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|Trooper A-337, "Janitor"
Nodding, Janitor moves to a table and sets his helmet down. Back to war again already... Despite the lack of rest between activities, the trooper gives a small smile. Least I know what I'm doing, more or less.
Tapping his fingers for a moment, Janitor lets his mind wander over general tactical knowledge that might help... He doesn't look for specifics at the moment, though.
Gotta come up with a plan of my own, first.
|Zaleos Buerlon
Zaelos allows his sight to flow over the remnants of the dark side warrior . Shuddering inwardly at the coldness flowing from it, he motions for the bridge crew to dispose of the remains.
"Taggard, Jedi lore says those fallen to the Dark side of the Force can be saved, should there be good left in them. However..." his jaws set in determination. "As for the Dark warriors themselves, I cannot envision a way to bring them to the Light side of the Force."
Knowledge Jedi Lore 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (15) + 8 = 23
Zaleos, you forget your general knowledge. In your last post. You don't really now what happened on the death star. Only Luke and the rebellion know and it isn't accepted truth. Mirianna doesn't believe her father was a dark sider. She believes Vader betrayed the empire and WENT to the dark side in the process.
|Zaleos Buerlon
|Karval de Longinous
"There is always a chance of redemption..." Karval adds, though he knows little of the Force or the philosophy behind it.
"Janitor, do you think we can use the creatures of the valley to disperse and destroy the troops?"
"As I see it we have politics, profit & combat. The three are entwinned, but we may pull them loose and be victorious." Karval thinks. "In the big scheme, at least this de-stabilises the Chiss - maybe we could talk to the rebellious Chiss. Surely Makabe is giving them as much grief as us. And if we can lure them into more confrontations with him then it reduces their strength."
"This will help our tertiary objective of finding about Cortels' lab on Batseren." Karval states.
Sorry, had a look through the old posts (circa 929~ish)
|Na'Soth Ma'lak
Na'soth finally speaks up, clearly a bit annoyed at having to say anything at all, but at least having enough information about the general politics to be have enough understanding he can provide input. "I think that some of you are forgetting that the planet itself is a resource as well. As are allies with resources of their own to draw upon. The rebellion thrives on making the empress look like a dictator; the only way to remove that weapon is create allies that can directly counter that argument while keeping those allies within her overall power base.
If you wish to make this mission as successful as possible, you must find a way to clear the planet of enemies; that will apply pressure to the chiss government that they will have to deal with by removing the pressure on the space station, which in turn allows the friendly chiss and the Malakai to work with each other to strengthen each other and force the chiss government to cooperate; between the space station and the resources on Malaki, and with the backing of the empress, they would have a very strong chance of success, and the rebellion couldn't do a lot about it because their main argument against the empire would not work, as it would be locals applying most of the pressure, not the empress. In short, if you want to have a prayer of winning, you must out alliance the Alliance."
I tried to keep it as non-metagamey as possible, and am assuming that the general situation in chiss space is reasonably easy to find information on.
|Zaleos Buerlon
|Arana Niss
|Trooper A-337, "Janitor"
Janitor nods. "Knowing the full extent of both our power and our enemy's is crucial to planning an efficient and effective strike. However, I think one of our best plans would be to do what we can with the destroyers, but to start using the Malakai as soon as possible. Whether that means bringing this into a full-out ground war--I'm not sure the Empire would be willing to resort to that--or transporting Malakai up here to board enemy ships is up in space right now."
Trying to think of Imperial tactics that would be deployed in a large-scale conflict like this, and specifically what weak points they would leave open. I'm kind of guessing at mods right now, since I haven't leveled up yet--Shanosuke, I PM'd you about my questions with that--but I'm just gonna add 1 to each of the skill modifiers.
Knowledge (tactics): 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (16) + 11 = 27
Profession (soldier): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16
|Karval de Longinous
"True, we cannot go using our power. We have to unify Miriana's home-land under her. Brilliant points Na'Soth." Karval considers the words a nervous energy running through his system - like a prowling feline he stalks across the bridge, deep in thought.
"We need to unite Lady Miriana with the Chiss; whilst breaking the alliance of Makabe with the Hutt." He ponders... "Could we strike against the Hutt with his Trandoshian men, claiming they are pirates against the Chiss upon Danaten Station. Which they undoubtedly are."
"If we just strike against Makabe's troops, we might win... but we won't claim victory for the Empress."
|Karval de Longinous
|Zaleos Buerlon
Zaelos nods in reply to Janitor, "I agree with you. Malaki is the key to this conflict and the sooner we deal with the invaders the better." He turns to Na'Soth, "Can you contact Danaten Station and get an updated report from them? We need to know what we are flying into here."
He walks over to the Captain of the Destroyer. "Set a course for Malaki. Once we have entered the system and determined the area is clear of enemy ship, set up a cordon around the planet."
The captain assigned to your star destroyer is named Captain Palis Tain. He salutes the order. "Yes sir commander." He turns and begins to order the crew to their stations. The Malaki pilots are relieved from their duties.
All the bustle to get things cleaned up and ready to go. Dead bodies removed and things put back in their proper place. All was corrected and prepared except for one things.
No one would dare go near the body of the fallen Sith Malaki. They purposely ignored it and those who went to clean it up would go only so close before turning away.
The Captain addresses Zaleos. "Preparations are complete Milord. It is time."
With everyone standing ready, the your star destroyer and the Perseverance both jump for Malakai.
I don't think Na'Soth was made privy to anything about Danaten Station or what is happening there. Someone might want to fill the guy in. Don't forget, he is the only one among you whose name is not on file with the empire.
|Zaleos Buerlon
With the ship in hyperspace Zaelos found himself with little to do. He decided to bring the newest member of the team, the Givin they had found back on Malaki. Motioning him over, Zaelos hands him a datapad, a small smile on his face. "Ok Na'Soth since you seem to be a part of our team here is the briefing on the current situation on Danaten Station, as well as the current state of Galactic affairs. I would suggest you learn this quickly."
He wanders over to the body of the Sith Malaki, gazing at it for a long time. Repressing a shudder he turns to Arana, "What do you propose we do with THAT?"
Over the past 20 years, Jedi have nearly been erased from the galaxy. Those born with force sensitive traits were not aware that what they were feeling was the force. Unless otherwise educated At least one rank in knowledge Jedi lore Few in the world would never know what a jedi or sith was.
In this case, for those of you force players. What you are encountering right now is unlike anything you have ever felt before.
The taint of thie...creature speads almost a two meter radius from the smoldering remains on the floor. It is so potent that anyone who approaches gets the jitters something fierce.
Those of you force sensitive types get something worse. A biting migraine and nausea while standing too close in addition to the jitters. Stepping out of the zone relieves you of these symptoms a few moments later.
Purplish black arcs of lighting still dance over the remains. This Malaki was infused with ENORMOUS amounts of dark side energy. So much so that this stain and sensation will remain potent on the bridge for at least a couple of weeks
Imagine if that Malaki actually KNEW how to use all that power.
|Arana Niss
"I'm sure the only one who would know what to do is the one who created him in the first place." Arana says, preventing a shiver by clasping her arms around her torso.
"All I know, is that he was like an over-filled bacta tank, ready to burst. I wonder if these warriors may only be "useful" to their creator for only a short time, filled with so much dark power may eventually be fatal." she muses looking out at the shimmering lights of hyperspace.
|Karval de Longinous
The Mandolorean turns to Arana a look of concern upon his face; "At least that's a Godsend for them." he pauses; "To be so overcome by the vileness. Maybe if we can deny them their targets, then they will stop - their power dwindling."
"Releasing the corrupted souls." he adds sadly, not wishing the demise of any warrior, but these defiled shock troop warriors are like non-other.
|Na'Soth Ma'lak
Na'soth takes the datacard, and even loads it onto the datapad, but only briefly skims the parts that apply to the immediate situation before skipping over to reading about the latest tech and taking a nap for the majority of the trip.
|Karval de Longinous
"So this makes it more imperative we rescue the Malakai, for each that's captured it doomed. We also have to involve the Chiss turn them to our side. If they sign up to Empress Mirianna's Empire they will be protected from the Evil of General Makabe, Darth Taintus and Darth Night." Karval pushes back his fingers listing off the wrongful factions.
