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Reproduction and Survival After Cardiac Defect Repair
Morris, Cynthia D.
Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, United States
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In the last 30 years surgical advances have led to correction of congenital heart defects (CHD) in children who otherwise would not have lived to adulthood. This study has three major objectives: 1) to determine mortality, morbidity, and disability after surgical treatment of CHD and to identify factors associated with morbidity and mortality; 2) to assess the impact of """"""""corrected"""""""" CHD on pregnancy and birth outcome; and 3) to determine the recurrence risk of CHD in first-degree relatives and offspring of probands with repaired defects. This study sustains and expands a registry of all Oregon children (less than or equal to 18 years) undergoing surgical repair from 1958 to the present of 14 major congenital heart defects: tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), ventricular septal defect (VSD), atrial septal defect (ASD), coarctation of the aorta, pulmonic stenosis (PS), aortic stenosis (AS), transposition of the great arteries, patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), tricuspid atresia (TA), total anomalous pulmonary venous return (TAPVR), pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum (PA), PA with VSD, partial atrioventricular canal (AVC), and complete AVC. The first eight defects are included in the registry at present: TOF (n =438). VSD (n =402), ASD (n =496), COA (n =479), AS (n = 175), PS (n = 200), TGA (n = 169), and PDA (n = 533). To date, 87-97% follow-up is available for these cohorts after medians of 50-185 months. All cases of surgical treatment of TA, TAPVR, PA, PA with VSD, and partial and complete AVC from 1958 to the present will be added to the registry. Preoperative, operative, and postoperative data for each patient will be entered into the database from chart review. Each hospital is visited twice yearly to ascertain new cases. Individuals are followed every two years for intercurrent events by mailed questionnaire or phone interview. Questionnaires and interviews assess major morbidity, functional status, and reproduction. Pregnancy, major events, and recurrent CHD will be confirmed by medical records. Actuarial analysis and the Cox proportional hazards model will determine mortality, morbidity, and their risk factors, and compare observed survival with expected population survival. Reproductive data will be analyzed per years of fertility for cohort, and compared to Oregon population statistics. This geographically-based study will add knowledge of late survival and morbidity of a population rapidly growing in number, adults with corrected CHD. Additionally, we will gather the first prospective population data on pregnancy after repair of CHD.
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Why is it called Hispanic Heritage Month?
Some in the community don't care for the word "Hispanic" and are ready to make a change
Author: Jerry Carnes
Published: 8:53 AM EDT September 29, 2021
ATLANTA — Hispanic Heritage Month is an important time for one of the fastest growing segments of the U.S. population, even though many in the community don't care for the name.
It is a month set aside to focus on traditions brought to the United States by people with ties to more than twenty countries around the world.
"A number of countries come together to celebrate many of the characteristics they share-- their love of family, love of community, hard work," Gigi Pedraza of Atlanta's Latino Community Fund said.
Hispanic Heritage Month unites a variety of unique cultures with a lot in common, but many of the sixty million Americans who are part of the celebration have issues with the term "Hispanic."
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The word refers to people with roots in Spanish speaking countries in central and south America as well as the Caribbean. Pedraza says the term dismisses the history of those countries prior to the time when they were invaded by the Spanish.
"You are completely dismissing that heritage by prioritizing Hispanic heritage from Spain," Pedraza said. "It's defining us by the language they brought- Spanish."
In the 1960s, the U.S. Census Bureau was looking for a way to identify immigrants from Latin-American Countries. Pedraza says at the time, the term "Latino" had negative connotations.
"Latino was very much seen as a foreign term- foreigners from Latin-America coming to the U.S.," Pedraza said.
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So, the Census Bureau settled on Hispanic.
In 1989, Hispanic Heritage Week became Hispanic Heritage Month.
"It was not the best descriptor of the culture, but it was the term that was less controversial," Pedraza said.
Latino is now more widely embraced, as is Latinx, which is gender neutral.
Some have suggested a name change. Pedraza says the federal government would have to make an official change, but local communities have acted on their own.
"We call it Hispanic/Latix Community Heritage Month," she said. "We're changing it because we're trying to see the reality."
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Waterworld Movie: The Extended Edition (2008) – DVD Review
November 9, 2008 By 790 19 Comments
Well, it took "13" years for the Extended cut of the Waterworld movie to come out on DVD. Was it worth it? Yes, and no. (IMO), Waterworld has been cursed with a bad theatrical version ever since it came out in 1995. Those who don't know, Waterworld's Kevin Costner fired Kevin Reynolds right after he turned in his final cut of the film. Costner then spent four months re-editing the film into what was known as the "Costner cut", or the theatrical version.
Waterworld Movie Extended Cut
Starring: KEVIN COSTNER, JEANNE TRIPPLEHORN, TINA MAJORINO, MICHAEL JETER, AND DENNIS HOPPER
Directed By: KEVIN REYNOLDS
Over the years talking to people about the film, I found out about the deleted scenes that were cut out. I have always wanted to see those scenes one way or another. In the Extended cut, I got my wish. With over 40 minutes of additional material, I couldn't wait to see this classic Sci-Fi film again. There was just one thing that bothered me as the film began, the disclaimer read,
THIS FILM HAS BEEN MODIFIED FROM ITS ORIGINAL VERSION TO CONTAIN ADDITIONAL MATERIAL, AND EDITED FOR CONTENT.
Edited for content,? Ooooh Noooo!!!!! As the film started out I noticed right away that the scene where Mariner pees into the cup was edited. Was this entire film going to be "watered" down? Unfortunately yes! Would it matter? Read on if ya dare!!!
