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This is an outline of several files types within Lawtia and the common cards found within it. These threads are essentially an updated version of Harvests threads. These aim to make it easier for newer players to see what works well together and hopefully allow them to make their own exciting files. I'd like to thank The Circle - Especially NitroDino, InfernityFan and Teru (who came out of his hidey hole) who helped make the outlines and provided some links. I'd also like to thank everyone who gave their support in doing this. Special Thanks once again to harvest4god who inspired these threads. I will try to keep these updated.
Note that I am defining 'rush' files as Lv 1-3 files, Mids as files which use at least 1 Lv 4-6 unit and Bigs as files which usually use at least 1 Lv 7-9 unit for simplicity.
The Other Threads:
The Circle's List of File Types - Refess
The Circle's List of File Types - Gowen
The Circle's List of File Types - Falkow
The Circle's List of File Types - Multisphere
- Dolls
- CMD Dolls
- Undeads
- Wild Dogs
- Assassins
MID (more Lv 3-4 rush then mids...)
- Duchy (Crest)
- Augments/Abyssal Forces
- Mid/Big Lawt
Coming Soon:
Low Level / Rush Files
This file is a rush file which makes use of slowing the opponent down with shades and out-rushing them. Modern variants often use MD exorcist and the free revive dolls along with Sumer. Quite a formidable file to go up against, however requires some skill to play.
Key Cards:
Shade * Should be used in every single Lawtia Rush file, helps avoid Returns, stop opponent from playing cards and helps activate soul skills
Magic Doll -Exorcist- ** Counters Undeads and has SP drain action skill. Along with high attack, these make this doll one of the best.
Common Cards:
Magic Doll -Healer- * A good level 2 doll with excellent HP (for a doll) and can heal other dolls.
Magic Doll -Mobility- ** Fast, decent attack and free revive. A good doll to use.
Magic Doll -Lycanthrope- ** Average attack and good hp, nearly immortal at night, can suicide to deal lots of damage.
Magic Doll -Undead- ** Great hp for a doll, pretty low attack but acts as a very good staller/tank.
Magic Doll -Fencer- ** Stat wise the same as Exorcist, however with buffing start skill and double attack instead of SP drain abilities.
Magic Doll -Augmented- ** Fast free revive with decent attack and a good close skill.
Magic Doll -Grappler- ** Ignores DEF at agi 4, however the attack isn't very high.
Night Assassin / Marchare EX High damage potential for a ranged unit. Very low HP.
Command Unit / Voilet X2 *** Buffs dolls on auto including Lv up. When reaches Lv6 this doll can 1 shot any target unit in range.
Doll Master / Sumer ***** Excellent support unit for normal dolls, revives and buffs a friendly non-character doll on open.
Sumer & Fellana *** Multisphere Lv 2 card (Lawtia / Falkow) that is one of the best grimbaners in the game. Also returns dolls and can buff them.
Warning Knife ** Makes those super tanky units easy to kill.
Parts Recycle ** Revives a doll and gives Lv+2
Death's Embrace ** Excellent grimoire for annoying your opponents.
Bitter Destiny *** Well timed this grimoire can potentially win you a game.
Salamander * To kill owl sage
Gravekeeper / Cornelia EX Powerful Reviver.
EX: Chaos Form / Noze EX Powerful late-game unit who is not too difficult to get out due to the number of free revival strategies of a Doll file.
Example Files:
Dolls vs Orks
Command Dolls (CMD dolls)
This file is another one of Lawtia's many rush orientated files, however this file uses the Command dolls which make use of having high LV to deal good damage. This file used to be one of the better Meta files but has died down recently, still a fairly good and viable file to use.
Key Cards:
Command Unit / White Lily *** Buffs all command dolls except itself, has a good action skill.
Command Unit / Scarlet Rose *** Your main front row unit, exceptionally tanky with 60 hp and the DEF boost from white lily.
Command Unit / Voilet X2 *** Buffs all Magic Doll subtype, and can instantly kill a unit for 1 sp when lv 6 or higher.
Common Cards:
Shade * Should be used in every single Lawtia Rush file, helps avoid Returns, stop opponent from playing cards and helps activate soul skills
Magic Doll -Exorcist- ** Counters Undeads and has SP drain action skill. Along with high attack, these make this doll one of the best.
Command Unit / Scarlet Rose **** Open buffs and close buffs friendly dolls, action skill may be useful.
Command Unit / Dear Cattleya *** Revives a friendly doll and gives Lv+2
Sumer & Fellana *** Multisphere Lv 2 card (Lawtia / Falkow) that is one of the best grimbaners in the game. Also returns dolls and can buff them.
Warning Knife ** Makes those super tanky units easy to kill.
Parts Recycle ** Revives a doll and gives Lv+2
Lady of the Megiddo / Belfyna *** makes the dolls faster.
Sylph * can be used to make Dear Cattleya's skill go off.
Hell Smoke ** to tank while you bring out the dolls.
Frost Sorceress / Rasam *** Excellent SS for many files but especially useful for command dolls.
Gravekeeper / Cornelia EX Powerful Reviver.
Example Files:
CMD dolls
Teru vs Urgrant
Teru vs Gowen Rush
Trivia: The 3 main command dolls are named Command Unit / (Colour) (Flower), except Violet, as it would sound funny being Violet Voilet, so instead it's Violet X2
EN (Eternal Night)
This file is VERY aggressive and uses the cover of night to deal large amounts of damage with low level units who are very difficult to kill at night. The high rarity version of this file is one of the best rush files in the game capable of standing up to many other powerful files. EN concentrates on using the Lycanthropes, but the strategies are similar for EN and normal Lawt level 2 Rushes. Several cards for this file can be obtained from the 'Dark Rush' Prebuild file in the card shop.
Key Cards:
EX: Night Walker / Riza EX Can keep it night for your units
Cemetery Rats * Buffs all Lv 2 units on open (including opponents).
Assassin ** or similar SS to deal with higher level strong units.
Succubus * Makes it Night on open
Common Cards:
Lycanthrope [Legion] * Lv1 EN unit.
Lycanthrope [Taurus] ** Lv2 Tanky EN unit.
Lycanthrope [Fenrir] ** Very fast, High attack at night unit.
Lycanthrope [Nue] ** Max hp Hate unit with annoying close skill at night.
Lycanthrope [Dagon] ** Meta-grade EN uses this unit to grimbane (and hopefully get rid of) cyclones and Ball of Flames.
Lycanthrope [Lilith] ** Decent EN unit that deals 10 direct dmg at night
Lycanthrope [Leonardo] ** Extremely high attack ranged EN unit.
Ruler of Crest / Eskatia ***** Free revive unit that makes it night on start. Meta Grade EN uses this
Augmented Sorcerer * A double attack grimbane unit with a good open skill.
Azure Beastmaster ** For his Soul SKill
Price of Knowledge / Liz *** For her reviving Soul skill
Shield Coat / Fierte **** Nearly a requirement for Beating Big files, this and assassin can potentially give you 10 SP advantage.
Any other Level 1-2 lawtia unit you think would be useful.
Example Files:
Dark Rush Prebuild
Gon's Epic Dark Rush/Lawt Rush Video Guide
Worthing's EN guide
This file makes use of units that pretty much that are not only pretty much free revive, but also retain buffs (and debuffs) on revival. One of the easier Lawtia files to play and obtain cards for, nearly always good to use.
Key Cards:
Priestess of Madness ** Returns a random undead unit in cemetery to card file for free.
Common Cards:
Hell Smoke ** Undead that buffs attack on close, fairly tanky.
Lich ** Undead that returns 4 undead cards from the cemetery for 3 sp.
Revenant * Undead that buffs AGI on close, fast.
EX: Cursed Armour Knight EX Undead that has high attack and is immune to MAX HP hate.
Skeleton Archer * Undead that has Pinpoint ability which allows it to hit units who are immune to attack actions (one of undeads large weaknesses).
Broken Priest * Buffs undead units for 1 sp, as the buff is permanent it is fairly useful.
