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1. Stanley Jean-Baptiste, CB, Nebraska
2. Terrence Brooks, S, FSU
3. Pierre Desir, CB, Lindenwood
4. Phillip Gaines, CB, Rice
5. Kyle Van Noy, OLB, BYU
6. Keith McGill, CB, Utah
7. Jimmy Garoppolo, QB, Eastern Illinois
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9. Chris Borland, LB, Wisconsin
10. Jordan Matthews, WR, Vanderbilt
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15. Dion Bailey, S, USC
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Re: Av' s Day 2 Rams Draft Board (Top 20)
I really like McGill in the second who is compared to Trumaine Johnson. He has both size (6'3 215) and speed (4.44 40). I also like Terrence Brooks in the third if he makes it that far. If that did happen I would hit on all the first four picks I had in my mock draft.
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Guys I'm interested in:
Round 2:
Xavier Su'a-Filo
Gabe Jackson
Joel Bitonio
Kyle Van Noy
LaMarcus Joyner
Trai Turner
Terrence Brooks
Stanley Jean-Baptiste
Round 3:
Jordan Matthews
Allen Robinson
Jarvis Landry
Antone Exum
Bashaud Breeland
Pierre Desir
Keith McGill
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Also, AV, do you not see OL as an intermediate need anymore? Or do you just prefer Gabe Jackson to Xavier Su'a-Filo? BTW nice list! Ours are similar.
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Would love Joyner at 44 but wouldn't shock me with more OL taken there.
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I think the run on DBs in Round 1 could prompt the Rams to "reach" a bit at No. 44 to fill that need. I'd be shocked if the Rams did not add a DB by the end of Round 3.
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I wouldn't mind a double dip in the CB pool. Go get a FS and a CB because we only have two starting caliber CB's as of right now. I would still like to add an interior lineman too, but you can't have it all.
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Would love Terrance Brooks now that Arizona has reared it's ugly head for the second straight year, as far as I'm concerned.
Love Baptiste, but he and Seattle look like a match made in heaven with Browner gone. We'll see.
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Might end up getting Bailey after all(thought for sure we had a shot a Bucannon). SC boys manning the backend. Might be good.
Van Noy might be a good one if the DBs seem as a reach. Still some good WRs on board as well.
With the knowledge that the Rams tried to get martin, might not surprise me if they move up some and get Su'-a Filo.
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For the Rams, my wish list based on needs and/or player value IMHO:
Stanley Jean-Baptiste, CB, Nebraska
Kyle Van Noy, OLB, BYU
Cody Latimer, WR, Indiana / Jordan Matthews, WR, Vanderbilt / Allen Robinson, WR, Penn State
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1. Su'a Filo
2. Yankey
3. Kouandjio
4. Gabe Jackson
And two offensive players that would fit well ....
5. Carlos Hyde
6. Allen Robinson
Keep it going Rams!!!
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Colin McComb: Part of it is just that I'm not the same person I was 15 years ago when I was working on Planescape: Torment. Now I'm in my 40s. I've got kids. This is the sort of thing I think about as my own impending mortality looks me in the face. Hopefully it's going to be many years off, but I'm sitting there looking at it and thinking, "What have I accomplished with my life? What am I doing? What will my kids think of me? What will people in the future think of me?" It sort of spun out from there.
Is that something you see as applying, as a question, to all demographics? Say, people who are younger and might be picking up their first big, deep RPG like this?
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Regarding Numenera, specifically, and the Ninth World setting… Brian said you were also the one responsible for that. Did you work with Monte on the Numenera pen and paper RPG prior to Torment?
McComb: I worked on Planescape with Monte prior to this project, actually. Numenera, Monte has created that as his own IP. He did his Kickstarter last year. He approached me and my wife with our mobile games company, 3lb Games, to ask us to design the app for that. We said, "Oh, sweet, that's super cool. Thank you so much." Then Brian and Adam Heine and I were kicking around the idea for a new Torment and trying to figure out what our setting was. It became obvious fairly quickly that this was the setting we were looking for. It wasn't a quid pro quo thing. It was, "Holy crap, Monte has the perfect solution."
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Patrick, how did you originally get involved in the project?