The new cut of the film is awesome and a much better edit of the actual film. It is clear that Kevin Reynolds had a distinct vision he wanted for the overall story. He had an overall theme about Dryland, and how the people in Waterworld were all but dead or soon would be. The last of the humans feared the Mariner mutation as a confirmation of this. The new cut also looks very clean, there is no distinction in new footage looking old or thrown in. There are some fall backs in the Waterworld Movie's soundtrack, but that's to be expected.
SPOILERS AHEAD "WARNING" SPOILERS AHEAD, DANGER, DANGER, DANGER…
Waterworld 2008 Extended Cut Review
In the "New Cut" we see a different side to the residents of the Atoll. They don't really like Enola. She has been causing a stir among outsiders with stories of the tattooed map to Dryland on her back for too long. They fear she will draw the Smokers to the Atoll. There's a lot of new footage of the Mariner as he bargains his dirt on the Atoll. The scene with Nord is also expanded with new dialog describing that it's August in Waterworld. After the Mariner is taken the prisoner for being a "Mutation", there's some great new footage of Helen fighting in his defense, this only turns the Atoll mob Council against her. There are some great new scenes of the Atoll Council classifying some of the Mariner's artifacts as weapons to push they're the case for execution. There's also added new footage of Gregor formulating calculations from Enola's tattoo, and preparing the escape Blimp.
The raid on the Atoll is awesome as the Smokers show up to take the girl, there's some great new footage of the attack. New Deacon footage showing him golfing during the attack (viva, Apocalypse Now style) is pretty funny!!! The scene where Deacon executes a prisoner in his attempt to gain knowledge on the girl's escape was improved by the editing, as the Deacon went into a sermon about Evolution. This scene also introduced us to the Deacon's accountant. Costner really trimmed out a lot of Hopper's scenes.
After the getaway, the tone gets darker as extra dialog shows us how the Mariner really doesn't give a shit about these two humans. The scene where Helen, pleads to the Mariner not to kill Enola as she takes off her clothes was totally edited to cut out the full backside shot. That really kinda pissed me off, as here we have a darker story yet the nudity is cut out???
Back on the Deez, we cut to the scene where Deacon asks Toby how his eye looks. In the original version, Toby says, "it looks like shit" in this version Toby says, "it looks like slime". (Slime? What is this Ghostbusters?) There are some additional scenes at this point that show the Deez being rowed in pursuit of the Mariner, and the Deacon putting in his rusted out non-functional control tower as he mulls over pursuing the Mariner. (Great stuff!) There's also a funny scene where the Sky Boat's Captain (Jack Black) informs Deacon on the attack that killed Joe his gunner. The scene was somewhat tainted, as instead of the word "bitch" the dialog was changed to "witch" of the Atoll. ( Ah there's that edited for content factor ;-)
Additional scenes back on board the Mariner's ship, show that everyone on the ship is recycling they're urine. The entire dynamic of time is stretched out as we see the Tomato plant used as a way to show how long the trio have been without food. The Drifter scene had some additional dialog as did the scene where the Mariner kills the mutated shark. Afterward, Mariner asks Enola if she wants to eat the eyeball of the shark? She says,"no" as it's the one scene where we really see the Mariner trying to bond with the child. What follows is a great scene where Enola tells the Mariner, that he doesn't like her humming because he can't sing. Later we hear the sounds of Miles Davis, as we see a corroded portable cd player with two rusted exterior computer speakers powered by a rusted car alternator fan wheel playing into the night. During this scene, Helen explains how Enola washed up to the Atoll 6 years ago, and they all wanted to cast her aside because she was a considered a freak. These new scenes portray a deeper relationship between Enola and the Mariner.
As the film progresses and Enola is taken by the Deacon there are some cool new scenes on the newly formed Atoll as the Mariner takes out a few Smokers, and ignites their oil slick residue to lead him back to the Deez.
The sinking of the Exxon Valdez was enhanced yet the dialog restricted by the (edited for content) cut. I did like it when the Deacon said, "If I can't have Dryland nobody can!"
The Dryland ending was enhanced with a longer goodbye between Helen and the Mariner, she gives him a name, it is really touching. The money shot of the entire film is next when Enola and Helen stumble upon a plaque that identifies the island as, Mount Everest.
Waterworld Movie: Final Thoughts
In the end, the Extended Cut is superior I just wish they hadn't dropped the ball with the edited for content crap!!!
The Dvd Extended Cut, 2 disc version of Waterworld also contains the Theatrical version and theatrical trailer.
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Oilfield Technology, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 09:30
Fully assembled and tested, the topside for the Johan Sverdrup processing platform is leaving the Samsung Heavy Industries yard on time, below budget and with no serious incidents.
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"In cooperation with Aker Solutions, Samsung has delivered another high-quality topside for Johan Sverdrup according to plan and without serious incidents. Such deliveries are imperative to ensure a safe start-up of Johan Sverdrup in November 2019," says Bokn.
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The processing platform is now sailing to Norway on board Boskalis Vanguard, the world's largest heavy-transport vessel.
The topside is heading for the Kværner yard on Stord where two pedestal cranes will be mounted, and further preparations will be made, before it is to be lifted into position at the Johan Sverdrup field in one single lift by the Pioneering Spirit vessel in the spring of 2019.
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Q: Loop through a set of items in R I'm trying to do a simulation of a linear programming problem. The model has an obj function, and some constraints. In this case, I am introducing 2 values that are randomly drawn from the normal distribution.
I am then simulating the optimization model 10.000 times using a for-loop. I know it is bad R practise to use for-loops, but speed is not my concern in this case.
#List of 10000 random, normally distributed observations:
Demand = rnorm(10000, mean=5, sd=2.5)
Demand