Zombie Lord / Zugateroza *** A good endgame unit for many lawtia files.
Noble Spectre * An undead ranged unit who debuffs on refresh.
Spirit Witch * Retrieves undeads on open. Can generate Gowen levels for multisphere fun.
Shade * Should be used in every single Lawtia Rush file, helps avoid Returns, stop opponent from playing cards and helps activate soul skills
Example Files:
Teru's Undeads
Teru's Undeads vs Duchy
Wild Dogs
The main idea of the file is to use SP draining skills and grims while overrunning your opponent with Wild Dogs, it plays like all lawtia level 3 rushes.
Key Cards:
Black Hound Master ** - the tribe buffer, really important for the file
Shade * - best level 1 unit lawtia has
Common Cards:
Black Hound * - high AT/AGI and works with Hound Master
Shadow Hound * - great focus skill, can attack twice
Magic Doll -Lycanthrope- ** - undying during night, can sacrifice herself to deal a lot of damage, enables the use of Sumer and Sumer & Fellana in Wild Dogs
Summoned Hound ** - great focus skill like Shadow and the open work with Hound Master's auto skill
Roar of Pain / Fierce EX - usually used because of the open, can become really dangerous if he levels up
Augmented Sorcerer * - grimbanes, double attacker and the open works with Hound Master
Sumer & Fellana *** - grimbanes for free and can return copies of Magic Doll -Lycanthrope-
Doll Master / Sumer ***** - used to revive Magic Doll -Lycanthrope- or other dolls added to the file
Exiled Military Aide * - used to get easy the falkow levels for the multisphere variant
Aurora *** - can be used in the dualsphere variant
Withdrawal Strategy * - return Shade or Sumer while returning enemies level 3 unit
EX: Lycanthrope [Fenrir] EX Scales attack and can potentially cause miniture death embrace-like effects with action skill.
Bitter Destiny ** - staple for lawtia rushes, usually with correct timing can be game breaking
Death's Embrace ** - for SP draining, ideally you use it before you field wipe your opponent, forcing him to let his unit dies without SP, then you play next turn Bitter Destiny for even more SP drain
Example Files:
Normal Version
Assassins are a file that can be described as fielding a lot of "glass cannons". The aim of the file is to take down the enemy (units and LP) as quickly as possible. A majority of the file can hit hard at fairly high speeds are are known to die if poked. They have several tricks to their disposal to make up for not being able to take a hit. The file tends to have a few EX cards and 3*s making it hard to obtain the cards for.
Key units:
Night Assassin / Marchare EX - Iczer attacks for free. Can auto-skill double attack if focused and also soul immune.
Death Calling ** - essentially a salamander open for assassins but slightly more powerful. Action also brings down tanky units down to 10hp and stops them healing from standby allowing you to kill them with ease.
Common units:
Black Assassin / Mulna EX - Buffs an assassin on start. powerful level 2 unit. Action skill can be useful.
EX: Dance Macabre / Lelein EX - Versatile Open skill can save an assassin from open damage, heal an assassin or set an enemy unit down to low hp for easy killing or SS combo.
Crest Spy * - Tech'ed in to iczer rush those slower and higher LP files.
Magic Doll -Augmented- ** - A free revive doll that's fast and provides has some decent firepower.
Haste Assassin * - Can be used to take out a problem level 4.
Moonlight Assassin ** - Can 1 shot units at night for 1SP. Decent card in it's own right.
Black Dragonfly / Francis EX - Deals MAXHP damage and can time soul skills. Deals damage to high level units on close.
Magic Shade Soldier ** - Decent unit that drains SP on close.
Assassin Team EX - Fairly powerful and tank Lv4 assassin that can prevent the opponent from gaining SP at start of next turn.
Killing machine / LeBeau *** - Powerful 5AGI unit with a close skill that does some damage.
Fog of Death / Seria *** - Has soul skill which assassins can easily get to work using EX lelein or death calling open skills.
Shade * - Should be used in every single Lawtia Rush file, helps avoid Returns, stop opponent from playing cards and helps activate soul skills.
Death's Embrace ** - Excellent grimoire for annoying your opponents.
Bitter Destiny *** - Well timed this grimoire can potentially win you a game.
Warning Knife ** - Makes those super tanky units easy to kill.
Corruption ** - Similar use to warning knife.
Gravekeeper / Cornelia EX Powerful Reviver to make up for your units having next to no HP.
Example Files:
Aoi's 'Sin replay Archive
Path of Sins (Aoi's Assassin guide)
Mid Files
Duchy of Crest
The main idea is to get a field of Crest units and using the start skill buffs of Paladin to overwhelm your opponent. Most crest units don't have average agi(3) so cards like Knight of Crest / Langbart or and Undead tank are used to stall until more of your units get out. You could say the main theme of Crest is when you get a chance to hit, hit as hard as possible. This is more a Level 3-4 rush file.
Key Cards:
Crest Paladin ** - his Start Skills gives a huge temporary AT boost
Knight of Crest / Langbart EX - the open gives Lady Paladin a free AT boost and heal, his Start skill gives a small boost, counter makes him ideal to stall low HP rushes like pixies and the auto works against Undeads and helps reduce the number of cards Crest Mind Soldier and Crest Greatsword Soldier return
Shade * - best level 1 lawtia has
Common Cards:
Retired Loyalist / Graymas *** - his start solves the agi problem, giving even AGI+2 to non-char crest units making them agi 5, to trigger his skill you can use Prayer of Safety or Crest War Conference, once you get his start the best scenario is if you field wipe your opponent and then use his auto to get his focus for one more turn
Crest Lady Paladin ** - combos with Langbart and can get huge AT, sometimes even reaching 120 with AGI 4, bash can be really useful at that speed
Angry Mob * - used because of the open to raise temporary AT and the close skill guarantees a hit even if it does get to AT
Matchless Combatant / Yug **** - really strong field wipe skill
Guard Captain / Afeemina **** - gives permanent AT boost to friendly non char crest units and can use that AT for her skill
Crest Halberd Soldier * - ranged unit and his close skill is really good with the AT increase skills of other crest units
Crest Mindsoldier * - really high stats for his level, but with a negative close skill
Crest Greatsword Soldier * - same as Mindsoldier
Crest War Conference *** - depending on the skill you get really useful
Black Valkyrie / Igina EX - sometimes used in other lawtia rushes with Magic Doll Heavy Shield, if you get her AT to 50 she can double hit for 150 dmg for free
Bitter Destiny ** - staple for lawtia rushes, usually with correct timing can be game breaking
Death's Embrace ** - for SP draining, ideally you use it before you field wipe your opponent, forcing him to let his unit dies without SP, then you play next turn Bitter Destiny for even more SP drain
Crest Adjutant / Famille *** - Has a Bitter Destiny-like action skill. Also buffs the AGI of two friendly crest units for the turn.
Grand Duke's Private Guard ** - Extremely fast (5agi) when above 40hp. Has a pinpoint bash.
Grand Duke's Shock Trooper ** - Very tank and gains attack for MaxHP. Extremely powerful action skill which is difficult to get off (requires to be 20hp or lower). Close skill also very powerful but difficult to obtain.
Crest Blitz Swordswoman * - A psuedo free revive. Attack buff stacks which makes this a powerful level 3 unit offensively. Potential to 'generate' 1SP.
Crest Samurai * - Front row/psuedo ranged unit. Does lots of damage and increases range permanently (by 1) when focused. When 50AT or higher becomes immune to engage.
Prayer for Safety *** - used to focus Greymas or Metis or Yug
Example Files:
Langbart Version
Augments / Abyssal Forces
This is more a Level 3-4 Rush file. This file makes use of Magic Doll -Augmented- and the Grimoire overdose to deal large amounts of damage for 1sp. This file is good to use vs rush files and can hold it's own against mid and big files when played properly. This is one of the easier files to play in the game. Most of the cards used in this file can be obtained in Set 11.
Key Cards:
Magic Doll -Augmented- ** Free revive and best card to combo with overdose
Overdose allows you to deal lots of damage during open phase.
