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Marketing NH: For profit and low taxes
December 21. 2013 7:41PM
The Old Man of the Mountain is back, and he is hawking liquor. Halleluja!
Last week the New Hampshire Liquor Commission unveiled a commemorative Old Man liquor bottle, filled with "premium vodka," which is for sale at state liquor outlets for $29.99. The proceeds will help fund the restoration of the flags at the State House's Hall of Flags. Ingenious.
This is a state with a long and proud history of seeking non-tax revenues to fund public projects. The liquor bottle is expected to raise $85,000, not nearly as much as other alternative funding schemes. The New Hampshire Lottery, for instance, brings in $75 million, or more than 3 percent of the state budget. But that is $85,000 that will come from collectors and tourists, not taxpayers.
If the Old Man liquor bottle has not made light bulbs click on in the heads of some other state administrators, it should. The state parks and the Fish and Game Department, for example, are intended to be self-funded.
Fish and Game received a general fund appropriation in the current budget to make ends meet, and a special committee has recommended that it raise money by requiring $10 boating decals for small watercraft such as canoes and kayaks. But it would be better for the state if the department tried first to raise money more like a business than a state department. Perhaps there would be a market for Fish & Game stuffed animals and outdoor-themed products.
The state parks already partner with vendors and outdoor products companies. The Department of Transportation has contracted with the Common Man restaurants to run a new Hooksett rest stop. The state sells special moose license plates to finance conservation. And now the Liquor Commission is selling vodka in collectible bottles to raise money for historic preservation. This is a good trend. We need to see more of it.


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Multiple varying approaches regarding the way home education ought to be performed are out there. You can find various theories and methods, some of which we'll be discussing in this article. In the final analysis, however, it's up to you to decide what techniques will work best with your kids. Sometimes you may want to combine two or more approaches, and come up with a home schooling method of your own.
When you start home schooling, you must set up a schedule. Every family has a routine they normally go through, so that will need to be taken into consideration once the schedule is made out for the home schooling. It is a good idea to be as consistent as possible to the schedule you set up. It can be tempting when home schooling to be casual about time and schedules, since there's no one supervising you and you can be a little flexible. To make sure your children are able to keep focused, it is important that you have a consistent schedule for individual subjects. It is necessary to have a schedule in place, even if it is changed over time.
Home schooling your kids can be very rewarding for both you and your children; you can provide some things that public schools are unable to. Not only will your children be able to see life in reality, but will also be able to experience places and people in reality. You have the opportunity to give your child a look at the real world when you decide to home school them; instead of sending them off to school where you know little about the curriculum. These lessons will be more defining to you child. Depending on where you live and what you do on a daily basis, will certainly have an impact on what sort or experiences your child may or may not be able to take part in.
There is a lot more flexibility of course than schools and professional teachers are allowed. You can focus on different subjects and use methods which are not practical in a classroom environment for instance. My friend uses the internet a lot to teach her two girls, they are both learning French and watch a lot of French TV online to help. It's actually quite easy to if you change IP address you can access most of the French and French Canadian TV stations online.
To have an umbrella organization oversee the whole process is what a lot of parents find as the best approach of home schooling. If home schooling is a new experience, this can work well for you. This works really well because your children are at home, you are doing the teaching, and all of the educational materials, subjects and curriculum are supplied by the umbrella organization. If you're unsure of how to get started or not confident in your ability to create your own curriculum, this may be a solution worth looking into. On the other hand, if you want the maximum amount of independence, the umbrella organization is probably not your best bet. There will be more ways for it to be done, once home schooling becomes more popular. There are other people doing home schooling also, and their experiences might help you a lot, if you will listen. However, when it comes down to it, you should do what you think is best for your own children.
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Joseph teaches courses in paleontology and Earth history, including Earth Through Time, Introduction to Paleontology, Mass Extinctions, Invertebrate Paleontology (Sections 1, 2, 3), Vertebrate Paleontology (Sections 1, 2, 3), Paleoecology, Paleontology in the Geological Sciences, Taxonomy, and topic specific courses.
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Joseph's principal areas of interest and expertise focus on the physical and historical geology and stratigraphy of Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene strata of the northern Great Plains, with specialization in nonmarine molluscan studies in the Western Interior of North America. He has authored and coauthored publications on these and other subjects. Emphasis includes research in molluscan taxonomy, biostratigraphy, and paleobiogeography; lignite stratigraphy; land–mammal biochronology; and computer applications in paleontology and stratigraphy, including data management and analysis, geographic information system (GIS) technologies, and video imaging.
Extensive molluscan collections including specimens from the Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene strata of the Williston (North Dakota–Montana), Crazy Mountains (Montana), and San Juan (New Mexico) Basins are maintained for research in ongoing studies. Recent and ongoing international studies include paleobiogeographic and biochronologic research in Upper Cretaceous strata of Madagascar and India.
A project of public and educational interest is the Web-based geoscience digital image library GeoDIL. This project is a collaborative effort with UND's Harold Hamm School of Geology and Geological Engineering (Dexter Perkins and Joseph Hartman), and the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences (Henry Borysewicz ). With funding from the National Science Foundation and the University of North Dakota, users can submit, search, browse, link, and construct virtual carousels of images in the library for educational purposes (see www.GeoDIL.com).
Joseph has supported his research and undergraduate and graduate student education through grants and contracts from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Bureau of Mines, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Geological Survey, and National Geographic Society. Dr. Hartman is a member of several professional organizations, including the Geological Society of America, the Paleontological Society, the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, and the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Sigma Xi, and is past president of the North Dakota Academy of Science.
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- NSF Research Grant, Red River of the North Geoscience Education Pilot Project, 2000–2002 (with Dan Daly and Charlene Crocker)
- NSF Research Grant, A University of North Dakota Geoscience Digital Library (GeoDIL), 2000–2002 (Dexter Perkins PI, Hartman Co-PI, with Henry Borysewicz)
- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Coal Resources Data System Research Contract, Stratigraphic Evaluation and Entry of North Dakota Lignite Data into the National Coal Resources Data System, 1993–2002
- Museum of the Rockies (a joint venture project with DOE) Research Contract, An important record of climate change at the end of the Cretaceous: A model for interpretation of paleoecological data for present-day global climate change (Fort Peck Hell Creek Project), 2000–2001 (in collaboration with John Horner, Museum of the Rockies and William Clemens, University of California-Berkeley)
- DOE Research Contract, Strategic Studies: Climate Change Initiatives, 2000–2001
- NSF Research Grant, Late Cretaceous Vertebrates of Madagascar: Implications for Gondwanan Biogeography, 1997–2000 (a collaborative research project with D.W. Krause [lead PI] and others)
- UND School of Engineering and Mines Seed Grant, The End-Cretaceous Nonmarine Molluscan Record from Intertrappean Sediments of the Deccan Traps, Peninsular India: Implications for the Timing of Indian-Australian and Eurasian Faunal Interchange and Plate Convergence, 2003–2004
- NSF Research Grant, INGEOS – Indians Into Geological Sciences, Gerla, P.J., lead Co-PI, Hartman, J.H., Co-PI, G. Gangon, Co-PI , 2003–2004
- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Coal Resources Data System Research Contract, Stratigraphic Evaluation and Entry of North Dakota Lignite Data into the National Coal Resources Data System, 2003–2004
- National Geographic Society, Collaborative Research: Geographic of Biotic Recovery – Paleocene Mammals and Mollusks, and the Environments of Southwestern North Dakota,
- Hartman, J.H., collaborative PI, with J.P. Hunter (lead institution), Ohio State University at Newark, 2006–2007


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In the fall of 1991 Chellie Pingree was selling yarn and knitting kits on an island off the Maine coast, raising three school-age children and serving on the board of a school district where a "big" high school graduating class numbered five. When she heard that Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder, a Colorado Democrat and pioneering woman in politics, would be speaking at a local college, Pingree and her 14-year-old daughter, Hannah, took an hour boat ride to the mainland and headed down the coast to hear the woman who had almost run for President in 1988.