Performance = rnorm(10000, mean=100, sd=6)
Performance

Optimas = NULL

#combined_list = c(Demand, Performance)

for (i in Performance){
    op <- OP(objective = c(2.5, 4, i),               #Performance value[i]: works fine
             L_constraint(L = matrix(c(1, 0, 0,      #LHS
                                       0, 1, 0,
                                       0, 0, 1),
                                      ncol=3, nrow = 3,
                                      byrow = TRUE),
                          dir = c("<=", "<=", "<="),
                          rhs = c(50, 70, Demand)),  #Demand value[i]: should go here
              maximum = TRUE,
              types = c("B", "I", "I"))

    Optima <- ROI_solve(op, solver = "glpk") #solve
    print(Optima)
    print(i)
    Optimas = rbind(Optimas, Optima)
}

Optimas <- as.data.frame(Optimas)
Optimas$objval <- as.numeric(Optimas$objval)
hist(Optimas$objval)

As seen above, my loop does only go trough one variable (Performance), where i want the Demand value for row(i) in the Demand vector to be put into the model, at the same time as performance value for row(i) in the performance vector.
The overall objective is to have 10.000 simulations of the LP model, where both the performance values, as well as the demand values only occur once(as another loop outside the one I already have, will produce the cartesian product of the two lists).

A: Note that your Performance and Demand vectors contain exactly the same number of elements. Consequently, you can just simply loop over the vector indices and use the respective index values to extract the relevant elements.
I can not run your example code because I'm not sure which optimization package you are using for your OP function. As an example, I will define a simple dummyFunction that takes a performance and demand value as input, as follows:
dummyFunction <- function(perf, dem){ return (perf+dem)}

In your specific use case, the dummyFunction would contain the optimization logic. Next, you can obtain the required solution as follows, by iterating over the vector indices:
Optimas = vector(mode="numeric", length=length(Performance))
for(idx in 1:length(Performance)){
  Optimas[idx] <- dummyFunction(Performance[idx], Demand[idx])
}

Alternatively, you can avoid the function definition by just placing your optimization logic inside the for loop.
For a more "R like solution" consider the usage of sapply / lapply type functions:
Optimas <- sapply(1:length(Performance), function(idx) dummyFunction(Performance[idx], Demand[idx]))

Note that in this particular example you could also just do the following:
Optimas <- dummyFunction(Performance, Demand)

Finally, if performance becomes an issue, consider using the foreach and doparallel packages to run the optimizations on multiple cores simultaneously:
library(doParallel)
library(foreach)
nrCores <- detectCores()
cl <- makeCluster(nrCores); registerDoParallel(cl)
clusterExport(cl,c("Demand", "Performance", "dummyFunction"), envir=environment())
Optimas <- foreach(idx=1:length(Performance), .combine="rbind") %dopar%{
  dummyFunction(Performance[idx], Demand[idx])
}
stopCluster(cl)

