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The Vancouver Canucks have skated in three Stanley Cup Finals (1982, 1994, 2011) since their NHL debut in 1970. Despite twice taking their Cup Final opponent to Game 7 (1994, 2011), no Canuck has hoisted or had their name etched on the Stanley Cup during their tenure with the club.
A fortunate few, however, have clinched the Stanley Cup with another squad subsequent to their stay with the Canucks. The chart below lists each former Canuck that won the Stanley Cup by year and team.
Former Canuck
Championship Team
Nick Bonino
Pittsburgh Penguin
Nick Bonino*
Pittsburgh Penguin
Willie Mitchell
Los Angeles Kings
Willie Mitchell
Los Angeles Kings
Brent Sopel
Chicago Blackhawks
Matt Cooke
Pittsburgh Penguins
Brad May
Anaheim Ducks
Bret Hedican
Carolina Hurricanes
Jassen Cullimore
Tampa Bay Lightning
Jiri Slegr
Detroit Red Wings
Alexander Mogilny*
New Jersey Devils
Doug Lidster
Dallas Stars
Igor Larionov
Detroit Red Wings
Igor Larionov
Detroit Red Wings
Doug Lidster*
New York Rangers 1993
J.J. Daigneault
Montreal Canadiens 1987
Moe Lemay*
Edmonton Oilers
* Won Stanley Cup during 1st season with new team after Canucks.
At least thirteen former Canucks (Lemay, Daigneault, Lidster, Larionov, Mogilny, Slegr, Cullimore, Hedican, May, Cooke, Sopel, Mitchell, Bonino) have hoisted the holy hardware skating with other clubs after their west coast stint, though only four (Lemay, Lidster, Mogilny, Bonino) won the Stanley Cup in the same season they left Vancouver.
Moe Lemay arrived in Edmonton on March 10, 1987 (in exchange for Raimo Summanen) and was part of the Oilers third Stanley Cup win. Doug Lidster was dealt to the New York Rangers on June 25, 1993 (in exchange for John Vanbiesbrouck) and won the Stanley Cup the following season against his former team. Alexander Mogilny was sent to the New Jersey Devils on March 14, 2000 (in exchange for Brendan Morrison and Denis Pederson), where #89 captured the Stanley Cup 89 days later. Nick Bonino was traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins on July 28, 2015 (along with Adam Clendening and in exchange for Brandon Sutter), where he led the Pens in postseason assists en route to a Stanley Cup win.
This season, two Canucks dealt at the trade deadline will compete in the postseason. Alex Burrows joined the Ottawa Senators on February 27, 2017 and will skate against his 2011 Cup Final foe Boston Bruins in the first round. Jannik Hansen was sent to the San Jose Sharks on February 28, 2017 and will meet the Edmonton Oilers in the opening round.
Several former Canucks will skate in the 2017 Stanley Cup Playoffs, suiting up for the Anaheim Ducks (Bieksa, Kesler), Calgary Flames (Bartkowski), Edmonton Oilers (Kassian), Nashville Predators (Weber), New York Rangers (Clendening, Glass, Grabner), Ottawa Senators (Burrows), Pittsburgh Penguins (Bonino, Sestito) and San Jose Sharks (Hansen). A few former Canuck coaches will also be competing this postseason, behind the benches of the Blue Jackets (John Tortorella), Rangers (Alain Vigneault) and Penguins (Mike Sullivan).
With the current Canucks roster sitting out this postseason, here's hoping another alum finds his name on the Stanley Cup this spring.
Sunday, June 11, 2017
Canucks Who Left Vancouver & Won Stanley Cup
The Vancouver Canucks have skated in three Stanley Cup Finals (1982, 1994, 2011) since their NHL debut in 1970. Despite twice taking their Cup Final opponent to Game 7 (1994, 2011), no Canuck has hoisted or had their name etched on the Stanley Cup during their tenure with the club.
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The library at TCTC is opened to all students during regular business hours. TCTC students have available the Library & Information Resources Network (LIRN) 24/7, which can be accessed at the college or at home. The LIRN system consists of the following online services: LIRN Search, InfoTrac, ProQuest (including Nursing & Allied Health Source and Health & Medical Complete), eLibrary, and Bowker's Books in Print & RCL web. These are online databases for research featuring complete articles, full-text and graphics.
Information Technology Guidelines
- Students may NOT BRING IN any outside storage devices TO BE USED ON COLLEGE COMPUTERS. Outside storage devices include, but are not limited to, flash drives, thumb drives, removable drive, etc.
- All use of the Texas County Technical College websites must be in support of education and research consistent with the educational goals of TCTC.
- Any use of the TCTC websites for product advertisement is prohibited.
- Any use of the TCTC for political lobbying is prohibited.
- No use of the TCTC websites shall serve to disrupt the use of the network or the website by other users.
- Any use of the TCTC websites for personal commercial purposes is prohibited.
- All communication accessible via the TCTC websites will reflect respect for others and appropriate language.
- All communications and information accessible via the TCTC websites should be assumed to be the property of TCTC.
- Any of the TCTC websites user's traffic that traverses another network is subject to that network's acceptable use policy.
- TCTC technological equipment and resources may not be used to install or illegally obtain software or data. Any software installation on college owned computers must be approved by the president.
- TCTC technological equipment and resources must be used in accordance with the Copyright Guidelines. Use of TCTC technological equipment and resources to illegally copy, download, access, print or store copyrighted material is forbidden.
- An account is assigned to an individual and must not be used by others. The individual is responsible for proper use of the account, including passwords protection. The individual must take all reasonable precautions, including password maintenance and file and directory protection measures, to prevent use of their account by others.
- College records and course work are considered confidential and are to be protected in accordance with federal and state laws and college policies.
- Copying, renaming, changing, or deleting files belonging to TCTC or any other user with malicious intent is prohibited.
- Attempts to bypass TCTC's standard technological procedures are prohibited (e.g., hacking). This includes, but is not limited to, attempts to discover another user's password, taking resources from other users, distribution or execution of a program that damages another user's files or computing resources, and gaining access to resources for which proper authorization has not been given.