Common cards:
Augmented Soldier Girl Gains AGI and attack when there are closed units. Can double attack for free
Augmented Soldier Fairly tank and when nearly killed gains a large AGI boost and an attack boost.
False Hero / Mordmarc *** Fairly tanky, has large attack power mid-late game.
Dark Princess / Gaiessoul **** Fast unit who is fairly good endgame. Also a mini merceless death on open.
Knight of the Abyss Another Augmented unit which can do lancer attack.
Warning Knife ** Helps deal with those annoying hard-to-kill cards.
Sacrifice *** Kills a friendly to kill an enemy, used to deal with those hard-to-kill cards
Bitter Destiny *** When timed right potentially game winning
Death's Embrace ** Combo with bitter destiny to potentially gain field wipe + massive sp sink for opponent.
Augmented Sorcerer * Double attack and grimbanes for 1SP
Crest Igniter * Another Augment
Chaoslady / Annarose **** Free revive, buffs attack and AGI of all lawtia units
Darkness Mirror / Aegis *** helps deal with bigs and can give your units several stat bonuses.
Killing Machine / LeBeau *** Fast with high attack and a decent close skill.
Example Files:
Big Files
Mid/Big Lawt
This is placed here so something is in this section.
This file is basically just a mash up of powerful high-level Lawtia units. It works really well because most of them are independent to each other, have their own role, and just plain powerful. But there always be a time when a unit is better-suited than any other units. It's all about flexibility.
Anyway, there are many plays available, but this file is notable for its jawesome crowd control. This is usually done by either playing Belus and another strong unit, or goes Zu, or Afel spam, or Shvara Close Fest. To a lesser extent, you can also use Dalos against squishy enemy units, or Chaos Annarose spam, or open with Augmented and Overdose spam, or the combo of Song of a Hero with Crest Veteran Slayer, or just a plain old Deathmaker. At least 1 unit with Undead trait is usually used, like regular Zugateroza, Dragon Zombie, or Zangadylan.
On rarity note, almost all the units mentioned here are characters, but you can use low-rarity cards (like Crest units). I personally think that Lawtia has the best collection of mid-leveled units in all rarity. My strongest file when I was level 30ish was actually mixed-rarity mid-lawt. With the exception of Francis EX and Starter Dalos, I was using low-rarity cards like Moonlight Assassin, Crest Veteran Swordswoman, Crest Devil Knight, and playing 2 copies of booty doll. Even if I lack a good crowd control card, I rely on early SS execution with double shade and booty doll to hinder my opponent's pace.
Key Cards:
- Soul Pact * Really, the only card that is essential to this file. Allow you to set those essential mid units faster. Also, allow Shade to temporarily have 20 AT, don't underestimate this one.
Common Cards:
- 6th Heaven Devil / Shvara EX If you add this to you file, also add ATK gain or suicide cards to make him shine. Overdose is the perfect example for this task.
- Black Dragonfly / Francis EX One of the most versatile unit in your arsenal. Attack kills Undead. Action is a 1 SP crowd control, but the LP-1 will either make or break. The close skill will weaken considerably, or downright kill mid-big units.
- Little Malice / Ellie EX Either use her or Shade. Ellie is better if you go Zu.
- Undead King / Zugateroza EX It's best used in mid-game/end-game where your Graveyard counts are sufficient and you are not overfielded much.
- Chaos Form / Annarose ***** Just spam her. There's really no other way to use her
- Deathmaker ***** Whenever you need removal. It's best used if you have a unit set already to follow-up with the destruction.
- Dark Emperor / Zu-jyuva ***** Sets both iczers to SP=0 and close skill has the potential to field wipe most rush units. Can force (and make more powerful) by using overdose.
- Beast Soldier / Belus **** Best used when paired with another strong unit. You should gather enough SP to play him AND another lvl4/5 unit immediately afterwards.
- Vile Swordsman / Afel **** I'm really tempted to upgrade this card's status to Key Cards, even more so than Belus. He is the ultimate field-wiper. 5 AGI and 70 AT means he's really good at 1-on-1 too. Persistent if you use it with Word of Dalos. You might want to pack Will o Wisp to counter Sala. Really, really, really good in any situations.
- Chaos Ogre / Dalos *** Good against squishy units, 1-on-1 or outnumbered.
- New Magic Doll / Astaforse *** Really shine if you go Zu. And Urgrant, but looks on Urgrant file if you haven't known his mightiness (or cheapness to some people). Best used alongside Belus. If she is alone, just let her die, or use Buster System if you have too much SP.
- Zombie Lord / Zugateroza *** OR Death Dragon / Zangadylan EX OR Dragon Zombie ** The king of 1-on-1 end-game.
- Merciless Death *** Read Deathmaker.
- Night Wing Wyvern ** Slow your opponent down. But it will also slow you down. This unit is a perfect follow-up if you already have strong presence like Belus-Something. It's also good to stall your opponent while you gather SP to set Zu.
- Shade * Lawtia seems lacking without this guy around. Though if you want to go Zu, you might want to consider using Ellie instead.
- Crest Devil Knight ** Decent unit with close skill that easily deals with 'glass cannon' type units.
- Crest Veteran Swordswoman * Fast unit with high attack, Bash and grimbane. Fairly decent all rounder unit.
- Dragon of the Mercurial Night ** Great HP, good attack and can drain sp.
- Knight of Second Death * Undead who is slightly immune to MaxHp hate. Otherwise a very powerful tank with high attack power.
- War Torn Dragonrider / Millia ** A powerful ranged mid unit who can potentially wipe out the opponent's field, providing you have the SP to feed her action skill.
- Pretty much any unmentioned level 4 or higher Lawtia units.
- Sumer ***** Of course, use her only if you use any of the Magic Dolls mentioned below.
- Pure Terror *** An alternative to Deathmaker/Merciless Death. Treat it like Fire Arrow on steroid.
- Magic Doll -Augmented- ** Another mini-zu. Like both of them, use Overdose to blow the field. An excellent early game choice to kill rush file.
- Magic Doll -Exorcist- ** a.k.a. Booty Doll. High AT SP controller with anti-undead auto skill. An excellent early game choice to kill mid/big file.
- Bitter Destiny ** You have a lot of field-wipe and SP control, why not use this card? I'm a failure at using this card though :v
- Death's Embrace ** Excellent grimoire for annoying your opponents. Combos with Bitter Destiny
- Counterattack ** Best used with Chaos Annarose. The SP sink will not be as bad as with other units.
- Overdose ** To suicide Shvara, Zu, or MD -Augmented-.
- Stronghold of Chaos ** Shade in grimoire form. Also, you don't have to pay additional SP for playing great spirits.
- Word of Dalos ** Afel is on the house baby. Also good against rush if you use many characters.
- Consuming Grudge * Use this to execute Soul Skill early. 50 random damage is a nice addition though.
- Warning Knife/Corruption Allow you to kill super-tanky unit easily.
- Spirit Witch * To bring back some copies of your higher level undead units. Also generates 2 gowen levels when action skill is used allowing for some multisphere fun / song for a hero.
- Tears of Blood *** Fairly powerful late-game grimoire which can do lots of damage to two targets.
- Great Spirits are always good techs. At the very least Salamander to kill those pesky SP generators.
- Dragon Breath alternative to Salamander.
Example File:
Other Useful Links:
A Breakdown of Files - A Lawtia Story (harvest4god)
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The devastation of Hurricane Katrina is still very much in Waldrop's mind. While New Orleans got the most attention, little Bay Saint Louis, on Mississippi's Gulf Coast, was "ground zero" for the storm, which pushed 12-foot tide surges as far as 12 miles inland.
"And when it went out to the Gulf of Mexico, it carried everything with it," Waldrop said.
Throughout the region, homes and many schools were reduced to mere slabs. "How do we start school when we don't even have buildings?" – that was the refrain of some superintendents.