It was a journey that would change Pingree's life. "When I went to see Pat Schroeder, the last thing I was thinking about was going into politics," Pingree recalls. "But she said something in her speech that really struck me: 'Good people don't want to run for office anymore.' She was explaining how young people, especially young women, were turned off by the roughness of politics. I remember thinking: 'That is so weird.' I loved going to town meetings, putting together budgets, debating issues. Then, after the speech, a woman I knew came up and said, 'Chellie, you should think about running for your State Senate seat.' I laughed, but on the way home I asked Hannah and she just said, 'Go for it, Mom!'"
Pingree did just that. Her grassroots Democratic campaign–financed by contributions tossed into please help elect chellie coffee cans on store counters–won her a traditionally Republican seat. Faced with a Republican majority in the legislature, she recruited other women candidates and developed a strategy that put Democrats in charge. Then, as State Senate majority leader, she beat legions of pharmaceutical corporation lobbyists to pass prescription drug reforms designed to force drug makers to bring their prices closer in line with fees charged under Canada's national healthcare program.
Now, ten years into the political career she never imagined, Pingree is really going for it. Angered over what she calls a "stolen" presidential election, troubled by the failure of Democrats to mount a coherent opposition to the new Republican Administration and still listening to Schroeder's call for good people to go into politics, she has converted her woodshed into her campaign headquarters and launched a run for the US Senate that could be critical in determining the success or failure of George W. Bush's presidency.


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new wheelsSunday, August 12, 2007
When I came home from florida, my husband had this in the garage waiting for me!I had been wanting a new bike ever since our trip to Nemacolin. Can you say love at first sight? That saddle brown leather seat and those saddle brown grips almost put me over the edge. Yesterday I ordered a basket just like the one Angelique ordered for her new bike. I so dream that I live in a quaint little village, perhaps Nantucket, (right Keat) where I bike to the market for fresh produce, dairy and other necessities. I then wake up and remember that I live in suburbia USA and have to drive my car everywhere I go. sigh. We did load the bikes on the back of the car yesterday and drove to a location where we parked the car and could all bike together as a family. There is a path that runs along the river and leads to the city. All I could think about was that I wished I had my basket! What will I put in my basket? Knitting of course. Where will I ride? Maybe around the neighborhood. At least I will have my knitting if a neighbor gets chatty. Maybe she will offer me some vegetable's from her garden for my basket! :)
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Your husband rules. So retro, love it! Aren't you glad you live in the state with 1000 bike paths??ReplyDelete
Cool new bike! And I love your daughter's skirt from the previous post. I have a 7 yr old girly-girl and I simply must make this for her!ReplyDelete
Sah-weet wheelz! I do love a phat tire retro cruiser.ReplyDelete
i love your new bicycle. its pure beautiful! a little puppy or some bagettes would be nice in your basket... i carry groceries in mine, and library books. baskets are the best.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8/12/2007
It WILL NOT surprise you to know that your sister walked into the Pelham bike shop last Thursday to have her bike "tuned up", looked around at the new bikes and fell in love with the very same bike that you just received. I put the bike on hold and am going back in Tuesday morning. It is so cute!!!!! I hope you got a cute little helmet to match.ReplyDelete
P.S. The sweater fits great and I am so happy I don't have to knit it. Thanks Les!
What a fabulous bike! Once, while I was in Ireland, I saw a similar bike outside a little shop - apparently you could call the shop and they'd send out a bike delivery person with whatever you needed. It was a 7-11 type of shop, and the bike had a hand-painted sign on it that aptly read "Munchies."ReplyDelete
Anywho, love the bike!!
Love it!ReplyDelete
I envy your bike, but I enjoy my own Schwinn cruiser with metal basket very much. I'm trying to convince my husband to get a cruiser, though he's got a perfectly new mountain bike already...ReplyDelete
It cracks me up, though, that your sister has also set her eyes on the same bike -- like the shoes, jeans, and everything else in life you all buy without realizing the other has it. Maybe you were meant to be twins, and have that twin telepathy thing going on!
Anyway, love your bike, and the basket [totally ready for wine and a baguette like it said]!
Yowza, you are crazy, riding and taking pictures, yikes...I do love the new bike!ReplyDelete
Great bike - very cool!ReplyDelete
oooo, nice new wheels!! I was just ogling a very similar bike while we were at the beach, thinking how cute it was and how I could somehow strap all these little people onto it and ride around. Then M reminded me that we do in fact live half way up a mountain, surrounded by many many other mountains and that I might make it down but make it up? pregnant? he thinks not. and I reluctantly have to agree. So I will bike vicarious (sp?) through you--have fun!!ReplyDelete
love your new bike. enjoy it!!!ReplyDelete


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Emory benefits from a close working relationship with the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Grady Memorial Hospital. It is also a key partner in the Atlanta Clinical & Translational Science Institute (ACTSI), where Emory doctors and researchers collaborate with counterparts from the Morehouse School of Medicine and the Georgia Institute of Technology to rapidly and efficiently translate scientific discoveries to improve healthcare for all populations of the Atlanta community.
Since 1905, Emory Healthcare has been at the forefront of medicine, putting cutting-edge interventional research and technology into lifesaving action. As the largest, most comprehensive health care system in Georgia, Emory Healthcare has 1,830 licensed patient beds, 9,000 employees and more than 20 health centers located throughout Metro Atlanta.


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The 24-foot Lynx was designed as the smallest boat with which a couple could contemplate an ocean voyage. The hull is a multi-chine hull to make it easy to build in flat plate steel. There are two chines. The sheer shows a strong spring and it looks good. The bow is a typical catboat type with a hint of tumble-home. This gives the bow a bit of a pugnacious look.
The keel of this catboat is a full-length keel with no aperture for the propeller as the only auxiliary is an outboard mounted on the transom. The barn door-type outboard rudder is cut down at the top below the DWL so that you can use the top of it as a step. In true catboat style the D/L of this design is 330 and the LIB is 2.4.
With 9,000 pounds of displacement to work with you can get a real interior into this small boat. Review available from website: www.mikecampdesigns.ca/PDF/Lynx-Article.pdf
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A childhood without TV
TV reception was poor, out in the Nebraska Sandhills where I grew up.The picture was snowy and the sound faded in and out. My parents decided not to waste their time and money on it.
Along with the mail, radio was our connection to the rest of the world. My parents listened to the radio news, farm market reports and weather report every morning, noon, and night.
My mother also had an informal agenda of radio shows on various stations that she enjoyed when she was working in the house.
One of Mama's morning shows was Ward Childerson on the Christian station, KJLT, of North Platte, Nebraska. He read letters from readers and played the recordings that they requested. One reason my mother especially liked his show was that a girl from our church (Carol Gurney) had married his brother.
Mama also liked Wynn Speece, the "Neighbor Lady" on WNAX radio (Yankton, South Dakota.) The Neighbor Lady talked about her family and home and things that pertained to housewives. Sometimes she had a guest in for a chat. During each broadcast, she read a recipe, very slowly, repeating each ingredient and instruction several times, so the listeners could write it down.
KRVN of Lexington, Nebraska, had the Back to the Bible Broadcast every morning at 9:00 a.m., and my mother listened if she possibly could. Back to the Bible was headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska. It had a wonderful studio choir, and it featured the conservative Christian preacher, Theodore Epp.