- College computing resources, including email and other electronic communications, will not be used to harass others. Sending of obscene, abusive, or threatening messages is prohibited and may be a violation of state and/or federal law. Accessing pornographic or obscene material via the Internet through College computing resources that is not related to work or educational purposes is prohibited.
- The administration will make decision on whether specific uses of the TCTC websites are consistent with this policy.
- TCTC will maintain an official presence on social networking sites to support the college in accomplishing its mission and achieving its goals and objectives. The college encourages feedback and comments from fans, including prospective students, current students, alumni, faculty, staff and members of the community.
The college remains committed to maintaining these sites as a safe and family-friendly forum for sharing information. In maintaining a positive environment to site visitors, the college maintains the right to remove any comments or wall postings from official college-sponsored pages that are inappropriate, inflammatory or damaging to TCTC or any individual.
The college is responsible for posting materials to the college's main social networking sites. Instructors, program departments, and student organizations may also maintain other social networking pages for their specific needs and areas. If so, these sites should be approved by the campus director and approved prior to posting any materials. The procedures for establishing social media sites, general computer and social networking guidelines, and disclaimers are available on the college's main webpage and are provided to each student.
Students pay a technology fee per semester which covers the cost of printing for school related papers/information, and students' per page printing amount will be monitored and recorded by semester. Once students have maxed out the allotted number of pages allowed in a given semester, they will be charged a per page fee for each printed/copied over their allotted amount for the remainder of the semester.
Use of Technology and Social Media
Policy: Students may not college, share, or post any material that could potentially violate patient/family confidentiality or professional behavior guidelines on social media sites. Although Moodle and other online tools are used in courses are not considered social media sites, students are expected to observe professional standards for communication in all interactions.
All students must follow the related policies of the clinical/externship sites and the school.
Students may be subject to disciplinary action by the school and the clinical/externship site for comments that are either unprofessional or violate patient privacy if applicable. HIPAA regulations apply to comments and images made and shared on social networking sites. Moodle or other online tools violations are subject to the same prosecution as with other HIPAA violations.
Students are expected to conduct themselves as professionals, and therefore should refrain from negative posts regarding school, courses, classmates, or instructors.
- Social media includes, but are not limited to blogs, podcasts, discussion forums, online collaborative information and publishing systems that are accessible to internal and external (i.e., Wikis), RRS feeds, video sharing, and social networks like Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
- Collecting, sharing and posting on social networking sites are subject to the same professional standards as any other personal interactions. The permanence, worldwide access, and written nature of these posting make them even more subject to scrutiny that most other forms of communication.
- Restricted postings include but are not limited to protected health information – individually identifiable information (oral, written, or electronic) about a patient's physical or mental health, the receipt of health care, or payment of that care.
- Online postings or discussions of specific patients are prohibited, even if all identifying information is excluded. It is possible that someone could recognized that patient to which you are referring based on the context. Remember, you wouldn't want YOUR own health information being posted to the internet, do no post that of anyone else.
- Under no circumstances should photos or videos of patients depicting the body parts of patients be taken or displayed online.
- Statements made by you within online networks will be treated as if you verbally made the statement in a public place.
Electronic communication and information devices are a part of everyday life for most people today. However, learning to be a professional includes discriminating when, where, and how technologies are to be appropriately utilized. Students should be hospital or agency computers for patient care related tasks only. Students are not allowed to use hospital computers for Facebook, personal email, or any other use.
Staff use always takes priority over student use of the computers. It is essential that faculty clarify with managers and staff, before students begin clinical/externship, what access students will have to the computers with the manager and staff of the clinical/externship site where students are placed.
Students are not allowed to electronic devices for personal reasons while in a clinical/externship setting. Students may only use their phones on lunch or dinner break, or by special arrangement with the clinical/externship instructor.
Instructors are to bring any violations to the attention of the course coordinator immediately.
Source: Modified from Wegmans School of Nursing-St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY, Clinical Instructor Guidelines & Information (2013).


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Ethical batteries not included
"When Tim Berners-Lee invented the Internet had he any concept of what would follow? Today we live in a world which is both real and virtual and, at times, the boundaries between the two become blurred - with tragic results.
Amanda Todd, a 15-year-old teenager, decided in September to take her own life. In her short life she had suffered a degree of depression and anxiety which made death more desirable." More...


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Biting the hand that feeds you August 28, 2012Posted by ethlite in Uncategorized.
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Heard on radio this morning – Republican Governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal asking President Obama for more Federal aid to help prepare for hurricane season.
This is the same guy who, delivering the Republican response to Obama's address of Congress, said "Today in Washington, some are promising that government will rescue us from the economic storms raging all around us, those of us who lived through Hurricane Katrina, we have our doubts."
At this point, Republicans can't even be bothered to create any pretense of rationality and responsibility, because they grasp the basic fact that politics in America is no longer about governance that requires compromise, but a spectator sport between different tribes.
For once, I am going to agree with Rush Limbaugh. Liberals are responsible for this mess, liberals are responsible for this tribalization of America. Their postmodern moral equivalence has led to a value-free society, a vacuum seized upon by the religious right. When you insist all belief systems are equally valid and deserving the same respect, you no longer have the ability to articulate why we should reject religious fundamentalism and support liberal pluralism. We've handcuffed ourselves so we have no coherent response to "my ignorance is as good as your knowledge". Willful ignorance beats intellectual superiority, every time, if we lack the courage in our own convictions.
Liberals created this monster which is now eating them alive. That's the uncomfortable truth we have to confront. It's time to reassert values found in during the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason, we don't have to offer equal respect to all belief systems. Religious fundamentalism does not deserve respect, whether they are the Taliban or Christian variety. Equal rights does not mean equal respect. Rights are protected for all, but respect have to be earned on their own merit.
It's time to end this idiotic nonsense before they end the crowning achievement of humanity – the great American experiment in true Democracy.
Courage August 11, 2012Posted by ethlite in Uncategorized.
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Every now and then people would say to me that they think I am brave, courageous, or some other words to that effect. For some reason, the word would never sit well with me, but I couldn't quite explain why.
I just figured it out.