The association responded by contacting makers of modular units, as well as tent venders, and distributed the information to all affected school districts so overwhelmed officials wouldn't have to do that research themselves. The association opened a trust fund to buy relief supplies. A modest $150,000 was collected, but that money went far.
"We're trying to set our office up. We need 20 computers," one superintendent told Waldrop, and he said. "The next day they had 20 computers."
New Jersey sustained $37 billion in damage from Superstorm Sandy last fall. Even the school boards association had to close for five days because it was without power, Feinsod said. When it was up and running, he added, "we knew we had to do something, and we had to do it quickly."
Over the course of 72 hours, Feinsod and his staff contacted all 586 school districts in the state, a mammoth undertaking that got results.
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Winter precipitation trends in the Mediterranean region for the period 1902 - 2010.
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Wintertime droughts are increasingly common in the Mediterranean region, and human-caused climate change is partly responsible, according to a new analysis by NOAA scientists and colleagues at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES). In the last 20 years, 10 of the driest 12 winters have taken place in the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.
"The magnitude and frequency of the drying that has occurred is too great to be explained by natural variability alone," said Martin Hoerling, Ph.D. of NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo., lead author of a paper published online in the Journal of Climate this month. "This is not encouraging news for a region that already experiences water stress, because it implies natural variability alone is unlikely to return the region's climate to normal."
The Mediterranean region accumulates most of its precipitation during the winter, and Hoerling's team uncovered a pattern of increasing wintertime dryness that stretched from Gibraltar to the Middle East. Scientists used observations and climate models to investigate several possible culprits, including natural variability, a cyclical climate pattern called the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), and climate change caused by greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere during fossil fuel use and other human activities.
Climate change from greenhouse gases explained roughly half the increased dryness of 1902-2010, the team found. This means that other processes, none specifically identified in the new investigation, also have contributed to increasing drought frequency in the region.
The team also found agreement between the observed increase in winter droughts and in the projections of climate models that include known increases in greenhouse gases. Both observations and model simulations show a sudden shift to drier conditions in the Mediterranean beginning in the 1970s. The analysis began with the year 1902, the first year of a recorded rainfall dataset.
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Reds and oranges highlight lands around the Mediterranean that experienced significantly drier winters during 1971-2010 than the comparison period of 1902-2010.
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In this analysis, sea surface temperature patterns emerged as the primary reason for the relationship between climate change and Mediterranean drought. In recent decades, greenhouse-induced climate change has caused somewhat greater warming of the tropical oceans compared to other ocean regions. That pattern acts to drive drought-conducive weather patterns around the Mediterranean. The timing of ocean temperature changes coincides closely with the timing of increased droughts, the scientists found.
The Mediterranean has long been identified as a "hot spot" for substantial impact from climate change in the latter decades of this century because of water scarcity in the region, a rapidly increasing population, and climate modeling that projects increased risk of drought.
"The question has been whether this projected drying has already begun to occur in winter, the most important season for water resources," Hoerling said. "The answer is yes."
Climate is a global phenomenon with global impacts on food prices and water security, and NOAA researchers are engaged in understanding changes in climate across many regions of the world. In the Mediterranean, winter drought has emerged as a new normal that could threaten food security. Lessons learned from studying climate in that region may also be relevant for the U.S. West Coast, which has a similar climate to the Mediterranean region of Europe and North Africa.
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Citation(2011). Human-caused climate change a factor in Mediterranean droughts. Retrieved from http://www.eoearth.org/view/news/51cbf23c7896bb431f6a85cb
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Jim hickey wrote: 12-03-2012 22:07:34
The elephant in the room in respect to climate change is that no one is talking about the winners. Nth Africa used to be the bread basket for the Roman Empire until warming turned productive land to desert cira 2000 years ago. I have been in the deserts of Maurtania within the last few years and observed both increased rainfall and evidence that desert regions used to be home to large game animal (rock carvings). Climate change could not make these ultra poor regions any less capable of supporting life. So; the planet is warming (it has to; there is 6 Biillon plus and growing) hence land usage for infrastructure alone must have an impact; Q is; will it on balance be better for the majority of people or worse?


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It sets up the early Faytis everyone was QQ'ing about before.
It cannot be stopped by anything except possibly Fire Breath, (tidal gets backlashed).
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Noun: A womans vagina that is very large and spacious on the inside. This large puss feels like you are fucking a bucket of water. Studio refers to the lack of walls in her dirty clam ie: studio apartment.
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A: That bitch was studio. I couldn't feel shit when I was in there.
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A place where you are at your normal time. Your friends & companions know this is where you are at all times. Here, you write and record songs, some of which pertain to being in or around the studio itself.
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Wasp, it's come to this.
I'm standing, hockey stick in hand, in my front doorway under your growing nest.
I'm about to tee off like Webb Simpson — Simpson, eh? — and send your little home into orbit.
I'd be OK with letting you squat on my eave if we didn't have a history.
Remember, a few weeks ago when you entered my home and made me look like an ass (which isn't hard to do)?
I chased you around for an hour, unsuccessfully trying to strike you with a roll of paper towels.
"Scared of it?" taunted my wife, who wasn't exactly jumping over furniture to help get you herself.
And, Wasp, you try explaining to a two-year-old why his father is jumping on the couch like Tom Cruise, batting at an insect, and muttering strange words under his breath.
"Why does Daddy keep saying that word that rhymes with duck?" he must have been asking. "And how come he's allowed to jump on the couch, but I'm not?"
I didn't get you then, Wasp, but I did vow to get even, a score I'm about to settle with a hockey stick that hasn't scored enough.
You may not know it, but our history goes well beyond that recent couch-jumping incident.
Since we moved into our house eight years ago, a clan war has been raging, the Bartletts versus the Wasps.
A couple of your ant-cestors have even struck my wife and, Wasp, you must realize hell hath no fury like a woman stung.
Who do you think she blamed? Not you jeezly wasps, but me, for allowing you to nest on the house.
That's another reason why your little ball of horror has to go ASAP.
If my wife gets stung again, it'll be the third time, and three strikes likely means I'm out ... sleeping in the car or under the picnic table.
And if you or one of your kind stings our son ... I'll banish myself from the house and go into hiding, because hell hath no fury like a grandparent whose grandchild is stung.
My plan, Wasp, is to flick your nest off the eave, jump back in the house, and slam the door before you know what happened.
I don't mind sharing my strategy with you, because it's dusk and you're inside the nest at this time of the day.
That's means there's little you'll do before I launch my attack.
OK, enough of the pleasantries, let's get 'er done.
Wasp, the stick is over my head and the blade is a few centimetres away from your nest.
I shoot ... snapping my wrists like Wendel Clark, who had the greatest wrist shot of all time (and is the greatest player ever).
I score ... your nest flies through the air and breaks into pulpy pieces.
But there is no time for jubilation. A squadron of your upset friends are top gunning for me.
I slam the door. None of them get in, which is excellent because I don't have the time or paper towels to waste tonight.
Now, Wasp, buzz off.
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Located 100 miles south of San José the Pacific Coast (a pleasant three-hour drive, or a short 20 minutes by plane), Manuel Antonio, which was declared a national park in 1972, is the natural habitat of species such as the endangered squirrel monkey (endemic to the area), white faced capuchin monkey, raccoons, three and two-toed sloths, white-nosed coaties, brown pelicans, black-collared hawks and green kingfishers. They share the space with primary and secondary forests, bursting with cedars, bully trees, black locusts and silk cotton trees. A mangrove swamp covers about 44.5 acres, adding to the biodiversity of the region.


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What do you really know about HIV and AIDS? How sure are you that what you know is correct or complete, and how much do you think it matters that you know about HIV and AIDS at all?
This article isn't here to scare you: after all, most of you who have been sexually active are much more likely to end up with HPV, Herpes or Chlamydia than you are with HIV. But that doesn't mean it's smart to forget about HIV, or figure it's nothing you've got to know about, especially since unlike other, more common STIs, HIV/AIDS is one of the rare few that has the capacity to cause very serious long-term health problems and can even be fatal.