A: Consider a mapply() approach, the apply function which iterates on multiple lists/vectors passing corresponding elements. First wrap all operations in a function and then call it in mapply() passing two arguments for the vectors. At end, use an lapply() to transpose to a long list of data frames that are row binded with do.call(rbind...).
Performance = rnorm(10000, mean=100, sd=6)
Demand = rnorm(10000, mean=5, sd=2.5)

optimizefct <- function(p, d){
  op <- OP(objective = c(2.5, 4, p),               # Performance
           L_constraint(L = matrix(c(1, 0, 0,      # LHS
                                     0, 1, 0,
                                     0, 0, 1),
                                   ncol=3, nrow = 3,
                                   byrow = TRUE),
                        dir = c("<=", "<=", "<="),
                        rhs = c(50, 70, d)),       # Demand
           maximum = TRUE,
           types = c("B", "I", "I"))

  Optima <- ROI_solve(op, solver = "glpk") #solve
  print(Optima)
  print(i)

  return(Optima)
}

# WIDE FORMAT
dfList <- mapply(optimizefct, Performance, Demand)

# LONG FORMAT
dfList <- lapply(1:10000, function(i) data.frame(dfList[,i]))

# BIND TO FINAL DF
Optimas <- do.call(rbind, dfList)
Optimas$objval <- as.numeric(Optimas$objval)


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When it comes to candidates (rather than office holders) the rules actually come from the political parties, not the Constitution. For Republicans, if a Presidential candidate dies or drops out, the RNC has to either convene a new convention or take an official poll of the RNC's state representatives to select a replacement candidate. Most likely, the RNC would move the running mate up to the top of the bill, in order to preserve what fundraising has already been done for the ticket.
But for the Democrats, it's not so clear. The Democratic National Committeereserves the right to replace a candidate who dies or drops out, and it doesn't provide additional details in its by-laws. So presumably the Democrats would have to make up the process up as they go along. The DNC could entrust replacing Clinton to a central DNC brain trust or, more likely, replicate the RNC's system, handing the vote over to the committee's state delegates. – READ MORE
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Q: Number of steps In a shopping complex Sunita walks down an escalator moving down from the first to ground floor in 30 sec taking 6 steps for every 5 sec. On reaching the ground floor she realizes she has to go back to first floor and walks up same escalator in 50 seconds taking 2 steps every second. Find the number of steps on the escalator between the two floors.
Please help.

A: Start by calculating how many steps she takes on each journey, and then use the assumption that the speed of the escalator doesn't change between journeys. There is a slight ambiguity in the question as to whether she walks the wrong way up the escalator on one of the journeys.  However as she walks faster on the 2nd, but it takes longer, we know that she is travelling contradirectionally on that journey.
30 seconds comprises 6 sets of 5 seconds, and the question says she takes 6 steps during each 5 second period going down, so she takes 36 steps going down.
By the same method, she takes 100 steps going up.
The distance covered, being the same on each journey is the sum of the distance she walks and the distance the escalator carries her.  If $s$ is the length of a step, $v$ is the velocity of the escalator and $d$ is the length of the escalator then:
$36s + 30v = d$
$100s - 50v = d$
substitute for $d=d$ to find: $v=4s/5$
Substituting $v$ back into the two equations above gives $d=60s$ so there are 60 steps.
A simple intuitive check is that the answer should be between 36 and 100, which it is.