On Saturday mornings, Back to the Bible was aimed at youth and children. One of its attractions was the Danny Orlis serial story, read by Ord Morrow. Danny Orlis and his friends were the Christian literature equivalents of the Hardy Boys, always stumbling onto a criminal plot or getting into a scrape of some sort.
We also listened to Art Linkletter on Saturday mornings. In the last segment of the show, Art Linkletter always talked to a few children and tried to get them to say something funny -- a forerunner of "Kids Say the Darnedest Things" on TV. And on Saturday night, there was "Bohemian Band Time" on WNAX -- a half hour of accordion-dominated music.
After supper, we did dishes with Herbert W. Armstrong's "Plain Truth about Today's World News and the Prophecies of the World Tomorrow." My mom didn't agree with him, but she liked to listen to him. He gave her plenty of reasons to study the Bible.
When we could pick up KOA from Denver, we liked to listen to the children's story that was broadcast every night. There was one story about "ooo-black" that I never did get to hear all the way through. That story was always divided over two nights, and somehow we always missed the second night. When I started reading Dr. Seuss stories to my children twenty-five years later, I finally found out how the story (Bartholemew and the Oobleck) ended.
A relay tower for educational TV was built in Rock County about 1970, and they also boosted the signal of a commercial channel. We got a television set then, but I had already graduated from high school and gone to college.
To be honest, I was embarrassed about my home's lack of television when I was a teenager. When the conversation turned to television shows, I had no idea what everyone was talking about.
When I was a college student and I could watch TV cartoons every Saturday morning in the dormitory, I was disappointed in them. They weren't as funny and fascinating as I had imagined. That remains the case. A great deal of television's programming bores me, but I can nearly always find something interesting to listen to, on the radio.
Now I'm in my mid-50s, and I've decided that it's cool that I grew up with radio instead of TV. Most people my age don't remember Edward R. Murrow, Arthur Godfrey and Amos and Andy on the radio -- but I do.


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Hello! I am in need of advice regarding milk blisters, or blebs, or whatever they are supposed to be called when you get a white bubble on your nipple that appears to be grown over with skin. I've had this milk blister that showed up a week ago. Being a first time mom, I had no idea what it was at first, but I was in excruciating pain. When my 4.5 month old baby latches on, it is so painful that I usually am in tears.
I called my midwife and she set up an appointment with a lactation consultant, about 5 days ago. They instructed me not to touch it, and to use hot compresses, soaks, etc, and just nurse a lot on that side. (side note: I already nurse on that side a lot, there is no way to nurse any more on that side since my baby eats from both sides each feeding).
A couple of days went by and despite religiously soaking, massaging, applying warm compresses, and nursing, nothing changed and I was in more and more pain. I decided to opt for the sterile needle option, and I carefully peeled back the skin growing over the thing. Immediately lots of milk came pouring out and I nursed after, and it felt so much better. Unfortunately though, I went to bed that night only to wake up to nurse and discovered it was back to being very painful.
Last night I tried the needle again, but didn't meet with the same success. It only appeared to irritate my nipple more and now it is REALLY sore. I am still in incredible pain. My question is- what can I do? Anything? How long does the pain last? And will this darn thing EVER go away? It's causing me a great deal of stress. Nursing has been very stressful lately with my baby having the "4 month fussies", going back to work and not being able to pump enough, and now it is painful on top of that. I feel so frustrated.
I did get a prescription for All Purpose Nipple Ointment from my midwife, and I have been applying it regularly to hopefully stave off infection.
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A military cargo plane has crashed, leaving its highly classified contents strewn across London. Unaware that the city is on lockdown, Charlie (Noel Clarke) and Shelley (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), accompanied by best friends Mark (Colin O'Donoghue) and Nikki (Laura Haddock), are at a storage facility of the film's title name, dividing up their possessions. Suddenly, the power goes off. Trapped in a dark maze of endless corridors, a mystery predator is hunting them one by one. In a place designed to keep things in, how do you get out?
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The idea of allowing members to bring in personal work carts to use as a portable work bench/secure storage has been generally well received. We should define some ground rules.
- Members must bring in their own cart. The lab will not be responsible for supplying or maintaining the carts.
- Cart restrictions by membership level (Matt: These are just my thoughts, final rules would obviously need to be approved by member vote)
- Thinker Level: No cart or locker. However, we may be able to do something similar by providing a small wall of bins that would allow these members some personal storage for small/light items (electronics parts, fabric/sewing supplies, etc...)
- Maker Level: Choose between bringing in a cart OR use of a locker.
- Booster Level: May bring a cart AND use a locker.
- Members may bring in a store-bought cart or build their own.
- DIY carts can be made of any material (wood, metal, plastic, PVC pipe, etc...) as long as they meet the size requirements, have caster wheels and are structurally safe
- We should design a set of "standard" plans that new members can use as a starting point and either build as-is or modify as required.
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- Need to define maximum dimensions
- Clearly something like this is TOO big Link.
- Matt proposes a nice round 2' x 3' maximum footprint
- Height will be more difficult to standardize for store-bought units as they will vary.
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Old Skull Publishing
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Delta Green: Need to Know
Gold Ennie Award winner for Best Free Game, 2016
Born of the U.S. government's 1928 raid on the degenerate coastal town of Innsmouth, Massachusetts, the covert agency known as Delta Green spent four decades opposing the forces of darkness with honor, but without glory. Stripped of sanction after a disastrous 1969 operation in Cambodia,
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Arc Dream Publishing
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Dyson Logos' Fifth Edition Character Sheets
A hand-drawn single-sided character sheet in portrait format for Fifth Edition. This package includes eight files: 1. Standard sheet 2. Alternate format sheet 3. Standard sheet with hand-lettering 4. Spellbook sheet 5-8. The above sheets in form-fillable versions ... [
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Into the Living Library
"Sorry I'm late, Professor; a gelatinous cube ate my homework..."
Brought to you by the author of
Harry Potter and the Natural 20
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Sir Poley
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Fate System Toolkit
Rules, glorious rules! The Fate Core system is flexible, hackable, and adaptable to any world you can dream up. This Fate System Toolkit is packed with system ideas to bring those dreams to life. Learn how to hack the skill system to better suit your terraforming campaign. Get ideas on how to create races and societies for your woodland elves, subterranean aliens, or afterlife police force. Customize... [
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Evil Hat Productions, LLC
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Bryson Springs
This systemless horror scenario originally appeared in the No Security kickstarter. In June of 1935, the Dust Bowl still plagued the American Southwest, a third of all people were out of work, and the government's path to recovery was far from certain. Amidst this Great Depression, the Bryson Springs Ranch suffered a hardship altogether more extraordinary. People were dying in the migrant workers'... [
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Hebanon Games
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The Fall Without End
This systemless horror scenario originally appeared in the No Security kickstarter.
The Fall Without End
takes place at Mount McKinley in 1931. As America comes to grips with the real cost of Black Tuesday, the government becomes desperate to find distractions for an increasingly rebellious population stirred by endless woes. As Lindbergh proved, the people love nothing more than heroes capable... [
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Hebanon Games
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The Wives of March
This systemless horror scenario originally appeared in the No Security kickstarter. Barefoot Crossing seemed like any other sharecropping community on the rural outskirts of Savannah, Georgia. But when the murder of a Methodist preacher sends the community searching for answers across racial and economic divides, investigators stumble into an ancient, inhuman conspiracy. Can they overcome a supernatural... [
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Hebanon Games
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Metal Gods of Ur-Hadad Issue #1 Winter 2014
Out of the howling wilderness,
Amidst sunken cities,
And long-buried secrets,
Man has forged a sword and cast off his chains.
Swords and Sorcery and Metal Gods.
