WCCH will hold a community health fair open to the public in Sulphur on Thursday, April 18, from 6 a.m. – 9 a.m. at Dynamic Dimensions Fitness Center located at 545 Cypress Street.
WCCH is pleased to announce that Kenneth Adamson, RN, has been named Emergency Department Director.
The Diagnostic Center of WCCH is pleased to announce its recent upgrade of a new 3 tesla (3T) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology.
WCCH will offer a seminar on diabetes. "Living Well with Diabetes" will feature guest speakers Kevin Schlamp, MD, family medicine physician and Daniel T. Hall IV, DPM, foot and ankle specialist.
WCCH is pleased to welcome Ravali Tarigopula (Tari), MD, pulmonary and critical care physician, to its growing medical staff.
WCCH is pleased to announce the addition of William Devin Seale, MD, general surgeon, to its medical staff.
WCCH is pleased to announce that Susan Sonnier has been promoted from Housekeeping Coordinator to the position of Environmental Services Director.
WCCH will host its diabetes support group on Monday, July 9 at 11:30 a.m. at the hospital's cafeteria conference room.
WCCH will host Healthy Meals in Minutes cooking demonstration on Tuesday, July 17.
WCCH is pleased to announce the addition of its Smart Curve technology for mammography screenings. The Smart Curve is a revolutionary mammography technology that is designed to provide a more comfortable mammogram screening without compromising image quality for an exceptional patient experience.
WCCH is pleased to announce the addition of Fadi Y. Malek, MD, pulmonologist, to its medical staff. Under his direction, the WCCH Pulmonology Clinic offers treatment options for asthma, bronchiectasis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pneumonia, pulmonary fibrosis, sleep apnea and other pulmonary-related conditions.
WCCH recently named Megan Gallien, Physical Therapist, as its Employee of the Month for December 2017.
WCCH recently recognized its October and November Employees of the Month for 2017.
WCCH recently recognized its August and September Employees of the Month for 2017. Gwen Thompson and Shelia Kinney were those selected to receive the honor during this time period.
WCCH recently named Jaqueitha Bertrand, RN, as its Employee of the Month for July 2017.
WCCH recently named Beverly Clanton as its Employee of the Month for June 2017.
WCCH recently recognized its April and May Employees of the Month for 2017. Susan Hyatt and Ashleigh Newsome, RN were those selected to receive the honor during this time period.
On Tuesday, May 9, Dr. Jake Cavanaugh, Audiologist, will be the featured speaker at WCCH's monthly diabetes support group meeting.
Camp Smiling F.A.C.E.S., a camp for developmentally disabled children ages 4-12, will be held June 5-9 at West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital's Genesis Therapeutic Riding Center.
WCCH has announced that three summer offerings of the Safe Sitter® babysitting class for girls and boys age 11 to 13 will be held.
WCCH will hold a community health fair open to the public in Sulphur on Thursday, April 13, from 5 a.m. – 9 a.m. at Dynamic Dimensions Fitness Center located at 545 Cypress Street.
WCCH recently recognized its February and March Employees of the Month for 2017. Ronnie Vice and Tammy Fontenot, RN, were those selected to receive the honor during this time period.
WCCH is pleased to announce its recent installation of new technology to offer 3D mammography screenings.
West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital is pleased to announce that Brian Thompson, RN, has been promoted from the position of House Supervisor to Patient Care Director.
In the December 2016 meeting of the Board of Commissioners of WCCH, the board elected its Chairman and Vice-Chairman to serve a two-year term beginning in 2017.
WCCH recently recognized its November and December Employees of the Month for 2016.
On Thursday, January 12, WCCH will hold its monthly "Pink Crusade" Breast Cancer Support Group meeting.
On Tuesday, January 17, at 11 a.m., WCCH will provide a free cooking demonstration in the WCCH Cafeteria Conference Room, located at 701 Cypress Street in Sulphur, for individuals looking for ideas for quick and healthy dishes.
WCCH recently recognized its September and October Employees of the Month for 2016. Courtney Henagan, RN and Lindsey Hamilton, COTA were those selected to receive the honor during this time period.
WCCH is pleased to announce that Kristine Lyons, MSN, RN, CPHQ, has been named chief quality transformation officer.
WCCH proudly announces earning Louisiana's primary breastfeeding designation given by The Gift.
WCCH recently named Amanda Stratton, radiologic technologist, as its Employee of the Month for August 2016.
WCCH has earned The Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval® for accreditation by demonstrating compliance with The Joint Commission's national standards for health care quality and safety in hospitals.
JW Peloquin, Vice President of Facilities Management and Safety Officer at WCCH, recently obtained certification in Healthcare Facilities by the American Hospital Association.
WCCH recently named Mike Klenke as its Employee of the Month for July 2016.
Cameron LNG awarded the Foundation of WCCH with a $6500 grant for the provision of numerous health programs and services for the residents of northern Cameron Parish and west Calcasieu Parish.
West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital will offer complimentary foot screenings on Wednesday, July 13 from 5-6:30 p.m. in the hospital's Wound Healing Center.
WCCH recently named Penny Holmes, LPN, as its Employee of the Month for May 2016.
WCCH was recently recognized by two independent organizations for scoring highly in the areas of safety and patient experience.
WCCH recently recognized its February and March Employees of the Month for 2016.
WCCH has received the 2016 Women's Choice Award® as one of America's Best Hospitals for Patient Safety.
CITGO Lake Charles presented the WCCH Foundation with a check in the amount of $7,500 in support of the Mac Burns Golf Tournament to benefit the WCCH Foundation.
WCCH recently named Tina Nalbone, RN as its Employee of the Month for December 2015.


DEFINITION: 1 Pair of Men Leather Shoes. Based on 0-50 contributions for Afghanistan, Aland Islands, Andorra and 81 more countries and 50-100 contributions for Albania, Algeria, Armenia and 19 more countries and over 100 contributions for Argentina, Australia, Austria and 82 more countries. The surveys were conducted by numbeo.com from May, 2011 to February, 2014. See this sample survey for the United States, respondents were asked "1 Pair of Men Leather Shoes". Prices in current USD.
"Countries Compared by Cost of living > Clothing and shoe prices > Shoes > Pair of men's leather shoes. International Statistics at NationMaster.com, http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/. Aggregates compiled by NationMaster." 2013-2014. <http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Cost-of-living/Clothing-and-shoe-prices/Shoes/Pair-of-men's-leather-shoes>.
"Countries Compared by Cost of living > Clothing and shoe prices > Shoes > Pair of men's leather shoes. International Statistics at NationMaster.com", http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/. Aggregates compiled by NationMaster. [Internet]. 2013-2014. Avaliable from: <http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Cost-of-living/Clothing-and-shoe-prices/Shoes/Pair-of-men's-leather-shoes>.
"Countries Compared by Cost of living > Clothing and shoe prices > Shoes > Pair of men's leather shoes. International Statistics at NationMaster.com", http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/. Aggregates compiled by NationMaster. Avaliable at: nationmaster.com. Assessed 2013-2014.


Regular readers will probably remember that I already touched upon the subject of returning MIA's to the Tekken arena. Since then though, things have happened (basically the confirmation of Jinpachi Mishima as the first returnee), and I think my list is due for a slight revision. Let's see if I call out any guess correctly or if my original list was still for the better. Well then, here's my new list of Wanted Returning Characters for Tekken Tag Tournament 2. It's a shorter list, but I've thought them out more.
Kunimitsu. Still want this hot ninja babe to appear, although the recent introduction of Jaycee means there will be two masked babes in the game if she does appear, which does not bode well. Still, the possibility of her fighting style being very cool and new (a cross between Yoshi and Raven, maybe?) is too tantalizing to ignore for me.