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World of Adummim: Intro Part 1
Anna Meyer's work on Greyhawk is jaw-dropping. If you zoom in and just slowly scroll her map, you find yourself on roads leading to wastes, jungles; all manner of mysterious places! I can imagine the cold off the sea and wonder what they do in Djekul, so far from anything else!
Then there are the smile-inducing discoveries: White Plume Mountain, Thingizzard's hut, the lair of Dragotha, Homlet, ToEE, Tsojcanth, WG4, and (in the former lands of Telenetculi) basking in the tropical sun along the shore: Tamoachan. I searched for the site of the crashed spaceship in S3 but couldn't find it.
All of this made me nostalgic, wanting to run or play in Greyhawk again and possibly search the ruins of Robilar's keep. The setting is rich beyond words for it has been under construction by many hands for decades.
My setting is much humbler, for I am a hermit builder splitting logs, with but a handful of fanatics lending aid on game nights.
Adummim is a world I conceived for role playing, then refactored for use in writing novels, and now again finds utility as my setting for role playing. The forthcoming blog entries (this one included) intend to not only reveal my setting, but show you how I thought through its creation. Thereby, you may be able to create your own highly-detailed setting that is as grounded as it is mysterious and as logical as it is fantastic.
World of Adummim: the Atlath Continent
The word Adummim is Hebrew, I think, and means "red spots". I like this association with mortality for it is a world of conflict. Notably, the planet itself is also spotted with red deserts and (along the equator) pink oceans. All the action I have recorded on Adummim has taken place on the Atlath Continent, a diverse and broad stretch of land bounded by the Loor Ocean and the North Seas. Early on, my players joked about the map's "North" direction. This is because, if you look at the map, North is the Black Forest of Jeulfall and South is the Rauch Desert.
As you can see, it features none of the cliched things you'll find on other fantasy maps:
Huh. Actually my map looks just like that one! How can this be?
Of course it does! I drew it in the 80's! I agree that this is amusing. But archetypal maps (with norse-like tribes to the north and sultans in the south) mixed with diverse and recognizable archetypes does offer utility: they allow me (and you) to ground the world in a "vanilla" space where third-party modules can be plunked in as needed and still make sense. Greyhawk is guilty of this, as are the Forgotten Realms. But this method remains popular because it is palatable. Truly strange and unique settings are often lauded by those who publish them as avoiding the pitfalls of banal fantasy tropes. Kay? But who here has been playing in a crazy Aztec-alien setting for ten-plus years? Who here has been playing Jorune regularly for fifteen?
30 yr old sketch of Adummim showing Atlath Continent, High Horn, Rauch, Prevailing Weather Systems and another continent named "Lacaj".
There's a wiseguy who chirrups here like a distant bird, calling out, "Me! Mee! And let me tell you..."
I am unmoved. I find overly-themed and insistently-strange settings to be draining. Why? Because they preclude affordance and deny my desire to use all the lessons I've learned in life to solve problems at the table. A ruined tower at the edge of the marsh, you say? This setting immediately offers meat for discussion and planning. "Let's see if we can find insect repellent," says Martin. "There might be undead," says another.
But a floating pylon with 8 pink eyes painted on it that whispers the word "krom" over and over?Hmm. "Should we just avoid this thing? It will probably kill us."
The utterly alien often defies strategic planning, but is very cool in other ways. So, what you want, I think is some of both. The pylon sounds compelling because it's different. Yet, if you started your game in a landscape where they were ubiquitous, you'd find the pylons quickly lose their shine.
To be clear, I am not talking about prepping for a one-year campaign, or a summer spent playing Vampire, or Cthulhu. In order for what I'm saying to mean anything, you have to understand that I'm talking about pouring the foundations of a campaign that will last for decades----like Greyhawk. That's because striking into the unknown and returning again to the familiar is comforting and, more importantly, supportable long term.
Another 30 yr old drawing of the planet with some youthful and whimsical notes about temperature at various latitudes.
As I begin talking about the World of Adummim, I will gloss the vanilla spaces that the PCs occupy during downtime: where their strongholds exist and where their allies and contacts live. These are the sorts of lands anyone can understand and therefore the least interesting. They are also where I have always started the campaign when faced with a new batch of players.
So, even though I think it far better to dig in as quickly as possible to places like The Horth Gar, Crypt Garden, and Moreh (where the last remaining elves ride giant ghost-white mantises) I will begin with the basics.
Adummim is peopled by humans, with humanoids (gnolls, ogres, etc.) being far more prevalent than demi-humans of any kind. Halflings are rare, Elves (also known as Hjolk-trull) are even more rare. The dwarves are dead, but for a few ancient hermits in the mountains awaiting the inevitable. No one in my campaign has ever seen a gnome.
Here are Adummim's human races:
Despche: very dark skinned. This noble and regal race are often talented prophets and fortunetellers.
Ghnall: large hirsute barbarians, covered with tattoos and piercings. They live among the humanoids and are regarded as sub-human savages who have turned their back on humankind.
Ilek: ivory complexion with black hair and strange eyes. These "Island people" are stereotyped as capricious and cunning. Though many are attractive, some have that "Innsmouth" look.
Nanemen: pale to blue skin with red, blonde, or darker hair. Stereotyped as hot-headed clans-people. I try to lean more toward Visigoth than Viking in terms of influence.
Pandragon: rich mahogany skin and blonde hair, these southern people are often lithe and graceful.
Pplarian: white skinned, very tall and lean. Eyes of pink, violet or blue. Highly intelligent. Most have two vestigial caterpillar-sized arms hanging below their pectorals (though surgical removal is becoming common). They are descended from ancient extra-terrestrials mixed w/ human and elfin stock.
Veyden: green skinned jungle people with black or red hair. Extremely muscular. Universally feared. Most have integrated into southern cities and become suave business owners but some isolated jungle tribes remain.
Worian: the mongrel race. A mixture of the others.
The races then represent a ratio of recognizable stereotypes mixed with a few curve balls for spice and a heavy dose of tribalism. No ability score modifiers are given and the races of are reserved primarily for role play, language, and setting. Since most players play some type of human, I often find alignment to be of greater mechanical value!
If you've read my novels, you might get the sense there is a rich history to the world and in very general terms, there is. However, you'd also probably notice that this history is mostly glossed over or alluded to and I take the same stance in the campaign world.
While some designers fill volumes with the setting's past, I believe loose sketches of history offer greater value. Not only are few details easier to remember, but if the past is cloudy when the campaign begins, it is also mutable.
Mutable histories are wonderful for role-playing because they are able to dovetail with the choices and actions of the players (and this, I think, is the whole point of the game).
So, while I believe you want as brief an outline as possible for the history of kingdoms, I also believe you want a very good map.
Greyhawk is the king of settings IMO because of its map. Props to Darlene and everyone who's added to it since. The map is whence the wonder springs as players search it, reading names, planning routes, theorizing what place is most dangerous. My map is not even in the same ballpark as the Flanaess, yet it offers enough mysteries to thoroughly captivate my players' imaginations.
The map is where you put the people, of course; how you distribute your races. But unless you know something about those races, the distribution won't matter. So how do you add meaning? How do you find logical adversaries and allies? Tolkien understood that race was central to many stories and that one of the ways to make race matter is through language. The language carries the culture and the history. Languages in your campaign setting can function like shaders to this or that city, country, and so on. They also help you stake out the basics of that mutable history we mentioned earlier.
Here is my campaign's language tree:
Immediately, you can sense what languages might be similar, who might be related, what civilizations might be older than others, and you can also speculate how splinters and divisions between groups might have caused rifts or wars. Gringling is actually related to Limuin (which is not shown) and as such is as old as Dark Tongue, but that's a whole other story.
I like the mystery of the chart, the fact that you can see an ancient alien influence on the planet. It's not revolutionary. But it is instructive. With a few basic lines and you're laying in parameters, consistencies and maybe even adventure hooks. This is your first sketch of the planet's history: its people, its lands and its languages.
With these three things, you'll find everything else starts to happen naturally and it becomes easier to punt when players move around the countryside looking for adventure and treasure, which brings us to the last part of this post.
You need an economy.
In the chart to the right you can imagine that a Silver Crown has the same buying power as one US dollar. So a Gold Scythe pays for a decent lunch. But why do you need so many different kinds of money, Anthony?
Economies make treasure interesting and add intrigue. Crossing borders and treasure-hunting in a neighboring kingdom could cause all sorts of complications.
Is X's money also accepted in Y's kingdom? Perhaps. But the reverse might not be true.
On the Atlath Continent, the history of money tells the history of civilization. Before the north was settled, there were only six human kingdoms. Therefore nearly all very old coins were minted in the south and carried north as the Hinterlands were explored.
These old Six Kingdom coins have higher precious metal content than newer coins are are also more rare. Thus their value is higher.
To make things a little less onerous for players, "Standard Pandragor" is the modern currency for all six of the Six Kingdoms, while Barbarian and Humanoid money is its own separate thing.
The party currently resides in Ormolu, which is why I have this kingdom's system at the top. Ormolu uses paper fiat in addition to accepting Standard Pandragor currency.
Though not suitable for strictly medieval settings, paper money is fun. I've enjoyed sticking a fat roll of Blue Jabbers in a backpack and listening to the players shout "Yay!" (for it is weightless compared to coins) only to cry out in dismay later when the wad of cash fails to save throw vs Fireball.
Making money and treasure interesting requires some math, but if you keep the conversions simple, your players will love finding a Gold Tomb. They will learn to recognize its value compared to a Gold Scythe. If you think it unduly burdensome, I understand. Fortunately, there's usually a player at your table that enjoys this or that task and assumes the role, be it record-keeper or banker or money converter.
You'll notice the humanoid money above includes a bar of "spice". I have a convention where "spice" is not only currency but a drug that humanoids and barbarians take, which provides them with berserk rage and combat bonuses.
Make your money interesting.
Consider ideas of what beings on the inner planes [or] outer planes barter with. What do they trade in the Hells? Larval souls to be sure. What else? Would the highest Heaven even have money? What about the Astral and Ethereal planes? If you've bought any of my supplements you know I put significant thought into these questions.
Trade and treasure are of paramount importance to AD&D. Treasure = XP. Therefore, I love to find interesting ways to increase or decrease its value (through collectors, shortages, weight, and sometimes onerous taxes).
Thus ends this post.
Hopefully I've helped convince you that you don't need to be a great writer, or pen an epic saga concerning the history of your world. Your world can begin to feel rich with just a few notes and charts provided you take them to the table with a sense of seriousness.
Your world map
Your races
Your languages
Your economy
What else do you need to lure mercenaries, harbor grudges and start wars? These are the foundations of any world I would want to play in.
I leave you with another look at my world map, which I am in the process of re-mastering, coloring and labeling anew. This version is sized at only 35% of the original and still missing a great many things. I will continue working on it for the foreseeable future. If you wish to zoom and scroll its current state, simply visit my campaign pages.