While it's less common for western teens than other sexually transmitted infections, it also isn't anything close to rare: a few million teens and young adults worldwide acquire HIV every single year. Every hour of every day, one young American between the ages of 13 and 21 is infected with the HIV virus.
In the United States alone, 25% of all new HIV infections are in people of all sexes and orientations between the ages of 13 and 21, and a majority of those young adults don't even know they have it: in a Kaiser Foundation survey of youth about HIV, less than 30% of respondents have ever even been tested, and less than 50% reported they even knew where to go to get testing in the first place.
Among gay youth, awareness about HIV and the real risks posed has also been decreasing, and concerns about safer sex have decreased. That may well be in part because the overwhelming bias about gay men and HIV/AIDS was so extreme it had gay men of all ages in a very real state of panic for a long time, or because more focus -- as it should be -- has been put on other populations when it comes to HIV and AIDS, not just on gay men. But it's likely also in part because so many people with HIV seem to be doing just fine thanks to advanced drugs, and more dangerously, because in some gay populations, risking HIV is sometimes seen as a rite of passage, much like risking pregnancy is sometimes viewed among young straight women. But the risks to gay men -- the risks to anyone -- remain very real: around 50% of all new AIDS cases in young men are from men sleeping with men. (The same risks do not exist with young gay women: female-to-female HIV transmission is very rare.)
According to the Centers for Disease Control, at the end of 2003, an estimated 1,039,000 to 1,185,000 persons in the United States were living with HIV and/or AIDS. The CDC has estimated that approximately 40,000 persons in the United States become infected with HIV each year, however a new CDC report shows that the actual number of cases is greater than they estimated: approximately 56,300 new HIV infections occurred in the United States in 2006, which is approximately 40% higher than CDC's previous estimate.
That new report also found that of the new cases in 2006, 53% were from male-to-male sexual contact, and 31% from male-to-female sexual contact (only 12% of cases were due to IV drug use). The vast majority of HIV infections arise from sexual contact, for both men and women alike. AIDS is currently the fifth leading cause of death among all adults aged 25 to 44 in the United States: that CDC report found that more infections occurred in 2006 among young people under 30 (aged 13–29) than any other age group. So, no matter who we are, who we sleep with, or how safe we think we are, we can say pretty clearly that being ignorant about HIV and AIDS is a clear danger to our health and the health of those around us.
Because for so many years, information about HIV and AIDS was so biased, an unfortunate result of those biases has been that lots of folks have outdated or incorrect information about HIV. Let's debunk some myths and look at the facts.
Might as well stop right there: you can't spread AIDS to someone else at all. You can only spread HIV person-to-person.
So, what IS HIV? And what is AIDS? Both are acronyms: HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus; AIDS for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. HIV is a virus people can and do spread around, and AIDS is a syndrome which people with HIV often eventually develop: HIV often progresses to AIDS, and you can't wind up with AIDS without having contracted HIV first. AIDS is not contagious: HIV is. Neither are currently curable: once you've got HIV or AIDS, you've got them for life.
The HIV virus attacks cells in your body called CD4 cells -- also called T4 or T-helper cells -- which are essential in helping your body fight off infection and disease. As HIV destroys your immune system, that's where and how AIDS -- severe immunodeficiency -- can develop. An HIV-positive (someone diagnosed with the HIV virus) person is diagnosed with AIDS when their immune system becomes seriously compromised -- because those CD4 cells have been killed by HIV --- and manifestations of HIV infection are severe. Then the body becomes incapable of fighting off infections that normally we can handle, and aren't of real danger to us -- things like colds or yeast infections -- but which aren't harmless once we've got AIDS: every infection (same goes with cancers) becomes a major threat to our health because our body is no longer capable of the normal processes that fight off and help us heal from those infections.
Neither HIV or AIDS are currently curable. However, both are treatable. Advances in medicines to manage HIV through antiretroviral therapy and other alternative therapies -- as well as increases in screenings to diagnose HIV earlier and earlier -- have made a very real, positive difference when it comes to those living with HIV. HIV is no longer an absolute death sentence.
However, managing HIV also relies on two very important factors: finding HIV early, and having the resources to access and afford the medications for management. One big reason why people of color worldwide are harder hit by HIV and AIDS has to do with class differences -- who has more money and agency -- between the races when it comes to healthcare. And for younger people, many of whom don't have their own healthcare, especially when they're first starting out in their adult lives, and many of whom don't get regular STI/HIV testing, having good drugs and management tools is sometimes of limited use.
Even when good healthcare and treatment for HIV can be accessed, living with HIV is hardly a walk in the park. The medications for HIV patients do a real number on a lot of people in terms of side effects, they can be incredibly expensive, and a lot of other lifestyle changes usually need to be made by those living with HIV to feel okay. In addition, treatment for HIV does not do anything to protect sexual partners from getting HIV from a partner who is HIV-positive: it remains highly contagious and dangerous.
Because of earlier detection and advances in medicines, fewer young people with HIV right now will progress to quickly AIDS, and younger people nowadays with AIDS have been living longer than ever before. But it's important to remember that AIDS is a terminal condition, one that, on average -- when antiretroviral therapies are not used -- develops within about ten years from acquiring HIV on average. On average, once HIV has progressed to AIDS, people with AIDS die within one year. No one who has contracted full-blown AIDS has lived through it. Preventing HIV is still the very best thing we can do.
Unprotected anal intercourse (particularly for the receptive partner: the person in whose bottom a penis is entering) and needle-sharing drug use are absolutely the two most prevalent risks of HIV for young people (and most people, period). But not only do those risks exist for people of all sexes and gender equally -- especially as anal sex becomes more common among heterosexual teens -- heterosexual vaginal intercourse is a very close second when it comes to HIV risks.
Understand that why anal sex presents an increased risk is because anal and rectal tissue is more delicate than vaginal tissue, and more likely to have microtears (incredibly small tears) or abrasions from sex, which present sites for infection. But the same can often be true with vaginal tissue, especially when we consider how many young people are having sex without lubricant, without responsive and gentle partners, and how common date and stranger rapes are for young women (forced or even consensual "rough" sex increases risks of HIV and other STI transmission: sexual violence plays a very big part in the HIV/AIDS pandemic).
HIV is spread through four routes, and most prevalently in this order: male sexual fluids, blood, female vaginal fluids or breastmilk. If you are directly exposed to any of those things or expose others to them -- genitally, orally, or intravenously (in your veins) -- then you could get or spread HIV.
Not at all: all you'd have to do is have unprotected sex with one person who has HIV. By all means, the greater number of sexual partners you have, the greater chance you've got of winding up with a partner with HIV, so limiting partners is a big help is reducing the risk of HIV. But if you're having unsafe sex with even one partner, you're at risk, so it's a very big deal to never make exceptions when it comes to safe sex, not even just "that once."
In the early 80's, when HIV and AIDS were first discovered, a majority of those diagnosed with AIDS were gay men. Diagnosed: that means who were found to have it, that doesn't speak for all the folks who had it without being diagnosed. But at this point, we know that EVERYONE can get HIV and AIDS: in 2004, AIDS was a leading cause of death for black women between the ages of 25 and 34, for instance. Worldwide, more than 90% of HIV infections are due to unprotected heterosexual intercourse (consensual and through rapes), and around half of those living with HIV today worldwide are women.
Most sexual HIV transmission in the western world is indeed male-to-male, and secondarily male-to-female, and women are twice as likely to contract HIV from men than men are from women worldwide. But those male-to-male cases in the U.S. are only a little bit higher than all other kinds of transmission, representing only just over half of all new cases. One troubling thing the Kaiser study showed was that overall, young men expressed less concern and interest in finding out about all aspects of HIV and AIDS, even though men are the most common transmissors of the virus, no matter who they're giving it to.