Jun will be back. I think.
Jun Kazama. Yep, I still hold fast that despite everything, despite Katsuhiro Harada's seeming resistance to her returning, there's been too much clamor for the original Kazama-ryu style fighter to make an appearance in TTT2. I'm hoping Jun will be significantly different from Asuka, and at least with some nice customizations and costumes. I'm of two minds as to how she will be portrayed- in canon she's probably in her thirties, so she's older than most of the female roster but should still be a beauty to behold. But the team may play with timelines a bit in this non-canon game and just show her in her young prime appearance. I am okay with either.
Unknown. Heck, Why NOT, since they brought back Jinpachi? She was the boss in the first Tekken Tag Tournament, so she's got a history with this particular franchise. How would she look and what would her customizations or costumes be? I hope the wolf spirit won't reappear, though I'd love for her to be back in her old black goo or ragged dress outfits. Her fight style would be as before- switching from fighter to fighter at random in-game (instead of Mokujin who changes only per round), which would make her a true Tekken expert's choice of player.
Other possibilities for returning are Michelle Chang– as a probable replacement for Julia in case she turns out to have had an identity change. Devil (and thus Angel) might not appear in a normal sense, as Harada has repeatedly said 'they are doing something new with him'. Doctor Boskonovitch doesn't seem to be on Harada's mind at all. Alex, P-Jack, Tetsujin and Combot are just alt skins. Then there are the Ogres- Ogre and True Ogre– whom I really don't like but admit have a good chance of being included.
I guess for now, the three babes above are my guesses in this little game. Hopefully at least one or even two of them turn up in the roster soon. With as yet only 42 fighters so far playable (including Jaycee and Jinpachi), I think that it's perhaps safe to say that there may be up to four slots more for any additional fighters, whether returning or all-new. We'll just have to wait and see then, eh? What are your thoughts, dudes and dudettes?
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 is slated for arcade release in Japan this Summer 2011.


>> that the mmap-based allocation code is significantly more prone to it.
> I have seen that.
Could you give some details (mostly about the scale of the problem)?
> know; but the fact is there.
It likely mmaps a bit more than requested, like you do in w32heap.c.
>> basically never happens, AFAIK.
> argument when it feels like it.
returning memory to the OS is the rule rather than the exception.


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Review | Your Father's Room, Michel Déon | Book of the Week
"The Duke of Westminster, the richest man in England, walked past, a cigar clamped between his teeth, in an out-at-elbow suit with corkscrewing trousers and his jacket pockets stuffed with tokens he had forgotten to cash in on his way out of the gaming room. A woman walked a step ahead of him, not turning round. She had an imperious expression and a very mobile face and wore a boater with a black ribbon. She was dripping with jewellery. Blanche said to her son, 'Look. That's Mademoiselle Chanel. Thanks to her we can cut our hair short without looking like servants'." [Your Father's Room, p. 36]
French novelist Michel Déon was born in Paris and died in Galway in 2016 at the age of 97. Admirers of Fournier and Flaubert and the world according to Proust would love his writing which is pared down and, although quintessentially French, has a universal resonance. The author of more than fifty works of fiction and non-fiction, and a member of the Académie Française, Déon was also a member of the 1950s French literary movement, 'Les Hussards', founded by Roger Nimier to oppose Existentialism and Jean-Paul Sartre. (The group was named after Roger Nimier's novel Le Hussard bleu – The Blue Hussar). The distinguished and controversial right-wing novelist, Paul Morand, was an inspirational figure for the group. "They form a fascinating quartet of original, cosmopolitan, witty minds, far superior to their British contemporaries, the Angry Young Men," poet, novelist and translator, James Kirkup wrote in The Independent in 2001.
Julian Evans and Gallic Books have done a superb job of bringing Michel Déon's work to an English-reading readership – the recognition it is receiving is long overdue. It is with curiosity and anticipation that I sat down to read Your Father's Room, a fictionalised memoir a.k.a. narrative non-fiction largely set in the South of France in the 1920s. The story begins with the author referring to his "memory box"opening and closing with a click like the shutter of an old camera.
Images from childhood stay with you all your life. There are words that stick, and faces that don't, and vice versa. Arguments among the literati about truth vs. lies and memoir-writing vs. narrative non-fiction are like a gordian knot. Hindsight bias has similarities to memory distortions. What one person remembers is forgotten by another. Perceptions vary wildly, and context matters.
The City of Lights
Édouard a.k.a. Teddy is born into a bourgeois Parisian family. It is thanks to his uncle's mistress that his parents end up in the sixteenth arrondissement since she owns several buildings in rue Henri-Heine and Avenue Mozart. "In a huge sitting room with scented oil lamps burning all around, a languid-looking woman is half lying on a sofa overflowing with damask cushions, a Pekinese on her knees, toying with an amber necklace and smoking mauve cigarettes with golden tips. She kisses him and lets him plunge his hand into a crystal bowl filled with chocolates. An aura of mystery surrounds her." Such an exotic image conjures that voluptuous painting of Sarah Bernhardt by Georges Clairin.
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Teddy's parents are gregarious and throw parties. The boy particularly likes Pat Paterson who lives in Montparnasse with a woman "who moved in all the artistic and bohemian circles: she had modelled for Van Dongen, Kisling and Pascin, who had all painted her portrait. She was known as La Monicci, she had a lovely sing-song Italian accent, and Papa said she was painted like a fairground and festooned with jewels so big they had to be false." Pat and his mistress are nice to the boy and generous: he is given a Peugeot bicycle for Christmas and a complete set of lead soldiers.
Teddy also hears his parents arguing and learns "not to repeat the things that grown-ups say." After observing a man with curly blond hair standing behind his mother as she makes coffee in the kitchen "his arms wrapped around her waist and nibbling the nape of her neck. She is laughing, not resisting, murmuring words that could just as easily be 'yes, yes' or 'no, no'," Teddy's relationship with his industrious, distant father changes. "From now on, Teddy can only see in his father a man he hides from in order to avoid the Truth. As a result, their relationship will remain difficult to the end, an end that comes much sooner than anyone imagined . . ." The boy obeys his mother. "'Not a word' was one of Blanche's cardinal rules, as it was for others. Any violation was severely punished. You only spoke freely to yourself or to a blank sheet of paper."
Thank Heavens for Little Girls
Schooling with "Mademoiselle de Cordemoy – Private Tuition" involves a dozen pupils congregating in what was once a sitting room in a private home. Teddy is sandwiched between Evangeline from Guadeloupe who smells of vanilla and is "surrounded by admirers who loved her giggles and gaiety and the massive goodness that radiated from her. No one would have dreamt of making fun of her size or the colour of her skin or her laziness," and the beautiful, mute, studious Huguette who sits on his right like an alabaster statue. Evangeline smothers him with kisses when she can, while Huguette is cool and disinterested – "Teddy was finding out that there are some women so unreachable they are only present for the twinkling of an eye."
A Carnival of Characters
The family moves south to Monte Carlo where Teddy's father is now counsellor to the Prince, and has "an official car with a uniformed chauffeur to drive him, and Maman was given a convertible coupé as a present." Those living the high-life on the Côte d'Azur bring to mind Noel Coward's famous quip about the Midi being "a sunny place for shady people" (it still is!) . . . an ageing mistress of Edward VII Prince of Wales who enjoys showing off her still-shapely legs . . . Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich a.k.a. the last Romanov who was involved in the murder of Rasputin and cuts a dashing figure . . . the notorious arms dealer Basil Zaharoff (who appears in Tintin and the Broken Ear) . . . a crazy Russian émigré who assassinates the President of the French Republic.