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"Shazam! 2 ': Rachel Zegler joins the cast of the sequel
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The long-awaited sequel 'Shazam: Fury of the Gods' has been added to its cast, with the arrival of actress Rachel Zegler.
New to Hollywood, she will make her big screen debut with the upcoming remake of "Amor, Sublime Amor."
The news was announced by herself, via her official Twitter account. However, there are still no details regarding your character in the sequel. The little that we do know is that he will have a "key role", as shared in his publication.
I am in my key role in the shazam era 2
– rachel zegler (she / she / she) (@rachelzegler) February 25, 2021
" Shazam: Fury of the Gods " opens in June 2023.
Recently, Zachary Levy shared the first poster in the sequence on his Instagram profile.
In an interview with Backstory Magazine, Sandberg revealed that Billy Batson (Asher Angel) and his alter ego (Zachary Levi) have to face Mr. Brain (Mister Mind, in the original version) in the footage.
"It looks like we could do more with the Shazam family. We featured them in the first movie, but we want to explore how they function as a family of heroes. And we did a little scene with Mr. Brain, and we want to continue on that path. Or we can introduce another villain. There are a lot of choices in Shazam's world, "he said.
The Lord Brain is a species of alien larvae from the planet Venus, chosen on your planet to infiltrate Earth.
We know that filming will begin in the spring of 2021 in the United States (period which includes the months of March and June). With this pre-set date, the studio will have enough time to finalize the feature film in post-production and in building its visual effects, so that it can be shown on the big screen in.
Recently, Zachary Levi said the footage will be filmed very soon.
"Soon I'll be having a conversation with my bosses about the idea for the film and where we're going with the plot. New Line, our studio, and Warner Brothers, our parent studio, are involved in every decision we make, and they're all very happy with what we've done. They want to do even better the second time around, and now they're making a fuss while we talk about what that streak will be like, "he told CCXP Cologne.
The original film was critically acclaimed (reaching 90% approval on the Rotten Tomatoes site), in addition to making over $ 365 million at the global box office.