Taking a deep breath; "Whilst the rebellion are factious and ill-suited for diplomacy. The Chiss need to believe that we can protect them, help them in a bond of friendship."
|Karval de Longinous
Karval tries to decipher potential tactics; he realises how much he misses Nichos. For the man took to this strategm crafting like a duck to water.
Of course, the Mandolorean finally realised how much they all depend and cared for the man. 'I hope he is just lost, not that I sent him to his death.' the gladiators melancholy strikes him, whilst he attempts to work out what is possible.
Know (Tactics): 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (19) + 3 = 22
|Karval de Longinous
Karval walks over to a bulkhead and smacks his head against it; then he turns to Na'Soth. "Do you think that you could possibly hack into the ships computers given enough time and support? Then we would have the Exact number of troops, their positions, their bases, supply routes, support personnel, contact's, Captains' log and his orders."
"With this we will know exactly how to tackle Makabe & this will give us enough information to contact Chiss high command and deal them. Building an alliance handing over the information so they can fight their war..." Karval looks serious; "Let them fight our mutual enemies."
Another revelation hits him; "And we should have Makabe's notes on his Dark-Side soldiers, his link to Cortels research and maybe his previous name."
"Of course, should we fail - a system restore would be tragic. I'll assist..."
Computer Use (Aid Other): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (8) + 10 = 18
Na'Soth can you take 20? Followed by Know Tactics: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15
|Na'Soth Ma'lak
"Probably easier to do from engineering. The bridge rarely contains admin level functionality." Na'soth heads off to look for direct access to the core itself, or the closest thing he can find to it, and sets to work digging into the heart of the computer system on board the ship.
Not sure what rolls would be needed or how many.
You need to make the check from either the captain's station on the bridge or at his private quarters. Those are the locations of that data. It is ONE Comp use check and failure results in a system purge wiping all that info from the ship's databases. Going to engineering would serve no purpose because the info is for the captain. Not them.
|Na'Soth Ma'lak
The captain's quarters was my second guess. Na'soth will take advantage of the excuse to leave the bridge to head there.
Computer Use 1d20 + 19 ⇒ (18) + 19 = 37
Did we get anymore force points from that last mission? If we did, he would apply one; otherwise he's out and can't 1d6 ⇒ 2
|Karval de Longinous
|Zaleos Buerlon
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I do not think so. I will apply Karval's assist and yes, you each got a force point for the level. DC to hit was 40. With Karval's assist and the force point you used, you make it.
After bypassing the tight security systems of the captain's personal computer, you are able to access a majority of the files you seek.
You gain a treasure trove of data and information in all forms. Spending the flight sifting through it all allows you to compile all the information.
Rather than dish out all the unnecessary details of what you find, Key information and been lump together into categories Spoilers to make it easier to go through. You all can see this information.
All the files have something to say about each of these characters. Only one connection seems to exist. They are all part of some secret service to the emperor that the rest of the galaxy, even most of the emperor's own forces were unaware of that.
However, in spite of this connection, they do not associate with each other. Moreover, they seem to see each other as threats. This means that Night, Taintus, and Cortel are not working together, rather, they are against each other.
This is the shortest bit of personal information on unique characters. All it seems Night and his officers knew about Cortel was that he was making some kind of anti force weapon and successfully tested it on Malakai.
The lack of knowledge seems to upset Night a lot as he has ordered all captains and officers to scour Chiss space for any clues as to where Cortel is or has gone. It is one of the things they are looking for here on Malakai. More information
The information on Taintus is better but still missing a few wholes. Apparently Taintus worked as an agent for Darth Vader hunting down the Jedi. Taintus served Vader loyalty and promised to aid Vader in his potential rebellion against the emperor. It seems Vader HAD been planning to rebel against the emperor this whole time. Pick a bad time to do it too.
Info says Taintus used to be a Jedi Master of the old order named Master Yarik Dan. He turned to Vader to save his hide and became a Sith in the process.
Now that Vader and the Emperor are gone, Taintus has command of all off Vader's secret forces. The army Vader would use to over throw the Emperor is now Taintus's.
There aren't any details on the size of this force other than "huge" and potentially the greatest military threat in the galaxy.
Information seems to indicate that Darth Night FEARS Darth Taintus and would not dare show his flag for fear of being wiped out. Instead, the rebellion is likely the only force that can defeat Taintus. Once that happens, Darth Night will strike.
There is much information on the Order of Night. An elite group from which Makabe is a member. Information hints that there are nine other members and the are ALL darksiders. They do not call themselves Sith.
They used to be a secret group of Sith assassins led by a Darth Juhan before Seth Segariss took over. Juhan apparently serves as an adviser and has aided Seth in the acquisition of the blueprints of the Dark force infuser.
When the emperor died Seth took on the title of Darth Night and formed the Order of Night to help him capture prey for the infuser. Once night finally got the device working, he begun to use it on any force sensitive individual he could capture. Soon he hopes to create and army of mutated dark force users.
Night plans to gather these things in secret while the rebellion attempts to battle Taintus. If either Taintus or the Rebellion are defeated, the surviving force users will be able to detect his super soldiers. If anything, it seems Night is willing to aid the rebellion in their up coming war with Taitnus.
Night does this because he believes Luke to still be a rookie with senses not as attuned as the Veteran master Taintus.
Night has been working with slave master Zedora the hutt to collect specimens from all over the galaxy. More on that in a bit.
In spite of the abundant information, there is not much on the other members of the Night other than a brief mention of Juhan and a good bit on Makabe.
Zedora the hutt is in the business of slavery. He has worked with Seth for many years. Even before the fall of the Empire. Zedora also worked extensively with the rebellion during those times.
This did not bother Seth at all as at the time, the rebellion wasn't a direct threat to him. Zedora knew how to find, capture, and "tame" beings for slavery and so it only made sense to recruit the man.
Zedora's second, a stout rodian named Yeebo was trained in the Jedi arts by Juhan. Yeebo was to serve the Order of Night but once Zedora announced his campaign to conquer the criminal underworld, Yeebo chose loyalty to his former boss rather than his new masters.
Relations with the hutt seem to be coming more difficult. Seth needs Zedora now more than ever and the hutt is too preoccupied trying to fight his own foolish war.
It seems that Seth has a fragile but necessary alliance with Zedora the hutt.
The hutt's base of operations is on a world just outside of hutt space call Dessair.
Little history on Makabe is mentioned except the following.
Makabe was recruited years before the emperors demise. He was a promising student to the Jedi temple on Malakai. Until he was accused of having anger management issues. He was expelled from the Jedi order.
He joined with the empire after that and sold out the temple to the Empire. Though Makabe was involved in the betrayal of the temple. He was not privy to the methods used in destroying the place. Makabe was then placed under the care of Darth Night.
The Malaki now serves as overseer and representative of Nights fores here.
Before, the empire only had a minor presence letting Zedora's people do all the work. But lately, with the emperors death, the Chiss government's bid for independance, and the hutt's foolish ambition, it seemed necessary to move more forces in.
Since Makabe had been working on Malakai this whole time, it was only natural he be in control.
There are a good deal of complaints about orders given by Makabe and that his lack of military intelligence shows. The officers requested better leadership to help them deal with the Chiss threat.
The latest order said the Order was sending their agent Darth Nomi to work with Makabe and to hold off the Chiss until she arrives.
Far as you can tell this Nomi hasn't arrived yet.
They are described as pests by some. A serious threat by others. Originally the Chiss had no interest in this world. However, with the additional forces that Seth had sent in,, the Chiss took notice of all the activity and came to investigate.
Since the death of the Emperor, the Chiss aristocracy has announced independence. No Empire, no Republic, only the Chiss Aristocracy. Since Malakai was technically in space that used to belong to the Chiss years ago, they saw themselves right in reclaiming it.
So without warning, the Chiss made war with Darth Nights forces. With their appearance and the hutt's wanning support, the battle for Malakai seems more costly than profitable.
Since the Chiss fleet cannot be defeated without additional support, Darth Nomi is coming to negotiate a treaty where the Chiss get the planet and Night gets its people. There is a temporary cease fire until negotiations take place.
