The Oculus is not your standard instance in any way. There are several elements not found in other places that make it a very interesting instance.
Once you enter the portal to the instance, you're confronted with a long, circular hallway. The trash needs to be cleared entirely up until reaching a portal on the other side. Crossing that portal leads to the first boss.
Drakos might remind you of the first boss in Mechanar (non-heroic). He constantly spawns little mines that need to be avoided. Sometimes he pulls the entire raid to himself and spawns lots of mines. When he does that the boss needs to be kited away immediately into a safe zone. The rest of the group should do the same. It doesn't sound hard on paper, but, well… it isn't that hard in practice either. The only other ability that he has is a sort of bomb debuff like the one Murmur did at the end of Shadow Labs. He does this after a pull, which is why each member should look for his/her own safe zone.
With Drakos dead, the real fun begins. Three cages open, each with an NPC. Talking to an NPC grants you an item that allows you to summon a dragon to ride inside the instance (in case you want another one there's an option to exchange the one you have for the one you want).
Emerald: healing drake. Has a poison attack that stacks up to 3 times, DoTs and heals the drake for the damage it does.
Ruby: tank drake. Has a chain-fire breath attack (think of chain lightning). Gains charges every time it gets hit by an enemy; these charges are then unleashed with a special evasion skill, which causes the next few attacks to miss (and consume a charge). Think of getting rage to activate shield block, and shield block charges protecting you from attacks but being consumed until you have none, and until you finished all your charges you're not getting any rage.
Bronze: DPS drake. Has a normal ranged attack (single target, uninteresting attack) and time stop. The latter does exactly what you might think, and also adds charges to enemies that will be affected by time stop. The charges for a Bronze drake are quite different in that they act like bombs, when you attack a target with charges the charges detonate, causing tons of damage.
Once the group is set up (ideal set up is one Ruby, two Emerald and two Bronze) you have to kill 10 centrifuge constructs. These are big robots like the ones in Mechanar and Botanica. You'll find three on a platform directly left of you, three on a platform directly right of you, and the other four in four different groups on the central platform. Those on the central platform are each surrounded by three to four casters, so watch out. Getting them nice and clumped up for easy AE tanking may be difficult, so you might want to CC some of those that are far away.
With all the constructs down, you just pulled down the shield around Varos Cloudstrider.
Varos is standing on a platform directly opposite of where you first got your drakes. Clear ALL the trash around his platform (you don't want them to add during the fight..) Unlike Drakos, Varos actually can wipe you if you don't know what's going on.
The platform on which Varos stands is surrounded by a bunch of vortexes. After a while, he's going to start shooting beams that connect to tese vortexes (they come instantly and they are nice and straight, easily recognizable). If you stand in one of those beams you immediately need to get out. After a few seconds he starts to charge the vortexes, which means anyone in between him and the vortex he's connected to will get a nice smack in the face. Note that you won't avoid the damage just by not standing "directly" in the beam, you will only avoid it by going in an area not occupied by one. If you see two beams in close proximity, then the area in between is a no-go zone. If you see a nice space in between two, then you'll be safe there in between. Varos also summons drakes that do a sort of eye beam. These drakes can't be targeted (as far as I know) so just get out of the eye beams. You'll be dodging the other types of beams anyway, so it's just another thing to watch out when you're moving around.
Killing Varos immediately unlocks the third boss encounter.
The self-titled mage lord is no different from his predecessor. He requires movement from the entire group, else you're toast. You can see him channeling some sort of spell if you look up and to the left from the platform where Varos was standing. If you go there and attack him, he'll run away and summon a bunch of adds. Grab them, tank them, nuke them down, and repeat another 2 times, at which point he'll go to the central pillar.
Now, Urom may not be as tricky as Varos, but he has his own abilities that can cause a headache. He periodically throws frost bombs at the tank, causing the entire area to turn white and DoT anyone standing on it. So, you guessed it, it's kiting time again. He also throws time bombs at random people, doing initial damage and then doing more damage after a while equal to the health deficit of the bombed target (so if he has 16k hp out of 20k, the bomb will do 4k damage.
The last thing he can do is teleport to the middle and cast an arcane explosion (Shade of Aran wannabe?). Instead of outranging it, however, you hide behind one of the pillars so you're out of line of sight. Rinse and repeat until he's dead.
Urom's death unlocks additional abilities for each dragon.
Ruby: can now misdirect damage done to another drake to itself. Think of a permanent intervene on a certain target.
Emerald: can now transfer own hitpoints to another drake. This establishes the emerald drake as the healer drake: it steals HP from an enemy and transfers the HP to its own health pool, and then further transfers those HP to another drake that needs healing.
Bronze: can now channel a beam that increases damage done to the beamed target. Also generates those funny charges that do a billion damage after a certain amount of damage has been done. This can start stacking up very fast, so be careful when you unleash the charges.
These abilities are absolutely necessary for the final encounter.
As you might have already guessed, Eregos isn't fought conventionally, but rather on those funny drakes you've been using all the time until now.
Clear all the welps surrounding the upper central platform. Be careful not to venture too near the middle, else you may add the boss.
The ruby drake needs to hold aggro at ALL times. Meaning the bronze drakes can NOT channel their beams, get 10 charges, unleash the 10 charges, and then go get more charges to do the same. They will get aggro and eventually die or cause the healers to drain themselves dry. So bronze drakes are mostly keeping their beams up and unleashing the charges very occasionally (about every 20 seconds).
Eregos summons welps every now and then; these need to be killed by the ruby drake. Some spawn close enough to be hit by the chain attack, others need to be targeted individually. Don't ignore the adds, they won't go away, and their damage isn't insignificant.
Eregos will periodically enrage; to counter this, the bronze drakes need to hit Time Stop. One time stop will cover one enrage phase, but the Time Stop cooldown allows it to be used only every two enrage phases, so set up a rotation.
And that's about it! The emerald drakes keep the red drake up and dot the boss to keep themselves up in the process, the red drake holds aggro and hits the evasion button to try and minimize the damage, and also kills the welps, while the bronze drakes channel their beam and hit time stop whenever an enrage comes.
On heroic difficulty, there is one more important twist. Eregos will sometimes fade, become invulnerable, and summon a bunch of globes. These globes will start to follow someone, and will explode after a while. When this happens, fly clockwise around Eregos (hold a little distance from the rim of the platform) and wait on the other side. Keep away from the globes – they will explode eventually. When this happens, Eregos will become active again and the fight continues.