Danger, treasure, blood and glory, all mixed up in a blender
And served up in Golden Ur-Hadad, First City of Ore.
Enter, if you dare, the bitchin' mural
On the side of your
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Kickassistan Ministry of Tourism
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A Little Bit of Thievery
A Little Bit of Thievery is an unconventional freeform adventure for level 1 characters. The players are contracted to steal a magic item at a noble's fancy party, and are forced to abandon their weapons and rely on their wits to survive. Mayhem required and violence (mostly) optional. Success might bring the ire of an elite with a panache for vengeance and money to burn. Beats killing giant rats in... [
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Ten Red Crows Press
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Tombstone (Alpha Version)
Grab your six-shooter, and get your game on. This is Tombstone, a rules-lite Wild West RPG. This Alpha version contains everything you need for endless adventure. Choose from six character Backgrounds: Folk Hero, Gambler, Indian Brave, Outlaw, Soldier, and Holy-Roller. Make a character, or select a Quick Play character to get into the action immediately. This booklet contains rules for character backgrounds,... [
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Corey Ryan Walden
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Odditional materials
A collection of hacks, adventures and sundry other oddities for Into the Odd. Inside the covers you'll find:
In Search of Samson Aubrey
, an adventure by Kamil Wegrzynowicz.
Four Arcana Ideas
, arcana by Brian Wille.
Odd Dungeons
, a hack to make Into the Odd feel more like D&D and similar fantasy games, by Eric Nieudan.
The Nightlight
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Lost Pages
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Can't run your usual game, running a Con game or looking for something short to introduce new players? Just Insert Imagination has you covered. Fuhgeddaboudit! is a mob and road movie, sandbox adventure for Savage Worlds. It is Las Vegas, 1968 and your group has been ordered to make a troublesome accountant disappear. It's a pleasant drive out to the desert, what could possibly go wrong? In the... [
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Just Insert Imagination
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D100 Minor Magical Items
Need a quick magical item? Something not to deadly? All of these rather entertaining magical items are one shots. ie one charge! The table is based on Old School rules and magic and should work for most Old School Systems. Enjoy! ... [
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3 Toadstools
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Untold Adventures: Deluxe Edition [Swords & Wizardry]
Instant Adventure Upgraded!
Untold Adventures: Deluxe Edition
you'll find all the material previously released in
Untold Adventures
Unsung Heroes
, as well as a short introductory adventure -- all combined into a single volume. In addition, the book has been illustrated throughout by William McAusland and features cover art by Jim Wampler!
Untold Adventures:
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Barrel Rider Games
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The Metamorphica (Classic Edition)
A new and improved revised edition of The Metamorphica is now available, although this version will remain freely available.
Random Mutation Tables
If your game has a need for random mutation tables and procedures for creating all sorts of mutant abominations or unnatural things, whether they are corrupt demons and unique monsters or strange aliens and... [
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Red Box Vancouver
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The Secrets of Cats • A World of Adventure for Fate Core
Cats are magical; cats understand sacrifice and the power of names.
A decapitated mouse left on the doorstep or pillow is a powerful ward, and a spell wailed by the cat chorus confers even greater protection. When evil is on the rise and the safety of the neighbourhood is at stake the Parliament of Cats is there to stand firm against the darkness. Take Silver Ford, for example,... [
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The Hill Cantons Cosmology
The gods and cosmic weirdness of the Hill Cantons come alive(ish) in this supplement. Currently only available to backers of the Dunes kickstarter. ... [
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Hydra Cooperative
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Nest • A World of Adventure for Fate Core
There is a place where children go to become heroes
, only discovered by a desperate few when they need it most. Here, they escape from their normal lives, slay giants, solve riddles, learn magic, and become kings and queens. Children grow up and the fantasies of childhood are forgotten.
But now
the realm you once protected is under attack
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Evil Hat Productions, LLC
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The Fungus Forest
The Fungus Forest an OSR Compatible adventure location designed for use with Original, Basic and Advanced Editions of the world's most popular fantasy role-playing game (and their modern simulacra). Pay what you want for this sprawling 100+ cave complex suitable for low to mid level play. Please download for free if you cannot pay anything; we want this thing in the hands of gamers, not mouldering... [
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Nash Press
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Delta Green: Briefing Documents
This five-page reference document summarizes the core rules of
Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game.
They cover creating Agents, using skills, conducting combat, and falling apart as sanity dwindles. Find an expanded quickstart guide in
Delta Green: Need to Know,
and the complete rules in
Delta Green: Agent's Handbook.
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Arc Dream Publishing
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Nitrate City • A World of Adventure for Fate Core
Nitrate City
is a place where elements of Film Noir and classic movie monsters combine with explosive results. It's a place populated by slick vampire private eyes, clever werewolf gamblers, cigarette smoking mummy fatales and deadly hit men from beneath the darkest waters. You might be a member of 'The Night Squad,' a unique off-the-books crime-fighting... [
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Cryptic Entry (Level 1 PCs)
This title was created for
For a level 1 party!
Intrepid explorer
Reslin Kine
garnered a modest reputation and fortune for himself throughout his years adventuring. When he learned he'd die of an incurable illness before his first child would be born, Reslin hired the best workers and wizards he could find to create a vault to... [
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Dan Coleman Productions
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The Secrets of Cats: Feline Magic
This book is a companion volume to
The Secrets of Cats
, a World of Adventure for
Fate Core System
. We've told you that cats are magical, but we've barely begun to show you their true potential. In this book we describe two entirely new schools of magic, Alchemy and Illusion, and describe the powerful... [
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Richard Bellingham
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Uranium Chef • A World of Adventure for Fate Core
It's a big universe out there, but around every star, on every planet, the old saying holds true... we all gotta eat!
The most influential, inspired, or infamous chefs in the quadrant cook on
Uranium Chef
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Evil Hat Productions, LLC
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FT 0 - Prince Charming, Reanimator (PWYW)
A 0th-level funnel for DCC by Daniel J. Bishop
Prince Hubert Charming, son of the Baron of Westlake, and heir to Westlake Manor, is well known as a cold man, whose watery blue eyes seem to betray no emotion at all. Yet he is a great lover of beauty, as all his wives have proven. The first he found working in the cinders of a woodsman's cottage. Some say that the girl's
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Purple Duck Games
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The Red Tower
This systemless horror scenario originally appeared in the No Security kickstarter. In
The Red Tower
, Capone's reign has ended, and it remains to be seen how much of Chicago's corrupt infrastructure will be dragged down with him. As two-bit criminals scramble to establish themselves in the power vacuum, the exposed corruption presents an opportunity for muckraking socialists to provoke... [
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Hebanon Games
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This systemless horror scenario originally appeared in the No Security kickstarter. The police in Toil, Illinois have their work cut out for them when the sleepy town suddenly suffers an outbreak of bizarre events. Someone's been planting strange trees in the night, replacing bread with ash, and filling coffins with bees. As the day goes on, what at first appeared to be a series of unrelated pranks... [
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Hebanon Games
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BOLD, Universal PC Stories and Deeds Generator
BOLD is the book of legends and deeds
. With just a handful of dice rolls, BOLD can generate interesting character histories, downtime events, and even adventures. Any character instantly obtains deeds and legends that are overcome in unexpected ways. These deeds can even arc out in to entire stories. Best of all BOLD is system and setting agnostic. It will work in mouseland fantasy... [
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Conjecture Games
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BattleTech: Adventures: Empires Aflame
There May be Some Turbulence…
The year is 3095. Ten years after the Jihad, peace has finally reached most of the Inner Sphere. Within the newly created Republic of the Sphere, the post-war drawdowns have made industry of disarmament. But even here, not every mission goes smoothly—for, sometimes, the universe itself has its own agenda!
