Since the dawn of MySpace, many spammers have been experiencing various different qualities and features of the technique and skill required to spam MySpace and increase the number of friends added to your profile. A well accepted fact is that having a picture of a female rather than a male would result in more friends. Some would consider this sexist, but it this could simply be due to all those males who spend hours on MySpace hoping for a girlfriend over the internet.

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The first dedicated hospital in the United States opened in 1751 in Philadelphia. Started by the Quakers, and headed by Benjamin Franklin and Dr. Thomas Bond, Pennsylvania Hospital’s mission was to care for the sick who lacked proper home care. Today, there are about 7000 hospitals in the United States delivering general and specialized health care. Half of these hospitals have less than 100 beds. In addition to this primary mission, many hospitals offer education and training for medical personnel, and conduct vital medical research.

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Johns Hopkins Hospital

Started by a gift from Quaker merchant Johns Hopkins, the hospital
opened in 1889 followed by the medical school in 1893. Under the
direction of Dr. William Halsted it offered the first formal
training program specifically for surgeons. Dr. Halsted introduced
the use of surgical gloves to the operating room and popularized sterile
technique. Dr. Harvey Cushing, one of Dr. Halsted’s residents, is considered the father of modern neurosurgery. Dr. William Osler, its first physician-in-chief, started a system of medical clinics and was a noted teacher of medical students using the bedside as a classroom.

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Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania

Recognizing the special needs of sick children, The Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania opened in 1855. This followed the groundwork of Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and Professor of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania: 1789-1813. Dr. Rush had a special interest in “Diseases peculiar to children” and is considered one of the founders of the specialty of Pediatrics.

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Bellevue Hospital

The first health clinic started in New Amsterdam as a infirmary for soldiers and slaves. It was established in 1658 by Jacob Varrenvanger. In 1794, the original facilities were inadequate to deal with a yellow fever epidemic so a new hospital was built. An estate was purchased about three miles from town, to isolate these patients. The “Belle Vue” mansion was used as a pesthouse and its name was given to the hospital built on this site.

The staff of Bellevue Hospital introduced small pox vaccine to New York and performed some of the first vascular surgery cases in America. The hospital was also the site of the first hospital-based ambulance service. Hospital based horse and buggy teams were sent to area disasters. The first school of nursing in America was started at Bellevue in 1873.

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So I was thinking about Spirit of the Century and the world creation podcast from Thats How We Roll (Faith, Faces & Fingerprints). And I thought it was an interesting concept and was going to try it out, hopefully in the near future and the idea of the Campaign Aspects occurred to me.

(laying some groundwork) The fortune teller stunt allows a player to make an obscure fortune cookie phrase and turn it into an aspect that anyone can pay a fate point and tag or invoke as normal. What if during world creation you made a few aspects that campaign wide in scope and duration. These are things that set the theme of the setting.

Things like “Good is good and evil is evil” or “The right thing for the wrong reason” could define how good and evil interact in the setting. It’s a simple expansion the of the aspect concept to attach them to organizations. For example give the evil organization the aspect of “Wears a black hat” or “Promotion through attrition”.

Those aspects say a lot about pseudo characters within the world, but the campaign aspects are about genre conventions and the enforcement of those. I might even grab a set number of campaign aspects: One that talks to the morality of the campaign, others that says something about mood, hope/pessimism, scope, etc.

So for Nephilim Song 1924, I might have campaign aspects of: “You aren’t crazy, but you still need to be stopped”, “Conspiracies within conspiracies” and “While I breathe, there is hope”.

Some effort should be applied to make sure that the aspects really do limit and can’t carte blanch be applied to all situations, but other than that their presence should get the players to enforce the conventions of the genre.

Anyway just some quick thoughts.

Direct link to brilliant Halo 3 ad

(Thanks, Rich!)

The Delaware Center for Enterprise Development at Delaware State University is hosting a Financial Management for Not-for-Profits Workshop on Thursday, February 21, 2008 from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm.

Workshop Topics:

Maintain Stewardship of a 501 (C) (3)

Budget & Keep Records

Manage Risk

Understand Governance Issues

Prepare for & Review Financial Audits

Cost: $75 per participant

Registration Deadline: February 8, 2008.

Download a Financial Management Workshop Registration form.

A scrawny, black and white female kitten has apparently survived a trip across the Pacific Ocean and North America inside a shipping crate. Cleveland Animal Protective League Executive Director Sharon Harvey says a Cleveland company that received the crate of spooled steel coil Friday found the kitten inside one the spools.

Harvey says the mother cat and other kittens found in the crate were dead. The crate came to Samsel Supply Co. from Singapore. It was sealed Feb. 4 and shipped three days later.

The approximately 12-week-old kitten has been checked by a veterinarian and has responded well to being fed.

It will be kept in quarantine for about three weeks to make sure it doesn’t pass any infectious disease to other animals.

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