Patrcik Rothfuss: [laughs] Well, I ran into Colin at GenCon last year. It was Sunday, and everything was winding down. I was talking with somebody else, and he wandered by and said, "Hey, are you Patrick Rothfuss?" I get that a fair amount because I kind of look a hobo. It's really distinctive. I said, "Yeah, I am, who are you?" He says, "I design games." I say, "Oh, what have you done?" He said, "Oh, this and that, and Planescape." I'd just been talking about Planescape for my whole life, you know. For the last 13 years, I've been gushing about Planescape whenever I talk about video games. I wouldn't shut up about it to him. I completely hijacked the conversation and gushed all over him.
And then I was really curious about the mechanism, I've always been fascinated about the potential of narrative in these games. The branched nature of it. The ability of the reader to choose and direct the story is something you don't really get in any other medium, with the exception of, like, a Choose Your Own Adventure book. He was really cool about it. He said, "I can show you how that dialogue gets written." We talked about it and we stayed in touch via e-mail. Then, when this started to get up off the ground, he e-mailed me and I was just giddy at the thought of being involved in any way.
It sounds like you've been a gamer for quite a while, then.
Rothfuss: Not to overstate it, but I've probably been a gamer for as long as there have been computer games. Since back before the old Infocom games.
What do you see as being the biggest differences between writing novels and writing for a game like this? I guess I should ask first, is this the first time you've written for a game?
Rothfuss: It is. It's going to be the first time. It's exciting and it's a little spooky. For me, the exciting part is that it's new. I get to work with these people who have been doing this for a long time. They know the medium. I'm new to the medium, so I get to learn some stuff. But what I get to bring is, I know story. I've been working on story for a long time, and story is pretty universal stuff. Character and scene and tension. What's exciting for me is doing some of the things we can do in a video game that you just can't do in a novel. Exploring all the options of what somebody's interaction could be in a situation, or what their reaction to a situation could be. It's just a different type of narrative experience that I've always wanted to turn my hand to.
Is there anything you've found particularly surprising or challenging about writing for a game?
Rothfuss: Well, we haven't gotten into it very much. The big challenge for me is going to be learning how to work with a team of creative people. Because I'm very used to putting in the hours on writing, but writing a novel is, inherently, a very solitary process, unless you're co-writing something. If I spend 16 hours alone in my room writing my novel, that's a productive day. But working with these people, that's going to be really challenging for me, because I'm used to having all of the control. To be completely honest, I'm worried that I'm going to be the asshole. [laughs] I'm use to being in control of the story. Whatever I say goes. I'm so not in charge of this. I'm the rookie member of the team. I worry that my tendency to always get my way before is going to make me come off as a real ass in this team setting.
McComb: But, fortunately, we do have safeguards against that, because our primary rule is, we're not jerks. When one of us says something in an e-mail or comes off in a way that seems overbearing or jerky, the rest of us to say, "Okay, did they actually intend to be a jerk?" And if the answer is, "Possibly yes," then we have to go to a resolution mechanism. Otherwise, it fails the test. [laughs] The actual message that's being put across here: "Oh, wait, I get it. He's concerned about the direction of this."
Rothfuss: I've already talked to Colin and I told him just today… I expressed this concern. I'm very free with my opinion, and I love talking about stories. But I'm really looking for him to tell me. To say things like, "Wow, that is a really interesting idea. Thank you. But we are not doing that." I'm more than willing to admit that he is the boss. You have to have the captain of the ship. Somebody has to be in charge. You can't write a story, a truly compelling narrative, by committee. It can't be a democracy. I can't see that working.
T hat actually flows well into my next question. You don't have to go into a lot of detail, but I'm curious what your specific contributions will be, in terms of the story, on the project.
McComb: I'll start this one. Essentially, what I am doing is providing the main backbone of the story. I'm providing the overall outline, the major story quests, and the major story beats. It's the spine and the theme that will run throughout the game. What the other writers will be doing is adding the ribs and the musculature and fleshing stuff out. What Pat is going to be doing… I guess I'll let you describe that.