Most of the time when I'm compelled to act, it's because I've figured out something else that frightens me more than inaction. That's all it is.
That's why the word feels incongruent, because I never feel courageous, quite the opposite. Courage is not being fearless, it's to keep going in the face of fear.
Hiroshima July 21, 2012Posted by ethlite in Uncategorized.
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I just got back from a vacation in Japan, visited four major cities – Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Hiroshima. As amazing and wonderful those cities were, Hiroshima is the one that made a lasting impression.
Hiroshima is the anti-911. I am not talking about the moral (and pointless) evaluation of which one is worse, the dead couldn't care less if it was terrorists or the US army that killed them. What I'm talking about is the way the two cultures chose to memorialize and interpret these horrible events.
In both cases, the victims are innocent civilians. The difference is that the Japanese don't call the victims "heroes". The dead in both tragedies are victims of terrible violence and don't deserve what happened to them, but how does the concept of heroism get mixed into this?
Without exception, the Japanese memorials all speak of hope for lasting world peace, whereas the 911 slogan is "never forget". Never forget what, exactly? Yes, it's very skillful (someone's mass communications professor would be proud) to leave it ambiguous, so everyone can fill in the blanks on their own. But it's also manipulative, dishonest and ultimately disrespectful to the actual victims of the atrocities.
Why I am against marriage January 29, 2012Posted by ethlite in Uncategorized.
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Contrary to popular belief, marriage is neither a natural nor inevitable conclusion to a monogamous relationship. It's a Christian institution that was popularized via Western conquest of the world, before which monogamous marriage as we know it did not exist in any other human culture. It is as intrinsic to the human experience as male circumcision, both of which are Judeo-Christian gifts to the world, bequeathed as part of their subjugation of the local population.
If something is not intrinsic, but rather a human construct, then it should bear examination on its merits. Supporting something just because it's customary is not a good idea, otherwise we'd all be in support of foot binding and arranged marriages. Having gone through divorce twice against my wishes, I have every incentive to think deeply and honestly about what exactly marriage is and isn't.
So let's take a closer look. First, why do people get married in the first place? Most would say it's a commitment to staying together, until death do them apart. But isn't it also common sense to say that two people who want to be in a committed monogamous relationship can do so without marriage? Furthermore, most people would agree that no marriage should survive if one or both people are no longer happy together.
In other words, marriage is superfluous to whether or not two people will stay together in a committed monogamous relationship. It's superfluous in the same way that God is superfluous for understanding how the planets go around the sun – " Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là". You can choose to believe in God if you wish, but it makes no difference to the outcome.
Second, and my more serious objection to marriage is how it ends. When couples decide to go their separate ways, the only difference marriage makes is that it forcefully involves the government into what should be the most personal and private area of your life. It gives the state the power to delve deep into every corner of your life. In particular, the state has the power to interrogate your children about your relationship with them and decide exactly how many hours you are allowed to see them. Anyone who has kids can tell you just how unimaginably harrowing that is.
I've been called a cynic for my stance on marriage. I am not a cynic. A cynic is someone picks apart other people's beliefs without any of their own. I have strong beliefs about relationships, which I will state clearly here. I believe that people should be free to pursue happiness without government intervention, especially in personal relationships. I believe that true love, connection and commitment can and should exist without marriage. Instead of focusing on marriage, I'd rather focus on building a relationship that doesn't need external validation. I think that's a far more honest and romantic position to take than the conventional ideal, which basically amounts to "get married and stay married".
No, I am not a cynic. Nor am I a dolt, which is someone who makes major commitments like marriage without figuring out for themselves exactly what it is they are committing to. Socrates said "unexamined life is not worth living", I'd like to add that "unexamined beliefs are not worth having".
We become the monsters we fight October 10, 2011Posted by ethlite in Uncategorized.
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… and that's a good thing!
No, really. Hear me out.
Like many people, I consider Steve Jobs to be a life long inspiration. His life philosophy has inspired and informed many of my own attitudes and decisions, and the main reason why I chose to spent 11 years at Apple under him.
However, I did feel conflicted about one aspect of his incredible life story – his evolution from being the guy who made boxes that hacked phone companies for free calls, who proclaimed "1984 wont be like 1984", to the man responsible for creating the most authoritarian, locked down ecosystem in the history of the world. It's as if he got tired of fighting The Man and decided to instead show them how it's done.
But I had an epiphany after reflecting on his life after his death. I realized that being the very thing you started off fighting against is, in fact, the proof that you have lived your life to the fullest and fulfilled your life mission…
Bear with me for a bit more…
If you step back a bit from the good/evil, black/white, order/chaos dichotomy, you will see that they are simply two sides of the same coin. There is no absolute good or evil, just a giant pendulum swinging from one extreme to the other. The sixties counterculture flower children became the "greed is good" yuppies in the eighties. Most people, myself included, would say that the Boomers have sold out, but now I realize it's not that simple. It's irrelevant whether or not the Boomers have sold out, it was their destiny to rebel against the stifling social order, and they pushed the pendulum from one end to the other, and back again. The seed of its destruction is planted at the apex of any movement, that is how pendulums work.
Our lives are not solely our own, we are all part of something larger. We exist to push the evolution of the human civilization forward, and the way we do that is to swing that pendulum as hard as we can in the direction that was assigned to us. You can picture it as a grand theatre, in which you don't get to pick your part, but you can choose how well you play your assigned role. It is not our place to question why, but it is our individual choice to embrace our destiny or turn away from it.
The lesson of Steve Jobs is not to be like Steve – it is to be yourself, and never settle for anything less.
May you live well and long enough to become the very thing you loath in your youth, and be at peace knowing that is as it should be.
Oh, and cheers, Boomers, I don't hate you anymore. 🙂
Why we fail (Epic Edition) March 29, 2011Posted by ethlite in Uncategorized.
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Like most of us, I had fantasies of doing amazing deeds that earn the adoration and admiration of millions in my youth. These fantasies mostly involve my creating some amazing breakthrough in science or technology, but I think we'd all agree nothing is more epic than saving the entire world from some terrible disaster.
So what happens in real life if you do, indeed, save the world from nuclear holocaust?
