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he emergency phase: the ten top priorities
important as any misunderstanding will directly affect the refugee community;
refugee representatives should preferably be involved at site level (see below
Camp management)1. Meetings may take place twice a week, or even daily in
acute or complex emergencies.
Reporting on programmes and population status should be organized and
supervised by one agency at each level. The information required from each
sector should be rapidly defined and standardized, and will include the
information provided by the public health surveillance system (see 8. Public
Health Surveillance). Standard forms should be distributed, reports collected
regularly and processed by the agency in charge; it is however essential that
the persons in charge of data analysis are fully involved in drawing
operational conclusions from the reports. Relevant information should then
be discussed in coordination meetings. Close relationship should always be
maintained between surveillance and coordination activities.
6. THE INTRODUCTION OF STANDARDIZED GUIDELINES AND POLICIES
Standardized guidelines and policies accepted by all the partners are essential
to any coordinated assistance because they ensure the consistency and efficiency
of programmes, and complement activities. They help avoid the chaotic delivery
of assistance. For instance, this can occur when several organizations are in
charge of a number of nutritional centres, using different criteria for admission
and discharge5.
Standard protocols should be used from the beginning, based on the national
guidelines of the host country, or on standard international guidelines
developed by international agencies such as UNHCR1,3, Oxfam6, CDC7 or
MSF8,9. Since these standard documents may not be suitable for every refugee
situation, they may need to be adapted locally. This process should be
monitored by the coordination team and sectoral meetings should be used to
establish common policies for intervention and to discuss guidelines. For
instance, nutritional policy will be defined during food and nutrition meetings
so that admission and discharge criteria are consistent between supplementary
and intensive feeding centres. These guidelines also serve as the basic tool of
staff training. After the acute phase of the emergency, guidelines specific to the
situation may be worked out in cooperation between ministries, UNHCR and
implementing agencies. They may even be endorsed by the host government, as
happened in Somalia (1983)10, Cambodia (1988)11, etc.
The value of guidelines depends on the extent to which they are used. The lead
agencies and coordinators must check that protocols are being observed, being
aware that local and international staff often resist using them. For instance,
in Somalia, one of the first things the Ministry of Health undertook was the
development of guidelines on the management of common diseases, but it took
3 years before agencies began to apply them4.
However, it is important to maintain a flexible attitude towards standardization
keeping in mind that each refugee programme and each agency will be faced
with its own specific constraints and difficulties3.

The dorm rooms at Rose had awesome old-school steam radiators that would hiss and spit at times. I grew up in the Phoenix area, so I had never encountered a radiator in real life, and I found it charming that they looked exactly like the ones in the movies. There was a fateful day when they turned them on, and they were always careful to notify everyone about it. I doubt they ever got hot enough to start fires, but I bet they could burn you or melt a thumb drive if you were especially unlucky.

Judging by the mention of a final project, this ran near the end of the fall quarter, in early November.

RIAA humor was slightly less out-of-date in 2003.

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This is a summary of my ongoing Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition game, played with some friends from college over the internet using MapTool and Teamspeak.

When we last left our game, the citizens of Meersha had fled a dragon, Zekleinenezzar, who had taken over their town. They took refuge in an abandoned fortress overlooking the abandoned city of Decolay, which has been taken over by kenku, goblins, and possibly other forces. They returned from a trip to the dream world to find kobold worshipers of the dragon making advances on the fortress.

The party consists of:
Etzlojek, kobold rogue and lover of fine things, adopted by the town’s general store owner; he is branded Etzlojek the Traitor by the attacking kobolds
Eva, student of the local ritual mage and magic shop owner, who seems like a perfectly normal human wizard with a penchant for shapechanging spells
Donaar, dragonborn warlock and enemy of dragons, who ended up in town after his home city was overrun by undead
Diesa, stalwart dwarven fighter grossed out by bugs, who was visiting family in town and seems to have vampire heritage
Sully, formerly-retired half-elf paladin of Erathis and party NPC, who ran the tavern in Meersha.

This is level five.
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And so, in my sixth comic, I made an extended Dead Alewives reference. I am not proud of it. It did, however, allow me to have Cthulhu playing himself in an RPG, which is, of course, the only character he would ever play. I seem to remember some D&D or Call of Cthulhu sourcebook explaining that Cthulhu ate 1d6 cultists per round, but I can’t seem to find the reference on the internet.

All of these jokes, of course, were completely unfunny to 90% of the population, even at a geeky school like Rose.

And it’s out! My December 2009 game is up at Newgrounds. Babies Dream of Dead Worlds is a game about family.

Before we have memory, before we know what this world is, we dream. Babies dream of what came before, of universes that are no longer there. Babies dream of dead worlds.

Play Babies Dream of Dead Worlds on Newgrounds.

This game is a sort of surreal platformer, I suppose? It’s a bit hard to describe. It’s developed using Flixel, and tells the story of three siblings at the end of a world very unlike this one.

I may or may not be heading out in a few minutes to drive across snow-covered Charlotte to do the first character-creation session for the Geist: the Sin-Eaters LARP I’ll be running. Designing for LARP is very different than designing for tabletop or for a digital game; it’s really more about logistics than creativity.
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