General Peter Polovtsov does PR for the casino and the private beaches, and his wife works as a portraitist. After painting Barbara Hutton, the world's richest woman, the high-society crowd beat a path to her door. Amazingly she suggests doing a portrait of Teddy, and his parents are delighted.
Teddy goes to see films like The Mystery of the Yellow Room with rebellious tomboy Katie who "smoked eucalyptus cigarettes in the street," and they get up to mischief. He learns at a young age that "no crime – was it a crime? – goes unpunished, especially if you're innocent."
Teddy's observations about the people around him may be those of a child coming of age, but he sees things grown ups cannot (or prefer not to) see. His gorgeous mother Blanche, who "smelled deliciously good", is anything but a good girl in reality; and his father is skilled at "making unpleasant situations bearable as he was of expressing his pessimism about promising ones." The relations between the grown ups come to light slowly and tantalizingly. There are shadows and innuendoes behind the façade of glittering glamour. Nothing can be said. The boy learns to dissemble. As the final curtain comes down he has to grow up fast and suddenly. It is only in front of the cook, Giuseppina, that he can let go, be himself and show emotion . . . but "The scars of an uncompleted childhood never heal."
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Your Father's Room is a bittersweet masterpiece of confusion and heartache, nuance and atmosphere, beautifully translated by Julian Evans. It opens a window on to a lost world of elegant bohemia – that of the Romantic Riviera of The Ballets Russes, Scott Fitzgerald, Man Ray and Katherine Mansfield. Today, it is largely forgotten that it is the British and the White Russians who brought to the rocky playground peninsula an aura of bejewelled glamour and beautiful gardens. Villas once owned by the stars of the avant garde like Somerset Maugham, Coco Chanel and Graham Sutherland are now inhabited by wealthy Arabs and Russians. Nostalgic and disturbingly familiar, Michel Déon's remembrance of things past is well worth reading.
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How the Liberated Pixel Cup changed gaming on Linux
By Mike Saunders (Linux Format Issue 165) 2013-02-17T08:00:00.47Z
Inside the competition for the best free Linux games
Chris Webber started the LPC, with help from OpenGameArt and the FSF
Humans may be the most creative species on the planet, but we spend a lot of time doing tedious things.
Look at the internet: it's a revolutionary and disruptive technology, with the potential to change education, governments and scientific research, yet most people use it to post comments on YouTube videos of mobile phones being unboxed.
Here in the free software world, we're familiar with the collaboration opportunities that the internet brings, and many great applications have been developed by teams of programmers around the globe.
But desktop and server applications aren't the most exciting things in the world. Wouldn't it be great if all the untapped creativity of humans on the internet could be funnelled into making artistic things, such as video games?
If you've followed the Hot Games section of HotPicks over the years, you'll have discovered a few notable projects involving multiple contributors; the vast majority, however, are one-man efforts. And part of the problem is this: a developer may come up with a brilliant idea for a game, but lack the artistic flair to make it look good.
The world of patents explained: how they affect what you buy
Or, conversely, a budding artist may love designing graphics for his/her ideal RPG, yet doesn't possess the technical nous to make it a playable reality.
We've seen loads of promising games let down by inadequate artwork, and heard from designers who'd love to contribute to an open source game, but don't know where to start or who to speak to.
This is where the Liberated Pixel Cup comes in. The LPC project aims to build an extensive resource of free (as in freedom) video game artwork for programmers to use. But it's more ambitious than a generic sharing system: using development phases, targets, deadlines and ratings, the LPC team have ensured that games get made, and it doesn't become a hypothetical exercise.
There are now a bunch of great-looking, professional-level games for Linux - and they're totally free software.
An epic contest for gaming freedom
OpenGameArt is a busy website that has been running since 2009, serving as a repository of user-submitted game graphics and music, along with a forum where programmers can request specific types of artwork. Earlier this year, Bart Kelsey, who runs the site, teamed up with Chris Webber of the Creative Commons, and together they fleshed out the LPC concept.
They wanted to create a fast-paced competition, whereby artists around the internet would generate as much graphic content as possible in a one-month period, and then in the following month developers would write games based on that artwork.
A core principle of the LPC is that all content is free as in freedom - that is, the graphics must be submitted under the Creative Commons BY-SA licence, which lets anyone share and modify the resources, as long as they provide attribution to the original author and share only under equally permissive licences.
Code, meanwhile, had to be under the terms of the GPL. With these requirements, the Free Software Foundation was happy to get on board and lend its support as well.
Kelsey and Webber wanted to award cash prizes for the best entries, so they set up a fundraiser; at the time of writing, it had raked in an impressive $12,256, slightly exceeding the original goal.
Then, the next step was to set up a style guide for the artwork. What sort of games should the LPC focus on? It would have been easy to let anything go, and open up the contest to all sorts of genres and artistic styles, but then it would be incredibly difficult to fit content from different authors together.
Imagine if you were trying to write a game using multiple graphics sources, and they all had different sizes, perspectives and lighting effects - it'd be a horrible mess.
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Conan Doyle Info – Sherlock Holmes is Just the Beginning!
Conan Doyle was born in Scotland on May 22, 1859. He passed away on July 7, 1930. Between those two days, he led quite a life! See a timeline for the professional and private life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
During the Second World War the British government made sure that despite paper shortages The White Company was kept in print. The book was considered a national morale booster.
Irene Adler, Mycroft Holmes, Professor Moriarty and more. Here is some information about several of the most important people in the world of Sherlock Holmes.
Test your knowledge by matching the first line of the story from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes to its title.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Scotland on May 22, 1859. He was an author and the creator of Sherlock Holmes. He's also known for The Lost World and The White Company.
This site features articles about little- known aspects of Conan Doyle's life including his time as a ship's surgeon, his tangled love life and his troubled father. Visit the quotations pages to find one of the largest collection of Conan Doyle quotations anywhere.
When William Gordon was released from Peterhead Prison he smuggled out a message from fellow prisoner, Oscar Slater. The message, written on waterproof paper and hidden under Gordon's tongue, was a plea for help. It was to be delivered to none other than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Inspirational Quotes by Conan Doyle
Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best; though when the good is a furlong off, and we with our beetle eyes can only see three inches, it takes some confidence in general principles to pull us through. ~ The Stark Munro Letters
More Inspirational Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
In early 1880 Claude Augustus Currie planned to have the adventure of a lifetime. He was scheduled to go on a whaling expedition as ship's surgeon. At the last minute he couldn't go. He asked a fellow student to take his place. That student was Arthur Conan Doyle.
In 1893 Sherlock Holmes met his death at Reichenbach Falls in "The Adventure of the Final Problem". His fans had to wait until 1901 to once again enjoy a novel featuring the great detective. That novel was "The Hound of the Baskervilles".
A Knife in the Fog: A Mystery Featuring Margaret Harkness and Arthur Conan Doyle
Physician Arthur Conan Doyle takes a break from his practice to assist London police in tracking down Jack the Ripper in this debut novel and series starter.


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A week without an actual game but we made up for that by bluebooking.
At Claremont Academy Ashen hadn't been around for the horror of "Things that go Bump in the Night" - in a previous post we learn about his origins while attending the Carpathian Consulate.
In https://claremontacademy.wordpress.c...housand-steps/ Gustav decides he will stage a rebellion back home and expects the school to support him. Things don't go quite as he expects in a meeting with the head teacher Mr Summers and Naomi Van Helsing.
