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There is a notable lack of sexism in the Worm Universe. But it is extremely obvious why this is because while the number may be close, a background lecture revealed that more women than men have trigger events. Trigger events have been going on since the 80's and the larger number of women parahumans has probably caused a Cultural Effect that translates into the lack of sexism. It likely also doesn't hurt that the people who have been secretly running the world - Alexandria, Doctor Mother, and Contessa - are all women.
Coil's power almost certainly created at least two Offscreen Moments of Awesome for Skitter when she ended up facing off against him after he didn't free Dinah:
As has been pointed out on the Awesome.Worm page, there is only one real reason for Coil to insist that none of his troops use grenades: in one of his cut-off timelines, she must have used her bugs to bounce the grenades back at them.
At the burning house, Coil went and hid in the car, rather than lead his troops. In other words, in the timeline when Coil didn't hide, he must have lost so badly that letting Skitter go was better.
In Interlude 15 (Donation Bonus #2) , Brian is amazed at how calm Taylor is when she's within his darkness — but there's a good reasons why she is, even ignoring her innate sangfroid and the way her power allows her to sense her surroundings without sight. She trusts him. It's an aspect of love which is too often not shown in works of fiction, and it adds a whole layer to the heartwarming nature of the scene.
What's more, given her Trigger event Taylor is likely somewhat claustrophobic. Grue's power makes people feel like they're in an empty void.
Additionally, Skitter doesn't have the best social skills—she is constantly shown to be stressing over every step of any basic conversation. When she's in the darkness like this, she can pretend she's alone and just talk without worrying about if she's misreading social cues.
On the surface Grue's power seems to be an odd mix of things: darkness, silence, and weakened sense of touch go together, but the way his power interferes with and "dampens" other power (Velocity's Super Speed, Shadow Stalker's intangibility, and others) and his second trigger giving him the ability to copy the powers of anybody in his darkness don't seem to fit, nor does Imp's power. The the underlying theme of both Grue and Imp's powers is actually denial of information.
Grue's power takes an active proactive approach, blocking out any stimulus for the senses including all electromagnetic radiation note to block any unusual super-sight power and a degree of heat note because both heat and sound are caused by atoms vibrating, so it is a side effect of blocking sound. His "darkness field" is just an area where even light is blocked.
His "darkness" interferes with other powers because he's blocking others parahumans' connection to their own passengers. It has a stronger effect on some parahumans simpler powers, like Shadow Stalker and Velocity, because their simple powers require less energy from their passenger, so when he takes energy from either of them, it's more of their power than when he draws from, for example, Taylor, who barely notices it.
The Power Copying ability that Grue gained from his second trigger is just an extension of his power-blocking, taking the energy/data that is blocked from a parahuman in his darkness and letting him control it.
Imp's power takes a more passive approach, temporarily blocking or removing the fact of her existence from people's heads.
Actually, there's a simpler explanation for how different they are - in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it Cameo, Scion's interlude reveals that Imp's power is totally unrelated to Grue's, and them being brother and sister is just a coincidence.
The reason why Imp/Aisha dislikes Cozen so much is because it wasn't Cozen but Taylor who brought Brian/Grue back after he was tortured by Bonesaw. Aisha, who has major trust issues, even straight out told Taylor that she had no idea how to help Brian and was trusting Taylor to do it. Taylor is the only person who ever truly helped Brian get better, and watching the reaction of the insects when Taylor sees that Cozen and Grue are a couple proves to Imp that Taylor still loves him, even after two years apart, and that she's hurt that he's now with someone else. So to Imp, Taylor is the only person who deserves to be happy with Brian, and Cozen is a usurper, who not only hasn't 'earned' her happiness with Grue, but is actively hurting Taylor by her very presence, the only person other than Brian that Aisha feels a great debt to.
18.1 : Dinah's predictions about the apocalypse: Skitter will be there. Other people might be there. Holy. Crap.
This is only amplified by Interlude 18 , in which Noelle's power picks out a few rare capes whose powers have an intensity that, to her superpower-detecting sense, "set them apart from the other parahumans in the same way that the other parahumans were set apart from the people who could have powers but didn't". The three she names? Eidolon — generally considered the single most powerful member of the Protectorate — Grue ... and Skitter. And that's in reverse order.
The suggestion of Interlude 18 is amplified in Interlude 24 : when Chevalier looks at Taylor (now Weaver), he describes her as "surrounded by the nimbus of her power, which glowed with an intensity that surpassed any and all of her teammates."
There's a reason for this: Taylor received the Administrator shard from the Entity, a shard so powerful that before releasing it the Entity had to weaken it to the point that it was nearly useless by Entity standards.
It's more likely that the aura simply identifies people who've had a second trigger event (since there's no real suggestion, at any point, that Grue is unusually powerful or has an inherently unusual shard.) We eventually find out that Skitter had a second trigger before the story began; we don't know about Eidolon for sure, but it's very likely, especially since we know that Cauldron is capable of causing them and Eidolon is one of their aces.
In Skitter's fight with Mannequin from 12.6 -12.7 , Mannequin is able to see individual insects in her swarms ... but not that Skitter didn't bleed from his attempt to cut her neck. Skitter doesn't understand it, but there's one obvious suggestion: Mannequin — a tinker, you may recall — specifically intended to go after Skitter, and therefore calibrated his vision to act as a Super Sense as far as tracking swarms of insect-sized objects, and sacrificed normal visual capacity at other tasks to do it!
After Skitter gets the pistol from Trickster in 14.05, she is rather astounded to discover that she can actually hit people with it. Four things, though: first, she's never all that far away from her targets; second, the shots she hit, she aimed carefully; and third, she has Nerves of Steel.
More importantly her bugs give her a spatial awareness of her surroundings that allows her to gauge the distance to her target much more accurately than a normal person could manage without rangefinding equipment. In Sting 26.6 the sense of the bullet's path this gave her is described as "Like being able to reach out with my arm in a perfectly straight line, touch my target, then aim along the line."
Tattletale has seemed like an awfully ironic name for a girl who keeps a lot of secrets — but leaving aside how many of those she was forced to keep: what good reason is there for a cape to tell people what her powers are anyway? It is to her advantage to be coming from an unexpected angle as far as what she can do.
Some readers have commented that Tattletale tends to reveal the information she knows even when it would be more prudent to keep her mouth shut in certain situations. It has been theorized that her power has altered her brain so that she is compelled to talk about what her power tells her no matter what. However, after learning her backstory in Scourge 19.7 , it makes sense for her to firmly believe that it's always better to reveal what she knows, in order to warn everybody about bad things that might happen later on and prevent disasters.
In Interlude 18 (Donation Bonus #2) , the TA calls out social isolation as a key component in trigger events — and, simultaneously, a key component in driving parahumans to become villains. And social isolation is exactly what drove Taylor down that route. She stayed with the Undersiders because they were the only people other than her dad who offered her any kind of support since her mother died — her only friends, her only allies, her only defenders. It's not surprising she would choose that over the abstract principle.
I thought it was a little odd for a moment that Bitch's friends on the Undersiders were specifically listed as Grue and Skitter and not Tattletale, especially given that Tattletale is the one who gave Skitter the key to reading Bitch in the first place, but I realized two things:
First, Tattletale never actually went to the effort to be a friend to Bitch — her attitude toward most of the team is on the professional level, and there's nothing in particular about Bitch that would motivate her to go to any effort otherwise.
Second, Tattletale grins all the time — i.e. bares her teeth, all the time. She talks, all the time. She plays all those human social games, all the freaking time, and gets a huge kick out of playing them. Literally nothing about that would endear her to Bitch.
In Interlude 18 , we discover that the reason that the superheroes of Earth Bet are calling Noelle Meinhardt (a displaced inhabitant of Earth Aleph) "Echidna" is because a PRT agent named Meinhardt has a three-year-old daughter named Noelle. A weird and strange coincidence — but not so much as I initially thought. In all likelihood, Noelle's father exists on both worlds, wanted a kid named Noelle, and on Earth Bet he simply took a lot longer to settle down with someone.
Looking over the archive, despite the fact that both of them are pretty girls who use what they know to say exactly the right thing to mess with their target's heads, there's only one actual time that Taylor explicitly compares Tattletale to Emma Barnes in her mind, and that is in Scourge 19.2 . When, as she reveals in 19.7 , Lisa was realizing that saving Taylor didn't fix the way she felt stupid for not saving her brother Rex, and trying to outsmart all the smartest capes in the world as a way of dealing with that. Which, in point of fact, is a direct parallel to the way Emma reacted to feeling insecure about her emotional stability by tearing down Taylor — the emotionally-strongest person she knew — as described in Interlude 19 .
Tattletale wanted to take down Coil from the start. Think about it: one of the prime incidents she names as a time she snuck off with extra cash from a job was well before she had any idea about Dinah — the bank robbery. What happened on the hillside near the monument is that Tattletale let Taylor in on it when Taylor said she was willing to come back. (Plus, it gives Tt a second motive to recruit a hero into a supervillain team - Taylor was exactly the sort to back Tt's eventual play.)
Furthermore, in Lisa's bonus interlude 8.I, it's revealed that she was aggressively recruited by Coil and never presented with a real choice. When this is taken into account she probably has more of a reason to be pissed with the Dinah situation than Taylor, since she was essentially brought in to be Coil's pet too.
When the Slaughterhouse Nine — including Shatterbird, who is famous for trashing all the glass across the entire city every time she shows up — arrive in town shortly after Leviathan struck, Coil finds out quickly ... yet keeps large quantities of computer equipment and all the data he just had the Undersiders steal from the PRT in town, and within range of Shatterbird's power. This bothered me to the point that I posted a comment to that effect on the chapter in question, to which the author replied, "Can't answer without spoiling, but it should be evident if you think about it." Said thinking reminding me that this is "can split into two timelines and remember both" Coil that we're talking about, and Coil would obviously send one timeline's team out of town with the data as insurance while the other team got a head start and tried to finish before Shatterbird sung.
I just realized: Rachel's trigger event came when she was fourteen, and when she left that house she had no resources, no allies, no training, no personal superpowers — nothing but (probably) that one dog. She evaded the combined forces of the police, the PRT, the Protectorate, and the Wards for two years. That's just insanely badass.
Because this section just isn't long enough already: in Chrysalis 20.3 , it's a little odd that the prospect of a physical altercation with Taylor didn't particularly faze Emma, even after the vice-principal's entire speech about fights at the school. It's almost like getting slugged was something she saw as simply another path by which she could hurt her favorite victim .
Whenever Emma is stood up to even slightly, she crumbles. In Shell when Emma tries to imply Taylor has no friends she gets flustered when Taylor laughs at her, or when the Undersiders attack the event she just huddles with her family. Than you find out about what happened to her, and it becomes clear that she never really recovered no matter how hard she deludes herself, and that the incidents when Taylor stands up and doesn't take her abuse basically puncture the little bubble she set up for herself. It's also why she gets enraged when Taylor effortlessly brushes off her attempt to guilt Taylor and instead just takes out her phone.