Really loved this instance! I'd rate it #3 of the ones I've seen so far behind Old Kingdom and Old Stratholme. The dragon element and the absolute freedom you have to move around the "dungeon" area really gives this place a very unique, wide-open feel. It's about average length, too. Our guild first non-heroic run of it took about 45 min. wire to wire, which is pretty good. I bet it could be done in closer to 30 min. Mage Lord was the only fight that gave us any trouble on non-heroic, and that was mostly due to not keeping off the frost long enough. If you have a paladin, use the anti-frost aura instead of Devotion Aura. Ulom melees like.. well.. like a Mage, surprisingly enough. And yeah, when he teleports to the middle, it's the Talon King Ikiss drill all over again. Get behind one of the chunks of rubble near the interior ring of the combat area and wait him out. You might even have time to slap some bandage goodness on yourself to help your healer out. His casting is pretty long, so even with the slow effect of the frost, you should be able to get to safety as long as you know where you're going as soon as he teleports. It's really a fun fight once you have the basics in mind.
On the Ring of Acceleration, where you have to dismount to kill the 10 Curator bots, Warriors and Paladins should have no trouble making the casters group up assuming you have Heroic Throw/Avenger's Shield. DK's also totally win here w/ Death Grip, so the only real issue for AoE tanking here might be Bears, but they can easily drag the entire mob cluster over to the caster rather than making the caster come to them. The only ones that stay at range and cast are the Ring-Lord Sorceresses. The Ring-Lord Conjurers, ironically enough, prefer to melee. They aren't particularly good at it but they do have a damage shield buff so watch that.
And once the group understood the plan, it always seemed much easier than the first night I tried it with the 'Normal' setup.
imho the hardest heroic instance of all. wiped there like 30 times with several groups untill i recently cleared it with a good bit of luck, but didnt even get the achievement because i was ported out of the instance when i died just 10 seconds before the boss went down >.< argh! apart from the usual dragon stuff which is just boring and slow (except for the endboss – dam good fight) though, this is how i like my heroic instances. not like utgard keep or nexus where you fall asleep somewhere between boss 2 and 3, entering this instance always scares me and wiping is part of the process, decent!


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Overachiever Who Earned Highest GPA In Tulane Law History Fights Attempted Child Rape Charge
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Thomas H. Jackson IV
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A law clerk for a federal judge who was a standout student at Tulane Law is fighting charges that he tried to solicit sex with a 10-year-old boy using the gay hookup app Grindr, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports.
Thomas H. Jackson IV pleaded not guilty Friday to computer solicitation of a minor younger than 13 and aggravated attempted rape after he was arrested last week as part of an FBI sting operation.
The 32-year-old lawyer's troubles began when he allegedly offered another Grindr user $500 if he could arrange a sex date with a boy younger than 11. That other user then went to the FBI, and a federal agent assumed the other user's Grindr alias. The undercover told Jackson on Grindr he'd arrange a date with a 10-year-old boy, according to court documents cited by the Picayune.
"Hook it up!! :)" Jackson allegedly replied.
His lawyer, Frank DeSalvo, told the Times-Picayune that the attempted aggravated rape charge is "inappropriate" given the allegations in the case.
The Times-Picayune reported that Jackson's employment with federal judge Susie Morgan "ended" on Thursday but did not specify whether he'd been fired or whether his clerkship was simply over.
Jackson had an exceptional tenure as a law student, according to a glowing 2008 profile in the Tulane Lawyer called "Genius In Good Company." From that profile:
Call T. Haller Jackson IV (L '08) a triple threat. Jackson graduated last May with a perfect 4.0 GPA, the highest in the history of Tulane Law School since it introduced the current grading system in the 1960s. As if that weren't enough, he set a second school record by earning the asterisk in fourteen classes including Federal Courts, First Amendment, Constitutional Law, and Constitutional Criminal Procedure. And he did it all while finishing his PhD in infectious disease epidemiology, focusing on HIV.
Hard to believe this powerhouse squeezed in time to serve as editor in chief of the Tulane Law Review, an editor of Law and Sexuality, and vice president of Tulane's Lambda Law Alliance. The 26-year-old Shreveport native took home honors in Trial Advocacy, won the Moot Court Senior Appellate competition, and received recognition for his pro bono work. All told, he graduated with 28 awards and honors.
After graduation, Jackson went on to do four judicial clerkships, including the one with Judge Morgan, Above the Law reports. One unnamed source told that blog, that Jackson "hoped for a SCOTUS [Supreme Court] clerkship and was bitterly disappointed when he didn't get one."
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The earnings of some of the remaining youth workers are set to be slashed by thousands of pounds as working hours are reduced from 37 to 25 hours a week and pay is based on 40 weeks a year rather than 52. UNISON says such a dramatic loss of wages is likely to force more dedicated professionals from the service. The trade union has questioned how 9 peripatetic staff will be able to cover the entire council geographical area and build the trusting relationships at the heart of youth work.
Despite these draconian measures, the council will only save £63,000 over two years. UNISON says cutting youth services deprives young people, particularly those from poorer backgrounds of support which helps them build confidence; learn basic life skills and access education, employment and training. Youth work experts directly link service cuts to an increase in anti-social behaviour and crime.
"Vale youth workers are very disappointed that the high quality service provided by qualified youth workers is going to end. This wrong-headed decision means most young people will no longer have the option of approaching a qualified youth worker.
"With only 9 members of staff spread across the region, it will be impossible to build trust or rapport with young people, some of whom will have learning difficulties. In the most rural areas, youth work will be performed by volunteers only and not qualified youth workers.
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Jamie Morningstar is a fixture in the Utah Product Management scene and has been a part of several of Utah's most interesting and successful Software as a Service brands. She currently serves as a Staff Product Manager at Qualtrics in Provo, Utah. Jamie holds a degree in Computer Science from St. Mary's College of Maryland and an MBA from BYU. She was honored as a 2014 Woman to Watch and a 2017 Forty Under 40 award recipient by Utah Business Magazine. In her spare time Jamie loves to ski and cycle, participating in many cycling charity events each year as a leader of Team Cycle4Cure.
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Dr. Angeline Beltsos is the CEO and Medical Director of Vios Fertility Institute Chicago. She is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (REI), practicing medicine since 1991. Dr. Beltsos completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Loyola University in 1995 followed by a fellowship in REI at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, completed in 1997. Dr. Beltsos is also the Clinical Research Division Director of Vios and participates in a number of research projects and scientific publications. She has received numerous awards in teaching and has been honored as "Top Doctor" from Castle Connelly for several years. She is a popular speaker, both nationally and internationally, and a frequent media resource on the topic of infertility. She is the executive chairperson for the Midwest Reproductive Symposium International, an international conference of fertility experts.