Rothfuss: You could probably articulate this a little better than me. Obviously, when I agreed to do it, I said, "Yes. I would like to do it. Use me however you think would be best." That's what we started with. I knew that I would maybe do a sub-quest or a piece of the story, or maybe create an area and what would happen there. But the more I thought about it… Honestly, it's when I saw Chris Avellone went up in the Kickstarter [as a stretch goal]. I saw that he was going to do a companion. I thought, "Oh, yeah, the companions." I remembered all of what happened in so many of these games. So much of the interaction that's really interesting is between the main character and these companion characters, or between the companion characters themselves. That rolled around in my head for a couple of days before I called Colin and said, "You know, if you wanted me to write a companion, I would be okay with that." Which is the Midwestern way of saying, "I really, really want to." [laughs]
Yeah, yeah. I lived in the Midwest for 12 years, so I know how that is.
McComb: If you wanted to write up this interview as if we're coming across as super articulate and smart, that'd be great. [laughs]
Rothfuss: We talked about companions today. I'm really excited to do that. One of the things I'm best with is character. I'm coming to realize that. The ability to have control of this character from beginning to end and tell that character's story—not the main character, not the main story. But I'm really excited about that. Even more so than my initial participation in the creation of the areas and some of these subplots or story arcs.
I might be getting you in trouble with Colin a little bit here, but would you be willing to tease anything about the area or the companion that you're writing?
McComb: Sorry, I gotta put the veto on that.
Rothfuss: Kevin [Saunders, Project Director] would write me a very polite e-mail, and when Kevin writes polite e-mails you know that he's just holding himself back from saying, "You are ruining everything."
So there's nothing you can share yet, safely?
Rothfuss: How about this? Could I express… It would be my preference to write a female character. Would that be a safe thing to say?
McComb: Sure, you can say that. You can tease out a little bit more, but… We don't want to design on the fly, I guess, is what I'm saying.
Rothfuss: No, absolutely. That, I will say, is what's really interesting to me. It's the thought of writing a woman. I've been doing more of that in my own, personal writing. Writing maybe a different sort of character than the typical companion that you see sometimes in RPGs. Which I think is going to be perfect, because this RPG is not going to be your typical RPG. It's going to be really different.
McComb: I do need to say that the character Pat has proposed is very different from anything that we tend to see in RPGs.
Rothfuss: [laughs]
PC Gamer: So, Colin, as someone who's been doing this for a while, what do you see as the area that has progressed the most in terms of game storytelling? At least as long as you've been doing it. And where would you liked to see it go from here?
McComb: I'm going to try to word this diplomatically, because I said something unfortunate in a different interview, and I realize that it sounded really jerky afterwards. I had to make some apologies. I think that game stories have, in some senses, become less involving. With the advent of full voice acting, it's really locked a lot of possibilities down, where people could extend things out. The growth of cinematics and movies is actually sort of a handicapping factor. I would like to see us return to an era where text is more important again. This might just be old-fogeyism happening here, but I really like the text-based games. I grew up on the Infocom games. I'm a huge fan of the original Wasteland. Fallout, Fallout 2, the original Baldur's Gates, Icewind Dale, Planescape: Torment… I guess I had to say that one. [laughs] I would like to see more reading in games and less, "Here's a grand vision."
That's interesting to hear, because some people have kind of perceived the lack of full voice acting in some of these–not just with you guys, but with Obsidian too–as being a product of not having a big publisher budget. But it sounds like you're saying it might be more of a focused decision.
McComb: In some cases, that's actually very true. When you do voice acting… Yeah, it's a higher budget, but you also have to get that script in early, so you can get your actors early, and you can commit them into the studio. Then, if you discover something has happened with the development of the gameplay, you are shackled unless you can get that same actor back in to voice the parts in the same voice. You're basically stuck with the lines you've got, and you have to find a way to work around that.
Rothfuss: I haven't lived on the inside, but I've been living on the outside playing these games for the better part of 30 years. I think that in some ways, it's not so much the text. Although I do love the text. But when you read something, you have the freedom to read it in any way you want. You can read that voice in your head however you like. It's kind of the same way that, at a certain point, realism becomes counterproductive…
McComb: Let me interrupt here very quickly and let me say that you can see this, for instance, in Lord of the Rings. Gandalf is now Ian McKellen. Tyrion is now Peter Dinklage. We can't see him in any other way.