So there I was, I had completed all of my shopping but for one small item. I was preparing to cook up a Bolognese and wanted to add a bit of extra heat. Unfortunately the market I was shopping in was not a purveyor of Chilli.
I strolled into the fruit shop to buy one solitary chilli. At the check out I placed the chilli on the scales and it came up as zero weight. I was willing to pay, but the clerk assured me that, since it did not return a weight I could have it for free! I am sure it was already going under, but this fruit shop closed down less than a fortnight later. I am hoping my chilli escapades were not the last straw in this retailers financial woes. Who knows, perhaps the scales were faulty and people were carting away whole watermelons or pumpkins for free.
Anyhow, this got me to thinking, "If I play my cards right I can enjoy free chilli for the rest of my life". So once home I carefully sliced open my lone chilli and extracted the seeds that now held the promise of hot cyclic edible joy for next several decades.
I shall now dry out the free chilli seeds and plant them in a couple of weeks. I am hoping that through continual replanting I will never need to pay for chilli ever again.


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Loury Rasheed, 17, and her family fled Aleppo in 2012. In Istanbul, her family relies on her salary to live more comfortably. When she first arrived in Istanbul, she was working with her dad in a factory that manufactures clothes. She now works in retail, in a mall, where she is translating Turkish for Arabic- and Kurdish-speaking customers. She earns about 1,500 Turkish lira ($424) a month. She taught herself Turkish and is working to improve her English. Her brother Jan, 13, attends a Turkish school.
Loury Rasheed is just 17 years old, but she looks and sounds older than her age. That might have to do with the fact that Loury has been working instead of going to school for nearly five years. Her family fled their home in Aleppo back in 2012, in the early days of Syria's war. At the time, the crisis was considered to be temporary, and Syrian kids weren't registered in Turkish schools.
Today, the Turkish government has teamed up with the EU and UNICEF to get Syrian kids registered, and they hope to get 230,000 kids into Turkish schools by the end of the year. Loury's younger brother, Jan, is one of those kids.
But Loury still needs to work. Her dad doesn't earn enough as a textile worker to keep up with Istanbul's high prices, and her mom has health issues that stop her from working full time. So instead of going to school, Loury started working at the textile factory with her dad when she was 13.
"Maybe I didn't study in a regular school or in university, but I studied in the school of life and the school of life is much more important than regular school," Loury says in a matter-of-fact way.
From the left, Jan, Souad, Nezmy and Loury pose for a photograph outside their home in Istanbul.
For one, she taught herself Turkish by watching shows on YouTube and learning the lyrics to Turkish songs, serenading her family with ballads by famous Turkish singers. She has also been working on her English through a workbook her friend gave her, reading sentences like, "The girl in the red dress is beautiful," over and over to master American pronunciation.
In fact, Loury's language skills got her out of the textile factory and into her job as a translator. She hopes that with English, she'll find even better opportunities.
Loury, 17, takes a nap during Ramadan.
In the meantime, she says she's really glad that Jan, who is 13, is back in school. She says that at least in Aleppo, she went to school for long enough to learn how to read and write. "Studying isn't something I really need at this point, but Jan really needs it," she insists. "He's still young," she adds, as if the age difference between them is more than just four years.
Loury is clearly more mature than her age, but she has moments when you remember that she is still 17. During a brief break in our interview, Loury stops, slightly pouts her lips and poses for a selfie. "My friends tell me, 'You're like Kendall Jenner,'" she giggles.
Nezmy, Souad, Jan and Loury share a meal with two friends from Syria during Ramadan.
But just as quickly as she snapped her own photo, Loury transforms back into a teen who is wiser than her years. "I will do anything as long as Jan continues his studies," she says, seriously. "I hope he lives a better life than I have lived" — one in which he can have dreams and the hope to accomplish them.
For Loury, while she once dreamed of getting back into the classroom, she says that goal is too trivial now. Or rather, she has channeled her ambitions in a different way.