BattleTech Adventures: Empires
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Catalyst Game Labs
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White Box Omnibus [Swords & Wizardry]
An Omnibus of Old School Adventure and Options!
Now you can get it all in one place!
White Box Omnibus
is a compilation of all the material found in
White Box Companion, White Box Treasures, White Box Bestiary, White Box Adventures: The Wererat's Well, White Box Adventures: The Wizard's Tower,
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Barrel Rider Games
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(5E) Never Ask Directions - 5th edition compatible
When the party finds themselves lost and unable to locate their next adventure, this sidetrek introduces the halfling Carum Half-hand who is all too eager to point them in the right direction. And that direction follows an agenda of his own... This short 12-page sidetrek is compatible with the 5th (and earlier "classic") editions of Dungeons & Dragons. It is intended for a party of... [
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John Ross Rossomangno
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A Lexicon of Thieves Cant
A number of roleplaying games have made use of a concept called "Thieves Cant" over the years - a secret language used by thieves and other roguish types. This has real world roots and some games may benefit from players actually having an understanding of such a real world language. This book is a lexicon of the historical 'Cant' used by the criminal underclasses of England. It draws its... [
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Ambula In Fabulam
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One Day Digs 5
Come Experience Lilac Towers, it's to die for….
Exposed by a recent landslide, the 11th floor entrance into the once luxurious Lilac Towers is now visible. The PC adventurers find the pathway up to the mysterious ruins while tracking hostile skullock and moaners. Why would two mutant species who normally hate each other work together? Who rules them? What... [
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Outland Arts
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Broken System #000
!!!SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED, PLEASE READ BELOW!!! BROKEN SYSTEM IS AN OSR ZINE. IT IS MONSTERS, ITEMS, IDEAS. IT IS ONE OF A KIND. (This is 14 pages, each with 2 of the zine's pages (plus a blank). For best effect, you will be required to trim the whites off the edges. Download it free first to see what we mean.) ... [
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The Arkham Gazette #0
"When a traveller in north central Massachusetts takes the wrong fork at the junction of the Aylesbury Pike just beyond Dean's Corners he comes upon a lonely and curious country."
- The Dunwich Horror This issue of the
Arkham Gazette
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Sentinel Hill Press
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The Ghost and the Peddler (5e)
The Ghost and the Peddler is a short adventure for three to five characters of levels 3 to 5. You can play it any time the PCs need to travel through scarcely populated land for a few days. Jack Flanagan is an apothecary traveling around the world to help those in need. Ever since his father died, Jack has felt unusually busy. The people around him experience strange accidents and suffer from unlikely... [
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Goblin Stone
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Fiery Grog Tavern
This ain't your average tavern!
Fiery Grog Tavern
is a supplemental product that you can slide into any 5th edition game. You can start a new adventure with its hooks, insert it into an ongoing campaign, or use the tavern's hooks as a springboard for the
Madness of the Rat King
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Maniac Brews
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Madness of the Rat King
A self-contained weird and wonderful adventure! Mutant rats, beautiful maps, and strange loot!
Madness of the Rat King
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Madness of the Rat King
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Maniac Brews
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Convicts & Cthulhu
Cosmic Horror. Fuelled by Human Cruelty and Depravity. ◊ The prison colonies of 18th and 19th Century Australia are justly feared throughout the British Empire as places of unparalleled suffering and torment. The refuse of the Empire are sent here to serve out prison terms in a land half a world away from "civilisation". A world that, to European eyes, seems thoroughly alien. ◊ But,... [
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Cthulhu Reborn
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Extraordinary Extras - Sacred Service
A lone robed figure walks barefoot across jagged rocks, smiling at each new cut that opens on her feet. A circle of the devout wait hours for a divine image to appear in the bowl of sour milk and blood of the bovine. A small child is led away from their family to join a religious order based on signs observed in the stars.
From a sixth generation knight blessed with holy... [
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Critical Hit Publishing
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The Transient Bazaar
This is a generator that mixes text tables and visual grids to create temporary purveyors of weird magical items in an ever changing marketplace.
Rules and instructions on how to combine the text tables and generators into unique merchants. 4 text tables: What's in season? Mercantile raison d'etre, Sales technique of merchant, What is the price? 3 Visual Generators... [
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Gorgzu Games
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Loose Threads • A World of Adventure for Fate Core
On the edges of fairy tales live members of the Company—collateral damage from someone else's Happily Ever After.
Maybe their fairy godmother got lost on the way, or they failed to solve the riddle, or their siblings forgot to save them before riding off into the sunset. Now Company members live on the edges of tales and travel... [
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Evil Hat Productions, LLC
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Lost Folios of the Book of Creation #1 - Adventure Title Generator
Lost Folios of the Book of Creation
is a supplement for Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells but can be used with any other fantasy RPG. This first release contains a
Adventure Title Generator
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Old Skull Publishing
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Codex - Chrome (Oct 2016)
Codex is the monthly RPG fanzine published by the Gauntlet gaming community! Each issue features a variety of original articles organized around a theme, loads of original artwork, and a custom layout. Inside Codex - Chrome:
A campaign starter for The Sprawl RPG that introduces the threat of the chrome rot disease into your game.
Nineteen Science Fantasy
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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (Sept. 12, 2009) - A day after earning a number of individual wins the ETSU women's tennis team continued play at the 17th annual William and Mary Fall Invitational Saturday, at the Busch Tennis Center in Williamsburg, Va.
In doubles play the ETSU duo of junior Tara Sheets (
"I'm proud of how
During singles action senior Yevgeniya Stupak (
Unfortunately for ETSU, the remaining three Lady Buc players junor Andra Voina (Brasov, Romania), sophomores Paula Jaime (Madrid, Spain) and Karina Kedzo (Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela) all fell during day two action.
"Like yesterday it was good to get out and play today," said head coach Steve Brooks. "Our team had some good points, but I don't think our fitness level is exactly where it needs to be. Tomorrow I expect the girls to keep playing hard and hopefully we can continue to build on what we've done the last two days."
Attached above is final results from Saturday's rounds.
ETSU returns to the courts with the final play of the William and Mary Invitational, Sunday.
For more information on the ETSU women's tennis team, please visit www.ETSUBucs.com.


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With youngest family member 23-year-old Annabel finding it difficult to buy a home under $600,000 in central Auckland, the Mahoneys knew their timing was right for converting this building at 132 Vincent St, previously home to Beca Engineering, into apartments.
The family, headed by Michael and Tracy Mahoney, is behind The Tawera Group, a development group heading this project with a team of specialists including Hyline Construction and Clark Brown Architects to produce quality owner-occupied apartments in Auckland's CBD, with affordability the key driver. Tawera's other residential projects over the past two decades include Auckland's St James Apartments and Park Lane Apartments.
This building in tree-lined Vincent St appealed to the Mahoneys because of its solid construction, making it easier to meet council requirements for inner-city apartment living.
It has an attractive shape with nice angles, and is enhanced by the addition of balconies, new windows, a central atrium and paintwork. Refurbishment of the building started in August, with completion planned for March next year.
Available two- and three-bedroom apartments range in size from 62sq m through to 111sq m. The layout has 10 apartments on each floor, plus two penthouses on the top level.
Annabel is in charge of the marketing and brothers David and Mike are project directors.
"The location is great; it's on the city fringe, and close to the city's amenities," says David. There is good access to the motorway, and being in a tree-lined street was a big selling point for us."
Inside, the units have 2.7m high ceilings with attractive interiors designed by another Mahoney sibling, Josephine Love.
The Tawera Group views this apartment conversion as its flagship project for future development in Auckland.