Back with the Balance, the majority of the team are still trapped in the Faerie Realms. In a follow-up to "Something Wicked this Way Comes, The Princess of Skyfall wonders about the strange mortals passing through in their strange skyships in https://mm3e.wordpress.com/2018/12/0...-manners-born/
The research Akira did on the Faeries is revealed in https://mm3e.wordpress.com/2018/12/0...faeirie-realm/
and back on Earth the Balance 2.0 receive another of lockers Vlog posts in https://mm3e.wordpress.com/2018/12/0...wo-steps-back/
For an explanation on bluebooking go to https://mm3e.wordpress.com/bluebooking/
Re: A UK Campaign (Claremont Academy)
Another full session cancelled due to 'life' so back to Claremont Academy and a visit to the theatre to see Tabitha Tobias aka Taboo and her magic show and then backstage to visit with the star. Only for their meeting to be interrupted by a couple of kidnappers in power armour forcing Firewall and Ashen to give chase.
"Ladies and gentleman, I believe that there are three kinds of magic in this world; the first is real, consisting of mystical manipulation of reality, the second type is staged illusion, trickery and misdirection, the third is Arthur C. Clarke magic – technology so advanced it seems mystical. For the next few hours, I intend to show that all three can seem indistinguishable from each other and I challenge you to prove which is which. Where does stage magic and technological trickery end and real magic begin? I will let you decide. Hope you enjoy the show!"
Tabitha Tobias (Taboo) at the start of her Performance at the Wessex Jubilee Concert Hall
Full notes at https://claremontacademy.wordpress.c...he-third-kind/
Re: A UK Campaign
The holidays have again made getting the 'gang' together for an actual face-to-face-to-Skype session over the Christmas period 'difficult'.
So, with the Balance still trapped in the Faerie Realms, there have again been a series of bluebooking posts. Some are foreshadowing possible future events or looking at previous as yet unexplored adventure hooks and unresolved mysteries.
There are the outstanding mysteries of the teleporting alien corgi (first mentioned in Bluebook Session 20a: Information, Conversations, Visitations and Merchandising), Adam's ghost in the BASEment, the connection with the new hero Locker and the mystery of the New Knights of the Round Table.
More details of the latest post can be found at https://mm3e.wordpress.com/2018/12/2...d-transitions/
You can read all five of the holiday bluebook sessions (so far) at the bottom of https://mm3e.wordpress.com/guide-to-episodes/ as well as all of the team's previous adventures.
Now we just need to get everyone together to resolve the issue of why the Terminus is present in the Faerie Realm as well as trying to stop a war between the Courts of Summer and Winter.
The balance are still in the Faerie Realm, fleeing the Wylde Hunt, stopping a war between the Summer and Winter realms and an assassination attempt on Queen Titania by the Terminus before they realise that the hold the answer to restoring the Summer Kingdom to its former glory.
They finally leave the Faerie Realm only to find themselves in a darkened street in an unrecognised city.
Part 3 of the Faerie Realm Odyssey can be read at https://mm3e.wordpress.com/2019/01/0...ld-wind-blows/
Details of our latest face-to-face session.
With a visiting player and a key member of The Balance unable to attend, we revisited Claremont Academy. Winter had set in at the school and mock exams are the order of the day at school so what better time to have a break and visit the fair?
The students visit the Fair as Outrage, Cadet, Firewall and Ashen ride the rides, get into a dance off against a rival school and encounter the hypnotic influence of the mysterious Browser.
Introducing The Pryde Institute for Troubled Meta-Teens (nicknamed the PITT) and some of its students - Apex, Scythe, Ms Kitty, Winter, Scorpion, Hi-Def and DoS.
https://claremontacademy.wordpress.c...n-of-the-fair/
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Unable to get the whole group together for some time now, we had a bluebooking session about Claremont Academy detailing what had happened to Ms Kitty, Ashen's experience of trying to develop his mental shields under the tuition of the alien 'Also Rhan' and Chris is penalised for 'losing' yet another Comm-Unit.
The session is detailed at https://claremontacademy.wordpress.c...d-the-curtain/
Then a couple of days ago Ashen and Firewall came together during the school holidays for a rescue from a tower block on fire in St Mary Mede. When the Firefighters are frustrated and unable to rescue the remaining citizens from the top of the tower block, who are you gonna call?
https://claremontacademy.wordpress.c...d-for-heights/
The whole team finally comes together (only for one of the group to have to back out) so his character is run by the others so the game can continue after a month's break...
The Balance's odyssey continues - having spent time in the Faerie Realms they finally return home to find time runs differently there and half a century has passed on Earth. An Earth that is now controlled jointly by Vampires and Mages - Humanity's free-range days are over, welcome to the Battery Farm!
Last games play notes can be found at https://mm3e.wordpress.com/2019/02/0...2-once-bitten/
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My group generally play face-to-face-to-Skype (since Sam's player moved away from the area) once a fortnight (that's every two weeks for those who are unfamiliar with the term) with a bluebooking session or three in between. At times this gap has a tendency to drift as real life and work interferes with our best laid plans.
When we first set out to play (first time ever for any of us playing M&M and of course as I had suggested the idea I got to be the GM) we set up the Balance as a new team in a world similar but not quite the same as the Freedomverse and our own world.
Our primary group was intended to be able to adventure everywhere from space to the Faerie Realm and have had some fun adventures (see www.mm3e.wordpress.com for the full set of adventure write ups) but because some of us work irregular shifts it wasn't always possible to get everyone together on a regular date and time (and it never feels right to play a missing players character as a NPC though we have done so on occasion - with their permission).
As this our primary game has frequently had multi-session campaigns it did mean that it was hard to play if only half the team turned up on the night so we agreed (in some cases reluctantly) to set up a separate campaign set in the same universe but with different characters, where each session was separate to the one before and would work with whatever players were present that night. Of the Balance players, only one has shown no interest in participating and her character did appear as her adult character in one of the filler sessions.
This filler campaign was a hero high campaign set in the outskirts of the city of Wessex (fictional city) in the UK (no, not a fictional country) with over a thousand pupils and about 250 boarders some of whom were meta-humans (though not all were outed).
The pupils were aged between 11 and 18 and those with exotic abilities were being trained to become HCP registered (HCP - Hero Certification Programme).
Yes its got all the standard elements you'd expect from a hack and plagiarist like myself - rival school(s), bullies, time travel, rescues. But, confession time I really enjoy the lower power level / soap opera elements of that filler campaign. It has been fun for everyone I think and the bluebooking has allowed it to retain its teen angst/school flavour (exams, bullying, sexuality etc.) which are all handled in this format leaving the face-to-face-skype sessions for adventuring.
Their latest adventure was rescuing people from tower block fire (no cats were harmed during the making of that session) and it made for a nice change from saving the world/universe with the main team. In a follow-up to that we bluebooked some unexpected consequences to their actions which again in very soap opera'sh but felt like a fun bit of recognition.
Notes for the last bluebooking session can be found at https://claremontacademy.wordpress.c...-consequences/
and their full write ups can be found at https://claremontacademy.wordpress.com/
It would be nice to get people's thoughts on the campaign so far.
We finally managed to get the whole team together for the end of the Faerie Realm Odyssey (only for our friend who joins us on Skype to have microphone problems. In the end they texted their comments and was still able to fully participate as thankfully everything else worked).
So in "Twice Shy and Homeward Bound" episode, the players again found themselves in the Library but this time as thieves searching for the Emerald Key of Power, the Time Blade and facing off against the Outer Circle (Thanks to JDRook for his Herolab builds of the AoV supplement "PENTACLE of SHADOWS" characters who became the Outer Circle of the Court of Shadows)
So after five episodes the team finally make their way back to their own time period, admittedly several months after they had first left.
https://mm3e.wordpress.com/2019/02/2...omeward-bound/
The episode title was chosen both to tie into the previous episode (One bitten, twice shy) but also because the team members are currently using invisibility as often as they can and especially in this episode.