The Star Destroyer you captured is call The Raptor
With the cease fire now in affect, Makabe has ordered the search for Taggard and the Malaki resistance. The Raptor was the first to find them.
Orders stated the Raptor would take the base by force stunning as many Malaki as possible for capture. They would be using the spider walkers to scale the mountain and deliver troops. Allow some Malaki to escape including prisoners. Tracking devices will be set in the released prisoners allowing Zedora's men to find their second hideaway and take it.
Once the Malaki were driven out of hiding, The Raptor was to return to the main fleet as soon as possible.
Not too long ago, Darth Night's people were losing the fight with the Chiss Government. Seeing no other option, Grand Admiral Kaiden was given permission to request a cease fire and would barter a trade with the Chiss.
The deal would be the Chiss get the planet and all it's resources except for it's people. In return, Darth Night's empire would take all the people, basically removing a potential indigenous problem to allow the Chiss to strip mine without interference from locals.
This deal would also include that once their business was finished, Darth Night's empire would never again send forces into Chiss space and would recognize their rule over the area.
The Chiss forces are far superior to Darth Night's and Night would surely lose any war with them. They are aware of this but there is also the Chiss rebels. A large vagabond group of Chiss that refuse to conform to the idea of independence. They believe that a unified galactic power is necessary.
Given the strength of these rebel Chiss, The Aristocracy cannot afford war on two fronts. Even if they were to defeat Night, they woud likely struggle, and even lose to the Rebels.
Thus this cease fire was signed.
Details of the cease fire are logged in the Raptor's database.
One interesting detail stands out.
The Empire is to cease ALL activity on Malakai until negotiations for a peace treaty can be made. The Raptor and a few other ships were to discretely drop troops to flesh out the Malaki resistance so Zedora's men can wipe them out.
It was meant to be a quick mission and from the sounds of it, the Chiss aren't even aware Zedora's men are on the planet. The Raptor has only been missing for a few hours. It was to return to the main fleet once the ground forces were dropped.
This Ship was in direct violation of the Cease fire. There is sufficient evidence on this ship to incriminate Darth Night's forces of war Crimes.
If this information somehow made it's way to the Chiss generals and Admirals, the war would likely resume.
The campaign started with seven star destroyers. Four victory class and three I-class star destroyers. This would have been enough to subdue the entire primitive planet.
However, the Chiss outnumber this force 5 to 1. The ensuing battle had not been kind to Night's forces. Two destroyers were lost before the cease fire was called.
The losses do not include the Raptor. The two lost destroyers were one victory class and one I-Class. Several thousands of troopers were also lost.
With the abduction of the Raptor by your team, Night's forces are down to 5 destroyers remaining.
The Chiss have also lost a good two fifths of their forces as well.
This last bit of info is pretty interesting. It concerns Night's notes on Mirrianna Palpetine.
The information found on Mirianna is little, but disturbing.
According to Darth Night and his officers. Mirianna is seen as no threat at all. In fact, many notes say she was never meant to rule anything herself. The Emperor trained her so he would, in Night's words "Cure the disease known as death" She never had any place to rule and was not officially labelled as the Emperors heir.
Because of this, she will likely lose support quickly to either Tainus, the only individual who ACTUALLY has a legit claim to the throne, or to the rebellion. Eventually all of the galaxy will be absorbed into either Darth Taintus, or the Rebellion. Any stubborn holdouts will simply die out.
This is the most significant information you found. If you feel anything is missing, please inquire and I will answer.
Now, I will give you till tomorrow evening to pour over this data and devise a plan for when you arrive at Malakai. If you do not take opportunity of this time, I will simply push you into the next struggle. Good luck.
Again, You ALL have access to this info. It is not Exclusive to Na'Soth or anyone else in the party.
|Karval de Longinous
"Good, Night, Taintus & Cortel are different individuals and enemies. That's good, the more we separate our enemies...the more chance Lady Mirianna has of survival." Karval starts off looking at the log.
He sits in the heavy leather visitors chair; "We can swap some of this information to the Chiss, for access to the records on Cortel."
"And we know the secondary objective is to get the Malakai into the breeding/corruption programme. But now we know what Makabe/Night wants on other worlds.... his next objective is the same as us. Cortel's knowledge that is located on Chiss worlds. Perhaps we can ambush them when they move there." Karval plots.
"We must move to crush Darth Night in Chiss space, then turn Taintus upon the Order of Night. Then between the Empress & the rebellion they can craft the galaxy up." Karval sums up his first thoughts.
|Zaleos Buerlon
|Na'Soth Ma'lak
"So let me get this straight, you want to get between two very powerful dark force users and expect to walk away? No offense to the empress, but that just sounds like a suicide mission, though if you can find this Cortel and get your hands on his technology, you might have a chance."
|Karval de Longinous
"Na'Soth, the galaxy is a corpse unless we act. Taintus & Night will pick over her corpse." Karval states.
"Zedora's scum, but mercenary scum. We can use him as necessary."
"Makabe's a loose cannon, his troops don't like him. He's obsessed with stopping the Malakai, his own race. Destroying them... we can stretch his forces, lower their morale. Then cut off the head and get the troopers to surrender. Though we have to do this before Domi arrives."
"We could of course, expose the breakage of the cease-fire. Unless we were to ally with the Chiss who want an Empire, unite them under Mirianna's banner....." Karval smacks his hands together.
"That's it, we talk to the Aristocracy. We tell them of the violations by Darth Night and the Raptor.
Mirianna could 'appease' their dissidents, by allying with the Chiss. The Aristocracy could have their Principality, with the banner of Empress Palpatine covering them." Karval nods. "That's what we could offer the Aristocracy, an end to their internal war. Then they can concentrate upon Night & Taintus."
|Na'Soth Ma'lak
"The galaxy is a corpse already; the emperor's shenanigans saw to that quite well without help from anyone else. While I admire your efforts, I fail to see how your empress without the support of any major ally is going to be able to bring it back to life. The Chiss would be a start, but they aren't much on the galactic scene, and will be barely be noticeable."
|Karval de Longinous
'Was Mirianna meant to be little more than an organ bank for Emperor Palpatine... or something more disturbing. Something to do with the force.'
Karval starts to actually lay out a potential plan, rather than his disjointed thoughts on the notes:
"So how about we call the Chiss Aristocracy, reveal the break of cease-fire. Give them the constitution of Darth Nights forces. We can offer to ambush Domi or take out the planet. As well as forming an alliance with the Chiss Aristocracy, to help them with their dissident problem."
"In exchange we can visit their world to get the information from Cortel's lab. Or maybe even take Stewardship of the Malakai's planet? It has plentiful resources..."
|Karval de Longinous
"The galaxy is a corpse already; the emperor's shenanigans saw to that quite well without help from anyone else. While I admire your efforts, I fail to see how your empress without the support of any major ally is going to be able to bring it back to life. The Chiss would be a start, but they aren't much on the galactic scene, and will be barely be noticeable."
"We build on this with the Chiss, the rebels owe us and Mirianna a favour. The Empress will forge her own Empire, it might not be as big as her fathers." he pauses for emphasis; "But it will last for longer." There is a devotion to his words, the Mandolorean clearly believes in the future-Empress. Or at least he has strong emotions for her.
|Zaleos Buerlon
|Karval de Longinous
|Arana Niss
Arana followed the conversation, turning from Karval to Zaleos to Na'Soth as each made a point, occasionally rechecking the confusing welter of information pouring from the computer terminal.
Suddenly a thought occurs to her "Well a third string leader wouldn't have sent a team like us...who stole an entire star destroyer from the enemy! Our own achievements could sway the Aristocracy to our side." Arana exclaims, excited by her own train of thought, then subsiding a bit now thinking her argument insufficient in the face of the other's comments.
|Zaleos Buerlon
|Na'Soth Ma'lak
"I would say start with dealing with the enemy on Malakai, than deal with the Chiss dissidents. Between them, the Malaki, this information, and the empress, you, or I guess at this point, I may as well accept it, we, should hopefully have enough to sway the Aristocracy. Take out any one of those pieces, and the chances drop considerably."
|Karval de Longinous
"Good point, we go to the Malakai planet." Karval with a sardonic quirk of his lip adds; "What a pity, we cannot inform the Chiss aristocracy of this, just yet. Or else we would fail to ambush Darth Nomi..."