Rothfuss: Yeah. Similarly, if you think about a great, classic movie. Think about how they did movies back in the day. Some of these real classics, they didn't have a lot of special effects. How did they make a great movie? They had a great script and great actors. If you didn't have both of those, you had nothing. I watched Harvey the other day, and I thought, "All of this is carried on the weight of the words and the performance." Nowadays they'd have $100 million and they'd put a big CGI rabbit in the end. It would lose so much of the story, because they wouldn't care about the quality of the actor anymore.
They wouldn't care nearly as much about the quality of the story and the words. Because they were focused so much on some of these other elements. So for me, every time I think about this game, I get excited. Because so much of the focus is on the narrative. As humans, we love stories. Every game that you remember, you remember because of the story. Five years later, you don't go, "Wow, do you remember that game that had that great explosion?" You remember narrative things. You remember character things. You remember times you were shocked or amazed or emotionally impacted.
McComb: In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, I was totally blown away by the jacking-people-in-their-car mechanic. I had a lot of fun playing as this character with this emergent gameplay. You made up your own story with it as you went along, as opposed to, "Oh, also the flame effects were really great."
The flip side of that question, that I kind of alluded to: Where do you think game storytelling can go forward here? Where would you like to see it go?
Rothfuss: It's easy for me, because I haven't seen the sausage being made. I honestly don't understand some of the difficulties underneath it all. So I can talk about what I want and not worry too much about how practical it is. But the truth is, video games are such a new genre of storytelling. They're just teenagers at this point. It's so new, and they're making all their bold, brave newbie mistakes. They're making the mistakes Hollywood made 30 years ago. In the same way that comics have matured–because comics are much older than video games–comics are out of their adolescence now, and this brilliant storytelling that's happening with comics is taking advantage of what that medium can do that no other medium can.
Right now, video games are kind of trying to be movies. That's great, but a video game can never be as good a movie as a good movie. I think the real opportunity that's presented is immersion in a story and the interactive nature of that story. Those are the two things that video games can do… They have the opportunity to do so much more of it than movies can. The more they explore those and the better they get at that, the better the games will be. Otherwise they're just going to continue to be second-rate movies.
McComb: I think that we can get deeper into the reactivity. We can explore more mature themes. We don't have to be all about the big guns and the explosions and the "Gee whiz, wow!" effects. We can tell some really deep stories. We can focus on delivering a human experience that people will be interested in and enthralled by, because it will be something that is real. But we can also transport people to another world in which this stuff takes place. It'll help them examine their own lives through that prism. That's where I would like to see stories go in games.
Rothfuss: Yeah. So much of what can happen in a novel can happen in a video game. You have the opportunity for escapism. And don't knock escapism. It sounds a little dirty, but we all need to get away every once in a while. Video games also offer us the benefit of experience without the burden of experience. We can do things in a consequence-free environment. We can live lives other than our own without having to face the long-term consequences of these things. That's incredibly gratifying.
McComb: Although I would point out that I was reading a comment from somebody online today who was saying, "I really hope this is a similar experience to Planescape: Torment, because when I went through that game, some of those choices I made, I would lie in bed at night and think, 'What sort of a person have I become?'"
Rothfuss: I know people talk that way about the Walking Dead game… I still have to play that, but people are saying…
McComb: I love it. It is so good.
Rothfuss: I think they have started to walk down that road of… It's that mirrored escapism. It's a different experience.
McComb: It's a legitimate storytelling avenue. It's not a book. It's not a movie. It's a game. I think that people are really starting to get that now, that it's an entirely different experience from either of those things. And it is, at the same time, a completely legitimate experience.
Rothfuss: I think we're fighting to prove that, when we really all agree about it. [laughs] We're trying to prove it, too, because anyone who has played at least a handful of games has had an experience and seen a sliver of how incredible this could be. But we're still figuring out how best to do it.
McComb: Sure. And Walking Dead did it great.
Before we wrap up, do you guys have anything else you wanted to talk about in relation to Torment, the Kickstarter, or game storytelling?
McComb: I would say that...in regards to Kickstarter, I am incredibly grateful and entirely humbled by the support that people are showing to us in this project. We've got four days left at this point. I hope that more people can come aboard so we can expand the depth and the reactivity of the storyline, and really deliver something that's going to be worthy of the Torment name for them. We're going to do that anyway, but every additional bit helps.