As the REI Division Education Director for the Obstetrics and Gynecology residency programs of Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Lutheran General Hospital, and St. Joseph's Hospital Chicago, Dr. Beltsos helps educate future OB/GYN doctors. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor for the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Dr. Jason Franasiak is a board certified Obstetrician Gynecologist, board certified Technical Supervisor in Embryology and Andrology, and lead physician of RMA's South Jersey – Marlton Office. He serves as Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University and has been invited to speak nationally and internationally. He is author and contributor to over 100 peer reviewed publications, published chapters and abstracts. He serves on the Editorial Board for Fertility and Sterility and the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He also serves as Ad Hoc Reviewer for the Journal of Assisted Reproduction Genetics, Human Genetics, Reproductive BioMedicine Online, Human Reproduction, and Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology. Dr. Franasiak volunteers as an OB/GYN Clinical Advisor for Osmosis – Integrated Medical Learning and with Kaplan Test Prep for USMLE Step, 1, 2, and 3 reproductive medicine coursework.
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Mr. Freeby' s practice is devoted exclusively to adoption law and he has over a decade of experience in this area of the law. Included in his law practice are independent domestic adoption, contested adoption, agency domestic adoption, international adoption, interstate (ICPC) adoption, family adoptions, foster care adoptions, mediation, cases involving the Indian Child Welfare Act and adoption agency representation.
Mr. Freeby is member of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys ("Academy"). The Academy is a national association of approximately 340 attorneys across the United States who have distinguished themselves in the area of adoption law. Mr. Freeby is the Deputy Director of Adoptions for the Academy.
Mr. Freeby active in teaching and organizing continuing legal education for attorneys in the area of adoption law. Mr. Freeby also serves on a number of boards for charitable organizations in the community.
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Steve Hayes is an attorney specializing in adoption and assisted reproductive law. Steve has been a litigator for more than 40 years. He has been recognized in Best Lawyers in America, Wisconsin Super Lawyers, as a Leader in the Law and in Milwaukee Magazine as one of the top attorneys in his field in the Milwaukee area. He has volunteered his time as president or board member for lawyer organizations, including the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys, Milwaukee's public television station, his church and various adoption groups. Steve has been lead counsel in numerous Wisconsin and federal appellate cases in the areas of children's law, including surrogacy, wrongful adoption and termination of parental rights cases. He continues to represent several Wisconsin adoption agencies, adoptive parents or birth mothers and was recognized as an Angel in Adoption by the Congressional Coalition in Adoption in 2006.
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A 25-year veteran of medical marketing, PR and communications technology, Ron is CEO of Vanguard Communications, a Denver-based firm specializing in bringing new patients to healthcare providers in 16 specialties throughout the U.S. and Canada. Ron is the author of The Totally Wired Doctor: Social Media, the Internet & Marketing Technology for Medical Practices. He also is a featured video blogger for the news website MedPage Today, as well as a TV commentator and frequent speaker at medical conferences throughout North America and Europe.
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Nick Korynski is a Senior Solutions Consultant in San Francisco, CA. He spent 9 years as an engineer in the aerospace industry before completing an MBA at Indiana University. In 2015, he left aerospace to work in advertising technology. Since then, he has been selling marketing automation software to Fortune 500 companies and advertising agencies. He specializes in social media marketing on Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest. He also has experience managing digital media campaigns and consulting.
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Dr. Julie Lamb, MD, FACOG is a board-certified reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist at Pacific NW Fertility in Seattle. Julie serves as clinical faculty at the University of Washington where she directs the REI training of Ob/Gyn resident physicians and is the Director of the Center for Fertility Preservation at Pacific NW Fertility. She has presented and published more than 50 peer-reviewed research projects at national meetings and also serves on the board of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine patient education committee and embryo transfer committee and the Pacific Coast Reproductive Society. She is the current president of Seattle Gynecology Society. Julie also studied international women's health as a Fulbright Scholar in Zimbabwe, and is the proud mother to three boys.
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Renae is passionate about using technology to improve the lives of individuals and families. She has extensive experience in user experience (UX) design, UX research, software engineering, digital design, and web development. After several years of infertility and a couple rounds of in-vitro fertilization (IVF), Renae and her husband Jameson were blessed to become parents to their son, and they hope to expand their family further through adoption.
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Deborah Phillips is the CEO of Children's Connection Inc., a child welfare organization in Texas providing families in crisis and childcare providers support ranging from children and pregnant women Medicaid case management, nutrition program, pregnancy support services, breastfeeding education, parental education, and adoption and home study services. Deborah is a former social worker and special education teacher.
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Dr. Alexander Quaas, M.D., Ph.D., is a Board-certified Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Specialist at Reproductive Partners Fertility Center – San Diego, and Assistant Professor at the University of San Diego, California.
Prior to joining RPSD, Dr. Quaas was a physician and faculty member at Oklahoma University Health Science Center and at the University Hospital of Basel, Switzerland. Dr. Quaas earned his M.D. from the University of Manchester and his Ph.D. from the Albert Ludwig University in Germany. He completed his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Harvard University and his fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the University of Southern California. Dr. Quaas has special interests in endometriosis, adenomyosis, polycystic ovarian syndrome, third party reproduction and fertility preservation.
He serves on the Board of Directors of the Pacific Coast Reproductive Society (PCRS), has authored many peer-reviewed publications and book chapters, and serves on the editorial boards of Fertility and Sterility and the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics (JARG). Dr. Quaas is fluent in Spanish, German, French and Italian, and also has a special interest in international variations in the practice of Reproductive Medicine.
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Gina Miranda Samuels is an adult transracial adoptee and an Associate Professor at the School of Social Service Administration and a Faculty Affiliate of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture. Her scholarly interests include transracial adoption, mixed race and multiethnic identity formation, interpretive research methods, and the development of relational, kinship, and cultural ties among young adults whose childhoods are shaped by foster care and adoption.
Professor Samuels received her M.S.S.W and Ph.D. in Social Work and Social Welfare at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she received a Council on Social Work Education Minority research fellowship funded through the National Institute of Mental Health. She has practiced social work in the areas of child welfare and child protective services, juvenile probation, Afrocentric school-based tutoring programs, and group therapy with female youth.