Why do powers that affect the mind work best on Butcher? She's got thirteen more minds in her, so they have thirteen times the effect.
Why is Dragon so much better a Tinker than everyone else? No, it's not because she's an Artificial Intelligence. It's because her creator was a Tinker — second generation capes tend to be more powerful, and she's second gen!
Also, the age where someone get powers plays a role in the strength of powers. If we treat her creation date as her birthday, she's actually quite young!!
We all know Tattletale is a certified badass, but I recently realized one more facet of it: Tattletale uses her superpower with incredible economy. Read her interlude — her limit was "an hour or two every few weeks" less than a year before the story started, and was increasing only very slowly. Tattletale has been kicking ass and taking names on an average of less than ten minutes a day of actually using her power. Ninety-nine percent of the Tattletale magic is just her.
In Interlude 19, one of the posters muses over why the term 'Cauldron' is specifically blocked, unless it's obscured with an asterisk or the like. Later on, it's revealed that Dragon is behind many of the sockpuppets on the Parahumans Online message boards, and that she herself runs the website. If Cauldron was meant to be kept hidden, and she was ordered to block discussion on it... then she accomplished a white mutiny via the Streisand Effect.
The fact that Scion turned out to be the cause of the apocalypse was terrifyingly unexpected ... but if you notice, from almost his introduction, it was pretty clear that Scion was bad at being a superhero. What makes it particularly clear is Kevin Norton's interlude , where it becomes clear that if it weren't for Norton telling Scion what to do, Scion wouldn't do any of the heroic stuff he spends all his time on — and that Norton had to explain really basic stuff about helping people, like "if one of the Endbringers attacks, don't ignore it to come talk to me."
Now that we now why the entities were really here, it makes sense that he wouldn't be any good at the whole "saving people" deal.
Tattletale's friendship with Taylor is parallel to Sophia's friendship with Emma. Emma was attacked by the ABB and Sophia saved her. Emma, after spending time in despair, went back to the site of the attack and found Sophia waiting for her, and the two became friends with Sophia helping her build herself up as a survivor. Lisa and the Undersiders save Taylor from Lung, leader of the ABB and Lisa notices that Taylor is in despair. Taylor meets Lisa at the site of the attack and the two become friends, and Lisa helps build up Taylor's confidence and becomes her best friend. The difference is that at the end of the day, Emma abandoned Sophia when she went to juvie (becoming a victim in Emma's eyes) whereas Taylor and Lisa remain the best of friends.
It's established early on that its both hard and dangerous to even mess around with a Tinker's technology, and very difficult to mass-produce said technology. But we also learn that Dragon's lost technology to Saint before, and he's reverse-engineered it to form his Dragonslayers. How does that work out? Because Dragon's tech isn't Tinker tech. Its technology devised by an AI created by a Tinker, so it can be understood and reproduced more easily by non-Tinkers.
More likely, assuming Defiant's theory about her trigger event and Taylor's assumption about her specialty being using other Tinker's specialties being true, is that she channeled Masamune, who is the only Tinker to have "mass reproduction" not only not be an obstacle, but a specialty.
Actually, while Dragon's specialty appears to be using other Tinkers' specialties, it could be that Dragon's specialty is actually making other Tinkers' tech understandable/reproducible. This would explain why her specialty appears to be both understanding other Tinkers' tech and mass production: she makes other Tinkers' technology into something that can be understood without a Tinker shard, and thus anyone, including Saint, can learn how to build and using Dragon-processed Tinker-tech.
Dragon is probably the only Tinker with the time/multitasking capacity to write documentation for her creations. Other tinkers build and forget, or just plain forget if they can't get to a lab.
Also, Saint and the Dragonslayers have a backdoor into Dragon's systems, so they can just look up the designs for the equipment and have a handy guide on how to repair them.
The scene in Drone 23.1 where all the Wards are complaining about Glenn, to the point that they actually seem to at least be on the same ground with Taylor in regards to how annoying he is with the whole Slave to PR thing has an added dimension: By being incredibly annoying and a pain in the ass to the entire team, he gives everyone someone to equally dislike, fostering at least some basic comraderie among the Wards no matter where they're from and what they were before joining.
The reason why the Protectorate is so powerful and well-organized to the point that it supplies 25-50% of the foreign capes involved in any Endbringer attack, and why most cape teams go to the Protectorate for support and training? They're the first real hero group, and are backed by Cauldron and have three of the most powerful capes in the world as members. With Cauldron basically selling powers to anyone who wants them, and beefing the numbers of American capes - American capes who don't have the myriad issues that naturally-triggering capes require to trigger in the first place - then naturally they'd be able to form the largest, most organized, and sane superhero group.
The Yangban has a disproportionately large number of English-speakers in their ranks, forming a significant minority in a force that is otherwise made up primarily of Chinese. The reason why there's so many English-speaking Yangban members? Accord, an American villain, has been selling capes to the Yangban.
Also, it is revealed that the Yangban has a habit of abducting and indoctrinating capes from other countries that they operate in, such as when they captured Lung in Japan.
The reason why Militaries Are Useless when it comes to the Endbringers: no conventional weaponry short of strategic ordnance can do any real damage to an Endbringer. Infantry would be completely useless and little more than Cannon Fodder at best and subverted by the Simurgh at worst. Tanks and infantry fighting vehicles would be flooded out by Leviathan, vaporized by Behemoth, and their crews subverted to horrible ends by the Simurgh. Helicopters would be shot down by Behemoth and the Simurgh and the storms that surround Leviathan when it attacks would knock them out of the sky. Ditto for jets and bombers. Artillery would singularly ineffective because of the Endbringers' durability. The only things that can really slow the Endbringers down and survive fighting them for any length of time are the very powerful, heavy-hitting capes, and even then all they're doing is holding on until Scion arrives.
Tattletale notes that the entire fight between heroes and villains is basically a kabuki play; as long as you don't kill people or radically disrupt society, you're mostly left alone or put in a Cardboard Prison. This makes more sense in light of Cauldron's ultimate goal — Cauldron, which founded the PRT and the Protectorate, wants as many parahumans as possible to survive to fight Scion, so the actual purpose of those authorities is to channel the natural parahuman conflict interest into a shadow war where none of them die, while preventing destructive conflicts with normal humans. This also explains why the Worm universe seems to completely lack any sort of death penalty despite having villains who can't be stopped by any normal prison — even the most horrific villain might prove to be decisive against Scion, so Cauldron has ensured that no capes ever get executed, fullstop.
Even without direct involvement of Cauldron, the "cops and robbers" cape interactions could also be seen as a sort of Xanatos Gambit to get as many anti-Endbringer fighters as possible. Parahumans who are on good terms with authorities become heroes, get a chance to practice using their powers in combat by fighting villains, and become part of a culture where fighting Endbringers is the norm. Parahumans who aren't on good terms with the authorities become villains, get a chance to practice using their powers in combat, and give the heroes opponents to fight. Villains know that there will be crackdowns if they cause too much disturbance (giving them an incentive to take out the really dangerous parahumans that otherwise might run rampant - look at what happened to the ABB when Bakuda went too far) and that they will be treated more leniently if they participate in Endbringer fights. Results: almost everyone with parahuman powers has the incentive to step up against the most dangerous enemies and the experience to do so effectively.
Also, their ultimate goals explain why Cauldron starts with such high prices, and (as far as we see) always sells formulas at reduced price with favors attached: they use the price as a way of making the powers seems valuable, so that everyone who gets a Cauldron vial will feel indebted to them beyond the favors, and so that they can draw as many capes to their banner as possible.
It also explains the whole deal with rogues; their name designation (which gets brought up several times in-story) and their treatment by the legal system (as seen in Canary's trial) make much more sense when you realize Cauldron wanted capes to fight, so they essentially punished those who didn't, to both set an example to others who didn't want to use their powers for violence (after all, rogues would get treated negatively, and what better way to stay safe than by being protected by trained heroes or villains?) and make sure that those who refused had a high chance of being sent to the Birdcage, where they would still be surrounded by trained villains.
Interlude 29's "flash sideways" to the scenario where both Zion and Eden arrived intact on Earth, Richter is mentioned but not Dragon. This implies that her creation was never part of the plan. His creations would be similar to Dragon's — weak minded, non-sentient AI. The Endbringers pushed him into creating Dragon. We have plenty of evidence how paranoid & fearful he was of doing it, but the world going so wrong made him desperate enough that he risked it.
At the time of Weld's introduction, he's worried about how his superiors will react if they find out he's embezzling his personal food & clothes stipend. He makes the very good point, at least in his narration, that he doesn't need to eat, and uses his Voluntary Shapeshifting powers to mimic clothing, so why shouldn't he spend the money on things that actually make him happy? Much later, during the battle of the oil rig, we find out that he was spending the money on music, and his worries start to look like The Paragon feeling bad about overindulging on ice cream. But we also find out that, because his glands are also metal, he has trouble experiencing emotions. And who do we know that's a singer with emotion manipulating powers that work over recordings, who's also in serious trouble with the law? Canary.
Canary's music is probably especially uplifting to Weld since she has subtly non-human features, small feathers in and around her hair, which make her visibly more mutated that most parahumans, and so her popularity and success probably made Weld like a sign that even mutated capes could be accepted and embraced, at least until her trial.
Jack Slash made Scion turn against humanity. Or, if we use their real names, Jacob led Zion to fight against the rest of the world, and both events occurred at the end of the world. Wildbow, you sly dog!
Why can Contessa avoid the Scry vs. Scry lockout? In Interlude 26 , it's mentioned that the shards containing precongitive abilities were given strict limitations to prevent them from being used against the entities. However, Contessa got a shard that got knocked loose from Eden in the crash, so the limitation wouldn't have been installed. This also explains a lot about Cauldron capes and by extension the Endbringers in general; their shards come from Eden's corpse, so they wouldn't have been prepped for distribution, meaning they lack the safeguards to keep the powers from damaging the user, resulting in physical mutations. It's possible everyone who can bypass the Manton effect with non-biological powers is a Cauldron cape. Presumably, the stuff they mix in to reduce mutations and variability contains some of the safeguards.
This makes Cauldron's actions in general make more sense, especially that they start just giving away vials as the apocalypse approaches. They're hoping for capes whose powers bypass not just the Manton Effect, but the safeguards that Scion/Zion put to prevent power from hurting the Entities themselves.
All the Endbringers have a theme; Land, Sea, Sky for the initial trio, Time for Khonsu. Tohu and Bohu? Their theme is humanity. Bohu fuses with a city and fills it with inhabitants. Tohu becomes capes that protect the city.
Another note about the cafeteria scene in Chrysalis 20.5 : from the same incident that let Dragon figure out who Skitter was, she knew that Taylor had a history with Emma, so when she sees Taylor giving Emma the death-glare...
"Skitter," Dragon said. She made it a warning, almost like she had with Defiant. I couldn't be sure what she was warning me about. Was my line of thinking that obvious?
Also, the long delay in the hallway behind the cafeteria before Taylor and the rest leave the building — the delay during which Defiant runs the patch on Dragon to let her let them escape — is because they still need to get the key to the door out of the ventilation duct.