Looking around the office; "We'll have to go there and take the area. Then negotiate from a position of power."
"Now what's our plan?
Karval asks, thinking the last might be plausible if they could separate him from his troops. They have his comm frequency & authorisation codes.
Okay, I guess thats what we get for now. moving on.
The soon the two destroyers under your command emerge from hyperspace. An ensign meets you in the captain's quarters. He salutes Zaleos. "Commander, we have arrived in Malakai space. The planet is before us. What are your orders sir?"
|Zaleos Buerlon
Zaelos nods in acknowledgement. "Very good. I will be there shortly." As he enters the bridge his sightless gaze wanders over the still dead corpse of the Sith Malaki before he turns to face the Captain. "Report, Captain. Any sign of enemy ships in this sector?"
As he waits for a reply, he turned to face Janitor. "Janitor, what forces do you require to secure Malaki?"
|Karval de Longinous
|Arana Niss
|Karval de Longinous
Information suggests that Makabe is a member of the Order of Night and ALL members of the order are familiar with each other. Even though it seems as though Makabe is the newest member, he has had an opportunity to meet all the other members.
The captain reports. "Long range scanners pick up significant fleet activity on the far side of the planet. We are too far to get accurate measures of ship class and numbers. We'd have to move in closer but that would also reveal us to their scans as well. At best we can estimate there are more ships than we can battle if they are all against us."
|Zaleos Buerlon
Zaelos nods slowly, "I see." He thinks for a moment before ordering, "Ok hold position here." He looks over the compliment of assets aboard the Destroyers. "OK, send a squadron of TIE Interceptors to scout ahead. We need more answers here. Tell them to stay in the sensor shadow as much as possible and also skim the atmosphere to avoid detection."
Seeing as Zaelos has no ranks in Knowledge (Starship Tactics) this seems the best he can do.
|Karval de Longinous
"There could be as much as 5 Star Destroyers. If so then that's all of Night's force and show's the Chiss that they have breached the cease-fire." Karval wonders; "Can we check the Comms channels, send some probes. Ensure that they haven't contacted Nomi."
"If they have, we need to evacuate the Malakai and escape. We do no good fighting superior forces." Karval is uncertain.
There is no (Starship tactics) to my knowledge, just tactics.
The captain bows and turns to the crew. "Turn the ship about. Keep the planet between us and those ships. Order two scout squadrons to gather intel. The commander would like to know what is going on out there.
Evacuating Malakai is impossible. Your destroyers can hold at most, a few thousand people each. There are MILLIONS of Malaki on Malakai. You would end up having to make numerous trips to get them all. Secondly, Zedora is much faster at moving out slaves because he doesn't load then as people but tightly packs as many as he can into holds and such. You'd be competing against him to get people off world and he would win.
Checking comm channels requires sophisticated equipment and skill. You do have an enemy ship and could attempt to hack Night's comm channels if you got close enough undetected. it would still be tricky.
Carry on
|Arana Niss


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If you're going to position yourself as a front-of-the-pack, AAA game producing publisher of massively multiplayer games, you kind of have to stare World of Warcraft in the face and say "Yeah, we're putting out a fantasy-themed, massively multiplayer role-playing game (AKA, MMORPG; AKA, mem-mor-pig), what do you have to say to that?" People love to act like elves around other people, so why not continue to seed fertile soil?
Rift: Planes of Telara (previously known as Heroes of Telara) is unabashedly a fantasy RPG full of magic and swords and elementals and every other D&D-derived creature like so many other games, but Rift seems to pride itself in some of its most obvious differences from the rest of the MMO pack.
Opening up a rift is a bit like unplugging a bathtub, provided you're down at the sewer end of the outflow. These rifts are giving monsters from these other dimensions -- which are themed around common fantasy and video game themes like the elements of earth, fire, water and air, but also of life and death. Wait, why is life something we don't want to be invaded by? That actually sounds positive! Wrong, chachi. Imagine primordial beasts of gargantuan proportions with the Darwinian concept of "survival of the fittest" instinctively burned into their brains. Scary. All of those "planes" (again, important enough to be in the title) present uniquely interesting threats to the world of Tesara.
It should be obvious to anyone that taking on these rifts is an endeavor better approached with others. That's the point of games like this, right? Playing with your friends to tackle a difficult objective together. It's that or straight up PvP for bragging rights; Rift thankfully lets you play both ways. And it does everything else you expect out of an MMORPG: Big monsters, deep character and class creation options, diversity of environments, etc. It may all sound very straight-forward to fans of traditional MMORPGs, and if Rift: Planes of Telara is going to step up and be considered more than that, they've got a lot to do to convince gamers. It's going to take more than just looking the part.
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Im playing beta, talk about a shallow game, even content has no depth to it. Lore integration is seriously lacking too. game play itself is WoWish jst like the graphicsPosted: February 1, 2011 10:40 AM
Have tryed this game in beta. It's good enough that i cancled my wow sub and pre-orderd. They have the best class advancement system i have ever seen in a MMO and rifts are an awsome break from the cookie cutter exp grind.Posted: January 17, 2011 7:10 PM
Have tryed this game in beta. It's good enough that i cancled my wow sub and pre-orderd. They have the best class advancement system i have ever seen in a MMO and rifts are an awsome break from the cookie cutter exp grind.Posted: January 17, 2011 7:07 PM
Yeah, I looked at this because I thought to myself, "Sweet Jeebus, it's about time Rifts made an MMO. Now, where's my Glitterboy beeyotch?" And then I saw it, and I was like, damn another fantasy MMO clone. How dull.
Oh well, at least The Secret World should be out soon (hopefully).Posted: April 29, 2010 8:53 PM
I was hoping for a "rifts" like game. I loved the old paper and pencil rpg when I was in highschool and always thought it would make for some excellent and variable video games. Give me some triaxxx power armor and a pack of dogboys any day!Posted: April 28, 2010 12:32 PM
coolPosted: April 28, 2010 10:53 AM
The giant plant thingy from sky near the end of video looks interesting. Other than that.... meh.Posted: April 27, 2010 5:42 PM
... is this based off the old paper pencil rifts game? there are no gun,robots,power armor. nothing but there is alot of stuff that is like it looks like it is going to be a bad rip off mixed with wow.Posted: April 27, 2010 1:25 PM
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Sandy's Costs Estimated Upwards of $80B
Yes, that's a B for billion dollars.
The Administration was up on Capitol Hill today asking for funding for disaster relief to support recovery efforts underway from the damages caused by Hurricane Sandy. See White House To Seek Emergency Sandy Funds
Everything seems to be a political football these days and it looks as though disaster funding will turn into one in the coming weeks and months. In the end $80B could end up being a smaller number than what is needed once all the work is completed--over the next few decades! Yes, decades. A disaster this big will go on and on and on. Especially for the public works portion of the repair work and then hopefully post disaster mitigation funding will be supplied to help protect vital infrastructure and move people and things out of harms way by not rebuilding in exactly the same places.
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Cognition, Education, and Deafness
Directions for Research and Instruction
Publication Year: 1988
Published by: Gallaudet University Press
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Our country has a well-deserved reputation for a broad range of achievements, including the resolution of many economic and social ills. In recent decades programs for the handicapped have been the fortunate target of some of this Yankee ingenuity. Compared with other health, social, and educational problems, however, hearing impairment has not received an equitable level of attention. ...
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An enterprise such as this analysis and synthesis of papers from the 1984 International Symposium on Cognition, Education, and Deafness can never become a reality without the significant involvement of many dedicated people. Inevitably, some of these people work almost invisibly; regrettably, they may not receive the proper acknowledgment. ...
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1 Introduction
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One definition of a symposium in Webster's New World Dictionary (1970, p. 1443) is a "free interchange of ideas." The essential nature of the International Symposium on Cognition, Education, and Deafness (Gallaudet College, June 1984) was indeed an opportunity for the exchange of important ideas on this subject. ...
2 Cognition, Education, and Deafness: The Challenge
Cognition, Education, and Deafness: The Challenge
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We, in the field of deafness, have a great need to start a process by which new knowledge can be created. This process must begin by providing educators and researchers in deafness with the opportunity to probe at increasingly deeper levels into the areas of cognition, education, and deafness. We must go beyond our present efforts and extend research opportunities to more people, thus ensuring contributions from a much broader base. ...