"It's not so much about just this one project but about the way the council is heading in the CBD to encourage inner-city living," says David. "This is a vital part of the future of Auckland, especially if it wants to be the one of the most livable cities.
"We're actually looking for another project and we have our eyes on a few buildings, mostly for conversions."
What has surprised the family is the diversity of interest in the Vincent St apartments ... first-home buyers, families, empty nesters, investors and also strong interest from Asian buyers.
With 53 of the 62 apartments sold, Annabel may have to wait until her family's next project to buy. "I'm seriously thinking about apartment living instead of a house," she says. "I think it is the best way to get into the property market."


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Mental Capacity Act for England and Wales. Scotland has a similar
Act called the Adults with Incapacity Act (2008).
Every day we make decisions about our health. We decide whether
to smoke or not, whether to exercise or not – and what treatments
we are prepared to have.
We have the legal right
to make a decision because it seems to be for us;
it's "in our own best interest".
You have capacity when you decide for yourself - without
someone else having to decide for you.
If a physical or mental illness affects
your thinking so that:
The law say that you "lack capacity" to
make that decision.
Yes -
With the decision to be made:
Even if your thinking is affected, you may
still be able to make simple decisions, but not more complicated
ones. Say you have dementia and can't remember new
information. You may be able to decide about a place you'd like to
visit, but may not be able to decide whether to have a hip
operation or not.
When you have to
make the decision:
Capacity can change with time
because your state of mind can change with time. An illness
that interferes with your thinking can get better – at least
for a while. An older person can become confused with a chest
infection, so that they can't make many decisions
properly. Their normal state of mind can return when the
infection is treated and they can, again, make decisions in the way
they normally would.
Normally you decide about whether you want a treatment. You
decide what's best for you.
You can disagree with your doctor, even if
the doctor finds it hard to understand. For example, a
Jehovah's Witness may refuse a blood transfusion because it is
against their religion. If you have capacity, the doctor has to
accept your decision.
It is harder when you need to make a
decision, but you don't have the capacity to make it. An infection,
a mental illness or dementia may interfere with your thinking. The
Mental Capacity Act helps us to work out what to do in these
This Act protects people lacking capacity from having decisions
made for them that are not in their best
interests. This can happen when:
There are 5 principles:
There are four questions which need to be answered.
1) Do you understand the
To decide about a treatment, you need
to understand what you might gain from it, what the risks are,
any other treatments available and what might happen if you don't
have any treatment.
2) Can you
retain this information?
If you can understand the relevant
information, but can't remember it for more than a few seconds or
minutes, you won't be able to use it to make an informed
3) Can you
weigh up the information?
Can you compare the benefits and risks and
use this to make your decision? You may be able to understand the
information (test 1), remember it (test 2), but not be able to
weigh facts as you would normally. If you have a psychosis,
you may be influenced or distracted by the voices that
your are hearing. If you are very depressed, you may feel
so hopeless that any treatment seems pointless, even though there
is a good chance of recovery.
4) Can you
communicate your decision?
You can do this by talking, writing, in
sign language, by nodding or even blinking an eyelid.
The answer must be yes to all four of the
above questions for you to have capacity.
Any professional can test capacity. This should be the person
most directly involved with the issue at hand. For health
decisions, this should be the doctor. If a lawyer is drawing up a
will, but has doubts about their client's capacity, they may
ask for an expert opinion from a psychiatrist or a
If you don't have the capacity to decide about treatment, the
Mental Capacity Act gives doctors and nurses the power to give you
a physical treatment against your will. If it has
to be done, it can be upsetting, so this step is taken
For mental illnesses, the Mental Health Act
is used instead. This allows a psychiatrist to treat you against
your will, even if you still to have capacity, but they seem
to be a risk to yourself or other people's safety, or so ill
that you need the treatment.
If you:
discuss this with your doctor or any member of
the team.
If you still aren't happy, you can contact the
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"You had people assisting those who couldn't assist themselves. I think that was a show of community strength."
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It's been a cold week in East Meadow, to put it way more mildly than the temperatures. The inclement weather began with snow last Thursday night, and residents awoke the next morning to several inches of the white stuff. The snow began tapering off around noon the following day, leaving behind icy roads and gusting wind. And there was no calm after this storm, as an arctic blast sent temperatures plummeting to the single digits across Long Island.
East Meadow Fire Chief Walter Griffin said the department did not receive calls about any major emergencies during the near-blizzard. Department volunteers, he said, were on standby the entire night but, to his surprise, the calls never came. "It seemed like everybody heeded the warnings from the news channels and stayed home," Griffin said. "We slept through the night. We didn't hit the road until [Friday] morning."
The busiest time, he said, was Saturday morning, when freezing rain turned the snow into ice. "People were coming out of their houses, falling in their driveways," Griffin said. "We must have taken five people to the hospital within the hour."
Shelley Lotenberg, the director of public affairs at the Nassau University Medical Center, said the hospital saw a 30 to 40 percent increase in volume last Sunday. "It seems that as people ventured out, they didn't realize the extent of the icy conditions and were injured on sidewalks and streets."
Griffin added that in future storms, local residents can help the department by clearing snow off fire hydrants, which are often buried by snow plows. "It makes it very hard for us to see it," Griffin said.
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After starting the season with wins over Chattanooga (77-60) and Richmond (96-84), ETSU has dropped its last two games as the Lady Bucs were defeated by Appalachian State (75-56) and seventh-ranked Ohio State (80-47). Despite suffering back-to-back setbacks, the Lady Bucs only dropped one spot in the most recent CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25 poll as ETSU is ranked 17th.
Junior Natalie Pickwell (Kingsport, Tenn.) is coming off a career high 16-point effort against the Buckeyes last time out, while freshman guard Shawn Randall (Orlando, Fla.) enjoyed her best game thus far at the college level on Monday night in Columbus. Randall finished with 12 points in 27 minutes off the bench.
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CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago businessman prosecutors say is a terrorist who helped support an attack often called India's 9/11 faces decades in prison Thursday if a federal judge rejects defense arguments that he is a compassionate man who was duped by a friend.
Tahawwur Rana, 52, is being sentenced for his 2011 convictions of providing support to a Pakistani group that carried out a 2008 attack in Mumbai, India, that killed 160 people, as well as for his role in backing a never-carried-out plot to attack a Danish newspaper that printed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Defense attorneys are seeking no more than nine years in prison during his sentencing hearing Thursday in U.S. District Court in Chicago. Prosecutors are asking for the maximum 30 years, which, at his age, could amount to a life term.
Although Rana was acquitted of terrorism charges, the question of whether he should be considered one for sentencing purposes likely will be a focus of the hearing. Federal guidelines require stiffer sentences for those deemed to have engaged in terrorism.
Prosecutors argued in pretrial filings this week that the Pakistani-born Canadian fits the definition of a terrorist. They say he laughed in secretly recorded conversations at the prospect of victims being beheaded in Denmark and responded to the massacres in Mumbai by saying the victims "deserved it."
Jurors cleared Rana of the third and most serious charge of involvement in the three-day rampage in Mumbai, India's largest city.
Acquittal on that charge, prosecutors argue, doesn't lessen the reality that Rana was bent on committing terrorism.
"The goal," one of its filings said about the Danish plot, "was murder on a grand, horrific scale."
The core of the defense argument is that Rana acquiesced to provide help to a key figure in the attack on Mumbai, David Coleman Headley, out of a misguided sense of loyalty going back to their days as childhood friends.
Headley, an American Pakistani who has pleaded guilty to laying the groundwork for the Mumbai attacks, was the star witness at Rana's trial. He testified to avoid the death penalty and extradition. He will be sentenced next week in the same Chicago courtroom
Rana was accused of allowing Headley to open a branch of his Chicago-based immigration law business in Mumbai as a cover story and to travel as a representative of the company in Denmark. In court, a travel agent showed how Rana booked travel for Headley.