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Before strolling down Lobotomy Lane, I'd like to commend Celtics president Danny Ainge for locking up Executive-of-the-Year honors Sunday with a superlative showcasing of Rajon Rondo against the Knicks.
At the same time, Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni earned his fair share of the limelight by again demonstrating an exceptional ability to void sure victories.
Not that the Knicks maestro is matchless at awarding preventable opportunities to opponents down three with 10 or fewer seconds left in a presumably futile finale.
The NBA rim is crammed with coaches who flat-out repudiate fouling in that exact situation, as opposed to Europe, where the simple and strict rule is: Foul when up three, no doubt!
Over here, Rick Carlisle instructs the Mavericks to foul when up three in the waning moments. Boston's Doc Rivers and Golden State's Mark Jackson do the same. Del Harris, Cotton Fitzsimmons and Don Nelson were strong advocates of that practice.
In fact, when Nellie was at Dallas, he would order fouling with 20 seconds left, daring opponents to get into a free-throw-shooting contest with Dirk Nowitzki, Steve Nash and Michael Finley.
I'm sure there are others, but I can't name any and nobody I spoke to yesterday could either. The majority of coaches prefer to defend with extreme caution.
D'Antoni is merely one of these fools, as is assistant Mike Woodson, who employed an identical course of inaction throughout his six seasons commanding the Hawks. But, hey, they're our fools, and I've been calling out D'Antoni on this contentious issue since his feted New York arrival four summers ago.
Regardless of D'Antoni's wide-ranging rationalization, or the supposed findings of some statistical service that supports such strategy, why back off two days after his decison not to foul Paul Pierce resulted in a deadlock and overtime, in which fate was not forgiving?
Wonder if the legendary sketchy stats service took into account Pierce's finishing touch?
According to D'Antoni and his fraternity, we fail to fathom how many factors are involved in such a tricky situation. Good defensive teams favor defending. Strong rebounding teams may choose to foul. Nelson's superior foul-shooting Mavericks embraced the challenge.
If a team's policy is to foul, it's important to have experienced players and they must be prepared for every eventuality. It's equally vital they believe in the tactic. Coaches tend to get awfully uncomfortable unless players take ownership of this approach and a lot of others. This way, it's on everyone. Win or lose, the outcome is uniformly shared.
"It's a fashionable debate," said the same Southwest Division coach. "ESPN and TNT will convene panels and devote 5-10 minutes [to the] pros and cons. It's unbelievable! At the same time, it's a healthy debate.
As it should be, if the refs can't be blamed.
I'm glad that's straightened out, let's shelve the "hollow" stats and get to the crux of the crucible.
We know D'Antoni's teams have lost more than a few times because they didn't foul. The question is, has he ever actually lost a game because his team fouled in the last seconds when up three?
At least that would explain his unashamed inflexibility in vaporizing wins.
Let's turn things around: If you're Rivers before the fact, were you hoping the Knicks would foul or allow Pierce to attempt a stalemate?
Knowing for certain the defender isn't going to get too near relieves the shooter of some pressure, don't you think?
Fine; D'Antoni is petrified that a foul will translate into a four-point play; I get it.
However, if your team had properly prepared and practiced, someone might have thought to foul Kevin Garnett before being gifted a counterfeit assist for handing off to Pierce.


That is a totally crazy question. I wonder what they meant about liking kids though. Many people have different versions of what exactly "liking" means I guess.
For example, I do not go out of my way to look at new babies, I am not really fond of other people's bratty kids, and when I go to a restaurant or a movie I don't want to listen to screaming kids or see them running around crazy.
But I love my job and have a great time while I am there, even though it is tiring some nights. Even though when I started nursing school I was adamant about not wanting to work Peds.
The best reward was this though, " Can you come everyday? It's not fun here on days you don't come." awww pull at the heart strings why don't ya.
Just found your blog and like it! This one made me laugh! I wrote a post not too long ago on funny things people have googled and found my blog…but this one is just ridiculous in a whole different way!


One of the world's greatest innovators, Elon Musk, says the key to tackling climate change and driving clean energy innovation is a carbon price very similar to the one Australia abolished.
Addressing students at the Sorbonne University on the sidelines of the Paris climate summit, the electric car, powerwall battery and space tycoon said he believed a phased-in carbon price would halve the time it took the world to transition to clean energy, something that would make a huge difference to dangerous climate change.
The obvious solution to runaway global warming was to remove the effective subsidy of not pricing the damage done by carbon pollution, Musk said, urging the students to lobby governments to implement the policy.
"To make it neither a left nor right issue we should make it a revenue-neutral carbon tax – increasing carbon tax and reducing tax in other areas like consumption taxes or VAT and in order to give companies time to react it should be a phased-in approach," he said.
"If countries agree to a carbon tax and it's real and it's not super watered-down and weak, we could see a transition [to clean energy] that has a 15- to 20-year time frame as opposed to a 40- or 50-year time frame. We could probably cut it in half and that would have a huge impact on the … welfare of the world … It really matters whether we do this transition sooner or later.
Musk's firm Tesla has said its 7kWH home energy storage units would be available by the end of the year in Australia.
The businessman and inventor warned that getting rid of the "hidden carbon subsidy … of enormous size, $5.3tn a year according to the IMF" would continue to encounter tactics by fossil fuel companies similar to those used by the tobacco industry for many years.
And he called on governments to "set the rules of the game" to help start-ups to grow into mid-size companies.
He said his concerns about the climate had been elevated by the widespread use of fracking.
"Fracking has elevated my concern about the carbon problem dramatically … I always thought the scarcity of oil would drive up the price … Unfortunately some smart inventors, I wish they could have invented something else … the net result is the accessible oil and gas reserves are dramatically higher, maybe by a factor of 10, and that is crazy for the climate," he said.
The businessman and inventor has been calling for a carbon tax to drive clean power investments for years.
His own companies having reportedly received billions in subsidies as startups, but Musk argues a carbon tax is a better policy lever.
The LA Times calculated companies owned by the billionaire, including Tesla Motors Inc, SolarCity Corp and Space Exploration Technologies Corp, known as SpaceX, had benefited from about $4.9bn in government support.
Innovation to drive advances in clean energy technology has been a theme of the Paris meeting, with the billionaires Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Branson and other high-profile entrepreneurs pledging to spark a "new economic revolution" based around clean energy with an investment drive for renewables, and the US president, Barack Obama, and 20 other leaders promising to double their research and development spending on renewables.
Musk said he had not been asked to join the initiative.