3 Issues in the Growth and Development of Hearing- Impaired Learners
Theories and Models of Human Development:Their Implications for the Education of Deaf Adolescents
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pp. 22-26
Psychological theorists are by no means agreed on basic assumptions about human nature. Some of the most divisive issues focus upon whether the human organism is inherently reactive or proactive, whether perceptual and cognitive processes are essentially synthetic or analytic, and even upon the nature of the reality we perceive and know. ...
Play Behaviors of Deaf and Hearing Children
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pp. 27-29
Piaget (1962a) maintained that the basic structure of cognitive development belies the necessity of oral language. Interaction and experiences with the environment enable a child to advance to higher levels of cognitive functioning. Although oral language, when it emerges, may enhance cognitive functioning, it is neither necessary nor sufficient for cognitive development to proceed (Furth, 1966). ...
The Development of Communication Functions in Deaf Infants of Hearing Parents
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pp. 30-33
The development of effective communication skills is one of the primary goals of educational intervention programs for deaf children. One very important aspect of communication competence involves learning to use language for a variety of functions, including requesting actions, asking information-seeking questions, describing events, promising, and making jokes. ...
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pp. 34-40
The three papers in part 3 are concerned with both cognitive and linguistic development of deaf children in three different age groups: 1-3-year-olds (Pien), 3-6-year-olds (Mann), and adolescents (Athey). Profound and difficult issues are raised about (a) the relationship of language to thought, and cognitive to linguistic development and (b) the effect of environmental differences in deaf children's development of language and cognitive skills. ...
4 Cognitive Styles and Problem-Solving Strategies
The Development of Perceptual Processes and Problem-Solving Activities in Normal, Hearing-Impaired,and Language-Disturbed Children
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pp. 44-46
Developmental skills appear and improve in a regular sequence in normal children. Severely hearing-impaired children develop similarly to normal children (Furth, 1966); performances that do not require auditory information-processing show the same sequence of stages. Gaps can be accounted for by the auditory impairment and are predictable. Current theories of development account for such observations. ...
Hearing-Impaired Students' Performance on the Piagetian Liquid Horizontality Test
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pp. 47-49
Numerous studies have been conducted to assess patterns of cognitive development in; children. One skill considered important by Piaget and Inhelder (1956) in the developmental sequence is the child's ability to understand the principle of liquid horizontality-the idea that still water remains invariantly level regardless of the angle of the container. ...
Field Dependence of Deaf Students:Implications for Education
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pp. 50-54
The perceptual component of the larger cognitive dimension of differentiation is termed field dependence. Psychological differentiation, as proposed by Witkin, Dyk, Faterson, Goodenough, and Karp (1962), serves as a construct for conceptualizing one's degree of articulation of experience of the world and of the self. ...
Cognitive Style as a Mediator in Reading Comprehension Test Performance for Deaf Students
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pp. 55-58
The valid assessment of deaf students' educational achievements and cognitive processes remains a challenge for practitioners and researchers. This challenge is particularly apparent in the case of reading comprehension. As has been frequently noted, decisions concerning optimal measurement in reading comprehension should be based upon careful consideration of interactions between reader characteristics and testing-task characteristics...
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pp. 59-63
The papers presented in part 4 all relate to the general area of the development of information processing in deaf children. They have interesting theoretical implications as well as practical applications, and in a sense they are all paeans to individual differences. Three of the papers deal specifically with the topic of field independence-dependence while the fourth investigates some of the possible perceptual precursors of language in children. ...
5 Cognitive Strategies and Processes
The Development and Use of Memory Strategies by Deaf Children and Adults
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pp. 66-69
The cognitive and occupational achievements of deaf individuals often compare unfavorably with the accomplishments of their hearing peers (Liben, 1978). An important goal of research is to understand why these deficits arise and how they may be prevented or remediated. One important cognitive skill focused on here is the ability to memorize. ...
Classification Skills in Normally Hearing and Oral Deaf Preschoolers: A Study in Language and Conceptual Thought
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pp. 70-72
The issue of the role of language in thought has been of theoretical interest to philosophers and psychologists for many years. A variety of methodologies have been used for the empirical study of this issue, including the use of atypical populations as control groups (Furth, 1966; Oleron, 1977). ...
The Role of Inference in Effective Communication
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pp. 73-75
Theoretical models of effective communication have emphasized the cooperative nature of a speaker-listener interaction. Various attempts have been made to delineate the rules governing this cooperation, mainly in terms of sociocultural conventions for language use. However, some rules may have evolved out of cognitive processing considerations. ...
Developing Symbolic Thinking in Hearing-Impaired Children
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The tight conjunction of thinking and language seems to be evident. In the majority of studies on deafness, difficulties in the development of symbolic and abstract operations are treated as resulting from the lack of oral/aural language. Normally hearing children acquire language through direct interaction with the speaking environment, which enables them to benefit from social experience. ...
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pp. 79-81
The traditional literature on deafness is replete with studies that ostensibly demonstrate cognitive deficits among deaf subjects (e.g., Pintner & Paterson, 1917). With few exceptions, however, more recent analyses have found that these deficits are generally attributable to such factors as certain linguistic competencies and secondary handicaps. ...
6 Issues in Cognition and Language Development
Application of Ausubel's Theory of Meaningful Verbal Learning to Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning of Deaf Students
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pp. 84-87
Currently, if teachers advocate presentational methods of instruction (i.e., lectures and reading), they are often challenged by educational theorists who claim that discovery methods, open education, and experience-based learning are far superior in enhancing student learning and retention. But many teachers cannot dismiss mastery of an academic discipline as an educational goal for deaf students, especially at the college level. ...
A Contextualist Perspective of Language Processing by Prelingually Deaf Students
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The often heated controversy in deaf education concerning language acquisition continues to pervade the literature on cognition, education, and deafness. Two major questions have emerged: Which language system will best prepare deaf individuals to communicate effectively in society? and Which language system will best allow for normal cognitive development within prelingually deaf individuals' unique information-processing system? ...
Linguistic Encoding and Adult-Child Communication
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During interpersonal communication, short-term memory appears to function as a central or on-line processor for information received or expressed by an individual. Of particular interest are the linguistic encoding bases used in short-term memory by deaf subjects; these bases appear to be cherologically or sign-based for signs and printed information. ...
Cognitive Processing and Language in Deaf Students: A Decade of Research
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Despite intensive educational efforts, it is not uncommon for deaf students to lag behind hearing peers in the acquisition of verbal language and academic skills. Available neuropsychological research provides conclusive evidence for the reasons for this phenomenon. ...
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If we were to search for the one word that would best sum up the papers in part 6, we would probably settle on the word context. These papers reflect a theoretical trend in teaching language arts to deaf children that is moving away from mechanistic approaches based on the analysis of syntax and morphology, and toward more naturalistic approaches based upon sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic� notions. ...
7 Issues in Reading and Reading Methodology
Cognitive Processes in Reading:Where Deaf Readers Succeed and Where They Have Difficulty
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The act of reading involves the recognition of individual words and the integration of the meanings of those words for text comprehension. The present paper reports on studies with deaf college students, focusing first on their word recognition processes and then on their short-term memory representation of the words processed. ...
Deaf Working Memory Processes and English Language Skills
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An important function of recoding strategies in working memory (WM, sometimes called short-term memory) during the reading process is to provide temporary storage of text surface structure (Baddeley, Eldridge, & Lewis, 1981; Kleiman, 1975). This short-term storage allows the reader to retain information about individual lexical items and the syntactic structures necessary to determine the correct underlying semantic relationships between the words in a sentence. ...
Information Processing and Reading Achievement in the Deaf Population: Implications for Learning and Hemispheric Lateralization
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pp. 115-120
At least two important factors have been found to be significantly related to good reading comprehension: (a) processing speed, which includes retrieval from semantic memory, scanning speed of working memory contents, linguistic understanding, and past language experience; and (b) short-term memory, which for hearing individuals seems to involve phonetic encoding...