Additional things that can put you at a higher risk for acquiring HIV are having another existing sexually transmitted infection (such as one of the more common ones: one reason teen girls are at an increased risk of HIV is because so many have Chlamydia without knowing it or treating it), getting wasted and having sex (primarily since that increases the risk of having unsafe sex), and much more rarely now, blood transfusions and having had a mother who was HIV-positive at the time of your birth. We can also safely say that homophobia increases the risk of HIV and AIDS, because in cultures and communities where men who sleep with men -- exclusively, or as well as with women -- have to be (or feel they have to be) on the down low, HIV rates are higher. Likewise, we can say that racism and xenophobia have increased the risk of HIV and AIDS given how much harder hit people and communities of color have been by HIV and AIDS. And by all means, ignorance, denial and silence increases all of our risks.
Just to give you an idea, here are some scenarios by which you and your friends could wind up transmitting or contracting HIV:
In any of those scenarios, you can see how easy it can be -- in certain conditions -- to acquire HIV. You can likely also see how easy it is for it to spread among many people: add just a partner or two to those situations, and you've possibly got one or two more people with HIV from the same person. Add a partner or two to those people, and then a partner or two to all of those people...well, you can see how much easier it can be for an awful lot of people to get sick from what originally might have seemed like a safe situation to any given person.
HIV and AIDS are a real problem all over the map. Certainly, Africa has been hit very hard by HIV and AIDS, largely because of a lack of education about them both (which is also a problem in other continents, including this one), as well as because of cultural issues and lack of good healthcare and treatment. But the World Health Organization has made clear that rates are also strongly rising in China, India, Indonesia and Russia, and rates of HIV have not been decreasing here in the western world. Some of why is because HIV information and treatment is not reaching critical populations at risk, and teens and young adults worldwide are one of those critical populations.
Most people with HIV look just like most people without HIV. HIV positive people usually look no different than anyone else: not facially, not genitally. A whole lot of people with HIV, including people who don't know they have it and aren't being treated for it -- feel and look just fine most of the time. HIV is often asymptomatic (it shows no symptoms), and when symptoms are present, they're a whole lot like just having the flu. Those who have symptoms from HIV experience things like fevers, chronic yeast infections, easy bruising, body rashes, chronic fatigue, diarrhea or weight loss: it's really easy to think you've got something else -- or nothing at all -- when you acquire HIV, especially at first.
When HIV progresses to AIDS, we'd be lyin' if we said that AIDS patients looked picture perfect: people with AIDS are very seriously ill, and often look just as seriously ill as they are. Regardless, just like with any other STI, thinking you can know if and when someone has an STI just by looking is a really stupid thing to think: you can't know a person's STI status based on how they look.
While many general practitioners and clinics have upped their efforts to make HIV screenings more routine, it's never smart to assume you've been tested without finding out for sure. Too, a lot of doctors report that because of the cultural climate in terms of teens and sex, they are nervous to ask teens about their sexual activity and STI testing. It's often estimated that less than 20% of of teens and young adults in the U.S. with HIV have been tested and are aware that they have it.
There's no reason not to be proactive and double check with your healthcare provider that you have been tested for HIV. If you have been sexually active and don't want to tell your doctor (something we wouldn't advise keeping to yourself from healthcare pros, but still), you don't have to disclose that: you can ask for a test without discussing your sexual history at all. If your doctor asks why you're asking for testing, all you need to say is because you want to be sure you don't have HIV.
That's a reasonable fear -- there's so much stigma around HIV, and with young people who usually acquire HIV through drug use or sex, people knowing you've got HIV often also means people knowing (or guessing about) you did whatever it was to wind up with HIV. But that's a fear which isn't grounded in the reality of HIV testing right now.
You can get a test for HIV --an oral swab and/or a blood test -- at your regular, general doctor's office or general health clinic, at a hospital, via student health services or through your gynecologist, urologist or sexual health/family planning clinic. There are also clinics which specifically deal with HIV testing and treatment, too. But ALL of those places are legally obligated to protect your privacy.
If you're a minor, you can get HIV testing in most locations worldwide without parental permission or notification. If you choose to use a doctor where your family insurance will cover your visit, then your test may show up on the statement sent to your family, but with so many options for HIV testing in most places -- many of which are low-cost or even free -- there's no need to go through that channel unless you want to. Most HIV results are not sent in the mail, or given to someone else, but given to you, one-on-one, by the person who tested you.
If a person is positive, then that new case will be reported to public health agencies (that's really important to help with prevention efforts as well as with developing treatments), but not with a name made public: a code is used instead. You may be asked, if you test positive, to let the clinic know about your current and previous sexual partners so that they can inform them a previous partner (again, confidentially) has tested positive so they, too, can know to get tested. Or, you may be strongly encouraged to self-report to current and previous partners, something we, too, would strongly urge you to do, even when it is difficult.
We all get that testing can be really scary. (Not to sound like your granny, but back in the day when I first got screenings for HIV, we had to wait weeks and weeks for results, and this is before we had antiretrovirals, when being HIV-positive really was a real death sentence, and we still weren't sure, as we are now, about how it was even transmitted. That wait was absolute torture.) But in so many ways, putting off testing is like letting a pile of unopened bills sit on your desk: the bills aren't going to go away, and the longer you wait to deal with them, the worse things are going to get if you owe. Believe it or not, finally going and getting tested -- and getting in the habit of doing it -- is much more of a relief than it is a burden. If you're feeling really messed up about getting tested, ask your clinic for some extra emotional support before, during and after your tests: they can help and they want to help.
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Not anything close to likely. Again, there are four major routes of HIV transmission, and if you're not having unprotected sex with anyone in the clinic, sharing needles with anyone in the clinic (and clinicians are beyond impeccable about using clean needles for testing), or breastfeeding from someone in the clinic, you're not going to wind up with HIV. You can't get HIV through casual contact -- like sitting on the same chair or sharing a toilet -- and you also can't get it from even pretty close contact with someone who is HIV positive: close contact like closed-mouth kissing, hugging, handshaking, even sharing glasses or cups, don't present HIV risks.
The most effective way to avoid acquiring HIV is to abstain from vaginal and anal sex with partners (oral sex may present risks, especially if and when blood is involved, but oral sex presents greater STI risks with other STIs than it does with HIV), injection drug use, and any exposure to other people's blood in other contexts (such as in unclean tattoo parlors or via self-done tats, by sharing razors or toothbrushes, or via scenarios like biting or being bitten).
But if you're not abstaining from sex, latex condoms have been shown, time and time again, over a considerable amount of time, to reduce the risk of HIV transmission by as much as 99%, and by 80% on average, with typical (rather than perfect) condom use. To give you an idea of what sort of risk protection 80 - 99% is, anyone with ears has heard again and again how much seatbelts help save lives. Seatbelts prevent death in car accidents by around 40% according to most sources. In other words, using latex condoms for ALL the genital sex you have, always, provides more than twice as much protection for you against HIV than seatbelts provide protection against death in a car. That's a whole lot of protection for something so easy to afford, obtain and use.
If you're going to be sexually active, it's essential to use latex barriers -- male or female condoms -- during sex, to prevent the spread of HIV, as well as other infections and diseases, and it's crucially important that condoms are ALWAYS used, not just sometimes, not most of the time, but every single time.
It's also really important to use condoms correctly: if you or your friends are having condoms break often, you can be sure you're not using them correctly, since rates of breakage shown with correct use are usually less than 2%.
Correct condom use means:
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While latex barrier use all by itself is really critical, getting regularly tested isn't a footnote, either. Regular HIV and STI screenings for EVERYONE who is or has been sexually active (has had any sort of oral or genital sex with another person) are hugely important. Getting tests for ALL STIs, at least once every year, is critical to protect yourself and others.
As you know by now, having other, more commonly transmitted STIs left undiagnosed and untreated not only puts your general and reproductive health in danger -- and that of any sexual partners -- it also puts you at a higher risk of contracting more infections, including HIV. And with HIV in particular, the earlier it is diagnosed, the earlier you can take measures -- such as lifestyle changes and medications -- to start taking care of yourself and to avoid developing AIDS.