Make sure that you only let people into a main building or into your accommodation that has proven their identity. If they're asking to gain access to the main building to visit a friend, politely ask them to contact their friend rather than letting them in on their behalf. If it's a tradesperson or professional, ensure that they've shown you a proof of identity and only let them in if you are expecting their visit. Keep an eye on anyone who appears to be hanging around frequently.
2.Keep valuables away from windows and windows locked.
Dozens of students living together in one building or a house each with their laptops and other valuable gadgets is a burglar's dream. One house, five laptops. It can be more enticing if they are easily seen at a window, which is usually where most desks are placed. If possible, position your desk away from plain view of a window or put up blinds. If you get up to leave your desk, move the laptop to the floor or nearby table out of view of the window. If you are still sitting at a window, make sure it is locked or at least closed while your laptop is there. It's easy for an opportunist to walk past and simply grab it through the window.
This idea may sound absurd; pay for insurance while you're also drowning in student loans? It may seem like an unnecessary cost but it is so much better to get your lost items replaced by the company than shelling out extra to purchase new ones.
It is not advised to keep the lights on the whole time you are away on holiday but if you're going out for the evening, leave a few bedside lamps on – using LED bulbs will reduce the energy usage.
Most house fires are caused by people forgetting to turn off electronics or electronics malfunctioning while they're out of the house. Make sure you switch off all electronics like hair straighteners, laptop chargers and phone chargers before you leave the house. The only electronics that should be left on are a few lamps if needed when you go out in the evening.
Following these simple tips will help to ensure you stay safe during your time at university. It's always better to be safe than sorry!
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Surprise: Americans Quick to Ditch Wearables
Todd Haselton
Are wearables all they're cracked up to be? As convenient as a smartwatch is for providing alerts, or a fitness band for keeping us in the loop on how far we've walked, do we really want to wear these devices? Some are bulky, some have poor battery life, some make us itch — and eventually, most Americans just stop wearing the wearables they've purchased. At least, according to a new study published by Endeavour Partners.
The study found that one in ten Americans over the age of 18 have purchased a wearable device. That's a really low figure, and it shows the potential growth as companies create new products to tap into the market. But there's a problem with people actively using them for the long term, Endeavour Partners concluded.
In fact, the firm said that "more than half of U.S. cosnumers who have owned a modern activity tracker no longer use it." That's an incredible statistic. Why did consumers ditch their wearable? Was it irritating? Did it fail to live up to the hype? It sure sounds like it, in fact, the company also found that "a third of U.S. consumers who have owned one stopped using the device within six months of receiving it." Endeavour Partners suggests that this is an area that needs to be a major focus for wearable OEMs in the future.
"It's not enough to sync with, link to, or work alongside one of the current devices on the market, or to partner with one of the many startups to design an even better device," the report said. "Designing a strategy to ensure sustained engagement is the key to long-term success in this highly competitive space."
Endeavour lines up nine ways that companies can help create a wearable that people are going to want to continue to use: OEMs need to work on creating a message as to why consumers should use a wearable. Next, they should focus on design, an easy setup experience, fit and comfort, quality, the user experience, creating APIs to integrate into other products and services, creating a real utility, and developing a lifestyle compatibility that doesn't require a user to remove the wearable frequently to shower or charge.
There are other ways to keep users coming back to their wearable, the company says, like creating habits, reinforcing goals a user might want to achieve and more. So far, it sounds like Pebble has done a really good job in a lot of these areas, and I'm curious which products people are ditching the most. Do you own a smartwatch or fitness band and, if so, do you still wear it? I have a Fitbit Force that I enjoy, but I don't wear it daily.