Attending the Paris summit earlier in the week, Malcolm Turnbull said innovation was the key to tackling climate change, but has refused to countenance changing his climate policies.
"We're optimistic because we believe that we have, as a global community, as humanity, the ability to innovate and imagine the technologies that will enable us to make these big cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and, at the same time, continue to deliver the energy, particularly in countries that have little or no energy resources available to them, enable us to continue to do that," he told the meeting.
Turnbull promised to use next week's innovation statement to double Australia's spending on clean energy research and development to $200m.


2. Hopea Roxburgh, Pl. Coromandel. 3: 7. 1811.
Balanocarpus Beddome; Dioticarpus Dunn; Hancea Pierre (1891), not Seman (1857), nor Hemsley (1890); Peirrea F. Heim (1891), nom. cons., not Hance (1877); Petalandra Hasskarl (1858), not F. Mueller (1856).
Trees evergreen, of main canopy or understory, white resinous. Stipules caducous, small; leaf blade thinly leathery; lateral veins pinnate; tertiary veins scalariform (in Chinese species) [or subreticulate], margin entire. Flowers sessile or shortly pedicellate, in lax panicles of unilateral racemes; bracts early caducuous, linear. Calyx segments imbricate. Exposed parts of petals usually pubescent in bud. Stamens (10-)15, slightly connate and adnate to petals; anthers ovoid, small, subequal; connectival appendages aristate or filiform. Ovary ovoid, with prominent filiform style, or hourglass-shaped, with short tapering style. Fruit ovoid or globose; pericarp usually thin, waxy; 1-seeded, closely surrounded by thickened base of calyx segments; 2 fruit sepals winglike, linear, or all orbicular or ovate, subequal.
About 100 species: Cambodia, China, S India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam; four species (one endemic) in China.
These trees are a source of a damar resin used in varnishes. The wood is finely grained, very durable, and used for making boats, bridges, and furniture.


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Specific Agents in Some Mesothelioma Patients Show Promise as Future Therapeutic Strategy
by Ines Martins, PhD
In News.
Patients with malignant mesothelioma whose tumor cells are unable to synthesize the amino acid arginine show marked improvements in progression-free survival when treated with agents that deplete arginine supply, according to the results of a Phase 2 clinical trial published in JAMA Oncology.
The study, "Arginine Deprivation With Pegylated Arginine Deiminase in Patients With Argininosuccinate Synthetase 1–Deficient Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma," was led by researchers at the Barts Cancer Institute, and reveals that arginine-depleting agents may be a promising therapeutic approach in certain malignant mesothelioma patients.
Arginine is an amino acid essential for normal cell metabolism. It is not only required of proteins and nitric oxide, but also contributes to the production of other amino acids, such as proline and glutamate. Usually, cells can synthesize arginine through the protein argininosuccinate synthetase 1 (ASS1) and do not require an extracellular supply of arginine.
But in some cancers, it is more advantageous to shut down the expression of this protein and use the arginine precursor to synthesize nucleic acids (DNA molecules) instead. This phenomenon, which renders the tumor more aggressive but dependent on an extracellular source of arginine, has been observed in about 63 percent of mesotheliomas.
The researchers had already shown that arginine supply was required for the survival of mesothelioma cells displaying loss of ASS1. In this study, they sought to find out whether administering an arginine depleter, called mycoplamal-derived pegylated arginine deiminase (ADI-PEG20), could improve progression-free survival (PFS) in mesothelioma patients.
The ADAM Phase 2 study (NCT01279967) included 68 mesothelioma patients with a median age 66 who were randomly assigned to best supportive care with or without weekly intramuscular ADI-PEG20 36.8 mg/m2. Those assigned to ADI-PEG20 were treated for up to six months and remained in the study until their disease progressed; an unacceptable toxicity; or withdrawal.
The study's primary endpoint was PFS, and secondary endpoints included overall survival (OS), tumor response rate, safety and quality of life.
After a median follow-up of 38 months, the median PFS for ADI-PEG20 was of 3.2 months, compared to the two months observed in the best supportive care group. No partial or completes responses occurred, with stable disease at four months serving as best response observed.
Results showed that 52 percent of patients in the ADI-PEG20 group showed stable disease at four months, compared to 22 percent in the best supportive care group.
The researchers used life expectancy measures to quantify overall survival, since the curves in the OS analysis crossed. Among patients in the ADI-PEG20 group, the mean life expectancy was of 15.7 months, 3.6 months higher than in the best supportive care group.
It is important to note that although a higher proportion of patients in the ADI-PEG20 group experienced adverse events of any grade, the most common being neutropenia, gastrointestinal issues, fatigue, and injection site reactions, they were not more likely to experience grade 3 or grade 4 events than those on the best supportive care group.
This is the first study that shows that arginine deprivation can improve the outcomes of patients with malignant mesothelioma who are deficient for ASS1. However, Surein Arulananda, MBBS, of Austin Health in Victoria, Australia, and Thomas John, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, of Austin Health and the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute, believe the study design may question the study findings.
"The lack of a blinded placebo control group is of concern, especially in a study in which PFS was the primary endpoint," they wrote in an accompanying editorial. "Patients and their clinicians watching and waiting for disease progression are more likely to react to symptomatic change than those receiving an active treatment, especially in the chemo-naive [patients who have never received chemotherapy] cohort in which there is an accepted standard of care.
"Although the authors explain that it was considered unjustified to subject patients to weekly placebo intramuscular injections, this opens potential reporting and questioning bias of symptoms and quality-of-life measurements," they wrote.
"Whether arginine depletion represents a novel therapeutic strategy in mesothelioma remains to be confirmed; however, there is an encouraging signal deserving of further study," Arulananda and John wrote.
Tagged ADAM Phase 2 study, arginine, arginine deprivation, argininosuccinate synthetase 1 (ASS1), mycoplasmal-derived pegylated arginine deiminase (ADI-PEG20).
Ines Martins, PhD
Inês Martins holds a BSc in Cell and Molecular Biology from Universidade Nova de Lisboa and is currently finishing her PhD in Biomedical Sciences at Universidade de Lisboa. Her work has been focused on blood vessels and their role in both hematopoiesis and cancer development.
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I started the 'Photos van Africa' page to accompany my main blog project with the aim of showcasing the plethora of wildlife and landscapes which are available to shoot on my South African doorstep. I also don't have the wall-space at home to hang all of my favourite images, so posting them on my blog appeared to be the next best option.