How do you handle players changing their characters or taking time out? Last time this happened the player was no longer able to participate, so we had his character vanish in the next adventure only to subsequently reappear later on, older and as a misguided villain.
In our main campaign this time one of the players decided they wanted to try out a new character (but thought they might want to bring their old character back some day) while another player suddenly decided to take a break.We elected to bluebook the situation in Unbridged - see https://mm3e.wordpress.com/2019/02/2...3a-unbalanced/
In a related bluebook post we decided to build an existing NPC computer system into a sentient self-aware artificial intelligence so we recorded the moment it upgraded itself.in a bluebook post at https://mm3e.wordpress.com/2019/03/0...e-becomes-her/
Latest session now online - the Balance are called to a battle between two Meta's on a bridge only to find that the fight is tearing the bridge apart and there are people trapped. An introduction to the latest member of the group, the exoskeleton-powered Locker.
https://mm3e.wordpress.com/2019/03/2...roubled-water/
I reintroduced an old enemy, the Meta/sentient storm hybrid Calypso and added a seismic-powered young teen to the mix.
Good fun.
Re: A UK Campaign - What's happened so far?
A comment from one of my players at the weekend got me reaching for a calculator...
When I started my campaign a couple of years ago I took the decision that I would write up each of the sessions afterwards. This would make it easier for the players (and guests to our world) to 'remember' what the players had done, who they had fought and what they had learnt. It detailed the history of the team and allowed others to vicariously participate.
I realised when I did a rough calculation that the 44 face-to-face sessions (46 if you count the two crossover sessions with Claremont High) and the 77 play-by-email bluebooking sessions to date added up to over 3/4 of a million words about the team's adventures and still going strong.
So what do the 3/4 million words recorded so far actually cover? Well all the episodes and bluebooking sessions can be found in chronological order at https://mm3e.wordpress.com/guide-to-episodes/ and a synopsis of their exploits is included below. I hope you will join them as they explore their universe. This is a Superhero campaign primarily set in London, the city of Wessex and throughout the UK (As well as in France, Carpathia, Gibraltar, Israel, Bali, Africa, near orbit, through Time and in the Faerie Realms - so far...)
Their latest bluebooking session revolves round Akira's retreat to Ffrwd Dyluan following Young Sam's departure from the team and Akira's discovery of a mysterious journal in the library - see https://mm3e.wordpress.com/2019/03/2...-44a-time-out/ for more details.
Please note my writing style has changed several times as I got better at keeping track of who did and said what during a session.
The very first episode – Strangers in a Strange Land was an attempt to introduce my two new players to the Mutants & Masterminds 3e system AND to a new, very different parallel universe – the aim was to make it clear from the start that they were "not in Kansas anymore, Toto" with my two players find themselves having been transported to this parallel world, straight into a temporal fight. During the episode the primary UK superhero team (The Protectors) vanished when a large part of Birmingham disappeared mysteriously. This was to leave space for the team to grow into as their potential, future replacements. It was also a nod to a PBM campaign I ran in the 90's. It introduced a number of adventure leads that would play out later in the campaign. In reality though it was too much to try and do in a single session and it became a bit confused.
In an attempt to take things back to basics their next adventure, Raggedy Anne was a classic ghost story and it gave the players a chance to settle in.
The next episode introduced two new players to the game and I decided to break them in gently, so used an adaption of a short Champions adventure (No More Mr Nice Guy) to introduce them to the Irish terrorist, Disunity Jack. (In this universe the independence of Eire never occurred and the Troubles were still happening - with Queen Elizabeth II being assassinated by a terrorist only a couple of years before.)
Unfortunately, following that episode one of the original players had some real life issues and could no longer attend so his character had to vanish, apparently kidnapped by his 'time-twin'. It did give me the opportunity to emphasise the importance in this campaign on their HCP Licenses (Hero Certification Programme - see https://mm3e.wordpress.com/the-hero-...ion-programme/ ) and my rule about no deliberate killing (it's the UK, we roll with non-lethal takedown) when Chrono is brought before a court to answer for his actions and behaviour.
We subsequently explored a couple of linked themes – my take on the start of the Emerald City Knights adventure and the Terminus Invasion (which would be revisited). Note several names and characters were changed to better fit our own unique background.
Several issues later I ended that thread for the moment and we explored some of the players backgrounds and an apparent one-off encounter with the Tea Party and the Mad Hatter (the looking glass gange from Threat Report) which introduced them to the Library and the Black Chapter.
That led to France (based on the Champions adventure Coriolis Effect), Carpathia, Gibraltar and finally Israel (and my take on the classic Time of Vengeance adventure).
Returning home the team found them back in the UK hunting a monster in the sewers under the district of Dragon's Gate in Wessex.
A trip into near space with an alien Prince led to a "Mission Impossible" style rescue.
They subsequently meet Mace and the Untouchables, headed to the Endeavour Pub for a night of Karaoke and then meet the Archangel Gabriel ("just call me Gabby") and Superior Rex and 'audition' before a rescue mission to Bali and facing the Krampus in a Christmas-themed adventure.
The team accidentally travelled to the destroyed city of Wessex, sometime in the future having rescued some people from a secret base on an island in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland. There they discover the Earth has been invaded by inter-dimensional Reivers known as the Terminus and carry out a prisoner rescue before returning to the island.
Witnessing their earlier selves, the Balance set out to rescue the rest of the prisoners and stop P.I.S.C.E.S. from destroying the island whilst not being seen by their earlier selves and potentially changing time.
Back home, family and friends – Adam, Jean and Mai-Li – are kidnapped. To rescue them the team must agree to enter the Slaughterhouse.
After escaping that, The Balance spend a few days recovering only to discover there is a contract out on their heads. They meet and identify a few past and future foes and Akira has an epiphany. Then Sam and Annie head to a Comic-Con.
With a mystical rare prize on offer, the team find themselves dealing with a couple of assassination attempts on their lives, have to deal with a prisoner escape and meet an old foe.
The team return to Ffrwd Dylluan where they again meet the Oktoberkynde and are trapped by the witch hunter Hexenhammer and his recently enslaved hound, Abyss.
Mace was faced with the question, "does it still count as non-lethal if you 'kill' the undead?"
They undertook a trip to rebuilt a couple of orphanages in Sierra Leone whilst their new PR/Lawyer Jimmy the Fish tries to repair their reputations. On their return, they were called in to help deal with a local street gang armed with alien tech and discover a way to identify people infected with the alien control parasites.
A robotic Saviour sent back in time to prevent an extinction event meets the Balance.
A visit by a Library researcher results in an assault on the building known as the Vault and Akira's family connection to the Fisher King is finally explained.
They are invited to visit Dakata in Africa. Whilst there the Country is invaded and they help defend it. In the process they meet an alien turned Goddess, Sam destroys the Raft and they discover the origin of vampires. Before leaving Africa, they agree to transport a prisoner to Kenya, find themselves saving a sentient gorilla pup and worry about what is happening with Akira.
A transformed Akira vanishes and then a mystical call comes in from the Library only for the intruders to be revealed as 'Akira' and two others. At the end the team find themselves trapped in the Faerie Realm with Akira's evil Doppelgänger.
Whilst they explore, make allies and participate in a Duello Arcane to replace the missing, believed murdered, Summer Knight only to subsequently liberate him, help to stop a war and promise to undertake a task for the Winter Court at some point. While helping the Summer Knight to retain his title, the Palace is invaded by a Terminus Exploratory Force before they are sent 'home' only to be stranded without Akira in a dark city they didn't recognise.
