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The Green Button

24 Eyes

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“One Day†- Hollow Horse

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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.

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(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.

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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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Peter Wilkensen preached on the Parable of the Sower at St. Ebbes today. Tho it was not his point, something new that struck me was that the wheat from the seed that falls among thorns does not die, as does that from the seed that falls on stony places. Rather, it is “unfruitful”. Presumably it lives, but so shaded from the sun by the distraction of the thorny weeds that it lives and dies naturally, but without fruit. This is quite different from the fate of the seed in the stones, but perhaps even sadder.

Here are the thorn texts from Matthew, followed by the text in full:

13:7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:

13:22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

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For any of you who have heard me rant about widgets lately, you should know that I found some personal vindication tonight watching CNBC’s Fast Money when this little gem came on…

By the way, the show has plenty of web-extra video, including longer form clips of nearly every segment of that day’s show in their Rapid Recap.

Here’s a look at the widget for yourselves.

But for all of us in the industry, what is so tough to comprehend about widgets? Ok, you want a portable rich media unit that plays video and drives traffic back to your main site to sign up for newsletters or podcasts. And you want to measure total embeds, total minutes of video delivered across each distribution platform, sign-ups for the newsletters and downloads of podcasts. You’d like to look look at the average abandonment point where people are dropping off so you can trim the video segments to deliver an optimized user experience.

Which one of those are you going to call your primary success metric, secondary success metrics, and did you achieve them or not? At end end of the day, is the total number of minutes of video content of the “Fast Money” show viewed, aggregated across all of the platforms, the most important measure? If, after a week, there is a drop off of in watching video through the widget, is it a failure?

With all of these moving parts - which differ for each vertical category of advertisers and niche content - why are people looking for ‘one’ metric - engagement - to replace the universal CTR? I’m not suggesting that CTR should stick around, but we need to accept the fact that online media has gotten a lot more complicated than it ever has been, and we should treat it and talk about it as such. But I digress….

Nice job CNBC. Clean, functional widget that meets your goals. Too bad that co-host Jeff Macke called it a virus, and regular contributor Tim Seymour explained why it shouldn’t be called a widget to begin with. (Tim - I’m with you, buddy!) But I hope you factor that into account when you measure total downloads and evaluate the results.

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TODAY’S HEADLINES:

• Allegro pulls in $4M for lung-cancer molecular diagnostics (release)
• Ocular bandage developer I-Therapeutix raises $6M (Mass High Tech)
• NanoBio gets last of $30M for skin-infection drugs (release)
• Cayenne Medical raises $15M for sports medicine (release)
• Aridis Pharma seeks $10M for oral-form drugs and vaccines (VentureWire)
• Neurosurgical device maker Nfocus Neuro acquires StarFire Medical (release)