My job also affords me the opportunity to visit places further afield within Africa, some more exotic than others, but I always take my camera along for the 'just in case'. All of the images below were taken taken by me on my travels.
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Woman wins $1.2 million on $18 horse racing bet
A Texas woman who ponied up $18 for a bet in the Kentucky Derby is riding high after winning a cool $1.2 million.
"It was an amazing feeling yes, that you won really big, like a really big ticket," winner Margaret Reid told CBS San Antonio affiliate KENS-TV.
Reid won a "Pick 5," in which bettors have to choose the winner of five races in a row. She rightly chose Limousine Liberal, Maraud, Funny Duck, Yoshida and Derby winner Justify.
The lucky lady, who has been going to the Retama Park Race Track in Selma for years with her friends, said she did her homework to figure out the carefully placed wager.
"It doesn't always work out, but sometimes it does," she said.
Retama Park owner Bill Belcher said Reid was in the sports bar when she found out she'd won.
"The whole bar went nuts," he told mySanAntonio.com. "The odds are unbelievable, and the payout was so big. She was very excited."
According to Belcher, it was Justify's win that made Reid a millionaire.
The horse, nicknamed "Big Red," came out of the No. 7 post to win the race. Reid's winnings almost match the horse owners' $1,432,000 victory.
Reid plans on using part of the cash to treat herself to a vacation and investing the rest.
"I'll invest some of it, obviously," she said. "I have a young daughter that's going to be going to college in three years, so some of it will go there."
Resourse: https://nypost.com/2018/05/07/woman-wins-1-2-million-on-18-horse-racing-bet/
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Style Lab: Makeover
Platform: DS
Tags: General, Other
Developer: Unknown
AKA: Girls Life: Makeover (EU), Girls Life: Makeover (AU)
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Pac-Pix
System: DS; Reviews: 1
Release Date: April 26, 2005 (North America)
Feel the Magic: XY/XX
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networking: (Cisco Certified Network Associate: 4 semester course and successful (94%) exam taken at the IQSoft John Bryce Prometric exam centre): OSI layers, LAN planning (addressing, subnetting, etc.), Ethernet, hubs, configuring Cisco routers and switches (TCP/UDP, IPX/SPX, RIP, IGRP, CDP, access lists, ...), WAN basics (ISDN, Frame Relay, PPP), error detection, etc.
The bulk SMS service is an advanced eDM solution offering a bunch of extra features and a performance of even 100000+ messages per day. It comes with a sophisticated invoicing system, which supports both prepaid and postpaid clients.
Bulk SMS system for Wallis Aut? Holding Inc.
Bulk SMS application for the WAH Inc.
This application is based on the bulk SMS service. The application follows the workflow of the WAH group members (brands of WAH are: BMW, Rover, Citroën, etc.) and offers integration to their ERP system that provides on-the-fly aftersales activity.
A webshop frontend for an Oracle-based ERP system for both B2C (business to customer) and B2B (business to business) purposes.
Framework: publishing the complex data structure taken from the ERP system's database in an easy form, by providing advanced searching and result-filtering solutions. Optimizing the number of connection and number of queries (caching) because of the remote database connection. Applied security solutions because of the business critical application and backend. B2C: user module, product search, cart, orders. B2B: user module, product search, advanced orders, account balance, list of previous orders.
the list following the description of the client contains the dynamic (PHP and database-based) functions of the website.
Complex video- and photo sharing service based on youtube.com, optimized to handle a starting page impression of 2 million/day.
Flash video and photo album ecards site with paid membership (Verisign Payflow payment gateway for accepting credit cards, besides Paypal checkout). Advanced ecommerce, promotion and promotion tracking engine; for the visitors the engine offers reminder and addressbook tools beyond the basic functions.
The adaptation of the German website (www.wella.de) (cca. 150 pages (including 10+ product microsite, static and dynamic information, Flash movies) using a Java-based website implementation system.
contents (CMS) with attached files (optional password protection for the files), news, user registration, forum (3 levels of privileges) (site administration and user registration was created with clonefish).
Website of the SnowFox International Ltd.
Advanced product catalogue and detailed product search based on data imported from the ERP system of Snowfox, content management system (CMS): news, contents, advanced request form, download area (with password protected files).
web based administration tool to administer server contents (eg. hosting). User management and access control lists, well configurable, user-friendly solution.
Portal for public and intranet access, based on an Oracle database and PHP.
Framework: CMS module (integrated WYSIWYG content editor), search engine optimized pages (SEO), automatic remote content integrator, users - roles - permissions, deeply configurable, document access control, user-and search engine friendly URL-s (mod_rewrite), multilanguage support, own content indexing solution. Intranet: community forum (topic notifiers, unlimited category structure), IMAP e-mail administration tool to fulfill the ISO 9001:2001 requirements, integrated community calendar, handling company documents and data, portal administration.


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StorageVault Completes a Share Purchase Agreement for 1.38 Acres of Land in Southeast Calgary, Alberta
STORAGEVAULT CANADA INC. ("StorageVault") (SVI-TSX-V) further to a press release dated November 6, 2012 StorageVault is pleased to announce that it has completed a share purchase agreement whereby StorageVault purchased all of the issued and outstanding shares (the "Shares") of a private Alberta corporation ("TargetCo") from three arm's length shareholders of TargetCo. The aggregate purchase price for the Shares was $845,000 (subject to customary adjustments). TargetCo.'s sole asset is a 1.38-acre parcel of land located at 6969 44th Street, in Southeast Calgary.
About the Land
The 1.38 acres of land will be developed as a Canadian PUPS portable storage facility and will be operated in conjunction with Space Place Self Storage. Space Place Self Storage is owned and operated by StorageVault and has over 400 rental units with approximately 35,000 square feet of rentable self-storage space.
StorageVault currently owns and operates Trans Can Mini-Stor in Regina, Kenaston Self Storage in Winnipeg, B&B Self Storage in Cambridge, Parksville Mini Storage in the Regional District of Nanaimo, Space Place Self Storage in Calgary, and Canadian PUPS in Saskatoon. Trans Can Mini-Stor, Kenaston Self Storage, B&B Mini Storage and Parksville Mini Storage are fixed unit storage facilities operating in conjunction with high margin Canadian PUPS portable storage franchises at each location. StorageVault operates Canadian PUPS in Saskatoon as a stand-alone portable storage franchise. StorageVault also manages five self-storage facilities in southern Ontario and intends to continue to grow its business through the acquisition of additional self-storage properties, and organically as master franchisee through the development of Canadian PUPS portable storage facilities in Canada.