We appreciate Colin and Patrick taking the time to talk to us. For more on Torment and the RPG Renaissance, check out our interviews with fellow Tormentors, inXile's Brian Fargo and Obsidian's Chris Avellone . The Torment Kickstarter ends in just about a day as of the writing of this, with some pretty significant stretch goals still on the board.


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Bright, dark red. High-pitched perfume of blueberry and huckleberry complicated by inky minerality and crushed stone. The palate offers extraordinary wild intensity and medicinal reserve to the densely packed, sharply delineated flavors of black fruits, licorice and pungent minerals. Transcendent, soil-driven pinot noir with the energy and structure for a long and graceful evolution in bottle. Builds endlessly on the aftertaste. This fruit was harvested with 12.8% potential alcohol and chaptalized to 13.4%. One of the potential superstars of the vintage.
Here the nose is largely if not completely similar to that of the Chambertin but in this case there is a bit more spice to the perceptible riper nose. There is a sophisticated mouth feel to the velvety and extract rich bigbodied flavors that coat the mouth with exceptionally firm but phenolically mature tannins on the explosively long finish. This is a 'wow' wine and very much worth a special search to find.
The 2012 Chambertin Clos-de-Beze Grand Cru, which like the Chapelle-Chambertin is domaine-owned, has a more voluminous, multi-faceted bouquet with engaging incense and mineral notes infusing the beautifully defined black fruits. The palate is very well balanced on the entry with more tension and nervosite than the Chambertin, building effortlessly towards a quite regal, sophisticated finish whose mineralite lingers long in the mouth. Outstanding.
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First of all, I thank Marmalade for the lovely heart and his concerns for our Mommy and me. We're doing fine. She feels much better since her blood work is benign and my heart meds are still keeping me going strong. I even wrestle a bit with our young sis, Joss!
THANK YOU!February 18th 2013 5:23 pm
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Thank you so much Timmy Tomcat and Princess Sophie for your concerns for our Mommy! She's doing much better and is catching up on a lot of sleep she missed worrying about her health in the past few weeks.
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY, EVERYCAT!February 14th 2013 6:31 am
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This is turning out to be the best Valentine's Day ever because our Mommy found out yesterday that she doesn't have the "C" monster at all! She has something called "monoclonal gammopathy of undertermined significance" MGUS which is a para protein that mimics myeloma. There's a 25% chance it could turn into myeloma though. Therefore, Mommy has to have her blood watched every three months. We're all happy she's without any problems and hope that the 25% doesn't happen to her.
PURRRRRS FOR MOMMY, PURRLEASE!February 6th 2013 6:01 am
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Our dear Mommy has to get a bone marrow biopsy today as the doctor found myeloma protein in her blood. He wants to make sure that she doesn't have this horrible "C" monster in the plasma of her blood. He told her that there's a 95% chance she doesn't have it.
UPDATEJanuary 13th 2013 5:01 pm
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I just wanted everycat to know that I'm still doing great on my heart meds and me sore eye is all better!
TODAY IS MY DAY TO SHINE!January 2nd 2013 4:42 am
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And our little sis hands over the Diary Pick to me (she was on a roll). Thank you Diary Gal for honoring me!
DISBURSEMENT TIME AGAIN!December 29th 2012 9:29 am
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We have again another large accrued amount of Zealies in our kitty account and would like to disburse some of them. We haven't had much time on our paws lately and have been holding onto them for a good cause.
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We had a winter mix all day today. Now, it's plain rain and farther north (where Mommy was to see her brother today) has icy conditions. Therefore, Mommy and her brother cancelled their annual Catmas dinner gathering until tomorrow, weather permitting.
MERRY CATMAS!December 25th 2012 11:51 am
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I wish all my Catster friends and families a very Merry Catmas!
CONCATS TO JOSS!December 15th 2012 7:08 pm
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2) disclosure ofmajor plant
3) finally something from ppg
4) other offtakes
we have been holding and waiting this long. 2 months doesn't seem so far away.
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The vehicle was seen in the designated space by local lawyers and passers-by on Carlton Place next to the court last week.
"It's shocking to see the police taking up the disabled bay," said a court insider.
"It's already a busy street and parking there could have prevented someone who genuinely needed the space from using it and they might have had to park much further away."