The Effectiveness of Cued Text in Teaching Pronoun Reference in Written English to Deaf Students
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This study investigated the effectiveness of supplementing a written text with visual cues. The cues acted as prompts to help deaf students identify and comprehend pronoun reference. The system of visual cues is called cued text. It was designed to make explicit the relationship between a pronoun and its referent. The cues were removed when the student demonstrated an ability to comprehend the relationship. ...
A Child-Computer-Teacher Interactive Method for Teaching Reading to Young Deaf Children
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Children who use computers in the classroom are often required to respond to statements and questions, and their responses have been required to fall within a small range of acceptable answers. This research project involved an investigation of the effectiveness of interactive microcomputer instruction for improving reading achievement in young deaf children. ...
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pp. 128-131
The authors of the five papers on reading and reading methodology share three basic, well-documented assumptions about deaf readers. The first is that learning to read is difficult for deaf children; each of the papers addresses this assumption in a different manner, but there is agreement that the process of learning to read for deaf children is not the same as for hearing children. ...
8 Measurement of Cognitive Potential in Hearing-Impaired Learners
Experimental Use of Signed Presentations of the Verbal Scale of the WISC-R with Profoundly Deaf Children: A Preliminary Report
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pp. 134-136
One traditional method of assessing the verbal thought processes of hearing children has been through administration of the verbal scale of standardized intelligence tests, such as the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R; Wechsler, 1974). It has been standard psychological testing practice, however, not to administer these verbal intelligence tests to deaf students. ...
Determining First Language Composition Using Cognitively Demanding/Context-Reduced Tasks
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pp. 137-140
The focus on an assessment of cognitively demanding/context-reduced language activities rather than cognitively undemanding/context-embedded language tasks is a relatively new procedure when making decisions regarding bilingual and/or bimodal hearing-impaired students. Traditionally, for example, a hearing-impaired student's ability to articulate known words (a cognitively undemanding task) in a highly supportive contextual situation...
Application of Feuerstein's Mediated Learning Construct to Deaf Persons
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Cognitive competence refers to the structural ability to adequately adjust and adapt to life situations (Scarr, 1981). In this context, structure refers to the cognitive/intellective and affective schemas that promote adaptations to novel situations. Beyond the biological/physiologicallevel, the construction of these sl;hemas, according to Feuerstein (1979), is affected by two modalities of learning...
LPAD Applications to Deaf Populations
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pp. 148-150
The Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD) (Feuerstein, 1979) advocates a test-teach-test model for assessing intellectual potential. The LPAD differs from traditional psychometric models both in its procedures (which require questioning the subject about responses and providing feedback to the subject about performances) and in the underlying psychological theory used to interpret cognitive behavior. ...
A Factor-Analytic Study of Intellectual Development in Deaf and Hearing Children
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pp. 151-155
Two major schools of thought have attempted to explain cognitive functioning in the deaf: Myklebust's (1964) organismic shift hypothesis and Furth's (1971) view that no difference exists between deaf and hearing subjects in conceptual performance, at least up to concrete-operational thinking. The results of factor-analytic studies of the differential ability structure for deaf and hearing children...
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pp. 156-164
This analysis of the papers in part 8 considers the fundamental question, What techniques of cognitive assessment are the most useful in assessing the hearing-impaired learner and why? This analysis begins with a. brief overview of some important historical events that helped to shape the measurement of cognitive potential. ...
9 The Effects of Cognitive Intervention Programs
Can Thinking Skills Be Incorporated into a Curriculum?
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...If we accept the evidence that some cognitive deficiencies do exist for hearing-impaired individuals but that no evidence suggests less than the normal range of intellectual potential among the hearing impaired, it is apparent that a cognitive intervention program used in an educational setting might promise improvement of these skills. ...
Cognitive Improvement of Hearing-Impaired High School Students Through Instruction in Instrumental Enrichment
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pp. 172-175
If one accepts the fact that certain specific cognitive deficiencies exist for hearing-impaired individuals but that no evidence suggests less than the normal range of intellectual potential among hearing-impaired individuals as a group (Drever & Collins, 1928; Levine, 1976; Vernon, 1968), then it is apparent that a specific program of activity in an educational setting may promise improvement in the deficient areas of cognition. ...
Enhancing Cognitive Performance in the Hearing-Impaired College Student: A Pilot Study
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pp. 176-179
Instructors who work with hearing-impaired college students frequently express deep concern and frustration about some of their students' serious deficiencies in problem-solving skills in both classroom and written work. The concern often relates to the students' difficulty with manipulating more than one variable, conceptualizing what a textbook or journal author is saying, forming conclusions, dealing with hypothetical data, and spatial reasoning. ...
Improving Cognitive Skills in Deaf Adolescents Using LOGO and Instrumental Enrichment
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Young deaf children generally live in environments where they neither hear nor speak a language common to their parents. To these children, written symbols may have little meaning; in addition, they have few opportunities to discuss and share their experiences with adults. ...
LOGO Instruction for Low-Achieving Elementary-Age Hearing-Impaired Children
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In a preliminary project involving the LOGO computer language in a tutorial setting, three students from the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School (Washington, D.C.) joined a class of secondary-level students. The purpose was to provide all students with a positive math experience and to uncover possible abilities that had been unused in standard academic classes. ...
Philosophical Inquiry Among Hearing-Impaired Students
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In November 1981, the Regional Day School for the Deaf in Fort Worth, Texas, provided the setting for the first of several philosophical discussions among hearing-impaired students. These discussions, which stretched over a 2-year period, arose initially from the reading and interpretation of a philosophical novel for children...
Pegasus Project for the Hearing Impaired
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During the past 10 years, the trend in schools and programs for the hearing impaired has been toward increased use of manual communication in general and manual English codes in particular. This trend, coupled with the increase in preschool and parent-education programs, has resulted in an increasing number of hearing-impaired students with English skills that are equal to those of hearing children. ...
The Use of Visual Aids by Interpreters: A Cognitive Model for Mainstreamed Education
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Public Law 94-142 has effected change in the public schools by placing more hearing-impaired students than in the past into mainstreamed settings with interpreter services. This increased number of mainstreamed students includes many with limited English-language skills. ...
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The study using the Philosophy for Children program (Rembert) targeted the age group of 7- to 12-year-olds, used a philosophical or Socratic approach to teaching, and carried out descriptive analyses of results. The Instrumental Enrichment program used in the Jonas and Martin study at the Model Secondary School for the Deaf targeted the age group of 15 and older, used an activity-based and discussion-based approach, and carried out statistical analyses of data. ...
10 A Synthesis: Cognition,Education, and Deafness
A Macroanalysis of the Research on Deafness and Cognition
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In analyzing the research on deafness and cognition, certain terms must first be defined. For the purposes of this paper, the most important term to define is cognition. Neisser succinctly defined cognition as "the activity of knowing: the acquisition, organization, and use of knowledge" (1976, p. 1). According to Anderson, "Cognitive psychology is dominated by the information processing approach...
A Synthesis from Beyond the Field of Deafness
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The issues and questions raised by the papers in this volume indicate that a strong and viable research effort is being made to come to terms with the many perplexing and complex questions facing investigators who are studying cognition and cognitive development in deaf learners. This research will serve as a basis for developing educational programs that will meet the needs of these children in the coming decades. ...
Reactions from the Practitioner's Point of View
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The jigsaw puzzle of the components of cognition, developmental process, and educational practices is indeed an inherent problem in our field. Sigel and Brinker have suggested that researchers and practitioners need to establish an ongoing dialogue. However, before dialogue can be meaningful, some common information must be shared. ...
Reactions from the Researcher's Point of View
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pp. 224-228
The perspective I would like to give is not that of a basic researcher or a researcher who is interested in deafness from an experimental viewpoint. Rather, it is the perspective of an educator of the deaf who happens to be doing research. I came into the field of education of the deaf as a trained behavioristic psychologist. ...
