someone to stir the drink offensively, and after compatriot Andre Luiz started to sell Geovanni on San Jose, the choice became clear.
2) Chris Wondolowski should be the happiest man in MLS today. Wondolowski, the Quakes' leading scorer this season with seven goals, is a natural finisher, but admits freely that he needs service to thrive.
The passing of central midfielder Khari Stephenson during his debut Saturday was already a revelation, as it opened up avenues that the Quakes previously had bypassed completely. In Geovanni, San Jose add a playmaker armed not only with similar vision and touch, but also with the quickness and savvy to get himself open and pull defenses out of shape.
"All you can do is just make the runs that you can, try and make the most runs, the best runs that you can and hopefully the ball finds you there," Wondolowski said Saturday.
With Geonvanni on board, delivery of the ball that puts players into scoring opportunities should be an expectation, not a hope.
3) Coach Frank Yallop has plenty of toys to play with. Geovanni has played on either wing and up front, but mostly has been used as an attacking midfielder. In the short-term, he might play on the left wing while Bobby Convey, who was sensational at that spot for much of the season, subs for injured left back Ramiro Corrales.
Beyond that, it will be interesting to see if Yallop switches from his preferred 4-4-2 into a 4-5-1 or even 4-4-1-1, with Geovanni as a withdrawn forward in order to maximize his offensive impact. If the Quakes could ever get Brazilian striker Eduardo healthy enough to serve as a target up front, San Jose could become a very dangerous foe in October and beyond.
4) The front office is putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to making the playoffs. Owner Lew Wolff easily could have told Doyle to get by with what he had, hoping to sneak into this year's playoffs and putting a DP signing on the back burner until the team's new stadium project is completed – or at least back on track economically.
Instead, Wolff ponied up the cash and Doyle closed the deal for a player who should make a big, big difference. Game on, Quakes.
Geoff Lepper covers the Earthquakes for MLSsoccer.com. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. On Twitter: @sjquakes


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When people use this forum just to get their homework done for them they should at least be prepared to return here and check for replies. So many people seem to post a question (and register as members) that are so impatient that they expect an instant detailed essay, and if they don't receive one clear off and never return again despite people spending their time to write one.
Could you by any chance put a compulsory question on the registration page about what the persons' reason for registering is?
If they say they are asking a homework question they should be allowed to register, but if they don't check for replies within a month, their membership should lapse. Perhaps the same should apply to members who don't post at least one message a year.


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San Diego city schools chief Bill Kowba announced his retirement Tuesday, seven years after retiring from the Navy to take the first of several top posts with California's second-largest district during the most difficult economic times since the Great Depression.
Without fanfare or advance notice to the public or media, Kowba revealed his resignation during a routine school board meeting. He will step down as superintendent of the San Diego Unified School District on June 30, the end of his three-year contract.
"I want to thank you for the honor and privilege of leading this outstanding large urban, educational institution…," an unusually emotional Kowba said from the dais Tuesday night, reading from his retirement letter to the board. "This tenure has been earmarked by both great resource challenge and solid academic achievement."
A retired rear admiral and 30-year Navy man, Kowba was hired in 2006 as San Diego Unified's chief financial officer and has since held several senior management posts. After twice filling in as interim superintendent, Kowba was hired to take the job full-time in June in 2010.
Known as a trusted and low-key administrator, Kowba became San Diego's fourth superintendent in fewer than five years. He's been credited for restoring a sense of stability in the district following a revolving door of high-profile educators who often clashed with the school board and unions.
"Under Superintendent Kowba student achievement has consistently risen and community participation in the schools has increased," said school board President John Lee Evan, referring to the district's steady increase in test scores and graduation rates in recent years. "He has shepherded the district through a difficult period with the utmost integrity and human decency, planned for the future and has provided a great example for the next superintendent."