Strathclyde Police said: "The circumstances surrounding a Strathclyde Police vehicle being parked in a disabled bay are currently being investigated.
"When details of how this vehicle came to be there are established this will be reported to the Deputy Chief Constable who will determine what action requires to be taken in respect of the officer(s) concerned.
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The 1986 possesses a deep ruby/garnet color, with a tight, yet ripe, black currant bouquet backed up with subtle scents of herb, cedar, and sweet oak. On the palate, the wine is muscular, rich, and medium to full-bodied, with a pronounced smoky, mineral, and currant character. It has fine length, with some rustic tannin still noticeable in the finish. Curiously, in this vintage Calon-Segur used an inordinately high percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon (90% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Merlot). Normally the percentage of Merlot is significantly higher.Drink Dates: 1999-2015
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New exposs on Halliburton and war for oil
Opinion It's a safe bet that Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) ranks high as a pain-in-the-backside of George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and the rest of the oily crew at the White House.
Reason for hope
Opinion With the hearts and minds of most Americans focused on the war in Iraq and its aftermath, the international landscape appears bleak and troubled. But this month also brings great promise for international cooperation in the best sense.
Cold War revelations
Opinion The late Richard Helms headed up the CIA for six crucial years, 1966-73, in the course of a 30-year career at The Agency.
Another Supreme Court ruling against immigrants
Opinion In 1996, Congress passed, and President Clinton signed, the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act which, among other dubious provisions, requires the government to deport all non-citizens who are found guilty of committing certain crimes.
A patchwork quilt of lies
Opinion "How blatantly can an administration lie to promote a war and get away with it?" was a very good question asked by Robert Jensen (in an April 27 Philadelphia Inquirer article).
My country: the world
Opinion Our government has declared a military victory in Iraq. As a patriot, I will not celebrate. I will mourn the dead – the American GIs, and also the Iraqi dead, of which there have been many, many more.
British official resigns over Iraq
News Analysis The resignation of a top British cabinet member this week spotlighted the sharp struggle over who will control post-Saddam-Hussein Iraq.
Independent journalists in Cuba hold ties to U.S.
News Analysis On World Press Freedom Day, May 3, journalists who have died in performance of their duties are honored. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a U.S.-based organization founded in 1981, observed the day by naming the "World's Worst Places to be a Journalist."
Yes, we have no bananas
Opinion Remember back in the dim, distant past of two months ago, when the Bush administration was posturing all over the place that UN weapons inspectors were taking too long, that Saddam was hiding many weapons of mass destruction to use against the U.S. in a supposedly imminent manner?
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FILE - This is a Sunday, March 17, 2013 file photo of Pope Francis gestures as he delivers his Angelus prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, File)
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is ramping up its opposition to threatened military strikes against Syria.
Pope Francis on Wednesday urged Catholics and non-Catholics alike to participate in his planned day of fasting and prayer for peace Saturday, urging more than 50,000 people gathered for his weekly general audience: "Let the cry for peace rise up across the Earth!"
The Vatican has invited ambassadors accredited to the Holy See to attend a briefing Thursday on the pope's agenda for the four-hour vigil Saturday night, and bishops' conferences from around the world have announced plans to host local versions of the vigil as well.
In recent speeches, tweets and remarks, Francis has called for a negotiated settlement in Syria but has also condemned the use of chemical weapons.
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- Incandescent version dimmable with standard incandescent dimmer
- Bulb Base - Medium (E26) - The E26 (Edison 26mm), Medium Edison Screw, is the standard bulb used in 120-Volt applications in North America. E26 is the most common bulb type and is generally interchangeable with E27 bulbs.
- Compatible Bulb Types: Nearly all bulb types can be found for the E26 Medium Base, options include Incandescent, Fluorescent, LED, Halogen, and Xenon / Krypton.
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By Caroline Ratcliffe and Signe-Mary McKernan :: September 7th, 2012
Is there a way for low- and moderate-income households who do not have bank accounts to receive tax refunds electronically? A new Urban Institute study found these households may be willing to participate in a program that delivers their refunds directly to a prepaid card account. We evaluated a Treasury Department pilot program called the […]
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The official name of this gene is "collagen type IV alpha 4."
COL4A4 is the gene's official symbol. The COL4A4 gene is also known by other names, listed below.