Khepri was the Path to Victory's plan from the beginning. Cauldron's plan was to create an army of easily expendable mook troops that could survive due to the Cardboard Prison rules, but they wouldn't be any good without something else making them "willing" to risk their lives. Additionally, Dinah's prediction that Taylor would be there while others may or may not be is because Countessa's path has a 100% chance of occurring, and has been protecting her the entire time.
Why would Cauldron just let Manton fall into the hands of the Slaughterhouse Nine when he is so powerful? He's right beside Countessa, so it can't be an unimportant event that just fell through the cracks (the Path can't be bothered to control the breakfast choices of every person on the planet). Unless giving Siberian to the S9 was necessary for the Path to succeed. Say, protecting the S9 from being stomped by the Triumvirate before Jack could set off Scion when Taylor was at the perfect emotional state to become Khepri? Siberian is the only one we see take down one of them after all.
Everything in Brockton Bay was rather stable. The gangs were locked in war with each other and the Protectorate, but nothing major started occurring until Taylor entered the scene. Including the appearances of Leviathan, Echidna, and later Behemoth. These were crucial in shaping Taylor's Nerves of Steel and are more clues that the Simurgh was also working towards making Khepri capable of facing Scion alongside the Path to Victory.
Except in an interlude it mentioned that Cauldron thought Coil would be the most important person until his demise. I think Path of Victory doesn't have 100% control. That would be way too broken for even Wildbow. Instead her plan is able to adjust to still hit her end goals.
Path to Victory tells Contessa what steps to take to achieve her goals, but it doesn't necessarily give any understanding of WHY these steps will work. Mostly, Cauldron can figure out why certain steps will have a certain effect, but not always. In this instance, Coil was unintentionally directly responsible for Skitter assuming complete control over the entire criminal underworld of Brockton Bay.
Coil's organisation is made up of unpowered soldiers with himself as the only cape, excepting the Travellers and the Undersiders. This makes a lot of sense when you find out/remember that Coil is Thomas Calvert, a big man in the PRT, who used to be a member of the hit squads the PRT sent after villains. He's treating his organisation like a branch of the PRT.
Why are second-generation parahumans the children, wards and siblings of parahumans, but not their parents? Because the shards don't understand how human reproduction works and are trying to approximate the process with what little they know. They look for those that are emotionally linked to the original shard-holder in a manner that somehow indicates the 'next generation', e.g. someone who is reliant on the original shard-holder. This is another instance of the shards 'halping'.
Tinker triggers are the result of a long-running problem. Kid Win has ADD and struggles to focus on specific tasks for any length of time, which is why his specialty is modular equipment, or technology with inter-changeable components: it allows him to rapidly switch between different designs and projects without sabotaging the previous design, which he always ended up doing before he discovered his specialty. His alternator cannon was only successfully created after he took medication for his ADD, and he had to stop taking it due to the side-effects. The side-effects weren't due to the medication, they were due to him forcing himself to work in a manner that runs directly counter to his specialty, and as a result his shard is trying to sabotage his work.
Scion, the extradimensional alien distributed-computing-network entity... was put on the fritz by a bug.
Fridge Horror
With the revelation that the Triumverate work with Cauldron, the majority of heroes might owe their powers to them and be under their control.
Emma is going to be terrified and paranoid for the rest of her life after finding out that Taylor is Skitter. From her perspective, she deeply hurt someone with a terrible reputation and who can torture and kill her in SO MANY different ways. She doesn't know that Taylor doesn't care about her at all. From now on she'll have to live in fear that every insect she sees could be Skitter coming to get revenge. Sucks to be her.
Not anymore, instead she just gets to live with knowledge that the friend she betrayed and nearly drove to suicide killed a God and saved all of humanity.
Unless she died in Scion's rampage.
When Taylor comes back to Brockton Bay and goes through the portal, she sees the Barnes (Emma's family) missing Emma, and they are upset. They look at Taylor accusingly. Then when Taylor goes and sees Sophia, Sophia says Mr Barnes had already told her Emma was dead. Except why would Mr Barnes do that with the world ending around them? Implication is she died before Scion began his rampage. Popular theory is that she couldn't live with knowing Taylor is Skitter and took her own life.
It ... probably wouldn't have happen, but can you imagine the consequences if Noelle cloned Imp?
Cloned who?
How would we know if it had?
I can only think of two ways: either Imp getting rescued or released and passing the word, or someone with an Imp-detecting power (like Tattletale) spotting the copies.
Shatterbird 'wears' a costume of stained glass. The implication is obviously that she specifically hits churches to resupply.
Dinah had a trigger event, probably, given her Thinker power, over some sort of mental trauma. At age 11 or 12.
Its stated that the first of the third generation parahumans have begun to trigger as young as five. Considering some of the dangerous, destructive, and disgusting powers we have seen, how well do you think a five year old is going to use such parahuman abilities?
Plus, what kind of trauma are all of these 5 year olds receiving to cause them to have trigger events?
Second-generation parahumans sometimes require much less traumatic circumstances to trigger powers (for instance, Glory Girl triggered after being fouled in a basketball game), so third-generation parahumans might be more sensitive still (that would also explain why they trigger so young - with a lower level of stress required to trigger, they have more opportunities to gain powers from day one). That just adds more Fridge Horror, though: imagine a little kid instinctively responding to some mundane problem with all the power of a newly triggered cape (see 11.6 and Snare 13.9 for an example of how strong powers can be in the immediate aftermath of a trigger event) and no control.
Worse, one of the second generation capes? Aidan, one of Taylor's orphan kids, who got a copy of the Administrator shard. There is a good chance of any children he has getting Khepri level powers as a child.
Also, Aiden's only the we see triggering with powers in canon, but there's no indication that he will be the only one. Imagine a dozen kids with Skitter-level control over the animals around them, who are generally a tight-knit group.
Both are impossible, fortunately. Skitter double triggered - even for a third gen cape you'd need something hellish for that. And Khepri-level power seems unlikely outside of Cauldron capes and jailbreak events like Khepri herself - neither of which can occur naturally.
Apparently the shards Scion released when he died have no safeguard against destroying their hosts. Assuming Scion had Admin shards and just never felt the need to use them, it's only a matter of time...
Leviathan has the power to literally sink islands and shatter coastlines. In Interlude 24 , there's an incomplete list of past Endbringer attacks. Out of those, Leviathan has hit at least ten different locations besides Brockton Bay. Exactly how much of Earth Bet's geography has been defaced by this one creature?
Lung. Fighting Leviathan, his power propels him to Endbringer-level size and strength over the course of a few hours at most, and Word of God is that he has no upper limit. Under the right circumstances, he could grow to melt the sun and swallow the universe.
Before either of those would happen it probably would burn his shard out, Word of God confirms that his shard controls how much he grows.
In Interlude 2, Glory Girl chases down a skinhead, dangles him in the air, threatens to break his limbs, and throws him against the side of a building before begging Panacea to heal him and help her avoid a media firestorm. The skinhead puts the "asshole" in Asshole Victim, being a member of Empire 88 who beat a black woman nearly to death, but Glory Girl's cavalier attitude toward her own actions can make the reader wonder if she's ever given the same treatment to someone who later turned out to be innocent. As Panacea's powers don't seem to leave a trace, an innocent victim would be unable to sue for damages, considering there would be no proof of Glory Girl's actions.
Coil's death. In the reality we see he tries to talk his way out, offers his mercenaries more money, begs the Travellers for help, tries to tell Skitter she isn't a killer. So what was he doing in his other realities? From the first moment Tattletale turned the mercenaries against him, Coil would have been splitting off realities, trying to run, trying to fight, trying different angles every time, and every time he's shot by a merc, shot by Skitter, shot by Ballistic, stabbed by Imp, mauled by the dogs, shot, shot, shot, over and over until the death we saw.
Imp's power is always on, and she must consciously suppress it in order to be noticed or remebered by anyone, with the exception of a very few people whose power allows them to circumvent her Perception Filter. Which means if she ever got seriously injured and lost consciousness, there's a real possibility that nobody would know and nobody would be able to help her. This also means that if she ever needed surgery, she'd need to be awake the entire time or there'd have to be a power nullifying cape on hand. If the building lit on fire while she was asleep, no one would remember to warn her. Imp is uniquely and terrifyingly on her own all the time.
Remember how Panacea had intense romantic feelings for Glory Girl — feelings which led her ultimately to break down and mind-mojo GG into loving her back? Some time after the unhappy resolution of that relationship, comment thread poster Mrmdubois pointed out that Glory Girl's awe aura — an aura that presumably kicked in at puberty, and that she used all the time — would, naturally, be affecting Panacea all the time at a ... suggestible point in her sexual development. It is, in fact, possible that Glory Girl brought it on herself.
This becomes obvious in hindsight when you consider that the chapter immediately before we learn this has Cherish explain to Regent that continuously dosing someone with a small amount of positive emotions every time they meet her will result in them falling in love with her simply through the Pavlovian conditioning of their brain as it learns to associate this one specific person with feelings of happiness and adoration.
Confirmed by Wildbow
Simurgh is not actually blocked by other precogs. When we see through her eyes in Doc Mother's interlude, she only mentions one blind spot — Scion. She is perfectly capable of incorporating even Contessa and Dinah into her plans, as seen in the final chapters. And since her only senses are precog and post-cog, she therefore isn't being jammed. Yes, everyone who made plans based on precogs countering Simurgh was exploiting a fake weakness.
Alexandria: YMMV on her actions and whether she's evil or not for allowing Cauldron's human experimentation and other horrors, but in terms of character arc and slowly darkening morality she's the Taylor of the previous generation of heroes.
Uganda is at one point referred to as the People's Republic of Uganda. This is not Uganda's real-world official name, meaning that something happened there to change its administration (possibly to a communist government, given the name). Since parahumans are more common in third-world countries, whatever it was almost certainly had something to do with parahumans. This means that multiple countries may have undergone radical political changes, possibly for the worse, as a result of being plunged into a world where superpowers are real.
Life in the Wormverse would pretty much be one of constant terror. Even in the United States, there would be headlines every couple of weeks or so along the lines of "Slaughterhouse Nine kills 150 elementary schoolers," so the parts of the world that are unstable in Real Life would likely suffer an ungodly level of destruction and death.
Wilbow had an aborted interlude (one which he removed,due to reader backlash and himself not liking it either,on retrospect)where he introduced Witness,a tattletale clone made by Echidna,who survived while all other clones died,and joined the irregulars.It hit me a while after finishing arc 29:in the original draft,Witness was meant to corrupt the Irregulars so that they created havoc in Cauldron,rather than them being revenge bent by themselves.
The entities reproduce by channeling all available energy from parallel dimensions into one version of a planet. The energy rebounds through these channels, destroying every version of the planet in all dimensions, and the new entities ride the shockwave to get where they're going. Is the transdimensional ram that the heroes kill Zion with an inversion or a refinement of this technique?