As it turns out, nothing. Nada. You are lucky if they let you keep your job.
Stanislav Petrov single handedly prevented, in all likelihood, an all out nuclear war between US and USSR back in the 80s. If Stanislav didn't exercise his judgement and ignored the false alarm due to faulty equipment, we'd probably all be eating cans of dog food, wielding shotguns and have extremely bad personal hygiene at this point.
So what did he get for this most epic prevention of failures, not to mention the end of human civilization?
He was reassigned to a less sensitive post, took early retirement (although he emphasizes that he was not "forced out" of the army, as the case is presented by some Western sources), and suffered a nervous breakdown.
"we, as a society, only reward apparent success, and never prevention of failure."
I was wrong about one thing though. It's not just corporate America, it's pretty much yet another serious design flaw of the human mind.
So much for Intelligent Design, eh?
Love potion March 1, 2011Posted by ethlite in Uncategorized.
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If we accept that scientific fact that romantic love is chemical based, and has an average lifespan of 2~3 years, it's not a huge leap to think that we can come up with a drug to sustain romantic love in the near future.
Conceptually, it's really no different from antidepressants and other drugs that eliminate undesirable mental states. One can argue that it's a design flaw of the human species that we are built for infidelity and suffer for the transiency of romantic love.
Note, this hypothetical drug won't work unless you are already in a romantic relationship. It's not a love potion to make people fall in love, all it does is to sustain what's already there.
Now would you take this drug with your partner? If not, why not?
Chief Tyrol and The Junior Knuckledragger (that's me!) April 5, 2010Posted by ethlite in Uncategorized.
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Non-actionable idea February 23, 2010Posted by ethlite in Uncategorized.
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I came up with the term non-actionable idea today while talking to my friend. Basically it means thoughts and beliefs that don't lead to anything you can actually act upon.
Every time you find yourself thinking about something but can't seem to get anywhere, ask yourself, what would you do differently based on the answer? If you can't come up with anything, then it's a NAI.
As in, "don't waste your time worrying about why Lindsay Lohan is such a mess, or who Shakira is dating, it's all NAI". Other examples include intellectual dead ends such as "is there a God" and "is there life after death" also qualify.
This is why I don't watch TV or what mass media refer to as "news", it's mostly just NAIs that you can safely ignore, saving your time and energy on things do matter to you.
Thought for the day February 22, 2010Posted by ethlite in Uncategorized.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
– Henry Thoreau, 150 years before the invention of blogs and twitter


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Sorry for the glut of swim-related posts, but swimming is pretty much all the exercising I have been doing lately. In fact, I'm swimming as much as I did when I first started swimming in 2007 and 2008, maybe even more yardage-wise. All of the chlorine soaking into my brain has helped me remember two truths about swimming that I had forgotten.
A solid 4000-5000 yard workout where I hit my intervals can overcome some of the worst vagaries of life. In 2006-09 I worked a high pressure job that I eventually came to hate. Whenever I was made to feel stupid or something well-planned turned on its head five minutes before a committee meeting, I would just think "I swam nearly three miles really well already day, try me and good luck."
Earlier this week I was reminded exactly that when I was pulled over just after practice for having lost my front license plate. I then spent the day navigating the Texas license plate replacement system and the auto shop gender discrimination system. When I say I need a #8 screw and a 3/8" socket wrench, I don't need you to measure things, I need a 3/8" socket wrench. "Try me and good luck."
I then spent the afternoon making the BlueCross BlueShield claims department and the Chase business banking system defer in the face of my rampage. I actually got a bank to give me money back. "Try me and good luck."
The second truth is less "positive," but no less true. In fact, it could be considered the first half of the pick-me-up in the first truth, because before the pick-me-up comes the crash.
A good friend and training partner, AK, once said as we headed to work after morning practice: "If my boss knew what swimming entailed, he would never have hired me, because when I get to work, I'm operating at 80% at best."
Holy cow does the drool factor increase exponentially for every additional practice you complete each week. Thank god I didn't swim in high school because I don't know how I would have survived first period calculus. Barely, is what I'm thinking.
And I am suddenly realizing why I didn't really discover coffee until I started that job - because I started swimming around the same time.
So I guess I can blame and thank swimming for just about everything. #truth


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As adept use of technology enables small teams to compete with established names, architecture is in a state of flux as never before. Justin Nicholls, ex of Fosters and Make has taken the plunge and started his own practice – Fathom – creating a unique team with a fresh approach to design
DCN: Take me through what your aspirations are for Fathom – this would seem to be a particularly good time to be starting out with something in architecture . . .
JN: Starting a practice is something I've always wanted to do. Tom (Tom Shard, co-Founder) and I have spent a number of months refining our focus: complex briefs and sensitive sites. That's where architects can really add value to a client – unlocking really difficult problems. Looking for unusual answers to unlock those problems is the core of our business. That could be plans, it could be in the brief, it could be with mixed uses, it could be in heritage areas, or it could be to in rural areas, which are very sensitive. Tom's background is in production (He ran a commercial TV production company in Soho for 13 years) so a different industry, but also a creative industry. His role is to run the operations, but also to bring in a different way of thinking and challenge the preconceptions of how we work, and to ask questions – to bring value by challenging the way we work in general. Make was a fantastic platform to grow within, that was a really good springboard to do this – it was a natural progression. We're focussing mainly on the South East – Central London, the South coast, Oxford, places where there are difficult design challenges – Oxford's a very constrained city. Brighton is constrained by the South Downs and the sea. There's a lot of heritage in those areas. That means there's really only one way to go, which is up. Going up in those areas is difficult!
DCN: You've hired someone that's got experience in robotics and digital manufacturing – that's not standard for most architect firms. Is that indicative that you're not going to have a standard team here?
JN: I think we've got a great opportunity to build a team for years to come, so we need to look forward into the future and think about where the future might be. Build that infrastructure now. We need to think more about construction – you have to conceive your architecture with a view to it being built, rather than come up with an idea and then find a way of constructing it. Buildability is really important. I was part of the Government's offsite manufacturing programme – the £60k house. Volumetric offsite construction, student accommodation, prefabricating stone work facades – all of these are a manufactured approach to creating architecture. The more knowledge we have of that the better, the more we can futuregaze.