The COL4A4 gene provides instructions for making one component of type IV collagen, which is a flexible protein. Specifically, this gene makes the alpha4(IV) chain of type IV collagen. This chain combines with two other types of alpha (IV) chains (the alpha3 and alpha5 chains) to make a complete type IV collagen molecule. Type IV collagen molecules attach to each other to form complex protein networks. These networks make up a large portion of basement membranes, which are thin sheet-like structures that separate and support cells in many tissues. Type IV collagen alpha3-4-5 networks play an especially important role in the basement membranes of the kidney, inner ear, and eye.
The COL4A4 gene belongs to a family of genes called COL (collagens).
A gene family is a group of genes that share important characteristics. Classifying individual genes into families helps researchers describe how genes are related to each other. For more information, see What are gene families? (http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/handbook/howgeneswork/genefamilies) in the Handbook.
More than 20 mutations in the COL4A4 gene have been found to cause Alport syndrome. Most of these mutations change single protein building blocks (amino acids) in a region where the alpha4(IV) collagen chain combines with other type IV collagen chains. Other mutations in the COL4A4 gene severely decrease or prevent the production of alpha4(IV) chains. As a result, there is a serious deficiency of the type IV collagen alpha3-4-5 network in the basement membranes of the kidney, inner ear, and eye. In the kidney, other types of collagen accumulate in the basement membranes, eventually leading to scarring of the kidneys and kidney failure. Mutations in this gene can also lead to abnormal function in the inner ear, resulting in hearing loss.
Mutations in the COL4A4 gene have been found to cause thin basement membrane nephropathy. This condition typically causes people to have blood in their urine (hematuria) but no other signs or symptoms of kidney disease. In the past, this condition was often called benign familial hematuria. Thin basement membrane nephropathy rarely progresses to kidney failure.
Cytogenetic Location: 2q35-q37
Molecular Location on chromosome 2: base pairs 226,967,532 to 227,164,559
The COL4A4 gene is located on the long (q) arm of chromosome 2 between positions 35 and 37.
More precisely, the COL4A4 gene is located from base pair 226,967,532 to base pair 227,164,559 on chromosome 2.
See How do geneticists indicate the location of a gene? (http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/handbook/howgeneswork/genelocation) in the Handbook.
You and your healthcare professional may find the following resources about COL4A4 helpful.
You may also be interested in these resources, which are designed for genetics professionals and researchers.
See How are genetic conditions and genes named? (http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/handbook/mutationsanddisorders/naming) in the Handbook.
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We gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the United States safer and more respected around the world.
The President celebrates the accomplishments of the US military as a basis upon which to build his larger argument: that the success of the military is due not to dog-eat-dog individualism, but to cooperation and teamwork. The country must work as a team to pull ourselves out of the mire of recession and decline.
It's worth mentioning, however, that despite the great courage and selflessness of the soldiers themselves, the imperial project does not, in fact, make the country "safer and more respected around the world." It is precisely the United States' meddling in other countries which arouses anger.
The current "threat" of Iran, for example, can be drawn back to a fifty-year history of Washington's meddling in that country's affairs and an obsessive support of Israel's regional aggression.
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To the people near you.
Because often, people
Leave subliminal clues.
Even if they never
Meant to tell anyone,
Their actions could
Show you things going on.
People aren't perfect,
And people have pain.
So, try to be sunshine,
And never the rain.
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This is my 29th poem for NaPoWriMo2012!
This is kind of an overflow of thoughts from yesterday, only this is more generally applicable.
This is kind of an overflow of thoughts from yesterday, only this is more generally applicable.
was this about the guy who ran away? Hope he contacts you
yes. It's also all the kids who started cutting and no one cared enough to notice, it's the one whose father raped her for years before she was brave enough to tell the police, it's all the ones who wanted someone to talk to them so they could open up about something they struggled with, but didn't know how to start the conversation that never happened.
I hope he does too.
I hope he does too.
you know i have only started to realise since joining dA how much i have been sheltered from alot of the evils of the world. I live in quite a nice area and have a loving family which i am grateful for. It seems though that more often than not people have been through some sort of trauma or abuse. It feels unbearable sometimes to hear how people treat each other, especially when it involves children.
Sunshine... That's hard for some one for ever stuck in a state with skies full of miles of white clouds like fog... Why Oregon weather? Why?!