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2019 Kalispell Regional Healthcare earned the 2019 Get with The Guidelines – Heart Failure Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award and also qualified for the recognition on the Target: Heart Failure Honor Role from the American Heart Association. This award recognizes KRH's commitment and success in implementing a high standard of heart failure care by ensuring that their heart failure patients receive treatment that meets nationally accepted, evidence-based standards and recommendations.
2019 Kalispell Regional Healthcare earned the 2019 Get with The Guidelines – Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award and also qualified for the recognition on the Target: Stroke Honor Role from the American Heart Association. This award recognizes KRH's commitment and success in implementing a high standard of stroke care by ensuring that their stroke patients receive treatment that meets nationally accepted, evidence-based standards and recommendations.
2019 Kalispell Regional Medical Center received the 2019 Mission: Lifeline STEMI Receiving Center Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award making KRMC part of an elite group of hospitals recognized by the American Heart Association. This award signifies a commitment to guidelines adherence and quality improvement for the STEMI patient population.
2019 Kalispell Regional Medical Center received the 2019 Mission: Lifeline NSTEMI Gold Recognition Award making KRMC part of an elite group of hospitals recognized by the American Heart Association. This award signifies a commitment to guidelines adherence and quality improvement for the NSTEMI patient population.
2019 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was selected as a Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Heart Attack by Healthgrades. This is the third year in a row KRMC has received this recognition.
2019 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was selected as a Five-Star Recipient for Coronary Interventional Procedures by Healthgrades.
2019 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was selected as a Five-Star Recipient for Coronary Bypass Surgery by Healthgrades.
2019 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was selected as a Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Hip Fractures by Healthgrades. This is the fourth year in a row KRMC has received this recognition.
2019 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was selected as a Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Stroke by Healthgrades. This is the second year in a row KRMC has received this recognition.
2019 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was selected as a Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Pneumonia by Healthgrades. This is the fifth year in a row KRMC has received this recognition.
2019 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was selected as a Five-Star Recipient for Colorectal Surgeries by Healthgrades.
2019 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was selected as a Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Sepsis by Healthgrades. This is the third year in a row KRMC has received this recognition.
2019 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was recognized as a Pediatric Prepared Facility by the Montana EMS & Trauma Systems Program.
2019 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was one of only three hospitals in Montana and one of 293 in the nation to earn an Overall Hospital Quality 5-Star Rating from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
2019 The HealthCenter received an Overall Hospital Quality 4-Star Rating from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
2019 North Valley Hospital received an Overall Hospital Quality 4-Star Rating from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
2019 North Valley Hospital received a Patient Experience 5-Star Rating from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
2019 Kalispell Regional Medical Center received the Women's Choice Award for America's 100 Best Hospitals for Patient Experience, based on scores from the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare, Providers and Systems (HCAHPS). These scores were based on reporting weighed according to the preference of female consumers.
2018 Brendan House received recognition as "High Performing Overall" and "High Performing Short-Stay Rehabilitation" from US News in their Best Nursing Homes ratings.
2018 North Valley Hospital received a Montana Rural Healthcare Performance Improvement Network award for increasing the influenza immunization rate of workers to 99%.
2018 North Valley Hospital was recognized for Pediatric Preparedness by the Montana EMS & Trauma Systems Section of the Department of Public Health and Human Services. The recognition acknowledges that the NVH emergency room provides integrated pediatric care for severe illness or trauma.
2018 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was named as High Performing in Lung Cancer Surgery by U.S. News & World Report's High Performing Hospitals 2018.
2018 Kalispell Regional Medical Center received the 2018 Mission: Lifeline STEMI Receiving Center Silver Plus Quality Achievement Award for continued success in using and applying the most up-to-date evidence-based treatment guidelines to improve patient care and outcomes in the community we serve.
2018 Kalispell Regional Medical Center received the 2018 Mission: Lifeline NSTEMI Silver Quality Achievement Award for implementing specific quality improvement measures outlined by the American Heart Association for the treatment of patients who suffer severe heart attacks.
2018 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was named a top hospital in the iVantage annual Top 100 Rural & Community Hospital rankings. Each year rural hospitals are analyzed through the lens of the Hospital Strength INDEX, the industry's most comprehensive and objective assessment of rural hospital performance in the United States.
2018 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was named among the 100 Great Community Hospitals for 2018 by Becker's Healthcare. The Becker's editorial team selected hospitals for inclusion based on several outside ranking and ratings organizations.
2018 Kalispell Regional Medical Center earned the Vision Award from SightLife. The recognition was for outstanding contribution to cornea donation.
2018 Kalispell Regional Medical Center received the Organ Donation Referral Achievement Award from LifeCenter Northwest. The award recognizes referring tissue donations in a timely manner to positively impact donation outcome.
2018 The HealthCenter earned the Tissue Donation Achievement Award from LifeCenter Northwest. The recognition was given to six regional hospitals with a 75% tissue donation rate or higher.
2018 Kalispell Regional Medical Center earned the Tissue Donation Achievement Award from LifeCenter Northwest. The recognition was given to six regional hospitals with a 75% tissue donation rate or higher.
2018 Kalispell Regional Medical Center earned the Collaboration Achievement Award from LifeCenter Northwest.
2018 The HealthCenter earned the Tissue Donation Referral Achievement Award from LifeCenter Northwest. The award recognizes referring tissue donations in a timely manner to positively impact donation outcome.
2018 North Valley Hospital received the Donation Referral Achievement Award from LifeCenter Northwest. The award recognizes referring tissue donations in a timely manner to positively impact donation outcome.
2018 North Valley Hospital earned the Tissue Donation Achievement Award from LifeCenter Northwest. The recognition was given to six regional hospitals with a 75% tissue donation rate or higher.
2018 Kalispell Regional Healthcare received the Get With the Guidelines–Stroke Gold Plus quality achievement award from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association.
2018 Kalispell Regional Medical Center received the ACTION Registry Platinum Performance Achievement Award from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR). The award recognizes hospitals that have demonstrated sustained, top level performance in quality of care and adherence to guideline recommendations.
2018 Kalispell Regional Medical Center earned the Get With The Guidelines–Heart Failure Silver Plus Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association. KRMC also qualified for recognition on the Target: Heart Failure Honor Role.
2018 Brendan House's Compassionate Care Team program received the Innovative Care Award from the Montana Health Care Association.
2018 Kalispell Regional Medical Center's Diabetes Education & Prevention's education recognition was renewed by the American Diabetes Association for the Diabetes Self-Management Program. This achievement recognizes the staff's adherence to national standards of quality education.
2018 Kalispell Regional Medical Center received the Women's Choice Award for America's 100 Best Hospitals for Patient Experience, based on scores from the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare, Providers and Systems (HCAHPS). These scores were based on reporting weighed according to the preference of female consumers.
2018 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was named one of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals® by IBM Watson Health™. This study spotlights the best-performing hospitals in the U.S. based on a balanced scorecard of publicly available clinical, operational and patient satisfaction metrics and data. Kalispell Regional Medical Center was the only hospital in Montana to receive this honor.
2018 Kalispell Regional Medical Center received the Healthgrades Orthopedic Surgery Excellence Award and was the only Montana hospital to receive the award.
2018 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was named among the top 10 percent in the nation for overall orthopedic services by Healthgrades.
2018 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was selected as a Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Stroke by Healthgrades.
2018 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was selected as a Five-Star Recipient for Back Surgery by Healthgrades.
2018 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was selected as a Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Bowel Obstruction by Healthgrades.
2018 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was selected as a Five-Star Recipient for Small Intestine Surgeries by Healthgrades.
2017 Kalispell Regional Healthcare was voted Best Place to Work in the Daily Inter Lake's Best of the Flathead.
2017, 2018 Brendan House was recognized among US News & World Report's listing of Best Nursing Homes as a High Performing Nursing Home.
2017, 2018 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was selected as a Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Sepsis by Healthgrades.
2017, 2018 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was selected as a Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Heart Attack by Healthgrades.
2016, 2017, 2018 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was named a Five-Star Recipient for Hip Fracture Treatment by Healthgrades.
2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was selected as a Five-Star Recipient for Treatment of Bowel Pneumonia by Healthgrades.
2017 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was one of two hospitals in Montana and one of 337 in the nation to earn an Overall Hospital Quality 5-Star Rating from the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). These ratings are determined by measures of many aspects of quality care, including mortality, readmission, safety, patient experience, efficiency, timeliness and effectiveness of care.
2017 Brendan House received a 5-Star Rating from the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
2017 Kalispell Regional Medical Center received the 2017 Mission: Lifeline NSTEMI Bronze quality achievement award for implementing specific quality improvement measures outlined by the American Heart Association for the treatment of patients who suffer severe heart attacks.
2017 Kalispell Regional Healthcare received the Get With The Guidelines–Heart Failure Bronze quality achievement award. This award recognizes Kalispell Regional Healthcare's commitment and success in implementing a high standard of heart failure care by ensuring that heart failure patients receive treatment that meets nationally accepted, evidence-based standards and recommendations.
2017 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was recognized by Becker's Hospital Review as a 100 Great Community Hospital. KRMC was selected based on rankings and awards in addition to its reputation for leadership and innovation.
2017 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was named a Top 20 Rural Community Hospital in the United States by iVantage. The hospitals named to this list have achieved success in overall performance based on a composite rating from eight pillars of excellence: inpatient market share, outpatient market share, quality, outcomes, patient perspectives, costs, charges and financial stability.
2017 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was recognized as a top-performing hospital in the Conduent Midas Platinum Quality Award program. This award is based on KRH's 2016 performance in the Midas National Comparative Database. The awards recognize industry leadership and hospital excellence and are based on achievement and data-driven performance.
2017 Kalispell Regional Healthcare received the Get With the Guidelines–Stroke Gold Plus quality achievement award with Target: Stroke Honor Roll from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association. KRH achieved 85 percent or higher compliance with the stroke achievement measures and 75 percent or higher compliance with stroke quality measures for three consecutive years.