"The two continued their friendship throughout their lives," the defense filing says. "But while Headley lived a life of crime and excess, Rana lived a full and productive life ... starting several businesses, getting married and raising three children ... This continued friendship and loyalty to Headley ultimately led to Rana's downfall."
The defense filing described his crimes as an aberration.
"Rana is a kind, hardworking, dedicated, charitable, compassionate family man," it says. "He made the unfortunate mistake of becoming involved in the activities of his oldest — and most manipulative — friend."
It added, "Rana is quite simply not a terrorist."
Prosecutors blasted the notion Rana displayed any such naiveté, highlighting how in some of his communications he took pains to use coded language. Rana, the government filing said, had "engaged in extensive terrorist tradecraft."
Far from being hoodwinked by Headley, Rana "made his own decision to participate ... and, once he did, did so whole-heartedly."
Prosecutors also sought to discredit letters Rana's family, including his wife, sent recently to the judge describing Rana as a loving father and appealing for leniency.
Rana's wife, prosecutors argued, held a different opinion of her husband until right before his arrest. They cite a secretly recorded conversation in which she calls Headley "absolutely crazy" and quickly adds Rana is much like him.
"They talk nonsense all day, idiots. That's not how Islam spreads! . . . Such as, 'Kill him, he is not practicing like us — kill him, do that to him, do this to him, he is like this,'" she allegedly says. "Is this how Islam spreads? ... Hatred spreads like this, not Islam."
At Rana's trial, Headley spent five days detailing how he allegedly worked for both the Pakistani intelligence agency, known as the ISI, and Lashkar. Some observers had expected testimony could reveal details about alleged links between ISI and Lashkar, though much that came out in testimony had been heard before through indictments and a report released by India's government.
The Pakistani government has maintained it did not know about Osama bin Laden or help plan the Mumbai attacks.
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SQL Server 2012, due out sometime in the first half of 2012, promises to be an exciting release on several fronts. I'll provide an overview of SQL Server 2012's new features and packaging options. I'll also briefly tell you about the system requirements, upgrade process, and some changes in the setup program.
Relational Database Engine Features
SQL Server 2012's relational database engine includes numerous availability, performance, security, manageability, and T-SQL improvements and features. I'll review the highlights in each area.
Availability. SQL Server 2012 includes the new AlwaysOn capabilities for high availability and disaster recovery. AlwaysOn lets you include up to four mirrors of your data, grouped into what are called AlwaysOn Availability Groups. You can choose the speed of mirroring, much like you can do in SQL Server 2008 R2. What's new is that the solution is built on top of Windows failover clustering, so the server uses virtual network names and virtual IP addresses. This allows clients to connect to the virtual names and IP addresses rather than depending upon coding the available partner servers in the connection string. This approach dramatically improves failover times to the secondary servers.
You can use the secondary servers for backup, reporting, or other read-only workloads, lightening your primary server's workload. This means your secondary servers can add business value and improve availability.
SQL Server 2012 also supports multi-subnet clustering, making geographically dispersed failover clusters across data centers (a much-anticipated feature among enterprise customers) a reality. This improvement, combined with the capability to use local disks for tempdb, offers some nice benefits for those organizations that use failover clustering.
The initial configurations for AlwaysOn must be made in the SQL Server Configuration Manager utility. If you try to use SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) first, you'll receive an informative error message telling you exactly how to enable AlwaysOn. After you've enabled (and restarted) the SQL Server service, you can use the SSMS tools, such as the New Availability Group Wizard. As you step through the wizard, it's smart enough to tell you not only when a database can't work in an availability group but also why (e.g., you don't yet have a full database backup, you're not in the correct recovery mode). In a single interface, you configure all the available secondary replicas, as Figure 1 shows. Once configured, the AlwaysOn High Availability tree in Object Explorer is populated with the respective replicas, databases, and listeners, as Figure 2 shows.
Figure 1: Specifying the secondary replicas in the New Availability Group Wizard
Figure 2: Using Object Explorer to see the AlwaysOn replicas, databases, and listeners
Windows Server Core installations will be officially supported, which means you can run your SQL Server instances on servers without the Windows graphical interface. This capability should reduce the number of required Windows updates and reboots and give you a little more of your CPU and memory back to focus on being a server. However, note that only the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 is supported in a Server Core installation. In addition, some SQL Server 2012 features -- such as Master Data Services, Data Quality Services, and the graphical interface -- aren't supported in a Server Core installation.
Performance. A new ColumnStore index, improved partitioning, and faster full-text searches are the most important performance enhancements in SQL Server 2012. If you have read-only data, you can create ColumnStore indexes on your frequently queried columns to dramatically improve query processing time. (The ColumnStore index capabilities work only on read-only data.) Partitioning has been extended to support 15,000 partitions in a single table. With the amount of data that organizations store growing, this expansion should help with the granularity of storage and usage of historical data. Although the Full-Text Search capabilities in SQL Server 2012 are very similar to those in SQL Server 2008 R2, there are significant improvements in performance and scalability.
Security. User-defined server roles have finally made it into SQL Server 2012. You can now define roles for a server and assign server-level permissions in unique configurations. These roles let you give DBAs and developers the permissions they need, without having to make them sysadmin server role members.
Auditing has been enhanced. There's a more robust auditing mechanism, and you have more control over how much disk space is used. Newer, stronger encryption algorithms are supported. Using the new concept of contained databases, support has also been added for bypassing logins altogether.
Manageability. SQL Server 2012's new Distributed Replay feature will be incredibly useful for testing, upgrades, and tuning. Like SQL Server Profiler, Distributed Replay lets you "replay" captured workloads. Unlike Profiler, Distributed Replay lets you replay captured workloads across multiple systems, simulating a more realistic set of workloads against SQL Server.
SSMS has a number of improvements, including a redesigned Restore Database dialog box. The SQL Server 2012 team enhanced not only its core capabilities but also its graphical interface. Improvements to the core capabilities include a new page-restore feature and improved logic. For example, SSMS does a much better job figuring out the correct order in which to do a restore from your full, differential, and log backups. The Restore Database dialog box now includes friendly condition notifications when you launch the dialog box and a really useful visual timeline that you use when restoring a database from multiple backups.
Support for Windows PowerShell has been extended in SQL Server 2012. The sqlps utility now snaps into the PowerShell 2.0 environment rather than being its own PowerShell 1.0 mini-shell. This change will be a big win for integrating Windows and SQL Server management actions.
T-SQL. The new THROW statement in SQL Server 2012 will be much more helpful than the RAISERROR statement. With the THROW statement, you can build dynamic, meaningful error messages for your code and pass them as proper errors, improving error-handling in T-SQL code.
The new PARSE, TRY_CONVERT, and TRY_PARSE functions for numeric, date, and time conversions look promising, particularly for international or multi-language programmers. I'm glad to see them because working with dates and times can be complicated.
The OVER clause has been enhanced to support Windows functions. If you're working with a set of rows and want to apply functions to those sets, this capability is for you. Itzik Ben-Gan has been lobbying for this capability for a number of years. For example, see his blog "Window Functions (OVER Clause) -- Help Make a Difference."
Finally, a number of analytic functions have been added to T-SQL. These functions enable more data-warehousing functionality to run natively within SQL Server.
SSAS Features
The unified Business Intelligence Semantic Model (BISM) affects a number of components in the business intelligence (BI) space, including SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS). There are changes across many SSAS features to support BISM. For example, you'll find changes in SSAS's Analysis Management Objects library and XML for Analysis protocol.