For further information, contact
Mr. Alan Simpson
3603 Selinger Crescent
Regina, Saskatchewan S4V 2H7
Forward-Looking Information: This news release may contain certain forward-looking information. All statements included herein, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking information and such information involves various risks and uncertainties. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such information. A description of assumptions used to develop such forward-looking information and a description of risk factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from forward-looking information can be found in StorageVault's disclosure documents on the SEDAR website at www.sedar.com.


I feel an affinity with the amazing man that lit me on fire and brought me back to God. This affinity continues to expand for me, creating depths that I could have never expected. My own soul growth has shocked me in beautiful ways. Humility, and love in the highest state are born and expressed through me, as a vessel, or a conduit for God's unconditional love to flow through, and express through human form. A knowing that God is calling me to a life with joys that exceed comprehension moves me. Through this connection I am liberated from relationship consciousness and embody unity consciousness.
In relationship consciousness, I believed that my worth, and happiness was from an external source, or thing. Living as a fraction trying to complete itself by attaching to another fraction, in an attempt to feel whole, is an illusion. It took me to meet a man that mirrored to me a deeper look at myself, to see that I needed to accept, and love all of myself to find my worth, and happiness. Being able to love my light, and my darkness, and to understand that my wholeness has always been within me, not outside of me. I could no longer support a co-dependency, or my own independency, I find support in interdependency, or unity consciousness.
Through unity consciousness, I am aware of myself as a whole individual, sharing, and contributing to a harmonious symbiosis of connection. Now I no longer give worth to my roles, or labels, or outcomes within my daily life. I experience each moment fully, free of judgement, in true appreciation of what is. My greatest contribution, is to make a difference through being an example. God has shown me through my connection to Him first, myself, and this man, that we are all interconnected. I accept all that God places on my path, and follow His guidance.
God has shown me, and continues to show me so much through my connection to this man. The first thing to get my attention was my attraction to him. Next was the energies between us, once his touch awakened my soul, another where we had spent some time together physically, and my spirit went with him when he left physically, just to name a few. The telepathic transmissions have ranged a lot too, but the most impressive was when he expressed how cool it would be to be a fly on the wall and hear things, which he followed by saying a word to me that confirmed that he is the fly on the wall. He simply spoke the exact word that I had spoken the night before on the phone with a friend, the word was long, and not a conversational word. The list could go on forever, but he is a private person, that I respect, so I will leave the rest just between us.
Actually, one last thing, God has let me know how sacred my connection with this man is. I want this man, in every way, but no longer for selfish reasons. Now I want him in my physical life, to see him reach all his dreams, to live his life as the blessing that he is meant for, to see him in the glory that God has revealed him to me. Remember those two white orbs from 2007? Well, I saw the significance of those orbs. The last time that I saw this man, we were talking, and all of a sudden, the same white light of the two orbs, began to illuminate from him. I stood there talking with him, but staring in awe, the light began in his chest, and began to spread through his body. It was, visually taking over his body, it was spreading onto his face as he began to leave. I feel that this man is the man that God has matched me with in this life. I sense him, even when he is not with me, I know if he gets upset, or excited. The connection is always there, regardless of if we are together, in a more traditional sense. I am grateful for the connection, no humbled, and do not take it for granted.


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Ennobled and demoralized.
Stayed home all day Saturday. Following the news online. Reading. Like waiting for a storm. Edie made chicken noodle soup. That helped.
We see what's coming. Yet it's hard to believe. Walking the dog in the morning I felt ... almost buoyant. That's weird, right? Inappropriate. But understandable too. As a child, I liked storms. And even though I tell myself this will be something bad, it doesn't feel bad, not yet. People are still prattling on about toilet paper. So a disconnect, between the mind and the heart, what I know and what I feel. Which itself is unsettling.
Human, I suppose. I believe I've been a consistent enough critic of Donald Trump in the nearly five years since he cannonballed into national and world politics that I can make one small observation that may seem in his favor without being accused of apologizing for the would-be tyrant.
His underplaying the coronavirus threat—saying it was under control, or would quickly pass—is being waved around social media as clear evidence of his utter unfitness to lead. It certainly is. The man is a buffoon, a liar, a traitor, and more. So many flaws it's wearying to even list them.
However. Closing your eyes to peril is also very human. Routine has a momentum, and we tend to want to keep it going along its intended path, even when there is an obvious bump, or detour, in the road. We don't let go of it without leaving claw marks.
At least I don't.
I remember almost 25 years ago, in July, 1995, when the Chicago heat wave was killing people across the city—as with COVID-19, also mostly the elderly—and the medical examiner was holding press conferences, outlining that day's toll of what would be nearly a thousand heat-related deaths in Chicago. Even as the bodies stacked in refrigerated trailer's in the medical examiner's parking lot, I distinctly remember looking at the television and wondering, "Now, is this a real phenomenon, or just Donoghue calling every corpse that shows up at Harrison Street a 'heat-related death?' He's a showboat. I wouldn't put it past him. How could it be that many?"
It was real. This pandemic is real too. Though it doesn't seem real. Not yet.
Maybe I'm deceived by all the false alarms in the past. The predicted storms that never came. The blizzards that proved to be a dusting. Missed us. I know how people get worked up over threats that are not there, they exaggerate. Maybe that's what causes me to be reluctant to acknowledge the looming disaster. If it's to be a disaster. I'm too aware of the possibilities of panics, mistakes, mass hysteria.
There's a great story, "The Day the Dam Broke" in James Thurber's "My Life and Hard Times," where he recounts "that frightful and perilous afternoon in 1913 when the dam broke, or, to be more exact, when everybody in town thought that the dam broke."
Nobody knows how it started—perhaps a young man in high spirits breaks into a trot, or a husband remembers he is late for a lunch date with his wife. In a moment hundreds of people are running for their lives, shouting "Go East! Go East!" Even though the dam hadn't broken and, even if it had, it wouldn't have reached them in the East part of Columbus, Ohio. No matter.
"The fact that we were all as safe as kittens under a cookstove did not, however, assuage in the least the fine despair and the grotesque desperation which seized upon the residents of the East Side when the cry spread like a grass fire that the dam had given way," Thurber writes.
Astounding how quickly society shut down over the past few days. Air travel, restaurants, sporting events. Of course the thing feels like a snow day, a lark, when it should feel like ... something else. The calm before the storm. These extraordinary steps are to keep people safe, and I can't be faulted for hoping that they might work. For feeling safe.