2017 Rocky Mountain Heart & Lung was designated an Anticoagulation Center of Excellence by the Anticoagulation Forum. This designation demonstrates Rocky Mountain Heart & Lung's ongoing goal to achieve the highest level of care and the best possible outcomes for patients on antithrombotic medications.
2017 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was recognized as one of America's 100 Best Hospitals for Patient Experience by the Women's Choice Award. The recognition was based on HCAHPS reporting weighed according to the preference of female consumers.
2017 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was named a Top 100 Rural & Community Hospital in the United States by iVantage. The hospitals named to this list are top performers in managing risk, achieving higher quality, securing better outcomes, increasing patient satisfaction and operating at a lower cost than their peers.
2016, 2017 Kalispell Regional Medical Center received the Outstanding Patient Experience Award by Healthgrades, and was also named among the top 10 percent in the Nation for Outstanding Patient Experience. The award recognizes hospitals for providing outstanding patient experience based on 10 measures related to doctor and nurse communication, hospital cleanliness and noise levels, and medication and post-discharge care instructions. The award is based on the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) patient survey data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
2016 Brendan House was recognized among US News & World Report's listing of Best Nursing Homes as a High Performing Nursing Home.
2016 Kalispell Regional Medical Center received the American Excellence Award by the American Economic Institute in the area of customer service.
2016 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was recognized as high performing by the 2016-2017 U.S. News Best Hospitals rankings in the area of urology.
2016 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was recognized as high performing by the 2016-2017 U.S. News Best Hospitals rankings in the area of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
2016 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was recognized as high performing by the 2016-2017 U.S. News Best Hospitals rankings in the area of heart failure.
2016 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was recognized as a 2016 Mission: Lifeline Receiving Center Silver Plus recognition award recipient by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association as demonstrated through its 2015 Action Registry-GWTG data.
2016 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was recognized by Becker's Hospital Review as a 100 Great Community Hospital. The hospital was selected based on rankings and awards from organizations including iVantage Health Analytics, Truven Health Analytics, Healthgrades, Carechex, the American Nurses Credentialing Center and the Leapfrog Group.
2016 Kalispell Regional Healthcare received the Get With the Guidelines–Stroke Gold Plus achievement award from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association. KRH achieved 85 percent or higher compliance with the stroke achievement measures and 75 percent or higher compliance with stroke quality measures for two consecutive years.
2016 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was named a 2016 Top 100 Rural & Community Hospital by iVantage Health Analytics. These scores were based on an assessment through the lens of the Hospital Strength INDEX, an objective, in-depth analysis designed to bring clarity and insight to hospital performance in an increasingly complex and regulated environment.
2016 Kalispell Regional Medical Center received the Women's Choice Award for America's Best Hospitals for Patient Safety. More than 3,500 hospitals were included in the analysis. KRMC was selected based on its consistently low rates of infections and surgical errors, and patient recommendations.
2016 Kalispell Regional Medical Center received the Women's Choice Award for America's Best Hospitals for Cancer Care. More than 1,300 Cancer Care facilities were included in the analysis. KRMC was selected based on its advanced cancer program accreditation as well as its additional cancer services, clinical performance and patient recommendations.
2015 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was recognized by Consumer Reports with the highest safety score in the state. Of particular note were high scores in the areas of Avoiding Readmissions, Appropriate Use of Abdominal Scanning and Appropriate Use of Chest Scanning.
2015 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was named one of the country's top hospitals by Newsmax in an article titled "Benefits of Retiring in Montana."
2015 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was named a HEALTHSTRONG hospital by iVantage Health Analytics. The annual study measures the nation's top performing hospitals across 62 different performance metrics, including quality, outcomes, patient perspective, affordability and efficiency.
2015 Kalispell Regional Medical Center received the Women's Choice Award for America's Best Hospitals for Cancer Care. This distinction is the first of its kind in the nation and is based on research from publicly available data (CMS) and patient recommendations and satisfaction scores (HCAHPS). More than 1,300 cancer care facilities were included in the analysis.
2015 Kalispell Regional Medical Center received verification from the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma certifying KRMC as a Level III trauma center through March 24, 2018.
2015 Kalispell Regional Healthcare received the Get With the Guidelines–Stroke Silver Plus achievement award from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association. KRH achieved 85 percent or higher compliance with the stroke achievement measures and 75 percent or higher compliance with stroke quality measures.
2015 Thomas Origitano, MD, PhD, neurosurgeon at the KRH Neuroscience and Spine Institute, was named among the Top Doctors for Cancer by Newsweek Magazine.
2015 Bret Lindsay, MD, neurologist at the KRH Neuroscience and Spine Institute, was named among the Top Doctors for Neurology by Castle Connolly Medical.
2015 Melissa Hulvat, MD, surgeon at the KRH Bass Breast Center, was named among the Top Doctors for Surgery by Castle Connolly Medical.
2015 Lynn Dykstra, MD, pediatrician at the KRH Sunny View Pediatrics, was named among the Top Doctors for Pediatrics by Castle Connolly Medical.
2015 Christopher Gill, MD, pediatrician at the KRH Family Health Care, was named among the Top Doctors for Internal Medicine by Castle Connolly Medical.
2015 Kelly Redfield, MD, physician at the KRH Woodland Clinic, was named among the Top Doctors for Internal Medicine by Castle Connolly Medical.
2015 Eric Brandeberry, MD, a family practice physician at the KRH Columbia Falls Clinic, was named among the Top Doctors by Castle Connolly Medical.
2015 Thomas Origitano, MD, PhD, neurosurgeon at the KRH Neuroscience and Spine Institute, was named among America's Top Doctors for Cancer by Castle Connolly Medical.
2014 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was named by CNN Money as one of the country's top hospitals in an article titled "The best states to retire in are a little surprising."
2014 Kalispell Regional Medical Center received the Women's Choice Award and was recognized in Best Hospitals for Patient Experience in Heart Care. KRMC was selected based on its record with regard to treatment of heart attacks and heart disease as well as patient satisfaction scores.
2014 Kalispell Regional Medical Center received the Women's Choice Award and was recognized in America's Best Hospitals for Patient Experience in Obstetrics. The selection was based on a review of provided services as well as patient satisfaction scores, with additional consideration given to KRMC's record for clinical care.
2013 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was recognized as one of the top 100 hospitals in the nation in terms of the value provided to the community by Cleverley & Associates, a leading health care financial consulting firm specializing in operational benchmarking and performance enhancement strategies.
2013 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was one of only 10 hospitals in the nation singled out in a Medicare report for having better-than-average readmission rates for three key health concerns: heart failure, heart attack and pneumonia.
2013 Kalispell Regional Medical Center's laboratory earned accreditation from the College of American Pathologists.
2013 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was ranked No. 1 in the state for medical excellence in one or more clinical categories based on the Delta Group's CareChex Hospital Quality Ratings.
2012 The HealthCenter was named a 100 Top Hospital by Thomson Reuters.
2012 The American College of Surgeon's Commission on Cancer awarded Kalispell Regional Healthcare's cancer program a three-year Accreditation with Commendation as a Community Cancer Program.
2012 The Bass Breast Center was awarded a three-year accreditation by the American College of Surgeon's National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers.
2011, 2012 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was recognized among US News & World Report's listing of Best Hospitals as a High Performing Hospital in the specialty areas of Ear, Nose & Throat, Gastroenterology, Geriatrics and Pulmonology.
2011, 2012 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was named a Top 100 Hospital by Women Certified, an advocate for female consumers, awarding businesses and brands based on consumer experience.
2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Kalispell Regional Medical Center was recognized by Healthgrades as a Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence. KRMC's low complications and mortality rates are considered by Healthgrades to be in the top 5 percent of hospitals in the country. KRMC also was recognized by Healthgrades with the Patient Safety Excellence Award and the Outstanding Patient Experience Award. Out of 5,000-plus hospitals in the United States, KRMC was one of only a few hospitals to earn all three designations.
2011 The Summit Medical Fitness Center earned certification as a Medical Fitness Facility, a distinction awarded by the Medical Fitness Association.
2010 MIDAS, a company that reviews patient safety data submitted by hospitals, found that out of 564 participating hospitals, Kalispell Regional Medical Center performs in the top 5 percent.
2010 Best in Value, an independent company, used MedPAR data to recognize Kalispell Regional Medical Center as a Best in Value Award winner. It ranked KRMC in the top tier nationally for quality, affordability, efficiency and patient satisfaction.
2010 Dr. Elliot Fischer, researcher with the Dartmouth Institute, reported that Kalispell Regional Medical Center was one of the lowest-cost providers in the state of Montana.
2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 The Kalispell Regional Medical Center Inpatient Rehabilitation department received the top performer award from Uniform Data Systems, a company that correlates rehabilitation data.
Kalispell Regional Medical Center's Inpatient Rehabilitation program was accredited by CARF International (formerly the Center for Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities) since 1994. In 2014, the department received a three-year CARF accreditation, CARF's highest level of approval that can be awarded to an organization. It shows Inpatient Rehabilitation's substantial conformance to CARF standards.
Kalispell Regional Medical Center was certified by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
2010 Kalispell Regional Medical Center's Emergency Services received Trauma III designation by the American College of Surgeons. This achievement recognizes the trauma center staff's dedication to providing optimal care for injured patients.
2010 Kalispell Regional Medical Center's Diabetes Care and Prevention Center's education recognition was renewed by the American Diabetes Association for the Diabetes Self-Management Program. This achievement recognizes the staff's adherence to national standards of quality education.
Kalispell Regional Medical Center was accredited in nuclear medicine by the American College of Radiology.
Kalispell Regional Medical Center's Winkley Women's Center Mobile Mammography Coach was accredited in both mobile mammography and breast ultrasound by the American College of Radiology.
2010 The Echocardiography Lab at Kalispell Regional Medical Center and Rocky Mountain Heart & Lung earned international accreditation through the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Echocardiography Laboratories.
2010 The HealthCenter was recognized by Press Ganey with its Summit Award for achieving three consecutive years of patient satisfaction scores exceeding the 95th percentile.
2009, 2010 Both Kalispell Regional Medical Center and The HealthCenter were recognized with the Mountain Pacific Quality Health Award, which recognizes hospitals that are working actively to improve processes to achieve and maintain a high level of compliance with clinical improvement measures.
The HealthCenter's Women's Center received designation by the American College of Radiology as a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence.
The HealthCenter was accredited by the American College of Radiology in the following modalities: mammography, stereotactic breast biopsy, breast ultrasound, MRI (1.5T and 3.0T), CT, PET and ultrasound.
Kalispell Medical Equipment was nationally certified as an accredited Durable Medical Equipment Company by the Healthcare Quality Association on Accreditation.