Kowba, 61, was hired to carry out the school board's policies, not to impose his own. He has overseen the district's community-based strategy to tap input from parents and teachers on education policy, as opposed to the top-down approach of some of his predecessors. At the same time, he has presided over millions of dollars in cuts to cope with the state's fiscal crisis.
"To have a superintendent lead a community-based reform during tight budget times — that is kind of courageous," said Cindy Marten, principal of Central Elementary School in City Heights.
Kowba has lead San Diego Unified through some tough times. The superintendent has threatened to close down schools and lay off teachers year after year — putting him in and out of favor with educators and parents. In October of 2011, he famously warned that the district was on the brink of insolvency, a statement he later recanted after San Diego Unified avoided deep midyear state budget cuts.
Even during the hard times, Kowba has lived up to his reputation for integrity, said trustee Kevin Beiser.
"He's an embodiment of the idea of listening to people. He listens before he acts," Beiser said. "He's a man of integrity."
Kowba has celebrated his share victories for the district, such as the successful $2.51 billion Proposition Z bond measure that was passed by voters in 2012. The 2008 Proposition S bond measure also passed on Kowba's watch, which started a technology initiative that put iPads or tablet computers in the hands of students and Promethian "smart boards" in classrooms on a scale not seen in most large urban districts.
Throughout it all, the superintendent has kept a low profile. But he has on occasion lashed out at the school board for its micromanagement of everything from staffing decisions and budget planning to administrative work.
As Kowba completes his final year as superintendent, he will oversee some $88 million in cuts to next year's $1.1 billion operating budget.
Despite increased state revenues from Proposition 30 tax increase, the school district still a deficit. Much of the new state money will go toward paying raises for teachers negotiated in 2010, something that critics say was irresponsible.
Unified intends to balance its budget by selling off surplus property, freezing jobs left vacant through attrition and raising class size for its youngest students.
"At center stage, the Board, staff, and community have had to deal with incessant draconian cuts to the state and district budgets triggered by the single deepest and most prolonged economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s," Kowba said.
"Year after year, we have had to make the most difficult decisions impacting all stakeholder groups. Great collaboration and sacrifice by all have enabled us to accommodate the budget deficits. That said, we must relentlessly address the future year fiscal challenges with balanced, long-term budget solutions."
Representatives of the teachers union, the San Diego Education Association, could not be reached for reaction to Kowba's retirement announcement.
The district plans to find a successor for Kowba by June 30, said Chief of Staff Bernie Rhinerson. It's unclear whether the board will conduct a national search for a superintendent or hire from within. It's also unclear whether the district will hire another leader without a traditional education background.
Kowba, 61, is a career Navy man who has filled several senior executive positions at the school district including twice as the interim superintendent, chief special projects officer, chief logistics officer, chief financial officer, and interim chief administrative officer.
He was the district's first superintendent without an education career since then-U.S. Attorney Alan Bersin was hired in 1998.
Kowba lives in Encinitas with his wife.


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Minnesota Golden Gophers Still Trying to Get Over Big Ten Hump
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The good news for Minnesota
last weekend was that the Gophers had plenty of opportunities to assemble a strong enough game to beat Michigan, one of the Big Ten powers they've been least successful against.
The bad? They still lost at home by 22 points.
So the Gophers (5-4, 1-4) have moved on, buoyed by their clear improvement over last season when they fell 58-0 to the Wolverines but frustrated by a lingering inability to put together the kind of performance required to beat the traditional big boys of the conference.
A trip to Illinois (2-7, 0-5) is on tap for this Saturday. With a game at Nebraska on Nov. 17 and Michigan State due at TCF Bank Stadium on Nov. 24, this is obviously the best chance for the Gophers to ensure themselves an extra game.
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Before anything else, happy birthday, dear Cleo!
Ladies and gentlemen, today is the birthday of a good friend of mine, one of the hosts of the radio show I usually guest on, the Disenchanted Kingdom on 99.5 RT. Her name is Cleo Caliente.