Discovering that the city is Wessex half a century after they had left it, they learn that the Terminus invasion was defeated by a cabal of dark mages and vampires. Now the world is controlled by them and the only way home seems to be finding a certain Emerald Key of Power. The Topaz Key leads them to the Library of the future, a library devoid of books but filled with members of the Outer Circle of the Court of Shadows.
Back home, Sam and Annie have some unexpected news for the rest of the team and Akira elects to take some time out. While at his 'retreat' he discovers a journal.
A few weeks later the newest member of The Balance, Locker is introduced to the public as the team face an old enemy.
I should point out that due to other commitments as well as weekend and evening work from myself and other players sessions can be irregular and that was why we started up the Claremont Academy sessions for when insufficient numbers could get together to play a full team session - Claremont Academy is a boarding school with day students as well. Its a normal high school with over a thousand pupils attending but unbeknownst to most of them underground is a secret training facility for training HCP students.
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The astounding effort on your part is really appreciated! I haven't been involved in an active campaign in a while, but I wish I could have played through the adventures described in your post!
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Thank you, glad you enjoyed.
After a long break since the last face-to-face session (due to conflicting calendars) The Balance went forth to deal with a series of unlikely events in the Capital and again found themselves dealing with the robotic Gabby and his Critics Three as well as a pratfall of clowns who appeared to have de-aged the Prime Minister and her Cabinet.
https://mm3e.wordpress.com/2019/04/0...in-the-clowns/
Between games we had several bluebooking sessions such as Akira explaining what happened during his retreat and what he learnt from a mysterious journal he found (https://mm3e.wordpress.com/2019/03/2...-44a-time-out/), Mary's discussion with Naomi Van Helsing about vampires and the Sanguine Grail (https://mm3e.wordpress.com/2019/03/3...b-blood-steel/) as well as a glimpse of what has been happening behind the scenes with Sir damien Dalton and finally a session about Lockers first Vlog since joining the Balance at https://mm3e.wordpress.com/2019/04/0...so-ill-finish/
Next session will be in two weeks time (we hope).
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There are many exacts in life.
Exactly how much flour you need to bake a cake.
Exactly how many feet there are in a yard.
Exactly how many hours there are in a day.
But when it comes to nursing there are no exacts.
In the beginning, it was challenging because I wanted to know exactly how much milk my baby was getting.
To be able to tell exactly how long she needed to nurse to get that amount.
To be able to know exactly when she'd drank enough to be able to gain the proper weight she needed to gain.
My mind would play tricks on me and I'd wonder if any milk was even coming out. I'd look down at her and she was definitely eating. Or was she? I'd feel the let down, but then I'd wonder if I'd imagined it.
I know this probably sounds a bit neurotic. Okay, a lot neurotic.
But over time I learned that nursing is about instincts. Just like being a mom is about instincts. And about trusting that you know what you're doing.


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Fabuła gry jest umieszczona w starożytnej Grecji i nawiązuje do mitologii greckiej. Istnieje również dodatek do gry – "Posejdon – Bóg Atlantydy". Znajdują się w nim dodatkowe misje, w których gracze kierują Atlantydami (nowymi miastami). Niewiele różnią się one od greckich miast. Zmieniona została w nim szata graficzna większości budynków oraz zmieniono przeznaczenie obiektów kultury. W odróżnieniu od wersji podstawowej nie ma w nim igrzysk, a filozofów, aktorów i sportowców zastąpili naukowcy, kustosze i humaniści. Dodano nowy rodzaj żywności (pomarańcze) oraz można hodować bydło, które daje mięso. Zwiększono także liczbę obiektów estetyki, które upiększają nasze miasto. Można także wybudować piramidy, korzystając z surowców potrzebnych do budowy świątyń. Nowymi obiektami są hipodrom i nowy most. W wersji podstawowej dostępna była jedynie możliwość zbudowania kładki przez wodę, pod którą nie mogły przepływać statki. Na nowym obiekcie sportowym, jakim jest hipodrom, są organizowane wyścigi konne, które dają rozrywkę obywatelom.

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Any vessel breaking adrift and recovered by the Queen's Harbour Master will be subject to a lien and not released until such time as an undertaking is signed in which the owner agrees to meet the Ministry of Defence costs.
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"There's Still A Lot We Can Do"
A patient with stage 4 prostate cancer muses about illness, inevitability, and making the most out of time.
March 09, 2022 | By MARTIN MERZER
PCF thanks Mr. Merzer for sharing his personal story, and for his dedication and support during the 100 Miles in March walking challenge.
It is inevitable. It is part of life. It is how it all works.
Sooner or later, preferably later and not frequently, bad news arrives. For me and for those I love, it arrived last April 15 via email from the urologist, moments before my wife and I were to meet with our radiation oncologist to review the same report:
"I got your Axumin PET/CT and unfortunately it does not look good. There is the suggestion of metastatic disease to multiple lymph nodes in your body. This means that you will need systemic treatment…. I am very sorry that we did not have better test results. That said, there still is a lot we can do."
Everyone reading this knows that the words "there still is a lot we can do" are true, but also stop short of being fully reassuring. That phrase describes a path that will be followed – and that may not be lengthy before it ends.
So, given this reality, how does one respond emotionally, how does one interact with others, how does one…live…with this situation and this knowledge?
More about that in a moment. But first:
As I write this, the path forward is carrying us – my wife Marion and I – on the Prostate Cancer Foundation's "100 Miles in March" journey. The project is intended to raise funds but also, importantly, to elevate awareness of prostate cancer (PCa). We are doing our best to assist.
After maintaining some distance between my Facebook page and a less widely read blog created to track my illness and treatment, I shared on Facebook a fundraising link for the "100 Miles in March" challenge – and I shared the first summary there of what we have been dealing with for the past nine months. Actually, the past four years.
That post triggered a humbling and comforting outpouring of support. And it inspired many friends and relatives to redouble their efforts to monitor the tell-tale Prostate Specific Antigen blood marker. I count that as a major win, even as we still tally our March miles.
The elevator version of my case: After an 18-month interregnum in radiation and androgen deprivation therapy (a break not taken as a "vacation" but in the hope and expectation that the beast had been slain), PCa was back, big time. Over a period of just four months, my PSA exploded from 0.7 to 6.5 and then, a month later – what the what?! – to 11.6. The scan showed extensive metastases throughout my lymphatic system, from my chest all the way down to my pelvis, and, again, in and around what was left of my prostate.
The undeniable verdict: Stage four metastatic advanced prostate cancer, with the likelihood that forward scouts with malignant intent were canoeing through my bloodstream, intent on forming more landing parties on distant shores.
Surgery was out, as was any immediate assistance from my radiation oncologist, who won our Most Valuable Player award during my rookie prostate-cancer season in 2018 but now was just observing from a skybox. Instead, summoned from the bullpen on an urgent basis was a PCa oncology expert who didn't let me leave his office without the first two of a series of Firmagon shots in the belly. Ouch! Also, double ouch!
Today, with the forces of evil in partial retreat, I'm back on Eligard® (every-four-month blasts from the 2018 past) and Erleada®, both intended to starve the cancer cells of the testosterone they generally need to thrive. Also, for good measure, I'm getting Prolia® to strengthen my bones, the cancer's next likely landing sites. The side effects of all of this are substantial but tolerable.
We are aware that this will not last long and that, as the wily cancer cells figure out how to rally and stage new assaults, the treatments and consequences will become more harsh.
So, returning to our theme, how does one deal with these realities on a daily, hourly, minute-by-minute basis? Just as every manifestation of this disease is different, so, too, are the reactions and responses of each patient.