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Set in the lush gardens of an old coconut plantation, Atmosphere Resort combines boutique and luxury in a beautiful in a deeply relaxing setting. Offering a distinct alternative to other, larger, resorts, Atmosphere is thoughtfully-designed and well-detailed in every area. Emphasis here is definitely on relaxation – a range of spa services are available in one of four treatment pavilions located in the exquisite spa gardens, and yoga classes can be taken at any time in the gardens or in the beautiful treehouse overlooking the ocean. Diving excursions can be taken should you feel more active, and kids are well catered for with classrooms and playrooms available in the onsite Kid's Cove. All rooms come with enormous king size beds, air con, flat-screen TVs, DVD players, internet, rain showers and Egyptian cotton linen throughout.
The Atmosphere Resort offers a very comfortable stay for divers and non-divers alike.


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Three Rivers Corporation Receives the Associated Builders and Contractors National Safety Excellence Award and Competitor in National Craft Championships
National Safety Excellence Award 2019
MIDLAND, MICH. – Representing Three Rivers Corporation, Paul Crivac, Safety Director, accepted the Associated Builders and Contractors National Safety Excellence Award at the 29th Annual Excellence in Construction Gala on March 27, 2019 in Long Beach, California. Three Rivers outperformed contractors from around the nation to win this prestigious award and was the only company honored from Michigan in this category. This award demonstrates that Three Rivers Corporation is dedicated to working safe.
The ABC National Safety Excellence Award recognizes companies who exhibit a continued commitment to jobsite safety and whose safety performance and programs are judged to be exemplary by the ABC National Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S) Committee. Awards are based on data submitted via STEP applications, essay questions and video interviews with company Presidents/CEOs/Principals about their corporate safety culture. Award categories are based on a company's total work-hours per calendar year and placement within the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
"We are honored to achieve the National Safety Excellence award. Safety is part of who we are and receiving an award like this demonstrates that when our company works together, we can achieve great things. I am very proud of the women and men who earned this award and their commitment to safety at Three Rivers," said Paul Crivac.
National Craft Championships 2019
Colin Dole represented Three Rivers in the National Craft Championships competition on March 27th, as a pipefitter. Craft apprentices come from across the country each year to compete for top honors in their chosen craft. For the competitors, this competition allows them to demonstrate their superior skills, training and safe work practices. This is an intense, daylong, hands-on skills competition.
"The quality, craftsmanship, dedication, and safety Colin displayed during the National Craft Championships competition this year was truly remarkable. With the skilled labor shortage we are very lucky to have such talented people on our team," said Jon Lynch, President of Three Rivers Corporation.
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Demonstrate mastery: Learn from legendary outdoor educators and add your own strengths as you design and lead your own courses, as you take on physical and mental challenges in numerous wilderness environments and as you become responsible for the creation and fulfillment of life-changing lessons.
Train in basic first aid and wilderness medicine: Learn the principles and techniques of patient assessment, care and treatment in remote and extreme environments. Earn Wilderness First Responder (WFR) Certification on select courses.
What you'll learn: Return home with the knowledge and skills necessary for teaching and leading field-based wilderness education programs. Depending on the course, you'll have expanded knowledge and skills relating to a variety of land and/or water-based activities. You'll be a conscientious safety and risk management leader and you'll have a solid grounding in the Outward Bound philosophy and methodology for teaching and facilitation.
The Outdoor Educator course is the most comprehensive Outward Bound course available, allowing you to work in and through the widest variety of wilderness environments and develop high level skills in each. Beyond preparing you for career opportunities in the outdoor industry, you may also earn academic credit in the field of Recreation and Outdoor Education.
The first phase of this course is spent both on and off trail in Yosemite National Park and Ansel Adams Wilderness learning the skills necessary to travel in wilderness terrain. Here we will lay the foundation for group travel, gear selection and use, map and compass navigation, cooking and camp stove use, weather/hazard assessment, camp craft, communication skills, and effective teamwork.
In addition to technical skills, Instructors will teach and facilitate the interpersonal skills needed for participants to function effectively as a team, accomplish goals, and tackle new challenges every day. Challenges on course are designed to impel participants to take risks, draw upon inner resources and develop trust in one another. One such challenge might include a peak attempt. With lighter packs, participants will start before the sun rises to summit a mountain and be rewarded with 360 degree views and an incredible sense of accomplishment.
During the mountaineering section, participants will build on the backpacking skills learned previously in course. In addition to teaching more technical skills, the Instructors will focus on honing the group's judgment and decision-making skills. The crew will have the chance to attempt a technical peak during this section. Mountaineering is distinct from backpacking in that at least one peak attempt will take a steep, exposed route that requires the technical protection of ropes. Additional skills to be covered during this phase are the use of fixed-lines and snow travel, depending on season and temperatures.
With the first phase of the expedition behind them, participants will learn the skills necessary to provide first aid in a backcountry setting. These skills give individuals and the group the confidence to address health and wellbeing issues more independently for the remainder of the course.
A Wilderness First Responder (WFR) certification is recognized as the standard level of expertise for backcountry first aid and is a required course (costing up to $850 if taken privately) for leading outdoor trips. Each student must earn this certification independently. At the end of the course, the WFR instructor, not Outward Bound, will make the decision as to whether each student's skills are sufficient for certification.
The following topics will be covered during the course: patient assessment, basic knowledge of body systems, basic life support, equipment improvisation, environmental medicine, toxins, trauma management, evacuation and wilderness rescue.
After the WFR course, the group will move to the desert landscape of Joshua Tree National Park. The section of the course in Joshua Tree will focus specifically on skills associated with technical rock climbing, including knots, anchors, movement over rock, top rope, belaying, use and care of harnesses and other equipment. An emphasis on climbing site assessment and management will ensure participants go back with sound judgement to implement safe and challenging experiences for youth they instruct. Participants will have ample opportunity to actively improve their personal skills with various types of climbs including bouldering, face climbs, cracks, and possibly a multi-pitch climb.
Following the climbing section, the group will test all acquired skills on their Final Expedition—a multi-day backpacking section in Joshua Tree. During this expedition, the crew works together to plan their route, gear, food, and logistics, essential skills for any aspiring outdoor educator to effectively navigate through the unique and beautiful rock and yucca filled landscape of Joshua Tree. This section requires competence in communication, teamwork, navigation, and decision making skills.
Far removed from starry nights and alpine lakes, San Francisco is a bustling city of streetlights and people. This city exposes participants to the juxtaposition of wealth and poverty—back alleys and striking bay views, sprinkled with tourist destinations that attract travelers from across the globe. Continuing 'expedition style', participants will carry their gear and travel like locals, taking the bus, walking and ferrying to their nightly abode. With the city as their classroom, participants will focus on developing their cultural competency and ability to work with diverse populations through discussions and service learning opportunities. As an educator this can be just as challenging as climbing high in the mountains, and equally necessary as participants prepare for the practicum and future work in the field of outdoor education.
Instructor courses are geared towards participants who are looking to pursue a career in education and/or the outdoors. Throughout the entire expedition, Instructors will not only be teaching the 'what', but also the 'why' and 'how' necessary to pass on these skills to future participants. There will be many opportunities for participants to practice their own facilitation skills and receive feedback.
The culminating experience at the end of course will be a practicum, where participants will facilitate a 2-day experience for local youth in an outdoor setting. The practicum will have a strong emphasis on designing and implementing curriculum, teaching basic outdoor skills, and facilitating initiatives and discussions with a group of participants from diverse backgrounds and experience levels. Participants will gain first hand teaching experience as they begin to build cultural competency as experiential educators.
The culminating experience at the end of course will be a practicum, where participants will facilitate a 2-day experience for local youth in an outdoor setting. The practicum will have a strong emphasis on designing and implementing curriculum, teaching basic outdoor skills and facilitating initiatives and discussions with a group of participants from diverse backgrounds and experience levels. Participants will gain first-hand teaching experience as they begin to build cultural competency as experiential educators.
Service to others and the environment is a core value of Outward Bound and is integrated into each course. Participants follow Leave No Trace ethics and do acts of service while leading and supporting fellow participants. Designated service projects are coordinated with land managers like the US Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and National Park Service to collaborate on land restoration projects. Additionally, students may have the opportunity to work alongside select social service agencies like nursing homes, hospitals and organic farms. With a broader context for needs-based career opportunities, participants develop a value of service, seeing the impact of their actions first hand, and cultivate this desire to serve their communities once they return.
On every Outward Bound course reflection is an integral part of the learning process. During the solo phase of course, participants will find reprieve from the rigors of daily travel and spend a structured period of rest and reflection near the group's base camp. The primary focus of this time is to reflect on personal and group goals. Depending on the student age and the length of the expedition, this experience can range in length from a few hours to three days. Participants are provided with food, shelter and occasional check-ins from Instructors during the experience.
Participants can expect a longer solo, up to 72 hours. The solo and reflective time in outdoor educator courses will be focused on contemplation around experiential education methodology and their individual strengths as educators.
Our courses vary in length from 4 to 85 days. On shorter courses, participants will receive an intro to leadership skills, strength of character and a desire to serve. With longer courses, the same outcomes and benefits are achieved with the ability to reach a more profound level of mastery as there are more opportunities develop technical skills, receive and implement feedback and further personal development.
Yosemite National Park and the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range are famous for breathtaking views of waterfalls, massive granite domes, and peaceful alpine meadows. Yosemite is home to some of the world's most treasured landmarks. Places like El Capitan, Half Dome and Glacier Point can be seen on the horizon along with dramatic alpine scenery—peaks rising from the valley to elevations above 12,000 feet. With fairly stable and beautiful weather, as summer advances, temperatures tend to become more moderate, in the 70s to 80s during the day and 30s to 50s in the evening.
Joshua Tree National Park is famous for its high desert moonscape, where rugged mountains and desert plateaus were sculpted by wind and rain. Three distinct ecosystems come together to form this land of extremes: the dark, cold, star-filled nights against warm sand and boulder-filled days. Weather in the park is generally dry and rainfall is sparse, though unpredictable, irregular, and sometimes persistent thunderstorms do occur. Temperatures can vary, averaging 50-80 degrees during the day to a cool 30 at night and potentially hitting 100 early or late in the season.
The urban portion of the course will take participants on a tour of San Francisco landmarks like Chinatown, Golden Gate Bridge, Pier 39, the Mission District, Baker Beach, and Market Street. Participants will camp in local parks and with unique partner agencies across the city. San Francisco offers rich histories, diverse cultural traditions and foods, and an abundance of initiative opportunities. Though a dramatic change from the mountains and desert, participants will find inspiration and new perspectives in this bustling, beautiful city.
Alpine Backpack Yosemite to the Ansel Adams Wilderness (Introductory lessons to backpacking, camp craft, and navigation).
Transition to San Francisco Bay Area. Service enroute.