(Yet I try anyways)
(Yet I try anyways)
^_^ ha ha! the metaphorical sunshine.
That's good though. And your comment made my day!
That's good though. And your comment made my day!
Oh.. This is lovely!! I love a up ending! LOL
Thank you. I prefer them as well, personally.
i won't tell a soul. you are supposed to be filled with angst and dark thoughts. they could ban you from the club for this, you know. lol


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Sy Saliba, senior vice president of marketing and planning, says that in teaming with Disney, the 17-hospital health system is trying to "find a way to move healthcare out of this fearsome experience in a hospital that people tend to think of and associate it with into something that's a little different."
Saliba says that much of a typical hospital's culture and language is "very custodial in its approach, versus the hospitality industry, the hotel industry—which talks about guests. Basically, when you come in as a patient you have to surrender your clothes, you have to put on a gown, your things are kept for you. In terms of the patient experience, we ask, 'How can we re-craft the experience so it reflects more one of the hospitality industry rather than one of a prison?'"
Still, Saliba acknowledges that people deal with serious issues at a hospital. "The experience probably should partake of dimensions and facets of the hospitality industry and merge those with some of the home and of the family. And that's really the kind of experience we're trying to craft."
—Marianne Aiello
Forward-thinking hospital leaders are constantly going on about looking to other industries to improve their organization, but many can't quite place a finger on what that means in terms of branding. There are a few basic principles that experts say will set any tumultuous brand straight.
Make it all about the patient
The hospitality industry is already a major influence in healthcare, but hospitals can't implement those branding techniques without adapting them to healthcare. In hospitals the patient is not always right. But that doesn't mean he or she should feel any less respected.
"The consumer demands more of the healthcare experience than they used to," says Elizabeth Scott, associate vice president of marketing and e-business at Norton Healthcare in Louisville, KY. "It's not just about getting a prescription and going on your way, or getting a surgical treatment and leaving a facility—it's about every aspect and every touch point of that experience."
Adopt a specific selling point
Sure, most hospitals want to be seen as a jack-of-all-trades. But vague branding lacks vigor.
"Hospitals really try to be all things to all patients, and I don't think that is viable," says Jane Parker, CEO of InterbrandHealth, a branding consultancy based in New York City. "Most hospitals are afraid to stand for something because they don't want to lose patients in other areas—and that's a mistake."
Make a long-term commitment
Both Scott and Parker point out that branding is more than just a logo or an advertising campaign. The most successful nonhealthcare brands—like Apple, Coke, and Disney—follow through on their long-term brand promises.
"Who you are and what you stand for—the pillars of what defines you —should be the pillars of what defines you for a long period of time," Parker says. "The difference is hospitals don't think that way. They say, 'Oops, we need an ad campaign; we'll go to an ad agency.'"
—Marianne Aiello
It's safe to say that every hospital wants to be known as the quality choice (after all, the alternative is not exactly a wise brand strategy). So how does patient experience affect clinical quality?
Just ask CMS.
The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey for hospitals (HCAHPS) is a standardized survey that measures patients' perceptions of hospital care. In March, CMS tied participation to reimbursement and published the results on its Hospital Compare Web site for consumers, reporters, and the rest of the world to see.
HCAHPS measures quality of care by asking patients questions about how they were treated during their hospital stay. But the questions are not focused on clinical treatment. Rather, they ask about the little things that can so annoy a person—from how noisy the halls are at night to how quickly nurses respond to a call for help to the cleanliness of the rooms.
There are 27 questions that fall into seven categories, including communication and responsiveness. The last two questions are the real zingers, asking if the respondent would recommend the hospital to others and to rate the hospital from "best hospital possible" to "worst hospital possible." All of the questions are about the patient's perception of the care they received. After all, that's how consumers think about—and talk about—their healthcare experiences. It's easier to discuss the food, the nurses, and the noise at night than it is to understand clinical details.
And that's where your marketing team comes in. Physicians, nurses, and other clinical staffers have the greatest influence on clinical quality. But marketers are the best people to make sure patient-consumers perceive that they received the best quality care.
The HCAHPS questions
The following HCAHPS questions are a good illustration of how CMS views the quality-satisfaction connection:
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