DCN: BIM – it's been talked about a lot and there's a bit of an alienation in the marketplace because it's a top-down imposed thing. But explain why you think it's so essential to the whole piece . . .
JN: The 3D model is actually the way people think, they think three dimensionally, especially architects, we think spatially, so to extract that into 2D is a backwards step.
If you then look at the way construction is moving into a much more fabricated world – the less time we're modelling the same thing that's got to be better. Everyone is working on one dataset and that's massively important for co-ordination, facilities management, so it's a no-brainer. What's difficult is that the software is still quite new, the skillbase is still quite low – other countries appear to be ahead of the game.
This is a fantastic opportunity to have a zero-legacy practice working in BIM from day one. It's a bit more painful as there's a lot of upskilling to do, but it puts us in a really strong position
This is a fantastic opportunity to have a zero-legacy practice working in BIM from day one. It's a bit more painful as there's a lot of upskilling to do, but it puts us in a really strong position going forward and then enables us to really explore these other digital tools that wrap around it. We can start to really push fabrication and digital construction.
DCN: What do you see as those key digital tools?
JN: I think the ability to script is a really interesting thing to think about. I've been a tutor at the Bartlett for many years. Architectural students are not just modelling form more and more digitally – they're programming solar shading for example, or structural loading. Why do you need to programme as an architect? There are so many different things to plug into – if you look at the manufacturing end, how you programme and script a robot is really complicated, a robot can get itself into a knot really quickly, so there's actually quite a skill in programming something that looks simple in a mechanical sense. If you're working in 3D, if you're completely digital, the ability to script becomes critical. Then you're not inhibited by the software that already exists but you have the ability to write your own software. I can see those that embrace digital as being the beneficiaries here.
DCN: This year we've become more aware of AEC companies doing in-house coding – Weston Williamson, KPF, Kier, Costain – does that mean the existing software out there isn't good enough?
JN: Or it's becoming straightforward enough to be able to explore things. So you have computing power on your desk that is ridiculously good. Evolving your own software is the next logical step. I was speaking to Thomas Mahon at Bimorph a few weeks ago, a former student at the Bartlett, and he'd scripted an office fit-out app that populates a corporate HQ with desks and chairs from a spreadsheet, so you're populating a CAD drawing – why would you do it by hand anymore? It no longer makes any sense. This is the next step.
DCN: The technology – the processing power and the packages move on so quickly – does it make more sense to be in a small team because you can be more agile?
JN: I think being collaborative is important so bringing in a skillbase as and when it's needed is very different from what we've been doing before with traditional structures. So that's important – it's also why we're trying to look down the telescope and make sure we're employing people with the right skills. It's early days, let's not forget that construction is a physical thing – a piece of wood is very different from a piece of concrete which in turn is very different from a piece of metal. Being able to see that properly is difficult in a virtual world, which is scaleless and it doesn't have all the senses attached to it. So it's important to keep thinking, understanding, learning – being able to visit factories, visit a stone quarry – to really understand the processes that a material goes through to become a building. That's where you can challenge normal ways of thinking to come up with better answers.
DCN: You're closely connected to Bartlett, you're finding it's a challenge to find people with good tech skills that are also creative. Do you think there's a delicate balance between how much do you teach software and how much do you teach traditional skills?
Should architects be 'office ready' or should architects be taught good design skills? Those are two rather different skill bases…
JN: I think that opens up a whole question about architecture education – should architects be 'office ready' or should architects be taught good design skills? Those are two rather different skillbases: your design skills, your lateral thinking and your creativity have great longevity and are the cornerstone of what is required of you internationally. Your office ready skills have a much shorter lifespan: you're using Revit today but you'll be using something else in five year's time. So I see those very much as bolt on skills. If you teach too much of that it inhibits people's thinking. So typically for an MA student you want them to experiment and speculate about how a building might look. They've got plenty of years in practice to be constrained by all those other things! So it's a really tricky balance. A lot of people we've seen are very tech strong but not necessarily using delivery elements we'd use in the office. So someone could use Microstation with their eyes shut, but doesn't necessarily have a disciplined approach to using it that is needed to deliver a building. The downside of academia is that you tend to work on your own and now this industry is very collaborative. We set our files up so that someone else can also work on them within the studio, within a design team. This is a much more rigorous disciplined approach compared to academia, but you don't want to stifle creativity – that's the core of architecture education.
DCN: What's the mindset of clients these days, do you think they're tech aware or do they have roughly the same priorities for a design brief as they always had?
JN: I think every client is different, as are places, so a university client that has a long term interest in an estate, has a different view to someone that's building a block of flats and then selling them. So there's different drivers there, Most clients are pushing BIM quite hard because they see that as the future of facilities management. There's a whole upskilling of the facilities management world to achieve this.
DCN: So there's a high level of awareness – even if they're not mandated, they're a private client they still want it?
JN: Yes they do, and that's shifting – two years ago it might have been different. Those organisations that have huge property stock, that have projects that have been running a couple of years, it's difficult to reverse engineer those. Contractors seem to get a lot of benefit, really squeezing out any inefficiency in the programme. It's a very good visual communication tool when you're liaising with the sub-contractor supply chain.
I think there's been a shift in the last 12 – 24 months; the majority people are working in BIM whereas two years ago it was a minority. It will be interesting to see how the FM world adopts it and what benefits they find.
I think there's been a shift in the last 12 – 24 months; the majority people are working in BIM whereas two years ago it was a minority. It will be interesting to see how the FM world adopts it and what benefits they find.
DCN: Where else do you feel clients have been impacted by technology?
JN: Take a specific sector: what is the future of retail? how do retailers create revenue or footfall from people when they can see something in a shop but go home and buy it online? I think that having a digitally enabled tech-rich built environment is fascinating. Everyone is debating office buildings: what does a future office look like? That's been completely thrown open – in the last few days we've been talking to developers, they prefer to meet in a coffee shop than their nice new office. A neighbour of mine works in a bank, I bumped into him in a Church in the city because there's a coffee shop in there, I asked him 'what are you doing in here?' 'It's a team meeting' he replied – it's because it gets them out of the office environment, so they think differently. With mobility and technology you can work anywhere – that's making a big difference to the built environment from a client's perspective.