One other important way to protect yourself, while ALSO using latex barriers for any partnered sex AND getting regular testing, is just to alter some of your behavior, or live in a way that helps protect you from the start. There's a whole lot of reasons to avoid intravenous drug use, obviously, but HIV prevention is one of those reasons. Too, avoiding or seriously limiting drug and alcohol use is another big help: it's been shown time and time again that drugs and alcohol influence people's sexual behavior, and usually in ways that create extra physical and emotional health risks, including STI risks.
Limiting sexual partners is another biggie. Sometimes, it can be hard to imagine you even have to when you're younger, because every relationship feels like it's going to last forever. But the reality is that very few do, and for teens and young adults, most relationships are really pretty short-lived. That doesn't mean you have to pick one person to date for all of high school and college if that doesn't feel right to you, nor does it mean you have to be celibate if you don't want to. What it does mean is that it's smart and safer to give extra thought to who you'll take as a sexual partner, and to go slow with sexual partnership. There are plenty of ways to test the waters that don't put you at big risks at all, even without use of latex barriers -- things like kissing, petting, frottage, manual sex (handjobs and fingering, so long as hands are clean) and mutual masturbation are all very safe sexual activities when it comes to HIV and other STI risks. One other good rule of thumb is to forestall any sexual activity until you've known someone long enough to feel comfortable talking very openly about the parts of sex that are a drag, like how to have sex safely and responsibly, like sexual history and STI testing history. If you don't feel okay asking for the last dates someone got screened and their results, it's a smart move to wait for any genital sex at all until you do.
Remember, too: it can be easy to feel like we trust someone when they're new to us and we've got no sound reason not to. But not knowing them well IS sound reason not to. To boot, trust doesn't make anything safer when it comes to STIs like HIV. Someone being trustworthy doesn't mean they haven't been at risk, nor does it negate the need for safer sex like latex barriers and STI testing. Want an example of very real trust? Going to the clinic to get tested together and trusting that no matter each of your results, the other person will be kind, understanding and willing to work anything through that needs working through.
Managing barriers, testing and lifestyle issues can seem daunting if you're not in the habit of doing it, but just like getting into any other habit is -- such as exercising daily, getting to work on time or creating a study routine in college -- once you get used to doing all of these things, they really are a breeze.
What if I get a test and find out I'm positive? No one is going to play Pollyanna and say that getting a positive result is going to be your best day ever. That's tremendously tough news for anyone, and there's little to soften that blow.
But the sooner you find out, the better off you are, and the sooner you can get started on taking care of yourself as best you can. Again, being positive really, truly, is not a death sentence anymore, nor does it mean your whole life is over. People who are HIV-positive now and who get good treatment and take good care of themselves and those around them can have excellent relationships -- including sexual relationships -- get pregnant and have kids, keep their jobs, and achieve the goals they aspire to. That's not to say all of that is always easy as pie -- it's often not -- but it is doable, and all the more so when you face things head-on, and don't delay in getting diagnosed and treated.
There is also more and more support out there for HIV-positive folks, so it's not something most people will have to go alone. Having HIV is in many ways no different than having any other sort of serious disease: people with diabetes or cancers can find ways to survive and manage their diseases, and the same is true for those who have HIV.
There's just no good reason to avoid getting tested regularly. If you find out you don't have HIV, that's one less thing for you to have to worry about. If you find out you do, the sooner you know, the better off you and everyone around you will be, and the better your chances for getting through it and being able to continue the life you're just starting in the healthiest way possible.
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While training for his Gym Battle at Nimbasa City, Ash and co. encounter a Cottonee along with more Cottonee that are paired up. They soon realize that it's mating season for Cottonee, but the Cottonee Ash and co. encountered is the only one that didn't pair up. So Ash and co. decide to help it. Elsewhere, Team Rocket has plans of their own for the Cottonee. Will Cottonee find his true love, or will Team Rocket ruin everything?
- This episode pays homage to IL021: Bye Bye Butterfree on the fact that Cottonee, like Ash's Butterfree, is finding true love.
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
By MATT CAMPBELL
The Kansas City Star
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Tomas Young has been fighting for the last nine years, fighting his government, fighting the Veterans Administration and fighting his own deteriorating body.
But soon the struggle will be over. The Kansas City man who was paralyzed from the chest down by a sniper's bullet during the Iraq war is now in hospice care and preparing to die, The Kansas City Star reported (http://bit.ly/15rfcpC ).
Sometime in the next few weeks, after he has said all his goodbyes, he intends to refuse nourishment, water and life-extending medication. He expects his 33-year life to be over a few days after that.
"Because I'm tired," Young explained this week from his bed. "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired."
Young is mostly confined to his bed. His colon was removed in November and he doesn't eat solid food. A pump that he controls provides anti-pain drugs through a tube into his chest. He gets nauseous and tires easily.
Those closest to Young, including his wife and his mother, support his decision. They want Young's story to draw attention to America's attitudes toward death and dying as well as to the continuing price being paid for the Iraq war, which began ten years ago this week. American troops left in 2011.
In what may be Young's final political gesture, the activist this week issued an open letter to former President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney on behalf of "the human detritus your war has left behind, those who will spend their lives in unending pain and grief." The letter is posted at www.truthdig.com
Young is accustomed to expressing strong opinions about the war. He was interviewed on "60 Minutes" and was the subject of the 2007 documentary "Body of War" produced by Phil Donahue. Musician Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam was inspired by Young to compose songs for the film.
Young was a graduate of Winnetonka High School, class of '98, and after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, he decided to join the Army.
"I enlisted to go to Afghanistan because I felt that was, quote-unquote, the right war, to go after the people that attacked us," he said.
Young was distraught to be sent instead to Iraq, a conflict he felt was not justified. He said an Army chaplain told him he would feel better once he got to Iraq and started killing Iraqis.
Young was in-country less than a week, on April 4, 2004, when he and many other soldiers were wounded while in the back of an open-air truck rushing in a rescue convoy in Sadr City outside Baghdad. He was 24 years old.
"It was like shooting fish in a barrel," Young later described the sniper attack that severed his spine.
Back home and in a wheelchair, Young struggled with post-traumatic stress but became a voice against the Iraq war. "A Body of War" dealt with the Congressional debate over the war resolution and took an unflinching look at Young's daily medical trials.
Those became worse with a pulmonary embolism and stroke in 2008 that impaired his speech and arms. He was in rehab in Chicago when a kind-hearted woman who had seen the documentary began visiting him.
"I went down there to make it better for him," said Claudia Cuellar. "I took him books and music and movies. We connected pretty quickly. I fell in love."
Cuellar left her home in Chicago to be Young's caregiver in Kansas City. Last spring the two married at the Clay County Courthouse so Cuellar couldn't be excluded by a hospital from Young's final moments. They were already thinking about that. Things soon began to get worse when Young experienced severe abdominal pains.
There were several hospitalizations and arguments with doctors over pain medication. Young left a Veterans Administration hospital in October against medical advice. He and Cuellar were considering hospice care when doctors at a private hospital suggested a colostomy.
It was major surgery, but the couple thought it would buy some time and quality of life. But the pain returned.
Now Cuellar feeds her husband a liquid diet through a tube and grinds up pills when he feels nauseous.
Leaving the bed is too much an effort so Young lies in a darkened room with a wide-screen TV and Bob Marley posters on the wall. Elsewhere in the house in Kansas City, North, is Pearl Jam memorabilia, photos of Young and Cuellar and books on Tibetan Buddhism, her religion.
Knocks on the front door signal the arrival of a visiting caregiver or the delivery of meds. A happy dog named Buddy pads around with a tennis ball in his mouth.
Cuellar doesn't cook anymore, lest the aroma cause her husband to think about food. Watching TV is hard because every other commercial seems to be about food.
After the last surgery did not make things better, Young and Cuellar again turned to the concept of palliative care.
"Finally I decided that ... watching my body deteriorate, I was going to go into hospice care and eventually stop eating and drinking," said Young.
Cuellar said it wasn't that easy "getting off the medical merry-go-round where they want you to do more and more procedures and take more and more drugs. They make you feel like you're giving up, like there's something wrong."