I want to make clear that what follows is applicable only to me – I make no value judgements regarding the responses of those who may be in more physical pain or emotional distress. Also, I am blessed with a caring support system – wife, adult daughter, grandkids who bring us joy while only vaguely aware of my condition, and friends.
All of that said, I don't deal with this in an all-consuming manner. Or at least I try not to. By this I mean I do not engage in a countdown of sorts. "Well, that's another hour gone, another day gone. One hour, one day closer to…." That's not what I do – at least not to any greater degree than I might have before the diagnosis came in.
Pressed for a predicted expiration date, the PCa specialist estimated five-to-seven years (now discounted to four-to-six years). At 74, that's not a terrible deal.
Importantly, this would be a much different story for a man in his 40s, 50s, even 60s. And it very often is. Five to seven years or fewer? With side effects that could be even more debilitating or discouraging or depressing for men of that age? Who still might have children in the household?
We're on several of the Prostate Cancer Foundation's Facebook message boards. We read the accounts. We track the cases. We mourn the losses, especially the early losses.
In my case, at 74, I find myself reasonably composed and serene, maybe even dispassionate. I made my living for 50 years as a news reporter at a fairly high level. As such, I tend to be – pardon the expression – clinical about most matters.
The way I see it, everyone has a finite stretch of time. I choose not to squander any significant amount of that time by worrying about the countdown clock.
Sure, it's on my mind – on our minds – from time to time, but not in a dominant way. We see the physicians. I take the meds. I roll with the side effects. We move on. Many mornings, it's not until I finish washing up that I remember, "Oh, yeah. That."
Not to be cavalier about it, but my wife, Marion, and I still move through what passes for our sort-of-normal lives. We hang out, we take long(ish) walks (especially this month!), we share meals, we help raise the grandkids, we spend time with our friends.
I have assigned myself two overarching missions: 1. To spread the word about the crucial importance of PSA tests and other forms of monitoring. 2. To demonstrate to others, particularly my grandchildren, how one confronts significant adversity.
This is not to say that it's all super-duper. I often run out of energy. I call these "brown outs." The meds kick in, the power goes out and the only way to hit the reset button is through a nap. Happens one to three times a day. Also, every now and then, generally when I'm arising from a chair or otherwise changing position, Marion notices a grimace on my face and says, "It hurts?" I say, "Yeah, but it's not too bad." And that's true.
I do not feel sorry for myself. I really don't. Stuff happens, especially as one ages. But to be perfectly honest, I am a little pissed off. For one thing, my body is betraying me. Bad stuff is going on in there and it stayed under cover and it's a stubborn thing and…it pisses me off.
Also, we navigated ourselves and our family through the COVID crisis and we got our vaccinations and we were just coming out of quarantine last year and we were just resuming a semblance of normal life and then…wham. This. And that pisses me off, too. Ah, OK. That's off my chest. Well, actually it's in my chest…eh…never mind.
What I am a little worried about: This is the best I'm going to feel for the rest of my life. It could be a lot worse, but it's not really…swell. And it's not going to get significantly better. My oldest friend – we've known each other since birth – recently asked, "Do you have any good news? Are you getting better?" Well, that's not the kind of situation we're in here.
In response to the meds, the PSA blood marker is diminishing, which means that the lesions are growing/spreading more slowly and some likely are shrinking, but "good news" and "getting better" are more relative terms now than they've ever been before. Other, stronger regimens with other, more difficult side effects are going to be required at some point. So, while I really do appreciate where I'm at now, I am concerned about where I'll be in a year or three. Nothing can be done about it, other than front-loading now all the stuff I'd like to do.
Outwardly, there is no obvious change in me. People say, "Hey, you look good." That's kind, and I understand the thought behind it, but the truth is that most cancer patients, even end-stagers like me, don't show any obvious signs of it until near the end of the end stage, when they might grow emaciated. Thankfully, we're not near that now.
Someone on one of the Prostate Cancer Foundation's Facebook pages posted that he sometimes feels a little guilty about the absence of exterior signs of his condition. He wrote: "It's almost like, 'Are you sure you have cancer, because you don't look like it.'" I know where he's coming from, but you can't blame or judge people for what they say. Each relative or friend deals with this situation as best they can – and each person deals with it differently.
I've lost it – or my version of losing it – just once so far: When I received that email from the urologist summarizing the findings of the scan – that the cancer somehow had broken free and was spreading throughout the lymphatic system – and walked in to tell Marion just before we headed to the radiation oncologist to hear the full assessment.
My voice cracked and I teared up and it wasn't because of what it meant for me – it was because I felt guilty that I was bringing this on her and our daughter and the grandkids and the rest of our loved ones. Don't bother – I know that such guilt was and is misplaced. I didn't cause this to happen. But the whole point of this exercise is to be brutally honest about what's going on here, and that is what I felt at the time, and to some extent, still do. And I know from reading the foundation's Facebook message boards that I am not alone in this.
The other day, a friend who saw me at a sporting event said I looked "pensive" and in need of a hug. I can't deny it. It happens sometimes.
But here's the thing: Winter, a real thing here in North Florida, is just about over. The grass is greening, the songbirds are returning, the oak trees are budding and the azaleas blooming.
Spring and summer are approaching, and great warmth still is generated day after day, hour after hour, moment after moment by family and friends.
Whatever happens and when, I am in a good place. I am OK. I will be OK.
https://www.pcf.org/c/theres-still-a-lot-we-can-do/
About Martin Merzer
Now retired in Tallahassee, Florida, Martin Merzer is a former business writer, foreign correspondent and senior writer for the Miami Herald, where he served on teams that won Pulitzer Prizes in 1993 and 2001. His personal prostate-cancer blog can be found at: https://and-miles-to-go-before-i-sleep.com


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Tag Archive for Irregular Warfare
Asymmetric Warfare Group Study: Russian Private Military Companies in Operations, Competition, and Conflict
Russian PMCs are used as a force multiplier to achieve objectives for both government and Russia-aligned private interests while minimizing both political and military costs. While Moscow continues to see the use of Russian PMCs as beneficial, their use also presents several vulnerabilities that present both operational and strategic risks to Russian Federation objectives.
U.S. Army Special Operations Command Study: Legal Implications of the Status of Persons in Resistance
The purpose of this study is to provide a synthesis of the prevailing issues and analysis concerning the legal status of persons in resistance. This document refers broadly to resistance and those involved in it, meaning those individuals comprising the resistance element, US personnel supporting or countering the resistance, and the standing government. In alignment with this focus, the document explores the status of personnel particularly in foreign internal defense (FID), counterinsurgency (COIN), and unconventional warfare (UW) operations. When originally conceived, this manuscript was to be an updated volume of the 1961 American University Special Operations Research Office (SORO) study, The Legal Status of Participants in Unconventional Warfare. The National Security Analysis Department (NSAD) of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) was asked by the US Army Special Operations Command (USASOC), G-3X Special Programs Division, to review and analyze the historical use of international law, the law of land warfare, and applicable international conventions and update the SORO study accordingly and also include unique legal considerations regarding the status of irregular forces. Because many aspects of both law and policy have changed since the 1961 publication, particularly within the context of US involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq, USASOC requested that this manuscript be a new document to account for these changes, highlight key legal questions, and position these questions within the context of hypothetical scenarios and historical examples.
U.S. Army Special Operations Command Revolutionary and Insurgent Strategy Studies and Casebooks
The Assessing Revolutionary and Insurgent Strategies (ARIS) series consists of a set of case studies and research conducted for the US Army Special Operations Command by the National Security Analysis Department of The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. The purpose of the ARIS series is to produce a collection of academically rigorous yet operationally relevant research materials to develop and illustrate a common understanding of insurgency and revolution. This research, intended to form a bedrock body of knowledge for members of the Special Forces, will allow users to distill vast amounts of material from a wide array of campaigns and extract relevant lessons, thereby enabling the development of future doctrine, professional education, and training.