Around the stroke of midnight, Ms. Caliente was on her way to the hotel room of her friends who flew in all the way from the United States. She was going to celebrate her birthday with them, as is customary. What is not customary, though, was the manner she was treated by the hotel's floor security, from the moment she stepped into the vicinity of EDSA Shangri-la.
Upon approaching the door, instead of being subjected to the standard check of bags by security, she was immediately asked a question by the man at the door, pretty much asking her what room she was supposed to go to. She promptly answered which room. While this might still be construed as routine, what followed certainly wasn't.
After stalling for a while, she was escorted by several security personnel not to the reception area which is standard operation procedure for any clarifications regarding rooms and the like, but to the phones hidden away in the corner of the first floor of the hotel. It was as if they didn't want people to see her, which was bizarre, to say the least. Instead of calling her friends at the reception area, she was calling from the phone booths. Does this count as protocol?
As you might've seen in the picture above, Ms. Caliente is quite a looker, and she was, as is customary with Chinese women, wearing a red dress on her birthday, as well as some jewellery. She was dressed to impress that midnight, and wanted nothing more than to just hang out with her friends and chill out with them, especially since it was her idea to make them move from Makati Shang-rila to EDSA Shang-rila because she lives closer to the place.
Instead, she found herself surrounded by seven security personnel, repeatedly asking her questions in the vernacular while she was answering the questions in flawless English. That they were disregarding her mode of expression with the way they were speaking to her was unmistakeable, and at the same time, immensely disrespectful. Cleo comes from Cebu, and Tagalog is not her native language, although she can speak and understand it.
Then, at some point, they asked her a question that just completely went beyond the acceptable boundaries of protocol. They asked her: are you here to see a foreigner guest, or a Filipino?
Let me ask this of you, dear security personnel of EDSA Shangri-la: exactly what the blazes are you implying in asking her that question? Are you implying that you are assuming that the person who brought you business by having her friends check into your establishment, a person who has repeatedly gone to your establishment in recent days to see said friends, just so happens to be a prostitute? Really?
The line of questioning was foul and out of line. There is a protocol by which security personnel must conduct themselves, and while I am not 100% familiar with it, I don't think asking a visitor if she's there "to see a foreigner or a Filipino" constitutes protocol. This was downright insulting, demeaning, and given how this scene lasted for over ten minutes, this was practically criminal.
To make matters worse, given how Ms. Caliente was dressed, the security personnel who circled her and were accosting her were eyeing her in a very uncomfortable manner. In her words, she said that she felt like "they were stripping her naked in their minds," with the way they ogled her. This was harassment, and they were attempting to bully someone whom they assumed was merely a "poor, helpless little girl" who also happens to be a hooker.
They couldn't have been more mistaken.
After over ten minutes of being questioned relentlessly and treated like a common criminal, Cleo's friend finally came down to pick her up and at this point, Ms. Caliente filed a complaint after she recollected herself in the hotel room. This was a travesty and a gross act of disservice to her, and they just had to do it on her birthday.
This morning, on 99.5 RT, King DJ Logan, the host of Disenchanted Kingdom, decided to call EDSA Shangri-la to perhaps get the establishment to issue a decent apology for the mistreatment Ms. Caliente has received at the hands of the security personnel. The first time he called, the person who received the call immediately put the phone down on him upon hearing the words "This is King DJ Logan of 99.5 RT." It boggles the mind why she would do something like that, but they called the hotel again, this time with Cleo making the call.
Soon enough, they were transferred to a guy named Kevin, and he offered to clarify the matter when Cleo asked whom she could speak to for her to register her grievance. What followed has got to be one of the worst examples of customer service I have ever witnessed, as he fumbled his way through, put Cleo on hold multiple times, trying to come up with answers for her questions. It got to a point where Logan had to take over, and cow Kevin into admitting that in reality, he was not in a position to address the issue himself.