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Print-ISBN-13: 9781563681493
Print-ISBN-10: 1563681498
Page Count: 248
Publication Year: 1988
OCLC Number: 794700870
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Macroeconomic policy, inflation and growth in emerging market countries
This study empirically analyzes the possibility that the impact of inflation on growth is due to some transmission mechanism(s). Three models each suggesting different transmission mechanisms are analyzed in this paper: (1) A q-theory model suggesting that investment is the transmission mechanism by which inflation affects growth; (2) A real exchange rate-based model where inflation hinders growth via a Dutch-Disease style channel, shifting economic resources to the less productive sector; and (3) a financial repression model is formulated proposing that a "liquidity crunch"—lack of long term credit availability—may be a potential transmission mechanism of inflation on growth. The models are estimated using cross country panel General Method of Moments (GMM) regressions for the period 1961–2006. Results show that for the sample of EME inflation is detrimental to growth and that both the real exchange rate and credit seem to function as a transmission mechanism through which inflation affects growth. Additionally, no evidence is found to support investment as a transmission mechanism of inflation on growth. ^
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Carolina Miccolis-Anwar,
"Macroeconomic policy, inflation and growth in emerging market countries"
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If you don't like The Terminator or Back to the Future, then give them a thumbs down. If we missed any time travel movies on this list, please add them to the list yourself, as this is an open list which means you can add any movies whenever you like (choices are subject to moderation). The films on this list cover the most famous time travel movies of all time and are voted on by people who really care about time travel movie lists.
You can find the release information for any of the films listed below. It's often available in the data set, so you can even find the cast of some of these by clicking on the names of the time travel movies. List includes photos and time travel movie trailers next to the names of the movies.
List movies include Grand Tour: The Butterfly Effect, Groundhog Day, and more.
Whether you're at home and want to watch these time travel movies on DVD, streaming Blu-ray or streaming, or if you're seeing them in theatres for the first time, this is a list of good time travel movies that can be helpful in either situation to see where they all stack up. So from the latest, to the greatest time travel movies, here is the full time travel movies list, ordered from best to worst.
Woody Allen and Alexander Payne have both directed Time travel movies, as have many other great directors.
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Back to the Future Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson
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Back to the Future Part II Clint Eastwood, Michael J. Fox, Elisabeth Shue
- 3+ 208- 58
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day Arnold Schwarzenegger, Edward Furlong, Linda Hamilton
- 4+ 211- 58
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The Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Paxton, Linda Hamilton
- 5+ 164- 46
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Groundhog Day Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Michael Shannon
- 6+ 185- 64
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12 Monkeys Brad Pitt, Bruce Willis, Christopher Plummer
- 7+ 136- 71
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure Keanu Reeves, George Carlin, Jane Wiedlin
- 8+ 133- 58
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Back to the Future Part III Michael J. Fox, Elisabeth Shue, Christopher Lloyd
- 9+ 91- 47
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It's a Wonderful Life James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
- 10+ 111- 59
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Donnie Darko Drew Barrymore, Ashley Tisdale, Jake Gyllenhaal
- 11+ 138- 88
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The Butterfly Effect Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Logan Lerman
- 12+ 105- 59
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Star Trek: First Contact Patrick Stewart, James Cromwell, Alfre Woodard
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The Time Machine Yvette Mimieux, Rod Taylor, Alan Young
- 14+ 63- 21
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, George Takei
- 16+ 102- 47
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Planet of the Apes Charlton Heston, Linda Harrison, James Whitmore
- 17+ 89- 44
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Source Code Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga
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Frequency Jim Caviezel, Elizabeth Mitchell, Dennis Quaid
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Looper Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Army of Darkness Bridget Fonda, Bruce Campbell, Sam Raimi
- 21+ 75- 54
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Time Bandits Sean Connery, John Cleese, Ian Holm
- 22+ 43- 8
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Edge of Tomorrow Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton
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Interstellar Anne Hathaway, Matthew McConaughey, Matt Damon
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The Philadelphia Experiment Nancy Allen, Stephen Tobolowsky, Michael Paré
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, Gary Oldman
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The Time Machine Jeremy Irons, Guy Pearce, Sienna Guillory
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Somewhere in Time Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, William H. Macy
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Scrooged Bill Murray, Robert Mitchum, Miles Davis
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Primer Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Keith Bradshaw
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Timecop Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mia Sara, Ron Silver
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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey Keanu Reeves, George Carlin, Pam Grier
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Déjà Vu Denzel Washington, Val Kilmer, Elle Fanning
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Star Trek Zoe Saldana, Jennifer Morrison, Winona Ryder
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Flight of the Navigator Sarah Jessica Parker, Paul Reubens, Veronica Cartwright
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Run Lola Run Franka Potente, Armin Rohde, Moritz Bleibtreu
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Midnight in Paris Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hiddleston
- 37+ 31- 13
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Predestination Ethan Hawke, Noah Taylor, Sarah Snook DON'T READ ANYTHING ABOUT THIS BEFORE WATCHING!!!
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Hot Tub Time Machine Chevy Chase, Lyndsy Fonseca, Lizzy Caplan
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Timeline Gerard Butler, Paul Walker, Michael Sheen
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The Time Traveler's Wife Rachel McAdams, Eric Bana, Ron Livingston
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Time After Time Corey Feldman, Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen
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Galaxy Quest Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tim Allen
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Jumanji Kirsten Dunst, Robin Williams, Patricia Clarkson
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Minority Report Cameron Diaz, Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell
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Timecrimes Karra Elejalde, Nacho Vigalondo, Barbara Goenaga
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Futurama: Bender's Big Score Mark Hamill, Al Gore, Katey Sagal
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Blast from the Past Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken, Brendan Fraser
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About Time Rachel McAdams, Margot Robbie, Bill Nighy
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The Lake House Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves, Christopher Plummer
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Surprise! Portal 2 ends with a song! Actually, I was kidding just there about the "surprise" part. After the success of Jonathan Coulton's "Still Alive," and the ensuing rise in cake sales, it only makes sense that there would be a follow-up by the Portal songsmith.
See, this information falls into the category of "general knowledge." I want to make that clear so you won't be mad at me when I tell you the title to the Portal 2 ending song is "Want You Gone." I know, I know: that's a pretty vague title; however, the song is a lot like the title in that it too contains vague references to things you might not want to know about if you're not done with the game. The song and the credits make perfect sense if you've beaten the game, of course.
This is a lot of explaination for a pretty straightforward concept: the video of the song and the lyrics for the song are posted below, after the jump. If you haven't beaten the game and you want to hear the song, then by all means, watch it, but make no bones about it: there are references to things you shouldn't know about. Plus, don't forget that one of the joys of completing all of those mindbending puzzles is getting to hear the song, so it spoils it for you in that way too.
If you've already beaten the game, congratulations! Why not reward yourself by listening to the song over and over again?
**Clicking the "Read More" tag will reveal Portal 2 Spoilers!**
Portal 2 Ending Song "Want You Gone" Lyrics by Jonathan Coulton
Well, here we are again.
It's always such a pleasure.
Remember when you tried
to kill me twice?
Oh, how we laughed and laughed.
Except I wasn't laughing.
Under the circumstances,
I've been shockingly nice.
You want your freedom?
Take it.
That's what I'm counting on.
I used to want you dead,
now, I only want you gone.
She was a lot like you,
(Maybe not quite as heavy)
Now little Caroline is in here too.
One day they woke me up,
So I could Live forever.
It's such a shame the same
Will never happen to you.
You've got your
Short sad
Life left
That's what I'm counting on.
I'll let you get right to it.
Now, I only want you gone.
Goodbye my only friend.
Oh, did you think I meant you?
That would be funny
If it weren't so sad.
Well, you have been replaced.
I don't need anyone now.
When I delete you maybe
I'll stop feeling so bad.
Go make some new disaster.
That's what I'm counting on.
You're someone else's problem
Now, I only want you gone.
Now, I only want you gone.
Now, I only want you gone.
What do you think? Is it as good as "Still Alive"?


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Spanish Royal Family Summer Vacation 2013
Members of the Spanish Royal Family have been enjoying the annual Summer Holiday or Vacation on the Balearic Island of Mallorca.
Last week Queen Sofia accompanied by her sister, Princess Irene of Greece, arrived at the Marivent Palace in Palma de Mallorca and was later joined by Infantas Elena and Cristina and their children.
The Prince of Asturias later arrived on the island take part in the Copa del Rey yachting competition. Infanta Cristina has since departed for Barcelona, but her four children remained on the island over the weekend and the Princess of Asturias arrived with her two daughters, Infantas Leonor and Sofia.