A case study of right ventricular rupture in an elderly victim of motor vehicle crash: incorporating end-of-life care into trauma nursing.
Cardiac trauma fatalities occur in 22% of victims of motor vehicle crash. Blunt cardiac trauma may result in myocardial rupture. Mechanisms of injury include compression, deceleration, laceration, and "hydraulic ram" effect. Diagnosis is difficult because of coexisting injuries and the lack of evidence-based protocols. Physiological changes in the elderly and the presence of comorbid illness result in poor survival rates when myocardial rupture occurs. Trauma nurses must be prepared to provide end-of-life care related to the poor outcome associated with myocardial rupture. This case study reports a right ventricular rupture in an elderly patient involved in a frontal motor vehicle crash.
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Guide to Egginton, Bedfordshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
↑ Samuel A. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 150-154. Date accessed: 29 August 2013..


CosmoExpo is based in Moscow (Russia) and has representatives in Madrid (Spain).
CosmoExpo has been successfully operating in the fast-growing Russian beauty market for more than 10 years, acting as the meeting place for the industry professionals. The Russian version of the website www.cosmo-expo.ru is visited by approximately 35 000 professionals each month and its weekly newsletter called "CosmoExpo: Beauty Industry News" has around 40 000 subscribers.
- More than 210 000 professionals in Russia specializing in beauty and cosmetic with our partner network of 26 websites.
- Final consumers reaching up to 1 million** Russian internet users every month (**through the news section of Yandex and Google).
CosmoExpo is now available for foreign companies willing to enter the Russian beauty and cosmetic market exporting their products and finding professional distributors in Russia. Its exceptional expert knowledge and popularity in Russia makes this trade show a unique opportunity to enter this booming market in an easy and a cost-effective way.