DCN: In the digital world can you see how there is an opportunity to present more info – 3D models, CGI, VR headsets, there's more information and more interaction. Do you think that's going to be an element of what you do?
JN: I worked on a project in Bath – which is a very sensitive area, and I was a little bit concerned about how it would be received when people walked through the development because there's a huge amount of information to take in. You're presenting something at full-scale. The reaction was really positive, people were saying 'Oh I can see what it looks like out my front window', when you walk through a simulation like that you really walk through it naturally, as opposed to looking at a static photograph CGI, you look at that like a painting and your eye goes to all sorts of focal points that you'd never really concentrate on in real life. So actually it's a huge a benefit – people start to experience things in a much more realistic way.
DCN: Do you think that had a genuine difference in terms of generating a positive reaction?
JN: On that particular project definitely. However, the reaction will be contingent on the scale of the development – it's changing something they know very well. I think visualisation will help, as we move closer to central models, planning officers will put a building inside a model and the general public can have a good look, more than just a fly through. It will be interesting to see how that evolves. It is extremely helpful for planning authorities, officers, elected members and the public – who can start engaging in a much more proactive way.
DCN: People are talking about DIM (District Information Modelling) being the next frontier …
JN: I can see that happening, we need sort out BIM first though! We need a bit more computing power to make something like DIM work fully. Google Maps is an amazing example of ground level info to hand – including all local businesses and the 3D bit reasonably works well. If someone tried to predict that five years ago people would think they were crazy. You can walk all the way up to masterpieces in the National Gallery using Google Earth. Right up to the paint strokes. A lot of businesses you can now walk through – it will be interesting to see how that pans out.
DCN: Because you're box fresh what sort of projects make most sense to you at the moment?
JN: We're focusing between £5m and £30m projects, that's where our experience lies. Technology helps us to do that, we're very happy to bring other people in to collaborate with us. So outsourcing works very well in that respect, other practices do it and engineers have been doing it for many years. It means that everyone is playing to their strengths – people that are drafting for a living are better at that than a creative architect. So we'll bring those people together very quickly. Gone are the days where you need a huge room of draftsmen to deliver a £30m building.


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This is where most of the plot is centered for the novel, as this is the location for John Corey's convalescence from his wounds.
Uncle Harry's House
This is an 1890s Victorian farmhouse on the Great Peconic Bay with a wrap-around porch; the house is painted cream with a green roof and trim.
Plum Island
This is the top secret biological research station located two miles off the tip of Orient Point.
Gordon Home
This is the murder site that brings John into the investigation.
Aluminum Ice Chest
This item is always on the Gordon boat, but is missing on the day of the murder.
Power Boats and Cabin Cruisers
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Captain Kidd's Buried Treasure
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We have built a community from scratch, starting with only five members, and after four years we have managed to share our enthusiasm and passion for dancing to reach up to 650 members. For the last four years, every Tuesday, we have offered beginner and intermediate salsa/bachata classes, and open dancing opportunities. Over these years, the group did not falter, and we never stopped teaching.
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A few words should actually be said on the vision of teaching we are trying to advocate.
Our goal is to provide to our members a progressive and guided way to learn salsa, where everybody can progress at their own pace and have classes adapted to their level (beginner for newcomers or intermediate so long term members keep progressing). The classes are given within a safe and inclusive environment, free of gender disrespect. We put a strong emphasis over connection and communication. This is why we have people dance with everybody without an attributed partner. Being respectful and attune are key behaviors in the etiquette of social dancing that we try to convey in every class!
We want this community to be open to others and be a part of the Santa Barbara community at large. We spend some efforts trying to synchronize or partner up with other dance communities, both non-profit and profit-based. Beyond dancing, we help organize and improve the space we share with other groups. We consider that collaboration between communities is key and this is also why we regularly participate in bigger collective events such as Open Streets.
We feel that we have much to offer to the people of Santa Barbara and we want to make sure everybody is aware of the opportunities they have. For this reason, we are putting increasing efforts into improving our outreach. We have already some web presence with our own website that we regularly update and advertise, as well as active members on social media. In addition, we are working on increasing our visibility in the local press, such as the Independent.
This is who we are and what we bring: every week our Center is packed with 70 participants, and on Saturday events we have up to 100 people. Last Halloween we had about a 100 people dress in costumes and it probably was the only event in town without alcohol that day.
Now we found a new home and plan to relocate this large and impressive community with lots of potential for continue growth and expansion. This transition opens new opportunities to start working with new partners and share our accomplishments.
In the last four years, through Yes You Can Dance Salsa, we have shown that:
- Everyone can Dance
- People do not require alcohol to have fun
- People are improving their health and lifestyle by dancing
- People are learning to respect and listen to each other by dancing with partners and with a large group
- Diverse people, as part of a community, are making deep connections no matter their age, origin, or background
- People can find their loved ones in this thriving atmosphere, strong relationships leading to long term commitments
- People, when feeling included and empowered, are willing to help and contribute. We have a strong community that works together to make things happen
As a testimonial of this empowerment and personal growth, one of our members discovered Yes You Can Dance Salsa by a friend's invitation. After a couple of weeks of learning and getting hooked on the dancing, he started to feel that he wanted to give back to the community. Starting by helping setting up the place, his commitment grew over time and he offered to help us advertise the organization. As much as he loves dancing, he now has taken to playing music and sound engineering for the Tuesday night classes so others can experience the same joy he had learning with us.
As a testimonial of this strength and bond, on February 5th 2016, we put together the wedding of a couple that met at Yes You Can Dance Salsa. The wedding was prepared in 3 weeks at the Cabrillo Pavilion Center for 120 people at no cost to the bride and groom. Members of the community put their skills together and the magic happened. We had cooks, decorators, florists, photographers, musicians, and light experts. Together, we all made it happen.