It's expected that King Juan Carlos will arrive at the Marivent Palace in Palma de Mallorca later today.Filed under Greek Royals, Spanish Royals
Tagged Felipe de Marichalar y Borbón, Felipe VI, Infanta Cristina, Infanta Elena, Infanta Sofía, Irene Urdangarín, Juan Carlos I, Juan Urdangarín, Miguel Urdangarín, Pablo Urdangarín, Princess Irene of Greece, Queen Letizia, Queen Sofia, The Princess of Asturias, Vacation, Victoria de Marichalar y Borbón.


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Philippi striving to slow traffic
In an effort to curb speeding traffic along two city streets, Philippi City Council approved the mayor's recommendation Tuesday that more stop signs be purchased and installed.
Mayor Jerry Mouser said he had been speaking with Police Chief Jeff Walters regarding ways to reduce speeding along Beech Avenue and Maple Avenue. City police are using radar detection, but officials believe it is not a permanent solution. As a former police officer, Mouser said he knew from experience that the radar enforcement would reduce speeding traffic only as long as a police agency could maintain the radar work and issue tickets.
He said once the radar-enforced violations stop, speeding traffic would again become a problem. He addressed the problem with Walters and discussed ideas, such as adding speed bumps or stop signs. Mouser told the city council that he and Walters thought the best solution would be to install additional signs.
– In other news, Sunday and Monday proved to be a learning experience for Philippi city officials who attended the West Virginia Municipal League Conference in Charleston.
City Manager Karen Weaver summarized the experience that she, Mouser, office manager Carol Matko and council members Barbara Bryan and Ed Larry had when they traveled to Charleston for the conference.
"It was a very good conference for us to go attend because we got to meet with all of the other municipalities across the state," Weaver said. "We learned a lot. We got to travel to the capital, and we met with our delegates there and got to voice our opinions."
Mouser said he has an interest in derelict and vacant buildings in the city. Through the conference, Mouser said he was able to meet with both the current and a former mayor of Clarksburg, who said they would be willing to give a presentation about what they have done to tackle the issue of derelict and vacant buildings in their municipality.
Weaver said Philippi officials also attended some productive workshops while participating in the conference. She said one main reason the conference is conducted at about this time in the year is because the Legislature is in session. Philippi officials also had the opportunity to speak with Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin while there.
"It was a very worthwhile trip for us," Weaver said.
– In other business, the City Council conducted the second reading of an ordinance authorizing the acquisition of property needed for the Tygart Glenn Waste Water Treatment Plant. The small property is owned by the Philippi Municipal Building Commission, an agency which agreed to turn over the property to allow the waste water treatment project to continue.
The council also appointed Buddy Shreve to the Planning Commission and revisited a previous appointment to the Airport Authority.
Weaver said she made a mistake in the name of a person who was appointed to the Airport Authority at the Feb. 5 meeting, and she wanted to correct the minutes. Weaver said she meant for the council to appoint Lemuel Jones. She apologized for the error, and it was corrected. Jones will now serve on the Airport Authority.


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By Terrence Webster-Doyle
I remember the day that changed my life forever. I was running, and I knew he was right behind me and would catch me. I felt like an animal being hunted. I couldn't run faster. I was scared and out of breath. He had one thing in mind: to get me--again!
I felt Vinnie's heavy breath on my back, and then he pulled me down to the ground. My instincts were to try to protect myself and not to fight back, which would only make him angry. Then he might really hurt me, as his brother had when he knocked out my front teeth with a rock the year before. The time before that, Vinnie purposely ran into me with his bike; I ended up in the hospital with a severe head injury.
Now he was pinning me down with his knees on my chest and punching my face, which I tried to cover up with my hands. All of a sudden, I felt a sharp pain in my back, as if I had fallen on a hot needle. I jumped up, yelling in agony. A bee had stung me! I stood there for a moment in shock, trying to reach the wounded area with my hand. Then I realized that Vinnie, the bully who had tormented me throughout elementary school, was not beating me up. In fact, he lay stunned on his back, where I had thrown him when I jumped up.
I looked down at him and felt a sudden surge of power. I realized at that moment that I was strong. I understood that I had let this person beat me up because I had thought I was weak. In my mind I had seen myself as a victim. This moment transformed me from victim to victor. It was an awe-inspiring feeling.
Vinnie must have seen that feeling on my face, for his eyes were now wide with fear. He crawled away from me, then got to his feet and, still facing me, moved cautiously down the street. Without a word, he left me standing alone in the yard where only minutes ago he had been beating me up.
After that incident Vinnie still called me names, but only from afar. And he never came close to me again.
When I was growing up outside New York City in the 1940s and 1950s, there was no place where I could have learned how to cope with bullies. But what if somehow I'd been taught physical self-defense? What would the scene have been like? I can imagine it now. I see the bully coming toward me. Do I assume the victim's mentality of always losing? Do I feel trapped? Probably. But the confidence I would have gained from learning physical self-defense might have allowed me to keep my cool; I could have stood my ground and defended myself.
Certainly we need to teach our children how to protect themselves. More importantly, however, we need to teach them skills that will help them resolve a conflict peacefully before it gets to the physical level. When parents ask me what they can do to help their children cope with bullying, I tell them about the "3Ps."
Prevent. Understand the causes of conflict and know how to avoid it.
Prepare. Learn self-defense verbal skills through role-playing to resolve conflict.
Protect. Learn to protect yourself so that you have the confidence not to fight.
I do not advocate the use of violence as a means to deal with bullies. I advocate a complete education that combines learning to protect yourself with the ability to recognize and prevent a physical confrontation. Learning how to physically defend themselves gives young people the confidence to avoid reacting in a "fight or flight" manner when they are faced with aggression; they have the presence of mind to avoid and resolve conflict nonphysically. This integration of brain and brawn is a more balanced power.
Terrence Webster-Doyle is an educator, author, martial artist, and coparent of five daughters. His Bully Buster Program is based on his best-selling books Why Is Everybody Always Picking on Me?: A Guide to Handling Bullies and Why Is Everybody Always Picking on Us?: Understanding the Roots of Prejudice, both from Weatherhill Publishing. His books can be ordered at 800-437-7840 and at www.atriumsoc.org
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Davydow, Dimitry S. MD, MPH; Hough, Catherine L. MD, MSc; Langa, Kenneth M. MD, PhD; Iwashyna, Theodore J. MD, PhD
Objective: To examine whether spouses of patients with severe sepsis are at increased risk for depression independent of the spouse's presepsis history, whether this risk differs by sex, and is associated with a sepsis patient's disability after hospitalization.
Design: Prospective longitudinal cohort study.
Setting: Population-based cohort of U.S. adults over 50 yrs old interviewed as part of the Health and Retirement Study (1993–2008).
Patients: Nine hundred twenty-nine patient-spouse dyads comprising 1,212 hospitalizations for severe sepsis.
Measurements and Main Results: Severe sepsis was identified using a validated algorithm in Medicare claims. Depression was assessed with a modified version of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale. All analyses were stratified by gender. The prevalence of substantial depressive symptoms in wives of patients with severe sepsis increased by 14 percentage points at the time of severe sepsis (from 20% at a median of 1.1 yrs presepsis to 34% at a median of 1 yr postsepsis) with an odds ratio of 3.74 (95% confidence interval: 2.20, 6.37), in multivariable regression. Husbands had an 8 percentage point increase in the prevalence of substantial depressive symptoms, which was not significant in multivariable regression (odds ratio 1.90, 95% confidence interval 0.75, 4.71). The increase in depression was not explained by bereavement; women had greater odds of substantial depressive symptoms even when their spouse survived a severe sepsis hospitalization (odds ratio 2.86, 95% confidence interval 1.06, 7.73). Wives of sepsis survivors who were disabled were more likely to be depressed (odds ratio 1.35 per activities of daily living limitation of sepsis survivor, 95% confidence interval 1.12, 1.64); however, controlling for patient disability only slightly attenuated the association between sepsis and wives' depression (odds ratio 2.61, 95% confidence interval 0.93, 7.38).
Conclusions: Older women may be at greater risk for depression if their spouse is hospitalized for severe sepsis. Spouses of patients with severe sepsis may benefit from greater support and depression screening, both when their loved one dies and when their loved one survives.
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