To be accepted into hospice one technically has to have a terminal condition. Cuellar and Young prevailed when he was ruled to have an "inability to thrive" and was accepted by Crossroads Hospice.
Young said his choice was rational.
"When you feel like you've had enough with life you can choose to go out your own way," he said. "You don't have to struggle through every day just to make it because you're expected by society to endure until you die naturally or are murdered."
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Some bipartisan cooperation may finally be breaking out in the nation's contentious battle over health care overhaul.
The Obama administration announced Thursday that four red states are on the list of those getting the initial go-ahead to build their own health insurance marketplaces. Open enrollment for millions of uninsured Americans is less than 10 months away -- Oct. 1.
The GOP-led states -- Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah -- joined five others getting conditional approval from Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (seh-BEEL'-yuhs).
Counting previous approvals, 17 states plus Washington, D.C., have been cleared to run their own insurance exchanges.
Washington will set up the new insurance markets in states that don't want to participate.
But at least nine other states are considering partnerships with the administration.
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TULSA, OK - Tulsa homicide detectives say they have located a person of interest in connection with this week's quadruple homicide.
On Monday four women were found murdered at the Fairmont Terrace Apartments.
A toddler was found unharmed in the apartment with the bodies.
Police are not releasing the person's name.
Detectives have interviewed dozens of people about the case.
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TAMPA BAY, Florida - Governor Rick Scott has rewarded a number of political allies and donors with key posts on state boards.
Four of Scott's five nominations to the Florida Board of Governors on Thursday have made large contributions to the Governor's campaign or political action committee (PAC) in the last few years.
One of the board members, who will help deciding the fate of the state's 12 universities, is Harry "Wayne" Huizenga, whose family has made five donations to Scott's PAC totaling $465,500.
Huizenga, the son of the former majority owner of the Miami Dolphins, Florida Panthers, and Florida Marlins is also famous for founding Blockbuster Video, Waste Management, and AutoNation. The family has been long-time Republican supporters, donating millions of dollars to GOP candidates and causes over the years.
Other Scott and GOP loyalists rewarded with posts Thursday include Ned Lautenbach, Alan Levine, and Wendy Link. All three - along with their respective spouses - made maximum individual contribution of $500 each to Scott's gubernatorial campaign in 2010.
Lautenbach kicked in another $25,000 to the Republican Party of Florida in November 2010 then $15,000 to Scott's "Let's Get to Work" PAC in April 2012.
The only one of the five new Board of Governors nominations without an apparent track record of donations to Scott was Ed Wasmer. However, the investment executive has a strong track record supporting GOP legislative candidates, and lives in Scott's hometown of Naples, Fla.
Nominees Levine and Lautenbach also live in Naples.
Just like the saying, "to the victor go the spoils," it's not unusual for elected officials to reward loyal contributors with key posts.
"Gov. Rick Scott has chosen a group of well-qualified individuals, with broad ranges of skills and experience," said Board of Governors chairman Dean Colson, in a statement.
"Considering this group's wide range experience and expertise, it is clear our new members will have fresh perspectives to offer the Board of Governors," added Mori Hosseini, vice chair of the Board, also in a statement.
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Seatbelt bill clears major hurdle in House
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Odds for passage of a mandatory seatbelt bill this session improved markedly Wednesday, when the House Roads and Transportation Committee advanced the House's version of the bill on a 14-9 vote.
"This is a milestone vote," Delegate Doug Skaff, D-Kanawha, said afterward. He noted that in past years, similar bills frequently died in the committee.
As advanced Wednesday, the bill (HB2108) closely resembles a companion bill in the Senate (SB129).
It makes failure to wear a seatbelt a primary offense, punishable by a $25 fine. It also eliminates an exemption in the current secondary offense law for adults riding in the rear passenger seats of vehicles.
Like the Senate bill, the bill makes exceptions for individuals who have medical conditions that make it difficult or impossible to use a seatbelt, if they have a certified statement from their physician, as well as an exception for mail carriers.
House Roads and Transportation Chairwoman Margaret Staggers, D-Fayette, said she believes the time has come for passage of a primary enforcement seatbelt law, and noted that at least one auto manufacturer is in the process of introducing cars that cannot be started until all passengers are belted.
"The cars are getting smarter than we are," she said. "In five years, there will be no question about whether you will wear a seatbelt."
Bob Tipton, director of the Governor's Highway Safety Program, told the committee that seatbelt usage increases 5 percent to 7 percent in primary offense states. Currently, fewer than 85 percent of West Virginians use seatbelts, he said.
"I think it definitely will increase usage of seatbelts, and I don't think there's any question it will save lives and prevent injuries," he said.
Delegate Danny Wells, D-Kanawha, endorsed the legislation, saying it is obviously a life-saving bill.
"If we save one life, it's worth passing this bill," he said.
The bill now goes to House Judiciary Committee. The Senate version is pending in Senate Judiciary.
Also Wednesday in the Legislature:
* The Senate Government Organization Committee quickly approved legislation to authorize a sales tax increment financing zone at the University Town Centre in Morgantown (SB125), the final financing element of a $96 million development project that will include an exit off of Interstate 79 between Westover and Star City, and development of a $15 million ballpark for the West Virginia University baseball team and, likely, a minor league professional team.
According to news reports, the Jamestown (N.Y.) Jammers, the New York-Penn League affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates, have requested permission from the league to relocate to Morgantown when the new ballpark opens.
Also, backers of the project say it will open up 1,400 acres for development of additional retail locations, Class A office space, and light industrial facilities on both sides of Interstate 79.
"It's an exciting project not just for Morgantown and Monongalia County, but for all of north-central West Virginia," said Sen. Bob Beach, D-Monongalia. "The project here is just going to add an additional level of economic development in north central West Virginia."
* House Roads and Transportation Committee members advanced legislation to allow people with concealed weapons permits to bring loaded handguns onto the state Capitol grounds (HB2135).
Currently, it is against the law to bring a firearm onto the Capitol grounds, and committee members were told that people with concealed weapon permits frequently, and inadvertently, violate the law by parking at the Capitol with handguns in their vehicles.
Apparently, some of the committee members are among those violating the law: When Staggers asked for a show of hands of committee members with concealed weapon permits, more than half raised their hands.
Committee members rejected an amendment sought by the Protective Services Division (the Capitol Complex police) to require that all guns on the Capitol grounds be unloaded.
Delegate Linda Goode Phillips, D-Wyoming, said she feels safer knowing she has a loaded weapon in her car, particularly when she's leaving the Capitol at night.
"An unloaded gun is useless in that scenario," she said.
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Ash and friends arrive in Solaceon Town for Dawn's next contest. Dawn is training and shows off Aipom's new move, Double Hit. Brock reveals that this means Aipom is close to evolving. Soon Kenny arrives and reveals his new Breloom. Ash wants to battle him and Kenny agrees. During the battle, Kenny shows off the move Energy Ball, which Ash immediately wants to teach Turtwig. Kenny agrees and the battle is called off to begin training. Meanwhile, Team Galactic Commander Saturn and his two henchmen arrive at the Solaceon Ruins and retrieve a special cube, and before leaving, they upset all of the ruins' Unown. Ash, Dawn, Brock and Kenny arrive at the ruins and are then unexpectedly caught in the Unown's warped dimension and must figure out a way to stop them.
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Those of you looking to become dog owners, starting next year, you might have to go through a background check and take a class depending on the breed you choose.
A bill filed earlier this week, calls for the regulation of what some lawmakers believe to be aggressive dog breeds in our state. Starting on January 1, 2014, anyone looking to own a pit bull, rottweiler, mastiff, chow, or perro de presa canario would have to submit to a criminal background check, and then take a course of instruction lasting at least 4 hours.
"They do have a little bit of a violent background, but that's not every pit bull, and it's usually not the dog's fault but it's how they were brought up. It's their trainers and stuff," said pit bull owner Morgan McAden.
The bill also would require owners to apply for a special permit from the department of insurance.
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