As a testimonial of everyone learning the beautiful art of dancing, one couple began attending while pregnant and now the 3-year old enjoys attending.
This is the strength of this community where the connections go beyond the simple teacher/student or customer/service provider interactions!
You can find more of these testimonials on our "testimonials" page
To fight alcohol abuse, sexual offense, or more generally any kind of gender disrespect, isolation and disconnection from society, each year, millions of dollars are spent in health, advertising or simply repression. Instead of solving the problems after the fact, as a society, we need to rebuild our social tissue and provide alternatives so people feel involved early on and have real alternatives. Now, most of the alternatives for people to socialize rely heavily on alcohol consumption or high cover fees to have a sustainable business or organization. The city needs a fun and friendly space in downtown, open to everyone in the evenings, where people can entertain, cultivate themselves and learn at their pace; all this in an alcohol-free environment. Together we can build this unique experience and help prevent problems before they arise!
Sincerely, Monica Dabos, Phd – Yes You Can Dance Salsa Founder
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Sixty inspirational women, from many walks of life. All have changed the world in a variety of fields. Among them are politicians and artists, journalists and teachers, engineers and campaigners, fire fighters and film stars. Together they form an arresting gallery of portraits, each one illustrated with original photography by Brigitte Lacombe.Some have led their professions; some have broken new ground for women; some have inspired changes through relentless endeavour. All were chosen for their ambitions and achievements and all tell their stories in their own words.For girls, it can be hard to identify role models in our society. This book will help and inspire women everywhere to realize their hopes and ambitions.
Edwina Dunn (Author) Edwina Dunn has always been fascinated by people's stories and motivations. As the co-founder of worldwide loyalty programmes like Tesco's Clubcard, Edwina knows first-hand what it feels like to work in a male-dominated industry, and how women's lack of confidence so often holds them back.
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A maverick astrophysicist, a rookie secret agent, and an uncanny consultant join forces in this technological thriller to stop the capture of a submicroscopic black hole whose power will be harnessed to transform - or end - the world. More than a hundred years earlier, the most violent cosmic collision ever recorded flattened a remote area in Tunguska, Siberia. Now, astrophysicist Jack Adler, conducting research at the site, discovers a tiny black hole at the center of the mysterious event, and alarmingly, the object has been burrowing its way through the Earth's core ever since. Meanwhile, secret agent Marianna Bonaventure enlists the help of Jonathan Knox, an analyst with an uncanny ability to find hidden relationships between seemingly disparate people and events, to search for three missing scientists and infiltrate the floating headquarters of a Russian industrialist.
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I very rarely buy OPI polishes lately, because they just aren't worth their price for me. Especially if I compare them to A-England polishes, because the two brands are about the same price. Although when the Gwen Stefani collection came out, I fell in love with Push And Shove. However, after the first few reviews were up on the blogs, I got disencouraged….everyone said that it's incredibly difficult to use this polish. Well, okay, no surprise there, it's a metallic/chrome polish, of course, it's not easy, but I became unsure whether I need it. I liked it a lot on Nitu's nails, but she also laid stress on the negative sides of the polish, so eventually I talked myself out of it….
…..until I found it in a local mall, and we stood face to face and I couldn't resist not for a moment more.
So I saw it, I got it, there were no other solution. It comes in a duo package, you get a full sized nail polish and a tiny base coat.
That evening I polished and trimmed my nails, had a shower, got my pj-s on and started the procedure. It wasn't easy, there were some cursing here and there, but I think it turned out fine. :)
First, I applied the base coat and let it dry completely (15 minutes). Then I started to apply the silver polish. I read somewhere that you don't have to use very thin layers to have a nice and smoothe surface. It's a very tricky polish, you have only one chance with it. You can't, CAN'T swipe over the same area of your nails twice with the brush, because it will drag and crinkle the polish. (Aaaaand you have to remove it, reapply the base, wait 15 minutes and start all over again.) However if you use thicker layers, then the polish spreads out more easily on the nails and you have a bigger chance to success.
When you apply it, it looks like a "simple" silver polish, but as it gets drier, it turnes into this smooth, glossy, foil-like finish. I applies two coats of it, the second one is far less dangerous, if you work quickly. I didn't apply any top coat, I daren't ruin the whole mani.
But be aware, that this polish accentuates each and every tiny little flaw that you have on the nails. You can see on my ringfinger, there's some little spots that became very visible.
OPI says that this polish is for one night only and it's entirely true. One night or one day, but definitively not 24 hours. I had some serious chipping the next day too.
I don't understand either the cross scrathces, I took the photos right after I painted my nails – and I didn't braid my hair or played guitarre – , so I don't know what happened.
After all the properties of this polish, let's not forget to say that it looks amazing!!! *_* I couldn't help but stare at my nails whole day and I was very very sorry when I finally had to remove it. :'(
But the fact is a fact, Push And Shove is not for everyone. If you lack patience, I don't advise you to try this one. It is the most 'paininthe*ss' I have ever tried. But I would repurchase it, in fact I would repurchase and repurchase it over and over again. I have no regrets buying this polish, because it looks incredibly wonderful. <3


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Crisp and malty lager with flavors of pumpkin, pie spices, caramel, and vanilla. Finishes smooth with low hop bitterness.
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Sluggish applications, disruptive downtime, and incompatible storage systems plague data centers around the globe. Often the root causes lie squarely in the storage infrastructure. Throwing more hardware at these problems does nothing to solve the deficiencies in the underlying storage architecture. But SDS can.
In this session we will discuss these and other common issues data centers face today and ways to exceed ever increasing storage demands while simultaneously boosting performance, controlling costs, and mitigating downtime.


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Topic: President Kennedy's Press Conferences
Grade Level: 9-12
Subject Area: US History after World War II
Time Required: 2 class sessions
President Kennedy was the first US president to hold live televised press conferences. During his years in office, on average, he held one every sixteen days.
In this lesson, students act as members of President Kennedy's Press Office with an assignment to prepare a briefing for the president on topics that may come up in a specific press conference. To fulfill this assignment, students explore the Kennedy Library website, using both primary and secondary sources. As a culminating activity, students participate in a simulated press conference.