You'll find a number of new features in SSAS, including:
- A new Tabular mode for installing the SSAS server; you use the VertiPaq engine, which was previously used in PowerPivot only
- New statistical, table, and search functions
- New row-level security functions and capabilities
SSAS's manageability has been improved across the board as well. For example, SSAS and PowerPivot now offer PowerShell cmdlets. And SQL Server Data Tools has an updated look and feel (which I'll discuss shortly).
SSRS Features
SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) now includes a new data-driven alerting capability known as Data Alerts. With Data Alerts, you can have emails sent to specific people based on changes in reports or based on a specific set of alert conditions.
Rendering SSRS reports has been improved, with a number of earlier limitations removed. You can now render a report as a Microsoft Excel document (Excel 2007 and later) or a Microsoft Word document (Word 2007 and later).
SSRS's integration into SharePoint has also been improved. Administrators will appreciate that they can now completely configure SSRS's integration into SharePoint with SharePoint utilities or with PowerShell. SharePoint users will appreciate Power View, the new presentation and visualization interface for SSRS. Power View, which is an addition to rather than a replacement for Report Builder, uses a new report file format (.rdlx).
SSIS Features
The updated dependency viewer can enhance your ability to perform SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package analysis and debugging. The dependency viewer helps you understand objects' dependencies, right from within SSMS. The viewer offers a number of troubleshooting views, stored procedures, and functions to help you troubleshoot package problems. The UI has been upgraded with several usability improvements.
When you open an existing SSIS package, the SSIS Package Upgrade Wizard launches to help convert your package to SQL Server 2012. The wizard points you to the Upgrade Advisor for a look at potential upgrade issues. (I'll talk more about the Upgrade Advisor later.)
After your package is converted, you'll see the new design environment with the updated look and feel, which Figure 3 shows. I also found this environment more intuitive than Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) 2008 R2.
Figure 3: Presenting the new design environment for SSIS packages
Master Data Services Features
Master Data Services has a number of improvements as well, including improvements in the Excel add-on for Master Data Services and the Multiple Data Management web application interface. Security has been simplified, and the web UI works better with SharePoint.
Development Tools
With its incorporation of the new SQL Server Data Tools (formerly code-named Juneau) to create relational database projects in SQL Server 2012, SQL Server BIDS has been renamed SQL Server Data Tools. When you open Visual Studio to create a new project, you'll see the same Business Intelligence project templates, which you use to create SSAS, SSIS, and SSRS projects. If you navigate to Database and expand it, you'll see SQL Server as a category, as Figure 4 shows. Highlight SQL Server, and you can see options to create and work on SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 projects, SQL Server data-tier applications, and other types of database projects.
Figure 4: Using the SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence project templates
Developing database tools will be much easier with these database project options. And if you're using the Visual Studio Team Data toolset, you'll be pleased to see even better functionality and capabilities now included with SQL Server.
Data Quality Services
Data Quality Services is a new component available in the Enterprise Edition and the new Business Intelligence Edition of SQL Server 2012. Data Quality Services integrates with SSIS and Master Data Services to improve data correctness, addressing such issues as making corrections to data based on recognized patterns, removing duplicate data, and performing other data-cleansing functions. To learn more about Data Quality Services, which consists of both server and client components, see SQL Server 2012 Books Online (BOL).
Packaging Options
There are quite a few changes to the product editions. The Datacenter Edition, which was introduced in SQL Server 2008 R2, has been rolled back into the Enterprise Edition. The Workgroup Edition and the Small Business Edition (available only to OEMs) are no longer available. The Itanium processor is no longer supported, so the IA64 port is no longer provided. And the licensing model has significant changes.
As I mentioned previously, the Business Intelligence Edition is new to SQL Server 2012. This edition would be a good choice if you want additional functionality in SSAS and SSRS and additional capabilities such as Data Quality Services, Master Data Services, Tabular mode, and PowerPivot for SharePoint, but you don't need more processor core support.
SQL Server Express LocalDB, which replaces SQL Server Express (now deprecated), will make many application developers happy. It's a lightweight installation of just the database engine. It doesn't require you to manage services and service accounts, which makes a lot of sense. SQL Server Express LocalDB is fully compatible with SQL Server yet is easy for application developers to install and use.
The SQL Server Enterprise, Standard, Evaluation, Developer, and Compact Editions are still available, as before. The Web Edition will be offered only to web hosters with a special license agreement.
System Requirements and the Upgrade Process
If you're interested in SQL Server 2012, you're probably wondering what's involved in the upgrade process. First, you need to make sure you're in compliance with the OSs and SQL Server versions supported for a direct upgrade:
- You must be running Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows 7 SP1, or Windows Vista SP2.
- You must be running SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 (or a later service pack, as applicable, for each edition), SQL Server 2008 SP2, or SQL Server 2005 SP4.
If you're running an older version of SQL Server or the Windows OS, you must first upgrade to a supported version before you can upgrade to SQL Server 2012.
SQL Server 2012 also requires that PowerShell 2.0 and both Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 are installed. Unlike SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012 won't necessarily install the required software for you.
Hyper-V is fully supported in Windows Server 2008 SP2 and later. Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 7.0 or later is required for the SQL Server Data Tools, SSMS, and the report designer component of SSRS. For the graphical tools, your display must support 1024 ´ 768 screen resolution. Although there isn't an Itanium version of SQL Server 2012, 32-bit and 64-bit versions of SQL Server 2012 are available.
To make sure your environment is ready for an upgrade, you can run the SQL Server Upgrade Advisor. You can install the Upgrade Advisor from the home page of the SQL Server setup program. Once installed, you can run it by selecting Launch the Upgrade Advisor Analysis Wizard on the Start menu.
As Figure 5 shows, Upgrade Advisor consists of a wizard and a report viewer. The wizard is reasonably logical to follow. Make sure that all your SQL Server services are started before you run the wizard. After the analysis is complete, you'll get a report with any problems found, along with suggestions for how to address those problems. Note that the Upgrade Advisor also can analyze captured profiler traces to do an even better job assessing your existing environment.
Figure 5: Running Upgrade Advisor
For the server components, the upgrade will be relatively straightforward. However, I recommend that you first read about the upgrade process on SQL Server 2012 BOL and look at the readme notes for any special instructions. For some of the client-side components, such as PowerPivot for Excel, you'll need to uninstall the SQL Server 2008 (or other) version before you install the SQL Server 2012 version. The usual caution applies if you're using replication: You need to plan carefully and observe the restrictions, as documented in SQL Server 2012 BOL.
Setup Program Changes
The SQL Server 2012 setup experience involves some changes because of new capabilities that have been added, particularly to the BI components. However, if you're using SQL Server 2008 R2 or SQL Server 2008, you'll be right at home because their setup experiences are similar. I did find it a bit disconcerting, though, that the setup program repeatedly closed windows and then opened new windows. So be patient, and don't assume that the setup program isn't still running because the setup window has temporarily disappeared.
The setup program automatically attempts to check for updates before it launches, and I'm happy to say it's smart enough not to fail if there's no Internet connection. When you get to the Feature Selection page shown in Figure 6, you can select the capabilities and features you want to install. A nice enhancement is that the setup program automatically selects default service accounts for all the services. So, for many installations, the setup program auto-configures the correct defaults.
Figure 6: Selecting and installing the SQL Server 2012 features
One thing to watch out for is the changes to service accounts. If you're using Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7, there are two new options: managed service account and virtual accounts. If you intend to use failover clustering or AlwaysOn Availability Groups, you shouldn't use the virtual accounts. You can read more about these new service account options in the Microsoft article "Configure Windows Service Accounts and Permissions."
Take the Plunge
There's a lot to evaluate in SQL Server 2012, and I hope you take the plunge. Download the product and give it a try!