U.S. Army Special Operations Command Counter-Unconventional Warfare White Paper
During the last decade, the U.S. military, along with its interagency and international partners, has generated significant capability to counter the irregular threats presented by non-state terrorists, insurgents, and criminal groups. During these same years, a distinct challenge to America and its partners in NATO and beyond has arisen through an innovative mix of such irregular threats. This challenge is Hybrid Warfare combining conventional, irregular, and asymmetric means, to include the persistent manipulation of political and ideological conflict. Foreshadowed by Iranian actions throughout the Middle East and by Chinese "unrestricted warfare" strategists in the 1990s, Hybrid Warfare has now reached its most brazen form in Russia's support for separatist insurgents in Ukraine.
U.S. Marine Corps Irregular Warfare Capability Based Assessment Report
Center for Irregular Warfare Integration Division (CIWID) was directed to conduct a Capabilities Based Assessment (CBA) on Irregular Warfare (IW) to ensure that the Marine Corps is properly postured to conduct IW operations and activities in the future. This document provides the results of the analysis and the recommended way ahead. The IW CBA message directed CIWID to "provide insights/observations after each phase of the study which may be used in support of future force structure deliberations."
U.S. Army Irregular Opposing Forces Manual
Irregular forces are armed individuals or groups who are not members of the regular armed forces, police, or other internal security forces (JP 3-24). The distinction of being armed as an individual or group can include a wide range of people who can be categorized correctly or incorrectly as irregular forces. Excluding members of regular armed forces, police, or internal security forces from being considered irregular forces may appear to add some clarity. However, such exclusion is inappropriate when a soldier of a regular armed force, policeman, or internal security force member is concurrently operating in support of insurgent, guerrilla, or criminal activities.
(U//FOUO) USAF Operating Next-Generation Remotely Piloted Aircraft for Irregular Warfare
RPAs are revolutionary surveillance and weapons delivery systems – changing the way the Air Force builds situation awareness and engages enemy forces – but their full potential has yet to be realized. To begin to address this issue, the Air Force initiated this study to review the state-of-the-art in RPA operations, focusing on control and connectivity in an irregular warfare (IW) environment. The Panel was specifically tasked to identify RPA architectures and operational concepts centered on human-systems integration, distributed systems operations, and effective command and control – a cluster of concepts and technologies we subsequently labeled as "mission management" enablers. The Panel was also tasked to recommend mid- to far-term S&T development roadmaps for advancing these technologies to improve the flexibility and capability of RPA operations.
Think Like the Enemy: The U.S. Military's Terrorist Training Exercise
A U.S. military training program designed to enhance soldiers' abilities to operate in irregular conflicts includes exercises which encourage soldiers to think like terrorists in order to examine opposing ideologies. The exercises are part of a course designed to help trainees with practical decision-making skills in "irregular conflicts" and counterinsurgency called Combat Observation and Decision-making in Irregular and Ambiguous Conflicts (CODIAC). The course was initially created in 2010 as a way of enhancing the "ability of individuals and small teams to address irregular challenges by training enhanced observation, battlefield sensemaking, human terrain pattern recognition, and environmental analysis (including knowledge of combat tracking)." The CODIAC course incorporates curriculum from a number of other military programs, including the U.S. Marine Corps' Combat Hunter program, and it is designed to primarily for military personnel as well as "interagency paramilitary personnel, such as Border Patrol or Police Officers, as well as multinational allies." The course focuses on a number of core subject areas related to decision making, intelligence and observation, physical tracking and "human terrain" analysis.
(U//FOUO) USJFCOM Combat Observation and Decision-Making in Irregular and Ambiguous Conflicts (CODIAC)
This curriculum was directly inspired by the US Marine Corps' Combat Hunter program. Created in 2007, in response to a dramatic increase in precision fire causalities in Baghdad, Combat Hunter is systematic training designed to improve cognitive skills, showing personnel how to read the human terrain, establish a baseline, detect an anomaly, and make decisions "left of bang." In other words, Combat Hunter was designed to train personnel to anticipate danger and meet it proactively. In an irregular conflict, this enables personnel to be the "hunters"—not the "hunted." CODIAC integrates the USMC Combat Hunter principles, along with proven battlefield decision-making and irregular warfare instruction from across the Joint services. The goal of CODIAC is to enhance the ability of individuals and small teams to address irregular challenges by training enhanced observation, battlefield sensemaking, human terrain pattern recognition, and environmental analysis (including knowledge of combat tracking).
U.S. Joint Irregular Warfare Center Irregular Adversaries and Hybrid Threats 2011 Assessment
To understand irregular warfare's importance to the United States, it is first necessary to understand who is capable of threatening our national security using irregular means. This assessment discusses three types of groups that conduct their conflict with the United States using such means: insurgent groups, violent extremist organizations, and criminal networks. The descriptions we provide here are not intended to be comprehensive definitions, since such definitions would incorrectly imply a consensus among policymakers, officers, and analysts that simply does not exist.
Afghanistan, Iraq, U.S. Marine Corps
USMC Irregular Warfare (IW) and Interagency Integration Lessons from OIF/OEF
The following material was extracted from MCCLL reports based on interviews, lessons and observations from operational units that participated in OIF/OEF over the past 36 months. Although this material is based on collections that took place in 2005 through 2007, comments from recent observers and currently deployed individuals indicate that issues on the ground likely remain the same. Content of this paper is grouped in response to specific questions in the TECOM tasking dated 2 April 2008.
Navy Role in Irregular Warfare and Counterterrorism: Background and Issues for Congress
Statements from Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and other Department of Defense (DOD) officials suggest that the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) that is currently in progress may lead to an increased emphasis in future U.S. defense budgets on capabilities for conducting irregular warfare (IW) operations, such as counterinsurgency operations. In addition, counterterrorism (CT) operations have received an increased emphasis since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
DoD Directive 3000.07
a. Recognize that IW is as strategically important as traditional warfare. Many of the capabilities and skills required for IW are applicable to traditional warfare, but their role in IW can be proportionally greater than in traditional warfare.
b. Improve DoD proficiency for IW, which also enhances its conduct of stability operations. Stability operations are a core U.S. military mission that the Department of Defense shall be prepared to conduct across the full range of military operations in accordance with DoD Directive 3000.05 (Reference (b)).
c. Conduct IW independently of, or in combination with, traditional warfare.
(1) IW can include a variety of steady-state and surge DoD activities and operations:
counterterrorism; unconventional warfare; foreign internal defense; counterinsurgency; and stability operations that, in the context of IW, involve establishing or re-establishing order in a fragile state.
(2) While these activities may occur across the full range of military operations, the balance or primary focus of operations gives a campaign its predominant character.


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Iran admits Gazprom to tenders for new oil and gas projects
Iran has admitted over 20 international energy firms, including Gazprom, to tenders for the country's new oil and gas projects, the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) reported on its website on Jan. 4.
The list includes France's Total, Anglo-Dutch Shell, Italy's Eni, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), Malaysian Petronas and others.
"Iran plans to award new projects to the companies it has qualified through a new format of oil sector contracts," the NIOC said.
The new format is replacing buyback deals. Under a buyback deal, the host government agreed to pay the contractor an agreed price for all the volumes of hydrocarbons the contractor produces, the NIOC said in a statement.
"But from now on, the NIOC will set up joint ventures for crude oil and gas production with international companies which will be paid with a share of the output," the statement said.
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