Now, take note that this was the second time the complaint was filed, and clearly, there was no log of the first complaint, as Kevin had no idea about what was going on at all despite putting Cleo on hold multiple times. He had to realize he was actually on the air before he realized that he couldn't just sweep this complaint under the rug.
To make matters worse, after this call, the hotel attempted to bribe Cleo's friends by offering them freebies on the hotel's tab. Now, if I recall correctly, it was Cleo who got harassed by these security personnel, and not her friends. So why are they being bribed, when all the were asking for was accountability and a written apology for her ordeal?
Real classy, EDSA Shangri-la. Way to address the situation. Wasn't it bad enough that you thought Ms. Caliente was a prostitute? Now, you have to try and pay her off (Actually, pay her friends off, even!) as if she really were one? Customer service at its finest! Well played, EDSA Shangri-la! Bravo!
A simple, straightforward apology and accountability for the security personnel who accosted Cleo would've been more than welcome, dear EDSA Shangri-la. In case you haven't realized, at no point did she even flaunt her status as a radio broadcaster throughout her ordeal. Apparently, her desire to not act like she was entitled to any special treatment was taken as a sign by your goons, I mean security, to instead harass her as they please.
Seven guys to deal with one person, ladies and gentlemen. Does this not scream "excessive" and "abusive" to you?
Seriously, EDSA Shangri-la. Do you actually need to step on powerful people's toes before you realize that you're mistreating people? Has it gotten to this point already? Can you not simply do the right thing and apologize for treating people the wrong way without having to look at their status in society or in the media industry? And do you think that bribing them with gifts will just make them look the other way? You think you can buy off principles?
Well, at this point, the answer to that is moot, and let this post stand as a warning: unless EDSA Shangri-la decides to do the right thing and issue a public apology in writing to Ms. Cleo Caliente, then we are left with no recourse but to let this post stand as a testament to the discrimination and inhospitable treatment the employees of EDSA Shangri-la clearly are capable of.
I will categorically say that I have no desire to patronize such an establishment, and I certainly hope those who see this will know better than to as well.
Not cool, EDSA Shangri-la. Not cool at all.


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Google has announced the release of its RE2 library under a BSDish license. \"At Google, we use regular expressions as part of the interface to many external and internal systems, including Code Search, Sawzall, and Bigtable. Those systems process large amounts of data; exponential run time would be a serious problem. On a more practical note, these are multithreaded C++ programs with fixed-size stacks: the unbounded stack usage in typical regular expression implementations leads to stack overflows and server crashes. To solve both problems, we\'ve built a new regular expression engine, called RE2, which is based on automata theory and guarantees that searches complete in linear time with respect to the size of the input and in a fixed amount of stack space.\" More information can be found on the RE2 project page.
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Here's the Facebook post from Mountain Xpress reporter David Forbes:
I have been fired from Mountain Xpress. On April 17, I received a letter in my mailbox notifying me that I was terminated from my job as senior news reporter.
I had been suspended since April 4, following efforts to push for a union at Xpress and bring to light major issues with ethics and working conditions. This includes the Communications Workers of America filing a National Labor Relations Board charge on April 2 concerning ongoing retaliation.
Thanks to everyone who has supported the union drive. It is far from over.
On a personal note, I would like to thank the many people in Asheville who have supported my work, helping to inform the public for nearly seven years as a reporter at Xpress.
I have no regrets, and hope to continue serving and informing the community in whatever way I can.
This is, at its heart, an amazing city. We all deserve better.
Forbes' termination follows his effort to unionize Xpress employees, and follows a complaint issued against Xpress by the National Labor Relations Board. Forbes took to Twitter to announce that the NLRB had registered a complaint in the firing of former photographer Max Cooper, detailed here: Mountain Xpress photog to editor: Xpress is bleeding. Forbes has been an Xpress reporter for nearly seven years.
Forbes also recently created his own blog to publish a Mountain Xpress story he said had been unduly delayed by his publisher and editor.
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