That's the irony here, an irony worth pointing out. The more effectively we wash our hands, avoid crowds, cancel events, etc., the more blunted the pandemic might be, the more we'll feel those precautions were unnecessary, an overreaction. Even though they weren't. We'll never really know how much they helped, or what we avoided. Unless we don't avoid it. Talk about a dilemma. For some Americans, these weeks and months to come will be a time of tragedy. That's a certainty. And for the rest it'll be a story about stores being stripped of toilet paper. That too is par for the course.
"We were both ennobled and demoralized by the experience," Thurber writes. Sounds about right.
The Thurber story was based on a real event, March 12, 1913
Grizz 65 March 15, 2020 at 3:47 AM
I lived in and around Chicago for half-a-lifetime. I've also lived in Florida and traveled through the deserts of the Southwest. But I've never encountered anything like that '95 heat wave. It was like having hot, wet towels wrapped around your face. The humidity of Florida combined with the heat of Arizona.
People at the Cub game that day didn't realize the danger until it was too late. Many fans (including my wife) were carried from the bleachers at Wrigley. They carried them downstairs, where victims were laid out like the Confederate wounded in "Gone With the Wind." Why? Because...beer sales were more important than either health or safety. Alcohol and a heat index of 125 made for an extremely dangerous combination.
Nobody died of heat stroke that day (on my wife's birthday!), but that routine Cub game could have become an entirely different story. It was a near-miss. Was it mainly greed and the profit motive? Callous indifference? Ignorance? Maybe they just didn't realize the potential for disaster quickly enough to shut off the flow of juice...or just didn't care. Vendors continued to vend. Fans continued to drink until they dropped, and were carried into the air-conditioned spaces below.
Yet, management HOSED DOWN the bleacher fans before the game began. I went to hundreds of games over a span of three decades. Never saw that before--and hopefully, I never will again. It was probably not for comfort or safety, but to cool off the crowd so they would drink more. One hopes that those in charge will be more enlightened if conditions ever reach those extremes again. But with the price of a brew today, and the number of bodies in those same seats having doubled, I would tend to think otherwise.
I'm a born-and-bred Chicagoan, so I'm a lifelong cynic. I know the history of my native city,and the ever-present desire to shrug off potential tragedies and cut corners in order to save a few bucks...or to make a lot of them. All too often, a terrible price has been paid. What we are living through right now is Chicago's life story, multiplied a thousandfold. A worldwide pandemic? Middle Ages stuff. 1918 stuff. Never gonna happen like that again, so why the hell worry about it? Cut the budgets, don't pre-plan, don't prepare. Then the bodies start piling up in the refrigerated trailers, and the stores are stripped bare, and the mass freak-out begins. And action is taken. Too little, too late. Again.
Bluestatekate March 15, 2020 at 8:11 AM
The "Great Flu Pandemic" of 1918 coincided with the tragedy of WWI. In Neil's 2014 column, "I will write to you forever," http://www.everygoddamnday.com/2014/11/i-will-write-to-you-forever-one-world.html?m=1, re: a WWI soldier from Chicago, killed in the War, never returning to his betrothed, TWO of the soldier's brothers died the same year of the flu. (Their father then died of a heart attack just months later.). Two concurrent "wars," one abroad, and one on the home front, wiping out an entire family.
JP March 15, 2020 at 8:51 AM
Dateline Ft. Myers: Two Canadian women visiting their friends in the condo above us just stopped by on their way to the airport. They weren't scheduled to leave today but the Canadian Prime Minister talked of closing the border so they are heading north. They tried to change tickets online and by phone but were unable to reach any airline. They went to the airport on spec, hoping to get home before getting locked out of their home country. Hope they make it. Hope everybody makes it. Well, maybe not everybody.........nudge, nudge, wink, wink!
Tom March 15, 2020 at 11:01 AM
I fell into conversation with a fellow tourist a few years back who, it turned out was an epidemiologist working for the SDC. The subject of the 1918 flu pandemic came up, and I dismayed my ignorance by suggesting that advances in medical science seemed to make a similar event unlikely. He disagreed, although his scenario was somewhat different from our present circumstances -- bacterial infections from bugs that have become resistant to all our antibacterial drugs.
I do seem to remember him using a phrase uttered by one of his ilk just the other day: "Not if but when."
tate March 15, 2020 at 5:18 PM
I think the "Not if but when" refrain is also the theme of those who think the bugs will eventually out evolve us and triumph until the day they consume the last human and realize that with their food all gone, their demise is next.
Grizz 65 March 15, 2020 at 7:16 PM
Wait, wait...I'm confoozed here...
"bacterial infections from bugs that have become resistant to all our antibacterial drugs."...that means 'bug' as in illness, infection, or disease, right?
"those who think the bugs will eventually out-evolve us and triumph until the day they consume the last human"...that means 'bug' as in insect, pest, or vermin, right?
Same word, different meanings. But the 'bugs' that do us in are not going to be the creeping, crawling, or flying ones, but the other kind. As in viruses like the present one. As in what people have always called "the flu bug"...and when that bug kills enough of us, or all of us, the other "bugs" (insects) will prevail. All hail the mighty cockroach!
Bugs carry bugs. It bugs me that Neil mentioned Trump declaring martial law in today's Tweet column. Shouldn't put a bug in The Cowardly Liars' ear, we could all end up bugged and buggered.
Baruch March 15, 2020 at 11:11 AM
No dilemma. Let's just continue to take rational precautions and assume they are helping. Despite all messaging from our fuhrer and his lap dogs for the last 3+ years, considering the common good and the least fortunate among us seems the best path forward.
Parent of 4th Grader March 16, 2020 at 5:16 PM
Great minds! I too made chicken soup on Saturday.
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Q: ASP.Net MVC in subfolder 403 Forbidden I managed to run an MVC application inside a regular folder without creating virtual directory or an application in IIS, I registered the routes to my "folder/folder/mymvcappfolder/{controller}/{action}" and the default controller/action as well. However it workes fine if I pass at least the controller name in the Url otherwise it gives me "HTTP Error 403.14 - Forbidden".
I tried the below solutions in web.config but didn't worked out
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Any suggestions why my routes not working without passing the controller name?

A: That's because you're pointing to a physical directory, it's not your route doesn't works with defaults,, it's the IIS what is blocking the access to this folder: ("The Web server is configured to not list the contents of this directory")...
To make this works you must enable route existing files in your RouteConfig:
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