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Die  Ohr-Weide, Öhrchen-Weide oder Salbei-Weide (Salix aurita) ist eine Pflanzenart aus der Gattung der Weiden innerhalb der Familie der Weidengewächse (Salicaceae).

Beschreibung

Vegetative Merkmale
Die Ohr-Weide ist ein sommergrüner, mehrstämmiger, reichverzweigter Strauch, selten auch ein kleiner Baum und erreicht Wuchshöhen von 2 bis 3 Metern. Die graubraune Rinde der Zweige ist anfangs filzig behaart und bleibt glatt, wechselt ihre Farbe später nach braun bis schwärzlich. Die Winterknospen sind braun bis rot, kahl, eiförmig und 3 bis 5 mm lang. Den winterlichen Zweigen fehlt eine Endknospe.

Die wechselständig an den Zweigen angeordneten Laubblätter sind in Blattstiel und Blattspreite gegliedert. Der Blattstiel ist 4 bis 10 Millimeter lang. Die einfache Blattspreite ist bei einer Länge von bis zu 5 Zentimetern sowie einer Breite von etwa 2,5 Zentimetern verkehrt-eiförmig. Die Blattoberseite ist dunkelgrün, die -unterseite weißlich bis blaugrün und beidseitig behaart. Die Spreitenspitze ist meist gedreht und der Blattrand ist unregelmäßig grob gesägt. Die bleibenden Nebenblätter sind nierenförmig.

Generative Merkmale
Die Blütezeit reicht von März bis Mai. Die Ohr-Weide ist zweihäusig getrenntgeschlechtig (diözisch). Die unscheinbaren Blüten erscheinen vor dem Laubaustrieb in kätzchenförmigen Blütenständen. Die männlichen Kätzchen sind bis 2,5 Zentimeter lang und die weiblichen bis 3 Zentimeter lang.

Die vielsamige Kapselfrucht ist 7 bis 8 Millimeter lang. Die Fruchtreife fällt in den Mai und Juni.

Die Chromosomenzahl beträgt 2n = 38 oder 76.

Vorkommen
Das natürliche Verbreitungsgebiet der Ohr-Weide erstreckt sich über Europa und Westasien. In Mitteleuropa gedeiht die Ohr-Weide vom Tiefland in Höhenlagen von bis zu 1800 Metern in den Nordalpen. In den Allgäuer Alpen steigt sie in Bayern am Söllereck in eine Höhenlage bis zu 1650 Meter auf.

Salix aurita gedeiht am besten auf feuchten, basen- und nährsalzarmen Sand- bis Sandlehmböden. Sie ist häufig in Flachmooren, Quellsümpfen und an Grabenrändern zu finden. Die lichtbedürftige Ohr-Weide wächst häufig im Freistand, aber auch vergesellschaftet mit Sal-Weide (Salix caprea), Moor-Birke (Betula pubescens), Grau-Erle (Alnus incana), Schwarz-Erle (Alnus glutinosa) und Faulbaum (Frangula alnus). Sie ist eine Charakterart des Salicetum auritae aus dem Verband Salicion cinereae und kommt auch in Pflanzengesellschaften des Unterverbands Frangulo-Rubenion vor.

Literatur
 Ulrich Hecker: BLV Handbuch Bäume und Sträucher. München 2006, ISBN 3-405-15876-1

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Weblinks

 Bestimmungshilfe bei baumkunde.de.
 Thomas Meyer: Datenblatt mit Bestimmungsschlüssel und Fotos bei Flora-de: Flora von Deutschland (alter Name der Webseite: Blumen in Schwaben).

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Meet Jean Danson!
During NOVA's April 2010 medical mission to Haiti, our volunteer medical team examined a little 4 year old boy, Jean-Danson Etienne. Danson's mom said that he was becoming listless and often had little energy. A simple stethoscope revealed a significant heart murmur that our medical team became worried about. There was nothing more we could do for him, but there was definitely something wrong with the little guy's heart. The doctor's suspected a serious heart condition but only further tests available in Port au Prince, 5 hours away, would tell us for sure.
As with most of our patients, Danson's family is very poor and don't have the means to go to the capital for medical care. So, NOVA arranged with Solanges Toussaint, our volunteer and board member who lives in Port au Prince, to have the necessary tests done. That' was all we could do at that point and Danson and his mom just had to go home.
They did make the trip to Port au Prince and NOVA paid for the tests to be done. The news wasn't good. The tests showed that Danson has a congenital heart defect which will soon kill him. The surgery he needs in order to live is available in the US but just doesn't exist in Haiti. Danson's parents did their best to save their son's life but there simply was no way for him to make it unless he came to the US for surgery.
It took months for NOVA to help his mom get him a passport and a medical visa. Solanges had to do a lot of running around the capital, and she hosted the family when they were in the city. Stateside, the team scrambled to find a hospital and a surgeon who would donate their services for Danson. NOVA wound up partnering with Gift of Life in New Jersey who made the hospital arrangements and we brought the child and Solanges up to the US for surgery.
Danson and Solanges arrived this week and his surgery is scheduled for next week! We are hoping and praying that everything goes well for him, and we are confident that it will. There he is in the picture after arriving in New Jersey, smiling and excited after his first plane ride.
I'd like to thank everyone who worked hard to bring Danson here and who will continue to work hard to make sure his heart is healthy and strong, and to our donors without whom we could do none of this.
Welcome to the US Danson!
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GRAND HAVEN — The Ottawa County Prosecutor's Office victim assistance unit is hosting a moving night in Grand Haven Tuesday, April 30.
The free event will be held from 6-8:30 p.m. at Watermark Church in Grand Haven at 13060 U.S.-31. Pizza and snacks will be provided and a Netflix documentary about sexual assault awareness will be shown.
To register, contact Kristin Caron at kcaron@miottawa.org.