Essential Question: How might a president address the public about important issues?
Students will:
Connections to Curriculum (Standards):
National History Standards
US History: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s), Era 9: 2A, 2B, 2C, 3B, 4A.
World History: The 20th Century Since 1945: Promises and Paradoxes, Era 9: 1B.
Historical Thinking: 1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B, 2F, 4A, 4B, 5A, 5B, 5C, 5D, 5E.
MA Frameworks Connections
Prior Knowledge and Skills
should have a working knowledge of US history prior to 1961. They should be able to use the Internet for research and analyze primary sources.
Historical Background and Context
Presidential press relations date back to George Washington who expressed dismay that his farewell address might not receive adequate press coverage due to its length. Theodore Roosevelt institutionalized the White House press corps by creating a press room and issuing credentials. The policy of regular weekly press conferences began with Roosevelt's successor, William Howard Taft. All presidents from Taft to Herbert Hoover met with the press regularly, answering written questions. Attribution was restricted and direct quotation was never permitted. The revolution in communications brought about by electronic media changed this forever. Starting with Harry S. Truman, press conferences were electronically recorded. The president was, therefore, speaking "on the record." The electronic record made charges of misquotation easy to resolve. The emergence of television fundamentally changed presidential relations with the press, and led to the creation of a central office in the Eisenhower administration. The press secretary became a reliable and regular source of all official communication.
The press secretary's central role continued in the Kennedy administration. Kennedy's press secretary, Pierre Salinger, handled the flow of news from the entire executive branch of government as well as from Kennedy's office. One of Salinger's responsibilities was to prepare the President for his televised press conferences.
The day before each press conference, Kennedy's Press office would agree on the 20-30 questions they believed would be asked by correspondents. Pierre Salinger noted in his memoirs that the public information officers were excellent at anticipating questions. For questions "in sensitive areas," the staff would provide a background briefing and a suggested response.
Salinger would supply the president with briefing papers the evening before the press conference. The next morning, at breakfast, the president would meet with Salinger and other White House staff members or cabinet officers to practice. Kennedy usually would require more facts for 6-8 questions and, after the morning meeting, Salinger would work on researching the requested information. An hour before the 4:00 PM press conference, Salinger would go over the new information with Kennedy.
Download the full lesson plan, including handouts.
John F. Kennedy and the Press
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friday garage sale finds...
......apparently this is from a hot dog stand-type place that is no longer in business locally. their specialty?.....hot dogs topped with salsa. mmmmmmm.....no thanks. i think.
couple xmas things...
for daisy....our vintage '65 shasta camper restore
....vintage ice cream patio lights. my favorite find of all.
amt. spent for a morning of shopping.....amazingly,$40 for everything..... sooooo happy bout that.
fun with fellow garage salers.....priceless.
job offer from fellow garage saler.....may lead to a second career. lots to think about.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
forty on friday
Labels: antique'ing, decorating, garage sales, vintage shasta camper
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Good morning, DJ. Wow! You made out like a bandit. $40 for all those treasures?! I just love everything you snagged up. And those ice cream cone lights - adorable! Perfect for your vintage camper.ReplyDelete
Seriously? Ice cream lights?!?! Too, too cute!ReplyDelete
Those are great finds!! All for $40? That is great! Have a great week.ReplyDelete
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Following late-week rain, a stretch of dry weather will return to the San Francisco area through early next week.
"The storm on Friday will only bring around a tenth of an inch of rain to the Bay area which will do little to impact the overall rain deficit so far this month," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Dan Pydynowski said.
By the weekend, an area of high pressure will hold strong across the southwestern United States causing any storms to bring rain to the Pacific Northwest, but not into San Francisco.
"More dry weather will continue this weekend and into the first part of next week," Pydynowski said.
Each day from Saturday into Tuesday will feature at least partial sunshine and highs in the 60s.
"Highs Saturday through Tuesday will average between 5 and 8 degrees above normal, continuing the trend of a mild, dry February in San Francisco," Pydynowski said.
The pleasant weather will not bring any weather related problems for any outdoor activities or travel this weekend.


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Heel Pain In the Morning So you woke up in the morning, put your foot down on the floor and then.... "Ouch! What happened? Do I have a bruise on my heel? I have pain on my heel when I walk!" This is a common report we get here in our physical therapy clinic in Huntington…Read more
Chondromalacia what?
Chondromalacia Knee Pain So you've been diagnosed with chondromalacia? What is this condition with this funny name? Well, what it really means is that you are having wearing down of the cartilage under your kneecap. It is a common condition that we see in the physical therapy clinic here in Huntington Beach, CA. What causes…Read more
Sports Physical Therapy in Huntington Beach
What is sports physical therapy? Sports physical therapy is a specialty in physical therapy which focuses on the athletic population's recovery from injury. While we are treating the same body, and dealing with the same parts, there is a difference in our approach when working with an athlete. Due to the fact that athletes test…Read more
Best Physical Therapy in Huntington Beach
Best Physical Therapy in Huntington Beach If you haven't noticed already, there are a lot of places which provide physical therapy in Huntington Beach. Finding "the best" place can be a daunting task. I'd like to help you think through how to find the facility which is "best" for you. In all reality, our clinic…Read more
Low Back Pain in Athletes
Low back pain in athletes can be a crippling condition. It is also one which we can easily overlook. I think this has to do with the fact that so many people have themselves suffered from low back pain. When their young athlete tells them their back hurts, they relate with what they have felt…Read more
My Quad Muscle Strain Treatment
A quad muscle strain can be very debilitating for an athlete. I recently experienced this for myself. My Story After 13 years of not playing soccer, I finally put the cleats back on and took to the soccer field as a player. I'd been coaching my kids teams for the past 5 years, but hadn't…Read more
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The age old question- "Should I ice it or heat it?" It seems people have been discussing this topic for centuries and we are no closer to a consensus than when it started. Applying heat or cold to an injury has to be one of the earliest treatment methods used in history. One of the reasons I believe there is no consensus is because we are asking the wrong question. The question shouldn't be, "Should I ice it or heat it?", but instead "What do I want to happen to the tissue?"Read more
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